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William of Ockham

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/05/14/invest-green-firms-risk-wiped-climate-change-bank-england-tells/

(14 May 2018) Investors must back ‘green’ companies or risk huge losses from climate change, the Bank of England has warned.

Efforts to stop global temperatures from climbing to dangerous levels require substantial changes to the structure of the economy, rendering older technologies worthless and rewarding companies that are more environmentally friendly.

The switch from old to new could come suddenly, Bank executive director Sarah Breeden said, meaning investors risk being wiped out if they are not well prepared.

“Once climate change becomes a clear and present danger, it may already be too late,” she told the Green Finance Initiative and Green Finance Committee in London.

The science is irrefutable the evidence unambiguous: on the present path disruptive climate change is inevitable. No scientific institution or society on Earth says otherwise.

“But we know better,” say fossil fuels’ useful idiots like Simon Bridges and Kiwiblog’s dreary deniers.
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May 17, 2018 8:00am
- The Heat
  
  In 3-2-1….
  
  Hey Wills, indeed it is tewwible. The challenge of our time. So, one can only assume you and your fellow Green Party will be rennouncing a first world existence immediately. Stop using oil, stop consuming, go live with a light footprint in some subsistence community. Because, you know, warming.
  
  Until then, virtue signalling ‘aint doing anything except creating mirth.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:06am
  - Simon
    
    Crazy William staring at the sun too long. Kinda ironic as the sun controls the climate.
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:16am
- Ross12
  
  Yes we do know better William. Why would you invest in a business that cannot survive without subsidies (unless you are a leach) ? The European windfarms still need subsidies after 20-25 years operations to repower or repair.
  
  https://www.thegwpf.com/wind-farm-lifetime-extensions-and-repowering-managing-the-death-spiral/
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:22am
- GoVege
  
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  The late great Stephen Hawking believed that humans are causing global warming.
  Do all these KB downtickers disagree with him?
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:50am
  - The Heat
    
    Great.
    
    So watcha doing about it?
    
    You know, when I see a warming concerned politician boarding a plane to Europe, I don’t think :
    
    “hey, isn’t global warming something we should do something about right now”
    
    I think:
    
    “weapons grade wanker”
    
    Because, if it’s just business as usual, then what does it matter what we believe? And where is the analysis that shows if we do action x, then temperature drops by Y, and the cost is Z?
    
    It seems to me it’s all just poncing about, doing some showpony incremental stuff like objecting to plastic bags, growing a beard, banning gas exploration thus shifting to imports, and riding a bicycle on a sunny day occasionally.
    
    Isn’t the whole point a marked reduction in consumption? Or, don’t we do much at all, apart from acting all concerned?
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:59am
    - Humble Capitalist
      
      I agree – too much beard growing and grandstanding. If genuine about saving the planet then where is the policy to reduce population growth
      
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      May 17, 2018 10:24am
      - GoVege
        
        We pay them to overpopulate the planet here in NZ and in other western nations, Humble Capitalist.
        In the rest of the world brainless male chauvinism fuels the breeding.
        (Then when they overflow their home countries, they head to the West and get paid to breed there.)
        Not just rampant chauvinism but religions urge their followers to (over) populate the planet.
        Only the Commies do anything to curb overpopulation and they get hell for it!
        
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        May 17, 2018 11:34am
      - realityczech
        
        All our attempts to mitigate environmental harm are useless unless we plan to cap population growth.
        
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        May 17, 2018 12:23pm
    - GoVege
      
      Every great journey started with one little step, the Heat.
      
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      May 17, 2018 3:05pm
      - kowtow
        
        Evely gleat journey start with one rittle step.
        
        There fixed it for you.
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:25pm
      - GoVege
        
        How Kow Tow?
        
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        May 17, 2018 10:07pm
  - Paul Marsden
    
    Yes, I do.
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:27am
  - Komata
    
    GoVege
    
    Re: ‘Do all these KB downtickers disagree with him’?
    
    And if they do, what would your reaction be?
    
    Would it be acceptance of another’s point of view as being as valid of yours, or derision, contempt, personal attacks and general snarkiness in the manner which seems to be the norm for those who believe that their pro-climate change viewpoint is the only one that must be held?
    
    Thanks for posing the question: I’m sure that your answer will be of interest to the membership.
    
    Thanks.
    
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    May 17, 2018 11:31am
    - GoVege
      
      You can believe the world is flat for all I care, komata.
      The point I’m making is that a scientific genius like Hawking might just have a better understanding of the issues than the rest of us.
      We should treat others with respect, but if their “viewpoint” is leading to the destruction of our planet, should that viewpoint not be challenged (politely 🙂 )?
      
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      May 17, 2018 11:49am
      - realityczech
        
        “is leading to the destruction of our planet”
        
        WOMEN having babies is going to destroy our planet Vege.
        
        Time for compulsory sterilisation of girls I reckon.
        
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        May 17, 2018 12:25pm
      - cmm
        
        Hawking is a genius within his area of being a genius.
        
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        May 17, 2018 1:13pm
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Hawking WAS a genius within his area of being a genius. By now he will have found out if his much-publicised atheism was right or wrong.
        
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        May 17, 2018 1:44pm
      - GoVege
        
        That’s a brilliant idea RC, but how are the dudes gonna keep their wives barefoot without “pregnant” also? 🙂
        
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        May 17, 2018 2:44pm
  - realityczech
    
    Hawking was not a weatherman
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:19pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Einstein was a brilliant man – a genius, who also married his cousin, couldn’t control his sexual desires/urges and fucked as many people as he could get his hands on.
      Being of genius level intelligence doesn’t mean they are right 99% of the time.
      
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      May 17, 2018 2:34pm
      - GoVege
        
        So did Queen Victoria, ABS…..married their cousin that is.
        
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        May 17, 2018 3:07pm
  - Nukuleka
    
    And didn’t the late great also tell us that there are little green men inhabiting extra terrestrial solar systems- or some such malarkey. Even the late greats have their failings methinks.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:35pm
    - Sideoiler
      
      @Nukuleka
      
      And didn’t the late great also tell us that there are little green men inhabiting extra terrestrial solar systems- or some such malarkey.
      
      Are you really sugesting that we are the only life forms in the universe?
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:19pm
    - GoVege
      
      I don’t recall him saying they were green, Nuku.
      But I think he advised us not to attract their attention, in case we end up like the people of South America when visitors from alien civilizations landed…
      
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      May 17, 2018 2:33pm
    - Lance
      
      So there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on earth and we know orbiting planets are common around those stars…. and you think there is no chance of life or indeed intelligent life anywhere else???
      
      The Luddite is strong with this one.
      
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      May 17, 2018 2:41pm
  - GoVege
    
    34 down ticks already??
    BTW…I would love to believe there is no such thing as man-made global warming. …but if SH and hundreds of other scientists believed it’s real…it has to be!
    
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    May 17, 2018 3:03pm
Inandout

Journos go into lockup today. The stench of socialist expectation will pervade the room.
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May 17, 2018 8:02am
- Prince
  
  Yes, the media is eagerly anticipating the Bludgers’ Budget.
  Ardern has magic’d up so much of her own money to distribute to the grasping few.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:20am
  - Simon
    
    Yep there is magic in the air. Ardern’s first budget.
    
    MSM coverage as follows:
    
    Who can turn the world on with her smile?
    Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
    Well it’s you girl, and you should know it
    With each glance and every little movement you show it
    Love is all around, no need to waste it
    You can never tell, why don’t you take it
    You’re gonna make it after all
    You’re gonna make it after all
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:29am
    - kowtow
      
      I’ve noticed a few outlets running the line , even before the budget is released , Will there be broken promises?
      
      The reply , very likely put about by Labour Press /Propaganda Officers. “It’s their first budget , not everything can be fixed in the first year, there’s a huge spending deficit to be made up , that will take years , be patient comrade.”
      
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      May 17, 2018 8:57am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        You missed something “that will take years”
        that will take years OF BORROWING and TAXING.
        there, fixed it
        
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        May 17, 2018 9:00am
      - Piniwi
        
        Noted kowtow like watching so many puff pieces in the last 2 weeks along with so many minimal amounts committed in pre budget allocations. Much of it spread over their new favourite excuse of the next four (4) years.
        The one thing we can be sure of after so many excuses is some weapons grade excuses being the most prominent content of the Media party reaction to the Fudget.
        
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        May 17, 2018 3:50pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      The above message was stolen from “The Mary Tylor Moore” show.
      Unlike Emm n emm I don’t think they will be calling.
      But, for a theme written so long ago, you and they hit the nail on the head.
      
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      May 17, 2018 8:59am
    - Paulus
      
      “Silly Little Girl !”
      Who Mr Speaker, not me sir – must have defective hearing.
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:33pm
  - GoVege
    
    “Few”, Prince?
    Was talking to someone whose relative works as a budget adviser.
    They get quite despondent at times apparently.
    Not at the poverty…but at how the parents are boozing and fagging away while the kids go hungry.
    Why are we letting the nation’s children have the money meant for them be stolen by their useless excuses for parents?
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:58am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Because those useless parents are constantly told that is how life is and there are plenty of support systems out there to assist them. How about we change the message to one of personal responsibility. If you don’t make an effort to help your own situation that assistance will instead only target those who do NOT expect constant handouts.
      
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      May 17, 2018 12:24pm
    - suzieq
      
      Time any welfare dollars followed the children only, and only two children were paid for.
      
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      May 17, 2018 12:56pm
    - Faroffsound
      
      Why are we letting the nation’s children have the money meant for them be stolen by their useless excuses for parents?
      
      Good question. Apparently the Australians are trying to target assistance so that it goes directly to children rather than to their parents – ie uniform vouchers, sports vouchers, medical checks at school, free lunches in lower economic areas etc.
      
      Meanwhile back in NZ one family I know of are going to have more income each week because they qualify. Of course Dad’s extra income from selling pot to half the neighbourhood isn’t taken into account.
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:50pm
    - GoVege
      
      “Personal responsibility” just doesnt have the same ring to it as “free handouts”, WG.
      The elephant in the room most of us don’t dare talk about is that the worst bludgers/producers of cash cows believe that there is something incredible and miraculous about pushing out umpteen kids to a life of neglect.
      (While mum and dad sit around boozing and fagging, interspersed with trips to the pub and pokies. )
      The only cure IMHO is a large injection of cash for contraceptive measures to counteract this mindset.
      
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      May 17, 2018 2:58pm
- MCos
  
  Two people who won’t be locked up are Hosking & Hawkesby who are covering a wedding in a foreign country, which in the case of Ms Kate is the ever changing, excruciating gossip surrounding the family of the bride.
  Personally I’ll be glad when the budget and the wedding are over with.
  Then we can get on with the next big distractions – the Kim/Trump circus & Jacinda’s baby.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:39am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Ever thought for a second why ZB pays for them to go on these jaunts?
    
    It’s because Mike has a massive audience. Ordinary, decent Kiwis tune in by the truckload to listen to a saner, more civil, more positive view of the world – consequently he is advertising gold.
    
    But that’s logic is of course, all above the head of the average libtard – btw did you see Positan’s comment earlier about the bitter and twisted nature of socialists – when you look at your comment it seems to be terribly apposite!
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:54am
- Chris R
  
  Today will be a real test for Simon Bridges and the National front-bench. I can only hope they’re prepared sufficiently to put Robertson and co to the sword with their plans to blow money on union supported garbage.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:22am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    I am sure Bridges will stuff up big time and socialist Cindy who will speak after him will tear him apart.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:59am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Looks as though National’s speaking order will be Bridges (first speaker in the Budget Debate), followed by Amy Adams and Judith Collins. Ms Collins has tweeted that she is looking forward to speaking early in the Budget Debate.
    
    It will be a great opportunity for Bridges to lay into Ardern, Robertson, Twyford and co without interruption, and without smarmy answers to questions. Winston Peters will be unable to ask patsy supplementary questions to get the PM off the hook when she is under pressure.
    
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    May 17, 2018 1:49pm
- G152
  
  Now, while they’re not watching
  Lose the key
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:53am
flipper

There will be time for politics and broken promises late this ‘arvo and tomorrow.
For now entertain by selecting your own 33 man AB squad for the three (3) games v France next month. My effort is set out below.
F/Backs Wings –
Smith B, Barrett J, Naholo W, Ioane R, Lam B, Savea J (or Milner-Skudder N.)
Midfield backs –
Williams SB, Laumape N, Crotty R, Leinert-Brown R
First 5s –
Barrett B, McKenzie D, Mo’unga R,
S/Halves – *
Smith A, Perenara TJ.
Loose forwards –
Cane S, Ioane A, Savea A, Squire L, Todd M, Whitelock L.
Locks –
Barrett S, Fifita V,** Retallick B, Whitelock S (Captain)
Props –
Franks O, Moody J, Toomaga-Allen J, Tu’ungafasi O, Leinert-Brown D,
Hookers –
Harris N, *** Taylor C. Riccitelli R.
NOTES
* One added / replaced if needed thru injury (Taguriorangi Te T )
** Loose forward and Lock
*** Maternity duties may intervene
Not available thru injury –
Reid, Coles, Romano, Hames, Laulala,
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May 17, 2018 8:02am
- Awww C-mon
  
  Sam Cane as capt.
  
  Otherwise pretty much selects itself
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:44am
  - double d
    
    nope. Whitelock will be the one.
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:37am
- Harkman
  
  McKenzie covers fullback as well, which frees them up an extra forward, perhaps a rookie prop or even halfback.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:53am
- oldpark
  
  Watched Gareth Evans Hurricanes #8 demolish Auckland’s #8 from Blues last Friday Night. The name of the Auckland player was Ioane A.
  Wonder were the AB selectors watching that demolishment.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:53am
  - alex Masterley
    
    I wouldn’t have either Ioane brother in the team at the moment on current form.
    Evans played well last Friday so maybe he could get picked.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:12am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Evans has played consistently well all season, but I worry if he has the size for the next step up.
      
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      May 17, 2018 9:56am
    - double d
      
      Gareth Evans may have good form but is a good solid journeyman.
      A Ioane has freakish talent. Needs direction and focus – has a bully streak which needs to be channelled.
      R Ioane is the first winger picked
      amazing at the talent Hansen has to squeeze into the backline.
      Impossible to leave out Ben Smith
      Back three of J Barrett, R Ioane and B Smith sees quality players such as Naholo, Nehe, Dagg, Savea to name the incumbents and potential newcomers such as B Lam etc all on the sideline.
      
