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duggledog

Grant Robertson:

“It does come back to the lessons of the 1980s; there was a Government that made radical changes overnight and the impact on the community I lived in was harsh. I don’t want to see that again. I will not oversee an economic approach that does that much damage again – as we transition and transform.”

My thoughts –

‘The lessons of the 1980s’ are actually the lessons of the preceding decades. We’ve learned them; he clearly hasn’t.

Given the New Zealand economy was effectively ruined after years of policy quite similar to what your own administration is proposing bore its inevitable fruit, what should they have done Grant? Why will you not roll back those evil reforms?

If the impact on your community was harsh and you don’t want to see it again, well what has your Coalition just done in Taranaki?

In the 1980s New Zealand Inc was facing insolvency.

Then, as always, there were limited options available; devalue, sell assets, strip regulation, lower taxes etc.

‘As we transition and transform’ – to what? An economy that isn’t one of most envied in the world?

‘I don’t want to see that again’ – well, you will Grant. Only it won’t be you cleaning up the mess eh.

The fruits of this Labour shambles will not be ripe for some years but they are on the vine. Unless National can spray it with paraquat.
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May 6, 2018 8:01am
- MrTips
  
  Lol. So killing off energy investment, taxing the crap out of small business, ruining employment flexibility that works, ignoring RMA reform and giving Antifa a seat the productivity table ISN’T going to cause major and rapid damage?
  
  He’s delusional.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:10am
  - KevOB
    
    Even worse Poohbah doesn’t know that he lacks the knowledge to be Minister of Finance and has no idea of the outcomes of his decisions.
    
    Hope is not a sufficiency for government.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:23am
    - cmm
      
      It’s all just student politics:
      * Something about oppression etc.
      * Capitalism has failed.
      * A few teenagers in adults’ bodies think they can fix stuff they don’t understand.
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:02am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  I really don’t want to see high mortgage rates again. I had a first mortgage in the mid/late 80s but when I divorced I had to buy my partners share. Si I had a 1st at 11%, then a second from a building society at 22%. Yep 22% – single with two kids and working. Nearly killed me, but I won.
  Never again you thieving bastards.
  Rant over
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:32am
  - Inandout
    
    I was in exactly the same position with the interest rates and the departed partner. It was bloody hard but the kids and I got through. What surprised me was how my lawyer got around Muldoon’s interest rate freeze, by a bit of financial juggling. It taught me a lesson that however dumb arse politicians try and legislate, clever people will invariably skirt around the laws.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:24am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Mine was about 18%
    Paying $1000 per month on a $80000 mortgage.
    Earning (joint) about $30000pa
    Only reason we got a mortgage, my wife worked for the ANZ. (staff privilege).
    
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    May 6, 2018 1:30pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    But I wouldn’t mind a little bit of inflation for a few years, nothing wipes out a mortgage like 5% a year inflation. House prices scream up and so long as you can weather the storm, you’d find yourself owing a fraction of the value of your home in mortgage terms.
    
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    May 6, 2018 2:22pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      That’s only good if you sell. You still need a place to live. I never tried to climb the property ladder
      
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      May 6, 2018 3:43pm
Steve (North Shore)

Hopefully the next few days we will hear fewer lies as the COL (coalition of losers) lead up to May 17 when all lies are exposed. No? Yeah I didn’t think so
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May 6, 2018 8:02am
Maggy Wassilieff

David Goodall’s last journey.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-05/david-goodall-trip-to-switzerland-for-voluntary-euthanasia/9716354
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May 6, 2018 8:06am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  This is how it should be, the man’s own choice before he suffers badly
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:16am
  - Nukuleka
    
    You’d say the same thing to the young 26 year old I am dealing with who considers that the emotional and mental agony he is suffering due to depression are too much to bear, would you? It’s the youngster’s ‘own choice before he suffers badly’. Or would you draw some haphazard and and arbitrary line in the sand about what is justifiable suicide and what isn’t? Or just wash your hands of the whole dilemma and say,’ It’s his life, his choice.’
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:34am
    - milkmaid
      
      26 is not the same as 104.
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:39am
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        You get an uptick for that Mike
        
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        May 6, 2018 8:44am
      - milkmaid
        
        And I am not Mike. I got my nickname because I still milk cows by hand.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:15am
      - pdm
        
        Be careful then milkmaid because my experience is that there is more than milk that can come out of a cow when it is being milked by hand.
        
        Always be ready to move the bucket and jump back.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:21am
      - milkmaid
        
        No kidding, PDM. I am frequently kicked, so I milk & pour, milk & pour into a clean can. I am always ready to jump away. And I have buckets on hand to catch the “Code Brown”, if that occurs.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:36am
      - Milhous
        
        In the proposed legislation , what is the age cut off??
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:04am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Mental condition is different. Try apples with apples. Dr Goodall is 104 and does not want to have another injury and die a vegetable. In my opinion it is his choice to die in dignity. Those with mental issues are in a different basket
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:41am
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        In the legislation currently before Parliament, there is no distinction between 26 and 104, or between mental illness and physical illness.
        
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        May 6, 2018 8:59am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Right, Nigel, then the legislation needs to be improved. Let’s not chuck the baby out with the bathwater. If I’m physically suffering and needing so much help that there is no dignity left, yes, I might choose euthanasia.
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:21am
      - Milhous
        
        Can someone please help then and define the age at which the law becomes applicable and also what constitutes a mental illness?
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:24am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Not at all Nukuleka.
      I am the daughter of mother who committed suicide in a depressive state.
      Suicide is not for me.
      
      But I supported my Father’s wish to forgo any radio/chemotherapy when he was diagnosed with Lung cancer. He was old and tired and knew his own mind.
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:47am
      - calendar girl
        
        A touching insight, Maggy.
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:14am
      - Milhous
        
        With all due respect Maggy. Is it currently the law that someone with a terminal illness must undergo radio/chemo therapy?
        
        Does the proposed legislation make any difference to that choice??
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:22am
      - SGA
        
        I don’t think that is Maggie’s point, Milhous. People in her father’s position, of sound mind, make considered decisions to hasten the end of their life. We can accept that without condoning the suicide of young person suffering from depression (well, at least I can).
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:58am
    - JasonJohns
      
      Nukuleka is one of the few on KB who holds to Biblical science and to the old pre-liberal policies that expressed state disapproval of suicide, bastardry, homosexual acts, etc
      
      Fortunately some of our pacific neighbours still take a firm line on all this.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:31am
    - Inandout
      
      Yep, my doctor relates tales of his surgery filled with ‘depressed’ young people. Potentially fit, but aimless and WINZ fed, who 20 years ago would have been gainfully employed. Welfare has turned from a safety net to a webbed trap, and P proliferates.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:33am
      - holysheet
        
        So let them commit suicide. they are not doing much good to society now. Draining it’s hard earned resources on their selfish habits. They and we would be better off in the long term.
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:06am
      - kowtow
        
        And “progressives” want to legalise marijuana and hand out even more tax payer largesse in welfare?
        
        They’ve given up on the “working” classes and are actively building a dependant ( feral) class.
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:38am
- waikatogirl
  
  “No fear, no sadness, no regrets”
  
  Go well and be at peace.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:20am
  - JasonJohns
    
    Before the liberalisation of NZ in the ’70s, we had a firm law against suicide. If you tried and survived you got the legal consequences. And if you succeeded in your self-indulgent action then your family was punished. Of course all the liberals say our society has changed for the better. NZers of the Biblical persuasion may have a different interpretation
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:22am
    - NK
      
      Attempted suicide was removed as a crime in 1961.
      
      Suicide was removed as a crime in about 1890.
      
      Your facts are completely wrong. As is most of the rubbish you put out on this blog.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:07am
      - Inandout
        
        ‘Suicide’ is after the event, there is a body, so can’t be a crime. ‘Attempted’ presumably means a failure.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:36am
    - Flash
      
      ‘self-indulgent action’
      judge not, lest ye be judged –
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:21am
- lilman
  
  Don’t get this whole argument.
  If you want to die do it.
  You don’t need a law,I could name 50 plus ways to end my life without even breaking into sweat.
  
  If you want to die just get on with it.
  
  But Suicide………………..?
  How do we stop it.
  
  Bullshit on all sides.
  Just do it already, why ask anyone for a piece of paper.
  Im not into suicide as it stands ,I think ,FOR ME ,it is wrong.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:20am
  - waikatogirl
    
    It is leaving your choice of suicide until you are unable to achieve it without (willing) help that is the issue. ?
    
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    May 6, 2018 12:52pm
Viking2

The last Govt. that I can recall that was as disliked as this one was the one that produced the Black Budget. Minister of Finance was Nordmeyer.

Are we looking at this again?

Nordmeyer put the price of smokes up for the working man.
Robbo is hiking the price of petrol for the working man.

What else will he hike?

There is going to be something we haven’t thought of.
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May 6, 2018 8:08am
- waikatogirl
  
  I’m guessing the price of alcohol will rise in Robbo’s money-grubbing budget.
  Chardonnay will be exempt.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:22am
  - RalphT
    
    No only the brands of Chardonnay favoured by the socialists. Those enjoyed by rich pricks will be taxed to buggery.
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:30am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Already started buying future supplies of Jacks, Crown Royal and a few single malts before the budget
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:50am
  - Longknives
    
    Booze is definitely going to be taxed more.
    Expect the price of your hard-earned after work beer to go up by at least 30% in the next couple of years.
    *Except Jacinda won’t call it a ‘Tax’ as such..
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:41am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      “Alcohol Levy Increase”
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:51am
- Paulus
  
  Nah,
  It is Michael (call me Sir) Gunner Budget.
  Sweet cheeks hasn’t the brains to put a Budget together like say Stephen Joyce or Bill English.
  It is a Gunner budget – We are gunner do this and gunner do that but whatever we are going to hit you rick pricks and f…k the system.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:39am
  - holysheet
    
    I know it’s early on a sunday morning, but I cannot think of any new tax they can come up with that will raise enough money to fill the fiscal trench that is facing the fairy.
    Apart from raising GST what else is there.? An increase in the top tax rate will not do it. Tinkering with booze tax will not do it.
    The only sensible thing would be a financial transaction tax, but Cindy promised no new taxes this term. So this leaves us wondering what it will be.
    Any suggestions?
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:57am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Meat
      Milk
      Water
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:00am
      - sooty
        
        Yes but the greens want to kill the dairy industry. Then were’s the tax.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:10am
    - Richard
      
      White male tax. If your a white male and aged over 55 then you’ll also face an old white male tax.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:41am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Land Tax and Capital Gains Tax. CGT, including in any part of the home used for business, was already enthusiastically promoted by Labour in 2014.
      
      So: higher rents, higher rates (land tax), less housing affordability, harder to start a small business the safest way: from home, harder for women wanting to start a little business while parenting.
      
      All to pay for the student piss-up.
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:30am
      - Milhous
        
        What if its tax neutral and the land tax is offset by a reduction in income tax?
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:53am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Only works for people with good income. Many semi-retired, retired or low income people might not cope.
        
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        May 6, 2018 11:09am
      - Milhous
        
        They probably don’t have much land. Or if they do, earned an income at some stage
        
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        May 6, 2018 12:54pm
    - Paulus
      
      Don’t discount a rise in GST – a previous Government Tax Committee felt that a rise to 17.5% was feasible (it was said that 20% would be easier as people could calculate quicker).
      Our GST is small by many overseas equivalent.
      
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      May 6, 2018 1:11pm
    - Piniwi
      
      @holysheet suggest we not the obvious absence of any reference to a GST increase from the Media party as an strong indicator of what is ahead. It has been a serious setback to Labour to now be shackled to the lie of “no new taxes” they were forced to offer while they had a need for deck chairs. We were sure they were on a Titanic like ship also heading for disaster and up jumped the Fairy Queen. Whoosh and it turned into the good ship “Lollipop” thanks to a sugar daddy who showed us that magical power of only a single figure strength. Ringing true the saying “it is not what you got but how you use it ” the catch cry of those with a winkle as opposed to a many wrinkled penile protrusion.
      But you are right as there is no better means of a massive boost in tax take that can get anywhere near GST for a fast fix. Remember their voters are screaming for a fast fix evidenced even today by protest marches of so may who contributed to them being “elected”. With money and votes.
      
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      May 6, 2018 5:37pm
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    Paulus
    Your homophobia is tiresome. If you want to insult someone try and be a bit classier.
    
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    May 6, 2018 12:05pm
- JibberJabber
  
  This one is gonna be a “Black Hole” budget.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:59am
  - lilman
    
    Th thought of ROBBO standing over a Black Hole budget gives me the creeps.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:23am
    - JibberJabber
      
      We`re all standing on the Event Horizon, the creeps is a mild way of expressing the trepidation this country faces going forward.
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:00am
- Piniwi
  
  @Viking2 nobody would ever consider comparing sweet cheeks to Noedmeyer or in fact any other previous Minister of Finance. Apart from being wired completely wrong there is nothing there to fathom figures or any grasp of even Economics 101. Then on top of all that mental deficiency there is the X factor of the secret agreement that will dictate too heavily on demands for funding.
  Hard as it may be it is important not so much to listen to all the baloney hut “hear” the hints hidden in all those words. Their rapid first rush of misplaced expenditure has left them in drastically cash strapped state all wrapped in their strait jacket pledge of fiscal responsibility. They are simply now wedged between the shit and the shovel with only on source of instant relief. An increase of (minimum) 2.5% of GST as it has been claimed as a promise broken by John Key who remains an easy target who will not take them to task.
  On the other hand most understand that was a Bill English master stroke made so much easier by making it tax neutral which also has the left whinging as they claim it favoured the “rich pricks”.
  The fact remains that as the result of a strong growing stable economy it is still the single element that continues to make the biggest contribution to that now wasted surplus. It is this fact too that has them pressed harder by the shit to the cold hard surface of the shovel. Not only will the increase in GST be instant cash but the increase will be more essential when inflation starts to really kick in. Consumers spending will start to decline especially in the 3rd and 4th quarter of 2019 so the return of increased GST will be essential to hold the take from a drastic drop in the consolidated fund.
  Almost everything that might yield higher returns have seen tax increases but the only big tax gatherer is an increase in GST. Implementation costs are largely on point of sale and not the struggling IRD or equally struggling COL which makes it the most attractive low hanging fruit ripe for picking. The fun will really start when we hear why this is “essential” to cover the “fiscal deficit” left from so much underfunding for 9 years of the previous Government. IMO that overused excuse is right up there with the best of global warming claims and about as valid.
  
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  May 6, 2018 5:19pm
Hugh Pavletich

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Housing and poverty biggest concerns for Kiwis — (IPSOS) survey – NZ Herald

Posted at … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/05/general_debate_5_may_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2204173 … and … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/macro-afternoon-402/#comment-3099528

Housing and poverty biggest concerns for Kiwis — (IPSOS) survey – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12044214

Kiwis biggest concerns in life are about housing, followed by worries about poverty, healthcare and crime, according to new research.

In its first survey of New Zealanders, intenational research company Ipsos discovered the biggest issues facing the nation and which political parties they think will fix them.

More than 40 per cent of people surveyed for the Ipsos’ Issues Monitor said they were concerned about the cost and lack of supply of housing. …

… The survey found that 38 per cent of Kiwis believed Labour Party was the political party most capable of solving the housing crisis, compared to 21 per cent who believed National could fix the problem.

Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford said the national housing crisis was hurting too many New Zealanders.

