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flipper

A concert to provide a break from politics that Flipper sent to family and friends in the UK, Israel, Aus. and the USA.

First, Randall Atcheson’s salute to Memorial Day……

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2403498005001/?#sp=show-clips

The Longest Day …. Including actual footage of the longest day, June 6, 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6AOGRsR80

Fanfare to a Common man (brilliant)….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KxMc_tyQBo

Nessun Dorma ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-kAhzqwSo

Susan Boyle (One cannot tell a book by its cover !) ……
I dreamed a dream from Les Misérables….followed by Elaine Page and Susan Boyle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0I7M_I1Fp0

and…..
Finally in this concert, the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NJRCCgK_AM&index=3&list=RDg0I7M_I1Fp0

Note: Many of these include other items that will auto play unless switched off.
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February 20, 2018 8:01am
- mandk
  
  I used to like Nessun Dorma, but it has been flogged to death by hordes of would-be stars on talent shows.
  
  Besides, Signore, ascolta! (from the same opera) is a better aria.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:09am
  - Paulus
    
    Privileged to see Pavrotti sing Nessun Dorma to close his show in Sydney some years ago on his last visit.
    Sixteen thousand, mainly Italians, like us in raptures.
    Memorable
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:18am
- alex Masterley
  
  downtickers? philistines!
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:11am
- fernglas
  
  I’m surprised you have any friends left after inflicting that lot on them
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:12am
- JIV
  
  I love the 1812 and have seen many renditions, but you really need cannons.
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:00am
  - flipper
    
    Agree, the rendition lacked the authenticity of one with real booming canons
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:17am
    - JIV
      
      Health and Safety gone mad!! Bring on the cannons
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:38am
- insider
  
  If you’re going to listen to the 1812, I strongly encourage you to listen to the choral intro version in Russian. Strings don’t compare to the human voice
  
  http://Www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ_BJaCIV-0
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:15am
cmm

Hi stephie

I got another message for you from galaxy command, but it was also garbled so I don’t have any news for you. The damn galaxy IT department are all unionised so they’re a bit crap at their job and nobody can fire them.

All I can recommend it that you are ready to go at a moment’s notice and keep your toothbrush handy.

We can keep communicating on GD in perfect privacy. Only you and I can actually see this. All the other posts are made by AI bots run by galaxy security to make it look like a legitimate blog in case the NSA or 5 eyes finds it.

Now I personally think this is all a bit paranoid and the NSA couldn’t find hair on a goat (they can’t even find good evidence on Trump). But you know what those security types are like. Some of those bots are a bit buggy and generate strange stuff. We have to reboot the Garrett bot every day.

Anyway that’s not your problem do deal with these incompetents until you are the leader. I am sure they will thrive under your wise leadership.

Keep ready!
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February 20, 2018 8:01am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Only you and I can actually see this.
  
  мы наблюдаем за вами
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:10am
  - cmm
    
    Looks like IT need to keep an eye on the Maggy-bot too!
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:16am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Maggy,
    My high school Russian teacher was definitely “watching” the next generations coming out out of Rangitoto College in the 1970s.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:33am
- holysheet
  
  You wouldn’t want to see the results of Stooopidboys forensic test. It would be dominated by goat hairs, so NSA would be very happy.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:26am
- Gabby
  
  Yew need to see someone about the vorses in yaw hed commiebokkie.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:29am
peterwn

Fletcher Building again. I do not know why Kate Hawkesby (yesterday’s Herald article) is feeling sorry for Ralph Norris (Board Chair) having to quit after Fletcher Building saga. This is particularly as she is more a political reporter than a business reporter. I am wondering whether her article is a PR job rather than news.
She made out that Ralph was a victim of circumstances, treated like a mushroom (my gloss) by the previous CEO. I was going to say ‘other managers’ too but the former CEO (who collected $3M or so per year) totally controlled Board communications. Although Ralph may have tried to stem of flow to ‘the best of his ability’ he had access to powerful tools but did not use them. Instead he was pretty well led by the nose by the former CEO. His directors fee was $550k or so per year, I am at a loss as to what he did to earn it. Some of these directors seem to think it is a sinecure.
I accept he was ‘hurt and angry’ but there were others who would be even more ‘hurt and angry’. For starters were the managers he got rid of. While there may have been in theory an unnecessary management layer they also had another job they were doing – providing high level input into the bid process treading the delicate balance between winning jobs and avoiding taking a bath down the line. Now because Fletcher Building is winding down its ‘vertical construction’ business, other jobs will disappear and people will be declared redundant. When seeking new employment they may be regarded as ‘tainted’ and those over 50 or so may be regarded as ‘too old’ (it is theoretically age discrimination but it is often very difficult to prove age discrimination in the recruiting process).
So sorry, I have zilch sympathy for Ralph. He would have made his pile, he will not end up in the poorhouse.
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February 20, 2018 8:01am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes a decent CEO would have seen the problem when it was starting and made moves to fix it.
  
  Now as the above poster says, many other execs will lose their jobs!
  
  He should pay all of his salary back!
  
  Sir James Fletcher will be turning in his grave
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:28am
  - pdm
    
    Norris was Chairman of The Board not CEO. As I understand it the current CEO has only been there a few months so he inherited a mess.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:42am
    - peterwn
      
      That is why I have been careful to refer to the ‘former’ CEO. The current CEO has been in the job about three months and probably has not known what hit him. He has the big advantage that he is not carrying ‘baggage’ and can work through things with a clear head. The former CEO and Chair are both highly culpable. If either had done their job properly there would not have been the current mess.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:06am
  - peterwn
    
    Worse than that the former CEO caused the problem. He did not bother to find out how the company worked and wanted to make an immediate impact by re-organising and getting rid of people (great CV filler to help get the next job and repeat the process). There was probably a culture of fear as well and this coupled with loss of expertise led to inappropriately low pricing for jobs. The CEO holds the keys to the company (literally and figuratively) and CEO’s can be very influential in Board appointments. Hence the sympathy for the Board chair. However Board has the ultimate power and it is the Chair’s job to unleash these powers if need be. It may be that there is a comity of interest between top executives and directors both of the company in question and of the major shareholders which can work against the interests of both direct shareholders (eg mom and pop) and indirect shareholders (eg Kiwisaver savers). This is where the NZ Shareholders Association is playing an increasingly valuable role helping to protect the interests of small shareholders and indirectly helping to protect others such as Kiwisaver savers. The Association knew things were amiss but was unsuccessful with stirring up action with the Board or major shareholders (who were supposed to be protecting the interests of their end savers). Seemsed Ralph and his fellow Board members could not care less for THEIR customers ie shareholders.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:58am
- thedavincimode
  
  Wonder no longer. Hawkesby would have no idea about running a company let alone a major construction company, or governance issues, or responsibilities of directors or indeed, business full stop. Until recently she was a full-time mother, prior to which she was a TV face. As for Norris, she possibly met him at a cocktail function and thought he was a nice bloke. Otherwise her opinion is worth as much as anyone else who doesn’t have any business or board experience at all.
  
  Norris isn’t a victim despite the fact that he seems to now blame the former CEO, management, a lawyer and the auditors. No board of directors could possibly keep looking at monthly management reporting results and have the fiscal bombs dropped on them without asking some serious questions about both management reporting and tender budgeting processes. Is it a year now since the first announcement? If Norris did in fact allow himself to be treated like a mushroom, then shame on him. If that’s what happened, it raises questions about what the rest of the board was doing. The board, through Norris and the Audit & Risk Committee, should have been all over this and monitored whatever changes were necessary to have stopped this in its tracks. By all accounts they did nothing. The only explanations I’ve seen have been vague inferences about departed management. There has been no transparency and this board and its new CEO have done nothing to win back stakeholder trust. If this had been a finance company failure, the media would be baying for blood and every man and his dog would be all over this. On the face of it, this appears to have been a very serious failing on the part of the board and they don’t help themselves with the weasely platitudes. Norris blaming others is quite revealing and does him no credit at all.
  
  Edit: thedavincimode does not invest in Fletchers and has suffered no pecuniary loss as a consequence of this debacle. These views therefore reflect only incredulity that this has happened.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:06am
  - peterwn
    
    As the harbour signalman perched above Worser Bay would report ‘it is getting worser and worser’. He was referring to Cook Strait weather but could have equally been referring to Fletcher Building.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:59am
mjw

48%. Discuss.
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February 20, 2018 8:01am
- cmm
  
  I figure 48% is the combined polling:
  Jacinda 22% + Our Baby 26% = 48%.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:04am
  - Luke Piewalker
    
    And remember to add another 5% for the kauri tree on Waitangi where the placenta of the child of NZ will be buried
    
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    February 20, 2018 1:44pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Why? At least you didn’t say “let’s have a conversation.”
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:06am
- peterwn
  
  National down 3%, this is the key figure. Not surprising at the moment since Labour is being all things to nearly all people (except the Charter School community and landlords). Labour has serious potential downsides that could come to roost unless they play their cards carefully. National is limited in how it can attack since they could easily be accused of ‘sour grapes’. In my opinion the general mood is centre or a bit left of centre, so those who say National should ‘get back to founding principles’, ‘harden up’ etc are whistling in the wind.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:15am
  - oldgolfer
    
    You are right about the key figure being Nats down 3.
    Not surprised the hydra-headed CoL is at 48 given the promises to fix almost everything except world poverty (next year, perhaps) the announcements of endless inquiries (fooling some into thinking something is actually being done), the sickening fawning by the media – and the baby is not yet born.
    The trouble will come, as Joyce pointed out this morning, when they are so constrained by the fast-emptying pot of loot that they will be not able to do anything of merit.
    All hat and no cattle, as their supporters will find out in due course.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:27am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      They will steal more money from anyone who has or earns some. That’s the plan.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:47am
  - cmm
    
    Relax people. Take a big breath in then as you breath out say “statistics”.
    
    Sampling margin of error on these surveys (ie. ignoring any bias etc) is 3%.
    
    In other words the result is expected to hop around by up to +- 3%.
    
    3% is not a significant change unless you’re under 20% or so.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:47am
  - dime
    
    so youre saying, we have lost. NZ is centre left forever.
    
    We shouldnt try.
    
    we should forgo economics.
    
    the electorate will never change.
    
    its more important to win than fight.
    
    awesome.
    
    pass.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:39am
  - matchbox
    
    Nah. Timing of the poll was everything. Right in the middle of a targeted media campaign, accurately predicting a Bill English demise.
    
    In that circumstance, I’m surprised National didn’t poll 25 points lower. Normal transmission will be resumed shortly.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:54am
  - KiWombat
    
    3% is the margin of error, so if the poll approached those in South Auckland then this could be a good result, with little change if any
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:40am
- kowtow
  
  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average (swing/female) voter. Winston Churchill
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:26am
  - Gabby
    
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    Winston Churchill wouldn’t think I’m as big a fuckwit as those peasants.
    Kobknob the Mighty
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:33am
    - Harkman
      
      Still as pleasant as always Gabby.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:24am
  - MCos
    
    Things have changed since his day.
    A lot.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:55am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Same base principles apply though.
      
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      February 20, 2018 10:12am
- Huevon
  
  Women.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:32am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Not women who own a business, farm or rental property, they wouldn’t vote for Labour. But I suspect the fake glamour of Taxinda plus her pregnancy have pulled a whole lot of women into voting who didn’t bother with politics before.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:50am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Actually, there is an opportunity for National here: small businesses, often home-based, run by women. Getting their inspiring stories into the media but pointing out that if Labour get their way, the ‘business’ portion of the family home will be capital gain taxed. That could seriously scare a lot of women and their home co-owners (i.e. husbands).
      
      Plus lots of stories of mom and pop landlords who just own a rental or two, who have worked like crazy to try and get that retirement security and now will face many more regulations and then CGT. Those currently influenced by Taxinda’s baby bump and smile would rethink if National kept pointing out this threat.
      
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      February 20, 2018 2:39pm
- niggly
  
  48% Labour and 43% National (91%), well one aspect is that it reinforces people are tiring of MMP’s minor parties (and especially their antics).
  
  NZF’s under 5% trend continues …
  
  If the Greens were to go under 5% in the next election then that reinforces that perception …
  
  It seems most NZ’ers want fairly traditional and stable Party’s with lots of well known and competent MP’s – whether that be National or Labour.
  
