General Debate 20 March 2018

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KiWombat

Today Parliament sits again after having had several weeks off to recover from their extraneous post Waitangi BBQ activities. They so much needed a junket holiday in the tropics to recover from that – didn’t they ?

And there’s going to be some frantic activity in the house – squirrels running everywhere no doubt !

Will we see the next bout in the Melissa Lee vs. Clare Curren banter? Will Clare hide in a hoodie – or the same moth eaten cardigan she dragged out last month ?

Will we see WeeWinnie explaining why there’s no problem in Moscow ? It’s all just a media beat up – nothing to see here ?

Or will we see Stuart Nash defending the Police for being so slow off the mark with their underage drinking investigation ?

Perhaps we might see PM select Cindy refusing to answer questions about the sexual assault at a Labour Party drinkfest ? But wait – there’s more !

Of course there will be no story about the Mark-man and his taxpayer funded helicopter rides – the NZAF just had to drop him home to Masterton to save diesel miles – didn’t they ?

I’ve got the popcorn and beer ready – should be riveting viewing this week !
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March 20, 2018 8:00am
- stephieboy
  
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  KiWombat , blah, blah, blah …
  
  But thanks just the same !
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:16am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Such an intelligent contribution Stephie; not 😀
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:20am
    - igm
      
      What else would one expect from a gutless Muslim-aligned Labour-supporting leech?
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:24am
      - sooty
        
        Stphie the only troll left. You had better control your urges.
        
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        March 20, 2018 8:38am
  - VicParking
    
    Stephie had nothing to say so he asked one of his goats for a comment, “blah, blah, blah”. ??
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:35am
  - Duncan Brown
    
    I note you didn’t address any of the questions, Stephieboy. Question time today should be compulsory – for the left 🙂
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:55am
    - igm
      
      Goat Shagger will need to be careful as Milkwimp and Ztrev are in the sin bin.
      
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      March 20, 2018 11:18am
  - kevn
    
    Go back to sleep septicboy.
    
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    March 20, 2018 11:19am
Monique Watson

Who let the dogs out?
Will I have 38 beers by lunchtime and will KiWombat’s predictions come true?
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March 20, 2018 8:01am
- Awww C-mon
  
  The person with their hand on your collar?
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:04am
holysheet

Mikenmild sat in his office, and out of boredom, decided to see what was inside his old filing cabinet. He poked through the contents and came across an old brass lamp. “This will look good on my mantel,” he said, and took it home with him. While polishing the lamp, a genie appeared and, as usual, granted him three wishes. “I would like an ice-cold Coke right now.” He gets his Coke and drinks it. Now that he can think more clearly, he states his second wish. “I wish to be on an island with beautiful women, who find me irresistible.” Suddenly, he’s on an island with gorgeous women eyeing him lustfully. He tells the genie his third and last wish. “I wish I’d never have to work again.” Instantly, he was back in his government office.
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March 20, 2018 8:01am
- stephieboy
  
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  holycrap , yet more irrelevant blah, blah , blah…
  
  Who cares outside your alt right bubble chamber .
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:18am
  - holysheet
    
    Whatcha doing here so early, Head banging session over early today?
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:25am
  - hullkiwi
    
    So, if this blog is such an anathema to you, what are you doing here? Go somewhere and do us all a favour.
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:37am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy ” who cares,” lets start with the 32 folk that have downticked you , you cretinous goat botherer, “bubble chamber” ha ha ha ha .
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:02am
- holysheet
  
  Where is miky anyway. It was only a joke. There is no magic lamp MM, so you can stop looking for it.
  
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  March 20, 2018 2:04pm
waikatogirl

Kiwi, Chris Liddell has been promoted to Trumps deputy chief of staff.
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March 20, 2018 8:02am
- stephieboy
  
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  How long will he last the revolving door of firings ??
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:19am
- peterwn
  
  Chris is no threat to the President. Chris can never be President of the USA as he was not born there.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:49am
  - sooty
    
    I would assume that he does not vote Labour. So sweet cheeks and Secret Cindy are in trouble.
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:25pm
CHFR1

I seem to be missing out on the NZ political gossip on Twitter, who do I need to be following please?
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March 20, 2018 8:02am
- Camryn
  
  Not exactly gossip, but I like… https://twitter.com/The_Fiscal_Hole/status/974954755339403264 and https://twitter.com/JacindaArdernNZ
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:05am
  - waikatogirl
    
    What date is Robbo’s budget reading?
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:52am
    - KiWombat
      
      17th May
      
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      March 20, 2018 10:54am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Popcorn supply at the ready KiWombat. Perhaps a stiff drink will be required as well. ?
        
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        March 20, 2018 2:01pm
      - KiWombat
        
        Well wasn’t that a bitter disappointment !
        
        Even managed to have my afternoon nap in the middle of it all – what a non event !
        
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        March 20, 2018 4:35pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Twitter – News of New Zealand @geoffnewsofnz
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:07am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Strongly left wing biased, but gives a variety of NZ political views which is good for perspective:
  https://mobile.twitter.com/GeoffMillerNZ/lists/top-100-nz-politics
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:18am
srylands

Banning petroleum exploration would be nuts. Making us poorer for no gain. And Greenpeace equating this with banning nuclear tests in the Pacific? FFS. Because petroleum and nuclear weapons are the same. Ok.
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March 20, 2018 8:02am
- Surely Knott
  
  My local elected Green likes to tell me Norway is the happiest country because they have lots of tax. More likely that Norway is the happiest country because they have lots of money from oil and fish , and therefore able to pay the high tax.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:11am
  - KiWombat
    
    There’s no such thing as an elected GangGreen member in NZ. They all get in on the list !
    
    The party gets elected due to MMP, not the person !
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:19am
  - GazzaW
    
    Absolutely SK. They tax everything that moves in Norway (how does 28% GST grab you?) but the country is a veritable cradle to grave society with an amazingly high standard of living. Norway is the second most wealthy country in Europe after Liechtenstein.
    
    For a laugh ask your local elected Green which foreign drilling company controls a large chunk of our offshore exploratory concessions. It happens to be Statoil, the state owned Norwegian oil and gas producer. Oh the irony! She might want to rethink her love affair with Norway.
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:29am
  - Harkman
    
    This is crazy, shoot yourself in the foot behaviour. Most experts say NZ has gas off the coast not oil. The oil would be exported anyhow. The government could use the royalties to go solar etc for free.
    
    Also, Norway is actually not the biggest tax & spend government in Europe. France, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands etc all have bigger spending governments as a % of GDP (but only Norway can afford it).
    
    If Norway didn’t have large oil revenues ALL of Scandinavia would be as bad as Greece or Spain.
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:55am
- kowtow
  
  It is completely insane .
  
  Remind me how many people voted Green and what big names front for Greenpeace.
  
  Cindy personally accepting the petition is a clear declaration of her position . ( How many voted for her as a fresh face ?)
  
  Talking of sabotaging our economy I see she’s penning a letter to the Don asking for us to be excluded from the tariffs. I hope the Don isn’t a fan of Vogue or the Guardian. This woman is a squirrel brained idealogue , fit for student politics and nothing else.
  
  “The prime minister of New Zealand may have a new nickname on the international stage – “the anti-Trump”.
  
  Jacinda Ardern: ‘I’m not going to leave any room for doubt that I can do this’
  Read more
  That’s according to the fashion bible Vogue, which profiled 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern for its March issue, shooting the prime minister on a windswept North Island beach wearing clothes by New Zealand designers in a picture that is being described as “beautiful” and high fashion.
  
  “New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, Is Young, Forward-Looking, and Unabashedly Liberal,” the magazine’s headline read. “Call Her the Anti-Trump.”
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/15/the-anti-trump-new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-vogue
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:17am
  - stephieboy
    
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    kowtow , give credit where credit is due . At least the Greens can muster more voter support than the KB rabid right could ever dream of .
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:22am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      What a fucking dickhead.
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:27am
      - stephieboy
        
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        CM , but it’s the truth Just consider the negligible effect that the kiwi alt right had on 23/09/ 17.
        
        The Truth shall make you free….
        
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        March 20, 2018 9:17am
    - Harkman
      
      About to bring up 22,000 trolls SB. 1,000 per month, yet February only had 28 days. If only your ideology was as industrious as your trolling.
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:46am
  - Justitia
    
    I read she stood up the leader of the largest muslim country in the world in order to pose with the Greenpeace wankers. Is Cindy an islamophobe?
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:37am
- GazzaW
  
  It won’t happen srylands because not only will the unions not allow 11,000 jobs be prejudiced but the Todd family’s influence over whatever party is in power will suffice to halt Greenpeace in its tracks.
  
  And who gives a fuck about Greenpeace or what they think anyway?
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:19am
  - waikatogirl
    
    It’s okay Gazza, Cindy has asked for more time and has mentioned 2050 as their target date for zero carbon emissions. Once again the Liarbor CoL has put off decision making. A pat on the head for all the protesters with a promised conversation, a series of committees and another inquiry. ?
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:32am
    - GazzaW
      
      I wonder which union honcho or which Todd family member called her last night to remind her who buttered Labour’s bread. Maybe both did.
      
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      March 20, 2018 9:49am
- Than
  
  I did see that. Thankfully she appears to have started rapidly walking that back – as Bridges said, it was nothing but a publicity stunt.
  
  Another equal piece of madness in the news today – Call to Ban Internal Combustion Engines. The authors are delusional if they think that would be even possible, let alone practical, given the limitations of EVs today. The only even remotely sane part of the article is the proposed start date of 2030, i.e. so far into the future it’s effectively a fiction. No policy that far out means anything – the odds of some government between now and then repealing it are simply too high. Especially for a policy as divisive and controversial as this one would be.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:31am
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    In the IT industry we referred to this type of thing as vapourware…
    A product you sell people one that never ever gets delivered. Makes a good story though and takes people’s eyes off the negative stuff that is gong on.
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:27pm
- Justitia
  
  This was clearly an effort by Comrade Cindy to soothe the hurty feelings of the Greens. They are clearly unhappy, hence their passive-aggressive gesture in handing over their PQs to National. So just another day of papering over the cracks in this government of losers. Problem is New Zealand will likely be the biggest loser while these idiots play politics among themselves.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:05am
- KevOB
  
  See this, this morning:
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/03/19/global-warming-on-trial-and-the-elementary-error-of-physics-that-caused-the-global-warming-scare/
  
  Serious scientific error.
  Carbon dioxide now proven to have insignificant affect on temperature. (Greens the planet too.)
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:15am
  - cmm
    
    That CO2 greens the planet has not been disputed for a long time now.
    
    Plants need food and there’s not much in the air. They have to work hard for it.
    
    Plants “east” CO2 by absorbing it through pores on their leaves called stomata. The plants have the ability to open and close these pores.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoma
    
    Unfortunately plants also lose water through these pores (transpiration).
    
    Thus, as CO2 levels go up, the plants can closes more pores and still get the same amount of CO2 into their system. That means they lose less water.
    
    That means they can either grow in dry places where they could not before (ie. reversing desertification) or grow with less irrigation (ie. keeping more water in the rivers for our fishy friends).
    
    So anyone that cares about the trees, rivers and all the wee beasties that live in them should welcome increased CO2 levels.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:51am
    - holysheet
      
      You left out the most important part. C02 is carbon and oxygen. The plants take out the carbon as a food source and give off the oxygen for us and all othr mammals.
      
