General Debate 9 October 2017

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Brito

I note with concern the issue coming out of Australia about Dad’s using ‘Parent’ rooms. Apparently women don’t like this. Now I may be a little dim (steady Gobby) but doesn’t the term parent usually mean man and woman (LGB thing not included).
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October 9, 2017 8:01am
- dime
  
  but if that dad put on a dress and decided to take a dump in the girls bathroom next to 8 year old jenny, thats all good right?
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:13am
  - KKKKatee
    
    But what if Mum takes a dump into the toilet next to 8 year old Toby who happens to be in the parent room with his Mum and sisters? By the looks of things in womens’ toilets there are plenty of them taking dumps that’s for sure. This is beyond crazy imo.
    
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    October 9, 2017 8:21am
- Paulus
  
  I always thought a Dad was a Parent !
  But obviously not in today’s woman’s PC world.
  Getting more weird particularly here now.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:14am
  - KevOB
    
    “Parents Room” has been code for women and children only for 50+ years.
    
    The Police may consider that an adult male in such a place may be offensive.
    
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    October 9, 2017 10:56am
    - Antoine
      
      > The Police may consider that an adult male in such a place may be offensive.
      
      They consider no such thing. A man is 100% entitled to bring their small kids into a parents’ room and the Police are not going to do anything about it.
      
      Also KevOB, a hearty ‘F*&k you’ from this dad who needs to change nappies occasionally and wants a place to get the job done.
      
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      October 9, 2017 12:00pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Antione, a hearty “Fuck You” is far too polite. I have used parents rooms to change nappies. I never got any strange looks and was never harassed by the police! To KevOB, your thinking suggests you may need counselling, so fuck off, and take the two cunts that upticked you as well. We don’t appreciate having good fathers denigrated on this blog. (apologies to any cunts that may be offended)
        
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        October 9, 2017 4:21pm
  - sam green
    
    Oh come on Paulus – it was one fuckwit woman. Stop trying to make this a conspiracy.
    
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    October 9, 2017 7:27pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  I’ll see your parents room – and raise you a gender flavoured ice cream social media outrage . . .
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/world/97487703/popular-ice-cream-store-slammed-for-gendered-flavours
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:20am
- Northland Wahine
  
  People bitch when dad’s don’t parent and now bitch when they do. So when these muppet mothers ask their children’s dad to take them out for the day, are these kids are expected to hold on till they get home?
  
  Someone sprinkle some common sense dust around.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:44am
  - GoVege
    
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    Monday morning and already grumpy, Northern Fafafine?
    Don’t take it out on the clients please…. 🙂
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:43am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      *fa’afafine
      D-
      Please do better next time
      
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      October 9, 2017 10:29am
      - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
        
        I prefer the term Freak Mafia.
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:37am
    - Northland Wahine
      
      vege, some of us are born with c**nts, others aspire to be c**ts. Then there are those that achieve both.
      
      And today I’m home with my sick son, that I actually gave birth too.
      
      So fa’fafuck off. ?
      
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      October 9, 2017 10:46am
      - GoVege
        
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        Hope you don’t use that lingo around your son, Fafa.
        Enjoy your break…and stay classy! 🙂
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:52am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        I’m always classy broccoli brains. Enjoy yours. ?
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:59am
      - GoVege
        
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        I doubt if your neighbours would agree with that, pork head. 🙂
        
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        October 9, 2017 11:15am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Oh good grief…
        
        Vege head, do you not feel that fathers should be more involved with day to day up bringing of their children? Should a simple changing of a nappy in a parents room result in a father being verbally abused and called a pedophile?
        
        The fact I object to this, you find objectionable?
        
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        October 9, 2017 11:28am
      - GoVege
        
        Well I can understand how a mum …or dad….might feel uncomfortable, especially if a mum is breast-feeding her baby in there.
        No need to call them muppets or bitches.
        
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        October 9, 2017 11:38am
      - Kimbo
        
        And I can certainly understand why,
        
        1. when we live in an age that laments and wrings its hands over the lack of input of fathers into their children’s lives
        
        2. when breast-feeding in public has been the subject of publicity by numerous pressure group emphasising there is no shame, nor need for Victorian modesty concerning the matter
        
        …why any adults who “feel uncomfortable” should
        
        grow up
        
        stow their sense of entitlement
        
        and STFU.
        
        And maybe also observe the long queue of people, most of them – but not exclusively – men stretching from Auckland to Wellington and back again tired of the double standards, infantile mentality and sheer tedious fuckwittery of the sexual revolution as played out in 2017. No, “muppets” and “bitches” is pretty much on the money.
        
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        October 9, 2017 11:59am
      - Antoine
        
        Go jump, GoVege. Dads are entitled to use parents’ rooms to get their small kids sorted. No one should feel uncomfortable about this.
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:02pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Never called anyone a bitch, vege head. I said they bitch(ed) as complained. And yes, if you’re gonna bitch about a father changing his child, you’re a muppet. The fact that it was a woman objecting, made her a muppet mother. If it was a father objecting, he’d be a muppet father. Only a muppet would in insist a baby be left in a soiled nappy because they were offended that a father was changing his child’s bum.
        
        Think before pushing enter.
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:03pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Not that Northland Wahine called them “bitches” (noun), but rather used it as a verb: “People bitch when dad’s don’t parent and now bitch when they do”.
        
        And last I heard, even in the over-blown PC world in which we live, with outrage set to hair-trigger, it is ok to criticise a person’s action, especially when it is accurate. Tough shit if that results in hurty feelings. On balance a verbal slap down for trying to monopolise for one gender a space designated for “parents” deserves contempt.
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:09pm
      - GoVege
        
        Get jumped on, Antoine.
        Maybe you “shouldnt” be telling others how they “should feel”.
        A mum breastfeeding her baby and a big tattooed bloke walks into a typically tiny parents room would scare a lot of women.
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:29pm
      - Antoine
        
        Govege: tough.
        
        (Bearing in mind the tattooed bloke is there for a nappy change so probably has a lil’ teeny baby in his arms)
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:33pm
      - Kimbo
        
        A mum breastfeeding her baby and a big tattooed bloke walks into a typically tiny parents room would scare a lot of women.
        
        As usual with someone pushing a ridiculous point of view and argument, you have to run to the most absurd and/or extreme scenario. “Will no one think of the mothers and children?!”. 🙂
        
        Men having to live and work in the minefield of sexual politics, double standards, entitlitis-masquerading-as-victimhood and feminist bullshit that is modern society is also frightening, especially with the thought that there are people like you around in the middle of a self-laid minefield ready to be scared, obstreperous and outraged all at the same time! Well, yes I guess women can multi-task better than men 😉
        
        ….but for the sake of their families they just get on with it.
        
        But if you don’t want to take Antonie’s good advice, then there is no instructing those who are wilfully stupid. (that’s a criticism of actions – your attitude, lack of judgement and words, btw, not you as such).
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:39pm
      - GoVege
        
        You think before you push enter, you bossy aekae.
        And think before you open your mouth too. 🙂
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:44pm
      - GoVege
        
        Relax, Kumbaya.
        You guys won’t have a problem with me.
        I used to breastfeed my babies anywhere I liked, including in the queue at the checkout.
        I don’t think anyone noticed. 🙂
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:48pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ GoVege
        
        Relax, Kumbaya.
        
        Now who’s being bossy you disrespectful hypocritical harpy? And I’m the third person in this thread to whom you’ve issued imperatives. And think before you speak? Rich from someone who doesn’t know the difference between a verb and a noun.
        
        Don’t give a shit what you used to do when breast-feeding. Don’t give a shit about you other than how your toxic views are typical of those that can and influence modern opinion. Your views are worthy of contempt, as also is the passive-aggressive wrapping in which they come. So kindly don’t tell me to…relax. You bossy entitled…bitch. And that was a noun, not a verb btw.
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:53pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Good one NW. ??
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:53pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Vegehead, it’s aikea… and I don’t have a cock so I won’t be eating my own…
        
        Pushing enter before thinking appears to be your forte.
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:57pm
      - GoVege
        
        I never started with “the imperatives” Kimmy.
        It’s you Tories on here who love to dish out orders…and insults.
        I called Northland Wahine bossy coz she has demonstrated on many occasions that she is exactly that and more.
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:12pm
      - GoVege
        
        It doesn’t mean that, NW.
        Listen up a bit instead of barking orders at all and sundry.
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:21pm
      - GoVege
        
        Go jump in a haystack, waikato hick.
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:23pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Ummmm, broccoli brains…Before you go preaching about profanities, best you wash out your own mouth before kissing your family.
        
        And I stand corrected, you told me to eat shit. Which is probably preferable to having to continue this monologue.
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:32pm
      - KKKKatee
        
        Nice one NW. Made my day. ????
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:41pm
      - Antoine
        
        > I used to breastfeed my babies anywhere I liked, including in the queue at the checkout.
        
        Just want to add that I’m totally cool with this
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:49pm
      - GoVege
        
        Glad to hear that , Antoine. 🙂
        
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        October 9, 2017 2:21pm
      - GoVege
        
        A monologue means one person talking, Meathead.
        Both of us have contributed to this discussion. ..that makes it a “dialogue”.
        You started out attacking me for no reason, except, presumably, that I don’t expect mammals to be killed for my eating pleasure, and I had a few words of criticism for some Maori behaviours I have observed.
        I’m sorry you have had a very difficult upbringing, but I don’t think that excuses you going on the attack the way you do.
        Try to tackle the issues, not the messenger, and we might get somewhere.
        
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        October 9, 2017 2:29pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Broccoli brain… apparently irony is lost on you. Monologue pertaining to a oneway conversation. You weren’t partaking of the conversation. Just adding your usual diatribe. Hence, there was no dialogue.
        
        And vege head… scroll up… who attacked whom? I don’t recall referring to you as a fa’fafine.
        
        If you want to start throwing insults around, best you come prepared to have them thrown back.
        
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        October 9, 2017 3:02pm
      - GoVege
        
        I know what you were trying to imply with ” monologue”, NW, but it’s not actually true.
        Count up the insults and swear words and you as always are way ahead.
        I do apologize though, because this is a day you are spending with your son and I have diverted you from some hopefully quality time together.
        
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        October 9, 2017 3:19pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Govege
        
        if aekae (sic) doesn’t mean shit eater
        (Samoan spelling – ai kae)
        
        Could you please explain to all of us palangis what you meant when you wrote
        “you bossy aekae”?
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/10/general_debate_9_october_2017.html/comment-page-1#comment-2046385
        
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        October 9, 2017 5:46pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Vege, you’re miffed because you got called out for the things you accuse myself, and others off. You chose and again choose to take a swipe at my original comment for no other reason than to be antagonistic. You didn’t even bother to take the time to read the post properly. We’ve all done that at one time or another.
        
        But don’t whine when you throw the first virtual insult then get your knickers in a twist when your intended target gives it back to you. Grow up. For goodness sake, I’ve a 54 year old woman. I’m over “who’s having the worst period”contests.
        
