General Debate 6 March 2018

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KiWombat

Twitford is proof that evolution can go backwards !
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March 6, 2018 8:00am
- flipper
  
  And so is “rich prick, eat that” dimwit Cullen.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:35am
  - lifesgood
    
    That man Cullen is utterly detestable. A nasty vindictive, pommy socialist who had the gall to accept a knighthhood, loathsome man.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:05am
    - RF
      
      Old boys from Christ College in Christchurch remember him as a sniveling little prick.
      
      In his maiden speech he boasted that he was proud of the fact his secondary education was paid for by farmers from Canterbury and Hawkes Bay. He ripped them off for 5 years then and would get stuck into them again in the next few years.
      
      A nasty little turd.
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:17pm
    - Paulus
      
      Understand Cullen was born in Margaret Thatcher’s Constituency – no wonder he came to New Zealand.
      
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      March 6, 2018 1:40pm
    - igm
      
      He changed his NZ Merit crap for a knighthood after he voted with the dyke to remove them. He is a vile charlatan.
      
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      March 6, 2018 1:50pm
- Gabby
  
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  keywomble disproves the missing link theory!
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:12am
  - KiWombat
    
    Are you always so stupid, or is today a special occasion ?
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:45am
peterwn

So Stephen Joyce is threatening to sue Matthew Hooton and NBR over a recent article in NBR critical of Stephen. Interestingly the paywalled article of 2 March headed ‘Joyce Sacking First Test of Bridges’ Leadership’ is still up on the web site (as at 7.30am). Seemed Matthew either got wind of Stephen Joyce’s allegedly poor leadership vote or Matthew pulled the figure out of his backside.
Either way Stephen Joyce’s threat to sue says more about him than Matthew. If he wants to help see the National Party to victory in 2020 he should just shrug it off and get on with business, no one would care less next week. By threatening to sue he is merely damaging National’s chances in 2020 and this casts serious aspersions of his continuing ability to hold senior office in National’s caucus.

In other words his ego seems to be getting in the way of his judgement. Perhaps Simon has already read to Stephen his horoscope (to use the Royal Navy expression) and it is not good. If I was in Simon’s shoes I would now bluntly tell him I would like to see the next list candidate come into the House.

That the NBR article is still up indicates that NBR is not particularly concerned with Stephen’s threat – in any case Stephen would have the obstacles in the Lange v Atkinson case to surmount.
One other cause of concern – either there is loose lips in Caucus or worse still a malicious leak. This is not very good for Party unity. Caucus members should not discuss what goes on in the caucus room with partners, friends etc and need to remember that ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships’ (the British WW2 poster).
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March 6, 2018 8:01am
- MGT
  
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  Where’s the outrage on Kiwiblog about a politician suing a media organisation?
  Or does that only happen when Winston does it?
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:13am
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    +1. Kiwibog breaks the hypocrisy meter again.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:23am
  - MCos
    
    You must be new here.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:23am
  - peterwn
    
    Well, the outrage is in the item just above.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:26am
  - Jack5
    
    Why is Hooton State radio’s appointed spokesman of the Right?
    
    His bite is further punishment of National for not sorting out State radio when it had the chance.
    
    A National Minister must have acquiesced in Wily Willie Jackson’s deal stitching up State radio with his Maori tribal radio network. A few months later and Wily Willie is a Labour Cabinet Minister.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:15am
    - ztev
      
      Surprise for you bunny-boy
      
      Ministers dont run SOEs. They have their own board of worthies, who only have ‘governance’ as well.
      
      Only 2 government ‘departments’ are Ministers allowed to direct the secretary/manager/CEO. Thats Corrections and SIS.
      Some like Police and maybe others have a bright line no minister may cross the rest have general no interference rule from the State Sector Act.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:49am
      - Prince
        
        Except of course when Ministers meet for breakfast with Execs from SOE’s for breakfast.
        They can run them then, but not officially.
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:58am
      - Jack5
        
        Who appoints the directors of SOEs, Ztev?
        
        Who controls the amount of money that the State gives State radio directly, and controls the money to the State “arts” lolly scramble organisations that also feed State radio?
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:50am
      - ztev
        
        The Directors of Fletcher Building can you about how little they know of the companies activities.
        
        Approving the budget doesnt mean they know about ‘a deal’ to have more Maori words on RNZ.
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:36am
      - GazzaW
        
        Bullshit ztev. Hirschfeldt is not about to prejudice her cushy little number at the top of the Red Radio pile and neither is their board.
        
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        March 6, 2018 4:56pm
- Gabby
  
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  Suing Blowhard will MAKE people like him, Jawsie reckons. Worked for Colon.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:16am
jp_1983

Wow Jacinda only wants to talk on approved talking points on Zb.
Then Kelvin Davis acting PM can’t speak because he is not briefed.
Have a listen on demand to the segment, it’s worth it
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March 6, 2018 8:04am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Heard that live, unbelievable that a Government could be so arrogant.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:07am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Maybe more a sign of insecurity and ineptitude.
    And they know they won’t be called to account by the media for failure to fully disclose their plans and policies.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:15am
    - KiWombat
      
      99% of adults in this country are honest, hardworking people. It’s the other lousy 1% that get all the publicity, but then we did elect them !
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:23am
    - oldgolfer
      
      This won’t play well.
      Watch the media turn.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:12am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Were they going to be anyway? Sounds like anti waka jumping think.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:31am
    - suzieq
      
      Imagine the leftist outrage if National ministers had tried that … Guyon would have had their heads.
      
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      March 6, 2018 1:22pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Soon they will have a Ministry Of Propoganda!
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:17am
    - sooty
      
      They already do. It’s called the MSM.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:34am
    - flipper
      
      The last Director of Propaganda was one Charlie Williams – a throw back to Fraser, Nash et al.
      Now we have Peters and the dyke ….
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:39am
    - VicParking
      
      They have its called ‘Red Radio’ or RNZ
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:40am
      - ztev
        
        No. Its called the second most listened to radio station in the country.
        
        You lot have your Trumpanzees on ZB/Ayn Rand Radio
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:51am
      - GazzaW
        
        That’s strange ztev. Two days ago you were trying to tell us that Red Radio was the MOST listened to station in NZ.
        
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        March 6, 2018 1:48pm
    - doggone7
      
      We’ve already discussed Steven Joyce today.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:40am
  - Gabby
    
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    Bingles would NEVER decline to comment would he cap’n crusty. Bingles can button that lip of his about all sorts. Slick Britches bangs on about shit he knows nothing about. You changed your gruts yet? It’s March, treat yourself.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:20am
    - Happychappy
      
      Didn’t your mother tell you to take the dildo out of your mouth as people can’t understand you when you mumble.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:29am
      - Gabby
        
        That’s pretty crappy chappy given what you’re sitting on.
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:09am
  - KevOB
    
    It’s ignorance and inability. Taxinda needs a tablet to speak from. She should be hammered at every opportunity. Tough if she doesn’t like it. That’s how Labour behave to all others; they don’t like it return.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:21am
- jp_1983
  
  Here is one
  http://120.138.20.16/WeekOnDemand/ZB/auckland/2018.03.06-07.30.00-D.mp3
  
  Here is the second
  http://120.138.20.16/WeekOnDemand/ZB/auckland/2018.03.06-07.45.00-D.mp3
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:11am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Appalling. Can’t even answer questions on their policies. How much longer will this clusterf**k of a pretend government last?!
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:45am
    - KiWombat
      
      Kelvins deprived a village somewhere of its idiot !
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:55am
      - Gabby
        
        You’ll be working more overtime then keywomble!
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:08am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        He’s obviously the Labour government mushroom.
        (Kept in the dark and fed bs.)
        Seriously how would he vote at Cabinet if he doesn’t keep up with what’s going on?
        What on earth does he do all day?
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:12am
      - KiWombat
        
        Frantically trying to stop the Charter School from being closed so that he doesn’t have to keep his promise to resign !
        
        Not much else though, apparently !
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:39am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Many thanks for providing us with the links JP…. helps a lot with the discussion! Cheers
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:55am
  - Bullion
    
    Hosking still going that it’s “the biggest radio programme in this country” – he has to clarify that its only amongst commercial radio stations and RNZ Morning Report has a bigger market share.
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:44am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    7:50
    
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    March 6, 2018 12:17pm
- Longknives
  
  “Wow Jacinda only wants to talk on approved talking points on Zb”
  
  What happened to her ‘Relentless Positividy’ and ‘Transparency’??
  
  Ardern is a fraud.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:12am
  - DigNap15
    
    I wrote to Mike Hoskings and told him that every time they ask a Labour person to come on and answer random (not scripted) questions, and they say no, he either call a National person and give them the time, or tell the Labour person that they will not bother to call them again.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:19am
    - peterwn
      
      People like Mike are up against the Golden Rule ‘She who has the [taxpayer’s] gold makes the rules’.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:34am
    - ztev
      
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      Hosking already gets the questions from national or NZ Initiative ( thats why he likes to work in ‘private’ with no one watching)
      
      When Key was PM and got his daily talking points from his beehive office. Hosking would have recieved the same, which of course helps appear more worldly when his only interested in cars
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:55am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Do you have any evidence to justify those claims, or do they just fit your ideology?
        
        Sources and references please.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:14am
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    She avoids negadividy by sticking to the agreed madders lungnuts.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:21am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      So what’s that called when a government dictates what the media can say, ask or print…?
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:26am
      - Gravelroad
        
        Communism.
        
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        March 6, 2018 8:29am
      - SGA
        
        Communism
        
        And military dictatorships, theocracies, or absolute monarchies, say.
        It’s more a characteristic along the authoritarian-democratic dimension than the left-right dimension.
        
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        March 6, 2018 8:43am
      - ztev
        
        What was the vital question that Hosking asked that needed to be answered ?
        
        Trump
        North Korea
        Brexit
        pacific Cyclones
        Turnbull
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:56am
      - GazzaW
        
        Dictatorship.
        
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        March 6, 2018 1:50pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    She has a mission. And that is to beat us all into submission so that she eventually rules us all with an iron first. That’s what Dictators do, don’t they?
    Not bad for a kid from Morrinsville. I can’t fathom how she has formed her Marxist views. Where did they come from?
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:43am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      From sitting at the feet of Helen Clark…
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:13am
      - ztev
        
        remember all those lies Key told about ‘not being briefed’ when the SIS released info to Whaleoil ?
        
        Said he was in Hawaii, said documents ‘meant his office’ when they say its was him.
        
        NBR caught him on video saying Tucker ‘told him’
        https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/key-counterattacks-over-sis-boss-letter-%E2%80%94-tripped-video-ck-161142
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:02am
      - GazzaW
        
        JK fixation again ztev?
        
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        March 6, 2018 1:52pm
    - Northland Wahine
      
      From feeding fish to the poor. This woman believes she’s our next messiah. Not surprising as the media thinks she walks on water.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:23am
    - lifesgood
      
      Probably just a childish rebellion against her family orientated, conservative Mormon upbringing. Most people grow out of childish rebellions, she hasn’t.
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:56am
    - Duxton
      
      To be honest, I think she is actually far too stupid to work this out for herself.
      
      It is more likely that someone behinds the scenes is managing it on her behalf…..just as they do with everything else.
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:30pm
  - Inandout
    
    Labour, with the help of Cindy’s father figure Winston, are heading Muldoon’s way-
    
    ‘It’s one of the country’s most notorious television interviews. The year was 1976, and journalist Simon Walker was asking then Prime Minister Robert Muldoon about New Zealand’s vulnerability to a Russian nuclear attack. But Muldoon quickly became angry at Walker for not sticking to the scripted questions. “I will not have some smart-alec interviewer changing the rules halfway through,” he said. It was this ruthlessness that made many reporters terrified of Muldoon’.
    
    When Cindy goes on baby leave, and Winston fills in, watch the sparks fly. We have come a long way since Walker’s time.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:57am
    - Kimbo
      
      Nope. Misrepresentation of that interview. Walker was being a prat, and Muldoon was (to quote Brian Edwards) “unfailingly polite”.
      
      http://brianedwardsmedia.co.nz/2011/01/the-notorious-simon-walkerrobert-muldoon-interview/
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:37am
      - ztev
        
        yes but Muldoon was also didnt hestitate to attack the TV media when they werent being nice.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:04am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ ztev
        
        Just as they attacked him. And you listen to their wihinging about he had “a withering stare” and you ask yourself “Is that it?! The little bastard was five foot nothing, he wasn’t Pinochet, and you’re a journalist, with a responsibility to the public and you are supposedly intimidated because a short, overweight balding guy didn’t smile?!”
        
        Total beat up. Muldoon was a counter puncher because the lazy left, along with the complicit media tried to turn him into some threat to democracy. Which was total crap. He was blunt and direct, but then that never killed anyone or threatened democracy- indeed ordinary people sensing they were being patronised and controlled by self-appointed experts of the new high priesthood trendy left loved him for it.
        
        Muldoon knew his facts and could kick the arse of any lazy bastard trying lazy left wing gotcha journalism.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:15am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ ztev
        
        Just watch the Walker/Muldoon interview. Walker quibbling over tedious details of “Janes Fighting Ships”, all designed to provide a cheap “gotcha” (which Muldoon wants to address), to give the false implication Muldoon didn’t know what he was talking about, and there wasn’t the real possibility of Soviet ships in the South Pacific. Right, so you want to run the lazy “McCarthy Witch Hunt!” trope you lazy, BBC plummy-mouthed pric? So expect kick back from a moderate right wing conservative who always considered the l eft used unfair and deceitful means. To undermine good and inclusive democratic government and policy decisions-making.
        