  (Hehe I guess I dare not utter the words that will make people choke – particularly the looney frothing hating Left … GC anyone)?! 😉
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:34am
- VicParking
  
  Labour is on to a winner. Visit Primary and Play Schools. Abuse your next door neighbors. Talk a lot and do Nothing. FlipFlop. And the winner, get pregnant.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:41am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Vic Parking and win the latest Colmar Brunton Poll ,
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/101581173/labour-and-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-take-the-lead-in-new-poll
    
    LOL
    
    Gotta be doing something right !
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:49am
    - Harkman
      
      We’ll see how long it lasts, my data has house prices crashing since they all took power. Politicians don’t fear too well with falling house prices, never fear Labour will probably print money to solve the issue. But what happens if ALL CENTRAL Banks lift interest rates?
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:30am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      ‘Gotta be doing something right !’
      
      Yes, for easily bought voters and those who vote because of the ‘wow’ of Vogue and the ‘aaaww’ of pregnancy, yes, Labour made a brilliant choice.
      
      National will have to work very hard to even get enough media attention to try and educate people into voting for sensible economic plans instead of ‘wow’ and ‘aaawwww’.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:56am
      - KevOB
        
        Sensible economic plans will be thrust upon fishnchip shop Taxinderella. That she is unaware is the real concern.
        
        An interest rate rise is coming to a mortgage near you.
        
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        February 20, 2018 10:43am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Unless that Nats have the media in their back pocket (which they don’t), they are going to have to wait for events. The truism of govts that have been cobbled together are:
        1. They are never truly ready to govern, so their plans & “big policy announcements” are always cobbled together, not thought through & never work;
        2. The ministerial team is never clear on what they are meant to be doing; and
        3. When a serious political/government event occurs they are in crisis and the longer they are in government, the more the voters want rid of them.
        This happened to especially to Labour govts in the past & to the Muldoon govt in 1984.
        
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        February 20, 2018 4:06pm
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      Gotta be doing something right? Nope, they’ve really got to be doing something first. It’s easy to not put a foot wrong when you’re standing still.
      
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      February 20, 2018 10:00am
    - VicParking
      
      It’s all left Stephie its all to the left ??
      
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      February 20, 2018 10:17am
- SPC
  
  So there was a post election bump for the new government, after “premature” posts here that there had not been one – the Standard’s response that it was too early to tell has been proven to be accurate.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:45am
  - matchbox
    
    Plus the poll was taken towards the end of a sustained “Bill English is dead-man-walking” media campaign. Surprising in that circumstance that National even troubled the scorers.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:58am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  It’s finally a honeymoon bounce for the Labour Party. The Govt’s policies simply haven’t had a chance to be seen to be properly failing yet. Labour Party trolls on social media always comment as though the Govt is purely the Labour Party and coalition partners barely ever get a mention or any other credit.
  It will no doubt come to pass that the coalition partners are indeed irrelevant to this government, especially by the time of the next election and the scrap is on in full intensity to try and scrape the 5% mark. Could mean a few hand grenades might get tossed around within the ramparts of the government ‘castle’. Oh the irony in the fact that the Labour Party might actually be searching for a friend at some point.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:59am
  - backster
    
    My view is that National have dropped because of the abysmal timing of English resigning. Labour was on the ropes over their lies and hypocrisy on Charter Schools. The media was desperately trying to cover for them,then Bill English lets them get off the canvas by resigning.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:44am
    - ex-golfer
      
      Apparently (according to DPF) the poll was conducted before the English resignation.
      
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      February 20, 2018 10:31am
      - matchbox
        
        Yes, but the poll was near the end of a sustained media “Bill English Dead-Man-Walking” campaign.
        
        Don’t panic, next poll with new Opposition Leader in place will restore proper order of things.
        
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        February 20, 2018 11:47am
      - rangitoto
        
        It covered before and after the resignation.
        
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        February 20, 2018 12:49pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  It’s a really interesting result.
  
  Yes, National leaderless is going to count against, but surely that only overlapped on the last day of polling. So maybe it was the anticipation of his announcement that depressed the National vote.
  
  But I would have thought the charter schools mis-step would have cost something in Labour support.
  
  To be honest, I think it’s more likely to be a drift away from the feckless Greens (waka-jumping would’ve hurt them) and NZF (Winston’s invisibility and the waka-jumping bill combined with their constant pork barrelling).
  
  Still, it shows National need to re-orientate and score a few hits and call-out the vapid CoL.
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:40am
  - VicParking
    
    It was all the uncertainty from the MSM that Bill was going to get dumped for three weeks before the poll.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:19am
EAD_TWO

Many of the responses to yesterday’s “NZ needs more babies” articles were rather depressing.

Those along the lines of “we need more babies/immigrants (delete as appropriate) so they can pay taxes” really sums up what is so wrong with globalisation. A nation is more than just a collection of interchangeable economic units whose purpose in life is to consume goods, pay off mortgages and pay taxes to the Government.

It is no wonder people say they are so stressed compares to previous generations when they believe the sum of their existence and success is defined by their conspicuous consumption.

A Nationalist friend of mine from my time in England put together this excellent YouTube video that takes apart this nihilistic and zero sum view of what modern society has become from an English perspective:

It’s called – “An ode to Laura Trott”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC272WG3NEs
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February 20, 2018 8:04am
- cmm
  
  I had a wee think about this.
  
  As a white male in an increasingly hostile world where’s the benefit in subjecting your offspring to the inevitable dystopia that awaits our species in a hundred years?
  
  Europe has built itself from nothing in 5000 years, but looks set to be overrun in the next 100. France is expected to be part of Africa within 40 years. Africa’s population is going to expand by 3 billion by 2100 (according to most approximations). Africa is full, so that means 3 billion flowing into Europe and beyond.
  
  No wonder the rich Yanks are buying up Otago. That’s their “bug out location” as the preppers call it.
  
  I’ve done my breeding but I would understand completely if my sons went MGTOW.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:15am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    @cmm
    
    I’ve done my breeding but I would understand completely if my sons went MGTOW
    
    I don’t agree with this MGTOW shit. It’s a cop out and literally fiddling while Rome burns.
    
    As Edmund Burke said – “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”.
    
    What did you think of the video?
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:21am
    - cmm
      
      Sure it’s a cop out and I shudder at the thought of this happening, but what are the options?
      
      “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
      
      Ok dude pick up your staff and try to stop the tide of 3 billion flowing out of Africa in the rest of this century.
      
      I am not sure there are enough good men left and I am certain they are not prepared to make the hard calls required.
      
      Who is going to tell Africa to live within its means? ie. no more babies than it can feed.
      
      Is the rest of the world actually going to stand back and say “we warned you” while they starve to death?
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:43am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Ok dude pick up your staff and try to stop the tide of 3 billion flowing out of Africa in the rest of this century.
        
        It’s easy to do if you have the Political will. It only seems to be White countries that have been subjugated to enough propaganda and draconian laws to silence their inner voices.
        
        I think things however will have to get a whole lot worse before they get better. Whenever you pull a rubberband too tight there is always an equal and opposite snapback the other way.
        
        I mean if Israel can kick out its Africans and build walls to enclose its Islamic inhabitants, why can’t the West?
        
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        February 20, 2018 4:40pm
      - cmm
        
        Sure, it is a matter of political will, but who has that will?
        
        We might be lucky due to where we live.
        
        Even if only a million Africans/Arabs a year flow into Europe (2015 was almost 2 million) and keep breeding like they do, then Europe is mainly African/Arab before 2050. By 2050 it will likely be majority African.
        
        But getting all the way to NZ is a bugger, so we might have time to wake up to the threat before it gets all the way here.
        
        Perhaps a few decades of watching Europe go to shit might just give us that political will.
        
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        February 20, 2018 5:55pm
- Scott
  
  On BBC Hardtalk this morning they interviewed the Head of the German party AfD who stated that the euro is an artificial currency that is being propped up by German taxpayers to the tune of 1 million euros a day.
  He also stated that the true number of illegal immigrants to Germany this past year is half a million.
  
  Germany under Merkel has abandoned the idea of the nation state and by executive order opened its borders to everyone.
  This type of folly has caused the rise of parties like the AfD because the mainstream parties have sold their country down the river.
  The globalist agenda based on open borders and suoernational entities is a failure. The euro cannot survive as a currency and Germany cannot survive as a nation with these policies.
  
  There are lessons for us in NZ. We should restrict immigration to those who share our values and we should not be held hostage to supernational entities, like the UN.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:19am
  - Jack5
    
    The far Right is blaming George Soros for the anti-borders movement.
    
    How influential is Soros?
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:29am
    - hullkiwi
      
      It was Soros with his run on the Pound in 1992 that did for Sterling being part of the ERM & the UK joining the Euro. The downside was it cost the UK taxpayer dearly in 1992.
      As for influence today, probably less than in 1992.
      
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      February 20, 2018 8:46am
    - G152
      
      He’s the financier
      
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      February 20, 2018 8:49am
    - flipper
      
      Soros is an ex KGB under-cover operative who would be well known to Putin. He is the puppet- master that the left nd the MSM ignores.
      BUT someday he will get his dues….
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:30am
      - Ross12
        
        Doesn’t Russia have an arrest warrant out for him ?
        
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        February 20, 2018 10:26am
      - Paulus
        
        Soros is also I believe the Uncle of Chelsea Clinton’s husband.
        He lost very heavily when Hillary lost the election.
        
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        February 20, 2018 2:06pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Scott
    I agree with your last sentence.
    Many other countries are in the UN, but do not follow its dictates.
    Eg China, Saudi Arabia, Iran Israel.
    We need leader who will come out with such policies.
    And we all need to lobby our mps that we do not want third world people coming here that do not care, or know about what NZ stands for.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:35am
    - freemark
      
      Why are all the fuckwits parroting about about “selling our sovereignty” (re TPPA) the same ones so willing to let the UN troughers tell us what to do?
      Idiots everywhere.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:47am
  - kowtow
    
    We are going down the same road as the rest of the west. Birth rates down but population growing due to immigration. The key to future security/insecurity is where are those immigrants coming from.
    
    “Immigration has replaced fertility as the biggest source of population growth in Auckland,” he said.
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11997503
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:03am
    - cmm
      
      We’re lucky, for a bit longer, in that we are far away from Europe etc.
      
      London, the most powerful city in the world just 120 years ago, is now no longer really part of England.
      
      The Europeans can see the writing on the wall and want to come here to get as far away from Europe as they can.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:48am
  - cmm
    
    The UN is especially problematic.
    
    Voting in the UN General Assembly is on a per-country basis and all have equal representation.
    
    Surprise, surprise there are heaps of countries in Africa and other shitholistan places. 54 African countries are members of the UN.
    
    Out of the 193 countries in the UN, less than 20 are places that a sane person would want to live in. But the 193 countries all have a part in telling us what to do.
    
    Guess what: they vote for policies that try to make us more like them.
    
    At least under colonialism it was successful countries having a say in the running of less successful countries, now it is the other way around!
    
    It’s like everyone having the vote, except that 90% of the population are dole bludgers instead of just 10% or so.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:05am
  - stephieboy
    
    EAD TWO , more importantly what “will you do ‘other than your keyboard warrior antics ?
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:27am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Scott, good to meet someone else looking at Europe, esp. Germany. Did you read about the Berlin women’s march, organised by a *Kurdish* woman in the AfD, a march against all the anti-women violence and for throwing criminal ‘refugees’ out of the country? This march was violently opposed by the so-called ‘anti-fascists’ who call anything done by the AfD ‘racist’. AfD isn’t in the least racist, but the slightest criticism of a religious ideology is called ‘racist’ these days.
    
    Get that, everyone, the anti-fascists in Germany now actually *oppose* a women’s demonstration that simply wants to defend the rights women have achieved. Things like being able to walk safely at night.
    
    This is what the left has come to: women’s rights, gay rights, Jewish rights rate lower to the German left than a religious ideology they call a ‘race’.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:08am
- SPC
  
  A more pertinent comment would be that immigration with foreign property investment reduces wages and inflates property values, making it harder for locals to afford property and family.
  
  And of course longer periods of education/training before employment (involving tertiary debt) reduce the fertility window in any case.
  
  Then there is the whole issue of decline in male fertility.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:50am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    reduces wages and inflates property values, making it harder for locals to afford property and family.
    
    And of course longer periods of education/training before employment (involving tertiary debt) reduce the fertility window in any case.
    
    Add Feminism, The promotion of homosexualism & hedonism, the marginalisation of the family, infanitilisation, huge taxes and inflation to this toxic mix of low wages & job security, debt and extended education, then it is easy to see why the birth rate has plummeted.
    
    Whilst at the same time the West has pumped untold trillions into the 3rd world to encourage them to breed.
    
    All an accident or carefully planned?
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:06am
    - fernglas
      
      You forgot onanism.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:10am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD TWO,
      
      “All an accident or carefully planned”
      
      Have to be International Jewry behind this one ?
      