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        October 9, 2017 5:47pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Northland Wahine:
        
        I don’t have a cock so I won’t be eating my own
        
        As Johnboy would say: you don’t know what you’re missing out on! 🙂
        
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        October 9, 2017 5:55pm
      - sam green
        
        Have you guys not clocked on to the fact that go vege is the alter ego of some of the other (one person) troll characters on here?
        
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        October 9, 2017 7:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Sam Green
        
        GoVege reminds me of Judith (remember her)?
        
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        October 9, 2017 7:37pm
      - GoVege
        
        You’re right, Wahine, I did start this.
        I was seeking utu because I have found you more offensive than any other person on this somewhat toxic blog.
        Maybe you have never learnt how to communicate with people without insulting them in the process.
        Anyway it was very silly of me and I should never have started it.
        I sincerely apologise.
        I hope you have a nice week with your son.
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:49pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Go vege, if that was your sample of an apology, you may need to re think about your own communication skills. What I suspect you think is toxic is an unwillingness to agree with you because you think we have something culturally in common. So what? The “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” mentality is antiquated.
        
        You, from the outset, have questioned my opinions as a Maori woman. Not as a person. As a Maori woman. And you do not see this as being racist or sexist because you believe that you know what’s best for Maori and women and not to mention, what’s best for me. And it’s patronising. Extremely patronising.
        
        So apology is not accepted, because in essence, it was never genuinely offered.
        
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        October 9, 2017 11:11pm
      - GoVege
        
        You seem to be always telling me what I think or feel, NW.
        Why don’t you try just saying how YOU think and feel?
        Nobody can know what another person thinks or feels, only ourselves.
        You originally went ballistic with me because I shared what I had observed Maori women saying to their kids especially daughters, which seemed very inappropriate and abusive.
        I had a little Maori girl try to commit suicide close to my home recently.
        Maybe she was a victim of what I see as abusive parenting by SOME Maori.
        I never accused YOU of abusive parenting.
        Apparently I am not permitted to proffer my opinion on a serious social issue.
        How do you know I asked your opinion as a Maori or as a person?
        Did I say that?
        Maori don’t seem to want to own up to what is wrong in their culture, yet no-one else is permitted to comment.
        As you have chosen to reveal your ethnicity, why are you so sensitive about others asking about your culture?
        I revealed I am vegequarian expecting to be asked questions about the subject.
        I didn’t realise asking a “wahine” about her culture was somehow “taboo”.
        I’m not being “racist” or “sexist” or anything else.
        I just want to know why our Maori citizens have such appalling statistics for child abuse/neglect and imprisonment etc.
        And I prefer not to be abused when I ask.
        Is that too much to expect?
        
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        October 10, 2017 12:33am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        go vege,
        
        What you have asked, I have responded to yourself, many an occasion. You have never acknowledged those responses.
        
        I do not have all the answers. I’m just a 54 yr old mum and nana responding to a need as best I can.
        
        You state I originally went ballistic at you? That must have been been so important to you because I really don’t recall. I do recall your early postings being about large Maori families, and absent fathers, none which I would refute.
        
        In regard to why Maori have such appalling statistics, I could quote academic reasonings but I see those as excuses. My own thoughts and from my own experiences, tell me this. The urban drift for Maori saw them disconnected from their whenua, their land. Slowly but surely they became disconnected. While they were working, full employment for everyone, they didn’t notice so much. Home ownership was common. Large families in the 70s actually became a thing only Catholics and PIs did. Then came the mass unemployment in the public sector, rail, post, forestry and also with meat works.
        
        No work, home more with family, no money, disconnected from their tribe, extended family, whenua. Traditional parenting skills weren’t past on, child neglect became more frequent and as men left their families or women forced them out, Maori became reliant on benefits.
        
        Maori aren’t stupid. Many figured out very early that you can actually survive ok on a benefit without the need to work. So they did. Trouble is they’d seen their parents party hard when they could afford to and thought they could continue to do so. Drink, fight, sex. That was always the sign you had a good night. And often pregnancy followed. Before you known it you’ve got 6 plus kids under the age of 25, fathers unknown. You can’t cope, you go out and drown your sorrows with a man who has had the same upbringing, bring him home, recipe for disaster. Neglect turns into abuse, physical and sexual. Kick him out, wash, rinse, repeat cycle.
        
        I have literally dozens of young Maori on my caseload that fit into the above. The ones that make it into their 20s childless are almost considered success stories by the ministry, barren by their peers. Too many are also suffering alcohol fetal syndrome. I have others in their 30s, 7, 8,9 kids, none in their care. 40 year olds, worked 20 odd years ago maybe, but are 2nd generational beneficiaries. These are often the ones that encourage their daughters to have children because it’s easier money, and sadly, it’s all they think their daughters are capable of. Tall poppy syndrome is also very alive in too many Maori.
        
        And because these boys are often the result of an absent father, there’s no one around to teach them how to be a man. If he is, he’s probably beating the shit out of him.
        
        You have asked me many a time what do I do about the above. This is what annoys me about you go vege. You give the impression that I have a universal solution. However, this again what I do.
        
        I am a case manager for winz in the south Auckland area. I help those who need help. And often those who I feel, don’t. I advise how they can do better. I encourage them to upskill, educate, look for employment, make better choices. The same things I did and do for my grown sons, all my moko and youngest boy. Same thing I do for the foster children that come and go into my care.
        
        Now go vege, my day has already began, as many a single working mum. My boy is better so I’m off to work. And this will be the last time I will respond to your “why do maori” rhetoric.
        
        Enjoy your day.
        
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        October 10, 2017 7:11am
      - GoVege
        
        NW: Thank you very much for a reasoned discussion of these issues.
        I do not expect you to have the answers, but you obviously have a great deal of knowledge about the situation for many Maori.
        The only thing I feel you have left out is the sexism prevalent in Maori society.
        I recall Donna Awatere-Huata saying that the greatest benefit for her family of moving to the city (from the countryside) was that for the first time, they could call the police when her father started to beat them up.
        Maori culture (like all Polynesian cultures) expects women to be subservient to men.
        Then the women, as you say, pass this on to their daughters, expecting nothing better from them than a life on the benefit as a solo mum.
        I found it very hard to watch Metaria Turei being abused by all and sundry for some very minor benefit fraud, when she has worked hard to educate herself instead of sitting back and languishing on the DPB.
        I wonder if she would have received the same level as abuse if she had been Pakeha.
        Anyway I’ve got to get to work too.
        Good on you for doing your best to encourage other Maori to aim for better in life.
        
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        October 10, 2017 9:25am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  This is why I identify as a masculine presenting trans gender lesbian.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:44am
- Gabby
  
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  Can’t imagine you getting too concerned about issues coming out Bitcho, given those weeping sores.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:04am
  - Brito
    
    Gobby, sometimes we have to put the malice away when dealing with real issues.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:14am
    - Gabby
      
      Bitcho, sometimes you need to pat those drippy piss flaps dry.
      
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      October 9, 2017 7:22pm
  - softail 1450
    
    you have been making sense for a few days grubby,was the draw of the liqour cabinet just to strong this morning ?
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:14am
    - Gabby
      
      you take another header over the handlebars of your fatarse girly bike softcock?
      
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      October 9, 2017 7:24pm
- Sideoiler
  
  I note with concern the issue coming out of Australia about Dad’s using ‘Parent’ rooms. Apparently women don’t like this.
  
  It’s called equality bitches, make your minds up you either want it or you don’t.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:13am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    No, Feminism is about female primacy, not “Equality”.
    
    Look at the much higher rate of females getting a tertiary education and professional careers now that the education industry has been feminised.
    
    Look at horrific outcomes for male children in solo mother families.
    
    Our boys and young men are being destroyed by Progressivism/Feminism. Ironically the females may win all the fancy baubles of “success” in our newly constructed Gynocracy, but they are fat, lonely, childless, miserable, washing down their anti anxiety drugs with a glass of cheap pinot grigio.
    
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    October 9, 2017 10:40am
    - Fletch
      
      What is amusing is that most things to do with feminist equality are of women attempting to be the same as men – as though men are the benchmark that women aspire to and want to be like. They want to compete with men at doing manly things.
      
      In doing this they actually ignore their own strengths and the things that make women unique – the things that men can’t do. Why don’t they strive after and take pride in those things rather than trying to be like men?
      
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      October 9, 2017 11:02am
      - JasonJohns
        
        The angels that defied God (of the Bible) left heaven and mated with the women of earth and produced the Nephilim….giants and weird creatures, 1/2 man-1/2 creature. They are demons who do the devils work and can change shape/transfigure, etc, etc…
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:36pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @JasonJohns
        
        Do you ever think that too much exegesis and hermeneutics might be stunting your social development?
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:45pm
      - GoVege
        
        That’s a nice way of looking at it, Fletch.
        The trouble is that quite a lot of women don’t have much of a maternal instinct, which is the main way the sexes differ.
        And even very maternal women can go nuts stuck in the house with young kids all day.
        It’s a balancing act but the bottom line is listening to eachother and showing some respect.
        
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        October 9, 2017 3:24pm
      - RF
        
        Aliens mated with apes so that would explain our heritage.
        
        In the book of Ezekiel the profit Enoch was taken from earth in a shuttle craft up to a mother ship.
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:16pm
    - softail 1450
      
      jazz, you have such a way with words, the sad thing is you are correct …
      
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      October 9, 2017 1:07pm
    - GoVege
      
      The outcomes are not good for many female children in solo mother families either Jazz.
      The job of a father is to support and protect his kids and wife, and give his sons guidance and a good role model.
      Now the state is there to take the place of dads, they have been made redundant.
      We do have a big problem with family violence in this country, but divorce and reliance on state handouts is not the solution.
      
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      October 9, 2017 4:02pm
      - softail 1450
        
        state handouts must be the solution vegetable ,i get the feeling from your writings that you personally have had plenty of them .
        am i correct ? dont tell porkies now veggie .
        
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        October 9, 2017 5:51pm
      - GoVege
        
        What on earth gives you that impression, my dear softy?
        I have been supporting myself since I was 16, with just a brief period on state support for a very good reason.
        It’s true also that we had WFF for a few years, which was a Godsend with 4 teenagers.
        But they and us have been paying plenty of tax for years now.
        I can honestly say…I am honoured to pay our GST and provisional tax each month. 🙂
        
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        October 9, 2017 7:36pm
- Maxx
  
  Come on. You should know by now that unless you are LGBTQI or a Woman you aren’t being discriminated against.
  
  Maybe instead of the LGBlahblahblah the new designation you should be a NOman.
  
  I’m sorry for being a man.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:23am
  - waikatogirl
    
    A self-absorbed bunch of virtual-signalling bitches. Fathers shouldn’t be discouraged.
    
    There are worse things in life than being a woman. ?
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:32am
    - KevOB
      
      The best people I have met in life have been women.
      
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      October 9, 2017 11:00am
      - Fletch
        
        The best women I have met in life have been women.
        
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        October 9, 2017 11:09am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Men only have themselves to blame for this.
  Every man is a rapist, and every woman a victim.
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:14am
  - RF
    
    Dear god.
    
    I am reminded of a woman being interviewed on TV. She was acusing males of wanting to rape her all the time and was calling them animals.
    
