General Debate 23 March 2018

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Right of way is Way of Right

Johnathan Coleman is moving on, after being offered, unsolicited, a highly paid job in the private sector, and good luck to him.

As seems to be the routine when a National Party MP moves on these days, one of the first to poke his immaculately coiffed hair above the parapet is Winston Peters. As usual Winston has conducted himself like a charter school after Chris Hipkins has dealt with it; with no class whatsoever.

I fail to understand what Winston is hoping to gain by his continual disparaging of National MP’s as they take their leave of the chamber. He simply, once again, clearly demonstrates how petty and venal he is. He’s clearly trying to emulate his idol, Robert Muldoon, and failing badly in all aspects, save the consumption of alcohol.

Or perhaps he’s simply dealing with an unpalatable truth.

After 13 years in Parliament, Coleman is moving on after having received an unsolicited offer that he couldn’t refuse.

After 33 years in Parliament, nobody wants anything to do with Winston, and he can clearly see that once he leaves the House, he will be consigned to history as an annoying footnote, slipping from king-maker to an irrelevancy, unsuitable to even be the NZ ambassador to Burkina Faso.

I cannot wait for that day, and I hope it comes soon. He can take the rest of the NZ first rabble with him!
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March 23, 2018 8:00am
- JibberJabber
  
  Unlike NZ First, Labour and the Greens, former National Party Politicians have skills that are in demand outside of Politics.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:05am
- waikatogirl
  
  Winston says National Party MPs are falling like dominos, and there are more to go. Perhaps Winston should consider that he is far more ancient than those MPs and is way past time to make his own departure. His retirement from his position will be just that, retirement to slippers by the fire. As Jonathon Coleman said, it is always better to leave while at the top (and while you are still young enough to be employed elsewhere).
  At least the NP MPs are highly employable and going on to positions in the private sector.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:06am
  - Happychappy
    
    At least Jonathon Colman is not a fruad like Winston Peters or having to grovel for the old age vote with lies and deception. Jonathon Colman is wanted in the health sector and still can contribute to NZ and the elderly where Peters has only one option and that is date with the undertaker and the way he looks and talks it could be sooner than later.
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:23am
  - RF
    
    waikatogirl
    
    Peters next move will be from his slippers by the fire to the fires of hell.
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:40am
- KiWombat
  
  Winston is seething with rage – after 39 years trapsing the halls of Parliament he has never received a better offer – it must annoy him to the max !
  
  But then these employment offers are only made to the talented I suppose !
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:18am
  - holysheet
    
    Would you employ a drunken dwarf? A dwarf maybe, but a drunk one you would run a mile from.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:21am
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      “I drink, and I know things.”
      
      Tyron Lannister
      
      “I drink…..”
      
      Winston Peters
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:04am
- GazzaW
  
  Why would Jonathan Coleman, a registered doctor, hang around on an MP’s pay package when he could earn more by practising as a GP. He’s got two young kids to think about and his new employer is probably paying him at least three times his current pay as an MP plus bonuses. It’s a total no-brainer.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:29am
  - Milhous
    
    He actually hasn’t been registered for some time.
    
    It’s his health sector knowledge and governance skills , plus private sector experience which make him employable
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:31am
    - sooty
      
      You let the cat out of the bag. Now the Labour MPs will want a pay rise to keep up. With that many idiots in the Labour party, they would not have got a job in a sheltered workshop.
      
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      March 23, 2018 12:36pm
    - freethinker
      
      I think Acurity is buying a Lemon.
      
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      March 23, 2018 1:29pm
    - GazzaW
      
      I was just making the point that an MP’s pay was way less than the job he studied 5-7 years to qualify for so why hang about.
      
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      March 23, 2018 2:40pm
- artemisia
  
  Mr Peters will get a big gong though. Written into the coalition agreement, the page at the back in invisible ink.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:34am
- VicParking
  
  Johnathon just hung up on Red Radio when Susie the Marxist started to question him about the Mold problem when her producer had told him the interview would be about is resigning. Alright to only question Labour MP’s from a pre given list of questions but with National is ambush time!
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:36am
  - Harkman
    
    The thing is National should have closed down or privatised Red Radio when they had the chance. They knew what they’re like and now Marxist FM have carte blanche. This should be a surprise to no one.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:45am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      They should indeed have done this – however, that didn’t fit with John Key’s Labour Lite approach. The list of things they should have done is much longer than the things they actually did do.
      
      Sadly, I’m not seeing any signs that the more progressive Bridges, Bennett, Adams front row is going to be any more centre-right than before.
      
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      March 23, 2018 10:41am
    - Piniwi
      
      Or Harkman that they are soon to have a lot more money thrown at them to get into TV as well.
      
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      March 23, 2018 5:01pm
  - freethinker
    
    Susie Ferguson is totally left biased and is not fit to be an interviewer on taxpayer funded radio and trying that kind of entrapment is typical left wing tactics and I have little respect for Coleman as a Minister of health.
    
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    March 23, 2018 1:33pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Funny VP but Red Radio do not seem that much interested in what the DHB is doing about a mould problem?
    
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    March 23, 2018 5:00pm
- G152
  
  Peters is envious.
  He has no skills that translate from emptying troughs into filling them
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:36am
- RF
  
  Peters just proves he had no intention what so ever of going into a coalition with National last year.
  
  Just a bloody big con to delay the selection process that I am sure he would have been paid for.
  
  Just an arse hole.
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:37am
- Luke Piewalker
  
  Winston said he was going to “buy back the assets” … can someone ask him when he’s doing that?
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:03pm
  - freethinker
    
    And Grant how Winston will pay – perhps Winston will throw in the $138,000 stolen taxpayers money as a contribution.
    
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    March 23, 2018 1:35pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Hopefully, there will be flowers when he leaves the house. Lilys.
  
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  March 23, 2018 7:29pm
Monique Watson

Did you see how Trump sledged the WTO this morning. and socked it to the Chinese. He’s one canny bastard.
Whereas we have one Shane Jones and I’m tempted to order a mug in his honour:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trougher
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March 23, 2018 8:04am
- Inandout
  
  No, no, The Dark Destroyer also said at his 1000 seat dinner that China are a bit naive and not good at business.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:10am
  - kowtow
    
    Hahaha
    
    Says the law “professor” who never published a single paper.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:12am
  - Harkman
    
    “The Dark Destroyer” that’ll have laughing all day.
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:04am
- VicParking
  
  NZ not on the list of countries exempt from the tariffs for steel and aluminium. ?
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:40am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Are you surprised after Gobby Cindy, NZ’s PM Select was so rude saying President Trump isn’t as orange as she thought he’d be.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:57am
    - Harkman
      
      The funny thing is Cindy has turned out to be dumber than what I thought she’d be.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:06am
      - Felt
        
        You are right. She is not that smart at all. Good at regurgitating slogans but no analytical ability beyond that. No clues whatsoever in the areas of business, economics, leadership, international relations, ..
        
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        March 23, 2018 9:52am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        She’s a modern day game-show hostess. Charmingly vapid
        
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        March 23, 2018 11:16am
    - BeaB
      
      She could have said to Obama that orange is the new black.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:21am
    - BananaLlama
      
      I’m worried the Libs getting gobby and running their mouths about Trump are going to cost our Sheep Industry big. We sell alot of Lamb to the Yanks and they pay a bloody good price for the big ones, $7.10 a kg right now, they need to shut the fuck up.
      
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      March 23, 2018 11:43am
  - Komata
    
    VP
    
    Surprised? The USA warned everyone that it would be noticing who was a friend and who wasn’t. Cindy et al evidently thought he was joking, and with almost school-kid joy seemed to make a deliberate point of being offensive.
    
    Now that NZ has been left out in the cold, the (crocodile) tears of remorse have started.
    
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    March 23, 2018 11:04am
  - rangitoto
    
    But Cindy wrote a letter.
    
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    March 23, 2018 11:31am
Longknives

Is anyone else getting the ‘Arabmatchmaking.com’ Ad on Kiwiblog?
‘Date Arab Women’ it says with a photo of a very attractive Arab girl showing off her proportions.

Jesus!- Stephieboy’s Computer Screen is going to look like a Painter’s Radio…
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March 23, 2018 8:04am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Whatsundertheburka.com?
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:05am
  - simpleton1
    
    Serious considerations what may be claimed to be under the burka 🙂
    
    In a meeting with Transport Scotland officials, the councillor said if Mr Yousaf had visited the region, “no-one would have seen him under his burka”.
    https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2391351/labour-councillor-jim-dempster-humza-yousaf-snp-mosque-visit/
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:34am
- Andrei
  
  Ads are targeted to the indivdual based upon their searches
  
  What you are seeing says a lot about you
  
  I am seeing ads for “fitness trackers”
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:07am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    I keep getting ads for exercise equipment, I feel so virtuous!
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:12am
    - Longknives
      
      Really? I also got an Ad last year asking if I wanted to date Moustachioed , Leather-Wearing ‘Heavy Metal’ Men..
      
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      March 23, 2018 8:16am
      - dime
        
        i get the same shit longknives – after ive cleared my history, cookies etc.
        
        heavy metal dating lol i figured its cause i go to blabbermouth, but then it only appears right after cleaning history..
        
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        March 23, 2018 9:38am
      - alloytoo
        
        Sorry Dime, reported you by mistake, DPF please disregard.
        
        I find that the lowest common denominator (IE cheapest) adverts are what you receive if you’ve protected your identity adequately.
        
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        March 23, 2018 10:23am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Have you ever expressed an interest in bear-hunting?
        
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        March 23, 2018 11:18am
    - GazzaW
      
      Extremely well endowed Russian brides.
      
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      March 23, 2018 8:34am
      - RalphT
        
        Yes, I get that one as well and it puzzles me. The ad talks about “single Russian beauties” but without fail each photo is of two beauties…
        
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        March 23, 2018 8:40am
      - mara
        
        Me too. I also get promises of 4 more inches. 4 more inches of bloody what!? I offered to send the mail to my hubby but he wasn’t amused.
        
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        March 23, 2018 9:15am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Tell him to do what I do.
        
        Measure from the exit hole, instant more inches for no cost apart from ones dignity but I sort of gave that up when I was in the Services
        
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        March 23, 2018 10:53am
  - KiWombat
    
    I constantly get one trying to sell me a Maserati – have never searched for one in my life, and anyway they are hardly suitable for dirt roads on the West Coast ! ! !
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:24am
    - VicParking
      
      Yes that Maserati advert is a pain. They should know from mining my facebook page that I have four Bentleys.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:04am
  - KevOB
    
    I am not getting ads.
    
    Consider Epic Privacy Browser or Cliqz
    http://www.epicbrowser.com
    Cliqz: https://cliqz.com/en/
    Another useful addon is Ghostery, but not needed with Epic.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:59am
    - VicParking
      
      That’s because from the mining they are doing on you they know you dont take your hand out of your pocket.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:06am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “a Painter’s Radio”
  
  What a wonderful language English is!
  Such imagery!
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:32am
- VicParking
  
  That’s why Stephie has been late starting his trolling. It takes him half an hour to get past the ad and another half an our to get his typing hand working again.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:44am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Could be because he outed himself last night – self awareness isn’t a strong point with that one.
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/general_debate_22_march_2018.html#comment-2168627
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:17am
    - simpleton1
      
      Taking the steps of confirmation in Saint Albans.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:37am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      My sympathies to the good folk of St. Albans.
      
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      March 23, 2018 10:13am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Community care, idiots need support and compassion too, and whatever their other faults churches are good at caring for those that aren’t ‘friend material’ in our society.
        
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        March 23, 2018 11:21am
      - waikatogirl
        
        UrbanNeo…, Vicar of Dibley odd-ball type characters. SB would have fit right in on that comedy, except he’s not funny!
        
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        March 23, 2018 11:56am
- Harkman
  
  Yep, I got it too and flightcentre. And I haven’t searched for either on this tablet.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:48am
Poppa

What carnage at Eden Park yesterday, a joy to behold.