        Walker deservedly got his arse handed to him, first for wasting Muldoon’s time, but more seriously, for wasting his audience’s time, and treating them like gullible idiots. Is like dealing with the Jehovah’s Witnesses – you don’t let the deceitful control the agenda, let alone define the issues.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:28am
      - ztev
        
        Well isnt that a suprise, after all these years ‘Robs Mob’ shows it colours.
        
        It wasnt just journalists ( while agreeing with you about lazy journalists and their gotchas) but Muldoon was a bully in parliament, in his party and the country at large
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:40am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ ztev
        
        And how exactly (justified adverb!) did Muldoon “bully” journalists and others? By rolling in tanks like it was Prague, 1968, or Santiago, 1973? Nope. By suspending habeas corpus, or car bombing his critics? Nope. By holding them accountable with facts in free debate? Yep. Must have been a massive bullying campaign using “menacing silences” (sic), or answers and rebuttals highlighting the short comings in the other person’s ideas, arguments and policies, especially if they were other politicians, professional trained media inquisitors, or zealous unrepresentative pressure groups seeking to hijack government with their agendas. How ever did democracy survive the 1975-84 tenure of Robert David Muldoon?!
        
        Shit, even the myth of the martyred Colin Moyle overlooks the fact that that night, under parliamentary privilege, Labour first attacked Muldoon and his private business colleagues. And as usual, they started it, and brought a knife to a gun fight.
        
        But then that was typical of Muldoon’s critics, usually the first to start the fight, (even their accusation he was a “counter puncher” highlighted their cowardice when he refused to take their shit and took the fight straight back to them) and fling around unsubstantiated accusations that he was some far right dictator, yet melting like snow cones in the sun when the kick back came.
        
        And I note you’ve brought no specific or detailed accusations of substance to back you claims about Muldoon, except the Pavlovian “Rob’s Mob”. Fuck, fancy that, a populist politician having a popular political following. What a threat to democracy! Thought you would at least have mentioned the “Dancing Cossacks”… ?
        
        Come on, ztev, double down and try “the 1981 Springbok tour”, that awful affront to NZ democracy, where, shock, horror, Kiwis were allowed decide with whom they played sport. Oh, the humanity!! ?
        
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        March 6, 2018 12:13pm
    - KevOB
      
      Simon Walker was an irritating flea and arrogant. He was out of his depth both in manners and intellect.
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:28am
  - GazzaW
    
    Jacinda is just the marketable mouthpiece that fronts the tabloids and womens mags on behalf of the real power brokers.
    
    Just think back on how and why Jacinda was created. It’s all too pat and contrived to be believable. Labour was gone, dead and buried and in the space of six months took the reins of power. Goebbels would have been gobsmacked.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:12am
    - ztev
      
      Ask Bob Hawke how he became leader of labour in Australia- it was even shorter time before election.
      
      next youll be saying how Metiria left the Greens was ‘unbelievable’
      
      national was outsmarted.
      
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      March 6, 2018 10:07am
      - igm
        
        ztrev: One thing about Rob, he took no shit from scum lefty journos. Remember him dropping a filthy Labourite who was abusing him . . . was probably you!
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:23am
      - KevOB
        
        Only Labour are allowed to attack the media. Labour old “ladies” used umbrellas on National supporters at a meeting. Fighting is bidirectional.
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:31am
      - GazzaW
        
        ……but Bob Hawke was a real politician not a media-crafted showpiece. Therein lies the difference.
        
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        March 6, 2018 1:57pm
    - RF
      
      GazzaW
      
      Just a puppet with her strings pulled by the sisterhood.
      
      The feminists are now out in force protecting their commie chick.
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:26pm
  - flipper
    
    Amen.
    Quick, lodge complaint with the S F O !
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:13am
- Poppa
  
  Hosking hit the nail firmly on the head when he said Kelvin is not very bright & they need to keep him locked away out of sight.
  
  What the hell has Peters done to our great country?
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:14am
  - KiWombat
    
    To suggest that two of him would make a wit is a pure insult to all halfwits !
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:32am
  - ztev
    
    Truck Stop Paula isnt the shiniest knife in the draw. Shes deputy still, because shes so uninspiring.
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:08am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Nice try at diversion but it doesn’t change the fact that Davis isn’t fit for purpose.
      
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      March 6, 2018 10:17am
      - ztev
        
        tell me , what purpose does a deputy leader of labour serve. ?
        
        Having jacinda derangement syndrome isnt enough, you need KDS as well
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:42am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        @Ztev
        I response to your first sentence:
        “What purpose does a deputy leader of labour serve?”
        None apparently. Absolutely none.
        I think that was my point, what is yours?
        
        And in response to your second sentence:
        What on earth are you on about?
        My comment did not mention jacinda (I’d probably have afforded her a capital letter) and is KDS something you just thought up?
        
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        March 6, 2018 1:22pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      Whatabout, whatabout, whatabout, whatabout, whatabout, whatabout……
      
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      March 6, 2018 10:40am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      ZTEV Squirrel abuse incident #4298
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:24pm
- cmm
  
  transparency: ZB must be transparent about the questions they ask.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:25am
  - ztev
    
    What was the question ?
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:09am
- GazzaW
  
  Do I recall words along the lines of “There will always be open and transparent government under my watch” ?
  
  Interesting that where Davis is concerned that the witness protection programme has been extended from Question Time to media communications. He must either be as thick as pig shit or the union controllers are not prepared to share the party secrets with him.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:36am
- alloytoo
  
  Hosking’s disdain for the pair of them was “perfectly transparent.” and perfectly justified
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:44am
- PhilP
  
  Jacinda is soooooo open and transparent…..not.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:53am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Her new house is really transparent.
    
    1.8 mill – lots of big windows make up living area.
    
    Gorgeous. I want one.
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:17am
    - alloytoo
      
      Is this Kiwibuild House #1
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:35am
    - Paulus
      
      CV is $1.8M but sells rather higher – probably about $2.4M.
      But selling the $1m other house – ? or trying to catch up her earth mother Helen with seven houses now.
      Understand “somebody” looking at buying the larger house next door to house the Diplomatic Protection Police
      Key housed them in a Caravan in the garden.
      
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      March 6, 2018 1:47pm
- SGA
  
  @jp_1983
  
  Wow Jacinda only wants to talk on approved talking points on Zb.
  
  Let’s hope that the circumstances surrounding the conception of her child, her pregnancy, and her wardrobe aren’t on the approved list 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:06am
  - Richard
    
    She has already had a full and transparent interview with hard hitting Women’s Day. What more do you want?!
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:17am
- Duxton
  
  Do you have a link?
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:25am
- oldpark
  
  She is also running scared if she is asked who is paying for her travelling defacto partner as well as Who is paying for Peters and his defacto partner.
  Will they be put on their expense sheets. After all $500,000 plus maybe taxpayers paying for Peters and Arderns defacto partners.Now that would be totally corrupt.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:39am
  - KiWombat
    
    Why are partners needed ?
    
    I thought this was a business trip – I’m sure the costs will be declared as such.
    
    Is this just the first of a series of family holiday events for Cindy and WeeWinnie. Partners are not needed to carry the baggage – oh – with one notable exception !
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:53am
Captain Mainwaring

Beware you ‘rich pricks’, one way or the other you’re going to get a reaming.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/101970814/new-taxes-could-change-bad-behaviours-suggests-sir-michael-cullen
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March 6, 2018 8:04am
- Simon
  
  Yep and you can guarantee that all of the mong taxes Labo can dream up wont be repealed by National when the time comes.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:09am
- Longknives
  
  Can anyone explain a ‘Wealth Tax’ to me?
  Does that mean I get taxed on my Family Home??
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:10am
  - Chris R
    
    No: It means you get taxed on everything. You’re already taxed for wealth given local authority rates are levied on the value of your hard fought own home and not on the value of services received from your local councils.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:17am
    - Prince
      
      Be careful on how much ‘wealth’ you divulge on the Census. Those stats will be a go-to area for the tax-grabbers committee.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:26am
  - peterwn
    
    No, you won’t get taxed on your family home if it is say worth less than $2M, but your Kiwisaver will be indirectly taxed since the entities your Kiwisaver fund has invested in would pay Wealth Tax.
    Anyway left wingers forget it is not only the ‘rich’ who would bear the brunt of a Wealth Tax – ordinary people would bear the brunt too. So if Helen Clark for example decides to sell her six investment houses because of a Wealth Tax, that is six houses off the rental market. Conversely if a landlord holds on to them the landlord will over time recover what he pays in Wealth Tax from increased rents.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:22am
    - Gabby
      
      She’d be selling them to someone who was short of empty houses, that what you’re saying petey?
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:05am
  - geoff3012
    
    Why not……may as well……let’s do this.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:26am
  - Simon
    
    “Can anyone explain a ‘Wealth Tax’ to me?”
    
    It is a tax on your savings. There is tax on everything else, income you earn and what you spend (income tax and GST) and whatever remains after that will be taxed as well.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:31am
    - peterwn
      
      So Mike Cullen gave with one hand (Kiwisaver) and will take with the other hand (tax on Kiwisaver).
      
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      March 6, 2018 2:05pm
  - cas
    
    They say not the family home or the land under it. But what about if you have a small lifestyle block. Cullen is doing the politics of envy – he has already made up his mind but his super etc will be well protected and all the rich will have clever accountants and trusts so they don’t have to pay anything.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:48am
  - Lance
    
    It is a tax on being responsible and working hard.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:51am
  - ztev
    
    We have a wealth tax now.
    
    Have you not noticed IRD tax scales show the more you earn the higher the tax rate!
    
    Hiding in plain sight
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:10am
  - Paulus
    
    Yes – it is called an Unrealised Capital Gain.
    It is like an additional rates bill calculated annually on the perceived capital gain on your property and sent along with the rates.
    So if it determined by EXPERTS that the value of your property has risen say 4% (from Valuartios Department) then you will pay a tax based upon the mathematically calculated value of your house.
    Every year.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:15am
- fernglas
  
  The stupid thing is that the working group is specifically precluded from considering a CGT on domestic housing, which is just going to push investment in, and therefore prices of, that asset up. And if a CGT is levied on shares, that will hit almost all Kiwisaver accounts, so I can’t see that being popular.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:11am
  - Chris R
    
    The envy ridden socialists who attach themselves to the CoL do not think as far as you have in fear their bubbles of resentment and hatred of enterprise may burst. You make a very valid point though.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:14am
    - Simon
      
      Yep a reminder what a grasping greedy piece of shit Cullen is. What a cunt. Smug fuckwit when GFC hit he was gone and the country in real trouble bailed out by National.
      
      Are National up to the task of bailing NZ out again after these mong cunts of the tax working group have attacked anyone they think they can fleece.
      
      [DPF: Strike 2. Do not use the c word against other people or the fw word]
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:35am
      - KKKKatee
        
        National can always bring back Bill as a Consultant to sort the mess out.
        
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        March 6, 2018 8:47am
      - Gabby
        
        So, not a big fan then Semonvagina?
        
        [DPF: Unacceptable abuse – that is Strike 7]
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:03am
      - Harkman
        
        Amazing how a party on 36.9% can ram through massive social and economic changes.
        
        BTW, Cullen is a monumental arsehole.
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:55am
  - Paulus
    
    And we are supposed to believe them ?
    
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    March 6, 2018 1:49pm
- Chris R
  
  Cullen says NZ’ers are not taxed as highly as some in other countries. In his vile socialist half-brain that is apparently a bad thing! It is interesting that some clowns in the msm claim Taxinda’s CoL represents “generational change” yet it is the old and withered Clark/Cullen circus which is running the show from their rotten bowels.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:12am
  - DigNap15
    
    A low taxed country can get on with people investing and building their own wealth!
    
    Cullen is an evil, vindictive, prick.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:21am
    - Chris R
      
      Thanks for writing my precise thoughts on Cullen. It is an onslaught of audacity for the CoL to pass the mantle to Cullen on tax issues given the country has previously endured his brand of grab and destroy taxation.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:24am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Another ‘oxymoronism’ from Ardern. She needs the expertise of the older generation to make things happen. Her generation, aren’t up to scratch.
    Someone needs to put a choker chain around her neck and give it a bloody good tugging now and then to keep her rampant communist thoughts under control.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:51am
- Gabby
  
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  “Cullen criticised media commentators for “a strong tendency to confuse discussions with decisions having already been made”.
  
  That’s two strong tendencies you follow cap’n crustygruts..
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:25am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    That’s code Gabby.
    We know how to decipher it.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:38am
- Manolo
  
  It would be time to transfer assets somewhere else.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:08am
- Harkman
  
  Financial Transactions Tax:
  
  This will be the final death knell of NZ, every banking, financial services and investment related job will move to Australia or elsewhere.
  
  Even poor people will pay it if they get money out or buy a home. So it is unlikely to come in.
  
  Why the left likes this idea is beyond me. It costs more to implement than what you collect, banks and brokerages will write off why more in expending it and so you lose corporate income tax.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:44am
- KevOB
  
  Incompetence. Cullen hasn’t the foggiest notion about practical tax administration. Petrol can be taxed not virtue.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:35am
Chuck Bird

Anyone listen Hoskings this morning? Cindy would only answer questions about the Pacific and Kevin wanted questions in advance.
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March 6, 2018 8:05am
- Gravelroad
  
  And he would need the answers in advance also.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:17am
- KiWombat
  
  Someone needs to put more chlorine in her gene pool !
  
