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Andrei

Hands up all those who attended Hillary Clinton’s event last night

And to the naughty corner all those who didn’t!
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May 8, 2018 8:01am
- Awww C-mon
  
  Sweet! Party in the naughty corner!
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:02am
- MrTips
  
  Clinton is visible proof that you reap what you sow. The wages of sin are death and she looks like she’s carrying around her coffin, ready to leap into it by appointment.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:04am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    She reads mystery novels and the bad guy gets it in the end. Karma is on it’s way Killery
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:09am
    - pdm
      
      I understood Bill gets it all of the time – just not from Hillary.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:43am
  - Lance
    
    I personally don’t care either way about Hillary Clinton. She is irrelevant.
    However I am rather bemused by the pathological hatred of her, seriously guys.. you need a better hobby.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:33am
    - GoVege
      
      I suspect there are a fair few misogynists on this blog, Lance. 🙂
      
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      May 8, 2018 11:38am
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        Coming from Kiwiblogs biggest misandrist that’s worth a bloody good laugh.
        I suspect you don’t know the difference between hating someone because they’re completely corrupt and evil, and hating someone because they have boobs and a vag.
        
        You must be so proud of Hillary’s time as a defence lawyer when she joked and laughed about getting a child rapist off.
        
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        May 8, 2018 12:28pm
      - realityczech
        
        Vege check out your filthy hero saying rape victims who speak out are having BIMBO ERUPTIONS
        
        Over to Hillary:
        
        Hillary Clinton calls Bill Clinton’s sexual assault victims “Bimbo Eruptions”
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WiQRBN8igE
        
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        May 8, 2018 12:33pm
      - GoVege
        
        GB: You must an ignorant “bast*rd” and can’t read properly if you think I am a misandrist.
        I have great respect for most men.
        Just not brutes who bash or abandon women and children.
        
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        May 8, 2018 1:23pm
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        Bollocks Vege. You constantly slander and malign all men of Pasifika culture based on the actions of a few. You make sweeping generalisations about men all the time on this blog. You just bloody did it then with your comment about men here being misogynists, despite most of us being happily married to women we love and respect.
        Perhaps you should look at your comments a bit closer, sweety.
        
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        May 8, 2018 2:15pm
      - GoVege
        
        I said “I suspect there are a fair few misogynists on this blog”, GB,
        Not “there ARE heaps of misogynists on KB”.
        I have many PI relatives and I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but the MAJORITY of them hit their wives and kids…and hard!
        They’re improving, especially the younger generation, but it’s still a big problem.
        They’re also hard-working, kind, generous and very respectful.
        If they could just stop “talking with their hands”, they’d be perfect. 🙂
        
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        May 8, 2018 2:55pm
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        Yes GoVege – that’s the ONLY possible answer.
        
        Hillary is treated with contempt, so OBVIOUSLY it’s got to be mysogyny.
        
        It couldn’t for instance be her infinite level of corruption. It couldn’t possibly be that she claims feminist status after a lifetime of enabling her sexual abuser husband and victim-blaming all the poor women who tried to be listened to about his abuses. It couldn’t possibly be that she allowed an ambassador to die a terrible death in Benghazi and then lied like a lying liar about it. It couldn’t possibly be that she condemns anyone who doesn’t support her. It couldn’t be that she cheated a better candidate out of the nomination because the DNC sisterhood decided it was “Her Turn”. It couldn’t be that she is a beneficiary of the Clinton Foundation’s dishonest money laundering schemes. It couldn’t be that she sold out to foreign powers by ‘pay for play’. It couldn’t be that she is contemptibly incompetent. It couldn’t be that she is complicit in what is increasingly looking like an attempted coup by the DNC to oust a legally elected President.
        
        Thanks for proving the theory floating around that your IQ is solidly in the two digit territory (and probably starts with a number 8).
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:38pm
      - softail 1450
        
        vegetable ,KB’s biggest manhater.
        
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        May 9, 2018 5:53am
    - realityczech
      
      You and Vege need a better morality. She is not hated due to her being a woman. She is hated by all decent informed people for being a corrupt lying war monger.
      
      Your ignorant comments confirm that you support her BECAUSE she is a woman, not because of the person she is.
      
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      May 8, 2018 12:31pm
      - GoVege
        
        Bullsh*t, RC.
        I support her because she is a good person.
        My favourite presidential candidate in recent times actually was John McCain.
        If he hadn’t made the incredible error of selecting an ignoramus like Palin (a woman), he would have been president.
        
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        May 8, 2018 1:13pm
      - GoVege
        
        As for Hilary’s handsome adorable hunk of a hubby: any woman who claims he had to force himself on them is obviously a lying gold-digger….and erupting bimbo! 🙂 🙂
        
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        May 8, 2018 1:15pm
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        Holy fuck at the outright delusion in the above 2 posts. Are you stephieboy in drag?
        You really should stay off the dandelion wine so early in the day
        
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        May 8, 2018 2:17pm
      - realityczech
        
        Vege hates Palin because she is a strong woman.
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:13pm
      - GoVege
        
        Yes Palin is very strong, RC…she and her kids must have very strong stomachs anyway, to slaughter and gut animals together the way they do.
        She’s also obviously very intelligent too, and well-read, particularly in geography. 🙂
        Just can’t understand why all those Republicans didn’t support her selection….
        
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        May 8, 2018 7:05pm
  - stephieboy
    
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    Mr Tips, and Donald Trump by contrast is a shining and angelic innocent?
    
    LOL
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:34am
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy is barring up for the donald again ,fricking pervert.
      
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      May 9, 2018 5:55am
- cmm
  
  Spark Arena holds 12000. The gushers say she got an audience of 3000 even after stuffing the seats with freebie tickets.
  
  It must have looked sad.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:10am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Her election rallies looked the same.
    and her #2 had trouble breaking the 100’s in attendance numbers.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:01am
  - mandk
    
    this says she spoke to a sold-out crowd:
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/103707777/hillary-clinton-considered-moving-to-nz-after-loss-to-trump
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:32am
    - Gravelroad
      
      “Sold our crowd”?
      Must be that same crowd there was all the fuss about at Trump’s inauguration..
      You know the story? As told by leftist US msm, President Trump’s crowd was allegedly meagre.
      But Hillary’s was sold out…….
      
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      May 8, 2018 1:34pm
- NZpatriot
  
  Interesting that H Clinton warned about the Chinese influence in NZ politics and public policy though, something to duly consider.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:14am
  - KevOB
    
    Don’t believe a word from H. Her family are very self serving.
    
    The Chinese are over running NZ. There’s a planned takeover over of Ward Island with mining for an underground settlement and a 16 ears station. Eyes are on Okaramio and Whangamomona too where scouts posing as tourists have been seen by natives. Believe me Hillary controls all.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:30am
    - kowtow
      
      Many a true word spoken in jest.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:07am
  - GazzaW
    
    ZB refined those numbers to ‘almost’ 3000.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:37am
    - holysheet
      
      Almost could range from 2 -3000.
      You would think someone would have done an accurate head count. In the public interest surely…
      
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      May 8, 2018 8:53am
      - Piniwi
        
        @ Believe they did but it was similar to the Clinton election count process. Some just went for the free bus ride to the city so they went with the bus count.
        
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        May 8, 2018 2:41pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      So that means about 1400
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:20am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    So???
    It’s OK to have Chinese spies, but we have a Sgt. Shultz (I see nothing) moment when it comes to Russians.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:30am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Chinese New Zealand Citizens are allowed to vote, but the media will distort this of course
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:18am
    - NZpatriot
      
      Strictly, Chinese New Zealand Permanent Residents are allowed to vote too.
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:48am
  - Viking2
    
    All the while talking to the biggest Chinese enabler in NZ.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:10pm
- stephieboy
  
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  Most here will plead poverdy !
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:33am
  - pdm
    
    OOooh Stephieboy are you taking the mickey to Ardern – poverdy you say!
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:15am
- Huevon
  
  A truly vile woman. She sends shivers down my spine.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:36am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Huevon,
    
    “She sends shivers down my spine.”
    
    Very good you paranoid oaf!
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:47am
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy is either barring up over trump or tossing off over a full sized picture of the disgusting HC,i guess it keeps his vile little mind off the school girls at his local mall.
      
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      May 9, 2018 6:01am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Nothing short of raising the dead (4 in Benghazi) will convince me that this woman (Lorax moment,”that’s a woman?”) deserves anything less than jail.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:33am
  - GoVege
    
    You mean goosebumps, Huevon? 🙂
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:42am
- dime
  
  Dime went.
  
  Dime was removed during the Q&A
  
  Dime “Wow you met Trump! What’s it like to talk with the great man?”
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:23am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    My hero!
    
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    May 8, 2018 5:39pm
    - RF
      
      Ditto……
      
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      May 8, 2018 6:39pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Red Radio told us all we needed to hear: Clinton mentioned in the show ‘What Happened’ and blamed ‘Russian Interference’ and ‘Conscious and unconscious bias against women getting to high positions’.
  
  And apparently Taxinda, our PM, one of several NZ female PMs, one of many NZ female MPs actually agreed with her.
  
  Maybe people just don’t want to hear that crap anymore. I know many women who are highly successful, through hard work and long hours.
  
  A pity that our PM got to her place through bribing students and nice photo shoots. It actually harms women overall when one ‘succeeds’ in such a way without the years of hard work and experience.
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:15am
  - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
    
    tokenism !
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:57am
Gentleman Bastard

Is the two time losing Presidential candidate leaving today? Will she have to be pushed up the gangway? Who else would consider suicide should she move here as threatened?
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May 8, 2018 8:01am
- Paulus
  
  I thought I read she was going to Australia today to try and sell her book.
  They are welcome to her.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:29am
- thedavincimode
  
  She should probably stay in light of the failure so far to extradite the fat german sausage.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:58am
cmm

Why all the hype and interviews etc about what Cindy and Clinton talked about?