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      May 17, 2018 10:41am
  - flipper
    
    He sure did. Evans is a real talent but the Auckland media are trumpeting Ioane.
    I imagine that this year the AB selection panel will have one eye on RWC Japan 2019 and will be building depth. So perhaps Evans this year and Ioane next. But … toss the coin….
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:19am
Longknives

Budget Day.

Bend over Mr Taxpayer- Now this might sting a little…
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May 17, 2018 8:02am
- MrLovebucket
  
  The economy is still going well, which Labour will take full credit for and claim this clearly justifies the god-awful budget they are about to deliver.
  
  Everything in this budget will be about taking money from people who make an effort and reward those that don’t. It will be a little bit here, a little bit there, but will quickly add up.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:10am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    There isn’t a dollar that National has saved/made, that Labour can’t spend.
    National got part/most of the way to learning that, it’s not the Govt.s money, it OURS, the tax payers.
    Labour’s ingrained philosophy, is that it is THEIR money (who ever they have on parliament at the time). to SPEND as they please and what pleases them the most is reelection, into the position of power they crave so much.
    A belief, that being in charge only means, you get to tell people what to do.
    No mention of:
    Progress
    Maintenance
    Planning
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:30am
    - double d
      
      Boom. The comment around the perception of Labour pollies that tax is something they are entitled to and is “theirs” is something that frustrates the hell out of me.
      I want my government to spend the money they tax me wisely and with restraint. I dont want to support their schemes that make them feel like they are compassionate and good people. This life is tough – rely on yourself and the goverment is there to help if it goes wrong. It is not a lifestyle choice.
      Alas this message is lost on left leaning politicians.
      The belief they know best is staggering given that most of them lead very sheltered and idealistic existences.
      
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      May 17, 2018 10:46am
- cmm
  
  Spelling error.
  
  BLUDGET DAY
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:12am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  …and you won’t be able to take a shit right for 2.5 years!
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:23am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Sting Longknives? You are the master of the understatement!
  
  It’s going to be a major rectal stretch
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:56am
Lee C

I’m bored. I feel so bored with the Government. So bored with the Opposition. So bored with the shambles that just rolls out everyday and makes me feel — bored.
Do you think this was the masterplan of the new incumbents? To bore us all into submission?
If that was their aim they have succeeded. F**K it, I think I’ll just vote Labour next time.
Because the Opposition are just so f * * * * * * g boring. But the endless trivia, soundbites, and committees that pass for governance apparently right-minded people, even more boring.
But they have really nailed it haven’t they?

I almost feel like Labour are showing a level of competence in being uninspiring and boring that the Opposition appear unable to counter it with even a smattering of pizazz.
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May 17, 2018 8:03am
- GoVege
  
  Judy would have revved things up a bit! 🙂 🙂
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:00am
- realityczech
  
  If National don’t raise their game then we have a major problem ahead of us.
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:27pm
  - softail 1450
    
    realityczech,,, yes this nat leadership are weak ,bridges is just too nice and bennet is transfixed with her weight loss at the moment so all the good ammunition they have had is going nowhere at all.
    I personally don’t like crusher but at least she has a bit of mongrel in her which is what is needed…
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:38pm
Poppa

I expect to see Grant, I have no idea what I am doing, Robertson deliver a budget which has a level of new debt probably about equal to “the hole”.

Easily explained of course, more needed for hospitals falling down etc blah blah.
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May 17, 2018 8:07am
- waikatogirl
  
  Robbo won’t be able to wipe that smug grin of his off his face in Parliament today. I’m looking forward to some clever kiwis in the next few days minutely dissecting the budget like the corpse it surely is. ?
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:12am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Yes theyre falling down and theres crap dripping from the walls at every turn
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:15am
  - Harkman
    
    “and theres crap dripping from the walls at every turn.”
    
    Are we still talking hospitals or Twyford’s lips?
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:59am
- RW Capitalist
  
  and $900 million for new embassies and aid to the pacific.
  Me thinks Labour can’t even spell the word N E E D,
  let alone what it actually means.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:32am
emmess

Why the fuck was PJW’s video titled ‘The Truth about This is America ‘ put into YouTube jail? https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DXTe9bFSOVWg&ved=0ahUKEwjw6cH9g4vbAhUBu7wKHaZSCPUQtwIIJTAA&usg=AOvVaw2L4R-inxFW6kHpLxd4nPo6
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May 17, 2018 8:09am
- BananaLlama
  
  Wrong think.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:17am
- Fletch
  
  It’s back –
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTe9bFSOVWg
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:22am
Dafixeruppa

Anyone else see Garner this morning twist Amy ‘s words on the DIA Child exploitation team change? She stated that they have reduced the number of trained investigators by 1/3rd and hired lots of educators. He claimed that she stated overall numbers were reduced by a third and called it out as a lie.
Well at least he has given the CoL a way to provide their 1800 new police now… hire a number of educators into the police force and state that the numbers of police have gone up…
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May 17, 2018 8:15am
- waikatogirl
  
  I saw that, appalling interview by Garner. Amy Adams was in control of that interview, making perfect sense, and Garner wasn’t listening to her answer as he couldn’t get his next question out.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:20am
  - softail 1450
    
    waikatogirl, garner is like a spoilt child if someone deviates from what he thinks the narritive should be.
    between him and jack (im a maori speaker) lame breakfast tv is frickered.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:48pm
- VicParking
  
  That’s what they have been saying in Question time for the last month. The ‘Tea Lady’ in the Watch House is a front line police employee.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:42am
- Inandout
  
  Garner is a ‘mixed race marriage’ celebrant, a closet socialist, an unending advocator for the ‘starving children’ in NZ, and a piss poor interviewer. He asks questions and doesn’t wait for the answers, as though he is constantly pushed for time. The only guests who get a fair run are those who share the Garner philosophy. Though I do enjoy the Friday slot where Judith (week after week) thoroughly destroys the hapless Twyford.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:58am
  - Harkman
    
    “a closet socialist” I think that is part of his résumé.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:08am
Longknives

I see the Left-Wing Femnazis in the States are now trying to get any Rock Band who slept with groupies removed from Spotify! (‘Me Too’! ‘Sexism’ ‘Waah’!)
There really isn’t going to be much left is there? Maybe Pussy Riot and some other Lesbian Alt bands?

*Goes without saying that any band who supports Trump is on their hitlist as well…
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May 17, 2018 8:16am
- redeye
  
  Will Home Brew be included do ya think?
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:26am
- 3-coil
  
  Longknives – what makes you think that “Lesbian bands” don’t sleep with their groupies?!!!! Saw Melissa Etheridge recently – seemed she doesn’t think about anything but bonking any girl/woman she can have it off with!
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:31am
  - lifesgood
    
    So we’re the groupies raped? No I didn’t think so. Were they willing? Of course they were. So are they saying women are not allowed to make any of their own decisions who they sleep with. These girls literally threw themselves at the bands…bit hard for hot blooded young men to say no, especially when they would arrive at their hotel to find naked girls waiting for them.
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:41am
- Inandout
  
  In that case Spotify will lose 95% of artists.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:00am
Paulus

I see that this brilliant Government is looking a co-ownership of houses that people cannot afford.
One of the main contributory factors of the Global Financial Crises – was called Prime Mortgage.
This is where the stupid Socialist Governments – Clinton and Obama ensured that people could get a mortgage even if they had no money to pay the mortgage. They legislatively bankrupted the two main Mortgage providers Freddy Mack and Fanny May who did not have the money – they were told to go borrow from the financial markets.
Many cities say in Obama’s territory of South West Chicago are empty now ghettos.
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May 17, 2018 8:17am
- RW Capitalist
  
  To be picky…they were Sub- prime mortgages. and I absolutely agree.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:35am
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    RW Cap
    Yes, you are right my “sub” mistake, cheers
    
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    May 17, 2018 1:41pm
- Poppa
  
  Exactly Paulus
  
  It has that feel about it, people walking away when they can’t afford to pay, or the bank selling from under them.
  
  Apparently it is 2nd mortgage money they are talking about which is at the most risk of course. I cannot see the banks funding 2nd mortgages. When I had one in the 70’s it had to be done via second tier lenders
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:36am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Awesome: ‘buy’ a house without a deposit, live in it for a while without ‘being able’ to pay the mortgage, just walk away when the bank starts pushing. Free accommodation in a nice new house for a few months at least!
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:30pm
    - kowtow
      
      Which will cost thousands to make habitable after the herd move on .
      
      Ain’t Joe Working Taxpayer an understanding , generous guy?
      
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      May 17, 2018 12:48pm
    - calendar girl
      
      In fairness, that’s not what Twyford and Co. are mulling over – i.e. providing entry to one of his ‘KiwiBuild’ houses without a deposit.
      
      As I understand it, the new ‘owner’ would still need to put up a significant amount of the pre-mortgage cost (i.e. the deposit) of the so-called “affordable home”, and the Government would put up the rest of the deposit, thereby taking up ‘part-ownership’ of the property. If that’s correct, the ‘owner-in-residence’ could not simply walk away cost-free when he/she/they felt like it; they would be losing any benefit of their part of the original down-payment, plus their money spent on servicing the mortgage each month.
      
      But there are also risks for Government (i.e. taxpayer) in these kinds of financing arrangements. The first 18 dwellings in Twyford’s KiwiBuild scheme (homes presently under construction near Takanini / Papakura) – have projected prices of $579,000 to $649,000. Given the area and the density of construction, one has to wonder whether the ‘market’ in 5 years’ time will be prepared to pay re-sale prices of (say) 20% higher for those properties; i.e. prices of $695k to $780k.
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:59pm
- Harkman
  
  Yep, we will look back fondly on those days when there was only an $11b hole. In short, when they go bankrupt, so do we.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:10am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Paulus , please provide sources? The main source of the 2007-8 economic crises was in fact sub prime mortgages and housing bubble that the Obama administration sought to regulate and control.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:15am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Provide your own sources you stupid boy.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:21am
    - stephieboy
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Agent Balls UP,’
      
      follow these 2007 and 2008 timelines,
      
      https://www.thebalance.com/2007-financial-crisis-overview-3306138
      
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      May 17, 2018 9:26am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Yes an American view, very interesting and factual.
        What it doesn’t say, of course, is that NZ was already in a “technical recession” and had been for about a year. Before all this.
        
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        May 17, 2018 10:05am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy,,,,,,,in love with his own intellectual powers……..
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:52pm
- Komata
  
  Paulus
  
  Re: ‘ [Government] co-ownership of houses that people cannot afford’.
  
  Isn’t that known as ‘State’ / social housing?
  
  The wheel being re-invented methinks…
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:38am
- Nermal
  
  A big difference is that in the US people can abandon the mortgage, whereas in NZ the borrower is still liable for any shortfall.
  
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  May 17, 2018 2:22pm
- Piniwi
  
  @Paulus are we really surprised at all that there is now a whole new slant to KiwiBuild? Shared equity or even worse interest free loans have now been wheeled out as a “solution”. There is an air of absolute desperation starting to grip the COL as this problem along with so many others that they have “manufactured” are beyond them completely. We watch with some pleasure as more observers who claim to “know” stuff are finally saying things like the COL has over promised.
  The majority knew that before the election but now we all have to all walk the “trail of many fears” because there is a secret agreement that apparently aggregates the separate COL members promises. Example no1 is Immigration. Labour and NZF had some strong policy intentions but are now apparently being “formulated” into policy?
  
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  May 17, 2018 4:13pm
oldpark

Good news for Wellington’s ratepayers. The self serving mayor socialist Lie-bour/Green Justin Lester who knows no boundaries when it comes to spending Ratepayers money.
He is hoping that the Peters selected MP who will be handing out Billions of dollars from the Budget will throw some of that type of money to Wellington to get shot of some “pests”.
Now that would be appropiate,what a great idea .
Lets start with him and the Liebour/Green infested council.Latest threat is to turn Wellington’s CBD into a speed limit of maximum 30 kph.Whats going on.
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May 17, 2018 8:17am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Wellingtonians deserve this for selecting this mob. No sympathies here.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:01am
Burg

The Labour party must be awfully grateful to have Peters as deputy dog.Would they have put Davis into the caretaker role,or suffered the the embarrassment of replacing him so soon if he had been deputy.
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May 17, 2018 8:17am
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/links-17-may-2018/#comment-3106030 … and … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/nz-government-caves-housing-affordability/#comment-3106032 (behind paywall) … with further posts on both threads …

… Today’s New Zealand Government Budget …

Budget 2018: The ‘blathering’ is almost over as Govt set to reveal spending plans – Audrey Young OPINION – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12052780

State housing, education and health are set to receive a major boost in funding from the first Labour-led Budget to be delivered in 10 years.

National suspects there will be a surprise or two when Grant Robertson delivers the Budget at 2pm, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern insists there won’t be.

“If anyone is surprised, it will those who haven’t heard me blather on about it for a long time.” …

… concluding …

… Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First Prime Minister Winston Peters, who has already received a bountiful boost of $900 million for Foreign Affairs, said his party’s influence would be evident in it.

“”It will have a whole new look of a budget that’s got a heart and a conscience,” he said.

“That’s what makes New Zealand First special in this Government.”

Revisiting a theme from the speech he gave when choosing Labour in October to lead the Government, Peters said: “We are going to see capitalism regain its human face.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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UPDATE – New (IPSOS) survey reveals housing, poverty and healthcare most concern New Zealanders – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12047092

Auckland MÄori Housing Summit to focus on development opportunities | Voxy.co.nz

http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/309160

Check too … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/links-16-may-2018/#comment-3105343 … and … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/05/the_solution_to_ignorance_poverty_and_misery.html/comment-page-1#comment-2210992
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May 17, 2018 8:18am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  C’mon folks, remember the ‘report’ function.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:28am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Make a point of reading / viewing the Winston Peters October Coalition speech.
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:32am
    - VicParking
      
      Hugh Winston can’t keep a promise he made last week let alone October.
      
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      May 17, 2018 8:47am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … REMEMBER JOHN KEY 2007 VIC PARKING ? …
        
        … Duncan Garner slams Phil Twyford. Note the sheer volume (444 comments … now closed after a few hours) and general quality of the comments below todays opinion piece …
        
        Duncan Garner: If Twyford can’t Phil us in on KiwiBuy/Build, who can? | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/103843906/duncan-garner-if-twyford-cant-phil-us-in-on-kiwibuybuild-who-can
        
        … No doubt Duncan Garner will ask Nationals Judith Collins why her government failed so badly out of the2008 election … note the comment by BrucetheMoose near the top of the thread …
        
        BrucetheMoose
        
        Over the past few years a consensus has developed in New Zealand. We are facing a severe home affordability and ownership crisis. The crisis has reached dangerous levels in recent years and looks set to get worse.
        
