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Hugh Pavletich

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Judith Collins is number four in the National party’s new line-up, taking the housing portfolio … Radio New Zealand

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/links-12-march-2018/#comment-3065822 … and … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/bridges_announces_the_new_opposition_lineup.html/comment-page-1#comment-2159057 … with extensive further posts on both threads …

NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL PARTY APPOINTS HEAVY HITTER JUDITH COLLINS HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT SPOKESPERSON …

Judith Collins is number four in the National party’s new line-up, taking the housing portfolio | Radio New Zealand News

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/352277/judith-collins-is-number-four-in-the-national-party-s-new-line-up-taking-the-housing-portfolio

LABOUR WITH PHIL TWYFORD MUST NOW GET FOCUSED ON IMPLEMENTATION … SO THE WIDER PUBLIC SEES INCREASINGLY MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACTALLY BEING BUILT …

PERFORM OR PERISH PHIL !

… New Zealand Labour Housing Policy …

… When do the Nation Party Opposition and journalists intend to ask Finance Minister Robertson and Housing & Transport Minister Twyford the two questions below ? …

Housing – New Zealand Labour Party

http://www.labour.org.nz/housing

… extract …

… Remove barriers that are stopping Auckland growing up and out

Labour will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary and free up density controls. This will give Auckland more options to grow, as well as stopping landbankers profiteering and holding up development. New developments, both in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, will be funded through innovative infrastructure bonds. … read more via hyperlink above …

1. What date are the Auckland urban limits to be removed ?

2. What date is the bond financing of infrastructure nationally to be introduced ?
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New Zealand is the global leader restoring housing affordability … refer this year’s 14th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey … Media Release …

http://demographia.com/media_rls_2018.pdf
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March 12, 2018 8:05am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  3. What date is Hugh going to leave us in peace?
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:08am
  - GazzaW
    
    He started up at 3.00am this morning posting yards of off topic stuff on the ‘Simon’s New Lineup’ post.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:29am
    - niggly
      
      Thanks for that public service announcement – I’ve now gone back over to that thread to downtick the cut-and-paste link-whoring tone deaf prick and hopefully others will too!
      
      “See that? You see that? Hugh, son. Nothing else in the world trolls like that. I love the sight of Hughs’ “Hidden due to low comment rating” in the morning”! (with apologies to Apocalypse Now)!
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:46am
      - sooty
        
        Come on people down tick Hughies first post with as many as we can. Lets see what we can build it up to.
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:43am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
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    Captain Mainwaring … As a ‘True Tory’ myself, I’m pretty much just saying what John Key said (then forgot post the 2008 election) back in 2007 … remember ? …
    
    PM John Key on Housing Reform 2007 – YouTube
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
    
    You old wet – nursed Tories should not be afraid of free enterprise and opportunities for all … all that sort of stuff.
    
    Possibly new leader Simon Bridges may ‘rediscover’ the Tory beliefs. We shall see..
    
    It was housing failure that tossed the Tories on to the Opposition benches last September / October. … refer GONE GONE GOING section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
    
    When do you intend to learn ?
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:37am
    - Happychappy
      
      A bitter twisted moron that think his knowledge should be what all should listen to, like Winston in love with themselves.
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:55am
    - flipper
      
      Urban planners ?
      One step down (or up) from town planners. All from the Leninist school. And just as useless. Bugger off Pavlova…..
      
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      March 12, 2018 9:06am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
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      … UNITED KINGDOM UPDATE … HOUSING ISSUES …
      
      The U.K. ‘Youthquake’ Was All About the Rent … Bloomberg
      
      https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-05/housing-crisis-renters-are-driving-british-voters-to-labour
      
      Frustration with unaffordable housing is driving support for the opposition Labour Party.
      
      The central issue in British politics is not, as you might have thought, Brexit. It’s housing. … read more via hyperlink above …
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      THE BRITISH HOUSING CRISIS & LIKELY POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES (REPEATING NEW ZEALAND’S RECENT ELECTION EXPERIENCE) …
      
      Tories fear middle-class millennials priced out of housing market could sink party at next election … UK Telegraph (behind paywall
      
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/16/millennials-middle-incomes-half-likely-homeowners-1990s/
      
      Young middle-class professionals are half as likely to get on the housing ladder as they were 20 years ago, a new study has found as Tory MPs warned that the issue is an “iceberg” that could sink the party at the next election.
      
      A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that just one in four young middle-income families now owns their own home, down from two in three in the 1990s. read more via hyperlink above …
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      Ruling out greenbelt removes a key lever to resolving our housing crisis … Ryan Bourne … UK Telegraph
      (register free to read in full)
      
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/03/08/ruling-greenbelt-removes-key-lever-resolving-housing-crisis/
      
      • Ryan Bourne
      
      Politicians are gradually edging closer to acknowledging the true causes and consequences of Britain’s dysfunctional housing sector.
      
      Prime Minister Theresa May took the next step this week, setting out clearly the stakes. In 1997, the average home cost 3.5 times the average wage. By 2010, that ratio had more than doubled. Demographia’s annual Housing Affordability Survey, which calculates median house prices divided by median incomes by region, suggests a ratio of 8.5 in London, 6.8 in Cambridge, 6.4 in Oxford and 7 in Bournemouth. Price signals are screaming “build more homes” in these areas.
      
      Housing demand has risen due to higher incomes, population growth and fragmented family structures. But supply has not kept pace for decades. Differences in land use planning laws mean we build in the wrong places too. The economist Paul Cheshire has shown that “twice as many houses were built in Doncaster and Barnsley in the five years to 2013 than in Oxford and Cambridge” – a clear sign that supply is not functioning to meet demand. …
      
      … concluding …
      
      … Where housing is concerned, the weight of evidence suggests government is the problem and not the solution. If we stopped artificially constraining developable land where people actually want to live, and gave local authorities and residents the chance to face the financial trade-offs associated with development, supply would be much more responsive to demand.
      
      The intellectual debate on this is won. Eventually, our politicians will catch up.
      
      • Ryan Bourne holds the R Evan Scharf chair for the Public Understanding of Economics at Cato
      
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      March 12, 2018 9:10am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
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        National’s new leader Simon Bridges has placed Judith Collins in his top 5 and given her the shadow housing portfolio, a role he says she asked for | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/news/92560/nationals-new-leader-simon-bridges-has-placed-judith-collins-his-top-5-and-given-her
        
        By Jason Walls
        
        National’s leader Simon Bridges unleashed what is arguably the strongest weapon in his Opposition arsenal on Sunday afternoon.
        
        Judith Collins.
        
        Collins – who was defeated by Bridges in last month’s leadership battle – has picked up the Housing and Urban Development portfolios and has been put in charge of National’s push to reform the Resource Management Act (RMA).
        
        She has also rocketed up the list and now sits at number four, behind the leader, deputy leader Paula Bennett and finance spokeswoman Amy Adams.
        
        Her high list ranking and her new shadow portfolios highlight National’s plans to zero in on housing in a big way; specifically targeting the Government’s Kiwibuild project.
        
        Collins is up against Housing Minister Phil Twyford, an MP she has been sparring with over transport since the formation of the Coalition Government late last year.
        
        And she is rearing to go. In fact, Bridges says Collins asked to take on the Housing shadow portfolio. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Judith Collins and Phil Twyford cross swords early after reshuffle – NZ Herald
        
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12010769
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        Bridges promotes rivals and demotes older MPs … Newsroom
        
        https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/03/11/95853/bridges-promotes-rivals-and-demotes-older-mps
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:24am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Turn the record over Hugh…
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:05am
      - KiWombat
        
        Hey Hugh – why do you keep posting “Hidden due to low comment rating?”
        
        Four times already today – once is quite enough !
        
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        March 12, 2018 12:29pm
- Nostradamus
  
  I’ve checked, and can confirm that “with extensive further posts on both thresds” is Hugh’s way of saying that he posted lots of nested comments (replying to himself) that no one else responded to. Oh dear!
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:13am
- Harkman
  
  This might break the record for the most thumbs down in KB history.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:30am
  - KiWombat
    
    No trev and littleboy will win hands down !
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:43am
    - Harkman
      
      47 thumbs down and it isn’t even 9:00 AM ?
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:54am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT … THE DOWNTICKING DOPES …
  
  The amusing thing about it is … as a Tory myself … I’m getting downticked for attacking Labour !
  
  Clearly … the National Party have gone from dumb to demented following the Sept / Oct 2017 election.
  
  One of course does not get thanked for telling Tories what they need to know about themselves !
  
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  March 12, 2018 3:19pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Hugh:
    
    I’m getting downticked for attacking Labour !
    
    No, it looks as though you’re getting downticked for:
    – behaving like a copy-and-paste merchant who has nothing new to offer but, rather, posts the same repetitive links day in and day out.
    – linkwhoring your Demographia project
    – insulting your audience with phrases like “DOWNTICKING DOPES” and “dumb to demented”
    – behaving like a dick.
    
    How else do you explain the 92 downticks (and counting) for your 8.05am comment?
    
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    March 12, 2018 5:02pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  … The National Party embarrassment … continued …
  
  Nick Smith ‘not necessarily’ being pushed out – Simon Bridges | Newshub
  
  http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/03/nick-smith-not-necessarily-being-pushed-out-simon-bridges.html
  
  Nick Smith’s political career is “not necessarily” coming to an end, according to his boss, despite a dramatic tumble down the National Party list.
  
  The veteran former Minister for the Environment reentered Parliament 15th on the list last year, but has been demoted to 26th in Sunday’s shadow Cabinet reshuffle by new leader Simon Bridges. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
  
  … now …
  
  … check out the top video in right column GONE GONE GOING http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org to see what Phil Twyford said about Nick Smith in the Parliament about this timev last year.
  
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  March 12, 2018 3:45pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I didn’t think it possible to collectively give 92 down-ticks.
  
  That’s quite an achievement.
  
  Well done, everybody.
  
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  March 12, 2018 7:20pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Odakyu – sen
    
    At least you got the first part of the first sentence correct … ‘I didn’t think … ‘
    
    How do you think the deadbeat Tories (who have done extraordinary damage to the Nation Party) are feeling, as their loser political careers are being (thankfully) extinguished ?
    
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    March 13, 2018 3:11am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Who says Auckland is ‘the eighth most liveable city in the world’? | Stuff.co.nz
      
      https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/102180940/who-says-auckland-is-the-eighth-most-liveable-city-in-the-world
      
      Stuff is taking a closer look at popular claims or statistics, to see whether they stack up and to dive deeper into the numbers. In this, the second instalment of the series Stats Check, Andy Fyers takes a look at the claim “Auckland is the eighth most liveable city in world.”
      
      To most New Zealanders, Auckland has become synonymous with traffic gridlock and unaffordable housing. … read more via hyperlink above …
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      Can first home buyers afford a million dollar house? | Stuff.co.nz
      
      https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/94396974
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      Back February 2011 I wrote for The Age and SMH …
      
      Housing affordability out of sync with incomes … SMH
      
      http://www.smh.com.au/business/housing-affordability-out-of-sync-with-incomes-20110201-1aciy.html
      
      LATE January every year for the past seven years, the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey is released. The survey this year covers, as usual, the major cities of the English-speaking world and, for the first time, Hong Kong. It is based on what is termed the ”median multiple”, where the median house price is divided by the gross annual median household income for each city. … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      March 13, 2018 4:03am
Lance

No danger of a troll free day today?
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March 12, 2018 8:05am
- hullkiwi
  
  Hugh will be downtimes out by 8.30am
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:10am
  - Nostradamus
    
    At 8.23am Hugh’s comment turned pink, and at 8.26am it disappeared. Posted at 8.05am, obliterated 21 minutes later!
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:28am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Obliterated by 34 members of the alt right Trumpeter troll balmy army !
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:35am
      - Lance
        
        idiot troll disappearing in 3..2..1…
        
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        March 12, 2018 8:50am
Longknives

Real Classy TVNZ Breakfast.