      George Soros and three of the President’s Cabinet members ?
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:13am
Happychappy

Another day of having the standards rejects bleeting their hate for National on G/D.
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February 20, 2018 8:06am
- Gabby
  
  Never mind crappy, you can counterbleat with the best of them.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:36am
niggly

With WinstonFirst down to 3% in the latest Poll, shall we expect to see new smears and accusations from him leveled against National? Perhaps aided and abetted by his #1 MSM Soper and #1WO blog selected mouth pieces?!!!

Nevermind like just prior to the Election, it’s Labour and Jacindamania stealing his voters!
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February 20, 2018 8:06am
- Poppa
  
  That is two polls now that show him at 3%
  
  Still too high for my liking
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:14am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Indeed; he’s about four percentage points too high for MY liking 😀
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:52am
Inandout

Jacinda spoke at some NZ university, speaking of FREE stuff. She was resplendent in cap and gown, looking royal. Her teeth sparkled even more than the talented Freddie Mercury on Prime last night.
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February 20, 2018 8:08am
- geoff3012
  
  Thank god I had a bucket close when I saw that….
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:17am
  - Gabby
    
    Your bag broken again guff.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:38am
  - stephieboy
    
    geoff3012, , to put your head in it and leave t it there ?
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:53am
    - geoff3012
      
      like you do with your goat?
      
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      February 20, 2018 12:11pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘One of the biggest cheers of the night came after Ms Ardern mentioned her Government’s policy of first-year, fee-free tertiary study.’
  
  The ‘leaders’ of tomorrow like free stuff. No wonder she’s popular. Gives away OPM and nothing critical about how that doesn’t work in the real world from her adoring followers in the media.
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/first-year-students-urged-tackle-nzs-biggest-problems
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:34am
  - oldpark
    
    Yes that was the money stolen off the old age pensioners and wage earners.With the help of Mr 3%,Peters.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:03am
- Harkman
  
  “Jacinda spoke at some NZ university, speaking of FREE stuff.”
  
  Just wait until world wide interest rates go up and the government has to pay 3-4% on debt instead of 2.4%. They won’t look so competent then.
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:36am
  - Paulus
    
    But we real taxpayers will have to fund any increases.
    
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    February 20, 2018 2:09pm
hullkiwi

Did anyone catch that appalling liberal rubbish on 7 Sharp last night uabout a book for children 5 to 10 on terrorism? There was an interview with the equally appalling author.

Our children are fed enough propaganda at school without this type of crap being passed off as reading material for under 10s!
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February 20, 2018 8:11am
Happychappy

Jacinda to lead a delegation around the Pacific to gage Cyclone Gita damage, is Winstons health not right as I would have though that was more in line with his Foriegn Affairs Portfollio.
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February 20, 2018 8:12am
- sooty
  
  Oh, the baby, think of the baby!
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:27am
- hullkiwi
  
  This is straight out of the average socialist leader copy book. She has to go everywhere she can be seen to be a super hero, listening to people who have been affected, promising “we will help put it right”, but actually provide nothing more than was already coming & then move on to the next photo opportunity.
  
  This worked well for Gough Whitlam after Cyclone Tracey in 1974 & Gordon Brown in the summer of 2007 after he became UK PM. But then reality kicks in & they have to deal with the real on going issues confronting them, like the economy. The one event that will always doom a shallow PM like taxcinda.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:30am
  - waikatogirl
    
    It was reported banks have had an increase of 7% rise in profits and are making money hand over fist with all the borrowing kiwis are doing due to the healthy economy.
    
    How long before the economy shows signs of slowing. We know it is coming…3…2…1
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:59am
- Monty
  
  There are many rumours circulating about the chronic state of Winston’s health. I was in Auckland over the weekend and was talking to politically connected people. Winston is getting to be well known in the hospital circuit.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:31am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Monty , admitted to hospital for what ?
    
    Chronic political success syndrome ?
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:55am
    - Harkman
      
      “Chronic political success syndrome ?”
      
      1996-1999 a complete failure.
      
      2008 ousted from Parliament.
      
      2020 the way of the Dodo.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:38am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Three times a Minister, three times sacked Syndrome Stephie. He’s fighting to avoid a fourth time.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:54am
  - big bruv
    
    “Winston is getting to be well known in the hospital circuit.”
    
    Really? I do hope it’s nothing trivial.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:08am
- niggly
  
  Actually that’s another Jacinda leadership fail, timing wise she should have been in the Islands a few days ago to reassure the Govts and people there (not next week etc).
  
  So the MSM question should be … what’s with the lateness in announcing this?
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:44am
  - KiWombat
    
    What about being seen in our own backyard ?
    
    The West Coast was devastated by storms a few weeks back – nobody from the government to be seen. And they are about to be hit again today with winds predicted to 150km/h
    
    It’s a pity that nobody seems the slightest bit interested in the immediate problems we are facing at home, they would rather jet about the pacific – I suppose the photo ops there will sell better !!
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:56am
    - Happychappy
      
      Well I lived on the coast for a few years and Labour and union rules and as hard as Labour kick them they still go back for more. PIke River and the disgraceful behaviour that has happened over that leaves me with no sympathy for whatever happens down there nowdays.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:58am
  - VicParking
    
    She had more important work to do. Talk to students and march in the parade. I’m sure the leaders of the Pacific will love that.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:25am
- KevOB
  
  Doesn’t she have enough to do at home?
  Gitas come and go. Every February.
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:51am
- lifesgood
  
  And she couldn’t even be bothered visiting the west coast after their flooding. It’s just a chance to have an overseas holiday before pregnancy prevents flying.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:40am
  - KevOB
    
    This is not holiday season in the tropical Pacific. 30° and 100% humidity–almost 24/7!
    
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    February 20, 2018 12:54pm
oldpark

Talk about the law of unintended consequences.
The grubby wee self styled low rent meglamaniac called Peters who shafted the National Party and selected “Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern as PM.
The latest polls suggest the pest Peters has committed Political Euthanesia.
We now see that if an election was held today his selected partners in slime Lie-bour/Green mafias could govern NZ without his dictatorial input.
Of course the same wee man said his judas decision to anoint the too sweet to be wholesome “Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern was for the good of NZ.
Seems maybe his great plan is working. Even better looking at the polls. him no longer needed.
He can now sink beneath the waves of Political Euthanesia,knowing that he did his job.
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February 20, 2018 8:16am
- Paulus
  
  It is sad that after so many years in Parliament that Winston’s legacy will be one of disgust and hatred by so many.
  What an epitaph !
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:22am
  - Jack5
    
    Racing folk love him.
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:26am
    - sooty
      
      When he’s bought, he stays bought.
      
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      February 20, 2018 8:29am
      - Gabby
        
        More than you can say for Shagger Banxie, amiright sooky.
        
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        February 20, 2018 8:44am
    - G152
      
      They have to otherwise the SPCA will have them for animal cruelty
      
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      February 20, 2018 8:52am
    - big bruv
      
      “Racing folk love him.”
      
      Scum mixing with scum.
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:09am
- Nermal
  
  I’ll believe he’s gone for good when I see the wooden stake through his heart, the crucifix on his chest and the garlic wreath around his neck
  
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  February 20, 2018 12:01pm
Jack5

Our politics are tame compared with what’s going on between Australia’s deputy PM, Bonkin Barnaby, and the Aussie Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull.

Now enter, stage left, Australia’s Pocahontas, Jacqui Lambie (her claims to be a Tasmanian Aboriginal are at best extremely remote and seem to be probably dubious).

She is firing up for a return to the Federal Senate.

With shades of NZ’s dildo throwing loon, Jacqui has been browsing in a sex shop.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/malcolm-drives-me-nuts-jacqui-lambie-keeps-her-powder-dry-ahead-of-next-federal-election-20180219-p4z0wl.html

AND for a great photograph of Bonkin’ Barnaby:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/i-m-not-going-anywhere-barnaby-joyce-blasts-witch-hunt-20180219-p4z0vt.html
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February 20, 2018 8:25am
Im Right

I see Slater is covering his blog in linked opinions and press opinions that show 2 candidates, Adams and Bridges) in a bad light (Joyce and Mitchel just putting their hats in the ring…I suspect he will be busy next Cpl of days with smear posts on them also) and any/all scraps of media praising Collins. After a year of posts every day demonising and belittling English and praising Winston his main focus is now is promoting Collins. Pretty Ironic that he ran so many posts condemning CNN for it’s unwavering supporter of Clinton (Clinton News Network) he himself has become a parody and his blog is nothing less than CNN, in this case Collins News Network!! Ohh, and every 2nd or 3rd post he has the begging bowl out for donations or subscriptions, how the mighty have fallen and I would not be surprised if the blog is still running by 2020 election. (I wont shed any tears if it does go under, but what a waste as it really was ground breaking, in NZ, a few years ago.)
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February 20, 2018 8:31am
- All_on_Red
  
  But you still read his Blog and talk about him…
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:43am
  - Im Right
    
    I talk about Slater as I’m dismayed at how far his stock in the political blogging world has fallen, he went from breaking good political stories to just smears on anyone/everyone that is not his favourite (Collins) I don’t post comments on WO plus I also read TDB and The Standard, post a comment occasionally…what’s your point?
    TDB has only about 6-8 regular posters, there are, on average, 8-12 different posts posted per day with an average of 0 to 2 comments on each post. The Standard rarely allows any dissenting posts through (not disrespectful or ‘trolling’ posts, just ones that don’t fit the left narrative of posts subject)…I do not sit in an echo chamber and the reason I like KB is it has comments from both sides, the only political blog that allows ‘dissenting’ voices, care to let us all know All_On_Red which other political blog allows such ‘diversity’ in their comments?
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:17am
    - BrasellBrush
      
      I’m like Im Right, like to look at the other blogs, although I don’t bother with TDB, and I do comment occasionally. I do like watching the exchanges on KB as it feels like a real good mix of mostly right leaning types with the few trolls (Stephie/Ztev etc) that make it a little more fun and down ticking them for crap is even better. Most of you have a way with words that I simply do not have but am thinking…. Keep it up KB’ers
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:25am
    - All_on_Red
      
      My point?
      You whine about WO but then give him exposure. Poor triggered snowflake.
      As for this; ‘ which other political blog allows such ‘diversity’ in their comments?’
      I’ve been on KB for over a decade so dont be patronising.
      Btw, I think your nom de plume reeks of undeserved arrogance.
      
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      February 20, 2018 3:25pm
      - Im Right
        
        I have had many ‘handles’ and also posted on this blog for many years. So I guess because you have over 7,000 posts you have the moral high ground on this blog, and posting in general? Pfffft All_on_Red, are you a compulsive gambler?
        
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        February 20, 2018 6:21pm
- niggly
  
  Actually, WO was dissing Mitchel in their evening general debate last night. Which is a pity because previously WO used to say good things about him (just goes to show how much his spinning for Collins is affecting his impartiality).
  
  Well I certainly do believe Collins won the MSM coverage last week (over Adams and Bridges – this week is a different story of course) and was showing great leadership potential, but if MSM reports are true that Collins actually has very little caucus support (?), what the bet WO’s & Collin’s perpetual lack of self-awareness are the reason why?
  
  I mean, WO has constantly attacked and denigrated the majority of National MP’s over the years, how galling then it must be for them to then see WO putting Collins on a pedestal (like he did for Winston). If WO (and Collins) had any self-awareness they would realise these bullying, smear tactics have done them no favors with Collin’s caucus colleagues and she is tainted with the same brush!
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:54am
  - CHFR1
    
    I wonder how much Judith Collins plays into the WO support from what I have seen over the years it seems a very one way relationship with Cam doing the running. I am sad to see what has happened to WO over the last few years as he has gone from a multiple times a day must read to somewhere I go for giggles now. There is a place for what he offers, no offence to DPF but this blog is a sideline and it is now showing, with multiple stories a day but the kill cats, cyst bursting and constant begging has just put me off.
    Cam if you are reading this with one eye open please go back to the analysis and leave out the crap.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:45am
    - lifesgood
      
      I used to be a close follower of WO. I haven’t looked at it for months now and feel much the better for it. He is vindictive and nasty and his starry eyed backing for Collins is straight out ridiculous. That’s enough to put me off her and has probably contributed to her lack of support in caucus. Being associated with WO is poison for a politician. Key and English were right to blank him but, of course, that infuriated him and caused his bitter crusade against them.
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:49am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        ” I haven’t looked at it for months now and feel much the better for it.”
        
        Same here. There were endless stupid rules and restrictions and sudden deletion of perfectly polite and moderate posts.
        