“From those left homeless, to those living and suffering the health effects of poor quality housing, to those locked out of the Kiwi dream of home ownership.” … read more via hyperlink above …

… which explains why the National – led government got thrown out of office late last year. Governments lose elections … Oppositions don’t win them … refer GONE GONE GOING and Ardern / Twyford sections at Performance Urban Planning …

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/

Pavletich Message – Intro Section – Demographia Survey

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

Housing – New Zealand Labour Party

https://www.labour.org.nz/housing

… extract …

Remove barriers that are stopping Auckland growing up and out

Labour will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary and free up density controls. This will give Auckland more options to grow, as well as stopping landbankers profiteering and holding up development. New developments, both in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, will be funded through innovative infrastructure bonds. … read more via hyperlink above …

… Will this Labour – led government perform or perish ?
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May 6, 2018 8:08am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Just too much too early Hugh, again!
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:13am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  Auckland MÄori Housing Summit to focus on development opportunities | Voxy.co.nz
  
  http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/309160
  
  … extract …
  
  … Hon Phil Twyford acknowledged the seriousness of the housing crisis for Auckland MÄori with the home ownership rate among MÄori now tracking below 30%. The Minister highlighted the impact this has on intergenerational wealth and resources, reducing opportunities to accumulate wealth to pass on to the next generation. This creates critical long-term impacts that must be addressed. … read more via hyperlink above …
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  Keeping a roof over my kids’ heads is impossible … Rachel Miller … Fairfax / Stuff New Zealand
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/103316320/keeping-a-roof-over-my-kids-heads-is-impossible
  
  A generation of mortgage slaves: Auckland’s house prices leave home owners mired in debt | Stuff.co.nz
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/103205338/a-generation-of-mortgage-slaves-aucklands-house-prices-leave-home-owners-crippled-in-debt
  
  Auckland first-time home buyers are being set up for a lifetime of debt and could struggle to save for retirement or raise a family, a housing expert says.
  
  Home affordability campaigner Hugh Pavletich believes the true definition of affordable housing is three times a household’s income. But in Auckland the price boom has seen that figure soar to 8.2 (HP correction … actually 8.8 … refer Demographia Survey Schedules … http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf ).
  
  Pavletich said this meant buyers were paying on average $552,300 more than was affordable, forcing them to pay higher deposits and mortgage. … read more via hyperlink above …
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  CoreLogic: First-time buyers prefer houses … OneRoof
  
  https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/34082
  
  The future Auckland market … Barfoot & Thompson
  
  https://www.barfoot.co.nz/news/2016/march/future-auckland-market
  
  The home ownership dreams of young Aucklanders bear a striking resemblance to those of previous generations, according to the second installment of a new survey looking at their future living plans. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:15am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    God, Hugh’s shit the bed.
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:22am
    - stigie
      
      Oh fuck Hugh !~
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:43am
  - Swifty
    
    Fap, fap, fap, fap, fap……
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:53am
  - Monique Watson
    
    What the ever loving fuck. A whole lot of links in a bed of bullshit.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:04am
  - Richard
    
    Please don’t mock him. We’re still working out the correct dose for his meds…
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:43am
- Viking2
  
  Disappear soon, just like all this rubbish you post.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:28am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
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    Speech from the throne pledges that Auckland’s urban limit will be removed and density controls will be freed up in this term of Government | interest.co.nz
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/property/90780/speech-throne-pledges-aucklands-urban-limit-will-be-removed-and-density-controls-will
    
    It’s official: The Government is promising to remove Auckland’s urban growth boundary as part of the legislative programme for this term.
    
    In addition the Government’s pledging to free-up density controls in Auckland. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
    Labours Support On City Limits (Abolition) Welcomed … Nick Smith (May 2016) … (then) New Zealand Government
    
    https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/labour-support-city-limits-welcomed
    
    The new position by the Labour opposition calling for an abolition of city limits has been welcomed by Building and Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith.
    
    “This is a welcome repositioning by Labour. Tight city limits and not allowing intensification is at the core of Auckland’s housing problems. It is limiting new housing developments, driving up section and house prices and encouraging land banking. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
    NZ Government Housing Affordability Announcement – 29 October 2012 – YouTube
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuCchEb-XOk
    
    Rodney Dickens says section prices are the key to solving the housing affordability problem, not higher density around transport hubs. He warns against force-feeding in areas that won’t deliver the intended outcome … Interest Co NZ
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/92556/rodney-dickens-says-section-prices-are-key-solving-housing-affordability-problem-not
    
    United Nations calls on NZ to adopt human rights-based national housing strategy | Stuff.co.nz
    
    https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102830739/united-nations-calls-on-nz-to-adopt-human-rightsbased-national-housing-strategy
    
    Housing Minister supports UN call for housing strategy | Māori Television
    
    http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/politics/housing-minister-supports-un-call-housing-strategy
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:41am
    - Swifty
      
      Hugh’s choking his chicken especially vigorously this morning.
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:54am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … What is Auckland learning from Greater Christchurch ? …
        
        … John McCrone of Fairfax NZ / Christchurch The Press writes …
        
        Lincoln (South fringe Christchurch) : From mill town to boom town … John McCrone … The Press … h/t GF …
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/103331085/lincoln-from-mill-town-to-boom-town
        
        It was supposed to be a post-quake phenomenon, yet there is little sign of it slowing. Why are rural fringe towns like Lincoln still growing so fast? JOHN McCRONE reports.
        
        The contrast is striking. In central Christchurch, Fletcher Living is taking forever to get going on its East Frame townhouse and apartment block development.
        
        Government and council have agreed that denser inner city housing is vital to making a success of the earthquake rebuild. Yet despite inking a deal with Fletcher to build nearly 1000 homes back in 2015, the first 20 properties won’t be finished until late this year.
        
        The buyers just don’t seem to be there for them. And so the East Frame development has been uphill all the way.
        
        However, take the road half an hour out of town to Lincoln and the story is the opposite. This once sleepy village has exploded with subdivisions. Its residential footprint is now 10 times what it was 20 years ago. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        READ MORE:
        * Rolleston: Time to take it seriously
        * Christchurch’s $600 million motorways
        * Christchurch’s next problem: bringing residents back into the CBD
        * Government ‘locked in’ to contract for delay-riddled east frame
        
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        May 6, 2018 4:40pm
    - NK
      
      Oh for fucks sake, Hugh. Please try to keep up with what Auckland Council is doing, DESPITE the government. They are making greenfield developments more expensive and harder to do. They are releasing land at snails pace. And this is a left wing council that is meant to be working with the government. Twyford is a bullshitter. One of the worst I’ve seen in politics.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:12am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
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        NK … Because you yellow Tories allow the AC tossers to walk all over you.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:17am
      - realityczech
        
        “NK … Because you yellow Tories allow the AC tossers to walk all over you”
        
        Well done Hugh. People might actually read that snappy little comment.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:35am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
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        Check out this MacroBusiness Australia thread … with in particular the Kiwibuild and light rail postings …
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/macro-afternoon-402/#comment-3099528
        
        Plenty more at the top of the thread as well.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:37am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
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      An outstanding article …
      
      Australian banking inquiry exposes litany of abuses … Reuters / Irish Times
      
      https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/australian-banking-inquiry-exposes-litany-of-abuses-1.3481709
      
      Alleged abuses include bribery ring using forged documents
      
      During the global financial crisis, Australia’s banks were relatively unscathed by what was happening elsewhere in the world. They didn’t need bailouts, so there was a tendency, at least from the government and the banks themselves, to believe everything was hunky dory. Nothing to see here.
      
      But there was plenty to see, and there has been for a long time. … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:57am
      - stigie
        
        Man, iv’e never seen something flogged so hard this morning behind a keyboard..?
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:26am
    - flipper
      
      Somehow I think that the wet pavlova has not got the message.
      3 = -3.
      That tell you anything Hughie?
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:13am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
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        … EXPECT A NEW ZEALAND BANKING ROYAL COMMISSION TOO …
        
        Kiwi banks must be transparent if they are to avoid Aussie parents’ trust issues … Patrick Smellie OPINION … Fairfax / Stuff NZ
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/103566141/kiwi-banks-must-be-transparent-if-they-are-to-avoid-aussie-parents-trust-issues
        
        … concluding …
        
        … But they are no surprise in the New Zealand banking sector, which has been bracing for months for just such an outcome.
        
        Why else would applicants for a government relations manager’s role with one of the big four banks have been told their primary task would be preparing for a banking inquiry?
        
        Nor are the behaviours in question a surprise to senior New Zealand bankers.
        
        In private, they are happy to complain about the pressure they say they regularly fend off from Sydney or Melbourne to pursue new business in ways that are too aggressive for the New Zealand market.
        
        Self-preservation from the wrath of head office has prevented them saying any of that in public, but the pressure now may be such that they will have no choice.
        
        The reality for banks operating in New Zealand has long been that while they may not be loved, they have never been held in the sort of entrenched low esteem that prevails in Australia.
        
        However, unless New Zealand banking leaders are brave enough to transparently differentiate and prove that they are resisting the habits of their Australian owners, they risk the same dog-box status on this side of the Tasman too. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Kiwi vs Kangaroo: Are New Zealand banks different to scandal-hit Australian banks? | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/103550881/kiwi-vs-kangaroo-are-new-zealand-banks-different-to-scandalhit-australian-banks
        
        Union calls for Royal Commission into NZ banking practices | Scoop News
        
        http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1805/S00028/union-calls-for-royal-commission-into-nz-banking-practices.htm
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:56am
Viking2

The Minister for Police is considering targeting gang members committing benefit fraud, in a bid to “go after” them in whatever way he can.

“This is Al Capone and getting him for tax evasion. If we can’t get them for the crimes we know they’re committing, let’s investigate them for benefit fraud. Let’s find a way to get these gangs,” Stuart Nash told Newshub Nation on Saturday. “We will use whatever we can.”

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2018/05/govt-wants-go-after-gangs-for-benefit-fraud.html

Applaud his determination but despair about his naievity.

Good interview to watch I must say.
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May 6, 2018 8:11am
- kowtow
  
  “We will use whatever we can.”
  
  I’m shocked the previous lot , and the previous lot, and the previous lot before them hadn’t thought of that.
  
  Too busy raising funds from motorists?
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:24am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Nash will be seen as a goody goody but he will be stopped in his tracks. The word will come from the puppet masters and Taxinder will have the hard word put on Nash. Can’t have him upsetting guaranteed Labour Voters
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:24am
  - RF
    
    If rumours are true about reduced front line Police numbers Nash will have his hands full with very pissed off cops.
    
    All those promises of more Police walking the beat might just be be back tracked owing to Labour being skint.
    
    Happy days….
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:24am
    - kowtow
      
      Cops walking the night beat ……..
      
      …….bwahahahahaa.
      
      The cop walking the beat went out with the Metropolitan whistle.
      
      ‘The police area commander for Coastal Otago has met Mosgiel-Taieri Community Board members, after Mosgiel residents voiced their frustrations about being unable to contact local police.’
      
      https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/police-give-residents-reassurance
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:43am
    - Piniwi
      
      But RF they wrote themselves into a corner by originally rushing to promise 1800 more police officers. Now that they are having to walk the walk they are rapidly changing the narrative. Now they are going to STRIVE to increase numbers in their first term. After being gifted office they have finally looked at their policy promise and find that getting 1800 more will really be 2200 more. That is because they are loosing 400 per annum added to which they will downgrade training by having it in Auckland and not the traditional well established Trentham. Too many recruits can not be away from their mothers it seems. This along with a serious downgrading of entry standards. The only reason blokes have to be so tall is so they can have a girl recruit pass under his outstretched arm so they will not come to any harm. Talk about Keystone Cops now the thin blue line is now the short blue line.
      
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      May 6, 2018 5:54pm
- Longknives
  
  “let’s investigate them for benefit fraud”
  
  He’s better hurry- His buddy Sepuloni is going to remove all benefit sanctions soon.
  ‘Free Money for All’ etc
  Benefit Fraud won’t even exist anymore…
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:26am
  - VicParking
    
    Benefit fraud is zero, See what we can do.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:34am
    - lilman
      
      “There are no declared fraudsters in New Zealand.”
      
      Done,move on.
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:27am
      - Viking2
        
        Anyway, the big question is; where will they get all their white stardust from if they do manage to get the benefits back?
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:37am
    - Piniwi
      
      Fixed VP in such an easy manner like the many methods of measuring poverty for the advantage of choosing what the narrative calls for. More or less.
      
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      May 6, 2018 5:58pm
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Case managers have been asked to “think how you would feel if it was your family that was affected” What the likes of Sepuloni forget is that case managers DO have the families interests in mind, unlike to the so called drop kick parents that can not be arsed looking for work and refuse to show for seminars to help prepare them to even start to look for work!
    
    God this woman really gets up my nose.
    
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    May 6, 2018 12:55pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Right NW it has always been a primary requirement to ensure the “client” was receiving their full entitlement. Now they want to tamper with the term “entitlement” which can not end well at all.
      We are now seeing the effects of poor parenting impacting heavily on schools and in the classrooms as well as alarming effect from early P exposure or participation. But help is on the way with yet another enquiry group headed by the Children’s Commissioner looking into how to improve education outcomes which have declines to yet another crisis level. This is even ahead of the arrival of children of unknown origin with two mums yet to enter the system.
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:11pm
  - RF
    
    Going by recent events it could be time for Mike Bush to arrange a pardon for Sepuloni’s mother and expunge her fraud conviction.
    
    Good to have friends.
    
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    May 6, 2018 4:47pm
    - RF
      
      Just in case Mike Bush is becoming precious owing to the many many adverse comments he is attracting, my above suggestion concerning the sewers mother was tongue in cheek – missing the “sarc”.
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:04pm
- G152
  
  Nothing like telling the target they’re a target..
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:36am
- Richard
  
  Can’t get them for the crimes their committing?!
  Here’s an example from this week. I saw a patched gang member in a supermarket shoplifting meat and razor blades. I told the store manager. Store manager gets security guard and 2 big 6 footer teenage grocery boys with her, follow the gang member to check out, waits till the guy goes through check out, confronts him, finds stolen items, takes gang member to back office, calls police. Thanks me. So far so good.
  I’m shopping in same supermarket yesterday. Ran into same store manager, ask her about gang member. Look of frustration crossed the poor women’s face. She said the Police never came , they waited 3 hours. In the end had to just trespass the guy, make a formal report of crime for police over the phone and let the guy go. All they got from the cops was later follow up call of apology. Pathetic. She said next time She’ll tell them she fears for her life in the hope that might provoke a response.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:59am
  - Swifty
    
    What sort of tosser wears a gang patch? And in a supermarket?
    
    FFS.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:20am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    A few years back our car was stolen. Then we were told by the police that a cop had seen it outside a house. But had *done nothing*. No wheel clamp, no knocking on door, no observation, nothing.
    
    The car was found abandoned elsewhere later, but no thanks to the Police.
    
    You can’t make this s**t up!
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:35am
    - RF
      
      My sons car was stolen and later found parked in a side street with all contents missing. It had been hot wired.
      
      The attending Police later phoned my son and told him to pick his car up. 30 mts later when he arrived it had been stolen again. Neighbours reported that while the Police were looking at the car the suspects were sitting in a vehicle a short distance away watching them. When the Police left the suspects just got back into the car and drove off.
      
      When it was found again expensive mag wheels and ski rack were missing.
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:31am
  - kowtow
    
    Who holds the useless police to account for this total lack of professionalism?
    
    Meanwhile Chief Plod runs round making noises about representing all New Zealanders or introducing hate speech laws …..just do your fucking job and nick the bad guys.
    
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    May 6, 2018 3:28pm
- cmm
  
  Why are they being so mean to our cultural organisations?
  
  Harleys need heaps of money to run. If the government pays people to have babies then why doesn’t it also pay people to have Harleys?
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:06am
- Nostalgia-NZ
  
  That reference by Nash to the unnamed gang member should be the biggest meth story of the last decade – glad to finally see it referenced as it is foundation stone.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:41am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  What a crock of bullshit.
  Since when did cops go after benefit fraudsters, or tax dodgers?
  Does this mean the cops are going to pass names of gang members to other government departments for data-matching and targeted action?
  In about 2 seconds even a not-very-bright lawyer will have all evidence thrown out as acquired by breaching the Privacy Act.
  Can’t you just hear the compensation bells ringing.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:44pm
Gravelroad

Has anyone “gone after” Meteria Turei for benefit fraud?
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May 6, 2018 8:18am
- Richard
  
  Yes. Every decent working Kiwi which is why she is no longer an MP. Outrage at all her lies and crimes got too much. Sadly actual formal action in a court of law? Nah.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:02am
- RF
  
  I hear MT is waiting for the Police Commissioner to make a public statement concerning clearing her of any wrongdoing and that it’s just a vicious rumour.
  
  There will be a delay as there is a huge number of people ahead of her.
  