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      March 20, 2018 10:38am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  The important thing is to displace all the production to places with evil governance and poor environmental standards to provide nz greens with maximum virtue signal + negative economics + negative global environmental impact + support of oppression. Ie Think local, act stupid. Twats.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:25am
KiWombat

It looks like Cindy is the captain of a boat with a pretty bad leak. She should make another hole to let out all the water !
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March 20, 2018 8:03am
KiWombat

41 million trees to go now Shane – that’s 41 followed by a bucketful of zero’s !
You’d better get out your shovel some time soon !
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March 20, 2018 8:04am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Shane’s not actually going to plant the trees. However he is still trying to get his nephews off the couch, but as summer morphs into autumn, then winter, he’s not having a lot of luck.
  
  PS – I saw an amusing meme on FB the other day; something along the lines of “Isn’t it great we live in a country where people use $1000 smartphones to check if their WINZ payment has gone into the bank?”
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:08am
  - KiWombat
    
    I’ve still got one of those old brick phones KS, good for talking on and texting but not for much else though.
    
    I normally only charge it once a week, usually Friday, and it always amuses me when I have passengers in the truck they all need to charge their phones – even if they have only been away from a power point for an hour or so. Same on the Interislander – there are always people queuing up to use the 10 or so power outlets for their phones.
    
    I’ll stick with the tried and true until they come up with something that will come close to lasting a few days thankyou very much !
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:15am
    - Nermal
      
      Mind you, if they are anything like my female friend, it’s no wonder. She opens an app, uses it, then opens another, and another, ad infinitude until it runs out of power.
      
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      March 20, 2018 5:56pm
  - stephieboy
    
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    KS , the old “ they can afford a sky dish “ slur !
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:23am
    - Harkman
      
      Virtually all the Council flats in Chch have Sky dishes on top of them. Explain that one, because the Sky dish at my place doesn’t provide Freeview to the bedroom tvs, the Freeview dish does.
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:43am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Harkaman , did you do a fact finding inventory and survey ?
        
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        March 20, 2018 9:15am
  - tf78
    
    Can the beneficiaries really afford to be flying in and out of their regions or is it that Shane wants to be able to fly in and out instead of driving.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:35am
- G152
  
  I dont think Shane had any idea of the infrastructure required to ‘just’ plant trees and look after them
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:17am
  - KiWombat
    
    That’s pretty obvious G. But I would have thought that by this time we would have seen him planting at least 1 notional tree to advertise the progress of his flagship policy.
    
    No signs of any activity yet !!
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:23am
    - G152
      
      He, like his cuzzies have to put space between chair and backside first.
      Aint going to happen
      
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      March 20, 2018 9:25am
  - pdm
    
    Shane has only just realised that before you can plant trees you have to have seedlings to plant.
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:37am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      And you need some land on which to plant them.
      How many hectares are being planted up?
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:45am
      - thedavincimode
        
        Maggy, I believe the plan is to plant them really really close together to save space. The effect is to make the forest more like a carpet.
        
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        March 20, 2018 9:19am
- stephieboy
  
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  kiwombat , but it has . Consider but one example with NSW winegrowers having to take their Pinot production to Tassie .
  
  Due to the fact there has been and incremental increase of .8 degrees in temperatures over the last 30 years .
  
  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-11/wine-producers-face-climate-change-challenge-in-orange/7830280
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:22am
  - KiWombat
    
    You could be right SB. Shane never actually said he was going to plant all his trees in New Zealand did he ?
    
    Maybe he’s bee skiving off to Tassie on weekends to plant one or two !
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:53am
waikatogirl

Uber, USA has suspended its use of self-drive cars after a pedestrian was killed. Back to the drawing board.
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March 20, 2018 8:04am
- VicParking
  
  The women stepped out when the car was about six feet from her. Dash cam, if its allowed to be released, will show this.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:43am
  - howitis
    
    Suicide by Uber!
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:55am
    - VicParking
      
      No suicide by twitter or what’s app
      
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      March 20, 2018 10:22am
  - Lance
    
    There was a case in the US where 2 good-old-boys got pissed as a newt, drove off the road, across a corn field and onto the railway tracks. They were hit and killed by a train and the railway was successfully sued…………..
    So Uber is rooted here.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:59am
- cmm
  
  People think this stuff is ready for mainstream, but few really understand how young this technology really is.
  
  The control problem for a land vehicle is bloody huge. Far harder than flying a plane or a ship.
  
  We don’t yet have fully autonomous planes yet and those will come long before fully autonomous cars do.
  
  California requires that operators of self driving cars submit “disengagement reports” for every incident where the automatic system was overridden by the driver. ie. In most/all these cases the driver decided the automated system was doing something wrong and overrode the system. For example, here’s one showing over 80 disengagements in 18000 miles (approx one per 360km).
  
  https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/144add4b-f1d7-4377-a457-464bf9bd657c/Delphi.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
  
  It’s got to get a whole lot better than that!
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:45am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Leading autonomous developer Google Waymo is up to about 1 disengagement per 8000km (2017), that is getting close to a year of average driving. They now have fully autonomous taxis operating in Arizona. The tech is coming fast.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:10am
    - cmm
      
      So one crash per year per vehicle? Not bad! That would fix the problem of old cars on NZ roads – there won’t be any. Only Rich Pricks can afford to buy a new car every year.
      
      And I doubt they’re testing in rain and snow etc.
      
      The biggest hassle with tech development is that the effort you need to put in tends to go up exponentially. If it takes 100 man years of effort to get from 0% to 80% it takes the same effort to go from 80% to 90%.
      
      A long way off yet, I think.
      
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      March 20, 2018 11:52am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        You can’t really say it is a long way off when they have just about entered service: https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-self-driving-car-service-phoenix/
        
        In each incident they have all the data to pore over and create algorithmic improvements/neural net training to ensure it doesn’t happen again, they will address more and more unthought of issues and eliminate more potential bad behaviour from their system. With that kind of treatment I would sort of expect continual improvement, though perhaps rate of advancement will slow as number of disengagements reduces. And perhaps they will hit an asymptote where you higher level intelligence to avoid an accident (eg predicting human or animal behaviour based on subtle clues and experience).
        
        I would also imagine that substantial number of those disengagements either would not have resulted in an accident, or would only have resulted in minor accidents. I shudder at how many near misses I had as a young driver.
        
        Bu also consider the economics. Even if you have a minor crash every 3-500 hours, that represents something like $5-10k in saved wages. Could pay for itself pretty quickly. Chances of killing or injuring people badly if only driving in urban setting at 50km/hr are low.
        
        The in car hardware that is about to become available is pretty incredible – nvidia PX pegasus at 320TFlops has about the same processing power as the fastest computer in the world did just 10 years ago.
        
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        March 20, 2018 8:18pm
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Anyone who has driven with their spouse in the passenger seat will understand how there could be one ‘disengagement’ per 360km when the driver is doing just fine.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:19am
- labrator
  
  Denial of service attack.
  
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  March 20, 2018 12:48pm
starboard

Hows that Kelvin Davis eh? Doing a tour of the bros to see what more Maori want.
How about asking whitey what they want.. Like maybe Maori could stop beating and murdering their children for starters.
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March 20, 2018 8:04am
- VicParking
  
  I hear he is taking a armoured car around with him to collect all the Koha. Plenty in the Governments coffers, 10% for me??
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:46am
- waikatogirl
  
  Kelvin is off to the regions to consult with 14 hui to discuss what they want. You mean work out how to milk the system for even more under the TOW.
  
  More like a good way to keep Kelvin away from Parliament where he is an embarrassment everytime he opens his mouth.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:46am
  - Inandout
    
    I saw Kelvin’s spiel on Garner and oh shit he is bloody useless. Who wrote that bloody speech about Maori feeling sick?
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:00am
    - sooty
      
      That’ll keep him busy and out of the way till secret Cindy chucks it.
      
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      March 20, 2018 12:40pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  What, Kelvin out of Parliament during Question Time? He hasn’t got Mahuta and Curran with him by any chance?
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:31am
  - starboard
    
    Bawhahahahaha ?
    
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    March 20, 2018 11:49am
kowtow

The “rescuers” don’t actually care about the illegal immigrants , what they want to do is fuck over Europe. If they did care they wouldn’t be doing it as such goody goody bollocks only encourages more to try and thousands drown in the attempt.

Meanwhile why didn’t European gubmints take a tougher stance in the first instance , instead they allowed the place to be swamped and also were thereby complicit in the drownings and any criminality the hordes engaged in in Europe.

‘Italy has impounded a Spanish rescue vessel that refused to surrender a group of migrants to the Libyan coast guard and instead brought them to Sicily, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/19/italy-impounds-rescue-vessel-crew-refuses-hand-migrants-libya/
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March 20, 2018 8:07am
- EAD_TWO
  
  The “rescuers” don’t actually care about the illegal immigrants , what they want to do is fuck over Europe.
  
  Why would anyone want to “f**k” Europe? Moreover, what group has the worldwide reach, power of messaging (a huge amount of brainwashing is required to convince people to give up their homelands to hostile invaders) and hatred of Native populations to carry out such a diabolical plan?
  
  People on here argue that a group called “the left” is behind mass 3rd world immigration but that doesn’t explain why this group – “the left” doesn’t do it in not White Countries. I don’t for instance see the Japanese “left” agitating for African immigration..
  
  It also doesn’t explain why “the right” who are supposed to be the opposite of “the left” have been bringing in even more 3rd worlders in (see the most recent National Govt vs. the prior Labour Govt + the Tories in the UK who are now busy silencing all dissent ala Britt Pettibone & Lauren Southern).
  
  This “left vs. right” analysis is so laughable as to be beyond contempt.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ldT3YL2Kw
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:23am
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    EAD TWO ,
    
    Barbara Lerner Spectre – Jews behind immigration into Europe
    
    The lets blame the jews Lie
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:25am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      It might be difficult for someone with a short attention span, but sometimes, you’ve just got to listen to the words that people speak and make your own judgements.
      
      These are the exact words of Barbara Lerner Spectre in the video above that were on Israel’s national television equivalent of 60 Minutes (hardly a fringe “Alt-Right” video 🙂 ):
      
      Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
      
      For example, here was Yascha Mounk, a lecturer from Harvard University and author of the book “Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany, last month explaining to a sympathetic German journalist why the Plebs are so unhappy with politics at the moment: “WE are here daring to attempt a unique historical experiment: transforming a mono-ethnic, mono-cultural democracy into a multi-ethnic one.”
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-_7TaYb-mI
      
      Freudian Slip perhaps?
      
      But whether you regard Monk motivations as being primarily driven from being a member of the intellectual left, a “Globalist” or a Jew – do you not think it is sick that the likes of him think the German people are nothing but laboratory rats to be “experimented” upon?
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:40am
KiWombat

Due to our current economic conditions the light at the end of the tunnel has just been turned off !
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March 20, 2018 8:08am
Tarquin North

A petition signed by 1% of the population delivered by an Australian communist to a ditzy socialist who was keeping the president of Indonesia waiting. Sounds like the making of a bad reality show, but no it’s the beginning of Labours latest plan to wipe out our economy.
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March 20, 2018 8:10am
- oldgolfer
  
  Comment of the day, I’d say.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:09am
- Rachael Membery
  
  At least she doesn’t play golf, so can’t gate crash.
  
  What I resent is that if Jacinda was doing a half decent job I would be jumping up and down about her being excluded from things as being sexist, but I really don’t think that it is. She just has nothing of value to offer and others having to pay some sort of lip service only goes so far.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:21am
  - sooty
    
    She could not even be the caddy. Maybe she could pull the flag out of the cup.
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:43pm
    - RF
      
      Nah. She could soak his balls in warm milk. Jethro might not like that…..
      