        And then he’d ask for money!! LOL
        
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        February 20, 2018 2:52pm
- Paulus
  
  Clinton is here shortly to promote her book, hating everybody and the organisers are charging from $195 to listen to her bitchy left wing diatribe.
  Presumably Cinderella and all her special women friends will be given free tickets, paid for by the taxpayer.
  I can already hear the paid for screaming, like Oprah does, Hillary being the wronged woman.
  $195 the cheapest seats – no doubt all Government Department women will get taxpayer concessions.
  I hope she gets arrested here.
  
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  February 20, 2018 2:17pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    I won’t be going as I guess I would fall into the “deplorables” sector of society as judged by Hillary in one of the pre-election presidential debates. You know – the debates where one of the candidates had a list of the questions prior (as confirmed eventually,albeit it reluctantly, by one of Hillary Clinton’s aides in chief).
    However, I am sure there will be a meeting between Hillary, Ardern and Helen Clarke to tee-up UN jobs for the future.
    
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    February 20, 2018 3:08pm
softail 1450

grubby is up early today,must have soiled her bedding again.
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February 20, 2018 8:41am
- Gabby
  
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  softcock14yo is back from her morning ride, must’ve given up trying to sit sidesaddle on the banana seat.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:43am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Why do you waste your time on here Gabby?
    Do you not have anything more productive to do?
    Much of what you contribute is unintelligible and meaningless.
    Will now expect a series of insults and gobbledygook to come my way – but really, you should consider getting a real job.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:12am
    - Harkman
      
      “Why do you waste your time on here Gabby?”
      
      Showing off her marvellous spelling skills.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:42am
    - Flash
      
      They (softail & gabby) are grubby little would-be shockers.
      Why are they still here, wasting space?
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:59am
    - Gabby
      
      That was most informative and positive gravelrash.
      
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      February 20, 2018 10:52am
      - Gravelroad
        
        Good, I’m glad you found it informative and positive, Gabby. Perhaps you could use it as a template for your future contributions.
        
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        February 20, 2018 12:09pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Mental illness issues, unemployed, friendless…I’d almost say poor bugger, but I won’t.
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:50am
VicParking

The new Councillor for the “Super” Auckland Council was asked why she won. Ans: “I don’t Know Why”. Other than the rote learned half a dozen statements she is impossible to Interview.
On Red Radio this morning she lasted 15 seconds before she was thanked and dumped. Who cares as long as she Votes yes for all of Goffs madcap ideas.
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February 20, 2018 8:51am
- lifesgood
  
  Ah, yes, but, you know, diversity and all that.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:51am
Chuck Bird

I wonder what the scumbag would get in NZ. Does anyone how long before he can apply for parole in the UK?

Ex-football coach jailed for 30 years for abusing young players

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11997935
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February 20, 2018 8:57am
- DigNap15
  
  Unbelievable how a guy can get away with that in today’s modern world.
  
  For a start it is a terrible thing to do to any young people, as it takes away their innocence, and can affect them for the rest of their lives.
  
  You’d also think that some of the boys could have got together and beaten him up, or went to the police.
  
  And the soccer clubs and FA etc seemed to have aided in the cover up!
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:32am
- big bruv
  
  “Ex-football coach jailed for 30 years for abusing young players”
  
  Silly fool. All he had to do was say he was Muslim and it was a series of sexual emergencies and her would have walked.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:24am
Huevon

Back in Chile, I was always amazed that General Pinochet’s most loyal supporters seemed to be female.

What was it Sylvia Plath said about women and fascists?

To counter Jacinda, National need someone with a firm hand on the tiller. Probably don’t need to go as far as death squads though.
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February 20, 2018 8:58am
kowtow

A Danish politician talking some sense , for a change.

“They have beheaded people, raped women and children and sold people. For me, it is paradoxical for those militants to now claim Western norms regarding protection of rights,” he said.’

But mainstream Islam has norms contrary to western values. So why accept any immigrant or refugee who holds ideological values so contrary to western norms?

https://www.thelocal.dk/20180216/denmark-may-have-to-accept-return-of-isis-militants-report
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February 20, 2018 9:14am
- DigNap15
  
  It may be paradoxical, and of course it is paradoxical.
  
  But that is how they work.
  They get into the west quietly, and then build up a population, and then start using our laws to get rights for their customs!
  
  Send them all back
  
  Where are the Vikings of old?
  They would not have stood for this!
  
  And they (mostly young men) want to get to the west to get away from the wars etc, but they happily leave their wives, daughters and mothers there!
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:35am
- GoVege
  
  Can’t they just do what Oz does and kick the out on character grounds?
  
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  February 20, 2018 12:23pm
stephieboy

A semblance of sanity at long, long last appears to have some influence at the White House ,

“White House: Trump supports move to strengthen gun background checks”

WASHINGTON — The White House supports efforts to strengthen background checks for gun purchases in the wake of last week’s shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Donald Trump is open to bipartisan legislation to shore up the background checks system, which is supposed to prevent people with severe mental illness and serious criminal records from purchasing firearms.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-trump-supports-move-strengthen-gun-background-checks-n849341
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February 20, 2018 9:20am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  My understanding is that the shooter had a clean criminal record. He had received some mental health treatment but not to an extent that would fail a background check. Dylan Roof should have failed a background check but the FBI screwed up.
  
  There is a common pattern of politicians advocating law changes that will make no difference while not properly enforcing existing laws that are sufficient.
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:33am
- SPC
  
  Missing the point, the threat to children at schools comes from former pupils.
  
  While unhinged they often have no criminal record, nor yet been identified as mentally unwell.
  
  The best option to is to have an age restriction on gun ownership (21).
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:15am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    It is 16 in NZ.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:42am
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    That is actually an interesting thought. Violent crime is predominantly a younger man’s (<30) related activity. Ban ownership for under 30's and it might do a lot.
    
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    February 20, 2018 1:49pm
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      How much crime is committed by legal gun owners?
      
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      February 20, 2018 2:48pm
EAD_TWO

Jewish owned rag Brietbart has launched a scathing attack hit piece on the Polish people complaining about muh anti-semitism:

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/02/18/polish-jews-stunned-scared-eruption-anti-semitism/

Breitbart however has been caught out using fake photographs of France to blacks the Poles name + drum up sympathy. Makes you wonder what other parts of the story are real?

The best thing though is this top rated comment – it just shows how much people are starting to notice things:

Speaking as a Jew, people are just sick and tired of seeing a Jewish celebrity, comedian, producer, news anchor, politician, businessperson, school official, college professor, etc every waking moment of the day pushing for Leftism, Globalism or the New World Order.

I am so disgusted by my people right now. it all stems from our arrogant “chosen people” status in the Old Testament along with our tendency to embrace moral relativism at the drop of the hat.

The Jewish people need a Reformation along with Islam. Christians had one. Now it’s our turn.

It’s time to grow up and realize that we are NOT “better than the Gentiles” and that moral relativism and greed are UGLY, period.

It’s also time to take a second look at Christ’s teachings and criticisms of how the Jewish faith evolved into something other than what it was originally supposed to be, because there is a lot of validity in them…..
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February 20, 2018 9:29am
- CHFR1
  
  You do know you lose the argument when your first line is Jewish owned anything don’t you??
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:47am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Let’s take the test shall we?
    
    Andrew Breitbart (founder)
    Alex Marlow (editor-in-chief)
    Joel Pollak (senior-editor-at-large)
    Larry Solov (CEO)
    
    There is also a “Wynton Hall” whose ethnicity I can’t determine.
    
    I just don’t think you can fathom that people have ethnic interests. Especially a group that has managed to maintain a tight ethnic solidarity despite lacking a homeland for thousands of years. Just go read the Daily Forward of Times of Israel to get a glimpse of such a state of mind.
    
    You might reshape arguments as “right vs. left” but Jews very much shape it as “what’s good for the Jew”.
    
    As Jew Henry Kissinger famously said – · ‘It’s a war between the Jews and the non-Jews’
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:34am
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    He doesn’t know that. But it is considerate of him to put this at the top so we needn’t waste time reading any further.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:35am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    You do know you lose the argument when your first line is Jewish owned anything don’t you??
    
    Serious question CHFR1 – do you not think it is relevant to note the Jewish ownership and Editorial structure of Breitbart when the organisation is creating fake news that creates sympathy for the Jews by levelling accusations against the Polish people?
    
    I think it is very relevant.
    
    Are you blind to the co-ordinated attacks being done on Poland by the MSM?
    
    There is an agenda at play here but you’re to blind to see it,
    
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/polish-jews-stunned-scared-by-eruption-of-anti-semitism/
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5405595/Polands-Jews-fear-rise-anti-Semitism.html
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/middleeast/swastika-graffiti-poland-israel.html
    
    http://njjewishnews.com/article/37205/absolving-polish-responsibility-in-shoah-historically-untrue1#.WouT9a5l_IU
    
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/netanyahu-hits-back-at-polish-pm-in-holocaust-row-before-turning-on-iran-kml82whh9
    
    That last headline is the worst – trying to tie the so called “Holocaust” (about the only historical event not up for reinterpretation these days) into war-mongering against Iran…..
    
    Are you blind to the MSM beating the war drums for yet another Middle Eastern War against one of Israel’s enemies?
    
    This near unison of opinion amongst the MSM on these subjects warrants discussion on the ownership and editorial structures to see if their is a conflict of interest but you’d much rather silence free speech. Why?
    
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    February 20, 2018 4:24pm
- SPC
  
  Sure the whole idea that only the “chosen” people has a national homeland that is worth defending is the one thing that Nazi “Aryan nation” Germany and Zionists agree on.
  
  But is based on the division within the Jewish people between Zionists and those who remain in diaspora. The Zionists demand those in diaspora are loyal to Israel as a Jewish homeland, while those in diaspora celebrate diversity as polity for the wider world.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:21am
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Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/02/links-20-february-2018/#comment-3052544

Labour soars to highest level in 15 years in new 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll | 1 NEWS NOW | TVNZ

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/labour-soars-highest-level-in-15-years-new-1-news-colmar-brunton-poll

Support for Labour has jumped strongly in the latest 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton political poll.

The party is at 48 per cent, up nine points on its December poll result, its highest level in 15 years.

And it now has a clear lead over National which has slipped three points since December to be at 43 per cent. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
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Housing Minister Phil Twyford says he’s planning a workshopping event for representatives of the finance community and players in the development and construction sector to help crack NZ’s problems around infrastructure financing | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92190/housing-minister-phil-twyford-says-hes-planning-workshopping-event-representatives

The Government is planning to bring together players from the finance community with people representing development and construction interests to hammer out a plan to solve New Zealand’s infrastructure financing problems.

Minister of Housing Phil Twyford says the event will be going ahead “within the next couple of months”, but details are limited at this stage.

Last week, Twyford said lack of access to capital is “crippling the supply of houses,” adding that one of the Government’s biggest priorities is cracking down on the problems around infrastructure financing.

“There is a planet of cash out there that would love to invest in our cities’ growth, but they have no way of doing it at the moment.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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Millenials property woes could see Corbyn IN POWER, PM warned | Politics | News | Express.co.uk

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/919753/Theresa-May-housing-crisis-Jeremy-Corbyn-IFS-report

According to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), only a quarter of young middle class professionals are on the housing ladder, compared to two-thirds in the 1990s.

And the figures are a stark warning for Mrs May, with Tory MPs urging her to take radical action.

They fear Mr Corbyn is using the issue to lure more young people to the Labour cause, giving him the upper hand at the next election.

Conservative MP Nick Boles warned: “The double whammy of stagnant wages and spiralling house prices has had a devastating effect on the ability of people in their 20s and 30s to buy their own home. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Russell Lynch: If the Tories can’t do housing, then what are they for? … Evening Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/russell-lynch-if-the-tories-can-t-do-housing-then-what-are-they-for-a3768386.html

Tory mantra has had it for decades that the best defence against socialism is a property-owning democracy.

That’s why today’s depressing report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies should have Conservative high command in such a blue funk. It contains the seeds of why they could easily lose the next election.

When only a quarter of 25 to 34-year-olds on middle incomes can afford a home — far fewer in the still-ludicrous London market — that’s the next generation of Tory voters going up in smoke. If you’re in your 30s, maybe with a young family, and stuck in the private rental market, why shouldn’t you listen to Jeremy Corbyn?
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Google News Search ‘Institute Fiscal Studies Housing’

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=institute+fiscal+studies+housing&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvubHn4q3ZAhWLx7wKHRZUAhMQ_AUICigB&biw=960&bih=408
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February 20, 2018 9:39am
- Harkman
  
  “To the right of Genghis Khan,” My arse no right winger praises the Labour more than you, you want state intervention in the property market, that is socialist Hugh.
  