  If these people can be deputised it might solve Nash’s problems with Police recruiting.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:38am
JasonJohns

3 things we have learned from the stormy daniels story

1 trumpy has good taste in hookers
2 he pays his friends back
3 there’s nothing anti-christian historically about men looking for comfort when their wives are pregnant. many kings and queens took consorts while their wives were unavailable. popes had mistresses and harems. men doing god’s misison on earth are not bound by earthly morality
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May 6, 2018 8:25am
- GazzaW
  
  You’re gilding the lily a tad too much Jason. This is not a good look for any President regardless of politics.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:37am
  - JasonJohns
    
    The American people will live this. Watch Trump’s ratings soar. Trump has sexua charisma and is a stud. That’s how leaders are supposed to be…all the way back to Alexander the Great. But the crucial thing is Trump’s taste. Do the research and you will find Daniels is a fine woman. She exemplifies MAGA
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:42am
    - kowtow
      
      Alexander bummed boys. Now that might appeal to voters in Saudi Arabia , Pakistan or Afghanistan but wouldn’t go down well with the post industrial rust belt voter or your average member of the NRA.
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:55am
    - NK
      
      Fuck you’re weird, Jason. Really weird.
      Trump has been exposed as a liar, which won’t hurt him. But what will hurt him is when Michael Avenetti nails his arse.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:13am
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Michael Avenetti nails his arse’
        For what?
        You can forget Campaign Donation violations.
        Avenatti is in the shit for Fraud and theft. Check out this complaint to the State Bar. He’s going to have to watch his own arse.
        https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433390-Avenatti-Bar-Complaint.html
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:49am
    - flipper
      
      In fact the great unwashed American could not give two cents about Clifford (asks Daniels) and her extortionist democrat lawyer.
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:19am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Hilarious, JJ. I think you’re right that this won’t harm Trump at all and that Stormy looked OK, if one likes puffed-up b**bs and peroxide hair.
      
      But it’s definitely not New Testament good Christian behaviour. Sorry, but even if you like Trump, you really can’t fit this into your ideology. You might have to admit that he’s got some faults.
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:41am
  - doggone7
    
    Not a good look? There are those who just won’t look and then there are those who are blind.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:57am
- G152
  
  And its not as if all previous presidents kept it in their pants.
  Why the shock horror?
  Another attempt to get rid of Trump by people who dont know what the word trump signifies
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:39am
  - GazzaW
    
    Why the shock horror?
    
    He got caught.
    
    What does the word trump signify?
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:42am
  - Viking2
    
    A few couldn’t even when they were President. eh Bill!
    
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    May 6, 2018 12:00pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  And Bill Clinton only had the best cigar smokers
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:02am
- Lance
  
  Oh dear… oh dear……
  JJ jumps the shark
  JJ thinks fucking the odd whore is perfectly OK under Christian doctrine.
  
  You are seriously deluded JJ. Have you ever actually read the New Testament JJJ?
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:56am
  - SGA
    
    Poe’s law strikes again.
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:02am
- Richard
  
  I’m still impressed he wears tidy whites.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:04am
- srylands
  
  “there’s nothing anti-christian historically about men looking for comfort when their wives are pregnant”
  
  I can say with confidence that many women want sex for most of their pregnancy.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:35am
  - milkmaid
    
    Maybe not if the husband is Donald Trump.
    
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    May 6, 2018 2:15pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  4. There’s clearly not a skerrit of proof about Russia collusion – showing the Democrats are away with the fairies.
  5) It’s not all bad news, that fucking lying hypocrite Comey has gone and that utter cockwomble McCabe has no pension – so it’s an ill wind that blows no good.
  
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  May 6, 2018 2:25pm
Nukuleka

Just returned from a holiday in Europe. Apart from noticing that cities like Vienna and Cologne are awash with unemployed Muslim migrants (whereas there was scarcely a hijab to be seen in Budapest) the most striking thing was the absence of fat people. No doubt the governments of European countries bemoan the increase in their residents’ obesity as we do, but in comparison with the lardos to be seen in every shopping mall and Warehouse throughout NZ, Europeans are positively sylphlike. What’s their secret?
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May 6, 2018 8:27am
- Viking2
  
  Can’t afford the food.
  No Macd’s.
  No fush and Chip shops.
  No poly’s.
  More bikes.
  
  feel free to add to the list.
  Oh, better breeding stats.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:32am
  - MCos
    
    When I was young obesity wasn’t the problem it is now. A look at old school photos shows that.
    Back then fish and chip shops were just as prevalent as now. What wasn’t available was American junk food.
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:48am
    - tf78
      
      No GM wheat in those days either.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:16am
    - Lance
      
      No internet, TV was on for limited times only.
      Inside was too boring.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:58am
  - Flash
    
    The role of women has changed. They go to work, and don’t have time to peel and chop and cook vegetables. Like it or not, the feminist revolution has contributed – along with a genetic pre-disposition for weight gain when ++ calories meet – – inactivity.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:31am
    - Piniwi
      
      But Flash there is also the female phenomenon of PMS and substantial weigh gain. Too old to breed but more time to feed.
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:18pm
      - Flash
        
        Fair, fat, fertile and 40 – sure candidate for gall bladder problems back in the day. Such people were rare –
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:32pm
  - lilman
    
    If you were a young Muslim boy or girl and had some dirty old 75 year old chasing you around the house or wanting to marry you before age 9 I bet you would not have time to put on any weight either.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:31am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  No pork?
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:03am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Pork is actually not high fat, because it’s not marbled: you can cut off the skin and fat easily.
    
    The reasons in Europe are (from my many years there): smaller portions, more public transport (thus walking) and genetically less tendency to store fat than many Kiwis have.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:46am
- jcuk
  
  I used to weigh 95 .. knocked that to 80 with two meals and a snack at night…. sadly back up to 85 … shocked. Paid attention to what I ate and now down to 80 again last time I checked.
  Hospital think I should be 78 from my BMA but I’m happy so WTF 🙂
  No diets no nothing special just being sensible IMO.
  KFC perhaps once a month, or a burger.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:52am
  - SGA
    
    BMI is a very crude measurement. If your waist size, blood pressure, heart rate, liver function, and cholesterol are all ok, then some kilos above their “ideal” shouldn’t make much of a difference, especially if you’ve a slightly more muscly build.
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:10am
- backster
  
  Coronation Street seems to have its’ share of fatties.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:04am
JasonJohns

If you want to know the difference between the corrupt, standstill, self-hating America of the Clinton era and the go-ahead Trump eon…just put stormy daniels and monica lewinsky side by side…

i’ve been doing some research into daniels and she is pure class, pure hot. pure trump.
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May 6, 2018 8:32am
- VicParking
  
  She’s a lying bitch. When called out that she did anal porno’s she said she did not. Just type her name and anal into Google. And No Stephie I did not click on the links other than this one.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7648860.stm
  ??
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:41am
  - All_on_Red
    
    She probably lied just to get her Google search numbers up…
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:51am
- Philview
  
  She went for Senate in 2010 but backed out when her campaign manager’s car was blown up by a car bomb. That suggests the she has political connections, she was considered a threat by someone. So a bit more to her and this than the porn actress seeking some extra cash and feeling wronged by Donald Trump.
  
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  May 6, 2018 2:47pm
  - kowtow
    
    Only his car was not blown up.
    
    https://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2009/07/30/nofd-stormy-daniels-aides-car-did-not-explode
    
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    May 6, 2018 3:39pm
Stars And Stripes

Cars to be banned from One Tree Hill summit
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/356718/cars-to-be-banned-from-one-tree-hill-summit
“Maungakiekie-Tāmaki councillor Josephine Bartley said the change would be a positive.
“It is a beautiful thing to do, to shift the focus to the spiritual, ancestral, cultural, customary and historical significance of the maunga/mountain while still ensuring everyone can enjoy the amazing views and presence on site,”

So another domino falls in the chain of Auckland volcanic peaks to be closed to cars on the pretext of some vague spiritual and cultural superstition.
This decision will have huge reproductive consequences for Auckland as a large section of the population were conceived in cars on the tops of these cones but more importantly how far are we going to go with this sort of dribble being propagated by luvies such as Josephine Bartley.
Maybe all boats should be banned from the Waitemata Harbour and only paddling of wakas permitted in case the spirituality of the area is disturbed, or possibly ban people from going on the beaches in case a taniwha is disturbed.
This is how a developed country slowly slips back to the dark ages by giving in to beliefs in spirits and cultural superstition.
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- holysheet
  
  Nah just give them money. The taniwha at Mercer went away in a puff of smoke after the payment of koha.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:42am
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    holysheet , since obesity is a major health issue it is going to be most helpful if sadsacks and whingers like you get off their butts and make the short walk to the summit.
    
    Nobody is complaining about Mt Eden with another short walk to the top.
    
    Lazybones!
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:08am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Sadsacks and whingers? What the fuck does that make you?
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:33am
    - calendar girl
      
      Not a single thought for the sick and the crippled who can’t walk to the top of One Tree Hill, stephie?
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:31am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Mt Vic Devonport allows a special code for disabled people to drive up.
        
        I must say, though the community wasn’t happy to not be consulted, I went over there recently and walked up. It was *fantastic*:
        
        1. One could walk up the road without constantly worrying about cars.
        2. Far fewer people on the summit.
        3. Much *cleaner* summit. The carpark is no longer the disgusting ashtray and beer can mess it used to be.
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:51am
      - jcuk
        
        Thanks CC …that was my thought too seeing as I’m not as fit as I used to be and 87 next birthday 🙂
        Of course I SHOULD be able to run up there but …..
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:57am
- JasonJohns
  
  it’s the archaeologists driving this…they want to protect the earthworks trenches etc \
  suposedly these earthworks are maori pa sites
  kumara pits etc
  But Martin Doutre NZ’s foremost independent scholar says that they are actually made by ancient WHITE people. Our volcanoes are covered n the remains of old observatories. And the so-called kumara pits are actually dowsers’ holes.
  More info here http://www.celticnz.co.nz/inde.html
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:46am
  - JasonJohns
    
    martin doutre explains how all Auckland’s volcanoes are actually part of an ancient global white system of observatories
    http://www.celticnz.co.nz/NZ_connect.html#anc8
    archaeologists are trying to restrict access to them…why?
    martin doutre says…
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:47am
  - stephieboy
    
    JJ, garbage in and garbage out!
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:09am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Put a carpark at the bottom and run a shuttle to the top. Charge like a wounded bull. Permanent KOHA for the IWI
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:07am
- VicParking
  
  Southern Motorway to have a Cycle lane. It will be placed between the two existing lanes. For safety reasons the northbound lane will be put in the southern side and visa versa. Rumble strips will keep ?‍♂️’s safe says a Greens SpokesZee.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:45am
  - Komata
    
    VP
    
    Evidently the gween concerned has never tried to play bicycle polo (with themselves as the ball) on Auckland’s Southern Motorway at rushhour – especially on the inside (fast) lane. Perhaps they should…
    
    One wonders how long their life expectancy would be at (for example) TipTop Corner…
    
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    May 6, 2018 1:35pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    I’d like to see an emulation of the socialist retard Mayor in Wellington’s idea.
    
    Stick the cycle way right down the middle of the motorway – what could possibly go wrong and if it does “meh” the world would be a better place with a few dozen less cyclists every year.
    
    Green and improving the gene pool all at one go – fantastic!
    
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    May 6, 2018 2:30pm
Longknives

Was chatting to a friend of mine last night.
He is a Senior Police Officer.
He tells me there are some real rumblings and tension in Police at the moment- Police have dropped recruiting standards in their push for the magical ‘Diversity’ and Mr Bush has made it perfectly clear White Males are no longer wanted. (Apparently the Police Magazine if full of angry letters re this)
I asked him what he thought of the week’s odd developments- He told me the Police Commissioner being used as a puppet by a Labour/Green Government will go down like a cup of cold sick with the Troops..
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May 6, 2018 8:35am
- JasonJohns
  
  Sounds like the police rank and file might be siding with the NZDF longknives. Maybe if persecution mounts a few will be able to slip out of the cities and find refuge in the de facto autonomous liberated zone that Waiouru has become during the last few crisis filled months.
  
  At Waiouru Bill English is still acknowledged as PM. Reason reigns.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:49am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Waiouru was as quiet as a grave as we passed through twice this week. Did see 3 army trucks on the road heading north. Does that count?! ?
    
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    May 6, 2018 8:57am
    - realityczech
      
      “Waiouru was as quiet as a grave as we passed through twice this week.”
      
      Because they had all moved into position around Wellington silly!
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:40am
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        ?
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:30am
      - NZpatriot
        
        Gold, Czech. Just gold.
        
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        May 6, 2018 6:04pm
    - VicParking
      
      The whole fleet on the move, Warning Warning Warning Will Robertson.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:47am
  - JibberJabber
    
    An uptick for the LoLs.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:04am
- kowtow
  
  Yep , when I heard on RNZ there was a big push for piles more cops and a new Plod School in Auckland , i said to myself ,
  
  ” Self , whites need not apply”
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:59am
  - VicParking
    
    Unlike the UK Cops who have had an outbreak of Piles from sitting on their arse’s instead of investigating crimes.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:49am
    - kowtow
      
      Yep , UK police stuffed. Robert Peel would be turning in his grave.
      
      ‘Police said they were ‘too busy’ to investigate a home burglary – despite six officers showing up when an ex-football star’s car was stolen the next day.’
      
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5685125/Police-busy-posing-Ian-Wright-investigate-burglary.html
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:48am
    - kowtow
      
      Or policing social media.
      
      ‘According to the BBC, Russell’s post was anonymously sent to the Merseyside Police. It was then handed over the hate crime unit, which is led by police constable Dominique Walker. As the Liverpool Echo noted, Walker’s brother was famously the victim of a hate crime.
      
      Walker reportedly said, “As a black woman I found the words offensive and upsetting. The words are offensive to both black and white people.”
      
      Walker deemed the word so offensive, she allegedly told Russell’s defense not to reference the word in court.
      
      Russell’s defense argued that the word is used by rappers all the time and that the word is not the full word ending in -er, but rather ending in -a.
      
      Walker claimed that regardless of context and spelling, the word is always offensive.’
      
      https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/ashley-rae-goldenberg/2018/04/20/liverpool-teen-given-ankle-monitor-quoting-rap-lyrics
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:52am
      - kowtow
        
        What would they make of this dog owner?
        
        ‘She previously admitted the charge but opposed the destruction of the dog — a black female Labrador-cross named Nig — which is mandatory in such cases.’
        
        A black lab called “Nig”. It could get a starring role in the new Dambusters movie.
        
        https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/court-news/bid-save-dog-after-attack-child-0
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:54am
Fletch

Look, we made it into the Guardian with this kind of ludicrous headline –

Jacinda Ardern pledges shelter for all homeless people within four weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/04/jacinda-ardern-pledges-shelter-for-all-homeless-people-within-four-weeks

LOL
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May 6, 2018 8:37am
- Longknives
  
  That’s weird.
  During the Election last year the Left were claiming there were 200,000 ‘Homeless’.
  Now the figure seems to have magically dropped to 40,000!
  
  Jacinda truly is the Messiah!!!
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:47am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    There’s that bad math and a roving decimal point again
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:12am
  - Harkman
    
    Homelessness only exists when Labour isn’t in power. I knew they would stop counting them. The quadrupling of homeless people sleeping on Colombo street in the last 4 months, doesn’t really exist.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Actually we seem to be making it into the Guardian every couple of days with Jacinda stories.
  
  I wonder why that is.
  
  The Guardian didn’t use to give much of a stuff about little old NZ.
  Someone is feeding it our mush.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:56am
  - waikatogirl
    
    There is a movement to post videos on the internet of Marxist professors spouting lefty revolution.
    
    When will we see one of these hosts with a high profile sight playing our very own Marxist PM addressing her Communist youth conference with her “Comrades” speech??
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:05am
  - kowtow
    
    It’s because the journo Elanor Ainge Roy is based here . They publish lots of her stuff.
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/profile/eleanor-ainge-roy
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:06am
    - sooty
      
      Is she better or worse than Andrea Vance?
      But living in Dunedin, the hot bed of politics.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:22am
      - Harkman
        
        “the hot bed of (socialist) politics.” Slightly modified.
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:38am
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    The Guardian is rabidly Left-wing/liberal – just like Stuff.
    
    They make the occasional token gesture of a divergent opinion but monitor and manage it carefully to ensure a Left-wing/liberal bias.
    