    I had to pinch my self. She was hugely obsese, ugly as sin and a few sandwiches short in her lunch box.
    
    In her dreams….. I once heard the actor Bruce Willis describe a similar person and comment that you would have to roll her in flour to find the wet spot.
    
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    October 9, 2017 12:30pm
    - GoVege
      
      She probably put ON all that weight and let herself go in order to protect herself from predatory males, you twit.
      It’s like when I was a teenager walking around on my own at night.
      When I had to pass a group of males I found the best way to avoid trouble was to put on the meanest face I possibly could, so nobody would hassle me.
      
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      October 9, 2017 12:53pm
      - softail 1450
        
        vegetable OMG, not only a rabid vegan ,but a man hater as well.
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:02pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Aah. Looking old, fat, ugly and poorly dressed is a strategic decision to ensure safety from predators.
        
        I’m old, fat, ugly and poorly dressed and haven’t been robbed or raped.
        
        Is that a good thing, or a bad thing, then?
        I’m really confused.
        
        [It’s a seriously slow news day today, isn’t it]
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:07pm
      - softail 1450
        
        vegetable ,i hope you are not feeling set upon today vege ,you know what can happen if you double up on the dose of prozac.
        its hard to believe a vegan can be filled with such hate for 1/2 the population of the planet.
        and were you aware that fluoxetine has some animal based products?
        
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        October 9, 2017 1:26pm
      - Brito
        
        You miss the point. Read the following. This chap advocates that males should just suck it up – ask if it’s ok to use a ‘Parent Room’. Is this a little like ‘we are all equal however some are more equal’…etc?
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/baby/97686281/men-face-distrustful-vibe-when-toileting-their-kids-in-public
        
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        October 9, 2017 2:25pm
    - GoVege
      
      Softail: I am quite positive that the vast majority of males are good, decent people.
      It’s just that women…being physically weaker than most males…have to be careful in case they come across one of the bad dudes.
      Please don’t try to paint me as a “man-hater”.
      Im sure when you avoid groups of Maori or Polynesian males, it’s not because you’re racist, but that you’re just being careful.
      
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      October 9, 2017 1:56pm
  - GoVege
    
    Softail: I am quite positive that the vast majority of males are good, decent people.
    It’s just that women…being physically weaker than most males…have to be careful in case they come across one of the bad dudes.
    Please don’t try to paint me as a “man-hater”.
    Im sure when you avoid groups of Maori or Polynesian males, it’s not because you’re racist, but that you’re just being careful.
    
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    October 9, 2017 1:57pm
Dafixeruppa

Morning all, from the land of wind and rain… well rain anyway in Wellington today
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October 9, 2017 8:02am
- Inandout
  
  Come Thursday, or whenever Winston decides, the weather will improve.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:12am
- Scott
  
  However some things do warm one’s heart –
  ISIS Fighters, Having Pledged to Fight or Die, Surrender en Masse
  
  Could it be the west is starting to win again?
  
  https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/world/middleeast/isis-iraq-surrender.html?referer=http://www.drudgereport.com/
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:26am
  - Gabby
    
    Once ‘the west’ has won, courtesy of the Kurds, will there commence a right royal shafting (of the Kurds)?
    That’s a rhetorical question.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:07am
    - Random T Person
      
      What did Little Miss Muffett and Saddam Hussein have in common?
      
      They both had Kurds in their Whey.
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:34am
    - rangitoto
      
      Iran and their puppets in Baghdad are already trying to blockade Kurdistan.
      
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      October 9, 2017 1:44pm
  - VicParking
    
    The majority of IS fighters who surrender to Iraq troops are tried and executed so I suppose its better to drop and have you neck broken than bleeding out on the battlefield.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:10am
  - kowtow
    
    Surrender?
    
    They needed to be taken out.
    
    Now how many will return “home” to cuddles from the Wilkommen brigade and how many more will take to the boats pretending to be refugees?
    
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    October 9, 2017 12:41pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Most of the core Daesh fighters are already dead.
    
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    October 9, 2017 1:42pm
waikatogirl

Morning everyone. Beautiful early morning sunshine in the Waikato. Not likely to last long though. ?
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October 9, 2017 8:05am
- sHr0oMaN
  
  Indeed – who can I vote for that will improve this miserable weather?
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:13am
  - VicParking
    
    The Greens ofcourse. Not more greenhouse gasses, one billion trees and solar/wind energy.
    Sun will shine all day as you sit outside you grass hut and grind you mung beans for you vegan diet.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:14am
    - softail 1450
      
      careful vic, you might trigger that vege guy .
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:18am
      - GoVege
        
        Hi boys.
        Found out how to cook green lentils last night.
        After you bring them to the boil, turn them down to simmer, but leave the lid OFF!
        (Stops them going mushy.)
        Mix with brown rice and veges.
        Yummy!! 🙂
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:57am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      We will need a lot more global warming before we can successfully cultivate mung beans in NZ.
      We will just have to keep importing them from Oklahoma.
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:46am
  - Fletch
    
    F.. daylight saving.
    
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    October 9, 2017 11:10am
- Happychappy
  
  waikatogirl we have not had the rain that was expected in the North Waikato and with the warm weather my garden is thriving so lets hope the rain that we do get is minimal and the warm weather continues.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:27am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Waikatogirl… we just had a drenching in south Auckland. Think it’s heading your way. sorry!!!
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:46am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Thanks NW, expecting thunderstorms today. Sunshine gone already so hope it’s headed north for you ?
    
    Have a great day in the trenches ?
    
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    October 9, 2017 8:59am
    - Northland Wahine
      
      Home today with my boy who’s sick so it’s streaming day! Check out what new tv shows are online. ?
      
      May those thunderstorms be short lived! And hopefully both our storms meet in the middle and drench ngaruawahia!
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:04am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Enjoy your day with your son NW. ?
        
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        October 9, 2017 9:38am
  - VicParking
    
    Auckland needs to send rain in the Waikato so you can mix it with Hamiltons sewerage and pipe it back to them.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:16am
- Random T Person
  
  Bay of Floods is rainy as. Whakatown, sunniest place in all New Zealandland.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Lovely rain in Gizzy – garden looking fabulous.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:51am
    - Random T Person
      
      There is that – got Weed n Feed down on Saturday, impatiens and other annuals planted the week before, and moved a citrus tree so the rain is probably going to help all of that to settle in a bit…
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:57am
Happychappy

I think there has to be a lot of credit given to National and Bill English in the post election drama of who will form the next Government, for a dull uninspiring Leader as some on here have labelled him he has been positive, sensible and happy when confronted by the media with also praising NZ First and Winston when warranted. This did not change this morning with his answer to the media when asked about the negotiations saying I am confident that I will still be Prime Minister after a Government has been formed.
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October 9, 2017 8:16am
- KKKKatee
  
  The usual columnists are writing all sorts of nonsense about who Winston will go with. Rather entertaining. Jacinda thinks she’s got in the bag.
  Well, let’s wait and see shall we Jacinda? Her arrogance is astounding…..
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:27am
  - pdm
    
    She is of the left KKKKatee – therefore she does arrogance as a matter of course.
    
    Wait for the venom if Winston First goes with the Nats.
    
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    October 9, 2017 8:48am
    - RF
      
      The princess will be like a Mexican dancer performing the hat dance. Lots of foot stamping and shreaking.
      
      She is really high maintenance and a worry. Her photos are either full of toothy smiles or strained expression with jaw clamped shut.
      
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      October 9, 2017 10:07am
      - fluffykiwi
        
        Unfortunately for her with those teeth you have a permanent grin, otherwise you have to hold the lips in place over the teeth, not a pretty sight, and hard to do long term. She has to describe it as “positive” there is not a lot she can do about it.
        It is a bit like the death grin on a skeleton.
        
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        October 9, 2017 11:37am
      - RF
        
        I remember when Ardern and the medicine ball ginga appeared on Paul Henrys morning show after both were newly elected.
        
        This was the first time I had seen her and I was surprised.
        
        As a good friend remarked she could eat an apple through a tennis racquet.
        
        An unkind remark but sadly true. It’s a pity as the teeth could have been corrected thus making life easier for her.
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:02pm
      - MCos
        
        I would expect the only reason the prominence of Ardern’s teeth would make her life at all difficult would be because she’s probably subjected to odious comments such as those on display here.
        
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        October 9, 2017 2:02pm
      - GoVege
        
        True, MCos.
        It’s quite astounding how nasty a lot of people can be about other people’s appearance.
        
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        October 9, 2017 4:08pm
- Nukuleka
  
  Insufficient credit has been given to Bill for his sterling effort in getting National to 44% after being in government for 3 terms and having taken over the leadership from a very popular PM in John Key. He is always good-humoured, well-briefed and affable. He is also bright.
  
  Give that man the credit he damn well deserves.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:31am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    And give him the right to put together the new Government with whichever support partner he chooses.
    A coalition of the losers should not be the product of MMP.
    
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    October 9, 2017 8:43am
    - Gabby
      
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      DON’T PANIC! DON’T PANIC! No need to change the rules just yet crusty.
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:12am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      We can just imagine Labour if they had the majority, the screeching of ‘we won’, would be deafening and National would be rounded on for not accepting the will of the people. Sounds like the US.
      Why are commentators saying that the Nats have no support partners, they should have NZ First.
      
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      October 9, 2017 10:21am
    - MCos
      
      By definition whoever doesn’t form part of the next government are the losers.
      
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      October 9, 2017 2:07pm
  - Swifty
    
    Totally agree. A fine effort.
    
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    October 9, 2017 8:43am
  - niggly
    
    Let’s not forget National’s reduction to 44.4% after the special votes were counted is simply because of the way the MMP system reduces (National’s) List seat allocation simply to maintain overall proportionality (of the combined List + Electorate seat vote) rather than simply maintaining proportionality of the List seat vote only (like SM would).
    
    In essence National is “punished” for being “too popular” by winning the majority of the Electorate seats (41 out of a total of 71). Plus because of it’s high List vote.
    
    In terms of the special votes, National gained around 153,262 by my calculations or 36.31% of the special votes, whereas say for example the Greens gained a “mere” 35,448 (or 8.40%), but again because of the idiosyncrasies of the MMP system then National lost 2 seats and the Greens gained 1 seat.
    
    Interestingly this puts a different perspective on the Greens doing well in special votes, sure they do (although no where as well as both National and Labour) but for small parties like the Greens any special vote increase is a bonus and will play into their favor, especially if they don’t have Electorate seats.
    
    No wonder why the Greens and MMP’s campaigners like the MMP system!
    