  Anyway my data says that since Labour came in house prices are falling. New Zealanders are soon going to be poorer (with higher rates). Can you say, one term government?
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:48am
- AgentBallSack
  
  Je Suis reported your link whoring
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:02am
  - Gabby
    
    Vous etes un ancien sac des pois.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:01am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      AUCKLAND AUCTIONS … Sales rate of 20% at Barfoot & Thompson’s main Manukau auction last week, 48% on the North Shore | interest.co.nz
      
      https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92204/sales-rate-20-barfoot-thompsons-main-manukau-auction-last-week-48-north-shore
      
      Barfoot & Thompson achieved an overall sales rate of 39% at last week’s auctions.
      
      The agency marketed 145 properties for sale by auction and sold 57 of them, with most of the remaining 88 being passed in for sale by negotiation.
      
      The biggest auction of the week was at Manukau where 40 properties were scheduled for auction and sales were achieved on eight, giving a clearance rate of 20%. … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:19am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      See what you did Gobshite. Now we have to clean up his mess.
      
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      February 20, 2018 2:17pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        WERE WOMEN LIBERATED TO BECOME MORTGAGE SLAVES … REALLY ?
        
        A new wave of female employment is coming to the rescue of the Aussie economy … Domain Australia
        
        https://www.domain.com.au/money-markets/a-new-wave-of-female-employment-is-coming-to-the-rescue-of-the-aussie-economy-20180213-h0w0fa/
        
        Women in the Australian workforce are coming to the rescue of the economy, with official data showing a huge rise in employment numbers was significantly boosted by middle-aged women.
        
        Housing affordability issues could be a key trigger behind the jump in the number of women in full-time employment, according to a senior Commonwealth Bank economist Kristina Clifton, who notes a clear relationship between housing affordability and jobs figures.
        
        The Australian labour market soared in 2017, with 403,100 jobs created – almost four times as many as the previous year and the most on record – and the participation rate for women entering the workforce jumped 1.3 percentage points to a record high 60.6 per cent, compared with just 0.5 percentage points for men. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Dear Editor: ‘The bottom line is that many women are stressed and overworked’ – Independent.ie
        
        https://www.independent.ie/life/dear-editor-the-bottom-line-is-that-many-women-are-stressed-and-overworked-36503784.html
        
        Dear Editor: ‘The bottom line is that many women are stressed and overworked’
        
        A mother-of-two penned a letter to Independent.ie this week to express how she would readily give up her professional job to rear and bring up her kids, but she feels trapped by the cost of her mortgage repayments. The mum, who wishes to remain anonymous, says she feels that being a mother is, for her, the most important job in the world, but she feels that life in Ireland is such that both parents must work outside the home in order to make ends meet. Read her letter here: … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Mrs Doonan with her husband and two children seemed to live OK in Sydney 1966 … when housing was affordable …
        
        SYDNEY AUSTRALIA 1966 – YOUTUBE VIDEO
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR1CU8NjGW0
        
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        February 20, 2018 6:31pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Anything that ends with the answer “listen to Jeremy Corbyn” has to be a fucking stupid question. Unless it’s to do with how to be friends with ISIS or the IRA.
  I would rather listen to Celine Dion on shuffle and she makes me suicidal.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:15am
  - GoVege
    
    Celine has the same effect on me too, ABS. 🙂
    
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    February 20, 2018 12:04pm
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Celine’s lovely. 😉
      
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      February 20, 2018 3:50pm
dime

identity politics gives me the shits.

can you imagine, next election, it was collins v angry little.

how many blokes would change their vote, just so they could vote for a man over a woman?

i thought we were over this shit. we have had 2 female PM’s.

who actually gives a crap about what sex a politician is?
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February 20, 2018 9:41am
- stephieboy
  
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  dime ,
  
  “who actually gives a crap about what sex a politician is?”
  
  It seems to matter a lot to many rabid alt righters here especially if you mention the Jacinda and Helen word
  
  Sometimes I feel a wee bit sorry for our rabid alt right who simple don’t have a constituency and political support in this green and fair land and of ours .
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:59am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    >Jacinda Ardern
    >Helen Clark
    Only one of those is a politician. Go sit in the naughty corner you stupid boy.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:07am
  - dime
    
    hey fuckwit, they cop shit because they are socliaists.
    
    cunliffe and the other cocksuckers also coped it.
    
    nothing to do with being male or female
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:58am
    - stephieboy
      
      dime , by you and about 40 or so nutters on KB .
      
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      February 20, 2018 1:24pm
      - dime
        
        that made no sense. idiot.
        
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        February 20, 2018 2:02pm
      - Swifty
        
        Dime, he rarely does.
        
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        February 20, 2018 7:45pm
- Gabby
  
  dim’s gettin righteous
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:02am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Gobshite is getting pusillanimous.
    
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    February 20, 2018 3:54pm
Harkman

You know how Politicians solve national fertility problems in other countries? They get in people who call their sons Mohammed to solve it.
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February 20, 2018 9:51am
- stephieboy
  
  Harkman , not as simple as that . For example Catholic Fillipinos are known for their fertility & breeding capabilities .
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:27am
  - GoVege
    
    True SB, but they tend not to advocate killing people who don’t believe in the same sky fairy as them.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:43am
    - GoVege
      
      Only drug addicts…..
      
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      February 20, 2018 10:52am
Swifty

Rotorua mother(s) whacked out on drugs while kids sit nearby:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/101500057/state-of-children-found-in-synthetic-cannabis-house-revealed

I despair at times. What is the mindset of people who behave in this way?

We’ve got a rotten core of people in NZ. And it’s time we started showing some real tough love.
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February 20, 2018 9:55am
- dime
  
  yeah fucking gross.
  
  its only going to get worse as we approach 5th, 6th generation of welfare losers.
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:56am
  - MCos
    
    The situation is just as bad in Thailand and there is no welfare.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:02am
    - Swifty
      
      Yep, and I know there are no easy answers.
      
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      February 20, 2018 10:21am
      - GoVege
        
        The only answer is to challenge the sexist culture that treats women of Maori descent as slaves, sex objects, punchbags and baby-making machines, and maybe they’ll keep off the drugs.
        Not easy in these PC times.
        What is needed is for Maori leaders to urge their men to treat their women better and stop abandoning their children.
        Unfortunately they are all chauvinists too.
        Any Maori male who doesn’t abuse his woman is probably regarded as a wimp not worthy of respect.
        
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        February 20, 2018 11:05am
      - MCos
        
        A wee story that may be of interest.
        A couple of years ago we were staying with the Thai in laws for a couple of days upcountry and this particular night a bunch of relies came round for dinner.
        Field rat was on the menu, but that’s by the by.
        Around midnight after I’d grown tired of listening to half cut locals belting out karaoke songs I went to sleep.
        I found out next day that a young guy crazy on ‘yaba’ came along and demanded money from his mum. Yelling & screaming & carrying on. Eventually she gave him some to make him go away. Next day he apologized to her . . . .
        I’ve met this kid. He’s a nice guy. He brought the family up to Bangkok when his sister graduated from university.
        Currently he’s in prison.
        
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        February 20, 2018 1:27pm
    - dime
      
      low IQ shit hole.
      
      lets aim higher than comparing ourselves to them
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:00am
      - MCos
        
        “low IQ shit hole.”
        What do you base that on?
        
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        February 20, 2018 1:50pm
  - RalphT
    
    I wouldn’t worry about it dime. You’ll note that the offences took place in August; since then we have had a change of government and such things no long occur in Aotearoa. Like poverty they have been banished.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:12am
- Happychappy
  
  Swifty and Labour, Greens are are about to embark on making the welfare system fairer for NZ’ers so they can give people like this more money that won’t reach their children.
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:09am
  - RalphT
    
    And rightly so. The kids would probably just spend it on sugary drinks.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:59am
- Gravelroad
  
  In a article published last weekend, relatives of P addicted adults with small children told of their efforts to try to help these poor kids. They said they had not been able to achieve much and then went on to blame government agencies for not doing enough.
  If P addicts won’t take the advice of their own close relatives about endangering their children through illegal drug use, why on earth would they take notice of the state welfare agencies??
  I would have some respect for Ms Ardern if she stood up and told these self absorbed and self indulgent users to pull their heads in and put their children first. If Ms Ardern is so inspirational as we are constantly told that she is, let’s see if she can personally make any difference there and do us all a favour.
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:16am
  - Gabby
    
    They’d take notice quick enough if their kids were lifted and their payments stopped gravelrash.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:05am
- ex-golfer
  
  Don’t you know its all been fixed?
  Jacinda has eliminated such things in NZ – now it’s on to world peace and free almond milk for everyone.
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:43am
  - rangitoto
    
    Taxinda will make sure these people will have plenty of cash to buy more drugs.
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:51am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Cuck Gaylord will be pleased. No more smidges or points, an ounce of Pure every time now!
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:07am
      - Gabby
        
        cuck soccer ballbag
        
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        February 20, 2018 11:34am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Coprophagist Gobshite.
        
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        February 20, 2018 3:58pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      “Taxinda will make sure these people will have plenty of cash to buy more drugs.” And to feed the dogs they can now keep in state homes.
      
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      February 20, 2018 3:04pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    To me, this is a human rights issue for the defenceless children of selfish drug addicts.
    Why should children be born addicted to P? Or synthetic cannabis?
    Ok, these children might be put into state care, but there seems to be no moral or legal consequences for the people who caused their pain.
    Ms Ardern made a great play about the human and civil rights of the Manus Island men.
    I want to see her use the same rhetoric on parents who abuse their children here. She won’t though because illegal drug use still has that little glimmer of entitled sophistication to many of the people with whom she might associate.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:15am
    - GoVege
      
      The truth is these excuses for parents are actually STEALING the money the generous taxpayers provide to look after their children, not buy booze, drugs and fags for themselves.
      Many of them only bring these poor kids into the world for the cash they generate.
      If we paid them a more generous sickness benefit and paid them to use contraception, they might stop producing kids.
      
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      February 20, 2018 12:03pm
  - geoff3012
    
    I’d like to know where my fucking house is ….
    
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    February 20, 2018 12:26pm
- kowtow
  
  But drugs are good .
  
  This coalition will legalise , normalise this sort of thing.
  
  Now meth is overtaking ‘harmless’ cannabis as the most abused drug in this country.
  
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  February 20, 2018 12:02pm
AgentBallSack

James Shaw – Minister of Climate Change.
“We are going to see lots more of this type of weather and its going to be worse.”
Never mind that there are less cyclones than normal for this time of year – it’s affected us so it must be bad. Imagine making money because weather changes, I want in on that ~~con~~ lark!
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February 20, 2018 10:05am
- kowtow
  
  It’s 12 C here in Dunners today, the height of summer, when the average temp for this time of year is 20 C.
  
  So much for all that warming they’re lying about.
  
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  February 20, 2018 12:03pm
Swifty

Hey Stephieboy, Reloaders in Onehunga have a Windham’s AR15 for sale.

A Category.

https://www.reloaders.co.nz/shop/Firearms/Centerfire+Rifles/223+Remington/Windham+Weaponry+AR15+20+Government.html

What say we buy it and I’ll take you out to the NZDA range in Riverhead for a shot?

How about I pick you up in Mt Eden around lunchtime?

And as an added bonus, I’ve got some new targets we can use too: 🙂

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/734297914214138369/
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February 20, 2018 10:32am
- stephieboy
  
  Swifty , not quite the same as this Florida Gun Bazaar .
  
  https://www.shootingsportsretailer.com/2016/01/06/will-banned-next-gun-show/
  
  I guarantee that you’ll be required to buy that AR15 with ,
  
  1 Police issued Gun licence.
  2 With appropriate police endorsement.
  
  And myself with the same !
  
  Its that simple !
  
  And this for some thought ,
  
  How Australia and Britain Tackled Gun Violence
  
  “ President Obama, visibly angry and frustrated, made his 15th public statement in response to a mass shooting on Thursday night, saying it’s past time for Americans to stop viewing gun violence as routine and take action. He asserted that other nations have already proven that stricter laws can stop mass gun deaths, like Thursday’s fatal shooting of ten people in Oregon. “We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings,” he said. “Friends of ours, allies of ours — Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it….”
  
  http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/how-australia-and-britain-tackled-gun-violence.html
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:45am
  - Swifty
    
    Why would an ‘appropriate police endorsement’ be required to buy an ‘A Category’ firearm in NZ pray tell?
    
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    February 20, 2018 10:59am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Obama was and is a duplicitous lying piece of feces.
      