    Owen Jones is a poster boy – who failed abysmally at influencing the local elections. They’ll do ‘doing their bit’ to try to give the Labour govt generally, and Jacinda personally, an ‘international’ profile.
    
    However, it seems that even their ‘intelligence’ can be insulted on occasion – like over the Russian spy thing.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:55am
  - freethinker
    
    The Guardian is an left wing piece of shite quite like Red Radio and the Hoorald.
    
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    May 6, 2018 1:27pm
  - Philview
    
    ConservativeHome is perhaps the UK’s version of KiwiBlog. The content can be quite dry compared to KB. I did read an article or blog on there about Simon Bridges when he was elected. I have seen Whaleoil referenced on there before. They often talk about a right wing blogger called Guido Fawkes but I haven’t read any of his stuff.
    
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    May 6, 2018 3:02pm
- artemisia
  
  So more people deciding to live in the car for a couple of nights. Voila, warm dry cheap housing. Maybe they will only need to threaten it.
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:58am
- realityczech
  
  “Jacinda Ardern pledges shelter for all homeless people within four weeks”
  
  Great lets make it easy for her. I will expect to see no homeless beggers within 10 minutes walk of her office.
  
  Lets see if she can do this.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:43am
  - KevOB
    
    Many “homeless” are not, they are alt-homeless. They chose to live in outside communities because of alcoholism. Housing those people would be like shepherding cats: they know how they prefer to live with companionable others and will revert as they please.
    
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    May 6, 2018 12:38pm
  - Komata
    
    rc
    
    But , as jacinda is after all ‘Queen’ of New Zealand (if only in her own mind), what she says goes and if she decides that she doesn’t wish to see such things, then Plod will be summoned and told to move the ‘unmentionables’ along.
    
    Literally, ‘Nothing to see here, move along please’…
    
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    May 6, 2018 1:41pm
- Richard
  
  Well thats pledge she’ll never fill becuase there are not that many motel unit owners who are willing to see their property trashed.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:09am
- backster
  
  Are my maths wrong or is that$2,500 to house each of 40,000 for winter.?
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:32am
holysheet

Winter is coming…. That time of year where the poor have to make tough choices between feeding their kids, heating the house, or getting a massive new tattoo
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May 6, 2018 8:39am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Tat is looking good and a trip to the white guilt food bank by different members of the family claiming poverddy.
  
  Oh, and a new set of wheels for the Bongo . . . .
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:57am
- marcw
  
  That’s after the weeks supply of P is secured.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:41am
- VicParking
  
  The COL has at least one winner. “P” has never been so cheap and available.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:52am
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
It has now been established that the origins of the rumours about Clarke Gayeford began here on KB among certain posters posters who share many things in common. One a hysterical overreaction to the Labour lead coalition government especially in the person of Jacinda Adern. But much more importantly the real origins began with this fellow below who has carried lying to a new acceptability, norm and respectability,

This Trump Lie Is Worse Than Most

Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump

As everybody is aware, the past Administration has long been asking for three hostages to be released from a North Korean Labor camp, but to no avail. Stay tuned!
12:53 PM – May 3, 2018

“The problem? “Of the three prisoners only one, Kim Dong-cheol, a South Korean-born American pastor, was detained during the previous Obama administration.” The other two were detained last spring when Donald Trump was in the White House.

Trump lies all the time. This one strikes me as unusually insidious, however. To begin with, there’s something concrete and specific about it. It’s one thing to say that the economy sprung to life after Trump took office, even if statistics say that there’s not much change since the late Barack Obama years; one can certainly make a case for it, even if it requires a little cherry-picking of the right indicators. It’s a little different and worse to say that Obama failed to win the release of “three hostages” when two of them weren’t detained until he left office… “

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-03/trump-s-hostage-lie-is-worse-than-most
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May 6, 2018 8:45am
- stigie
  
  The goats wouldn’t put out this morning, oh deary me !~
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:49am
  - GazzaW
    
    I think we have a new Stephie who’s capable of writing more than oneliners – ztev & mikey are both redcarded so he’s on his own aside from the occasional ramblings of marquess and muttonbird.
    
    Or it could be as simple as the original stephie being on altar boy duty this morning.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:01am
    - sooty
      
      We know mikey is on holiday, but christ, this new stephie is a dick.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:24am
- Swifty
  
  ‘It has now been established that the origins of the rumours about Clarke Gayeford began here on KB among certain posters posters who share many things in common….’
  
  Man you write some crap.
  
  What’s it like living in your howling wilderness of a mind?
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:01am
  - holysheet
    
    It’s his sky fairy getting in his head again. How confusing it must be having on one side the paedo proffit saying one thing, and on the other side the ramblings of the christian church. Doesn’t leave much room for his natural urges. Goats or another visit to the mall and the Muslim lady dressed in traditional apparel accompanied by her two beautiful young daughters dressed in modern western tight jeans and blouses , revealing lovely supple body proportions , including small but ample breasts .
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:20am
    - Swifty
      
      And who the fuck writes like that – and on a public blog like this?
      
      ….revealing lovely supple body proportions….including small but ample breasts….
      
      Dirty little man.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:27am
      - All_on_Red
        
        He’s a racist too
        
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        May 6, 2018 9:56am
      - lilman
        
        Hey it could be JUDITH from before the last National Government was voted in, she lived on this site then disappeared on election night.
        Labour Party really are losers.
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:37am
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    @stephieboy
    ‘It has now been established that the origins of the rumours about Clarke Gayeford began here on KB among certain posters posters who share many things in common….’
    
    That’s a serious accusation that you should be able to easily back up with evidence from KB archives.
    
    So where is your evidence that the rumour started here on KB?
    
    (I note that your accusation runs counter to that given by Pete George and newspaper journalists that the rumour had legs before it started appearing on Twitter and some weeks/months later on some blogs).
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:52am
    - Swifty
      
      He hasn’t got a clue Maggy.
      
      He’s a total waste of space.
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:55am
    - holysheet
      
      Nah Maggy, you are supposed to “Post a link to that” , LOL ,
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:29am
    - stephieboy
      
      Maggy Wassillief, you will have to ask DPF . He deleted the offending posts.
      
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      May 6, 2018 1:22pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I see your very very racist comment about DGs wife was deleted too.
        Too bad for you I’ve got a copy.
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:36pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Where’s the bit in the tweet where Trump claims these people were imprisoned during Obama’s presidency Stephie? You’re making shit up again, as is your wont.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:03am
  - stephieboy
    
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    KS , Trump ( I believe your role model ) makes up shit up all the time.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:11am
    - Swifty
      
      So you admit you’re bullshitting?
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:18am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Since when have I said that Trump is my “role model” Stephie; I’d love to see you find a quote of mine to that effect.
      
      Trump is a blowhard, has dodgy morals, and is unlike any President in my memory. However he was seen as less bad than his opponent, and was duly elected. Get that into your partisan head.
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:29am
      - holysheet
        
        KS, you left out that Trump has “Made America great again”
        This trumps any of the other shady shit.
        
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        May 6, 2018 11:32am
      - stephieboy
        
        Keeping Stock , now who would have thought you areshis mortal enemy.
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:23pm
      - GazzaW
        
        KS doesn’t have to be Trump’s mortal enemy to dislike him. Political hatred is a socialist thing.
        
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        May 6, 2018 2:33pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Three spelling mistakes in the first paragraph, including the surnames of both your heroes.
  And stiffyboy: Trump won, you lost. Stop wanking on about him.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:10am
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    Captain Mainwaring, spelling mistakes or not it is the plain unvarnished truth!
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:13am
  - Swifty
    
    He puts as much care in to his writing as he does his thinking….
    
    Not much.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:19am
- Happychappy
  
  Stop tapping your head and pulling your pud stephieboy as what left of your brain has deteriorated.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:23am
  - sooty
    
    Stephies gearing up for an all out assult on the blog when his favorite pollie comes to town shortly.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:27am
    - sooty
      
      Cankles is here allready!
      
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      May 6, 2018 4:05pm
- Harkman
  
  Otto Warmbier?
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:48am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  “It has now been established that the origins of the rumours about Clarke Gayeford began here on KB…”
  
  That’s a big call.
  
  Who established this?
  How was this established?
  
  Supply evidence with references.
  
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  May 6, 2018 3:11pm
Fletch

I can’t believe this – if you want collusion, look no further. Former Secretary of State John Kerry is conducting shadow diplomacy in going behind the back of the U.S Government in order to try and save the Iran deal.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/05/04/kerry-quietly-seeking-salvage-iran-deal-helped-craft/2fTkGON7xvaNbO0YbHECUL/story.html

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30277/kerry-trying-undermine-trump-iran-deal-consulting-hank-berrien

Should be illegal, or treason. Asshole…
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May 6, 2018 8:48am
- All_on_Red
  
  Logan Act violation
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:57am
  - stephieboy
    
    All on Red ,
    
    clutching at straws yet again!
    
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    May 6, 2018 1:27pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Did you ask forgiveness for your racism today?
      
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      May 6, 2018 1:32pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed .con,
        
        what waycism?
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:34pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Your racism
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:38pm
      - stephieboy
        
        ??????
        
        The answer you well know lies in JasonJohns post that your are dishonest or clueless enough no to include.
        
        Anyway do get help with your mad obsessions and stalking .
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:42pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Well you wrote it and you’ve been shown it twice before. Looks like it’s been deleted but as I said I have a copy so I’m happy to keep reminding you and letting people know what a truly awful person you are.
        Here you go. Your response to JJ in a conversation about David Garrett.
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        stephieboy
        
        JasonJohns and married to a racially inferior Tongon.
        
        LOL
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        https://WWW.KIWIBLOG.CO.NZ/2018/04/GENERAL_DEBATE_26_APRIL_2018.HTML/COMMENT-PAGE-1#COMMENT-2196560
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:48pm
      - realityczech
        
        AoR, stupidboys appalling racist attack on another posters wife is typical of stupidboys branch of militant Islam. It is made even more disturbing by Mr Garrett being a well known public figure.
        
        The reason for his unhinged hate towards Tongan’s is due to their strong Christian beliefs.
        
        I hope they are able to stay safe from the likes of stephieboy.
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:54pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed .con, just go and visit your Doctor tomorrow.
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:54pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Given your behaviour Ralph I think you are the one which needs help.
        Oh, and you’re the Stalker. Especially of the women on here.If you don’t like your own words being thrown back at you then leave.
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:57pm
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Only a libtard would suggest that pointing out a violation of a statute is “clutching at straws”.
      
      I guess it’ll be “clutching at straws” when Hillary finally goes down for all her evil shit.
      
      The law, it’s OK when socialists break it!
      
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      May 6, 2018 2:35pm
      - axeman
        
        It is well known in the US that if she goes down, the Kenyan goes with her ?
        
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        May 7, 2018 1:12am
- flipper
  
  Agree that Heinz (aka Kerry who married the Heinz fortunes) is a treasonous dumbass, but remind us when the Logan Act was last used. My recollection is about 1800 (circa).
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:29am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Sure Flipper and the Supreme Court would overturn any conviction
    But it’s amusing that breach of the Act gets thrown around by the left but when one of theirs breaks it- crickets.
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:24am
  - cha
    
    Two indictments, no convictions.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act#Accusations_of_violations
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:49am
  - stephieboy
    
    flipper , but not Donald Trump the Draft Dodger?
    
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    May 6, 2018 1:26pm
MCos

Every day, it seems, the General Debate is getting more and more clogged up with the same wild eyed people endlessly beating the same drums.
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May 6, 2018 8:55am
- MCos
  
  By the way.
  Weren’t the Warriors, Hurricanes & Blues marvelous last night!
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:58am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Indeed; if it wasn’t for the useless Chiefs, my Super Rugby picks would have been 100% this weekend.
    
    Well done the Blues in particular. They dug deep last night to beat the Waratahs and continue the New Zealand streak against Australian teams. They showed the kind of ticker that comes with having experienced players (Kaino and Pulu in particular) back in the side.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:06am
    - VicParking
      
      More a reflection of the Waratahs than the skill of the Blues.
      
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      May 6, 2018 9:56am
      - SGA
        
        And the state of Aussie Super Rugby teams in general. The y haven’t beaten any NZ team for how long now?
        
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        May 6, 2018 11:13am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  And then you appear as the voice of sanity
  
  Tui
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:59am
cas

As I have my bowl of Pam’s rolled oats this morning at a cost per serving of 15 cents i wonder yet again why kids have to have breakfast provided at school. And I have water not milk in the oats so no cost there.
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May 6, 2018 8:56am
- holysheet
  
  You cheap arse. Eating Pams is bad enough, but to not have milk is the pits. Cold water? God man get a life.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:08am
  - Harkman
    
    Rolled oats with Chia seed is good but Pams? WTF? Tried them once and spent the day wanting to chuck. But the dude is right about how you can live healthy for next to nothing, leftists are just lying.
    
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    May 6, 2018 2:34pm
- Monique Watson
  
  That’s my mainstay. Oats, cook in water then add bananas which are cheap as chips and milk optional.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:10am
  - tf78
    
    Raisins cooked in the porridge are really tasty.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:25am
- Inandout
  
  Try Harraways oats next time, made in NZ, a bit dearer unless on special. Pams source a lot of their ‘home’ products from China.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:43am
  - KevOB
    
    Oats are oats. Pam’s may well come from the same source as other other brands.
    
    Oats are good for those watching blood sugar levels.
    Another useful choice is hulled barley. Only the outermost husk has been removed.The barley has not even been pearled. Very low GI (about 20) and can be easily precooked in a slow cooker with 4½ cups water/1 cup barley. Freeze in small bags for later use. Can be eaten as savoury or sweet. Add eggs/bacon etc for breakfast or milk, sweetener, fruit etc. Very high fibre content and very pleasant to eat.
    
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    May 6, 2018 12:58pm
  - Harkman
    
    Harraways is a million times better than Pams, I think that Pams scimps on the refining process. Indigestible.
    
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    May 6, 2018 2:37pm
- GazzaW
  
  If that’s your Sunday morning special breakfast cas what do you have for the rest of the week FFS? I have visions of Victorian workhouses and solitary confinement.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:42am
  - Inandout
    
    Gazz, heard of cooking a lot and then microwaving during the week?
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:56am
  - holysheet
    
    He has milk during the week. Pure luxury I say.
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:34am
- backster
  
  Cas…. Not enough money for coke and chippies.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:43am
- freethinker
  
  Add a few Berries a tablespoon of sugar and a cup of real milk and its cost could soar to $1 and that rate the menu extends to a good dose of meth.
  
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  May 6, 2018 1:38pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Another glorious day in NZ, thanks to the grace of our Lord and saviour Tooth Fairy and the Drunken Dwarf. Hail thee….
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May 6, 2018 8:57am
sooty

Who has right away at an intersection?
The car turning left or the bicycle going straight thru?
What if there is a cycle lane?
Especialy when most cyclist do not stop and can ride at a reasonable pace.
Do car drivers have to have eyes in the back of their head.
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May 6, 2018 9:03am
- VicParking
  
  Move the cycle lanes to the other side of the street then you can see them coming and aim.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:58am
- Viking2
  
  simple stuff.
  
  Give way to all traffic on your right.
  That includes bikes.
  
  Same on roundabouts. Something that many people have difficulty understanding.
  A roundabout is just a straight road modified.
  Signal left when about to leave.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:51am
  - kowtow
    
    Have you noticed how many c#nts signal a right turn
    as they enter the roundabout when they are actually going straight through?
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:20am
    - Johnboy
      
      I’m thinking of mounting a chain gun on the drivers side to train those effing bastards kowtow. The worst part of it is you see Cops, Truckies and Bus drivers all doing it and they claim to be “professional drivers” FFS! 🙂
      
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      May 6, 2018 1:03pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Signal right turn, then signal left and go straight through!!!
      Who trains these fuckwits…especially the bloody cops? 🙂
      
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      May 6, 2018 1:05pm
      - kowtow
        
        The other day I’m waiting at the lights……big 4 wheel drive comes round the corner , mothafucka behind the wheel , one hand at head with phone to ear , the other hand at mouth dragging on a fag!
        
        No hands on wheel , how the fuck he managed that?
        
