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slightlyrighty

Following the revelation in the Election Campaign that Winston had been overpaid superannuation for 7 years, the media was full of stories about how Winston was initiating legal proceedings against Journalists and high ranking members of National, including Bill English and Paula Bennett.
This went on for weeks, and had a very tangible effect on the coalition negotiations, and was highlighted as a possible factor in NZ First going with Labour. It certainly contributed to a certain amount of tension between National and Winston.
It was often mentioned in the Media at that time as well.
So I find myself stunned that yesterday, Winston not only withdrew the Lawsuit, but actually paid costs to those he instigated proceedings against.
What is particularly and gallingly evident is how this has been reported in the media, in that it mostly hasn’t been. I can only find one article on Stuff, and there has been no mention on TV and Radio.
Given the implications and the effects of the Winston initiated process, this should be reported in far greater depth than it was, but then it would be contrary to the MSM narrative, wouldn’t it?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/beehive-live/101869326/winston-peters-drops-national-party-lawsuit
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March 1, 2018 8:00am
- brett68
  
  According to Radio Pravda, it’s still all go
  
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/351512/peters-legal-action-against-national-party-continuing-lawyer
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:03am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    The question then, is why has Wayne Eagleson been quoted as saying it’s all over and in a statement has said that he is pleased with the outcome?
    
    Winston telling Porkies again?
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:10am
    - brett68
      
      The initial story you linked to has been updated.
      
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      March 1, 2018 8:31am
    - Gabby
      
      Cos Wayne’s a truthful wee fella. He dint spin nuttin.
      
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      March 2, 2018 7:27am
  - Paulus
    
    Doesn’t Winston’s Lawyer somebody Henry sound as though he has had lessons from Luigi Peters on how to avoid questions and bullshit. His slow voice tones could be Peters.
    Could be more fun to come as Peters fails to ignite the media any more so he and his Lawyer keep trying hard.
    Has cost them real money so pay for the work he made a number of people do for his edification.
    I see that he has let the media off – that’s a laugh for a start with the to reprobates concerned whom you would have trouble ever believing.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:29am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Yes, I thought the same when I heard Brian Henry being interviewed (or having a verbal exchange as they described it) by Espiner on Red Radio.
      
      Points to note:
      1. The legal action is still possible, because he (Henry) hasn’t yet decided who they are filling claims against, if indeed he does;
      2. Henry himself admitted on the radio that it was Peters, himself who told the world about his superannuation problem. Apparently, he did this to mitigate a possible story he had become aware of. So, no damage was done to Peters reputation or his privacy by anyone, but Peters;
      3. Any action being taken by Peters is a civil one under the “tort of breach of privacy”, not the Privacy Act.
      
      So although, Peters lawyer is telling the world the case had not been dropped. There is no case, just Pest for all Reasons/Seasons and his lawyer threatening on the airwaves that there might be legal action action the named National Party MPs and staffers.
      
      All that is left to say, what a pair of low life’s Peters & his lawyer are & to think Peters is Deputy PM.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:49am
      - thedavincimode
        
        hullkiwi, just trying to make some sense of the apparently contradictory points 1 & 2, but does it come down to this: the poisoned dwarf leaked it and is keeping his options open regarding the possibility of suing himself?
        
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        March 1, 2018 2:06pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        DMC,
        You spotted it. Henry admitted clearly that:
        “Peter’s who released the info about his superannuation at the end of August 2017. This was in to mitigate in advance of a story that his client was aware of because he had been contacted about”.
        
        Second
        Proceedings have not been initiated against anyone.
        The claim is Peters’ privacy was breached, this begs 2 questions, what was the extent of the privacy breach; and by whom?
        
        Given what I heard on the radio, I suspect there is no case against the National 6 that would stick. However, for costs of $10k plus Henry’s cost it seems an expensive way to exact utu.
        
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        March 1, 2018 3:19pm
    - suzieq
      
      Couldn’t disagree more about Tim Murphy. Don’t know Mr Burr.
      
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      March 1, 2018 12:18pm
  - Paulus
    
    And Peters’s Lawyer on RNZ this morning – it will be stretched to the next election.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:30am
- KiWombat
  
  I suppose he will be able to claim the payment as some form of legitimate election expense – or at least an electorate expense.
  
  Either way, we pay for it !
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:05am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Why would even bother claiming it as legitimate?
    
    It’s not like the old thief would be held to account.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:09am
    - GazzaW
      
      It seems to be a case of gradual retraction. This is far too big a rat for WFP to swallow in one go.
      
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      March 1, 2018 8:16am
      - Paulus
        
        GazzaW
        
        WRP – you forgot the Raymond part we all know he is a F but not in his name.
        
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        March 1, 2018 8:32am
      - Right of way is Way of Right
        
        Has Winston been getting lessons on how to walk back from Phil Twitford? Seems to be a common theme in this coalition. No trees, no affordable houses, change the name of the TPPA…..
        
        Spineless backsliding pricks, the lot of them!
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:28am
      - hullkiwi
        
        RowiWoR,
        Yesterday it was reported Twatford had received a report from MBIE that some his modelling was wrong & the homes would probably be unaffordable.
        
        Well, this is not a sucker punch for Twitty Twatford, remember he has told us that one of his problems to getting KiwiBuild going has been the RMA. So, guess what is being worked on at the moment both for KiwiBuild & to give ministerial authority for LRT in Auckland.
        
        Because it is the CoL guess what, the Greens & NZ First will swallow Twitford’s version of the RMA. What is more Twitford’s version will make Nick SMith’s version look democratic, Twitford’s version is anything but!
        
        This will be part of a package including announcements about light rail for Auckland.
        
        You have been warned, the govt’s first 100 days gave maternity leave & fixing poverty….next it is solving housing & Auckland transport congestion…
        
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        March 1, 2018 12:54pm
      - Right of way is Way of Right
        
        DO you think twitford might be taking notes from the new president of South Africa?
        
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        March 1, 2018 3:15pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      As they say, it is OK to be anti democratic when the left do it!
      
      Key place to watch also is the budget.
      
      These warnings are for real & the parliamentary National Party need to be certain they are not caught flat footed on this!
      
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      March 1, 2018 3:23pm
- fernglas
  
  Just to be pedantic, the discovery process he went through was pre-proceeding, and in such a case the Judge has the power to order costs to be paid against the person seeking the order, so the fact that he has paid costs is neither here nor there. Whether he goes to the next stage, and issues proceedings against people who have been identified as a result of the discovery process, is more interesting. He was boasting that he had been given more information than he needed by those against whom the discovery orders had been made, but it has yet to translate into a filed claim, and despite what Brian Henry said to Radio NZ, it can’t be that hard to formulate.
  
  I bet we see nothing
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:19am
  - Paul Marsden
    
    When the Court orders costs to be paid by the plaintiff (especially in the preliminary stage of the matter), that could be interpreted as a strong signal by the Judge, that the plaintiff is probably pissing into the wind.
    
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    March 1, 2018 12:06pm
    - fernglas
      
      Not at all; it is specifically provided for in the Civil Procedure Rules. The Judge is unlikely to know much more about the case than he was told in the affidavit filed by Peters in support of the discovery application.
      
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      March 1, 2018 1:43pm
      - alex Masterley
        
        Actually the affidavit was filed on Peters behalf.
        I understand the deponent was in fact Cliff Lyons an Auckland lawyer.
        
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        March 1, 2018 3:33pm
  - thedavincimode
    
    the ~~discovery process~~ fishing expedition he went through because he didn’t have doodly squat and was just hoping to get lucky
    
    My pleasure fernglas.
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:10pm
  - thedavincimode
    
    And this is an opportune moment to apologise to Westie Woman for suggesting she was the leak.
    
    Who ‘da think it was the septic gnome himself. Seriously, just how pissed was he when he dreamed this idea up?
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:13pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Starting with one M. Hootton who has been something of a cheer leader for the CoL & who on more than one occasion has inferred it was Westie Woman.
      
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      March 1, 2018 6:02pm
- peterwn
  
  In fairness to the media, they do not have much to report. Those on the receiving end of a lawsuit are well advised to shut up. If matters are settled out of court there would generally be confidentiality orders apart from the parties perhaps giving an agreed statement, apology etc.
  A litigant may try to seek a court order for ‘third party’ discovery from someone than the named defendants and that person is entitled to have reasonable costs met. That would usually occur without fuss or media attention.
  Firstly the two journos he tried to sue (or sought discovery against) were gloating (to the disgust of some people) when discovery attempts failed or yielded little or nothing of interest.
  Now the suits against some of the others have failed and it seems the costs awarded against Winston are substantially more than for discovery.
  It now seems that the information collected through discovery is less than what Winston hoped for and while he could theoretically proceed against the remainder the chances of success are fast diminishing.
  An ordinary person properly advised would most probably let the matter go (or would have some time back). So either Winstons sense of judgment may be impaired (we was a lawyer so would understand these things better than others) or wishes to continue to make life miserable for others by grandstanding even if it costs him some money.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:21am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    There’s no need to continue the lawsuit, because it did what it was intended to do. It took the media’s focus away from the fact that the coalition negotiations with National in September/October were based on a false pretence, i.e. that Peters negotiated in good faith.
    
    Clearly, he had no intention whatsoever of going into government with National, which I for one am relieved about.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:30am
    - thedavincimode
      
      So KS, any more goss on the source in w1st? I recall you were onto this a not so long ago.
      
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      March 1, 2018 2:18pm
  - flipper
    
    If he does, will it be the fishing or horse gambling industries that meet the cost?
    Either way, the whole business is immoral, but a typical Luigi diversion.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:12am
    - peterwn
      
      It should be the fishing industry as he is on a fishing expedition.
      
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      March 1, 2018 12:09pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Best slapping of Espiner ever by Brian Henry, the solicitor for Winston Raymond Peters.
  
  Worth a listen just to hear Espiner get reamed. The arrogance of the man is breath taking so Henry telling Espiner here that he is an obnoxious twat (my spin) is uplifting and a great way to begin the first day of March.
  
  Winston Peters’ National MPs legal action going ahead
  
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018634171
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:31am
  - peterwn
    
    Seems to be lots of quick damage control this morning on Winston’s part. He lost the first round against the two journos, he has lost the second round against some of those he is trying to nail – this is fairly obvious as they are talking (if there were agreed settlements they would shut up). Seems he now has little basis to proceed with the third round but needs to, to save face.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:05am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And Paula remained Deputy Leader despite the supposed scuttlebutt.
      
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      March 1, 2018 7:26pm
  - Liberty
    
    “Best slapping of Espiner “
    You would have to be a Winston lick spittle to draw that conclusion.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:48am
  - hullkiwi
    
    I heard the interview & heard the other way.
    Espiner got out of Henry that it was Peters who leaked the story;
    That there are no proceedings at this stage; and he (Henry) hasn’t determined if there will be.
    So, it was a damage limitation exercise on behalf of Peters, using his lawyer to front instead of himself. Probably to ensure he didn’t get into a bigger hole of his own making.
    
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    March 1, 2018 11:02am
    - Happychappy
      
      Again the one eyed media of NZ have helped Winston Peters and his Laywers brain wash NZ’ers and suck them into feeling sorry for this what some would call corrupt Politician. When NZ First is down in the polls or Winston has something to hide we get the same old Tactics the best way to fix it is to slander others to take the heat off him and his Party. Winston Peters leeked his own detail to make himself relevant at the last Election when he and his Party were faced with the prospects of not reaching the 5% thresh hold and desperate people do desperate things when faced with obliteration.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:37am
  - suzieq
    
    I’ll take Mr Espiner over Mr Henry any day.
    
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    March 1, 2018 12:22pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Boy, I wish Kim Hill would get such a treatment a few times. She interrupts everyone, constantly.
    
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    March 1, 2018 1:48pm
- tf78
  
  Apparently he hasn’t withdrawn the lawsuit according to his lawyer Brian Henry this morning.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:54am
  - alex Masterley
    
    The discovery application was a pre-proceeding application.
    The fact that application has been withdrawn doesn’t mean the actual claim has been abandoned.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:16am
    - peterwn
      
      But the wheels are falling off the case.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:47am
      - hullkiwi
        
        From what the journos said & what Henry himself said, it is doubtful that there is even a case. Therefore, there probably never were any wheels to fall off the case in the first place.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:06am
    - Paul Marsden
      
      How does the Court view acquiescence by the plaintiff, in such matters?
      
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      March 1, 2018 12:12pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Wasting the Court’s time you mean?
        
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        March 1, 2018 7:46pm
- Monty
  
  Winston’s lawyer is saying it is full steam ahead. I doubt the case will go ahead because it will mean all documents will be discoverable including the original declaration by winston
  
  But withdrawing now will make winston look like a loser. So he has a condrumdum. His ego isbis the way
  
  And then there is an interesting point highlighted by red radio. Winston outed himself (albeit in all probability the story was going to break anyway but winnie did make first statement to
  Media.
  
  And one more point. How is Winston’s health? If rumours are true he will not have the mental and physical capacity to go through a trial
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:50am
  - peterwn
    
    Brian Henry would do the heavy lifting at any trial. Winston would only need to be involved to give evidence and be cross examined.
    
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    March 1, 2018 12:15pm
KiWombat

Precious GangGreen member GG claims to be offended by the wearing of a certain tee shirt at a University open day.

Now she really had to draw a long bow to connect the dots with this one – must admit I found it to be a bit funny and had a chuckle.

Its such a shame that she was not wearing the same “precious” hat before the election, when she was a little bit light on truth.
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March 1, 2018 8:01am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  The virtue signalling is strong with that one. To the extent of generating nausea.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:12am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I found those shirts almost as offensive as the photograph of a beaming Ms Ghahraman with a man convicted of inciting genocide.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:26am
  - KiWombat
    
    You mean the fellow she “prosecuted?”
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:38am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Yes; Mr Bikini, or something like that.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:59am
- Kimbo
  
  Disagree. I’m no Golriz Ghahraman fan, indeed she was way out of line with her recent “Not a Muslim? Then don’t assume” nonsense.
  
  But Seymour is an idiot. Any politician with a modicum of PR sense should have looked at the t shirt, thought “what would this look like in a photo on Facebook” and declined.
  
  Lots of disaffected right wingers around here saying they’ve had enough of National because of Collins missing out. Don’t agree myself, but nonetheless there should be a place for a party to the right of National, and sure enough one exists: ACT.
  
  So why, when the new coalition government is throwing money around in pork barrel politics in the provinces, and there is the perfect opportunity for ACT to differentiate itself from that, and also National and its new centrist leader, is the discussion surrounding Seymour about a tv ballroom dance competition and doubling down about a t shirt that makes him look like a dinosaur?!
  
  Massive fail.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:37am
  - fernglas
    
    Man’s a wally
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:43am
    - Kimbo
      
      Until now I thought he was just unlucky inheriting a ship that others before him had mismanaged, and he had done ok considering. But for the first time I’m considering you may well be right. But, hey, maybe I’m wrong and there really is a sizeable and politically motivated “Hooters” demographic out there who will propel ACT back to their polling numbers of the late 1990s/early 2000s. ?
      
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      March 1, 2018 8:58am
      - Happychappy
        
        Kimbo he is always shoving the knife in Nationals back to cover his mistakes like this and again he has done the same to Simon Bridges over the West Coast fraud that the new Government and Shane Jones were about to give more money to. For those that think he is good at his job watch him when things go wrong as he is a complete arsehole.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:09am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        I think you’re right Kimbo.
        Seymour is an immature dork. If the ACT contingent want to see some upward movement for their party, they need to get someone who has maturity and sensibility – who can enunciate proper libertarian/right policy and have the right appeal to their constituents.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:13am
  - Random T Person
    
    I just sent David a message of support this morning saying I appreciate a bit of blokey fun as much as the next guy.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:51am
    - Kimbo
      
      Sure, and if Seymour is looking to emulate Kevin Bloody Wilson on the comedy circuit, all power to him. But then as ACT poll around 1%, and have always failed to attract anywhere near as much female support compared to men, I’m not sure “blokey fun” is the right pitch. I get that the likes of Trump have shown there is plenty of fatigue in some circles concerning what is labelled PC, and also that ACT has a strong libertarian strain. But ffs, make sure if you make a stand to highlight the issue, it is one worth fighting, and it will gain you votes!
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:11am
      - ztev
        
        Doesnt Seymour have some agreement with ACTs board on KPIs ?
        One of them is ‘mentions in the media’
        Next month is Dancing with the hasbeens
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:21am
    - GoVege
      
      I just can’t understand what this to-do over a silly t-shirt is.
      It seems to be an invitation to cannibalism by sticking a bull’s head on a human figure….
      Somehow I don’t think that is the issue.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:22am
  - kowtow
    
    O Week.
    
    Entering the spirit of the event. A bit of fun . What’s the problem.
    
    Problem now is the media playing up every hashtag , snowflake, offended this that and the other these days.
    
    If it’s ok for the pollies , police in uniform et al to mince along at a “pride” parade , then what’s the problem with a t shirt ?
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:10am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Because the centre/right are always held to much higher standards by the MSM, because they hate us. It’s as simple as that, and it’s not going to change.
      
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      March 1, 2018 1:54pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    “Massive fail.” ?
    I’d go with ill-judged bit of silliness, but massive fail is wringing it.
    
    No cats up trees today?
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:23am
    - Kimbo
      
      Politics is about messaging. How many potential women voters, not radical left wing feminist SJWs, but ordinary women concerned about making ends meet, and including how much tax their household pays are going to listen when Seymour tries to address that issue
      
      …when the first thing that will pop into their mind is him wearing that t shirt. The key target demographic that wins elections for either the left or right is white middle class women. And as per Maggy Thatcher’s pitch that women knew the practical value of, and supported her ACT-like policies, Seymour needs their ear. So how do you reckon they would react if a guy wearing that t shirt turned up on the door to take out their teenage daughter? And Seymour reckons it’s a bit of fun. Yeah, true, but fun for whom, and at what political cost?
      
      It’s the mismanagement of the seemingly trivia yet visible things that forfeits support, and disqualifies people from political office.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:42am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        I’m not sure white middle class women are that bothered about it.
        Most recognise a beat up when they see one.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:00am
      - Kimbo
        
        In the absence of polling ‘em on the matter, that is presumptuous (never a smart move with any voters, especially women ?), and likely wishful thinking.
        