Unfortunately the weather could spoil the party today with a front due to cross over later. We can only hope that the rain doesn’t interrupt too much & we can put the game to bed. England don’t deserve to get out of this with a draw
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March 23, 2018 8:05am
Inandout

I do wish Crusher and Twitford would stop giggling like a couple of schoolgirls on Garner. Judith has the opportunity to show Phil up as the utterly useless Minister that he is, but sadly she didn’t. They seem very chummy actually.
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March 23, 2018 8:05am
- waikatogirl
  
  Judith is just lulling Twitford into a false sense of security, all sweetness and fun on the public TV show. She will save her sting for the house. ?
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:23am
  - suzieq
    
    Which has bigger viewing figures, do we know?
    
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    March 23, 2018 6:16pm
- Lance
  
  And on the same AM show Twitford agreed with Shane that Air NZ should lose money on flights carrying only an old granny with a small dog.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:25am
  - doggone7
    
    Did Twyford say Air NZ should lose money on flights?
    
    If you have the facts and financials on specific services Twyford commented on as needing to be provided and they show Air NZ would lose money on them put them on here so we we can be informed.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:35am
    - Lance
      
      Are you trying to tell me Oamaru is a profit making route for Air NZ?????
      And they ditched it along with other routes just to stick it to the regions for the hell of it?
      I don’t need to have a meteorological degree to know its raining
      Twat
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:52am
    - Happychappy
      
      Being blinded by the colour red you would have trouble reading facts so just try to improve your skills as a troll as you have a lot to learn.
      
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      March 23, 2018 3:35pm
  - KiWombat
    
    Sometimes I wonder whether our country is being run by smart people who are just pulling our leg, or by imbeciles who really believe in what they do !
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:45am
    - fernglas
      
      The higher up the food chain you get, the more apparent it is that no-one has a clue what they’re doing
      
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      March 23, 2018 8:49am
    - waikatogirl
      
      KiWombat, after 5 months of the CoL, it is safe to say we are being run by imbeciles who really believe in what they do! ?
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:02am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes, agree Inandout- and posted a similar comment some months ago.
  I was very surprised at Ms Collins’ simpering demeanour on the Garner programme at the time.
  She giggled and darted flirty looks at the ghastly Twyford giving the impression that they were friendly colleagues rather than from opposite “sides”. All rather puzzling for we peasants in the regions and reinforcement that what goes on in private national politics is essentially a charade and sham.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:27am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  If she engages in serious debate they won’t invite her back. It’s not that kind of show. The only one allowed to have strong opinions and express them unequivocally is Garner.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:28am
  - KiWombat
    
    In political landscapes the mudslinging precedes the landslides !
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:44am
Than

Phil Twyford Introduces Bill to Ban Letting Fees

Seriously, how economically ignorant is this guy;

“I don’t know of any other area of the law where two parties can contract for a provision of services but then charge a third party.”

Just off the top of my head, how about taxi and bus services from airports, which directly pass on the fee the airport changes them. Or the shipping fee whenever you order something online. There are numerous examples.

And even when businesses don’t directly pass on a fee by name, any time they incur an additional expense it will ultimately be passed on to a customer. Which is why Twyford’s bill is so utterly pointless. Landlords which incur letting fees will simply estimate how long tenants stay on average, do the math, and increase the weekly rent by however much is needed to cover it. It may no longer be itemized out separately, but tenants will still be paying the letting fee.
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March 23, 2018 8:06am
- cmm
  
  I do it every day.
  
  When I charge my customers for a service, I factor in that I am paying tax which is used to pay the baby factory down the road.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:12am
  - Piniwi
    
    True cmm inports used to be costed with CIFE but now we have to add B = beneficiaries.
    
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    March 23, 2018 5:11pm
- Inandout
  
  Of course Twyford is an ignorant twat, but as with other Labour unintended consequences this one may benefit renters. Property managers finally may be licensed to clear away the cowboys/girls.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:14am
- peterwn
  
  I am with Phil on this one. When you buy a house you are not expected to pay the commission of the agent engaged by the vendor. Should be same with letting. The situation is influenced by power imbalance between the parties.
  As for the airport example there is a good case for the Commerce Commission to regulate fees imposed on public transport and taxi operators and possibly on short term parking (up to one hour). Airside fees are already regulated so the same should apply to fees for essential land side service. Incidentally I wonder if Auckland Airport imposes fees on the 380 bus service at the airport (I use the 380 bus and train from Papatoetoe when using Auckland Airport).
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:20am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Who really ends up paying does not depend on who gets the bill. Coase’s theorem.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:31am
    - peterwn
      
      Agreed, but if the landlord has to pay, market forces will ensure the fee is reasonable. If the tenant has to pay, this limits market forces from working and letting agencies could get away with charging unwarranted fees. There is no competition when costs can be foisted on to someone else.
      
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      March 23, 2018 10:22am
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        I don’t understand this argument. The fee is not a secret and tenants care about what they pay in total, i.e. rent plus fee. If that total is unreasonable, tenants can look for a better deal elsewhere. If nobody is offering a better deal, why conclude the amount is unreasonable?
        
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        March 23, 2018 10:57am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    For renters already in the market, that should essentially be the only cost of getting into a rental and only if getting the property, bonds etc should be transferable if they have been good tenants. There could possibly be a fixed fee, but property managers travelling to and from properties showing them aren’t and naturally vary in big and small towns, and cities, but then selling agents on commission have that cost too. Property managers seem to be on salary.
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:14am
    - peterwn
      
      Property managers may be on salaries but it is the owners of letting agents and their franchisors who make profits. Quinovic for example is a franchise operation where the franchisor has developed the systems etc under which the franchisees and their individual property managers work.
      
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      March 23, 2018 10:26am
- VicParking
  
  At the start of the interview he was saying it would not increase rents. By the end of the interview he was stating that any rent increases would be spread over the year and not all in one lump sum. Flip flop
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:48am
  - Than
    
    Well, he’s sort of right on both. Many landlords already cost letting fees into the weekly rent, and those won’t be affected by this bill. But those who currently charge the letting fee separately won’t just soak up the expense.
    
    Where he’s completely wrong is the claim this will save renters huge amounts of money. Presumably he has some delusional idea that landlords will just happily accept the loss. They won’t. They will pass on the expense to tenants one way or another, and all this bill does is prevent them from labelling the expense directly.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:56am
    - alloytoo
      
      Actually, those that current charge it up front are in for a long term windfall.
      
      They will increase their weekly rent by about 2% and renters will now pay this once off charge year in, year out.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:10am
      - peterwn
        
        For new lets landlords will aim for maximum rental anyway so while landlords could load rentals slightly now, market forces down the track will minimise such loadings. What it will do is encourage landlords to ensure they are getting value for money on what they are paying letting agencies – a discipline that landlords and agents do not face at present. Also letting fees is another up-front burden that cash strapped tenants have to bear.
        
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        March 23, 2018 10:33am
- KevOB
  
  How much longer can Twford hang out in Parliament? Does he have a free Bellamy’s pass?
  
  Twyford seems to have less economic understanding than Poohbah Robbo.
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:03am
  - VicParking
    
    You dont need any understanding of anything as long as you Blame the last Government for everything. This excuse is fast running out.
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:10am
  - KiWombat
    
    McDonalds is offering a new McRobbo value meal Phil – you order anything you like and the bloke behind you gets to pay for it !
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:35am
  - Poppa
    
    Twyford has no idea, it is that simple.
    
    Why he would think a landlord will just suck up the fee is way beyond me.
    
    The increase in rent will apply to the ongoing tenancy
    
    What a tool!
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:46am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Additional to the costs of the new ‘warrant’ system, there are some renters that are in for a huge shock, but those on benefits will just get a WINZ top up.
      
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      March 23, 2018 10:17am
      - Piniwi
        
        But RM that is another problem that renters already juggle since there will be good potential tenants chosen ahead of WINZ sponsors. Basic laws of supply and demand will far outdo what Twyford thinks will make things more in favour of the renter. The Fool Factor coming into play very strong on this one.
        
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        March 23, 2018 5:24pm
    - Piniwi
      
      But Poppa it is only the start of even bigger problems for landlords where they will not be able to simply apply a percentage to the rental for recovery. They are just making things harder for renters as the number of rentals fall rapidly.
      
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      March 23, 2018 5:20pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  I think it’s great. Labour investing house time in pointless and ineffectual legislation like this (tenants will pay the cost any way it is divied up) at least slows them from doing actual damage.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:31am
- freethinker
  
  Government does it as well charging a fee to renew your rego in addition to the tax ditto customs fees but funny no fee to those who collect Govt taxes – GST/PAYE etc.
  
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  March 23, 2018 1:47pm
holysheet

If you want a laugh and have netfliks, look at Ricky Gervais “Humanity”
Talk about sending up SJW’s, Hollywood and all PC crap.
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March 23, 2018 8:07am
Monique Watson

Oh @Longknives, thanks so much for the laugh. A Painter’s Radio That’s as funny as fuck. I know all about painter’s radios as my first apprenticeship was as a Painter-Decorator
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March 23, 2018 8:14am
kowtow

Foreign states interfere in NZ gets 9 lines from RNZ and basically ignored by the rest of our MSM.

Meanwhile they obsess about Obama , Trump and Putin.

WTF is going on with the MSM?

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/353084/foreign-states-attempt-to-access-sensitive-nz-information
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March 23, 2018 8:16am
- Harkman
  
  That wasn’t even long enough to be called an article. Remember only Donald Trump is evil, that’s all that matters to NZ journalists.
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:14am
kowtow

Some discriminatory hate speech is OK , depending on the target of course.

Where’s Dame Devoid? Where’s the media outrage?Where’s the Minister for Men?

‘Women’s Minister Julie Anne Genter says old white men need to “move on” from company boards to help close the gender pay gap.’

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102507145/minister-for-women-julie-anne-genter-says-old-white-men-should-move-on-from-company-boards
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March 23, 2018 8:19am
- Gravelroad
  
  That is an absolute disgrace. Imagine the outcry if she had said old brown men should move on.
  How this woman ever merited the appointment as a Minister of the Crown in our country is beyond comprehension.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:34am
  - starboard
    
    Along with the rest of the rabble, she will be gone 2020.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:53am
    - CHFR1
      
      Have a look at the comments, she may have just touched the until now unknown third rail of politics. I for one would rather she did not shut up but hold onto this rail for dear life shouting all the way.
      As always it isn’t the political stuff that brings you down it is the stuff the average Joe on the street can understand.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:02am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    All jokes aside. That is bloody racist.
    Minister of the crown saying that?
    Old Asian men, old Jewish men, Old Black men.
    What the actual fuck?!
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:31am
  - Colville
    
    How about she comes out and says that young brown men should stop killing/beating babies??
    
    but no way will she do that… that would be wacist!
    
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    March 23, 2018 11:19am
- 3-coil
  
  kowtow (8:19am) – you must have missed the rest of Genter’s spiel where she said: “…and all those bitter old white women need to move on from your New Zealand schools to help close the gross gender imbalance in the teaching profession”.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:37am
  - KiWombat
    
    3-c if she really said “your” then she obviously doesn’t consider herself one of us !
    
    Perhaps she should go to wherever it is that she is considered one of “our” instead of here where she doesn’t seem to fit in !
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:49am
    - 3-coil
      
      Apologies KiWombat – I should have added “sarc” to the bottom of that.
      
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      March 23, 2018 8:52am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Pricelessly good comment 3-coil 🙂
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:43am
- KevOB
  
  Are kaumatua permitted to remain?
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:06am
  - VicParking
    
    There are plenty of young gang bosses waiting to step up.
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:13am
- Lance
  
  She is simply a racist
  She singled out people based on race and attached negative connotations to that group…
  
  What a steaming great hypocrite
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:56am
- Maxx
  
  I look forward to Susan Devoy being outraged by this comment
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:11am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Sadly Devoid won’t. Another of John Key’s legacies!
    