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      March 20, 2018 5:51pm
- tf78
  
  Cindy accepts the anti oil petition and then jumps into her “crown limo” and drives off to lunch – what a hypocrite.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:43am
- marcw
  
  After which the ditzy socialist drove off in … wait for it … a Government fossil fueled BMW. Too funny.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:53am
Inandout

Kelvin Davis is going to spend some tax money on koha, listening to Maori. Maoris are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Answer: get a job and get some self worth going.
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March 20, 2018 8:11am
- holysheet
  
  Uncle ~~Tom~~ Kelvin is going around the country with a open cheque book. “Here I am bros, How much will it take to keep you sweet at election time?”
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:20am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    On top of Shane’s cheque book.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:23am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes come on Maori, start enjoying the 21st century and participate, by getting a good education or trade and a job and later on a decent partner.
  Follow our asian immigrants they seem to get ahead, by hard work, not sitting on their couches.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:23am
  - waikatogirl
    
    It is as Prof Jordan Peterson says about not expecting your children to take any responsibility during their life, you end up with a kid who has no motivation to help themselves and continue to rely on the bank of mum and dad.
    
    Maori have been mollycoddled by the welfare state and now they are living in our basement expecting all their needs to be met.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:00am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Sir Apirana Ngata was well aware of the problems when Maori preferred State handouts to working for their own productive future.
      Here’s exLabour MP and Respected Historian Dr Michael Bassett’s take on the matter.
      http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/columns.php?id=90&yh=2005&yl=2004
      
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      March 20, 2018 11:04am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        That’s a great piece by Bassett. It should by compulsory reading for those in government; particularly this paragraph:
        
        ” If they had read their history these extremists would know that the welfare structure put in place by Labour governments after 1935 was never intended to provide the same income to those not in work as was earned by those who worked. Michael Joseph Savage and Peter Fraser argued that there was dignity in work, and an obligation. Walter Nash, Finance Minister to both of them, told the Labour faithful in 1936 that work was essential to win a reward. Fraser backed sending workers to other centres if jobs couldn’t be found in areas where they lived, so long as they could return home for visits. When faced in Parliament with a question about what he would do with someone who refused work on such terms, Fraser replied that the welfare state had no place for the “ingrained, degenerate loafer”.
        
        It would appear the leading lights of the traditional Labour movement understood their constituents as well as anyone.
        
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        March 20, 2018 12:34pm
Lance

Shane Jones the clown threatening Air NZ for not running heavy loss making air services to obscure airports.
What an idiot

I am sure if there is money to be made a vast hoard of airlines will fill the gap…….. crickets.
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March 20, 2018 8:14am
- G152
  
  Shane should start his own airline since he knows so much about them 🙂
  The documentation should be a wakeup
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:20am
  - Lance
    
    I would recommend averting ones eyes from any inflight movie
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:25am
    - geoff3012
      
      There’s always Ronair
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:31am
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        heh
        
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        March 20, 2018 12:26pm
    - RF
      
      Fly united has porn inflight movies.
      
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      March 20, 2018 5:53pm
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    KiwiAir
    
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    March 20, 2018 5:59pm
- Harkman
  
  I’m beginning to think that his Harvard degree didn’t teach him anything about business.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:01am
- waikatogirl
  
  Lance, to be fair Shane only expects Air NZ to run heavy loss-making air services to one obscure airport. His local airport in Kaitaia. ? ✈️
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:03am
  - starboard
    
    Can’t he catch a ride with skid Mark in one of our helicopters.. ?
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:33am
- kaykaybee
  
  Yes, but another aspect of the preening Shane Jones. He could be well in breach of the cabinet manual here says Compton.
  
  “Not sure Shane Jones’ claim that he was only speaking as someone from the provinces washes. He mightn’t be the shareholding Minister, but he still shouldn’t be issuing directives. Very close to a breach of the Cabinet Manual, if not an actual one.”
  
  https://twitter.com/gwynncompton/status/975821116391407616
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:54am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    I listened to Shane “Porno” Jones on Larry Williams. Got all shouty when asked the hard questions. He should stick to what he does best. I don’t even mind if he uses his ministerial credit card.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:30pm
- VicParking
  
  He’s a socialist, a company can loose money and be baled out by the state if its good for the peasants. And remember there is no air base by his home only an airport.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:27am
wiseowl

Anyone playing golf today?
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March 20, 2018 8:16am
oldpark

Today NZ will pay homage to a guy called Obama. The same clown once said ISIS was no better that an Junior Varsity team. In fact no threat at all to Iraq or Syria or even the World.
Obama even compared ISIS to the so called Crusaders who in ancient times drove the Muslim hordes out of the Middle East.
Maybe some people will mitigate for him as he did spend circa Twenty Years in the company of a Church Elder and a Muslim loving anti white bigot.
Today the same Obama often professed as the worst President or Leader USA has ever had ,will be entertained by the same perception in NZ as exists in USA .By a PM selected by a guy called Peters.Go figure.
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March 20, 2018 8:17am
- Inandout
  
  This is how ex Presidents supplement their pension, by circuit speeches at exorbitant fees. Obama is like Cindy; all talk, no do.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:21am
  - fernglas
    
    Except that she is a current, not ex head of state. If you don’t want to see Obama, don’t go.
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:30am
    - sooty
      
      Like secret Cindy could supplement her pension on the speaking circuit.
      
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      March 20, 2018 12:48pm
- Lance
  
  So oldpark… are you pissed because you didn’t get an invitation?
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:23am
  - MCos
    
    Probably not judging by that string of barely intelligible vitriol. I doubt if the people that are going are pissed off that she/he didn’t get one either.
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:49am
    - Lance
      
      The comment was aimed as a trigger… light fuse and stand clear
      
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      March 20, 2018 10:01am
- stephieboy
  
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  old park , will look forward to the throngs of protestors by the ailing alt right on KB can muster .
  
  The alt right might get lucky as desperate MSM attempts to muster an alt right rent a demo mob for news sake .
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:46am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Sqwark : alt-right, Sqwark : alt-right.
    
    As the only one on the Labour payroll still here, SB you’re going to have to lift your game and sound less like a galah with tourettes.
    
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    March 20, 2018 1:22pm
- Fletch
  
  Obama again empowered Iran and Russia during his term. Trey Gowdy tweeted today –
  
  “It wasn’t @realDonaldTrump who laughed when @MittRomney said Russia was our number one geopolitical enemy and it wasn’t President Trump who handed that awkward reset button to the Russians.”
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:59am
Happychappy

Who is going to keep the conversation going on Young Labour’s Summer Camp and the sexual assault. Three months for Lawyer to find out about alcohol being served to minors and sexual misadventure by someone attending the camp and Labour trying to hide the facts or continue with Jacinda and muffins thinking that three months will be enough to take the air out of a disgusting event that has tainted NZ politics. Will the media keep pressure on Labour or will they still be caught up in Jacinda mania.
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March 20, 2018 8:18am
- Awww C-mon
  
  Since nothing appears to have happened to Mr 20 yr. old, who will be accountable if he is found to offend again?
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:22am
  - stephieboy
    
    Awww C-mon , it will depend on a number factors including whether the police have a case to put forward for prosecution .
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:47am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Stephie-creep, inside knowledge? been through it before?
      
      It could also depend on the alleged attacker been held to account for his actions by his peers, they should have done more than remove him from the camp and then offer ‘counselling’ a month after the event.
      
      He should have been reported immediately.
      
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      March 20, 2018 12:02pm
      - sooty
        
        He’s old enough to join the old Lbour party now. You know the one with all the deviants, queers, alphabet soup names, etc. Going to fit right in there with people just like himself and just like mummy and daddy.
        
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        March 20, 2018 12:55pm
- Paulus
  
  Why has nobody asked the Labour Party actual leaders pommy Pres or Gen Sec whether the Karangahake Perp is, or was, an employee of the Labour Party now on leave or probably fired and in Ossie.
  We know he is no longer a member but that was after the event.
  A couple of names are emerging so we can await for his name.
  The Police know who it is.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:41am
  - sooty
    
    Staffer in Fraser House?
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:57pm
- KiWombat
  
  I’ve eventually worked out why women have orgasms. It’s just another reason to moan !
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:42am
  - waikatogirl
    
    You wish! ?
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:08am
  - softail 1450
    
    kiwombat, or how do you know if your partner has had an orgasm,? who cares.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Pete George’s blog has posted up the Terms of Reference for the Labour Party Sexual Assault Review
  https://yournz.org/2018/03/19/labour-sexual-assault-review-terms-of-reference/
  
  Honestly, Labour could have saved themselves a few $$$$ by just asking a couple of Secondary School Principals about protocols for 16 year olds in their care, booze, and sexual assault.
  
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  March 20, 2018 11:31am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    “Labour will not be commenting further while this investigation is underway,” said Haworth.
    
    Labour should not be commenting at all while a Police investigation is underway.
    
    A statement will be issued with the recommendations of the enquiry at 9pm Christmas Eve.
    
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    March 20, 2018 1:27pm
radvad

I see Hilary claims that deplorable woman vote the way of their deplorable husbands because they cannot make up their own minds.
This is hilaryous because she was a Republican (worked on Goldwaters campaign) but changed to Democrat because of, wait for it, her future husband is a Democrat.
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March 20, 2018 8:18am
- kowtow
  
  Hashtag moment there.
  
  Basically she’s saying wimmin voters are thick.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:25am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Na, it’s only WHITE women that follow the instructions of their hubby’s.
    
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/13/hillary-clinton-blames-pressure-from-men-for-why-white-women-voted-for-trump.html
    
    (talk about self-projecting)!!!!
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:31am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh dear,
    Looks like Hillary has had to issue an apology to WHITE women.
    She didn’t mean to give offence.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/18/hillary-clinton-says-never-meant-cause-offence-claiming-white/
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:36am
- Harkman
  
  Hilary also said that she won states that produce two thirds of GDP. But she didn’t say is that the minority Republican voters in these states account for most of the economic activity in these states, hence the jealousy & progressive taxes.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:35am
- VicParking
  
  Speaking from the heart
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:52am
Longknives

Good Lord couldn’t hear what she was talking about (screaming kids) but The People’s Princess looked absolutely dreadful on the News this morning (Didn’t see if it was TV One or Three)
Stress getting to her? She looks skeletal and ashen faced..
Perhaps worried the truth might come out about when she found out about the Labour Sex Camp?
Or other more personal issues?
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March 20, 2018 8:19am
- holysheet
  
  Maybe she got the message from Hillary about how hard it was to keep Bill on the back porch.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:23am
  - stephieboy
    
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    holy sheet , where did you coached in weak comedy ?
    
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    March 20, 2018 8:27am
    - holysheet
      
      I used to be a church goer, but had all the laughter fucked out of me by the priests.
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:44am
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        holysheet , as I asked where did you receive your coaching in weak jokes and humour ?
        
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        March 20, 2018 9:29am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Steph – that wasn’t funny the first time.
        
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        March 20, 2018 10:05am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Poor Hills is being misunderstood by the deplorables again.
    She always claims to be misunderstood when she’s put her foot in her mouth.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:08am
- lifesgood
  
  Both, I suggest. The sooner she goes the better. What an utter disgrace to NZ she is. The daily faux pas and stupidity from Labour is now well beyond a joke. Only the simple minded could possibly still believe in them.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:31am
  - oldgolfer
    
    Alas, there are more than a few.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:10am
- pdm
  
  `Princess looked absolutely dreadful on the News this morning (Didn’t see if it was TV One or Three)’
  
  A big night with the Indonesian President perhaps – showing him her slippers.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:43am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Pulling the wool over them? I personally don’t think her wearing’that brand’ does their product any favours, or from what I have seen anyway.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:24am
- waikatogirl
  
  She has had a terrible week:
  The sexual attack scandal
  Telling Winnie he can’t go ahead with his Russian trade – bet that conversation went well for her
  James selling out to National giving away the Greens questions
  Now she finds herself stuck between a very large rock and a hard place with her promise to do away with the oil and gas industry. A major trip up Cindy.
  