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        May 6, 2018 3:49pm
holysheet

Cindy, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The Devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth. Putin calls Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he was finished the devil informs him that the cost is a million dollars, so Putin writes him a cheque.
Next Donald Trump calls the U.S. and talks for 30 minutes. When he’s finished the devil informs him that the cost is 6 million dollars, so Trump writes him a cheque.
Finally Cindy gets her turn and calls New Zealand for 4 hours. When she’s finished, the devil informed her that there would be no charge and feel free to call home anytime. Putin and Trump go ballistic and ask the devil why Cindy got to call New Zealand free. The devil replied, “Since Cindy became Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Country has gone to hell, so it’s a local call.”
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May 6, 2018 9:04am
- Monique Watson
  
  Big ups Holysheet. You never disappoint.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:08am
  - holysheet
    
    You wouldn’t think so after yesterday. My posts were deleted.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:10am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Here? I thought apart from illegal posts or ongoing personal attacks, this site was pretty free speechy?
      
      What did you do wrong?
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:02am
      - holysheet
        
        I composed a song about the first couple aka roy orbison and posted a joke about some dude speeding.
        
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        May 6, 2018 11:36am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Monique Watson, always disappoints with his garbled rants!
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:19am
    - Monique Watson
      
      Bring it on Nancy boy.
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:41am
      - stephieboy
        
        Monique Watson , and you too butch girl.
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:36pm
      - Harkman
        
        Nancy boy is far too polite.
        
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        May 6, 2018 2:40pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  That is not a joke, it is the truth, coming to a place near you very soon (about 11 days)
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:21am
Maggy Wassilieff

I see Pete George and his blog got the bully-boy bash yesterday.

That’s a pity.
I always pop over there to see what has attracted his attention.
A couple of good posts today:
https://yournz.org/2018/05/06/qa-catriona-maclennan-facing-law-society-inquiry/

https://yournz.org/2018/05/06/problems-and-delays-with-biofuel-project/

And yet another going-over of the location of the Rumour mill factory
https://yournz.org/2018/05/06/a-record-of-some-rumourmongering/
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May 6, 2018 9:09am
- Jack5
  
  The post to Pete George’s blog about Catriona MacLennan is good reading, Maggy.
  
  MacLennan seems to be putting up a reasonable case for her action until you get to her: “…. Aotearoa has the highest reported rate of intimate partner violence in the developed world.”
  
  Sounds like another instance of a social activist citing a dubious international ranking of NZ. When you dig into such social activists’ statements you typically find the comparison is with about eight to 12 First World countries. You find we rank behind countries like Sweden, Switzerland and so on. What is unmeasured, or not quoted, let’s you reasonably assume that NZ performs better than most of the 90 to 95 per cent of the world’s nations.
  
  MacLennan used to be on Red Radio quite a bit, and came across as someone of the modern Far Left, which focuses on social issues rather than economic ones.
  
  From MacLennan’s opinions, she’s not a commentator who would give a mid-point, unbiased view in female v male issues. However, perhaps MacLennan knows details of this case that we plebs aren’t aware of.
  
  Regardless, it seems strange that MacLennan shouldn’t be allowed to express her opinion and criticise the judge.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:25am
  - realityczech
    
    “reported rate ”
    
    There’s ya problem.
    
    Try telling lies about your partner in India and see what happens to you. We need to put our women firmly in their place if we are to develop as a society.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:29am
    - Jack5
      
      “Our women” firmly in their place? What are you advocating for NZ, ~~Kea~~ Realityczech?
      
      Do you mean on top of a pile of wood moistened with kerosene or petrol? You want suttee here?
      
      Are you suggesting this is a way to bring social spending under control?
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:37am
  - Jack5
    
    Here’s Catriona MacLennan in action, speaking on behalf of women beneficiaries.
    
    I’m with her on the point that fathers should be paying up for their children. DNA provides a way for a system that can ensure all fathers support their offspring financially.
    
    MacLennan talking to another leftie, Selwyn Manning:
    
    https://youtu.be/1rSetaDHTTc
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:35am
    - realityczech
      
      “fathers support their offspring financially”
      
      They are not “their” offspring. Mostly the little sluts have no idea who the father is. In the rare cases they do, the father has no say at all over what happens. They are ATM’s not fathers.
      
      What they are saying is the State should force men to fund the lifestyle of filthy sluts.
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:23am
      - Flash
        
        Or, you know, men could stop indulging the lifestyle of the filthy sluts. Seems to me they don’t mind having their bit of fun, but they do mind having to pay for the aftermath.
        What say you CZ?
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:47pm
  - kowtow
    
    ”Aotearoa has the highest reported rate of intimate partner violence in the developed world.”
    
    Aotearoa might , but if Aotearoans were taken out of the calculations and statistics for New Zealanders shown , I’d say the picture would be very very different , eh bro?
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:17am
Harkman

Farming is next on the chopping block. Even Dopey Dann said “you’re hammering the regions.”

“We’ve got a representative system..we won the political battle.” WTF, Labour 36.9%, greens 6%, Winston is fucked next election. There is nothing he can campaign on.

Yet he played down evidence that rivers have already improved.

Earlier he said we had high Labour costs, then he said we are a low wage economy.

He said it was hard to fathom the steel and aluminium tariffs.
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May 6, 2018 9:15am
- Harkman
  
  Parker, “nz knows we need to export alot to the rest of the world to pay for cars and computers.” Yet only minutes earlier he announced he was closing down the dairy sector. Two weeks ago oil & gas. This is crazy shit, two weeks ago oil gas. At a time when they are redistributing money for consumption. We are going good to have huge current account deficits and if foreigners can’t buy houses. We are going to see a BOP crisis.
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:22am
  - Harkman
    
    Josie Pagani, John Tamihere (two Labour party candidates from the past). Gee lefty TVNZ does it again. Another balanced panel. ?
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:25am
    - Ross12
      
      ” Yet only minutes earlier he announced he was closing down the dairy sector. ”
      What did he actually say Harkman ? I thought Shaw would be the biggest economic wrecker but Parker seems to be leading the pack.
      
      Does anyone know what the viewer numbers are for these Sunday political shows get?
      I am asking because I heard on radio yesterday the radio “awards” or numbers for last year came out during the week. ZB was the top for 9th year running and Mike Hosking’s show was the top show for the 9th year running. Given that, you would think politicians would fall all over themselves to get on his show.
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:03am
      - Harkman
        
        Limiting nutrient use, no more cows. US, China and South America with take over the dairy sector in twenty years if this mob ain’t stopped.
        
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        May 6, 2018 2:50pm
      - Ross12
        
        So Parker thinks he knows how to run a farm now!!
        Why are Labour pushing on so many of the Green ideas? Greens are down to 5% or below.
        Thanks Harkman.
        
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        May 6, 2018 5:48pm
- JibberJabber
  
  What is it about the Socialists that they always want to cut off the hand that feeds them, figuratively and literally?
  How much Revenue can exporting Hobbit movies generate?
  
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  May 6, 2018 9:32am
  - Harkman
    
    We are going to start running massive current account deficits, which have to be recycled some how. It makes monetary policy next to hopeless. Look at the last 3 Labour governments and the massive current account deficits. Why? You can’t crush the productive sector and increase redistribution at the same time in a country that doesn’t make final products.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:45am
    - Jack5
      
      Harkman, NZ’s been running balance of payments deficits for about 40 years. They were continual under National as well as under Labour.
      
      Under National we in effect ran a high-kiwi-dollar policy. It was a coalition between boasting politicians and the banksters, whose economists and PR’s continuously pumped out nonsense to the level of the infamous lie that NZ had a “rock star economy”.
      
      Meanwhile, Liam Dann’s article in the Hooerald today is belated acknowledgement of the soaring private debt that has accumulated in NZ. The money has come into the country through the banks, which have piped most of it into the Auckland property bubble.
      
      What is going to make the coming economic correction harder is the jump in population, caused by a view that if you bring in the people the economy will soar (GDP per capita has not soared), and jobs will spring up.
      
      Big-population proponents don’t touch on how to increase exports to support rising imports.
      
      Dann on private debt:
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12044166
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:58am
      - KevOB
        
        When you wreck the private sector production how do you provide for import payments? Reducing the NZD price doesn’t help local prices and any govt having to pay benefits will have skyrocketing payouts.*
        
        Add increases to interest rates because global reserve banks are reducing credit exposure and local mortgage costs will rise too. More pressure on both households and govt.
        
        These matters were once the province of the Minister of Finance who needed a smattering of clues to comprehend them. Do we have an ostrich in that portfolio now? How can any budget be prepared? Ships can’t be rudderless–or can they?
        
        * Solution: export Kiwis to Aus. their remittances will keep the remainder in food and basic supplies.
        
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        May 6, 2018 1:10pm
- realityczech
  
  “Farming is next on the chopping block”
  
  It is a cross party policy plank to crush the farmers. Part of this is just malice as farmers and productive people don’t tend to vote Green or Labour. Lefty support is in the big cities.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:25am
  - freethinker
    
    So Farmers actually have the whip hand if they cooperated, no Cows to market for a month ditto produce and watch the panic after 2 days and for good measure turn the water off and let the suburban farmers who know jack shit of the realities of farming get a taste of empty supermarkets shelves and hope they have the emergency supplies EQC recommend.As an after thought target the COLL and the Beehive first as a pilot exercise.
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:51pm
Harkman

Time to disinvest from NZ? This country is going to collapse.
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May 6, 2018 9:28am
Inandout

Tune into Radio Live later this morning and they will be criticising Trump again..wow can’t wait.
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May 6, 2018 9:40am
realityczech

Labour are exceeding the expectations of even the most pessimistic observers. They are only just getting started with dismantling our economy, constitution and freedoms. It will be getting much worse yet folks.

We will get through this. National will return.

My concern now is that National has a track record of not reversing the terrible laws and taxes of Labour. We can not afford to have that happen this time. The damage this government is intending is unprecedented and will require remedy if we are to rebuild our civilisation from the ruins.

Will National step up and undertake to fix the worst of it?
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May 6, 2018 10:07am
- Harriet
  
  No.
  You only have to look at a national maiden speech made last week and hailed by DPF and his ilk:
  
  “More investment should be made in the first 1000 days of a child’s life.”
  
  3 whole years of more money being spent — on an infant! — on top of WFF payments, childcare and health.
  
  Rome went the same way.
  
  The National party is just a GDP party. Nothing else.
  
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  May 6, 2018 3:05pm
Anne Glen Eden

HdPA is also whistling in the wind about Gayford.

While I appreciate the message – I really, really loathe ‘dirty politics’ – this is a case of Labour being hoist with its own petard. She also says:

“Low-blows like this only encourage normal, fair-minded people to rally around the victims and defend against further attacks.”

Firstly, what ‘normal, fair-minded people’? I suspect she’s referring to the ‘Jacinda-sponsoring’ MSM, national and international, who spent weeks trying to label John Key some kind of sexual offender – failing despite their best and dedicated universal efforts.

And that’s the ‘secondly’. That particular dose of Left wing ‘dirty politics’ failed because people know John Key and recognised it for exactly what it was – just as they recognised that the MSM are anything but ‘normal, fair-minded’ people. The MSM are the main, and most significant, purveyors of ‘dirty politics’ – they just have a list of acceptable targets/target groups.

I don’t know the rumours. But one thing is very, very clear – a massive number of people presumably think them entirely credible which can only be why they were so ‘rife’. Gayford has neither won any points for not standing up, himself, and disclaiming them. Having Ardern ‘protect’ him, using the Police to back her up, accompanied by a threatening lawyer, and the whining, compromised MSM just makes him look weak and silly.

It also suggests that he didn’t want to publicly refute anything in case there was an unlooked for response from unknown persons. So it was all diverted to the PM, the Police, and a lawyer – not only refuting the ‘rumours’, but very deliberately threatening anyone else that may have something to say.

Then, of course, there is the thing that the MSM are devoted Jacinda-fans and the most logical purposes of all this are clear to any rational mind considering who is getting the ‘advantage’:

“Shutting the rumour down … almost certainly spread the stories. If 100,000 of us had heard the rumours at the start of the week, 4.6 million of us will possibly have heard them now.”

“Both Gayford and the PM will have a lot of sympathy for a while. And they deserve it.”

Oh MSM, of course you would say that – ‘normal, fair-minded’ people LOVE the ‘unicorn and rainbows’, fairytale princess and her (increasingly seeming ‘frog’) prince, and will sympathetically support them at all times, on principle.

On the other hand, typically the MSM have cast anyone who doesn’t – abnormal, unfair, inclined to political ‘dirt’ (especially ‘fringe’), and possibly worthy of prosecution if they say anything against them, him in particular. It’s just more of the same ‘dirty politics’ to me.
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May 6, 2018 10:20am
- Keeping Stock
  
  What worries me the most is who pressured Commissioner Bush to make the statement he did.
  
  The law requires to Police to act independently of politicians, and to apply the law without fear or favour. So we have two alternatives here; either:
  
  1) Commissioner Bush made an error of judgment in making his statement to media, or
  
  2) Commissioner Bush was pressured into allowing his office to be used for an overtly political purpose.
  
  In the case of option 1, Bush made a serious error of judgment as to the importance of a clear separation between the Police and politicians, and he ought to offer his resignation.
  
  In the case of option 2, Bush has been exposed as a weak leader, by allowing some unknown political operative to persuade him to make a very political statement. On that basis, he ought to offer his resignation.
  
  Police officers are currently investigating four accusations of indecent assault by a young male at Labour’s Summer Camp. How can the public now have any confidence that this investigation and any subsequent decision to prosecute will be made solely on the evidence, with its political significance ignored? The truth is, we can’t.
  
  Commissioner Bush, and by extension the Prime Minister and her office have placed the New Zealand Police in an invidious situation. Imagine the outcry from the Left if these rumours had been about a National MP’s partner, and the Commissioner of Police had intervened to hose them down.
  
  The fallout from this incident is only just beginning, and that is the last thing Labour and Jacinda Ardern would have wanted. What a shame for unintended consequences!
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:46am
  - Viking2
    
    Remember what Clark did to an earlier police chef?
    
    Bush has dug a hole for himself that has no bottom.
    Sooner or later he will get sucked into the hole.
    Foolish man.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:59am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Yes indeed. She deliberately leaked disputed information to a Sunday Start Times journalist, intended to portray Peter Doone in the worst possible light. Doone was left with no alternative to resign.
      
      Doone later sued the paper for defamation, but the case was abandoned when it was revealed that Helen Clark was the source of the defamatory information.
      
      So yes, Labour has history in politicising the Police, and one must wonder if it was Helen Clark or Heather Simpson’s idea to get Bush to make his statement.
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:21am
      - Gravelroad
        
        Heard rumour that Ms Ardern’s father was once a senior police officer. True?
        
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        May 6, 2018 11:30am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Absolutely true. His Wikipedia profile confirms it:
        
        David Ross Ardern is a New Zealand diplomat and former police officer. He is currently the High Commissioner of New Zealand to Niue, and served as Niue’s police commissioner from 2005 to 2009.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ardern
        
        From all reports, he had a very distinguished Police career.
        
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        May 6, 2018 11:56am
  - kowtow
    
    Whatever about that he has bought into the “diversity” PC bullshit big time.
    
    “Police want to attract more women, Māori, Pacific Islanders, and people from all other ethnicities and backgrounds to better reflect the communities we serve. We also need recruits who are happy to be based in the Auckland area.
    
    “There’s never been a better time in recent years to fulfil your dream of becoming a cop and serving your community,” Commissioner Bush said.
    
    (From Fuzz website ) Also note his use of slang ” become a cop”!
    
    And the ad they ran ……….
    
    ‘Police “violated tradition” when they featured a non-Sikh officer in a badly-wrapped turban in a popular recruitment video, a Sikh community leader says.’
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100308188/police-use-samoan-officer-to-represent-sikh-community-in-popular-recruitment-video
    
    NZ “cops” are funnier than the Keystone ones they seem to want to emulate.
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:10am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      This would be the same cops who couldn’t smell a body in the boot of a car that was signwritten with the suspects name on it while they were using it as a desk to write up their reports on?
      Can the standard of policing in NZ fall any further?
      
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      May 6, 2018 3:29pm
- kowtow
  
  HdpA was let off serious charges of falsifying official papers that any of the rest of us would have swung for.
  