    I really hope the Nats are learning from all the mistakes of the lost 9 years under Key and English. How their virtue-signalling has left us with:
    – the broken RMA
    – misandryist Jackie Blue and Devoid in the HRC
    – no tax cuts
    – WFF
    – Free student loans
    – the ERA
    – the same flag
    – Pay Equity nonsense
    – far left judiciary who go soft-cock on crime
    – a broken milk monopoly maximising the cost NZers pay for a local product
    – a broken and anti-conservative state media infrastructure
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:47am
    - Kimbo
      
      Dame Susan Devoy was appointed by….Judith Collins.
      
      20 March 2013
      Dame Susan Devoy new Race Relations Commissioner
      
      Justice Minister Judith Collins is pleased to announce the appointment of Dame Susan Devoy DNZM, CBE as the new Race Relations Commissioner.
      
      “Dame Susan is a proud New Zealander who is highly motivated to contribute positively to New Zealand society.
      
      “Her communication and relationship management skills, coupled with experience working with diverse groups, are key areas of strength.
      
      “Dame Susan has sound governance experience and mature judgement. I am confident she will be a sensible and intelligent voice for race relations issues,” Ms Collins said.
      
      Dame Susan has been appointed for five-year term and takes up her new role on 1 April 2013.
      
      Dame Susan replaces Mr Joris de Bres who recently concluded his second term in the office. Ms Collins also acknowledges the contribution of Mr de Bres to race relations issues over the past decade.
      
      The Race Relations Commissioner is a member of the Human Rights Commission. The Commission is an independent Crown entity which works with government and civil society to promote respect for human rights, encourage harmonious race relations and equal employment opportunities, and to resolve complaints about discrimination and related issues.
      
      https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/dame-susan-devoy-new-race-relations-commissioner
      
      Interesting. So Devoy’s five year term ends at Easter, next week. Any announcement on her replacement, or has she been reappointed?
      
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      March 23, 2018 10:51am
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        Well done Kimbo and thank you – this is something JC should be eternally embarrassed about.
        
        I seem to recall the rabid left were up in arms about Devoid’s appointment at the time, I imagine they have warmed to her since then and might be contemplating retaining her.
        
        Still, the thing with Labour is just when you think they’ve scraped the very bottom of the barrel – they prove you wrong. My guess is they’re tossing up between;
        – Hone Haraweira (allows Kelvin to keep his seat)
        or
        – Annette Sykes (the only person who hates white mothafuckas more than Hone plus she has a vagina so her cloak of sanctimony is stronger than his).
        
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        March 23, 2018 11:34am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ DifferentPerspective
        
        As per my post of a few days ago, I think Devoy has done ok, as well as anyone could have given the brief, and the agenda that would be set by her department. While I’m sure she has a lot of common sense courtesy of her problem-solving sporting background, her fundraising and her advocacy on behalf of those with disabilities, it is hard for someone from a non-executive background to stand up to that and avoid departmental capture. Especially with a bunch of professional zealots that the Human Rights Commission is likely to attract.
        
        But the essential problem is not Devoy, but the ridiculous and out-dated office. Should have been abolished years ago. Then again, and while I have no doubt she was well-intentioned irrespective of the large salary, Devoy chose to take the position, so she gets the criticism.
        
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        March 23, 2018 11:45am
      - freethinker
        
        Note the date April fools day – how appropriate for Dame Devoid.
        
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        March 23, 2018 1:53pm
      - Nermal
        
        I think they are still looking for a suitable Muslim
        
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        March 23, 2018 4:51pm
- Maxx
  
  I further look forward to a change in law where I am now allowed to discriminate on the basis of age, sex, and race.
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:26am
  - freethinker
    
    No need you can do that just don’t say so. I discriminate against Male/Female/Black/Brown/White/Yellow and Rainbow idiots of the left right & centre just don’t make it obvious.
    
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    March 23, 2018 1:54pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I wonder whether it occurred to Genter that many of those children will have “old white men” as fathers? Schools are not SJW farms and if we’re playing identity politics, this white middle aged gob-shite woman would do well to stay away from them.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:10am
  - KevOB
    
    Next step will be to stop any male over 40 breeding.
    I know a family where there is an 11 year old child and the male parent is almost 80.
    
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    March 23, 2018 3:23pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      I know a family with grandfather born 19th Century, father born 20th Century, Son born 21st Century. Taking the scenic route with regard to evolution.
      
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      March 23, 2018 4:44pm
Paulus

I see reported that Cinderella asked the one time US President basically the question being as she said
“how to connect with disillusioned voters – how do we make sure that we don’t alienate people and alienate voters”
“how do we still be values based in the politics we talk about and demonstrate that we really see people’s needs and their concerns and are addressing those”.
Don’t know why she asked him that as she could have asked me and many others.
TELL THE TRUTH – if you know what truth is – doubtful Cinderella.
– and that also applies to probably the worse US President in recent times, whose socialist legacy comes from the creating Global Financial Crisis, via Sub Prime Mortgages to Wars in Syria and Iraq.

Sub set – how did a private visit become a State visit virtually, with many, mainly women, wetting themselves ?
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March 23, 2018 8:19am
- waikatogirl
  
  Duncan Garner was acting like a 15 year old gushing over Obama this morning. As a former political reporter I would have thought he’d have seen enough behind the scenes to have got the stars out of his eyes a long time ago.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:28am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Obama is now clearly proven to have exceeded Nixon’s dishonesty in using state security organs to spy on an opposition candidate using as evidence oppo research from his own party!
    
    Garner should hand in his journalist credentials.
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:49am
kowtow

Parliament saw fit to criminalise decent parents disciplining their children because of scum like this.

Shows how fucked up the system is , not to mention the joke sentencing.

‘The man sentenced to home detention after he bashed his 9-month-old son and partner is back behind bars.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/baby-basher-jailed-48-hours-after-joke-home-detention
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March 23, 2018 8:23am
- calendar girl
  
  The Judge should be stood down as well, now, following her gross error of character judgement.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:57am
  - Sideoiler
    
    The Judge should be stood down as well……..
    
    I think it is time judges were elected, not appointed.
    That way sentencing might better reflect the abhorrance of the community.
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:21am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      The urge for punishment has to be tempered by the need for rehabilitationotherwise the cost of incarceration and welfare for ex cons gets out of control
      
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      March 23, 2018 11:45am
      - calendar girl
        
        Most of us are all in favour, UrbanNeocolonialist, of investing in genuine rehabilitation efforts, including training and employment opportunities. Rehabilitation is a ‘must’ for society’s purposes, but it requires willing participation and co-operation on the part of the criminal. So it will never be universally successful.
        
        In my view, however, the prospect of rehabilitation should not be ‘traded off” against realistic punishment for crimes already committed, and for which convictions have been entered and sentences duly handed down. A convicted person who is effectively “let off” will know that he/she is likely to be “let off” again after further offending.
        
        There are many things on which, politically, society at large is reluctant to see more tax money spent. They are unlikely to include – for many voters – protecting society against violent criminals.
        
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        March 23, 2018 3:56pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Such a sweet boy, all he needs is a job, mistakes happen.
  JUDGE DENISE CLARK well and truly had the wool pulled over her eyes.
  Once a mongrel, always a mongrel.
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:50am
- KKKKatee
  
  The thing here is that the victim’s rights have been totally overlooked. The victim was a 9 month old baby, totally incapable of defending himself. This is so sick that the rights and future employment prospects of this despicable thug were paramount over the rights and justice for a 9 month old baby.
  Once a ‘basher’, always a ‘basher’. He’ll go on to bash other people around him. But what gets me is why these stupid young women get hooked up with this scum in the first place.
  A 9th month old victim cannot write a ‘victim impact statement’. Shame on the Judge.
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:07am
  - Sideoiler
    
    …..what gets me is why these stupid young women get hooked up with this scum in the first place……
    
    Simply because there is no cost to the “stupid young woman”for doing so.
    
    Leave school with few or no qualifications.
    Select sperm donor (preferably a bad boy)
    Produce offspring, apply for state house & become solo parent.
    That is why, and I doubt it will change until the money stops.
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:50am
    - Kabull
      
      And wrt the last of your points, that is why we have a housing crisis. The rapid climb in the number of single parent households must surely be putting significant pressure on housing at all levels.
      
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      March 23, 2018 11:11am
      - Piniwi
        
        But Kabull trhat is not the socialist way to do things as they are very dependent themselves on their beneficiary dependent voters. The lost tax cuts would have helped 1.4 million Kiwi’s without favour or cost as it cane from a healthy surplus. Remembering that would be an annual saving or gain for them. The great Families Package will help 384,000 receive more hand outs and also remain an on-going cost to the same taxpayers. A lose-lose again for the real taxpayers.
        
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        March 23, 2018 5:39pm
  - 3-coil
    
    KKKKatee (10:07am) – the beaten and abused toddler’s grandfather was quoted yesterday that the damaged child is already showing signs of violent physical aggression (punching etc). There is his “victim impact statement” for you. The cycle continues…
    
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    March 23, 2018 1:04pm
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  The old Otara Love Tap.
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:34am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  So the judge is a Maori single mum, graduated from the Youth Court (you know where you can be guilty of whatever you like but you won’t get in any trouble), perhaps an acolyte of the crazy Children’s Commissioner … want to bet that the perp is:
  – a Maori
  – a graduate of the Youth Court justice system
  
  It’s not a good look for the country to go the way of the US and have a plague of bleeding hearth left-wing activist judges putting killers on the streets for virtue-signalling reasons.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:27am
  - simpleton1
    
    ….the community in Rotorua has given me the best apprenticeship I could have hoped for,” she said.
    
    “It’s my hope to bring to the position an intimate insight into our people…an insight not from books or professors but from real life.”
    
    ……..”Judge Clark will move with her 12-year-old son Natanahira to Hamilton where she will preside”.
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=220444
    
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    March 23, 2018 1:21pm
- freethinker
  
  Questions the judgement of -Judge Denise Clark – to quote JAG perhaps time for stupid old white women to eff off.
  
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  March 23, 2018 2:00pm
  - simpleton1
    
    From my link just above.
    “Judge Clark, whose tribal affiliation is Ngapuhi, said she looked forward to a challenging future on the bench.”
    
    then there is the trump card.
    
    “Judge Clark acknowledged her appointment was another Maori voice in the partnership between Maori and the Crown that was enshrined by the Treaty of Waitangi .”
    
    Revisionist Waitangi treaty enshrined by a white old man, of supposed politico/lawyer status.
    Unless you mean that certain white woman import, to eff off. 🙂
    
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    March 23, 2018 2:29pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  While we’re on the subject of eff-ups by our govt departments, perhaps Corrections could explain how a violent thug could make 700 phone calls to intimidate his victim and her mother into not giving evidence at his trial.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12017949
  
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  March 23, 2018 6:16pm
EAD_TWO

The real “hate” that plagues society:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102507145/minister-for-women-julie-anne-genter-says-old-white-men-should-move-on-from-company-boards
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March 23, 2018 8:26am
- mandk
  
  I saw that, too.
  
  I think ageist, sexist, foreign, unelected MPs should move on from Parliament.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:30am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Some kind of “privilege” it is being White (especially Male & Straight) in this world where:
    – you can get arrested for telling jokes
    – you are activley discriminated against for jobs, university places, scholarships, housing and public healthcare
    – your history gets rewritten and syllabus chamges to paint your ancestors in the worst possible light
    – any success of yours is not yours but rather “the result of the patriarchy” and “systematic racism”
    – your once homogenous nations, and only your nations, are forced to take a unending stream of hostile, low IQ 3rd worlders without you being asked
    – the Police ignore rape cases against your daughters whilst monitoring what you write on the internet in case it “offends” someone (see below for this shocking example today)
    https://mobile.twitter.com/policescotland/status/976490843791126528
    
    – And the final thing is……you have to fund all this lunacy and pay for people like Genter and Devoy to lecture you all day every day telling you what wicked people you are.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:35am
    - Scott
      
      I just read this from the Gatestone Institute –
      https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12049/britain-islamist-colony
      
      The main takeaway is this –
      “The mass rape problem is endemic but is not limited to Rotherham and Telford. It has also affected, among others places, Bristol, Derby, Rochdale, Peterborough, Newcastle, Oxfordshire, Bradford, Keighley, Banbury, Halifax, Leeds, Birmingham, Norwich, Burney, High Wycombe, Dewsbury and Middlesbrough.
      