  The wheels are coming loose Cindy.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:14am
  - rangitoto
    
    And now Jones is wanting Air NZ to go broke.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:38am
- softail 1450
  
  longknives , my youngest son has come up with a reasonable conspiracy theory , everytime cindy tells a porkey she grows another freckle on her chest ,it sounds fairly scientific to me.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:17am
- Fletch
  
  “Damn it, Gaylord! I didn’t realize that being PM would be so difficult! I was happy being a backbencher and getting paid for doing bugger-all and only being pinged in the media for saying something stupid now and again. Even being back in high school and studying for NCEA wasn’t this bad!”.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:05am
- Prince
  
  Screaming kids ? Was it a cabinet meeting ?
  
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  March 20, 2018 12:36pm
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… Australian Banking Royal Commission …

Banks are digging themselves a deeper hole on trust … Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/banks-are-digging-themselves-a-deeper-hole-on-trust-20180319-p4z54i.html

At the same time as Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new chair James Shipton delivered an address in Sydney on the need for the community to trust in the financial services sector, the royal commission in Melbourne was hearing from bank executives and customers about how this trust has been abused.

It was a weird disconnect. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Google Search ‘Australia Banking Royal Commission’ …

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=dgWwWpXfIYv18gX2j6SwDw&q=australia+banking+royal+commission&btnK=Google+Search
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  Now we know why the banks did not want a royal commission – MacroBusiness Australia … behind paywall …
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/now-know-banks-not-want-royal-commission/
  
  Because the corruption is clearly systemic, across all kinds of business lines and products.
  
  We already know that NAB has outsourced mortgage issuance to gym mangers, the ANZ doesn’t bother assessing the credit-worthiness of borrowers, mortgage brokers are a running joke as risk arbiters and, now, we get this on the CBA:
  
  Special counsel assisting the commission, Rowena Orr, QC, (whose masterful performance at these hearings surely makes her worthy of the nickname “Shock And”) revealed that between 2011 and 2015, CBA sold credit card insurance to 64,000 customers who it knew had no chance of claiming benefits.
  
  Why was this insurance worthless for these customers? Because they were unemployed, on disability benefits, pensioners and students – not working more than 15 hours a week made you ineligible to make a claim.
  
  But, incredibly, CBA’s salespeople never directly informed the customers of this problem in the vast majority of cases. … *behind paywall) … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:34am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
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    … Now an open expanded version of the above …
    
    Australia’s Greenspan moment arrives – MacroBusiness Australia
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/australias-greenspan-moment-arrives/
    
    In October 2008, Alan Greenspan confessed:
    
    Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief…. The whole intellectual edifice [of risk-management in derivative markets]…collapsed last summer.” Asked whether his ideological bias led him to faulty judgments, he answered: “Yes, I’ve found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is. But I’ve been very distressed by that fact.” … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:00am
    - CHFR1
      
      Stop spamming the GD it is getting boring you single issue nutter!!
      
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      March 20, 2018 9:52am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    And one Sir Ralph Norris of Fletchers fame was the CEO during that time.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:28am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
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      AUSTRALIA … POLITICALLY CORRUPTING THE HOUSING MARKET & ASSOCIATED LENDING …
      
      Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/australias-greenspan-moment-arrives/#comment-3071988 … and …
      
      Australia’s Greenspan moment arrives – MacroBusiness Australia
      
      https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/australias-greenspan-moment-arrives/
      
      In October 2008, Alan Greenspan confessed:
      
      Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief…. The whole intellectual edifice [of risk-management in derivative markets]…collapsed last summer.” Asked whether his ideological bias led him to faulty judgments, he answered: “Yes, I’ve found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is. But I’ve been very distressed by that fact.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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      .
      Google Search ‘Australia Banking Royal Commission
      
      https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=JB6wWqe0J4K48QWe67bYBw&q=australia+banking+royal+commission&oq=australia+banking+royal+commission&gs_l=psy-ab.13..0l2.18519.35906.0.39834.38.16.1.20.20.0.363.3389.2-13j1.15.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..2.35.3726.0..0i131k1j0i10k1j0i22i30k1.203.wq9Cpte2gQs
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      There is a world of difference between CLEAN true market housing values (at or below 3 times annual household incomes) … and CORRUPTED political values (above 3 times annual household incomes …
      
      2018 14th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
      
      http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
      
      The above annual Survey categorises markets as affordable; moderately unaffordable; seriously unaffordable and severely unaffordable.
      
      They could be better categorised as politically clean; moderately corrupted; seriously corrupted and severely corrupted.
      
      If the politicians and bureaucrats have corrupted housing markets (misused the law to effectively ban the construction of affordable housing) … why should we be surprised market participants respond by behaving dishonestly in politically corrupted housing markets ?
      
      Has this been made clear to the Australian Banking Royal Commission ?
      
      The major aim of the Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Surveys is to encourage the restoration of POLITICALLY CLEAN (at or below 3 times annual household incomes) housing markets.
      
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      March 20, 2018 10:19am
DigNap15

Jacinda
NZ is mad to try to lead the world on carbon neutral.
We don’t have the population to do the R&D etc.
Lets watch and see if electric cars take off.
They are very expensive and the batteries are a problem.
In the meantime, if you built more roads, the cars in Auckland would move and not use so much fuel just sitting there in gridlock.
No more cycle lanes or bus lanes.
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March 20, 2018 8:26am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I don’t think we have the power set-up to service a load of electric vehicles.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/102240245/power-network-may-struggle-to-deal-with-electric-vehicles
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:42am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    The Lines Company has a recharging thingame at the New World in Te Kuiti.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:38am
    - KevOB
      
      Charging batteries takes energy. The faster the charge the greater the power required. Batteries are typically low voltage too so a greater number of amps (oomph) are needed to get the stored power quantity.
      Problem the amps needed to be delivered to a car for an acceptable top up time is not easy to deliver.
      3 Hours at the service station?
      
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      March 20, 2018 12:44pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Perhaps MW it is destiny that the smelter in Bluff will close then?
    
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    March 20, 2018 3:29pm
Harkman

Labour’s spin doctors came up with the ridiculous idea, Young Labour isn’t really Labour, so we’ll blame their lack of organisation and throw them under the bus. I’m certainly not an Intellectual Property lawyer but I know when businesses have their brand name abused by third party users, they send a “cease and desist” letter. Considering Young Labour camps are now known as gropefests, you’d think this would have been done already. Our dopey journalists took this hook-line-and-sinker instead of calling Labour’s bluff and closing the thing going down. If Labour doesn’t object to the group, its members take part in their activities, then they obviously support them.
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March 20, 2018 8:29am
- lifesgood
  
  And their MPs and PM definitely supported them by attending. It was all shits and giggles until the shit hit the fan.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:34am
- marcw
  
  The ‘journalists’ (in the loosest sense of the word) are all in awe of the fairy princess, and will swoon on anything she says. Just ask Soper. The thought to actually question her never got past the Little Red book instruction manual.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:03am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Except Soper did say that it was his mother helped him get over being abused when he was younger, so thought parents should know.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:40am
kowtow

The MSM ,fuckwits and social media.

“You lived life at 1000kmph there was nothing you couldn’t do, so strong willed.”

She was killed in a car crash ,FFS.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/teens-crash-deaths-absolutely-awful
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March 20, 2018 8:32am
- fernglas
  
  It’s a contemporary New Zealand tragedy that those killed in stupid car accidents and drunken or P-fuelled homicides are universally fantastic people with great futures, kind to others and a huge loss to the community. If there was a God, would she not ensure that such fates only befell the irresponsible, the worthless and the foolish? Or in this Facebook-driven world, is it now the case that such people no longer exist? I dunno, love ya babes, rest easy.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:47am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    Its God culling out the winners of the Darwinian Award.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:31am
    - KiWombat
      
      Maybe we should make some more JATO’s available to them ?
      
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      March 20, 2018 9:58am
- Longknives
  
  I remember years ago there was a nasty Boy Racer crash on the Auckland Motorway.
  The occupants of the souped up vehicle were literally burnt alive in their car- I couldn’t think of a more horrific death.
  I remember a few days later seeing an article on it in The Herald where a family member said ‘It’s how he would have wanted to go’..
  That’s the sort of mentality we are up against trying to keep our families safe from idiot Boy Racers/Joyriders..
  I drive my kids around in an absolute tank that is airbagged to hell and I drive real defensively because I know how many of these lunatics there are on the roads.
  And I never shed a single tear when these menaces take themselves out of the Gene Pool..
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:27am
wreck1080

Never realised just how big kiwifruit is becoming. Zespri will be soon be exporting 4.5billion dollars worth each year…

Dairy exports around 12 billion dollars a year and uses a ton more land and causes way more environmental issues.
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March 20, 2018 8:35am
- burt
  
  Sorry, we’re banning oil use and kiwifruit cannot be shipped off shore. Kiwifruit jam will be cheap this year though.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:55am
sooty

So is Labour going to do a mail out to its members. I bloody hope the party and not the taxpayer is paying for it.
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March 20, 2018 8:36am
- cmm
  
  Two rolls of stamps isn’t that expensive.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:46am
DifferentPerspective

HDPA gone full spitting libtard on Trump, Mark Richardson this morning. Plenty of as hominem not a lot of balance.
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March 20, 2018 8:46am
- fernglas
  
  Opinion writers; self-satisfied and smug set of censorious scribblers.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:58am
- burt
  
  She’s having a left-tard rebound from the 3 seconds of rational though where for a very brief moment she considered Labour could be held accountable for protecting a sexual predator. She’s over that now and back to normal barking at parked cars.
  
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  March 20, 2018 8:59am
- oldpark
  
  Yes changed channels. Sadly she has the stamp,of her grandpappy hubby guy called barely Sober.. Thought just for a short time she was alot more saner than him.She should have stayed in South Africa where she could help them to solve the drug and corruption problems.No such luck.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:35am
- marcw
  
  Didn’t realise that HDPA was a mother – explains her qualification to comment on Richardson’s genuine point of view.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:07am
Andrei

Бог благословит Россию и русский народ

Vladimir Putin for another 6 years
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March 20, 2018 8:59am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Чёрт знакомый лучше чёрта незнакомого.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:07am
DigNap15

I wonder if the Indonesian President asked Jacinda why she cannot afford to buy clothes at a ladies fashion shop!
Is NZ that poor.
God, she and that Megan Woods cow looked disgusting/embarrasing on the steps of Parliament yesterday!
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March 20, 2018 9:00am
- fernglas
  
  Anti Trump or Aunty Frump?
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:02am
- burt
  
  They might be too scared of looking attractive because there are people in the Labour Party who cannot control themselves and they might be groped.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:03am
  - G152
    
    Is there such a thing as a mind spew at the thought some degenerate could even think of those two sexually
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:34am
- KiWombat
  
  Cindy couldn’t let Woods accept the petition just in case the media asked her a question about the sex camp. Woods probably wasn’t up to handling the latest spin !
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:00am
- Manolo
  
  The PM’s lack of sartorial elegance is staggering.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:49am
VicParking

Its seems that Red Radio want all trains in NZ to run at walking pace as this will stop accidents. Union man Buxton wants a walkway put on the offending bridge. DA. There is a footpath on the road bridge 20 metres ways.
I only lasted 10 minutes this morning before the Off switch was activated. As soon as I realised they let the Marxist twins on the radio together it was time to wash my ears out.
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March 20, 2018 9:01am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  We pay for those doctrinaire idiots ffs!
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:09am
Manolo

The daily see-saw:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/18/markets-dont-care-about-trumps-twitter-meltdown–futures-basically-indicate-a-flat-open.html

The Nasdaq composite pulled back 2.2% as Facebook dropped 7.3%, on track for its biggest one-day drop in five years. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 389 points, with Caterpillar as the worst-performing stock in the index. The S&P 500 declined 1.6%, with tech dropping 2.4%. Facebook was the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500.
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March 20, 2018 9:01am
yomcat

Saw this on stuff this morning: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/102415609/maths-illiteracy-has-led-to-trump-and-brexit–australian-teacher-eddie-woo.