Clinton no longer has any official position and is here purely on a commercial moneymaking venture. Her meeting up with Clinton has no more official significance than having Ed Sherran around for tea and scones.

I guess there is one issue though (though I doubt it was addressed). The Clinton Foundation (aka the Chelsea Clinton Dress Fund) has its claws into the taxpayer for $5.5 million. NZ should not be using the Clinton Foundation as a vehicle for giving away money.

I suppose it makes a nice smokescreen to talk about Clinton rather than Curren, Fingergate, out of control NZF ministers and the looming budget.
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May 8, 2018 8:02am
- Longknives
  
  The gushing over Clinton has been unreal.
  Bimbo on Breakfast TV- ‘All Kiwis love Hillary don’t we?’
  As for her claims she wanted to move here after losing-What utter tripe.
  ‘Jacinda winning helped ease my pain’- Even more Tripe. Like she really gave a shit!
  
  Honestly- Can deluded Lefties not tell when someone is patronising them?
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:30am
  - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
    
    Dont forget she was named after Sir Ed.
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:58am
    - Gentleman Bastard
      
      Her parents had a thing for anonymous apiarists.
      
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      May 8, 2018 12:57pm
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        When Hillary was a young girl her parents told her “You should marry a apiarist”.
        Such a pity she misheard them.
        Well for her husbands victims anyway.
        
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        May 8, 2018 2:23pm
    - axeman
      
      And Jacinderella was created from Mr Ed
      
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      May 8, 2018 4:38pm
    - Duxton
      
      I assume you are kidding. She was born in 1947, when Ed was a nobody.
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:00pm
      - softail 1450
        
        duxton , i assume you are kidding ,that was the fact that proved the hag was lying.
        
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        May 9, 2018 6:20am
    - softail 1450
      
      O M B E , you kb bloggers are being very tough on hillary ,this is an american and world leader who has actually experienced warfare having “come under sniper fire ” in bosnia .
      this lady has been under such stress trying to repair a broken world that it has caused her to “miss speak” 13,458 times ,please give her a break, (hopefully just below both knees).
      
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      May 9, 2018 6:11am
kowtow

“Nig” to be put down.

I’m surprised no SJW’s were triggered by the name.

What intrigues me is how the owner could afford a defence lawyer , she being of limited financial means.

‘A judge has ordered the destruction of a dog that mauled a 3-year-old, despite the Dunedin pet owner’s protestations.
Paula Marcell Rewi (32) appeared in the Dunedin District Court last month over the attack but opposed the mandatory destruction of the female black Labrador cross named “Nig”.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/crime/dog-be-put-down-after-mauling-boy
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May 8, 2018 8:04am
cmm

A year on and Kahui version 2 (or maybe version 23 by now) are having their case thrown out due to lack of evidence.

Apparently: “The police Child Protection team endeavour to keep children safe, and consider success in a connected prosecution as an important, but secondary objective.”

And: “Police strive to get the best outcome for all parties, and this was aided by appropriate adult behaviour and “brave ownerships of issues by adults” ”

It really sounds like bending over backwards so that the numbers don’t look bad.

Why do we even bother with a Child Protection team if they are not aggressively pursuing cases like these? Shit parents on drugs need very clear messages that their actions have consequences and are not tolerated. We can’t just be giving them cuddles and a free pass all the time.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12046753
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May 8, 2018 8:04am
- wreck1080
  
  Wow this flew under the radar!
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:25am
  - kowtow
    
    No , our media have more important things to obsess about than our appalling abuse statistics…….
    
    …..netball, Trump, Putin……
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:12am
    - GoVege
      
      ..Rugby….Arden….Shaw….
      
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      May 8, 2018 1:27pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  Some domestic violence protection outfit called Shine says there should be more education that shaking babies is harmful. Go figure.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:28am
- RF
  
  cmm
  
  Lovely photo. Click the link…
  
  Should be plastered across the front pages of every news paper in NZ.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:57am
- Gravelroad
  
  I am coming to the conclusion that I would rather see my raxpayer contributions go towards paying these drug addicted, violent women with no ethics NOT to have babies.
  Won’t happen, I know, but how much longer can we as a society sit back and see babies and children treated worse than the dog – and then make excuses for that? These people should not be having children. The only way to stop them having unwanted children is to pay them.
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:52am
  - GoVege
    
    True, Gravelroad.
    Our own David Garrett suggested this very sensible solution many years ago.
    Don’t let’s assume however that these parents are all “violent “.
    Raising young children is extremely draining work, especially when the mum/dad is a troubled young person on drugs.
    Which is why paying young people NOT to have kids, or at least delay having them, with incentives to do so, is so much better an idea than paying them to have them.
    
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    May 8, 2018 1:55pm
  - holysheet
    
    No It’s not. The only way to really, really really stop them is to steralise them
    Pay them to get this steralisation and the problem goes away.
    
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    May 8, 2018 1:57pm
    - GoVege
      
      You can’t tell young people they should never have kids, holy.
      They’ve had enough put-downs in their lives or they probably wouldn’t need drugs.
      Better to delay it for as long as possible with payments for keeping up with long-term contraceptives.
      If by some miracle they manage to turn their lives around by 30, they just might be able to do a good job of parenting.
      
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      May 8, 2018 3:29pm
- Piniwi
  
  Thanks cmm but what a heartrending read. The picture says it all really but the their birth was into a very different sort of hell on earth.
  
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  May 8, 2018 2:58pm
- softail 1450
  
  C M M,those pigs should be in the fucking clink,and that judge should undergo drug testing .
  
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  May 9, 2018 6:35am
Inandout

Mark said on Garner that we are not allowed to mention National got the most votes here under MMP. Hillary is different though. The TV3 news clip by Paddy was edited to say Hillary was a wonderful politician. Those who didn’t see his interview swallow the story.
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May 8, 2018 8:06am
- oldpark
  
  Did Mark mention the NZ taxpayer is committed to give Hillary and Bill another five million dollars for the years 2018/9. Go figure.Its known as the Clinton foundation.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:41am
- Harkman
  
  So I had my brothers two boys for the night (ages 9 & 7) and I had Fox on, as Trump was speaking. Suddenly they started telling me that Donald Trump is bad and Hillary Clinton is good. I argued with them for a bit, then changed the subject. The next day, worried that my brother who is the stereotypical yuppie had suddenly become a communist, I asked him about it. He was adamant he hadn’t even talked to them about politics. The conclusion we came to was that they were being brainwashed at a decile 10+ school (they are literally there from 8 AM til 6PM). The teacher’s union strikes again.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:54am
  - stephieboy
    
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    harkman,
    
    Brainwashed at school? Crap
    
    More than likely stupid and ignorant parents.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:56am
  - dime
    
    a relief in a way, at least your brother hasnt gone full retard.. or full stephie
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:30am
  - LisaGinNZ
    
    I’m not a parent, but I still worry what the F kind of leftist clap trap and lies the NZ school system brain washes into innocent children…
    
    The propaganda humans are in control of earth’s climate comes to mind… communism, socialism and other leftism = current curriculum.
    
    Good luck NZ parents… you’re gonna need it.
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:23am
Gentleman Bastard

Will today be the day the Labour Groper gets arrested and charged with crimes against minors?
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May 8, 2018 8:06am
- hullkiwi
  
  Is that a rumour, be careful….
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:17am
  - KevOB
    
    It’s a good question to keep repeating until what’s under the mat is revealed.
    Have the Police done anything about the serious allegations?
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:40am
    - holysheet
      
      NO. Plod were told by liabour that they have had a conversation with the complainants, nothing to see hear, move on.
      
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      May 8, 2018 8:56am
- calendar girl
  
  That Labour scandal has become something of a joke.
  
  When is our fearless Police Commissioner Mike Bush (MNZM) going to come out, of his own volition, to warn the nation about the scurrilous spreading of rumours? Including those about the identity of the alleged male offender (and the identity of his allegedly highly-placed relative in the Pardy)?
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:43am
  - holysheet
    
    Have you thought it might be a son of Bush, or another top person? If it was, payback was telling us to lay off cindy and her lover.
    
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    May 8, 2018 2:01pm
- stephieboy
  
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  GB , minors at 16 who have the right to marry?
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:45am
  - holysheet
    
    Still cannot beat your paedo proffit and his pre-puberty girlie bride eh stooopidboy
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:58am
  - calendar girl
    
    “…… minors at 16 who have the right to marry?”
    
    And minors (at 16 or any other age) who have a right not to be sexually assaulted.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:13am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Or given alcohol without their parents consent.
      Which is a crime.
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:01am
    - stephieboy
      
      calendar girl, sexually assaulted based on allegations that are subject to an ongoing police investigation!
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:06am
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        Go ahead and link me to any news media that is reporting this as an ongoing police investigation.
        I will wait.
        
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        May 8, 2018 10:59am
      - calendar girl
        
        SB, my questions were obviously linked to that “ongoing police investigation” to which you refer. By way of clarification, I would now like to know:
        
        1. Is it still an “ongoing police investigation”, as you suggest, or has it been quietly dropped without the public being advised of that outcome?
        
        2. Can we expect a statement any time soon from Police Commissioner Mike Bush, either:
        a) advising that the investigation has concluded, or (if still proceeding):
        b) warning people against discussing matters (‘spreading rumours’) that are or were under investigation?
        
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        May 8, 2018 12:03pm
      - softail 1450
        
        septicboy,,,fucking pedo moron.
        