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      February 20, 2018 4:02pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Just because Australians rolled over like pussies after the false flag attack at Port Arthur, doesn’t mean Americans will. The way the Democrats are acting is exactly why the 2nd amendment exists you stupid boy.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:05am
    - stephieboy
      
      ABS , false flag attack ? Like Pizzagate , Sandy Hook ? etc
      
      Go and see a shrink ASAP !
      
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      February 20, 2018 3:54pm
DifferentPerspective

The left & MSM think some women MUSTN’T be heard

MSM blackout on the growing 120db movement in Europe – it’s been running for more than a year now and how many KB regulars have heard about it?

This fairly reasonable seeming video got banned from youtube for breaching community standards – hmm!

We’re being lied to by the MSM and the left, all day, every day.
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February 20, 2018 10:39am
Swifty

Hey Stephie – or we could go for this:

https://www.reloaders.co.nz/shop/Firearms/Shotguns/Semi+Auto/Saiga+12g+semi+auto+shotgun.html

…in preparation for the times when the dead will walk the earth….

🙂
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February 20, 2018 10:39am
- stephieboy
  
  Swifty , and this too as our country’s official gun ? ,
  
  “Sniper rifle becomes official state symbol in Tennessee,”
  
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) — The sound of a cocking gun is one you hear frequently at Harvey’s Pawn and Pistol in North Knoxville, but one in particular sounds like sweet music to Tennessee gun lovers.
  It’s a .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifle given the title as the official gun of the state by legislators.
  
  You might think the title should be a Flintlock like Davey Crockett used, but state legislators overwhelming thought otherwise. They gave the nod to this homegrown beast of a gun.
  
  The Barrett sniper rifle was born and bred in Murfreesboro, Tenn. by Ronnie Barrett. Its roots began from John Moses Browning in the early 1900s.
  Harvey’s Pawn and Pistol says they just might have the only one in town.
  In the last few years, this 40-pound gun was used in the war on terror against the Taliban and in the Gulf War. It’s also made its way into movies and TV shows from Mission Impossible to CSI New York.
  
  And now officially, it’s in the history books as Tennessee’s state gun.
  
  http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Sniper-rifle-becomes-new-state-symbol-in-Tennessee-370197741.html
  
  You deluded fool !
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:51am
  - Swifty
    
    What are you on about now? Deluded about what?
    
    How the Americans organise themselves is up to them.
    
    All I’m interested in is what time I should pick you up so we can grab that AR15 today. You know the A Category one, that we require no license endorsement for?
    
    1pm?
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:03am
    - Gabby
      
      Are you a piss poor shot sweaty. How are sooky and stinky.
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:10am
      - Swifty
        
        My shooting is adquate thanks – and you’re still a cocksucker.
        
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        February 20, 2018 11:13am
      - Gabby
        
        Go to sooky and stinky for your relief sweaty you odoriferous old onanist you. Adequate means you haven’t managed to shoot yourself recently right?
        
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        February 20, 2018 11:36am
      - lofty
        
        What a pleasant individual you are, your parents must be so proud of you.
        
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        February 20, 2018 5:43pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Swifty , I’m sure crime and gangs would be very interested in your offer !
      
      “ …To obtain an AR-15, buyers must have a standard, current firearms licence and an approved police order form.
      
      An ‘E Category’ endorsement is needed if the magazine – which feeds ammunition into the chamber of the firearm – holds more than seven rounds. “
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11661462
      
      This is NZ not gun totting NRA USA.
      
      Get used to it !
      
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      February 20, 2018 12:12pm
      - Swifty
        
        Hahahahah! You just don’t get it do you. Day after day after day you come here and embarrass yourself.
        
        From the very article you link to:
        
        “Currently, the standard AR-15 firearm can be owned by anyone with a Category A firearm licence.”
        
        That has been my main point all along. The very same point you refuse to concede and now you post an article confirming it! Jeez you’re slow.
        
        And, the Herald article is only partially right – any of the following features require an E Category endorsement:
        
        Folding or telescopic butt
        Magazine that holds, or is detachable and has the appearance of holding, more than 15 cartridges (for .22 rimfire)
        Magazine that holds more than 7 cartridges, or is detachable and has the appearance of holding more than 10 cartridges (for other than a .22 rimfire)
        Bayonet lug
        Pistol grip as defined by regulation
        Flash suppressor
        
        Give it up man, you’re way out of your depth.
        
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        February 20, 2018 12:34pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Swifty , my point is you cannot go into a NZ gun store and casually buy it over the counter like you could do at a US Florida style gun bazaar.
        
        Happy AR 15 fancy gun toting in your local community or downtown Auckland .
        
        You wouldn’t dare , I bet !
        
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        February 20, 2018 1:21pm
      - Swifty
        
        You absolutely can “go into a NZ gun store and casually buy it over the counter”.
        
        What do you not understand about this? It’s perfectly simple and outlined in the very Herald article you posted.
        
        What is your malfunction?
        
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        February 20, 2018 2:00pm
JasonJohns

Our pm has chosen to insult our most important trading partner by asking questions about a break-in at the home fo a whingeing academic
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/02/19/89724/draft-brady
Critics of China in NZ are endangering our economy. Why is the PM indulging them?
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February 20, 2018 10:39am
- Gabby
  
  It’s most concerning that she hasn’t taken the hint. If the police do their jobs properly someone might have to claim diplomatic immunity.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:11am
  - JasonJohns
    
    If academics don’t want their homes tampered with there’s a simple choice – don’t wage hate campaigns against china. plenty of other nations toc riticise. free speech has limits.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:14am
    - Swifty
      
      Heh. Excellent.
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:16am
    - kowtow
      
      If you think that freedom of speech and academic research as well as the rule of law can be given a low priority ,basically that our constitution , so long in the making and so hard fought for ,can be rubbished in favour of a trade deal with a dictatorial communist state then perhaps you should consider returning to the “People’s Republic” for whom you are shilling so hard for.
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:45am
    - stephieboy
      
      JasonJohns , I thought the yellow peril would not relate to your ideals of white Kulture .
      
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      February 20, 2018 12:14pm
Surely Knott

Kauri Dieback closures to escalate in Auckland. Like the climate change thing if it wasn’t linked so close to money and politics we might have a clearer look at the science. The latest today is the government “may close all Kauri areas by Control Area Notice.” not just the Waitakeres. Really, for how long? Is this Agenda 21 and just a good reason to restrict us from the forest? It’s a water mould and the most serious areas of Kauri Dieback are on private property will private property be the next restriction? Will they covenant private property with forest? When will they review the ban? And what will the criteria be? Is this a push by Maori for the return of land? Is this a media push by council before they introduce the .9 percent rate targeted rate increase for the Kauri Dieback Disease? Will this fund be used for sensible things like science, boardwalks, and drainage to fight the disease or will it be more green party groups masquerading as charity raising awareness of the disease and their party?
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February 20, 2018 10:47am
- Gabby
  
  Why do you hate the kauri surly knutt?
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:13am
  - Surely Knott
    
    I don’t hate the trees at all Gabby. Just don’t trust the extremist political activists involved. And don’t like the way our environmental funds have been spent in Auckland which has benefitted the environment very little.
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:21am
- rangitoto
  
  The disease is apparently spread by contaminated soil and water flowing through it. So any trees downhill from an infected tree are going to get exposed. Birds, rodents, possums and pigs will be spreading soil around, so stopping humans going there is not going to help much. Also the animals will be spreading the disease to areas where most human visitors don’t go (ie most of the humans go along the cleared tracks)
  
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  February 20, 2018 12:00pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  It’s a total waste of money. Put effort into identifying or creating resistant trees, everything else is futile over long term. (same as has been done for Dutch Elm Disease worldwide)
  
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  February 20, 2018 1:27pm
Swifty

Hey Stephie, I know you’re a firearms expert but you really shouldn’t molest the Western Springs ducks in this way:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/101588747/get-back-inside-armed-police-in-auckland-suburb-of-mt-albert

And if you’re ever short of a feed just look me up.
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February 20, 2018 10:54am
- Gabby
  
  Could you hit the wide side of a barn sweaty?
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:13am
  - Swifty
    
    Hmmm, possibly.
    
    But if there was a gloryhole on one of the walls you’d hit it perfectly ten out of ten times wouldn’t you?
    
    Isn’t that right Gobbler?
    
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    February 20, 2018 11:18am
    - Gabby
      
      Would you be using it at the time sweaty? That would make a big difference.
      A gloryhole in a barn sounds a bit johnsboy sweaty, you been keeping low company again?
      
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      February 20, 2018 11:39am
Manolo

Mamma Merkel 2.0:
https://www.thelocal.de/20180219/top-official-in-merkels-cdu-to-step-down-party-sources

The popular female premier of tiny Saarland state is set to take over as secretary general of Angela Merkel’s conservative party, sources said Monday, fuelling speculation the chancellor is lining up her potential successor.
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February 20, 2018 10:57am
Manolo

Imagine the crisis, the street riots, if this were to happen in South Auckland:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/02/19/kfc-chicken-shortage-u-k-restaurants-close-amid-delivery-mishaps/350698002/

The fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken is engulfed in a crisis in the U.K., where about two-thirds of its restaurants are temporarily closed amid delivery challenges.
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February 20, 2018 11:00am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , KFC is also a Japanese delicacy especially on Christmas day ., They too may not take kindly to delivery issues .
  
  http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161216-why-japan-celebrates-christmas-with-kfc
  
  Be careful , Stars and Stripes lives in South Auckland . He /she may not like your insinuation .
  Remember too your dark skin will help you to blend in there .
  
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  February 20, 2018 12:20pm
  - Manolo
    
    Yes, I could easily pass as a local in civilised South Auckland. 🙂
    
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    February 20, 2018 12:57pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      You cheeky darkie!
      
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      February 20, 2018 2:00pm
      - sooty
        
        KFC is also a Labour party delicacy used in South Auckland to bribe voters.
        
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        February 20, 2018 9:00pm
cmm

What’s Genter doing other than getting knocked up?

The road toll is now on track to be the worst since 1995. That’s a long time. We didn’t even have the internet back then (outside one or two universities etc).

Seems this job’s a little bit more complicated than just starting another conversation.
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February 20, 2018 11:37am
- rangitoto
  
  She could ban cars, trucks and motorcycles. Isn’t that Green party policy?
  
  Only the party elite should be allowed such things.
  
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  February 20, 2018 12:18pm
- Poppa
  
  Well it was all the Governments fault last year
  
  Perhaps it is a bit harder than she thought, cancelling new roads clearly isn’t the answer
  
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  February 20, 2018 1:36pm
Manolo

Yes, the same “concerned’ Canadians should receive the undesirables:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-israel-eritrean-refugees-1.4538525

Canada is opposed to Israel’s plan to deport or imprison thousands of African asylum seekers and has officially registered its concerns.

A majority of the 37,000 citizens of Sudan and Eritrea living in Israel are being ordered out of the country beginning next month. The Israel government has started distributing notices advising asylum seekers they have 60 days to leave for a “safe” African country with the help of a plane ticket and a few thousand dollars.

If they don’t go voluntarily, they face indefinite imprisonment.

“Canada does not support policies of mass deportations of asylum seekers. The rights of asylum seekers and refugees are laid out in the Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees, of which Israel is a signatory,” said Adam Austen, spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland.
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February 20, 2018 12:44pm
- kowtow
  
  “Despite its reputation as a haven for refugees, Canada has been deporting North Korean asylum seekers who came to the country through South Korea.
  
  Nearly 2,000 have been kicked out of the country since 2013 because the government says they lied on their asylum application forms. Another 150 Koreans are under imminent threat of deportation. ”
  
  So they lied . But then these days most “refugees” come through third countries so aren’t refugees. All those “refugees” in Israel would likely have come through Jordan or Egypt. Let them stay there.
  
  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/canada-deports-north-korean-asylum-seekers-180218144353430.html
  
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  February 20, 2018 2:09pm
MCos

Interesting story I came across today.
Bloke terrorizes some people in a church by brandishing a gun. People running in all directions. Someone rings the police, but in the meantime one of the congregation wrestles the gun off the bloke and for his troubles gets shot by the police who arrive shortly thereafter and think he is the bad guy.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2018/02/student-stops-church-shooting-shot-cops-didnt-hear/
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February 20, 2018 2:06pm
MCos

Another interesting story.
Young bloke takes five bullets in the Texas school shooting while protecting his mates by holding a door closed.
He survived, but is relying on charity to pay for the medical bills . . . . .
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February 20, 2018 2:12pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Lucky for him all the dreamers qualify for Obama Care. Heros, not so much.
  
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  February 20, 2018 3:21pm
  - stephieboy
    
    ABS, the deep thoughts of a rabid altrighter . Little wonder you remain on the extreme lunatic fringe of our green and fair land .
    