  There really is one law for them and the consequences of it for the rest of us Plebs.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:13am
JasonJohns

Trump is a stud.
Stormy is a babe.
They got it on.
Jesus smiled.
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May 6, 2018 10:31am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  I like Trump’s election but:
  
  Trump is an unfaithful husband.
  Stormy is an ‘aged’ porn star who needs the money and the business boost.
  Trump used her and she agreed to be used – on all levels and by anyone it seems.
  
  Jesus is not smiling.
  
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  May 6, 2018 10:36am
  - Milhous
    
    Trump is a narcissist.
    
    Trump has very poor decision making ability.
    
    Trump will probably go down in history as worse POTUS ever..
    
    Just because he’s not Hilary, doesn’t make it ok.
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:44am
    - Inandout
      
      ‘Worse’ than whom then?
      
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      May 6, 2018 10:57am
      - Milhous
        
        Carter ( in modern times)
        
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        May 6, 2018 12:35pm
JasonJohns

Looks like some ‘Christians’ have to read more.
King David had a harem and served the lord, so too Trump.
Stormy Daniels is just as much TrUmp part of God’s plan to MAGA
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May 6, 2018 11:01am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  I think you need to read more. As Deuteronomy says:
  
  ““When you come to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, and shall possess it and shall live in it … you shall surely set a king over you, whom Jehovah your God shall choose … Nor shall he multiply wives to himself, so that his heart does not turn away…”
  
  Firstly, King David, like every other human being (except Christ), was a sinner and paid many prices for it over time.
  
  Secondly, he ‘married’ his wives and acknowledged and formally provided for them, whatever his relationship with them.
  
  Thirdly, everyone is part of ‘God’s plan’, irrespective of their ‘goodness’ or ‘badness’ – Judas being a prime example. That is not necessarily a character/action recommendation.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:21am
  - JasonJohns
    
    lOOKS LIKE YOU NEED TO REACH OUT TO us EVANGELICALS. Jimmy Swaggart Jr put it well:
    
    ‘God has a plan and a journey for each of us. Sometimes he leads us through Babylon. When he leads us, we follow, even if what we do doesn’t fit into any made for family TV show’
    
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    May 6, 2018 11:39am
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      That, perhaps, explains why ‘evangelicals’ once called me a ‘canker in their midst’.
      
      Sometimes he does lead us through Babylon. That doesn’t mean we’re expected to behave like Babylonians.
      
      Daniel didn’t agree to eat non-kosher food and was thrown to lions rather than worship Darius. Hanania, Mishael, and Azaria, who bore the Babylonian names Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were thrown into a furnace rather than ‘worshipping’ Nebuchadnezzar. All, of course, survived unscathed.
      
      Jospeh did not agree to screw Potiphar’s wife at her insistence, preferring to go to prison – and went on to rule Egypt.
      
      I could play Devil’s Advocate here, but you should learn more.
      
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      May 6, 2018 11:54am
  - Viking2
    
    Please explain how us fine fellows are sinners.
    
    Only in your world I guess.
    
    Of course first you will need to define which of the sky fairies you are choosing.
    
    Not sure which son it is i’m supposed to have sinned with.
    
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    May 6, 2018 12:12pm
    - JibberJabber
      
      If you don`t Sin, Jesus died for nothing…
      
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      May 6, 2018 12:48pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jason Johns , is it on the cards that Trump will try to push through a bill legalising polygamy?
  
  “Sometime leads us through Babylon”
  
  How convenient for fundie iChrsitians . Exonerates Trump but not of course Bill Clinton?
  
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  May 6, 2018 1:49pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Fundie Christians?
    
    I’d love to hear how you describe yourself stephie-head
    
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    May 6, 2018 4:27pm
JibberJabber

LoL Jase, you on fire this morn.
The Godbots don`t like inconvenient facts, especially ones from their fantasy fiction book.
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May 6, 2018 11:06am
Maggy Wassilieff

Human smugglers trying to send boat people to NZ.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/356733/tanker-smuggling-migrants-intercepted-on-way-to-new-zealand
I wonder who the NZ connections were?
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May 6, 2018 11:20am
- kowtow
  
  Borders matter.
  
  There’s a big bad very crowded world out there and we shouldn’t be taking any queue jumpers.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:38am
- stephieboy
  
  MW , you missed this from your link,
  
  “Malaysian police have intercepted human traffickers they say modified a tanker to smuggle undocumented migrants to New Zealand and Australia.”
  
  Wonder why?
  
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  May 6, 2018 1:58pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Wonder why?
    Well, let me tell you why I don’t give a blow-by-blow account of everything that is written in one of my links…
    
    Most of the folks on KB are quite capable of clicking onto a link, reading and comprehending the material, without my added commentary.
    
    They can think for themselves.
    They don’t need me to tell them what they must think everytime I put up a link.
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:34pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    It is the first sentence in the linked article.
    What is your point, Galah?
    
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    May 6, 2018 10:04pm
Manolo

Hound dog Mueller will be interviewing stephieboy soon:
https://apnews.com/6dd33b4234634079821e5825f112e85b

Investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller have interviewed one of President Donald Trump’s closest friends and confidants, California real estate investor Tom Barrack, The Associated Press has learned.
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May 6, 2018 11:36am
JasonJohns

Jesus watches everything.
That means he sees a whole lotta sex.
Most of it is bad.
Some of it immoral.
Not too hard to imagine that Jesus enjoys watching a man and woman of experience and expertise get it on as part of the Almighty’s plan to save America.
Trump’s a stud.
Stormy’s a babe.
When they got it on God glowed with pleasure.
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May 6, 2018 11:43am
Inandout

Show me that hetro man who has never strayed, nor lusted after the female form, and I will show you a humanoid. Trump has paid for a bit of skirt, so nothing unusual there. Helen Clark, who liberalised the hooker laws, will be smiling.
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May 6, 2018 11:57am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  Smiling and proud – and hypocritical.
  
  There’s nothing like promoting people using and abusing each other for the sake of it – and as a good business opportunity – at the same time championing ‘human rights’.
  
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  May 6, 2018 12:07pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Does your name reflect that attitude, Inandout?
  
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  May 6, 2018 2:35pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    If that’s all you offer a woman, I can see why you need to pay for ‘a bit of skirt’.
    
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    May 6, 2018 3:50pm
cha

There’s a horse loose in the hospital.

https://decider.com/2018/05/03/john-mulaney-kid-gorgeous-horse-in-hospital-joke/
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May 6, 2018 12:01pm
Captain Mainwaring

So much for the opinions of all the idiots who said that people smugglers would never get hold of boats capable of reaching NZ.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12046055
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May 6, 2018 12:04pm
- Viking2
  
  No hatch covers so would not have got across the Tasman without sinking.
  That’s why they have hatch covers. Might have got to Aussie OK.
  
  Just a bullshit story.
  
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  May 6, 2018 12:15pm
Chuck Bird

FYI

Tanker crammed with illegal migrants bound for New Zealand intercepted

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12046055
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May 6, 2018 12:07pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Heard it this morning. Very worried Taxinda will start virtue signalling that ‘we’ll take them all, the poor darlings’.
  
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  May 6, 2018 2:33pm
  - RF
    
    But but but… she promised that boat people could / would not come to New Zealand.
    
    Has she told lies ???
    
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    May 6, 2018 5:24pm
realityczech

**************Breaking News*******************

Media are rumoured to be converging on parliament after the shock revelation that Labour spokesperson Mike Bush has not cleared Prime Minister Ardern of any police investigation.

Updates to come.

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Auckland News
In other news; stephieboy is continuing to help Mt Roskill police with their inquiries after concerns were raised by the local Mosque.
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May 6, 2018 12:11pm
- doggone7
  
  **************Breaking News*******************
  Jacinda Ardern was to announce Mental Health Inquiry but got a reality check.
  
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  May 6, 2018 12:39pm
Prince

Excuse me if this has been discussed before, but I have been waiting to hear the howls of outrage regarding the latest broken promise from the Govt.
Remember pre election when National promised an increase to benefits and super from April 1 of around $1000 gross. Labour said ‘us too’ and offered $700 to match.
It now seemed they lied (surprise !). It is now $413 for a couple, $266 for a single, dribbled out over 13 weeks.
What happened to the ‘kind, gentle, caring, let’s do this’ government ?
Congrats to Jeanine Starks for escaping the censors on Stuff, albeit being pushed onto the Business pages, where only people who work for a living venture.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103554971/winter-energy-payment-now-looks-a-lot-less-enticing
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May 6, 2018 1:04pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  So you want howls of outrage every day? twice a day? Let’s face it, it is hard to keep pace with the daily/twice daily lies from the COL (coalition of losers)
  
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  May 6, 2018 4:13pm
EAD_TWO

Why is this Jewish newspaper advocating open borders, but only for Northern Europe and other White areas?

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-why-the-world-needs-open-borders-more-than-ever-1.5465729

PS: For those that don’t like discussions based on referenced material, please hit the red button below⬇️
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May 6, 2018 1:07pm
- Johnboy
  
  Don’t be so negative Reid. Some of us like to read your angle on world affairs! 🙂
  
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  May 6, 2018 1:15pm
- realityczech
  
  “Why is this Jewish newspaper advocating open borders, but only for Northern Europe and other White areas?”
  
  Jewish American author and philosopher Paul Gottfried is credited as having first coined the term ‘paleoconservative’ as well as the term ‘alternative right’. This excerpt is taken from a speech he gave to The Property and Freedom Society on The Influence of the Jewish Lobby in 2014″
  Eternal Victims: The Psychology of Jewish Subversion in America | Paul Gottfried
  
  EAD, I hope the resident hateful anti semites don’t attack this member of the tribe Paul Gottfried
  
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  May 6, 2018 1:34pm
  - stephieboy
    
    rc, this captures the flavour of your link in the comments section,
    
    Maceo Flux
    
    Six Million Thumbs Up
    
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    REPLY
    
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    May 6, 2018 1:40pm
    - realityczech
      
      stupidboy, funny because Paul Gottfried is the one who invented the term “alt-right” that you use daily. He is very outspoken against anti-semitism, white nationalism and various other ism’s.
      
      What is it you hate most about this famous and respected Jew?
      
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      May 6, 2018 1:59pm
      - stephieboy
        
        rc , Wrong it was White Nationalist and Supremacist Richard Spencer back in 2010,
        
        Where did the movement originate?
        
        “..The term “alternative right” was apparently coined in 2008 by Duke-educated historian Richard Spencer to describe right-wingers who feel “deeply alienated, intellectually, even emotionally and spiritually, from American conservatism.” Among this alternative-right fringe, there was a growing sense that America had been abandoned by weak and feckless “cuckservatives” — conservatives who had been “cuckolded” or emasculated by their failure to fight diversity, globalization, and immigration. Spencer founded a new online publication called Alternative Right, filled with pseudo-scientific essays on race and genetics, with titles like “Is Black Genocide Right?” That intellectual tone disappeared as a younger breed of meme-posting right-wingers took over the movement, which they rebranded the more internet-friendly “alt-right.” Fifty years ago, “these people were burning crosses,” says Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League. “Today they’re burning up Twitter.”
        
        https://web.archive.org/web/20170126082648/http://theweek.com/articles/651929/rise-altright
        
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        May 6, 2018 3:52pm
publicwatchdog

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
NZ ANTI-CORRUPTION WHISTLE-BLOWER Penny Bright UPDATE!

(Sunday 6 May 2018 10am)

HEARING DATE FOR MY INTERIM INJUNCTION APPLICATION CONFIRMED:

Hearing of my interim injunction application has been scheduled:

10am on Monday, 14th May 2018 at the Auckland High Court
Waterloo Quadrant (opposite Auckland University).

Although I’m sick, tired and legally unassisted, I managed to make the (extended) Court deadline of 5pm, Thursday 3 May 2018.

I filed my submission, a Second Affidavit myself and Affidavits in support of my Interim Injunction Application from Auckland Councillors Cathy Casey and Wayne Walker.

There is considerable public and media interest in this case.

I will be arguing that this was a malicious prosecution by Auckland Council CEO Stephen Town who has already tried to destroy my reputation;
is trying to destroy my livelihood by forcing me out of my home from where I live and work;
is trying to ruin me financially by forcing the rating sale of my only asset, my freehold home valued at $1,040,000 by potentially accepting a tender of $750,000; and because of the huge stress that this blatantly unjust municipal bullying and harassment has caused me – is destroying my health.

(Information, facts and evidence which IMO, prove how conflicted is CEO Stephen Town in authorising the forced rating sale of my freehold home is available here in this article, which you won’t read anywhere else:

What’s Wrong With This Picture? – Kiwisfirst

http://www.kiwisfirst.com/whats-wrong-picture/

I will be also be arguing that all that was required by Auckland Council to secure the Judgment Debt over my disputed rates was to get a Charging Order placed over the title of my freehold property.

That was never done.

The precedent was set under Auckland City Council, where I was disputing and refusing to pay rates because of the lack of transparency in the spending of public rates monies on private sector consultants and contractors.

I was taken to Court, lost, and Auckland City Council were awarded a Judgment Debt, which was secured by a Charging Order against the title to my property.

Auckland City Council did not bully, harass me, attempt to force me into applying for rates postponement or threaten to sell my freehold home.

In fact – quite the opposite happened.

The Auckland City Council Eden/Albert Community Board gave me a ‘Good Citizen’s Award’ for my work opposing water privatisation and supporting more transparency in Council contracting.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10655565

“Perennial protester Penny Bright – arrested 22 times, often at Auckland City Council meetings – has received a “Good Citizen” award from a council community board, The Aucklanderreports.

The outgoing Eden Albert Community Board’s chairman, Christopher Dempsey, says the controversial character is being honoured for focusing attention on water privatisation and pushing for transparency in council contracts.
…”

So – why have I been subjected to this, IMO, disproportionately severe treatment by the CEO of Auckland Council, Stephen Town, the only person who is authorised to initiate a forced sale?

Because, IMO, I am a consistent and persistent anti-corruption ‘whistle-blower’ who has refused to back down in my fight for transparency and compliance by Auckland Council (and CCOs) with the statutory requirements of the NZ Public Records Act 2005, section 17.

WHAT DO I WANT?

I want the Interim Injunction granted to stop the forced rating sale of my home.

I then want to proceed with the Judicial Review over the breaches of natural justice that led to this forced rating sale by a conflicted CEO who has initiated, IMO, a malicious prosecution of a citizen anti-corruption whistle-blower, who has been trying for the last 11 years to get lawful transparency in the spending of public rates monies on private sector consultants and contractors.

As per s.17 of the NZ Public Records Act 2005.

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/31.0/DLM345729.html

Part 2
Recordkeeping requirements
Subpart 1—Key duties

17Requirement to create and maintain records

(1) Every public office and local authority must create and maintain full and accurate records of its affairs, in accordance with normal, prudent business practice, including the records of any matter that is contracted out to an independent contractor.

(2) Every public office must maintain in an accessible form, so as to be able to be used for subsequent reference, all public records that are in its control, until their disposal is authorised by or under this Act or required by or under another Act.

(3) Every local authority must maintain in an accessible form, so as to be able to be used for subsequent reference, all protected records that are in its control, until their disposal is authorised by or under this Act.
_________________________

In the meantime, Auckland Council could (belatedly) secure the Judgment Debt with a Charging Order against my property, and work with me in a constructive and positive way to ‘finish the job’ and complete the opening of the books to ensure the following details of awarded contracts are published on the websites of Auckland Council and Auckland Council CCOs.

* The unique contract number.

* The name of the consultant/ contractor.

* A brief description of the scope of the contract.

* Contract start/finish dates.

* The exact dollar value of each and every contract – including those sub-contracted.

* How the contract was awarded – by direct appointment or public tender.

MY HEALTH

I still don’t yet have the prognosis for my suspected ovarian cancer.

It is my intention to go to Auckland hospital on Monday 7 May 2018 to find out what’s happening.

However, I can confirm that it is a huge load off my mind (and body) to have that legal paperwork filed.

I’m also having acupuncture and taking a variety of natural supplements.

(My appetite has somewhat improved – which is a good sign!)

Now – just have to win the Interim Injunction!

…..