I’ve seen lots of different reasons as to why certain people can’t accept the fact that they lost because the world is much different than their echo chambers, but this one pissed me off the most because I’m a mathematician and it’s so obviously false.
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March 20, 2018 9:09am
Manolo

It is hard to be more vacuous than Miss Ardern this morning on NewstalkZB. She spouts endless platitudes and cliches while saying absolutely nothing.

The venal Mr Peters must be enjoying his PM of choice.
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March 20, 2018 9:22am
- wreck1080
  
  I find her very shallow.
  
  An idealist without appreciating complexities of life, cause and effect, or human motivational factors.
  
  Probably because she has not had a real job?
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:29am
  - stephieboy
    
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    wreck1080,
    
    a use of rich irony about your attitudes continues to amaze .
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:42am
  - Inandout
    
    But she now has a real income, much more than she could have ever envisaged. Mr Gaylord must be creaming his jeans thinking of almost $500,000 a year.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:53am
    - wreck1080
      
      Ha ha , lets not get personal.
      
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      March 20, 2018 10:21am
  - Longknives
    
    “Probably because she has not had a real job?”
    
    She has lived in a little bubble her whole life- School Politics, Varsity Politics, Junior Communists etc etc
    She literally knows nothing about the real world.
    This is her first ‘real job’ and judging by her ashen faced ,skeletal appearance it looks like it is freaking killing her…
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:32am
    - doggone7
      
      Lived in such a peculiar little bubble she ended up like she did.
      
      With due respect of course, what back story sees you like you are now?
      
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      March 20, 2018 3:25pm
- Souvlaki
  
  I just listened to it after reading your comment. Spot on. Also got impression Hosking bored stupid listening to her mindless drivel !??
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:01am
Chris2

Anyone interested in buying Penny Bright’s house can now tender for it on 24 April according to a High Court order.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12016222
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March 20, 2018 9:33am
- starboard
  
  I bit it stinks of cat piss.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:39am
  - stigie
    
    I better start informing the scaffolders to be ready to erect seating across the road for the big day.
    Im supplying the piss, others are supplying meat and bbq, not sure now who is supplying the popcorn..?
    This will be a day of excitement and a day to remember !~
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:06am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      The mad bitch says she’s staying put. That will be fun to watch.
      
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      March 20, 2018 11:22am
      - thedavincimode
        
        Getting her out will make a good practise exercise for going into Pike River. The evacuation/recovery team will have to negotiate 30 years of rat ridden toxic waste including car bodies, asbestos signs from the 70s and leftover lead paint from the 60s. Credentials in jungle warfare would be a plus – navigating past the infected rubbish and through the dense undergrowth to the front door.
        
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        March 20, 2018 1:15pm
    - dad4justice
      
      Yawn another smack face Chinese warlord will buy it yawn yawn …..
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:03pm
- Happychappy
  
  How long will that last, like the fat kraut it will be appealed. The sooner this appeal system is looked at and made fairer the better as it is costing Taxpayers millions to support criminals and peoples stupidity.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:52am
- JibberJabber
  
  LoL, wates webel,
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/102419024/auckland-protesters-home-to-be-sold-following-11-years-of-unpaid-rates
  
  The parasite has had 9 long years on the ratepayer.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:01am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    And in that time it probably doubled in value. She’s won hugely out of her delay tactics.
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:32pm
    - sooty
      
      Nah she will have the rates and penaltys, recoverment costs etc coming out before she gets the rest. It should be public knewlodge as to how much.
      
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      March 20, 2018 1:12pm
- ROJ
  
  What about all the other costs she has caused the Council? – can they put in a claim for those other amounts too, before the residue gets trickled out to her?
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:01am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  “Bright anticipated a “tidal wave” of public support and said the ball was now in Town’s court.”
  
  So much wrong in one sentence.
  
  Chose your position, stuck to it, was offered any number of ways to reach agreement and back down gracefully. There will be no tidal wave. Tides out. Ball is no where to be seen. At least youll get a good price on your home.
  
  Bonne journee Ms B.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:20am
- Mobile Michael
  
  A tidal wave of support for Council. Pay up or lose your house, Penny.
  
  And remember, your intransigence will lower the offers and therefore the amount you receive for the house.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:54am
- Nermal
  
  I wish I had the money to spare. I’d put scaffolding all around, no one can come in. No food. Turn off power, water, sewage, and take bets on how long the old girl will last
  
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  March 20, 2018 6:22pm
-D

Outrageous attack on Air New Zealand by Shane Jones just finished on RNZ.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018636845/minister-to-air-nz-don-t-neglect-regions
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March 20, 2018 9:39am
- -D
  
  Shane chimes in after 12 minutes.
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:45am
- Poppa
  
  I have no problem with Shane Jones starting up his own airline & servicing the regional airports.
  
  What do you think of that Shane? Nah didn’t think so
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:46am
  - burt
    
    Air NZ is his own airline, just like NZDF is Ron Mark’s own airline.
    
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    March 20, 2018 9:57am
  - DigNap15
    
    There have been many small regional airlines that setup and then either go broke (not enough traffic) or get bought up by Air NZ (greed, profit)
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:25am
  - Longknives
    
    “Shane Jones starting up his own airline ”
    
    I’m thinking Riley Reid and Sasha Grey on the in-flight movies!
    And Lord only knows what the Air Hostesses will be forced to wear…
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:39am
  - Ed Snack
    
    To be fair, if he did and started to succeed at reasonable fares, Air NZ would restart a service to the same airfield, charge below profitable fares to take the traffic away until the new airline failed, then hike the fees back to exorbitant rates and stop the service when the traffic declined as a result.
    
    They’ve done it before and will do it again, they won’t stand for competition and will go to any lengths to remove it. Just see what the airfares are like to any place with no competition and compare them to those where there is an alternative. AirNZ is predatory and yet always gets a free pass from the Commerce commission to act that way.
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:19pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Precisely Ed. Whanganui lost its Air NZ service to Auckland not because the run wasn’t profitable. Air NZ pulled out of Whanganui becasue they needed the 50-seat Bombardier planes to taken on Jetstar on the Main Trunk routes.
      
      Tough luck on the 100-plus Gold Elite Airpoints members in Whanganui, who had earned their status due to the frequency of their flight (my wife being one of them). Air New Zealand won’t even let Gold Elite Airpoints members use the new Regional Lounge at Auckland Airport unless they have an Air NZ boarding pass, so if you want to use the privileges you had earned from your spending, you had to drive an hour each way to/from Palmerston North, pay extortionate parking fees etc etc.
      
      If only Air New Zealand had been honest with their customers, much of the bad feeling could have been avoided. We now have Air Chathams flying between Auckland and Whanganui, and they are absolutely fantastic to fly with.
      
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      March 20, 2018 1:25pm
    - KiWombat
      
      Just have a look at fares from Hokitika to Christchurch.
      
      And if you want to go from Hokitika to Auckland ANZ have structured their schedule so you have to wait for hours in Christchurch before getting a connecting flight with Jetstar.
      
      Air piracy is alive and well !
      
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      March 20, 2018 5:08pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Expect autonomous air taxis to start taking this market in 5-10 years. Will lead to a lot of decentralisation for air travel, which will hurt carriers like Air NZ
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:30pm
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Heard it this morning. The sheer arrogance, talking to an airline senior manager and telling him to take a message to his supervisor.
  
  The man is NZF arrogant through and through. A fat, lazy wanker. Literally.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:21am
  - Swifty
    
    I suspect that he got a real pleasure out of that exchange.
    
    I’ve seen him (attempt to) belittle people on a number of occasions now – and I believe it says a lot about the man.
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:37am
    - hmmokrightitis
      
      Agreed swifty, Ive seen it first hand, and Ive called him on it. He shrugs, gives that stupid grin and walks away. Reminds me of a certain labour minister of health from a few years back, he was an arrogant wanker as well.
      
      His words to a team member of mine shall forever ring in my ears. One of my project managers asked a question, and the response was “I can see youve not understood what Ive said, let me put it more simply”. Two minutes later he managed to disconnect the web-based link we were using through fat fingered stupidity, and had to ask for help. My PM stepped in, helped out, stepped back. Not a word of thanks.
      
      He was a bearded wanker that one.
      
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      March 20, 2018 10:48am
      - Swifty
        
        I know of whom you speak – and I have heard similar.
        
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        March 20, 2018 11:59am
  - thedavincimode
    
    No, no, no. That can’t be right hmmokey; you must have got the wrong end of the stick. chuckie said jones has got leadership potential. In fact, jones is the reason he voted for the poisoned dwarf’s party … or was it the policies … or was it to teach National a lesson … ? Anyway, chuckie reckons he’s top drawer material. I expect chuckie interviewed them before deciding on his vote, so he ought to know.
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:44pm
    - hmmokrightitis
      
      The only thing the fat bastard leads is the line to the buffet.
      
      I have a friend (lets call him Ian) who was an adviser to the Board of a company (lets call it “FishCo”) where a certain bloke (lets call him Bob) was a director. As Ian recalls it, Bob was always late, had never read the Board pack, asked stupid questions and sat there eating and txting. Always had his expense claim in first for some reason.
      
      Bob was and is a cunt.
      
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      March 20, 2018 1:00pm
      - doggone7
        
        Saw the last bit in a scan, looked for Gerry Brownlee, couldn’t find …
        
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        March 20, 2018 3:27pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Winston Peters seems to attract that sort of “talent”.
    Like attracts like?
    
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    March 20, 2018 4:46pm
EAD_TWO

The absolute state of British priorities:

Compare this (+ Pettibone + Southern)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/19/lutz-bachmann-pegida-founder-of-german-far-right-group-denied-entry-to-uk

Vs.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/29/extremists-returning-jihadists-offered-council-house-bribes/

But then again – the “right wing” Tory Party doing this to the British People is not exactly run by British people is it:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/surprise-new-uk-trade-minister-is-committed-jew-thinks-israels-amazing/

There are so many Jews at the top of Britain’s Conservative party, Prime Minister David Cameron once quipped, that it should be known as the Torah party rather than the Tory party.
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March 20, 2018 9:58am
- EAD_TWO
  
  That 2nd Telegraph story has to be read to be believed.
  
  They are intending to give returning Jihadis free council houses to help them “integrate”
  
  The Cultural Marxists that now dominate both “right” and “left” parties in the West assure us they will “integrate” Third World immigrants into our societies…by telling them we are racists, colonialists, collaborators, and Nazis.
  
  Are these Orwellian Doublethinkers integrating them with us, or recruiting and inciting them against us?
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:02am
Manolo

DC bureaucrats feel the pinch:
http://www.standard.net/Business/2018/03/18/DC-economy-slows-as-federal-employment-shrinks.html

The Washington area’s job market appears to be pumping its brakes, newly released employment numbers suggest, as last year’s federal budget uncertainty, two brief government shutdowns and turmoil within some agencies made life difficult for federal contractors.
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March 20, 2018 10:10am
Swifty

A personal message to Penny Bright:

Penny, pay your rates bill.