    For National (and Labour) i.e. the major parties, MMP is a “flawed” system as it reduces their seat allocations. As others pointed out yesterday, the SM voting system, which is near identical to MMP, irons out these “flaws” (of maintain proportionality) entirely to make it fairer.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:17am
oldpark

Heard “Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern raving on about the coalition talks are going. She ranted she was all set for a “Stable Durable Coalition Government”
At almost the same time the latest recruit from the special votes to join the Toxic Green Party supporters of benefit fraud was a “defacto” refugee who is aged 36 came to NZ when she was nine years old. and has been enjoying the privileges and benefits of NZ since then.
Her rant and rave was all about climate change inequality,poverty. Of course no mention of the $160,000 Dollars as a Green Party parasite MP, she would get off the NZs taxpayers for getting the benefits of MMP yet refusing to enter into the spirit of it,such as National ,Labour and NZF.
Special mention to Mr Peters. A coalition with people like her who want to rule the roost and Government, as well as the rest of her sisters in an almost female coven known as the Green Party.
Be afraid be very afraid life is too short. Just imagine Winston with “Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern and the defacto refugee called “Ghahraman” in full flight in a coalition ,you will wish you had gone with Bill Englishs’ tame National Party. Not too many screaming skulls or nashing teeth in Bills lot.
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October 9, 2017 8:23am
- Gabby
  
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  How very dare she not commit herself wholeheartedly to the Worship of Bill oldfart.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:14am
- softail 1450
  
  its amazing, that new green mp seems to start any comment to anyone willing to listen with “as a human rights lawyer”, ok already,we know you are a lawyer give it a fricking rest.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:24am
  - sooty
    
    Where do lawyers sit compared to reporters and used car salemen.
    
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    October 9, 2017 12:37pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Very favourably I am sure :).
      
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      October 9, 2017 5:57pm
- Paulus
  
  I m waiting to hear that Ghahraman is actually taking a drop in salary from her time as a UN top lawyer to save us.
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:03am
- Duxton
  
  Burka Barbie has received far more (probably five times as much) from the NZ taxpayer than she has ever contributed.
  
  Nothing more than a bludging scumbag.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:47pm
waikatogirl

Duncan Garner last night removed himself from Twitter permanently after receiving vitriolic attacks in response to his recent opinion piece on whether NZ needing a discussion on the direction immigration should take.
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October 9, 2017 8:28am
- Ross12
  
  Duncan is getting a little wiser in his “old” age.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:38am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Dear Duncan – when you write
  
  None of what I say here in this column is intended to be racist or anti-foreigner.
  
  But…”
  
  and
  
  This is not an opinion column designed to be deliberately inflammatory on race grounds, flimsy grounds or any other grounds.
  
  But…
  
  in the same column, it’s pretty obvious that you ARE intending to be “anti-foreigner” and “deliberately inflammatory”. In the context which you wrote, “but” is a justification of your views.
  
  PS: What sort of self-respecting journalist buys his underdaks from K-Mart anyway?
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:49am
  - brett68
    
    Kmart sells really good quality underwear at a great price.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:14am
    - sooty
      
      It makes no difference when you shit them. It’s still a mess if they are $2 ones or Tuk Morgans $100 silk ones!
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:50am
  - pdm
    
    He is a journalist – not Tuku!!
    
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    October 9, 2017 10:41am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    it’s pretty obvious that you ARE intending to be “anti-foreigner” and “deliberately inflammatory”. In the context which you wrote, “but” is a justification of your views.
    
    And you wonder why it is Keeping Stock that people on here think you’re the blogs biggest Cuckold!
    
    Whatever happened to “sticks and stones may break my bones”?
    
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    October 9, 2017 7:56pm
- Gabby
  
  Silver linings.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:15am
- Brito
  
  Duncan may have strayed into unfamiliar territory when he wrote his opinion piece. That territory is called ‘our reality’. There is a link between Duncan’s piece and the issue I highlighted earlier (Parent Rooms). The feminisation of the western world and the concept of ‘cultural integration’ being a norm means we are in for a rocky future.
  
  Try standing up and saying, ‘my European culture is as valid as yours’. The labels come out. At some stage white men will stand back and say enough already.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:34am
- Random T Person
  
  Dude quits twitter, it makes headline news. The conceit of these people rage quitting – why can they not just quietly switch it off, instead of rushing to some other ‘social media’ platform to make the big announcement. They love the likes, but can’t handle the barbs (and that’s Facebook’s genius, reflected a little by LinkedIn, makes it easy to feed ego, but not as easy to be nasty like Twitter).
  Social media. Nothing social about it, never has been, never will be.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:39am
  - Paulus
    
    Why anybody takes to social media such as Twitter and Facebook is beyond me.
    What I do not want is for the world to openly be able to read or learn my thoughts.
    Kiwiblog only please – have been banned on WO and the Standard anyway for a long time since commenting.
    
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    October 9, 2017 10:07am
    - sooty
      
      It’s all about them! Not happy unless they tell as about their opinion. As if we care!
      
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      October 9, 2017 12:45pm
Digmen1

What is the buzz with this “we must have a debate” on this or that subject.

What is a debate
Ten people in a room
Some forum discussions (like this one)
A Facebook Page
A Talkback session.

And what happens to the result of the debate?
Who decides who has won?
Politicians don’t act on referendums, so why would they act on debate results?
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October 9, 2017 8:32am
- pdm
  
  Digmen1 – you are living in the past.
  
  In the old days we had debates – the in word these days is conversations!!
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:53am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Surely you mean korerorero
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:59am
    - pdm
      
      Maggy – I haven’t heard Comrade Taxcinda say that.
      
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      October 9, 2017 10:43am
      - Twinkletoes
        
        Yet.
        
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        October 9, 2017 2:32pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  The only debate worth having that has a happy ending.. a “massdebate”. However, no matter what the political process serves up in a few days I am still very happy to live here and not here:
  
  http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-41421506/parliamentary-punch-ups-in-uganda-and-elsewhere
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:08am
- Peter
  
  “Starting a conversation” is lefty-speak for “I’ve made up my mind, I know best, but I’m going to patronise you by making it look like you have a say – which you don’t”
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:31am
  - sooty
    
    Taxinda likes conversations!
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:53am
  - Fletch
    
    I lost count of the number of times a guy on Tucker Carlson’s show last week said “we need to have an honest conversation”..
    
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    October 9, 2017 11:13am
tom hunter

So after the initial burst of news from the NYT about Harvey Weinstein it’s been…. crickets.

No jokes from any of the US late-night “comics”. Nothing from Saturday Night Live. After their relentless tirades on Pussy Grabbing Trump, and Roger Ailies, and the GOP hypocrite Murphy the other day, I thought these people loved making a meal of this sort of thing.

Why, it’s almost as if they’re nothing but operatives for the Democratic Party!

Still, I hear there’s a New Yorker article on the way, so that’s something.
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October 9, 2017 8:33am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  More to the point, nothing from our esteemed host, who is always happy to hop on any passing CNN bandwagon that criticises Trump….
  
  Hollywood hypocrites – like George Clooney who felt he had to criticise Trump so hard for wanting to keep muslims out of the US because of terrorism… then had to remove himself, his refugee rights lawyer wife and kids out of London – because of the dangers of terrorism in the UK.
  
  It’s OK when the Left do it
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:36am
- Disaster Area
  
  Just in case you missed it: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/09/harvey-weinstein-sacked-in-wake-of-sexual-harassment-scandal
  http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/harvey-weinstein-company-fired-terminated-harassment-sex-scandal-claims-a7989791.html
  http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/08/media/harvey-weinstein-fired-weinstein-company/index.html
  
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  October 9, 2017 4:10pm
Jimmy

Is anyone else secretly hoping that Winnie chooses Labour and the Greens?

After the coaltion inevitably falls apart, or else struggles on for a choatic and deeply unpopular term, two things will almost certainly happen:

1 – National will romp home next election, and probably the two after that
2 – The country will be sufficiently fed up with MMP that we will actually get rid of it.
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October 9, 2017 8:34am
- Digmen1
  
  I think lots of people are.
  But the damage that the left wing could do in a couple of years would take many years to repair.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:36am
  - Jimmy
    
    Yes, but if National and NZF form a coalition this term, it will end just as badly for National as each previous coalition involving NZF has hurt the major party, so we’ll end up with left wing government for 2 or 3 terms after that!
    
    And on top of that, it won’t energise people against MMP.
    
    I think National should play ultra-hard ball in the negotiations, make NZF choose Labour and the Watermelons, then sweep into power with Supplementary Member to keep them in power for a generation after that.
    
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    October 9, 2017 8:38am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      I actually don’t think a National-NZF Govt. would be that bad. Winnie is older and wiser now and would not want to go into retirement with the legacy of having wrecked another Government. He will want to go out on a high, then National can get on with the job of governing on their own when NZF’s votes come back home when he’s gone.
      
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      October 9, 2017 8:48am
      - Jimmy
        
        Do think Winnie’s mates will be conducive to a good government?
        
        This is the man that has given us Tuariki Delamere, Michael Laws, Tuku Morgan, Brendan Horan, Asenati Lole-Talyor and Neil Kirton previously. I’m sure we can come up with more oxygen thieves who have ridden his coat tails to power.
        
        Do you really think that Ron Mark, Shane Jones and Tracey Martin will not follow in previous NZF footsteps and do something monumentally stupid and disruptive to good government?
        
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        October 9, 2017 8:57am
      - niggly
        
        I agree Captain, as someone who has been weary of NZF in the past, upon reflection National and NZF in the 1990’s mainly fell apart when Shipley rolled Bolger.
        
        As long as National remains stable under Bill English (and the likes of Collins & WO don’t continue to undermine National/English) then as far as National is concerned then their side of the arrangement will certainly maintain stability (as a govt, with NZF).
        
        I also think with a better performing economy under National, those tensions in the 1990’s Nat/NZF coalition will be largely eliminated this time around as the money is there for both National and NZF’s policies.
        
        Can’t same the same for a Labour and Greens govt (with NZF) as Labour and the Greens will bankrupt the economy by overspending and therefore overtaxing and killing off the productive agricultural sectors. Frankly a Labour/Green (+NZF) government is still a worry, as the effects of the policies will take some time to filter through so could potentially win the next election due to more high spending promises to “assist” people in need etc.
        
        Plus look at the inexperience of the Labour MP’s especially its leadership and finance minister in waiting! Let alone the Greens who want to cut-loose and stamp their authority on the economy overnight, destroy industry and halt infrastructure developments!
        
        Let’s hope Winston weighs this all up and chooses carefully.
        
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        October 9, 2017 9:35am
      - Paulus
        
        I love it – Winnie is older – yes and wiser – I doubt it – he is still a show pony but a clapped poor old carthorse respected by none.
        The knackerer should be called.
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:21am
    - Maxx
      
      I think Winston’s position right from the beginning has been to sit on the cross benches hence his statement at the beginning that NZF can’t win.
      
      However, if during the negotiations something juicy is offered, all bets are off.
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:53am
  - Random T Person
    
    Indeed, but sometimes people need to see what happens when idiots are in charge. Would be interesting to say the least.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:42am
- brett68
  
  Why will it be a chaotic and deeply unpopular term, what’s going to happen?
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:56am
  - Jimmy
    
    For the same reason that the previous three governments involving NZF have been – Winston’s ego and his caucus’ stupidity.
    
    NZF is a party of bewildered fools who want to take us back to a time that never existed.
    
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    October 9, 2017 8:59am
    - brett68
      
      Yeah, but how will that affect the average voter.
      