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        May 9, 2018 6:41am
  - pdm
    
    S/boy. Obviously you are a youngster and therefore won’t know that back in the good old days – when men were men and women were glad of it – that a minor was anyone under age 21.
    
    Even then they could still marry at 16 with their parents consent.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:21am
  - Swifty
    
    You’ve been told before that one, at least, is reported to have been 15.
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:45am
Steve (North Shore)

Clinton came to NZ to stir the pot about China. She just hates it that we trade with China. Reports of over 3000 attending? more like 1200 – most of them on free tickets. Piss off to Australia Clinton, don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out. You lost and nobody cares.
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May 8, 2018 8:07am
- cmm
  
  I can’t see they made any money out of this. I hope the taxpayer didn’t underwrite the event.
  
  Perhaps the Aussies are dumber than us and go in droves. Somehow I doubt it.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:13am
- stephieboy
  
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  Steve, naturally it is OK if Trump raises similar fears and opens up a Trade war with China?
  
  Aye?
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:44am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t_KDGqOmE
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:25am
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Robo’s upcoming budget will be a game changer bros.
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May 8, 2018 8:07am
- stephieboy
  
  Got your stocks of bake beans and candles at the ready?
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:42am
  - Gentleman Bastard
    
    I can easily imagine you sitting in a bathtub full of baked beans with your goats, but what do you use the candles for?
    
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    May 8, 2018 12:35pm
- KevOB
  
  Too much of a gamer changer has already been announced.
  Govt doesn’t have the right to do as they please. Ideological thinking must be tested against the social contract. Govt’s have a duty of care not carelessness through acting on belief not reality.
  
  This govt must also consider they were not elected but selected. Winston has no mandate to appoint a govt so the govt must act within the constraints of having to keep much closer to the middle otherwise their could be an implosion.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:48am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Yup……Changing the game from
  Sprinting to a 3 legged race?
  High jump to potato sack race?
  Rugby to tiddly winks?
  Pole vault to pole dance?
  Bridge to snap?
  ?????
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:10am
- RW Capitalist
  
  How does Labour create a good economy?
  They start with a great one and work their way down from there.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:21am
- hullkiwi
  
  Game changer for who? The fortunes of NZ? The whole population? Or those that Cindy & Robbo deem need help?
  
  Remember the cupboard is bare, because we have been told so by the government spin machine!
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:24am
  - Piniwi
    
    Funny hullkiwi that sweet cheeks is crowing about a 910 million better surplus than expected so soon after their broken promise for reduced doctor visits? They are still reaping the benefits of taking over a strong economy and even that extra gain has been over committed ahead of when their real spending has yet to start. Even the WEP is turning out to be a poor substitute for tax cuts that dare we say would already been arriving in higher super payments since April Fools Day.
    
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    May 8, 2018 3:17pm
oldpark

Anyone wanting to be bored shitless. Make sure you go and see the worst so called NZ “comedy” movie ever made.Named the “Breaker Uppers”. Some clown and liar in a weekend newspaper gave it five stars and a must see. Seems they missed off a minus in front of the five stars.
To quote one of the sucked in conned movie goers. “They asked for a refund for having to watch such crap and rubbish”. Nuff said.
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May 8, 2018 8:08am
- SGA
  
  Not sure I understand – you have seen it, and thought it was rubbish? What was wrong with it?
  (For the record: not my sort of movie, so I am in no hurry to see it anyway).
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:13am
  - oldpark
    
    Was meant to be a “Comedy”.Thought i already said that.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:18am
    - SGA
      
      meh – still doesn’t tell me much. There is a certain amount of modern “comedy” that escapes me, anyway. On other hand, I remind myself that my parents didn’t “get” Monty Python, so I don’t let it upset me too much.
      
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      May 8, 2018 8:39am
- Longknives
  
  My ditzy blonde friend on Facebook said “OMG it’s like the funniest movie EVER”
  (She also said that last year about Hunt for the Wilderpeople)
  Every NZ ‘Comedy’ movie is automatically the ‘Funniest Movie Ever’ it seems…
  
  *She is the Teacher who wants Jacinda to be made Prime Minister for life because she is “Sooo Awesome”
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:40am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  The Blond and I went to see it. Theres 90 minutes Im never getting back. Roughly 3 laughs the whole movie, cost us $50 with popcorn for me, ice cream for her. Ugh.
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:06am
  - tf78
    
    It reminds me of the old joke about the blond who dropped dead in the hairdressers chair – shocked the hairdresser listened to her headphones “breath in, breath out”.
    
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    May 8, 2018 7:15pm
- sam green
  
  Did you actually go and see it oldpark?
  
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  May 8, 2018 12:32pm
Tarquin North

I see Golly G is taking her turn at running distractions by telling everyone people smugglers aren’t targeting us and Peter Dutton is a horrible person for even suggesting such things. This would be comical if it wasn’t so utterly embarrassing.
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May 8, 2018 8:11am
- cmm
  
  Perhaps she’s right.
  
  We have no proof they were trying to get to a Oz and NZ.
  
  Perhaps they’re all paying their life savings to get into a shitty hulk and go to PNG.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:16am
  - Harkman
    
    Yes, they want to be eaten alive by the untamed tribesmen. ??
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:44am
- oldpark
  
  Especially since Golly G is a refugee queue jumper. Maybe its alright when that lot do it.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:24am
- MCos
  
  It’s common knowledge that a Kiwi passport will gain the holder access to Australia. I could imagine people smugglers in Sri Lanka dangling this carrot in front of some poor bastard over there to get their money.
  They were probably lucky that old tub was intercepted in Malaysian waters because there’s no way it would have navigated the around Australia and over the Tasman.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:27am
  - kevn
    
    @MCos… Not so sure about that. A big boat with fair weather could probably make it to NZ if the engine kept going.
    There is a guy paddling a kayak to or from Aussie. He came very close to making it last time.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:50am
- Harkman
  
  So the Little Iranian liar is trying to help people get into nz illegally. “No surprises there.”
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:40am
- RF
  
  Golly G is just a sick joke…. right ?
  
  Another green that likes their names in the news at least once a month. Who is next on the roster.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:03am
- Piniwi
  
  Right TN only the Gang Green could have somebody with a dubious past in a such a role. Have to laugh though : “Green Party immigration spokesperson Golly Gee is accusing him of scaremongering.” She knows more that the Australians? They have intercepted 49 vessels proving the adage “prevention is easier than a cure”. This was the biggest they have seen yet and the people smugglers don’t care if it makes it to NZ or not. The fact remains it could have very easily reached here had it not been intercepted by their diligence.
  
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  May 8, 2018 3:30pm
oldgolfer

I just heard the infantile Willie Jackson try to explain why he had declared a labour shortage in the Bay of Plenty when there were 6000 in province out of work.
I would have got more sense out of the cat.
It beggars belief the man is a Minister of the Crown.
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May 8, 2018 8:15am
- peterwn
  
  But how many of the 6000 have actually applied for the jobs?
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:18am
  - kowtow
    
    How many are actually employable?
    
    A lifetime on cannabis and victimhood has created a huge social underclass .
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:26am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Careful, didn’t Bill English get into trouble for suggesting that?
      Isn’t it sweet how they vilified him, but are now finding out, that he was right.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:16am
    - GoVege
      
      I think it’s more several generations of bennydom has destroyed their work ethic, kowtow.
      Plus dads…and eventually mums, when the benny money dries up…failing to give their kids any guidance in life.
      My kids went to decile 1 schools and it was said to see kids dropping out of school at 14, often because they were no longer wanted when they became too expensive as teens, or dad was no longer around and mum’s new boyfriend resented their presence.
      
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      May 8, 2018 4:05pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Same up north. Dargaville kumara farmers complaining up to 40% of the kumara crop is rotting in the ground. He says if workers turn up it is only for a few days until they get paid, then they disappear until they need more money. Consequently kumara is up to $9/kilo in the shops.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:49am
- Paulus
  
  As a one time orchardist, who also worked in a packhouse, you would not want most of the unemployed anywhere near your fruit.
  They deliberately damage them to get sent back to Winz.
  Yes, I have seen this happen on more than one occasion which is why I worked in the packhouse to see why my outturn was not as expected..
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:34am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    Those lazy bastards should just starve. Refuse a job like fruit picking or deliberately fuck it up then no state money.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:53am
  - cas
    
    An old farmer told me that he employed a couple of people under a WINZ scheme or some such scheme on his farm. They waited till they had done sufficient time to be eligible for ACC then deliberately cut their leg so they could be stood down on ACC.
    
    An don’t even get me started on drunk locals turning up for work in packhouses. The MD of APATA kiwifruit made a lot of good on RNZ and you could see Guyon’s cogs whirling. Even he is asking the hard questions on the ‘missing 6000”.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:19am
    - waikatogirl
      
      When Cindy and Sepalongi come out and say there are no consequences if you choose not to work, what did they expect to happen? Not taking responsibility for your OWN life and living off the back of the taxpayer is now more than acceptable with a certain ilk, it is a lifestyle choice.
      
      The taxpayer are sick of paying for others laziness.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:30am
      - tf78
        
        Trouble is the “lazy ones” aren’t sick of everything being paid for.
        
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        May 8, 2018 7:20pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      The MD did make an important point at the end: seasonal work isn’t the ideal way to address this issue. He still wants plenty of seasonal immigrant labour to build up horticulture to then create full-time careers for Kiwis.
      
      I don’t know the answer, but even decent people would baulk at this:
      Imagine if you only have a few weeks of work, were still paying your Rotorua room in a flat (because you need somewhere to go back to soon), plus the $120 APATA flat.
      
      Maybe for seasonal work WINZ needs to find a way (or non govt. agency) to organise young people going from one to another seasonal job, building skills and without the problem of ‘what now’ after each seasonal job.
      