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    February 20, 2018 3:28pm
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy, forever repeating the same 100 words,
      
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      February 20, 2018 3:33pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Softail , worth repeating . It merely reinforces the point that the rabid alt right like you occupy the extreme lunatic margins of our society .
        
        Head case stuff .
        
        http://brainvacation.info/album/head-cases
        
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        February 20, 2018 3:36pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      I am kind of chuffed you accuse me of “deep thinking”. It’s okay to be white BTW.
      
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      February 20, 2018 5:18pm
calendar girl

“Uber driver shots customer”

“Uber Eats driver in US faces murder charge after shooting customer after delivery his meal.”

Total gibberish on the ‘front page’ of the Stuff website at around 2:15pm today.

It helps to confirm the belief that some of these ‘news’ people have never been near a school English lesson.
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February 20, 2018 2:22pm
- MCos
  
  The problem seems to be Stuff doesn’t employ subeditors to correct simple typos.
  If they do, maybe they shouldn’t!
  
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  February 20, 2018 2:38pm
Manolo

Putting the onus on the incompetent messiah:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/19/trump-blames-obama-again-not-doing-enough-russian-meddling/352385002/
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February 20, 2018 2:46pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , your idol is always in victim mode . Blaming someone else such as blaming the Russian shooting for the Florida school shooting ,
  
  https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/18/17024862/trump-russia-school-shooting-fbi-investigation
  
  LOL
  
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  February 20, 2018 3:41pm
  - fernglas
    
    SB, engage your brain before your fingers. It was the Russian investigation, not shooting.
    
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    February 20, 2018 3:55pm
    - stephieboy
      
      ferngals , correct ! It should be “ investigation “ not shooting .
      
      Happy ?
      
      “
      
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      February 20, 2018 4:09pm
      - fernglas
        
        I’d be happier if you spelled my name properly, but hey, the old brain/fingers thing struck again, didn’t it?
        
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        February 20, 2018 8:55pm
stephieboy

calendar girl , which one was it ? Numerous searches bring up nothing .

Another of your idle and pointless posts ?
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February 20, 2018 3:33pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Stephieboy:
  
  Numerous searches bring up nothing .
  
  You’re not very resourceful are you? It’s not hard to find the article that Calendar Girl referred to.
  
  Another of your idle and pointless posts ?
  
  Wow – have you told Maggy that Calendar Girl is now your preferred target of abuse? It must be time for an intervention? The St Albans roster shows that you’re on morning tea duty this weekend. What can the busload of hungry Kiwibloggers expect to be served?
  
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  February 20, 2018 4:13pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Black, two spoons of coffee. One of sugar.
    
    Gluten free cookies please,
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:11pm
softail 1450

septicboy ,F O.
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February 20, 2018 3:35pm
Shaun the Sheep

Please excuse me while I have a rant about our noddy education system:
A grand has come home from school today after being subjected to a Financial Literacy module at primary school. Has sod all idea what a bank account is for, and interest means ‘if something is interesting’. They’ve spent the day trying to design a business plan FFS.

This reminds me of a generation ago when the children were at intermediate school doing Food Technology. There was some dreadful nonsense about designing their own baking mix product because they needed to be industry-oriented.

In times gone by, kids were sent off to practical workshops to learn practical life skills like boiling an egg, sewing on a button, using a wood saw and a screwdriver.

In the struggle to make themselves relevant ‘professionals’ the education system now tries to foot it with vocational training and is failing dismally.

I remember a school open evening where the principal lectured the parents for about half an hour on ‘what it was like for our kids out in the real world’ FFS what did he think we did all day?

I am sick to death at the poor standard of literacy and numeracy that kids are pouring out of our schools with while the little smart arses know 4/5 of absolutely SFA but have had their self-esteems so mollycoddled that they are unteachable.

When my own children were at school, I regarded school as a baby-sitting service. At the end of the day I undid the damage and taught them something useful. A generation later I’m thinking that home schooling is the answer.
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February 20, 2018 4:15pm
JasonJohns

NEW ZEALAND – IT WAS CHINA AND NOT THE RUSSIANS WHO FIDDLED WITH OUR ELECTIONS??? Huh

The Prime Minister today weighed in on the mysterious case of the professor and the break-ins, instructing the nation’s intelligence agencies to look into claims made by a Christchurch-based China expert.
Last week the Herald broke news University of Canterbury academic Anne-Marie Brady told an Australian parliamentary committee she linked her work to a spate of recent burglaries and her sources on the Chinese mainland had been interrogated by state security officials.
Brady gained international profile in September after publishing research detailing the extent of China’s influence campaigns in New Zealand focusing on a nexus of political donations, appointment of directorships and information management.
Brady told the Australian parliament her office on campus was broken into in December, and last week her home was burgled – with computers, phones and USB storage devices stolen with other obvious valuables ignored by thieves.
The latter event was preceded by an anonymous letter detailing push-back against those not toeing the official line out of Beijing and warning: “You are next.”
The matter is being investigated by the police.
At her post-Cabinet press conference today the Prime Minister said she first became aware of the affair through media reports and expressed alarm over Brady’s claims.
“I think anyone would be concerned [about] any criminal act if it were in response to the work she’s doing,” Ardern said.
She said as Minister responsible for national security and intelligence she was following up the matter and would “certainly be asking some questions”.
Approached for comment today, a spokesperson for the Security Intelligence Service – the agency responsible for preserving national security domestically – reiterated they did not comment on individual cases.
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February 20, 2018 4:19pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jason Johns , why not do something more useful by peeing on this alleged Celtic NZ Obelisk in South Auckland ?
  
  A stonehenge for racists !
  
  http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/honouring-obelisk.html
  
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  February 20, 2018 4:55pm
  - JasonJohns
    
    Most commenters on Kiwiblog will be repulsed by the crude desecration of the Bombay Obelisk a site that is 10,000 years old and is regarded as a sacred part of their heritage by many white NZers. It is our equivalent of the pyramids, a monument to European ingenuity
    
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    February 20, 2018 5:19pm
    - stephieboy
      
      JasonJohns , “many white NZers ‘?
      
      Like who for example and which Scallops ?
      
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      February 20, 2018 5:25pm
      - JasonJohns
        
        I think it is pretty well established by the Kiwiblog community that whites are the indigenous people of NZ. Commenters ere hve tried to educate about this over and over. The Bombay Obelisk was the work of ancient Celts. It is 10,000 years old and a national monument. Until the pc multiculti crowd took over schools in the 1970s it was celebrated as a monument and in every school history book. Now alas enemies of the white race can urinate on it with impunity as your link shows
        
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        February 20, 2018 5:38pm
      - Jack5
        
        “I think it is pretty well established by the Kiwiblog community that” …. JasonJohns is the living ghost of Kea.
        
        Hi, old parrot!
        
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        February 20, 2018 8:53pm
JasonJohns

China is the new power – and it is going to rid the west of democracy

The hesitancy across many of the key institutions of Western higher education – from publishers and universities to governments themselves – about confronting the new assertiveness of China perhaps signals a failure to comprehend the full extent of the challenge that it poses. The “New Era” of global expansion that President Xi and Minister Chen envision is one in which the subservience of freedom of expression to the demands of the state is a fundamental ideological tenet. If this ideology is no longer to be contained within the borders of China, the game is dramatically changing. As Jonathan Sullivan, director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham, recently tweeted: “I’m afraid we [in the West] are totally unprepared for the export of Chinese government ways and means”.

What, then, could prepare us? First, a wider and deeper understanding of both the Chinese government’s global ambitions and the strategies to achieve them is urgently needed. This must acknowledge that China now sees itself – and represents itself to its population – as a key global player with its own legitimate agenda for shaping global affairs. This agenda does not accept the terms and conditions of liberal democracy.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/how-can-scholars-tackle-rise-chinese-censorship-west#survey-answer
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February 20, 2018 5:17pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘China is the new power – and it is going to rid the west of democracy’
  
  I get the feeling you approve or are you being satirical/ironic to draw attention to the obvious but ignored problem?
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:39pm
JasonJohns

yet another academic whining because free speech isn’t some sacred value when you have trade to consider criticise another country not china

Prominent Charles Sturt University author and ethicist Professor Clive Hamilton says his book exposing the Chinese Communist party’s activities in Australia will still be published, despite Allen & Unwin cancelling plans to print it at the 11th hour.

On Monday, Hamilton revealed legal advice that the Chinese government may sue for defamation had spooked Allen & Unwin. The book, called Silent Invasion, is a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese government’s methods of asserting influence in Australia – not only in media and politics, as had been previously reported, but in a range of others areas.

Australia unsure how ‘assertive’ China will act, Penny Wong says
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“Last week Allen & Unwin did express some legal concerns but despite that I thought they were resolved to publish it, so it was a complete shock,” Hamilton told Guardian Australia.

“The Chinese government’s campaign is far more extensive than ever previously understood. If you’re going to analyse how Beijing is influencing Australian society and politics you have to analyse that activity of individuals and name names, and that’s what I’ve done. It’s a factual book with 1,100 footnotes and it has been meticulously researched
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/13/author-vows-book-exposing-chinese-influence-will-go-ahead-after-publisher-pulls-out
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February 20, 2018 5:21pm
- stephieboy
  
  I suspect Clive Hamilton is getting a tad paranoid and delusional rather like you.
  
  https://qz.com/1127831/clive-hamilton-says-his-book-silent-invasion-is-being-censored-in-australia-by-the-chinese-government/
  
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  February 20, 2018 5:26pm
- nasska
  
  Only the blind won’t see that China’s influence is increasing. It is fortunate that so far it is through the use of the chequebook rather than guns. We could have sheltered under the protection of the USA but the socialists don’t approve.
  
  But if another superpower is going to take over New Zealand let it be China…….anything is preferable to Islam.
  
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  February 20, 2018 5:32pm
- UpandComer
  
  So you like footnotes and quotes that reach politically incorrect conclusions. Then you must love the culture of critique.
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:35pm
rangitoto

I had to drive up Hobson St earlier this afternoon on the way to visit a supplier. I noticed a bunch of vagrants camped out in front of a building. I was surprised because I thought Taxinda had fixed that.
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February 20, 2018 5:39pm
JasonJohns

Yes China will sort out our problems. trump has pointed out that they have power and don’t tolerate opposition. they get things done. National has built a good relationship with China recognising that some subservient role for NZ is better than the alternative. now ardern helped by a few academics is undoing all that good work, in te name of ‘freedom of speech’. If an academic doesn’t want to get her house turned over she needn’t poke at the chinese bear. Just criticise another country…not your master!
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February 20, 2018 5:40pm
Komata

In respect of Communist Chinese influence over NZ , might I suggest that this is one if those ‘in plain sight’ situations, and that Helen Klarks FreeTrade Treaty was but one stage of a very determined and relentless push to gain control of our nation. Like it or not, all recent Chinese arrivals in NZ are here with the approval of Beijing; it can be no other way. These recent immigrants have been ‘allowed’ to leave China, but be very certain that there will be family at home who can be leveraged-on should the newly-arrived ones decide to try and ‘escape’. Such is the Chinese way. The unfortunate thing is that by capitulating in such matters as the Craffer Farms deal, the Nats showed their weakness and readiness to appease and this was duly noted and exploited. Beijing are no fools. They have a growing population and need to feed them. Dairy products are an essential part of that feeding and as New Zealand is arguably the world’s most efficient producer of such products, it was inevitable that efforts should be made to ensure that we become part of the feeding system. That NZ had previously performed a similar role for the UK only served to emphasise the point. With that in mind,various actions were subsequently taken, influences were extended and niave and stupid Kiwicpoliticians entrapped – all in the name of ‘improving economic relations’. What did not help was that NZ had been cast adrift by ‘Mummy’ when the UK was enticed into the EU, and as a result (and in respect of markets for our otherwise unsaleable dairy products), we were an orphan looking for a kind face and someone to care. Bejing was that face, and the NZ politicians willingly accepted its ‘lurv’. The result? Our country is now being rapidly ‘China-fied’ and we are now effectively the ‘Dairy’ division / colony of China-inc. The NZ politicians are aware of this but would probably argue that, economically, there was little choice; despite political ideology, the need to generate an income (any income) is always the ultimate imperative, especially when we are only very, very, small. Sadly, times have changed, and, as in Zim, we are once again a colony. If we ‘behave’ things will go well, if not, and those in Beijing are displeased, it will be interesting to see what will happen. The current NZ PM,’s comments about the academic burglary will of course be being noted. We live in interesting times. Mandarin-language lessons anyone?
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February 20, 2018 7:18pm
- nasska
  
  You’re on to it Komata. The next stage in our makeover to China Dairy Div. Inc will happen quite soon.
  