Jack Tame and that Green Party plant are interviewing Chris Cahill about Police Pursuit Policy.
After some nasty little rants about Police and Hayley coming up with her own ditzy ideas ‘Why can’t they just use GPS to track the criminals’? they cut to a commercial break.
Music played while camera cuts away to the commercials?
Rage Against the Machine- Killing in the Name.
(For those older readers it’s an Anti-Police song “Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses’ etc etc)
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March 12, 2018 8:09am
- hullkiwi
  
  Clearly in Holt’s case she is not hired for her intelligence. For GPS you need a device in the vehicle to get a fix on…..
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:14am
  - igm
    
    Is she not a reformed drunk and drug addict? Her brain will be stuffed, just like that Labour MP who has gone back to union leeching and trouble-making.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:19am
    - Colville
      
      igm.
      Personally I give Holt a lot of points for having the inner strength to say fuck it and give it all up.
      There are a few 100,000 in the country that could follow her example.
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:25am
      - Nostalgia-NZ
        
        Yah something positive on KB.
        
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        March 12, 2018 8:36am
      - igm
        
        Her brain is still stuffed, just listen to her views on matters, her comments are benign.
        
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        March 12, 2018 8:37am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Surly and infantile rants from members of alt right balmy army !
        
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        March 12, 2018 8:39am
      - doggone7
        
        The criticism of Holt would indicate she has the exact capabilities to fit in well here.
        
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        March 12, 2018 8:51am
      - sooty
        
        Come on stephieboy step up your game, you are not a patch on ztev. He can be nastier.
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:48am
      - KiWombat
        
        Littleboy and Hugh are both into duplicate postings today. They have both posted “Hidden due to low comment rating” four times.
        
        Gets a bit monotonous – maybe they are having a contest with each other !
        
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        March 12, 2018 12:36pm
  - tf78
    
    Why not shoot paintball guns at them, but with enamel paint that won’t wash off.
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:11am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Ha, yes, and include a wee GPS device in the sticky paint! We have solved it!!
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:27am
  - jcuk
    
    I can see a need for a device that police can fire at vehicle and it sticks and transmits
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:50am
    - Dafixeruppa
      
      I believe it is called a rocket propelled grenade…
      
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      March 12, 2018 9:57am
      - jcuk
        
        I was thinking of something non-lethal. But I guess the distance by the time the police got it out the offending vehicle would be too far away.
        
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        March 12, 2018 7:08pm
    - alloytoo
      
      Imagine the uproar if something other than the target vehicle accidently got hit.
      
      I really feel for the cops, they’re damned if they do chase, damned if they don’t.
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:12am
  - 4077th
    
    Lol, what’s funny is that some people expect logic from what is nothing more than a light pipe between her ears…
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:46am
- softail 1450
  
  longknives ,seriously longknives if you spend to much time watching the shite that is NZ free to air tv you will need to make an appointment with a suicide prevention specialist ,it is an absolute disgrace and isnt entertainment unless you are already brain dead.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:21am
  - stephieboy
    
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    softail 1450 , a diet of brain dead Leighton Smith on the agenda this morning ?
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:40am
    - igm
      
      You had better watch what you say about people . . . I would love to see you whacked with a defamation suit.
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:42am
      - Kimbo
        
        You do realise you made an almost identical statement on the same thread about Hayley Holt? Honestly, when angry haters come on here to hate, don’t they keep a track of what they write? Stupid question…
        
        And yes, Longknives, what the fuck are you doing watching Breakfast TV, especially Richie McCaw’s ex?! Come on buddy, you know you are looking to be a right wing triggered snowflake. ?
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:55am
      - Longknives
        
        Not my call I’m afraid- My wife likes to watch the News in the morning while getting ready for work.
        
        You don’t expect much from TVNZ- Hell you even expect them to have a Left Wing bias… but Breakfast has become particularly infantile since that Holt character has joined their team. (Like when she pulls faces and pokes her tongue out when talking about National Party or Trump…how very professional!)
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:14am
      - Kimbo
        
        Fair enough. A kiwi bloke’s got little to no chance of getting Radio Sport on the wireless instead at breakfast time! ?
        
        But isn’t the breakfast tv format and genre all about the personality and foibles and interests of the hosts, rather than a dispassionate presentation? Hence the predominance of bullshit bonhomie and inane banter. And maybe why your wife prefers it?
        
        I used to like Paul Henry’s humour, and yes even his politics. So as with Ardern replacing Key as a media-darling, what goes around comes around…
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:26am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Kimbo, for my part, I don’t spend my time thinking about over done personalities on TV, in the media or anywhere else they wish to demonstrate their capabilities (or lack thereof). What is frustrating is how the media has been dumbed down to be nothing more than entertainment with presenter/broadcasters who do not have a clue what they are talking about. Whether it be on air or in print, this is meant to be sources of information. Is it any wonder we get the politicians we do, making the decisions that we then moan about?
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:32am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        ” I would love to see you whacked with a defamation suit.”
        
        Well, we’re anonymous here, so nobody can claim to be defamed.
        
        Re what we watch or listen to in the morning: at least we’re keeping our fingers on the MSM pulse, so we can comment. I often listen to National Radio – drives me mad sometimes, but at least I can report back to KB.
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:34am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ hullkiwi
        
        As per the voters seeing past Dirty Politics in 2014, and also Jacindamania peaking a week and a half too soon before the 2017 election, not to mention Brexit and Trump winning in 2016
        
        …I don’t think you are giving enough credit to the discernment and media-savvy of the collective modern Western electorate.
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:39am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Kimbo, I beg to differ. People do read, watch and take in what the media feed them. You only need to travel on the tube in London to see this.
        You point to 3 elections as evidence of how savvy the electorate is, I disagree. In the case of Brexit there is/was a disconnect between the political/liberal “elite”, the media & the financial city of London versus the rest of the UK. The rest of the UK voted on their lot in life, their minds had been made up long before the campaign.
        Jacindamania, it is a damning indictment on NZ voters and NZ’s electoral system that she is a MP let alone PM. NZ has had its share of poor politicians, but none have risen to be PM before with the aid of such a fawning media.
        Regarding Trump, I have my views. I just feel sorry for the world that the choice Americans gave themselves was between Trump & Clinton (in my view a Hobson’s Choice).
        
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        March 12, 2018 11:45am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ hullkiwi
        
        …there is/was a disconnect between the political/liberal “elite”, the media…versus the rest. The rest…voted on their lot in life…
        
        Yes, that was my point when I said the collective Western electorate Is more discerning and savvy about media machinations, and not just, as you implied, putty in their hands. So, sorry, I don’t understand what you are begging to differ over? That sometimes media hype and fawning press coverage delivers shallow politicians with whom you disagree and disapprove? Sorry, they have been complaining about that since Sir Robert Walpole.
        
        I thought John Key was a politician of substance, but I can understand the frustration of some of his critics and opponents, as it wasn’t just his substantial qualities that drew crucial voter support.
        
        But thanks for the response, nonetheless. And yes, I agree re the Trump/ Clinton non-choice.
        
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        March 12, 2018 12:09pm
      - stephieboy
        
        igm , you too on Haley Holt,
        
        igm
        
        Is she not a reformed drunk and drug addict? Her brain will be stuffed, just like that Labour MP who has gone back to union leeching and trouble-making.
        
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        March 12, 2018 4:02pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @stephieboy
      
      There are numerous interviews available where Haley Holt discusses her alcoholism and Drug-test failure.
      
      https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/lifestyle/career/hayley-holt-on-staying-sober-and-maintaining-her-sanity-36214
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11885172
      
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      March 12, 2018 4:14pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW,
        you missed out this ,’
        
        “,,,Her brain will be stuffed, just like that Labour MP who has gone back to union leeching and trouble-making.”
        
        That received an uptick from you ?
        
        Plus this ?
        
        igm
        
        kimbob: I stated a fucken fact, not shit like the Islam-apologist you are supporting.
        
        Another response ,
        
        mikenmild
        
        I struggle to associate ‘haters gotta hate’ with any particular ideological bent (not bent like igm, btw)
        
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        March 12, 2018 5:22pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        ,Her brain will be stuffed,
        
        I do believe that alcoholism and drugs stuff your brain.
        (That’s why I am T.T.)
        
        The LabourMP who has gone back to union-leeching… isn’t named.
        I’ve no idea who IGM is referring to.
        I can’t see anything defamatory there.
        But if you can, do reveal.
        
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        March 12, 2018 5:28pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, I can assure that is igm in very meek and mild form .
        
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        March 12, 2018 5:36pm
- Colville
  
  knives…
  
  Them playing N.W.A “fuck the police’ would have been more what they were thinking…
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:23am
  - Longknives
    
    Tiki Taane’s favourite song?
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:15am
  - igm
    
    kimbob: I stated a fucken fact, not shit like the Islam-apologist you are supporting.
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:16am
    - Kimbo
      
      I’m not supporting stephie, just pointing out his opinion was no less defamatory or (non) factual than yours.
      
      Haters gonna hate…
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:23am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Re the ‘haters gonna hate’ phrase: the Left use that constantly to simply write off any valid criticism of their politics. No discussion, they just use that phrase or call people ‘Nazi’ and it’s over.
        
        Polite question, Kimbo: why have you, with all your intelligence and linguistic ability, started using this horrible little phrase?
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:41am
      - Kimbo
        
        Because sometimes, as in the case of igm (and I’ve detailed twice the glaring inconsistency in his tribal comments, so your implication I engaged in “no discussion”, much less “to simply write off” is incongruent)
        
        …the cap fits. ?
        
        And refer to past post for why I just used that emoji…
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:45am
      - mikenmild
        
        I struggle to associate ‘haters gotta hate’ with any particular ideological bent (not bent like igm, btw).
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:49am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Kimbo: Lefties aren’t that subtle, they use the ‘haters will hate’ phrase to simply write off critics.
        
        Milkymaid: you struggle to associate. I don’t. Until Kimbo started here, I had read/heard the phrase usually from Lefties who just wanted to shut centre/right people up.
        
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        March 12, 2018 11:35am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Classic Liberal
        
        But I am subtle, or at least I can be when the mood and occasion suits, and I didn’t use it to “simply write off” igm. Instead, I pointed out why the cap fits in his case. He is indeed an ideological/political tribalist, whose hypocrisy and inconsistency indicates he came here…to hate. ?
        
        Also you do know the phrase originated, or at least was popularised as a meme with that well known radical and leftist revolutionary, Taylor Swift?! ?
        
        Any other phrases beloved of the left I should eschew so I don’t prompt your word association? “Unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains!”? “To each according to his need, according to each according to his ability”? Someone better tell right-wing Kiwiblog regular Philbest you are on the look out, because I doubt he is going to give up his beloved “long march” without a hell of a fight. ?
        