      The only thing I can see that will make a Lab/Green/NZ First govt unpopular is if their policies tank the economy or they start sticking their nose into peoples lives like Clarkula did last time around.
      
      Unfortunately, because National did such a good job at getting the economy moving again, it’s going to take at least a term to crash that which just leaves leftish stickybeaking and I’ve got a feeling they may have learnt from previous mistakes and not go too hard done that road again.
      
      You’ve also got to remember the medias not going to say a bad word word about Jacinda, the honeymoon will never end
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:07am
      - Jimmy
        
        I think there is a proven track record with Winston and his cling-ons that the average voter has punished (and the party he has been with) in the past.
        
        In 1999 they punished National over Winston’s antics breaking up the coalition, and the idiot ministers (like Neil Kirton) he got into power.
        
        In 2008 they punished Labour over Winston’s lies to Parliament about his expenses.
        
        We have been lucky that since then they have been out of power, or else do you think that Anenati Loli Taylor, Brendan Horan, Andrew Williams, Richard Prosser and Tracey Martin would not have screwed up, just like Laws, Morgan, Delamere and others did in the 1990s?
        
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        October 9, 2017 9:18am
      - brett68
        
        In 1999 they punished National over Winston’s antics breaking up the coalition
        
        I’d put that down to three terms and the deeply unpopular backstabbing Jenny Shipley.
        
        In 2008 they punished Labour over Winston’s lies to Parliament about his expenses.
        
        I don’t agree with that, once again three terms, stick beaking and up against John Key, Peters was part of the reason Labour got turfed out but only a very small reason.
        
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        October 9, 2017 9:25am
      - Jimmy
        
        Mark my words – a decent opposition will see any government that includes Winston and his cronies as the gift that keeps on giving.
        
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        October 9, 2017 9:28am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      At least in the NZF caucus there are only about half a dozen bewildered fools for the Nats to have to deal with. In the Labour/Green rabble you can add about another 40 to that half-dozen. Jacindazilla would have to spend her life herding cats. It would be mayhem.
      
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      October 9, 2017 10:03am
  - VicParking
    
    Winston will die halfway up the drift so he can get a state funeral.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:22am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  If Labour is smart, they will sit this one out and focus on 2020.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:24am
  - Piniwi
    
    A logical option Odakyu-sen but logic is a scarce commodity in the Labour ranks. Likewise if they employ the same level of preparation for 2020 as the last 4 elections they will be lucky to get above mid 20%.
    It will be interesting to see how much total they spent on this election. They had a rush of funds when Taxinda got the nod but they are a spend-it-all mob so they might be a bit cash strapped again.
    They wasted 9 years so far as a Government in waiting with no solid plan to move across the house and we know feelz don’t count.
    Even with an increase in numbers they go forward weaker rather than stronger politically while carrying more baggage.
    
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    October 9, 2017 7:12pm
- fylde
  
  I am Jimmy but for reason 1 not 2
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:35am
  - Jimmy
    
    But if we don’t get rid of MMP, the same thing will happen again – another minor party will hold the country to ransom with the balance of power.
    
    Do we want to end up like the Netherlands, with 14 parties elected to government in March, and still no government? That’s 207 days of caretaker government thanks to their proportional representation system.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:46am
    - BananaLlama
      
      Netherlands is in that situation because the other 13 parties refuse to deal with the Honorable Geert Wilders.
      
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      October 9, 2017 1:47pm
      - GoVege
        
        Surely you jest.
        Wilders is a hero!
        
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        October 9, 2017 4:25pm
      - GoVege
        
        FYI Mr Wilders has to wear a bullet-proof vest and sleep in a different place each night for daring to say that Muslims who won’t integrate and obey Dutch laws should go back to their Muslim lands.
        
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        October 9, 2017 7:52pm
- KevOB
  
  NZ can’t afford that experiment.
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:14am
Digmen1

I’m not too impressed with Labour’s newest MP either.
She looks like she has come straight from her cleaning job.
(Sorry that is being disrespectful to cleaners)
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October 9, 2017 8:34am
- srylands
  
  I was more concerned that she couldn’t say what she wanted to achieve.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:56am
  - Digmen1
    
    I think she said that she wants to end the scourge of P. (very laudable)
    
    But unlike Duterte, she wants to do it by making it a health issue.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:41am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  But did you see how small her teeth are compared to her leader’s?
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:06am
wiseowl

Full marks to the people of Rodney and District trying to rid themselves of the super city monster.
Big finger to Goff who can’t understand why wages are out of control and then threatens the group who wish to secede warning there is a report saying their rates will go up 43%.
The changes to the LG Act that National made re amalgamation are another shocking kick in the face for democracy and NZ First should be tackling that one as well.
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October 9, 2017 8:36am
- VicParking
  
  One of the problems with Auckland City is they set their staff educational requirements so high. The Democracy Services Dept for instance are full of PHD’s and Masters educated staff to fill trumped up PA positions. There are so many graduates leaving university with greeny or political degrees which make them unemployable other than in local authorities. Auckland City snaps them up to fill jobs that a few years ago were filled with clerks who only needed SC.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:29am
  - JasonJohns
    
    t is clear from a Creationist study of ecology that the organisms of the earth are designed to colonise worlds. Trees grow on barren volcanic islands within years of them emerging from the sea. Eden was the seed bed for earth and earth the seed bed for the solar system. Why stop there? If humanity was immortal in the garden and we return to being those gardeners after judgement then we would need places to plant further afield. An immortal population that can also reproduce will need a billion billion worlds. It would be unfair to any other species, sentient or otherwise if we took that inheritance from them. Restoring humanity into an immortal population that can’t reproduce, as some have argued, is not a true restoration of Eden.
    Plants are already growing on the international space station. We have extremophile species on the planet ready to go. The DNA in them could help in many cases.
    I’m one of the people that think colonising mars will be quick and easy using robotic stone masonry and plastic and the right mix of plants and plumbing. With all the space station designs available terrestrial planets will not be needed in most star systems.
    As I have pointed out to a few fellow creationists, with God as your chief engineer a space craft may be just a matter of convenience. If God wanted us to travel he would have made it possible, safe and easy. We would find a loop hole in light speed speed limit. Exotic matter would prove possible to make or we may find stable worm holes in the outer solar system. If we find these solutions before the last trump we may find a way to make the safe into the unsafe. That’s normal.
    
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    October 9, 2017 12:46pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Northern Rodney will be gone by Lunchtime and Goof will lose everything North of the bridge if he keeps handing them the bill for South and Central Aucklands Development. They are riding off the North Shore and Rodneys backs with massive rate increases and sucking out development contributions that are never returned. So yeah Goof is panicking, like all socialists, he is finally running out of other peoples money.
  
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  October 9, 2017 2:17pm
oldpark

Heard the latest addition to get into parliament Think she is called “Goldritz”
. In an interview with Stuff she said, her mission in the benefit fraud support party know as the “Greens” ,was to increase the refugee intake into NZ . That type of comment,ties in with the Green Party wanting to have open door policy for refugees in NZ. Last time i read it was 5,000, for starters.
Wonder how that type of vision from Greenies, fits in with the vision of “Commie Chic” Comrades Arderns vision,to turn NZ into a destination for all sorts of undocumented refugees.
Now that Angela Merkels German Government have confessed that their open door policy for undocumented refugees was a disaster. What price NZ will be pressured by the UN hugging Lie-bour/Green cabal to fill the void. Especially if new MPs and old MPS are puppets of a corrupt and we know best what is good for NZ .
All will be a done deal if a three way coalition becomes a reality by Thursday of this week,
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October 9, 2017 8:55am
- kowtow
  
  And Merkel is already being held to account (finally) by the conservative CSU.
  
  ‘In an opening salvo on Sunday, the CSU published a 10-point list of demands, including a refugee “upper limit” on migration numbers and a commitment to “healthy patriotism” according to the text published in Bild, Germany’s mass-circulation tabloid.’
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/08/merkel-embarks-long-road-new-government-conservative-allies/#comments
  
  As to us upping the intake here , nothing we can do will alleviate the massive refugee problem in the places they come from , but what it will do is increase massively problems the left say we have.
  Hospital crisis , housing crisis , mental health crisis, homelessness crisis.
  Why add to our problems?
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:15am
- Maxx
  
  This’ll go down well with Winnie.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:32am
flipper

If you have not already seen this piece by Claire Robinson from Massey it is worth a careful read.
Unlike the pol sci clowns used by most MSM, her record is pretty good.
She is no Edwards (OU) or Miller (AU) or Johannsen (VU) – or going much further back, Bob Chapman who interviewed jurnos to get his “expert” insight” for TVNZ – or their like. I hear that at Massey (Palm Nth before he moved to Auckland) she chewed up Maharey when he was Vice Chancellor, and spat him out. ?
Claire also famously took on and demolished H Clark’s pet, Fat Tony (Williams, the H Fee) in 2014 over “the (his) missing million.”
Go read…..

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11930813
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October 9, 2017 8:56am
- Digmen1
  
  Yes she is very good and I did not see her on Q&A this year.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That’s a brave thing to write for someone living in Wellington.
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:05am
Rodney Randall

“I want to change the law” – Golriz Ghahraman.

Apparently just for ‘disabled’ asylum seekers, according to her Q+A interview;)

Presents well, sounds like a virtue-signalling SJW airhead.

“I want to end poverty”
“I want to stop climate change”

Can anybody confirm if Golriz attended the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant?

She sure has the looks, and academic firepower to be a candidate.
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October 9, 2017 9:16am
- softail 1450
  
  you forgot , “im a human rights lawyer”.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:31am
  - RF
    
    Is this the same as ….. my wife’s from Singapore.
    
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    October 9, 2017 11:40am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “I want to end poverty”
  “I want to stop climate change”
  
  “I want to stop the tide coming in and going out.”
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:42am
  - Rodney Randall
    
    haha
    
    “No child will be left behind” George Carlin parodying politicians.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:50am
- KevOB
  
  What are those people going to have to do when they discover its actually getting colder and they banned the use of wool because it offended sheep.
  
  Sheep rights–not human rights.
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:18am
  - GoVege
    
    Will no one listen to my brill idea to restrain the sheep while being shorn? ??
    Better patent it myself….
    
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    October 9, 2017 4:21pm
- Inandout
  
  She is anti Trump and Brexit to boot.
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:19am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  “She sure has the looks”
  
  She looks like a stick insect with heavy makeup.
  
  Look at all her publicity shots – she is a real poseur , “daddy’s little princess”.
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:22am
  - RF
    
    I can just see Ardern saying… … Mirror mirror on the wall.
    
    It will end in tears with a broken mirror.
    
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    October 9, 2017 11:42am
- fluffykiwi
  
  Saving whale is just so old hat now.
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:40am
flipper

Oh look……
W O H B has now caught up and has a goodish post on Robinson’s take – apart from describing her as “left wing”. She may (I don’t know her, nor how she votes) vote Labour (like her husband), but her academic record suggests that she is honest, more balanced and centrist, than another NZ pol sci ” ‘cracademic”.