You’ve made your point. Losing your house isn’t going to assist your cause one iota.

You were quoted in today’s paper saying that you believe you will enjoy a ‘tidal wave’ of public support should the sale proceed. Here, I think you’re wrong. I believe the vast majority of NZers will think you foolish that you’ve let it get this far – and, if you lose your house, they will say it’s your own damn fault. Even worse, many will think that you intended this to happen – so that you can now claim martyr status.

Again, Penny, you’ve made your point. Don’t further ruin your life over these matters.

Please pay your rates.

Swifty
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March 20, 2018 10:29am
- Chris2
  
  At the last minute her rates will be paid by an “anonymous benefactor”, but it will actually be Bright’s own money disguised by her, in order to save face.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:46am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    She would actually be doing herself a favour by letting the dump get sold to save herself the enormous task of cleaning it up and getting rid of all the junk.
    The poor sap who buys it will have to do all that while she goes and lives in Morrinsville or somewhere with what remains of her equity.
    
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    March 20, 2018 11:33am
    - sooty
      
      A bedsit in south auckland maybe.
      
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      March 20, 2018 1:17pm
- SPC
  
  It’s one way to leave Auckland (having fought the matter for the duration of her ratepayer status in the city) and live somewhere elsewhere with the sale proceeds. But risky given she has less control over the terms of sale.
  
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  March 20, 2018 11:55am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Nah, Penny would be bored in the regions. Not enough population for her much needed attention seeking and too few of her protester mates to fight with. ?
    
    They say moving house is one of the most stressful things in life. Good luck Ms Bright.
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:51pm
DigNap15

Police arrest a dairy robber

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/102417492/man-17-arrested-over-robbery-where-worker-was-struck-with-machete

Good the police have caught him.
But what punishment will he get?

I see that they drove a car into the river.
If the car was stolen, they should be kept in jail until the insurance company has been re-imbursed in full.
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March 20, 2018 10:30am
- GoVege
  
  What kind of savages take machetes and axes to a robbery let alone use them on people?
  I suppose they’ll have name suppression due to their age.
  When minors commit such horrific acts, surely their parents should be had up in their place to explain how they did such an abysmal job of raising their kids.
  If they’re not already in jail.
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:07pm
  - Happychappy
    
    I finally agree with you and I also say the eleven year old young girl that was killed by the train in Ngaruawahia the Parents should be held responsible as their has a ban on children being on the bridge for the last couple of years. Their has been plenty of discussion about children using the bridge as a diving board because their safety could not be guaranteed and there should have been no excuse for them being there.
    
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    March 20, 2018 3:06pm
    - GoVege
      
      Nice we agree on something, happychappy!
      Trouble with the kids is….the village is raising them.
      The parents just collect the benny money. 🙂
      
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      March 20, 2018 3:14pm
doggone7

Bright said it’s about the council to becoming transparent and following the legislation of Section 17 of the Public Record Act – specifically for private contracts. The Act detailed the requirement to create and maintain records.

She wants council contracts to show a details about them. She reckons there’s space for corruption involving billions.

Is she right? Is the council following the rules?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11805571

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/97293936/police-chase-cash-and-property-from-auckland-transport-corruption-case
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March 20, 2018 10:41am
- cmm
  
  If she’s worried about rules and fairness she might look in the mirror.
  
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  March 20, 2018 11:56am
  - doggone7
    
    Yeah, I get that, but is she right? Is the council following the rules?
    
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    March 20, 2018 3:31pm
    - Happychappy
      
      The first rule is pay your rates and then demand answers. Who is going to listen to what some say a deceitful woman that has no respect for any law.
      
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      March 20, 2018 4:41pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  That’s why she should have been paying the rates money into a solicitor’s trust account every quarter, so it was there if it was ever found that Auckland Council had to meet the obligations she claimed.
  
  But she didn’t. She went on a one-woman “rates revolt”, whilst simultaneously using all the facilities the rest of us (I pay rate on our Auckland business premises even though I live in Whanganui) have to pay for.
  
  I have no sympathy for her. She has rolled the dice, and lost.
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:13pm
Jack5

Did New Zealand need to cancel moves towards a free trade agreement with Russia?

Germany’s Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, suggests only qualified support for Britain in the spy poisoning case.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5519719/German-Foreign-Minister-says-poison-attack-bilateral-issue.html
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March 20, 2018 10:58am
Dave Stringer

The Hearalld
Veteran Auckland protester Penny Bright’s home will be sold from under her to recover unpaid rates and penalties.

The High Court confirmed to Auckland Council the property will be sold by tender on April 24.

Are there any more routs for appeal, or is the place going to the highest Bidder?
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March 20, 2018 11:16am
- alex Masterley
  
  I think Ms Bright is toast, metaphorically speaking.
  Her property will be sold by tender, not auction, in accordance with the Rating Acts.
  Make your best offer!
  I proposed a syndicate to buy the property at lunch today.
  We scraped together $10.00 which on mature reflection will not be enough.
  
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  March 20, 2018 4:29pm
Fletch

Just saw this pop up on my Facebook feed. Did you know that way back in Communist China, the leaders were afraid of birds eating the produce so they forced the entire population to go onto the rooftops and kill them all. They basically made loud noises to scare them and tire them out, preventing them from landing, and killed them all. There is black and white video of this and a woman describing it from her childhood.

And what happened? They killed all the birds, insects ate the crops, and the country starved.

I didn’t know this.

https://www.facebook.com/KibbeOnLibertyCRTV/posts/987062711447622
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March 20, 2018 11:27am
- DigNap15
  
  I saw a long docu on the various stages of the Chinese revolutions since 1900 and there were some amazing decisions made and millions of people were killed at the whim of the leader and the party.
  
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  March 20, 2018 11:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s a cautionary example of why predator-free NZ needs to be examined very carefully.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
  
  No cats in the city…. expect an outbreak of rats, mice and disease.
  
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  March 20, 2018 11:39am
  - MCos
    
    That’s why God gave us mouse traps.
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:47pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Mouse traps can’t hunt mice ?
      
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      March 20, 2018 12:54pm
- GoVege
  
  That’s the trouble with one-party states.
  They always end up with a moron in charge.
  Two plus brains tend to be better than one….
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:15pm
- kowtow
  
  If you look up any of a number of documentaries on the life of Mao that will come up. Quite a few monumental fuck ups and betrayals that cost literally millions of lives in man made famines , purges etc.
  
  And a significant number of fuckwits believe in this top down dictatorship bullshit.
  
  Mao is as offensive a character as Adolf Hitler or Stalin .
  
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  March 20, 2018 7:30pm
stinkypete

Bright anticipated a “tidal wave” of public support and said the ball was now in Town’s court.

splish
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March 20, 2018 11:28am
SPC

Will robots be people, well according to a French feminist a sex doll is a person, and to have sex with one is a form of rape (a sex doll cannot give consent).

Seriously, read this.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43463625
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March 20, 2018 11:51am
- Inandout
  
  Feminists see rape at every turn, and to such an extent they must have sexual fantasies about bannister ends, with those big knobs. A lot of our feminazis are so hairy and just plain ugly they wouldn’t even attract a male mosquito.
  
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  March 20, 2018 12:09pm
  - Longknives
    
    “Feminists see rape at every turn”
    
    Unless it’s Sex Crimes at a Labour Party Camp- Then Ali Mau and her gang of shrieking Femnazis turn a blind eye.
    We are just ‘Angry Men with Tinfoil Hats’ apparently…
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:18pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Only the females bite and are attracted to people I believe.
    
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    March 20, 2018 2:19pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “Feminists see oppression by white patriarchy every turn, and to…”
    
    This would explain why feminists remain silent about non-white patriarchy violence against women: it doesn’t fit their narrative.
    
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    March 20, 2018 2:42pm
- Rich Prick
  
  By that measure, Caitlyn Jenner was abused by Bruce for years.
  
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  March 20, 2018 12:23pm
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  It’s not an entirely silly subject. I confess, when I first started reading the discussions, I thought, “Yeah. Hopefully that will reduce some of the human damage. People can express their deviance more safely and if they beat it to ‘death’, it’s at their own cost.”
  
  However, there are those who see it as catering to deviance and likely to normalise brutality for those inclined to it, which will make it more prevalent and likely to spill over to people. It’s also sure to then become a ‘right’. As long as anyone in the world knows what a truly intimate, loving relationship is, they won’t like this.
  
  Neither can anyone deny, people (men and women) will use AI specifically because they couldn’t or wouldn’t get ‘consent’ from a human being – or they wouldn’t be doing it.
  
  I further confess, I thought yesterday that it would serve the human species right if they discovered extra-terrestrial life and it was all mechanical – because one of the first things someone will try and do is screw it. Then I realised … oh wait, we already have the interfacing. They won’t need to subdue the species with weapons. Sex will be easily sufficient for a lot of the population to succumb.
  
  For the moment, I’d rather law firms got preference from interns based on the quality of their sex dolls than their staff or prospects being prepared to be screwed. But I doubt that humanity would like the eventual possible outcomes; in particular, men are likely to be the worse losers.
  
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  March 20, 2018 12:26pm
  - Longknives
    
    “I thought yesterday that it would serve the human species right if they discovered extra-terrestrial life and it was all mechanical”
    
    Battlestar Galactica!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ccKPSVQcFk
    
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    March 20, 2018 12:43pm
- stigie
  
  “(a sex doll cannot give consent)”.
  
  Nor does Stiffy’s goats, but he still bangs them regardless thinking about the 2 barely teens with small but ample breasts !~
  
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  March 20, 2018 12:28pm
- JibberJabber
  
  LoL, feminism has nothing to do with equality, it`s all about stopping blokes getting sex.
  Used to be a time when you had to get married to be prevented from getting some.
  Now they`ve turned their gaze on all blokes, married or not.
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:19pm
MCos

There’s a bit of gossip on the online Herald by Kate Hawkesby about the personal life of Prince Charles, accompanied by a selfie she took with a long suffering David Beckham when the three of them were all on a plane together.

If Beckham continues to be hounded by people he has no interest in for the next thirty years he might also get a bit grumpy like Prince Charles
It must be a bit like having bible bashers, and charity people pounding on your front door from dawn to dusk.
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March 20, 2018 12:00pm
Rich Prick

Lefties are a weird bunch, 67,000 are upset with Sir Bob’s knighthood, yet only 45,000 of them care about the environment.
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March 20, 2018 12:13pm
Keeping Stock

Dear Stephen Town

Contrary to Ms Penelope Bright’s claim that she will receive “a tidal wave of support “, may I congratulate you on the recent High Courtdecision.

Ms Bright has played the Auckland Council like a fiddle, continuing to use ratepayer-funded services with impunity, whilst not just paying rates, but making her anti-rates stand political and personal. The Council has shown incredible patience and restraint, but it is to your organisation‘s credit that you have pursued legal remedy, despite her ongoing campaign of vilification.

As a business ratepayer to Auckland Council I am delighted that the Council’s legal right to seek redress has been upheld. Thank you for not caving in to Ms Bright’s campaign of anarchy.

Yours sincerely

Keeping Stock
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March 20, 2018 12:18pm
- stigie
  
  Well said KS, now can i get you to bring the popcorn along to School Rd. Kingsland on the 24th April..?
  