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        March 12, 2018 11:47am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Dude, if I said there was anything you should ‘eschew’ it would immediately become your favourite.
        
        Just wanted to know why you like that revolting phase that the Left love (Taylor Swift irrelevant).
        
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        March 12, 2018 12:01pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Fair enough. But Taylor Swift isn’t irrelevant, insofar as she popularised it, so it, and the sentiments are immediately recognised, including at the more memorable emotional level. In that regard, Yes, I agree it is often used as a lazy “whatever” cliche to dismiss another’s view in a disingenuous and cavalier fashion. Although as mikenmild pointed out, not just by the left. For example, I’ve seen right wingers on Kiwiblog use it to describe Key Derangement Syndrome.
        
        Nonetheless, and I make the point for a third time, when the “haters gonna hate” meme does fit, it is especially (justified adverb!) effective. Hence I used it.
        
        But isn’t “dude” a similar cliche, often used by the same emotively-driven left to deceive with false collegiality, and thus hide the intellectual condescension that also eschews (triple word score!) real critical engagement with contrary ideas?
        
        Just a thought, but please, feel free to continue using it. I have enough on my plate waging war against emphatic adverbs without adding any stylistic foibles in your posts to my list.
        
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        March 12, 2018 12:25pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        And I thought the “X’er’s going to X” statement was a 4Chan meme…
        
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        March 12, 2018 12:52pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Kimbo: Dude with ” intelligence and linguistic ability”. Pretty complimentary, I think. I give your comments 80% upticks probably, despite our occasional differences.
        
        Our collegiality on some topics doesn’t seem false to me.
        
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        March 12, 2018 1:54pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Indeed. And no, I never doubted your good faith that your question was “polite”, nor that your phrasing was anything other than…collegial.
        
        Which is why I asked “…isn’t dude”…used by the same emotively-driven left…with false collegiality….(and) intellectual condescension…?”, but not necessarily you.
        
        So now you get the point, that when I use a phrase that you perceive is the sole property of the same group, I’m not necessarily using it with the same “to simply write off any valid criticism” intent?
        
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        March 12, 2018 2:10pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        OK, a kind of word or phrase reclaiming, then. Well, I’ll stop here, we must be pissing off our KB colleagues by now :).
        
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        March 12, 2018 3:05pm
- 3-coil
  
  Predictable response (Stiffy-boy 8:39am) from chief Hayley Dolt fanboi…..yawn
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:52am
Salacious Crumb

Credit where it is due – a good article in the Herald over the weekend on youth suicide;

http://features.nzherald.co.nz/teen-suicide-an-untold-story/

Interestingly, the same issues surface in the communities effected by these tragedies; welfarism, drugs/alcohol and violence. When is a government in NZ going to actually care enough about it’s people to give those most vulnerable a hand up rather than a handout?
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March 12, 2018 8:10am
- waikatogirl
  
  It is good to stand back from your own issues and remember there is always someone in a worse position than yourself. ?
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:15am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Totally agree WG. It makes for harrowing reading.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:21am
  - MCos
    
    Not a concept people this young with very limited life experience are always likely to consider.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:38am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    WG, I never found that heartening though.
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:44am
kowtow

The law requires a driver to stop when signalled by police.

If a driver fails to stop and speeds off, then he and no one else is responsible for the consequences.
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March 12, 2018 8:10am
- waikatogirl
  
  The media must refer to these idiots as “fleeing driver”, not a “police chase”. So dangerous!
  
  Putting the public in danger must mean mandatory loss of vehicle and time in jail.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:19am
  - backster
    
    You mean it shouldn’t just be reference to Youth Aid a Group Family conference a month later , sympathetic comforting of the perpetrator and a call for an enquiry into the action of the Police.
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:33am
  - Piniwi
    
    Sadly waikatogirl the innocent sole occupant in the other vehicle was a local woman off to work. The killer driver was needless to say a bro with a passenger but the only plus is they will not kill again. It is a tough call for Police to follow or chase since they will be damned if they or don’t. However in this instance they would have been hampered by the truck while they and the truck driver watched this rapid tragedy play out.
    
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    March 12, 2018 4:38pm
    - MH
      
      apparently one has already been involved in a death collision.
      
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      March 13, 2018 12:22pm
- flipper
  
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  That is crap. Pursuits are more often than not made for the most idiotic reasons: few are in respect of serious offending.
  What happens to a fleeing driver, who is a serious offender, is his/her problem. Innocent other parties are a Police responsibility. They should accept that responsibility.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:19am
  - Happychappy
    
    Flipper and what would happen if their was no chase and they wiped out innocent people, through dangerous driving you would screaming where are the Police and why are they not doing their job.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:28am
    - Nostalgia-NZ
      
      Need to find out how many times those being chased actually stop. The policy of police is to pull out from the chase if there is danger to other motorists.
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:48am
      - flipper
        
        Yep …..
        Think about this folks. The really bad bastards deserve what they get. They all do.
        But a dangerous pursuit to “catch” a minor offender? That is stupid.
        The real point is that serious offenders don’t give shit about the consequences of their actions.
        Why should authority help endanger the innocent ???
        More thort: less red-neck and ideology !
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:21am
      - Dave Mann
        
        @flipper But a dangerous pursuit to “catch” a minor offender? That is stupid.
        
        You disregard the fact that if an offender flees the police, then that is totally their decision, and any damage they do resulting from this is down to them, not the police.
        
        For the police to just give in and stop pursuing fleeing criminals would be to allow anarchy to win and we might as well not have any police at all.
        
        How are the police supposed to know whether these scum are ‘minor’ or ‘serious’ offenders anyway? Even if they weren’t offenders previously, they become offenders the moment they decide to flee a lawful command to stop.
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:37am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        I agree completely Dave. The media continues with sensational headlines about “police pursuits” when in fact the issue is people doing a runner when signalled to stop by police i.e. breaking the law. Those who run are solely responsible for the consequences of what happens from that point.
        
        Banning the police from chasing offenders is the first step on the slippery slope to anarchy. Whilst I am sure that would find favour with the Greens and with large tracts of Labour MP’s, I doubt NZ First would ever countenance such a policy, unless there was a bauble or three offered.
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:11am
      - Dave Mann
        
        Yes KS. And a further point is that after this latest incident I read a couple of reports of statements made by some weak dribble police ‘spokesperson’ who blathered on about the ‘tragedy’ that the driver and occupants of the car died and how sad and painful it was for the poor cops who had to deal with the scene egc etc etc.
        
        To be fair, this pathetic dribble did make a passing reference to the innocent motorist who got killed….. but the whole tenor and his tone suggested overwhelming grief and sadness at the criminal’s death, rather than coming out with a strong condemnation of this scum’s actions.
        
        PC obviously now doesn’t mean Police Constable anymore.
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:56am
    - rangitoto
      
      “A man involved in a fatal police pursuit near Nelson had previously killed a person in a booze-fuelled smash. ”
      
      The perp already did that.
      
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      March 12, 2018 12:07pm
  - kowtow
    
    Once the ferals learn that the cops won’t stop them the situation will get out of control and they will use their vehicles for even more criminality.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:36am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Check out the quality of these fuckwits.
      The police did the gene pool a favour by getting rid of them. Just very sad that an innocent person had to die as well.
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/102178160/passenger-in-nelson-triple-fatal-had-previously-killed-teen-in-crash
      
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      March 12, 2018 11:06am
      - kowtow
        
        I have zero sympathy for those mongrels , the terrible thing is they took an innocent life in the other car.
        
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        March 12, 2018 11:14am
  - Nostalgia-NZ
    
    Very sensible comment flipper. Most times the smart bad guys don’t speed and bring attention to themselves, joy riders and drunks with their brains switched off do.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:41am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      ” joy riders and drunks with their brains switched off ” may not be robbers or murderers, but they certainly can become killers via ‘manslaughter’.
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:49am
  - Callum
    
    If police don’t chase, everyone will run. It happens enough now, just doesn’t get a lot of publicity unless there is a crash. Go fast enough or drive dangerously enough and you have a good chance of getting away.
    To me the safest long term solution is have a policy of NOT pulling out of chases. Anyone who runs has compulsory 6 months added to their sentence and any injuries caused are charged at the highest level and treated as a cumulative sentence.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:51am
    - DigNap15
      
      6 months! weak as.
      6 years!
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:59am
      - RF
        
        Hang on. Angry Andrew wants to shut down prisons not fill them up.
        
        Another backward flip coming up.
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:42am
    - G152
      
      If no-one is being ‘chased’ then no-one will run because they wont have to…
      
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      March 12, 2018 9:00am
    - cmm
      
      Not chasing them decreases the risk and increases the reward of fleeing. All it is going to do is make them want to flee more.
      
      What is needed is to change this around and make the message very, very clear by:
      A) Always pursuing them.
      -and-
      B) Making the cost associated with not stopping very, very high:
      * Crush the car
      * Lose license for 5 years
      * 6+ months jail time.
      – and –
      C) The above 6 month charge is in addition to any other charges (endangering life etc).
      – and –
      D) Manslaughter charges for the driver if anyone is killed during the pursuit.
      
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      March 12, 2018 4:33pm
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Flipper’s point is a good one.
    
    The police are responsible for the safety of innocent people. I’m not saying they should never chase but they should adopt a strategy that maximises public safety and it is reasonable to ask whether the current approach does that.
    
    For example, they might only need to chase one out of every five in order to have an effective deterrent, especially if the penalties for fleeing from police in a motor vehicle were increased.
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:24am
    - MT_Tinman
      
      Hogwash!
      
      The Police are NOT responsible for the safety of innocent people beyond attempting to prevent bad guys (and it always is a bad guy ) from deliberately endangering them.
      
      As has been correctly pointed out the Police do not instigate a pursuit, the bad guys do.
      
      Unfortunately when bad guys decide their freedom is worth more than innocent peoples life sometimes some innocent people will get hurt.
      
      Far better that risk than the bad guy subsequently running down a line of schoolchildren because his behaviour has not been checked due to some ridiculous no-chasing policy.
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:17am
- RalphT
  
  Agree that they have no one else to blame if they wipe themselves out, but the problem it that, as in a case like this, they sometimes take out a completely innocent member of the public.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:21am
  - Nostalgia-NZ
    
    Ralph T, that happened here, arguably that is what the chase ‘achieved.’
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:42am
  - rangitoto
    
    I agree they shouldn’t chase. Police cars should be fitted with hellfire missile launchers. Just vapourise the fleeing crims.
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:09am
- Manolo
  
  I don’t care if the fleeing criminals die. Not a bit.
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:09am
  - Nostalgia-NZ
    
    What about the driver of the other car as happened here, not a bit?
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:53am
    - kowtow
      
      That’s not what he said.
      
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      March 12, 2018 11:21am
Paulus

Am amused to hear Radio Left Wings comments and those of Twitford on Judith Collins’s appointment to the Opposition Housing Minister (and RMA).
Twitford was usual as his stupid puerile comments stated.
No contradictory comments by Left Wing speaking Maori interviewer – called balance.
Personally I think it is a great appointment and look forward to Collins continually asking –
Twitford
– How many houses completed today.
No doubt the National Party’s policy on Housing will be ready before the election – not yet.
For now Go For It with the Twit.
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March 12, 2018 8:11am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I can’t wait for the House to resume next week to see Judith Collins up against the arrogant Twyford, and to watch Amy Adams start to forensically dismantle Grant Robertson.
  