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      May 8, 2018 11:48am
      - tf78
        
        Baldrick, I have a cunning plan. Put the homeless people in mobile home type buses and they can drive around the country to where the work is.
        
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        May 8, 2018 7:22pm
  - Inandout
    
    Taranaki farmers tried kiwi workers, but most failed the drug testing, so they employ Filipinos. Kiwis still get the unemployment benefit regardless.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:34am
  - Piniwi
    
    @Paulus remember the daily Ag reports on the radio about the harvest in regions where pip fruit/kiwifruit are grown. They highlighted which variety was being harvested and when the next variety would start. Also any variations of the condition of fruit arriving at the pack houses with early bruising or damage. Suspect you also know what fantastic money a good contract picker can make in a season. Sorry to see those beautiful Jonathan apples have gone though.
    
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    May 8, 2018 3:45pm
- VicParking
  
  Its all Nationals Fault. Nobody asks the Elephant question in the room. “But you also had nine years to come up with a solution?” Willy said they will still be blaming National for the next 18 months.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:41am
  - alwyn
    
    “Willy said they will still be blaming National for the next 18 months.”
    Willy forgot his lines. The correct answer to that question, as distributed in the Official CoL handbook is.
    “National spent 9 years deliberating destroying the New Zealand economy in the interests of their foreign mates.
    We will be working for the people of New Zealand during every waking hour. However it will take us at least 9 years to fix things. When things remain in a mess over the next 9 years remember ‘It is all National’s fault'”.
    Don’t admit that something should get better in the first couple of years Willie. It merely leaves you with the need to invent a new lie when things actually get worse during that time.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:58am
- stigie
  
  Did anyone see Willie Jackson asleep in the house last Tuesday i think.
  I just shook my head and thought what an appalling politician who is just there fooling the NZ public !~
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:36am
  - Longknives
    
    Ha Ha remember that picture that did the rounds a few years ago of Hone Harawira asleep in Parliament?
    To his credit I believe it was one of the only times he actually turned up to work…
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:44am
- Northland Wahine
  
  A rare glance at Tv one news last night and I saw this. My 11 year old…11 ffs said to me, “mum, don’t we have people looking for jobs?”
  
  Yes son we do, but we have more lazy buggers unemployed not wanting to work than those looking for jobs.
  
  Can’t the government make them work and take away their benefit?
  
  Son, you’d think so eh? But if you were an employer, and some of your cousins turned up, would you want them working for you?
  
  No way! They could cause an accident!
  
  This from an 11 Yr old who is more interested in soccer and cricket than who the prime minister is.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:49am
  - waikatogirl
    
    NW, you have a clever and good boy there.
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:27am
    - Duxton
      
      Careful, waikatogirl. NW’s 11-year old could have been a soccer and cricket- loving girl.
      
      Stephieboy will report you to Julie-Anne Genter.
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:11pm
Poppa

I saw James Shaw arrive at Hamilton Airport last night alongside was obviously one of his minions complete with beard & downtrodden clothes

So what are you here to wreck James? There are no oil rigs here but we do have lots of filthy farmers.

I felt like asking him where his bike was
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May 8, 2018 8:27am
- Harkman
  
  You should have punched him, oops no don’t do that. Can’t hit girls.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:37am
- RF
  
  Was he flanked by his 2 mummy’s who usually act as minders for him.
  
  I hear that should you have the misfortune to shake his hand, yours should be quickly washed to remove the fish scales.
  
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  May 8, 2018 4:12pm
Simon

The people they brought in from overseas to pick kiwi fruit caused this:

2016/17 was the first year that Tauranga City Council did not host an organised public event at Mount Maunganui Main Beach, continuing the approach in 2017/18.

Council will carry on with the successfully implemented changes and will be working with NZ Police and other key organisations to enhance a safe environment for Tauranga’s residents and visitors.

https://www.tauranga.govt.nz/exploring/whats-on/annual-council-run-events/new-years-eve

The reasons for cancelling not reported by MSM for poltical correctness. The offending was off the charts apparently.
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May 8, 2018 8:29am
- holysheet
  
  The local ferals are too busy robbing the visitors and the tax payer to actually go and get a job
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:35am
holysheet

The graduate with a science degree asks, “Why does it work?”
The graduate with an engineering degree asks, “How does it work?”
The graduate with an accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?”
The graduate with an arts degree asks, “Do you want fries with that?”
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May 8, 2018 8:31am
- Lance
  
  Arts degree… like Architects?
  
  They earn a pittance.. no … wait
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:37am
  - GJM
    
    actually architecture pay is abysmal given the qualifications and registration required. I remember discussing it with an architect of several years of experience on the way to a job once As a graduate I was earning more than he was for a large architecture firm. It may have improved by now, but I doubt it.
    
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    May 8, 2018 5:38pm
- stephieboy
  
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  hoylsheet , I suppose you still laugh alone at your own flaccid and pointless jokes?
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:41am
  - holysheet
    
    Thats not todays joke but an announcement in the public interest, dumbarse.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:44am
- VicParking
  
  THe unemployed with no education says “What’s your dealers number”
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:44am
- lifesgood
  
  Interesting that the highly successful Bob Jones only employs people with arts degrees. He claims they make by far the best staff, and I should think he would know.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:42am
  - flipper
    
    How many does Robert Eric actually employ????
    Bugger all. Never has.
    Told me that staff are too much diverting trouble.
    He is a property owner and developer with a few regional “managers” to oversee local issues. Period.
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:54am
Chris R

In recent days I have driven around the South Island. I routinely heard radio adverts for Community Colleges etc where they were encouraging students to sign on for various qualifications. The alarming aspect of the adverts was that they didn’t refer to the merits of the qualifications or the enhanced employment chances but rather to the fact that the course costs are FREE! There was reference to how the government policy was making education more accessible as opposed to any evaluation of the merit of that education. The absurd free tuition idea is nothing but a rort for the “education providers.” This policy is dragooning young people into socialist clap-trap and defeat.
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May 8, 2018 8:34am
Harkman

Hilary Barry asked Hillary why the two Ls, out comes the congenital liar, this time she said the story that mum “wanted her to have two.” But two decades ago the story was that she was named after Ed Hillary despite Ed being an unknown when she was born in 1947. This woman can’t stop lying.
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May 8, 2018 8:35am
- Lance
  
  It’s important
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:39am
- holysheet
  
  No wonder Cindy looks up to this lying bitch. Peas in a pod if you ask me.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:43am
  - Longknives
    
    How many different/conflicting stories have we heard now about when and how Jacinda met Clark??
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:51am
- kevn
  
  @Hark… Hillary a liar eh, sounds like someone else we all observe. JA.
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:53am
- MCos
  
  Shock Horror
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:54am
stephieboy

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I posted yesterday how the President’s buddy Guliaini said that Trump doesn’t have to comply with a Mueller subpoena and could invoke the 5th amendment. The President, of course, had invoked the 5th amendment like various mobsters and other criminal unsavouriness ,

:Trump blasts those who take the Fifth, but he used it 97 times on adultery questions”

Pleading the Fifth is a well-known term in the U.S. justice system. The Amendment says American citizens have the right to not incriminate themselves, so those suspected of committing a crime can remain silent rather than deliver testimony.

Thousands of people have invoked that right over the years, from powerful politicians and business leaders to everyday people who refuse to testify when they’re being charged with a crime.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump criticized a particular group of people who invoked that right: former staff members of Hillary Clinton called on to testify about her setting up a private email server.

“So there are five of them taking the Fifth Amendment, like you see on the mob, right?” he said at another rally in Iowa, though it was three former Clinton staff members who pleaded the Fifth. “The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
 Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article105178626.html#storylink=cpy

 Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article105178626.html#storylink=cpy

A refresher on Guliani and the President’s non-compliance with a Mueller subpoena and pleading the 5th amendment is here.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/103674849/giuliani-says-trump-doesnt-have-to-comply-with-a-mueller-subpoena-and-could-invoke-the-fifth-amendment
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May 8, 2018 8:36am
- pentwig
  
  you are turning into a hugh sillyboy
  
  good for you
  keep it up.
  LOL
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:44am
  - stephieboy
    
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    pentwig,
    
    just provide a response to the fact your leader has pleaded the 5th amendment 97 times over adultery allegations.
    
    I repeat 97 times!
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:49am
    - holysheet
      
      Holy shit stooopidboy, you mean there are 97 women out there who find him desirable? Surely not.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:02am
    - pentwig
      
      I would suggest that the majority of American presidents were rooters who had normal tastes.
      I.E. Female and legal age.
      Unlike your leaders.
      I.E. Boys, camels, goats and underage girls.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:03am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Where to start???
      Best unemployment figure in 17 years
      Best minority (black/Hispanic) unemployment in 40 years
      Economic growth up
      Taxes own
      All in an unprecedented head wind of obstruction by the Dems.
      DJT popularity at 51% 3% higher than Obama at this stage.
      Clinton can hardly walk up stairs without falling down.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:27am
Anne Glen Eden

Two separate pictures of NZ. Clinton’s (and the Left/Liberal’ ) and the Security Services, showing the total disparity between the fantastical mythology of ‘perfect, peaceful’ NZ and the reality of a society which no longer has anything much to hold it together.

Clinton says:

“New Zealand’s success in bringing together people from different backgrounds and beliefs, having such a vital democracy as an example which we so desperately need in the world really means more in the 21st century than perhaps you even recognise.

Alternatively:

“Kitteridge’s briefings to Finlayson – and others in the documents – paint a picture of a dynamic and dangerous level of activity with which New Zealanders would generally struggle to identify. The 2014 State Services Commission review of the intelligence community stated: “Few New Zealanders have a realistic awareness of the level of threats facing them personally, their commercial enterprises, and New Zealand.”