      The common link in all these cases is that the grooming gangs are of south Asian origin and that the responsible authorities chose silence over the risk of “offending” them by appearing racist or “Islamophobic.” If mass rape of a country’s children over a period of decades is not enough to force a government to act, the question is, what is?”
      
      This leads the author of the article to ask – is Britain becoming an Islamic colony?
      
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      March 23, 2018 8:53am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The common link in all these cases is that the grooming gangs are of south Asian origin
        
        A joint statement released by the Network of Sikh Organisations UK, The Hindu Forum of Britain, and The Sikh Media Monitoring Group UK objects to the term Asian being applied to the men involved in British sex-grooming crimes.
        
        It said blanket use of the word “Asian” was “unfair to other communities of Asian origin”.
        http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-18092605
        
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        March 23, 2018 9:09am
      - stephieboy
        
        Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
        Scott,
        
        INVESTIGATIONS
        
        One of America’s Most Dangerous Think Tanks Is Spreading Islamophobic Hate Across the Atlantic
        
        The Gatestone Institute has pumped out reams of dangerous anti-Muslim propaganda, and its ties to UK groups deserve close scrutiny.
        
        The Gatestone Institute, a New York-based think tank, has become one of the most important hubs in America’s Islamophobia industry, pumping out reams of dangerous anti-Muslim propaganda of the kind lapped up by far-right mass murderer Anders Breivik. The transatlantic dimensions of Gatestone’s influence have so far gone largely unnoticed, but its close links to several British groups, including the Quilliam Foundation, Stand for Peace and the Henry Jackson Society deserve close scrutiny….?
        
        https://www.alternet.org/investigations/one-americas-most-dangerous-think-tanks-spreading-islamophobic-hate-across-atlantic
        
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        March 23, 2018 9:25am
      - Scott
        
        Yes good thought stephieboy. Perhaps the gate stone Institute is spreading Islamic hate? On the other hand it could be that there is a lot there that is hateful?
        The substance of the claim is that Islamic rape gangs are endemic throughout the UK, that they are still operating and that the authorities are doing virtually nothing about it.
        Sadly for your argument the claim seems credible. The scale of gang rape in Rotherham was such that even the authorities and the Muslim apologist media could not keep a lid on it.
        
        I noted yesterday that Germany is overwhelmed by Muslim immigrants, or to be precise Muslim immigrant men, sexually assaulting German women. Apparently in Sweden the beautiful blonde haired women are dying their hair black to escape the depredations of Muslim male immigrants.
        
        So I don’t see what your argument is? It is not a phobia to want to protect a country’s women from rape. The authorities in Germany and Great Britain and Sweden need to crack down on it.
        
        In Australia a rape gang of Muslim men got jailed for 20 years. That certainly sent a message to the Muslim community.
        
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        March 23, 2018 9:56am
    - fernglas
      
      The only good thing left for the straight white male is being able to have a piss at a big public gathering without having to queue for the loo, or decide which loo to use.
      
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      March 23, 2018 8:54am
  - geoff3012
    
    Has she achieved her NIL road toll yet?
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:37am
  - RalphT
    
    Don’t you mean unelectable?
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:43am
    - KiWombat
      
      Yes she came a very distant third to Melissa Lee at the last election !
      
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      March 23, 2018 8:52am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Oh dear.
  
  The notion of “equality of outcomes” is about to run into the buzz saw of the Pareto Distribution.
  
  Pareto is a universal, natural phenomenon. The other is a “feelz.”
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:35am
  - VicParking
    
    Normal Distribution rules. If you fall outside 80% of the ND its off to the Gulag for you.
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:54am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      The Pareto Distribution is normal when you plot productivity.
      
      Productivity does not behave normally. A handful of classical composers (Bach, Mozart, etc.) account for 50% of all classical music played. And out of all of the music that these men composed, only a tiny proportion of their compositions account for over 50% of their plays.
      
      That, my friend, is the Pareto Distribution at work in the field of productive endeavors.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:17am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Marx got it wrong when he claimed that “oppression” was the root of social inequality.
        
        Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, observing the 80/20 rule (i.e., 20% of the fishermen catch 80% of the fish) was onto something much more natural, unalterable and inevitable. The Pareto Principle naturally results in uneven outcomes.
        
        How to best manage the Pareto Principle so that it does not lead to social instability is another topic for discussion.
        
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        March 23, 2018 10:13am
      - Jack5
        
        The Pareto rule applies on Kiwiblog, too, with the tiny Stephiestani minority providing a majority of the nonsense.
        
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        March 23, 2018 11:31pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    The notion of “equality of outcomes”
    
    The pay gap myth is a characteristically sinister means to transform relations between men and women. Of course there are plenty of firms where women are paid more than men but that’s not a problem so this drive really is about making sure women earn more than men because there will never be any faux outrage over that in the MSM.
    
    Why?
    
    – women don’t date down as biological sexual preference seeks a male who can provide resources and security. As women will generally not settle for less they will remain single. As do the men
    – men are generally bigger and stronger than women so it’s unnatural that a man will take orders from a women. As accountability for women’s behaviour is removed, they can use their power tyrannicaly making men and wider society unhappy
    – women are more susceptible to hysteria due to physical weakness. The psychos know how to exploit women with feminist/Marxist nonsense to divide and further their agenda
    – to gut the birthrate and to further atomise society
    
    This is how they do it
    
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    March 23, 2018 11:20am
- JibberJabber
  
  Quite right Julie, maybe some international consortium will appoint her to their board while she still knows everything.
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:42am
- Lance
  
  Good grief, EAD2 is correct for once
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:58am
kowtow

While our media celebrate the out of touch permanent political class’ self congratulatory orgy of Obama worship an illegal immigrant , who entered Germany at the invitation of Merkel where he raped and murdered had been released early from prison in Greece.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5530867/Afghan-murdered-EU-officials-daughter-jailed-life-Germany.html#comments
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March 23, 2018 8:28am
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow , interesting that KB’s alt righters like you can only muster a protest against the former President by banging away on keyboards .
  
  Sigh !
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:47am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Sigh, I suppose you support the sick fuck that story is about? Any way banging away on keyboards beats banging away on goats….
    
    Sigh!
    
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    March 23, 2018 7:59pm
waikatogirl

Twitford says he will be having discussions on the need of Air NZ to service the regions.

What needs to be done is for Air NZ to be held to account for their predatory marketing against smaller airlines who attempt to set up business flying regional routes. Air NZ swoop in with the likes of Freedom Air with lower ticket prices just long enough to put the new airline out of business. Air NZ then dump that region once again.
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March 23, 2018 8:44am
- Poppa
  
  What business is it of Twyford?
  
  Get your shovel out Phil & start digging some holes for all those houses you are building
  
  Yeah I forgot you haven’t got any land yet
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:34am
  - KiWombat
    
    Haven’t you heard the news Poppa ! Twitford has reset the calendar so that the “100 days” doesn’t begin until July 1st !
    
    So that explains why he hasn’t started buying land yet.
    
    But we can all relax because, fortunately, a “year” is still the same, so we can watch that counter reduce as we approach the “year” mark.
    
    Yeah – right !
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:41am
    - stigie
      
      “100 days” doesn’t begin until July 1st !”
      
      Which year was this again..?
      
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      March 23, 2018 12:15pm
      - KiWombat
        
        I don’t recall him saying the year in is media release – another built in escape clause no doubt !
        
        BUt he has not re-defined the term “year” – so we can hold him to account in seven months !
        
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        March 23, 2018 7:14pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Many of those air travellers from minor centres end up using air NZ after driving to nearest supported airport anyway. I agree that this predatory/anti competitive behaviour needs to be stopped. But autonomous air-taxis are likely to fix it in 5-10 years, making small planes far more economic.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:56am
- Piniwi
  
  Sadly waikatogirl this is something only known too well in the regions and oblivious to the beltway. It is also true that ANZ only “care” about NZ when they have a bad year and again need to be bailed out. Sure they are not a SOE but are just as costly as some that are.
  
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  March 23, 2018 5:49pm
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Reposted from late yesterday on GD. Leighton Smith has raised this again this morning.

If the POS was associated with the Mongral Mob it shows how incompetent this out of touch judge is.

If the judge had any self-respect she would resign.

Baby basher locked up less than 48 hours after ‘joke’ home detention for alleged pub breach

The same night he was sentenced the man posted a selfie on Facebook with the caption: “Last day at court sweet. Now I can live my life.”

The caption also included a word associated with the Mongrel Mob.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12018198
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March 23, 2018 8:46am
- VicParking
  
  The judge would not of seen it. Sitting a home with a sherry in hand reading the New Yorker.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:56am
- Gravelroad
  
  We are constantly told of the virtues and wonderment of Prime Minister Ardern. She has achieved iconic status with women in particular.
  She has also trumpeted her status as Minister for Children.
  If she has the influence claimed, why is she not taking a strong public stance against the bashing and murdering of babies and children?
  Apart from poverdy, I have not heard her condemn any of these men who bash children, nor their weak women who enable them.
  Why not? Might upset the voter base, perhaps.
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:57am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    We also do not hear from the useless Children’s Commissioner.
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:00am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  Trying to tie this predator to the Mongrel Mob is just making a ‘He’s ‘them’ argument to deflect responsibility away from the wider society.
  
  I’ve met gang members who are non-smoking (not that that’s particularly wonderful), teetotal, and certainly don’t bash their wives and children. The whole country probably grieved a little for Connor Morris of the Headhunters when he died or Millie Elder-Holmes.
  
  There are good and bad people in every group. They all have their own story.
  
  The one thing you can say about this particular predator is that he was raised by a family, taught at a school with all its attendant services, part of a culture with attendant services (including race, youth, etc.), possibly in a workplace, defended by lawyers, and sentenced by a judge.
  
  If he got the idea that it’s a good thing to beat, bloody, and break the women and children in his life, and to expect to do it with impunity, one group you can’t blame is the Mongrel Mob.
  
  Gang membership – and I thought he was aiming to be a ‘prospect’ so he would be just desperately ‘name-dropping’ – is a result, not a cause. Some of them are working to eradicate such a culture.
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:16am
  - fernglas
    
    The whole country probably grieved a little for Connor Morris? YMBFJ!
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:22am
    - Wangas Feral
      
      He was a guy associated and involved with people whose stock and trade is violence and criminality. I thought his ending was rather fitting.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:28am
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      Like I said, there are good and bad people everywhere, and especially within ‘nice’, ‘respectable’ society who see all their ‘sins’ as ‘different’.
      
      At least that couple were trying to improve their lives.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:29am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        “At least that couple were trying to improve their lives.”
        Really?
        
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        March 23, 2018 9:55am
      - Lance
        
        Gangs exist only to push drugs, intimidate and do harm to people.
        I would rate them equal to Ebola as a social entity
        
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        March 23, 2018 10:01am
    - waikatogirl
      
      LOL! I agree fernglas. Sorry Anne, you sound like an apologist saying “Gang membership – and I thought he was aiming to be a ‘prospect’ so he would be just desperately ‘name-dropping’ – is a result, not a cause. Some of them are working to eradicate such a culture.”
      
      Gangs have wised up. They have learned not to fall into the fatal mistake of partaking in their own evil money-making criminal activities such as taking the drugs they supply. Much more profitable to live a clean life while selling their filth to the dumb and vulnerable.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:45am
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        LOL indeed.
        