  There’s just one obstacle; whether the Speaker gives them a fair suck of the sav.
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:15am
  - flipper
    
    Sadly Keeping he will not.
    The duck is the worst, the mot protective of his “flock”, since MacFarlane !!!
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:55am
    - Kimbo
      
      Come on, flipper. I defer to your years of experience observing politics close up including as far back as the Second Labour Government, but was there really a Speaker worse than Margaret Wilson?! ?
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:59am
holysheet

I see the police are in the gun again after the deaths of people involved in a “police chase”
Lets call it what it really is, a “fleeing criminal”.
If they really really were innocent, they would pull over and not speed off.
It is unfortunate in that the fleeing scum have killed an innocent member of the public. Who gives a fuck that they killed themselves, not me.
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March 12, 2018 8:12am
- igm
  
  These arseholes are fugitives and police should have the right to shoot them.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:21am
  - MCos
    
    Now that really would have been interesting if the police had shot the driver and the car went out of control, collided with a bus load of blind orphans resulting in thirty deaths . . . . .
    Particularly if it turned out the ‘alleged’ fugitive wasn’t.
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:35am
- MCos
  
  One person was driving the car.
  Three people are dead.
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:40am
  - Prince
    
    Who killed them ?
    The driver.
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:59am
    - MCos
      
      The driver was responsible for his own death plus the other person in the car and the oncoming driver, neither of whom had any control of the situation.
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:23am
  - kowtow
    
    Only he wasn’t “driving a car” .
    
    He was being a complete cunt and has killed one innocent person on that account.
    
    Feral scum who should have been locked up and in prison for all his previous offending.
    
    If he was in prison this wouldn’t have happened.
    
    And this gubmint want more of this scum on the streets!
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:24am
    - GoVege
      
      The gubmint is paying totally incapable individuals to drag up kids.
      Those individuals are in reality stealing the money meant for their kids to pay for their addictions.
      Those kids grow up angry and get their “parenting” watching TV…especially about car chases.
      If the gubmint wasn’t scared of the screams of “genocide” from religious bigots, they would pay lost individuals to use contraception.
      There would be more happiness and fewer road deaths.
      
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      March 12, 2018 2:27pm
- RF
  
  Actually it’s “Failing to Stop.”
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:44am
fernglas

The media seem to characterise the least Police involvement as a “chase”, even if all they have done is turn on the flashing lights and blipped the siren. It makes for a good headline, but hardly helps inform the debate.
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March 12, 2018 8:14am
holysheet

During a Beehive party, Cindy got into an argument with Simon, about Party politics. Finally, Cindy asked Simon why he was such a dedicated National Party member.

Simon replied that his father and grandfather were both Nats and he was carrying on the family tradition.

“That’s it?” said the exasperated Cindy. “What if your father and
grandfather had been horse thieves?”

“Well…” Simon replied, “I suppose then I’d be a Labour Party supporter like you.”
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March 12, 2018 8:15am
- stephieboy
  
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  holysheet ,hobby of yours laughing at your own lame and weak jokes?
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:44am
  - Lance
    
    shut up, the grown ups are speaking
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:56am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Stephie-Muppet, tad heavy on the irony from the fella who ends a number of his pathetic little taunts with a large LOL
    
    Give yourself an uppercut for being a Stephie-dick
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:03am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Obsession of yours continually commenting on a site where your views are continually at odds with the majority and your comments increasingly antagonistic resulting in generally abusive responses?
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:05am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      He is inflecting us with a daily dose of “his understanding and version of the truth”.
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/general_debate_11_march_2018.html#comment-2158758
      
      .
      
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      March 12, 2018 9:18am
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, more challenging utter nonsense !
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:54am
  - VicParking
    
    Morning Stephie
    I see the brain transplant from one of your goats worked ??
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:13am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      The goat is no wiser though!
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:08am
Happychappy

I see the Herald are still having orgasms over Winstons new Deputy Leader and how he might save NZ First. That keep forgetting that only the demented will forgive NZ Firsts lies at the last Election
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March 12, 2018 8:22am
kowtow

There’s that Pakistani diversity dividend that’s so enriching and that the elites all command us to embrace , again.

‘Girls in the town of Telford, Shropshire, were drugged, beaten and raped at the hands of a grooming gang active since the 1980s.

Allegations are said to have been mishandled by authorities, with many perpetrators going unpunished, while it is claimed similar abuse continues in the area.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5487167/Telford-child-sex-scandal-involving-1-000-Britains-worst.html#comments
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March 12, 2018 8:40am
- EAD_TWO
  
  Imagine knowing that the police in the UK are allowing Pakistani grooming gangs to torture and sell small White children by the hundreds of thousands, then jailing political dissidents for pointing this out, and still thinking to yourself the “good guys” won WWII.
  
  If there’s anything we can learn from Sweden and Britain it’s that there’s no limit to how far it will go and how much our political and media establishment will it cover up.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:45am
  - kowtow
    
    The media and commentariat in general love to make comparisons with the “white lynch mobs of the old south” when talking about patriots or rich white pricks.
    
    We need to be talking about the Muslim Pakistani rape gangs as a simile for modern injustice , not old fashioned times past ,white lynch mobs .
    
    Problem is you’d be had up for “hate speech” .
    
    Very dangerous times.
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:01am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      The thing is Kowtow (which should help wake up normies when I point it out) all of this sh*t has been happening and covered up for decades by Governments in the UK of both blue and red stripes from Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron. Just remember the way both parties destroyed Enoch Powell.
      
      “Democracy” is the illusion of control by the people. By being able to choose between Coke and Pepsi every three years satiates people to accept oligarch rule by deception.
      
      And when people do vote the wrong way then the state and it’s supportive institutions such as the media and academia will pull every trick in the book to psychologically manipulate people to the right decision through fear, shame and coercion.
      
      There is no power of the people and there probably never was.
      
      Putting my conspiracy hat on, any such vestiges of it died the day multiple shooters shot JFK dead in November 1963.
      
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      March 12, 2018 9:14am
      - stephieboy
        
        EAD TWO , there you with your conspiracy foil tin hat on.
        
        Multiple shooters did not shoot JFK dead in November 1963.
        
        https://www.livescience.com/41369-single-bullet-theory-jfk-assassination.html
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:58am
      - hullkiwi
        
        So, it wasn’t ths majic bullet?
        
        Truth is these allegations surfaced more than 6 years ago in the UK. What is frightening is how little action has occurred. It is as you suggest, the perpetrators are/were being protected by the establishment.
        
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        March 12, 2018 6:01pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    EAD_TWO,
    
    What kind of political party would you think those “small white children” and their families will vote for?
    Will it be a party that will restrict immigration? Or will they vote for the status quo?
    Does the UK population sense a crisis? Will they vote for a party that promises to reform the system?
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:14am
- Colville
  
  grooming gang in the 1980’s?
  
  Sounds like a BBC staff party 🙂
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:03am
Harkman

Interestingly on Q & A yesterday Corin Dann with a panel of 2 of 3 leftists actually thought Robo was competent. The only non-leftist was Fran O’Sullivan, who is hardly a hardline red-blooded capitalist, but even she saw through Robo’s bull. It was obvious to me that Robo has been coached to give the impression that he knows something about economics and business. I was surprised no one really picked up on his contradictions. For example he said a rehearsed line about productivity, yet he later said that he was going to give teachers and nurses a massive pay increases for doing no extra production. Heck teachers are going to be paid more to do less. The education and health sectors have negative productivity. Giving nurses and doctors more leaves less available for new immunotherapy drugs and trust me there is going to be an avalanche of these about to arrive on the scene. Free tertiary education takes away money to employ the best from around the world so our Unis are going to fall further down the rankings.
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March 12, 2018 8:47am
- doggone7
  
  Teachers are going to be paid more to do less? Massive pay increases for no extra production?
  Paying the art teachers more for getting the kids to paint bigger pictures might be the way to go.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:53am
  - Inandout
    
    Our art teacher liked the female form.
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:59am
  - VicParking
    
    Extra money for teachers will mean kids will learn to add up bigger numbers, do longer haka’s and read the Labour manifesto faster.
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:19am
    - RalphT
      
      “…and read the Labour manifesto faster.”
      
      But for heaven’s sake don’t get the teachers to improve their comprehension skills otherwise they might understand what’s in the manifesto…
      
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      March 12, 2018 9:29am
- Swifty
  
  Labour and Robbo have a bald-faced cheek to talk about productivity – with mimimum wage increases, teacher pay increases and talk of ever more ‘gender pay gap’ closures.
  
  In Swiftyland, Robbo would be dragged from his plush Beehive office and placed in stocks on the Parliament lawn for us all to pelt him with rotten fruit.
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:12am
- Paulus
  
  As I understand Teachers want 16% over two years and Midwives want a basic of $107,000 – that is for a 40 hour week, but they work considerable over time as is the nature of the job.
  If they do not like the rules of the Club then don’t join. Which is why they are short in numbers.
  Remember when the Midwives Union declared UDI and said to the Doctors involved get lost.
  Same Union Leader still Gilliland I believe.
  
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  March 12, 2018 2:01pm
- Jaywalk
  
  I would vehemently disagree about productivity gains for nurses and doctors.
  
  Back in the bad old days of the 1980’s nurses weren’t allowed to take blood (unless doing that job specifically for the blood service), plaster limbs, do a ECG, insert IV cannulas, even give the first dose of IV antibiotics etc, and there was very limited specialisation. Ditto for junior doctors, a lot of procedures were done by more senior doctors.
  
  Roll on the 1990’s and 2000’s the pace of technology has extended hugely, with more patients requiring more highly complex care. Technology is now Nurses now do bloods, IV cannula insertions and a whole host of other things that were formerly the province of doctors. You have nurse practitioners and specialists in diabetes. Ditto again with doctors, with junior doctors taking on tasks that were formerly the province of SHO’s and registrars.
  
  Really, with the pace of technology these days increases in productivity are a given. Technically only is medicine and nursing a drain, there is the cost of preventing illness, treating illness and preventing disability and death to be counted. A healthy, working population is a good cash cow for the government.
  
  I can understand for teaching, because while we use more tech and are able to do distance learning for adults teaching hasn’t and won’t change that much. Only the theory has changed, and that isn’t necessarily for the better. I showed my kids how we were taught to add and they reckoned how we used to do instead of the linear method they teach them these days was so much easier to grasp.
  
  Even then, you have to give them something as clearly educational outcomes are still a thing and most people do pretty well out of their education.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:24pm
Harkman

Listen to Pat Condell ridicule feminists, this got banned from YouTube.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/F61HmpL35xY/
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March 12, 2018 8:50am
- stephieboy
  
  Hartkman ,as far as I can make out it did not get banned from You Tube ,
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPriNSh3Q88
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:55am
- Classic Liberal
  
  “ridicule feminists”
  
  He totally supports old-fashioned feminism of equal rights and opportunities. He’s sick of the modern so-called feminists who whine about every compliment but ignore FGM or sharia encouraging domestic violence.
  