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  March 20, 2018 12:34pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    If you’re putting the beers on Stigie, wild horses couldn’t keep me away 😀
    
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    March 20, 2018 4:00pm
Monique Watson

Anyone else drinking during the day or is it just me?
I’m fine. I’ve eaten but the Leftie Fucktards are getting on my substantially enhanced tits.
Oh Fuck, is Bright still peddling the same shit from a decade ago.
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March 20, 2018 12:29pm
- Longknives
  
  Two Downticks for mentioning ‘substantially enhanched tits’??
  
  Jeez- Tough crowd today…
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:14pm
- holysheet
  
  You must be pissed, your day is our night. Wait a few hours and we will be pissed and you will be in a drunken stupor.
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:16pm
srylands

Fucking NZ Post. No wonder they are going broke. Trying to get information on a missing parcel. Expect to spend 30 minutes on the phone dealing with demotivated people who cannot get a lucid sentence out.
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March 20, 2018 12:33pm
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  You think that’s a problem?
  
  Several weeks ago I received a parcel which was not for me but with a street name a bit like mine. Clearly, the addressing on the parcel was to the customer in Invercargill and it was sent from a distribution centre in Dunedin but, unfortunately, someone had written the city as Auckland. Phone numbers were clearly South Island.
  
  It took me, maybe, 30 seconds to confirm the intended recipient and the correct address. I rang the relevant people in all places and informed them within the next half hour.
  
  We then entered into lengthy and frequent consultations about who was responsible, who would pay for the return ticket, what was in it etc etc. I scanned and emailed the address label which went to everyone. And eventually, I was asked to correct the name of the city, which I did.
  
  Over the next three and a half weeks, I was repeatedly told by all parties, ‘It will be picked up tomorrow. Please leave it in the letterbox.” – including by Poste Haste Couriers themselves who, they tell me, sometimes use another courier.
  
  In the end, after all the conversations – which undoubtedly cost more money and time than the parcel was worth to anyone – one of them rang and said, “Can you throw it out, please. The couriers say the address is insufficient. We’ve ordered them new stock.”
  
  I have to admit to being less than convinced of the modern version of customer care, responsibility, providing a good service, etc. I’ve never seen such a completely inept and unprofessional performance. Simply bizarre.
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:11pm
  - srylands
    
    This parcel that is missing is a DHL parcel picked up in Florida and delivered to Wellington. They have a deal with NZ Post where the parcel can be left in one of the “parcel pods”. The big red locker things. They are quite good. Anyway DHL delivered this thing 16000 km. NZ Post seem to have lost it in the last 800 metres.
    
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    March 20, 2018 1:22pm
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      Yep. Par for the course. NZ Post is utterly destroyed.
      
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      March 20, 2018 1:30pm
Monique Watson

NZ Post is not Google and you don’t have proper drones. Fuck. Even my kids friends have drones here and I get all sorts of shit dumped in my back yard to punk us.
They all know exactly how high to fly without breaking FAA aviation rules and how much poundage to get away with.
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March 20, 2018 12:44pm
GoVege

Anyone know what’s happening with the subhumans who burned two dogs to death in their cages?
Or the one that stomped a kitten to death.
These twisted creeps need to be followed through their pathetic lives before they get shacked up with some dimwitted solo mum with young kids for them to torture.
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March 20, 2018 1:12pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Caught,
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12016324
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:14pm
  - holysheet
    
    Cabinet Minister Shane Jones wanted “the mongrels” who burned the dogs to death to be named and shamed.
    
    “I’d like the mongrels responsible for this despicable, bestial act to be named and shamed. I want the community to know who these creeps are. If they can do this to animals, the next step could be people,” Jones, the Minister for Economic Development, said.
    
    “The Hokianga is a beautiful place with a lot of history and to have this vile thing happen locally taints all of us. It may sound extreme coming from a Minister of the Crown, but I think this community needs to have confidence that the people in power will stand up and call out grossness of this despicable act.
    
    “If people who commit these horrible acts do not want to be part of our society and live by our laws and standards then they should remove themselves to prison and get the help they need. We do not need these people in our communities. Just imagine the terror these people can inflict on people if they are prepared to do that to animals.”
    
    Time to support the 3 strikes law bro. Stop just talking about these creeps and do something.
    
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    March 20, 2018 1:54pm
    - kowtow
      
      Yep talk is cheap and Shane Bro does a shit load of it.
      
      Won’t amount to anything.
      
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      March 20, 2018 7:35pm
  - KiWombat
    
    Best solution for this crim is a small pellet of lead behind the left ear – .22 will probably do !
    
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    March 20, 2018 5:23pm
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  One of those situations where the primitive side of human nature is the only appropriate response. A bullet to the brain.
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:25pm
Gravelroad

About this “man”who set the dogs on fire in a cage:
On the radio news at noon it advised that four family members of the 25 year old alleged animal abuser had “ turned him in” to the Kaitaia police station.
So is there an update of any family members of the
assaulted baby turning in her persecutor to the police?
No? The welfare of dogs is more important.
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March 20, 2018 1:19pm
- DigNap15
  
  No his family has more class, and more public duty, and more conscience
  
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  March 20, 2018 2:04pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/order-paper-questions/list-of-oral-questions/oral-questions-20-march-2018/

Question 10 should be interesting.
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March 20, 2018 1:31pm
Komata

SR

Agreed; could you post a link please?

Thanks.
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March 20, 2018 1:51pm
- holysheet
  
  What the fuck are you on Komata?
  SR posted the link in his post above you.
  
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  March 20, 2018 1:56pm
  - Komata
    
    HS
    
    An ‘interesting’, revealing and unnecessary answer. Thank you. In respect of the link, you may not have noticed, but it is to the ‘Order Paper’ not to the actual question being asked.
    
    Perhaps YOU can provide a link to the actual question being asked?
    
    If not, then conclusions already being drawn will be confirmed.
    
    Thank you
    
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    March 20, 2018 3:24pm
    - holysheet
      
      10. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: How many KiwiBuild houses have been built in the 145 days he has been in Government?
      
      If you looked you would see question 10 listed after question 9 and before question 11.
      Just for you
      
      https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/
      
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      March 20, 2018 3:43pm
redeye

Some good news for those feeling a little down this afternoon.
“A British sniper has killed a senior Isis fighter with a “one in a million” night-time shot from nearly a mile away, it has been claimed.
“The unnamed SAS marksman is said to have killed the terrorist with a “head shot” close to the Syrian border having been given a window of just 15 seconds.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12016298
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March 20, 2018 1:57pm
- holysheet
  
  Yay good on the SAS.
  Can’t wait for the trolls to come on and say the ISIS prick was such a good boy.
  
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  March 20, 2018 2:00pm
  - stinkypete
    
    reminds me of this – the Quigley
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366154/British-sniper-kills-Taliban-bullet-new-book-reveals.html
    
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    March 20, 2018 2:11pm
  - stephieboy
    
    holysheet , it first might be useful to get rid of your flea and lice infestation .
    
    A self fumigation will do it old chap !
    
    http://tulia.co.ke/fumigation-and-pest-control/
    
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    March 20, 2018 2:48pm
    - holysheet
      
      You would know all about fleas and lice.
      Bedding goats is a danger to you.
      Is this your latest girlie?
      
      https://blackhairinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/image-e1413212550657.jpg
      
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      March 20, 2018 3:47pm
      - stigie
        
        No, that’s Flossie that JB sent off down the road recently..?
        
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        March 20, 2018 5:53pm
- Manolo
  
  Will our resident Muslim mourn the loss of such hero?
  
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  March 20, 2018 2:24pm
- stephieboy
  
  redeye , these Kurdish Women Snipers fighting Daesh are up to it ,
  
  https://sofrep.com/78170/female-kurdish-snipers-cut-isis/
  
  BTW they are Muslim or does that disqualify them ?
  
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  March 20, 2018 2:46pm
  - cmm
    
    I’ll take any of them goat hunting any day.
    
    So long as they are shooting the bad sort I don’t mind who they pray to or what hanguage they speak.
    
    BTW: Where’s your proof they’re Muslim? Multiple ethnicities and religions in that lot:
    
    https://sofrep.com/37153/pkks-war-isis-organization-structure/
    
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    March 20, 2018 5:13pm
- Komata
  
  And no doubt the sniper will now be charged with ‘Murder’.
  
  The Brit’ liberals have ‘form’ in that regard…
  
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  March 20, 2018 3:26pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Any chance I can get his address? I may have a job for him. (Said in jest lest the idiots at the Standard get their collective gonads in a twist)…
  
  Seriously, though, good to know the SAS are on our side and are prepared to rid the world of scum.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:06pm
burt

I bet this guys wishes he was a Labour Party member!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/102417259/man-found-guilty-of-sexually-assaulting-teenaged-girl
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March 20, 2018 2:47pm
- stephieboy
  
  burt , the alleged 20 year old has yet two be charged as the police investigation continues .
  
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  March 20, 2018 2:52pm
  - cmm
    
    He should be facing 5 charges at least – not two.
    
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    March 20, 2018 5:02pm
Manolo

Watching the market:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-streets-fear-index-jumps-20-amid-stock-selloff-2018-03-19
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March 20, 2018 2:52pm
Manolo

Is the hound up to the task?
http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/08/robert-mueller-botching-investigations-since-anthrax-attacks/

Mystery surrounds Robert Mueller and his investigation into Russia and President Trump. Some think he is the ultimate professional, others that he is a Democrat lackey, still others maintain he is working on Trump’s side.
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- virtualmark
  
  Mueller is a registered Republican, and was appointed head of the FBI by George W. Bush.
  
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  March 20, 2018 6:56pm
- virtualmark
  
  I had lunch recently with a chap visiting here from San Francisco. Big Trump fan. But he’d been a lieutenant in the US Marine Corp in Vietnam in the late 1960s, in the same battalion as Robert Mueller. Hadn’t seen Mueller since the Vietnam War, but had served alongside him as a peer. He said Mueller was the most straight-up honest and reliable man he knew. Hadn’t surprised him at all that Mueller had risen to be the head of the FBI.
  
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  March 20, 2018 6:59pm
burt

I bet this guy wishes he was a Labour Party member!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/102427454/alleged-sex-offender-wants-his-name-secret-to-protect-ticket-sales-at-amateur-drama-production
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March 20, 2018 3:32pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Gee, the entitlement and implied status of these theatre people generally is a sight to behold.
  It’s play acting, strutting around on the stage for a couple of hours – it’s not like they are saving lives or repairing the electricity lines during a storm.
  “Celebrities” eh.
  
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  March 20, 2018 5:45pm
cmm

The Genter Score increases again this afternoon with a 6 year old boy dead. Still 7 hours to go.

93 dead so far this month, up on 76 last year. Anything over 85 is statistically significant.

397 dead in the last 12 months up on 324 previous 12 months. Anything over 342 is statistically significant.

Seriously JAG, fuck off, take extra leave and have your baby. You can’t be a worse mother than you are a Minister of Parking.
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March 20, 2018 4:59pm
- RF
  
  What’s the JAG score now… must be climbing rapidly
  
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  March 20, 2018 9:58pm
Shaun the Sheep

Skullbuggery by open and transparent Labour in the house as they try to sneak a SOP through without public consultation or consideration by the F&E committee to extend the bright line test from 2 years to 5 years.
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March 20, 2018 5:17pm
DigNap15

Yes we need to blame Genter and the Greens for every road death possible.
Like every one that is where a new road of National Significance was going to be.
Eg here in the BOP between Tauranga and Katikiati.
That road kills several people each year as its too narrow, has no side berms and its very busy with lots of off roads.
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March 20, 2018 5:37pm
- nasska
  
  We won’t be getting new roads under a Green minister so get used to the carnage.
  