        What’s wrong with ‘wising up’? Or should they not? I have no doubt they’re taking their lead from all the ‘successful’ in the world.
        
        Are you really suggesting that two-bit wannabe scum like this predator are one of them?
        
        Or that gangs ‘selling their filth’ are different to wealthy businessmen who use that ‘filth’? And peddle it to their friends and victims? Not to mention those selling pornography, sex – or even those selling cigarettes, alcohol, or sugar come to that?
        
        Who do you reckon has caused more misery, poverty, and violence in the world? Gangs or globalist liberal politicians?
        
        People just love to bury their heads in their own, very small, ‘nice’ worldviews and accuse everyone else.
        
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        March 23, 2018 10:09am
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        And again, waikatogirl, what would society say if one or more gangs got together and said, “We’re having a 14 hour sex party on Friday. Only those with vaginas need apply”? And there probably would be ‘vaginas’ apply.
        
        Perhaps they could start the concept as a franchise.
        
        Like I’ve said, boundaries and perspective. We label and judge the image, not the behaviour. It’s always been a problem, but it’s got much worse.
        
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        March 23, 2018 10:32am
      - Lance
        
        I am a equal opportunist
        
        Throw em all in jail I say
        
        Your rose coloured glasses are very effective.
        
        Anne….. gangs hurt people, it’s that simple. If they want to reform great, ditch the gang and the patch and contribute to society and stop being a taker, wrecker and hater.
        
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        March 23, 2018 11:23am
      - waikatogirl
        
        “Who do you reckon has caused more misery, poverty, and violence in the world? Gangs or globalist liberal politicians?”
        
        Oh deary me. I am suggesting Anne that they shouldn’t be in the business of any sort of criminal activity.
        
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        March 23, 2018 12:02pm
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        How strangely ‘Victorian’, waikatogirl.
        
        It’s like the transported ‘criminals’ who stole bread because they were starving.
        
        ‘Criminal’ is just a legal definition. No, I’m not championing real ‘criminals’.
        
        But lots of employers pay wages for fulltime work which are insufficient to live on, let alone the concept of zero-hour contracts, if someone can even get a job. What are the workers supposed to do? Starve – nobly?
        
        The people who created the GFC, are they ‘criminal’? Or are they ‘good and law-abiding’ citizens who set the example of what we all should be?
        
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        March 23, 2018 12:46pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    Anne of Glen Eden: a few years ago I contributed to a Facebook blog/group purporting to support parents and in particular , rural parents.
    It was about a year after that little boy Moko had been murdered and it was suggested that as Mother’s Day was coming along, perhaps members of this group could take a stand against the shocking injuries leading to death that he had suffered at the hands of two adults, one of whom kicked the daylights out of this kid with steel capped boots.
    A few posters started to agree with the group putting their money where their mouths were and denouncing people who did this damage to children.
    But then the women associated with the gangs came on and shut that down very quickly. All posts were removed and no further discussion was allowed.
    The gang women said the men would come round and attack commenters if they found out who they were.
    These women were more interested in protecting their men than denouncing child abuse.
    Child abuse is as much a women’s issue as it is a man’s. They let it happen and then play the “poor me” card.
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:33am
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      “Child abuse is as much a women’s issue as it is a man’s.”
      
      You are so right. And it’s women who allow it to go on. In fact, historically and probably now, despite all the marketing of the women’s movement, far more children are abused by women than men because they’re usually the primary caregiver.
      
      Moko was killed as much by women as men, and particularly by the culture that ‘closed ranks’ and allowed it to go on. And still allow it to go on. Don’t tell me a bunch of the Maori Women’s Welfare League couldn’t take on a predator beating his kids. Trouble is, it’s their sons who are the predators.
      
      There is no point at which I’ve said gangs are ‘good’ things. Just understandable.
      
      Every single group in society has psychopaths. In fact, they are acknowledged to make very successful business people. Every group in society has criminals – and they all protect themselves with intimidation, closing ranks, and varying degrees of violence. I’ve met a few.
      
      The best response to abuse I’ve ever seen is a woman who waited until her abuser passed out and then took to him with a piece of 4×2. He was in hospital a long time. Now HE had time to think about his issues.
      
      But society? The basic reality is, the victims are supposed to be ‘civilised’, ‘mature’, people who respond ‘sensitively’ with ‘due process’ and ‘reasonable force’ – while someone is beating them to a pulp and gouging their eyes out.
      
      So nice that you wanted to ‘denounce’ the abusers but do you really expect that is a ‘protection’ from psychopaths – or that the inevitable victims shouldn’t act in their own best interests of safety?
      
      It’s like those who think individuals in Africa or the ME should just ‘stand up’ and ‘denounce’ those mean rulers who victimise people, refusing to accept that they, and probably all their relatives, would be socially annihilated, maimed and/or killed.
      
      We don’t protect the victims; we protect the rights of the perpetrator, as ‘civilised society’ ponders on the high points and philsophy of ‘law’ and ‘justice’. Anyone who literally fights back is prosecuted. Violence is now so epidemic, there isn’t the space to put them in jail. Where’s that going?
      
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      March 23, 2018 11:34am
      - stephieboy
        
        Ann Glen Eden , it is not as simple as that . The facts are the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders like ourselves are law abiding and good citizens .This is whether they are Pakeha, Maori, Asian or Pacifika etc .
        
        These green pastures of ours have not being reduced to chaos or anarchy by the Mongrel Mob or whoever .
        
        Fact !
        
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        March 23, 2018 12:06pm
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        stephieboy, I know no-one likes to look at reality, particularly as it relates to themselves.
        
        But the fact remains that a family kills their child every five and a half weeks, hundreds of thousands of children are abused every, single year and 1.5 odd million of NZers are sexual ‘prey’.
        
        Every one of them has an abuser/predator – they aren’t imaginary – and they come from the population, who are part of ‘us’.
        
        I’m entirely equal opportunities anti-abuser/predator. I don’t care what race, religion, colour, culture, or gender they come from or belong to.
        
        It really is time we stopped pretending that NZers are a majority of ‘law-abiding and good citizens’. Those who allow it, protect it, and maintain and tolerate it are just as bad as those who do it. It’s happening to a neighbour near you, in your family, to your friend or colleague.
        
        Those ‘law-abiding and good citizens’ need to be demanding that it stops rather than hiding it, minimising it, justifying it, or projecting it all onto someone else.
        
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        March 23, 2018 12:32pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        We can all go live in gated communities, locking ourselves in so to speak.
        
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        March 23, 2018 5:56pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        I take exception to the notion that I should be locked in to protect myself from criminals who should be locked up.
        
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        March 23, 2018 6:36pm
Harkman

Anthony Joshua

About a month that ago Joshua was on Graham Norton and they joked that Joseph Parker was the “King of Pies.” The next day I heard Parker reply by saying in a browser accent, “I call him the King of Steriods” which caused me to choke on what I was eating. What I saw last night from Joshua is a guy with biceps bigger than him. Good lord.
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March 23, 2018 8:55am
- Harkman
  
  Bro accent sorry (Android did the spelling mistake not me).
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:21am
JasonJohns

Obama is one of the most evil men in history. He has the blood of millions on his hands. Why’s he being given asylum in NZ? He should return to kenya to face trial.
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March 23, 2018 9:01am
Harkman

I had to laugh at how biased our media is. Obama very good and Trump very bad. I heard that evil Donald Trump stole all of everyone’s Facebook info and used it to win the Presidency against ‘good’ Hilary Clinton. What they didn’t tell you is Obama did the same thing in 2012, as did Cruz and Carson. Team Trump actually phased out Cambridge Analytica to focus on the RNC data base.
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March 23, 2018 9:02am
Happychappy

What business of the media or Lloyd Burr is it if Chris Luxon harbours thoughts of entering Parliament and maybe having a crack at becoming Prime Minister, I would have thought a lot of in spiring future politicians would also have this as a goal. If Shane Jones thinks throwing dirt at a Business Leader and Air NZ Boss is the way to make fun of the someone that has more intelligence than himself and will curtail histhoughts of becoming a MP his is mistaken as people remember him as the MP that thought the taxpayer should pay for his addiction of porn will on Government business all over the world.
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March 23, 2018 9:02am
JasonJohns

‘Why does Obama attract flies when no one else does?’ – Alex Jones
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March 23, 2018 9:04am
- stephieboy
  
  Jason Johns , you must beware that Alex Jones is quite mad .
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:14am
  - Harkman
    
    Kettle said what?……
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:19am
    - stephieboy
      
      Harkman refer below Alex Jones Crazy compilation plus here for your benefit ,
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4zxYpLY9QM
      
      The guy is bonkers !
      
      Fact !
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:34am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    But all of CNN is quite sane?
    
    Just a reminder for you when the whole CNN network had a “shout out the word “shithole”” day just to show how professional and sane they were in comparison.
    
    InfoWars is just channelling conservative CNN (which is why the libtards hate it so much).
    
    In a post-truth world you have to fight fire with fire.
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:59am
JasonJohns

‘Recent polls have confirmed President Obama’s reputation is so bad that nearly 40% of Americans believe he is worse than Joseph Stalin. ‘
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March 23, 2018 9:05am
- Lance
  
  Just goes to prove those 40% are fucked in the head.
  A president who wasn’t popular with right wingers is now worse than a despotic murderous cancer that had 20 million killed?
  
  Mate, you haven’t got both oars in the water, see a shrink, urgently
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:06am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Learn to read Lance. JJ was quoting a poll to show how loathed Obama is.
    
    Obama is going to go down in history as one of the worst of all time, he may even undercut Peanut Carter who really did screw the pooch on every level.
    
    And you have to remember, there’s a real big push in the progressive world to sing the praises and heroism of socialism, the net result of that stupid mega lie is that you make Uncle Joe to be a good fella. Tough to be a libtard eh?
    
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    March 23, 2018 3:37pm
JasonJohns

Obama and the flies. what does it mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMvD-dEfYew
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March 23, 2018 9:06am
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
And the walls come tumbling down ,

Excerpt from a letter to staff of Fox News from former Fox News mouthpiece Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
(resigned 1st March 2018)

In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration. When prime-time hosts–who have never served our country in any capacity–dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller–all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of “deep-state” machinations– I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.

As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin’s agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign. Despite increasingly pathetic denials, it turns out that the “nothing-burger” has been covered with Russian dressing all along. And by the way: As an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true–that’s how the Russians do things.. The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow.”

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a19512409/fox-news-pro paganda-machine-ralph-peters/?src=nl&mag=esq&list=nl 
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March 23, 2018 9:07am
- Harkman
  
  Peters wants America to have an all out war with Russia. Peters hates Russia. The less we all see of Peters the better. That goes for Winston too.
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:18am
  - stephieboy
    
    Harkman , Winston wants an all out ” war” with Russia ??
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:26am
    - Harkman
      
      Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (I threw in Winston just for you).
      
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      March 23, 2018 12:39pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Esquire?
  
  You do find the most authoritative sources //
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:18am
  - stephieboy
    
    Shaun the Sheep , such as Alex Jones or Fox news ??
    
    Will this suffice ?
    
    “A Fox News Contributor Has Just Quit, Calling the Network a ‘Propaganda Machine’ ”
    
    http://time.com/5208428/fox-news-ralph-peters-quits/
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:27am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Vanity Fair and Esquire?
      
      It’ll be Playboy – for the articles – next.
      
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      March 23, 2018 10:37am
      - stephieboy
        
        Shaun the Sheep , show us what is a good news source ?
        
        Meanwhile try this ,
        
        https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-news-quits-ralph-peters-propaganda-trump-white-house-friends-a8266831.html
        
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        March 23, 2018 12:10pm
    - Inandout
      
      stephie, beat by CNN hanky panky. Hahaha.
      
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      March 23, 2018 11:30am
- Inandout
  
  Shit you are a dreamer stephie.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:33am
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout , and you are a walking nightmare !
    