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  March 12, 2018 11:02am
JibberJabber

TVNZ last night had an item on kids up North and their bad dental hygiene, apparently it`s the lack of fluoride and not the poor little buggers shithouse parents .
A 3 and a 16 year old having all their teeth pulled.
Here`s a thought how about telling parents not to put Coca-Cola in the kids bottles.
I have fucking seen it with my own eyes.
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March 12, 2018 9:03am
- kowtow
  
  Can’t afford tooth brush and paste.
  
  When will the media call an end to the poverty bullshit .
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:11am
  - VicParking
    
    Toothpaste, that will mean only a single lotto and not a triple dip
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:21am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Four pushes of that enticing flashing button that makes those wheels go round and round with the ‘promise’ of instant wealth: gone faster than I can earn it, pay the tax on the earnings so the loser can squander it . . . .
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:20am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Brushes and toothpaste are handed out when the Dental caravan arrives at school.
    Why wasn’t junior at school that day?
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:13am
- KiWombat
  
  My grandchildren live in a remote location, and it always amazes me that they don’t ask for Coca Cola and the like – simple fact is they have never seen it !
  
  But the urbanites at their school have, and they have the teeth to match !
  
  It is up to parents and families to feed their kids, so the blame should lie with parents and not with the lack of fluoridation. This is challenging, however, when milk is dearer than Coke – fortunately our little ones can take a bucket down the back paddock and bring back as much milk as they need !
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The area has not fluoridated its drinking water.
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:22am
  - KiWombat
    
    Lack of fluoridation isn’t a problem MW unless parents feed crap to their kids.
    
    When I was a kid we were given a fluoride tablet every morning with breakfast. They are difficult to find these days though ! I asked my daughter to consider fluoride tabs for the little ones, but she claimed they would not be necessary as long as she provided a reasonable diet and no Coke.
    
    So far she has been right ! I must admit I find it strange though, when I put out plates of stuff for the grandchildren to munch on they always seem to take the fruit first – they do eat some chips and crackers, but the fruit always goes first !
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:07am
  - tf78
    
    I know people whose kids have grown up drinking tank water and their teeth aren’t rotten.
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:10am
    - KiWombat
      
      Exactly – as long as you don’t mix it with Coke they will be fine !
      
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      March 12, 2018 12:04pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    MW, us rural types don’t have sophisticated commodities like town supply fluoride treated water (tank supply). We have to rely on toothpaste & my kid gets fluoride treatment from the dental service.
    
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    March 12, 2018 6:13pm
- Harkman
  
  Don’t worry Labour will invent a new benefit for them, those poor victims of capitalism.
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:38am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    And a new tax for us to pay for it…
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:06am
- lifesgood
  
  I was going to put this up as a comment anyway but it fits this thread. Last week, as I drove through Glen Innes, I stopped for a mother and her three young children to cross the road. Each child was carrying a partially drunk litre bottle of coke which they were swigging from. How on earth do you get idiot parents like that to care for their children properly, no wonder their teeth rot.
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:10am
- oldgolfer
  
  Too true. That item struck me as a softening up for government-imposed fluoridation; that seemed to be the background theme.
  Any dentist will tell you that teeth that have litres of fizz run over them day and night will rot.
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:20am
  - milkmaid
    
    It is not just the fizz running over them – turning sugar into energy requires, amongst other things, calcium. If the calcium is not available the body will draw it from the teeth and bones.
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:47am
- Ed Snack
  
  It’s not usually Coke but OJ that does the damage. OJ is acidic enough to rot teeth, it’s fine if you just drink it (like Coke) but not so good when used in teat bottles to suck on. And lots of people think it’s good for the children, unlike that nasty fatty milk stuff.
  
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  March 12, 2018 1:05pm
DigNap15

Why do people in the UK put up with grooming gangs?
Lock them all up.
If they don’t have a productive job…send them all back
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March 12, 2018 9:03am
- Inandout
  
  The UK people are pretty much lost without a Churchill or Thatcher; they like being led. This is not necessarily a bad thing as royalty and tradition do count in a stable society, but this love of compliance does leave the door open to cults like Islam. The UK people are now so diluted by ‘diversion’ that they don’t know how to fight back. Notice how Muslims rarely waver from their traditional Koran?
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:12am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Anti-islamist though I am, I know several very nice people who call themselves muslim but I really believe would not follow the violent Medina instructions of Mohammed or hit their wives.
    
    I don’t know if they fully understand abrogation (Medina phase >Mecca phase) and reject it or if they just aren’t that into it and haven’t really thought what the islamic ideology really is.
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:14am
    - Kimbo
      
      People of all religions (and ideologies for that matter too) live inconsistently at points with tenets of their faith. So for civics and engagement in the public space, the issue in the first instance isn’t what their religion teaches, nor what some of its more zealous adherents or trenchant and uncharitable critics say it teaches, but what they do that counts.
      
      So by that measure, judging the majority of Muslims, not just in the West but worldwide, Inandout is mistaken when he asks, “Notice how Muslims rarely waver from their traditional Koran?”
      
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      March 12, 2018 11:29am
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout ,
    
    “Notice how Muslims rarely waver from their traditional Koran?”
    
    False ! That should read how a certain number of Muslims ( a tiny minority ) rarely waver … etc
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:29am
    - Manolo
      
      Are you part of that “tiny minority”? Are you? 🙂
      
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      March 12, 2018 11:31am
DigNap15

The head of the AA thinks the police should stop chasing people!
What an idiot!
People only run if they think they can get away with
it.
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March 12, 2018 9:04am
- VicParking
  
  Ditto about the dog and lemon man.
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:23am
  - Lance
    
    Why do they ask him anything outside the topic of unreliable cars?
    Silly
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:33am
- wombatge
  
  Melbourne is the pursuit trial for the world to see.
  Holding back has cost a massive amount of lives and misery.
  The authorities tailed this car for hours and didn’t intervene, tragic results.
  The only two guys that tried to stop this lunatic, were a couple of islander school boys whilst police watched.
  You get what you wish for in this world, these morons are not going to stop at all if you stop chasing them, when you stop them the legal system needs to deal with them, and that just doesn’t happen most of the time.
  https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/bourke-street-tragedy-driver-appeared-on-tv-hours-before-pedestrians-killed-20170120-gtvu3k.html
  
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  March 12, 2018 11:14am
Manolo

When a fraud (and liberal icon) is unmasked:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/03/11/elizabeth-warren-refuses-to-take-a-dna-test-to-prove-her-native-american-heritage-n2459810

The Massachusetts Senator was interviewed on today’s episode of NBC’s Meet the Press. Host Chuck Todd pointed out a recent Massachusetts’ newspaper editorial that called upon the supposed Native American to take a $99 DNA test sample.

But, the Senator refused to say whether she would take the test. No, it is not the price that deterred the wealthy Warren from taking the test, the Senator simply wants to retain her family’s folk lore.
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March 12, 2018 9:05am
- VicParking
  
  Imagine if Twitford took a DNA test. It would come back sayings he’s 50% wit.
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:26am
  - Harkman
    
    And that he is 50% Phil of shit.
    
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    March 12, 2018 9:40am
    - doggone7
      
      As opposed to you?
      
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      March 12, 2018 1:43pm
  - KiWombat
    
    Twitford is proof that evolution can go backwards Vic
    
    He’d probably fail the test anyway !
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:09am
  - doggone7
    
    As opposed to yours?
    
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    March 12, 2018 1:42pm
brett68

Bit of a concern that Bridges is excited about new taxes

Has he forgotten he’s the leader of National?
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March 12, 2018 9:40am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  This sort of thing is why it was a big mistake to make him party leader
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:53am
- Dave Mann
  
  Could you please be more specific or provide some sort of link thingy?
  
  I’m not jumping to his defense BTW. I’m just wondering what prompted your remark.
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:09am
  - brett68
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102171793/bridges-interested-in-value-capture-tax-which-collins-calls-envy-tax
    
    He seems to have Cunliffe levels of lack of awareness.
    
    I can see a lot more of these sorts of conflicting messages going forward, Bridges better get his shit sorted quickly otherwise his time as leader will be short.
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:20am
    - Dave Mann
      
      Thanks for the link, brett68.
      
      Bloody hell… if this idiotic halfwit is what passes itself off as the new leader of our ‘centre-rjght’ opposition, then the country is fucked.We might as well go full Venezuela right now and accept the inevitable.
      
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      March 12, 2018 11:16am
      - Piniwi
        
        True DM but it just one of many blunders he has racked up since being elected as leader. He must stem the temptation to say so much more than is required and drop those ridiculous superlatives trying to out do the Commie Chick.
        
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        March 12, 2018 5:06pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      FFS! Time for Collins to start her own party if this is the way National is sliding to the left.
      
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      March 12, 2018 11:19am
Gravelroad

It will be interesting to see how National deals with the Cullen Tax Working Group juggernaut.
They will need a strategy – perhaps even establish their own wider group, to flush out the agendas and fish hooks and explain the implications and risks to all of us who are going to be subjected to extortionate increases in taxation.
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March 12, 2018 10:13am
Jack5

Wait till the pay wall goes up …

At the Hooerald, Barely Sober expands into international economic analysis – topped with a pun:

“Donald Trump made great play with his slogan make America great again when all along he was meaning make America grate again.”

Ouch!

Can’t wait to pay for this.
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March 12, 2018 10:24am
- fernglas
  
  Can’t drain a swamp without grates.
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:29am
  - Jack5
    
    Perhaps it’s Barely that needs to be drained.
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:44am
    - mikenmild
      
      I don’t read the Herald, but I’m definitely grateful to you, Jack, for taking the time to tell me it would be a waste of my time to read it.
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:46am
      - Jack5
        
        I am pleased by your grateousness, Milky, and acknowledge that you are not an ingrate.
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:53am
      - MCos
        
        You are the gratest!
        
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        March 12, 2018 11:38am
Jack5

The Russians meddling with GPS?

For an emergency, let’s hope civil defence has stored away plenty of maps and books of maps.

Or maybe, ensure that plenty of digitised and available on the internet. Unless, the Russkis can nobble the Net, too …

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/03/11/gps-reliance-cold-war-satellite-technology-accident-waiting/
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March 12, 2018 10:29am
- mikenmild
  
  According to Putin, the Russkies can’t even manage to interfere in an American election, so I fail to see how they could manage to stop us using our GPS…
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:42am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Maybe because interfering in an election is a lot harder than outright nobbling a few satellites
    
    Shutting down the civilian part of GPS would probably be easy, and if a worl-wide serious conflict did erupt the US would do that anyway.
    
    Shutting down the military equivalent version might be a little harder as the US will have alternative mechanisms available. Interestingly I read that the US forces recently held an exercise where all GPS was turned off to practice coping without it, so maybe a shutdown of all satellite systems could occur. The satellites wouldn’t need to go, just broadcast enough interference from space or ground.
    
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    March 12, 2018 1:14pm
Inandout

Anyone know why our Police aren’t using similar devices to halt fleeing vehicles?

https://www.e2v.com/markets/security-rescue/rf-safe-stoptm/

I am sure most vehicles now have electronics installed.
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March 12, 2018 10:30am
- Jack5
  
  The device doesn’t look very portable.
  
  But the Bushmaster rifles in the back of police cars might give the police a reasonable chance of shooting off the tyres. If the odd runaway driver got hit, at least oncoming drivers should be safe.
  
