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duggledog

Today feels a bit like the Berlin wall coming down, a moment I’ll never forget.

Korean War is over. Seems too good to be true but things change in the world.

Trump did this. Someone buy that man a Speights, because he sure won’t ever get a Nobel Peace Prize.

The old adage: ‘Pay no mind to what a politician says. Pay heed to what they do’ has never been more appropriate.
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April 28, 2018 8:01am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  The Nobel committee can’t award Trump the Peace Prize because, like all libtards, they’re having trouble with their own sexual abuse problems.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:04am
  - MCos
    
    The North’s nukes haven’t even been decommissioned yet and all you can talk about is who shouts morning tea.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:24am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      But you libtards started this tradition of celebrating absolutely nothing at all! Surely you wouldn’t want to suggest that Obama’s Nobel was for nothing at all or that the way Jacinda has been feted for merely getting up the duff is just libtards grabbing at straws of legitimacy.
      
      But wait, I forget myself – hypocrisy! It’s OK when the left do it!
      
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      April 28, 2018 4:38pm
- Justitia
  
  The images from the DMZ have been amazing to see and there now appear to be grounds for hope for an end to the war and a nuclear arms control regime. But great risks remain. Trump has got this far by keeping the North Koreans and China off balance; he should keep the pressure on. The tricky bit may well be handling South Korean expectations.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:19am
- Andrei
  
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  Is this Trump? He hasn’t met with Kim Jong-un yet
  
  Or is it that Kim Jong-un, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have outplayed the NeoCons?
  
  The signal was sent when North and South Korea competed as one team in the last Olympics
  
  I don’t know how many people really noticed that
  
  But whatever a reunified Korean peninsula is a win for all except those who profit from war
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:21am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    You know Andrei, I had a great big swig fromthat bottle of Kool-Aid you drink from and, after the brief disorientation as my IQ drop by a whole 25 points, all of a sudden it came clear to me – Trump had nothing to do with RocketMan coming to his senses it was all to do with the cheerleaders.
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:27am
    - mandk
      
      Absolutely it was down to Jacinda.
      
      She sprinkled some fairy dust over N Korea when she flew over to London the other week.
      
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      April 28, 2018 8:31am
      - Gravelroad
        
        No, it was Winstone 1st. He said he was going to do it.
        
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        April 28, 2018 8:56am
    - Andrei
      
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      You call yourself DifferentPerspective but in fact you just parrot Anglospheric superiority talking points
      
      You are probably blissfully unaware Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping have already met and had high level talks or that Putin has had talks with him
      
      The thing about yesterdays events is that the Americans were kept well away from them and were quite likely blindsided by them if the truth be known
      
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      April 28, 2018 8:37am
      - flipper
        
        More Garbage from Andrevich … !!!I
        f you are going to comment on this matter keep up with the economic blockade happenings…. and the moves by Pompeo/Trump.
        Blindsided? Go back to bed.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:01am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        You call yourself DifferentPerspective but in fact you just parrot Anglospheric superiority talking points
        
        Bit like that Kiwiblog ~~poster~~ misnomer “Classical Liberal” who loses his rag and is anything but “liberal” when someone posts something he disagrees with and reacts by shouting abuse trying to silence you. ?
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:05am
      - Ross12
        
        Andrei
        This a is first, but very important step. The South Korean leader credited President Trump for the achievement. President Trump credited President Xi for his and China’s help. So clearly these three guys see it as a team effort and I’m sure there were others helping in the background, including Putin.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:28am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        EADY, how nice to be named by you. I only call you EAshole when you abuse me.
        
        I’m proud to be the most hated by racist EAD here, keep it up :).
        
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        April 28, 2018 10:28am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        When all else fails, call someone a “racist” – you lot are just too predictable my friend❗ ?
        
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        April 28, 2018 4:22pm
    - KevOB
      
      Asians play to different rules. It’s too early to give Trump credit. We have seen the high level bluster but we have none or very little of the background.
      
      I’ll have greater appreciation of the Americans when they take their mitts off the the rest of the world.
      
      Let there be peace.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:41am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Give Trump credit for maneuvering the situation to this position. This the closest anyone has got since the shooting war in the 50’s.
        
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        April 28, 2018 12:29pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    You could just as easily say it was Kim’s sister influencing Kim’s decision making after attending the Olympic Games in South Korea and realised all the shopping and other delights she had been missing up north. ? ? ?
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:30am
  - mandk
    
    Yes, the Russians will be seriously pissed off.
    
    That’s another arms market gone.
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:32am
    - Andrei
      
      You think?
      
      There are already plans to extend Сила Сибири (Power of Siberia) pipeline through NK to the South on the drawing board
      
      Сила Сибири (Power of Siberia) is the biggest engineering project currently underway on the planet and is worth far far more economically and strategically than any “arms sales”
      
      There is a lot more going on in the world than CNN and BBC talking points reveal
      
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      April 28, 2018 8:53am
  - flipper
    
    Garbage !!!!!!!!!!!
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:58am
- redeye
  
  Top tweet from James Woods;
  
  “Reagan ended the Cold War. Trump ended the Korean War. And all the Democrats got were these Crackerjacks Peace Prizes.”
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:26am
- emmess
  
  Yeah sorry don’t agree Duggledog, I don’t believe this will come to anything. The North Koreans are just playing for time. Doesn’t seem like the Wall coming down to me, I doubt Kim really sees his position\life in danger. It is more like the detente of the 70s and that went nowhere.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:30am
- Simon
  
  Yep its looking good. Time will tell.
  
  North Korea was committed to the destruction of South Korea but Kim crossed to the South. Fairly important.
  
  Kim also out of his comfort zone bigly.
  
  Watch the summit lots of subtleties and the language used important.
  
  MSM summary coverage useless. Too burnt up about Trump bringing this about.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:32am
  - Andrei
    
    Way back before we were (well before I was anyway) born North Korea was committed to the reunification of the Korean peninsula, not the destruction of South Korea and the USA did not want this then and probably does not want it now
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:41am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Trump has stated many times he’d like to no longer need to have US troops stationed in Sth Korea.
      Can’t bring them home unless there’s peace
      
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      April 28, 2018 8:52am
      - Andrei
        
        He has also said that he wants to withdraw American troops from Syria but their numbers there are increasing and new bases are being built
        
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        April 28, 2018 8:55am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Not sure a comparison is appropriate. Syria still has ongoing actual fighting.
        Not so in Korea.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:19am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    NHK reports that the Korean leaders have signed a joint declaration of their intent to eliminate nuclear weapons from the peninsula; however, there have been no announcements of specific steps.
    
    I think that Prime Minister Abe is hoping that President Trump will do Japan’s heavy lifting when Trump (maybe) meets Kim in June.
    
    In the meantime, the Japanese are talking to the Russians in Moscow.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:52am
  - realityczech
    
    “North Korea was committed to the destruction of South Korea”
    
    Source: Enemies of North Korea.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:53am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      I think that Kim’s younger sister is playing a key role in bringing her brother around to making peace with South Korea. She was present at the North-South meeting yesterday.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:07am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  This would not have happened without Trump. Given Kim Jong Un’s history, I still do not trust him. Many questions, such as who will lead the unified Korea? Kim will want some control, Moon will not give up the power he has. More meetings to come, I hope they are fruitful.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:38am
- All_on_Red
  
  How long before a Federal Judge on the Nineth Circuit orders that the war must continue…
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:50am
- MCos
  
  The Korean War is not yet over.
  Thus far there have been meetings between North Korea & Pompeo and South & North Korea. At the latter meeting there was moves towards signing a peace treaty with the hope expressed that this might be accomplished before year’s end.
  Interestingly South Korea wasn’t even a signatory to the ceasefire.
  In the meantime the nuclear weapons & crushing embargoes remain.
  God only knows what will happen when Trump gets involved with the process. For once South Korea has a conciliatory president in Moon Jae-in, but a lot of people don’t trust them.
  In the meantime Japan, which has a very spotty history with the Koreas, seems to be shunted off to the sidelines.
  Let’s not forget that Abe & Kim Jung Un have a long personal and antagonist family history.
  https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n10/bruce-cumings/a-murderous-history-of-korea
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:00am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Shinzo Abe is supportive of the Korean peace talks.
    Anyway, he has major corruption problems of his own to worry about.
    http://www.newsweek.com/will-shinzo-abe-resign-japans-prime-minister-hit-cronyism-scandals-886663
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:43am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Abe is in a precarious position, rocked by scandal. He needs this Korean thing to go well, to take the heat off his administration.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:13am
- Liberty
  
  Kim Jong-un might be a total despot and treats the peasants like shit and has
  Fired of a couple of test missiles into the sea.
  Is Trump any better
  Fires his staff at will, treats minorities with contempt. Sends live missiles
  Into sovereign countries under some pretence it is for world peace where in reality
  It is just a ego trip.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:57am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  The young Kraut girl who served us coffee this morning was telling us that her father saw his Stasi file. They knew all about his smuggling efforts as he got goods from the western side of Berlin. He had danced as The Wall as it crumbled. She is taking her NZ sharemilker fiancé to see the folks in Berlin; just as soon as the cows are dried off.
  
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  April 28, 2018 11:05am
- freethinker
  
  And this applies to the current Government of big mouths or to quote another old saying “Empty vessels make the most noise” and this COLL make a deafening din.
  
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  April 28, 2018 12:36pm
  - sooty
    
    Which bucket or tin makes the most noise, the empty one or the full one?
    
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    April 28, 2018 3:53pm
Captain Mainwaring

Now Helen F***ing Clark, the harridan who didn’t take any notice when she got the arse card from the electorate, is not only pulling Airhead’s strings but she’s now supporting the lunatic Penny Bright.
What will the dragon do next in her hunger for publicity?
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April 28, 2018 8:01am
- holysheet
  
  Airheads united is their club. It meets monthly at the soon to be demolished cat piss hovel in kingsland.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:08am
- Tricati
  
  Sending the signal that if you don’t want to pay your rates – Its OK. Just appalling
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:19am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Yes, that is what I was thinking: a former Prime Minister and person with an on-going high profile both here and away saying it is ok to cheat the system by not paying what you owe,
    I thought better of Helen Clark than that.
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:27am
    - VicParking
      
      She could resurface as a Green with that attitude.
      
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      April 28, 2018 8:40am
    - lifesgood
      
      I didn’t think better of her.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:06am
      - sooty
        
        The rich prick could pay nots so brights rates, penalties,interest and court costs.
        
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        April 28, 2018 3:56pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Helen Clark comes out in support of Penny Bright
  
  Activist Penny Bright has attracted an unlikely public supporter as she attempts to stop the forced sale of her house. Screenshots supplied to the Herald show former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark posted messages of support on a Facebook thread about Bright’s fight to keep her Kingsland home.
  
  Any guesses as to who “supplied” the screenshots to the NZ Herald?
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:24am
  - stigie
    
    It’s just lovely isn’t it, all this sympathy towards Penny Bright because she will lose her hovel.
    These are the same people who thinks it ok for her to not pay her rate for 11 years now are the same people who want to fuck our oil and gas industry.
    50 years ago, we never had such blatant leeches and a government who would cause economic sabotage !~
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:37am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stigie:
      
      Helen Clark (who seems to have a lot to say) was silent when Metiria Turei become public enemy no 1. Turei admitted to benefit fraud over a period of three years in the early 1990s. And she enrolled to vote at the same address as her child’s father “in order to vote for a friend” – which made her ineligible for the domestic purposes benefit. So electoral fraud and 2 x benefit fraud – a poster child for a sense of entitlement and disgraceful morals.
      
      If Helen Clark approves of Penny’s behaviour, then she must (to be logically consistent) agree with what Turei did.
      
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      April 28, 2018 8:46am
      - freethinker
        
        And speaking of the green thieving bitch when is she going to be prosecuted or will it go the same way as Winston’s stolen $138,000?
        
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        April 28, 2018 12:38pm
  - mandk
    
    “Surely a way can be found” says Helen Clark.
    
    Is Clark losing her marbles?
    
    That has to be the stupidest Tweet of the week.
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:41am
    - geoff3012
      
      Yeah….Hulun will pay. Cunning plan.
      
      Not.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:05am
  - Harkman
    
    Notice Helun Cluck is still using her airbrushed pic from 15 years ago? These two woman are both so deranged, it’s like they’re made for each other. Time to come out of the closet Helun.
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:49am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Is that the closet that Peter plays hide and seek in? (Peekaboo!)
      
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      April 28, 2018 8:51am
      - stigie
        
        The LAX closet where he was found !~
        
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        April 28, 2018 8:55am
      - sooty
        
        I liked WO photo, my self. It showed Heluns best side!
        
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        April 28, 2018 3:59pm
    - RF
      
      Those bloody teeth. Clark & Ardern…. Having abnormal teeth must be a requirement to be a Labour PM.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:56am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Maybe Helen could get some special kind of humanitarian aid grant from that UN committee she chaired. This could be given to Ms Bright to pay what she now owes.
    Then in 10 years time Clark could apply for another grant for the same purpose …….
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:00am
    - flipper
      
      May be Clark could make one of her RENTAL properties available F O C !
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:35am
      - sooty
        
        That’s it have not so bright move in.
        