        Sure, most are smart enough to see Golriz for what she is – and let’s face it, like Angelina Jollee she is likely a woman without many women friends because other women instinctively dislike and distrust her – but the image of Seymour will remain. Like Brash walking the plank, Chris Carter running into the Beehive basement to escape Duncan Garner, or Trevor Mallard in the dock.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:09am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        You’re right Kimbo. ‘Just fun and silliness’ is not a good message for a politician who wants to be trusted and taken seriously.
        
        The point is: even if the T-shirt is harmless in a silly university club setting, politicians need to meet much higher standards, especially centre/right politicians.
        
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        March 1, 2018 1:58pm
      - Random T Person
        
        My wife would vote for Seymour on the basis of that shirt. She is a beautiful woman, no shrinking violet, and also enjoys a bit of a laugh. There are plenty of women out there who will go to a strip club and also enjoy a steak afterwards.
        
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        March 1, 2018 8:28pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Random T Person
        
        Yeah, but aren’t you a Saffer? So I’m assuming the same about your Mrs RTP. Sorry, but usual rules of modern etiquette don’t apply to people who consider the four major food groups are…steak, kudu, ostrich and warthog. ?
        
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        March 1, 2018 8:46pm
- Harkman
  
  The Greens are plonkheads, that are importing the word-police from American and West European campuses.
  
  When it all boils down the Greens hate White males that aren’t feminized Marxists (James “the eunuch” Shaw). Years back Anika Moa said on TV, “I don’t like White people.” I waited the next day for the Greens or anyone to condemn her, nothing. She just went on her merry way milking NZ On Air with no consequences.
  
  Oh yeah, the Little Iranian liar can piss off too.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:56am
  - KiWombat
    
    Seymour was having a bit of fun out and about in the electorate. Good on him – connecting with people.
    
    GG on the other hand was waiting for some air time to advance her moral crusade – and of course the MSM fell for it.
    
    ACT may be somewhat moribund, but at least Seymour was talking to humans rather than cameras ! BAN THE BURQA !
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:39am
    - kowtow
      
      ” crusade ”
      
      Careful , lots of triggers there!
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:12am
- Longknives
  
  Yet Golriz seemingly has no problem with Guy Williams making offensive jokes about Brooke Fraser’s Religious Beliefs and making fun of John Armstrong’s illness …
  
  The hypocrisy is strong on the Left.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:23am
  - Kimbo
    
    Er, no, false equivalence. Guy Williams is a comedian (OK, that’s a matter of taste and opinion. I like him), whereas Seymour is a politician (again, is a matter of taste and opinion) who was campaigning. So judge ’em both on their capacity to reach a target audience with their differing purposes and methods. Williams may have got a laugh. Not sure what Seymour’s message was, so that is a political fail right there.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:38am
    - Longknives
      
      Guy Williams is a Comedian??
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:42am
      - Kimbo
        
        Nah. I’d suggest that’s a failed laugh there, as I cut your telegraphed and easily anticipated reply off at the pass first by saying it was a matter of taste and opinion. ?
        
        Bottomline: Williams and Seymour have different jobs, so, yes, different rules apply. Including judging who has offended needlessly (not a clever move for a politician), and who has not. But then, as you seem to struggle with the essence and purpose of comedy, perhaps that is why you fail to recognise who is – and isn’t – a valid example. Or what constitutes genuine hypocrisy. ?
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:56am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        It came as a surprise to me too Longknives. He’s one of the least funny people around 😀
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:01am
      - Peter
        
        Seymour is funnier than Williams.
        
        One is trying, the other isn’t.
        
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        March 1, 2018 12:12pm
      - MrLovebucket
        
        No. Cancer is actually funnier than Williams.
        
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        March 1, 2018 1:14pm
    - kowtow
      
      I disagree.
      
      The guy’s actually been given a shit load of positive coverage.
      
      Remember , the negativity is only coming from the girly brigade.
      
      The t shirt was blokey , meatey, funny, anti the anti brigade. Great poke in the eye to the “always looking to be offended brigade”.
      
      I might even vote Act next time.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:17am
      - Kimbo
        
        Great. So ACT may have gained one vote from the unabashed right wing “I’ll never vote National after they rejected Collins”/Hooters demographic. Big surge in 2018 on the way.
        
        Questions:
        
        1. How come you don’t vote ACT anyway.
        
        2. Who have you been voting for?
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:30am
      - GoVege
        
        Just didn’t like the “meatey” aspect….
        
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        March 1, 2018 2:29pm
- howitis
  
  The twitter exchange was interesting.
  
  The refugee/activist/defender of mass murderers/Waihopai pest/spies on NZ and reports to the UN :
  … Just ran into David Seymour. He asks: “Would it be ok if I was wearing the man version of the ‘Got Meat’ T-shirts then?”- The answer is no, David. Don’t call anyone a piece of meat using nude cow/human sexualised pictures on campus…it’s totally possible to BBQ without it….
  
  Seymour replied
  ….The MP who thinks it’s ok women should be forced to wear the burqa, who defends men who refuse to shake hands with elected women in New Zealand, also thinks Meat Club t-shirts featuring men and women with cow heads should be the subject of a moral crusade!…
  
  The T shirt may not be wise but it provided the opportunity for Seymour to have a dig at the dodgy Iranian with some facts about the mascara Marxist’s views and actions.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:35am
  - kowtow
    
    Mascara marxist.
    
    Excellent!
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:26am
nasska

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
How to be the most upticked religiously conservative nut on Kiwiblog:

Step 1… Pick 10 random words from the dictionary..

Step 2… Throw them in the air & let them land randomly in any order.

Step 3… Add the words “pro-life”, “anti assisted suicide”, “gay marriage demeans my marriage” or something similar.

Step 4… Smash your face on the keyboard..

Finally.. click submit.. …

Boom! Comment of the day!
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March 1, 2018 8:02am
- Urban Redneck
  
  You really are a sad obsessive whacko. Even at only 8:02 am your quaking about godbotherers. Get a grip you silly old fool, and get therapy for what some priest did to you in the ’50s.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:05am
  - softail 1450
    
    U R, thats the problem,what the priest did to him in the 1940s turned him into a closet fagg and lashing out is his only option.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:27am
- mandk
  
  The quality of your comments is better in the evening, nasska.
  
  Maybe you need a whisky or two to oil your bigotry.
  
  God bless you 🙂
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:08am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  To step 3 you need to add “alt-right” and “Trumpeter”
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:10am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  nasska,
  
  People misunderstand conservatism. It doesn’t automatically mean “resistance to change,” but more like “wanting to keep the good things that have been proven to work.”
  
  Likewise with religion. It’s not about blindly following the “words” but letting oneself be guided when making decisions by the meaning behind the holy text (which after all is a translation of a translation of an edited compilation of diverse source texts).
  
  Lastly, every great oak tree was once a lonely nut.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:10am
- Scott
  
  We do love you nasska however I would have to say that you are so jejune! How are things in atheist headquarters Eketahuna?
  
  Are you surrounded by pro-life,traditional marriage churchgoing Anglicans or have you found an enclave of anti-theist’s?
  
  (Pause while I smash face on keyboard)
  
  Anyway you are an amusing fellow and one day we look forward to having a latte with you at the local cafe 🙂
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:13am
  - GoVege
    
    It’s true nasska, we do love you dearly, and we’d love you even more if you converted to that farm of yours to fruit or nut growing. 🙂
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:33pm
- softail 1450
  
  naaska, swap to “lefty nutbag” and i would assume you were standing in front of a mirror when you made that post you imbecile,
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:21am
- thedavincimode
  
  Well nasska, that wasn’t too well received in the market. 😆 I gave you a tick to get you into double figures despite the fact that I’m sure Step 4 applies to bainiacs.
  
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  March 1, 2018 2:27pm
- Johnboy
  
  Shit nasska. Since Simon and Paula took over KB’s gone all touchy feely nice guy stuff! 🙂
  
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  March 1, 2018 2:32pm
Inandout

I tried to ‘basically’ work out where the Maori fella on Garner basically wanted to get his money from to basically cure the homeless problem. Basically I thought good luck mate.
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March 1, 2018 8:02am
redeye

BREAKING NEWS: Simon and Natalie Bridges have this morning announced they are expecting their fourth child.
“We are absolutely over the moon and to demonstrate our total commitment to equality Simon will be wearing a prosthetic baby bump for the full term of the pregnancy.” said Simon.
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March 1, 2018 8:03am
- KiWombat
  
  – – for unto you is born this day in the city of sails a saviour, who is Christ Gaylord. And this will be a sign for you – it shall be called poriro.
  
  Cindy and WeeWinnie both ecstatic – – –
  
  Placenta interred this day in hallowed ground at Waitangi !
  
  Later disinterred by Jake the pitbull !
  
  Bazinga
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:08am
  - KiWombat
    
    PS Sam – this one is humour !
    
    Don’t start trolling the birth notices just yet !
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:16am
    - sam green
      
      Thanks for the heads up – I really couldn’t tell.
      
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      March 1, 2018 8:35am
- flipper
  
  Well there is contrived, and there is something else. But the point is well made. It is all like telling Clark to marry of she wanted to be Prime Minister.
  Was not that a successful Edwards/Callingham driven exercise ????
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:35am
wiseowl

Pinch and a punch.
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March 1, 2018 8:04am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  White Rabbits
  
  Oh heck – was that discriminatory against rabbits of other colour? Or animals other than rabbits?
  
  Still, the Owl advocates violence!
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:14am
JibberJabber

So with SA deciding to evict White Farmers off their land, the Herald, at least prints it, tho` buries it in the business section, Stuff ignores it completely.
The bloodbath is about to grow exponentially, will NZ step up to take refugees or are they from the wrong part of the planet/religion?
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March 1, 2018 8:06am
- igm
  
  Hell, they are the wrong colour, good workers, and productive members of society!
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:09am
- Random T Person
  
  I’m still here in South Africa. Went from 1994-type positivity, back to the doldrums PDQ with Cyril’s lukewarm cabinet reshuffle, where a lot of the old crooks made it back. And further deepening gloom with the expropriation thing.
  Expect more Safas on our side of the sea, soon.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:10am
- Chris R
  
  The South African Government can legislate all it wants about the confiscation of “white land and property” but they have a problem…a huge one if they try to do so. The short-sighted government forgets that “white ownership” also includes Asian ownership. The investment in South Africa by the Chinese is enormous both at a private commercial level and at a governmental level. If any Chinese assets are confiscated there’ll be an internal fight of such a scale as South Africa has never known. I say, let these morons have a crack at the Chinese then sit back and watch.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:15am
  - Paulus
    
    Doubt if Chinese land would be included anyway – SA has too much to lose doing that.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:35am
    - Chris R
      
      My point is: Does the South African Government apprehend this? So far there is little or no evidence that it does. The Chinese (and Asians in general) were never treated as being “white” in Apartheid terms, hence I would hesitate to accept that the current government is smart enough to perceive the issue they’re likely creating.
      
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      March 1, 2018 8:39am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        I recall that Japanese were “honorary whites” under the old order in South Africa.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:30am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I get the part about white farmers being evicted from their land.
  Can they buy new land and start again, or are they forbidden to purchase farms? Or must they lease the land from a local collective?
  
  Keywords: kulak, land reform, starvation, equality
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:16am
  - DigNap15
    
    How could they buy new land if they have no money anymore?
    Why would they want to help a country that does not want them?
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:06am
    - alloytoo
      
      If I was a farmer I would declare bankruptcy right away as my farm is now worth nothing.
      
      Watch the banks shit themselves.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:37am
- Huevon
  
  Are those Africaaner militias still around?
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:22am
- cmm
  
  I’ve been giving this a bit of thought in the last few hours, being somewhat tied to what is going on there.
  
  I would expect that few of the Afrikaans farmers are in a position to move to the West of their own accord since their assets are tied up in land that is no longer has any commercial value and few have exportable skill sets. Quite likely many will join the move deeper into Africa where countries like Nigera, Mozambique and Tanzania have snapped up the Afrikaner farmers since they realise they need the farming skills to feed their people.
  
  South Africa might realise what they had and lost, but they might need a few years with an empty belly first.
  
  However I also predict another tide of people out of South Africa: Black professionals.
  
  South Africa is not bad for white people and good for black people. It is bad for all skilled people who would rather live in a western country than a corrupt shit hole. That includes black professionals too.
  
  Will they come to NZ? Perhaps not, but if they do I would welcome them.
  
  I have occasionally heard Afrikaans being spoken by families out shopping, but only once have I heard isiXhosa. Perhaps we will hear more.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:22am
  - Ross12
    
    Thanks cmm.
    I hope you’ll be able to keep us up to date with unfiltered news on what is happening.
    
    I heard Larry Williams talking to a SA journalist last night. The guy was saying there is a fair way to go before the confiscation could legally start —under current rules. Whether the process will be short circuited, we’ll have to wait and see.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:42am
    - cmm
      
      I don’t have any special news channels.
      
      All I do have is having lived in various parts of South Africa for 30 years, speaking 4 of the languages and dealing with a wide range of different people from different backgrounds and education levels.
      
      I have not lived in South Africa for over 25 years now, but I believe that stepping back from it gives a perspective that cannot be had if you are deep in the situation.
      
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      March 1, 2018 2:45pm
      - JasonJohns
        
        Looks like Obama won’t be able to visit NZ…he’ll be in jail
        
        Controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Wednesday called former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate a “phony document” in an interview on CNN.
        
        “No doubt about it, we have the evidence, I’m not going to go into all the details, yeah, it’s a phony document,” Arpaio said on “Cuomo Primetime.”
        
        Arpaio announced Tuesday that he is running for the Arizona US Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Jeff Flake, who is retiring from Congress at the end of his term.
        
        He was a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump during the campaign, and was pardoned by the President in August. The former Maricopa County sheriff was convicted for defying a court order to stop racially profiling Latinos, and he has been widely criticized for his hard-line stances on immigration.
        
        Arpaio has touted “birtherism” in the past, and, when speaking to CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday evening, said he has proof that Obama’s birth certificate is fake.
        
        “We have the evidence, nobody will talk about it, nobody will look at it, and anytime you want to come down or anybody we’ll be glad to show you the evidence,” Arpaio said.
        
        Cuomo pressed Arpaio again on the topic: “So you believe that President Obama’s birth certificate is a phony?”
        
        “No doubt about it,” Arpaio said.
        
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        March 1, 2018 7:52pm
- Scott
  
  Terribly totally racist policy evicting one group of people based on their race and seizing their assets without compensation. Imagine if a white government was doing this to black people? The mainstream media all over the world be in an uproar, the UN Security Council would have a special session, there would be sanctions all over the place.
  
  But because it’s white people no one cares??!!
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:45am
  - cmm
    
    If they are applying the principle that people who took land from others should give it back, then, no doubt, the black people will give all their land back to the original inhabitants: the Koi San (aka the Bushmen).
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:51am
    - alloytoo
      
      Before the farmer, the land wasn’t a farm.
      
      After the farmer it won’t be a farm either.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:41am
      - cmm
        
        Well it already isn’t.
        
        From some sources, up to 25% of the farmlands are now dormant because farmers are reluctant to pay for all the inputs if they are not going to get the outputs.
        
        Land value has tanked, obviously. Nobody wants to buy a property that is going to get conviscated.
        
        Their costs are also going up:
        * loans: since they can’t use their lands as security, loans for seed, fertilizers, machinery etc are more expensive.
        * insurance: ridiculous due to high levels of theft and sabotage.
        
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        March 1, 2018 1:21pm
      - JasonJohns
        
        Terrible attack on distinguished scientist in US…Ken Ham gagged!
        
        The president and founder of Kentucky’s Creation Museum in Petersburg and the Ark Encounter in Williamstown has been dropped as a speaker at the University of Central Oklahoma after a LGBT group objected.
        
        Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, had been scheduled to speak March 5 at the public university in Edmond, Okla.
        
        Stockton Duvall, student body president at the university, took responsibility for the decision to rescind Ham’s invitation after learning of the opposition to his visit. Duvall told The Oklahoman newspaper that a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning group opposed Ham’s visit because of his view that marriage is between one man and one woman.
        
        “I am not the first person to be personally attacked by a very vocal group on campus that has little tolerance for opposing viewpoints,” Duvall said in a written statement, referring to some Ham opponents.
        
        Ham was to give a lecture titled “Genesis and the State of the Culture” followed by a question-and-answer session. Ham told the Oklahoman he was “shocked” the invitation was rescinded in Oklahoma, “which is considered to be in the Bible Belt area. I think it’s going to be eye-opening to a lot of people.”
        
        In his own blog, Ham pointed out that opponents were able to shut down his campus visit, “yet the school has sponsored and given university funding toward a Drag Queen show.” Furthermore, he said, a professor who opposed his visit ‘also sponsors a safe sex carnival,’ which includes explicit, so-called learning games (that as a Christian I would describe as sexually perverse). Apparently, these events are acceptable on campus, but having a Christian come and speak is not.”
        
        Instead, Ham is now scheduled to speak March 5 at Fairview Baptist Church near the university as a guest of pastor Paul Blair.
        
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        March 1, 2018 7:54pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Pffft. Ken Ham is a screaming liberal who denies the literal interpretation of the creation and flood of the…flat earth sitting upon pillars on the “waters below”, and with a solid dome sky restraining the “waters above”, as presented in the Book of Genesis. ?
        
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        March 1, 2018 8:13pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    Human nature, we`ll all have to pay for the sins of our fathers eventually, well Honkie will have to at least.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:24am
  - stephieboy
    
    Scott, sad but I guess that what happens when 80% of the population own 2% of the land .
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:27am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      stephieboy,
      
      Are you seeking “equality of outcome”?
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:34am
      - stephieboy
        
        Odakyu -sen , no its called facing political reality !
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:51am
    - alloytoo
      
      Actually the bulk of the land is owned by the state, it’s just not farm land.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:45am
    - Jack5
      
      Stephie can’t do percentages.
      