Undoubtedly, the desirable and desired fantasy will continue. When reality finally starts to break out there will be lots of ‘sad, sorrowful’ musings and hand-wringing, accompanied by the usual inquiries which find we’re a wonderful ‘people’ who have done everything ‘right’ – pity about the collateral damage but the ideology is great.
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- stephieboy
  
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  Anne of Glen Eden.
  
  Two reactions.
  
  One hopeful ( Clinton’s ) and yours Paranoid and fearful?
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:54am
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    LOL. The typical ‘view’ of NZ.
    
    First, you call them a ‘reaction’. Really? To what?
    
    Secondly, “one hopeful” – pure fantasy. How we hope it will be, want to believe it is – as I say, head in the sand, fingers in the ears, screaming ‘la-la-la-la-la-la’.
    
    The other based on cold evidence of what really is. But that’s ‘paranoid and fearful’?
    
    Yep. That is ‘modern NZ’. Black is white and white is black. Good is bad and bad is good. Fact is fiction and fiction is fact.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:03am
    - kowtow
      
      Don’t respond to the troll , just downtick and it will disappear.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:18am
    - stephieboy
      
      Anne Of Glen Eden,
      
      didn’t realise the Bible was partisan in favour of rabid righters like you.
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:26am
    - KevOB
      
      We have it as Govt too!
      
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      May 8, 2018 11:57am
  - simpleton1
    
    For one who does readings in a church and lives in the land of impractical hopes, by denying truth.
    Isaiah 5:20
    20 They say that what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right; that black is white and white is black; bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:12am
- calendar girl
  
  A link to the second of your two quotes, please?
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:01am
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12046732
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:05am
- KevinH
  
  Not one person engaged within I.T in New Zealand would under estimate the dangerous pervasive influence counter intelligence poses to their business and personal lives.
  Never before has such an accessible platform for disseminating fake information been available, and now we live in an era where the use of those tools is commonplace.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:38am
holysheet

“G’Day mate, Aussie help line here What’s the problem,…. Cobber?”
“I’m in Darwin with my Sheila and she’s been stung on the minge by a wasp, and now her pussy has completely closed up.”
“Bummer, mate…!!!”
“Thanks mate, I hadn’t thought of that. Bye.”
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May 8, 2018 8:39am
Random T Person

Check how Whale Oil is spectacularly embarassing himself by going in to bat over the Regan Cunliffe/Eli school spat. Regan and his Mrs better wise up quick smart that running to YouTube, your mate’s blog, the school board and the courts just makes you look like a giant tool.
And next time, Eli, maybe you’ll eat your lunch to avoid the clip around the ear which caused all this ridiculous nonsense. You’re not going to be popular at Helensville School ever.
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May 8, 2018 8:41am
- doggone7
  
  I won’t go over there to see Whale Oil spectacularly embarrassing itself. Just reading down this page is enough to show me those who have a proper grip on the world and life are on here.
  
  Brought to mind “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
  The ones not bright enough, with more chips on shoulders, brain-bypassed at birth and just too plain nasty to make it into the institution, somehow got directed here.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:04am
  - Gentleman Bastard
    
    You must be Nurse Ratshit then. Tortured anyone lately?
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:11am
Rich Prick

Can anyone translate this steaming pile of shite. Nanaia Mahuta says Labour is “up for the converstaion” whatever the fuck that means. It’s quite the word salad.
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May 8, 2018 8:48am
- Poppa
  
  Mahuta has no idea what it means but she heard her leader say it often so it must be cool
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:04am
  - flipper
    
    It is dribbling down her stoneage chin ……..
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:14am
- RF
  
  That’s the same crap the commie chick PM spews out…
  
  e.g. “I push back on that”
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:22am
  - sooty
    
    What’s she pushing back on?
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:43am
    - simpleton1
      
      Just wish she would “push back” on the untaxed koha favours.
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:48am
    - Piniwi
      
      @ sooty wait for those contractions to start then talk us about push back. It is quite a show as this process is also not without unintended consequences and she is all out of turd glitter.
      
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      May 8, 2018 4:00pm
EAD_TWO

I’m not sure if anyone saw the news over the weekend but there was quite a bit of coverage of an American Jewish Shoah group who have launched a shaming campaign calling for the German Police to hunt down an 89 year old German Grandmother with “urgent pressure” after not showing up for her 2 year prison sentence that was supposed to start on Wednesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/06/shoah-group-urges-german-police-to-find-fugitive-neo-nazi.html

The people in control of the MSM have been describing 89 year old Ursula Haverbeck as a notorious fugitive Neo Nazi and they must catch her with “high pressure”. Their bestial hatred knows no bounds.

Go on German Police – obey the orders of the Shoah group and hunt that frail little old grandmother down and destroy her before she dares to speak again.
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May 8, 2018 8:55am
- EAD_TWO
  
  It’s this type of madness that makes normies question the Holocaust narrative they’ve had beaten into their consciousness since birth. All Ursula did was question it. Question what you’ve been taught & you’re a criminal facing years in prison.
  
  We’re in such a Weimar upside down bizarro mirror world that we have the German govt. ordering their police force not to prosecute violent 3rd world savages for sexual assaults yet orders from American Jews to hunt down 89 y.o. grandmother’s who speak of their experiences.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3420623/German-police-ordered-not-prosecute-migrants-two-months-New-Year-sex-attacks-Documents-officials-thought-pointless-arrivals-ID.html
  
  They surely have to realise that when they pull this kind of stuff, as they do continually, it’s only encouraging redpills.
  
  The majority of ordinary people, even if they’re too scared to say anything, surely see through the one sidedness and the galactic spitefulness.
  
  The truth has no fear of divergent thinkers. Only liars fear those who speak the truth.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:18am
mandk

“Their bestial hatred knows no bounds.”

and this from EAD_TWO talking about Jews.

LOL
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May 8, 2018 9:11am
- EAD_TWO
  
  Here is your big chance mandk – share with the Kiwiblog audience just one example of any type of “hatred” of mine.
  
  The reality is you can’t so instead you ignore what I actually post and lash out with a hatred quite unknown to mere political discourse.
  
  The truth has no fear of divergent thinkers. Only liars fear those who speak the truth.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:23am
  - mandk
    
    Ha, ha.
    
    Most of your comments denigrate Jews in one way or another.
    
    You give the impression that, if there’s a problem in the world, the Jews are somewhere behind it.
    
    It is obvious that you are completely and utterly consumed by a visceral loathing of Jews.
    
    Shalom.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:36am
    - realityczech
      
      Ha, ha.
      
      Most of your comments denigrate Muslims in one way or another.
      
      You give the impression that, if there’s a problem in the world, the Muslims are somewhere behind it.
      
      It is obvious that you are completely and utterly consumed by a visceral loathing of Muslims.
      
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      May 8, 2018 12:37pm
      - mandk
        
        You’re lying again, Kea.
        
        I have challenged you twice before to show where I have denigrated Muslims, or shown hatred towards them. But you have failed to do so.
        
        But I’ll challenge you again. Show me where I have denigrated Muslims.
        
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        May 8, 2018 12:54pm
      - realityczech
        
        mandk, yes I have called you out before and yet you still do it.
        
        You do not call others out with their daily anti Muslim rants even when they call for killing Muslims and active persecution. (Nor do I so much, as at least they are honest, unlike you.)
        
        You also misrepresent EAD and attack the messenger. He never calls for persecution and never singles out individuals. He challenges ideas and outcomes. He simply wants Jews held to the same standards as others and wants white Christian culture to be afforded the same respect as Jewish culture gets.
        
        It is not him wanting special treatment for Jews, it is sleazy bigots like you.
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:18pm
Kiwi Dave

Because I didn’t see yesterday’s Soper/Maori seats post until quite late, I’m putting my comment in GD.

One can partly defend Maori-only electorates, however ineffective and divisive they are, because they are constructed on approximately the same numerical voters-to-MP ratio as general seats.

Far less defensible, but coming to a local governments, are the thoroughly undemocratic co-governance arrangements justified on spurious ToW partnership grounds. Committees with 50% membership by iwi representatives, regardless of the actual demographics of the local body region, will have extensive decision making powers, and will all want funding.

Auckland has, I think, 16 of these planned or underway. If the performance of the authority on volcanic cones is anything to go by so far, we will soon be wistfully looking back on the good old days when the ACC was efficiently staffed by people quickly responsive and sensitive to the concerns of local people. (/sarc)

Undemocratic, racially unrepresentative, unaccountable government is a recipe for race relations friction and lousy decision making.
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May 8, 2018 9:14am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  I agree. But it’s part of the NZ fantasy.
  
  Despite evidence from throughout time and the world over, those pushing this particular strategy believe that NZers are not real human beings, are not subject to normal human responses or needs.
  
  They have the best of intentions of both sides – paving the ‘road to hell’. Maori believe they are finally achieving ‘equality’ – not that they believe it is ‘enough’. Others, especially Europeans, believe they are expiating their ‘sins’ and also achieving ‘equality’ – perhaps staving off dissension. Some, of course, are just in it for personal gain and a majority are ‘going along for the ride’ because they have no other choice – it’s where their self-interest lies.
  
  But institutionalised inequality has never worked. It didn’t work for the colonists anywhere – and that wasn’t because they were ‘white’ or ‘not indigenous’. It’s because it was unequal and society was completely fragmented. It won’t work here, either.
  
  But these things take time to come to fruition, just as it has taken time to get from the colonists to here – and during that time all manner of illusion will prevail.
  