Cheers

Her Warship ?
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- realityczech
  
  The council should be held to account for not dealing with you sooner. That is where the corruption is.
  
  “Although I’m sick, tired and legally unassisted”
  
  You have been legally unaccountable. You are a manipulative self centered fraudster who lives in a house worth over a millions dollars while rate payers struggle to pay the mortgage, raise kids, and put food on the table.
  
  This is not a civil matter in my view but a criminal one.
  
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  May 6, 2018 1:27pm
  - stigie
    
    Oh gawd, everyone here on Kiwiblog feels so sorry for you Penny and hope those bastards the Auckland Council take time to reconsider that taking advantage of you by asking for more money because you are sick, and of course the other ratepayers are right behind you Penny !~//
    
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    May 6, 2018 2:49pm
    - sooty
      
      Penny, the person incharge of getting your rates paid at the ACC, should be sacked for taking so long to get to this stage. You should have been out on your ear and house sold years ago.
      
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      May 6, 2018 5:08pm
- Johnboy
  
  YAWN…..What?….Oh my turn now.
  PAY YOUR RATES PENNY!!! 🙂
  
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  May 6, 2018 1:28pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Penny you fool.
  All your problems (except perhaps your health) are of your own making.
  
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  May 6, 2018 1:38pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  See?
  I Spray and Walk Away
  Rubbish Stays
  I walk away
  
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  May 6, 2018 4:15pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Load the torpedoes….
  
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  May 6, 2018 7:00pm
Andrei

NSFW photo from Tel Aviv

Slut walks are hilarious when you think about it
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May 6, 2018 2:00pm
- realityczech
  
  Shit they better not stray into a Muslim neighborhood looking like that, or Orthodox Jew ❗
  
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  May 6, 2018 2:03pm
  - realityczech
    
    Thousands of topless women march through Tel Aviv
    
    I bet Brito is down there filming the old bugger 🙂
    
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    May 6, 2018 2:06pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Isn’t that Brito marching on the left?
      
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      May 6, 2018 3:08pm
    - nasska
      
      The fat minger in the black bra could walk through the sex offenders unit at the Mason Clinic without getting touched! 🙂
      
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      May 6, 2018 3:22pm
      - realityczech
        
        Seems most victims of wape-kulture are fat ugly pigs with a cornucopia of personality defects.
        
        Someone needs to get the IDF in there and shove them over the border to let ISIS sort them out.
        
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        May 6, 2018 3:28pm
      - Monique Watson
        
        Yeah some bright feminist spark thought that ugly-fying the fleshy mounds would really get the message across.
        Right put me off my pork belly sandwich.
        
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        May 6, 2018 4:44pm
    - kowtow
      
      Topless , they’ll be headless if the Sunnis get a hold of them.
      
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      May 6, 2018 3:55pm
      - realityczech
        
        It would take a dedicated martyr to go near one of them. He might not even want the 72 virgins after that encounter with the fairer sex.
        
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        May 6, 2018 3:59pm
Fletch

Apparently, Hillary Clinton is in the country and the news media are all excited…. They think we should be, too.
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May 6, 2018 3:21pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  We need a good character test at the border to stop people like her getting in and spreading her propaganda.
  
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  May 6, 2018 3:37pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , I guess people like you and other alt-righters who would be ( a generous estimate ) 0.0005% of the populace.
  
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  May 6, 2018 3:42pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Giving a lecture I hear.
  Might go down and stand outside. When the MSM want to report that Vector is at capacity they will open the gates and let the other 50 in without a fee. I will be the one with the red hat that says “Make America Great Again”
  
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  May 6, 2018 4:20pm
  - MCos
    
    Should be easy to spot on the footpath
    
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    May 6, 2018 4:57pm
Manolo

Rumour has it that stephieboy is showing the hag the city.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/hillary-clinton-makes-surprise-visit-to-auckland-shop/ar-AAwOcbq

It’s been far from an orthodox day for staff at the Parnell Baby Boutique.

The specialist store has just had a surprise visit from former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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May 6, 2018 3:32pm
- realityczech
  
  A disgraced and failed US politician mired in corruption.
  
  1. Who described women who spoke out about rape and sexual assault as having BIMBO ERUPTIONS!
  
  2. Who wanted to build a wall to keep out Mexicans
  
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  May 6, 2018 3:40pm
- Flash
  
  Scanning the gift list for a suitable donation to the Nation’s Baby’s Wardrobe?
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:13pm
stephieboy

Donald Trump can teach you much more about dirty politics and tricks.

Go no further than this,

“Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal”

Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran

Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, the Observer can reveal.

People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama’s top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal.

The extraordinary revelations come days before Trump’s 12 May deadline to either scrap or continue to abide by the international deal limiting Iran’s nuclear programme.

Jack Straw, who as foreign secretary was involved in earlier efforts to restrict Iranian weapons, said: “These are extraordinary and appalling allegations but which also illustrate a high level of desperation by Trump and [the Israeli prime minister] Benjamin Netanyahu, not so much to discredit the deal but to undermine those around it.”

One former high-ranking British diplomat with wide experience of negotiating international peace agreements, requesting anonymity, said: “It’s bloody outrageous to do this. The whole point of negotiations is to not play dirty tricks like this.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/05/trump-team-hired-spy-firm-dirty-ops-iran-nuclear-deal
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May 6, 2018 3:40pm
- realityczech
  
  Even her accent is fake
  
  What an evil old slag. It is fun watching her deteriorate as the hate eats away at her.
  
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  May 6, 2018 3:46pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Reptilian Shape Shifter
    
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    May 6, 2018 4:23pm
  - RF
    
    The commie chick is having a private audience with Crooked Hillary.
    
    Top of the agenda she is is seeking advice on how to keep your dog on the porch to prevent it humping all the strays in the neighbourhood. Apparently Clinton has some experience with this.
    
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    May 6, 2018 5:01pm
Longknives

Jesus H Christ!
Is anyone else getting the ‘Meet Mature Singles’ ad popping up on Kiwiblog??
That stony faced old Boiler in the blue dress…

Come back ‘Men Only Cruise’ and ‘Meet Russian Ladies’ -All is forgiven!
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May 6, 2018 3:51pm
- realityczech
  
  They have given up on me and now I have one for: Cloud Hosting.
  
  You could send her a message and tell us how it goes.
  
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  May 6, 2018 3:56pm
- Gravelroad
  
  I frequently get an advert about a property company in Auckland (where I don’t live) called Ockham.
  I keep wondering if it’s got something to do with that William of Ockham who is on here from time to time – you know the one – a very intelligent and admired commenter.
  
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  May 6, 2018 3:59pm
  - realityczech
    
    He recommends you live on an Ark due to the global flood predicted by the prophet Gore.
    
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    May 6, 2018 4:02pm
  - holysheet
    
    you mean the failed pilot who crashed his plane and became the village idiot?
    
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    May 6, 2018 4:04pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Ockham property developers do not appear to be the same as William of Ockham, aka Dennis Horne and appearing on the Climate Conversation blog as Stephanie Hawking.
    
    https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/profiles/millionaire-property-developer-mark-todd-interview/
    
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    May 6, 2018 5:44pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  What adds?
  
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  May 6, 2018 4:24pm
  - Longknives
    
    ‘Meet Russian Singles’, ‘Meet Mature Singles’, ‘Men Only Cruises’, ‘Meet Heavy Metal Men’ etc etc
    
    Kiwiblog seems to think I am lonely…
    
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    May 6, 2018 4:38pm
    - nasska
      
      Okay! If no one else is prepared to play matchmaker I’ll do it.
      
      Penny, meet Longknives! 🙂
      
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      May 6, 2018 4:45pm
      - Longknives
        
        If it came to that I think I’d probably take my chances with those Moustachioed ‘Heavy Metal Men’ thanks anyway Nasska..
        
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        May 6, 2018 4:55pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Weird, isn’t it? Many far more attractive ladies (and gents) of a certain age out there!
  
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  May 6, 2018 5:50pm
realityczech

Why Trump is more popular than ever
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May 6, 2018 3:54pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Amusing. Usual anti-Trump crap, but with a little honesty about the way journos simply hate Trump without even considering each policy:
  
  “Pretending that anything the president says or does is bad because he is the one saying or doing isn’t just bad journalism. You might as well be wearing a MAGA hat and whooping about the Wall.”
  
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  May 6, 2018 5:57pm
- stephieboy
  
  rc, this tells us a lot about your journos prefernces ,
  
  Matthew Walther
  NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
  Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:46pm
lifesgood

I drove through Glen Innes earlier today and spotted some well meaning do-gooders serving up hot lunches to the needy outside the arts centre. There were several men in line waiting for the free meal and all of them were obese!
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May 6, 2018 4:04pm
- realityczech
  
  Beggers in Welly are fat and usually surrounded by healthy food. Seems eating vegetables makes you poor and fat, with a drug problem.
  
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  May 6, 2018 4:15pm
- kowtow
  
  Other than being obese males ,were there any other defining or descriptive characteristics that stood out?
  
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  May 6, 2018 4:51pm
  - GoVege
    
    If you talk to them, you might find out.
    I asked a young homeless woman, a few months ago, didn’t she have a mum to go and stay with?
    Her answer was, her mum was murdered.
    It was true, too, I remember the case.
    People don’t end up homeless/ begging for no good reason.
    Something has usually gone seriously wrong in their lives.
    We need more support early on in these people’s lives.
    
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    May 6, 2018 5:02pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      “People don’t end up homeless/ begging for no good reason.”
      
      There is definitely a reason, but as lifesgood alludes, no one wants to really try to find out what that reason is.
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:46pm
    - GoVege
      
      For you eleven meanies, I don’t necessarily mean financial support.
      Mentoring would do way more good than cash.
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:04pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Yes, but it would be racist to comment on them.
    
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    May 6, 2018 5:51pm
    - GoVege
      
      I’m a racist asshole (according to milky) so I’ll comment:
      The vast majority of beggars are Maori.
      They end up on the streets because they are victims of the extremely sexist beliefs of their culture.
      Their females are often treated as sex objects, chattels and punchbags, and the girls are mostly brainwashed from birth that their only function in life is to push out babies and serve men.
      The fall-out from this brainwashing can be found on the streets of our cities, the jails, and the gang-pads.
      A tragic waste of human potential.
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:39pm
      - lifesgood
        
        Hmmmm…that doesn’t explain why most of the homeless are men.
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:13pm
      - realityczech
        
        “Their females are often treated as sex objects”
        
        What else are they good for?
        
        Your comment suggests not much.
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:22pm
      - GoVege
        
        Lifesgood: approximately 52% of babies born to these girls coerced into motherhood at an early age, are male.
        It’s extremely dangerous for females to live on the streets, but some still do.
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:48pm
      - GoVege
        
        RC: It’s very sad but many of these poor girls are put down by their own mums from a very early age.
        I got into trouble with another poster on KB for revealing that I had heard a few Maori women call their little girls awful names, but it is true.
        Then there are legions of young girls kept out of school to babysit mum’s latest baby.
        I know a young girl kept at home from 8 or 9 to babysit.
        She and her siblings had to be taught in a class for kids who were learning English as a second language.
        They never had much chance to do well educationally and dropped out very young.
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:57pm
      - realityczech
        
        “coerced”
        
        Some women like sex you joyless frigid vegan.
        
        And for the love of god stop whitesplaining about our beloved tangata whenua.
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:57pm
      - GoVege
        
        LG: unfortunately another incentive for young girls to have babies is it tends to fast-track them into a state home.
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:59pm
      - realityczech
        
        You are right about the outcomes and wrong about the causes. The cultural factors behind it are held by both genders. Man blaming will not work.
        
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        May 6, 2018 8:03pm
      - GoVege
        
        Who said I was man-blaming, RC?
        The worst offenders in perpetuating sexist practices are often the older women who survived their youth, or had it easier than most.
        Stupid women like that half American one who constantly complains about Pakeha invaders but accepts their colonial gongs.
        
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        May 6, 2018 8:09pm
      - realityczech
        
        “Who said I was man-blaming, RC?”
        
        LOL 🙂
        
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        May 6, 2018 8:25pm
Komata

RC

It doesn’t seem to have an adverse effect on their voices though, when you ignore them…
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May 6, 2018 4:51pm
- realityczech
  
  The worst ones are the organised patch wearing gangs that step out and abduct pedestrians as they race back to work. They extort money, by intimidation, for things like anti male hate groups.
  
  Way more intimidating and intrusive than some smiling fella saying “got any change Miss” & “Bless You”.
  
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  May 6, 2018 5:01pm
  - GoVege
    
    Good that Labour are planning to do something about the gangs, starting with prosecuting them for benefit fraud.
    National could never have touched the gangs….that would have infuriated their apologists in National’s coalition partner, the Racist Party…..
    
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    May 6, 2018 5:07pm
    - realityczech
      
      Yes I look forward to going about my business without being abducted by man hating dykes promoting misandry.
      
      If they prettied themselves up a bit and kept their gobs shut – they might not need a hiding 🙂
      
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      May 6, 2018 5:10pm
sooty

Over on the other side, whats with the First Fish and the crossdressing? Is this a previouse life?
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May 6, 2018 4:59pm
- realityczech
  
  Note the giggling man grabbing Gaylord’s bum
  
  Labour spokesperson Mike Bush has not commented yet.
  
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  May 6, 2018 5:17pm
  - realityczech
    
    No it was not just once!
    
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    May 6, 2018 5:21pm
    - sooty
      
      Really?
      
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      May 6, 2018 5:24pm
      - realityczech
        
        I will leave the commentary to professionals like Mike Bush and simply allow the photos to tell the story.
        
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        May 6, 2018 5:28pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Have the police issued a statement on the suitability of the photo being published? There could be nasty rumours attached to it like” He likes cross-dressing”.
    
    If only Jacinda realised what a fuck up she has made by trying to use the police to silence the rumours. My extended family don’t read kiwiblog. Today at a family function all of the extended bunch were having a laugh at the rumours….
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:56pm
    - RF
      
      Its no secret that senior Police question Mike Bush’s public statement.
      
      The big question is why he became involved. I am being very careful to remain within our hosts guidelines however –
      
      One theory and it is only a theory is that he was doing a favour for the commie chicks father who is a retired senior cop. It’s not unknown for a “wink wink nudge nudge I will see what I can do mate.” to take place in the best of circles.
      
      From what I see and hear from those who were previously uninterested it’s not a can of worms that been opened… it’s a bloody 44 gallon drum.
      
      I fear Mike Bush had made a massive mistake.
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:57pm
      - Duxton
        
        Incidentally, Ross Ardern might be an ex-cop, but he isn’t ‘retired’. He is the High Commissioner to Niue.
        
        If your scenario is correct, that actually makes it worse.
        
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        May 6, 2018 10:58pm
Philview

April Fools day has gone so this must be a true story.
I read this headline and thought WTF!
Farmers may be forced to cull cow numbers and no compensation.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/103671084/nz-has-too-many-cows-says-minister
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May 6, 2018 5:00pm
- realityczech
  
  Yet we still regularly have apologists appear on KB who try to portray these zealots as naive but well intentioned and who get upset if we call Arden nasty names like “chompers”. Gutless smug pricks . She is a bitter twisted evil hag.
  
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  May 6, 2018 5:27pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Parker said if he didn’t do this (cull the number of cows) he would be a failed politician. He believes horticulture is a cleaner industry. If he believes that I have a bright shiny bridge to sell him.
    Parker, you are a failed politician. No redemption possible.
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:40pm
    - Flash
      
      I heard that those lovely orange carrots that gleam through their plastic bags in the supermarket, are disinfected to prevent bacteria growing. Apparently, like unwashed potatoes, they are actually ‘cleaner’ in an unwashed state.
      
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      May 6, 2018 8:22pm
      - cha
        
        Do you not recall the 2014 food poisoning outbreak linked to vegetables purchased at Foodstuffs’ supermarkets?.
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11343345
        
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        May 6, 2018 8:34pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  and yet didn’t that independent report say that rivers had got CLEANER over the years since National got in, in 2008/9.
  So, yet another of NZ’s biggest industry is on the chopping block.
  D’ya think labour can even spell
  recession
  economic sabotage
  unemployment
  or perhaps even
  3rd world country
  
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  May 6, 2018 5:54pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yes the environment is improving. It is purely a political attack job of fake news. Where is Mike Bush when you need him?
    