      Typical. The Arabs of medieval times were good at maths, the Stephiestanis never could get their heads around it.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:06am
      - VicParking
        
        Stephie is all excited as he has eyes on all the Goat farms that will be sold off
        
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        March 1, 2018 4:08pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Stephie, if you are going to use stats like you did in your post, at least try to be vaguely accurate.
      
      For reference: 70% of farm land is in the hands of the whites & 30% in the hands of the African population. The problem with these statistics is that the 70% of farmland designated as owned by whites overstates the position, as this stat includes land owned by South Africa’s largest food conglomerate, which is most definitely not owned by the white population.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:22am
    - cmm
      
      ” 80% of the population own 2% of the land .”
      
      What the fuck are you talking about? 80% own 2% is complete crap. That suggests 1 million white people (to fit your narrative) would own 80% of South African land.
      
      Just in the Transkei and KwaZulu Natal areas, about 10 million black people (about 20% of the South African population) together own the majority of the most fertile areas in South Africa.
      
      Let’s not just talk about land as if it is all the same. The best parts (which the black people occupied before whites arrived) has been in black hands since they stole it off the Koi San and remained in black hands all the way through apartheid to this day.
      
      Sure there was some relocation of blacks during apartheid, but there was also relocation of whites too. My grandparents were thrown off their lands too.
      
      To be clear, I am in no way condoning apartheid.
      
      South Africa can basically be broken up into 4 main regions (in order of most fertile to least fertile):
      * The Eastern areas: KwaZulu Natal and Transkei (whatever it is called now). Rural land in KwaZulu is perhaps 50% owned by Zulus and 50% owned by white farmers. Approx 30% of KwaZulu is owned by the Zulu tribal trust called Ingonyama. Approx 4 million Zulu people live on the Ingonyama lands.
      
      Almost all white owned land in KwaZulu Natal was either purchased or gifted to white people by Zulus.
      
      Transkei (where the Xhosa people come from) is almost entirely owned by Xhosa people and has been all the way through apartheid.
      
      *The northern area: Transvaal etc. This is where the majority of the Afrikaners live. This is also pretty fertile, but needs proper irrigation and management to make it productive.
      
      Black populations in these areas were very low when the Afrikaners moved in – mainly due t0:
      1) They preferred to live in the more naturally fertile areas where their crops grew better.
      2) It was shortly after the Mfecane genocide when the Zulus killed off vast numbers and drove people away to Zimbabwe and beyond.
      
      * Arid: Orange Free State, Karoo, Western Cape etc. Black people did not live there except for a few bands of people displaced by the Mfecane. There were sparse bands of Koi San people living in these areas when the Europeans came. These are now arid farmlands (think Otago on steroids). Sheep farming measured in acres per head rather than head per acre. Also winelands, fruit and some cereal crops etc. Traditional nguni crops did not grow in these areas, so therefore black people did not settle there.
      
      * Complete desert: eg. Kalahari. Just a few Koi San hunter gatherer tribes and some very arid sheep farming etc in some area.
      
      So all the way through apartheid, black people continued to live on, and farm, most of the fertile areas of land in South Africa: the East.
      
      What is under main contention are the areas in Transvaal where farmers were able to convert scrub land into productive farmlands though the application of modern methods. When those farmers are driven off, those farms will go back to scrub. The magic is in the farmers, not in the lands.
      
      When that happens. South Africa will experience even worse food deficits than it has now. Prices will go up, people will go hungry and the shit-stirrers will blame the boers even more.
      
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      March 1, 2018 2:14pm
      - Ross12
        
        Thanks cmm. Great overview.
        
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        March 1, 2018 4:22pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Superb summary, but it doesn’t equate with the group think though. As you point out, when the farms in the Transvaal, Natal, & the Western Cape are taken that will be the end of the last country in Africa producing food on an industrial scale. Therefore, not only will SA be screwed, but there will also be consequences in the rest of Africa.
        
        Finally, what is also galling is that this has been advanced by Julius Mlema, who was a shit stirring teenager when Mandela came to power, has claimed Marxism etc as a political/union organiser, but is a multi millionaire, go figure?
        Hypocrisy is always strong on left & even more so in Africa.
        
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        March 1, 2018 6:21pm
  - GoVege
    
    Exactly, Scott.
    That’s why once upon a time all the young dudes (and dudesses) were out protesting about the racist Springbok Tour…. but were strangely silent about Idi Amin murdering thousands of innocent civilians at the same time.
    
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    March 1, 2018 11:06am
- Harkman
  
  So in Zimbabwe the black politicians eradicated White people from the productive sector (really the entire country). That worked out really badly for Zimbabwe. Low and behold, the Black politicians over in SA were sitting there thinking “I really like this failed experiment in Zimbabwe, I think we should copy it here.” In 30 years SA will look like Zimbabwe does now, and not a word of outrage from those moral police in Hollywood.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:20am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Won’t take that long. Rhodesia had great infrastructure, SA infrastructure already failing.
    
    This confiscation will kill 10’s of millions in resulting chaos of famine and civil unrest over the next generation.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:32am
    - kowtow
      
      Anyone who supports the ANC also supports genocide.
      
      ‘Civil rights groups have accused the EFF and ANC of inciting an ongoing spate of attacks on white farmers characterised by extreme brutality, rape and torture — last year, more than 70 people were killed in more than 340 such attacks.
      
      Ernst Roets, deputy chief executive of civil rights group Afriforum, said the parliamentary motion was a violation of the 1994 agreement in which the ANC promised minority interests would be protected post-apartheid.’
      
      I often hear people quoted in the media here say how proud they were in their support of ending the so called apartheid regime, they might like to rethink their support of terrorism and genocide.
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12003693
      
      A strange romanticism is given to these genocidal terrorist . The same thing happened in the 26 counties in Ireland . But because the victims were seen as rich landowning oppressors it was alright.
      
      https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/west-cork-protestants-dread-civil-war-centenary-bishop-says-1.3216835
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:55am
  - kowtow
    
    Hollywood?
    
    Bust creating fantasy about how wonderful the world would be without whitey……..Wankanda anybody?
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:52pm
  - kowtow
    
    Hollywood?
    
    Busy creating fantasy about how wonderful the world would be without whitey……..Wankanda anybody?
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:52pm
- GoVege
  
  I read it on me phone first, JJ!
  There were we poor mugs, naively hoping the new dude at the helm in SA would be an improvement on the last nut
  …and now we are about to watch a re-run of the Zimbabwe disaster. ….
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:22am
  - GoVege
    
    And as I picked up my flat cappuccino at McDonald’s, I glanced at the latest “Coffee News”:
    “Ignorance allied with power is the greatest obstacle to justice” I think it said, by some guy called James.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:30am
- kowtow
  
  I found it amusing how the international MSM , reporting the demise of the corrupt Zuma , seemed positive about the incoming Ramphosa , but didn’t question how a union organiser had ,like the corrupt Zuma , also become one of the richest men in South Africa.
  
  More of the same.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:35am
- Manolo
  
  The whole African continent is an unmitigated disaster. There is no saving grace.
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:21am
- Surely Knott
  
  Agree Jibber Jabber. The Herald and Stuff are a disgrace. This is a huge international issue. Instead they had the same article on both Stuff and the Herald this morning, a young lady who used to work in a law firm where a guy made pervy inappropriate comments a couple of years back. And of course the Act MP’s bad taste shirt at a local uni event. And how Maori is Simon Bridges. The impact of the South Africa event is global and sets a precedent.
  
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  March 1, 2018 2:59pm
Happychappy

Sooner or later this make believe story from Winston Peters over being overpaid in NZ Super will come back to bite him on the arse. After agreeing to pay court costs of those he has accused we now find his Laywers getting tough on the media and having them amend their stories to suit Peters narritive but it looks like NZ Stuff are having none of Peters bullying and have stuck to the original story and posted it again at 7.51 am.
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March 1, 2018 8:09am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  You mean he’s a vexatious, lying old prick and when the moment of truth arrived he scuttled? Or he forgot what he was there for.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:17am
  - Happychappy
    
    Stuff have withdrawn their column about Winston Peters Pension Payments.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:20am
- Dave Mann
  
  I don’t know if Stuff are sticking to their report or if they have withdrawn it now, but I had the story open on my phone’s browser and I’ve taken a text copy for people’s information. Sorry about the long length, but here is their original report (in case it gets deleted from Stuff’s website).
  
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  Winston Peters’ lawyer denies claims National Party lawsuit dropped
  
  08:23, March 1 2018
  
  KEVIN STENT/STUFF
  
  Winston Peters’ case was in response to leaked details of his superannuation overpayments to the media before last year’s election.
  
  Winston Peters’ legal team has denied claims the deputy prime minister has dropped a lawsuit against senior members of the National Party.
  
  On Wednesday, there were media reports Peters had dropped the case over breach of privacy against former National Party leader Bill English, along with Paula Bennett, Steven Joyce and Anne Tolley, as well as two National staffers.
  
  SIMON MAUDE/STUFF
  
  (photo)
  Former National Party minister and election mastermind Stephen Joyce, left and former Prime Minister Bill English were sued by Winston Peters.
  
  Initially Peters also sued Newsroom editor Tim Murphy and Newshub reporter Lloyd Burr to uncover the leak sources – but in early February said “the application for pre-proceeding discovery against the two media intended defendants has been amicably resolved”.
  
  Peters later said he never intended to sue the journalists, and “phase one” of the legal battle was geared towards uncovering the necessary information.
  
  On Wednesday, it was reported Peters had agreed to drop the legal proceedings that were already filed and pay $10,000 in legal costs. These details were included in a settlement deal.
  
  However, Peters’ lawyer Brian Henry has since said the case is ongoing, adding the legal action will spread wider than first anticipated.
  
  Henry told the AM Show those from the National Party named in the discovery proceedings would be included in the second phase, as well as additional staff or MPs within National.
  
  This second phase was related to the alleged defamation, which allegedly damaged Peters’ reputation.
  
  The only people who would not be part of any future proceedings were the two journalists, Henry said.
  
  Henry’s comments were consistent with what Peters has said in the past.
  
  While “phase one” of the legal proceedings (discovery) had been completed, Peters was now moving onto “the next phase”.
  
  All those named as defendants have denied involvement in the leaking of his Superannuation payment details.
  
  In August last year news media revealed Peters had been overpaid $18,000 in superannuation over several years. After the Ministry of Social Development informed Peters of the overpayment, Peters promptly repaid the amount in full.
  
  Brian Henry was unable to be reached for comment.
  
  Stuff
  
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  Cheers – Dave (not Hugh! hahaha)
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:46am
JIV

I’d like to ask a straight forward political question if I can.
I understand the reasoning behind hard nosed communists like Lenin and the Bolsheviks, as they were trying to gain power by controlling and subjugating the people. Over the last 100 years or so, countries such as England, France and Germany have had communist movements which gained real momentum only to be quashed by the powers that be. What I don’t understand is what makes the common man believe in communism. The only people to gain from these ideals are the leaders who tread all over the rest.
We now have our own die-hard socialist in power, who I feel would gladly escalate to full blown communism. But what makes the working class people think they are better off under the iron fist of communism??
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March 1, 2018 8:12am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  The politics of envy
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:16am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Yes, greed and envy. The promise of sharing the perceived wealth others have. The working class are convinced by communistic policy that they are poor and downtrodden by the elite, and none of it is their fault that they cannot get ahead.
    
    Professor of clinical psychology, Jordan Petersen says if the lie is big enough the people won’t question its validity. Petersen also says lefty academics are teaching their students that history is not fact, it is how you perceive it.
    (from his book: 12 Rules for Life)
    
    He is concerned that history will be repeated.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:42am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does stammer…
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:26am
      - Right of way is Way of Right
        
        Wouldn’t the lefty progressives want it called Persontory rather then History?
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:39am
    - VicParking
      
      We should ask Jacinda on her view as she is a Communist, in fact she was a world leader in the communist movement.
      
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      March 1, 2018 4:14pm
- KiWombat
  
  Anybody who owns nothing will believe in the mantra of communism – where the rich own nothing because property is all the “peoples” asset.
  
  Not very supportive if you have worked to gain, but if you just want to lie around all day and drink (like Mrs W) then communism is marvellous !
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:21am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  When you boil it down; a majority of socialists don’t empathise with the poor; they just hate the rich. So they dress up their actions with a facade of altruism. Notice how none of our socialist politicians (and I mean from both sides) never talk about “responsibilities”? It’s all rights and entitlements. Why do you think that is?
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:22am
- Scott
  
  JIV– That’s a good question. I would suggest that communism offered the chance for the worker to run the show by overthrowing their capitalist bourgeoisie Masters. Communism also offered a utopian “heaven on earth” where you would read Plato in the morning and fish in the afternoon.
  
  Sadly but predictably it really only delivered hell on earth with the banning of all things religious, torture and labour camps for all dissidents, and the institution of a personality cult revering the dear Leader.
  
  Communism per se is probably dead. The socialist dream does live on in places like Venezuela which has huge oil reserves but due to socialism is now an economic basket case.
  
  Communism also lives on in near Marxist cultural theory where it gave rise to feminism, homosexual rights, political correctness and the obsession with race, class and gender which blights much of our political and cultural life.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:22am
  - JIV
    
    So your saying gullibility is the key. Make the poor and working class feel they are entitled until you’re in power and then work them to an early grave.
    
    I can understand how this worked in Russia in 1917 as the object of hate was the monarchy, now it would appear to be successful businessmen
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:34am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The Japanese Communist Party (JCP, Japanese: 日本共産党, Nihon Kyōsan-tō) is a political party in Japan and is one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world.
    Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party
    
    (And yes, there a lot of naive people in Japan.)
    
    Check this out. The JCP is on the rise (again).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aot87UWudEs
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:32am
    - Jack5
      
      Odakyu-sen, I read years ago that most of the primary school teachers in Japan were mainly communists, and that they or their union were stalwarts of the Japan Communist Party.
      
      Is this still the case?
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:46am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        The Japan Teachers Union (日本教職員組合 Nihon Kyōshokuin Kumiai, JTU) is alive and fully operational.
        They tend to support the Japan Socialist Party, and some the Japan Communist Party.
        
        There was quite a stir several years ago when the Ministry of Education called for the Japanese national anthem to be sung at graduation ceremonies, and a large number of teachers refused to go along with the policy.
        
        In a way, it is good to have a viable opposition to the more nationalistic elements in Japan; however, I would not trust the socialists and I question the wisdom of the nationalists.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:58am
      - Jack5
        
        So Japanese teachers are a bit bolshie, much like ours.
        
        The balance factor you mention is interesting.
        
        Not sure who our teachers would balance, there doesn’t seem to be anyone much on the right at all, apart from EAD and is 11 mates.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:14am
    - stephieboy
      
      Odakyu -sen , are you a Jap or a Japophile ?
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:48am
      - Jack5
        
        The word is “Japanese”, Stephie.
        
        You need to choose your words. Think about it: no-one here would stoop to calling a Stephiestani a “wog”.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:09am
      - stephieboy
        
        I do not think Jap is offensive any more than Brit is the same .
        
        Nip or slit eyes is another thing altogether .
        
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        March 1, 2018 1:27pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Some people want to be a part of a powerful and feared organization that claims to speak the truth and smite the enemies of society.
  
  Some people fear the responsibility that comes with freedom. So much so, that they would gladly give up freedom to be liberated from responsibility.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:24am
  - GoVege
    
    O-S: Like women who willingly submit to wearing the burqa….and expect other women to do the same.
    
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    March 1, 2018 1:03pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Yes, I think that the desire to be part of a group “feared by your enemies” is a positive reinforcement for burqua-wearing. Either that or the sanctions that the local community and your relatives will take out on you if fail to tow the line…
      
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      March 1, 2018 2:48pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Sort of like circumcision. 🙂
        
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        March 1, 2018 2:50pm
- tom1980
  
  Have a read of The God that Failed. It’ll be on Amazon.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:28am
  - JIV
    
    I assume you mean the book not the Metallica song?
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:36am
- cmm
  
  ” Over the last 100 years or so, countries such as England, France and Germany have had communist movements which gained real momentum only to be quashed by the powers that be. ”
  
  I don’t think it was so much active quashing as the workers just seeing through the bullshit.
  
  “What I don’t understand is what makes the common man believe in communism.”
  
  I would have thought that was obvious: envy. Join with us and you can have the same as what the FatCat bosses have.
  
  They ignore the iron fist because they are so fixated with the promised outcome. They see the iron fist as a temporary thing to bring about their nirvana. Besides, the way it is sold, the fist is only applied to the Rich Pricks and “counter-revolutionaries” and the workers have nothing to fear.
  
  But the promises never come true and the fist is turned on them. By then it is too late.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:30am
  - JIV
    
    So it relies a lot on the naivety of the followers.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:37am
    - cmm
      
      Well yes, naivety and goading.
      
      Telling people it is a zero sum game does that: They only have X because they took it away from you.
      
      It needs a very clear demarcation of them vs us: workers vs bosses, whites vs blacks, males vs females, etc.
      
      We have exactly the same stuff going on right here in NZ with all the gender equality stuff.
      
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      March 1, 2018 8:58am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        You would think that people could see right through this.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:35am
      - cmm
        
        Do people see right through all the gender equality stuff?
        
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        March 1, 2018 2:16pm
  - Harkman
    
    I remember Larry Hagman saying he was in Romania and a guy walked up to him and thanked him for saving his country from Ceausescu.
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388776/Larry-Hagman-claims-Romanias-decision-screen-Dallas-toppled-communist-rulers.html
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:26am
- Gravelroad
  
  JIV – it is “class” related still.
  You only have to read the many, many comments on Stuff stories where the writers tear into the “Tories” and whinge about status and “unfairness”.
  Here in NZ everyone has the opportunity to make good, no matter what their birth circumstances might be, but still there is huge hate and envy of people who own property or business.
  Communism is well on its way here as many politicians and activists see conservation of the environment as a convenient means to take state ownership and control of land and the means of production.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:34am
- Andrei
  
  Every society has the people who control the wealth and run things as a result and them that don’t, the majority have to do what they are told by those that have the power
  
  And the people with wealth power and influence don’t want to give it up – oh no, they want to increase it.
  