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    March 23, 2018 12:11pm
- marcw
  
  Putin had Shrillery in the palm of his hand – all the Uranium he asked for, and probably copies of all her State Dept. emails for future blackmail opportunities. Can someone please explain why the fuck Putin would then turn around and promote Trump as President? It makes no political or rational sense to help elect someone who potentially (probably) would stand up against him and who had no possibility of cooperation with a Russian dictator.
  
  The Russian pro-Trump conspiracies are actually totally contradictory in relation to Putin’s benefit.
  
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  March 23, 2018 3:03pm
JasonJohns

Graphic photo here of fly landing on Obama!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9825687/Barack-Obama-provides-landing-pad-for-fly.html
Alex Jones itnerprets
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March 23, 2018 9:07am
- stephieboy
  
  JasonJohns ,
  
  Alex Jones Crazy Rant compilation ,
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4zxYpLY9QM
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:29am
oldpark

Wonder is the obnoxious American import from the sicko Gangreen Party the Peters selected Minister of Womens Affairs called “Silly” Anne Genter referring to Peters when she was caught putting the boot into tired old white men.Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
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March 23, 2018 9:08am
- stephieboy
  
  old park , trying and failing to make sense .
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:31am
  - JibberJabber
    
    Gday Ralph, goat kick you outta bed early?
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:39am
  - oldpark
    
    Stephiegirl.
    Your peadophile mate and kiddie fiddler called Mohammed interfering and marrying nine year old girls is still an abomination,With you supporting that type of ratbag ,makes you just as culpable.
    To think you have the gall to protect such a criminal in his kiddie fiddling actitivies makes one wonder that you also are into little girls, it is time you got some much needed treatment,It is not too late.
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:44am
- rangitoto
  
  Genter supports age and race discrimination. Is that Green policy?
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:59am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    How are those even legal?
    
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    March 23, 2018 6:42pm
Monique Watson

That’s about the time Obama gave up his running for fagging up and became a Shane Jones.
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March 23, 2018 9:23am
- stephieboy
  
  Monique Watson ,
  
  like when ?
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:27am
stephieboy

“Trump lawyer John Dowd resigns as president ‘increasingly ignoring his advice’”

A personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, John Dowd, has resigned from his position as Mr Trump shakes-up his legal team and its approach to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Mr Dowd’s, who was leading Mr Trump’s legal team, resignation follows reports of repeated clashes between him and the president in recent weeks, and sources told the New York Times that Mr Dowd made his decision after determining that the president was increasingly ignoring his advice…”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-dowd-resigns-trump-lawyer-russia-election-us-president-a8268856.html

Trump’s behaviour ins this regard is closely related as the Muller investigation getting ever closer to its quarry .
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March 23, 2018 9:38am
- JasonJohns
  
  Another big win for Trump. Dowd was a cuk and a RINO. Trump is slowly draining the swamp. Dowd was a big gator!
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:40am
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    JasonJohns , does it escape you the President hired John Dowd ?
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:44am
    - JasonJohns
      
      Yes Trumpsometimes hires cucks and RINOs so he can sack them and set an example for the USA. iT’S CALELD LEADERSHIP. tHIS IS A BIG WIN FOR tRUMPY.
      
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      March 23, 2018 9:47am
- Inandout
  
  Dowd is the true deep throat of the swamp, as Trump probably found out by giving the former plenty of rope. Dowd leaked more than a 50 year old outside bucket.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:27am
- virtualmark
  
  I predict that Ty Cobb will go soon too. Dowd & Cobb will be (are being) replaced by diGenova and Toensing.
  
  Trump will soon move to sack Mueller. If you assume that Mueller will easily show Trump committing enough “high crimes and misdemeanours” to easily best Nixon & Clinton’s impeachment problems (and I’m sure he will) then Trump only has two plays:
  Play 1 = sack Mueller and hope to survive the political fallout,
  Play 2 = don’t sack Mueller and have him report a long list of crimes & Russian entanglements that will take down Trump’s presidency and put Trump and his family at risk of indictment.
  
  But no one should fool themselves into thinking that sacking Mueller would be the action of an innocent man.
  
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  March 23, 2018 1:30pm
- virtualmark
  
  Trump’s big problem will be though that even if he sacks Mueller and gets away with it … if the Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in November then they will kick-off a new Mueller-ish *House* investigation of Trump that Trump will not be able to control or stop.
  
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  March 23, 2018 1:33pm
JasonJohns

Obama. Evil. And here. Be afraid. One of history’s monsters is on our soil. The night mare is real.
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March 23, 2018 9:39am
JasonJohns

Look and learn
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/22/collapse-civilisation-near-certain-decades-population-bomb-paul-ehrlich#img-1
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March 23, 2018 9:42am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Ehrlich is a comic treasure, never has a modern commentator been so consistently and completely wrong over so many decades, with data to prove it. A living breathing demonstrator of the stupidity of Millenialism
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:08pm
KiWombat

Psst !

Anybody else noticed that Hugh seems to be taking a rest ?

Maybe he got the message !
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March 23, 2018 9:45am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Nope.
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:06am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  KW
  You have summoned that which should not be summoned. Give yourself an upper cut.
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:20am
  - KiWombat
    
    As it turns out – yes – I deserve a good flogging !
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:34am
- stephieboy
  
  kiWombat , got the message ? Do downticks ( most not altogether rational IMO ) preclude from posting on KB ?
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:26am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Candyman, Candyman, Candyman!!!
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:10pm
JasonJohns

Hope those who went to see the deposed tyrant and fugitive speak at a secret Auckland location thought about what they were doing. They are now potentially accomplices to a crime. Mike Hosking went along and tried to distance himself from the sulfur by writing an artice for the herald criticising Obama. But evil won’t wash off. Hoskin may yet find himself udner investigation for his association with the most notorious man.
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March 23, 2018 9:46am
- stephieboy
  
  JasonJohns , too much Alex Jones ,”..see the deposed tyrant and fugitive speak..” ?
  
  Your florid delusions are getting the better of you .
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:20am
- Lance
  
  Freekin loony
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:32am
mandk

@ stephieboy, on the issue of Islamophobia.

You need to be clear as to the difference between hate and fear, and about whether you are talking about Muslims or Islam.

Hating Muslims is not good, but hating and fearing Islam are both perfectly reasonable. Islam is a vile religion that oppresses vast numbers of people and causes many of its followers to do evil things.
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March 23, 2018 9:53am
- stephieboy
  
  mandk, I must say that at times I find it very hard to tell the difference between the two by. Islamaphobics .
  
  Followers of many religions do evil things both present and past !
  
  But thank you for giving it a go
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:22am
  - DigNap15
    
    But islam is by far the worst killer of all.
    
    And not only that but it preeches hate and violence. Most other religions do not.
    
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    March 23, 2018 2:16pm
Humble Capitalist

Regional fuel tax. The revenue will all go back into improving transport. It will be such a success that it will be replicated in other regions. Such a success that council rates will need to be reduced.
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March 23, 2018 9:57am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  And Satan will take up ice-skating as his principle means of transport.
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:12pm
Hugh Pavletich

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INTEREST CO NZ PARROTING ANZ NEW ZEALAND MAKES NO MENTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN BANKING ROYAL COMMISSION

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/links-23-march-2018/#comment-3074333

Investor caution and stretched housing affordability will prevent Auckland housing from taking off again, economists from country’s biggest mortgage lender say | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/92777/investor-caution-and-stretched-housing-affordability-will-prevent-auckland-housing-market

… extract …

‘Eye watering prices’ … ( parroting the bleeding obvious ! ) …

ANZ’s economists note a key headwind in Auckland housing is affordability, or lack of it, with “eye-watering prices” holding the market back from resurgence. They note the house price-to-income ratio rose from 6 in 2008 to 9 in 2017, a 50% increase after adjusting for household earnings.

“This has moderated recently, but only modestly. However you cut it, Auckland house prices have increased to the point where they are unaffordable for many. A house price of 9 times income is a massive stretch for those on the average income, let alone those who are earning less,” ANZ says. … read more via hyperlink above …

… while making no mention of the Australian Banking Royal Commission …

Google Search
‘Australia Banking Royal Commission’

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=GRK0WsjUNIGC8gXdyqSYDA&q=australia+banking+royal+commission+&oq=australia+banking+royal+commission+&gs_l=psy-ab.13..0.15454.26675.0.28796.37.18.0.18.18.0.288.2843.2-12.13.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..6.30.3098.0..0i131k1j0i3k1j0i22i30k1.195.FVNdEuQVcMM

… and lessons from the Irish 2007 experience …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/abcs-business-irresponsible-mortgage-lending/#comment-3060351

Antipodean (Australia and New Zealand) bankers and their brokers will of course be losing their nerves about high multiple lending … for very good reasons.
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March 23, 2018 9:57am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  AUSTRALIA … POLITICALLY CORRUPTING THE HOUSING MARKET & ASSOCIATED LENDING …
  
  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 23, 2018 10:37am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Who summoned the troll?
    
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    March 23, 2018 10:54am
    - stephieboy
      
      Don the Kiwi , irony work horse on the loose !
      
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      March 23, 2018 12:12pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        ‘Long and painful’: Peter Costello’s rate warning for households … Sydney Morning Herald l
        
        https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/long-and-painful-peter-costello-s-rate-warning-for-households-20180320-p4z5bj.html
        
        The inevitable return to higher interest rates is necessary, warns Future Fund chairman Peter Costello but it will be more painful for the nation’s deeply indebted households the longer it was held off.
        
        Mr Costello, who served as federal treasurer for 10 years, said how to unwind low interest rates was an issue challenging a world that was “awash with money”.
        
        “The big global issue now is how do we get back to more normal conditions,” he said. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Google Search
        ‘Peter Costello’
        
        https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=jFqxWpafBorz8QXm7quQDw&q=peter+costello&oq=peter+costello&gs_l=psy-ab.13..0l10.3731.7870.0.12641.16.15.0.0.0.0.303.2620.2-10j1.12.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..4.11.2605.0..46j0i131k1j0i46k1.193.tY8LlyMXbEc
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        AUCKLAND: Sales rates ranged from 19% to 40% at Barfoot & Thompson’s latest auctions | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92708/sales-rates-ranged-19-40-barfoot-thompsons-latest-auctions
        
        Barfoot & Thompson had an overall sales rate of just under a third at the agency’s auctions last week.
        
        Barfoot marketed 187 residential properties for sale by auction and achieved sales on 56 of them, giving an overall clearance rate of 30%. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 23, 2018 5:06pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The PM and Housing Minister have invited media to Unitec in Auckland’s Mt Albert on Sunday for a ‘significant announcement’ | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92805/pm-and-housing-minister-have-invited-media-unitec-aucklands-mt-albert-sunday-
        
        The Government will on Sunday morning make a “significant announcement” at Auckland’s Mt Albert Unitec campus but won’t say what it’ll be about.
        
        The speculation is that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, alongside Housing Minister Phil Twyford, will announce a significant new housing development on Unitec land. A spokeswoman for Twyford would not say what the announcement would be about.
        
        But speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Ardern – in response to a question about housing – said a new KiwiBuild announcement was “imminent.”
        
        Later in question time, Twyford elaborated on the Government’s plans for the project. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Housing – New Zealand Labour Party
        
        http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
        
        … extract …
        
        Remove barriers that are stopping Auckland growing up and out
        
        Labour will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary and free up density controls. This will give Auckland more options to grow, as well as stopping landbankers profiteering and holding up development. New developments, both in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, will be funded through innovative infrastructure bonds.
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        … ECONOMIST RODNEY DICKENS EXPLAINS WHY AFFORDABLE DENSE DEVELOPMENT IS HOPELESS WHILE AUCKLAND FRINGES REMAIN STRANGLED …
        
        Rodney Dickens says section prices are the key to solving the housing affordability problem, not higher density around transport hubs. He warns against force-feeding in areas that won’t deliver the intended outcome
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/92556/rodney-dickens-says-section-prices-are-key-solving-housing-affordability-problem-not
        
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        March 23, 2018 5:29pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        AUCKLAND …Barfoot & Thompson calls for regulation on property managers | Newshub
        
        http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/03/barfoot-thompson-calls-for-regulation-on-property-managers.html
        
        One of the biggest property management companies in New Zealand wants the industry regulated to stop rogue managers charging letting fees.
        