    It is disgraceful to see hard working farmers who earn us billions of dollars, and feed us, attacked in this way by a bunch of urban dwelling no-nothings.
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:06pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Hi I was just going to comment on this. Rumour has it NZ has too many cows and they are all members of the Labour Party. Mostly in positions of power. Fuck, you can’t make this shit up.
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:06pm
  - sooty
    
    There’s lots of overweight ones as well!
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:16pm
sooty

We have too many MPs. We need to cut the numbers in half. I think they do not have enough to do and this ones just farting in the wind. Just think how much money we could save if we cut them back. There is a range of savings to be had in salarys both MPs and staff. Office area, supplies, vehicles, travel here and abroad.
LETS DO IT!
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May 6, 2018 5:21pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

Her father was an All Black but she’s made her name with her music. Here’s Brooke Fraser with Something In The Water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5C-YHSy3Fw
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May 6, 2018 5:45pm
Gentleman Bastard

Isn’t dairy our biggest export commodity?
The stupidity of this government is fucking mindblowing
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May 6, 2018 6:06pm
- realityczech
  
  Not for much longer. They are going to stuff this country must faster than anyone thought.
  
  The affect of these moves will be immediate and we risk going into a self sustaining downward spiral. When that happens Labour/Greens will respond with even more extreme measures and double down on ideology. The state will become more brutal and oppressive.
  
  You are seeing communism 101 in action. This is our new reality.
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:12pm
- GoVege
  
  Tourism is a close second.
  If we stop polluting our rivers with run-off from milking sheds and persuade the ta….certain people to stop bashing and robbing visitors, our tourism could do even better…. 🙂
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:24pm
  - realityczech
    
    So compost brain, you are happy with our income cut in half?
    
    Of course that will mean we need to make a few economies. Lets start by stopping all handouts to women, including those by proxy for children. They can live off smugness.
    
    It won’t make the rivers cleaner as the biggest polluters are the cities where Green and Labour voters breed like rats.
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:36pm
    - GoVege
      
      HI, my little meat-muncher!
      I agree with cutting back hand-outs to serial breeders.
      I’m surprised the Greens haven’t tried to persuade Labour to offer payments for women to get the injection or snip.
      After all, less population has got to be good for the country/planet.
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:49pm
      - realityczech
        
        Tofu tits, the Greens supported bigger handouts for commercial baby farmers. Agreed enncouraging less kids is the single best thing we can do for the planet, but hating on babies is the single worse thing to do in politics.
        
        I remember saying there would be a spike in births when bigger handouts and WFF came in. Sure enough a year later there were excited media reports about a big spike in births, just like I said.
        
        They are not environmentalists. They are communists.
        
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        May 6, 2018 6:55pm
  - Gentleman Bastard
    
    Yeah because Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela are such fucking awesome places to visit. Pity about the extreme poverty of those who live in those countries. Perhaps we need gated areas to keep the tourists safe from the savages.
    Hint: They won’t all be black
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:38pm
    - realityczech
      
      Yes and communists countries have a great environmental and water management record. Just look at the Aral sea project for example.
      
      And we let these silly bimbos vote!
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:43pm
    - GoVege
      
      Nah, we just need more cops, Maori wardens and surveillance cameras out where the tourists go.
      All good for employment too.
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:52pm
      - kowtow
        
        Maori Wardens ; a paternalist, humiliating throwback to a bygone era.
        
        Waste of space.
        
        Like the treaty should be scraped , one standard of citizenship and one law for all.
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:42pm
      - GoVege
        
        I see a fair few (Maori wardens) in my hood, kowtow.
        Less successful cultures need a bit of paternalism.
        
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        May 6, 2018 8:19pm
    - Gentleman Bastard
      
      Are you actually suggesting we need a police state to legitimise the Government?
      
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      May 6, 2018 7:02pm
      - realityczech
        
        G. Bastard, that piece of work is well underway. We even have the top cop running political cover stories. The reality is staring you in the face.
        
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        May 6, 2018 7:27pm
      - GoVege
        
        You don’t really consider effective policing that protects the innocent from crime to be a “Police State”?
        
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        May 6, 2018 8:23pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Look around the world and you will find, that the only countries who’s biggest industry, by far. is tourism. Are 3rd world countries.
    Leave the tourism where it is and advance all other industries.
    
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    May 7, 2018 8:05am
Gentleman Bastard

Our 3 biggest trading partners in order are Australia, China and USA.
Guess which countries Ardern as PM has managed to piss off first?
I am actually becoming quite fearful with this government in power. They have no idea how to run a stable economy. Never in my 50 years have I seen such a bunch of incompetent wreckers in power,
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May 6, 2018 6:17pm
- stephieboy
  
  GB, you might usefully engage yourself by visiting Waiouru and persuading the NZDF to organise a military coup. Or alternatively consider treatment options for your paranoid fears.
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:26pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Racist
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:28pm
  - Gentleman Bastard
    
    Fuck up shit for brains people like you are most of the problem. Go perv at underage children you fucking serial wanker.
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:28pm
    - stephieboy
      
      GB , you’ve got to be a Trump supporter?
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:32pm
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        Actually long term Labour voter until the showerhead, lightbulb moment. In case you are too fucking thick to realise, Trump isn’t President or PM here. So what the fuck Trump has to do with Arderns illiterate and illegitimate Government, or your dumb arse squirrel comments, I have no idea. Fucktard!
        
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        May 6, 2018 6:44pm
      - stephieboy
        
        GB , bully for you!. Certainly, fit the profile,
        
        https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/analysis-trump-supporters-has-identified-5-key-traits
        
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        May 6, 2018 6:49pm
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        Shit for brains its 7 o clock.
        Time to put your wife to bed. She has Primary school tomorrow.
        
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        May 6, 2018 6:55pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Surely this is as inappropriate as my earlier assassination comment? ( For the same reasons DPF censured me)
    
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    May 6, 2018 7:04pm
  - Gentleman Bastard
    
    At least my fear of a ruined country under Labour is far more understandable than your bullshit fixation about Trump you cretinous shitlicker. STFU and don’t reply to my comments any more you porn spreading, thread jacking lickshittle peon.
    
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    May 6, 2018 7:34pm
- realityczech
  
  “I am actually becoming quite fearful”
  
  I have moved past the fear stage now. I know what is coming and it is bad. This will be the darkest time in NZ history since world war 2
  
  I have had some good years and count myself lucky for that. I am resilient and have simple needs. We can cope.
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:31pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    “I am resilient and have simple needs”
    
    Soy and Vaseline???
    
    Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
    
    Don’t we just continue with our lives? I have been looking into a new business and the last 6 months have made me nervous, but I will just structure differently, go a little slower with less debt. Andy, Grant and Winston can go get fucked.
    
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    May 6, 2018 6:36pm
    - realityczech
      
      That is the spirit. Just don’t let your business make the hated – PROFITS !!!!! – and you should survive the worst of it. Only employ disabled lesbian Islamic refugees if you want to avoid legal troubles.
      
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      May 6, 2018 6:40pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Oh there will be no profits… or tax.
        
        I’m not giving the bastards money to waste.
        
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        May 6, 2018 6:43pm
      - realityczech
        
        I see you are already greatly skilled in communist economics. A mature communist business model produces low quality things people don’t want and only pays workers infrequently. They don’t really need the money as party faithful are given vouchers to line up for bread. Armed guards take care of the others.
        
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        May 6, 2018 6:49pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    If they leave us alone rc. I realise our pockets will be plundered but I do hope that is as far as it goes. Seems there is a new daily announcement from the COL. It is scary how far they could go… ?
    
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    May 6, 2018 7:16pm
    - realityczech
      
      waikatogirl, I am genuinely worried.
      
      At first I was not too concerned about this government. I knew they would so some silly shit and I thought maybe a few good things too. I hoped they would be to disorganised to do much at all.
      
      The only hope now is internal collapse in the coalition.
      
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      May 6, 2018 7:36pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  How many other ex Labour supporters like you are you are aware of that have the same sentiments? It would be interesting to see how many of those who voted for Jacinda now regret doing so. And Ignore Stephieboy. Most intelligent people do, except to insult, occasionally.
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:50pm
  - sooty
    
    Will the byelection be interesting? It is nationals know. Whinney doesn’t want a drobbing so he’s not coming to the party. Act is. I bet the greenies wont either, labour would have put the pressure on them. So national v labour. Knockdown FPP. Winner takes all. Can Bad Penny afford the bus fare to get there? She might have to spend the night in the bus shelter overnight after the town hall meetings.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:33pm
sooty

Will the First Fish be at the meeting tomorrow between his partner and the old trout.
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May 6, 2018 6:20pm
rightoverlabour

Is a police vet considered an inquiry?

If so, is this statement then possibly incorrect, if he has been vetted by the police at any stage?

“While in general we do not respond to enquiries which seek to confirm if individuals are under police investigation, on this occasion we can say that Mr Gayford is not AND HAS NOT BEEN the subject of any police inquiry, nor has he been charged in relation to any matter,” a police spokesperson said. (My emphasis)

I don’t know if he has, I know I have, its a routine procedure considering my occupation. I don’t know whether it’s considered an inquiry.

Just asking.
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May 6, 2018 6:46pm
- Duxton
  
  No, it isn’t considered a ‘Police enquiry’.
  
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  May 6, 2018 11:06pm
nasska

I’ve been trying to get some hard figures on what the CoL’s brainfarts are going to do to the economy. For a country where business people spend half their lives supplying figures to government departments trying to locate the info is like nailing jelly to a wall but here are a few facts:

➡️ Total NZ exports to Dec 2017 approx $54 billion

➡️ Oil & Gas production contributes $2.5 billion to the economy each year.

➡️ Aluminium produced at Tiwai shoves about a $1 billion into the country’s coffers.

➡️ Dairy is worth about $14 billion per year. Although the congenital idiot who announced cutbacks to the nation’s dairy herd had no hard figures let’s presume a 20% reduction.

So in the space of a month Labour have shafted NZ’s economy by $2.5 + $1 + $2.8 = $6.3 billion.

Can one of our far left, idiot, so-called journalists ask Chompers what the hell is going to replace these lost exports……and keep asking until she runs out of PR gobbledegook & has to give a straight answer!
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May 6, 2018 6:51pm
- Gentleman Bastard
  
  No journalists have the balls to ask her. I case you havent noticed they’re all females or fags
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:59pm
- realityczech
  
  “what the hell is going to replace these lost exports”
  
  Tax.
  
  Yeah I know…
  
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  May 6, 2018 6:59pm
  - sooty
    
    Ooh! Ooh, I know the answer, Hillarys coming for jam and scones tomorrow. She could ask her! She is the font of all knowledge, she will know the answer.
    
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    May 6, 2018 9:25pm
VicParking

The failing newspaper has taken to spying on its readers of its website. Make sure that you have cookies turned off and the auto location feature of your browser set to “Ask”. No doubt they are collecting data of readers locations to sell to their advertisers. Just new in the last few days.
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May 6, 2018 6:58pm
Harriet

“…..She recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.445 — nine times over the legal limit!

But in a controversial twist, she didn’t lose her licence, thanks to a little-known detail in the law. 😎

She said she was devastated that morning after her husband of 24 years announced he was leaving her.
After she dropped her off children at school, she pulled over in a spot she didn’t realise was a bus zone.
Ms Lung said she sat and drank almost two casks of wine from 10am until 12.30pm, when police found her.
She faced court in April but sensationally escaped conviction, thanks to a section of the law that says a police officer can only take a breath test if they have a reasonable belief the person had driven in the previous two hours.
That loophole meant the charge had to be withdrawn in court, as police could not prove Ms Lung had driven in the previous two hours, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Ms Lung said she parked the car sober and then got drunk while it was parked, and police couldn’t prove otherwise.
“It’s not illegal to sit in your car and drink,” Ms Lung said. ….” Hhahhahha 😎
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May 6, 2018 6:59pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  What if (when stopped by police) you throw your keys out the window and drink vodka from a bottle in front of them? Preferably on video.
  
  Could you be prosecuted?
  
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  May 6, 2018 8:49pm
rightoverlabour

Just for Stephieboy.. ( and his goat) and for those following the Trump stuff..
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/05/giuliani-talks-stormy-payment-russia-probe-with-justice-host-jeanine-pirro.html

“No matter what we say, no matter what we do , we can’t seem to shift the polls”. No matter what the say, no matter what they do, they can’t seem to make a difference. Same shit, different scene.
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May 6, 2018 7:20pm
Viking2

Propaganda from the past.

https://www.facebook.com/OLDNZ/photos/a.440697936291995.1073741828.440665846295204/600695443625576/?type=3&theater
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May 6, 2018 8:01pm
Fletch

Gawd it is worrying. This Govt has literally no idea what it is doing. This from the article –

As for what cutting cow numbers would mean for communities dependent on dairying, Mr Parker doesn’t know.

“We haven’t done an analysis of what the economic effects would be. But it’s very, very difficult to model,” he said

Mr Parker, however, says said the Government will help farmers switch to cleaner farming practices, such as horticulture.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/environment-minister-admits-some-dairy-farmers-may-have-reduce-cow-numbers-under-tough-new-waterway-pollution-rules

Horticulture? What the actual f_ck? They are sacrificing our primary industry on the alter of bullshit feel-good green ideology. Well I hope it makes you feel good, assholes. You’re destroying our country.
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May 6, 2018 9:03pm
sooty

Oh it’s really, really difficult to model but we will put our big boy pants on and make a complete cock up of it!
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May 6, 2018 9:14pm
Maggy Wassilieff

“We can choose between spinach and kale, but not animals because we will all starve”
– Mike Joy
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/04/19/105585/a-future-where-food-is-off-the-menu
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May 6, 2018 9:31pm
Viking2

– Dargaville
– Aviemore Dr, Highland Park, Auckland
– Roselands, Papakura, Auckland
– Northwest, Massey, Auckland
– Johnsonville Mall, Wellington
– Victoria Ave, Whanganui
– Redwoodtown, Blenheim
– Ferrymead, Christchurch
– Grey Lynn, Richmond Rd, Auckland
– Gisborne

Now let me guess.
Places where Countdown has no close competition.

Countdown chooses 10 supermarkets to go plastic bag free, rest to follow;

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103623308/countdown-chooses-10-supermarkets-to-go-plastic-bag-free-rest-to-follow

time for us all to shop and leave the groceries on the checkout.
I use all the bags I get.
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May 7, 2018 6:51am
- realityczech
  
  “I use all the bags I get.”
  
  You big fibber. You take them down to the beach and feed them to turtles like we all do.
  
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  May 7, 2018 7:02am
Morrissey

Israel continues to target and kill peaceful demonstrators and journalists.

What sets apart Gaza from Gandhi and Martin Luther King is not that children participate in the Gaza marches, but that unlike the British in India, and the white racists in the American South, only Israel targets and kills innocent children in demonstrations.

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/05/06/w%E2%80%8Bhat-sets-apart-gaza-from-gandhi-and-martin-luther-king-is-not-that-children-%E2%80%8Bparticipate-in-the-gaza-marches-but-that-unlike-the-british-in-india-and-the-white-racists-in-the-ameri/
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- realityczech
  
  Errr no. Stop helping.
  
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  May 7, 2018 5:51pm
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    ???
    
    That was one baffling comment, czech. Were you talking to me?
    
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    May 7, 2018 5:53pm
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      Yes Morris Dancer. This is BS “only Israel targets and kills innocent children”
      
      This sort of thinking (on both sides) is what created the mess. They have dehumanised each other.
      
      Good on ya for having a crack at the tribe on KB though 🙂
      
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      May 7, 2018 5:57pm
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        One side is peacefully demonstrating, the other side is shooting to kill or to maim those peaceful demonstrators. Yet you are pretending they are equal and opposite, and that documenting the crimes of the aggressor has “created the mess.” That’s not balance on your part, czech, it’s muddleheadedness on the order of that heard each morning on NewstalkZB from 8:30 to noon.
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:31am
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        “and that documenting the crimes of the aggressor has “created the mess.”
        
        No that is not the case. I am also a big critic of Israel. But the statement I was responding to is not true.
        
        It would be true to say they are a rogue nuclear state invading and occupying neighboring countries.
        
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