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        April 28, 2018 4:00pm
- peterwn
  
  I would interpret Helen Clark’s comment as meaning that there must be a better way of dealing with this situation than forcibly selling her home so she is a few hundred thousand dollars out of pocket but some hard nosed rhino skinned buyer makes a few hundred thousand windfall.
  There is a better way in the context of the current legislation. Since it seems she is ‘not all there’, simply leave her in the house and allow rates penalties to accumulate until she or executors sell the house. The Council will not be out of pocket since the accumulated penalties would be greater than the accumulated interest on borrowed money. No significant precedent would be set.
  Possibly for the future the rating legislation could be amended to allow the Court to appoint a trustee or receiver in such cases who can arrange to borrow against the property to pay the rates. This is virtually the situation with respect to unpaid rates on a mortgaged property – the mortgagee is required to pay the outstanding rates and these will be added to the loan.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:33am
  - VicParking
    
    If people can’t pay their rates how will they pay the increased mortgage which will be previous rates, current rates and interest. Under your scenario the person will live in the house until the mortgage reaches equity and then it will be sold and they lose everything. In other words rent plus rates plus interest.
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:49am
    - peterwn
      
      There are three scenarios:
      1. Property already mortgaged. Mortgage agreements give the mortgagee various powers to protect the value of the security such as the power to pay unpaid rates and add it to the loan. The Rating Act affirms this by requiring a lender to pay unpaid rates when demanded by a Council. Such accumulated rates could cause the lender to want to foreclose but that is the lender’s problem, not the Council’s problem. In such a situation there is likely to be far more serious problems than rates arrears such as the borrower not meeting mortgage repayments.
      2. Unmortgaged but abandoned property – where owner or successors cannot be tracked. A rating sale would be the most appropriate option with the Public Trustee holding the proceeds less rates and expenses. If net proceeds not claimed within six years or whatever then Public Trustee would pay the ‘unclaimed’ proceeds to IRD to be held in the unclaimed monies account.
      3. Unmortgaged property with traceable owner (eg Penny Bright’s situation). It would be extremely unlikely that unpaid rates and accumulated penalties would exceed property value (except for ghost town situations or natural disasters). Hence my idea that the Act should be amended so the Court can appoint a receiver or trustee who can borrow against the property to pay outstanding rates. If the property is tenanted the receiver can ‘receive’ whatever portion of the rent is needed to pay rates – either via the property management firm or even from the tenants. If need be the receiver or trustee might have to sell up, but this would be at arm’s length from the Council. Hence this effectively foils any attempted ‘rates strikes’.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:31am
      - Chris R
        
        No! This Bright woman is a defaulter and a show-off. If she genuinely wished to pay her arrears she’d apply for and get a reverse mortgage to do so. This means she’d be OK for life in her house.
        
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        April 29, 2018 7:26am
- oldpark
  
  The same pest who was the main architect of the prostitution bill, which allowed for young women some of them under age to sell their bodies legally.
  Also lest we forget she dumped the Privy Council access for NZs. Not forgetting our Air Force.
  Her legacy got exposed when attempting to get the top job at the inept inane UN .She was told her track record didnt cut the mustard.
  Now back in NZ as the main Puppet mistress of “Commie Chic Comrade” Ardern.
  Talk about trying to re-run ones life through a surrogate or off course substitute,not a good look for either female.In fact a disaster.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:02am
  - peterwn
    
    A reform of prostitution law was needed in any case. In particular, the police using presence of condoms as evidence that a place was a brothel was really grotesque – the response was not to keep condoms here hence unprotected casual sex with all its potential health issues. The reform did not legalise consensual sex with underage people, the ‘other’ person still faces a very serious criminal charge for having such sex.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:38am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Correct, Peter. The Prostitutes Collective back in the 80s was very strong on women’s rights but certainly never wanted underage girls to prostitute themselves.
      
      I was involved in student support on various socially liberal issues (gay rights, feminist issues).
      
      Feminism has turned into crazy identity politics now, but in the 70s and 80s we did need it.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:47am
  - RF
    
    A very disturbed old crone.
    
    Did she attend the dawn service last Wednesday ?
    
    Just asking…. as I heard Phil Goof waxing on about the ANZACs during the service.
    
    Is this the same person that along with Clark spat at our returning soldiers from Viet Nam.
    
    Surely not…. Only a low life hypocrite would stoop so low.
    
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    April 28, 2018 11:33am
    - sooty
      
      The old soldiers should have all turned their backs on the Goof.
      
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      April 28, 2018 4:03pm
  - freethinker
    
    Don’t forget her cancerous colleague the odious Margaret Wilson who is now polluting young legal minds with her distorted views, may both rot in hell sooner than later.
    
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    April 28, 2018 12:44pm
- KevOB
  
  Penny Bright by her latest legal round has shown that she is an activist and will milk any situation for what she can get out of it. She gives the fingers to other ratepayers and expects a free ride. She has obvious money to fund the filing fees of her Court actions.
  
  Penny now has to take the consequences of ignorant self will.
  She is not a pet to be indulged and HC’s reported promotion of PB would be despicable. We don’t have one law for PB and one for the rest. Her illness, if any may be a misfortune, but her willful pursuit against common sense cannot be graced by privilege.
  
  PB will still have more money left over than many people. The law should be promptly executed to give all the ratepayers a fair go.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:53am
  - peterwn
    
    Ratepayers get a fair go either way. Because of rates penalties the Council is effectively not out of pocket because of the unpaid rates. Hence best solution is just to let it go to stop her martyring herself.
    
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    April 28, 2018 10:17am
    - VicParking
      
      Don’t forget the councils Staff time, Nothing back for this, and Legal fees, not all reimbursed. Council have lost heaps
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:46am
      - peterwn
        
        Council would not have if it just sat back and waited (I am not blaming them for not doing this). In retrospect this would have been the best solution. Just apply some pressure – send a rates demand showing the accumulated amount each month and then inform the credit score agencies. Then just sit back in the knowledge it will cost the non-ratepayer, but not the Council in due course.
        A mechanism is needed in the Act to protect Penny and that woman from Manurewa who lost her house from their idiocy – this is what Helen Clark was alluding to.
        
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        April 28, 2018 11:01am
      - freethinker
        
        Staff are paid irrespective and this may be the only useful work they do in recovering overdue rates.
        
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        April 28, 2018 12:45pm
      - Paulus
        
        Council have lost heaps – bullpucky – the Ratepayer mugs of Auckland have lost heaps
        
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        April 28, 2018 1:54pm
- niggly
  
  Ummmm, just wondering … whether Penny’s claims that Helen Clark supports her is actually true?
  
  In the NZH article Penny claims it was on Cathy Casey’s facebook page – how come I can’t find the post?
  
  Also how come the background image of “Helen Clark” (with a Maori pattern) is different to Helen Clark’s official Facebook (and Twitter) picture -where the background is a neutral colour?
  
  Also why did Penny have to show the NZH a screenshot? Did someone “doctor” a FB conversation so that Penny could present a screen shot? Why not just link to the FB page itself etc?
  
  I could be wrong but I’m not clear why things don’t appear to “add up” at face value.
  
  Perhaps Penny could swing by KB later and advise us? 😉
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12040875
  https://www.facebook.com/helenclarknz/
  https://www.facebook.com/crcathycasey
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:21am
  - ex-golfer
    
    Well spotted Niggly.
    The screenshots of comments are not from the real Helen Clark.
    The Herald has been sucked in again by Penny’s raving lunacy.
    
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    April 28, 2018 10:36am
    - niggly
      
      Unless Helen has another FB page (eg a “personal” one, used for connecting with her like minded leftie friends privately), and leaving her “official” FB page for her career and public announcements???
      
      Anyway Penny can clear this up – yoohoo, where are you Penny?!!!!
      
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      April 28, 2018 3:59pm
  - peterwn
    
    Does not matter. Assuming it was the *real* Helen then she would have it right – there must be a better way of dealing with this sort of situation.
    
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    April 28, 2018 11:04am
    - Gravelroad
      
      So are you suggesting that the Auckland CC has not investigated every possible course of action available to it in this case of a maverick, attention seeking activist protecting her position?
      ACC might well be able to do as you suggest and just bide it’s time to collect what’s owing in the end.
      But please think of the smaller councils access to funding via rates.
      Some of them can’t wait 20 years to collect especially if enough ratepayers in a small town do what Ms Bright has done. They will have to borrow from somewhere else to fund their works and services.
      
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      April 28, 2018 11:20am
      - peterwn
        
        Yes I am. The ‘do nothing’ action will deny her the attention she is so badly seeking.
        The ‘do nothing’ action is just as applicable to smaller councils. Agreed they will have to borrow from somewhere else to fund works and services, but the compounded penalties on unpaid rates would easily cover the cost of that borrowing. Once most delinquent ratepayers fail to get the attention they are seeking, they will cough up when they realise a hole is being burnt in their pockets. Only a minority of ratepayers can try this on anyway – the ones with mortgages cannot as the Council will simply collect the unpaid rates from the lender. My idea of the Rates Act allowing for a court to place the property in the hands of a trustee or receiver who can borrow against the property to pay the rates would be another useful mechanism to deal with attention seekers.
        Years ago an attention seeking ratepayer tried to stir a council by paying rates one penny short. The Town Clerk saw what was coming, reached in his pocket for one penny and handed it to the rates clerk. The joke was then on the delinquent ratepayer.
        
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        April 28, 2018 1:06pm
    - ex-golfer
      
      There sure is a better way.
      Stop pandering to this loonies wants and desires.
      Get on and sell the house and then move her out with force if necessary.
      Teach the scum bludger a lesson and all those who are mad enough to follow her too.
      If she doesn’t like the orders of the court, arrest her arse, throw her in jail and let her rot.
      
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      April 28, 2018 12:16pm
      - peterwn
        
        I have had a recent epiphany on this. Chucking a somewhat mentally disturbed person (but not sufficiently disturbed as to warrant confinement under the Mental Health Act) out of her house with ‘Lights, Camera, Action’ is not the way to go in a humane society. There has to be a better way of handling such situations as I have alluded to in other posts.
        
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        April 28, 2018 12:53pm
DifferentPerspective

Small wonder Obama was the worst President in living memory

With advice coming from utter morons like Ben Rhodes (Obama’s National Security Advisor) he was always going to be a failure.

This tweet from Ben Rhodes (on Trump’s approach to the Norks) hasn’t aged well – an idiot President who surrounded himself with idiots – what a loser!
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April 28, 2018 8:02am
- peterwn
  
  In the not too distant future, Obama may be regarded as the second worst President in living memory.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:35am
  - mandk
    
    You mean after the peanut farmer?
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:47am
    - peterwn
      
      No. Jimmy Carter in comparison was fairly OK.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:40am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Nope mandk, peterwn still harbours a hope that Hillary is going to win in 2020.
      
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      April 28, 2018 1:11pm
- Simon
  
  Yep Obama & Rhodes sold out to the mullahs. Complete failure.
  
  The mullahs are watching Moon & Kim and are shitting themselves. Their time is running out fast.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:37am
- VicParking
  
  He was not talking about Trump but about his time with Obama.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:50am
- RW Capitalist
  
  and if it keeps going like this
  Lowest unemployment in 20 years
  Lowest Black and Hispanic unemployment ever
  Wages rising
  Highest economic growth in over a decade
  etc etc
  He may be a contender for BEST President in living memory.
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:04pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Peace in our time:
The End of the Korean War
A unified Korean Peninsula
[2018 Inter-Korean Summit] Panmunjeom Declaration full text

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20180427000845
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April 28, 2018 8:04am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Interesting, thanks for that
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:53am
- KevOB
  
  Yeah.
  Now all wee need is to clean up the Middle East and the take over underway in Africa.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:58am
holysheet

I went up to my Syrian refugee neighbour and said to him, “Hey, did you hear that ISIS has been completely defeated.” “Yeah, what about it ?” replied Mohammed. “Well, since you’re a refugee and all shouldn’t you be packing up and heading back home ?”
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April 28, 2018 8:05am
- Komata
  
  Hs
  
  Tadish ‘Oi!!’
  
  Very good Sir, very good… (And you survived the encounter!)
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:32am
- Daphne Whitethigh
  
  What a nasty thing to do
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:21am
  - MCos
    
    And complete bullshit
    
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    April 28, 2018 10:46am
Chris R

I have an American friend staying with me for a few days. The last time he was here was 3 years ago. At the time he perceived how proud New Zealanders were of this country and believed it had to do with the presence of John Key and his more than capable government. A government which was in the business of uplifting New Zealanders aspirations and the country’s presence world-wide. I didn’t realise until he said this how much I miss the Key government. Who could possibly have imagined how far we have fallen? All I can plead for is the rapid removal of the current (ahem) administration. If we don’t rid ourselves of these fools our well-being and spirit may be damaged for generations. (I am a bit gloomy today and suspect I am far from being alone in this.)
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April 28, 2018 8:20am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  You are not alone in this. The current clowns are going to drop us in the shit big time and there seems there is nothing we can do to stop them. They have done it before
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:58am
- Harkman
  
  Strangely only only the Warriors are benefiting from these crooks in charge. My left right observation over the years is the left don’t think about the side effects of their reckless policies. While right are sometimes too cautious about potential side effects. But what worries me is that the country is sleep walking at the moment but will suddenly, just like that, wake up in a depression in say 18 months time.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:59am
- KevOB
  
  Any suggestions as to how we can eject these ruling mobsters. We can’t impeach them–we need elections.
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:01am
Manolo

Fat chance:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385167-trump-russia-probe-must-end-now
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April 28, 2018 8:21am
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”

― Albert Camus
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April 28, 2018 8:22am
- Nostradamus
  
  Would you like our collective judgement on you, Stephieboy?
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:26am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I love Camus.
  Which of his novels is your favourite?
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:30am
  - Milhous
    
    The Stranger???
    
    Inspiration for The Cure song “Killing an Arab”
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:42am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      OMG… I didn’t know that.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:53am
- Awww C-mon
  
  That should scare the shit out of you Stephie-head
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:36am
- flipper
  
  And Camus was a nutter stupid…
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:43am
DifferentPerspective

Time for some real gender equity in Hollywood movies

Now that it’s virtually impossible to go the movies because of the wall-to-wall preaching and virtue-signalling from major movie studios as they all try like crazy to prove that they’re not Harvey Weinstein.

Star Wars is dead to me now after that strange little fat oriental girl Rose Tico was injected in a massive plot non sequiter as Finn’s new love interest and it turns out that Princess Leia was able to transcend death and had a secret ability to create force fields – all just to make us ignorant movie goes understand that “Women can do anything!. Right” Also the “all men are just brainless tank brains” role for the previous hero X wing pilot Poe didn’t help with driving down the Rotten Tomatoes Audience rating to a franchise low of 47%.

We now have a female Dr Who. There’s talk of a female Bond (as well of course as a black Bond).

So I reckon it’s time that some real gender equity.

How about a male reboot of:
– Ridley in Alien
– Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs
– Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz
– Maria in the Sound of Music
– Sex in the City – focussed on four 30 something professional males making their way in the misandryist world of New York

Given how Roseanne is blowing up ratings in the US, this could be the answer to the box office doldrums assailing Harveywood right now.
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April 28, 2018 8:24am
- dime
  
  I think entourage was the male sex in the city.
  