  One approach to solving this was taken in Yugoslavia, the workers at Yugo were also the shareholders and shared in the profits depending on their senority and role in the company – this approach was also taken on trading ventures with the crews of merchants ships getting a cut of the profits in days gone by.
  
  Anyway Bill Clinton reduced the Yugo factory to rubble benefiting VW, Audi and BMW and American car makers
  
  If you believe you own your own property you are deluded, the ultimate owner is “The Crown” and if they want it they can take it
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:41am
  - waikatogirl
    
    10% of the population creates the wealth for the other 90%. Those who actually produce stuff. Example, if you throw all the productive farmers off the land those who take over don’t have the expertise to grow the food for the population and starvation ensues.
    
    It is an unfair world for a reason. Those who are organised, educated and productive produce the products and create the employment. Envy will not get you anywhere unless it motivates you to work towards your personal goals and not expect the government to supply your needs and wants. If you remove the productive there is no one to fund the communist lifestyle.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:01am
    - Andrei
      
      Its not so waikatogirl – throughout history the majority of people were serfs who had zero choice, they were tied to the land
      
      Theoretically serfdom has gone but it hasn’t really – it is mainly disguised and is a bit more benevolent but most people are owned – You have a mortguage the Bank owns you
      
      In WW2 miners were forced to work in the mines at gunpoint in England and could not change their occupation- leading to the saying “It is doing what we are told that makes us free”
      
      Also Merchant seamen in that conflict were forced to go to sea and if their ship was sunk under them they were discharged the moment they took to the lifeboats meaning their pay ceased
      
      Stalin in the Thirties transformed the Soviet Union from an Agricultural economy to an Industrial one which was hard on the people
      
      Winston Churchill suspended all civil liberties in WW2 and really that is not that much different from what Stalin did
      
      FDR interned the Japanese
      
      How you see these things depends on your political bias and how they effected you and yours personally
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:27am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Andrei,
        
        Let’s live in the modern world.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:37am
      - Jack5
        
        Andrei, regarding your statement:
        
        In WW2 miners were forced to work in the mines at gunpoint in England and could not change their occupation- leading to the saying “It is doing what we are told that makes us free”
        
        There was a shortage of miners because most people would rather be shot at than face slow death trapped in a mine.
        
        From 1943 to 1945 in Britain one in 10 men conscripted was sent to work in the mines rather than into the armed forces. The 48,000 or so conscripted miners were nicknamed the “Bevin boys” after the Cabinet Minister who came up with the plan.
        
        There were strikes during the war in coal mines, on the wharves, and even, as Wikipedia notes:
        
        In 1943, workers at a factory in London making tail-fins for Halifax bombers went on strike and more than 16,000 women and some men walked out of the Rolls-Royce factory in Glasgow — where they should have been making engines for fighter planes.
        
        Someone may be able to verify stories claiming that during World War 2 in NZ, wharfies went on strike, including at the crucial time when the 2nd Marine Division was embarking from NZ for Guadacanal.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:39am
- SGA
  
  JIV
  
  But what makes the working class people think they are better off under the iron fist of communism??
  
  Do they think that? I can’t say I’ve met that many communists or even full-blown socialists in NZ. For the most part, people don’t have well-defined political ideologies (be it laissez faire capitalism, libertairian, communism, whatever). Most NZers seem reasonably content to muddle along in some flavour of social democracy without really calling it anything in particular -imo, anyway.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:05am
  - Kimbo
    
    Agreed. And neither Britain, nor France nor (West) Germany ever had a communist government. And even in the dark days of 1970s partially-socialist Britain, when Trotskyites were trying to hijack the the then-Labour Government of the moderate Jim Callaghan, the ones in his cabinet preaching the hot gospel of revolution or radicalism were intellectuals like (former peer) Anthony (“call me ‘Tony’”) Wedgwood Benn and Michael Foot. Benn used to was lyrical about the “British worker thirsting for revolution” but those in the government who were working class knew he had no idea or experience of what he was talking bout. Instead he was an intellectual snob who would recoil in contempt and disdain if he actually knew how mundane and unambitious the political goals of most workers were. ?
    
    They may have been on strike too much, but the reason lots of British workers did so was to keep up with or ahead of inflation, not precipitate the revolution. Workers are practical people, with little time for academic theorists, including those of the radical left.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:14am
- tf78
  
  I had an interesting conversation with a Chinese lady who was staying with us – we were talking about religion, I told her I was originally a Catholic and she told me her religion was communism, she really believed that it was a religion.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:12am
  - Jack5
    
    She’s not the only one who regards communism as a religion.
    
    For an interesting discussion of this:
    
    https://www.quora.com/Is-Communism-a-religion
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:48am
- stephieboy
  
  JIV , the politics of hunger , poverty and hardship make utopian visions of life most appealing .
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:24am
  - JIV
    
    Is it not the politics of promises? It appears that Labour are not only trying to appeal to the poor who want a better life handed to them, but they’re also convincing the virtuous that they are going to help the made up poverty stricken. They needed the media to try to paint the story, who happily plastered the papers with fiction.
    
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    March 1, 2018 11:03am
  - Jack5
    
    Stephie X mentions things that “make utopian visions of life most appealing.”
    
    Also, Stephie promises of two billion years of rooting with a Stephie’s own personal 72 perpetually renewable, perpetually pretty virgins.
    
    After two billion years, there will be an R. and R. break.
    
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    March 1, 2018 11:19am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Stupidity and lack of education in history and game theory. Abject failure to consider the impact of self interested narcissistic and sociopathic individuals on whatever idealistic but naive new political structure/operating principle is proposed.
  
  Also failure to consider what motivates people to work and succeed.
  
  You need very strong institutions and checks to prevent corruption and monsters from taking control, every revolutionary is a crypto-aristocrat.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:40am
- GoVege
  
  When they’re desperate and starving perhaps, JIV?
  Fortunately, decent people like Clement Attlee and Anne Besant worked to improve the pay and conditions for working people, or Britain might have gone commie.
  
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  March 1, 2018 3:43pm
Gravelroad

If any further confirmation was needed about how far our msm has been compromised by bias, we need only look at the coverage of both new main political parties leaders.
A few short months ago, Ms Ardern was elevated to Labour leadership. Many outside small parts of Auckland and Wellington had barely even heard of Ms Ardern then, despite her being in Parliament for a number of years. What had she achieved during that time?
No matter, the new Messiah had arrived, no question of it. All relentlessly positive.
Now we have Mr Bridges appointed.
He certainly isn’t the next Messiah- ask B. Soper and associates.
Bridges may, or may not be leadership material, but
you can bet the only information about him out to NZ citizens via our media is going to be relentlessly slanted to a negative perspective.
We deserve better than this blatant manipulation.
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March 1, 2018 8:16am
- cmm
  
  “We deserve better…”
  
  That is passive entitlement thinking. Just sit on your bum and good things must come to you because whatever.
  
  Nobody deserves anything. If you really want something you need to find a way to get it into being.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:33am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Oh yes, I’ll get a letter to the editor off ASAP. That will make a difference I am sure.
    Is it too much to expect fair and balanced reporting (especially from taxpayer funded news outlets such as RNZ) with the edges of bias kept in check?
    OK, maybe not.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:24am
    - cmm
      
      Just don’t buy their shitrag. Don’t click on their ads. Use an adblocker if you go there.
      
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      March 1, 2018 2:17pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Soper had a column in the Herald yesterday inferring that neither Bridges nor Bennett is Maori enough to be able to claim being Maori.
  
  Interestingly, that column has been roundly condemned by people from right across the political spectrum as being bigoted, racist and completely out of touch. My view is that Soper is, like his mate Peters, past his use-by date, and should be put out to pasture.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:36am
  - Ross12
    
    KS
    I find it interesting how HDPA is taking an almost opposite position to Soper, especially on her radio show (as opposed to her columns in the newspaper) when I have occasionally turned into.
    I’m not sure what to make of it.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:50am
    - Dave Mann
      
      I think its called freedom of the press.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:00am
    - ztev
      
      I think the point is that Bridges had previously called Maori – ‘them’ instead of ‘we’
      
      hes quite happy to bang the baptist drum of his father but cant do a haka to save himself.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:24am
      - KiWombat
        
        God forbid – the very thought of a Parliamentary Kapa Haka group performing the haka instead of the prayer is something I do not cherish.
        
        Although there is a precedent – the Parliamentary Rugby side performed a haka at the last Parliamentary rugby meet – Ngaro and O’Connor amongst them !
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:49am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Ross 12 Maybe it is tailoring her views to suit specific audiences.
      The previous host on newstalkzb Wellington’s morning show was a conservative and there was some pushback from listeners when he announced his departure with his replacement being HDPA.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:18am
  - tf78
    
    Have you noticed how pale most of the kids are nowadays that do the haka. I have got nieces and nephews who are blond haired and blue eyed with more Maori blood than those two.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:18am
  - stephieboy
    
    KS , we had rabid right posters here claiming the very same thing .
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:26am
- MCos
  
  Simon Bridges had plenty of exposure as Minister of Transport throughout throughout the last term of the recent National led administration.
  He is, or should be, a well known quantity to anyone who is interested.
  The point is constantly being hammered here that the MSM is becoming less influential.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:48am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Simon passed his another test yesterday when he stated dropping the voting age to 16 is not a priority and he wouldn’t support it.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:08am
    - ztev
      
      What about the debacle of the first question time!
      
      Asked about the dodgy background of some one with a minor connection to a west coast development grant.
      
      Didnt seem to be aware that same person/company had received money when Bridges was regional Development Minister
      
      I guess that person in his office who set up the question wont be kept on now English has left.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:28am
      - Harkman
        
        Well obviously Young Labour are worried, they’re already sifting through his garbage looking for anything that they can find. Pretty pathetic really.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:47am
      - Ambergris
        
        Your point is a good one ztev but is only correct if the same person/company did indeed get money when Bridges was Regional Development Minister.
        
        I think the inference later in Question Time from Brownlie was that the claimed payment was to the local council rather than directly to the same person/company.
        
        There may be more to play out and if so Ardern, Peters and Jones all make misleading claims.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:49am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        So Labour are going to pay for the same report that National has already commissioned and discarded, great use of money. Good of them to highlight the work that National had already done.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:37am
      - flipper
        
        And the overtly bided Mallard cut out crucial follow up questions. The left (Hitler and Mussolini were both socialists) has always resorted to lies and violence. Only Peter Tapsell, a Speaker and the silly duck, a man of intelligence, was worthy of the Title/task. The screaming skull was really bad, followed by Wall and McFarlane. But Mallard, the self aggrandizing red prick, is the nadir.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:59am
      - VicParking
        
        Sorry the money $50k in total and broken in a number of smaller payments was paid to the West Coast Development organisation and then given to the company for actual contracted work done in 2016.
        
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        March 1, 2018 4:19pm
cas

Still waiting to receive our census letter with the access code, so those in our area who don’t have computers won’t be able to get a paper copy in time.
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March 1, 2018 8:21am
- cmm
  
  It’s not like voting.
  
  If the form comes a few days late and some info gets back to stats HQ a few weeks late it really won’t matter.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:35am
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    It’s not like voting.
    
    There’s not a drunken dwarf sitting in stats HQ changing all the figures to suit his own power agenda and then keeping the country waiting for a grand announcement about the results.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:08am
    - ztev
      
      Obviously your therapeutic regime isnt working, time to change meds
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:29am
- DigNap15
  
  My guess for the new population will be about 3 million
  
  No Indians, No Chinese, No Philipinos
  No people over 60
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:03am
  - MCos
    
    That would be ‘Filipino’.
    I disagree with your assessment of the over 60s. They are the most conscientious citizens when it comes to these sorts of things.
    I would suggest that anyone who shouldn’t be here or anyone who doesn’t trust the assurance that their details will be kept private might think twice.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:25am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Surely instead of relying on the population to do the right thing and complete the census survey as ‘requested’, the more accurate way to take a snapshot of the NZ population would be for government departments to take a snapshot of the information they have on 6 March.
    The department in charge of noting all births and deaths of NZ state the number of current kiwis, Department of Immigration to state the number of new arrivals and returning kiwis and deduct those who have departed permanently. Anyone here illegally is not going to complete an official form.
    
    PS: I really resent having to give all my personal information to this failed CoL.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:08am
    - Sideoiler
      
      PS: I really resent having to give all my personal information to this failed CoL
      
      Then don’t do it.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:33am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Have been considering that Sideoiler. My sense of civic responsibilty makes me a very poor rebel! ?
        
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        March 1, 2018 2:18pm
    - MCos
      
      The point I was making above.
      Your personal information is not going to the politicians, we are told.
      Jacinda isn’t going to stand up in the House and announce that Joe Blogs lives in a flat with mould and no heating.
      However I’ll bet there’s plenty of people who don’t believe she wouldn’t be able to find out stuff like that.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:32am
oldpark

A special mention and a Boquet today for our man for all reasons and seasons Bill English who helped steer NZ through the worst Global Financial Collapse since the great depression of the thirties.
Also not forgetting the terrible Christchurch Earthquake.Bill acted with complete “integrity” for the well being of NZ and its citizens.
A comparison for the the guy called Peters. A pest for all reasons and seasons. To think that such a common little low rent ratbag with his betrayal and “deceit” could end the political life of such a great leader like Bill English working for NZ, is a travesty of justice.
All because the self appointed meglamaniac dictator Peters was suffering from hurty feelings on a debatable privacy leak.Working for his narcissistic image is an abomination.As well as pathetic.
One good thing for Bill English as he leaves the cess pit of Parliaments debating chamber he can hold his head high. NZs political well being will be a lot worse off without his capable safe financial hands.Go well ,stay safe .Get your life back.
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March 1, 2018 8:26am
- Paulus
  
  I see that DAME Annette King has been appointed supremo to settle all the outstanding Canterbury Earthquake insurance claims – and it is expected to be done in a couple of months, before she goes to Canberra.
  Assume she will form a committee. She was very involved with the reinsurance programme travelling around the world when her friend Lloyd Falk was EQC Chairman.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:39am
  - Prince
    
    It is clear that the minister, Megan Woods, just wants all the claims paid out asap.
    Forget the due diligence checks, just write the cheques while we are still in surplus and get these people off my back.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:20am
    - ztev
      
      Most outstanding claims have reports up to the eyeballs, just nothing was being done.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:30am
      - sooty
        
        I just love how you are an expert on everything.
        A right little know it all.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:08am
      - ztev
        
        hehehe
        Just smarter than you thats for sure.
        
        I had a an offer to work on investigation of EQC claims for housing. But turned it down to do work elsewhere.
        And your experience is ?
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:32am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Just more smoke and mirrors from the CoL. Lovely old Annette, much trusted is there to appease and delay with the time it takes to form a new committee and mull over the complicated claim process. Essentially they have been fobbed off with yet another “conversation”.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:13am
      - ztev
        
        Well Bridges used the word THINK 27 times in one interview.
        But only referred to himself in 3rd person once…
        
        Plenty of time yet to make fun of him
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:34am
      - Paulus
        
        Actually she would have made a much better Labour Party Leader than precious Cindy.
        Perhaps she should have advised Cindy on Orthodontics from her experience as a Dental Nurse.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:47am
  - MCos
    
    I don’t think she’s expecting EQC to resolve outstanding claims over that time period.
    According to the chap who has just resigned the 2,600 outstanding claims represent a small fraction of the overall number. However that’s not much comfort to the people who have waited all these years to get their houses sorted.
    Furthermore a big proportion of the completed remedial work seems to have been not up to scratch.
    
    I’d be interested to hear from people in the industry defending the EQC.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:56am
    - Paulus
      
      I believe that there were about 460,000 claims relative to the Christchurch Earthquakes.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:45am
    - Paulus
      
      MCos
      Don’t have to justify EQC is not a commercial Insurance Company but a Government Body.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:49am
      - MCos
        
        They’re accountable to the people of NZ
        If they appear to have fucked up we’re entitled either to a rebuttal or an explanation. I’d have thought.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:41am
    - Sponge
      
      The figure of 2,600 outstanding claims is total bullshit. There are tens of thousands of claims that still need to be properly settled due to failed/failing repairs. Its just that some people don’t know it yet.
      
      Mark my words – the Fletcher repair programme will be worse than the leaky building saga for Christchurch housing stock.
      
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      March 1, 2018 12:27pm
Happychappy

Who really cares about Barely Sober and the other past their use by date Journalists the ones that are causing the damage to National as someone alluded to on here yesterday are the old men on here and other blogs who have a hard on over Judith Collins. The contest is over and you will always have those that will leave over not getting their choice that’s their Democratic right so lets get in behind Simon Bridges and try and change this corrupt Government.
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March 1, 2018 8:31am
- Poppa
  
  OK I admit to having a bit of a crush on Judith, but our Simon needs to earn my vote
  
  So far all he has done is talk about generational change whatever that is, and being Maori
  
  That is not going to cut it Simon
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:58am
  - ztev
    
    Crush ? Its the botox, shes almost 60, yet has a smoother face than Amy Adams
    
    Those 3 guys who had their cars crushed in the last 9 years must be wondering what shit luck they had, to be the only boy racers out of 1000s who got done as a publicity stunt
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:33am
    - Swifty
      
      I think the thought of Judith in knee length boots standing over you, cane in hand gives you the horn…..
      
      Come on, you’re amongst friends, you can tell us.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:27am
      - ztev
        
        had dealings with her office while she was corrections minister.
        nasty piece of work
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:37am
      - Swifty
        
        Ever met her?
        
        Any one-on-one dealings?
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:55am
    - Poppa
      
      Good morning Ztev on form today I see
      
      She may 60 but that makes her younger than me
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:58am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Is that the best you can do ztev; snide personal attacks?
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:38am
  - peterwn
    
    So you will vote Winnie and give him the whip hand again.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:59am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    The media is making much of the Maori heritage thing, Simon is there on merit not heritage unlike Kelvin.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:49am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      I’ve just heard Martin Devlin give Soper a serve on Radio Sport. Mr Soper is suddenly Neville No-mates.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:40am
      - MCos
        
        A serve on Radio Sport?
        Did he drop a catch in the crowd at the cricket or something?
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:45am
      - GazzaW
        
        It’s a bit difficult to do a crowd catch with a bottle of wine in one hand and a glass in the other.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:36pm
    - peterwn
      
      Kelvin has merit – he licked Hone in 2014 and held on in 2017. He just lacks experience.
      