        This is an issue that should concern all New Zealanders. It threatens a fundamental part of our culture, it threatens our communities and, ultimately, it threatens our economy.
        
        The good news is that we can turn the situation around. We can deal with the fundamental issues driving the home affordability crisis. Not just with rinky-dink schemes, but with sound long-term solutions to an issue that has long-term implications for New Zealand’s economy and society.
        
        National has a plan for doing this and we will be resolute in our commitment to the goal of ensuring more young Kiwis can aspire to buy their own home.
        
        It’s a worthy goal and one I hope you will support us in achieving. Thank-you.
        
        John Key: Speech to New Zealand Contractors Federation
        Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 9:29 am
        New Zealand National Party
        
        … and too …
        
        John Key on Housing Reform 2007 – YouTube
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
        
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        May 17, 2018 9:02am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Senility, he has the excuse that he can’t REMEMBER the promise made last week.
        
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        May 17, 2018 9:04am
RW Capitalist

NZ’s progress from 2008
Labour left a bomb crater, with a couple of exploded bombs in it.
National filled it in after removing the bombs
Smoothed it over
Started on the economic foundation to build the economy
Earthquake, pike river damaged the foundation
Rebuilt the damage
Finished the foundation and started on the building
Kaikoura happened, fixed in just one year, because the economy was in a strong position.
Cut costs and more dropped to the bottom line so:
Tax cuts, less money taken from the shareholders.
More operations in hospitals, more patients seen
EFFICIENCY the watch word.
Partnership schools, getting BETTER RESULTS for the targeted pupils (under achievers)
Again efficiency is the watch word.
NOW
Spend spend spend, without consideration to the VALUE
So there will be TAX, TAX,TAX and borrowing.
zero achieved in the first 6 months, zero prospect of achievement in the future.
In short, they are tearing down the structure already built and will start redeveloping the Bomb crater of 2008.
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May 17, 2018 8:20am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  You need to take this on the chin for another 9 years…so don’t stress out bro…Blame it on the coward Key who ran away without finishing his term.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:03am
- Piniwi
  
  @RW Capitalist what an absolute kick in the guts for so many hard working Kiwi’s who made such big investments of their efforts to get that result. Some modest pay back was coming in the tax cuts but more importantly the healthy state of the economy meant increased targeted spending could be allocated to address the biggest voter concerns. It is now rapidly being trashed in such a cavalier spend thrift way that have already wasted the reserves and so much more.
  
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  May 17, 2018 4:24pm
Huevon

Auckland shitty treated me to an especially lucid Indian taxi driver yesterday. He held forth on how he came to NZ with a visa to work as a dishwasher, he got injured and lived on ACC for six months. He doesnt like working for a boss so drives for Uber. All of his friends and family have moved to Australia once they got NZ citizenship, but he doesn’t want to because NZ has ACC, benefits if you don’t (won’t) work and cheap education.

We are so fucked.

Happy Budget Day 2018.
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May 17, 2018 8:21am
- alex Masterley
  
  Sums it up really.
  We are regarded as part of a pipeline to Australia which seems to be seen as the promised land.
  Sadly it is turning into a shithole. Australia that is.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:33am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    and why the Aussies are so concerned.
    Q: Will we, under this Govt., be kissing goodbye to CER?
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:53am
  - wiseowl
    
    The issue having the greatest impact on our economy today is immigration.
    Same in Australia.
    Will politicians stop listening to treasury and their obsession with GDP and wake up to the fact that all New Zealanders are being screwed to pay for infrastructure for immigrants.
    Middle New Zealand is suffering bigly and the result is the poor are being sacrificed as homeless, spat out the bottom of this ponzi scheme.
    Turnbull and Morrison refuse to acknowledge the damage being done in Australia and National here are the same.
    Will the ponzi scheme be mentioned in the budget today or will the bandaids be thrown about hoping to hide the sore for another year?
    With 6000 more immigrants arriving every month you will never build enough houses to cope with these numbers.
    Todays politicians on all sides of the house are responsible for the demise of a once great country.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:06am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      I’ll put something out there:
      New Zealand needs a population base, the same size as Australia…around 20 million.
      We will then have a domestic economy, big enough to generate it’s own “heat”/growth.
      We will be big enough to be taken seriously in this world, not just indulged/tolerated.
      Of course there will be problems getting there.
      Growing into our “new shoes”.
      Infrastructure
      Housing
      Delay before jobs & growth catch up with demand
      etc etc
      But the benefits of the challenge and success, will leave our grand kids and great grand kids a phenomenal advantage in the future.
      or are we only concerned with ourselves?
      Maybe that’s why the CoL were elected and why they are asking “What can I get out of this budget?”
      Not what can WE get?
      Not what long term gain is there?
      What direction, to improve the lot of the people following me?
      Labour are aiming at the budget for the selfish.
      Something they always accused National of.
      Yet every Labour govt. I’ve seen, ’72, ’84-’90,’99-’08 have always left a bomb crater of an economy, and now?
      
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      May 17, 2018 9:41am
      - simpleton1
        
        Israel doing ok with a population of about 8.6 million.
        Big enough to basically go their own way.
        
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        May 17, 2018 9:48am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Simpleton1
        and we have 13 times the land area they do and more than 20 times the arable land area.
        We are NOT surrounded by enemies, trying to end us.
        
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        May 17, 2018 10:00am
      - simpleton1
        
        Thank goodness we do not have to spend any where as much on security, intelligence, military etc.
        
        So what are we doing with the money that we do not need to spend.
        
        Israel was the 8th nation back in 1988 that sent satellites into space.
        I am sure you know of all the tech advances.
        
        It is GDP, per capita that we need to build.
        Finally we are in space, but need the trade of business to build on that success.
        Not indulge us, but the world to see a need for NZ.
        A “value” that we earn, and others want.
        
        Ethiopia went from 30 million people in Bob Geldof’s BandAid concerts etc. of the 1980’s to 95 million. GDP
        It is expounded that Ethiopia has the fastest growing GDP, and that is so true.
        What a wonderful base market.
        Per capita GDP has barely moved.
        More than likely 1 million emigrants from there could happen every year or 2.
        Very helpful as they may send remittances back to others in their home country.
        
        Why do we value arable land? No one wants to buy our apples, etc. unless it is novelty or cheap. Tarriffs will be used against most products.
        Tarriffs are not put on wool, yet anything that is higher added value, carpet, mats, clothes, then runs the risk of a tarriff, that greatly affects the capital risk.
        Kiwifruit can be grown elsewhere. I do not think that more people eating fancy cheese, wine, kiwifruit feijoa liquors, or apple/pear ciders etc, unless the higher end of tourist.
        
        Pukekohe Class 1 lands will simply be another suburbia. Bombay hills will be valued by the views for housing.
        
        What maybe happening is the “replacement society”.
        The ones who can will move on, like to work in Australia, Europe, USA. Emirates etc,
        Then othes move on to retire elsewhere, then bring in others, to drive taxis, hospital nurses and doctors.
        
        More halal products to be made and consumed in NZ, making for a better tourist destination for some.
        Yet I see and hear how tourists marvel at being alone on a West Coast beach, yet now selfish me have in recent years seen the numbers increase, at peak time. Not yet crowded, but the atmosphere changes, from when I first took tourists, to easily accessible sites.
        Will we complete the climb of Mount Fujiyama having most of the time getting the view of some one’s backside.
        
        In some parts I agree with you, as how to lift parts of our own here, to educate, to aspire.
        To do that in putting in the foundations, of building for their families, in education, health, and technology.
        
        For myself and NZ I am wary of going down to the lowest common denominator.
        
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        May 17, 2018 11:00am
      - DigNap15
        
        Yes, we need at least 10 million people here.
        More vibrancy
        More people to support entertainers, advertising etc
        Bigger markets = cheaper goods.
        More people to pay fro the fat cat CEO salaries and one prime minister.
        But they need to be good people and spread out and with good English skills and with Christian values.
        
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        May 17, 2018 11:11am
      - waikatogirl
        
        RWC, I know you speak sense economically but will we Kiwis recognise it as NZ?? ?
        
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        May 17, 2018 12:35pm
      - Jack5
        
        Bring the people and the industry will arise. That’s cargo-cult rubbish.
        
        For getting on for half a century, NZ has not been able to export enough to pay for the imports people need.
        
        The latest population surge is going to push up our deficit, and if you want to see what that can do look at what’s happening in Argentina right now. Its currency has fallen more than 20 per cent against the US dollar this month.
        
        While Treasury oafs, politicians, and banksters have rabbiting on about GDP growth, our GDP per capita, which is what counts, has been virtually static because of the flood of people into the country. And while our Government debt is reasonable, our private debt is quite high.
        
        NZ still relies on primary product exports – agriculture, forestry, fishing – and on tourism. The latest wave of immigration has done nothing to increase them.
        
        If, by some magic, you could immediately increase the NZ population to 20 million, then New Zealand would be much more like Bangladesh than like Australia.
        
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        May 17, 2018 2:30pm
      - Jack5
        
        R.W. Capitalist at 10am compared Israel (population about 8.3 million) with NZ (population 4.5 million).
        
        In wealth, Israelis had GDP per capita of $US36,200 last year, compared with NZ’s $US38,500. They aren’t so far ahead of us – yet.
        
        Israel has been smart in its immigration. It has brought in scores of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Soviet and Russian educated Jews and pseudo-Jews, who, with the country’s need for military technology and investment from America, have turned Israel into a technology-industry power house. Compare that with the taxi drivers and pizza parlour and petrol pump workers who make up so much of our immigrant quota.
        
        And, let’s face it, the Ashkenazi Jews, who make a notable portion of Israel’s population, are the world’s most intelligent people. Their tally of Nobel Prizes proves that.
        
        Israel has interesting non-primary industries, such as diamond cutting, which is one of its biggest earners. It benefits from its offshore gas reserves, which NZ in its green-pride will not deign to develop.
        
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        May 17, 2018 2:50pm
- MCos
  
  Why are we fucked?
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:48am
  - kowtow
    
    Cos there’s a billion more from where he came from.
    
    ‘Council community development manager Joy Gunn told councillors about 180 refugees from Syria and Palestine were expected to be resettled in the city each year for the next two or three years.’
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/dcc-gives-funding-boost-refugee-support
    
    Housing crisis ? Health crisis ? Education crisis ? Terror crisis ?
    
    Can’t be if “we” can afford to take this lot in.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:28am
    - MCos
      
      What is it a billion or a hundred and eighty?
      
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      May 17, 2018 11:36am
    - Paulus
      
      I hear today that a number the next batch of Refugees are to be resettled in Christchurch after a gap of some years.
      That’ll stuff them – put them into unsettled EQC/Southern Response houses.
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:48pm
- kowtow
  
  Abdool works as a taxi driver and was driving this guy from the airport into town. It was really hairem scarem. Speeding all over the place. Every red light he met he ran .
  Got his fare to his hotel who said , every red light you saw you ran , but just now you stopped at a green , what ‘s that about ?
  
  Abdool says , Of course I stop at green light , my cousin might be speeding through the other red!
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:24am
  - Paulus
    
    How to be frightened – Shanghai Airport taxi to the city on an eight lane motorway.
    Forget any Formula One – it’s there all the time over all empty lanes. And they are all mates so it gets faster.
    
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    May 17, 2018 1:51pm
- GoVege
  
  Yeah, Huevon, but what I love about Indians is the way most of them work hard for a living, only have a couple of kids, and take pride in educating them well.
  Then the bludgers of our society’s kids beat them up and rob them….
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:02pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Same, that exactly describes the many NZ Indian families I know.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:37pm
    - Jack5
      
      Yes there are Indian immigrants who contribute well to the NZ economy. But too many of them are in uneconomic dairies, which are in effect, like the student visa rorts, no more than a means to enter the country and get citizenship.
      
      What do corner dairies do to build a modern, export-dependent economy?
      
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      May 17, 2018 2:55pm
      - GoVege
        
        The parents run the dairies and their kids go to university and become doctors, etc.
        
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        May 17, 2018 3:17pm
      - Jack5
        
        If the kids graduate and stay in the country, they will likely be good citizens, GoVege.
        
        But given the fact that the State pays most of the cost of medical education, it’s a smart move to get into NZ on a business visa, survive on an uneconomic diary, but get the kids a university education largely on the NZ taxpayer.
        
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        May 17, 2018 3:29pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yeah, Vege, but what I love about Indians is the way most of them keep their women in line.
    
    That is the key to their success. Indian women know their place. It works best for everyone that way, as you have pointed out.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:41pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      LOL, what a joke. You obviously know nothing about it. In the Indian families I know the women have careers and are as or more outspoken when a decision is to be made!
      
      And they are great people who get their children to study hard and obey. Maybe you’re mixed up: the children certainly know their place: loved but obedient. I teach several and they are happy and respectful.
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:05pm
    - Nermal
      
      You’ve got Indians mixed up with Muslim Pakistanis same ethnicity, different religions. Big difference in how women are valued and treated
      
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      May 17, 2018 2:28pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        No, India is a big place with significant cultural variation by place and caste. But my experience over many years is that Many Indian husbands (especially if relatively new immigrants) do have significant culturally assigned power over their wives.
        
        My wife worked with one who didn’t (initially) have a drivers license because her husband would not allow her to get one – and she wouldn’t dream of getting one without his permission. Not much later she did get one though because he saw the advantage of having her being able to drive. But that was his decision, not hers.
        
        There can be quite a lot of control asserted, and by Mothers-in-Law as well. And it is entirely cultural.
        
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        May 17, 2018 2:47pm
      - MH
        
        my reference is to Coronation St at the moment.
        
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        May 17, 2018 3:32pm
    - GoVege
      
      Nah, RC, you’ve got it all mixed up again.
      These clever Indian ladies (and other immigrants) are learning a thing or two from the locals.
      Yonks ago a friend of mine bought a house next to an Indian family.
      The Indian husband was a very bossy type, worse than her hubby.
      6 months down the track, she calls the cops on hubby and a police car attends.
      The next day, a police car and ambulance attend the neighbours.
      