TVNZ have used her from time to time, but she usually blows their pre-ordained narrative to bits.
As for Fenton…just an idiot trollop.
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October 9, 2017 9:34am
- RF
  
  Is Fenton the dragon whose face looks like a boiled sand shoe sole.
  
  Not a fan of the mad butcher……
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:19am
cha

So, Bob’s not a fan.

It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) October 8, 2017
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October 9, 2017 9:50am
- Ed Snack
  
  Bob’s retiring, but didn’t want to. He wanted Trump’s endorsement despite being basically opposed to Trump on most issues. That was refused and he reckons he can’t get in on his own nor afford to campaign without the expected payoffs from winning.
  
  What do you expect but snark ?
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:24am
  - cha
    
    He wanted Trump’s endorsement
    
    Best you cite Corker’s request for endorsement, otherwise I’ll stick with his [Corker’s] appraisal of tRump.
    
    Asked directly by a reporter whether he was referring to Trump in using the word “chaos,” Corker, who announced last month he would retire in 2018, responded: “(Mattis, Kelly and Tillerson) work very well together to make sure the policies we put forth around the world are sound and coherent. There are other people within the administration that don’t. I hope they stay because they’re valuable to the national security of our nation.”
    Stop for a second and re-read that last paragraph. The sitting Republican chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee is suggesting that if Tillerson was removed from office (or quit), the national security of the country would potentially be in danger. And he’s refusing to knock down — and thereby affirming — the idea that Trump is an agent of chaos who pushes policies that are not always “sound” or “coherent.”
    
    http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/04/politics/bob-corker-trump/index.html
    
    btw Marsha Blackburn announced she would run for Sen. Corker’s seat, so does she let tRump grab her by the pussy to secure his endorsement?
    
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    October 9, 2017 10:42am
- MCos
  
  An interesting article in the Atlantic with some background on Trump’s relationship with Corker.
  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/corker-vs-trump/542370/
  
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  October 9, 2017 2:36pm
sooty

Whats the chances that Winnystones meeting with the Greens is short. They may have to bribe him to stay longer, with single malt, etc.
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October 9, 2017 9:57am
Dave Mann

When are our police spokespeople going to harden up and stop being touchy-feely pussies?

Some scrote stole a car this morning in South Auckland and drove it onto a tree, killing himself, while being chased by the police. The police’s response was:

“Unfortunately the male driver has died and two female passengers have been taken to Middlemore Hospital with serious and life threatening injuries.”

Stobie said fleeing driver incidents “are incredibly tragic for everyone that is involved. The last thing our officers want when they come to work is to be involved in something like this.”

Pathetic. This Stobie character should have said “hopefully the death of this reckless criminal will serve to alert others to the stupidity of fleeing police and refusing to stop when ordered to do so.”

Personally I doubt that the officers involved are crying their poor little eyes out over this. They’re probably still up on the adrenalin.
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October 9, 2017 9:59am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  At least these idiots continue to have a positive influence on the gene pool.
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:09am
  - Digmen1
    
    They should leave the other people in the car in the car and see if their fellow ferals will cut them out.
    
    Then leave them in the hallway of the hospital while the fix all the other decent citizens first.
    
    That way they might get the message!
    
    Don’t steal cars
    Don’t run from the police
    Don’t cost us all money with police time and increased insurance bills
    
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    October 9, 2017 10:29am
    - Dave Mann
      
      I think that’s a bit harsh. The survivors should get proper treatment IMHO, but the police shouldn’t be trying to project the (false) image of being soft crybabies either. People should be aware that their actions will have consequences.
      
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      October 9, 2017 10:45am
      - kowtow
        
        Knowingly getting into a stolen car makes you part and parcel of the crime.
        
        No sympathy . And they’re the females who will be producing the car thieves of tomorrow.
        
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        October 9, 2017 12:47pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Perhaps DM but it might also be more of an impact if we could see what the first responders see. Like the pictures on cigarette packs. Show us some carnage as it really is.
        And while they at it find a policeman who does not need a box to stand on to make the statement.
        
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        October 9, 2017 7:29pm
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Darwinian evolution is a beautiful thing.
    
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    October 9, 2017 10:46am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Will the owner of that stolen car be able to seek compensation for his loss from the scrote’s Kiwisaver Account?
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:28am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Kiwisaver account?
    You seriously think it was employed?
    
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    October 9, 2017 1:13pm
    - david
      
      No show. He was only 15.
      Darwin strikes again.
      
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      October 9, 2017 4:50pm
      - GoVege
        
        Poor kid.
        I bet his dad left his mum before he was even born.
        Probably never had much of a chance.
        
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        October 9, 2017 7:57pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Ah, death penalty by proxy. Passengers in a stolen vehicle are accessories to the crime. ( unless kidnapped) Tough. Don’t steal, don’t flee, don’t die. Simple.
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:36am
- Fletch
  
  They should make it a law that police can’t chase anyone speeding because then the driver might get hurt. Yes, I am being sarcastic, but people do use that argument for abortion, eg, have to make it legal otherwise women will get hurt having it done illegally.
  
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  October 9, 2017 1:07pm
- Inandout
  
  The Police are now a very PC organisation where being able to do the haka and be culturally grovelling is a prerequisite for promotion.
  
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  October 9, 2017 2:02pm
  - Jack5
    
    And the guy at the top opposes freedom of speech.
    
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    October 9, 2017 10:28pm
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

So even the media complex is surprisingly remarking on the deafening silence of the degenerate Hollywood “stars” over their fellow joo and Hollywood industry major player (((Weinstein))) putting his dirty paws all over ambitious prostitutes/starlets.

Remember all the full volume OUTRAGE at Trump’s locker room banter – ” oh the misogyny!”

Now a Hollywood joo has done way way way worse and not so much as a peep from those media whores.
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October 9, 2017 10:54am
- softail 1450
  
  the left had all but taken control in the USA, they are now livid that control may be pulled from them by the waking giant that is the pissed off silent majority,and just in time….
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:14am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Hopefully, but don’t underestimate the Globohomo control over the normies via industrially produced pop culture, education/certification industry, Alphabet news media complex, Faceborg billionaires and DC Swamp.
    
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    October 9, 2017 11:30am
  - MCos
    
    “the left had all but taken control in the USA”
    That’ll come as a surprise to pretty much everybody in America
    
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    October 9, 2017 2:17pm
RF

Mike Hosking believes Winston has made up his mind and NZ First will be confidence & supply for National. Not ideal but better than nothing.

As the result is due on Thursday he is not leaving much time to negotiate with the Labour / Greens mess. The 3 headed monster will be a nightmare to cobble together whereas National has the numbers for just them and NZ First not including Act.
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October 9, 2017 11:03am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  “Not ideal but better than nothing.”
  
  A hand job for Winnie every Monday morning from DoubleDipton – “gently now…slower…slower…keep up a rhythm…ahhhhhhh, that’s it, what a champ!”.
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:10am
  - VicParking
    
    He has crusher Colins for that.
    
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    October 9, 2017 2:59pm
  - GoVege
    
    You’re a very rude chap Jazz…but quite funny…
    
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    October 9, 2017 4:16pm
Johnboy

How low will it go if LAB/GRN/WINdbag gets the treasury benches…….50c? 🙂
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/97682009/election-uncertainty-pushes-new-zealand-dollar-to-lowest-level-since-may
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October 9, 2017 11:14am
- Piniwi
  
  Bit of a worry J but there is enough time to bounce back for next weeks pension day if the old geezer makes the right decision. The money markets are cautious about the 3 head snake option tanking the economy.
  
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  October 9, 2017 7:46pm
waripori

Interesting piece on WO referencing Emma Espiner ( who I have not heard of )writing about the impact of the largest party not being in Government. Select committee appointments, research funding and all other resources in Parliament are allocated in proportion to seat numbers and national would have more of everything than anyone else. It would need labour Greens and NZ First to work together 24 hours of every day to get anything done. It is more than just votes in the house.
Winston would understand this better than anyone else having been around longer. He would know that national nz first would be easier to manage than a beast with three heads.
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October 9, 2017 11:26am
- starboard
  
  Guyon’s squeeze. She ain’t half bad lookin either, dont know how he ended up with such a good lookin piece. Must be hung like a rogue elephant.
  
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  October 9, 2017 12:17pm
JasonJohns

If reality is real then there is only ONE possibility for how that can be. We know that this reality was not always here. Now it is. That means that somehow, someway, something CAUSED it all to be here There is no second alternative. You are not required to call the CausER of all of this…God…but given the unspeakable majesty an complexity of what WAS caused…just what WOULD you call that cause? See how simple that is?
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October 9, 2017 12:28pm
JasonJohns

I think aliens exist but that they didn’t fall from grace and God has quarantined our race from contact with them.

In fact, that possibility should scare us even more from a theological perspective because a species that has eaten from the tree of knowledge and the tree of life (using terms from Genesis) without sinning (ie God allows/orders them to eat of the fruit) would…

1. Never witness its best scientists and engineers die of natural cause.
2. Have, compared to us, perfect social cohesion.
3. Be extremely long-term thinking in its planning.

What they would accomplish in 1,000 years would eclipse what we could accomplish in 10,000. They could sure help us take care of the Muslim problem
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October 9, 2017 12:34pm
- MCos
  
  I think aliens exist”
  
  Don’t need to read any further . . . .
  
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  October 9, 2017 2:09pm
  - Lance
    
    More stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world…………..
    
    Nagh …. no chance of life anywhere else.
    
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    October 9, 2017 4:25pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Interesting argument on life in the universe. Either the universe is littered with life of some kind and we just have not found it, or the unique set of circumstances that allowed life to develop on earth has never been replicated. They talk of the Goldilocks phenomenon, earth is “just right”. There may be no other place that is “just right”. Either way it is an interesting discussion. ( Not a fucking Debate)
      
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      October 9, 2017 7:29pm
      - nasska
        
        If there were other life forms they would have to be as advanced or more so than us before they knew we existed. Considering that we took a billion years or so to evolve from primordial soup to people there may not be all that many out there in a position to hold a conversation with us.
        
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        October 9, 2017 7:40pm
      - Lance
        
        Probably has way more to with the distances, as in unimaginably far.
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:22pm
- Gabby
  
  Don’t do drugs, kids.
  
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  October 9, 2017 4:19pm
  - Lance
    
    Pot, kettle, black
    
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    October 9, 2017 4:26pm
  - starboard
    
    NURSE !
    
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    October 9, 2017 4:33pm
starboard

“I think aliens exist”

You only need tune in any day to the GD to find them..Gobby, Griff, MM et al, to name a few.
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October 9, 2017 1:22pm
starboard

https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/97596344/tv-review-married-at-first-sight-nz-succeeds-where-the-bachelor-failed

Watched this last night, begrudgingly. Sick.
Poofs mincing around trying to normalise sodomy. Then the 2 blokes kissed each other. I almost vomited in my throat. Filth.
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October 9, 2017 1:27pm
- itstricky
  
  Are both your legs in casts?
  
  If not, sounds like a prime example of Haggard’s Law.
  
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  October 9, 2017 2:48pm
  - mikenmild
    
    The starboard doth protest too much.
    