  As for star wars… Just sad. Poor Hasbro got fucked by it, turns out boys buy the toys, not fat social justice warriors.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:35am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    The Last Jedi was appalling, it broke the Star Wars universe, rendering all previous movies meaningless (spoilers follow, but really no-one should care considering how bad it is) – who needs long tortured plots about stealing plans and flying fighters against Death Stars when you can just run a cruiser into your overpowered enemy in hyperdrive anytime you feel like it. And who needs years of Jedi training when a total newbie can show up and immediately beat the best with no training, or a non-Jedi Leia can fly around like Superman. And how can a Jedi ever be trapped when they can astrally project themselves across the Galaxy to summon help. Silly storyline regarding female commander not telling her subordinates her plan – leading to their mutiny at her stupid actions only painted her as an idiot rather than as some great leader smarter than the dumb men she was leading. Also pointless side stories that do nothing for overall story, other than to add a half hour of screen time for more SJW talking points. Disney, partly with their SJW agenda, partly through insultingly stupid writing, have taken a great steaming shit on a fanbase that has followed them for 40 years, and many won’t be back.
    
    All shows how the movie advertising business works too, when critics give 90%+ average rating (thank you for your business Disney) and audiences 40% (and falling)
    
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    April 28, 2018 10:29am
- peterwn
  
  And a female ex WW1 submarine captain in the ‘Sound of Music’. And a telegram delivery girl.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:44am
- Chris R
  
  Different Perspective: We have a female Darth Vader except our one is named Jacinda and is about to spawn more of its own kind.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:56am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Darth Vader, or the “Bitch” Ridley confronts in Alien?!
    
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    April 28, 2018 10:03am
  - freethinker
    
    Yes spawn another little Socialist Bastard.
    
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    April 28, 2018 12:52pm
- JIV
  
  Don’t forget the Ghostbusters female reboot and now they’ve announced Oceans 8 with an all female cast. Ive also been watching the very average ‘Lost in Space’ and they’ve replaced Dr Smith with one of the worst actresses Ive seen.
  
  The curious thing is they only want to replace successful franchises and not reboot rubbish movies with a female cast. Its a little like they want more women on the board of rich and successful companies and not below average ones.
  
  Let the men build a success, then whine and moan that theres not enough women, then force women into all the well paid jobs until they destroy the franchise
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:07am
  - kowtow
    
    If you think about it , “they” are doing the same thing at national level.
    
    Great countries with once great economies , now being opened up to third worlders , illegal immigrants , waves of refugees .
    
    The same excuses put forward , equality , social justice , fariness.
    
    A lot of the damage is being done by female leaders.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:16am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Perhaps men shouldn’t have suppressed able women back in the bad old days.
      
      You mightn’t have got Today’s over-reaction if the best person (male or female) had always been appointed/promoted on merit.
      
      And same applies for the Rainbow/Coloured/ Ethnic Whanau….. Their day has arrived and they will exercise power/influence in much the same way that the OLD BOYS operated over the last decades.
      
      ….Call it Cronyism, nepotism, old Girls’ network, mates favouring mates, or whatever…..it’s the way the Evil world works.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:06am
    - waikatogirl
      
      I’m at a loss to understand why some females are so rabid in their beliefs. They must be very unhappy and frustrated. Is life just too easy for some these days and they are looking for a deeper meaning to their existence??
      
      I agree as Maggy says, “men shouldn’t have suppressed able women back in the bad old days”. Women were underestimated badly in the past by mere males, but I’d hope we are mostly past that era.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:07am
      - holysheet
        
        It was so hard to find a “willing and able” woman back then WG.
        
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        April 28, 2018 10:46am
  - dime
    
    the ghostbusters thing was an abomination. but if you didnt like it you were sexist.
    
    im looking forward to oceans 8 bombing.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:53am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Haven’t bothered with the remake of Ghostbusters. I personally couldn’t stand the much applauded awful Bridesmaids movie, which has many of the same cast apparently.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:13am
  - freethinker
    
    Women at the top – IMF -Christine Lagarde – tried on corruption charges in France-technically innocent-yeah Right. Theresa May UK PM who hits more speed wobbles than a bike on a cobbled street and has hardly inspired confidence in her ability to win elections, deliver Brexit or even control her own Cabinte & MP’s. Helen Clark – at UN achieved nothing worht recalling just like her term as NZ PM. Angela Merkel – architect of Germany’s social problems, inability to form a Govt for 6 months and now a cobbled together bunch of bickering arseholes who can hardly agree on what day it is whihc will probably be the end of the Dictatorial EU thanks to her manipulation in appointing Master of the Universe Herr Junker the drunk – echos of Glitter Tits and the drunken dwarf in NZ. Yeah women will solve the problems men were unable to- cue 6 months of Tui ads.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:00pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  I took my son to Star Wars at Christmas. God it was awful.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:12am
  - MCos
    
    Maybe you weren’t much fun for him either!
    
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    April 28, 2018 10:58am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    My son showed appreciation for the father and son time actually. I don’t pretend to like something for the sake of it. I encourage my son to have his own opinions on things which he does. It was fun time together even if I thought the movie was absolute crap. What was your point again MCos?
    
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    April 28, 2018 11:43am
    - Duxton
      
      MCos’ point is that he is a boring-as-batshit, anti-family leftie. A veritable piece of shit.
      
      Good on you for spending 1-1 time with your lad. You may have disagreed on the quality of the movie, but I bet he never forgets the post-movie debrief. Thanks for taking the time with your son.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:29pm
- VicParking
  
  I want to go to the Ball in a Pumpkin wearing glass slippers. I promise to be home by midnight.
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:50am
holysheet

Kelvin has a bad rash so goes to see the doctor. The doctor takes a look and gives Kelvin a bottle of medicine. “Take 3 spoonfuls before you sleep” says the doctor.
Kelvin replies, “I won’t be able to doctor, I only have one spoon at home”
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April 28, 2018 8:28am
- VicParking
  
  Is Kelvin a blond really called Kevina.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:55am
- stephieboy
  
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  holy sheet, another belated attempt at canned corned humour.?
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:57am
  - holysheet
    
    I am verrry sorrrry. How about this one. You can replace the woman for your favorite goat and the doctor for a vet.
    
    A lesbian goes in for a smear test, the Doctor says “That must be the cleanest vagina I’ve ever seen” The Lesbian replies “Thank you Doctor, I have a woman in twice a week”.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:38am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I trust your book of jokes was delivered in an unmarked brown paper envelope.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:09am
    - holysheet
      
      A goat goes in for a smear test, the Vet says “That must be the cleanest vagina I’ve ever seen” The Goat replies “Thank you Mr Vet, I have Stoopidboy in twice a week”.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:21am
      - VicParking
        
        Holy, Totally wrong Stephie likes the billy goats ????
        
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        April 28, 2018 10:53am
Paulus

Am I going to feel sorry for the people of Canterbury that Teletubby and her Mayoral mate have decided to spend some$ 45o million of other people’s money so that the All Blacks may one again play a game or even two in Christchurch as they do not like the fact that the loss leader in Dunedin may have a march on them ?
FB Stadium loses a fortune annually.

Show us the Money TT. You can’t because you are just full of bullpucky.
– TT appears to say that the people of Canterbury wide are going to have to pay – that means Ratepayers and a special levy (levy is not a tax remember).
Other Taxpayers from around the country will have to pay too even though you may never even see it unless you have the misfortune to travel to Christchurch.
At least they have admitted they have no idea when it will be even started – 2024 was suggested.
What a sad lot of losers, ask Helen Clark as she appears to be now in charge.
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April 28, 2018 8:28am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Wherever there is a socialist in charge, they’re wasting money and making uneconomic decisions – it’s all about destroying the sustainability of capitalism in NZ.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:30am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    So they can then say that Capitalism has failed.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:20am
- mandk
  
  Judging facilities like the FB on the basis of their P&L, is a very narrow way of assessing their economic contribution.
  
  How many people would visit Dunedin and spend their money in hotels, shops, restaurants etc without the FB?
  
  A lot fewer.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:56am
- waikatogirl
  
  But, but they have had to wait for 7 whole years for a covered stadium. Nevermind the billions of dollars the taxpayers have poured into the Christchurch rebuild, and without barely a murmur. Christchurch is looking beautiful. The baubles can wait until they can fund it themselves.
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:19am
  - freethinker
    
    Living in Christchurch I don’t regard beautiful buildings as steel & glass boxes but they just may withstand earthquakes better so their real beauty may be in saving lives.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:07pm
- VicParking
  
  The COL fiscal hole is getting so big you can hide a covered stadium in it
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:54am
  - freethinker
    
    Only 1, in time most of the S Island will be in the hole.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:08pm
James Stephenson

Good luck to all the kids, volunteers and parents starting their football seasons today (assuming that the rest of the country is in line with Auckland…).

Hope your pitches absorb the rain and you get a game.
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April 28, 2018 8:30am
duggledog

Chris R

Don’t worry my friend.

Kiwis will either boot this lot out at the next election or it will collapse even sooner.

(For the record Happychappy my old friend I did not cast my vote towards NZF. In the final analysis I saw the possibility of what we have now as too dangerous and ticked blue twice. Although voting National feels like buying a Great Wall vehicle. You know it’s going to end in tears but it’s better than walking)

Remember (nobody does) James Shaw proclaiming before the last election ‘I want to….. change things’? It made my bowels loosen. He said it with the passion of a zealot.

The Greens are in Government, with a similarly zealous Labour, and NZF to boot. They are all going for broke. They will send the country broke. Kiwis will see this. It will not last.

It’s going to be lightbulbs and shower heads x 10.

National knew it was better to wait three years and then pick up the traces for another nine.
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April 28, 2018 8:31am
- brett68
  
  Labour is going to borrow and bribe their way to another term, expect WFF,minimum wage, benefits/super to increase significantly
  
  That mass of people will be enough to get them over the line in 2020 and probably 2023.
  
  Labour will burn the economy to the ground before they give up power.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:45am
- Happychappy
  
  Well duggledog except my apology if that is the case.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:15am
- ex-golfer
  
  I admire your optimism DD but how is National-no friends going to achieve this?
  The CoL are firmly entrenched in the trough – and it is the benefits of the trough that will keep them together.
  If either the Greens of NZF look like falling below the 5% mark, Labour will simply gift NZF an electorate seat – bingo, the CoL remains alive and well thanks to our pathetic limp-wristed MMP system.
  Power brings benefits, the trough is deep and these clowns will use every dirty trick in the book to keep hold of it……especially while the latte-sipping luvvies in central Auckland and central Wellington think how wonderful the feelz are.
  
  Meanwhile the poor suffer on, because all of these regressive policies affect them the greatest…..they are too hypnotised by the left to realise it.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:43am
  - freethinker
    
    You may be right but just read a report on future oil prices which are likely to reach US$80 and possibly US$100 and if the current weeks increase of 3c a Litre continues even the Northland voters may decide that Labour/NZ First & Greens should be given a harsh lesson by losing their deposits.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:12pm
    - ex-golfer
      
      I think I’ve told you before – Northland is held by National!
      
      So I think the voters of Northland have already given Labour/NZF and the Greens their lesson.
      
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      April 28, 2018 3:02pm
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Do you mean Northcote?
      
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      April 28, 2018 4:42pm
Komata

dd

But what do we have to replace the CoL? The Nats’ are esentially leaderless and policy-less (their ‘Founding Charter’ might just as well be so much smoke) and they have nothing to differentiate themselves from labour.

Currently, there is simply nothing to replace the CoL!! National is just taking a bit more time to achieve essentially the same goal – the ‘Socialisation’ of NZ.

ACT didn’t work, NZF has proved where its ‘loyalties’ lie (to Winnie and only to Winnie) and the Conservatives destroyed themselves.

So what is left?

At this stage, not much. Venezuala is becoming a distinct possibility, yet the Nats (who COULD turn the whole thing around if they actually came out with policies that counter the current mayhem) are metaphorically sitting and knitting and talking amongst themselves (‘Asleep at the wheel if you will’)

We live in ‘interesting’ times…
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April 28, 2018 8:44am
- Happychappy
  
  Well you know when a National MP makes a schoolboy mistake like Matt King has in copying a David Seymour press release and making out it was his own that the media is more interested in taking him to the cleaners than doing anything about the blatant corruption from Coalition MP’s. It won’t matter who is leading National or what people think of the performance of the Labour lead Government because the media are only interested in pushing their own cause to keep this Goverment as long as they can.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:10am
- artemisia
  
  I doubt National are ‘asleep at the wheel’. They are collectively experienced and not stupid.
  
  More like keeping their policy powder dry for now but chipping away at poor performing coalition ministers and MPs.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:21am
  - freethinker
    
    Judith Collins comment on Phil Twatford may be prophetic – Glad that Phil is looking to the future when National returns to fix your mess.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:15pm
softail 1450

I wonder if the south Koreans will be thanking their leaders when all the starving wretches start swarming over the DMZ if reunification actually happens,i dont think so ….
this great news for the planet was bought on by president trumps tenaciousness in the face of the worlds MSM screaming “WW3” is a about to happen.
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April 28, 2018 8:46am
- stephieboy
  
  softail1450, reunification between East and West Germany worked well so there is no reason it can do the same with the two Koreas.
  
  Like North Korea, the old East German economic and social system did not simply work.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:02am
  - Manolo
    
    This Korean thing is the result of Nobel Prize Obama’s efforts. Don’t you think the same, stephieboy?
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:06am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Manolo, if I recall correctly the Noble Prize was awarded for the fact an African American ( Black ) could become President of the most powerful nation on earth.
      
      The former President like his predecessors kept up the ante on North Korea big time. Also, the considerable contribution by China making the sanctions work this time around.
      
      President Trump does not carry around a bag of magic fairy dust as you appear to believe.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:17am
      - Sideoiler
        
        Manolo, if I recall correctly the Noble Prize was awarded for the fact an African American ( Black ) could become President…….
        
        So you are saying he only won the Nobel Peace prize because he’s black?
        That’s raaaaacist.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:58am
      - calendar girl
        
        SB, President Barack Obama won his Nobel Peace Prize, in the first year of his presidency, supposedly for his
        
        “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
        
        (according to the citation of the Nobel Foundation).
        