        The Government plans to ban letting fees by the end of the year. … view & read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 23, 2018 6:04pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Average (United States) 30-year mortgage rates rose to 4.45 percent – NZ Herald
        
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12018403
        
        WASHINGTON (AP) — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates are ticking up slightly this week, the 10th increase in the past 11 weeks.
        
        Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose to 4.45 percent from 4.44 percent last week. Rates are relatively low by historical standards, but they’ve shot up from an average that remained below 4 percent last year. The benchmark rate averaged 4.23 percent a year ago. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 23, 2018 6:31pm
sooty

Im sorry l can not be the first to down tick you Hughie.
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March 23, 2018 10:00am
- stigie
  
  That’s enough for the day Hughie !~
  
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  March 23, 2018 5:28pm
Keeping Stock

How about that cricket, eh? I was one of those at the Garden of Eden yesterday, and whilst the English batting was below par, the New Zealand bowling and fielding was simply brilliant. Williamson’s catch to dismiss Broad was as good a gully catch as I have ever seen, and the bonus is that even Blind Freddie can see the pink ball in flight.

It was an unforgettable day, and weather permitting, New Zealand’s dominance can continue today.
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March 23, 2018 10:08am
- Poppa
  
  Indeed KS.
  
  I see that the odd shower is invading Auckland at the moment but hopefully they miss the Park.
  
  I will be listening to each ball later until I can watch on the gogglebox
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:23am
- Kimbo
  
  Is a bit grey and wet out here in West Auckland, but at least the wined is strong so it may kick the showers through and allow sufficient dry spells. But one of those days, familiar to Auckland sports followers, where you are continually scanning out West to see what is rolling in over the Waitakeres.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:02am
Maggy Wassilieff

Crikey Dick
Eugenie Sage Green MP seems to prefer the work of Rachel Stewart, NZ Herald sometime-journalist, over the work of Dr Jacqueline Rowarth.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/353178/green-mp-accused-of-ministerial-interference
Sing from the wrong song-sheet and you’re a gone-burger in NZ’s science environment.
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March 23, 2018 10:13am
- Gravelroad
  
  Eugenia Sage is an extremist from Forest and Bird.
  She has sneered at farming and rural land use for years, along with Dr Nick Smith MP.
  
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  March 23, 2018 10:55am
  - Lance
    
    A researcher I know was physically attacked by two crazy F+B women when at a meeting she stated that although it is important to control native rat numbers it is a bad idea to completely wipe them out as it is important to maintain geneotype information in a biosphere.
    
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    March 23, 2018 11:46am
    - Justitia
      
      People should be aware that Forest and Bird these days is not the motherhood and apple pie organisation it once might have been. I used to have to deal with them in an earlier life. They could seldom mount a logical argument and their usual tactic was ad hominem attack. I see they still attract well meaning older folk and solicit bequests from them. Don’t give them a bean.
      
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      March 23, 2018 12:01pm
- Jack5
  
  Jacqueline Rowarth is worth at least a dozen Rachel Stewarts.
  
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  March 23, 2018 5:29pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Is NZ’s agriculture going to hell in a handcart as some would have us believe?
https://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/rural-opinion/perception-is-not-the-reality
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March 23, 2018 10:28am
DifferentPerspective

Clare Curran totally lost at Question Time

Great clip from WOBH showing how utterly out of touch and unable to deal with even simple questions Clare Curran is. Melissa Lee and Nuk Korako are not firebrands in the house and they utterly put Clare Curran to the sword. Even Mallard has given up trying to provide cover for Hon Curran.

It’s beginning to look pathetic now, how are the decent human beings in National going to deal with what is fast starting to look like cruelty to animals.
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March 23, 2018 11:11am
- Kimbo
  
  Curran’s impressive, isn’t she?! 😉 Don’t you just love the arrogance of her first response, when she’s been caught red-handed:
  
  Hon CLARE CURRAN: Golly, that’s a good question from somebody who has achieved nothing in the last nine years she was in Parliament.
  
  Reminiscent of Kiwiblogger, Scott, who ~~“counters the narrative”~~ tells lies on Kiwiblog,
  
  I’d like to know what is New Zealand’s foreign policy?…It seems to me for some years that Labour governments have generally been anti-American, nuclear free zone kind of people.
  
  …I just don’t understand the vision our government has for foreign policy?
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/general_debate_22_march_2018.html
  
  …then, when caught and called out for it blusters, without providing a refutation:
  
  See that is a very serious charge – I have never lied on this blog. I am regretting opening dialogue with you again. I will give you one more chance but don’t make me regret it. Stop your gratuitous insults.
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  Once again, I am not lying. I may be a bad person, I may be a bad Christian, I may even disagree with you sometimes on things. But in this particular case I am not lying, I am not bearing false witness.
  
  So let’s do our best not to be gratuitously insulting, there’s a good chap.
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  No further reply will be forthcoming from me. I know if I lie. I have not lied. That’s it.Accept it or not.
  Interesting though that every discussion from me becomes an attack by you on my character.
  It is weird that my character is attacked when I am discussing issues?
  I think it is.
  But anyway we are done.
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  I have not lied and that is all I am going to say in my defence.
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/finally_govt_backs_down_on_russia.html
  
  So seems that Scott has mastered the Clare “how dare you even ask me that. much less expect me to refute the details?!” Curran defense! 😉 But unlike Mallard, there is no former boyfriend to hell you out round here, Scott.
  
  As before, Scott, you made a public issue of my accusation, demanded in front of everyone that I apologise and withdraw – which, for the sixth time I am willing and ready to do as soon as you refute the details that caused me to make the accusation.
  
  So, yet again, ball still in your court, sir…
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:06pm
  - BeaB
    
    Have a lie down.
    
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    March 23, 2018 2:45pm
    - Kimbo
      
      A guy’s gotta have a hobby… ?
      
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      March 23, 2018 3:23pm
- wiseowl
  
  Yes she was hopeless but it was just as infuriating having Korako ask ‘which Maori organisations did the Minister consult with?’
  Separatism supported by National.
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:57pm
  - Happychappy
    
    I am still waiting for you to call Ardern and Peters out for their lies like you insinuated Bill English was doing when answering Winston on the Todd Barclay affair. But like the hypocrite you are you return to race baiting instead.
    
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    March 23, 2018 3:53pm
Stars And Stripes

My enlightened and progressive management team at work returned last week from a “Dynamic Management Seminar” and the latest thing apparently in businesses is a Diversity and Inclusiveness Day with the centrepiece being a Diversity Tree where you can see the “Whakapapa” of your work colleagues.
The tree is a paper design stapled on the wall and everyone gets a leaf to put on it just like you would if you were back at kindergarten.
Anyway I was given a leaf and asked to fill in the questions which I initially refused to do on the simple basis it was bullshit but after being told I was not a team player and needed to more positive I was “asked” to fill it in again.
Yeah well two can play that game you bunch of wankers so I filled it in.
1.What is your whakapapa?.
Answer :Whitey
2.Describe what diversity and inclusiveness means to you in one or two words?
Answer: Circle Jerk.
Surprisingly my leaf seemed to have got lost as it never appeared on the tree for reasons which remain unexplained.
The other activity we also asked to participate in to celebrate the day was a shared lunch where we all bring an ethnic dish.
Well the local Coolie is not open at lunchtime and the Chinaman had a fire last week so what else is a man supposed to do besides get the KFC big bucket and bring that along.
Pretty ethnic anyway in my opinion, could have been worst as I gave the bananas a miss.
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March 23, 2018 11:25am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Hilarious – is there an app I can load on my phone so that I get alerts when Stars And Stripes makes any of his roflstomp comments.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:39am
- waikatogirl
  
  Sounds like your employer is mining personal information on you and your work mates? Quite right not to give them future ammunition.
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:26pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  LOL Brilliant. I’ll remember this in case I ever land up having to participate in one of these wank fests. The other way to look at diversity and inclusiveness is having lots of blondes, brunettes and redheads with big tits, small tits and medium tits all wanting to have a shag with you. ( Apologies to the ladies on this blog).
  
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  March 23, 2018 8:18pm
Manolo

John Bolton is in:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/hr-mcmaster-will-resign-as-trumps-national-security-advisor-and-will-be-replaced-by-john-bolton-nyt-citing-sources.html

John Bolton will replace H.R. McMaster as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, the latest move in an ongoing shakeup of the president’s top advisors.
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March 23, 2018 11:38am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , and what does John Bolton bring to the revolving door that Mc Master’s failed to do ?
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:14pm
- CrazyIvan
  
  Interesting choice – a man who was passing information on to a foreign power without authorisation from the President.
  https://www.thedailybeast.com/condoleezza-rices-memoir-settled-scores-with-rivals-rumsfeld-bolton
  
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  March 23, 2018 1:03pm
Manolo

Hang on to your shares:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/dow-dives-724-points-as-trumps-china-tariffs-sink-in

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 724.42 points, or 2.93%, slipping to 23,957.89. The S&P 500 dropped 68.24 points, or 2.52%, to 2,643.69. The Nasdaq Composite fell 178.61 points, or 2.43%, to 7,166.68.
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March 23, 2018 11:40am
- Inandout
  
  Dow is up and down like a whore’s drawers.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:49am
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    Inandout , but I thought only miracles happened under the President ?
    
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    March 23, 2018 12:14pm
    - Inandout
      
      Learn slowly stephie..Obama..is..not..now..the..President.
      
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      March 23, 2018 1:27pm
    - marcw
      
      You’re thinking of Bill Clinton SB, and it wasn’t miracles, it was Interns.
      
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      March 23, 2018 3:17pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The Dow is coming down off a peak.
  
  Wake me when it falls to below the 18,000-point level that it passed up through 2 years ago, on its way to the recent all-time high.
  
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  March 23, 2018 11:50am
  - Manolo
    
    An investor needs Oriental patience, dear Odakyu-sen. 🙂
    
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    March 23, 2018 11:55am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    People tend to forget how high the DOW is now. Remember when 14000 and 15000 were big news
    
    https://www.cnbc.com/id/100416162
    
    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/03/180901905/dow-hits-15-000-for-the-first-time-closes-just-shy-of-the-mark
    
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    March 23, 2018 8:22pm
softail 1450

SEPTICBOY, you have to hand it to septicboy hes doing his best while the other lefty morons are cooling their heels in the banned house.
what a pity he speaks such bullshit 90% of the time.
for such an obsessed trump hater i have always said i suspect hes actually got a huge boner on for the donald.?.
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March 23, 2018 12:11pm
- rangitoto
  
  I don’t think so. Stephie is faithful to his goat (except when he visits the St Lukes shopping mall).
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:13pm
- stephieboy
  
  softtail 1450 , not so much a Trump hater but enjoying the antics of a master Clown and the Circus he operates .
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:16pm
waikatogirl

With the closing of the Cadbury factory in Dunedin the last run of the Kiwi made classic Pineapple Lumps is finishing today. They will continue to be made in Aussie, but will they taste the same? ?
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March 23, 2018 12:12pm
- DigNap15
  
  I despise Cadbury (Mondele or whatever).
  And I hope no one goes to their musem in Dunedin, why would you when they are made in Australia!
  
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  March 23, 2018 2:14pm
Fletch

For those of you who were alive in 1984 and are fans of 80s movies – here’s the full trailer for Cobra Kai, the series sequel to the Karate Kid, featuring the two main original actors!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwwxNbtK6Y

Sweep the leg!
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March 23, 2018 12:12pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Cool, a blast from the past Fletch.
  Grasshopper says thank you. ?
  