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      May 17, 2018 3:23pm
Stars And Stripes

Went to one of the graduation ceremonies for Massey University yesterday and while being nice it was also a bit of an eye opener.
Every year the Marsden Fund hands out research grants to academics for study purposes and usually some of the more bizarre ones are ridiculed here on KB.
Well I can assure readers that this is not only confined to the Marsden Fund as after listening to what some of the students did their PhD research in I didn’t know whether to laugh or feel sad that such nonsense would have taxpayer money spent on it.
There were quite a few that fell into the “dubious” category in my reckoning but the following one took the cake I reckon.
“Within a neoliberal era, women are assumed to have achieved sexual liberation and equality.
However research suggests that women’s efforts in doing or fulfilling their sexual desires remain confined by gendered performativity, being more about looking desirable or performing desire over feeling it.
While there were points of resistance, women’s desire remained a gendered performance that served men’s desires and pleasures with those that failed at femininity understanding themselves as deficit or disordered.
The research examined the gendered power relations that constrain women’s bodies as well as emphasising the importance of attending to these issues and opening spaces for women’s desire”.

So there you have it whatever the $%&$ all that means.
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May 17, 2018 8:23am
- RW Capitalist
  
  and this person received a doctorate for this conclusion?
  Really?
  There is a giant hole in their research, just seen from what you have put here.
  Assuming this is about female relationships only (fare enough)
  “The research examined the gendered power relations that constrain women’s bodies as well as emphasising the importance of attending to these issues and opening spaces for women’s desire”.
  Leaving apart the stupid opinion out there, that there are more than 2 genders. (HA HA HA)
  
  Where do Lesbians fit in this model, or did this researcher forget that they existed.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:44am
- VicParking
  
  I get from this is that women are piss’d off they dont have a dick and can’t have a male orgasm.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:52am
- Harkman
  
  Is Peter Davis on a retainer yet?
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:16am
- Rich Prick
  
  So in a roundabout way, the doing scissors isn’t that satisfying? Good, I can cross that of my list of things I wanted to know.
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:05am
holysheet

There once was a man from Bombay
Who made a pussy out of clay
The heat from his prick
Turned the clay into brick
And wore all his foreskin away
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May 17, 2018 8:24am
- Lance
  
  There was a young pirate named Bates
  Who did the fandango on skates
  A slip of his cutlass rendered him nut-less
  And practically useless on dates
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:40am
- Inandout
  
  ‘The captain of this lugger
  He was a dirty bugger
  He wasn’t fit to shovel shit
  From one place to another
  Friggin’ in the riggin’
  Friggin’ in the riggin’
  Friggin’ in the riggin’
  There was fuck all else to do’
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:03am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    There was a young fellow from Ghent
    Who’s tool was so long that it bent
    To save himself trouble
    He put it in double
    And instead of coming he went
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:38am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      A young lady named Grace,
      had eyes in a most unusual place.
      She could sit on the hole,
      of a mouse or vole
      and start it straight in the face!
      
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      May 17, 2018 10:00am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      One grey, cloudy night in September
      There was only one cab on the rank
      The driver was reading the News of the World
      And quietly enjoying a wank
      He was dreaming that Venus was kissing his penis
      And his passions had rapidly fired
      When a waitress named Lena with tits like Sabrina
      Came up and politely enquired
      “How much will you charge me to Oldham?”
      The driver uplifted his head
      He got such a shock he let go of his cock
      And tugged on the gearstick instead
      “Well look young lass, I’m a charitable man
      As you can most probably tell
      So I won’t charge you nothing to ‘old ’em
      If you’ll let me ‘old yours as well!”
      
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      May 17, 2018 10:05am
      - kowtow
        
        KS
        
        Here’s one lucky, but probably very traumatised taxi driver down Dunedin way.
        
        ‘ The woman made wide-ranging allegations against the defendant, claiming he initially tried to kiss her, then inappropriately touched her back, her breast and upper thigh.
        
        She said she rebuffed his advances until he eventually took her to her destination.’
        
        https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/acquitted-taxi-driver-free-resume-his-job
        
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        May 17, 2018 12:54pm
    - Longknives
      
      Hold On- Give it some Bollocks!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-vP2aC3Yo
      
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      May 17, 2018 11:53am
  - Lance
    
    ……..
    The captains wife was Maybelle
    By gad sir she was able
    She took the crew for a daily screw upon the galley table.
    They were friggin in the rigging
    Wanking on the planking
    Because there was fuck all else to do
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:54am
- Longknives
  
  There was a young man named Clarke
  Who shagged hundreds of girls for a lark…
  
  *Oh sorry- Phone’s just rang.
  Lawyers say I can’t finish that one..
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:56am
  - Harkman
    
    Oh the irony, she can make up completely false statements about Trump and not care. But anything about Clarke and out come the lawyers, not matter if it is true or not (I still haven’t heard the story yet).
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:37pm
oldgolfer

All part of Cindy’s grand plan to get everyone – bludgers, crackheads, drunks, profligates – into a new home – never mind they can’t afford one.
I think she is expecting banks to come to the party.
Mmmmm.
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May 17, 2018 8:24am
holysheet

The other night on TV there was a program about parents going back to school with their children. It was especially beneficial for the parent. Maybe Cindy should adopt an older child so she can have a excuse to go back to school and learn all she missed. She definitely needs educating in a hurry.
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May 17, 2018 8:25am
- VicParking
  
  I hear she can wrap up a great ‘two fish and chips’
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:54am
  - Garbageman
    
    With her trademark sneer Vic because only us rich pricks can afford 2 pieces of fish these days
    
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    May 17, 2018 11:41am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Since perception is so important ot her.
  She perceives herself to be young
  So she behaves like a spoiled teenager
  and
  We all know that teenagers KNOW everything
  Therefore in her mind, there is no need for education.
  Latest add from the PM’s office (I know it’s an old gag)
  Encyclopaedia for sale, no longer required, teenage knows everything.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:12am
sooty

Is the police commissioner going to issue a statement saying that no sharks were hurt in the latest stunt by the media loving first fisherman.
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May 17, 2018 8:28am
- VicParking
  
  No female sharks were abused during Filming however the lesbian Hammerheads from Kiapara have started a #MeToo web page
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:56am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    Actually, in all seriousness, those lesbian hammerhands are experts at tongue in groove flooring.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:08pm
- Inandout
  
  The Commissioner is far too busy keeping the lid on the Labour camp feel up.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:04am
- RF
  
  When I read that Jethro had a near death experience with a bronze whaler I thought it was about his last visit to Calendar girls.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:53am
kowtow

Is there nothing the Dunedin City Council won’t fund.

‘ The Dunedin City Council voted to add $80,000 per year for the next three years to the planning and community budget to support community development for new migrants and refugees, during deliberations on the 10-year plan yesterday.’

This is just one item of many and results in our second biggest rates increase since 1989.A rise of nearly 8%.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/dcc-gives-funding-boost-refugee-support

There’s no end to do gooders spending other people’s money.
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May 17, 2018 8:30am
- Inandout
  
  Well Muslim migrants are a rather needy lot.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:05am
EAD_TWO

Sarah Silverman yesterday let her feelings be known:

“Fuck White People”

https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahksilverman/status/995393865879244800

Almost as bad as her fellow “comedian” Lena Dunham who can’t wait for white men to go extinct:

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/03/lena-dunham-posts-video-celebrating-extinction-white-men-twitter

And then there is Amy Schumer who calls White men “a cancer”. (Don’t get me started on her Uncle, Chuck Schumer – perhaps the world’s biggest hypocrite❗)

Like Seinfield in the 90s, how on on earth do these white hating humourless hacks get promoted and live lucrative lives as “comedians” whilst genuinley funny people don’t get a look in?

What gives these women such bestial hatred of Whites?

Why do Whites pay money to watch such people who so clearly hate them?
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May 17, 2018 8:32am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD TWO, possibly directed at people like you who dislike Jews and Blacks.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:03am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    They might all be Jewish Stephieboy, but I’ve only ever criticised their behaviours and utterances towards/about others, never who they are.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:08am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD TWO , oh really?
      
      You can fool the people some of the time but not all of the time.
      
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      May 17, 2018 9:21am
- Sideoiler
  
  @EAD_TWO
  You will really enjoy this video.
  I struggled to watch the whole thing, you should hear the shit comming out of their mouths.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=jhQI4w1eV80
  Let me know if you get to the bit where this bullshit is held at a white owned retreat.
  BWA HA HA HA….
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:03pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    That is side-splittingly funny but the worst thing is Sideoiler is that some people take this horse shit seriously.
    
    If they are so oppressed, why don’t they leave and create Wakanda and never come back?
    
    Oh that’s right, there would be no Gibs 🙂
    
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    May 17, 2018 6:00pm
Happychappy

Why do the Government and TV One think that moving Politics Q/A to prime time TV is going to help their dying one eyed Labour funded Program when 75% of the public of NZ have stopped reading or watching Main Stream Media. Another 28 Million of tax payers money to spit out false news to keep our not so squeaky clean excuse for a politician Clare Curran happy.
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May 17, 2018 8:32am
- VicParking
  
  It’s to be showed on all channels, all Public places and broadcast to all Cellphones.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:59am
  - jcuk
    
    “….broadcast to all Cellphones”
    One of the reasons why my cellphone remains switched off except when I know a family member might need to call me 🙂
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:08am
- stephieboy
  
  Happychappy,
  
  “..when 75% of the public of NZ have stopped reading or watching Main Stream Media…”
  
  ???
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:05am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Will it follow on from the One Network Propaganda at 6
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:46am
cmm

Stuff throwing up some Bludget Day squirrel bombs…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103970504/videos-show-devastating-impact-across-south-island-if-alpine-fault-ruptures

The Alpine Fault is overdue and is gonna blow!!!!

If that is indeed the case, then here’s a question for people: earthquakes and other massive natural disasters need competent government. Does anyone think the CoL is up to it?
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May 17, 2018 8:33am
- Lance
  
  If a decent sized meteor hits the Pacific Ocean it could create a tsunami 1km high travelling as supersonic speeds.
  This is true but in cosmic timescales the chances are ultra low in our life time.
  However… it is important we all lose sleep over it now. Especially with a CoL budget to be distracted from.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:45am
  - cmm
    
    That would be a real Pacific Reset!
    
    Since there is going to be a mega-tsunami sometime, it’s just a waste giving the Pacific $1bn now. Let’s wait until after the tsunami.
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:50am
- VicParking
  
  How long do I have to sit here kissing my arse goodbye, my back is killing me.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:01am
- RW Capitalist
  
  So..when they are not calling
  A bit of heavy rain
  The odd slip
  Minor road damage
  Power outage
  
  A CRISIS
  
  They have hypothetical ones to call on.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:16am
lifesgood

Well, well, well. Latest research shows that a Tesla emits 27 tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime while a BMW 320i emits only 22. Suck that up Greenies.
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May 17, 2018 8:34am
- Lance
  
  If someone gave me a Tesla I wouldn’t turn it down. It can accelerate like nothing else.
  
  But if you want to buy it for the economic benefits… snigger
  
  A Nissan Leaf might be a better deal but even then, rather marginal. And its a small car, no thanks.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:49am
  - cmm
    
    “If someone gave me a Tesla I wouldn’t turn it down. It can accelerate like nothing else.”
    
    Yup, it is a rich prick’s toy that is sponsored by everyone else.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:23am
    - Paulus
      
      How dare you !
      – our Cinderella Princess has a taxpayer provided Tesla to go shopping in Auckland.
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:57pm
  - kowtow
    
    ’30kWh Nissan Leaf owners are being short-changed as their batteries lose capacity significantly faster than expected, according to a report by Flip The Fleet, a New Zealand-based “citizen science” project.’
    
    https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/nissan-leafs-not-going-the-distance
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:41am
  - KevOB
    
    The acceleration requires a high power release battery–oops, another fire.
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:16am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Out-accelerated by an Aerial Atom V8 ! But 550 HP in a 600 Kg chassis does tend to do that.
    
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    May 17, 2018 2:53pm
- VicParking
  
  My Bedford Truck emits no CO2, it hasn’t run for 20 years.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:02am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    But you do……when pushing it.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:17am
  - Komata
    
    VicParking:
    
    Tardish. ‘Oi’!!
    
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    May 17, 2018 11:50am
Anne Glen Eden

There’s a good reason why so many people have so little trust in anything said by Left/liberals. It’s because they lie, cheat, and manipulate without any ethics or integrity to get their own way – usually specifically what the majority of others don’t want.

You could use any example from the current government, but two typical examples from the UK include:

1. Professor Michael Arthur from University College London, who chairs the Russell Group of elite universities EU group, had claimed that UK seats of learning would plunge from second best in the world league table on research behind America to 20th. But pressed on the claim during a Brexit committee hearing in the Commons, Professor Arthur said: “I will confess I plucked a number out of the air.” [He said with amusement.]

2. Student Union leaders of the same universities insisting that there should be a second referendum because it supposedly isn’t fair that those who have ‘come of age’ to vote since the last one weren’t included. They also claim to represent the ‘million’ such students, without anything to suggest that this is true.

It may seem smart to people at the time to behave like this – tell outrageous, manipulative lies to sway the public. It’s not so funny when the public no longer accepts ‘evidence’ on climate change or any other issue as being necessarily credible because no-one can be trusted anymore.
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May 17, 2018 8:38am
- stephieboy
  
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  “..It’s not so funny when the public no longer accepts ‘evidence’ on climate change or any other issue as being necessarily credible because no-one can be trusted anymore.”
  
  On whose say so?
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:07am
  - The Heat
    
    It’s true.
    
    If it’s said by left wing idealogues, I ‘aint listening. They have lost the plot entirely and blown all credibility. I’m sure there are many more like me.
    
    Because precedent.
    
    There was a fable about it. Henny Penny.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:22am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      “If it’s said by the left, I ‘aint listening”
      
      So you downtick anything posted by Stephie the goat botherer without reading it first?
      You are not alone.
      
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      May 17, 2018 9:54am
- RW Capitalist
  
  2. Student Union leaders of the same universities insisting that there should be a second referendum because it supposedly isn’t fair that those who have ‘come of age’ to vote since the last one weren’t included.
  We could say that about all elections, if you don’t like the result, you just need to put your hand up and scream…”Do over”
  1. are these people 5 year olds?
  2. It’s democracy, not anarchy.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:21am
  - MCos
    
    “We could say that about all elections”
    Except that Brexit is forever and General Elections are held at regular intervals.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:33am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      So “BOO HOO you had your chance, is a valid argument”.
      All the bull shit from the “remain” side, amounted to a huge pile.
      “Better off in”
      HOW?
      Massive payments by the UK, to fund the EU operation (only 2 countries put in Germany was the other)
      80 BILLION pound trade deficit with the EU
      Massive brain drain
      low skilled workers coming in and sending part of their wages “home” even going on the dole and sending some of that “home” and the educated poms leaving and going to the EU to benefit France, Belgium etc.
      