  Traditionally, turning mud into milk was done on small family owned farms. In the name of efficiency those properties have been amalgamated into huge agri businesses, highly leveraged, thus susceptible to world price fluctuations & interest rates.
  
  Downturns in the past have seen lesser able farmers replaced by those who do it better. The next downturn will see massive landholdings & herds for sale with price tags in the tens of millions…..way out of the reach of individual buyers.
  
  Guess which nation’s buyers will be taking part in the mortgagee auctions?
  
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  February 20, 2018 7:49pm
  - Komata
    
    nasska
    
    Thank you. Something I didn’t note in my post is that, despite apearances to the contrary ALL and every China-based business in NZ is directly controlled from Beijing; they are extensions of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), and ONLY operate with their approval / input.
    
    And in respect of the ‘immediate’ future (and based on the previously-mentioned Zimbabwean model) I would suggest that we will see increasing numbers of Chinese farm labourers arriving here ‘to gain experience’ on such places as the Craffar group, to the eventual exclusion of Kiwi workers. The ‘visitors’ will not however rotate back to the mainland, but will remain on site; ‘Colonisation by quiet presence’ if you will. Kiwi pollies will ignore this of course. Various excuses will however be made by the self-same politicians when this ‘exclusion’ becomes glaringly obvious, but ultimately nothing will be done and each ‘unit’ will become ‘Little Shanghai’ and operate ONLY under CCP administration; complete with dipomatic immunity should things go ‘wrong’ and the ‘inmates’ attempt to escape.
    
    Finally, I was told many years ago that Communist China has perfected the art of colonisation without war; it does this in two ways. (1) By lending the nation concerned so much money that it becomes trapped by virtue of beign unable to service its debt and (2) It merely buys politicians who will do its bidding and replaces them when said politicians become too greedy.
    
    To date, nothing I have seen in the South Pacific, Australia or New Zealand over the last 40-odd years gives any indication that this policy has been changed.
    
    As already noted, we live in interesting times…
    
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    February 20, 2018 8:14pm
    - kowtow
      
      We’ve been sold out by both major parties.
      
      ‘Revealed: China’s network of influence in New Zealand’
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11924169
      
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      February 20, 2018 8:42pm
      - stephieboy
        
        kowtow, I thought MSM Herald was a no go area for the all right ?
        
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        February 20, 2018 9:00pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Back to tagging people with an abusive term I see Stephen, except it’s alt-right not all right, alright?
        
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        February 20, 2018 9:12pm
    - Jack5
      
      Komata, your:
      
      …The ‘visitors’ will not however rotate back to the mainland, but will remain on site; ‘Colonisation by quiet presence’ if you will. Kiwi pollies will ignore this of course. …
      
      That’s the toehold. Chain migration soon multiplies the presence.
      
      Of the Chinese farm workers “gaining experience”, it’s interesting to note that Anne-Marie Brady, the Christchurch academic who specialises on Chinese international influence, in November outlined aspects of the Beijing presence in NZ, including:
      
      … near-space rocket launch staged from a Shanghai Pengxin dairy farm near Ashburton.
      
      Brady’s office and home have recently been burgled, and the Prime Minister, Ms Ardern, has ordered an investigation into this.
      
      It’s worth reading:
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/99121572/academic-annemarie-brady-confronts-the-power-of-china
      
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      February 20, 2018 8:47pm
      - Jack5
        
        Meanwhile, the US has blocked the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange to Chinese interests.
        
        http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/19/why-chinas-takeover-chicago-stock-exchange-would-have-been-very-bad-thing.html
        
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        February 20, 2018 10:05pm
Hollyfield

This hot weather must be getting to me more than I thought. I just screamed abuse at the lovely man on the phone, when all he was trying to do was reassure me that he’s not part of a scam, he is genuinely from Windows.
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February 20, 2018 7:25pm
- Jack5
  
  Hollyfield, he’ll be the one with a Pakistani accent who I told a week or two ago to head for a nuclear shelter because the Indians were launching nuclear strikes on Pakistan.
  
  Worked. A quick curse, and he was off.
  
  Probably away to organise a rort visa from NZ to join Stephiestani Trolls Inc.
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:07pm
- rangitoto
  
  The latest bunch say they are from Spark.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:14pm
UpandComer

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/2-high-level-govt-child-trafficking-rings-busted-no-american-media-coverage/

I wonder if Clark knew about this in India? To be fair it’s unlikely. Wow. These charities really are on the job. It happened at the UN at scale. Happened in England via Rotherham, and you’ll never guess which trafficking charity Meghan Markle was shilling, and it’s happened in India. Couldnt possibly happen in America lol.
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February 20, 2018 8:00pm
wiseowl

The Bolt Report compulsory viewing tonight at nine.
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February 20, 2018 8:28pm
- stephieboy
  
  wiseowl , Barnaby Joyce comes under the spot light ??
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:58pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e06_1519057581

A Word To The Google Feminists
This video was removed by YouTube two hours after it was uploaded. Google “feminists” don’t like criticism.

German women have had enough. Please share their video widely.
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February 20, 2018 8:43pm
- stephieboy
  
  Rodney Randall,
  
  Google /You Tube Censorship ??
  
  A Word To The Google Feminists – (Pat Condell) mirrored video
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PooijguhXJA
  
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  February 20, 2018 8:55pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    That is a new vid Mr T.
    
    “The original video was removed for a “hate speech violation”!!…That doesn’t make any sense to me at all.!.!….Hate speech, seriously??”
    
    Enjoy and many thanks for reposting the youtube link!
    
    Duckduckgo for the win! Unfiltered search results.
    
    F#$K google
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:04pm
    - stephieboy
      
      It seems to me the exact same video. At what point does Google edit it ?
      
      I believe Google have been generally pretty generous towards Pat Condell.
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:17pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Upticked. Thanks Ralph.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:04pm
AgentBallSack

Be Gay, get AIDS.
Suckers. Sleep with 500 – 1,000 people you deserve aids or syphilis. Sick fucks.
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February 20, 2018 8:53pm
- stephieboy
  
  ABS, surely you must mutter to yourself , there but for the grace of God go I ?
  
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  February 20, 2018 9:14pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    No mate, I don’t go out pozzing up neg assholes. Gays brought it on themselves. And now we are paying for their sickness. I dont give a shit if you’re gay or straight but the fact is they indulge in risky deviant behaviour and expect the rest of us to finance it. Treat them like smokers. If you smoke cocks, you pay for your own healthcare, taxed to the hilt until theyre bleeding from the arse. Just as we expect smokers to pay more than their fair share. Fuck ’em.
    
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    February 20, 2018 9:19pm
    - stephieboy
      
      ABS , there you must feel so much better after such a rant and rave !
      
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      February 20, 2018 9:21pm
      - Rodney Randall
        
        Mr T…
        
        are you drinking tonite? You seem to be quite chill in comparison to your epic rants.
        
        If you are on the sauce, enjoy
        
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        February 20, 2018 10:10pm
      - Jack5
        
        Even more boring and more stupid posts than usual are coming from the duty Stephie tonight.
        
        It’s likely that again he’s been overdosing – overchewing – on ghat.
        
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        February 20, 2018 10:11pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Jack 5 ,
        
        “.. Treat them like smokers. If you smoke cocks, you pay for your own healthcare, taxed to the hilt until theyre bleeding from the arse. Just as we expect smokers to pay more than their fair share. Fuck ’em.”
        
        Turns you on ?
        
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        February 20, 2018 10:45pm
      - Jack5
        
        Stephieboy: please elaborate what you mean by your lewd, apparently homo-erotic post at 10.45.
        
        What is the point of this 10.45 post? It’s in quotation marks. Who are you quoting?
        
        Are you having some sort of psychotic-erotic episode?
        
        You seem to be having gay thoughts. That’s okay here, it’s a live-and-let-live sort of blog generally. But why are you opening up in such detail?
        
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        February 21, 2018 12:20am
UpandComer

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-02-18/shocking-scale-of-sexual-abuse-at-uk-boarding-schools-revealed-by-itv-documentary/

The BBC are and were all over this. All over it. The BBC loves doing journalism, in between teaching kids the Roman Empire was african american and muslim lol.

So English boarding schools, Rotherham, the entirety of the UN where they employ conservatively 3,500 child abusers, India where they found NGO’s, charities, and government all involved in mass trafficking. But not the US with the porous mexican border and the Canadian border. Not there.
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February 20, 2018 9:14pm
sam green

https://dirtypoliticsnz.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/dirty-politics_p55-67.pdf

People need to read.
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February 20, 2018 10:10pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  Read the first few sentences thankyou.
  
  “Plan to move to the right.”
  
  What about the Alt-Centre? 🙂
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:14pm
- Jack5
  
  Sam, you are pimping for Hager the Horrible.
  
  It’s garbage. Conspiracy theory of the Left.
  
  If you think it’s good, you’ve been reading to confirm your prejudices.
  
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  February 20, 2018 10:15pm
- rangitoto
  
  I’m not into fantasy stories.
  
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  February 20, 2018 11:15pm
Lee C

Not like Jacinda’s suprise rise to power.
No back-room back-stabbing there.
Like, it just happened. Just like that.
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February 20, 2018 10:19pm
Viking2

Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to announce a complete overhaul of the education system from early childhood through to post-secondary school.

EXCLUSIVE: How students are taught from early childhood through to post-secondary school will be completely overhauled under the biggest educational reform New Zealand has seen in almost three decades.

The education system known as Tomorrow’s Schools, which was introduced in 1989 under then-Prime Minister and Education Minister David Lange, will soon be yesterday’s schools.

It is understood Education Minister Chris Hipkins will release a three-year work programme on Wednesday that details extensive overhauls as part of a coalition agreement between Labour and NZ First to develop an “enduring 30 year approach to education”.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/101599735/government-to-announce-education-reforms-on-a-scale-not-seen-since-1989

The school property portfolio is also on the Government’s radar – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern signalled in her first formal speech in the House earlier this year that there would be “a lot of time in this House to talk about what we’ve discovered in the school properties portfolio”.

The Crown’s $30 billion school network is understood to be riddled with a backlog of urgent upgrades and rebuilds that haven’t been dealt with.

It’s expected a significant amount of money would need to be set aside at the Budget in May and in future budgets to start dealing with some of the issues.

The review, understood to be part of Hipkins’ work plan, would likely outline how to deal with outdated and crumbling classrooms and ensuring every school had modern learning environments.

All of this would come at a significant cost to the Crown as Labour, NZ First and the Green Party all oppose any further use of public private partnerships.

Any building programme would likely be set out ahead of the 2020 election.

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So lots of bullshit and weasel words coming.
What bothers me is that this article is labelled EXCLUSIVE.

This should be public information not exclusive to some puffed up Labour reporter.

Reading the article suggests that there are huge legacy issues with buildings etc. Now that didn’t happen in the last few years but has been the case for 50 years. So Jac is going to blame it all on the Nats. and spend millions they are going to theive of the tax payer (ppp’s not allowed) to fix the propblem. Yep and they are going to build 100.000 houses and plant a billion trees.

https://www.facebook.com/sculpturebymerilyn/photos/a.408169949301294.1073741830.402847849833504/1587570791361198/?type=3&theater
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February 21, 2018 6:47am
- softail 1450
  
  viking please repost this on todays general blog.
  
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  February 21, 2018 6:54am
Viking2

Deal near for sale of Slingshot, Orcon owner Vocus NZ

The sale of the country’s fourth-largest telecommunications company, Vocus New Zealand, should be agreed by the end of June, says its Australian owner.

However, Vocus chief financial officer Mark Wratten said it could take a bit longer to complete the sale, if it was held up by regulatory approvals.

Vocus is best known in New Zealand as the owner of internet providers Slingshot and Orcon, which supply broadband to about 196,000 Kiwi consumers and electricity to about 12,000 homes.

ASX-listed Vocus signalled last year that it planned to sell its New Zealand arm to reduce its debt and fund its capital expenditure programme in Australia.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/101570490/deal-near-for-sale-of-slingshot-orcon-owner-vocus-nz

Lets just hope that neither Spark nor Vodafuckup are allowed to buy.

Their services are crap so why would we wnat to be lumbered with them.

Trustpower would be better.
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February 21, 2018 6:52am
Komata

V2

Standard Marxism: Get the children’s minds and you have them for life.

‘Tomorrow’s Schools’ was only the start, you aint seen nothing yet; it’s all part of the carefully-prepared plan camouflaged by the ‘fairy dust’ of sweet reasonableness.
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