  We need to start sterilising stupidity
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:40am
Longknives

The Left are predictably outraged that a White male hosted the Academy Awards and a White Actor won the Best Actor Oscar-

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/101999480/the-90th-oscars-were-a-vanilla-tedious-let-down-after-much-talk-of-revolution

You get the impression that they won’t be happy until White Males are simply banned from the Oscars…
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March 6, 2018 8:09am
- fernglas
  
  I didn’t see a lot of men doing twirls on the red carpet, and until I do, I will assume that gender stereotyping remains alive and well in Hollywood.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:12am
  - dave_c_
    
    I did notice that the so called ‘celebrities’, made plenty of comment about gun control during the celebrations.
    The irony/hypocracy is strong.
    The venue was surrounded by no fewer than 500 police, each packing an arsenal of weapons.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:17am
    - Gravelroad
      
      How many of the celebrities have “starred” in films which have included the use of guns and violence?
      Oh, silly me! That’s only for entertainment purposes eh.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:21am
    - DigNap15
      
      I saw a few women with plunging neck lines!
      
      Are the trying to tease the men there!
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:22am
    - Gabby
      
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      Was it bring your own arsenal to work day, or were they carrying authorised firearms? You muppet.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:27am
      - dave_c_
        
        You miss the point – the hypocracy is that 99 percent of these ‘celebrity petals’ would not turn up if they were not protected by their own armed guards or an entire police force armed to the teeth.
        
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        March 6, 2018 8:38am
      - Gabby
        
        No you miss the point you fuckknuckle, they wouldn’t need to be protected by armed police if they weren’t surrounded by a sea of retards with guns.
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:00am
    - redeye
      
      Yes no-one should have access to guns. Except the celebrities security firms.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:45am
      - Gravelroad
        
        And the film makers.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:27am
- alloytoo
  
  They’re probably equally outraged that a biographical pic about Churchill was even made.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:50am
  - Longknives
    
    Didn’t Obama order the removal the sculpture of Churchill from the White House?
    He and his revolting racist wife will have loved the Oscars then!
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:00am
- EAD_TWO
  
  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/early-oscars-numbers-suggest-all-time-low-ratings-2018-03-05
  
  You know Longknives,
  
  There was another time in history when people of a certain country felt no connection to the “art” and “cinema” being produced in their country and they also stopped participating in watching it.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:04am
holysheet

With Cindy and the drunken dwarf both out of the country, it fell upon Kelvin Davis to receive the daily briefing from Cindys chief of staff. She concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”

“OH NO!” Kelvin exclaims. “That’s terrible!”

The staff sit stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as Kelvin sits, head in hands.

Finally, Kelvin looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”
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March 6, 2018 8:09am
- Gabby
  
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  Wholly shit that was a funny repurposed joke.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:29am
- KiWombat
  
  The gates are down, the lights are flashing but the train she ain’t coming !
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:54am
- howitis
  
  After the feminazis drove the good men from the teaching profession this is the sort of critter that was left.
  
  Now they have turned their attention on the legal profession with Russell McVeagh in their sights.
  Any other law firm that laughs at RM predicament today will not be laughing in 5 years time.
  Almost silently, a war has been declared.
  
  Look to the Green pardy to see what their goal is. Majority women (f&%k that equality nonsense) with a couple of wimpy blokes to make up head count.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:54am
  - tavita
    
    Male doctors are on their way out too
    
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    March 7, 2018 10:24am
MCos

I’m sure I’m not the only one that’s noticed that wherever the Australian cricket team goes trouble isn’t far behind.
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March 6, 2018 8:10am
- MCos
  
  In this particular game, among other things, one of those horrid South Africans commented on ‘Davey’s’ wife.
  Some years ago Glenn McGrath asked a West Indian what Lara’s dick tasted like. He told him to ask his wife. Everyone fell on the ground laughing, except McGrath who was furious. His wife had terminal cancer at the time.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:19am
  - Happychappy
    
    The Aussies and the Poms are the worst at it and are crybabies when it gets out of hand but in saying that wives and family should never be sledged in sport.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:34am
    - G152
      
      For some reason the Australian ‘sports’ teams have been unsportsman like in every sport played.
      Must stem from a sense of inadequacy
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:35am
  - SGA
    
    There’s a similar one (but I can’t remember the participants – an Aussie and a Sri-Lankan?) where the bowler asked how the batsman got to be so fat. “Everytime I fuck your wife she gives me a biscuit”, came the reply.
    From memory – sorry if I have details wrong.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:55am
    - SGA
      
      Glen McGrath (Australia) and Eddo Brandes (Zimbabwe).
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:58am
    - stigie
      
      The best sledge i think was when Ian Botham coming to the crease and Rodney Marsh behind the stumps asks,..how is your wife and my kids ? to which Botham replied, the wife is fine but the kids are retarded !~
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:43am
    - Duxton
      
      An Australian (maybe Rod Marsh?) once asked Ian Botham: “How’s your wife and my kids?”
      
      Botham replied: “The wife’s fine. The kids are retarded.”
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:46am
  - flipper
    
    Life and death by the sword……
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:47am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Seems they are very good at dishing it out but very poor at taking it.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:36am
  - G152
    
    Should be a rule that any such comment the innocent side gets 10 runs added to their total.
    Watch that crap disappear
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:36am
Prince

Ardern and Peters are doing the rounds in the Pacific, sprinkling a few million here and there like fairy dust.
What will happen when the surplus runs dry and they have to do more than promise to scratch every itch with the soothing balm of taxpayers’ money ?
Peters will return to abusing reporters and promising to spend more if we vote for his motley collection of weirdos, but Ardern feeds on her adoring media. She does not take kindly to difficult questions.
The questions are, when will the money run out, and will Cullen’s cavalry of more and deeper taxes arrive in time ?
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March 6, 2018 8:10am
- cmm
  
  “when will the money run out”
  
  Didn’t you just feel your wallet get a bit lighter?
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:23am
- RF
  
  Don’t worry. Cullen is down in the vaults shovelling our money into the Govt coffers to pay for the half arse bribes.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:06am
  - Gabby
    
    Fastest working group in history rf rf. Like you after a rat.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:19am
    - RF
      
      Jesus Gabby.
      
      You must control your lustful urges.
      
      The vet had to put the goat down as you caused severe internal damage.
      
      Better not come home for several weeks as the SPCA & Police are looking for you.
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:03am
- MCos
  
  China is already pumping plenty of money into the area, as I understand.
  Some people might think if they are doing that why should we bother?
  I doubt the Chinese are doing it purely out of the goodness of their heart. They’ll want a return on their investment somewhere down the track and the consequences are unlikely to be comfortable for us & Oz.
  The little people of the world are continually being shafted by the big buggers in this way.
  NZ knows all about that.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:34am
- Lance
  
  The airforce 757’s should be repainted with with $ signs all over it to better reflect it’s significance to the Islands.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:54am
- KevOB
  
  You can’t advise fools.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:38am
Shaun the Sheep

The last vestiges of Labour’s open and transparent government have been stripped away this morning by Mike Hosking. The news is grim. The pigs are running the farm.
PM Ardern will only appear if she can set the topic for discussion.
Acting PM Kelvin Davis’ position as party pretty boy and token maori is also confirmed since he claims not to have been briefed on current policy initiatives of his own government and will not appear in the media.
So Ardern who never tells lies – wants to control what the public gets to see and hear.
Perhaps Ardern could give us her definition of open and transparent government?
Oh wait, no one will be allowed to ask that question.
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March 6, 2018 8:12am
- cas
  
  Witness protection for Kelvin.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:14am
  - alloytoo
    
    Don’t you mean “Witless Protection?”
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:52am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Most of the $11b in Steven Joyce’s predicted “fiscal hole” seems to be spent in protecting useless Labour Ministers from answering questions, or otherwise being accountable.
      
      The list of incompetents is growing. We have Davis. We have Nanaia Mahuta who recently had to correct the answers she gave to 67 written questions on whether she had received correspondence from various councils because she didn’t think emails counted as correspondence. There’s Clare “Open Government” Curran; ’nuff said. There’s Employment Minister Willie Jackson who doesn’t even know what the media wage is, and of course there’s Chris Hipkins, the reverse of King Midas turning everything he touches to shit.
      
      One of these will be the first Minister to fall, and from there they will topple like dominoes because the talent pool in Labour is as shallow as a carpark puddle on a hot summer’s day. That’s when the fun will start, as Ministers scramble to protect their entitlements, and spare not a thought for the taxpayer who pays for those entitlements.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:54am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Labour really is tits. I’m picking Davis to be the first to chuck it all in, I mean how much more ineptitude laid bare for all to see can they guy take? It’s embarrassing to watch.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:17am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Ah, but the ministerial salary, the ministerial car, the lurks and perks; that’s a lot for a socialist to walk away from, which is why few of them ever do.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:28am
- Simon
  
  Hosking needs to interview they people calling the shots. That aint Davis or Princess. Clark was in charge not sure who is running Labo now.
  
  Davis cant answer anything because he isnt involved in policy. Princess has a nice smile when looking at the cameras. But thats about it.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:25am
  - KiWombat
    
    You could replace Kelvin with a monkey and a tape recorder.
    
    If all he is allowed to do is respond to pre issued questions, then a monkey could be trained to press the appropriate button in response.
    
    Save us all $300,000 every year – bananas are cheap !
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:01am
  - waikatogirl
    
    God Cindy can talk! Wind her up and let her go for the day… Don’t believe a word she spouts but she has the talky, talky down pat. ?
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:01am
    - KKKKatee
      
      Leighton Smith has her summed up to a tee. He notices that she starts to answer a question before the questioner has a chance to finish asking! Therefore, she doesn’t listen. Just picks up a few key words and goes for it. There is probably an official name for that syndrome. A very poor listener all the same. I picked that up from her appearances on the campaign trail. Her answers to questions ended up in mumbo jumbo because she failed to comprehend fully the question in the first place. I think they all it ‘spin’.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:26am
    - KevOB
      
      Words spew forth from Taxinda but where’s the intelligence?
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:41am
    - howitis
      
      In reality it seems Ardern’s BA was in ‘Yakkety Yak’ and not ‘communications’ per se.
      There is little relevant communication going on but to be fair, in 1930s USSR, communications about mass slaughter were poor. Shut down the message. Media have been facilitating this farce for 5 months now.
      
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      March 6, 2018 1:07pm
- Gabby
  
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  You reckon she and Ponyboy might differ in their definition of open government shorn johnsboy’s girlfriend?
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:34am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Key, like Clark could answer any question; What’s Arderns and thicko Davis’s excuse?
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:37am
    - Gabby
      
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      They’re not bullshitters sebaceous?
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:52am
      - CHFR1
        
        So you admit Helen Clark was a bullshitter….interesting.
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:28am
      - Gabby
        
        It’s hardly a groundbreaking confession chuffer.
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:09am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Being intellectually bereft isn’t an excuse Flabby.
        
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        March 6, 2018 2:25pm
    - igm
      
      JK did not even need notes when attacked by scum such as Campbell, Espiners, et al.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:00am
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        He just blithered about the previslabagumnt jigm.
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:17am
- Ross12
  
  I only caught the end of the program and heard Mike reading out the emails and texts. Not many impressed people out there.
  Simple solution –give them one more invite (to be polite0) and then forget them. Just invite Bridges, other National MPS and MPs from other parties (if they are interested).
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:50am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Can’t agree Ross12.
    That would be letting them off the hook. It would suit the Labour Party politicians just fine to be forgotten (in the sense of not being publicly questioned or called to account).
    Then they could just do as they like behind closed doors and issue a few media releases from time to time to advise of latest decisions made.
    Most people don’t listen to/watch Parliament. Fewer people are reading anything. Many want to get their knowledge by other means.
    Our democracy would end up unprotected if we allowed politicians to not front up.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:11am
    - Ross12
      
      In principle I’d agree with you but if they only want to be on to discuss topics they nominate that is just another form of propaganda.
      Mike has a large listener base –if he fills the gap with Opposition people we will certainly hear about what is going on. It will not be the Government doing as they like behind closed doors.
      The discussions that Mike had weekly, with Steven Joyce and Annette King during the last Government were reasonably informative and often entertaining so it can be done. Similarly when he had the PM and the leader of the opposition on –you would never say they were in depth or abrasive conversations.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:47am
  - doggone7
    
    Maybe he got a lot of anti-Ardern emails and texts because the majority of listeners are anti-Ardern.
    
    Ardern could find a cure for cancer and a lot of zb listeners wouldn’t be impressed.
    
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    March 6, 2018 1:14pm
- RF
  
  Mummy mummy I want lots of posidity about me giving nice beads to those poor people living on treasure island.
  
  Please keep that nasty nasty Mike Hosking away from me otherwise I will sulk and cry.
  
  And please keep that other man who hugs terrible men from the land over the sea hidden as nasty Hosking wants to speak to him. I think he looks after my dolls house when I am away but I have only seen him once.
  
  Please help me be posidiv.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:02am
  - Piniwi
    
    Well RF you seem to be ahead of us being in the know as the Commie Chick has a “mommy” catch up in Niue.
    