  Presumably the police Bushmasters can be full automatic, like this one:
  
  https://youtu.be/KXiJgN_9FeY
  
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  March 12, 2018 10:40am
  - mikenmild
    
    https://www.quora.com/When-chasing-a-suspect-or-criminal-in-a-car-why-dont-the-police-shoot-the-tire-This-is-purely-from-TV-shows-I-see-people-getting-away-and-a-shot-at-the-tire-would-ve-surely-stopped-them-In-reality-do-cops-think-to-shoot-at-tires-or-is-there-a-reason-not-to-do-that
    
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    March 12, 2018 10:43am
    - Jack5
      
      If the Bushmaster can fire a burst or two on fully automatic, they might have a reasonable chance of deflating a tyre or puncturing the petrol tank.
      
      And so many more blokes would want to be cops.
      
      Maybe the police Bushmasters are a bit out of date. Or, if they are just semi-automatic, perhaps bump stocks would help.
      
      They don’t seem to look like this one:
      
      https://youtu.be/V_2x4IW_baU
      
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      March 12, 2018 10:51am
    - RF
      
      Bloody difficult.
      
      I have shot hundreds of hares / rabbits in paddocks from the back of a fast moving 4×4 and the only weapon that does the trick is a shot gun loaded with long range 4 shot.
      
      Could be nasty firing that at a fleeing vehicle on a busy street.
      
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      March 12, 2018 4:52pm
  - Inandout
    
    Helicopters have been used to stop vehicles, but our criminals are protected by various safety laws.
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:07am
    - stephieboy
      
      Inandout , laws that also designed to protect the public which I take it to be is uppermost in the police minds .
      
      There are multiple ways keeping tags on the offending vehicles ( including the need for greater deployment of drones )
      
      Shooting at tires from a pursuit police car is both dangerous and inaccurate even under the best circumstances.
      
      The police understand that !
      
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      March 12, 2018 11:14am
      - Jack5
        
        I hear that in Stephiestan, the police still carry Jezrails.
        
        Other devices to stop hoon drivers there include IEDs and using a pretty-girl suicide bomber who is sure to lure the hoons into picking her up.
        
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        March 12, 2018 11:27am
    - kowtow
      
      Google brazilian police helicopter shoots drug traffickers car.
      
      You’d need a bullet proof roof with those loons around.
      
      More like Ramadi than Rio!
      
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      March 12, 2018 11:36am
  - MH
    
    I recall a shootout in Akld after a chase near Western Springs on the MW, I also recall small arms fire against a dog—–at least they got the dog at the airport…..prob not the Police marksperson.
    
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    March 13, 2018 12:41pm
- Dave Mann
  
  Probably because the pursuing police car would need to be driving backwards in order to use it…. or alternatively cleverly set up a road block some distance ahead with it within 3 minutes of the incident happening….
  
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  March 12, 2018 11:54am
Manolo

Totalitarian communism will never change:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-11/china-ties-future-to-xi-as-congress-scraps-president-term-limits

China’s parliament voted to repeal presidential term limits, allowing President Xi Jinping to keep power indefinitely in a formal break from succession rules set up after Mao Zedong’s turbulent rule.
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March 12, 2018 10:49am
- Jack5
  
  One thing, Manolo, Xi Jinping’s wife, Peng Liyuan, is never going to fall off the Beijing hit parade:
  
  https://youtu.be/AHiblp9Jl5M
  
  For Western ears, it’s the music, not her voice that’s the drawback. She’s a nice looking woman, and being the Big Country boss’s wife, she gets a two and a half hours biography on Youtube.
  
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  March 12, 2018 11:02am
  - Jack5
    
    This is interesting! From Wikipedia:
    
    “On 20 November 2014, Massey University in New Zealand conferred Peng an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of her international contributions to performing arts, health, and education.”
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:09am
  - Kimbo
    
    Didn’t Mao’s crazy last wife, the one who was eventually arrested after his death as part of the “gang of four”, once get given a free licence to produce interminably long and boring Marxist-inspired Chinese ballets? Was almost enough to derail ping pong diplomacy as they even made Richard Nixon sit through Mao’s wife’s shit. ?
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:10am
Right of way is Way of Right

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/102178160/wanted-passenger-in-nelson-triple-fatal-had-previously-killed-teen-in-crash

So, here’s a great example of the sort of people that Andrew Little wants to release from our prisons.

Phillip Stretch, jailed for killing a man in a booze fuelled automobile crash in 2001.

Wanted for a string of burglary and dishonesty related offences.

Both he and the driver, Johnathan Tairakena, were well known to police, both were disqualified from driving.
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March 12, 2018 11:01am
- stigie
  
  In this case the police were right to give chase, at 5.40am in the morning with bugger all traffic around, they made the right choice.
  Damn shame it ended in disaster for the families !~
  
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  March 12, 2018 12:13pm
DigNap15

Why do we have so many young criminal here in NZ?
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March 12, 2018 11:09am
- Kimbo
  
  Maybe we don’t. Maybe it’s the media, wanting to sel their fish and chip paper, who seek to cultivate the perception of Laura Norder crisis. Same way they like to present any event – North Korean missile testing, bear market, terrorists, cyclones, a drop in the international price for milk solids, latest episode of ‘Married at first sight’ – in apocalyptic tones.
  
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  March 12, 2018 11:18am
  - fernglas
    
    New Zealand crime rates are pretty much on a par with other western countries. It is really just that there is so little else of interest happening here that the media relies on crime as a major source of news. This leads to exaggerated concern about crime, which means people are basically more frightened than they should be. The English papers don’t even bother reporting murders unless they are particularly intriguing or gruesome. Here a two-bit burglary might make the front page on a quiet day
    
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    March 12, 2018 11:49am
    - RF
      
      If it bleeds… it leads.
      
      An editors headline dream….
      
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      March 12, 2018 2:41pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Well, most criminals (of the burglary and stealing cars type) are young – it’s a young mans game mostly. Mostly though, they’ve been raised in a sub-culture where personal demands trump social conformity allied with a disregard for the welfare of others. Gangs feast on these types – that is they recruit them as ideal members.
    
    Of course some are raised better but have critical psychological issues (typically psychopathy) that put them into the same space. But for most it’s an upbringing in a culture where such behaviour is normal indeed encouraged.
    
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    March 12, 2018 1:20pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  We have them mainly due to bad parenting, and that is mainly due to an overly generous welfare system.
  
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  March 12, 2018 11:41am
  - MCos
    
    How do you explain bad kids in countries that don’t have a welfare system?
    
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    March 12, 2018 2:00pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Presumably also bad parents. But according to Nigel Kearney there would not be as many, as there would be no state-paid incentives (and I believe the phrase is) “to breed like rabbits”.
      
      No matter what perverse incentives Nigel Kearney may have rightly identified, it overlooks that in the absence of a welfare state, people historically have as many children as possible, because provision via one’s offspring is the universal welfare and retirement plan. ?
      
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      March 12, 2018 2:42pm
fernglas

In a very interesting recent decision, the Court of Appeal has found that when imposing sentence for a second strike offence, the sentencing court is bound to take into account the fact that the legislation requires the offender to serve the full term of his sentence. This means that a sentence less than what might have been otherwise appropriate for the offence can be imposed to meet the interests of justice. In effect, the Court has read a requirement that sentencing Judges take into account manifest injustice even though that is not a statutory requirement.

In this particular case, the offender’s first strike offence was sex with a girl between 12 and 16, which Parliament has decreed to be a “serious violent offence” The Court has said that the absence of actual violence (in this case it was consensual sex between an 18 year old and a 14 year old) can also be taken into account in determining whether a lesser sentence can be imposed.
David Garrett will be apoplectic. Not only has the Court of Appeal read in a requirement that was apparently deliberately omitted by Parliament, but they are saying that even if an offence has been declared by Parliament to be a serious violent offence, if there hasn’t been any actual violence, it can be more or less overlooked in the right case.

Barnes v R [2018] NZCA 42 (9 March 2018)
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March 12, 2018 11:11am
- mikenmild
  
  Seems to me that is just judges doing what they are supposed to be doing.
  
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  March 12, 2018 2:42pm
dime

when some loser does a runner from the cops and dies, i do my best not to laugh.

i do have sympathy for the passengers though, while there is a good chance they are also pieces of shit.. Dime has been in cars with lunatics as a youngster. they could quite easily have done a runner from the cops and there isnt much ya can do from the passenger seat.

but sympathy is all they get.

on what lunatic planet should we make a rule that cops cant chase losers? my god.
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March 12, 2018 11:32am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Cost-benefit for chases is appalling. Much cheaper to take picture of plate and crush the car later, and if you can work out driver identity later then hammer them too.
  
  Be cool if we could deploy a centrally controlled tracking drone from roof of all police cars.
  
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  March 12, 2018 12:18pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    You’re obviously assuming that the car isn’t stolen, but most of them are.
    
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    March 12, 2018 12:41pm
  - DigNap15
    
    In this case the cost to benefit ratio is very good.
    He has done lots of burglaries etc.
    So what has that cost us all in lost goods, mental worry, and insurance premiums.
    And what would he have cost us in the future. More crimes, benefits, producing ferals, prison time.
    
    He is going to do a long stretch now
    (Make up for the two short lags he did)
    
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    March 12, 2018 12:52pm
  - dime
    
    lol whats the cost beneft ratio of letting a loser walk free?
    
    been a victim of crime lately?
    
    fuck em.
    
    they can all drive into a pole as far as im concerned.
    
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    March 12, 2018 2:44pm
- rangitoto
  
  Next they will be calling for the cops not to arrest anyone as the crims might resist arrest and someone could get hurt.
  
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  March 12, 2018 12:24pm
  - sooty
    
    Just shoot them. Saves everyone trouble.
    
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    March 12, 2018 2:16pm
- mandk
  
  Trouble is, dime, the scum fleeing the police sometimes kill innocents in other vehicles:
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/102187533/triple-fatal-car-crash-victims-named
  
  Carmen Marie Yanko was up early on Sunday morning to set up her market stall.
  
  At least she will be missed.
  
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  March 12, 2018 1:50pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  I have sympathy for the poor woman killed in the other car, but in this case, given what we now know of the passenger in the car who dies, the ending is somewhat poetic! Good riddance!
  
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  March 12, 2018 2:35pm
  - RF
    
    Wait.. there is more.
    
    Cindy is going to have a conversation concerning the failing to stop crashes.
    
    Watch for the cloud of fairy dust…..
    
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    March 12, 2018 4:46pm
Ross12

I have not watched the Sunday program on TV1 for years but last night, out of boredom, I was flicking channels and caught the piece on kids and tech devices and how addictive they are. It was very interesting and they backed up the “idea” of addiction with MRI scans to prove it. The little experiment with the family was quite revealing.
While with the kids in the piece it was obviously the games they were getting addicted to and not the device as such, it does show that schools have to careful with the push to doing everything on a device.
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March 12, 2018 11:32am
Captain Mainwaring

How do idiots like this end up in public office?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12011026
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March 12, 2018 11:45am
- fernglas
  
  Enough other idiots vote for them.
  