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      May 17, 2018 9:48am
      - jcuk
        
        Except my younger brother who is now retired apparently risks loosing his pension from the European Bank for whom he worked for most of his life by Brexit… poor sod ….. a fate worse than death I think. He could go and live with one of his sons in Ireland and retain it of course.
        
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        May 17, 2018 10:21am
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        That’s a bit weird, jcuk.
        
        You’re either due a pension from your employer or you’re not. Did their pension plan include a ‘residence’ clause?
        
        If it didn’t, I can’t see how he would suddenly become ineligible for it. If it did, he took a risk that he would forever remain in the same circumstances which is a bit odd these days. He could have wanted to move somewhere else for any reason.
        
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        May 17, 2018 11:31am
      - MCos
        
        I’m not advocating a rerun of the referendum.
        I’m just pointing out that in this case the result is permanent.
        Whatever happens now is their’s to cope with.
        
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        May 17, 2018 11:34am
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      Firstly, nothing is ‘forever’ – but some things should be generational, if only for basic viability.
      
      Are you suggesting that a referendum on Brexit should be held every year, forever?
      
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      May 17, 2018 9:52am
      - Humble Capitalist
        
        Daily referendums are better because people are capable of changing their minds
        
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        May 17, 2018 10:52am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Dead is pretty close to forever I think, if not closer.
        
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        May 17, 2018 11:01am
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        There are those of us who would disagree with you, Paulus, certainly in the sense of death in this life.
        
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        May 17, 2018 11:38am
    - Ed Snack
      
      True enough, but would you support having another vote now if Remain had won ?
      
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      May 17, 2018 2:55pm
EAD_TWO

And to think several of us were getting stick just last week on calling out Meghan Markle as trash. I think events of the past 4 days have confirmed what many of us knew already:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5736007/PIERS-MORGAN-Meghan-Harry-Palace-rue-day-left-Markles-cold.html

Why Meghan, Harry and the clueless Palace may come to rue the day they left the backstabbing, money-grabbing Markles out in the cold and turned this wedding into a right royal tacky mess

The comments are priceless to see the views of middle England❗
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- stephieboy
  
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  EAD TWO, I suppose middle England must lament the fact that the UK doesn’t have Nuremberg style racial laws ?
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:10am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Provide evidence with references
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:55am
- Gravelroad
  
  I would have thought EAD TWO, that the experienced Royal Family and “The Palace” would have had a substantial risk management plan for the Markle lot’s visit to the UK for this wedding:
  Bring them into the country quietly a couple weeks beforehand.
  Keep them holed up in some flash but discrete accommodation with plenty of minders to stave off the media and control random acts of idiocy.
  Give them what they need to stay calm and co-operative eg: alcohol, recreational drugs, posh clothes, a new watch and other “ entertainments”.
  Make them feel welcome and “responsible.”
  But they didn’t do that.
  They apparently decided to leave the appearance of the Markle parents to the last possible moment and hope for the best.
  Am starting to feel a bit sorry for Meghan M.
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:07pm
Manolo

The new sultan preaches misery. If he dares he and his people will be obliterated:
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/05/15/561820/Turkey-OIC–Binali-Yildirim–Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan

Turkey has urged Islamic countries to review their ties with Israel after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on the Gaza border.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told his ruling party in parliament that Ankara would call an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

“Islamic countries should without fail review their relations with Israel,” Premier Yildirim said, adding, “The Islamic world should move as one, with one voice, against this massacre.”
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May 17, 2018 9:02am
- kowtow
  
  Turkey Islamic?
  
  But wait , the progressives keep telling us that Turkey is secular and a bridge to the Middle East , they even want it as a member of the EU !
  
  Bridge to flood Europe with hordes of Muslim peasants.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:38am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    It tried very hard, under Ataturk, to be secular, and the large cities have plenty of democratic, secular people.
    
    The new government is totally islamic and winding back all of Ataturk’s achievements.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:47pm
    - kowtow
      
      That’s a myth.
      
      A true “Turk” was always a Sunni , Turkish male.
      Even in the “secular” days the non Turkish , nom Sunni minorities , and there were lots of them were /are second or even third class citizens.
      
      Turkish ‘secularism’ and “democracy” could only ever be guaranteed by military govt.
      
      Just another Islamic shithole , Ataturk or Erdogan , no difference.
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:04pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        ‘Turkish ‘secularism’ and “democracy” could only ever be guaranteed by military govt.’
        
        True. That’s why I mentioned the cities and should have added ‘some of the more educated people’. I knew many far more traditional Turks who had come to Germany to work. Very nasty to women: one family was trying to send the teenage daughter off to be married in a country she had never seen (Turkey). She had to run away from home to escape her family!
        
        We’ve seen demonstrations by democratic and secular people in the cities trying to resist Erdogan, but islam is winning :(.
        
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        May 17, 2018 1:10pm
NZDirect

Media scouring for the culprit within Parliament http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/05/newshub-investigates-which-national-mp-made-a-very-sexist-remark-about-jacinda-ardern.html
This is brilliant investigative journalism – if only the same rigour was applied to the Labour Summer Sexual Assualt camp! #Laboursexualassault, #metoo
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May 17, 2018 9:08am
VicParking

News overnight says 40 of the casualties in Gaza were Hamas Soldiers and 5 people were killed by mis thrown stones. Admitted by Hamas spokesman in an interview.
Could not find this anywhere in the NZ MSM this morning.
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May 17, 2018 9:09am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  VicParking , which news source?
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:11am
  - VicParking
    
    For you Stephie:
    https://mobile.twitter.com/LTCJonathan/status/996741642056019968/video/1
    My mistake it was 50 not 40
    
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    May 17, 2018 1:53pm
- Harkman
  
  Those in our MSM have all converted to Allah, just like StephieBoy ⤴
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:24am
- kowtow
  
  Will Cindy be “devastated” by the deaths caused by Mo on Mo stone throwers?
  
  ps As to the Pallywood stories about babies and youngsters killed in the attempted invasion I would strongly suspect family members of murder . These people get paid by rich Gulf States for ‘martyrdom’ at the hands of the despised Yehuda. Good way to get rid of a retarded burden on the family / Hamas health sysytem and get paid for it!
  All’s fine in the Jihad.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:35am
- Nermal
  
  Don’t forget the 10 month old asthmatic girl
  http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-gaza-child-20180516-htmlstory.html
  
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  May 17, 2018 2:38pm
ldypen

Anyone know how many strikes or threats of strike action since the COL said there would be no increase in strikes?
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May 17, 2018 9:20am
- mandk
  
  IIRC, the promise was that there would be no increase in national strikes.
  
  The Unions will engineer a rolling barrage of regional strikes instead, and this will enable the CoL to claim that it has kept its promise.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:40am
Poppa

We all should spare a thought for Ztev on this momentous day.

He will be glued to TV fawning over his hero Grant & then the inevitable sick inducing Cindy interview afterwards.

Wake me up when it its over
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May 17, 2018 9:25am
cmm

It looks like stephieboy has been carbo-loading for a hard day of throwing bludget squirrels.
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May 17, 2018 9:25am
lastmanstanding

Some random questions.

1. Why are Maori living in poverdy with the worst child abuse rate crime rate et al?
2. What happened to the Billions I and other hard working tax payers paid to the Tribes.
3. I was told this money was going to be used to lift Maori out of poverdy.
4. Its been 25 years since the first payment to the Tribes.
5. Why hasnt it happened.
6. Whose benefited from the Billions.
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May 17, 2018 9:29am
- RW Capitalist
  
  They got to own a rugby league team for a while, heard the BMW dealer in Hamilton did a roaring trade, for a while.
  
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  May 17, 2018 9:51am
  - kevn
    
    @RW… Ford Falcons have been the rage in Rotorua. No BMW agent I guess.
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:21am
    - sooty
      
      Had a pub in Sydney, too for a while.
      
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      May 17, 2018 11:47am
- kowtow
  
  “6. Whose benefited from the Billions.”
  
  A very small cadre of the part Maori elite.
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:27am
- cmm
  
  Don’t worry, just one more top-up will fix it, I’m sure.
  
  We’ve had lots of Resets from Labour. Perhaps they will give us a Treaty Reset next. You know, start all the negotiations from scratch and all the iwi get to put in their claims again.
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:00pm
wreck1080

DPF recently posted this, presumably to show what a great job national has done in reducing youth crime…

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/youth_offending_down.html
Child (10 to 13) offending rate down 59%
Youth (14 to 16) offending rate down 63%

So, if youth crime is falling so significantly, why do stories like this get printed…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103788737/in-depth-lack-of-respect-to-blame-for-rising-seriousness-of-assaults-on-police

Youth crime rate has gone up 11.6 per cent over the last three years.

So, dpf prints an article that youth offending has dropped 60%.

Police figures show that youth crime has increased by 11.9% over 3 years.

While they are comparing slightly different time periods 2009-2017 vis 2014-2017, they surely are not so different to show such a huge difference .

I think this is one of dpf’s pro national stories, trying to show youth crime trending down under national. When in actual fact it has been trending upward over recent years.

Do the studies differentiate between crime and offending? Surely these would be highly correlated anyway.

Who knows what is true? This is why you cannot trust statistics.
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May 17, 2018 9:37am
- kowtow
  
  This is why youcan’t trust the gubmint nor its agents.
  
  The cops/gubmint are massaging the figures to suit the race agenda.
  
  ‘Police and iwi plan to make pre-charge iwi panels a permanent fixture in an effort to to reduce reoffending and encourage restorative justice.’
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102614436/Pre-charge-restorative-justice-initiative-expanded
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:33am
  - sooty
    
    Is it coming out of treaty settlements?
    
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    May 17, 2018 11:45am
  - cmm
    
    Does it really reduce offending or does it just reduce the reporting of offending?
    
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    May 17, 2018 1:03pm
    - kowtow
      
      If Plod doesn’t record it as a crime , then it didn’t happen, officially . Target reached . Job done.Very Orwellian.
      
      That’s my belief.
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:08pm
Captain Mainwaring

Looks like we’ve successfully reported Hugh and his links off this thread.
6 reports is all it takes.
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May 17, 2018 9:45am
Rodney Randall

There’s some nasty muslim bastards in Auckland. Conducted social experiment by smiling and saying hello to a variety head covered women and men of the Islamic faith.

All vile miserable looking shitheads that never reciprocated. Not so much as a smile. Young child with baghead mum smiled. Baghead mum quickly turned child to face away. Poor child will be indoctrinated to hate the west. These inbreds are retarded.

Many must loath westeners and freedoms the west affords. Not content with their own shitholes, they seek to turn their new lands into said shithole and treat their hosts with contempt.

The Asian/Indian people I conversed with were lovely, warm and open.
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May 17, 2018 9:56am
- Swifty
  
  I can second that – there have been exceptions, but as a rule they are the least open and friendly.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:29am
Anne Glen Eden

The question of ‘values’ and ‘ideals’ are the most debated social features in today’s world of constant social engineering. The destruction of them is a common and persistent theme, including in NZ, as is the besmirching of all NZ European history.

“Afua Hirsch debated national heroes on Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan. “…she was not “comfortable with the concept of hero … I am a British person, I think a fundamental British value is integrity and intellectual curiosity and I can’t understand why we as a modern nation in 2018 are only comfortable with the propagandist version of history. Why can’t we have a more interesting relationship with history? Churchill was far more fascinating than the cardboard cut-out saint that we paint him to be. He was a deeply flawed man.”

Piers Morgan, 53, remarked: “The problem is that you take national heroes who have done extraordinary things for this country and you pick holes and you try to besmirch them and disparage their reputation. Why? “You know what? Beating Adolf Hitler, winning the war, stopping him exterminating every Jew he could get his hands on, these to me are far greater achievements than the negatives that lurk in his past, which lurk in anybody’s past.”

Therein lies the immaturity and naivete of the modern Left/‘liberal’ and academic. Every single one of us is a ‘deeply flawed’ human being, as Morgan knows. It isn’t ‘fascinating’ at all. It’s very unfortunately normal.

A ‘hero’ is someone who miraculously rises above his/her flaws, for however long, to do something genuinely and extraordinarily ‘great and good’. It can be in a large or small context – the sort of thing Jordan Peterson has mentioned.

Only in the world of the immature Left/liberal is that assumed to mean they are claimed to be completely ‘sinless’ and it’s only because Left/liberals can’t/won’t be held to any ideals or higher standards of value or behaviour that they want to eliminate ‘heroism’ itself – and the values/ideals/higher standards of behaviour which others can aspire to achieve.

They’re completely committed to dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator and keeping them there, all the time – and where anyone does lift themselves out of the mire, shooting them down in flames because it’s all ‘identity’. They don’t want to rise above the mire, so no-one else must be allowed to or acknowledged to have done so.
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May 17, 2018 10:00am
- mandk
  
  Thanks Anne,
  
  I wonder if Donald Trump will ultimately be remembered as a hero who had deep flaws.
  
  Just like JFK, who (amongst many other things) importuned and had sex with one of his junior staff who was soon to be married. The relationship was so unequal that it might be viewed as tantamount to rape.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:13am
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, it’s no wonder JFK had a crook back. If it was a war injury originally, all his shagging can’t have helped it.
    
    But what happened to Marilyn Monroe? If she was murdered, was it because she and JFK had been up to rumpy-pumpy?
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:35am
- EAD_TWO
  
  stopping him exterminating every Jew he could get his hands on
  
  If that’s what he really tried to do, how come there were millions of survivors?
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:31am
  - Jack5
    
    EAD, have you been able to come to terms with the fact that Adolf Hitler seems to have been part-Jewish, as was his wife (the marriage was rather short).
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:43am
    - Jack5
      
      How a great Donald got in Nazi Germany:
      
      https://youtu.be/kzH1iaKVsBM
      
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      May 17, 2018 10:51am
  - mandk
    
    Perhaps because of people like Oskar Schindler and Sir Nicholas Winton?
    
    That and lack of time.
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:45am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      or perhaps the work camps were actually……work camps.
      
      Have you ever wondered why the Nazis are invoked as the ultimate evil? Because they were the one nation that was able to recognise and throw of the Globalist Vice that they were put in during Weimar.
      
      In the current year, we actually celebrate children who “transition gender” and prime ministers who go and dance with grown men parading down the street in their jockeys.
      