  I could say it will end the same way – but it’s almost guaranteed to end much more violently, as it is everywhere else. It’s either ‘us’ or it’s ‘them and us’. You can lead the horse to water – force it’s head into the water or waterboard it – …. and all will eventually say, “We never meant that to happen. We had a dream”.
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:02am
Right of way is Way of Right

If you ever needed an example of how sometimes gender bias works in both directions, you need look no further than the shameful case of a new father in Christchurch who has cruelly been denied Paid Parental Leave in the most heartbreaking circumstances.

This father, who wishes to be known only as Keith, has fallen through a huge hole in the parental leave legislation, and the bureaucratic interpretation of the law in this case is something to behold. and it all goes to the definition of who is the child’s primary caregiver.

Keith’s wife, the mother of the child, sadly passed away; her heart stopped as she arrived at hospital, the child was born by c section. Keith was left to raise his son alone.

His wife was the primary caregiver, but as she had not worked in the 12 months leading up to the birth, she was ineligible to apply for PPL. Apparently this situation continues, even though the defined primary caregiver has now passed on. You would think in a situation like this the application process must be void, and the entire application treated as a new one, but this is not the case. Keith’s wife had no entitlement to transfer, therefore nothing is due to Keith, despite the fact that the initial primary caregiver is now dead. MBIE has suggested the father contact Work and Income! There is a gap in the legislation, and no possibility of ministerial discretion can be applied for under the legislation.

How could this legislation have been drawn up in such a way so that this poor man, at the worst possible time in his life, has now been kicked while he is down!!

Disgusting!
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May 8, 2018 9:18am
- Poppa
  
  I agree.
  
  I have no problem with my tax going to a worthy cause like this man.
  
  Surely there is a solution here, he should be able to fight it on the basis he is not a spouse & is now the primary caregiver
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:40am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Jacinda and Iain Galloway_Lees have sorted it out (for this chap)
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/national-video/news/video.cfm?c_id=1503075&gal_cid=1503075&gallery_id=192622
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:11am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Credit where it is due, pleased that ministerial intervention has found a way to address this issue, well done to all concerned.
    
    This is one of those times where despite my opposition to this Government, I’m happy to acknowledge when they step up and sort it out.
    
    Now sort out the legislation please!
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:29am
Manolo

Who wouldn’t feel sorry for the crooked hag?
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May 8, 2018 9:19am
BeaB

Typically asinine story on Stuff about the World tee shirt storm in a teapot.
The writer Michelle Duff says all the owner had to do was apologise and all would have been okay. By arguing with St John Campbell etc, Dame Denise is arrogant.
How dare she! Just grovel and sob your apology, woman, and prostrate yourself before the mighty god media.
And then trail through SE Asia on a personal pilgrimage of self-discovery.
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May 8, 2018 9:34am
- MCos
  
  It’s not a storm in a teacup.
  She deliberately labeled her stuff that is manufactured in Asia as made in NZ and charged accordingly.
  Furthermore she had the audacity to point out that the tags are made in New Zealand, so what’s the problem?
  This went on for seven years.
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:19am
  - BeaB
    
    People who buy clothes at World have plenty of dosh and plenty of smarts and know exactly what they are buying. They don’t need minders, certainly not PC ones.
    The point of the article and my comment was the reporter saying an apology would have solved the problem.
    The media want self-abnegation rather than solutions.
    So, I thought, good for Dame Denise. She gave as good as she got from gushy old John.
    We need more people to stand up to these self-appointed guardians.
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:45am
Manolo

All this while she and Bill are ripping us off:
https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/clinton_petition?recruiter_id=3529

This week the Taxpayers’ Union revealed that the new Government is set to continue taxpayer-funded payments to the controversial Clinton Foundation affiliate, the “Clinton Health Access Initiative”. $5.5m will be given in 2018/19.

This is on top of the $8million already forked out.
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May 8, 2018 9:35am
- sooty
  
  The book tour is just to blinside the idiots. She’s here to pull 5mill out of the stupid goverment.
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:47am
  - Gravelroad
    
    This rort has been going on since 2014. Perhaps someone from the National Party might inform us the rationale behind these aid
    donations from the people of a country small enough to be only an average city in the US to a hugely wealthy private foundation of dubious reputation?
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:07am
- KevOB
  
  Under what authority? What Vote item does it come under? Hasn’t the Clinton family become indecently rich through Hillary’s turn in office. She was complaining they were almost broke when the former POTUS left office.
  
  I am expecting her arrest in due course.
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:49am
waikatogirl

Go Bus say paying their drivers a ‘living wage’ would cost the company $14m a year. Expect your crappy bus ride to cost far more.
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May 8, 2018 9:35am
- Poppa
  
  I have no sympathy for Go Bus, they have set about hoovering up small bus operators all over the country for their own gain.
  
  Have a look at who owns it, & then tell me if they pay any tax
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:43am
- holysheet
  
  Bullshit wg. The ratepayer will pick up this cost with an increase in the subsidy on all bus rides.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:59am
BeaB

At Last! Gerry et al have taken a stand against Mallard’s dreadfully inept, partisan and self-indulgent speakership. He is the epitome of a lazy pedantic teacher, arbitrarily handing out demerits and giving favours to his pets.
He is extraordinarily condescending to National, especially the women. And disrespectful to MPs like Brownlee who have given years of sterling service to the country and to parliament.
We know Jacinda and her motley crew need someone to run protection for them but the stifling of Question Time is an affront to democracy.
It may even need a full boycott – or the Opposition refusing to ask any questions at all until things change.
At the moment they aren’t getting any answers so it wouldn’t make much difference.
Mallard is a disgrace but perhaps is doing his leader’s work in undermining key pillars of our democracy.
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May 8, 2018 9:41am
- Duxton
  
  I’ve said it before here.
  
  National need to go for the jugular with the lying shit, Mallard. Simply come out and ask if it is true that he is protecting Clare Curran because he was shagging her.
  
  Get kicked out. Return the next day, and repeat.
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:29pm
Tauhei Notts

All the added on costs!!!
I got my home insurance. The insurance company gets $353.80. I pay $896.77.
The difference is GST, Earthquake Levy and Fire Services Levy so that cats can be picked up from the top of power poles.
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May 8, 2018 9:49am
- tusker
  
  And pay for the fire brigade to attend fires at uninsured properties, cut uninsured people out cars and also to subsidise large corporates and overseas companies who own property in NZ but are able to exploit loopholes to avoid paying fire service levies on the full value of their property.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:59am
- MCos
  
  Cancel you insurance. Set fire to your house and the fire brigade will put it out on someone else’s dime.
  That’ll show them.
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:27am
Longknives

Can anyone in the know please tell me (We were discussing this at the pub quiz last night)
What exactly is the Prime Minister allowed to make a ‘Captain’s Call’ on and what must be put before Parliament?
How was she allowed to simply ban Oil and Gas exploration New Zealand? (With no consultation or discussion with anyone)
Could Miss ‘Capitalism has Failed’ make the call to ‘Ban’ other things that bug her before she goes??
Duck Shooting? Greyhound Racing? Diary Farming? Old White Men??
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May 8, 2018 9:59am
- simpleton1
  
  Longknives good point
  Was there even an Order in Council
  
  Is it just one of those things that she constantly signals all the time.
  
  Read my lips,, :”well I did say”. Is that the signal?
  “Captain! Ahoy there !”
  
  Are there any records of a meeting.” Was it constitutional?
  Who attended the “said” meeting?
  Who moved this motion?, who seconded this?
  Was that motion put to a meeting? Were there any abstentions? Any naysayers?
  Who spoke in favour?
  
  Captain’s call, the motion is still to be put?
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:40am
- Poppa
  
  Make no mistake this woman is dangerous. She believes she is unstoppable as the media have fawned all over her & given her a free ride.
  
  I would not be at all surprised if she made this decision all by herself & no doubt has plans to make others as the fancy takes her
  
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  May 8, 2018 10:55am
  - doggone7
    
    Make no mistake, saying she is dangerous and believes she is unstoppable is absurd.
    
    Is she more dangerous than the craziness which sees such stuff written?
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:28am
    - RF
      
      A relation of mine living in mother England is noticing a sudden burst of news reports about our commie PM.
      
      A photo that is being trotted out is on the one where she is very pregnant and dressed up in the Maori cape. My relation advises that she is likened to a pregnant parrot and considered a joke amongst his friends.
      
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      May 8, 2018 1:12pm
  - kowtow
    
    She;’s not the only one.
    
    Parker pushing the attack on dairy
    Woods on oil and gas
    Davis and Little emptying the prisons
    
    Please feel free to add to the team of wreckers and haters.
    
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    May 8, 2018 12:03pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      The IR law changes for employers
      
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      May 8, 2018 2:12pm
    - Duxton
      
      The lying Iranian, Golly Jizzinyourface, wanting to import rapists from Manus Island.
      
      The useless POS, Julie-Anne Genter, encouraging schoolkids to hate White Men.
      
      The feral inbreed, Notsurewhomydadis Mahuta, wanting a conversation.
      
      The daughter of a thieving dole bludger, Septic Sepuloni, wanting to open the welfare floodgates.
      
      Someone else’s turn…
      
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      May 8, 2018 10:39pm
- Ross12
  
  Longknives
  
  All she really did at the time was say there was going to be no off shore block offering this year. They framed it in a way to make a big splash in the headlines. So it was not really a “captains call” in the sense you are alluding to.
  Apparently they are amending the Crown Minerals Act at the moment, which is going through Parliament.
  NB. I heard yesterday the OMV ( the huge Austrian company that has big investments in the NZ O&G industry has been trying to get a meeting with Minister Megan Woods –can not get anywhere. Maybe a big boy from Vienna will come down soon to have a “chat” with the PM.
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:12am
- KevOB
  
  Do we now have Her Supreme Highness Taxinda personally enacting laws? Forget parliament.
  