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      March 1, 2018 12:19pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Time will tell if Kelvin’s problem is lack of experience or too few brain cells! ?
        
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        March 1, 2018 2:23pm
EAD_TWO

Where is Griff?

Britain in the grips of record Global Warming:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/925187/UK-weather-forecast-latest-snow-tomorrow-will-it-snow-coldest-day

BRITAIN could freeze in some of the lowest daytime temperatures since records began this week as the mercury tumbles across the country
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March 1, 2018 8:31am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Well then, it’s a good thing the marketing experts re-branded Global Warming as “Climate Change.”
  
  That re-branding allows them to have a bet each way.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:36am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    So, the settled bits of weather between the “extremes” (the ones that the Chicken Little Climate Alarmists tell us are just more proof of AGW) – are they also proof of man’s catastrophic effect upon the climate also?
    
    BTW – I discovered I had an ingrowing toenail this morning – which for me was an absolute clincher that CO2 is ruining the planet.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:47am
  - Brigitte
    
    That of course is a load of rubbish. Let me explain how both can exist by way of a simple example. Assume 5 places, old temps 1,2,3,4,5. If new temps are 2,3,4,5,6 then there has been global warming of 1 degree (which is uniformly spread). If the temps are 6,5,4,3,2 then 3 places have warmed and 2 cooled (climate change) but there is still global warming.
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:51am
    - JIV
      
      What if the places had historic temperatures of 4,5,6,7,8 and the new temperatures are also 4,5,6,7,8. The scientists then realise that a terrible mistake has been made and change the old temperatures to 1,2,3,4,5 does that confirm global warming?
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:14am
      - itstricky
        
        What if the Sun was made in a Hollywood basement? Does that confirm global warming?
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:06am
- waikatogirl
  
  Scotland has issued a warning for the population not to travel as it is literally deadly to be out and about in the current weather.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:12am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD TWO ,
  
  “Is There a Strong Link between Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change?”
  
  Dear EarthTalk: What is the scientific consensus on all the extreme weather we’ve been having—from monster tornadoes to massive floods and wildfires? Is there a clear connection to climate change? And if so, what are we doing to be prepared?—Jason Devine, Summit, Pa.
  
  “ Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it—by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.
  
  “A changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration and timing of extreme weather and climate events, and can result in unprecedented extreme weather and climate events,” reports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an independent group of leading climate scientists convened by the United Nations to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts…”
  
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-and-extreme-weather/
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:34am
  - Harkman
    
    The acorns/chestnuts started falling off the trees in Hagley Park in late January, autumn/winter starting earlier (5-6 weeks earlier). So much for global warming. Perhaps you’ll call it climate change instead.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:48am
calendar girl

Basic standards of reporting continue to deteriorate in most of our news media. The trend now includes excruciating grammar as exemplified in today’s Stuff: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/101787170/school-accused-of-mishandling-students-double-suicide-attempt

For not the first time this week Stuff’s sub-editors have waved through a piece in which the words ‘them’ or ‘themselves’ have referred back to an individual:

“A lower North Island student who was allegedly goaded to commit suicide by classmates on a school camp bus trip later tried to kill themselves twice.”

All in the interests of eliminating gender references from the English language.

(And if the egregious mixing of the singular and the plural is not bad enough, the writer also alludes, laughably, to the person in question being capable of killing himself twice!)
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March 1, 2018 8:40am
- itstricky
  
  Basic standards of reporting continue to deteriorate
  
  ‘themselves’ is an acceptable form of identification when the gender is of the person referred to is not known, or of no relevance to the sentence (i.e. when it does not matter if the subject is male or female). Always has been, AFAIK.
  
  You’ll notice that the article deliberately does not identify the person, who the writers refer to as ‘the student’, throughout:
  
  Stuff has chosen not to name those involved, as well as the school and its exact location, to protect the privacy of the student.
  …
  
  So, given the gender is not known (to the reader) I don’t see what the problem is here.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:11am
  - calendar girl
    
    So why not use ‘him/herself’ (which is common enough), without mangling the language?
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:15am
    - itstricky
      
      It’s not mangling the language. ‘themselves’ is common enough, I would have thought.
      
      Any man contemplating a sentence with themselves in it can see that for himself.
      
      Any woman contemplating a sentence with themselves in it can see that for herself.
      
      Any person contemplating a sentence with themselves in it can see that for themselves.
      
      EDIT: Seems they, Stuff themselves, have now changed it to ‘himself or herself’
      
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      March 1, 2018 1:24pm
      - calendar girl
        
        No, it’s not that simple. In a revised version, Stuff itself managed to stuff up its attempted ‘correction’. Firstly it captioned a ‘staged’ illustration:
        
        “After being egged on by classmates, a student from a Lower North Island school mimicked killing themselves on a bus trip. Later that night they twice tried to commit suicide.”
        
        Still has a single student “killing themselves”, but at least they managed to place the word “twice” in its (almost) correct position; so credit for that.
        
        Then, following immediately in the body of the story, Stuff reports:
        
        “A lower North Island student who was allegedly goaded to commit suicide by classmates on a school camp bus trip later tried to kill himself or herself twice.”
        
        Once again, an individual person is assumed to be able to commit suicide twice; most of us would consider that impossible. But Stuff also mangled the suggested and familiar singular pronoun option, “him/herself” which is understood usually to indicate gender unknown. Instead it used its own stilted form, “himself or herself”, as though the unfortunate individual had a gender option.
        
        Sadly, some of these media people have difficulty stringing together a few simple words and phrases. Which is okay in general terms, but not in the media where they are paid to communicate clearly.
        
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        March 1, 2018 5:55pm
  - Jack5
    
    Itstricky, when gender has been unknown or mixed,”themselves” is acceptable use, and probably has been for centuries.
    
    But the PC monkeys are going beyond that here. They are taking a singular noun (a student), and using a plural neutral pronoun (themselves). This has not been standard English use.
    
    The PC monkeys are trying to de-gender English usage. They have an agenda.
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:10pm
    - itstricky
      
      They are taking a singular noun (a student), and using a plural neutral pronoun (themselves).
      
      This has always been acceptable. ‘They’ can be used in a singular manner to replace ‘him’ or ‘her’ when the gender is unknown. The only other option is ‘themself’ which sounds a little whack to my ear but is probably acceptable.
      
      This has not been standard English use.
      
      Maybe in the 1880s when they didn’t have ‘themselves’
      
      The PC monkeys are trying to de-gender English usage.
      
      In this particular case, you will note that the gender of individual is unknown. Yes, unknown. Completely unknown. Nobody is trying to de-gender anybody – the reader simply does not know.
      
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      March 1, 2018 4:48pm
      - Jack5
        
        Always acceptable, istricky?
        
        Rubbish.
        
        Try this:
        
        The drunk Labour candidate, Mr X, pissed themselves.
        
        Grammatical? Only in the insane PC world.
        
        These folk trying to de-gender English would be against a stone wall in French, German, Russian, and the thousands of other languages where gender is extended to inanimate nouns.
        
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        March 1, 2018 5:01pm
holysheet

Oh you poor jaffas. You spend on average 2 weeks of your time just getting to work. Unpaid at that.
But don’t be concerned, Liabore are having a converstaion yet again, and will soon fix this like every thing else.
“But the trains aren’t running” I hear you cry.
“Sorry, but that’s nothing we can control” Bleats Chompers. “The unions are back in power, so get used to it, suckers”
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March 1, 2018 8:41am
- G152
  
  Evidently the railway workers are well paid to hold a city reliant on workers travel to ransom.
  How about stopping rail.
  Sack all the ‘workers’ sell off the rolling stock pull up the rail and turn the railbed into highways.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:12am
  - MCos
    
    When you say ‘well paid’. How much much do these people earn?
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:59am
- tf78
  
  If they had one standard bus fare for all Auckland buses people would bus from home instead of driving to the closest point to reach the city, which is one zone @ about $4.50/trip. Further out of the city is about 3 times that so it’s more economical to drive and bus than just bus because you save about $18/day.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:32am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    If you pay 33% tax, then $18 saved is the equivalent to $18 x 1.33 = $24 earned.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:42am
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NEW NZ NATIONAL PARTY LEADER SIMON BRIDGES DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE WIDER HOUSING ISSUE …

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/links-1-march-2018/#comment-3059038 … with further comment above …

New National leader Simon Bridges says there was a housing crisis ‘for some’ | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/101842128/new-national-leader-simon-bridges-says-there-was-a-housing-crisis-for-some

… extract …

… Housing Minister Phil Twyford said he would welcome National’s support for Kiwibuild and reforming the rental market, seeing as they were “based on the fact that there is a housing crisis.”

“If the National Party is going to put an end to nine years of denial and acknowledge the fact that they’ve left our Government a giant mess to clean up, that’s great,” Twyford said.

Twyford believed the crisis was for all of New Zealand, not just those without homes.

“It did seem quite grudging. If there are 40,000 people who are homeless surely that is a crisis for the country and something that should concern all of us.”

Bridges also said National had sometimes lost the public battle on the environment. … read more via hyperlink above …

New Reserve Bank paper puts estimate of Auckland housing shortage far higher than previous RBNZ estimates; says if construction worker shortfall continues it will be ‘difficult’ to overcome the shortage | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92379/new-reserve-bank-paper-puts-estimate-auckland-housing-shortage-far-higher-previous

HOUSING AFFORDABILITY DRIVES THE COST OF LIVING … WENDELL COX … NEW GEOGRAPHY

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005894-housing-affordability-drives-cost-living

Housing affordability is what largely drives the standard of living the United States. The 14th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey showed that, in 2016, there was a 0.83 correlation between the housing unaffordability, measured by the Median Multiple (median house price divided by median household income) and the composite cost of living (Note 1) for households entering the housing market in the 107 metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 residents (Note 2). This cost of living is the income required to live a “median standard of living” (Note 3). … read more via hyperlink above …

HOUSING:
THE DEMISE OF THE LAST NATIONAL – LED GOVERNMENT
CHECK ‘GONE GONE GOING’ SECTION
http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  NEW ZEALAND: New National leader (Simon Bridges) says there is a housing crisis in NZ … Radio New Zealand
  
  New National leader says there is a housing crisis in NZ | Radio New Zealand News
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/351421/new-national-leader-says-there-is-a-housing-crisis-in-nz
  
  New National Party leader Simon Bridges has admitted that there is a housing crisis in New Zealand “for those it affects”.
  
  Simon Bridges was named the new leader of the National Party yesterday, while Paula Bennett was reinstalled as deputy leader. …
  
  … Asked if he had any regrets over National’s nine years in power, he said he believed the previous government may not have shown it was doing enough on housing and the environment.
  
  Despite that government’s refusal to concede that there was a housing crisis in New Zealand, Mr Bridges admitted today that it was a crisis “for those it affects”. … read more via hyperlink …
  
  It’s Bridges … (Kiwi Tory) Kiwiblog
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/02/its_bridges.html
  
  How KB (Kiwi Tory) readers voted … Kiwiblog
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/02/how_kb_readers_voted.html
  
  It is no surprise that KB readers are different to the NP caucus. The very unscientific survey of readers saw first preferences being:
  
  Judith Collins 58.8%
  Amy Adams 17.7%
  Steven Joyce 11.0%
  Simon Bridges 9.5%
  Mark Mitchell 5.5%
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:51am
- cmm
  
  Hugh if you’re going to throw up every morning then please don’t do it on your keyboard.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:52am
  - Happychappy
    
    Hugh is just trying to wriggle out on his not so expert advice that he gave to Twyford. For a man that is hell bent on smearing the former National Government he has done more damage in advising those in power now than what National did in my opinion.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:27am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Happychappy … no “wriggling’ here (note Nationals Bridges and Woodhouse comments on this thread !) .
      
      Check out this year’s Dem Survey Media Release …
      
      http://demographia.com/media_rls_2018.pdf
      
      … and my comments within the Survey Introduction Section …
      
      http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
      
      I have been consistent all along, these past 13+ years http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org , the focus must be on land supply and the proper debt financing of infrastructure.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:43am
      - softail 1450
        
        hugh, F O hugh.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:47am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/sad-death-australian-dream/#comment-3059765 … and … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/links-2-march-2018/#comment-3059767 … and …
        
        … An essential read …
        
        Living well on NZ Super (Govt pension) alone is possible … Rob Stock … Stuff / Fairfax NZ
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/101797298/Living-well-on-NZ-Super-alone-is-possible?cid=app-iPad
        
        … extract …
        
        … The 2017 Material Wellingbeing of New Zealand Households report by Bryan Perry makes it clear that arriving at retirement with a mortgage-free home is the basis of a dignified retirement.
        
        “We live in Paparañgi, Wellington, in an 18 year-old free hold-house,” Thompson says.
        
        Having a home in a retirement-friendly area is also an important part of prepping for the silver years. …
        
        … Policy failure by successive governments, and the city councils of Wellington and Auckland, also means the prices young people have to pay for homes has risen astronomically.
        
        Most older New Zealanders suffering high material hardship are renters at the mercy of landlords, and do not have home equity to free to buy a place in a retirement village.
        
        Perry notes the threat high house prices pose. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Housing through the decades, what is affordable? | Newshub
        
        http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2016/08/housing-through-the-decades-what-is-affordable.html
        
        2018 14th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
        
        http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
        
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        March 2, 2018 3:12am
- Harkman
  
  If you want cheaper houses lift interest rates.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:01am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Remember this from November last year ! …
    
    Meet NZ’s newest housing idiot – MacroBusiness Australia
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/11/meet-nzs-newest-housing-idiot/
    
    By Leith van Onselen
    
    Apparently Auckland’s housing market is no longer in “crisis”, according to the National opposition’s housing spokesman, Michael Woodhouse:
    
    National’s housing spokesman Michael Woodhouse says flatlining property prices in Auckland prove there is no housing crisis. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:28am
    - Harkman
      
      The only housing bubble was in Auckland. It was a left wing media beat up. House price inflation was lower for all of NZ under the last National government then any other government since the 1950s. House prices rose 3 times faster under Hulun Cluck then they did under National, yet I can’t recall you saying anything.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:39am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Harkman … I had plenty to dish up to Labour through those early years …
        
        http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/articles.html
        
        http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/index.html
        
        In large measure it was housing that lost Labour the 2008 election.
        
        I was about as ‘popular with Labour then … as I am with National now !
        
        National thought I and Demographia were the cats whiskers in 08 / 09 … to the extent then new Housing Minister Phil Heatley made mention of the Demographia Survey when it was released 09 …
        
        Bringing better balance to the housing market | Beehive.govt.nz
        
        https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/bringing-better-balance-housing-market
        
        Why blame me for Nationals housing failures these past 9 years ?
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:56am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Harkman (see comments down thread) Stick to the facts … New Zealand’s housing had been at or below 3 times incomes …
        
        Housing through the decades, what is affordable? | Newshub
        
        http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2016/08/housing-through-the-decades-what-is-affordable.html
        
        John Key just didn’t have what it takes …
        
        PM John Key on Housing Reform 2007 – YouTube
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
        
        … as I explained at the time of the release of last years Dem Survey early 2017 …
        
        New Zealand’s housing consensus:
        Where is the political leadership ?
        
        http://pc.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/auckland-worlds-fourth-hardest-to-buy.html
        
        Hugh Pavletich, co-author Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
        
        The 1st Annual Demographia International Housing Affordabilty Survey was released early 2005. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Why are you surprised National has lost public support ?
        
        My sense is this is just the start of the bad news for National … and likely 9 years on the Opposition benches … deservedly.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:31am
  - peterwn
    
    If you want cheaper housing, get development, building and compliance costs down. Lifting interest rates will stall the building of new houses and cause people lo lower their sights when buying houses thus squeezing bottom rung buyers.
    Very cynically those already in their own homes do not want cheaper new housing – it will undermine the value of their own houses and they want stringent and difficult planning controls to continue because of NIMBY.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:54am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Peterw … that’s the retard protectionists of the National Party … here on Kiwiblog … who advocate housing apartheid.
      
      They should be ashamed of themselves.
      
      They are destroying the National Party.
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:10am
      - Swifty
        
        I mean have you got like a description, fingerprints, anything like that?
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DVS_303kQ
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:22am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        My sense is that the next Colmar Brunton poll is going to come as quite a shock to National.
        
        The Party sure is a sorry muddled sight.
        
        Sir John Key has done massive damage to the Party.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:29am
      - Paulus
        
        Pavel Idiot !
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:54am
      - Harkman
        
        “Why blame me for Nationals housing failures these past 9 years ?”
        
        Because NZ house prices ex Auckland were only up 30-40% in 9 years under National. That is not a bubble Hugh. House prices were up 130% under Labour. From this it is pretty obvious that Labour made houses unaffordable to New Zealanders.
        
        “In large measure it was housing that lost Labour the 2008 election.”
        
        The country was in recession.
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:57am
      - sooty
        
        If Hughie was any good Titsford would be beating on his door, so he must think Hughie is an idiot as well.
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:48am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Mike Hosking today on Labour’s Kiwibuld clusterf#ck:
      
      Not only do we not have the builders to do the work, and we have known that well before they promised to cut immigration by 20 to 30 000, but turns out we don’t actually have the people with the money to buy the houses.. if in fact they’re ever built.
      
      Auckland alone will get 50,000 of these so-called affordable homes, but the papers show us only 25,000 first home buyers have the income to buy them.
      
      The great crime was Minister Phil Twyford being asked what sort of income you would need to buy one of these homes, he said 60 grand.
      
      Turns out to be 114 grand.
      
      Now if the bloke in charge of all this is that out to lunch, do we hold out any hope at all?
      
      Enter the Prime Minister who in an interview with me Tuesday broke into a rare bout of depression by agreeing the Government may actually not only end up building these homes, but having to buy them as well.
      
      They will have to take a stake in the homes so as to make them affordable.
      
      And that money for the stake comes out of the money that was for building, so the building slows down.
      