      The Nazis were actually able to say fuck this subversive Marxist shit and throw off the Marxist shackles.
      
      https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/13/degenerate-art-attack-modern-art-nazi-germany-review-neue-galerie
      
      https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2012/01/23/the-german-jewish-kulturkampf-in-the-weimar-republic/
      
      Their sense of purpose and stand against degeneracy/subversion stood in stark opposition to grand plans of International Marxism which is why they are always denigrated less any other nation get any ideas.
      
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      May 17, 2018 3:55pm
      - stephieboy
        
        EAD TWO , is it NZ National Socialist Policy to remove Ralph Hotere, Colin Mc Cahan’s, Len Lyes, Marti Friedlander ( Jewish ) etc paintings and artworks from Art Galleries?
        
        What authors s would you deem to be culturally degenerate and ripe for book burning ? Janet Frame. Maurice Gee, Maurice Shadbolt. CK Stead, Alan Duff, Claudia Orange, Michael King , James Bellich etc, etc.?
        
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        May 17, 2018 4:15pm
      - mandk
        
        Fuck this disgusting Nazi shit.
        
        Yes, there may have been some work done in the camps but, if work was their purpose, how come so many died in them and so few came out?
        
        The Jews, the homosexuals, the disabled, the dissidents and the gypsies who perished in them didn’t die as the result of workplace accidents.
        
        6 million Jews died, but it really doesn’t matter if the real number was 600,000.
        
        I know you like to quibble about the numbers, but you are just being completely depraved.
        
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        May 17, 2018 5:00pm
      - realityczech
        
        mandk, at least as many non Jews died but you seem untroubled by that, or the 25 million Russians.
        
        You seem equally unconcerned by the fact more Ukrainians died in a few months than even the most inflated holocaust claims.
        
        Or this against Muslims in the 90’s
        
        Even if the hysterical propaganda about the Nazi is true, the sad fact is the holocaust is not even in the top 4 of the worst mass killings in the modern era.
        
        No matter how hard you try, your bigotry shines through every time.
        
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        May 17, 2018 5:22pm
      - mandk
        
        Oh, you’re back, Kea.
        
        When are you going to show me where I have denigrated Muslims instead of running away every time I challenge you?
        
        Actual examples,please. Not a generalised libel against me.
        
        As for me, I can easily show examples of your vile outbursts.
        
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        May 17, 2018 5:55pm
      - realityczech
        
        mandk you are a zionist bigot. Anyone with clear eyes can see what you are.
        
        Like all zionists you lie.
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:03pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Yes, there may have been some work done in the camps but, if work was their purpose, how come so many died in them and so few came out?
        
        The Jews, the homosexuals, the disabled, the dissidents and the gypsies who perished in them didn’t die as the result of workplace accidents.
        
        The fact is that most of those who died, died in the final few months of the war through starvation and disease as the supply chains had been obliterated. It’s why all the photos of the camps liberation are of sick and emancipated people.
        
        Let’s not forget as well either that millions upon millions of Germans perished after the war ended but there is hardly a word ever spoken about these deaths. We don’t have Spielberg making movie after movie about the German people who suffered unimaginable horrors do we?
        
        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664526/How-three-million-Germans-died-after-VE-Day.html
        
        As for the “gypsies, homosexuals” etc. that you refer to – the Jews are now admitting they didn’t even exist and all the suffering was upon them and them only.
        
        https://www.jta.org/2017/01/31/news-opinion/united-states/remember-the-11-million-why-an-inflated-victims-tally-irks-holocaust-historians
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:09pm
      - realityczech
        
        EAD_TWO, I think everyone has had enough of you and your silly hate-facts.
        
        Why can’t you parrot outrageous Soviet propaganda and zionist lies like everyone else here?
        
        Either way not a lot turns on it. Far worse things have happened since then. But it was sad some Jews were among the 70 million who died in the war.
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:17pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        silly hate-facts
        
        Great line RC.
        
        I’ve found I’ve got to back up just about everything I say on here from an “approved” source otherwise it’s just “Nazi”(i.e. German 1930s) propaganda.
        
        Never mind some of the outrageous stuff others can quote and link to here and repeat as if it was the God given truth.
        
        Such is the life of the heretic?
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:42pm
      - mandk
        
        @ reality czech / kea
        
        Oh dear, just another smear.
        
        How about demonstrating where I have lied?
        
        Or are you going to run away again and cuddle up to your national socialist buddy?
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:48pm
      - realityczech
        
        I’ve found I’ve got to back up just about everything I say on here from an “approved” source otherwise it’s just “Nazi”(i.e. German 1930s) propaganda.
        
        That won’t work either. You can post things direct from Jewish sources in Israel and they scream Nazi.
        
        Apparently the conservative zionist news Times of Israel is run entirely by active Nazis and even Rabbis are Nazis. Prominent and respected Jewish intellectuals are also Nazis…. here on KB. 🙂
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:51pm
      - stephieboy
        
        EAD TWO , you plus others who might swallow the utter nonsense from utter nonsense including his sources. Giles Mac Donogh author of “After the Reich.”
        Some observations.: Rather like Holocaust Deniers and according to the reviews below, not once does Mac Donogh cite any sources for his claim three million German civilians and soldiers were slaughtered in 1945 and after. There are obscure references to some diaries but nothing else to back up the author’s claims. No documented proof, photos, eyewitness or perpetrators accounts.
        Nothing.
        
        Actually, the facts are the German got off pretty light, all things considered, given the devastation and destruction they visited in their occupied lands. Especially in the East,
        
        https://www.amazon.com/After-Reich-Brutal-History-Occupation/product-reviews/0465003389/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_2?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=2#reviews-filter-bar
        
        Note especially Paul Hofman and R Helen.
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:57pm
      - mandk
        
        @EAD_TWO
        
        Any suffering the Germans collectively experienced during WWII was of their own making.
        
        Did they have to invade Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Norway etc?
        
        Did they have to loose the blitzkrieg on Britain?
        
        They suffered because they chose to be defeated. They should have seen the writing on the wall militarily and surrendered the day the USA joined the war.
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:58pm
      - realityczech
        
        Any suffering the ~~Germans~~ Jews collectively experienced during WWII was of their own making.
        
        Did they have to invade ~~Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Norway etc?~~ Germany, Russia, Poland, Palestine?
        
        They suffered because they chose to be defeated. They should have seen the writing on the wall militarily and surrendered the day ~~the USA~~ Japan joined the war.
        
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        May 17, 2018 7:03pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        So let me get this straight mandk.
        
        Any suffering the Germans experienced was because of their behaviour but when Jews experience any suffering it’s because of the “anti-semitism” mind virus.
        
        Riiiiiiiggghhhhtttt
        
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        May 17, 2018 7:19pm
      - mandk
        
        Soooooooooooooooooo
        
        Remind me who were the aggressors in WWII: the Nazis or the Jews?
        
        Silly me for asking you of all people.
        
        I expect you believe that kristallnacht was actually a Jewish conspiracy.
        
        I expect you also believe that the Czech, Polish, Dutch and all the other Jews who were transported to what you refer to as labour camps signed up voluntarily.
        
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        May 17, 2018 8:11pm
      - stephieboy
        
        EAD TWO , as I have repeatedly reminded you just stick to some basic questions and issues of demographics.
        
        Poland pre Nazi inavsion had 2,3 million Jews .
        
        Russia pre Nazi occupation had 1.5 million Jews.
        
        Holocaust deniers say they were merely deported East. Specifically to where and their whereabouts after the Nazi defeat?
        
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        May 17, 2018 8:27pm
Jack5

The word “Aboriginal” has been deemed offensive by a bureaucrat, and has been censored from West Australian birth certificates.

What is the inoffensive name for the indigenous people of Australia?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-17/aboriginal-term-deemed-offensive-births-deaths-marriages/9753430
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May 17, 2018 10:06am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  “What is the inoffensive name for the indigenous people of Australia?”
  
  Boomerang thrower.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:13am
  - sooty
    
    Spear chucker?
    I was in a pub in the outback of WA, there was this bar all of 2m long and hanging on the wall was a spear with telescopic sights on it.
    
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    May 17, 2018 11:40am
- mandk
  
  I would have thought that Aboriginal would be a label worn with pride, since it means ‘from the beginning’.
  
  I suppose, however, that the tendency of many white Australians to disparage the original people with the term ‘Abo’ destroys its value.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:18am
  - Jack5
    
    MandK: the change doesn’t seem to have been at the request of Aboriginal people.
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:22am
    - mandk
      
      No, it will be some SJW with no connection to the Aboriginal people.
      
      Just like the dimwit in Dunedin who demanded that people stop using the word ‘gypsy’ because he/she deemed it offensive.
      
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      May 17, 2018 10:40am
  - kowtow
    
    How is an abbreviation disparaging . They abreviate everything .
    Do they disparage the day by saying “arvo”.
    
    FFS!
    
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    May 17, 2018 1:14pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      I referred to Aborigines as Abos’ (not intended as derogatory) when we had some rellies from Aus staying, and got a “tut”. Apparently Aborigines prefer to be referred to as “black fellas”. Go figure!
      
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      May 17, 2018 2:07pm
      - kowtow
        
        While they call the honkeys ” Captain Cook c#nts”
        
        Charming .
        
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        May 17, 2018 3:43pm
  - Paulus
    
    But surely the name Aborigine applies to many so called indigenous or part indigence people like say the Maori – they are also actually Aboriginals.
    People from times before Colonisation – look it up !
    
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    May 17, 2018 2:05pm
- realityczech
  
  It is not even a word exclusive to Australian natives.
  
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  May 17, 2018 6:05pm
kevn

And what surprise will the COMRADE have in store for NZer’s? You know the ‘sqeezed middle’ that she has sh*t on with poxxie policies that increase rents, fuel, rental availabilty.
I am counting the days until the coalition of losers and liars get the boot.
They have been shockers.
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May 17, 2018 10:13am
Jack5

Toyota’s doing okay.

For its financial year ended March 31, it has reported a profit of 2.49 trillion yen, which my calculator converts to 3.27 billion NZ dollars.

Sales jumped 36 per cent, helped by a weaker yen, to 29.4 trillion yen – 38.6 billion NZ dollars.

By units sold in 2017, Toyota was third in the world. It followed Volkswagen Group and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi.
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May 17, 2018 10:21am
- kevn
  
  @Jack5…. Check Toyota NZ sales, not so flash. The new car buying system is not working out well.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:47am
- MCos
  
  On the face of it that sounds like big bucks. However the real number to look at is return on investment.
  It seems to me that a speculator making a shit load of money from an unproductive empty house in Auckland is probably a better investment, but it’s bad news for society in general.
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:25am
- kowtow
  
  Toyota and VW ?
  
  Remind me , who won the war?
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:15pm
  - realityczech
    
    Russia.
    
    Both in beating the Nazi and in being able to run amok afterwards.
    
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    May 17, 2018 6:06pm
AgentBallSack

Interesting article in Stuff yesterday about Gloriavale subsidies. If it wasnt for 3 million in subsidies they get each year from the government, they would be out of business with an operating deficit of 1.7M a year.
My question is – Why the fuck are we subsidising a cult? My business isn’t subsidised to run at a profit, if I don’t pay tax the IRD would shut me down and prosecute.

A community like Gloriavale is only sustainable if it has a positive cash flow. It pulled in about $17.2 million in the year to July, 2017 and spent about $15m. In the final result it posted a surplus of $1.2m.

It owns 13 companies that operate businesses in farming, honey, building and midwifery and they seem mostly to be successful.

A company called Ocean Harvest International has tax losses of $4.4m, but this is not necessarily a sign the company is in strife.

The trust got $1.65m in donations from its members, $2.1m in early childhood education grants and another $224,000 in grants from the Ministry of Education. According to the accounts, without the taxpayer grants, Gloriavale would be running at a loss.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103949143/Gloriavale-will-implode-the-only-question-is-when
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May 17, 2018 10:33am
- Jack5
  
  The whole charities exemption from companies tax needs to be looked at, ABS.
  
  Those using it on a bigger scale than Gloriavale include Seventh Day Adventists for their Sanitarium Food Products, and Ngai Tahu and Waikato Maori for their many businesses in several industries.
  
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  May 17, 2018 10:38am
  - kevn
    
    @Jack5… Certainly giving the maori tourism and their transport sector (busses) a big advantage. Not hard to ‘do well’ with thier tax arrangements. I was told by a minister of revenue that they didn’t want to sort it by kicking the sleeping bear.
    
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    May 17, 2018 10:51am
    - sooty
      
      Don’t forget the religous arm of the Labour Party. The Salvation Army.
      
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      May 17, 2018 11:36am
  - Paulus
    
    I have somewhere an twelve page list of thousands of Registered Charities – the vast majority of names I cannot understand as they are in Maori.
    
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    May 17, 2018 2:08pm
- Ross12
  
  “$224,000 in grants from the Ministry of Education”
  Hipkins will be in to grab that !!
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:30pm
Paulus

I see that Annette King has been made a Dame – (not a real Pantomime one !)
This Dame Knighthood is to shut her up in respect of the Helen Clark/Heather Simpson skeletons of which she was part (not physically of course).
She will now keep quiet and gracefully become our High Commissioner in Canberra, so she can be close to her Daughter and Grandchildren.
Am glad as now being Chair of EQC she and the Christchurch Doctor Teletubby have sorted out all the outstanding claims so quickly.
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May 17, 2018 11:11am
- sooty
  
  What for services to landladies?
  
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  May 17, 2018 4:50pm
DigNap15

I’ve just bought some plastic bags from TradeMe to replace the ones Countdown will no longer be giving away.
They are called T-Shirt bags.
You can buy them in bulk from Alibaba for about 1 cent each.
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May 17, 2018 11:14am
- kowtow
  
  The supermarkets are c#nts.
  
  No more bags for the customer to take home all the goods the shop has wrapped in ……..plastic bags.
  
  Cost saving measure dressed up as environmentalism. Will the savings be passed on ?
  
  Like fuck.
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:18pm
billr

I know that none of you are particularly interested in things to do with alternate power supply, windfarms etc. However, I found this article on how the Tesla battery in SA is doing. It seems remarkably well.

https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/16/teslas-giant-battery-saving-consumers-huge-dollars-gas-turbines-in-trouble/
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May 17, 2018 11:14am
- realityczech
  
  Another fraud from Musk. All hype and marketing, with no science or real results.
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:34pm
DigNap15

Why can’t the US and N Korea just have talks without any preconditions.
That seems fair to me.
Then each side would get to know the other one more and they could lay out their aims and bottom lines etc.
The US seems a bit unfair in demanding denuclearization before any talks.
They have to let fat boy save his face.
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May 17, 2018 11:17am
Stars And Stripes

Parliament flies rainbow flag
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/357567/parliament-flies-rainbow-flag
“Parliament is flying a rainbow flag today in support of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
Alongside the rainbow flag are the trans, bi and intersex flags”.