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    March 6, 2018 4:26pm
- KKKKatee
  
  So much for her bullshit. People only put up barriers when they know they can’t hack it. Ardern is feeling the heat in the kitchen now and hoping to cool things down by ‘controlling’ what she wants to answer. What happened to the ‘transparency’ mantra she campaigned on. She’s nothing but a hypocritical piece of work. And waaaaay out of her depth, hence the barriers she’s now putting up. Imagine Simon Bridges giving orders about what he will and won’t talk about? The MSM would be all over that like a you know what………
  
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  March 6, 2018 12:32pm
dave_c_

Just stumbled over that Jack Tame guy (on TV1) interviewing someone about guns in schools. What a prick.
Rather than interviewing, he was actually forcefully debating with the person. If the person did not provide an answer in keeping with Tames pursuasion (read ‘MSM pursuasion’), he embarked on debate and confrontation.
Talk about selling ones sole.
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- DigNap15
  
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  I like Jack Tame, at least he pushes for a decent answer!
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:24am
  - flipper
    
    “He” ???????
    ….. ask him about his “village” escapades !
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:54am
- Gabby
  
  Selling one’s sole? That’s a load of cobblers.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:35am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Almost a nice try…
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:51am
- fernglas
  
  “Selling one’s sole” ?? I thought his interviewee was floundering a bit, but that takes it too far
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:38am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh that’s Brill. You’re a Dab hand at these flatjokes.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:50am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    but that takes it too far
    …..to another plaice?
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:29am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Any more fish puns, just for the halibut!
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:27am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I could mullet over, but I think it’s a load of pollocks.
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:46pm
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      You’re making anemone of me…..
      
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      March 6, 2018 1:28pm
    - lofty
      
      We should dolphinitely scale back on the fish puns
      
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      March 6, 2018 3:34pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Sharkasm is the lowest form of whiff.
        
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        March 6, 2018 3:40pm
- G152
  
  Leave Ducky alone. He’ll cry if you get real
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:39am
- Dave Mann
  
  There something very fishy about this whole discussion. Who is this tame bottom feeder anyway?
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:42am
MT_Tinman

There is a brilliant Matt Cartoon in The Telegraph this morning.

Could be set in NZ.
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March 6, 2018 8:14am
oldpark

Just heard aboot the coward of the county the thick as pig shit and twice as sloppy the acting PM called Kelvin Davis.
The waste of space clown who was going to resign if Charter Schools were closed. He hasn’t or has he.
We now learn that The womble wouldnt even front to answer a few political questions regarding NZ and its well being.
The reason was ,how could he be expected to know such basic questions as he was just the acting PM of NZ.
After all the real PM his puppet master Dictator Peters was off gallivanting around the Pacific.Nuff said.
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March 6, 2018 8:18am
- KKKKatee
  
  As I commented yesterday, we won’t be able to rely on Kelvin if an apocalypse were to occur while he’s in charge. Honestly, NZ’s rapidly going to hell in a handcart under Ardern’s transparent and relentless positive government.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:57am
  - KiWombat
    
    If at first you don’t succeed you may already be at your level of incompetence !
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:04am
- igm
  
  He is in a similar mould to Russell Marshall who was going to resign if workshops closed in Wang East . . . like a leeching Labourite, he stayed for the remuneration and perks . . . there has never been a decent Labour politician, they have all been under-performing, unemployable scum. And now we have a yet another Labour unmarried mother, placed in a position beyond her capabilities, by a drunken toxic gnome.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:25am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Don’t hold back… this is a political blog, so you shouldn’t need to be diplomatic. Just tell us what you really think….! 😀 😀 😀
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:48am
  - Duxton
    
    “there has never been a decent Labour politician…”
    
    What about Savage and Kirk? They both left the country better off, by the simple expedient of dying in office.
    
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    March 6, 2018 12:49pm
- KiWombat
  
  Remember he has promised to resign if any of the charter schools in his electorate are closed.
  
  So we should see the end of him soon enough if he is a man of his word !
  
  Yeah right !
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:59am
- RF
  
  oldpark.
  
  Love that… (Davis) The coward of the county – thick as pig shit and twice as sloppy.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:13am
cmm

So what does South Africa’s change of President really mean? Part 4

The Zulus II

First off, I would like to reiterate that I am not, and have never considered myself an authoritative source. Have a look at other sources and make your own judgment. History is very much open to interpretation and those interpretations can be very different depending on which cultural and temporal lens we view them through. Worst is when events are taken out of context and are bent to fit an agenda.

History is often sanitized and simplified to help support a particular agenda. My goal is to expose some of the mess that makes things a bit more interesting.

Fast forward to the modern day…. Zuma has been President for 8 years or so and King Goodwill Zwelithinihas been king since 1968. The king is in many ways ceremonial, but is also head of the whole Zulu nation including the Ingonama Trust – and area comprising over 30% of Kwa Zula Natal and home to about 4 million Zulus. Those 4 million people pay rent so he holds a position similar to that of a feudal king.

The king has a lavish lifestyle in comparison to his people, but that is not resented – he is their king, he is their nation. He is supported not only through the trust, but also my millions of dollars of taxpayer money. He has six wives (restrained by historic standards) and each has their own palace.

Zuma is from Inkhandla – about 100km from the king’s residence. Zuma has ploughed significant amounts of taxpayer into upgrading Inklandla (both the area and his private residence). Although he claimed this was for security etc, much of it was clearly feathering his own nest.

Zuma has long curried favour with both the king and the Zulu people. This has given him a massive support base that still continues even after he has been removed as President. For example, one thing he did was issue a lot of taxpayer aid in the region (food blankets etc), branded with ANC, and his own, image. While this is clear voter bribery, it can also be viewed as a form of tribute to the Zulu people – the ANC giving tribute to Zulus to show a degree of subservience to the Zulus.

Zuma is now open to prosecution on numerous corruption charges. I doubt they will go anywhere significant because he still has that much influence with the Zulus that he can threaten civil unrest etc if he is imprisoned. Most likely outcome, I think, will be some ineffective sentence like house arrest.

The ANC, having communist associations and roots, has a huge problem with the king. Communists hate kings because they hate royalty in general, but also because they have strong loyalty from the people and thus political power.

Zuma has been a bridge between the Zulus and the ANC that has kept up the degree of Zulu support of the ANC as well as reduce historic tensions. South Africa is fiercely tribal and when a non-Zulu is head of the ANC, the Zulu sees that as a non-Zulu telling them what to do.

Ramaphosa is obviously not Zulu. You can tell that from the first syllable of his name. isiZulu does not have the “r” sound. That will immediately irk many Zulus every time his name comes up.

While we have talked of the Zulu king here, there are actually about six other tribal kingdoms within South Africa, but the others are of lesser influence. The picture is already very messy, but that makes it even more messy.

As the land issue heats up, it is becoming more obvious that it is not just about taking land away from the whites and giving it back to blacks. That is just the very simple message being portrayed to the Western media. The ANC not only has white owned land in its sights, but also customary tribal lands like Ingonyama Trust. This is clearly intended to break the powers of the kings so that the ANC can take it.

Recently the ANC has directed its ire to the “beneficiaries of colonialism”. That is a very deliberate term. This is wider than just the whites. It also includes the kings who are seen to have been supported by, and benefited from, colonialism.

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/beneficiaries-of-colonialism-will-be-defeated-in-sa-ancwl-to-uk-mep-20180302

So Ramaphosa now finds himself between a rock and a hard place: On the one side he must move fast and decisively to defuse the claims of the EFF that he is just a white man’s puppet. On the other, he needs to be cautious because upsetting the kings – particularly the Zulu king – can lead to both loss of support for the ANC as well as increased civil unrest.

The political rhetoric is not happening in a vacuum either. South Africa has high unemployment – looking to get worse – and is having increasing problems with feeding itself. That is rapidly changing for the worse.

To a man with a full belly, politics is just theory. When he is starving it becomes survival and things can turn very ugly very quickly.

There is some talk (eg. The above link) that suggests the UN might go into blue helmet mode. But as we saw in Rwanda etc, they are very ineffective in actually controlling violence. If they could not control Rwanda ( 11 million, people, 26000 square km), then what hope do they have in South Africa (5 times the population and forty times the area)?
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- Gabby
  
  Zuma might just have a little accident down some police station steps cmmiebokkie.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:40am
  - cmm
    
    12 million Zulus say otherwise.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:20am
- SPC
  
  Have you not really explained why the ANC is not proposing land reform but just confiscation of white owned land?
  
  For white land owners the question is can they on-sell their land before it is confiscated and if so to who? Those allowed to buy up land on the cheap (and keep it) will make a killing – the opportunity for corruption is strong on this one.
  
  And one presumes there is a business for someone removing farm houses to new locations (off farm) and every reason for stock to be sold off etc.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:14am
  - alloytoo
    
    If I was Farmer, I would liquidate as cash as I could, shove it as off shore as possible via children, spouses etc. and then declare bankruptcy.
    
    Make it the bank’s problem.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:46am
    - SPC
      
      Yup if it is not an inherited farm and there is a mortgage it is about it becoming a matter between the bank and the government.
      
      Selling stock and farm machinery to black farmers and farm house (moved offsite) to whomever and handing it over to the wife as a divorce settlement offer and have her migrate overseas with the children. Remaining behind to work as a farm manager somewhere else before being declared bankrupt (and then decide not to go through with the divorce).
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:09pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      And salt the earth. Fuck em.
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:34pm
      - alloytoo
        
        Not even necessary.
        
        Of course the ones that really get screwed are the farm workers.
        
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        March 6, 2018 2:30pm
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    ” is can they on-sell their land before it is confiscated and if so to who? ”
    
    All good in theory, but who is going to:
    A) buy the land and
    B) give loans for the land.
    
    Why would anyone sink money into a farm that is going to be taken away from you? Even if you are black and buy from a white, they can easily still say that you got ownership of the land illegally and thus take it away anyway.
    
    This is not just about black and white. They also have their eye on trust lands too.
    
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    March 6, 2018 4:14pm
    - SPC
      
      Which is why I wrote “Those allowed to buy up land on the cheap (and keep it) will make a killing – the opportunity for corruption is strong on this one.”
      
      Is the ANC the sort of organisation that would countenance corruption – say allow favoured people to buy up land on the cheap from desperate sellers and then keep it?
      
      They may have their eye on trust land etc, but surely they will feed off this game first before hunting elsewhere.
      
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      March 6, 2018 4:47pm
      - cmm
        
        Yes, certainly. Taking land off the whites is going to be relatively easy compared to, say, battle the Zulus.
        
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        March 6, 2018 7:19pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  @cmm,
  
  Modern South Africa is built on lies. I have dissected the Apartheid myths and half-truths plenty 0f times here on KB but aAnyone that tells you land was “stolen” from Africans to establish SA is a straight up liar. No-one was there until the Dutch cape colony was established then people flooded in for gibs.
  
  In short, the history of Dutch cape Colony is as follows:
  1652: Europeans settle an uninhabited area of South Africa & establish a civilisation there
  1963: Bantustans, “black homelands” are established for the Africans flooding into SA
  1994: Bantustans are abolished, Africans now demographic majority, start genocide of original settlers
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:16am
  - alloytoo
    
    As I said to someone yesterday,
    
    The farms didn’t exist before the farmer, they won’t exist after them.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:47am
  - cmm
    
    EAD
    
    I must push back on your claim about
    
    “1963 Bantustans “black homelands” are established for the Africans flooding into SA”
    
    They were established for people already living within South Africa.
    
    I will try to do a post on my take on apartheid later this week and touch on the Bantustans and separate development.
    
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    March 6, 2018 4:10pm
  - SPC
    
    The Xhosa and Zulu were coming down the coast centuries back (into their bantustan areas). The “Afrikaner” ancestors just arrived in the southern coast first and then went into the interior, OFS and Transvaal (where most of the farmland in question is).
    
    The idea that those who arrived by sea, as opposed by land along the coast took the interior land off black Africans is one that can be challenged in international forums.
    
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    March 6, 2018 4:43pm
DigNap15

They said on radio this morning that Febraury was the hottest February since 1934.
Wow did they have Global warming back then!
Before China and India started spewing coal dust, and at a time when only the rich had cars

Its just “the weather”!
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March 6, 2018 8:26am
- GazzaW
  
  The global warmists’ wordsmiths certainly stuffed that news release up. The headline should have read ‘Hottest February this century’ or something similar.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:29am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Our warm February stands in stark contrast to the below average temperatures Western Australia experienced last month.
  http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/wa/summary.shtml
  
  This “global warming” is decidedly regional.
  
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  March 6, 2018 5:56pm
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“Trump’s views on global trade trouble farmers”

Federated Farmers believes US president Donald Trump’s willingness to shun international trade conventions will have serious and deeply felt implications for New Zealand’s export trade.

“The new president’s determination to promote American interests above all else, even at the expense of long-standing, and mutually beneficial agreements could be devastating for New Zealand,” Federated Farmers president Dr William Rolleston says.

Donald Trump’s statements this week appear to go way beyond rejecting participation in international free trade agreement negotiations like the Trans Pacific Partnership, one of his key election promises.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1703/S00146/trumps-views-on-global-trade-trouble-farmers.htm

Loyal Trump supporters here in NZ need to be monitored and have regular security clearances .
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March 6, 2018 8:27am
- Gravelroad
  
  Your link is dated March 2017, so it is a year behind current times.
  Dr Rolleston is not the President of FFNZ.
  The President of FFNZ is Katie Milne.
  And – shock, horror, she is a woman.
  Need to get the trolling right to be relevant SB.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:41am
  - stephieboy
    
    Gravelroad , ah my mistake . This is the link fresh 30 mins or so ago ,
    
    “Trump’s potential trade war worries NZ farmers”
    
    “A potential trade war is making New Zealand’s farmers nervous. President Donald Trump’s plans to impose punitive tariffs on steel and aluminium imports has prompted China and the European Union to warn of damage to the global economy. The tariffs haven’t been imposed yet, but Mr Trump seems keen to go ahead with the plan – he says trade wars are good and easy to win. Mike Petersen is New Zealand’s Special Agricultural Trade Envoy.
    
    He talks to Susie Ferguson.”
    