      And the building is already behind. 10,000 a year for 10 years is the promise, it’s already back to 18,000 in the first three years and we all know that’s a speculative promise at best, given not a single house has actually been built yet five months into Government.
      
      This is where the rubber hits the road, re-election will not be possible with committees, reports and working group findings.
      
      Re-election is won on a strong economy and good economic stewardship.
      
      If progress on KiwiBuild is their best work, National could have picked Mickey Mouse as their new leader and still feel confident.
      
      http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/opinion/mike-hosking-heres-where-things-start-to-hit-the-fan-for-labour/
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:44am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        RBNZ: Mass immigration drives epic Auckland housing shortage – MacroBusiness
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/rbnz-mass-immigration-drives-epic-auckland-housing-shortage/
        
        By Leith van Onselen
        
        Last month, a government-commissioned ‘stocktake’ of New Zealand’s housing market revealed that the nation faces a “deeper and more entrenched” housing crisis than previously thought, which is having “devastating impacts” particularly on homelessness.
        
        Central to the problem was that dwelling construction has fallen well short of immigration-driven population growth over the past decade – a point raised repeatedly by MB: … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 1, 2018 12:00pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Keeping Stock … Bear in mind you guys generally badly misjudged the major political change Sept / Oct last year.
        
        So many Tories were traumatized by this.
        
        Now wait for the big market changes looming.
        
        The same poorly informed Tories are in for even bigger shocks.
        
        The changes will occur much faster than most realize.
        
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        March 1, 2018 12:06pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        What do you want to see Simon Bridges tackle first? – NZ Herald
        
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12003504
        
        Tauranga Mayor Greg Brownless would like to see housing and transport issues addressed first. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 1, 2018 12:27pm
      - Happychappy
        
        Hugh you are as thick as pig shit if you think people read what you post. Go crawl back into your poxy blog.
        
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        March 1, 2018 12:54pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Happychappy … Again … you are wrong.
        
        The Tories have all the time in the world to read the material.
        
        Whats more, they have likely 9 years in Opposition to read it … with 3 or 4 leaders through that period as well.
        
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        March 1, 2018 3:09pm
Manolo

Mueller’s chase continues:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mueller-asking-what-trump-knew-about-hacked-emails-n851941
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March 1, 2018 8:56am
Manolo

The crooked old hag refuses to leave the stage:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376009-clinton-calls-on-trump-to-act-the-russians-are-still-coming

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday accused President Trump of ignoring a threat to national security after Adm. Michael Rogers, head of U.S. Cyber Command, said he has not been directed to counter possible Russian meddling in the 2018 midterm elections.
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March 1, 2018 8:58am
- cmm
  
  The bitch won’t be happy until she sees a mushroom cloud.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:00am
  - Kimbo
    
    What was Obama’s quip when Mitt Romney warned in 2012 of a resurgent Russia on the world stage? Ah, yes, “The Cold War just called, and they want their policies back”. Must have been a useless American Secretary of State who allowed them to do it in the years since! ?
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:27am
    - ztev
      
      Mitt Romney: Still Wrong on Russia
      http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/15/romney-russia-republican/
      
      Long before 2012, back in Romney’s 2008 run he was saying this-
      
      “……suggested that the United States encourage “Russia to work with us at the U.N. Security Council.” On security issues, Romney advocated cooperation and “frank and open discussions” with the United States’ “partner.”
      This version of Romney, it seems, was ditched when it became politically inconvenient in the 2012 campaign.”
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:39am
      - softail 1450
        
        it brings a smile to my dial to see folk just downticking the troll trev ,he will be as furious as splodge that hes not getting many bites,LOL.
        HE MUST HATE IT .
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:55am
      - stephieboy
        
        ztev, political parties usually do not take kindly to losers .
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:38am
      - ztev
        
        Deluded fool.
        Downticks are for you to feel good about yourself – not me who couldnt care less.
        
        If only I could get travel miles with downticks ….
        
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        March 1, 2018 10:41am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        @ tev
        
        “If only I could get travel miles with downticks ….”
        
        I sympathise with you.
        You’d be a very long, long way away.
        
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        March 1, 2018 12:23pm
Swifty

To nasska, Johnboy and anyone else interested in the close working relationship between people and dogs:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LPyEVPQ-Xg

Caution – pest control activity.
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March 1, 2018 8:59am
Harkman

So yesterday there was all this hype about sky slashing prices. What a load of crap. If you watch the news channels (Fox, Sky, BBC) or CNBC, a bit of History or Top Gear repeats (74) or a bit of Turbo (75), Gold Rush (70) and the ladies watch Living and Food. Like nine channels in total, that’s all, no change. Jerks. What a scam.
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March 1, 2018 9:08am
- MCos
  
  Scam is the wrong word. It infers you’re not getting what you paid for.
  The correct expression is:
  What a load of bollocks!
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:51am
rangitoto

Trump willing to negotiate to re-enter TPP. Expect a leftie meltdown ahead.
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March 1, 2018 9:13am
- Harkman
  
  That would really rip the left apart here. All those member countries would bend over backwards to get access to American markets. Which means an American focused set of rules. Jane Kelsey will explode.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:32am
- ztev
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  yeah , and he said he would have ‘rushed in unarmed’ to that High school too. !
  
  Just the dribblings of a senile old man.
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:40am
  - sooty
    
    Just look in the mirror. Fool!
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:03am
  - igm
    
    Ztrev: You, like your ilk, if confronted with anything other than a wimp, would run. It is the lefty way. Remember Chamberlain and all the conshies in NZ? They were your role models.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:07am
    - ztev
      
      Trump has been shown recently to totally hate the sight of blood when an old guy slipped and cut himself.
      When you are a germaphobe like Trump, its likely you wouldnt even share an elevator let alone a mass shooting
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:43am
      - virtualmark
        
        Just how was he going to run in there with his terrible bone spurs?
        
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        March 1, 2018 1:03pm
    - stephieboy
      
      igm , and remember Trump the draft dodger with his numerous deferrals.
      
      Your role model ?
      
      LOL
      
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      March 1, 2018 10:46am
      - softail 1450
        
        septicboy, hates trump simply because trump has a beautiful wife and $5700 million dollars ,whereas septicboy has a well bread goat and the dole to cover his finances ,what a fricking jealous loser he is.
        
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        March 1, 2018 1:05pm
  - G152
    
    That’s a mirror you’re looking into.
    The dribbling senile old man is you….
    And to save children from a monster takes an unarmed attack a MAN has to try.
    But you’re not so you wouldn’t
    
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    March 1, 2018 12:55pm
- stephieboy
  
  rangitoto , another flip flop and out of stupid fortress America ( isolationists ) he’s trying to create.
  
  Make America Great again .
  
  Yeah Right ! .
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:55am
Longknives

Arrests made in Leicester

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/28/leicester-explosion-three-men-arrested-over-fatal-blast

Probably three ‘Lone Wolves’…
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March 1, 2018 9:44am
- sooty
  
  Who all happened to bomb the same place at the same time.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:02am
  - stinkypete
    
    probably a bomb factory accident
    not a target or possibly just dodgy landlord stealing gas
    
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    March 1, 2018 11:32am
- stephieboy
  
  Longknives , read your link more carefully ,
  
  “Whilst we will not disclose further details at this stage, we stress that there remains no evidence that the events of Sunday night are in any way terrorist related,” the force said.’
  
  And not your clumsy sleuthing !
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:40am
- Inandout
  
  Seeing it was a Polish restaurant the bombers must be Poles you see. Bloody Poles don’t like taking in Muslim migrants.
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:19am
  - simpleton1
    
    Aram Kurd owned the building.
    He survived the explosion.
    
    Perhaps some renovations? up grades? did they have a permit?
    Or will the council pass the buck.
    The police seem to have identified something to bring manslaughter charges.
    
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    March 1, 2018 11:36am
    - stephieboy
      
      Maybe non permitted gas fitting or electrical work.?
      
      Could be a large number of different things !
      
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      March 1, 2018 12:36pm
- simpleton1
  
  Leicester is the third-most densely populated European Union city, has become an interesting city that has become super diverse with a multi culture, a strong “Asian” flavour.
  
  Sort of strange that explosions strong enough to obliterate entire buildings, were not common in Western world cities.
  
  Quite possibly health and safety laws are not kept up to standard, by the authorities, that endangered their citizens.
  
  Will be interesting if the city council are found complicit in not doing protective things for its citizenry to have a great and vibrant life.
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:24am
softail 1450

anybody that feel the need to bring up their breakfast should google “the kiwi that soared”.
its an empty scripted creature we have voted into the job of pm,and her partner is a cuck of the first order ,FFS.
and that fucking little pompous prick peters .
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March 1, 2018 9:45am
MrLovebucket

Question 4 from yesterdays QT:

Hon Simon Bridges: Does she agree that the likes of William Bell, Clayton Weatherston, and Graeme Burton should all serve their entire sentences for the crimes that they commit, and if not, why not?

Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: At this point, this is going well beyond what the member was asking in his primary question. Does this Government want people to be safe? Yes. Do we want to see the crime rate continuing to decline? Yes. Do we want the imprisonment rate to increase despite a declining crime rate? No. There is more that this Government is committed to doing, because the last Government did not plan properly.

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So, Jacinda confirms that the crime rate is declining, while the imprisonment rate is increasing. Anyone else see the obvious link here? Lock up the bad crims and you get less crime. Gee, I wonder what will happen to the crime rate when you let all the ferals out?
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March 1, 2018 10:05am
- RF
  
  Whilst chompers was gobbing this she was like a bloody praying mantis bobbing her head back and forth pulling faces.
  
  A very scary sight.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:11am
  - igm
    
    I reckon she is a bigger horror head than Dyky.
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:19am
- waikatogirl
  
  Cindy/Angry, If you want a lower prison population perhaps you can convince Australia to keep their Aussie raised crims on their side of the Ditch.
  
  Of those ‘returned’ by the Australian authorities to NZ for either committing crimes or of bad character, 44% have reoffended on NZ soil.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:23am
  - oob
    
    44% have reoffended on NZ soil.
    
    So far, waikatogirl. 44% have been caught reoffending so far.
    
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    March 1, 2018 11:30am
    - sooty
      
      Catch and release program working a treat!
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:42am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Simon Bridges is doing a good job on a topic he knows about with his background. The link will show his follow up questions.
  
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20180228_20180228_08
  
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  March 1, 2018 1:04pm
Manolo

Volatility is the name of the game:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/28/us-stocks-interest-rates-fed-markets.html

U.S. stocks fell sharply in choppy trade Wednesday, giving up earlier gains, as Wall Street wrapped up a volatile month for the major averages.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed more than 350 points lower. More than half of the day’s losses came in the final hour of trading with the Dow losing more than 240 points in the final 60 minutes.
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March 1, 2018 10:13am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , except when it is between 2008- 2016?
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:57am
sooty

While I think of it. Why was Shane Jones passed over for the bag carrier position.
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March 1, 2018 10:16am
- Inandout
  
  The lazy gene perhaps.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:21am
- AgentBallSack
  
  Winston refuses to shake his hand
  
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  March 1, 2018 3:02pm
Sofia

Is there still to be a result announced in the Craig v Slater case, or has that slipped through without any notice.
It seems the last day in court was about June 3 last year was it not?

If any harassment case or subsequent defamations tend to take this long, Alison Mau’s #metoonz could take decades, if only it dredges up two or three incidents.
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March 1, 2018 10:22am
- igm
  
  We are also entitled to some news on the thieving Green MP, Teletubby, or whatever it is known as. Is she being charged. If not, why not?
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:26am
  - stephieboy
    
    igm , get off your lazy butt and ring around , email or whatever
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:43am
  - ztev
    
    How long did the police ‘investigation’ of Barclay take ?
    Some years wasnt it ?
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:48am
    - starboard
      
      What about taito philip thieving bastard field who went to jail??? How long did that doozy go on for??
      Oh yeah, its ok when the slippery left do it.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:00am
      - Swifty
        
        He was only guilty of trying to help his constituents!
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:05am
      - GoVege
        
        Accepting koha now=”a thieving bastard”?
        Did you know that a delegation of Island men once approached Philip Field wanting the right to bash their kids with impunity?
        Field told them he would not condone violence.
        Yet HE gets jailed for 6 years for accepting freebies.
        Meanwhile a guy who smashes a father of four’s face in gets what?
        4 years?
        
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        March 1, 2018 1:20pm
    - igm
      
      Barclay did not thieve off taxpayers and was found to be innocent.
      
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      March 1, 2018 11:13am
starboard

liarbor pimping the poor as usual. Twatford is nothing but a greasy slimy car salesman.

“A stocktake of the country’s housing sector, commissioned by Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford, and realesaed last month presents a “sobering picture of the devastating impacts of the housing crisis, particularly on children.”
The stocktake ranges from homeownership and market renting, to state housing and homelessness, and the social cost of substandard housing. Mr Twyford said it highlights the increasing number of elderly facing housing-related poverty “because fewer and fewer are mortgage free and able to survive on Superannuation alone”.
The reports authors were economist Shamubeel Eaqub, housing academic Philippa Howden-Chapman and long-time community housing advocate Alan Johnson.”
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March 1, 2018 10:52am
- Poppa
  
  Yeah Shameful Yukob is an expert on housing that is for sure
  
  Advocated renting & then finally bought at the market peak. What a knob
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:05am
DigNap15

It seems that the Leicester UK bombing was a Polish owned supermarket

@WhiteLivesMatter
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March 1, 2018 10:55am
- Kimbo
  
  Not @ImmigrantLivesMatter?
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:01am
Right of way is Way of Right

(Scene – Point Chevalier, Auckland, sometime in June 2018)

Lo, a bright light appeared in the west. Which was unusual, because it wasn’t speedway season, and Western Springs was closed.

Three wise men came from the east. It was a long journey, as the ring road hadn’t been completed, and the leaders had withdrawn funding!

As they journeyed west, they saw the multitudes before them, line upon line. All paying a 10 cent a litre tithe to the profit, sorry Prophet Goff, who did say to the masses,

“The journey I attempted will be completed by another yet to come, behold, the end is in sight! Can you see the Sky Tower from there? All good then, why don’t you try a bus next time?”

“It’s takes too long to travel from where we can afford to live oh Profit, I mean Prophet! It’s too far Goff!” One of the multitudes replied.

As one, they all took up the plaintive cry, beseeching the Profit, sorry, Prophet, “Far Goff, Far Goff, Far Goff” (At least, that’s what it sounded like!)

Meanwhile the Three Wise Men consulted the oracle of Google, and went down Meola Road, marvelling at the silence of the animals at the zoo, calling it a portent of glad tidings. (somewhere in the distance, an elephant farted!)

As they approached the house in Point Chevalier, bathed in an unearthly white light, they approached the guardians and asked to enter so they could give blessings to the anointed one.

“Piss off”, said the copper, “she’s gone off to have the baby at a private hospital!”

The three wise men stood bewildered as a line of Green MP’s trudged past grumbling about why she wasn’t having an underwater home birth while being serenaded by chanting Buddhist monks while a Kuia from up north sing waiata and a Kaumatua says a karakia before taking the placenta back up north to bury it in the treaty grounds.

A wizened dark complexioned man in an italian suit carrying a bottle of whiskey kept running around telling everyone that he was in charge now, and would anyone like to wet the babies head.

The Wise Men left the gifts of Gold, Frankincence and Myrrh at the house for the annointed one, but the police did not know what Myrrh was, called the bomb squad, and blew it up!

Meanwhile, shepherds in their fields by night continued to moan about the lack of regional funding, as they didn’t have any money to help their nephews plant trees.

The bright unearthly light disappeared, and the Police Helicopter returned to base.
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March 1, 2018 11:07am
- ztev
  
  State highways are government funded not council responsibility
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:56am
Manolo

A lovely bites the bullet:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-hicks/hope-hicks-resigning-as-top-trump-aide-white-house-idUSKCN1GC36J

Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving aides, is resigning from her job as White House communications director, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday.
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March 1, 2018 11:18am
- ztev
  
  Was grilled by a congressional committee and refused to answer a lot of questions, mostly before Trump was sworn in.
  She must have been in ‘on the collusion that wasnt’
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:58am
  - ztev
    
    Trump has stunned republican lawmakers by calling for comprehensive gun controls.
    Democrats are pinching themselves
    
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    March 1, 2018 12:00pm
    - sooty
      
      The only one that’s stunned is you, Mullet!
      
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      March 1, 2018 1:03pm
- virtualmark
  
  To be fair, the “grilling” from the House Committee was pretty gentle. The Republicans took the spurious “executive privilege” claim at face value and let her get away without answering the big questions. (Nunes et al are all carrying water for Trump).
  
  But I bet the two days of interviews under oath with Mueller’s team pre-Christmas weren’t fun …
  
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  March 1, 2018 1:05pm
- virtualmark
  
  US media saying her family & friends told her to get out now or go down with the ship.
  
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  March 1, 2018 1:06pm
  - waripori
    
    Michael Wolf got a fair bit of flack because ” Fire and Fury” is full of unsourced and unsubstantiated quotes and anecdotes but it has got some credit for being a fairly accurate picture of what the Whitehouse was like. In particular he credits the war between Bannon/Priebus and Jarvanka with creating the leaks and chaos. One thing that is interesting is the names of people who came into the Whitehouse as part of Jared and Ivanka’s team and who have left recently. In the last couple of days there have been reports of Josh Raffel and Dina Powell moving on. May have something to do with Jared’s problems with his security clearance which stem from his financial and other problems. With Hicks leaving and Jared on shaky ground it must be getting fairly lonely for the Donald in the West wing. Doesn’t really look like Melania is talking to him any more.
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:55pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Yep … Rats … Ship …
      
      Yates
      Flynn
      Bharara
      Walsh
      Comey
      Dubke
      Shaub
      McFarland
      Corralo
      Spicer
      Short
      Harvey
      Priebus
      Mooch
      Cohen-Watnick
      Higgins
      Bannon
      Gorka
      Sifakis
      Icahn
      Price
      Powell
      Manigault
      Dearborn
      Katz
      Winfree
      McCabe
      Porter
      Sorensen
      Raffel
      Hicks
      
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      March 1, 2018 4:30pm
      - waripori
        
        To be fair, a lot of those people were never in the Whitehouse and Trump would have been pleased to see the back of them. If Kelly goes, and he might, the executive branch will have ceased to exist.
        