Who needs central heating in the beehive when we have warm fuzzy stuff like this to provide comfort.
Personally I would prefer they focussed on actually doing something about all crisis’s that they have been banging on about for the last nine years instead of all having a big collective wank over stuff like this.
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May 17, 2018 11:26am
- sooty
  
  The feelz trumps have to do anything.
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:31am
- simpleton1
  
  In the name of diversity, etc., then some of these flags should be flown as well.
  
  https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=islamic+flag&safe=off&rlz=1C1GGRV_enNZ751NZ751&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8kZrCtIvbAhUP6bwKHYdoBJcQ7AkIfQ&biw=1097&bih=542
  
  Would make some diverse feelz very welcome here.
  Great feelz also, when launched from a height.
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:47am
- kowtow
  
  Funny old things flags .
  
  Plod in England tells English fans their flag is basically offensive.
  
  Where will this self loathing take us?
  
  “People need to be really careful with flags. It can come across as almost imperialistic. We really urge some caution about people putting flags out and waving them about in public.”
  
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/world-cup-2018-england-flags-no-russia-police-imperialist-hooligans-drunk-a8353716.html
  
  Maybe he has a point , people do need to be very careful about flags . Minority identity politics issues have no place on our parliament flag pole and lots of people might find the agenda being foisted on us as “offensive”.
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:26pm
  - Philview
    
    I saw a headline the other day but didn’t have time to read the story. It was something along the lines of the police in the UK will charge people if they mock the police on Facebook.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:40pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Good bye English comedy. I’ve been watching The Thin Blue Line. Mocks the Police and under this kind of idiotic law will be in trouble.
      
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      May 17, 2018 12:57pm
      - Philview
        
        I am not sure if this is the same story but look at the size of the drugs bust. It makes the Thin Blue Line look realistic.
        
        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5715727/Police-threaten-ARREST-Facebook-users-mocked-post-tiny-cannabis.html
        
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        May 17, 2018 1:26pm
    - kowtow
      
      No time to attend burglaries but plenty of “resources” to monitor social media.
      
      It is shocking.
      
      ‘Such are the immortal words of Snap Dogg, a rapper from Detroit whose song ‘I’m Trippin’ is now at the centre of a UK trial for hate crime. Liverpool teenager Chelsea Russell posted the lyrics on her Instagram account as a tribute to a 13-year-old boy who had died in a road accident. The Crown Prosecution Service – seemingly engaged in an ongoing mission to discredit itself utterly – saw fit to prosecute Russell under the 2003 Communications Act on the grounds that the lyrics are ‘grossly offensive’. ‘
      
      Where England goes…….
      
      http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/doylesnappdog/21320#.WvzZI0iFPIU
      
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      May 17, 2018 1:23pm
  - realityczech
    
    The English are a write-off. Their only purpose is to demonstrate how bad things can get by allowing incremental removal of our freedom.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:44pm
  - Longknives
    
    Flags are not nearly as offensive to the Left as ‘Mr Men’ books!
    
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/956263/mr-men-little-miss-books-sexist-university-lincoln-study
    
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    May 17, 2018 6:05pm
- Philview
  
  I will pick up my non gender specific children from school this afternoon and salute the flag! How do they cope with this shit in France where every noun has a specific gender?
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:52pm
Inandout

Our Minister Megan talked to fuel companies recently, and from that time prices have steadily crept up. The Budget will be interesting.
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May 17, 2018 11:27am
- Poppa
  
  She seems very quiet now too.
  
  I suspect they dished out some facts to her which she found difficult to counter
  
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  May 17, 2018 11:40am
- kowtow
  
  Yep the market has responded with a very firm “Fuck you”
  
  Meanwhile if the minister really cared about high cost of fuel , she could take her grubby tax grabbing mits off it and stop taxing the living life out of it.
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:29pm
  - Swifty
    
    Watch out for KiwiFuel.
    
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    May 17, 2018 1:26pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Perhaps she was hallucinating after a sausage roll overdose and mistakenly told them their prices should be higher
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:33pm
- Jack5
  
  Focusing on varying prices at petrol stations is a Labour-Green smoke screen, but it won’t smother the outrage that will come when these kick in: new taxes plus dearer oil imports plus a falling NZ dollar.
  
  Transporting fuel from Marsden Point is expensive in this long, thin, mountainous group of islands. If the Government wants uniform petrol prices for the whole country, goodness help Aucklanders. They will be paying the highest local tax as well as subsidising transport for getting petrol to Queenstown and Invercargill.
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:17pm
Manolo

Is this the next Italian government?
https://www.thelocal.it/20180516/barbarian-slave-matteo-salvini-italy-government-close-eu

The Five Star Movement and League parties were continuing to work on a government deal on Wednesday afternoon, with the leader of the M5S saying he and his League counterpart were prepared not to be part of the government if needed.
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May 17, 2018 11:37am
- DigNap15
  
  I hope so.
  And that they tell the EU to go fuck themselves
  
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  May 17, 2018 12:39pm
  - Philview
    
    Yes, I read they have been warned by the EU to not implement any policy the EU doesn’t like.
    
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    May 17, 2018 12:45pm
Manolo

Spot on. There is no need to mince words:
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/trump-says-some-migrants-are-animals/ar-AAxnQR4

US President Donald Trump described some migrants as “animals” Wednesday, in a charged discussion about the border wall and law enforcement.

“You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are, these aren’t people, these are animals and we’re taking them out of the country.”

Trump’s remarks came after comments on migration and law enforcement, so-called “sanctuary cities” for immigrants, and the MS-13 gang.
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May 17, 2018 11:57am
- Classic Liberal
  
  If those illegals could be kept in the sanctuary cities, only able to move around the areas in which all locals support them, maybe those Americans would learn – unfortunately the hard way.
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:01pm
Odakyu-sen

The US 10-year treasury yield is up over 3.00% again. If it gets above (and stays above) 3.25% then my left eyebrow will rise. If it gets above (and stays above) 3.5% then my right eyebrow will rise too.

As an investor, would you be more satisfied with 2.5% in a $NZ account or 3.5% in a $US account?

What effect would a significant rise in US interest rates have on NZ-based banks wishing to fund their mortgage loans?
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May 17, 2018 1:13pm
- Jack5
  
  Odakyu-sen, the fabled Belgian dentists and Tokyo housewives who have been lending to NZ banks, will want at least the same rates they can get in America.
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:23pm
- kowtow
  
  Don’t know about your eyebrows Ody but some underpants are about to get very stained.
  
  ‘John Mauldin begins a delve into what he sees as a rapidly approaching train wreck; ‘Something is on the tracks ahead and I don’t see how we’ll avoid hitting it”
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/93763/john-mauldin-begins-delve-what-he-sees-rapidly-approaching-train-wreck-something
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:26pm
Jack5

Battles between locals and outsiders over water don’t just occur in Christchurch and other parts of NZ.

It’s a hot issue in parts of Australia, as well as in North America and Europe.

What’s happening in Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-17/what-happens-to-small-towns-whose-water-becomes-big-business-fo/9770128

In the USA, states are battling each other over water:

https://texasfarmbureau.org/u-s-allowed-join-texas-new-mexico-water-wars/
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May 17, 2018 1:14pm
VicParking

Fake news from the failing Newspaper.
Headline: ‘Giant rocks spewing from Hawaii volcano summit“
Story: ‘Ash emissions from the summit at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano decreased, prompting the cancellation of an ash fall advisory“
Big difference from the eye grabbing headline and the first sentence of the story.
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May 17, 2018 1:29pm
- mandk
  
  Fake news is sometimes the result of news stories being written before the event.
  
  Newshub carried a story last weekend that had the headline: “Zionists clash with Palestinian supporters”.
  
  Except that there was no clash of any kind. Only a small gathering of people celebrating Israel’s 70th, and a separate very small gathering of pro-Palestine folk.
  
  The police did their job, and everyone went home for tea.
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:55pm
- Rich Prick
  
  It’s not that kind of volcano anyway, fissures on its lower flanks routinely rupture and relieve the pressure, the top of it is just a chimney.
  
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  May 17, 2018 1:58pm
Poppa

So it seems that nasty Hipkins has lied to the Charter Schools & issued cancellation notices.

No consultation and no conversations, just the sword.

As far as I can see, apart from the unions there is no support in the community for this. Why are National not making a lot of noise about this?

They should be shouting from the rooftops that it stinks & they will reverse it
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May 17, 2018 1:48pm
- mandk
  
  Hipkins is a very nasty piece of work who is in thrall to the unions.
  
  Labour only pretends to care about kids.
  
  If they actually cared, they wouldn’t try to force young refugees from mainstream schooling back into the system that was failing most of them.
  
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  May 17, 2018 2:02pm
  - Paulus
    
    I understand that Hipkin’s mother is a leading Education Unionist.
    
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    May 17, 2018 2:12pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      That explains a lot, including his brainwashing from a young age.
      
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      May 17, 2018 4:35pm
    - Ross12
      
      I think she is a long time education researcher Paulus. Has written at least one paper against Charter Schools.
      
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      May 17, 2018 5:37pm
- Harriet
  
  HAhhahaha LOL :
  
  Because National agrees that charter schools shouldn’t exist. National only ever agreed with ACT over charter schools so they could form government – hence there being only ever half a dozen charter schools opened in 8 years “on a trial period” as Key always reminded everyone. National got beaten at the election and the trial period is over for the schools.
  
  If it was ever about KIWI KIDS – Key and National would have opened more than 6 schools – wouldn’t they? 😎
  
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  May 17, 2018 2:05pm
  - Harriet
    
    And another thing – ACT has hardly ever spoken on the matter over the years about additional schools being opened, and they aren’t out defending them now – maybe for ACT too, it was never about the kids, but really just a chance to get into government.
    
    Fakepolicies# 😎
    
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    May 17, 2018 2:34pm
    - Ross12
      
      BS. Harriet
      National had budgeted for quite a few more schools to be funded this year , if they had been re elected.
      
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      May 17, 2018 5:39pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Where is Alwyn to tell us what is happening with charter schools? Is he busy sorting out the mess this COL have left his school in, or has he been muzzled after calling Cindy a liar?
  
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  May 17, 2018 2:38pm
Harkman

This budget will go down as one of the true monuments in the annals of Marxism.
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May 17, 2018 2:51pm
- Manolo
  
  More anal than annals, I reckon.
  
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  May 17, 2018 5:11pm
Ross12

The new Malaysian Govt. is not messing around. 17,000 political appointees being sacked !!!!

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/2018/05/16/govt-cut-17000-political-appointees-reduce-expenditure

Can you imagine a NZ Govt. doing that ?
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May 17, 2018 4:25pm
- realityczech
  
  The problem in New Zealand is the government ❗
  
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  May 17, 2018 5:41pm
Captain Mainwaring

What! Auckland Council has done a backflip and is allowing Penny to stay in her dump.
I can only assume that her prognosis shows that the end is not far away.
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May 17, 2018 4:37pm
- notrotsky
  
  She’s paid up – on another note despite my disagreement with her on most things, I wish her the very best with her fight against cancer which I think we’ll all agree is a far bigger asshole than the even the ACC.
  
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  May 17, 2018 5:13pm
  - sooty
    
    Bloody hell the ACC have let the old bat off lightly. She has to pay 34k not the 89k that was racked up. Someone in the ACC should be sacked. Talk about useless. Never mind it’s not the councils money. Plenty more were that come from. Just screw the ratepayer some more.
    
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    May 17, 2018 5:36pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    You say she’s paid up, but she didn’t have any money. What’s the bet she’s got an early payout of her life insurance based on her diagnosis?
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:50pm
    - sooty
      
      Reverse mortgage!
      
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      May 17, 2018 9:13pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Penny Bright settles with council, will keep home
  
  The fight between Auckland activist Penny Bright and the council is finally over – after an 11 year stoush.
  
  The Auckland Council’s confirmed the matter’s been resolved in regards to Bright’s outstanding rates bill. The 63-year-old will keep her Kingsland home – with council withdrawing the rating sale. It’s unknown whether Bright ended up paying the near $69,000 owed after refusing to pay rates and penalties for more than a decade.
  
  This and another article are vague as to the details.
  
  I assume Auckland Council has accepted a rates postponement application from Penny. This raises 3 questions:
  
  1. Penny lost her defamation case against Auckland Council’s CEO. The High Court judge made a costs order against Penny. Did she pay those costs or did Mr Town generously waive his right to receive the money?
  
  2. Did Auckland Council require Penny to agree (as a condition of the application) that Auckland Council’s expenses in connection with the now-aborted High Court sale would be recoverable as part of the postponed rates?
  
  3. What does Penny propose to do with the GiveaLittle donation money now that it won’t be spent for the original purpose (rates payment)? Is there an overseas anti-corruption conference coming up?
  
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  May 17, 2018 6:00pm
  - stigie
    
    Yeah, very interesting Nostra. It makes one think that the AC has waived all the penalty’s and perhaps being generous to Penny because of her condition.
    If thats the case, you and i would not get away with 11 years of nonsense !~
    
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    May 17, 2018 6:26pm
    - nasska
      
      If they managed to include a gagging order on the mad woman it may be worth forfeiting a few grand!
      
      But if Penny is genuinely terminally ill then the Council has done the decent & right thing in the circumstances. If she makes a miraculous recovery & continues with her campaign I would become a whole lot less sympathetic & understanding.
      
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      May 17, 2018 6:33pm
      - Northshoredoc
        
        She has been round and about the Oncology Department at Auckland – I believe a deception on the scale you suggest is not the case, although I have sympathy for your suspicions
        
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        May 17, 2018 7:07pm
      - KevOB
        
        The Judge commented on Penny being terminally ill. She has been described as having stage 3 ovarian cancer. That is defined as the cancer cells having spread to the lymph glands where they can be distributed to other body systems. That is typically dealt with with chemo if possible. There is a severe risk of an inoperable tumour appearing.
        
        Wishing Penny all the best for the future.
        
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        May 17, 2018 10:25pm
  - realityczech
    
    The timing of this medical claim, by a highly manipulative liar, makes me very sceptical.
    
    If she genuinely has terminal cancer then I wish her all the best etc. However I am not convinced yet.
    
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    May 17, 2018 6:36pm
    - nasska
      
      Somehow I share your scepticism RC.
      
      When someone spends their life lying it’s hard to take their word for much.
      