        I say “supposedly” in quoting the reason for the honour, but I don’t believe the content of that 2009 Nobel citation. Rather, I believe that you are more accurate (and honest) in your version quoted above:
        
        “……. the Noble Prize was awarded for the fact an African American ( Black ) could become President of the most powerful nation on earth.”
        
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        April 28, 2018 3:23pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Good to see you acknowledging the failure of socialism stephie-awake.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:07am
    - stephieboy
      
      Awww Cmon, I can assure you that the present government does not propose ( as far as I’m aware ) create another East Germany or North Korea.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:19am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        I can assure you
        
        I doubt you’ll assure anyone on Kiwiblog of anything about anyone anytime soon – or ever!
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:23am
      - Humble Capitalist
        
        No not East Germany. Venezuela or Zimbabwe seems a more realistic target
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:29am
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Nostra doubts your assurances, I doubt your awareness, but thanks for playing anyway.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:30am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Nostradamus, again I can but try and allay your paranoia by assuring you that the COL does not plan to turn the NZ economy into a Stalinist like command 5-year plan economy.
        
        Or a Venezuela for that matter.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:39am
      - stephieboy
        
        Humble Capitalist,
        
        Go and visit your Doctor.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:41am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        Then why did you feel the need to include the “as far as I’m aware” qualification in your original response to Awww Cmon?
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:42am
      - Kiwi Dave
        
        I doubt that Chavez and Maduro ‘planned’ to wreck the Venezulan economy, but that’s what too much ideology and not enough economic realism did.
        
        This government has indicated that ideology will override cost-benefit realities.
        
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        April 28, 2018 10:14am
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Stephie-aware!!!
        
        So you to think it is a COL…
        
        Coalition of Loser/Lunatics and you agree socialism has failed, this is a significant day for you!
        
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        April 28, 2018 10:36am
      - Humble Capitalist
        
        We will see who needs to see the doctor and how much it will end up costing in the fullness of time Stephie.
        
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        April 28, 2018 10:38am
      - cmm
        
        You repeatedly say you’re not based in Fraser House, yet you give us all these assurances.
        
        What are they based on unless you have some inside info that we don’t?
        
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        April 28, 2018 11:59am
    - kowtow
      
      Talking of which I notice some talk in articles , Chris Trotter being one, of the up coming 200 th of Marx’s birth 5 May 1818.
      
      Tens of millions have died in the name of his evil creed and if it’s “offensive” to display Nazi or Confederate symbols then how much more offensive is celebrating that ideology.
      
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      April 28, 2018 10:07am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Too true.
  
  When everyone is orgasming with progressive glee about another failed state returning to the fold, how many of them will be there to chip in and help S Korea with the cost of picking up the pieces of generations of socialist insanity.
  
  On the other hand, maybe in 60 years time the Australians will be kind enough to do the same for NZ after we deteriorate into the same socialist hell hole under our two left wing party system.
  
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  April 28, 2018 4:45pm
Manolo

Wonderful example of corruption:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/04/26/lapd-officer-arrested-smuggle-immigrants-border/

A Los Angeles police officer has been arrested on federal charges alleging he tried to smuggle two illegal immigrants into the United States this week in southeastern San Diego County.

Mambasse Koulabalo Patara has been charged with violating immigration laws, according to a federal complaint filed Wednesday.
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April 28, 2018 8:47am
- Inandout
  
  We can only presume he didn’t have religious reasons for doing this deed.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:04am
- kowtow
  
  Dems love the diversity dividend their slack border and sanctuary policies bring to ordinary Americans.
  
  ‘An illegal alien who was convicted of murdering two police officers was again escorted out of a California courtroom on Wednesday after erupting in a race-tinged outburst aimed at his victims.’
  
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/27/illegal-alien-cop-killer-ejected-court-shouting-racial-slurs-victim/
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:10am
Tarquin North

A fair bit of precipitation up here in the winter less North.
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April 28, 2018 8:57am
Harkman

7 Days was again mocking Max Key last night, which is despicable while defending Clarke. However, they did pass comment about a brown baby arriving with a taste for whisky.
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April 28, 2018 9:06am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  That was the only bit of that shit arse show I heard and I wondered if there would be a repeat of the howls of outrage like when the sperm donor fisherman was mentioned last week.
  
  Crickets
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:20am
- Inandout
  
  Don’t watch it now that I have smart tv.
  
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  April 28, 2018 11:07am
Chris R

I think after a long sleepless night how the socialists have come to populate the ranks of the enviro-loons to the vast extent they do. To be a socialist you need to have zero appreciation of the costs of living, in fact, the costs of everything. Hence socialists claim all things must be free…education, health care etc. Now, the intellectually challenged socialist fails to understand that someone is obligated to pay for their “free” things. The people who do so do not feature in the landscape of what passes for a socialist’s brain (let alone conscience.) This means the socialist cannot distinguish between the contributions made to society by those who pay and some species of rat/bat/bird etc.. and that a standing tree deep within the gorges and hills of NZ is of minimal fiscal value to society. Hence, the dreamy and deluded socialist can claim that everything is of equal value and justify this non-thinking by painting pictures of enviro-armageddon and future squalor. The problem with this non-thinking is that socialists are and shall remain the present squalor living off those who genuinely contribute. So therefore Labour (being a pack of envy ridden do-nothings) = Greens (being a pack of deluded and envy ridden do-nothings!)
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April 28, 2018 9:10am
- stephieboy
  
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  Chris R , another” long sleepless night “?
  
  Life is that bad for you?
  
  Sad!
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:22am
  - Chris R
    
    It is actually as I am deeply concerned about my country now it is at the mercy of non-thinking clowns (you know; the type who compose your own ridiculous circus!) who have zero comprehension how they’re trashing this economy, this society and what was a palpably sound future. I accept some of my words are a bit long for you and note that also applies to the sentences and phrases but I feel sure that practice and self-determination may just see you through your own tawdry difficulties. Keep your chin up and try to live beyond your own personal sewar.
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:27am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Chris R, enjoy another long sleepless night with you fake and silly concerns.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:33am
      - rangitoto
        
        He can look forward to the day when the snake oil CoL are tarred and feathered out of town. You on the other hand can only look forward to being an idiot.
        
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        April 28, 2018 10:32am
      - softail 1450
        
        septicboy ,at 9.39 did your post admit that your favorite administration is actually a C O L? ,your words not anybody elses.
        
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        April 28, 2018 10:39am
EAD_TWO

If you sow the wind, you should be prepared to reap the whirlwind:

http://newobserveronline.com/germany-chief-jew-who-welcomed-refugee-invasion-now-warns-jews-about-arab-attacks/

Josef Schuster, the head of the Central Council of Jews of Germany, has warned Jews in that country not to wear yarmulkes in public for fear of being attacked by Muslim “refugees”—even though in 2015 he officially welcomed the mass invasion of Germany by millions of those invaders as the “right thing to do.”
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April 28, 2018 9:14am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD TWO , I see your New Observer gives advertising / promotional space for these decidedly rubbish Anti-Jewish publications.
  
  https://ostarapublications.com/product-category/jewish-question/
  
  Which are your favourites?
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:27am
duggledog

Happychappy

Re. The media and its benevolence toward Jacinta

Think it through.

1: Labour weakens the economy. This will happen
2: Businesses pull up the drawbridge. This will happen
3: First thing business cuts: pointless advertising on NZ platforms which are all hanging by a thread. This will happen
4: Independent media platforms fail without advertising (we have far too many platforms anyway) or are forced to stop giving columns to people like Lizzie Marvelly who ordinary kiwis think is mental. This will happen.
5: Looming election, Nats tell TVNZ and RNZ they are coming after them shortly if they don’t drop their extreme left bias. This should happen
5: Media wises up and becomes non partisan again. This should happen.

I’m feeling positive this morning.
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April 28, 2018 9:21am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  I love your optimism, but I don’t think either of your point 5)s are going to happen ever.
  
  Something is cancerously wrong with the western media these days. They are hard-wired into their anti-conservative stance and I can only imagine that people like that true Bond-villain Soros or the despotically evil House of Saud are propping up the failing media houses.
  
  The parlous state of CNN is truly amazing, their ratings have gone through the floor. With their big money anchors rating lower than testcards or 25 year old cartoons. Yet they still travel along undiminished in their clearly biased, fake news anti-conservative course.
  
  Even the NFL are cleaning up the fucked in the head kneelers now that they’re owning empty seats in stadiums and cliff-like ratings falls. But CNN – steady as she goes! A business can only sustain that if there is another revenue stream replacing the lost advertising?
  
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  April 28, 2018 4:52pm
  - realityczech
    
    DifferentPerspective, you start by saying point 5 is never going to happen, then go on to provide some very good reasons why it might happen.
    
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    April 28, 2018 4:55pm
big bruv

After asking the rest of NZ to fund the Christchurch rebuild (which we have all done happily) the drunk Mayor of that city along with one of its Labour MP’s (who looks like she has a side job as a professional eater) now want us to pay for a stadium.
I say we have paid for enough, a stadium might be a nice idea but the people of Christchurch should pay for the fucking thing themselves.
The rest of NZ has done enough.
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April 28, 2018 9:22am
- Gentleman Bastard
  
  But bruv if you build it, the All Blacks will come.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:31am
  - stigie
    
    Dad and bruv can go and see the game together..?
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:56am
  - kowtow
    
    yep , they did the same thing in Daft Dunners.
    
    massive debt , cut backs in all sorts of local gummint services to pay for it, while the basic infrastructure of the town is literally falling apart and endangering lives (street light poles)
    
    And now they want to tart up the water front at even more expense.
    
    They seem to think that Spanky Jones wll pay for some of that ( again that’s you and me paying)
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/bold-plan-dunedin-harbourside
    
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    April 28, 2018 9:58am
  - Piniwi
    
    @Gentleman Bastard perhaps on their new rainbow blouses?
    
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    April 28, 2018 3:48pm
- ex-golfer
  
  I have to say I am getting sick and tired of Canterbury continually demanding more money from the rest of NZ.
  Its time for them to stand on their own two feet.
  
  They are almost getting to the same level as the Pike River bludgers (who have accepted plenty of cash without appreciation)
  
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  April 28, 2018 11:03am
  - freethinker
    
    I understand that not living in Canterbury means you rely on the MSM which in other respects you largely distrust. What Christchurch really wanted was Insurers and EQC to do the job properly in fairy and quickly repairing or compensating and in that they have failed miserably hence the ongoing saga of housing related issues. Should Wellington have a major quake or Auckland suffer a volcanic event then Canterbury will do the same for those citizens as they did for Christchurch which exceeds that delivered by our private and public sector bureaucrats
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:28pm
    - Paulus
      
      Biggest failure in the Christchurch was that their local Insurance Company -AMI was run by incompetent idiots who busted the company and then relied on the Government (read Taxpayers of NZ) to bail them out.
      Many of these people who were insured with AMI bought a cheap pup, now they blame everybody else for them doing so.
      Should the Government (read Taxpayers) bailed them out, like South Canterbury Finance.- raises other questions.
      Do you really think if/when Wellington has a serious quake the people of Canterbury will care a flying f… for the people of Wellington.
      
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      April 28, 2018 2:16pm
    - ex-golfer
      
      Oh you mean like the Taxpayer bailing out those that were not insured?
      Cry me a river.
      As Paulus notes, the people of the wonderful republic of Christchurch couldn’t give two flying fucks about other parts of the country – they can’t see past their continual crying tears.
      
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      April 28, 2018 2:58pm
- Philview
  
  Sort of agree but the stadium is loose change compared to the $28 Billion Auckland announcement the day before.
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:44pm
duggledog

Komata:

‘But what do we have to replace the CoL?’

National governing alone.

I think it’s a distinct possibility.

Just because it hasn’t happened in the MMP environment doesn’t mean it won’t. We’ve only had MMP for a couple of decades, that’s hardly any time at all.

Wait till kiwis see the gas price skyrocket, interest rates move, butter at 8 or 9 bucks in Pak N Save etc.

Not to mention not get all those pay rises they were expecting and nothing changing with homeless people in cars etc.
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April 28, 2018 9:31am
- brett68
  
  Labour will borrow 10’s of billions and use those billions to increase WFF, benefits and pay for government workers.
  
  Even though the cost of living will sky rocket and the country will be going broke people will keep voting Labour because they’ll be scared National will take away their bene money.
  
  The ones who are going to be really feeling the pain are the National voters
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:39am
- ex-golfer
  
  Won’t happen.
  Labour will gift NZF an electorate seat and re-form the CoL.
  Without friends, National will never form a government alone.
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:46am
  - sooty
    
    But how many electorate seats do they have?
    
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    April 28, 2018 4:14pm
Gentleman Bastard

Duncan Garner has had enough of the bullshit and digs the knife in.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/103427303/duncan-garner-six-months-in-a-leaky-boat–captain-overboard
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April 28, 2018 9:41am
- kowtow
  
  In essence Garner wants the CoL to get on with spending my money on the bludgers.
  
  On that count he can fuck off.
  
  ‘The stardust must turn to something more concrete – solutions, not slogans, trains, not talk and houses, not just hope.’
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:53am
- Ross12
  
  I think Garner seems to be having “a bob each way”.
  
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  April 28, 2018 11:40am
- rightoverlabour
  
  The comments are interesting, especially the up and own ticks. Does the number displayed reflect the sum of all the ups and downs? If so the country is seeing through the fairy dust.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:39pm
Humble Capitalist

Carmel Sepuloni on changing ‘the culture’ in MSD on the Nation. She won’t answer any questions on budgets. Another Minister that isn’t comfortable with numbers.
You wouldn’t trust any of these people to plan your household budget let alone a country’s budget.
Talking about getting rid of ‘excessive sanctions’ when it comes to benefits but won’t say where the money will come from.
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April 28, 2018 9:46am
- ex-golfer
  
  “Changing the Culture” = handing out more money without any obligations.
  
  This is getting dangerous and we will return to the days of the feral and useless of the country bankrupting us through the welfare state.
  
  Watch the single-Mum numbers sky-rocket again as they pump out kid after kid, get their weekly $, their subsidised new state home and live happily ever after.
  
  National were turning this around and working hard to reduce the numbers on welfare (they didn’t go far enough in my mind, should have dismantled Working for Families).
  