  Power to the people. Our present controllers have broken their contract of governance.
  
  It is not proper to attempt to bribe us with our own money which they have to take from us under compulsion. They have no right to wreck our economy for ideology.
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:43am
BeaB

Excellent comment about Mallard on Whaleoil:

“I saw a comment on Stuff about this that really annoyed me.
The person said that he’s better than David Carter because Carter almost lost control of the MPs a few times.
The thing is, their job is less about controlling the MPs than it is ensuring robust debate. Given the egos, ideology and childish nature of some of the MPs, you can expect to lose control once in a while because things will get heated.
The fact that this isn’t happening so often under Mallard is because he’s taken the typical authoritarian attitude of the Left. He’s simply shut down reasoned debate before it can get heated.
That is not his job. It does a massive disservice to our democracy that he is being so blunt against reasoned and robust debate.
What’s the next step? Simply not allowing National to speak at all? Then what, not allowing them to vote?
It’s the first step towards an authoritarian rule. They may not be planning on going that far but they are on the path.”
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May 8, 2018 10:49am
- doggone7
  
  More madness of course. Granted Mallard is the worst Speaker since David Carter, but just because the ref’s ruling as he interprets the rules it’s the first step towards an authoritarian rule and they are on the path to that? Get a bloody grip!
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:35am
  - BeaB
    
    Scoff if you like but with the waka jumping law and more to come, you wait and see.
    This crowd knows best and wants to exert control.
    Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:49am
    - doggone7
      
      Are you blaming the waka jumping law and the ‘more to come’ on Mallard?
      
      Granted it was only off Whaleoil but there’s linking how Mallard rules with the agenda of the government and its policies. And it meaning they’re heading us towards authoritarian rule.
      
      It’s emotional bullshit. But then again it’s from Whaleoil.
      
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      May 8, 2018 1:01pm
      - BeaB
        
        Gosh. Emotional bullshit. And I thought it a well-written c0mment saying something important.
        You sit back and relax. I am sure Jacinda has thr0wn 0ff her socialist past. After all, she met the queen and fawned like the rest of us. Everything in the garden is lovely.
        Nothing to worry about at all.
        
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        May 8, 2018 1:13pm
- lifesgood
  
  No wonder he is a failed school teacher. I bet the kids absolutely loathed him. What with his sanctimonious, condescending voice and his bullying ways. Schools are well shot of him. Also its no wonder he’s been through a few women. You can just imagine what he’d be like to live with.
  
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  May 8, 2018 1:34pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    “Also its no wonder he’s been through a few women. You can just imagine what he’d be like to live with.”
    
    Sanctimony is always well received from your partner! ? ? //
    
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    May 8, 2018 2:16pm
Surely Knott

When you bring your recycled bag to the store. And then buy a 3 pack roll of doggie poo bags, and some freezer bags to freeze your feijoas.
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May 8, 2018 10:58am
- Poppa
  
  It won’t be good look when they try & put frozen veges into a paper bag will it? Good luck getting them home in one piece
  
  I think they may pay the price of unintended consequences
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:16am
  - Gravelroad
    
    The Green Party answer to that is that you should not be buying frozen veges, comrade.
    Where is your organic vegetable garden??
    Directive: please ensure your organic garden does not use cow manure.
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:22am
    - RalphT
      
      Agree, no cow manure. But don’t worry, the Greens will supply each household with an endless supply of their own brand of bullshit.
      
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      May 8, 2018 11:30am
      - sooty
        
        No, the greens will be importing frozen cowshit, because of the shortage!
        
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        May 8, 2018 12:00pm
      - RalphT
        
        No, no, sooty. Commercial freezing uses methane derivatives and other gases, strictly a no-no. Sadly the shit will have to be imported unfrozen, and on a sailing vessel. One has to feel sorry for the crew; by the time they get here they and the ship will be stinking to high heaven.
        
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        May 8, 2018 1:29pm
  - GoVege
    
    They wrap them in newspaper first, Poppa.
    
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    May 8, 2018 2:35pm
Manolo

Weeds are hard to remove:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/07/orrin-hatch-john-mccain-funeral-trump-invite-572681
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May 8, 2018 11:20am
Manolo

Did the hag wear this in Auckland?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5700455/Hillary-Clinton-spotted-wearing-supposed-brace.html

Hillary Clinton has been spotted on multiple occasions lately wearing long jackets paired with colorful scarves that cover her neck and drape down over her back.

But Clinton’s style choice, which she has even worn out in 80 degree temperatures, has prompted speculation that she has something to hide… a back brace.

Eagle-eyed social media users noticed a strange protrusion coming from Clinton’s back when she was photographed visiting her daughter Chelsea’s apartment in New York last week.
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May 8, 2018 11:23am
- dime
  
  shes clearly unwell.
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:54am
  - sooty
    
    Is it a bullet proof vest?
    
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    May 8, 2018 12:02pm
    - Gentleman Bastard
      
      Space suit to help her transmute the oxygen in the atmosphere into the gases from her home planet.
      
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      May 8, 2018 12:47pm
    - RF
      
      Most vests are made of Kevlar and fitted close to the body although some do have plates inserted in the chest area. These can absorb high power rifle shots etc
      
      Doubt if she would be such a target.
      
      My money is on a back brace.
      
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      May 8, 2018 12:58pm
    - kowtow
      
      Marionette control bar.
      
      Putin can then pull her strings.
      
      You heard it here first!
      
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      May 8, 2018 1:52pm
- Inandout
  
  That is merely a ruck sack to carry the Clinton Foundation loot.
  
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  May 8, 2018 2:28pm
- 4077th
  
  Maybe it’s like a re-breather, she connects one end to her mouth and the other to her arse? Recycling the stinky hot air..
  
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  May 8, 2018 2:55pm
Hugh Pavletich

How state governments plundered house prices – Leith van Onselen – MacroBusiness Australia
… behind paywall …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/state-governments-plundered-house-prices/

CoreLogic has produced an interesting analysis of the rivers of gold flowing to the states from Australia’s property bubble, whereby the tax take has doubled in just 11 years:

Over the 2016-17 financial year, state and local governments collected $52.5 billion in taxes from property with the figure climbing by 5.9% over the year. The taxation take from property is now more than double what it was in 2005-06. Property taxes accounted for an historic high 52.8% of all tax revenue for state and local governments, up from 51.9% over the previous year. … read more via hyperlink above

… Pavletich comments on thread …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/state-governments-plundered-house-prices/#comment-3100423

… which explains why State and Local governments collude to strangle land supply … to create the artificial land / housing inflation conditions, so they can ‘milk’ the property market for all its worth.

The foundation of these unnecessary housing bubbles is governments costs out of control.

State and Local governments should not be allowed to mess about with land supply … and should be required to debt finance infrastructure appropriately … along the lines of the Texas bond financing Municipal Utility District (MUD) system.

Introductory information to this issue down left column of my archival website at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .

The Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Surveys (14 to date … access http://www.demographia.com ) provide a guide to the affordable and near affordable North American housing markets … to check out new home prices. Just google search ‘New Homes … North American metro of your choice’ to learn more about real market pricing for new homes.

Here is an example …

Pulte Homes Suburban Development Phoenix Arizona

https://www.pulte.com/homes/arizona/phoenix/florence/parkside-at-anthem-at-merrill-ranch-7739#CommunityDetailsView

When do the authorities intend TO ALLOW (that’s all really) us to build at these prices in Australia and New Zealand ?
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May 8, 2018 11:31am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/state-governments-plundered-house-prices/#comment-3100424
  
  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 …
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  … What are other Australian and New Zealand metros learning (about urban expansion) 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 (central) East Frame development has been uphill all the way.
  
  However, take the road (south) 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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  Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/state-governments-plundered-house-prices/#comment-3100551
  
  The Economic Implications Of Housing Supply – Edward Glaeser & Joseph Gyourko
  
  https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.32.1.3
  
  The Effect of Zoning on Housing Prices … Reserve Bank of Australia Discussion Paper
  
  https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2018/pdf/rdp2018-03.pdf
  
  The Urban Containment Effects (Zoning Effects) On Australian House Prices (RBA Report) … Wendell Cox … New Geography
  
  http://www.newgeography.com/content/005921-the-urban-containment-effect-zoning-effect-australian-house-prices
  
  … extract …
  
  • In Sydney, the urban containment effect adds $489,000 to the house price making the annual mortgage payments $29,000 higher. Figure 4 shows the components of the average house price in Sydney.
  
  • In Melbourne, the urban containment effect adds $324,000 to the house price, making the annual mortgage payments $19,000 higher.
  
  • In Brisbane, the urban containment effect adds $159,000 to the house price, making the annual mortgage payments $9,000 higher.
  
  • In Perth, the urban containment effect adds $206,000 to the house price, making the annual mortgage payments $12,000 higher.
  
  • No data is available for Adelaide, but the present median multiple (median house price divided by median household income) suggests that urban containment effect adds at least $13,000 to the mortgage. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  … When do the authorities in Australia and New Zealand intend to restore normal housing markets … so normal banking and finance sectors can be restored as well ?…
  
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  May 8, 2018 11:34am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Sales rates ranged from 9% to 40% at Barfoot & Thompson’s main auctions last week | interest.co.nz
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/property/93602/sales-rates-ranged-9-40-barfoot-thompsons-main-auctions-last-week
    
    Barfoot & Thompson had an overall sales rate of 28% at the agency’s auctions last week.
    