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        March 1, 2018 4:47pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Agreed.
        
        But it’s quite the trail of chaos.
        
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        March 1, 2018 5:03pm
      - Harkman
        
        Yates, Bharara, McCabe, Comey were not his cabinet/admin choices. Yates just stayed on until Sessions was confirmed but she was fired for not following an Executive order which the SCOTUS agrees with. Bharara was a political appointee of Obama, it is customary to resign with a new Admin. McFarland took the job as Singapore Ambassador, Icahn was really only an outside advisor. Though still a massive turnover.
        
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        March 1, 2018 5:38pm
  - virtualmark
    
    US media now also reporting that Trump berated her today for her saying that she told “white lies” for him. Reporting he forcefully said “How could you be so *stupid*?” At which point she quit.
    
    Legal experts all agreeing that berating a subordinate, who Trump knew was a witness in a pending criminal investigation of which he is the target, for *telling the truth* is a textbook case of felony witness tampering.
    
    Trump is clearly getting advice from an army of lawyers. And just as clearly is ignoring it. I’m sure that will work out well.
    
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    March 1, 2018 4:39pm
    - waripori
      
      The legal stuff is fairly academic. Even if the Dems pick up enough house seats to get an impeachment charge up the Senate wont find 75 members to vote for it. The GOP senators need Trump’s voters to keep their jobs and he still has about 40% support. After everything that has happened since the inauguration the bar is now set so low it is hard to see Trump not hanging on the most of that so the Republicans are stuck with him, even if he now is all in for gun control.
      
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      March 1, 2018 5:07pm
slightlyrighty

OK…..this may be venturing into Tin Foil Hat territory, but here goes.

Winston Peters, having discovered that he has been overpaid super by a mistake that he has compounded with 7 years of either mistaken or false declarations, rectifies the mistake and publically announces it, with the notification that he has initiated court action.

Given the fallout with Turei, this had the potential to devastate the Peters Campaign, so, in election year, how does he manage the scandal? By attacking and making himself the victim of a mistake and privacy breach, and making the narrative about what was done to him, and not what he has done. The court action was a cover up and will come to nothing.

Where we venture into tin foil hat territory is the following. Winston has a habit of stage managing controversy. Remember the NO sign? Remember his litigation with regard to defamation re the Scampi deal that was thrown out?

We also find that a lot of this comes at election time. Some readers might recall that in the 2014 election, Winston was assaulted in Hamilton at a campaign rally.

The result was an upsurge in free publicity, but despite many camera and what had to be a police presence, the assailant was never identified or caught, and Peters was shown to be a “man of action” who defended himself.

Was that staged as well? Why was the assailant oddly dressed with a weird beanie and a zipped up jacket, and spouting neo Nazi slogans?

Why, when I saw the pictures, did the assailant remind me of the NZ first candidate for Rongotai?

Now I am not saying that Winnie screwed up his own pension as a stunt, but he certainly worked the narrative for all he was worth.
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March 1, 2018 11:30am
- ztev
  
  Your narrative is screwed by one thing :
  ” rectifies the mistake and publically announces it”
  
  Rectified the mistake and didnt say anything. That happened some months before being public.
  
  meanwhile this filtered up from Winz to the top execs ( who shouldnt know details of beneficiaries) and into the beehive ( who also shouldnt know details) but it was all too juicy to not pass on.
  
  national does targeted special ops on Peters for some time. They would have people who work on nothing else. Their names have popped up in regard to dirty politics- thats what they do and they are good at it.
  Look at what they did with Colin Craig, all because a few serious donors were giving him big money instead of national.
  
  Im sure on Simon Bridges first week he will be getting a ‘background’ briefing from nationals J Edgar Hoover – Steven Joyce, and Bridges will suddenly find he cant do with out Joyce after all.
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:46am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Rectifies the mistake, but only publicly announces it just before the election….
    
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    March 1, 2018 11:56am
  - mandk
    
    Do keep up, ztev, everyone knows Peters manufactured the whole thing himself because he wasn’t getting traction in the run-up to the election.
    
    It’s obvious National didn’t do it because they had nothing to gain and a lot to lose by doing so.
    
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    March 1, 2018 12:11pm
  - Swifty
    
    Assertion, nothing but assertions. You’ll have to do better than that ztev.
    
    What is your evidence?
    
    You know, like Mike Williams admitting that he was sent to Aussie on a ‘targeted special op’ ….snigger.
    
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    March 1, 2018 12:56pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Winston is still chasing the centre stage he got during the Wine Box enquiry, but his name is still mud in Rarotonga!
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:48am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  I think ztev wants his hat back mate!
  
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  March 1, 2018 12:17pm
UpandComer

I fucking hate and despise the BBC.

Look at this shit.

http://voxday.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/mailvox-bbc-rebuttal.html?m=1

Just look at it.

It won’t be long now before the memory holing is in earnest. The Saxons and Jutes and Angles and Picts and even the Norman invasions never happened. The UK is and always was a caliphate goy. I’m sorry but the BBC is run by the chosens.

I hope a truck of peace and beauty acid doesn’t make its way of harmony through the offices of Jimmy Savile.
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March 1, 2018 11:43am
- Longknives
  
  The same BBC who are building a Mosque on the set of Eastenders..
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:53am
sooty

Phillip Smith is not allowed to wear his squirrel on his head in prison.
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March 1, 2018 11:43am
- starboard
  
  The guy is a piece of excrement. Murdering pedo, he deserve a noose.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/101876995/wigwearing-murderer-phillip-john-smith-has-no-rights-to-hairpiece-court-rules
  
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  March 1, 2018 1:00pm
  - stephieboy
    
    starboard , but as a white boy doesn’t he deserve some clemency ?
    
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    March 1, 2018 1:44pm
    - starboard
      
      no, why? What a stupid fucking question shariaboy.
      Go away.
      
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      March 1, 2018 1:52pm
DigNap15

If he once again goes to court to ask for something or costs us any more money I will……
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March 1, 2018 11:51am
- MCos
  
  You will what?
  
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  March 1, 2018 11:55am
  - mandk
    
    Tear his hair out?
    
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    March 1, 2018 12:38pm
DigNap15

The Polytechs are losing students.

Perhaps if they changed their names back to serious educational names they might get some more students.

Job Interview
Can I see yout certificates
Oh I see you went to
Tai Poutini was that a basket weaving course?
You got a diploma from
Toi Ohomai
Great, was that in kapa haka
I see you studied at Whitireia Community Polyecth was that in early child care?

Oh its Ok, we’ll let you know.
Who could really be proud of graduating from any such Institutions.
Auckland University yes
Massey University Yes
etc

Education is a serious western invention. These left wing socialist driven organizations need to get back to basics.
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March 1, 2018 11:58am
- Longknives
  
  I’ve often wondered that Dignap.
  Sometime in the very near future Auckland, Victoria and Massey Universities will be forced to change their names
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/84753337/massey-racism-provokes-call-for-university-name-change
  I firmly believe they will lose credibility when they assume Maori names.
  Who the hell would want to go into a job interview with ‘Te Wananga blah blah’ on their Academic Qualifications? I’m sorry but in reality it gives the impression of a dodgy correspondence course…
  
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  March 1, 2018 12:05pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Its not as if maori have a long heritage of education.
    
    If I was National one of the first things I’do as education minister is force them all to go back to their original or a western european name.
    For the sake of our children.
    
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    March 1, 2018 1:20pm
    - MCos
      
      Whitireia New Zealand was originally called Parumoana Community College for a few years before changing to Whitireia Community College in 1989 and it’s present name in 2010.
      
      What would you like to change it to?
      
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      March 1, 2018 3:57pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    It’s pretty much compulsory to fabricate a Maori name for educational institutions or groups within them.
    My daughter’s school reactivated the “house” system several years ago. And despite only a tiny minority of students being Maori, and none (probably) able to speak Te Reo, all five houses had to have Maori names (named after fish, in the end).
    It might have been more “diverse” to give one house a Chinese name, one an English one, then a Hindi name, a Spanish name and finally a Samoan one.
    
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    March 1, 2018 1:20pm
    - itstricky
      
      all five houses had to have Maori names
      
      Shock! Horror! In New Zealand, of all places!
      
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      March 1, 2018 1:31pm
    - starboard
      
      ” Im staying in Terakihi, how ’bout you”
      “Im in Kowaro ”
      “Im in Titihimi”
      
      Fuckin joke. Stoneage dribble. Get in the 21st century losers.
      
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      March 1, 2018 1:58pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Yes, starboard, that was pretty much how it went.
        All these “unfamiliar” names for the students to learn, which had no relevance to their daily lives.
        
        If the fish names had been even familiar ones such as terahiki or kawhai, it wouldn’t have been so bad, but the ones they chose were all the names of the obscure kinds of fish that Kiwis (and most Maori students) would never know the names of, either.
        
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        March 1, 2018 2:41pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Thank goodness Massey had changed its name from Massey Agricultural College to Massey University when I got my B.Sc.
    Folks might think I know the front end of a sheep from its back end.
    My other degrees are from Victoria University…..
    (at least 9 possibilities)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_University
    
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    March 1, 2018 3:14pm
    - Johnboy
      
      You can always ask me if you’re confused. I can recognise the back end of a sheep at 1000metres. 🙂
      
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      March 1, 2018 4:45pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Johnboy,
        
        I would not make such a boast in public, if I were you…
        
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        March 1, 2018 6:31pm
  - GoVege
    
    Te Wananga…isn’t that the educational place where some woman got paid 74 million of taxpayers’ money, when her dad was in charge?
    But nobody seemed to mind so who cares….
    
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    March 1, 2018 10:44pm
Manolo

Which divinity is going to tell her?
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/entertainment/celebrity/oprah-winfrey-will-run-for-president-in-2020-%E2%80%93-if-she-gets-a-sign-from-god/ar-BBJIv1S

After months of denials, multi-billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey has confirmed that she will run for president – if she gets a sign from above.

Winfrey was speaking to People magazine where she expanded on the rumours that she was considering a run for the White House in 2020.
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March 1, 2018 12:34pm
- Inandout
  
  I wonder how the MSM handles this one, seeing how anti Christian they are? Maybe a sign from Allah.
  
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  March 1, 2018 1:05pm
- Peter
  
  Satan says “Go for it, Sister! ”
  
  Hard to tell which voice is which inside ones head….
  
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  March 1, 2018 1:45pm
- Longknives
  
  Oprah has those pesky photos of her introducing young ‘Actresses’ to Harvey to get past first.
  And I doubt her ‘Old White people must Die’ comment will appeal much to Middle America…
  
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  March 1, 2018 3:49pm
Batman

Question 7 in the house today looks like some fun for Clare Curran

Melissa Lee: does she believe it is important for State-owned broadcasters to be independent?
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March 1, 2018 12:52pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Listening now, Curran is hooked, gaffed, landed and gutted!
  
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  March 1, 2018 2:45pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Yep. Not even ex boyfriend Speaker Trevor Mallard running interference could save Curran from her own arrogance. You know she is rattled when she responds, “that’s a ridiculous question!” ?
    
    She is really so thick that the suggestion her Nat Rad-lead vision for media is anything but independent, is outside her plausibility structure.
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:51pm
  - KiWombat
    
    Beginning of the end for her I reckon !
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:09pm
Inandout

The life style Andy Little comes from:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/08/secret-life-trade-union-employee-work-benefits-workers-rights

I know one union employee who is really laid back and travels from town to town staying in motels when he is away from home. I wonder if they have annual employment appraisals like office workers do?
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March 1, 2018 1:03pm
DigNap15

Big company making new employee decisons in London in a few years

We have 3 on the short list
One from Oxford
One from Havard
and one from Te Tai Tokerau
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March 1, 2018 1:35pm
Swifty

More law-breaking leftie fascists:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/101884604/antitppa-protesters-lock-themselves-to-railway-tracks-in-christchurch

BTW Gen de Spa – nothing looks more ridiculous that dreads on a pakeha.
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March 1, 2018 1:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  Swifty , yeah bring in Massy’s Cossacks and the addition of spraying bullets with modified AR 15s?
  
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  March 1, 2018 1:48pm
  - Manolo
    
    Going gaga over arms, stephieboy?
    
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    March 1, 2018 1:57pm
    - Jack5
      
      The younger Stephies play violent computer games, Manolo.
      
      But they are too stupid to know that AR15 type rifles are usually capable of automatic fire without modification. The modification is typically aimed at reducing them to semi-automatic fire.
      
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      March 1, 2018 2:43pm
      - stephieboy
        
        JACK 5 ,
        
        ‘Bump-stock’ devices: How Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock used ‘souped-up semi-automatic’ weapons
        
        The deadliest mass shooting in US historyhas thrown the spotlight on a device that turns a legal semi-automatic firearm into an even deadlier fully automatic one.
        
        The rat-a-tat sound of Stephen Paddock’s gunfire as he sprayed bullets on concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas prompted police at the scene to report the gunman was using an “automatic” weapon.
        
        The term is often used to describe a fully automatic gun that can fire as many rounds as its magazine, drum or belt holds by pulling and holding the trigger…..”
        
        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/03/bump-stock-devices-las-vegas-shooter-stephen-paddock-could-have/
        
        Oaf !
        
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        March 1, 2018 4:14pm
      - Jack5
        
        No wonder Stephiestan sent you to New Zealand, Stephie X. You’re too fucking stupid to be even a suicide bomber.
        
        AR stands for Armalite Rifle, which this class of firearm is developed from. The current main version is the M16. These are select-fire assault rifles, meaning you can switch between automatic and semi-automatic fire.
        
        AR15s for commercial sale are generally modified so they are limited to semi-automatic fire. This meets laws of some American states. Thus the AR15s sold in America and NZ are modified versions of the original fully automatic Armalite style rifle.
        
        Unmodified AR15s don’t need bump fire stocks. They can fire fully automatic.
        
        Modified AR15s, the ones sold mainly to the public, cannot fire fully automatic unless they are tinkered with or use a bump fire stock.
        
        The NZ Army has just bought thousands of a sophisticated version of the AR15-M16, from LMT. Straight out of the packing crate it is select fire between semiautomatic and automatic.
        
        Regardless, here’s a lesson for you why semiautomatic fire is usually more effective than fully automatic:
        
        https://youtu.be/w2PFY8MNVuY
        
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        March 1, 2018 4:43pm
      - Jack5
        
        A gun lobby view …
        
        Is this guy right? By implication, semi-automatic rifles are more lethal
        for mass killers? This video was made in 2012
        
        https://youtu.be/Yqk06XxsxAA
        
        The same guy thinks two armed teachers might have saved lives in the Florida school massacre and has a poor opinion of the guard who didn’t intervene in the shooting.
        
        https://youtu.be/YMHElRh2_Ho
        
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        March 1, 2018 11:48pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    stephieboy,
    
    You are projecting again. (It’s not good for you.)
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:43pm
    - stephieboy
      
      “‘Bump stocks’ allow rifles to act a lot like machine guns. Feds have found them to be legal”
      l
      http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-las-vegas-shooting-live-updates-bump-stocks-allow-rifles-to-act-a-lot-1507074997-htmlstory.html
      
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      March 1, 2018 4:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    What are you on about now you dopey prick?
    
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    March 1, 2018 2:52pm
stinkypete

do kiwi rail actually need to stop the trains i mean

really..https://youtu.be/DDYWdABRQIo?t=1m40s
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March 1, 2018 1:44pm
Johnboy

Shit oh dear! 🙂
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/101883507/nestle-to-remove-45-health-star-rating-from-milo-powder
Next we’ll be finding that Jacindas teeth are false and Winstons honesty is the same! 🙂
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March 1, 2018 2:09pm
softail 1450

robertsons back from his holiday to the olympics etc ,does anyone know if he took his wife with him?
the gnome peters takes his partner every time he goes overseas and damn the public purse,
this fricking pisses me off no end ,the bludging bastards must have hides like a rhinocerous to just spend tens of thousands of dollars getting the best of everything ,,,,fffuuuuuck.
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March 1, 2018 2:29pm
- RF
  
  Apparently Alf was driving the NZ team bus to make a few bob on the side… sweet cheeks is trying everything to balance his books.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:14pm
Awww C-mon

About $30m thrown at a west coast Polytech yesterday.

$20m written off from TEC, so what happened is the enrolled students, failed them so they dropped out, and kept claiming the payments and spending the money. It would be a fraud case if a private trainer did the same.

And Today…

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/education/101876221/competitive-funding-for-some-tertiary-education-providers-to-be-scrapped

All Polytechs are in crisis and need more money too!!! Colour me surprised.

Non competitive courses? Yup that means back to bums on seats, shite outcomes for the students and worse for the taxpayer.

While poorly run, poor performing and unaccountable education facilities get bailed out all over the show.

Unattended consequences??? No plain fucking incompetence. Well Done Chippy…. ya loser.
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March 1, 2018 2:33pm
Jack5

The tax funds lolly scramble begins…

The Labour Coalition Government is throwing $28 million at hiring health professionals to work with teachers helping Christchurch kids because of alleged mental health issues after the earthquakes.

It’s bullshit, and I say that as the parent and grandparent of Christchurch kids and relative and friend of other families with such kids.

Teachers, and probably some PC parents, are blaming heaps of behavioural problems on the earthquakes.

Here’s why such counselling is bullshit:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/may/12/natural-disasters-healing-psychology-worse

And to meet those who will raise the opposing argument, here’s a link to an American article pointing out trauma is caused by such big natural events as earthquakes, but I don’t see in it any evidence proving that counselling helps victims.

https://mental-health-matters.com/the-importance-of-counselors-after-a-natural-disaster/

Meanwhile, Labour’s Megan Woods, discussing the $28m spend-up in her column in the Christchurch free newspaper, The Star, is described as the Minister of Greater Christchurch Regeneration. She seems to have eased off on using “Dr” as her honorific. (Woods has a history Ph.D. on feminism.)
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March 1, 2018 2:41pm
- RF
  
  Yep but the socialist Duncan Webb from Christchurch is now calling himself Doctor.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:04pm
Right of way is Way of Right

Listening to Parliamentary question time – Melissa Lee has hooked up on Claire Curran, and has the gaff ready. It’s glorious, Curran is somewhat less than impressive!
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March 1, 2018 2:43pm
softail 1450

Holy crap if megan woods gets any fatter we wont be able to see the 100 million trees for the woods.
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March 1, 2018 2:53pm
- Poppa
  
  Wasn’t it a billion?
  