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  April 28, 2018 9:58am
  - Piniwi
    
    But ex-golfer the Media party to the rescue as they have found a sob story to replace the previous article. Seems a woman discharged from hospital couldn’t get instant attention at WINZ.
    Septic Sepuloni says it’s “unacceptable” that Work and Income staff turned away a homeless woman who was trying to apply for a benefit after being discharged from hospital.
    “the woman had been homeless for approximately 16 years, and had worked in seasonal jobs or asked people for money to survive.”
    Seems a tad contrite that after 16 years of roughing it she is not known to WINZ? No bank account and her only documentation is a birth certificate. Sounds like a modern day version of ” One Who Flew Out Of The Cuckoos Nest”. Perhaps refer her to H1 as 16 years is about the time the Cuckoos Nests were all closed.
    
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    April 28, 2018 4:50pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Solo Mums breeding like rabbits can’t be good for carbon emissions. Why don’t the grandstanders raise this? I think we know why.
  With all of the current crises we have going on they should be making announcements at every Varsity in NZ on keeping the population down so the rest of the world follow us like they will on oil & gas.
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:09am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    That did used to be the environmentalists’ message, very strong in Europe at least: the world is overpopulated, the best thing you can do for the world is not have children or at most just have two.
    
    But when Greens get taken over by Reds, they completely lose that message and support overpopulation by benefits and immigration. Not a word any more about going easy on the breeding.
    
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    April 28, 2018 11:16am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  WINZ Entitlement and police/education pay increases. Did Labour’s numbers have these factored in? Who is correct Joyce or some leftie economist?
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:26am
- artemisia
  
  Jenny Salesa similarly on the Nation couple of weeks ago as Minister of Construction. Long on training courses one day and an extra 15000 visas for Kiwibuild. Short on anything to do with construction or building homes, apart from a nod to prefabrication. Maybe. One day. (That’s a big capital outlay under a government that might not be there after the next election.)
  
  Those of us in the construction industry shake our heads.
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:27am
  - kevn
    
    @art… Those of us in NZ also shake their heads in despair at this coalition of losers and liars performance.
    Appalling in all ways.
    
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    April 28, 2018 11:46am
  - artemisia
    
    Should have said extra 1500 Kiwibuild visas.
    
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    April 28, 2018 4:54pm
- big bruv
  
  Of course Septic Sepuloni wants to change the culture, her own mother is a benefit fraudster. Septic Sepuloni claimed she knew nothing about it……
  
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  April 28, 2018 12:00pm
  - stigie
    
    Yes BB, can you imagine a National opposition spokesperson for the hand out money dept having a fraudster mother..?
    That National spokesperson would be gone within hours and rightly so too, but it’s different when the left do it !~
    
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    April 28, 2018 12:16pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But bb who would have considered this time last year that this dreg of a creature would be in charge of WINZ? She will be getting bene’s excited about getting their hands on some of the more than $.5 billion in unclaimed benefits. This again illustrates that the left just don’t understand numbers or how a fiscally responsible Government covers contingencies. Those who thought that the O&G Captains Call was nuts are in for another shock. However the Septic one slipped the noose by telling us yet another advisory group will be set up and it could be 3 years before any changes occur. Bet their faithful followers will love that when they want instant rewards for their votes.
    
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    April 28, 2018 4:08pm
- Paulus
  
  Septic Sepuloni, as she is know in Wellington Press Gallery is going to ask Metiria Turei how to do it, and of course her own mother, both being experts in welfare fraud – different of course to ordinary fraud.
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:20pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  The sanctions were only a pathetic virtue-signal.
  
  If some bludger’s benefit is stopped, they go to the same office and ask for a special needs grant to top up the benefit that has been sanctioned.
  
  All they need is one kid and they can plead “Oh the humanity” and WINZ forks up the same amount.
  
  Sepuloni is just making it less work to get the same.
  
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  April 28, 2018 4:55pm
Nostradamus

This may not have been discussed on Kiwiblog yesterday.

National members blocked from getting Clare Curran to appear before committee over meeting with RNZ Carol Hirschfeld – report

The Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee released its report
today on a briefing in which the committee was inadvertently misled by RNZ chairman Richard Griffin and chief executive Paul Thompson about a meeting between Curran and Hirschfeld last December. A minority report by the five National Party members of the select committee said questions remained unanswered regarding the appropriateness of communications initiated by Curran, with Hirschfeld and Griffin.

So 4 Labour MPs (Paul Eagle, Tamati Coffey, Michael Wood and Deborah Russell) and 1 Green MP (Gareth Hughes) found that everything was tickety-boo. Thank goodness all is well in our democracy!
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April 28, 2018 10:00am
- niggly
  
  Well those Labour wankers didn’t find everything was tickety-boo, as per the NZH and Stuff recordings of the SC, they appeared to spend the entire time trying to discredit RNZ Chairman Richard Griffin by questioning his background in order to smear him as as a National Party stooge and didn’t seem to ask any questions relating to Curran’s antics – only Melissa Lee appeared to do that.
  
  And these four Labour arseholes are being paid by the taxpayer – only to continue to play petty Opposition partisan politics. Talk about yet another example of Labour being unfit to govern!
  
  Link to the Labour MP freak-show!
  https://www.facebook.com/Stuff.co.nz/videos/10156392079984268/
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:34am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    If it was a National Party Minister who had held a questionable, secret meeting with a senior employee of o government entity, Gareth Hughes would be screaming from the rooftops about corruption and conflicts of interest. So how have the Labour MP’s in the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee managed to persuade him to veto the request for Clare Curran to appear and explain herself?
    
    I can understand Labour MP’s sticking up for the colleague (even though I don’t agree with it), and to be fair Messrs Wood, Eagle and Coffey and Ms Russell are pretty low on Labour’s foodchain, so they do what they are instructed from above. But Hughes is now a third-term MP, and the Greens profess to be all about openness and transparency. So what was the cost of his silence; the oil and gas exploration ban?
    
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    April 28, 2018 12:06pm
    - niggly
      
      Good points and Gareth seems to be lost for words of late – well maybe ever since Clint left he no longer knows what to say anymore? 😉
      
      As for the Labour MP’s being instructed from above, yes that’s possible (they are tribal after all)!
      
      Or maybe if there were no instructions – the MP’s are in free-fall saying what they want and acting how they want, without any oversight from their Leader laying down the law (like Helen would have), in other words their now unrestrained egos have gotten the “better of them” and they are out of control! Which also is a possibility knowing how ineffectual Jacinda is as a leader!
      
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      April 28, 2018 3:55pm
Fletch

This is what Britain is becoming – A teenage girl posted two lines from a rap song in her Instagram bio in tribute to a 13 year old boy who died in a car crash. She is found guilty of a hate crime and sentenced to a £500 fine and an 8 week community order with an ankle monitor.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

This is the same Merseyside police who warned that they were monitoring posts about Alfie Evans (the baby who they are allowing to starve to death), and that those may be “acted upon”.

https://twitter.com/merseypolice/status/989184263592476673

Say the wrong thing on social media in Britain, and you could hear a knock on the door…
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April 28, 2018 10:26am
- itstricky
  
  The first one is possibly a bit harsh.
  
  The second, I don’t see what the problem is.
  
  Agitated people have vowed violence and threats of burning down the hospital.
  
  The police are protecting the hopsital and its staff from threats. Fair enough. If I started posting “Fletch lives at XX, burn his house down” you’d probably call the police and they would probably be right to intervene.
  
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  April 28, 2018 10:54am
  - freethinker
    
    And if the Police continue on that track it will their own homes burning.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:35pm
- kowtow
  
  The whole thing is offensive , shockingly so , who would listen to that rubbish?
  
  But it ain’t no crime.
  
  ‘Off a whole gram of molly, and my bitch think I’m trippin’
  Now I’m clutchin’ on my forty, all I can think about is drillin’
  I hate fuck shit, slap a bitch nigga, kill a snitch nigga, rob a rich nigga
  I think I’m trippin’, I think I’m trippin”
  
  https://genius.com/Snap-dogg-im-trippin-lyrics
  
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  April 28, 2018 11:00am
- CharlieBrown
  
  This is the same Merseyside police who warned that they were monitoring posts about Alfie Evans (the baby who they are allowing to starve to death), and that those may be “acted upon”.
  
  I must correct you – They are forcing Alfie Evans to die. It isn’t allowing, they are preventing Alfie from living, despite that not costing the British health system anything. I support Euthanasia as per ACT’s bill, however this is state forced euthanasia, something I thought Europe stopped since the early 1940’s.
  
  I think we should think about cases like this when condemning Russia’s actions against the UK. The UK has become a speech suppressing, state run murdering country that deserves no respect or support.
  
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  April 28, 2018 12:34pm
- realityczech
  
  The UK is stuffed. We should ban all immigration from the UK until we can figure out what is going on.
  
  There is no way I want these people and their enablers in my country.
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:06pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Can we eject the United Kingdom from the commonwealth?
    
    Every person from the United Kingdom needs a medieval Leper bell so that it they’re walking around with humans, everyone can run away from the animals.
    
    The United Kingdom is the worst country in the world, by far.
    
    Anyone from the United Kingdom in New Zealand, you have to go back. You’re just wrong.
    
    So yeah, they’re gratuitously murdering a little white baby for no reason then they want to teach those uppity parents a lesson. Who believes for one millionth of a second these creatures would murder a muslim baby refusing to die if the parents wanted to take it to die at home or try for an experimental treatment in say, muslim France.
    
    Then Mr Part-Parcel says the English should exercise free speech by stopping Trump from speaking, whilst they let the Rotherham muslim rape festival continue and rape free speech itself on Twitter by saying they’ll arrest anyone they can find telling them what a bunch of vile sub-humans they are for letting Alfie die.
    
    The United Kingdom is dead. At this stage even Sweden is superior.
    
    Sub-humans.
    
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    April 28, 2018 3:55pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  I suppose hinting at an assassination would be a no go then, too? Thank God we live in New Zealand, where even Jacinda believes in Freedom of Speech. The poms have lost the plot. In fact, they are starting to make North Korea look benign.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:46pm
burt

All of these people will be wishing they had NZ Labour Party membership about now.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/103403193/united-nations-staff-in-fiji-investigated-over-sexual-misconduct-allegations
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April 28, 2018 10:54am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What the Dickens is wrong with all these “do-gooders”?
  
  Why can’t they keep their gropey little hands to themselves?
  
  Why are they so attracted to vulnerable folk?
  
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  April 28, 2018 12:32pm
  - mikewasmild
    
    Same reason that some are attracted to various religious or educational institutions – ready access to vulnerable people.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:22pm
Brigitte

I see the royal baby’s name has been revealed.

If the PM has a girl, I wonder if she will be called Louise (you know, with an ‘e’ on the end).
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April 28, 2018 11:07am
- burt
  
  Charlie
  
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  April 28, 2018 11:39am
- holysheet
  
  Squawk
  Squawk
  Squawk.
  That’s so wracist.
  Not Mohammed?
  So Wracist.
  
  Squawk
  Squawk
  Squawk
  
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  April 28, 2018 12:20pm
RF

I hear that gods gift to women has been smacked down by someone in the Labour Party who has more clout than Ardern..

? H1 or H2.

He apparently was reminded that it is not about him and that he should button his lip.

He still acts like a kid locked in a sweet shop.
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April 28, 2018 11:19am
- freethinker
  
  Please tell as most of Labours males would fit.
  
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  April 28, 2018 1:38pm
- Happychappy
  
  Not the MP that likes to suck on penis shaped lollies is it RF.
  
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  April 28, 2018 5:59pm
Ross12

I hear that Shaw is suggesting taxing petrol powered cars to help get electric vehicle prices down –subsidise them !!
This is the same “logic” as pushing for high rates for feed in tariffs, for the excess power off solar panels on house roofs —subsidies !!
So it is the poor subsidising the wealthy in both cases. Poor people will never be able to afford electric vehicles or solar panels.
How do the far left members( defenders of the poor) of the Greens caucus put up with this? Or is it just a case of them not having the brains to see the scam.
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April 28, 2018 11:47am
- ex-golfer
  
  You summed it up with your last sentence.
  They are too blinded by the ideology to see that their policies hurt the poor more than the well-off.
  For them its all about telling people how to live their lives – because they know best.
  
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  April 28, 2018 12:09pm
- waikatogirl
  
  It’s not about the poor, it is about the hated “rich pricks” who work and earn better money than the communist melons and envious Liebour haters.
  
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  April 28, 2018 12:59pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Worse, the bloody AA agrees with this madcap idea.
    A useless organisation which has outlived its time.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:34pm
    - Ross12
      
      Thanks CM –you just upset a good day.
      I’ll have to start looking around for another insurance company if they push that view much further.
      
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      April 28, 2018 4:37pm
kowtow

The Chinese constitution allows many things including freedom of speech.

‘The “Heroes and Martyrs Protection Law” was foreshadowed in 2016, when a Beijing court ordered a historian to apologize for two essays that questioned whether the story of the “Five Heroes of Langya Mountain” _ Communist soldiers who leapt to their death from a mountain peak instead of surrendering to Japanese troops _ really took place.’

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=106517&sid=3
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April 28, 2018 12:43pm
cmm

Christchurch cycle trougher “incredibly disappointed” that they didn’t get nearly half a million bucks more to park their shitty bikes all over the place.

The two and a half year pilot (32 bikes) provided 20,000 rides, charging $4 per ride + $50k in sponsorship, so that’s $6.50 per ride.

20,000 rides using 32 bikes over 2.5 years means each bike was ridden less than 5 times a week.

Each shitty bike earned $4k.

Terrible bikes, terrible service but it is only ratepayer money so who cares?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103429842/christchurch-bike-share-incredibly-disappointed-after-being-ruled-out-of-permanent-gig
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April 28, 2018 12:47pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Which just goes to prove that Kiwi’s don’t like the quaint notion of biking all over the place.
  We prefer our cars.
  Leave the bikes to the hipsters and lycra-lizards, to pay for themselves.
  Don’t demand we pay for your virtue-signalling lifestyle choice.
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Last time I was in Melbourne, there seemed to be a heck of a lot of Yellow bikes in the Yarra or perched on rooftops or dumped in parks.
  https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/are-you-curious-orange-when-it-comes-to-shared-cycling-obike-is-the-new-blue-20170608-gwmz3u.html
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:45pm
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: Moral compass lost in sea of easy money … Adele Ferguson … Sydney Morning Herald

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/weekend-reading-28-29-april-2018/#comment-3094778 … and … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/general_debate_27_april_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2197927

Moral compass lost in sea of easy money … Adele Ferguson … Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/moral-compass-lost-in-sea-of-easy-money-20180427-p4zc54.html

… concluding …

… It sounds simple enough but it has been easy money. The industry forgot what was right and wrong and focused on lining its executives’ pockets and those of its shareholders. As one observer said, it was a river of easy money and the institutions put their oar into it. Along the way they lost their moral compass.