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018634838/trump-s-potential-trade-war-worries-nz-farmers
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:22am
- Gabby
  
  He may be relying on Congress to block him. He gets to huff and puff but doesn’t have to do anything.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:42am
  - softail 1450
    
    GRUBBY ,OMG 20 words in a row that can be made sense of , have you taken the pledge grub?.
    Or is it because septicboy is your brother in arms and he would be easily confused by your normal nonsensical babbling?
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:58am
    - Gabby
      
      softcock14yo were you wearing your helmet this morning so you didn’t get concussed? You got all the way up to 20 and were only out by 1.
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:16am
- Awww C-mon
  
  WTF? Stephie-forgetful you need to go and take your pills.
  
  6 things to do today Stephie-addicted.
  
  Turn off the internet
  Take off the tin foil hat
  Drink some water
  Go for walk in the fresh air (keep away from schools, malls and parks where young ladies frequent)
  Do a crossword
  Try not to be a gimp
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:53am
  - Gabby
    
    How’s the throat today Awwwk Wawwwk?
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:17am
holysheet

I didn’t think Stoooopidboy would have the time to be on here today. It’s census day and being the dogooder that he is, he should be found in the gheto of MT Roskillstan. All those immigrants will need his help filling out their census forms on line. Taking some one from the stone age and expecting them to do this over the internet is a bit of a long stretch.
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March 6, 2018 8:28am
- stephieboy
  
  holycrap, if you can fill the Census in then it will be a breeze for all those in Mt Roskill “ stan”
  
  LOL
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:46am
- VicParking
  
  And No Stephie you don’t count the goats as ‘Life Partners’ so you don’t fill out at individual Census for them. ??. An dont forget the Mold between your ears counts as its bigger than a A4 sheet of Paper.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:58am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Is there a Census question: how many wives do you have?
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:10am
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      waikataogirl , plenty of online or 0800 advice if you should get stuck
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:25am
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        Yes SB, I need help to let them know I live in a multi-wife household.
        God forbid I think is the appropriate response! ?
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:12am
  - Gabby
    
    Mrs Palmer doesn’t count either VicPorking.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:20am
- softail 1450
  
  holysheet , come on, if you can go on the WWW for bombmaking tips you can certainly fill out a simple census FFS.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:46am
- Gabby
  
  Wholly shit someone will be round soon to help with your lil accident.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:19am
Manolo

Berlusconi has failed. 5 Stelle and La Lega get more votes:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/berlusconi-italys-comeback-king-ropes-074257205.html
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March 6, 2018 8:29am
- stephieboy
  
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  Manolo , curious to know if any of your clients have lost out recently on your Trumpet based advice on the US stock markets ?
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:44am
  - Manolo
    
    I have no clients, stephieboy. I invest for myself and have done it for years.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:01am
    - stephieboy
      
      Manolo, well then I would say you must of lost a fortune with the antics of your inept leader .
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:26am
- Gabby
  
  What’s he going to call the voters this time around; manuro?
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:45am
DigNap15

When it gets to the question on religion is there one called.
Islam the religion of evil?
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March 6, 2018 8:30am
DigNap15

I have a few problems with the online census.

1 It needs a save and resume later option (like some WINZ forms) so that you can come back later to answer some questions.

2 How will they know they have got every house, and garage, and sleep out, and rural houses etc.

3 Many people will not give correct answers as they will be worried about a call from WINZ or the IRD.

4 How many people were fined last time for not filling it in?
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March 6, 2018 8:33am
- Gabby
  
  1. Do as cap’n crusty and just go in your pants bignipis.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:46am
  - Gabby
    
    2. Bingles cared so much that he recorded where every homeless person was sleeping.
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:49am
  - Gabby
    
    3. Pullya Benefit doesn’t have the access these days.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:14am
    - softail 1450
      
      grubby, edging slowly towards septicboys level of insanity.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:29am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Slowly?
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:47am
      - Gabby
        
        softcock14yo, yet again sailing gracelessly over the apehangers of incomprehension into the gutter of seething aimless resentment.
        That’s 24, don’t want you going crosseyed.
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:23am
  - Lance
    
    What a moronic git
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:59am
- srylands
  
  It will be fascinating to see the outcome. I don’t know what the response rate was in 2013. I think they will be lucky to get 90 percent. There just are not the resources to chase down a large cohort of missing people in any reasonable time frame.
  
  I stand to be corrected but my understanding is that there is no data matching the returns. eg IRD cannot access the returns for individuals
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:57am
  - DigNap15
    
    They are not allowed to pass an individual data on to any other agencies.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:12am
  - Piniwi
    
    True srylands plus we must also consider the intentions of this “progressive” Government as they have stated clearly that data sharing between Departments will not happen on their watch.
    
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    March 6, 2018 5:00pm
- waikatogirl
  
  It’s $50 fine for not completing census and for those with a bad attitude, prosecution with a trip to court and $500.
  
  Census “may resort to prosecution”.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:13am
  - DigNap15
    
    It seems they did prosecute some at the last census.
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:01am
  - Piniwi
    
    Well waikatogirl with the possibility of a very sad result of participation Robbo might insist on auto billing as another source of urgent funds. Even just to help pay for the Pacific Tour Fairy Dust being sprinkled. They should have painted Santa and his team of reindeer on the plane as they get their second Christmas.
    
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    March 6, 2018 5:06pm
- Piniwi
  
  None DigNap15 in answer to your no4 since this time around there might be less who complete it than those that do making it a useless exercise. Thanks to another of the unintended consequences of enforced equality as we read:
  2018 Census General Manager, Denise McGregor, is happy with the way it’s going.
  “I’m really happy. I think that the discussion that’s going on out there shows that there’s a high level of awareness of the Census. And that’ really great,” she said.
  Her failure to comprehend the concerns and confusion for those without access or ability to handle anything online is astonishing. It includes groups from the senior segments and the illiterate segments of the population. Thats the key word. Population. The invaluable raw data of demographics is essential for every Government for so much of their funding, appropriations and policy making.
  The difference between purpose developed compter programs and the newest trend to tablets and apps is massive. While apps allow us to do so much more they also open up a big door for “bugs” being created as the app is continually “updated”. It is why they have a “bug report” otpion. While keeping things simple is an efficency yard stick it is also possible to over simplify somethings to render them useless.
  Sure more people might well be talking about it but more from a problimatic point of view than while other remain oblivious of it all together. So to to GM we quote the Zen Master. We shall see.
  
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  March 6, 2018 4:56pm
- KevOB
  
  The random error from accidentally giving an unintended answer likely cancels out.
  The form was dealt with easily for the whole family.
  
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  March 6, 2018 7:33pm
Happychappy

Does anyone else have hassles about the way Jacinda’s Partner is dressed when on the leash behind Jacinda at official functions. you would think that Winston with all his bluster about minor things in NZ Politics would be a one for a dress code when meeting dignitary’s in other Countries.
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March 6, 2018 8:42am
- Gabby
  
  No not really chappy, because I’m not A BIG GIRLY GIRL’S BLOUSE.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:48am
- VicParking
  
  She sowed his left hand into his pocket.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:01am
  - Gravelroad
    
    That would be sewed, Vic.
    Unless his hand was sowing seeds of some fast growing green plant into a nice, warm, dark environment pocket, of course.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:17am
    - G152
      
      His hand was in his pocket doing something connected with seeds ?
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:42am
      - RF
        
        Some dirty buggers cut the ends of their pockets off so they can play pocket billiards.
        
        This might explain Jethro’s permanent stupid grin.
        
        There is UK case law where a sexo used to invite young girls to put their hands into his cut away pocket to feel his dolly.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:50am
- Manolo
  
  You cannot buy class.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:02am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    But we can buy fabulous shoes.
    http://www.picturequotes.com/you-cannot-act-like-flip-flops-and-expect-to-be-treated-like-louboutins-quote-22897
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:43am
    - KKKKatee
      
      We can indeed. I love a good shoe. Whether it be a flat or a heel. Don’t own Louboutins, although a daughter does. I can always borrow them if necessary.
      
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      March 6, 2018 10:59am
  - KKKKatee
    
    That is so very true. You are born with it. It’s all in the breeding as they say.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:00am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Perhaps not, but Michael Cullen would like to tax it.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:46am
- RF
  
  Leave Jethro alone. All he has is a pair of overalls and a hound with big teeth to keep him company.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:11am
  - Gabby
    
    You had big teeth once didn’t you rf rf. Good times, good times.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:27am
- KKKKatee
  
  Yes, I noticed how he let the team down in
  ‘stralia. Some things one needs to leave behind I think. Oh hang on – us oldies aren’t ‘with it’ as we don’t belong to the PM’s generation do we. I may be a tad older than the PM, but, by golly, I can spot bloody awful shoes a mile off and can boast of a wardrobe full of elegant shoes and know what is appropriate for different occasions, unlike the PM.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:22am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    http://www.picturequotes.com/forget-glass-slippers-this-princess-wears-boots-quote-2442
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:45am
    - RF
      
      More class than those bloody ankle strap boots worn by the commie chick.
      
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      March 6, 2018 10:42am
    - KKKKatee
      
      “These boots are made for walking,
      thats just what they do……
      Are ya ready boots?”
      As an aside, one could be forgiven thinking that according to the MSM, the PM does, indeed, wear glass slippers…..
      The good thing about the wearers of glass slippers, is that when the clock strikes midnight, then things change – Jazindarella turns into rags…
      
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      March 6, 2018 2:32pm
  - Gabby
    
    Did you manage to sort out Ponyboy’s shoes kkkaktee?
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:27am
    - KKKKatee
      
      I wouldn’t normally reply to you Gabby. But, I have to say that John Key demonstrated a very classy style. Beautiful tailormade suits, shirts , beautiful ties etc. And, no doubt, be finished off his ensemble with a very classy pair of shoes. He knows how to buy shoes. Doesn’t need to critiqued for his lack of fashion style. He’s not a Bogan from another place in time. There you have it. Satisfied now?
      
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      March 6, 2018 2:28pm
Nigel Kearney

I assume everyone is as shocked and outraged as I am to learn this week that students hold parties and, at those parties, they sometimes do things that more conservative members of society might consider inappropriate.
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March 6, 2018 8:48am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh, I am not too shocked to learn that a bunch of old men like gawking at pretty young things in the nuddie.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12006794
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:57am
  - Inandout
    
    I am ‘disgusted and offended’ MW.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:14am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Sex is what makes the world go around. I think that’s what people say anyway.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:18am
  - stephieboy
    
    Maggy W , put your name in ?
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:28am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      What are you talking about Mr Pseudonym?
      
      Put my name in where?
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:49am
    - Happychappy
      
      Jesus you are a weasle stephieboy mind you I suppose belonging to a religion that suppresses women’s rights I can see why you choose to bully the women posters on here, as deep down you are a coward.
      
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      March 6, 2018 9:57am
      - Jack5
        
        Stephiestani Bloggers Ltd at the moment has rostered on to Kiwiblog duty the horny, porno-site-posting intern who is frozen in perpetual adolescence.
        
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        March 6, 2018 10:41am
- alex Masterley
  
  Nope, not at all.
  If anything I am slightly miffed that we had no such camps back in the dark ages when I was at Law School.
  All we had was drunkeness.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:05am
  - Gabby
    
    Made up for it later, or did you miss out on the interns too?
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:29am
- Longknives
  
  Thank Christ I went to Otago University back in the mid 90s!
  When we could have parties and drunken shenanigans without Media and Stickybeak Femnazi scrutiny.
  Law Girls and Phys-Ed Girls in particular were crazy! They partied hard, gave as good as they got,and sure as hell weren’t ‘Victims of a sexist, repressive Culture’..
  
  Let the Witch Hunt begin.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:40am
  - Gabby
    
    You’ll be fine lungnuts, you mostly just passed out and wet yourself anyway.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:32am
EAD_TWO

Amy Brooke provides an excellent takedown of Susan Devoy in her latest article from “100 Days to Democracy” article:

Many now regard Susan Devoy as contributing to this, seemingly very much out of her depth with regard to comprehending what her constant stirring of the supposed “hate speech” pot is leading to.

Devoy’s credentials for ever being appointed to her position as Race Relations Conciliator in the first place are a mystery, and she is now understandably regarded by many as very much unsuitable for the position she holds.

Far from being seen as an objective, properly neutral government employee, she is perceived by concerned New Zealanders as very much lacking judgment. Her school-marmish, disapproving attitude towards those concerned at the divisiveness now caused by the promotion of what is increasingly seen as a radicalised, Maori supremacy movement in this country – which many, far from extreme part-Maori individuals also object to – is unreasonable.

Channelling Hugh Pavlov tich – read more @:

https://100daystodemocracy.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/susan-devoy-this-wont-do-high-time-she-resigned/
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March 6, 2018 8:53am
- SPC
  
  Which particular person in that job in the past would you recommend as a role model for anyone in that position?
  
  PS – not noticed the Elliott Broidy story yet?
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:20am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Which particular person in that job in the past would you recommend as a role model for anyone in that position?
    
    Nobody.
    
    The job is a farce. It needs to be scrapped ASAP & consigned to the dustbin of history.
    
    The role starts with the premise that there is a huge problem between the races (& it is all YTs fault) and that it is only through the skilled handling of the likes of Devoy (or whoever is in that role) that there is not some kind of civil war between the races.
    