  The best you can hope for is increased petrol taxes, lowered speed limits & a bright new shiny, subsidised passenger train running empty next to the road.
  
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  March 20, 2018 5:55pm
  - cmm
    
    “lowered speed limits” except for crown Beemers
    
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    March 20, 2018 6:04pm
    - nasska
      
      …..”except for crown Beemers”…..
      
      Naturally. You didn’t think that roads were for the hoi polloi did you?
      
      Our socialist masters will provide trains & bicycle paths for us.
      
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      March 20, 2018 6:33pm
dad4justice

Road deaths are trivial compared to suicide rates in this cesspit country of misfits and greedy mongrels!!
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March 20, 2018 6:39pm
- nasska
  
  You sound stressed Dad. Let it all out.
  
  What can we do to help? 🙂
  
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  March 20, 2018 6:45pm
  - dad4justice
    
    If are proud to be a New Zealander get a gun and shoot yourself in the head , as sick kiwi’s are the best in the world at it!!! Our suicide rate is the highest in the fucking world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Have the Chinese brought your farm yet hillbilly?
    
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    March 20, 2018 7:13pm
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      …..”Our suicide rate is the highest in the fucking world”…..
      
      Hush! Jacinda’s onto it & she’s going to sort the problem out. Zero suicides. She told us so on the election hustings.
      
      ….”Have the Chinese brought your farm yet”…..
      
      Nope. The neighbour bought it. Absorbed the fertile flats into his own dairy farm & resold the steep part to another neighbouring sheep & beef cocky.
      
      Retired & loving the life…..that’s me Dad. 🙂
      
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      March 20, 2018 7:27pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        All suicides will be re-classified as voluntary euthanasia. Zero suicides, problem solved.
        Well done Cindy.
        
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        March 20, 2018 7:34pm
    - stigie
      
      “Have the Chinese brought your farm yet hillbilly?”
      
      Tell us again why you voted Winston in Dad..?
      
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      March 20, 2018 7:43pm
      - nasska
        
        I think it was to “give National a backbone” stigie. Personally I would have preferred a spineless National administration than the abortion we’ve got now.
        
        But there we have it. 🙂
        
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        March 20, 2018 7:55pm
      - stigie
        
        You have Dad and people like Dad to thank for Nasska putting in charge a semi pretty young princess who thinks she knows it all by Mr 7% who is now Mr 3%.
        You and i are now retired and should i say well off, i feel for the business people now and some of their employees under this bunch of wankers !~
        
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        March 20, 2018 8:25pm
      - nasska
        
        ….”semi pretty young princess “…..
        
        https://www.specsavers.co.nz/stores/nelson 🙂
        
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        March 20, 2018 9:05pm
      - stigie
        
        You’re right Nasska, bloody hard when you’ve got glasses that are as thick as the bottoms of Marmite jars !~
        
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        March 20, 2018 9:22pm
    - cmm
      
      “Our suicide rate is the highest in the fucking world!”
      
      Not even close. We’re 54th. We’re behind wonderful Sweden and Finland as well as Japan and a whole lot of shitholistan countries.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
      
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      March 20, 2018 7:59pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Perhaps d4j was confused…
        It’s our youth suicide rate that is the highest in the developed world.
        http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40284130
        
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        March 20, 2018 8:17pm
      - stigie
        
        He’s just misunderstood Maggy..?
        
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        March 20, 2018 8:53pm
    - ex-golfer
      
      I don’t think being 44th in the world makes us the highest:
      http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-country/
      
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      March 20, 2018 8:24pm
All_on_Red

Interesting post by Professor Steve Kate’s
‘The differences between classical and Keynesian economics are so vast that to accept one version of how an economy works means you must reject the other. Classical economic theory is the theory that was developed between let us say 1776 and the 1870s, almost entirely by philosophers and business people who were actually looking at the economy. Modern economic theory has almost entirely been developed within universities by people who have neither a philosophical training nor have ever run a business as their primary mode of earning a living.

Here’s the difference. Classical economic theory begins from the existence of a market economy in which, on one side of the equation, there is a mass of people who would like to buy goods and services, and on the other side there are people who would like to earn their living by producing and selling things to others. The producers continually try to work out what to produce that others will buy, and do it by trying to decide what buyers will pay enough for in total to cover their production costs. These producers hire employees and the combined incomes of producers and wage earners become the purchasing power of the community.

Classical economic theory is thus entirely supply-side driven. And what is particularly interesting about reading the classical literature is that government regulation was an important part of how the economic system worked. The very first Factory Act in Great Britain was introduced in 1802, and there were many others that came after. The notion that classical economics was simply leave everything to the market is 100% wrong. If you look at the greatest economics text of the era, John Stuart Mill’s 1848 Principles of Political Economy, the final 200 pages are devoted to discussing the role of government in ensuring that economic activity was carried out in a morally acceptable way to the benefit of the entire community.

But crucially, classical theory assumes the role of the independent entrepreneur as the linchpin in making an economy work. Try to find a modern economic text that starts from there. Other than my own – Free Market Economics, Third Edition – none of the major mainstream texts starts from the supply side and none – as in zero – feature the role of the entrepreneur.

Keynesian economics assumes economies are driven from the demand side. That is, it is buying goods and services that makes an economy grow and employ, not their production. It is based on the total confusion between the demand for a single product – the greater the demand for shoes the greater the production of shoes will be along with the greater the level of employment for shoemakers. Demand affects individual products; demand in aggregate does not affect the level of output in total. The more that is produced, the higher the level of demand, for the obvious reason that the more that is produced, the more there is that buyers are able to demand. But if you are a Keynesian, you will go on believing that the cause of higher output is higher demand, whereas the reason more can be demanded is that more output is being produced. Public spending may have many benefits, but increasing the level of income and speeding up the rate of economic growth is not one of them. If anything, higher levels of public spending slow things down and lower real incomes below levels that otherwise would have been reached.

Keynesian economics is based on the fallacious belief that buyers will not buy as much as an economy can produce, and therefore demand must be stimulated to ensure everything produced is bought and that everyone who wants to work is employed. A great theory if you are in government and need a justification for taking as much money as you can get away with from income-earning citizens and spending it yourself. But a pernicious theory if you are interested in raising living standards as rapidly as possible.’

Tl;dr version- Supply creates its own demand
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March 20, 2018 6:43pm
Prince

Arden on Liddell’s appointment;
‘Who knows what it will mean for us ?’
I was kinda hoping you might.
Such vision, such grasp of an opportunity.
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March 20, 2018 7:07pm
- fernglas
  
  Not even a word of congratulations
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:42pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    The woman is all class //
    
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    March 20, 2018 10:54pm
Humble Capitalist

Girls being able to play rugby league in Tonga is the nuclear weapons issue of my generation.
Cindy continuing to focus on the big issues.
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March 20, 2018 7:28pm
- Jack5
  
  Tongan State-school girls have been blocked from boxing, too.
  
  This Tongan newspaper report doesn’t say other Tongan females have been banned from rugby and boxing:
  
  https://matangitonga.to/2018/03/20/women-s-rugby-banned-government-schools
  
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  March 20, 2018 11:36pm
DigNap15

She is really starting to learn that other countries will do what they want.
And that she treats the USA like shit so she can hardly expect an exemption for the tarrifs.
Meanwhile Australia is the USA’s best ally.
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March 20, 2018 7:34pm
Monique Watson

I’ve taken too many drugs, nothing with street value. I’m not part of the Opioid crisis, just a little too slow on the Taper down:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17137852/trump-opioid-epidemic-plan-death-penalty
Antsy and bored despite having both laundries on the go.
Both dishwashers are on.
Anyone want to give me a cheap thrill for my troubles?
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March 20, 2018 9:13pm
- nasska
  
  …..”despite having both laundries on the go.
  Both dishwashers are on.”…..
  
  Have you fallen on hard times Monique? Taking in washing to pay the grog bill in Silicon Valley is beyond desperate.
  
  But who needs opiates……you could always nick up to Oregon or Montana & mellow out on a good hit of Bubblegum or White Widow. Lucky you living in a civilised part of the world. 🙂
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:02pm
- fernglas
  
  If Trump wants to introduce the death penalty for opioid dealing, he will need to preside over the executions of the heads of pharmaceutical companies as well as those who have made healthcare in the US so inadequate that painkillers are prescribed in lieu of treatment.
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:47pm
RF

Cops are really pissed with Nash. He is claiming that he has toured the country visiting Police Stations and no one wants a pay increase.

Bull shit…..
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March 20, 2018 9:50pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Got a link for this?
  
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  March 20, 2018 10:03pm
Monique Watson

Haha. haven’t fallen on hard times, Nasska,unless you count trying to finish a project in Khandallah (two section subdivision stymied by local government plan changes and the LVR loan brakes that had unintended consequences. But fuck it,there is always an upside; ie the good and cheap spirits here in this part of the world unless Hubby confiscates them, which sometimes he has every reason to do so; because when carried away, I tuck a ciggy behind one ear and stalk the house from end to end, muttering: “I am a Pirate”.
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March 20, 2018 11:15pm
Jack5

The fairy story unravels for “Pocohontas” – US Senator Elizabeth Warren, who claims to be of Cherokee Indian descent.

The Washington Times reports that last Wednesday a Cherokee genealogist, Twila Barnes, dismissed Warren’s claims of Indian ancestry as “ludicrous.”

Barnes researched Warren’s family tree.

Warren on three Sunday TV news shows has claimed her parents had to elope because her grandparents refused to let their son marry a woman of Delaware and Cherokee ancestry.

The Washington Times reports:

Ms Barnes said the evidence shows otherwise. She has posted documents online showing that Ms Warren’s parents were married by a prominent Methodist minister with a friend as a witness, and that they returned later that day to their hometown in Wetumka, Oklahoma.

The wedding also received a glowing write-up in the local newspaper, which called the couple “two of Wetumka’s most popular young people.”

“I don’t think he [the minister] would have done a wedding for two kids that ran away an eloped and their parents didn’t approve,” Ms Barnes said.

Warren was listed as a “native American” in the Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania law faculty directories, but she has denied that identifying herself as Cherokee caused her to receive preferential treatment in hiring.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/15/cherokee-genealogist-warren-claim-ludicrous/
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March 20, 2018 11:15pm
- Jack5
  
  In a story with some parallels to Warren’s, Tasmanian politician Jacqui Lambie has conceded defeat for her party in the Tasmanian state election.
  
  Lambie, who lost her seat as an Australian federal senator because of dual citizenship problems (her father was a Scot), is a former corporal in Australia’s military police.
  
  In her maiden speech in the Federal Senate, Lambie claimed she was descended from Mannalargenna, a Tasmanian Aboriginal who led guerrilla resistance against colonial settlers in the early 1800s.
  
  However, the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania’s chairman, Clyde Mansell, a known descendant of Mannalargenna, said there was “not enough evidence” to back up Lambie’s claims that she was of indigenous ancestry.
  
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  March 20, 2018 11:30pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Laugh of the day must be Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Michael Moore giving a Town Hall lecture on income inequality.
  What???
  Do these multi-millionaires think there isn’t enough of it?
  
  Then just to top it off, Michael Moore (the great investigative doco maker) is too principled to do business with the Weinsteins any more (now Harvey’s proclivities are public), but claims giving back the $2m paid to him would “morally compromise” his documentary.
  
  Pfft. What would any of these snakes know about moral anything?
  
  https://www.businessinsider.com.au/michael-moore-reportedly-trying-to-get-donald-trump-documentary-from-weinsteins-2017-12?r=US&IR=T
  
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