… In 2014 the then head of ASIC, Greg Medcraft, said Australia was a paradise for white-collar crime. He was right. What he didn’t say was ASIC was partly responsible for the cesspit of misconduct….

Australia ‘paradise’ for white-collar criminals, says ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft

https://www.smh.com.au/business/australia-paradise-for-whitecollar-criminals-says-asic-chairman-greg-medcraft-20141021-119d99.html

Australia is a “paradise” for white-collar criminals because of its soft punishment of corporate offences, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft, says.

Mr Medcraft said the only realistic response was harsher jail terms and bigger penalties for white-collar crime. … read more via hyperlink above …

Google Search
‘Australia Banking Royal Commission’

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=W1njWuXLBsOC8wWdwIrIDg&q=australia+banking+royal+commission&oq=australia+banking+royal+commission&gs_l=psy-ab.12..
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April 28, 2018 1:13pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  … ARTIFICIALLY HIGH LENDING MULTIPLES ARE THE BIG PROBLEM …
  
  Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/weekend-reading-28-29-april-2018/#comment-3094884 … check further comments …
  
  Note within Interest Co NZ interview below, new Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Adrian Orr perspectives on the Australia Banking Royal Commission…
  
  RBNZ Governor says differences between deposit insurance & minimum deposit not frozen in OBR scenario are ‘technicalities’, NZ banks searching for ‘skeletons’ against backdrop of Aussie Royal Commission | interest.co.nz
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/news/93422/new-rbnz-governor-adrian-orr-says-differences-between-deposit-insurance-obr-de-minimis
  
  It is high multiple lending that is THE major problem.
  
  That’s what Central Bank of Ireland research found … leading to its Debt To Income (DTI) general cap of 3.5 times annual household income (a year earlier the Bank of England had imposed a general cap of 4.5 times) …
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/links-24-april-2018/#comment-3092390 … and …
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/02/nab-tightens-loan-income-limits/#comment-3052010 (extensive further postings on both threads) …
  
  There is in excess of $NZ500 billion of bubble value in the New Zealand housing market … north of $A3 trillion in the Australian one.
  
  That’s way higher than the overall multiples reached in the Irish metros back in 2007 … refer Demographia International Housing Affordability Surveys Schedule … http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm .
  
  I have no doubt the lending multiples in New Zealand have been just as irresponsible as in Australia … with doctored applications as well … particularly 8.8 Median Multiple Auckland and 8.9 Median Multiple Tauranga …
  
  Dysfunctional housing markets (due to local governments losing control of their costs … and the capacity to meet its infrastructure responsibilities and cope with normal growth) inevitably create dysfunctional banking / finance sectors.
  
  Isn’t it well past time they woke up about this ?
  
  Focused on restoring ‘normal’ housing markets … where housing is at or below 3.0 times annual household incomes (Median Multiple) … requiring sensible lending multiple of about 2.5 times.
  
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  April 28, 2018 1:18pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Onandonandonandonandonandon he goes.
    One day he’s going to disappear up his own fundamental orifice.
    
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    April 28, 2018 1:35pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      AMP could face criminal charges for misleading ASIC, banking royal commission told – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
      
      http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-27/asic-fronts-hayne-royal-commission/9702662
      
      The banking royal commission has heard AMP could face criminal penalties for misleading the corporate regulator ASIC.
      
      Delivering her closing statement, counsel assisting the inquiry Rowena Orr QC said AMP may have breached the Corporations Act over numerous misleading statements relating to its practice of charging fees for no service.
      
      The inquiry has been told AMP misled ASIC on 20 occasions about a deliberate practice of charging fees to customers who were no longer receiving financial advice. Penalties for the alleged breaches could include fines and jail time. … VIEW q& READ more via hyperlink above …
      
      ABC’s The Business slams Australia’s giant mortgage “control fraud” – MacroBusiness
      
      https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/abcs-the-business-slams-australias-giant-mortgage-control-fraud/
      
      In the wake of yesterday’s explosive revelations by UBS about systemic dodgy mortgage lending practices by Australia’s second biggest mortgage lender, Westpac, the founder of LF Economics, Lindsay David, was interviewed by ABC’s The Business to discuss the ramifications. … VIEW via hyperlink above …
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      … Mortgage slavery and poverty creation on both sides of the Tasman …
      
      New type of poverty hurting middle class … The Canberra Times
      
      http://www.canberratimes.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/new-type-of-poverty-hurting-middle-class-20180426-p4zbsl.html
      
      A generation of mortgage slaves: Auckland’s house prices leave home owners mired in debt | Stuff.co.nz
      
      https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/103205338/a-generation-of-mortgage-slaves-aucklands-house-prices-leave-home-owners-crippled-in-debt
      
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      April 28, 2018 2:24pm
      - realityczech
        
        I have been following your comments closely Hugh and have transferred all my money to the Royal Golden Lion Bank of Somalia.
        
        I have also put in an offer on a corrugated iron shack on the Mogadishu city fringes.
        
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        April 28, 2018 2:28pm
      - stigie
        
        Putting a offer in on the hovel in Kingsland might be better for your wellbeing RC..?
        
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        April 28, 2018 2:38pm
      - realityczech
        
        stigie, I have very humble needs but I do have limits.
        
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        April 28, 2018 2:45pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Consider what you would be borrowing in a normal housing market at or below 3.0 times annual household incomes … with a mortgage load of about 2.5 times !
        
        Housing through the decades, what is affordable? | Newshub
        
        http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2016/08/housing-through-the-decades-what-is-affordable.html
        
        SYDNEY AUSTRALIA 1966 – YOUTUBE VIDEO
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR1CU8NjGW0
        
        … Sydney now …
        
        The gorgeous photos of the derelict properties you still can’t afford … The Guardian
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/23/the-gorgeous-photos-of-the-derelict-properties-you-still-cant-afford
        
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        April 28, 2018 3:00pm
      - realityczech
        
        You are such a pessimist Hugh.
        
        We can knock up a house out of virtually anything.
        You need to cheer up and think outside the box.
        
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        April 28, 2018 3:26pm
      - UpandComer
        
        I agree Hugh. They all have to go back.
        
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        April 28, 2018 3:59pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … They are acutely aware of the magnitude of the housing / land bubble value problem in Australia … way worse than the Irish 2007 one incidentally …
        
        … LATEST REPORT … QUEENSLAND PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION …
        
        Housing in Queensland: affordability and preferences | APO
        
        http://apo.org.au/node/140056
        
        Adequate housing is a basic human need. As well as providing shelter and security, housing can provide a sense of identity. Read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Rampant land inflation behind 300% increase in home prices – Leith van Onselen – MacroBusiness Australia
        … behind paywall …
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/rampant-land-inflation-behind-300-increase-home-prices/
        
        The Effect of Zoning on Housing Prices … Reserve Bank of Australia Discussion Paper
        
        https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2018/pdf/rdp2018-03.pdf
        
        Abstract
        
        Zoning regulations provide benefits, but they also restrict housing supply and hence raise prices. This paper quantifies their importance by comparing prices to the marginal costs of supply at different points in time. For detached houses, marginal costs comprise the dwelling structure and the land that other home owners need to forego. Relative to our estimates of these costs, we find that, as of 2016, zoning raised detached house prices 73 per cent above marginal costs in Sydney, 69 per cent in Melbourne, 42 per cent in Brisbane and 54 per cent in Perth. Zoning has also raised the price of apartments well above the marginal cost of supply, especially in Sydney. We emphasise that this is not the amount that housing prices would fall in the absence of zoning. The effect of zoning has increased dramatically over the past two decades, likely due to existing restrictions binding more tightly as demand has risen. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        The Urban Containment Effects (Zoning Effects) On Australian House Prices (RBA Report) … Wendell Cox … New Geography
        
        http://www.newgeography.com/content/005921-the-urban-containment-effect-zoning-effect-australian-house-prices
        
        … extract …
        
        • In Sydney, the urban containment effect adds $489,000 to the house price making the annual mortgage payments $29,000 higher. Figure 4 shows the components of the average house price in Sydney.
        
        • In Melbourne, the urban containment effect adds $324,000 to the house price, making the annual mortgage payments $19,000 higher.
        
        • In Brisbane, the urban containment effect adds $159,000 to the house price, making the annual mortgage payments $9,000 higher.
        
        • In Perth, the urban containment effect adds $206,000 to the house price, making the annual mortgage payments $12,000 higher.
        
        • No data is available for Adelaide, but the present median multiple (median house price divided by median household income) suggests that urban containment effect adds at least $13,000 to the mortgage. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        The Economic Implications Of Housing Supply – Edward Glaeser & Joseph Gyourko
        
        https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.32.1.3
        
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        April 28, 2018 4:56pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … NO MORE POLITICAL PROTECTION FOR OFFENDING BANKERS … THEY WILL FACE THE MUSIC … AND DESERVEDLY SO …
        
        Offending bankers will be brought to account, Malcolm Turnbull says | Australia news | The Guardian
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/28/offending-bankers-will-be-brought-to-account-malcolm-turnbull-says
        
        Malcolm Turnbull wants bankers and financial advisers to be forced to give plain language advice to their customers and have their conversations recorded.
        
        The prime minister is angry and disappointed about revelations about banks and financial planners unearthed by the banking royal commission, saying there are too many cases where customers were not put first.
        
        “Banks and financial advisers have a solemn duty to put the interests of their clients and customers first,” Turnbull said in Sydney on Saturday. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Banking royal commission has laid bare the financial industry’s toxic culture … Australian Broadcasting Corporation
        
        http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-28/banking-royal-commission-financial-industry-culture-exposed/9705504
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        Banking royal commission piles up the heat on AMP chairman and board | Australia news | The Guardian
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/28/banking-royal-commission-piles-up-the-heat-on-amp-chairman-and-board
        
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        April 28, 2018 5:52pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        AMP chair Catherine Brenner could be asked to resign as company faces possible criminal charges
        
        Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/weekend-reading-28-29-april-2018/#comment-3095126 … and …
        
        AMP chair Catherine Brenner could be asked to resign as company faces possible criminal charges … 9News
        
        https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/04/28/18/05/amp-chair-catherine-brenner-pressure-to-resign-banking-royal-commission-possible-criminal-charges
        
        The pressure on AMP’s executive team has increased after barristers for the banking Royal Commission suggested Australia’s largest wealth manager could face criminal charges for lying to the corporate regulator.
        
        AMP CEO Craig Meller has already lost his job over the fees-for-no-service scandal and wiped $2.2 billion off the financial services company’s market value.
        
        Now there is increasing speculation that AMP chair Catherine Brenner could be asked to resign from her role with the company during a crisis meeting expected to be held tomorrow. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
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        Australia PM says ‘would have been better’ to order banking probe earlier | Reuters
        
        https://uk.reuters.com/article/australia-banks-inquiry/australia-pm-says-would-have-been-better-to-order-banking-probe-earlier-idUKL3N1S473C
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        ‘Angry and disappointed’: Turnbull wants action on bad bankers … The NewDaily
        
        https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/04/28/malcolm-turnbull-action-royal-commission/
        
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        April 29, 2018 12:21am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Superannuation funds abandon AMP as Treasurer attacks boards … The Canberra Times
        
        http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/superannuation-funds-abandon-amp-as-treasurer-attacks-boards-20180428-p4zc80.html
        
        Treasurer Scott Morrison has ramped up pressure on Australian financial services boards to be held to account for the banking royal commission, as the advisor to one of the country’s largest superannuation firms abandons support for the besieged AMP board.
        
        AMP chairman Catherine Brenner is now facing a battle on all fronts to retain her position, after the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors followed the Australian Shareholders Association in calling for her to resign. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
        
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        April 29, 2018 1:03am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … Essential viewing …
        
        … Australia’s corrupt political and commercial culture …
        
        Close Of Business | Program | Australia Plus TV … Australian Broadcasting Corporation
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4E0X-vgZMg
        
        Published on Apr 28, 2018
        
        Close of Business looks at financial planning, corporate governance and culture in the light of the Royal Commission. Nice to see the broader issues being explored!
        
        Take particular note of senior Australian businessman Geoff Cousins ( 12 minutes in ) scathing assessment of the sick culture.
        
        … Distribute & discuss WIDELY … thank you …
        
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        April 29, 2018 6:25pm
RF

What is going on about the Labour youth camp sexual assault. The Police are investigating but so far zilch.

I hope it’s not going to be white wash.
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April 28, 2018 1:19pm
- Paulus
  
  I hope that the Police have not been influenced by the present COLL so that any funding increases would be capped.
  It is suggested that the sexual perp is closely related to a senior Labour member, and has shaved his beard off so he cannot be found being in disguise.
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:25pm
realityczech

The leftist attacks on uppity blacks continues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgehKvd25lc

This goes along with their racist hate attacks on Kayne West & Candace Owen.

➡ JOIN ME IN FIGHTING HATE
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April 28, 2018 2:12pm
Philview

Just reading that the NZ Currency heading south is nothing to do with NZ. The international markets aren’t spooked by the Oil and Gas announcement it was just a coincidence that it all happened the same day.

https://www.odt.co.nz/business/tumbling-dollar-not-just-about-weakness
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April 28, 2018 2:29pm
- realityczech
  
  We still have the diary industry… oh wait !
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:31pm
  - Brigitte
    
    We have???? I doubt it’s as large as the dairy industry though.
    
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    April 28, 2018 3:01pm
    - realityczech
      
      Our other big industry is supplying the world with spelling nazis.
      
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      April 28, 2018 3:51pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        I wonder about your term ‘spelling nazis’ is a slight overreaction? Do people who are a little bit finicky about spelling really bear a close comparison with warmongering racialist authoritarians?
        
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        April 28, 2018 4:07pm
      - Jack5
        
        The comments of the BNZ’s Jason Wong, highlighted by Philview, include this:
        
        The BNZ had previously highlighted how the relationship between currencies and interest rates had broke down.
        