    The reality is that New Zealand was a far, far happier place before the Politicians and the changes they wrought made people start to see everything through a “race” prism (except YT of course – Pakeha parties and European Students Associations of course being verboten….)
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:55am
  - Gabby
    
    That’s not corruption, that’s cutting through red tape and getting things done.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:37am
- Gabby
  
  Who/what is Amy Brooke eadolf?
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:35am
Inandout

The Oscars meat market it seems. The instructions from the photographers were funny, I could almost have imagined one of them screaming ‘show us your fanny’.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12007109
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March 6, 2018 9:12am
KKKKatee

I picked up the trashy NZ Womens’ Weekly yesterday while out and about and came across a piece of sanitised bullshit re Tracey Martin.
And, to my horror, she appears to wearing those same god damn awful ankle strap shoes that the PM wears. I did a double-take when my eyes zoomed in on ‘those’ shoes. She’s obviously been dressed by the makeover squad and, I have to say, not very inspiring either. As far as I’m concerned, Tracey Martin is so underwhelming that, once again, just proves what an incompetent lot make up the COL.
How the hell do these people make it into Parliament?
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March 6, 2018 9:14am
- MCos
  
  “I picked up the trashy NZ Womens’ Weekly”
  
  Another dollar in the bank for Bauer Media.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:41am
  - itstricky
    
    If I had a dollar for every KBer who “just happened” to look at a Woman’s Weekly…
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:48am
    - Longknives
      
      I just read it for the articles- promise!
      
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      March 6, 2018 10:08am
    - KKKKatee
      
      So, is your choice of mag Playboy then? Do you just happen to pick it up and read it or do you actually buy it and take it home and salivate over it?
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:04am
      - Inandout
        
        Used to be Hustler magazine for the compulsory go to. It left Playboy in the kindergarten group. But who would buy them now?
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:40am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Wrong there. Scan it at the supermarket. No need to buy it.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:02am
    - MCos
      
      I wonder if the supermarket owners put pictures on the wall of people who read the magazines and don’t pay for them?
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:51am
      - KKKKatee
        
        No. That’s be a breach of privacy and, besides which, going by the number of people who are doing exactly the same thing waiting in line, they’d soon run out of wall space. Anyway, the Supermarket owner is making a cool couple of mil or three or five or six, so it really doesn’t make that much difference to the bottom line.
        
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        March 6, 2018 12:37pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  We poverdy folks can’t be rushing down to the #1 shoe store each time there’s a new fashion.
  
  So we look to YouTube for solutions.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV2nV2i2fuc
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:55am
  - Manolo
    
    A woman needs twenty pairs, a man fifteen. 😀
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:15am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Now there’s a thought. Maybe us KBer’s could do a whip around and send the PM some new boots!
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:51am
    - Duxton
      
      How about a Give-a-little page:
      
      “Give Jacinda the Boot!”
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:58pm
      - KKKKatee
        
        Ooh. I like that.
        
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        March 6, 2018 2:22pm
- Rich Prick
  
  At least Tracy’s shoes aren’t nailed on.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:01am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Yet! For that reason I do hope we get to see lots more of Tracey Martin’s feet in the newspaper and mags to see if these are her go-to for favs like the PM.
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:53am
  - Gabby
    
    Like your toupee pricky?
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:40am
- Gabby
  
  crappychappy bagsies next, he needs to check out Jacinda’s bf’s trouser creases.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:39am
Jack5

The real estate industry, a huge advertiser in NZ, seems to have been cracking the whip at the Hooerald.

Slabs of comment yesterday from heads of real estate firms, and today Mike Hosking on the Hooerald web site is attacking moves to restrict foreign home ownership.

The Auckland bubble has been great for the house selling industry.
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March 6, 2018 9:23am
- ztev
  
  Hosking is always unhappy when national is unhappy.
  Once he realises those ‘foreign buyers’ dont listen to his show …oopps
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:48am
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UNITED KINGDOM … PM THERESA MAY HOUSING SPEECH …

Theresa May’s housing speech in full: Prime Minister promises crackdown on landbanking developers – Mirror Online

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/theresa-mays-housing-speech-full-12130186

Prime Minister Theresa May today vowed to make it harder for developers who “sit on land and watch its value rise” to get planning permission.

The Prime Minister stressed she “cannot bring about the kind of society I want to see, unless we tackle one of the biggest barriers to social mobility we face today” – the lack of affordable housing.

And she signalled a new approach to planning permission on green belt land. … view and read more via hyperlink above …
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March 6, 2018 9:25am
- SPC
  
  The American hedge fund boys landbank via their golf courses (taking the land out of use drives up the areas land values) – which will later be on-sold and turned into gated community development.
  
  Given we have no CGT … a nice little earner
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:58am
  - Jack5
    
    That will explain why the American investor (and golf course developer) has been kicking up about the Government’s plans on foreign ownership.
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=12006548
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:31am
Jack5

No enough gloom? Global warming, trade wars, failed border and immigration system ….

We are made aware of the ~~threat,~~ ~~risk,~~ ~~possibility,~~ chance of a super-size tidal wave swamping the NZ east coast, with poor old Christchurch most vulnerable. Within 10 minutes, it would sweep miles inland, leaving fuck all of Christchurch and probably drowning at least scores of thousands of people.

But the whole east coast of the country would be hit.

Do insurers and re-insurers read this stuff? Up go our premiums!

It used to be the religious who preached on street corners, “The end is nigh.”

Still, in Christchurch for decades we took scant notice of the engineers who were warning about liquefaction. Not that I heard of anyone drowning in it.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12007104
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March 6, 2018 9:45am
- cmm
  
  A huge squirrel bomb!
  
  Stop worrying about the CoL. Have a look at this CGI video showing what a 12m high tsunami could to to the East coast.
  
  If that’s not enough we can make another CGI with a twenty metre wave.
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:50am
  - Lance
    
    Better still, why not frantically panic about a meteor impact in the Pacific. Even a modest one could create 1km high waves travelling at supersonic speeds (actual predictions).
    Now that would rip ya shorts
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:05am
    - Longknives
      
      Relax Lance- I’m pretty sure NASA has a plan to send Bruce Willis into space to Nuke the meteor…
      
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      March 6, 2018 10:47am
    - cmm
      
      But we can’t blame a meteor impact on global warming and make the white man pay.
      
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      March 7, 2018 8:14am
  - RF
    
    I told my wife we should head to Taupo to avoid the tidal waves and then she reminded me about the semi active volcano sitting under the lake.
    
    Bugger.
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:33am
    - Lance
      
      Better still to remember that the Taupo eruption was the biggest in (recorded) human history. The Romans commented on the spectacular sunsets etc which vulcanologists say was the Taupo ash -cloud engulfing the earth.
      The big arse boulders all around Port Waikato are from that explosion.
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:48am
  - Gabby
    
    I conn’t recall the media ever running stories lock this in the posst, can you cmmiebokkie?
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:44am
- itstricky
  
  At the beauty parlour with KKKKattee yesterday?
  
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  March 6, 2018 9:51am
  - Jack5
    
    Istricky, still smarting that I likened the Hooerald news to the women’s glossies.
    Well much of it (but not all – yet) is.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:54am
    - itstricky
      
      still smarting that I likened the Hooerald news to the women’s glossies
      
      Funny that you’re still obviously reading it and posting about it here, then, isn’t it? That would be the point of my post. Well done, Jack, well done.
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:51pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    I love it when people ‘assume’ things. It you take the word apart you get – ass-u-me. FYI itstricky, I actually scanned the NZWW at the supermarket. Didn’t buy it – just scanned it.
    That ok with you?
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:50am
    - itstricky
      
      Fine and dandy by me. You seem a little too on edge about this. Perhaps I forgot my sarcasm tag.
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:52pm
- Harkman
  
  Live on the Port Hills Jack.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There will be a hell of a mess if it hits during the summer hols..The coast is chokka with Freedom campers.
  My old boss’s take on the matter:
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/letters-to-the-editor/6224683/Letter-Beware-this-camping-ground
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:14am
  - nasska
    
    Tsunamis of that size & more have struck NZ before Maggy. There’s a NZ Geographic article that mentions kauri trees, metres in diameter , lying east west which have been snapped off at ground level. A tsunami capable of that wouldn’t leave much of NZ standing.
    
    There’s also mention of a tsunami originating at the Kermadics that struck northern NZ in 1420. It was 45 metres in height at Hendersons Bay (just north of Pukenui).
    
    https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/far-north-tail-of-the-fish/
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:22am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Tsunamis of that size & more have struck NZ before Maggy.
      
      Indeed they have.
      I recommend Bruce McFadgen’s book:
      Hostile Shores: AUP 2007.
      https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Hostile_Shores.html?id=p190AAAAMAAJ
      
      Until he published this book, knowledge of Tsunamis hitting NZ was pretty limited.
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:39pm
Rich Prick

The people of Golden Bay must be thrilled that Cindy is swanning about the Pacific Islands spraying tens of millions of dollars about at those taxpayers of ours.
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March 6, 2018 9:50am
- SPC
  
  Sustainable islands (infrastructure) allows some in Auckland to retire there and their reduces pressure on our housing.
  
  Pity WP is a creature of the days of ANZUS and a tool of the Australian deputy dogs (the USA does not do aid), our policy should be to form partnerships with China (one belt), Japan and the EU in identifying and funding investment in the Pacific.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:04am
  - Jack5
    
    Retiring to the islands means pensions add to NZ’s balance-of-payments deficits, but it might be a small help to this country’s housing shortage.
    
    What happens when the retirees need medical treatment, perhaps dialysis? I guess they would have been entitled to such taxpayer-funded treatment if they hadn’t left the country.
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:09am
    - SPC
      
      Any more than people borrowing more from offshore to buy homes because of inflated prices derived from a housing shortage (and meanwhile people struggle to pay rent and never own a home) does?
      
      Infrastructure includes such (dialysis) machines being available locally.
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:13am
      - Jack5
        
        You’re right. The banksters put petrol on the housing-price bonfire with their heavy borrowing overseas, when once New Zealand savings financed our housing. They lifted lending to more than 100 per cent of buying value in some cases (covering buyer’s legal costs).
        
        Banksters have also fuelled the fire with commentaries highlighting immigration-fuelled GDP growth, when in fact GDP per capita has been pretty much flat.
        
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        March 6, 2018 11:40am
- Harkman
  
  I saw that, Cindy was giving away millions to Samoa. Naturally, Samoa was very happy.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:38am
- howitis
  
  If the P.I.s channelled their money into health care and purchasing eg Dialysis machines instead of the fortune they send off to the US money churches (eg. Seventh Day Adventist and Latter Day Saints ) there would not be such a problem.
  
  Those missionaries did not rush out to the Pacific to save goddamn souls – no it was a land grab and about control over others. Not only that but in the ‘set up years’ the young males (and now females) of LDS are expected to go to far off places and work for free for 2 years as a missionary instead of earning and getting set up in life.
  It is exploitation.
  
  Probably one of the smarter things (it is not a long list ) the Marxist princess did was get out of the LDS racket. A 10% tithe on a $500k salary for jetting around the Pacific and modelling for Vogue while not answering questions – noice!
  
  The yankee money churches were a bit late for the land grab as they formed after about 1840.
  The European churches were in like robbers dogs from the get go.
  The ‘money’ churches, being late to the land grab, adjusted to get their ‘dues’ from cashflow.
  For all the criticism of Brian Tamaki he has simply used the ‘US Money Church’ model but does not have the well oiled bullshit machine that those churches do.
  
  The LDS church is worth $40 billion (very, very conservative estimate as estimtes are over 200 billion) and has annual gross cashflow of USD7 + Billion per annum from a base of only 15 million members worldwide.
  There are about 500,00 members of LDS in the Oceania region.
  They sure know how to exploit. Masterclass.
  Total spent on disaster relief in the last 30 years – about USD1.4 billion. Not a lot compared to income. Money money money! Source:
  
  https://utahvalley360.com/2016/08/10/how-rich-is-the-lds-church/
  
  Seventh Day Adventists not only exploit these poor people; in addition they don’t even pay tax on their ‘trading’ income from Sanitarium Foods. Bastards!
  
  Meanwhile NZ taxpayers are spending on the Pacific for stupid money.
  In Sept 2009 there was an earthquake in Samoa. NZers contributed money both privately and via the Govt. This went to Village chiefs.
  What had just happened a few weeks before? The traffic changed from Left hand drive to Right hand drive. The sale of Toyota 4 Runners was good after that. Hail to the Chief!
  
  What is the point of giving NZ taxpayer money to young people – with no business experience?
  Or women with no business experience.
  We would be far better giving it away to foreign-owned companies like Rocket Lab /sarc
  It truly is a stupid waste of money.
  
  It would be bedda if the Labour Pardy addressed the issue of its voter base in eg south Auckland where many of its voters get a hiding from all sides- Tithe to the church, plus money back to family in the islands (using expensive Western union); then they get pressure from family to rent a freezer for a ‘Feast’ or $$$ for a funeral and borrow the money from exploitative lenders.
  
  How about addressing the real problems and leave taxpayers money for fixing our storm damage as RP says!
  
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  March 6, 2018 4:44pm
- Piniwi
  
  Upside RP they don’t have to go far to get some firewood that if they have an approved burner? But joking aside they have a massive clean up job with nowhere to turn for help it seems. The Jones boy won’t be too happy about lost forestry replanting areas if they protest hard enough.
  
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  March 6, 2018 5:20pm
DigNap15

I see a guy out on bail attacked a service station in Hamilton.
I hope Andrew Little sees this.
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March 6, 2018 10:04am
- waikatogirl
  
  Missed his name on the news item earlier, another Maori chap in for attempted murderer will be released from the prison today as his sentence has been served and he is released into an unsuspecting community even though he is a threat to others and himself. This sperm donor of 3 children attacked his kids with a machete and knife, and it is believed he will do it again if he can find them.
  The family have moved from their home, essentially gone into hiding from this dangerous and pathetic individual.
  Bet he will be back behind bars for hurting someone else in the not too distant future.
  
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  March 6, 2018 10:24am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Lucky them.
    