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    October 9, 2017 3:02pm
    - GoVege
      
      Yes..sounds like Starboard is a little too obsessed with gay sex.
      I wonder why? 🙂
      
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      October 9, 2017 7:48pm
  - starboard
    
    Day release finishes in 10 minutes drippy..back into the Hiace van for you and your bro’s big trip back to Pare. Bubba’s c’min lookin for you tonight after lights out..pucker up cuz.
    
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    October 9, 2017 3:49pm
    - Gabby
      
      That where you’re hanging now starBubba?
      
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      October 9, 2017 7:45pm
- Brito
  
  I have to agree Starboard. This is yet again part of the normalising of the abnormal. Like being able to tell men to get out of parenting rooms, like not being able to have an opinion without being labeled a racist.
  
  There is a move to sensitise men and that process starts by feminisation at the beginning. Try being a Dad at Playcentre with your children. I was the main caregiver but the ‘team’ had to meet to determine if a man could play that role at the centre. As long as I was accompanied it would be ok (assumption that I was not to be trusted around kids). No problem about asking me to lift the heavy stuff and play outside with the boys because it’s raining.
  
  There will come a time when I hope men grow a pair and stand up to this encroachment on our rights to be European, heterosexual and male (actually I don’t care what colour you are but I’m Euro therefore…).
  
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  October 9, 2017 3:24pm
  - starboard
    
    Thanks, Brito. Sodomisers will burn for their sins, I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes on the day of reckoning. Judgement will be passed and they will all pay the price as they burn in hell.
    
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    October 9, 2017 4:17pm
    - Swifty
      
      Burn? When, where and why Starboard?
      
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      October 9, 2017 4:25pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      I don’t care too much about the sodomites and what may be burning, but I do find the whole programme offensive as it trivialises marriage, both secular and religious. So I won’t be watching, or reading the clickbait. Hope we have a nice photo of a normal couple kissing though….( since Stuff stuck the two mites on their front page….)
      
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      October 9, 2017 7:34pm
      - GoVege
        
        Plenty of people trivialize marriage ROL.
        Two “Christian” Prime Ministers of NZ, one a “lay preacher” felt no shame about admitting to adultery AND ditching their wives and kids.
        At least gays usually don’t have any kids to ditch.
        
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        October 9, 2017 8:04pm
- Disaster Area
  
  You could just turn the TV off. Or watch another channel. And move your attitudes on from the 1950’s.
  
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  October 9, 2017 3:54pm
- GoVege
  
  What’s the problem Starboard?
  The more gay couples the less competition for the sheilas….
  
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  October 9, 2017 4:14pm
Nukuleka

Just listened to the most pathetic interview with Justin Lester on RNZ Concert. He sounds like a wee lad trying on his first pair of big boy’s trousers. Umms and errs and ahs and even that most miserable error of all- ‘restauranteur’!!! Someone with a bit more education than he has please tell him it is ‘restaurateur’!! Ignoramus.
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October 9, 2017 1:28pm
- david
  
  Thank you Nukuleka, it is good to rediscover that at 68 with 2 degrees, there is still something new to learn each day.
  
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  October 9, 2017 5:05pm
sooty

What’s the bet that the Greens get nothing. Winnystone shuts the door no minister, no associate minister. Nothing except confidence and supply to Labour. Labour then have the job of keeping them in line, which will be easier without Me Tue.
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October 9, 2017 1:56pm
- Happychappy
  
  They must realise that now or they are awfully dumb. If he thought they had something to offer they would have been in talks all ready. Winston is shrewd and will be leaving it for Labour to break the News.
  
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  October 9, 2017 3:33pm
publicwatchdog

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
More evidence, IMO, why this Tamaki SCAM needs to be stopped NOW, and an urgent independent inquiry needs to be initiated into the lawfulness of the establishment of Crown Entity Company, Tamaki Regeneration Ltd.

Tamaki Regeneration Ltd is 100% owned by the Crown, and it is the company, NOT Tamaki Redevelopment Company Ltd (59% Crown – 41% Auckland Council) to which over 2,800 former Housing NZ properties were transferred on 31 March 2016.

But this is what Bill English and Nick Smith publicly stated on 30 April 2015:

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/way-forward-t%C4%81maki-regeneration-announced

Bill English, Nick Smith

30 APRIL, 2015

Way forward for Tāmaki regeneration announced

Ownership and management of approximately 2800 Housing New Zealand Corporation (HNZC) properties at Tamaki will be transferred to the Tamaki Redevelopment Company (TRC) to encourage regeneration of the area, Finance Minister Bill English and Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith say.

“Driving through some of the deprived areas of Tāmaki makes plain why the Government is determined to do a better job of social housing,” Mr English says.

“It also illustrates the development opportunities in some of the HNZC-dominated suburbs in Auckland.

The Government owns 1 in 16 houses in Auckland and we need to do a better job with them for the sake of tenants and aspiring homeowners, as well as for the neighbourhoods they live in and the wider city.”

“Change has been slow to come to Tāmaki but we are determined for the next decade in Tāmaki to look very different to the decade past,” Dr Smith says.

“TRC – which is owned jointly by the Government and Auckland Council – has been engaging with the Tāmaki community over the past few years to better understand their housing, social and employment aspirations.

“This transfer of ownership of HNZC properties and the responsibility for tenancy management to TRC will enable faster construction of warm, dry and safe houses that better meet people’s needs,” Dr Smith says.

Today’s announcement means that by 31 March 2016, HNZC tenants who live within the TRC catchment areas of Glen Innes, Point England and Panmure will have a new landlord.

There will be no immediate impact on the tenants, with existing tenancy agreements transferring to TRC with no change.

The transfer is separate to the Government’s plans to sell 1000 to 2000 of its state housing stock.

Mr English says the TRC plans that in the next 10 to 15 years, there will be about 7500 new houses built in the place of 2500 existing ones.

“Over half of the new houses will be sold to help offset construction costs, and the remainder will be retained as social housing.

Our bottom line is that there will be at least as many social houses in Tāmaki as the 2800 there now.
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____________________

Pity it was all #BILLSHIT.

Over 156,000 views of this 5 minute video exposing this Tamaki SCAM.)

https://www.facebook.com/penny.bright.104/posts/1796625243683493‬

Penny Bright

‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption whistle-blower!.
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October 9, 2017 3:05pm
- softail 1450
  
  i gotta hand it to you penny ,your as tenacious as a wolverine attacking a kodiak bear.
  
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  October 9, 2017 3:14pm
- starboard
  
  Blow this instead whistleblower…*drops pants*
  
  Why don’t you retire..take up knitting, open a cattery or something
  https://youtu.be/47msKc3abqo
  
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  October 9, 2017 3:42pm
  - stigie
    
    Gawd Starboard, i didn’t think you would go that low with such a hag…..where are your standards man..?
    
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    October 9, 2017 5:24pm
    - starboard
      
      Mans not a camel stigie..a mans not a camel.
      
      Any port in a storm
      
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      October 9, 2017 5:54pm
      - RF
        
        All sailors look forward to be blown on shore.
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:25pm
- Swifty
  
  P Bright hates the idea of people living in warm, dry and new homes.
  
  It removes another thing that she can moan, whinge and get on her soapbox about.
  
  Sums up the left actually.
  
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  October 9, 2017 4:22pm
  - sooty
    
    How much are the charges the council put on your property per year penny. I reckon about 40k. You had better hope the property goes up each year, or you will be going backwards twice as quick.
    
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    October 9, 2017 4:33pm
    - stigie
      
      Nine years of not paying rates, fucking disgracful !~
      
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      October 9, 2017 5:27pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Fuck off.
  
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  October 9, 2017 4:35pm
Manolo

The knives are out:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ghost-thatcher-haunts-may-she-fights-ouster-plot-023212284.html

A plot by a group of Conservative MPs to oust May was exposed on Friday, reviving memories of the backstabbing that led to Margaret Thatcher’s ouster in 1990.

Many colleagues publicly condemned the attempt and backed their leader, but the Sunday Times reported that at least three cabinet ministers had discussed the need to replace her this week.
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October 9, 2017 3:30pm
Inandout

Jacinda has come out of Winston’s room ‘with a big smile on her face’ it has been reported. The old silver fox eh?
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October 9, 2017 3:32pm
- RF
  
  Was her bodice ripped ?
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:35pm
KevinH

NZ First will not be going into a coalition with either National or Labour because NZ First will be wanting to retain their own brand and to some extent be at arms length to whomever they enter into a confidence and supply agreement with.
Labour is already in a coalition with the Greens, the MOU signed last year confirms that therefore they will be party to negotiations with NZ First as well.
The reason the negotiations are short is because the red button issues as it were are not extensive but will never the less be controversial.
There is considerable cross over between all parties on matters relating to the economy, health, education and welfare, a commonality that was expressed during the election campaigning. The Nats , Labour and NZ First are not that far apart on domestic affairs for there to be any insumountable problems.
Lastly any supposed acrimony between the parties is water undet the bridge, well behind them. This election result is a completely new beginning with the focus being on this parliamentary term.
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October 9, 2017 4:13pm
- Digmen1
  
  Your third and fourth paragraphs are entirley wrong.
  
  National and Labour are miles apart.
  Tax, TPP, Social welfare for all or targeted, Water Tax, Capita Gains Tax, Refugees, I could go on and on.
  
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  October 9, 2017 4:19pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Wasn’t the MOU until election day?
  
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  October 9, 2017 4:44pm
- SPC
  
  It will be either a National government supported by NZ First on confidence and supply, or a Labour-NZ First coalition backed on confidence and supply by Labour.
  
  The less likely alternative – Labour supported on confidence and supply by NZ First and Green parties.
  
  A National and Green arrangement is dependent on a Labour-NZ First deal being made and National making a move to get around this – there is only an outside chance this would work.
  
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  October 9, 2017 5:39pm
Jack5

Is political discussion about immigration a waste of time?

The Building Federation announces it is campaigning to bring 20,000 foreign workers to New Zealand.

Who runs the country? Our elected representatives or these unelected chieftains?

If Peters is in the coalition, let’s hope he makes recruiting foreign labour conditional on NZ industries seriously lifting their recruitment and training of young New Zealanders.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/341148/construction-industry-aims-for-20-000-foreign-workers
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October 9, 2017 4:45pm
- Happychappy
  
  I am not saying your wrong Jack but how are they going to build the housing that is needed without tradesmen.
  
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  October 9, 2017 5:25pm
- softail 1450
  
  jack,i am a right winger, but even i can admit that if mass immigration stops our country will stop , that cant be a good way of building our economy because its not sustainable ….
  
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  October 9, 2017 5:32pm
  - wiseowl
    
    softy
    I suggest you read The politically Correct Economy along with some of the posts on Mike Reddells blog linked from KB (croaking cassandra)
    
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    October 9, 2017 5:39pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    ,i am a right winger, but even i can admit that if mass immigration stops our country will stop
    
    Great to see a National Party supporter finally admit that all they’ve done is create a massive Ponzi scheme.
    