        If the previous relationship shown by the model returned to haunt the market, it would set the scene for an almighty broad-based US dollar recovery from here, sending the NZ dollar spiralling down ….
        
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        April 28, 2018 4:41pm
Fletch

The House Intelligence Committee in the U.S has released a 200 page report on any possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Short conclusion – there wasn’t any.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-intelligence-committee-finds-no-evidence-of-trump-campaign-collusion-but-cites-poor-judgment/
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April 28, 2018 2:33pm
- Philview
  
  I had to laugh when the Democrats said it isn’t an independent report and they are compiling their own report. Of course, theirs is likely to be free of bias.
  
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  April 28, 2018 2:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch & Philview, you both missed this highly relevant item in the headline,
  
  “House Intelligence Committee Republicans find “no evidence”
  
  Say no more.
  
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  April 28, 2018 3:18pm
  - mikewasmild
    
    Well, they would have had to look for evidence first, which the majority members did not do.
    
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    April 28, 2018 3:26pm
UpandComer

With a hey fiddle dee dee, grab your partner’s count with me

With a hey fiddle dee dee
How long till Clapper hangs from a tree?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-27/clapper-busted-leaking-dossier-details-cnns-jake-tapper-lying-congress-about-it

“So Comey, at Clapper’s expressed behest, told Trump that CNN was “looking for a news hook” to publish dossier allegations. He said this in the briefing of Trump that almost immediately leaked to CNN, which provided them the very news hook they sought and needed.

This briefing, and the leaking of it, legitimized the dossier, which touched off the Russia hysteria. That hysteria led to a full-fledged media freakout. During the freakout, Comey deliberately refused to say in public what he acknowledged repeatedly in private — that the President of the United States was not under investigation.”

It’s going to be amazing when every person investigating Trump is in prison while Trump chills with his boi Kanye and his boi Kim Jung Un in America’s new United States of Korea.
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April 28, 2018 3:19pm
Jack5

The UK’s Lefty lemmings are psyching themselves up for a mass rush to the clifftops.

The Guardian says any Trump visit to Britain ” must be greeted by mass street protests”.

Britain is shaping up to have a snowball’s show in hell of getting a good trade deal with America after Brexit.

The demented Owen Jones’s Guardian wail for anti-Trump demonstrations includes this:

“A nationwide protest will offer solidarity with those targeted by the populist right, and redouble a united effort to defend them: women, Muslims, refugees, immigrants, gay and trans people and other minorities. That will not just offer comfort to besieged and frightened communities: it will join the dots, emphasising that attacks on any are interlinked, that each struggle cannot be won in isolation, and that only a broad coalition can defeat misogyny, migrant-bashing, homophobia, transphobia and anti-Muslim hatred.”
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April 28, 2018 3:37pm
- realityczech
  
  “the populist right”
  
  While at other times the alt-left screech that they represent the vast majority. Either way their contempt for the democratic expression of the people is noted.
  
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  April 28, 2018 3:41pm
- UpandComer
  
  Lol beseiged communities raping and cutting the dick off every kid they can find with impunity.
  
  Until they can arrest parents who don’t raise their kids as trannie gays, they’ll be a frightened victim community.
  
  I hope Trump tells the British to go fuck their ugly selves, it’s just New Zealand and Australia and Korea and the US now.
  
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  April 28, 2018 4:02pm
EAD_TWO

Publish this in 20 different European countries and you would risk imprisonment. Free speech warriors should pause and think about that……

The credulity of the White race in believing the far-fetched, ridiculous, and often contradictory holohoax fantasy has been an unmitigated disaster for our people. The fraud of the holohoax has been much more, and much worse, than a multi-billion dollar cash cow for the jews behind this blatant scam. It is one of the semitic Big Lies that the jews use to claim moral authority over Whites, and to manipulate the uniquely altruistic and compassionate White race into feeling undeserved guilt for alleged atrocities that, strictly speaking, never happened. The holohoax is the reason ne plus ultra that the jews use in their unjustifiable efforts to characterize themselves as victims of the most privileged, powerful, wealthy, and unaccountable sort. In typical jewish hypocrisy, they claim to be victims of the serfs over whom they rule through the corruption of our governments. Noticing any of this a thoughtcrime in our debased Weimerican failed-state, and is immediately met with jewish wailing about the holohoax coupled with aggravated, nasally bleating about anti-semitism.

Read more at:

http://www.renegadetribune.com/the-holohoax-lie-begins-to-die/
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April 28, 2018 4:35pm
- realityczech
  
  Funnily enough I was just about to make a big bowl of fresh popcorn.
  
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  April 28, 2018 4:49pm
  - mikewasmild
    
    Popcorn macht frei, EAdolf says…
    
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    April 28, 2018 5:12pm
- mikewasmild
  
  Yawn.
  
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  April 28, 2018 5:07pm
Jack5

Stuff picks up the apartheid-for-local-bodies cause of New Plymouth dispensing optician Judd.

The newspaper site labels Judd “a recovering racist” as it pushes his stand for race-based local bodies.

Can you get any more hypocritical than that?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103452391/former-new-plymouth-mayor-takes-on-former-national-leader-on-mori-wards
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April 28, 2018 4:35pm
- mikewasmild
  
  It always gives me a laugh when the morons want to label any kind of specific representation or recognition of Māori interests as ‘apartheid’.
  
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  April 28, 2018 5:01pm
  - realityczech
    
    It always gives me a laugh when the morons want to label any kind of specific representation or recognition of ~~Māori~~ White interests as ‘apartheid’
    
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    April 28, 2018 5:03pm
  - Jack5
    
    Milky, you’ve left a macron in your English-language post at 5.01. Don’t you think you should keep macrons for your posts in Maori language?
    
    Milky, you don’t think that guaranteed race-based political representation, where just one race has reserved representatives, has parallels with apartheid?
    
    The word “apartheid” means “separateness”, and what are guaranteed representatives for one race – and just one race – but this?
    
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    April 28, 2018 5:24pm
    - mikewasmild
      
      Perhaps it is to honour the visit of President Macron to the Pacific. Pity he is not coming here, but maybe he doesn’t play golf. Vive la différence, though
      There are varying schools of thought about the use of diacritical marks in English. Most authorities on the use of New Zealand English, however, would accept that the macron in Māori words is a useful aid to correct pronunciation. It would be naïve to think otherwise.
      
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      April 28, 2018 5:33pm
      - realityczech
        
        “maybe he doesn’t play golf”
        
        milky is still furious his idol Obama snubbed the stupid little bag of bones and buggered off to play golf with the rich banker Key instead 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 5:37pm
      - Jack5
        
        I umlautedly apologise if I tread on your gramattical toes, Milky.
        
        That is a grave point on the Maori macron, Milky.
        I note you back up your argument with a diaresis.
        
        But this use would have ramifications for use in English of words with native diacritical marks such as the cedilla, harakat, niqqud, or virama.
        
        Surely, it’s easier to keep English unMacronated.
        
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        April 28, 2018 5:50pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        I guess that depends on whether you view those marks as useful in indicating pronunciation. It seems to me that the macron is very useful for helping us to pronounce Māori words a little better.
        Still, it’s a pretty small thing and if you want to keep getting upset about it I guess that’s fine.
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:35pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Don’t bother having an intelligent argument with a moron. Just tell him to Fuck Off. I think his limited capabilities can cope with that. We who lived in South Africa have a very good understanding of Apartheid. And what we see in New Zealand is an amazing replica. Maybe he should read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Especially Articles 1, 2, and 21. (I specifically like Article 19).
      
      http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
      
      There is fuck all about people who lived anywhere first, or treaties, or anything else that implies one group has more rights than another.
      
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      April 28, 2018 9:03pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Courtesy of the ill-tempered NZ Maori vs Springbok rugby game in 1921, and the leaked telegram by a South African journalist back to his home country afterwards describing it as the most unfortunate game ever played, and disgusting that white South Africans were expected to play against natives
        
        …the three All Black tours of South Africa where Maori were excluded from selection culminating in the “No Maoris, no tour” movement of 1958-60
        
        …and the disruptions and civil unrest that accompanied the 1981 Springbok tour
        
        …New Zealanders more than most non-South Africans have had reason over many years to acquaint themselves with the details of apartheid. What we have in NZ, including Maori Parliamentary seats that date back to 1867 just after Maori had been defeated at the end of the second NZ War, andthen, like now we’re in the position of a minority with limited power and overall influence, is not apartheid.
        
        No Group Areas Act.
        
        No Pass Laws.
        
        No restrictions on voting based on race.
        
        No law banning marriage between people of other races.
        
        No minority holding on to and cementing unrepresentative privilege and rule over the majority by force with legislative decree as the justification.
        
        Suggest if you really think we are like that, you need to get fucked too. And fuck off.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:39pm
      - realityczech
        
        rightoverlabour, excuse Bimbo. He is a nasty foul mouthed ignorant little man who supports some appalling and disgusting things.
        
        Decent and informed people take it as a compliment when subjected to his vile attacks.
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:46pm
      - Kimbo
        
        But the good thing about Saffers is they are straight-up people you can disagree with, tell them to fuck off…and they don’t sook. ???
        
        Unlike some of the noisy and attention-seeking native New Zealand fauna, eh, Kea/realityczech/felching straw? ???
        
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        April 28, 2018 9:52pm
- realityczech
  
  “Can you get any more hypocritical than that?”
  
  milky gave it a shot Jacksie ^^
  
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  April 28, 2018 5:04pm
  - mikewasmild
    
    Kea seems to have a thing for jacksie(s). Channelling starboard?
    
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    April 28, 2018 5:06pm
Jack5

Macron is to visit to Australia and New Caledonia next week.

France is building 12 submarines for Australia in a deal worth more than $NZ50 billion.

And we thought Jacinderella was Queen of the South Pacific.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/04/27/frances-macron-to-travel-to-australia-and-new-caledonia.html
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April 28, 2018 4:55pm
- mikewasmild
  
  Australia aspires to be a middle power. Used to have an aircraft carrier, too. French military forces in their Pacific ~~colonies~~ overseas territories are not negligible.
  
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  April 28, 2018 5:04pm
  - nasska
    
    It’s a little unnerving to be reminded that our nearest neighbour is buying submarines from the nation which gave us the Concorde, Renault cars & trains too wide for the platforms they were built to use.
    
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    April 28, 2018 5:26pm
    - Jack5
      
      According to this source, the French subs best met the Aussies’ requirements for range and for battery-recharging time.
      
      Some naval historian maybe able to confirm for us that during World War 2, the British subs designed for Atlantic and Mediterranean war were a little small and short-ranged for the Pacific war.
      
      https://theconversation.com/why-the-french-submarine-won-the-bid-to-replace-the-collins-class-58223
      
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      April 28, 2018 5:33pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        British application of seapower in the Pacific was pretty limited till late in the war. I think the vets called it the ‘forgotten fleet’. Plenty of Kiwis involved in the Fleet Air Arm strikes against Malaya and the Dutch East Indies though.
        
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        April 28, 2018 5:44pm
      - realityczech
        
        Everyone has had enough of your whitesplaining today milky.
        
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        April 28, 2018 5:47pm
    - mikewasmild
      
      Hopefully they will be better than the Swedish predecessors.
      But don’t be too disparaging of French engineering: the Suez Canal, Eiffel Tower and the Airbus.
      
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      April 28, 2018 5:39pm
      - nasska
        
        But what about Beauvais Cathedral, the Airbus 380 & the 2004 Collapse at Airport Charles de Gaulle.
        
        Pollyanna! 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 5:51pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        Remember Agincourt and Waterloo and that wogs being at Calais.
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:30pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        *begin*
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:37pm
cmm

Ok, the Global Warming fear mongering isn’t working any more, so let’s have another one:

“Humanity’s greatest challenge to save the world from catastrophic asteroid impacts ”

More troughs need filling!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12041405
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April 28, 2018 5:22pm
- realityczech
  
  They will probably write a paper on the cultural impact, that explains how white privilege and the patriarchy is disadvantaging non Europeans and that asteroids are a white social construct anyway.
  
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  April 28, 2018 5:27pm
- Jack5
  
  The Doomsday cults of Global Warming and now asteroid impacts could be related to the decline in Christianity in the West.
  
  Once, it was just a handful of fringe pessimists outside city chapels with newspaper-style billboards proclaiming: “Repent! The End is Near.”
  
  Now they have these new fears to fret about.
  
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  April 28, 2018 5:29pm
  - realityczech
    
    Ahhh the good old days Jacksie. Can’t remember the last time I saw a good old fashioned street preacher. They were far more rational that the lefties we now have screeching at us on the street and mugging us for donations in organised uniformed gangs.
    
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    April 28, 2018 5:33pm
    - mikewasmild
      
      My last street donation was to the RNZRSA. I’m surprised to hear they have become lefties.
      
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      April 28, 2018 5:41pm
  - mikewasmild
    
    I hadn’t hear of asteroid impact denial before…
    
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    April 28, 2018 5:40pm
    - Jack5
      
      You’re not confusing asteroids with pain from the vascular structures in the anal canal, are you Milky?
      
      Asteroids are big rocks in space, it’s haemarroids that are big pains in the arse.
      
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      April 28, 2018 5:54pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        You would need to ask starboard about anal canal; he seems to be the resident rear-end expert.
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:26pm
wiseowl

So.
Soimon has addressed the blue greens for the feelz part of National and is proud of introducing the ETS.
When is someone going to explain the scam to National or do they keep playing the game of pretending .
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April 28, 2018 6:10pm
graham

Latest in the Penny Bright saga, from her Facebook page:

I have completed all legal paperwork required by the Judge, and served copies on Auckland.

Auckland Council have filed a Notice of Opposition and supporting Affidavit to my Interim Injunction Application.

The hearing date for the Interim Injunction has yet to be set.

I have until Wednesday 2 May to file further submissions and Auckland Council have until Monday 7 May to respond.

I wonder how much longer this will drag on for?
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April 28, 2018 6:17pm
- stigie
  
  Fucking years, she is disturbed and has a problem being righteous on everything.
  This will drag on and on with free rates for ever, it’s been 11 years now since she paid rates, whats another 11 years !~
  
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  April 28, 2018 6:39pm
Johnboy

I can still remember donating a few cents to the lovely young Salvation Army chick in the form-fitting uniform to purchase the “Warcry”! 🙂
Grand old 6 o clock closing times at the old St George!! 🙂
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April 28, 2018 6:22pm
- mikewasmild
  
  Were you outside the St George to see the Beatles?
  