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    March 6, 2018 10:55am
  - GoVege
    
    They weren’t just kids, WG, they were babies.
    One a few months old, another 18 months older.
    Why isn’t this psycho in a mental institution?
    
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    March 6, 2018 12:34pm
- Gabby
  
  I hope the judge who granted bail sees it bignipis.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:48am
Manolo

stephieboy is delighted:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/05/ex-trump-aide-nunberg-will-refuse-mueller-subpoena.html

Sam Nunberg, a former aide to Donald Trump, said Monday that he thinks special counsel Robert Mueller might have something on the president.

When asked whether Mueller’s team might have something on Trump, Nunberg told MSNBC, “I think they may.”
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March 6, 2018 10:13am
- Gabby
  
  Massive story: somebody thinks something.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:49am
- virtualmark
  
  Nunberg’s (several) interviews today were a total train wreck unfolding right in front of you.
  
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  March 6, 2018 1:15pm
EAD_TWO

More people begin to “notice”:

https://twitter.com/itswildrich/status/970076306040815616

https://twitter.com/ThePatriaut/status/970535333484945408
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March 6, 2018 10:19am
Jack5

MMP has delivered a populist parties victory in Italy that could shake up the EU.

The Telegraph says the populist parties are vowing openly to defy EU fiscal rules, banking codes, and migrant policies.

The newspaper reports:

“The euro is and remains a failure,” was the opening salvo of Matteo Salvini, triumphant leader of populist Lega.

“It is clear in our minds that the system of monetary union is destined to end, and therefore we wish to prepare for that moment.”
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March 6, 2018 11:05am
- Jack5
  
  The Guardian comments:
  
  In recent months, more sleep has been lost in Brussels over Italian politics than anything Theresa May’s government might do. That alarm was vindicated by Sunday’s election.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:22am
  - SPC
    
    I have some sympathy for Brexit. It derives from
    
    1. Blair allowing East Europeans to come in when this could have been deferred for 10 years, as the Germans chose.
    2. Merkel’s million, some of whom would have ended up in the UK on benefits (as they spoke English).
    3. Cameron’s failure to get the EU to allow the UK the right to refuse to grant income and housing benefits to EU residents in the UK.
    
    But surely the UK government should have considered the option of leveraging the vote to get such terms? Or a continuance in the single market on such terms – the money saved in such available for the health budget …
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:53am
    - DigNap15
      
      Hardly, when you are outvoted 28 to 1
      
      A country needs to protects its borders, and its sovereignty and its culture.
      
      The EU started off as a customs and trade area.
      
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      March 6, 2018 11:56am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes I was hopping for Iexit
    
    F..k the EU
    F..k Angela Merkel (well not me personally)
    
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    March 6, 2018 11:54am
Goon

Whatever you political persuasion, worth pondering Anne-Marie Brady’s paper and a little background:

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/magicweaponsanne-mariebradyseptember162017.pdf

https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/australia-new-zealand-face-chinas-influence

Things that make you go hmmmmm….
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March 6, 2018 11:23am
- Justitia
  
  Yes Professor Brady has performed a great service. There are serious questions for both major parties to answer which they have tried to ignore.
  
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  March 6, 2018 12:14pm
Longknives

How lovely! Little Miss ‘Capitalism has Failed’ is having a huge family reunion at the poor old Taxpayer’s expense-

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102007922/jacinda-arderns-homecoming-visit-to-niue
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March 6, 2018 11:24am
- Gabby
  
  If she takes up golf that’ll be the final straw lungnuts.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:52am
Jack5

Qantas flight crews have been told not to tell passengers Australia was “settled” by the British, but to speak of “colonisation,” “occupation”, or invasion.

They were also told not to talk of “husband” and “wife”, because it can make same-sex couples and single-parent families feel excluded.

This bullshit has been developed with the help of the “Diversity Council of Australia.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/05/australian-flight-crew-told-minimise-manterruptions-avoid-saying/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
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March 6, 2018 11:33am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes, but what I want to know is, does Qantas welcome emotional support animals on its flights – cats, dogs, miniature horses, goats etc.
  SB take note: am asking on your behalf……
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:57am
- KKKKatee
  
  That is pathetic. I absolutely refuse to refer to my husband as my ‘partner’. I don’t give a shit about the feelings of the bloody Lesbos and Homos, sorry.
  If they’re not comfortable with introducing their pattern as their wife or whatever they call it, then I don’t see why a perfectly respectable married couple e.g. man and wife have to brought down to the level of these morons and made to feel shame about using the term ‘wife’ or ‘husband’. I reckon, anyway, that normal married people will soon be the minority and we’ll need to get counselling for co-habiting with someone of the opposite sex.
  
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  March 6, 2018 12:42pm
Chuck Bird

This is a good reason why we should not have Muslim schools in NZ. What happened there could happen here.

How a teacher sought to recruit a terror ‘death squad’

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43172379
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March 6, 2018 11:39am
- DigNap15
  
  That is why we should not have any muslims here.
  Because they will want schools, which lead to madrassas, and terrorism, and calls for sharia law.
  
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  March 6, 2018 12:53pm
- stephieboy
  
  Chuck Bird , but we do . This one opened in 2005,
  
  http://www.al-madinah.school.nz
  
  No reporting of recruiting of terror death squad members to date
  
  There are other similar schools too.
  
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  March 6, 2018 1:02pm
- KKKKatee
  
  It’s not a matter of if and when, it’s a matter of WHEN! We’ve got 50,000 of them in NZ, so it’s only a matter of time when they turn on us.
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:19pm
SPC

Man in Oz claims to be homosexual, so would not be safe if returned to Lebanon. Woman from Lebanon overstays on student visa and marries man before she is deported.

Two options

1. decide the marriage is a shame and deport the woman.
2. decide he was faking being homosexual and deport both.

Instead, this is where Oz is with this one.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/102000688/aussie-judge-blasts-illogical-decision-that-homosexuality-is-fixed-at-birth
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March 6, 2018 11:42am
Muttonbird

Seems Todd Scott of the NBR was a long time employee of Seven Joyce’s. No wonder he’s doing his bidding now.

Filthy bunch, the lot of them.
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March 6, 2018 11:47am
- Lance
  
  As opposed to 8 Joyces?
  Now that’s a family business.
  
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  March 6, 2018 11:51am
Justitia

Just done the census. Why do these questions on racial groups, religion and disabilities make me uneasy? Is it because the collection of this information was pioneered under the Third Reich and Parliament is considering euthanasia? Just a coincidence, look a squirrel! But then what business is it of the government’s to know whether I’m a one-eyed inbred who worships with the Bush Brotherhood?
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March 6, 2018 12:20pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes it was their doctors that started the concentration camps for the mentally ill.
  
  Papers Please!
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:24pm
  - Justitia
    
    Yes, it was called the Aktion T4 program. It was presented initially as mercy killing and as an emergency war measure to get rid of “useless mouths”, first by starvation, then by lethal injection and finally by SS men dressed in white coats who turned the showers on for you. It became the prelude to the Holocaust. Slippery slope this euthanasia business…
    
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    March 6, 2018 2:41pm
Chuck Bird

I heard this being discussed on Leighton Smith just before noon. He asked people to ring in and say what she thought should be her penalty. About three women rang and thought she should have got no penalty.

We of course do not know the full facts. Having said that I can sympathize with her situation. I agree with some of the callers that the sister and ex should not have called the police but made it clear that there would be no more violence. However, I think if the judge did not impose some penalty it would have been a sexist penalty. If it was a brother instead of a sister he probably would have been charged with male assaults female.

I wonder what women on KB think of the sentence.

Woman convicted of assaults after finding ex-partner in bed with her sister

However, Judge Barkle believed there needed to be a punitive element to the sentence despite the circumstances of the case.

After taking into account her early guilty pleas and lack of previous convictions, he ordered Wineera to complete 100 hours of community work and a 12 month term of supervision.

A bid for permanent name suppression was made at the hearing by Rai but this was declined by the judge.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/101988048/woman-convicted-of-assaults-after-finding-expartner-in-bed-with-her-sister
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March 6, 2018 12:22pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Assault is assault -there have to be some consequences, surely?
  The question would have been, is it more excusable because it was the defendant’s sister cheating with the ex partner?
  Shouldn’t matter really, but in the world of fluffy thinking it would be a much worse crime for the sister to be doing it – as opposed to some random skank.
  
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  March 6, 2018 7:33pm
KKKKatee

Has anyone seen or heard of Robbo lately? Is he hiding in a bunker somewhere inspecting the fiscal hole? Has he been gagged by the PM? I reckon a “Where’s Robbo” jigsaw could be lots of fun……
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March 6, 2018 12:44pm
- Longknives
  
  “Is he hiding in a bunker somewhere inspecting the fiscal hole?”
  
  Fnarr Fnarr..
  
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  March 6, 2018 12:54pm
- Prince
  
  To accompany the ‘Where’s Robbo’ jigsaw I suggest a daily on line competition;
  ‘HOW MUCH OF YOUR MONEY WILL JACINDA SPEND TODAY ‘ ?
  Pick a number between $5M (never is less than that) and $1B, or select;
  a) $5M – $10M
  b) $10M – $50M
  c) $50M-250M
  d) $250M-$800M
  e) Over $800M
  
  Kiwiblog could run an annual total similar to the trees (need more digits though) for a grand prize.
  
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  March 6, 2018 12:56pm
  - Longknives
    
    Correction- It’s ‘her’ money Prince.
    Don’t you remember her ‘Your Education’s on me!’ comments to Students?
    
    It’s all Jacinda’s World- We’re just lucky enough to live in it…
    
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    March 6, 2018 1:18pm
- stigie
  
  Sweet cheeks has an anal infection i believe. Recommendations by his Physician that a 2 months stand down from normal activities cease forthwith.
  Alf is beside himself and somewhat distraught !~
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:11pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    Ha! Ha! Alf could take matters into his own hands if you get my drift!
    
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    March 6, 2018 2:48pm
Gravelroad

Thank goodness Muttonbird and ztev have come on shift to take some of the load off Gabby.
Poor Gabby has been struggling to make any sense at all today and has used up almost all his/her stock of insulting name permutations.
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March 6, 2018 12:50pm
Manolo

A confederacy of dunces:
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/stats-minister-missing-in-action/ar-BBJUjYo

National is accusing Statistics Minister James Shaw of “swanning around the Pacific” while his department grapples with census problems.

Former statistics minister Scott Simpson says it’s “unbelievable” Mr Shaw is out the country during the most important interaction his department has with the public.
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March 6, 2018 12:53pm
- Longknives
  
  Is there anybody from the Coalition from Hell actually left in New Zealand??
  Seems they are all away enjoying glorious holidays at the Proletariat’s expense.
  
  *If we are lucky we might get a Postcard ‘Having a great break, weather is beautiful- Please send more Taxpayer Money’..
  
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  March 6, 2018 1:13pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Don’t worry, Kelvin has everything under control.
    
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    March 6, 2018 1:44pm
    - sooty
      
      Is the duck still shitting in his nest.
      
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      March 6, 2018 5:41pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Scott Simpson is dead right. Shaw was happy to answer patsy questions from his fellow Green MP’s about the census last Thursday in Parliament, but he is missing in action today, Census Day. That is absolutely inexcusable.
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    He can’t see the white caps in the choppy sea of Green.
    
    This census, with a change in the technology implementing it, should have the Minister-skipper on the bridge till processing is complete.
    
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    March 6, 2018 3:01pm
rangitoto

I walked down Queen Street today. First time this year. I noticed that there are still beggars about. Since Taxinda fixed poverdy, they must be rich prick beggars who hand out cash to the public. I admit I didn’t observe any of them doing that though.
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March 6, 2018 1:43pm
- Inandout
  
  Queen St is now a shithole, none of the glamour it used to have.
  
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  March 6, 2018 6:51pm
KKKKatee

Breaking news. Steven Joyce resigns. It will now be interesting who Simon Bridges appoints as Finance Minister. How many other past their use by date MP’s need to move on?
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March 6, 2018 1:56pm
- Brigitte
  
  It could be any remaining National MP.
  Or it could be an MP who knows more about finance than Robertson.
  
  But then, I repeat myself.
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:09pm
sam green

Good job – the poisonous canker of National. His lies will catch up with him.
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March 6, 2018 2:03pm
- rangitoto
  
  Yeah, the hole is much more than 11 billion.
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:45pm
RF

That will help break the log jam and allow fresh blood up through the ranks.

Somehow did not surprise me as he had made some doubtful decisions over the last couple of years.

Need a couple more to fall on their sword.
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March 6, 2018 2:09pm
- brett68
  
  I’d like to see Nick Smith go, he’s well and truly past time.
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:12pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    The problem with Smith going is that there would be a by-election. The Greens were bequeathed a large sum of money specifically for the Nelson electorate, and could well take the seat from National, as Smith has a very strong personal following that a new candidate would have to replicate.
    
    That would give the Greens the security of a seat in Parliament should they retain it in 2020, but fail to reach the 5% threshhold. Do you REALLY want that to happen?
    
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    March 6, 2018 2:16pm
    - KKKKatee
      
      Sorry, I downtick you by mistake.
      No, Smith should stay under those circumstances.
      
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      March 6, 2018 2:46pm
    - nasska
      
      Could be worth the risk to get rid of the useless bastard.
      
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      March 6, 2018 4:10pm
KKKKatee

Another piece of news is a monumental cock-up from the Ministry of Children. An informant is in a very precarious situation as a result of a letter being sent to the wrong person. In a nutshell, someone has made a report to the Ministry about some unsavoury goings on and the idiots in the Ministry have sent a letter to the very people who were being complained about and the subject of an investigation. Letter should have gone to the informant. Buck stops at the top eh Tracey? How are you going to justify this one.
It came up on Newshub and now it’s disappeared. Bugger.
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March 6, 2018 2:10pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  It was right at the top of the 6pm news on One last night as well.
  