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  March 23, 2018 12:40pm
JasonJohns

another big win for trumpy!
he’s really draining the swamp…another big gator goes!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/22/hr-mcmaster-donald-trump-national-security-adviser-resigns
remember, it took trump to bring down mcmaster!
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March 23, 2018 12:26pm
- stephieboy
  
  JasonJohns ,draining the swamp of a big gator who was appointed by the President ,
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._McMaster
  
  You twit !
  
  LOL
  
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  March 23, 2018 3:33pm
Monique Watson

Theresa May is booting the Russkies in the wake of Skripal. By expelling more Russian diplomats than have been seen to the door since the Cold War:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/22/theresa-may-struggling-win-eu-support-russia-europe

And she’s promising there won’t be royalty or Brit politicians with any clout attending the Soccer World Finals.
Just as well she muscled up, as Putin’s itching to take a slice from Norway and would totally hide behind the Fog of war to do so. Just like he snitched the Crimean Peninsula after Bazza shot himself in the foot by backing down over Syria.
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March 23, 2018 1:20pm
virtualmark

I give John Bolton less than 12 months …
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March 23, 2018 1:56pm
waripori

It must have been McMaster who leaked the
DO NOT CONGRATULATE PUTIN stuff knowing he was going anyway.

Lots of apoplectic comments about Bolton on the US chat rooms. This one is from Politico and is quite civil really but will sum up what many Americans think.

John Hall
Now Trump has selected John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton has distinguished himself as one of America’s most hawkish and ineffective diplomats for decades. He is known as an architect of the Iraq War, an enemy of multilateralism and foe of the United Nations, where he served during the George W. Bush administration through a recess appointment when he could not win Senate confirmation. He is also a harsh critic of the Iran nuclear deal and of North Korea, and is seen as someone who might promote conflict in both cases.

Few prominent national security figures are as ill-suited to the job of national security adviser as Bolton when you consider his views, his temperament and his ability be an honest broker. In fact, he is actually one of the few people on earth who would be worse than Mike Flynn, who was the worst national security adviser of all time.
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March 23, 2018 2:01pm
Brigitte

Welcome to the White House team. Here is your office. Before you settle in, the president would like to advise “you’re fired”.
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March 23, 2018 2:07pm
Herodotus

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1803/S00570/aucklanders-urged-to-have-their-say-on-sport-and-recreation.htm
So our council after shafting us on a fuel tax is now wanting to place at risk community assets by under funding to a level that will”decreased level of service, deteriorating assets, and risk of failure and asset closure.”
I don’t remember any local leader voicing this when the local elections were held
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March 23, 2018 2:16pm
Ross12

For those who support Charter Schools , sign the petition

http://savecharters.kiwi/
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March 23, 2018 2:38pm
- mandk
  
  Thanks Ross12.
  
  I’ve signed and have shared the petition to my FB page.
  
  Btw, the videos below the petition are worth a watch. Although he might have been coached to say it, one of the lads featured said something profound: “We’re not just here for education, we’re here for transformation”
  
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  March 23, 2018 7:39pm
GazzaW

Just watching Williamson get his 100 and who should I spot spreading his copious cheeks in the stand but Trougher Robbo. No doubt on the taxpayer dime. What was that about improving productivity again Robbo?
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March 23, 2018 2:43pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  they havent got long left with the prime trough position, gotta make the most of it
  
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  March 23, 2018 2:50pm
- itstricky
  
  What was that about improving productivity again Robbo?
  
  He’s Minister for Sport, isn’t he?
  
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  March 23, 2018 6:10pm
Swifty

Re the cricket.

Overcast but very bright in Avondale (10ks from the ground) and the rain has stopped here as of 2.50pm.

Not sure from which weather is coming however…..
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March 23, 2018 2:50pm
Swifty

Sorry, spoke too soon, 2.50pm in Avondale and another moderate/heavy blustery shower has started here.
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March 23, 2018 2:55pm
- Kimbo
  
  Same here just down the road in New Lynn. Thought and posted earlier today that it was the ususal sou’wester that has cricket fans in Auckland craning their necks to check out what is coming in over the Waitakere’s every 30 minutes
  
  …but seems to be more the bloody nor’easter, which is sometimes too light to push the clouds through so the rain tends to hang around.
  
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  March 23, 2018 3:00pm
Poppa

Another great ton Kane Williamson!

Holds the record for the most centuries for any kiwi cricketer in tests. Brilliant
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March 23, 2018 2:57pm
- Kimbo
  
  Amazing, isn’t it? Still only 27. I never thought any NZ test cricketer would ever score the magic mark of 20 test centuries (Williamson is not there yet, but it won’t be long), 10,000 runs while also averaging 50 that used to be the benchmark of an absolute great,
  
  …but by the time he retires he will have torn up the record books. And he’s so compact, a purists delight. Plus, best of all, he’s not focused on records (seldom a healthy thing for the sake of a team, by batsmen anyway), but on performing for the team and letting the records take care of themselves.
  
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  March 23, 2018 3:06pm
  - Poppa
    
    Too true Kimbo
    
    Such a humble fellow with it too, a true team man
    
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    March 23, 2018 3:12pm
- Kimbo
  
  Speaking of batsmen who are obsessed with breaking records, and as there is currently a delay for rain, this is bloody hilarious for those who know anything about Geoffrey Boycott. Background: Boycott’s proudest record was being the first and, so far, the only man to bring up his 100th first class century in a test match. Indeed it was in an Ashes encounter on his county homground, Headingley in Leeds in 1977. For a Yorkshireman obsessed with his records, including outdoing the other two great Yorkshire and England opening batsmen of cricket history, Herbert Sutcliffe and Sir Len Hutton, there could be no greater achievement. But… ?
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w5Wj0olGcA
  
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  March 23, 2018 3:20pm
Swifty

Oh dear, it’s looking bleaker and bleaker for our Penny:

“A leader in the field of social sciences and public policy says Auckland activist Penny Bright is fighting a losing battle as she attempts to reverse a decision by the High Court to sell her home”.

“The problem for Ms Bright is that this has been something of a one-woman campaign, and while she may have once had strong links with the activist community, she has lost support for various reasons over the years and is now quite isolated in her fight.”

But how can this be? Penny said a tidal wave of pubic support was incoming….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/102540732/auckland-activist-penny-bright-has-no-legal-leg-to-stand-on-university-lecturer-says
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March 23, 2018 3:22pm
dave_c_

I see comrade Klarke advocating that because we have lost the war against drugs, we should just flush the issue under the carpet and forget about it.
“We shouldn’t be treating them as criminals”.
What utter UN lead claptrap, which shows the abscence of any moral compass.
What a cow – lets release all the druggies, and position them in community housing next door to her.
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March 23, 2018 3:25pm
Ross12

There are a few on here who refer to National as “labour lite”. I have scoffed at this in the past but after seeing this piece I might have to review might opinion. Young going on about a low carbon economy shows he is in the wrong party or has been drinking Green/Labour “cool aid”

“The need to transition to a low-carbon economy is understood and agreed on by both sides of Parliament as well as widely supported by the industry.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/102527518/opinion-gas-exports-would-reduce-global-emissions
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March 23, 2018 3:45pm
- Kimbo
  
  Has been National Party policy for a long time. The difference with Labour and the Greens is “how?”, and “when?/how fast?”.
  
  I think of the parties in parliament, only ACT are APG deniers, or at least they were at the time Rodney Hide was leader.
  
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  March 23, 2018 3:55pm
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    APG ??
    
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    March 23, 2018 4:24pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Sorry, brainfade on my part. ?
      
      AGW, Anthropogenic Global Warming. I realise “climate change” is the current in vogue term (and Rodney Hide may indeed affirm that), but unlike AGW, that does not imply that human activity, including burning carbon is a cause.
      
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      March 23, 2018 4:30pm
cmm

Dear Helen

If we cared what you thought we would have kept you as PM.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/102525764/former-pm-helen-clark-nz-needs-to-rethink-drug-policy
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March 23, 2018 3:57pm
- itstricky
  
  If we cared what you thought
  
  Explains why you read it, and posted it here.
  
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  March 23, 2018 6:14pm
stigie

Yes and Helen cared what people thought back then..?

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1846/763/320/clark_thekiss1.jpg
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March 23, 2018 5:44pm
- nasska
  
  I bet that made her knees weak & her heart go pitter-patter stigie! 🙂
  
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  March 23, 2018 5:56pm
  - stigie
    
    Not as much as the Professor at LAX Nasska ole chap..?
    
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    March 23, 2018 6:03pm
    - Inandout
      
      LA International Airport, where the ……
      
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      March 23, 2018 6:13pm
- Inandout
  
  Her body language tells a story.
  
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  March 23, 2018 6:11pm
Monique Watson

Do they serve wine in rehab?
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March 23, 2018 5:54pm
- nasska
  
  No. Just Valium & enough of it to keep you floating for about the first four days of detox.
  
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  March 23, 2018 5:58pm
Piniwi

OMG the rats are starting to jump ship as old Armstrong is still struggling for some relevance.
“During the past couple of weeks, her prime ministership has looked about as fresh and pure as mud-caked slush.
All of a sudden Wonder Woman is looking like just another struggling premier side-tracked by side shows.
Brand Jacinda would seem to be metamorphosing into Calamity Jacinda.
Ardern’s difficulties have left many wondering whether they are a sign that the wheels are already falling off her Heath Robinson-like contraption of a government.”
This bad week has only increased the cracks that had started almost from day one when the lies started. Now they are bugger and more numerous as the Commie Chick will run for cover over the weekend.
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March 23, 2018 6:30pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Popcorn at the ready… it’s going to get even more entertaining as the days roll by.
  
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  March 23, 2018 6:49pm
  - stigie
    
    Hope you’ve got a truck load of popcorn in for the entertainment that’s brewing next month in School Rd. Kingsland Awww-c-mon..?
    
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    March 23, 2018 6:59pm
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      It’ll be interesting to see how it pans out stigie but I wouldn’t book the scaffolders to erect the seating or arrange the catering yet. They’ll probably opt to sell the dump by tender to deny her the opportunity to grandstand at an auction.
      
      Then we’ll have to wait until the Court bailiffs move in to give her the boot & I don’t think we are going to be privy to their work schedule.
      
      Probably be better to wait until she pitches a tent on Goff’s front lawn! 🙂
      
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      March 23, 2018 7:19pm
      - stigie
        
        Nasska:- If that’s the case then i wonder if we can get Nostra to feature in School Rd when the new owners take possession of the hovel and the police squad carry her out kicking and screaming.
        What an event to be missing out on !~
        
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        March 23, 2018 8:09pm
Odakyu-sen

Here is some irrelevant (slightly nerdy) stuff, if you are into precision marching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0DsVPkyZg

2:05 is pretty neat.
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March 23, 2018 6:51pm
rightoverlabour

Any guess as to the crowd this thug belongs to?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/102488358/couples-wedding-reception-ruined-as-guest-goes-on-violent-rampage

Interesting that ethnicity is not mentioned. But, if it were Chinese, or Indian, I dare say it would have been. Or maybe as I am a White, middle aged, heterosexual man I am feeling more threatened than usual and therefore I am becoming more sensitive to the way things are reported….
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March 23, 2018 8:46pm
Morrissey

Gotta say I’m not surprised by this revelation…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/23/former-playboy-model-karen-mcdougal-says-trump-offered-cash-after-sex
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March 23, 2018 8:59pm
- nasska
  
  How’s the new article you’re doubtlessly writing about young Labour’s pet groper going Morrissey?
  
  If you need any help I’m happy to be of assistance. 🙂
  
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  March 23, 2018 9:03pm
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    What what what young Labour’s pet groper ya talking about..?
    
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    March 23, 2018 9:10pm
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      Just another socialist sicko who gets his rocks off sexually assaulting teenagers stigie. 🙂
      
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