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      May 17, 2018 6:41pm
      - realityczech
        
        It’s the timing that has me suspicious. What are the chances?
        
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        May 17, 2018 8:55pm
      - sooty
        
        But, but, she has a tarnish free reputation! We know because she told us.
        
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        May 17, 2018 9:11pm
UpandComer

Yesterday I took heat for being ‘racist’ because I dared to criticise Nikki Haley and her positions on H1B Visa scamming.

I’m sorry, but the phenomenon of ‘Indian Americans’ is just as bad for western values as ‘Hispanic Americans’.

Indians are even less supportive of free speech then Hispanics. Which makes sense when you think about Hindu nationalism and a society characterised by caste.

Well, here’s a doozy:

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/95-engineers-in-india-unfit-for-software-development-jobs-study/article9652211.ece

95% of engineers in India can’t code. At all.

In fact, it’s worse. If you look at real survey, it’s 99%. Disney getting it’s trained European IT workforce to train their Indian replacements then be fired didn’t work – they can’t code.

Here is also why it is a problem – and I’m summarising V Dare.

Indians don’t mix – Seattle’s Eastside was Republican. Now it’s communist. The change has been led by the thriving Indian community, who can’t code, brought in to replace the American workers.

The Indians work for one third lower pay then American tech workers. The companies keep a Patina of American tech workers who can actually code, to repair the damage done by Indians who can’t code.
Wages Falling But Congress Wants MORE Guest Workers, by Leo Hohmann, WND.com, March 16, 2016]

Here is a former American worker at Microsoft:

“Microsoft was an American-led company for many years until its upper leadership became Indian, beginning with the head of personnel some 20 or so years ago. Although the data released by the company is hard to interpret, employees note that the firm is a plurality Indian company in employees, as well as in leadership. (Pretty clever of the Indians to colonize Microsoft. Pretty foolish to let the Indians colonize Microsoft.) [Microsoft Diversity Policy, by Admin 777, February 25, 2018]”

The H1B gives them 5 years to undercut, at vastly poorer quality, and then they get Greencards.

In places like Redmond, communities are so Indian entire schools are Indian.

Why is that a problem?

Because 77% of Indians in America voted for Hillary Clinton. http://naasurvey.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NAAS16-post-election-report.pdf

Formerly Republican enclaves in Seattle, West Side Washington and elsewhere have been shattered by Indian communists.

http://www.newsindiatimes.com/why-manka-dhingra-is-important-for-democrats

Manka Dingrha won Washington State. What’s her platform? Destroy the first and second amendments. Stop America being able to control it’s borders. Massively expand the H1B visa program.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/11/19/why-indian-americans-were-among-the-biggest-winners-in-the-u-s-state-local-elections/#7f8298df5f02
Indian Americans are going to become the professional leadership elite of the DNC. That’s because Brahmins have an average IQ of 110 – highest in the world. And Kshatriyas (apologies if misspelled off phone) are vastly more intelligent then Hispanics and African Americans. Jews are too white now. Gays aren’t diverse enough. It will be Indians.

http://www.acting-man.com/?p=48501 Indians vote overwhelmingly for Nahrendra Modi who is about big government, no civil liberties, high tax, high regulation, whatever he says otherwise.

Indians have proven extremely susceptible to cultural marxism propagated in the universities they now populate in the West.

I will continue this comment below.
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May 17, 2018 4:40pm
- Nostradamus
  
  UpandComer:
  
  I will continue this comment below
  
  That sounds like something that Hugh Pavletich would do!
  
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  May 17, 2018 4:46pm
  - UpandComer
    
    That’s fine. I hardly ever do it. He does it every single time. You should read this mate. If it’s from me, you know it will be readable. Who cares about housing when you can talk about clash of civilization?
    
    The budget’s done. Labour hold the line, spend less money then promised, cash in. The end. This is more interesting.
    
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    May 17, 2018 4:54pm
  - sooty
    
    And gets downticked for his effort. It does not last long. Why bother? Same mind set as Penny?
    
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    May 17, 2018 5:27pm
    - UpandComer
      
      I’m not Penny or Hugh. I write coherently. I write on different subjects.
      
      If your attention span can’t handle it, don’t read it. Go have a party on Tumbler.
      
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      May 17, 2018 6:10pm
UpandComer

Sundar Pichai (Pichai Sundarajan) fired Jamie Damore at Google. I cited some of his law suit. You should read it. It’s the future. Google of course is under pressure to disappear results for websites that are SPLC hate groups. Kiwiblog if it was in the US would almost certainly be a hate-group – because the SPLC goes as far to now say free market libertarians are hate Nazis.

President of the ‘Centre for American Progress’ is Neera Tanden. An Indian American. She was Clinton’s friend, working with John Podesta. Here is what she had to say in leaked emails:

““I’m not the diversity police but there is grumbling on the 4 white boys running next presidential cycle,” she wrote in January 2015. “So I recommend rolling out some people who look like the rest of America soon!”

All you people downvoting me don’t fucking get it. You’re whiteboys. If you were younger, you wouldn’t be able to get a job anywhere run by these people. But I digress.

Jeet Heer is senior editor of the New Republic. He was the one who sent it left. https://newrepublic.com/article/120884/new-republics-legacy-race He’s such a communist he thought communist Jews like Norman Podhoretz were racists because they didn’t feature islamic terrorists.

Bhaskar Sunkara is the editor of ‘Jacobin’ a communist paper that produces all the new leftist thought around cultural marxism and white genocide.

Homi K Bhabba is at Harvard, and makes Noel Ignatiev look like a noob. He is so viciously against the west that even Terry Eagleton, the guy who invented cultural poetics, thinks he’s a little extreme.

“Bhannas aim is to destroy every cherished doctrine of the Western Enlightenment, from the idea of progress, to the unity of the self, to classical works of art, to notions of law and civility’.

All 5 congressman who are Indian are Democrats.

As for Nikki Haley?

Nikki Haley supported the destruction and desecration of confederate statutes and the flag when she was governor in South Carolina. As if the mere fact she was governor wasn’t enough. She had to destroy her constituent’s history, and spit on the graves of hundreds of thousands of men who fought for their states in good faith. Barely 2% of whites in the South were slave owners. Of those, most were Jews.

Nikki Haley would happily destroy the statutes of the founding fathers if she could get away with it.

They run Microsoft, Adobe, PepsiCo, Nokia and DARPA, just to name a few. Guess how many Europeans can get senior positions in those companies.

I’m sorry, but you have no conception of how difficult it is as a young person trying to get passed iron-clad diversity laws that discriminate against you for ‘white privilege’ and ‘male privilege’. These laws are administrated in large part by Indians, who uniformly vote left, and support the destruction of western institutions which are the only reason they’re even allowed into western countries.

You need to start re-examining your first principles. Because your sons and daughters are facing the reality of these situations and it’s nothing like what you said it was.
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May 17, 2018 4:52pm
- stephieboy
  
  UpandComer, not sure of your point but take heart Dinesh D’Souza ( Indian ) is decidedly pro Trump,
  
  https://theoutline.com/post/2364/dinesh-dsouza-trump-propaganda?zd=1&zi=gxtovfkn
  
  Jet Here an actually card carrying member of which branch of communism ,
  
  https://newrepublic.com/authors/jeet-heer
  
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  May 17, 2018 7:59pm
  - sooty
    
    You are up late, stephie.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:09pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Dinesh got a guy fired from American Renaissance for criticising H1B. He can pretend all he likes. He’s isn’t American either.
    
    You guys don’t get it. Whether you like this or not, the process of exclusion is going to continue until you’re forced into positions.
    
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    May 17, 2018 9:48pm
realityczech

“I DARE YOU to Generalize About ANY Other Race!” Tucker Carlson KOs Race Apologist”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL0ZSjfsSLE

This is hilarious 🙂
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May 17, 2018 5:30pm
EAD_TWO

What can I say – sometimes you just have to shake your head at the state of it all.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/parliament-flies-rainbow-flag-in-support-international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia

I don’t wish harm upon homosexuals but it’s sick how the MSM, Governments and the Corporate world promotes, normalised and bloody well “celebrates” these immoral and disgraceful lifestyles while hounding anyone who disagrees with such degeneracy.
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May 17, 2018 5:31pm
- realityczech
  
  I am totally untroubled by what homos choose to do. What I get annoyed with is all the fuss about homos and the marginalisation of straight people. LGTQ people are not victims and they are not heroes to be celebrated.
  
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  May 17, 2018 5:38pm
  - Longknives
    
    What grown adults choose to do behind closed doors is up to them- Like realityczech I really couldn’t care less..
    However- I am more than a little uncomfortable with the current fashion of ‘No Questions Asked’ Gay Adoption- (“Ooh they are Gay men so they will make such wonderful Dads” etc etc)
    
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/named-the-australian-paedophile-jailed-for-40-years-20130630-2p5da.html
    
    These creeps celebrated adopting this kid by fellating him- They then shopped him to Paedophiles all over the World.
    
    This has been going on for years.
    Graham Chapman of Monty Python and his partner ‘Adopted’ a young boy as well-He lived with them as their son/lover for the rest of his life..
    
    I am ‘Pro’ Gay Marriage and have several Gay friends.
    But this ‘fashion’ for them adopting kids (almost always little boys) sits very uncomfortably with me..
    
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    May 17, 2018 6:00pm
    - realityczech
      
      Longknives, I am dead against gay adoption. I am sticking with mother nature on this one.
      
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      May 17, 2018 6:31pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        I disagree (strongly) with gay marriage but gay adoption is the most wicked idea in the world.
        
        Homosexuals are something like 20,000% more likely to commit sexual offences against young boys (nb: I’m excluding all the donkey shaggers aka. the “new” Westerners from this statistic)
        
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        May 17, 2018 6:52pm
      - realityczech
        
        I am pretty relaxed about homos and Jews too. Just as long as they don’t mess with other people and are not extended special-victim-status.
        
        The trouble is that both those groups are and they are not subject to the same expectations and standards as others.
        
        For example, imagine straight people putting on sexualised parades in our major cities to celebrate being normal.
        
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        May 17, 2018 7:00pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

Well the budget gave me zero and that was really punk. So, on that note, here’s Zero (Clare Elliot) and punk band Suburban Reptiles with Saturday Night Stay At Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7yZH-SZKdg
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May 17, 2018 5:54pm
Morrissey

Calling the dismally dishonest New York Times to account….

https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/status/996111913892352001

https://twitter.com/JuddApatow/status/996030778260602880
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May 17, 2018 5:59pm
mandk

Stupid parents: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12053326

No wonder previous Nannies have given up so quickly.

You also have to wonder what sort of adults the kids will grow into.
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May 17, 2018 6:05pm
Fletch

First priority on Seven Sharp tonight – make fun of Paula Bennett… ☑

Typical…
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May 17, 2018 7:08pm
- realityczech
  
  Yep haters gonna hate it is all they know. Did you really expect an informed critical analysis from that lot?
  
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  May 17, 2018 7:11pm
nasska

In the event of an Islamist attack here are the steps:

1. This has nothing to do with Islam and he/she/they do not represent Islam.

2. Claim they are the religion of peace.

3. It’s blowback for the West being in the Middle East.

4. The perpetrator was mentally ill.

5. It was a ”lone wolf attack”.

6. It’s just part of living in a big city.

7. Claim Christians do these things too.

8. Those who object are racist bigots.

9. Change Facebook profile to flag of inflicted country.

10. Light some candles, hold a vigil and go on a peace march.

11. Claim Muslims are the real victims.

12. Wait for the next Islamic terrorist attack to happen.

13. Go back to step 1 and repeat.
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May 17, 2018 7:11pm
- stigie
  
  12.5. I want my 72 virgins now
  
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  May 17, 2018 7:44pm
  - nasska
    
    Com’on stigie…..what the hell would you do with 72 virgins?
    
    Imagine all the foreplay involved…..put your leg here, put your head there, lift your arse up a bit, having to teach them everything……tight holes, cock shredded after three & sixty nine to go.
    
    ….gimme a couple of fire breathing whores any day! 🙂
    
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    May 17, 2018 7:54pm
    - stigie
      
      “Imagine all the foreplay involved”
      
      What’s that Nasska..?
      
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      May 17, 2018 8:25pm
- stephieboy
  
  nasska, you missed point 14.
  
  Banning 1.4. billion Muslims is a sane and readily achievable objective.
  
  Why ?
  
  And as in the case of the Toronto killings we don’t make the kind of assumptions you have made in your 13 points,
  
  https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/24/us/toronto-suspect-what-we-know/index.html
  
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  May 17, 2018 7:49pm
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    “Why ?”
    
    Because it is our country stupidboy and we get to choose. We don’t have to provide reasons or explain to anyone.
    
    Just like if I wanted to build a synagogue in your home country of Shitastan – your boy loving / woman hating countrymen would forbid it.
    
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    May 17, 2018 7:56pm
    - stephieboy
      
      rc ,” our country ”
      
      ???
      
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      May 17, 2018 8:06pm
  - nasska
    
    Dry your eyes princess. The pain you feel is only weakness leaving your body. 🙂
    
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    May 17, 2018 7:56pm
cha

A new take on losing your shit.

A woman in Canada was so incensed about something Tim Hortons employees did or didn’t do that she dropped her pants, took a dump on the floor, threw it, grabbed some napkins to wipe her ass, threw those too, and left.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/woman-furiously-shits-on-floor-of-tim-hortons-throws-i-1826082960
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May 17, 2018 7:12pm
- nasska
  
  …..”grabbed some napkins to wipe her ass”…..
  
  The luxury! I can remember spending days loading & stacking hay when we had to cut up fertiliser bags & use them if we were caught short. 🙂
  
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  May 17, 2018 7:23pm
  - cha
    
    Haring across the paddock towards the shelter belt cheered on by my onlookers, greasy pie bag in hand muttering please cheeks, please, and when I finally made it to cover and unleashed my bowels I was flushed out into the open, daks around my ankles, by couple of bull beef beasties.
    
    Much merriment at my expense ensued.
    
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    May 17, 2018 7:38pm
  - Viking2
    
    Hence the large Hemorrhoids.
    Fertilized courtesy of Bay of Plenty fertilizer company. 😆
    
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    May 17, 2018 8:36pm
- Fletch
  
  Taking a dump on command is quite impressive if you ask me.
  
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  May 17, 2018 8:06pm
Manolo

Aucklanders will be paying $3 for a liter of petrol soon. Wait for inflation to raise its ugly head.

Ah, the joy of having a high-taxes government!
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/16/oil-markets-brent-edges-closer-to-80-per-barrel-on-tight-market.html
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