  Oddly though, considering this was a lead story last night, when you go to the page after a Google search, this is what comes up:
  
  Sorry, we can’t find the page you’re looking for.
  
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/do-you-muck-up-privacy-breach-ministry-children-leaves-auckland-woman-fearing-her-life?auto=5744971765001
  
  Surely no one is censoring TVNZ’s website, removing any stories that portray the government in a negative light…surely not.
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:24pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    I smell a rat!
    
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    March 6, 2018 2:44pm
    - rangitoto
      
      Orders from above?
      
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      March 6, 2018 2:57pm
      - sooty
        
        MSM, covering up.
        
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        March 6, 2018 5:39pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Funny KS but got this snippet last night.
    On Friday, a letter confirming her complaint was sent to her – the problem is, the ministry addressed it to the person she was complaining about, and she’s now receiving threats of violence.
    Unbelievable the level of incompetence that is extending far and wide as standards are “relaxed”.
    
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    March 6, 2018 5:39pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Here’s the interview on the Newshub site.
    http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/03/ministry-for-children-apologises-for-pretty-big-screw-up-that-left-woman-scared-for-her-life.html
    
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    March 6, 2018 6:05pm
Manolo

Trudeau is a joke in his own country:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trudeau-is-an-insult-to-feminism-and-to-seriousness/

Pandering is what Mr. Trudeau does best. He wants to be more feminist than the feminists and more Bollywood than Shah Rukh Khan. The trouble is that he’s trying way too hard. So he just comes off as opportunistic and condescending.

Both the India trip and the budget − both of which should be routine affairs – have exposed the worst defects of Mr. Trudeau and his team. They are all politics and no policy; all play-acting and no substance. Just last year the international media were styling Mr. Trudeau as “the free world’s best hope,” as Rolling Stone breathlessly put it. Now, he’s Mr. Dressup. The scornful headlines from the global media were nothing short of epic. “Trudeau’s India trip is a total disaster – and he has only himself to blame,” went one headline in The Washington Post.
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March 6, 2018 2:17pm
waikatogirl

Cindy was greeted on her arrival in Niue by the High Commissioner Ross Adern, her father. During Cindy’s thank you speech she referred to herself as having been called the “daughter of Niue”.

Is this appropriate for a visiting PM or a political foreign affairs foot-in-the-mouth moment, potentially showing a closer relationship to one Island more than another?
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March 6, 2018 2:20pm
- RF
  
  That will really piss off the other islands as they all very jealous of their position in the South Pacific.
  
  Any hint of favouritism would be treated with outrage.
  
  I see the Niue PM had his hand out for money so other islands will be closely watching to see how much of our money he will receive.
  
  Grant will have to air freight another pork barrel up to the islands.
  
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  March 6, 2018 2:32pm
  - holysheet
    
    Be a lot cheaper if Robbo just gave them one of his many money trees. He would need to tell them how to nurture it, so they would not be back on a few years for more.
    
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    March 6, 2018 4:18pm
Jack5

Hang on tight, folks, she’s taking the bus off the road and into the paddocks …

Printed in the Sydney Morning Herald is an Australian take on Jacinderella’s plan to incorporate social and Green targets alongside measures such as GDP.

Jacinderella aims to turn NZ into a social laboratory, just as social democrat politicians overseas seem to be slipping into the waste basket of history.

Peter Hartcher writes:

“If Ardern can sensibly pioneer a way to transform modern economies from GDP-centric systems to ones that put human wellbeing at the centre in a systematic way, she might do a lot more than improve living standards in NZ. She just might revitalise the vision and purpose of social democracy everywhere.”

https://www.smh.com.au/national/ardern-s-social-laboratory-for-the-world-20180305-p4z2uc.html
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March 6, 2018 2:39pm
- DigNap15
  
  Oh no
  Don’t look, while I spew into my basket.
  
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  March 6, 2018 3:15pm
- Rich Prick
  
  She’s going to be relentlessly posidive about GDP ‘cause numbas aren’t her strong point.
  
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  March 6, 2018 4:15pm
stephieboy

Is this a remarkable coincide that has largely gone unnoticed since the President went brain dead over Tariffs ?

“Ex-Trump adviser Carl Icahn dumps $31M in stocks days before steel tariffs announced”

https://globalnews.ca/news/4060486/donald-trump-adviser-carl-icahn-dumps-31m-stocks-steel-tariffs/
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March 6, 2018 5:27pm
- Ross12
  
  Please tell us stephieboy why it is OK for other countries to have tariffs on Chinese steel but not the US. Just to remind you both the UK and the EU increased their tariffs last year.
  Just saw on the BBC that the USA has a 2% tariff in EU cars but the EU tariff on USA cars is 10%.
  
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  March 6, 2018 7:25pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Ralph/Stephie is too dumb and ignorant. His intellectual depth is at car park puddle level.
    
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    March 6, 2018 7:35pm
DigNap15

It looks like Kim Jung Un wants to have talks with the USA.
And it even looks like Trump is saying they could have talks, even with no guarantee of NK de-nuclaristaions.

This is good. It shows the sanctions are working.
If I were the USA
I would not humiliate Fat Boy

But I would insist and complete supervised destruction of all their nuclear facilities.
And I would also insist of the withdrawal of of all of the NK artillery near the border back well out of range. And the destruction of all the hidden hard shelters.
Then I would lift the sanctions and offer them economic help.
Otherwise NK will just use this to buy more time.
InN the meantime, keep the sanctions going and stop the Chinese and Russian ships (and all the rest)
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March 6, 2018 5:34pm
- Johnboy
  
  Or you could just go for a quick nuclear strike from say 4 SSBN’s just off the coast to minimise any likely response from the Chinese or Russians and solve the problem of the Kim empire for several half-lifes! 🙂
  
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  March 6, 2018 6:15pm
starboard

Hmm..I saw a link showing a scumbag appearing in the Dunedin court charged with murdering a 16 yr old girl recently. His head was blurred but you could make out his colour. Brown.
However, my guess is that he is an import as he is 30 yrs old but very slight in stature. He had that filthy muslim feel about him. In 48 hrs you should know who the cunt is.
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March 6, 2018 6:14pm
- stephieboy
  
  starboard , the Amber Rose Rush murder ?
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/101563312/dunedin-doctor-accused-of-killing-teenager-amberrose-rush-to-plead-not-guilty
  
  Don’t you think you’re jumping to conclusions ?
  
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  March 6, 2018 6:59pm
- cha
  
  Your guess is wrong. He was named in a news article following his arrest but was granted interim suppression and the details were removed.
  
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  March 6, 2018 7:27pm
  - stephieboy
    
    cha, then what is his name ?
    
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    March 6, 2018 7:42pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Who gives a fuck, but the prick is an Indian.
      And a doctor.
      
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      March 6, 2018 8:29pm
Nostradamus

Pete George has asked for feedback on the uptick/downtick voting system at YourNZ:

I’m open to whether the comment ticking feature should remain here, or should be removed. … It may be that most people think that ticking is ok and largely harmless and adds to the flavour of Your NZ. Or ticking may be seen as not very useful and too open to abuse. If there is strong support for Nero ticking to remain then I may just leave it on. If there is strong support for removing it then I will turn it off, at least for a trial period. If opinion is mixed I may turn Nero ticking off for a period, and then re-evaluate, possibly through another discussion. I may support a minority view if there are good arguments that ticking deters some participation.

At YourNZ, unlike Kiwiblog, comments aren’t hidden when they reach a certain level.
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March 6, 2018 6:17pm
- Johnboy
  
  Like all the other members of the Praetorian Guard I voted against Nero being allowed to carry on! 🙂
  
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  March 6, 2018 6:21pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Sometimes I venture over there..
  You’d be lucky if any comment on YNZ attracted more than 3 up or down ticks.
  I can’t see what PG is trying to determine.
  
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  March 6, 2018 6:21pm
  - nasska
    
    Thanks for the reference to McFadgen’s book Maggy.
    
    I’ve ordered a copy of Hostile Shores today.
    
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    March 6, 2018 6:29pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Donkey years ago Bruce surveyed some levels for me when I was doing my hons project at Pauatahanui Inlet. He seemed to be excited by some change in landform in a nearby paddock. He’s had his eye on our coastline for a long-time.
      Tsunamis originally didn’t come up on the list of topics we were going to cover in Te Ara – Online encyclopedia of NZ., as there was hardly any information available about NZ ones. But after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the Geological editor, Simon Nathan, insisted we have an article on them.
      https://teara.govt.nz/en/tsunamis/page-1
      
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      March 6, 2018 7:17pm
DigNap15

What is Nero ticking?
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March 6, 2018 6:50pm
- nasska
  
  Nero is a web host for blogs. Kiwiblog is hosted by Word Press.
  
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  March 6, 2018 7:01pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Thanks for that.
    
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    March 6, 2018 9:42pm
DigNap15

Here’s another one

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12007494

But not a muslim, probably a guy shacking up with a kiwi girl, trying to get residence or something.
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March 6, 2018 6:59pm
- stephieboy
  
  “ probably a guy…” ???
  
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  March 6, 2018 7:02pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Bit like you’re ‘possibly a man’
    The Jury’s still out on that.
    Actually, you keep perving in parks, the Jury part might come true!
    
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    March 6, 2018 7:13pm
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Wed ,
      
      From TM,
      
      Your master is sinking in a pile of crap ,
      
      Trump is hanging on by a thread and Mueller is standing below, with a fire lit
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/05/trump-canada
      -mexico-steel-aluminium-tariffs-aluminum
      
      Top Republican Paul Ryan splits with Trump over trade tariffs
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/05/trump-sam-nu
      nberg-interview-mueller-illegal-claims
      
      Former Trump aide says president ‘may have done something illegal’
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/05/trump-sam-nunberg-interview-mueller-illegal-claimsl
      
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      March 6, 2018 7:38pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘May have’
        Hahahahahahahahaah
        March 5 2018
        The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 50%of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance.
        ‘Sinking’
        Heh, Obama was at 43% at this time in his Presidency
        
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        March 6, 2018 7:46pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red Herring .con ,
        
        Gallup has a much better measure of his approval rating ,
        
        http://news.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx
        
        Stop chasing ghosts !
        
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        March 6, 2018 8:11pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Gallup?
        No they don’t
        Rasmussen was the most accurate Polling company in the 2016 Election
        FACT
        Stop telling lies.
        
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        March 6, 2018 8:17pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘An American Research Group study[60] based on the method of Martin, Traugott, and Kennedy,[61] found that Rasmussen Reports had the highest accuracy among 25 pollsters in the 2016 election.’
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports
        
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        March 6, 2018 8:27pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Well I knew it would not be a goat
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:51pm
Suze Wainwright

Recently Ron Mark berated the National Party during question time for knowing the cost of everything, but the value of nothing!
Does that mean that Winston now knows the cost of Ron, but not his value?
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March 6, 2018 8:01pm
nasska

When Trump was elected I was 50/50 for or against the man. Against, he was a bombastic TV star….for, he wasn’t Hillary Clinton.

Yet my esteem of Trump has risen in direct proportion to the volume of the snowflakes’ tears & their deranged attempts to clutch desperately at any snippet of untested info that’s disparaging of the man.
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March 6, 2018 8:06pm
- stephieboy
  
  nasska, can you link us to a sampling of your posts prior to November 8 2016 re Trump ?
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:13pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Speaking of deranged losers, here’s Stephiebile!
    
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    March 6, 2018 8:22pm
cha

Paint looks as good as it did in 1942.

We've located the USS Lexington after she sank 76 yrs ago. #RVPetrel found the WWII aircraft carrier & planes more than 3000m (~2mi) below Coral Sea near Australia. We remember her brave crew who helped secure 1st strategic US win in the Pacific Theater https://t.co/20ehjafD7d pic.twitter.com/HIvxNUDbsX— Paul Allen (@PaulGAllen) March 5, 2018

That plane is a TBD (Numbered T-8) belonging to VT-2 Squadron on the Lex. This record shows it was flown by one 2-T-8, pilot, Ensign C. Hamilton, USN. https://t.co/Vrwwav1VD7It apparently fell overboard on a landing attempt— Jozef Foerch (@JoeFoerch) March 6, 2018

https://www.paulallen.com/uss-lexington-wreck-located-rv-petrel/
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March 6, 2018 8:25pm
- nasska
  
  Thanks cha. Very interesting.
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:43pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes amazing how she is still all in one piece.
  
  I am just reading Shattered Sword by Parshall and Tully
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:53pm
Jack5

Antifa-type masked trash shut down free-speech meeting at British university:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5466359/Several-people-hurt-thugs-shut-FREE-SPEECH-event.html
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March 6, 2018 9:36pm
tavita

More dubious anti-booze propaganda
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12007390

Is it possible that there are more bars in places where there are more people?
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March 6, 2018 10:40pm
Jack5

William Hague in an article in the Telegraph behind its paywall:

“The brutal bit for the moderate Left is they need to join the voters in rejecting uncontrolled immigration and the further loss of national sovereignty.”

Meanwhile in NZ, the Left is seeking a special passport to open the country to climate change refugees, and, probably, the National Opposition still is locked in the immigration-for-growth ponzi ideology.
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March 6, 2018 11:44pm
DigNap15

Where is the GD for the 7th of March ?

Has no one got out of bed yet.
I know its hump day!
But whose job is it.
I don’t know how to start one.
Normally its there by 8am
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