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  April 28, 2018 6:25pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Why have you changed your name Milkey?
    Surely you haven’t gained enough fame for it to go to your head quite yet? 🙂
    
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    April 28, 2018 6:27pm
    - mikewasmild
      
      I had a run in with the extremely inconsistent moderator and incurred a small ban. On returning, technical difficulties meant that it was easier to start under a new user name than get the old one reactivated.
      Very easy to have other user names: ~~realityczech~~ Kea recommends it.
      
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      April 28, 2018 6:40pm
      - realityczech
        
        “I had a run in with the extremely inconsistent moderator”
        
        LOL 🙂
        
        Cry me a fucking river milky.
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:42pm
      - Johnboy
        
        As long as you still cheer for HOBM old chap!
        We could hardly bear it if you came out as a Petone man in your new resurrection. 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:43pm
      - Kimbo
        
        If it’s any consolation, most thought Kevin Kelliher got it wrong when he sent off Colin Meads. ?
        
        Meanwhile, in important news, Ponsonby are three for three after downing Marist today. But a tough away game next week against Varsity.
        
        Meanwhile in your minor sub-union, did burt’s Ories lose today? ?
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:44pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I thought chaps from Ponsonby were all utter poofs Kimbo? 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:47pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No. Was once a tough arse Irish Catholic suburb, then a tough arse Polynesian suburb. But would you like me to pass on your thoughts to Patrick Tuipulotu? ?
        
        And just for that we are going to implement the penalty clause in Vince Aso’s Hurricanes contract. Check the fine print…he’s still registered with Ponies. ?
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:49pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Fake news Kimbo. We have no Aso’soles in the Hurricanes! 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:53pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        You can have Vince Aso back. In exchange, the Hurricanes seek…no one.
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:02pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Backing that recent production line out of Rongotai College, eh? ?
        
        Watch out what you ask for. Taranaki is now part of the Chiefs’ catchment, so they will be delighted to hear of the impending transfer of Beauden Barrett, not to mention his not untalented two brothers to their franchise. ?
        
        Any other generous gifts you want to sacrifice to pride and profligacy?
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:07pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Johnboy:
      
      The process is called regeneration:
      
      This process allows a Kiwiblogger to undergo a transformation into a new physical form and a somewhat different personality after instances which would normally result in death.
      
      We started with Mikenmild.
      Now we have Mikewasmild
      Will the next regenerated character be Mikeisangry? And where can he go from there – Mikeisseriouslypissedoff?
      
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      April 28, 2018 6:51pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Angrypissedoffmikewasshot? 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 6:56pm
      - Monique Watson
        
        One vote for Mikeunwindingwithahooker
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:03pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        Mikewillutteremptythreastslikeothernumpties?
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:03pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        Are you giving it away for free tonight, Monique?
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:05pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        You mean our Mikenmild has regenerated like a Timelord?
        (Dr. Who is popular in Japan.)
        
        Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY19zFvsStU
        Check out the Dalek scheme from 0:27. The voice acting is very good. I think the Japanese Daleks sound as scary as the English ones…
        
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        April 28, 2018 8:09pm
- nasska
  
  …..”donating a few cents to the lovely young Salvation Army chick”…..
  
  Tight arse! 🙂
  
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  April 28, 2018 6:25pm
  - Johnboy
    
    She certainly had one of those nasska! The little tight skirt showed it off to perfection! 🙂
    
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    April 28, 2018 6:29pm
- Monique Watson
  
  🙂 Is that Wills St St George where the Beatles played and I in later decades used to curry favours with the bartenders?
  
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  April 28, 2018 7:07pm
  - Johnboy
    
    It was actually Willis St. darling. Tell us more of the bartenders curried favours? 🙂
    
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    April 28, 2018 7:11pm
    - Monique Watson
      
      I meant Willis St but autocorrect took control while I was throwing my dessert spoon at the dog. The mongrel snuck up and stole the last of my salmon (wild not farmed) while I was opening my beer. He better sleep with one eye open lest he gets fed to the coyotes.
      Highlight of my hi-jinks (autocorrect had that as hi-kinks) was ditching prom night and drinking on the St George bartender’s tab all evening on my prom dress and bailing on him and ditching him on top of the Terrace Tunnel.
      
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      April 28, 2018 7:46pm
  - mikewasmild
    
    That’s the one. Home of Scribblers bar in the 80s and now a student hostel.
    
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    April 28, 2018 7:11pm
    - Johnboy
      
      A good feed of basic but filling stodge could be had in the Seven Sea’s bar on a Friday night in the late sixties for 50c! 🙂
      
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      April 28, 2018 7:13pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        Hah. As if real men would need food in a bar! Knew you were a phoney.
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:16pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Real men always eat two fried sausage’s with mash and onion sauce with their jugs so they can fart better Milkey! 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:20pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Johnboy:
        
        Mikewasmild is more of a sausages and baked beans guy:
        
        Mikenmild: I do quite like the little sausages in baked beans
        
        Starboard: I bet you do mm..
        
        🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:25pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Milkey’s always been a “little sausage” sort of chap Nostra! 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:26pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Celebrity chef Guy Grossi talks about sausages:
        
        “Grazie bella,” Guy Grossi says as the Italian waitress puts a plate of food in front of me. “This is a sausage we make in-house with fennel. They’re affectionately called palle del nonno. Don’t let it put you off but it means grandfather’s balls, ’cause they’re small and round and a little bit shrivelled … And under that bread is duck liver parfait, so tuck in.”
        
        Some of the Kiwiblog crowd would definitely “tuck in”!
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:36pm
publicwatchdog

NZ ANTI-CORRUPTION WHISTLE-BLOWER Penny Bright UPDATE.
(Saturday 28 April 2018 )
…..

I have completed all legal paperwork required by the Judge, and served copies on Auckland Council.

Compared with Auckland Council, with its $2 BILLION annual budget, 12,000 employees and legal department, it is just me, a ‘lay litigant’ with no previous experience in injunctions or judicial reviews – but I’m doing my best.

I have had some help – but it’s still a lot of work and I’m not working to full capacity because I’m not well.

LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS:

Auckland Council have filed a Notice of Opposition and supporting Affidavit to my Interim Injunction Application.

The hearing date for the Interim Injunction has yet to be set.

I have until Wednesday 2 May to file further submissions and Auckland Council have until Monday 7 May to respond.

The hearing date will be set as soon as possible after that.

Next week I expect to receive the prognosis of my biopsy for suspected ovarian cancer.

So – I need all this stress and legal paperwork pressure at this time like I need another hole in the head.

My stomach is starting to swell again and I feel really tired.

On the ‘bright’ side – who has come out publicly and strongly in opposition to the forced sale of my house, is former NZ Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark.

I have publicly thanked Helen Clark for her support at this time.

This support from Helen Clark has received significant publicity.

I look forward to current MPs ‘stepping up to the plate’ and stating their public opposition to the forced rating sale of my freehold home.

Especially when all Auckland Council needed to do – but did not – was to secure the rates debt with a Charging Order over my property.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12040875

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/helen-clark-comes-out-in-support-of-penny-bright/
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April 28, 2018 7:10pm
- mikewasmild
  
  Sure, the Council could secure your debt with a charging order.Should they do that with everyone who doesn’t want to pay their rates? Could become a very popular option.
  I guess it’s fortunate that you ~~are unemployable~~ don’t pay taxes, so you don’t have to find out whether IRD would be happy to put it all on tick as well.
  
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  April 28, 2018 7:13pm
- Johnboy
  
  My Pigsty is still vacant for you Penny when you finally become homeless! 🙂
  
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  April 28, 2018 7:15pm
  - Johnboy
    
    ps: My pigs said all your cats are welcome too! 🙂
    
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    April 28, 2018 7:24pm
- realityczech
  
  We want full disclosure of all the costs to rate payers caused by your acting out and attention seeking.
  
  We also DEMAND an explanation of why something was not done about you years ago?
  
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  April 28, 2018 7:15pm
  - Kimbo
    
    your acting out and attention seeking
    
    We also DEMAND an explanation why something was not done about you years ago?
    
    Can I please ask for Nostradamus, Kiwiblog’s resident chronicler and archivist, to take a note of realityczech’s/Kea’s/felching straw’s above effort when this blog site hands out its “Post exhibiting supreme irony” award for 2018?
    
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    April 28, 2018 7:24pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Penny:
  
  The “…..” in your comment relates to this part of your Facebook post:
  
  Thank you Lisa and Verity for hosting the celebration party at Garnet Station Cafe last night for success to date in stopping the sale of my home. It was a lovely evening. Thanks to those who were able to make it and apologies accepted for those who would have liked to have come but who were unable ? xxx
  
  Why did you leave out the reference to last night’s drinkies event? Was it because you spent some of the GiveaLittle money on a celebratory drink at the “cash bar” event?
  
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  April 28, 2018 7:17pm
  - mikewasmild
    
    Isn’t she still dining out on the funds from Occupy Auckland?
    
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    April 28, 2018 7:23pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Mikewasmild is referring to this incident that allegedly occurred during the Occupy protest:
      
      In another brilliant showing of respect for democracy, Penny completely ignored the G.A. [General Assembly] rules that it must approve all funds before they are released (over $100) by usurping the last $200+ in the bank account, without G.A. approval, ostensibly with the help of “Chris Glen” who was on the finance committee and was also a bank signatory.
      
      For an anti-corruption campaigner who rails against backroom-deals and conflicts of interest – how could she take money outside of G.A. process while simultaneously being tasked as auditor? (Transparency! Accountability!)
      
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      April 28, 2018 7:30pm
      - realityczech
        
        She is a lying manipulative con-artist. Like many female offenders – she acts out to distract from her offending and to portray herself as the victim. Her motivations are purely narcissistic.
        
        The police should pepper spray her and send the dogs in, when she resists. She should be treated with the utmost brutality.
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:35pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Watch out Nostradamus. You don’t want to make an enemy of Penny’s friends. They know how to wield a sledge hammer!
    
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/auckland/15-03-2018/the-spinoff-reviews-new-zealand-56-lisa-pragers-sledgehammer-technique/
    
    Best wishes for you ongoing fight(s), Penny.
    
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    April 28, 2018 7:32pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Kimbo:
      
      They know how to wield a sledge hammer
      
      Well, judging by the evidence, perhaps she should take “sledging” tips from the Australian cricket team!
      
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      April 28, 2018 7:38pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Best wishes for your health prognosis next week.
  Take care.
  
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  April 28, 2018 7:25pm
  - realityczech
    
    I have never met a woman in trouble with the authorities who did not claim to be suffering some illness, or having a sick baby.
    
    Throw this lying hag into the street.
    
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    April 28, 2018 7:30pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Be fair old chap. She did look like she’d lost a bit of weight in that last pathetic photo we saw. I’d have to see a photo of her clenched biceps to make a definitive decision! 🙂
      
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      April 28, 2018 7:34pm
      - realityczech
        
        Babies have died because their parents could not afford medical attention, due to having to pay extra rates for Penny Bright. No one knows just how many sick little infants have perished as a result of this womans cruel actions.
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:38pm
      - nasska
        
        Hopefully this will hold you JB! 🙂
        
        http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2016/07/penny-bright-loses-appeal-over-34k-in-unpaid-rates.html
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:46pm
      - Johnboy
        
        That’s the Penny I remember nasska but we’d have to see a current photo in the same pose to judge her plaintive call regarding her health status. 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:53pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @rc
      I can see you won’t be suffering an overflow of the milk of human kindness any time soon.
      
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      April 28, 2018 7:37pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Rumour has it golden showers are more to realityczech’s/felching straw’s taste when it comes to overflow.
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:40pm
      - realityczech
        
        I can see you wont be suffering an overflow of common sense any time soon.
        
        Note the timing of this “maybe cancer” crisis?
        Classic behavior of a female crook.
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:41pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Your almost beginning to sound like a lovely old lady who could be our favourite auntie/fairy godmother Maggy! 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:42pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Your almost beginning to sound like a lovely old lady
        
        Na,
        just a realist.
        
        Ovarian cancer can be rather messy. Mucks up your social life a bit. Incontinence pads are a must.
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:54pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Good grief! I hope I never catch it! 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 7:56pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I hope I never catch it!
        
        We will be understanding if you do.
        (actually, I can’t vouch for rc… he’ll reckon you’re just faking it)
        
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        April 28, 2018 8:07pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I only fake the size of my flock Maggy! 🙂
        
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        April 28, 2018 8:09pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Oh for Christ’s sake. What sort of an advocate is the witch Helen F***ing Clark?
  That bitch will cling onto any bandwagon until she’s Winston’s appointed President of New Zealand.
  Just shut the fuck up, get out of your hovel and leave the new owner to tidy up the mess.
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:07pm
renderer

The Auckland city mission says:
The mission’s team leader for fundraising Alexis Sawyers, said there had been a 25 percent increase in demand for food parcels compared to the same time last year.
“This time last year we were averaging between 750 and 800 food parcels given out each month. This year we’ve given out over 1000 for January, February and March and this last month we gave out 1150.”
So much for the Tooth Fairy fixing poverty.
Lets Do It
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April 28, 2018 8:30pm
- Kimbo
  
  Meanwhile Carmel Sepuloni has rushed to address the problem by…setting up a committee to investigate and make a series of (non-binding) recommendations. How original. ?
  
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  April 28, 2018 8:40pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Is this by any chance the same Carmel Sepuloni who is the Minister of Social Welfare and who’s mother is a welfare fraudster?
    Well bugger me. Things are certainly different in Labour-land.
    
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    April 28, 2018 8:53pm
realityczech

Fake news story on Stuffed about New Zealand’s shrinking glaciers.
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2018/04/thin-ice/

Victoria University paper published a few months ago:

Explaining New Zealand’s “unusual” growing glaciers

https://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2017/02/explaining-new-zealands-unusual-growing-glaciers
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April 28, 2018 9:34pm
Manolo

Is communist Yoza still cheering for Venezuela’s Maduro?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/world/americas/venezuela-brazil-migrants.html
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