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  March 12, 2018 11:50am
Ross12

Interesting data out of the Italian election.
75% of first time voters voted against establishment parties. They went for parties with strong anti immigration policies and a party that also had a universal minimum income policy.
So the young Italians can see through the immigration issue. Wake up other EU countries!

https://www.termometropolitico.it/1292514_elezioni-politiche-2018-segmenti-sociali.html
(NB. If the link reads a little strangely it is because I used the Chrome translation option for the article written in Italian )
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March 12, 2018 12:12pm
- mikenmild
  
  Does anyone really care that Hamilton is called Hamilton? And can anyone of those who profess to care tell me who the city is named for (no googling, now)?
  
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  March 12, 2018 12:23pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Was originally a military outpost built by General Cameron when he invaded the Waikato in the 1860s to bring Tainui to heel. Like nearby Raglan, I’m guessing some military figure in the then-recently completed Crimean War, of maybe the subsequent Indian Mutiny. Or some big wig in the British Colonial Office at the time.
    
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    March 12, 2018 12:34pm
  - Kimbo
    
    But irrespective of the origins of the name (and I did google it. Can see why revisionists, and Maori activists want it changed)
    
    …the name has some 150 years of continuity and history. Shit, the 1956 Springboks famously lost the first game of their tour there!
    
    I mean, ok, Whanganui was always a correction of a nonsensical mis-spelling. But you shouldn’t be able to expunge 150 years of continuity. And sure, ‘Mt Egmont’ was an ugly name, and ‘Taranaki’ was always the name of the district, so it had General currency. But Hamilton is ok, albeit a bit whitebread.
    
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    March 12, 2018 12:53pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Hah:
      Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, the popular Scottish commander of HMS Esk, who was killed in the battle of Gate Pā, Tauranga.
      Well, that’s terrific, isn’t it? Pehaps Tauranga should be renamed Hamilton, while Hamilton becomes Kirikiriroa (long strip of cultivated land).
      
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      March 12, 2018 1:05pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Kirikiribogans pupuru rtd
        
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        March 12, 2018 4:56pm
    - RF
      
      Many years ago I was told by an elderly Wanganui gentleman that when he was a lad he and his friends used to find scattered human bones in the sand hills.
      
      He indicated that going by the number of smashed in skulls and other broken bones there were literally dozens & dozens of bodies. He figured they were killed in battle and not given a proper burial.
      
      Any Wanganui historians on here aware of major battles near the beach ?
      
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      March 12, 2018 4:42pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Which beach do you mean?
        If you mean South Beach.. then a couple of battles/ Massacres of Whanganui maori at Putiki (by Te Rauparaha) 1819, 1829 could be involved.
        
        If you mean Castlecliff Beach or those further north…Kai iwi/Nukumaru/Waitotara then you have a series of attacks on the Nga Rauru Kitahi in the 1820s by Te Rauparaha and Northern Taranaki tribes.
        
        Richard Taylor (early missionary in the Wanganui area.. talks of finding Moa bones throughout the West coast dune system, but doesn’t mention human burials/bones)
        
        The other thing to remember is that all the coastal terrace country from Mosstown-St Johns Hill and out along the Great North Road to Waitotara is sand-dune country. Some of the sand-dune systems I knew as a kid are now stabilised as pasture or forest-lots. The old chap might have been referring to inland dunes where massacres took place.
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:39pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Captain John Hamilton is who Hamilton City is named after. ?
    
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    March 12, 2018 2:41pm
    - mikenmild
      
      And your reason for caring?
      
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      March 12, 2018 2:43pm
      - Jack5
        
        That’s a meaningless quip, Milky.
        
        More typical of the Stephiestani trolls than of you.
        
        It might be appropriate, though, for a Waikato person to ask why should you, Milky, a Wellingtonian, care about Hamilton’s name?
        
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        March 12, 2018 3:41pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Exactly Jack5.
        mm: I like facts. Good enough for you?! ?
        
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        March 12, 2018 4:53pm
- Manolo
  
  Imagine if KFC tries this approach in South Auckland:
  https://www.indy100.com/article/restaurant-charing-white-people-more-racial-wealth-disparity-new-orleans-tunde-wey-nigeria-food-8250341
  
  A restaurant in New Orleans is hoping to raise awareness of racial wealth differences in the country by charging white customers more.
  
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  March 12, 2018 1:01pm
Surely Knott

Labour MP has been donning her best red dress and jumping outside of her own electorate and visiting kindergartens in the neighbouring national voing electorate, along with the labour local board chair and campaign manager to teach the wee kiddies about plastic bags. I’m a bit over the mp’s plying their political trade inside schools and kindergartens. I’ve had a talk to my kids about why politicians come to schools.
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March 12, 2018 1:01pm
DigNap15

Plastic bags area great.
Its just the ferals that litter them and don’t respect our enviroment.
We need a Singapore style anti litter law!
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March 12, 2018 1:43pm
Huevon

We almost had Bill English, instead we have this…

As if we didn’t have enough to admire about our Prime Minister already, she’s just given us new goals when it comes to dealing with your partner’s ex.

http://spy.nzherald.co.nz/spy-news/the-ex-files-jacinda-clarke-and-hollie-get-cosy/
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March 12, 2018 2:15pm
- RF
  
  I see Jethro is thinking… shit I should have stayed with Hollie.
  
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  March 12, 2018 2:56pm
- MCos
  
  What are you reading that gossip?
  
  What were you hoping for? Pictures of them scratching each other’s eyes out or something?
  
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  March 12, 2018 3:32pm
- cmm
  
  The PM’s current boyfriend does not really seem enamored by her, apart from the gold-digging prospects of her being a “jackpot”. The chick brinking in half a million and gone most of the time would seem a good deal to the professional bachelor.
  
  I’ve never seen a photo where he looks really relaxed and happy. It’s normally some picture where he has that “all I signed up for was a new boat?” look about him.
  
  http://apn.pd.ak.o.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net/pd/1308227299001/1308227299001_5544431588001_5544410221001-vs.jpg?pubId=1308227299001&videoId=5544410221001
  
  We know he can look happy and smile: http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/wpgo/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/jacinda-ardern-clarke-gayford-7.jpg
  
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  March 12, 2018 4:20pm
  - RF
    
    The photo of the couple has this I’ve been here before look.
    
    Going by his track record it’s rough seas ahead.
    
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    March 12, 2018 4:30pm
Komata

Is the PM THAT gormless, or is she just totally socially unaware??

Her ‘boyfriend’ fancies himself doesn’t he – and his (supposed?) ex as well..?

(And we thought that ‘swinging’ was oh, so sixties..)

Tears before bedtime (metaphorically at least) at some stage, methinks.
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March 12, 2018 2:58pm
cha

Since when did the US and the ROK need the permission of a murderous thug to hold military exercises?
/

That’s critical,” Pompeo said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “He’s allowed to continue — us to continue our exercises on the peninsula, something that’s been fought over for decades.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cias-pompeo-on-north-korea-talks-this-administration-has-its-eyes-wide-open/
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March 12, 2018 3:58pm
DigNap15

Not strikes Jacinda promised!
Another one announced today in Lyttleton.
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March 12, 2018 4:04pm
- RF
  
  Yep.. Port Workers start their industrial action tonight.
  
  Someone should tell the commie chick.
  
  She will want to have a conversation.
  
  So let’s not do this.
  
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  March 12, 2018 4:21pm
Nostradamus

Mikenmild, if you’re still around, could you tell us if your hard work has been rewarded with a suitably generous public sector pension?

Wellington’s elite streets are all about views and proximity to the CBD

🙂
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March 12, 2018 4:29pm
- nasska
  
  A sleepout at the back of the Quarry Inn to a penthouse in Oriental Bay.
  
  How the Left prosper under Labour! 🙂
  
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  March 12, 2018 4:37pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    Mikenmild seemed defensive in the Hamilton discussion above (“Does anyone really care that Hamilton is called Hamilton?”). I wonder if he’s worried that Hamilton might be muscling in on his Quarry Inn clients?
    
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    March 12, 2018 4:40pm
    - nasska
      
      We’ll have to question him subtly Nostra. My guess is that it’ll have something to do with Hamilton being the chlamydia capital of NZ.
      
      He probably figures that “Kirikiriroa Klap” won’t sound so off-putting. 🙂
      
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      March 12, 2018 4:45pm
Nostradamus

From Nasska’s “Religion Today” segment:

Lightning strikes Rwanda church, killing 16 and injuring 140

How can we rationalise this? God works in mysterious ways?
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March 12, 2018 4:47pm
- nasska
  
  He missed a king hit on 140 of them?
  
  God’s getting a bit rusty with His smiting lately. 🙂
  
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  March 12, 2018 4:53pm
- Kimbo
  
  At the risk of presuming to intrude on the erudite discussion of two theological heavyweights, but “the ~~rain~~ lightening falls on the just and the unjust” (Matthew 5:45) should cover it.
  
  Along with “do you think they were more guilty than all the others…? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will perish”. (Luke 13: 4b, 5),
  
  You’re welcome. ?
  
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  March 12, 2018 5:19pm
  - nasska
    
    Ecclesiastical wet blanket! 🙂
    
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    March 12, 2018 5:24pm
    - Kimbo
      
      You shameless flatterer. ?
      
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      March 12, 2018 5:30pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Kimbo:
    
    two theological heavyweights
    
    I’ll have you know that I received an Achievement in Bible Memorisation certificate a while back. You might sniff and put it in the same category as Penny’s good citizen award, but it takes a lot of effort to download a certificate and print it, you know!
    
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    March 12, 2018 5:29pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Glad to see. At least it’s not an Indulgence. No doubt you are an expert in reciting the Ten Commandments, “ you shall not covet thy neighbours ass”, and all that.
      
      Once had a vicar, now a bishop who admitted he did once read, “blessed are the cheese makers” from the pulpit.
      
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      March 12, 2018 5:33pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Kimbo:
        
        The Ten Commandments are too dreary for me. I prefer this list:
        
        Commandment 1: Marriages are made in heaven. But, so again, are thunder and lightning.
        
        Commandment 2: If you want your wife to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
        
        Commandment 3: Marriage is grand — and divorce is at least 100 grand!
        
        Commandment 4: Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.
        
        Commandment 5: When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: Either the car is new or the wife is.
        
        Commandment 6: Marriage is when a man and woman become as one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
        
        Commandment 7: Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you say. After marriage, he will fall asleep before you finish.
        
        Commandment 8: Every man wants a wife who is beautiful, understanding, economical, and a good cook. But the law allows only one wife.
        
        Commandment 9: Marriage and love are purely a matter of chemistry. That is why a wife treats her husband like toxic waste.
        
        Commandment 10: A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished..
        
        Bonus Commandment story: A long married couple came upon a wishing well. The wife leaned over, made a wish and threw in a penny. The husband decided to make a wish too. But he leaned over too much, fell into the well, and drowned. The wife was stunned for a moment but then smiled, “It really works.”
        
        You’re welcome 🙂
        
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        March 12, 2018 5:37pm
      - Longknives
        
        “Once had a vicar, now a bishop who admitted he did once read, “blessed are the cheese makers” from the pulpit.”
        
        Obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products…
        
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        March 12, 2018 5:37pm
      - nasska
        
        Fonterra have been reduced to paying backhanders to the priests to promote their crap. 🙂
        
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        March 12, 2018 5:42pm
      - rangitoto
        
        The ULC offers free online ordination. It’s only US$20 to get a DD.
        
        https://www.themonastery.org/catalog/drofdivinitycertificatedd-p-68.html
        
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        March 12, 2018 5:43pm
DigNap15

I heard the Mayor of Hamilton on Larry show just now.
At first I thought it was a female caller!