  I haven’t seen her but she must have a girth
  
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  March 1, 2018 3:40pm
- KiWombat
  
  Ever noticed the MSM seems to use a panorama lens whenever they interview her ?
  
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  March 1, 2018 5:03pm
- RF
  
  I once saw a parade in New York with huge inflated figures. One was Frosty the Snowman and was the spitting image of Woods. It was about 10 story’s high.
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:02pm
Swifty

Odakyu-sen:

I’m off to Tokyo (only) late April for 8 days R&R with my college age daughter. 1st time in Japan for both of us.

The focus will be on food, (food) markets, Japanese history.

Any suggestions for places to go?

Thanks in advance.
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March 1, 2018 3:01pm
Odakyu-sen

Swifty,

Where to begin?
First off, here is a clip from the excellent “Abroad in Japan” channel on YouTube.
(How expensive is it to holiday in Japan?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkY1DiyCqTU

Next, Tsukiji Fish Market (I have never been to it!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWwfNmIIc_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hWUBCbUj5g

The Japanese convenience stores are often overlooked (great for a quick snack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Q7bOOSOd0

The Tokyo subway looks really intimidating, but is far easier to use that the Auckland train services.
Cheap and effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAUfF8UVAdI

I strongly recommend A DAY TRIP from Tokyo by train some 35 km down the coast to Kamakura (choose a sunny day) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUPGjyH5YbA

And if the weather is wet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr4PvNIN0iM&t=738s

I suggest you browse through YouTube. There is a lot of good stuff out there.
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March 1, 2018 3:22pm
- Swifty
  
  Thanks very much Odakyu-sen.
  
  Yes, will check out. We’ve been on YT but haven’t seen some of these.
  
  Yep, Tsukiji Fish Market is one of my ‘musts’ this trip – along with several specialist places for dinner.
  
  We’ve got an appointment at the House of Travel on Sat morning to hammer out some of the detail.
  
  Many thanks again.
  
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  March 1, 2018 3:26pm
Jack5

An ethnic Chinese New Zealander explains why she has two names: her given Chinese names and a Kiwi name.

Chinese folk have done this for a long time, and I think it’s quite sensible.

I wonder why some Pacific Islanders with names which are perhaps awkward to pronounce or spell, perhaps being laced with hyphens, don’t do the same.

Come to think of it, I’ve known more than a few European New Zealanders, with given Christian names that embarrassed them, and happily go by a nickname or an amended name.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/351539/what-s-in-a-name-why-i-do-not-use-my-chinese-name
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March 1, 2018 3:23pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jack 5 , but Pacific Islanders do have generally easy first names to pronounce .Often preferring biblical names like Jonah , Zach, Nathan and so on .
  
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  March 1, 2018 5:38pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I wonder how our politicians are going to fix the problem of criminal females.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/101882714/huge-rise-in-female-prison-population-a-problem–corrections-boss
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March 1, 2018 3:35pm
- Johnboy
  
  Speaking of huge rise’s I do have to take exception with you likening me to Apollo the other day Maggy.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#/media/File:Apollo_of_the_Belvedere.jpg
  I see myself more as Priapus! 🙂
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus#/media/File:Pompeya_er%C3%B3tica6.jpg
  
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  March 1, 2018 4:14pm
- stephieboy
  
  Maggy W, the problem of criminal females ?
  
  Why just leave it to politicians to fix ?
  
  You surely have a contribution to make ?
  
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  March 1, 2018 5:33pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I try to live a law-abiding life.
    
    I don’t abuse people.
    
    I believe in the worth of females and try to respect each and every one I deal with.
    
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    March 1, 2018 5:47pm
Komata

Concerning the anti-TPP protest on the railway tracks in Christchurch;

A peculiar thing about this: These people are evidently socialists / communists. The PM of NZ is of the same persuasion (by her own admission BTW). She (and her fellow coalition members), although at one time ‘Anti’ the TPP, are now enthusiatically supporting it. Since the PM and these individuals are by all appearances on the same ‘side’ of the political spectrum and should (at least in theory) be all doing the same thing, why are these individuals doing what they are doing? A different faction of ‘socialism / communism perhaps; one that is ‘better’ than the others and believes that it has the moral ‘high ground’ as a result? Does anyone actually know?

As I said, ‘peculiar’…

Thanks.
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March 1, 2018 4:03pm
- Johnboy
  
  It’s just so difficult for societies loser’s to know who to support these days what with Labour, Greens and Winston First all chasing their vote! 🙂
  
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  March 1, 2018 4:30pm
- stephieboy
  
  Komata ,
  
  “These people are evidently socialists / communists.”
  
  Fact or a feeble surmise ?
  
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  March 1, 2018 5:30pm
Odakyu-sen

“A different faction of ‘socialism / communism perhaps; one that is ‘better’ than the others and believes that it has the moral ‘high ground’ as a result?”

The fratricidal tendencies between competing “flavors” of socialism and communism are legendary. After all, they are competing for the same political segment.
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March 1, 2018 4:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  Odakuku-sen ,
  
  “After all, they are competing for the same political segment.”
  
  Much like the Nazis ?
  
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  March 1, 2018 5:29pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Yes stephieboy,
    
    That’s exactly right.
    
    You have given an excellent example of two competing left-wing parties (the Communist Party of Germany and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party) who were bitter rivals and at each other’s throats until one gained the upper hand and liquidated the other.
    
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    March 1, 2018 6:37pm
    - cmm
      
      ” until one gained the upper hand and liquidated the other.”
      
      Then a bit later the other got the upper hand and liquidated the former…
      
      and so on ad infinitum!
      
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      March 1, 2018 6:51pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Odakyu -s en , as history has shown us the nazis were socialist in name only . For example Hitler destroying the left faction in his party 1934 . Then aligning himself with German Industrialists . Not least destroying Communist and other left parties .
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:44pm
MCos

Not a news item you read every day
‘NEWFOUNDLAND, Pa. — Hundreds of crown-wearing worshipers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church’
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hundreds-of-worshipers-gather-at-church-hosting-ceremony-featuring-ar-15s/?__twitter_impression=true
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March 1, 2018 4:22pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Stark-raving Moonies..
  
  They will be sitting pretty, having raked in the $$$$
  from staging part of the Winter Olympics at their Pyeongchang Resort.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongpyong_Resort
  
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  March 1, 2018 5:54pm
- Swifty
  
  Nutters.
  
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  March 1, 2018 6:07pm
Johnboy

Reading stuff like this makes you realise that next time they get in National have to destroy the teacher unions and privatise education within their first year of office.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/101857808/axed-private-school-scholarships-made-the-impossible-possible–solo-mother
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March 1, 2018 5:00pm
- Lance
  
  This is vile of Labour to do this.
  
  But alas it doesn’t surprise me one little bit.
  
  I see the FUCKD UP explanation is they want the funding for more students at mediocre courses.
  The left, embracing mediocrity, “let’s do this”
  
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  March 1, 2018 5:14pm
- stephieboy
  
  Johnboy, that kind of privatisation agenda will see National in permanent opposition .
  
  Form your own political party for a laugh and lark.
  
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  March 1, 2018 5:26pm
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy,downticked and alone ,and strangely not so rabid left because of it?,possibly.
    
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    March 1, 2018 5:52pm
  - DigNap15
    
    You would be surprised how many people are against Labours left wing agenda for schools
    Most parents want the best for their children.
    
    It may be one issue that costs Labour its power.
    
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    March 1, 2018 6:43pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes I have been saying that.
  Everything Labour has done, reverse it and double down.
  Yes they have to get rid of the teachers unions somehow.
  Private all schools
  Turn them all into charter schools
  Give pay rises to non-union members.
  And Get some males in there.
  
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  March 1, 2018 6:24pm
DigNap15

Labour seem intent on dumbing down all of our schools and churning out socialist leaning students.
Where is the sense of achievment?
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March 1, 2018 6:25pm
- mandk
  
  Sorry DigNap15, but haven’t you heard that outputs and outcomes don’t matter anymore?
  
  Throwing money around to buy votes and having politically sound delivery mechanisms are what matters.
  
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  March 1, 2018 6:37pm
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    they are dumbing them down to become Labour voters.
    
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    March 1, 2018 7:54pm
mandk

Apologies if anyone has already commented on this, but I have just watched Melissa Lee making Clare Curren look a complete idiot at oral questions today.

Nice work Melissa.
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March 1, 2018 6:27pm
- Swifty
  
  Just watched that.
  
  Curran’s grenade pin just slipped out a little further…….
  
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  March 1, 2018 6:40pm
  - mandk
    
    It was also great seeing Willie Jackson sitting behind Curren.
    
    He looked as though he was being tortured.
    
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    March 1, 2018 6:43pm
    - Swifty
      
      Heh, he sure did.
      
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      March 1, 2018 6:56pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Curran, Jackson, Davis, Mahuta…
      
      So many and the number is rising all the time. They can run, but they can’t hide.
      
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      March 1, 2018 7:02pm
      - Swifty
        
        Heh – sunlight is the best disinfectant, as they say.
        
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        March 1, 2018 7:52pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    She will go to pieces so quickly that Willie will be hit by the shrapnel.
    
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    March 1, 2018 7:22pm
    - Swifty
      
      Willie should duck and cover.
      
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      March 1, 2018 7:53pm
Odakyu-sen

Gentlemen,

Keep your eyes on the yield rate of the US 10-year bond (2.864 %)
Ref: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=US10Y

It certainly is climbing back up from the depths of the last couple of years.
What will it do? (I don’t know). If it rises above 3.5% then my right eyebrow will follow suite.
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March 1, 2018 7:07pm
mikenmild

What a time President Donald J Trump is having over the just the past few days:
Meets legislators to discuss guns and:
– endorses Democrats’ ideas
– tells Republican legislators to stop being so scared of the NRA
– says “take the guns first…due process later”, when talking about removing weapons from specific individuals

Loses another communications director, the day after she testifies to the Intelligence Committee

Hears his son-in-law isn’t getting a security clearance anytime soon – too many foreigners seem to know too much about Jared

Takes a note reminding himself to say “I hear you” into a meeting with the Parkland kids

Calls his Attorney-General “disgraceful”

And they say he doesn’t do anything. Seems to me like he is dong plenty.
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March 1, 2018 7:18pm
- Inandout
  
  And slowly the Clintons are sinking into the swamp. The series about Bill and Hillary at Whitewater and beyond is fascinating. They are one class criminal act.
  
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  March 1, 2018 7:39pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Does it cover Vince Foster and the White House travel office?
    
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    March 1, 2018 7:46pm
    - Inandout
      
      This stuff is seriously damning to the Clintons, and what a sleaze ball he was.
      
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      March 1, 2018 8:16pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Omigosh. Does that rule him out of running for President in 2020?
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:02pm
  - DigNap15
    
    They were criminals together way back in Arkansas
    
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    March 1, 2018 7:53pm
JasonJohns

HRC and Obama are amongst the great monsters of history. Obama only left office because of the courage of Trump and the high brass of the US navy, who refused his apocalyptic order
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March 1, 2018 7:59pm
- mikenmild
  
  Love your work JJ.
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:05pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Yep. After the shit efforts of ztev lately, it’s good to see a real craftsman at work! ?
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:19pm
  - Swifty
    
    He is good, isn’t he?
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:22pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Much better than just ranting about the Clintons and Obama – go full retard.
      Must make the morons like Inandout, DigNap15 and Upandcomer, etc as mad as hell.
      
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      March 1, 2018 8:33pm
      - Inandout
        
        Oh look, the Russians and collusion/delusion are coming.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:54pm
DigNap15

Lock her Up!
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March 1, 2018 8:17pm
- stephieboy
  
  DigNap15 , a pathetic and lame refrain. Trump declined to do so as he knew his did not have a case .
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:53pm
Maggy Wassilieff

What a fudge!
Are we to believe that RNZ didn’t know that one of it’s panelists worked in Jacinda Ardern’s office?

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/351579/national-raises-questions-about-rnz-commentator
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March 1, 2018 8:24pm
- Kimbo
  
  No, no, Maggy! Clare “hams for hands” Curran quickly doused that fire with the pithy comeback worthy of a Kiwiblogger doing a you’re-not-worth-my-time LANCB flounce,
  
  … “what a nonsense question”.
  
  Yeah, Clare, that’ll stop ‘em! Coming back like sharks with blood in the water! ?
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:35pm
  - Swifty
    
    “what a nonsense question”.
    
    That was pathetic, she should have come back with something far better. Humour, satire, any other cleverness – just not some assertion which she didn’t then go on substantiate.
    
    Pathetic really. This is just her behaviour of old – preaching to the naive choir rather than trying to win new converts.
    
    She is a weak link. If Labour was clever she will be ejected – regardless of her support. They aint worth the pain that will come.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:00pm
- stephieboy
  
  Maggy W, good on RNZ for owning up to it and admitting the conflict of interest . Otherwise RNZ is usually up front and honest about these issues as well as striving to be politically balanced cf alt right media like Fox , Breitbart .
  
  As for Whale Oil ? Umm .. not so sure ?
  
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  March 1, 2018 8:51pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    As for Whale Oil ?
    Who gives a stuff about W.O.?
    
    Trying a distractor again, stephieboy?
    
    Do you recognise that there is a difference between a tax-payer-funded Public Broadcaster and a privately owned blog?
    
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    March 1, 2018 8:58pm
    - Kimbo
      
      And a tax-payer-funded Public Broadcaster that Curran is determined to plough $38 million of taxpayer dollars into, to fund a new tv channel…when the government already owns four, and the medium is a dying industry! ?
      
      Did I mention it will likely also dissipate and detract from Nat Rad’s core and established strength, broadcasting on the wireless? ?
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:07pm
      - Swifty
        
        Another ‘TV’ channel is pouring money down the drain.
        
        It is content that should be funded, to small levels if any.
        
        And that content should not be presided over by Curran, in any way.
        
        She is a partisan hack who is in this for no reason to fund her mates with poor NZers hard-earned money – and solely for promote her life outlook and causes.
        
        In my humble view.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:34pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Maggy W , I was thinking in terms of bias and fair mindedness
      
      Whale oil possess neither .
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:30pm
      - Swifty
        
        Why should he have to?
        
        It’s his personal blog.
        
        What don’t you get?
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:37pm
    - Swifty
      
      It’s all he’s got Maggy.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:35pm
  - Swifty
    
    Bullshit stephie.
    
    I listen to RNZ daily, especially Mora, and it’s chock full of lefties. Lefties who are frequenty not fully disclosed as to their interests.
    
    I like Jim, a lot, but a simple google search shows up people’s allegiances and outlooks. I think his researchers and producer let him down.
    
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    March 1, 2018 9:06pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Swifty , I think Jim Mora strives to get a broad range of political views both Nats and Labour etc.
      
      However it does not cater for extremist alt righters and Trumplanders like possibly you .
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:33pm
      - Swifty
        
        I was waiting for the day you’d label me that.
        
        In nine years on KB not once have I posted anything about Trump.
        
        How inadequate you are. Is that why you wrote ‘possibly’ just to cover your skinny old white arse?
        
        Look within stephieboy. Maybe you’ll find the answers to your troubles.
        
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        March 1, 2018 9:42pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I can’t understand why Mr Bland Mora wasn’t put out to pasture years ago when he went from the afternoon slot to the 4pm hour.
      
      But RNZ never fails to surprise… they found someone even duller than Mora to run the 1-4pm slot.
      
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      March 1, 2018 9:48pm
Rodney Randall

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/28/new-york-city-reaches-180000-settlement-three-muslim-women-hijab-lawsuit/

The lawsuits, which sought to change the NYPD’s policy on Muslim women refusing to wear their head coverings in mugshot photos, were settled in Brooklyn federal court Monday, the New York Daily News reported
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March 1, 2018 8:48pm
- mikenmild
  
  What does Breitbart have to say about the president’s enthusiastic endorsement of gun control?
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:30pm
- Gabby
  
  Muslim women refusing to wear their head coverings? You’d think they’d be pleased.
  
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  March 2, 2018 7:33am
stigie

That 8.02 comment from Nasska this morning got a few of the commenters going. The first time iv’e seen his comment vanish in the 10 years iv’e been here.
I still couldn’t help but give the old sod an uptick though !~
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March 1, 2018 9:42pm
- Swifty
  
  A rare event for ol’ nasska, stigie.
  
  🙂
  
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  March 1, 2018 9:51pm
stigie

He may be having an early night Swifty, Kiwiblog without Nasska is not quite the same in the evenings..?
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March 1, 2018 9:58pm
Huevon

Bill English’s valedictory speech…

https://youtu.be/-NskfjuGarI

Sir, you are a good man. It breaks my heart to think that you were denied the opportunity to serve 3 more years in government by the duplicitous, conniving scumbag Peters.
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March 1, 2018 10:09pm
- stephieboy
  
  Huevon , we can be confident that a persoanl letter of thanks from Bill is on its way .
  
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  March 1, 2018 10:12pm
  - DigNap15
    
    May be you could give him one of your goats?
    
    But seriously
    
    Bil English is a good man.
    He has good family values, and he cares for NZ
    Its a real shame he was robbed by a COL.
    
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    March 2, 2018 7:23am
    - Gabby
      
      He’ll do great work in the private sector which is his natural environment bignipis.
      
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      March 2, 2018 7:35am
softail 1450

so as of today you wont be able to take your old mum or dad for a drive to the summit of mt victoria , the gutless north shore council have bowed to a few noisey maori and a gate will be closed full time.
i have little doubt that if you are a komatua or kuia it will be like magic and opened to allow you access.
Being white in this country has become a handicap and i fear its just to late to change our course.
within 20 years we will have to go down to the local marae for a permit to walk on a hill, go down to the beach,or go fishing .
and we deserve everything that is coming because we have mostly done nothing to stop it.
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