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    October 9, 2017 8:05pm
    - Prince
      
      So if people wanting to immigrate to NZ is a ponzi scheme, what do we call the last Labour govt mass emigration to escape from NZ. The final solution ? Human asset sales ?
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:42pm
Manolo

Let NZF-Labour-Greens wreck the country for three years. It will be a high price to pay and hard medicine to swallow for electing those imbeciles.
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October 9, 2017 5:15pm
- softail 1450
  
  the country is already on a knife edge despite what we are told ,3 years of those fools will tip us over the edge especially if something happens globally .,
  
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  October 9, 2017 5:24pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  We’re already fucked Manolo.
  
  Lets put a halt to mass immigration and put interest rates all the way up to say 7% (were they were under Labour) and we’ll see how strong thr eCONonmy is.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:08pm
Digmen1

National says that all people that want to get an apprenticeship can.

More signs of a growing economy.
Two ticks blue
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October 9, 2017 5:17pm
- Jack5
  
  Growing economy? How do you account for GDP per capital increasing at less than 1 per cent a year.
  
  It’s fallen in some quarters this year, and indicates economic wealth of Kiwis is at best stagnant.
  
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  October 9, 2017 10:23pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Ha Ha Jack5. You’ve been listening to the little poofter too much. Wonder how he explains his $11.7 billion hole to WP?
    
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    October 9, 2017 11:38pm
wiseowl

So.
(That’s how one starts a conversation now)
So
Devoid has stepped in to tell Garner off over his correct observations about what is happening to this once great country.
She lectures us on how wonderful our multi cultural Auckland is .We have to suck it up and accept it.
No we don’t.
No one has asked the people who built this country if they want to be swamped by cultures who don’t fit in and benefit from our hard work over many years.
Garner said it all when he mentioned 50 languages being spoken at one school.
Insanity.
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October 9, 2017 5:27pm
- softail 1450
  
  wiseowl , 42 of those languages were probably spoken by the new age fricking teachers, most of them cant teach their students correct english.
  and my spelling and grammar are living testament to that.
  
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  October 9, 2017 5:43pm
- Digmen1
  
  I’m going to write to Susan Devoy to tell her to get stuffed.
  
  Just because someone from any country is here, does not mean that I have to like them or accept them.
  
  We were never asked if we wanted people here from our non-traditional migrant sources.
  
  She should just stick to blatant cases of rascism (on all sides). Or better still go back to playing squash.
  
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  October 9, 2017 7:03pm
- Brigitte
  
  I suspect the number was a large number picked at random. I say that as I doubt whether many people here could even name 50 different languages.
  
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  October 9, 2017 7:24pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”I doubt whether many people here could even name 50 different languages”…..
    
    I don’t doubt that you’re right. We’re the result of a relentless campaign to brainwash us into believing that there’s only one language in the world worth learning.
    
    Stone Age bloody Maori!
    
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    October 9, 2017 7:30pm
    - Brigitte
      
      …”there’s only one language in the world worth learning”.
      
      Bien sur, la belle langue!
      
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      October 9, 2017 7:33pm
      - nasska
        
        Pardon?
        
        Surely you meant ‘te reo ataahua’ !
        
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        October 9, 2017 7:46pm
- GoVege
  
  I don’t mind if they “don’t fit in”, so long as they don’t expect the rest of us to support them and a dozen kids per family.
  (Hang on, we’re already doing that.)
  I’m just worried that in 20 years time their kids will be blowing us UP….
  
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  October 9, 2017 7:43pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  What I’d like to see is our borders closed to all but Europeans and Maori.
  
  Anyboyy else that wants to come here, may come as a guest worker on the proviso that 30% of their wages are held by the State which they can only access when they leave.
  
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  October 9, 2017 8:13pm
Happychappy

I wonder if Winston has got the bright penny in mind to head one of his bottom lines in his negotiations to form the next Government. Number 13 on his list is a Anti Corruption Comission so has said he wants a independent anti corruption to be established. You would think he would want someone he could control so who better than her highness.
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October 9, 2017 7:02pm
- nasska
  
  Penny will be warming up her broomstick for the flight down to Wellington to head up the new Anti Corruption Commission.
  
  Anyone know whether Winston likes cats? 🙂
  
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  October 9, 2017 7:10pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    Penny will be warming up her broomstick
    
    I think she’s busy warming up Starboard at the moment?
    
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    October 9, 2017 7:47pm
    - nasska
      
      A match made in heaven Nostra.
      
      Don’t know how she’ll handle the competition from Starboard’s lady boys though. 🙂
      
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      October 9, 2017 7:53pm
Rodney Randall

Great article on Golriz’s Somalian Muslim idol Ilhan Omar.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/curious-case-ilhan-omar-14724.html

Golriz’s comments on the alleged Somalian fraudster found here:

https://impolitikal.com/2017/02/01/golriz-ghahraman-on-identity-democracy-i-cant-shed-my-skin/
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October 9, 2017 7:45pm
Tauhei Notts

A bit of light hearted comment on General Debate.
Yesterday was my wife’s 70th birthday. We had both the grandchildren there with their fathers. It was a wonderful day. After the official function we repaired to our home where they cleaned me out of Drambuie, Dom Benedictine, Rum and Cointreau. My wife’s friends all seem to be married to drunks.
You get a bit of that.
But it was all fun.
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October 9, 2017 7:52pm
- Jack5
  
  A lot of top-shelf tastes at your party, Tauhei.
  
  I hope the guests appreciated the hospitality of the Notts.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:59pm
- fylde
  
  Glad you had a good day
  
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  October 10, 2017 6:36am
Ross12

You think NZ has problems ?
In the USA water melons are considered racist !!!!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/08/detroit-firefighter-fired-bringing-racially-insensitive-watermelon-work/
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October 9, 2017 8:24pm
- fylde
  
  Not exactly a reliable news source
  
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  October 10, 2017 6:36am
nasska

SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM You have 2 cows The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.

BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other and then throws the milk away.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, and then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
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October 9, 2017 8:49pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Nasska:
  
  I can follow the first 5. But, as for Venture Capitalism, I’ll need the PublicWatchdog to explain it to me! She had a lot to say here about Mossack Fonseca (and John Key) as I recall…
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:08pm
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    ….”I’ll need the PublicWatchdog to explain it to me”….
    
    If you look outside & up you’ll find a slightly overladen broomstick circling your abode Nostra.
    
    If you’d just lay out the landing lights she’ll be happy to explain all. ?
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:18pm
    - sooty
      
      Lay them out just in front of that big tree.
      
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      October 9, 2017 10:14pm
- mikenmild
  
  I hadn’t seen any of the ‘two cows’ memes for a while. Turns out, of course, that the internet is full of many, many more:
  
  Donald Trump: You have two cows. You grab them by the udders, then proceed to disturbingly brag about it around the pasture.
  Clarence Thomas: You have two cows. You cannot find any mention of cows in the Constitution, so you get rid of them.
  Theresa May: You have two strong and stable cows. They are currently lying on their backs in pain after you persuaded your farm workers to cut their legs off while quietly stealing everyone’s milk.
  Tony Blair: You have a dossier that conclusively shows that there are two cows in Iraq. You are a very honest man and so everyone should believe you about this.
  Sherlock Holmes: You have two cows. You deduce that in all probability they have spent a lot of time in a field eating grass and chewing cud. When asked how you know this you point out that they are cows, and more specifically your cows. You then take some cocaine and play the violin.
  Windows: You have two cows. Occasionally, they refuse to produce milk, for no explicable reason. Your fences can’t keep cattle rustlers away unless you fix them twice a day. Occasionally, one of your cows explodes and covers the pasture with blue hamburger. Killing a cow and bringing it back to life usually resolves your problems.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:15pm
Jack5

While most of Fairfax NZ’s newspaper editorials today were about the coalition negotiations, not in Invercargill.

The once staunchly conservative pillar of the Establishment, the Southland Times, cuts loose with an attack on the United States ambassador, the United States, and telling them in effect that it thinks they know fuck all about nuclear strategy because …. because NZ sent its two frigates to protest about French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Perhaps there’s been a fuck-up at NZ Post, and the Southland Times somehow received an editorial destined for a student rag.
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- realityczech
  
  The Nazi were fans of force projection just like you Jackie. They also did not like followers of some religions much, just like you Jackie.
  
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  October 9, 2017 9:50pm
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    Hi Kia.
    
    They left the blanket off your cage again.
    
    Naughty parrot. With your constant vilification of Jews you ought not to be accusing folk of having religious prejudices.
    
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    October 9, 2017 9:53pm
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      Riddle me this.
      
      You rant and froth about Muslim wrongs as if it is virtue. Someone reports a factual event that may reflect badly on Jews and you melt down.
      
      The question is why do you think holding Jews to account for their actions like all other humans on earth is wrong ? Why do you think being anti Semitic is wrong only for half the Semites ?
      
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      October 9, 2017 9:56pm
      - Jack5
        
        Klever Kia, is it true that some of your antecedents, perhaps maternal ones, were Syrians?
        
        If so, I will address you more reverentially, as befits a commentator with genes from the Fertile Crescent, whence civilisation began (even before China’s).
        
        I do admire your skill in juggling multiple pseudonyms in one thread. Do you uptick yourself?
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:04pm
      - realityczech
        
        Is it true you think you will go to heaven if you support the Jewish wrongs and spew hate and bigotry on those the Jews hate ?
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:07pm
      - fylde
        
        Reality – so easy and lazy of you to pick on Jews – what have they done to you
        
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        October 9, 2017 10:57pm
      - fylde
        
        The anti Jewish views here remind me of the history books – wish they were history
        
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        October 10, 2017 6:35am
fylde

Omg choked on my supper when I read a news story this evening with Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams offering advice on tn Catalan issue. Who is he to give advice.
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October 9, 2017 10:59pm
fylde

Adams trying to encourage peace – like Brash giving advice on race relations.
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October 9, 2017 11:01pm
- cha
  
  Adams is well qualified to offer advice on settling disputes. In 1996 he said said Sinn Féinn was prepared to accept the Mitchell Principles and two years later, the Good Friday agreement was signed.
  
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  October 9, 2017 11:19pm
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    Yeah he settled a dispute once but his methods are pretty ugly to say the least
    
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    October 10, 2017 6:33am
Jack5

You probably won’t read about this in the NZ media:

Australia’s Foreign Affairs boss has urged Australian universities to better protect themselves from the rising influence of the Chinese Communist Party.

Australia’s senior diplomat, the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Frances Adamson, was speaking at a Chinese-funded academic institute in Adelaide.

The ABC reports:

Earlier this year a Four Corners investigation revealed the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on international students studying in Australia …

… That investigation revealed that Beijing is active across a vast array of fronts — from directing Chinese student associations, threatening Australian-based Chinese dissidents and seeking to influence academic inquiry, to co-opting community groups and controlling most Chinese-language media.

Perhaps it’s time NZ’s main political parties pulled their head out of the sand when it comes to China’s influence here.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-09/universities-warned-to-resist-chinese-communist-party-influence/9030372
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- Piniwi
  
  Not relevant here Jack5. The home grown Reds have been undermining education standards for over 20 years in NZ.
  Also interest free loans have bloated the universities coffers as they let the Reds run rampant.
  
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