The lying bastard said he just want to have a debate. And yet he has asked the council staff to do a report on the idea!

When are the next local body elections?
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March 12, 2018 5:59pm
DigNap15

It really is time to serious upgrade the minimum punishments for running from the police.
I have just heard that they are just fined!
And who pays a fine anyway!
It some instant minimum jail time for everyone in the car.
And reimbursement of any damage caused BEFORE they are let out.
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March 12, 2018 6:02pm
Jack5

It’s like Mad Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Another multiculturism disaster.

Students are pressuring British university lecturers to lecturers to acknowledge their ‘white privilege’ and examine the idea that white people enjoy advantages in life simply because of the colour of their skin.

They want them to attend special awareness classes.

It comes as Britain’s first black university vice-chancellor backed students who demanded the removal of a Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford University.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5488933/Lecturers-attend-workshops-understand-white-privilege.html
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March 12, 2018 6:05pm
- Kimbo
  
  They were doing the same thing in UK and American universities back in Powell’s heyday in the 1960s too. And France in 1968 especially. In fact today’s “radicals” are timid compared to the actual protests, violence, destruction of property and re-education “teach ins” of that era.
  
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  March 12, 2018 6:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    Hi Kimbo, hope things are still going well …
    
    The French student revolt of 1968 doesn’t seem to have been about race, as the current discontent in Britain is. From Wikipedia:
    
    The unrest began with a series of student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism and traditional institutions, values and order. It then spread to factories with strikes involving 11 million workers, more than 22% of the total population of France at the time, for two continuous weeks…
    
    … It was the largest general strike ever attempted in France, and the first nationwide wildcat general strike.
    
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    March 12, 2018 7:00pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Thanks, Jack5. Yes.
      
      Sure, the Paris student revolt of 1968 was ostensibly concerned with those things in the first instance (the classic Marxist grab bag)
      
      …but as ethnic studies, feminism, eco-activism and LGBT studies share the same dialectic epistemology, but take a step beyond Marxism’s exclusive economic concern, they are cut from the same cloth. Hence Marxism’s objections to imperialism are usually couched in a denunciation of alleged racism. Hence on American campuses at the same time, groups like the anti-Vietnam War protesters and Marxist Weathermen were cooperating with the likes of the Black Panthers.
      
      And I’m pretty sure this “hero” from Paris 1968, “Dany le Rouge/Danny the Red” has no problem adding anti-racism to the list of things his revolution will overthrow.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cohn-Bendit
      
      Mind you, that reference is likely to summon EAD with his familiar Leon Trotsky/Lev Davidovich Bronstein talking point. 😉
      
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      March 12, 2018 7:13pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        And I’m pretty sure this “hero” from Paris 1968, “Dany le Rouge/Danny the Red” has no problem adding anti-racism to the list of things his revolution will overthrow
        
        You make the Jewish overthrow of Western Civilisation seem so quaint and innocuous ✡Kimbo✡ – much like a lazy Sunday traffic free walk down the Seine.
        
        Go ask the French people (the actual French people – not those like (((Sarkozy))) ) what they think of their 1968 inspired égalitariste/multiculturel Nation where they face demographic oblivion.
        
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        March 12, 2018 7:57pm
      - Kimbo
        
        That’s me, EAD. Always willing to have a laugh at the expense of the “multiple gunmen on the grassy knoll” tin foil hat brigade. ?
        
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        March 12, 2018 8:03pm
      - mikenmild
        
        EAD should be more worried about rugby: “the Blues will not replace us/”
        
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        March 12, 2018 8:10pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Kimbo at 7.13pm: “Mind you, that reference is likely to summon EAD”.
        
        EAD appears at 7.57pm.
        
        I think, with a bit of teamwork, you guys can improve on the 44 minute summon-to-appearance time. Perhaps the Kiwiblog community can help? Is the issue Kimbo (summoning spell isn’t strong enough) or EAD (too many online discussions to monitor)?
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:01pm
      - Kimbo
        
        I’m just thinking if “Nazi whisperer” would look good on my CV…? ?
        
        Nah, fuck it. Gotta be the second option. EAD must have a plethora of websites to monitor, what with that clandestine worldwide (((conspiracy))) to expose.
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:12pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        I think, with a bit of teamwork, you guys can improve on the 44 minute summon-to-appearance time. Perhaps the Kiwiblog community can help? Is the issue Kimbo (summoning spell isn’t strong enough) or EAD (too many online discussions to monitor)?
        
        The explanation is much more prosaic – kids into bed, cooking dinner, calls with folks in Singapore/Hong Kong, reading and occasionally a run with the dog tend to dominate my evening schedule before 10pm.
        
        A bit of Kiwiblog, Stuff & Zerohedge to distract in the moments in between…
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:07pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Shit, with such a busy schedule it’s a wonder you guys ever had enough time to schedule and plan Kristallnacht.
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:17pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Funny isn’t it.
        
        (((Modern History))) teaches the horrors of a spontaneous reaction to provocation that killed at max a couple of dozen whilst pretty much memory holing the planned massacres of millions in the Red Terror or Armenian Genocide.
        
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        March 12, 2018 10:24pm
Nostradamus

InternGate 2.0?

Sexual misconduct alleged at boozy Labour Party camp

Scandal 1:

The Labour Party has been hit with claims that four young supporters were sexually assaulted at one of its annual ‘Summer School’ camps near Waihi last month. The four – two males and two females – are all 16 and were allegedly assaulted or harassed by a 20-year-old man during a wild party on the second night of the camp. Newsroom has been told the man was intoxicated and put his hand down the pants of at least three of the four young people.

Scandal 2:

According to witnesses, a large variety of alcohol was available on Saturday night and many people, including a 15-year-old boy, were drinking. The “mountain” of alcohol included rum, vodka, cider and a large array of RTDs. Newsroom has seen videos of drunken scenes and at least one man stripped to the waist dancing on a table. Videos and photographs appeared on social media as the party raged into the early hours of the morning.

What a shame Ztev can’t join us to explain why there’s nothing to see here…
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March 12, 2018 6:08pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Actually, on reflection, potential scandal 3:
  
  Newsroom has learnt that one of the camp’s organisers has been in touch with the victims and informed them the incident had been reported to Labour’s Head Office. She is understood to have apologised on behalf of Young Labour and offered to support them in any way she could.
  
  Sources have told Newsroom that Young Labour has pledged it can do more to ensure the safety of young people at its camps and is reviewing its event management. Newsroom has heard that some of those attending the event are upset the response and offers of support have not come quickly enough.
  
  Labour’s General Secretary, Andrew Kirton said he was aware of the incident and was currently, “working through it”. Kirton told Newsroom he will soon provide a detailed response on the incident.
  
  It sounds like Labour HQ is treating this as an internal matter. Have the Police been notified? If not, why not?
  
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  March 12, 2018 6:22pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Newsroom has been told the man was intoxicated and put his hand down the pants of at least three of the four young people”….
  
  That should ensure him of a high list placing in the 2020 elections. 🙂
  
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  March 12, 2018 6:23pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    If he’d put his hand down the pants of the 2 guys, and left the 2 gals alone, he might have scored a golden ticket to the Rainbow Faction!
    
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    March 12, 2018 6:26pm
    - Longknives
      
      And VIP Discount entry to Phil Goff’s ‘Kiwifist’ Festival?..
      
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      March 12, 2018 6:30pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Remember the interns?
  This story will end up in the same trash can.
  Sux for the kids involved to be treated like meat on the night and then discarded and trodden on a a sacrifice to Jacinda today.
  
  Fucking Labour Party and it’s hanger-ons. Disgraceful bunch of arseholes.
  
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  March 12, 2018 6:53pm
nasska

This much I know:

Yesterday’s mega hyped cyclone turned into a damp squib. No one was blown out of their houses…..in the Far North the winds weren’t even brisk & the rain was…..wet.

The MSM will no doubt continue to push storm porn in their desperate bid for readers/viewers. One day, however, their greed will cause deaths when a jaded populace ignore media warnings of an actual threat seeing them as more click bait.
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March 12, 2018 7:16pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Nasska:
  
  Seeing as you’re on holiday in the Far North, you should pay Griff a visit, and find out how he’s holding up!
  
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  March 12, 2018 7:31pm
- GazzaW
  
  I’ve got news for the Herald. If you’re living in Auckland then Tropical Cyclone Hola sure ain’t tropical and it sure as hell ain’t a cyclone. Just steady constant rain, a light wind and bloody chilly. A typical winter’s night.
  
  We’re really over your alarmist BS.
  
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  March 12, 2018 7:51pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    GazzaW:
    
    Do you remember Cyclone Cook?
    
    The worst of Cyclone Cook is over, leaving some wondering: “Was that really it?”
    
    Forecasts said the storm would be the worst since 1968, when Cyclone Giselle sank the Wahine in Wellington’s harbour. Auckland and Wellington were reportedly in its path, so city folk left work early, secured their trampolines, and waited. The New Zealand Transport Agency warned an “unprecedented” closing of Auckland’s Harbour Bridge was possible.
    …
    However, the storm weakened, and headed east.
    
    Every cloud has a silver lining and, based on the Cyclone Cook experience, we now know that a simple declaration of cyclone will clear out Auckland CBD and solve the traffic congestion problem… temporarily!
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:02pm
    - MH
      
      but not on Al Jazeera where they ticker taped 120kmh winds up North.
      
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      March 13, 2018 1:01pm
- mikenmild
  
  Cyclone truthers?
  What are ‘they’ hiding?
  I encourage you to simply ignore weather warnings.
  
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  March 12, 2018 9:31pm
stigie

Fucking Labour Pardy, always had their hands in your pockets, now they have their fucking hands down your pants..?
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March 12, 2018 8:11pm
- Nostradamus
  
  No need to worry, Stigie, old chap. Morrissey is on the case!
  
  Did I hear a rumour that the 2019 Labour Summer School camp will be held in Hagley Park?
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:14pm
  - nasska
    
    Totally unbiased Morrissey is. This scandal will leapfrog all the others. // 🙂
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:18pm
  - stigie
    
    It wasn’t a rumour if you got that from Dad Nostra..?
    
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    March 12, 2018 8:21pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stigie:
      
      That could be my source. Dad has super-sleuth abilities – he recently outed David Garrett as having had a bad date with a “Caroline”. Not sure how Dad found out, as David lives in Auckland, Caroline supposedly lives in Wellington and Dad lives in Christchurch!
      
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      March 12, 2018 8:25pm
      - stigie
        
        That heated exchange between DG and Dad is the first time i have seen it Nostra. Dad is one angry motherfucker that certainly needs help for sure.
        For a bloke to carry on like that against someone who posts under their own name is not on !~
        
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        March 12, 2018 9:14pm
stigie

Can you imagine if this was National Nostra, every second post would be from the Morris Dancer !~
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March 12, 2018 8:18pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Stigie:
  
  I can imagine an endless stream of posts at The Standard, and (not sure if this is a positive thing) Gabby might find a new interest to replace his ponytail obsession.
  
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  March 12, 2018 8:21pm
Jack5

Whale linked to this video by Katie Hopkins.

It’s white hot, but make up your own mind about it.

https://youtu.be/YVxud9OOIvE
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