    Barfoot marketed 157 properties for sale by auction and achieved sales on 44 of those, with the remaining 113 mostly passed in for sale by negotiation, with a few having their auction dates postponed. … read more via hyperlink above …
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    NZ job ads fall 2.1 percent in April -ANZ Bank – Nasdaq.com
    
    https://www.nasdaq.com/article/nz-job-ads-fall-21-percent-in-april-anz-bank-20180502-01941
    
    WELLINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) – Job advertisements in New Zealand slipped 2.1 percent in April from the previous month, a survey by ANZ Bank showed on Thursday.
    
    Annual job ad growth slowed to 3.9 percent from 6 percent the previous month, the survey showed, suggesting a softer outlook for the labour market.
    
    “With both surveyed business confidence and hiring intentions down, weaker labour demand is likely the main driver,” said Liz Kendall, senior economist at ANZ Bank.
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    https://www.anz.co.nz/resources/9/0/9017e2e1-56a4-4f3f-ad89-7d3a64f2a7b9/ANZ_Business_Outlook_20180430.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
    
    … extract …
    
    … The construction sector stood out this month. In short: its confidence plummeted; own activity plunged; employment indicators were mixed; expected profitability plunged to the lowest level since 2009; pricing intentions eased; investment recovered; capacity utilisation was unremarkable; residential construction intentions fell to the lowest since mid-2015; commercial construction intentions fell 4 points but are still higher than November; perceived ease of credit continues to recover but remains negative. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    May 8, 2018 11:43am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      There must be an endless supply of drivel stored up at Hugh’s place.
      
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      May 8, 2018 11:50am
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        I often wonder why we wait for 30 downticks when 6 clicks on the report button would rid us of the inane threadjacker and stop him from being able to post a wall of shit in a row.
        Uptick if you’re prepared to do this from now on.
        
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        May 8, 2018 12:50pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        UPDATE – New (IPSOS) survey reveals housing, poverty and healthcare most concern New Zealanders – NZ Herald
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12047092
        
        A recent survey on key issues concerning New Zealanders has shown that housing accessibility and affordability are at the forefront of people’s minds.
        
        The first of the quarterly New Zealand Issues Monitor reports, run by global market research company Ipsos, interviewed 610 respondents over the age of 16.
        
        It sought to track what New Zealanders were concerned about, who is worried about what and which political parties are seen to be best able to improve matters. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        … Access full report …
        
        The New Zealand Ipsos Issues Monittor
        
        https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/New%20Zealand%20Ipsos%20Issues%20Monitor%20May%202018.pdf
        
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        May 8, 2018 1:15pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Pity to see you yellow Tories are still bitter.
        
        The big question is … are you dumb motherfuckers learning anything ? — refer GONE GONE GOING section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
        
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        May 8, 2018 1:17pm
      - labrator
        
        The big question is … are you dumb motherfuckers learning anything ? — refer GONE GONE GOING section
        
        Hey Hugh, your marketing needs some work. I’m not sure what book you read that told you that calling people “dumb mother fuckers” right before your close but I think you’ve been misled.
        
        But while we’re talking about “dumb mother fuckers”, did you get that mirror I sent you?
        
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        May 8, 2018 1:24pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Hugh Pavletich:
        
        Pity to see you yellow Tories are still bitter.
        
        The big question is … are you dumb motherfuckers learning anything ? — refer GONE GONE GOING section
        
        No, seeing as you have such a low opinion of Kiwiblog readers, the “big question” is when will you make good on your “GONE GONE GOING” promise and fuck off?
        
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        May 8, 2018 2:12pm
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        Oh Geez I hadn’t even bothered with the report button until the dumb motherfuckers comment.
        I won’t be so remiss from now on.
        
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        May 8, 2018 2:32pm
big bruv

Feel like bashing somebody with a hammer? Just tell them you’re a footy player and you’ll get away with it.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/103697000/rugby-player-sidesteps-weapon-conviction

More proof that you can do anything you like in this country if you play rugby. It really is embarrassing being a Kiwi sometimes.
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May 8, 2018 12:13pm
- doggone7
  
  It really is embarrassing being a Kiwi sometimes.
  
  Like when you see some with such a psychopathic hatred of a sport they write such twisted rubbish.
  
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  May 8, 2018 12:36pm
  - Gentleman Bastard
    
    You’re talking about Mark Reason aren’t you?
    
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    May 8, 2018 12:53pm
  - big bruv
    
    Did you see that outstanding piece Stephen Jones wrote about Dan Carter and NZ rugby?
    Jones really is a class above the sycophantic crap written in NZ, the only exceptions being Mark Reason and the odd piece by Chris Rattue.
    
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    May 8, 2018 4:19pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘Judge Butler ordered the destruction of the hammer.’
  
  Thank God for that , one less dangerous weapon off our streets!
  
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  May 8, 2018 12:45pm
  - Gentleman Bastard
    
    OI. You got a loisence for that hammer mate?
    BIN IT.
    
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    May 8, 2018 12:51pm
- Longknives
  
  Remember High School Bruv?
  The First XV never get in trouble!
  
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  May 8, 2018 12:59pm
  - doggone7
    
    That implies having been to school.
    
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    May 8, 2018 3:21pm
  - big bruv
    
    Yes Knives, I remember it well. Even then I felt uneasy at the way some of my team members got away with things that any other boy at the school would have been caned for.
    Property destruction in the pre game ‘rev up’, assault of non rugby playing kids on game day brushed aside due to the First XV member being ‘in game mode’
    Funny thing about that though, it was always the ones who hid when the going got tough that did all the yelling and screaming in the changing sheds before the game.
    
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    May 8, 2018 4:25pm
cha

Domestic violence, assault, road rage, threatening to kill, firearms offences and another mugshot for the collection, but the unarmed 17-year-old was the thug.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/george-zimmerman-charged-stalking-private-eye-working-jay-z-project-n872111
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May 8, 2018 12:16pm
- realityczech
  
  Yes that is what a jury decided after hearing the relevant facts. Are you suggesting we should convict for murder based on past misdemeanors?
  
  Won’t work too well for violent black thugs dickwad
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  May 8, 2018 12:25pm
- cmm
  
  “but the unarmed 17-year-old was the thug. ”
  
  In this case yes.
  
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  May 8, 2018 1:52pm
Anne Glen Eden

Meanwhile, in the tolerant, civilised multicultural society which is the UK (especially London) and where there is ‘gun control’:

“Met Police records show 37, 443 recorded KNIFE OFFENCES and 6,694 recorded GUN OFFENCES across the UK in the year up to September 2017.

In London, the problem was even more pronounced than the rest of the country, with 12,980 knife crimes taking place in the capital – 2,452 more than the equivalent year.

At least 36 people have been fatally stabbed – and 62 overall killed – in London since the beginning of the year. Four teenagers were stabbed to death in London on New Year’s Eve alone, and 22 were killed in March – meaning the capital now has a higher murder rate than New York.

[And] … a bank holiday weekend which saw a wave of violence sweep across the country.

• “A boy, believed to be aged 16, was found suffering from a stab wound.”

• Two boys, aged 15 and 13, were shot in the head in London on Sunday. The teenagers were hit by shotgun pellets in Harrow, northwest London, in what police called a “callous, reckless and brazen act”…

• Police were called at 3:53pm on Monday, 7 May following reports of a stabbing in Broomfield Park. The 13-year-old, who was believed to have been an innocent bystander…

• … Rhyiem Barton, 17, was shot dead on Saturday in south London.

• A 22-year-old man also suffered gunshot wounds in Lewisham, southeast London and…

• …a 43-year-old was stabbed in Perivale, north west London, after a dispute about driving.

• Outside of London, a teenager was seriously injured after being shot in the leg in Clayton, Manchester on Monday afternoon …

• Fatah Warsame, 20, was stabbed to death in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of Sunday.

Is the problem really the type of weapon used?
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May 8, 2018 12:59pm
- Gentleman Bastard
  
  Yes. The other day I left a knife unguarded on my porch and by the time I got home from work it had stabbed 4 random people and brutally murdered a Home Direct truck driver.
  BIN THOSE KNIVES.
  
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  May 8, 2018 1:04pm
  - Inandout
    
    Sounds like the Glasgow ‘razor gangs’ of the 1930s.
    
    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/razor-gangs-ruled-the-streets-but-even-960790
    
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    May 8, 2018 2:25pm
- MH
  
  i’d have a guess and say the majority are soccer supporters.
  
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  May 8, 2018 4:47pm
Poppa

Another brilliant idea from that genius Mahuta

Compulsory Te Reo in schools. God help us if they all turn out as intelligent as she is!
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May 8, 2018 1:00pm
- Longknives
  
  Has she had any kids with her Cousin?
  
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  May 8, 2018 1:57pm
  - holysheet
    
    Nah she is the result of such a union. They were both pissed on the occasion.
    
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    May 8, 2018 2:16pm
  - milkmaid
    
    She has. Her partner is her first cousin.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3538081
    
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    May 8, 2018 5:09pm
Poppa

I see a question in the House today involves Amy Adams asking sweet cheeks to confirm that they are borrowing $10billion

Hello to the hole…..didn’t take long did it!
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May 8, 2018 1:22pm
- cmm
  
  If he was honest he would say no. We’re going to need to borrow $20bil.
  
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  May 8, 2018 1:49pm
Happychappy

Sweet Cheeks announces that the Government has more than $910 million
than forecast last December by the Treasury, then goes on to say this has come about by prudent management from the new Government.
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May 8, 2018 1:25pm
- RalphT
  
  Please Happy, don’t refer to him as Sweet Cheeks. The image that comes to mind of his large flapping cheeks is just too much; I’m feeling a ~~little queer~~ trifle unwell and need a lie-down.
  
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  May 8, 2018 1:53pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Yes – WP also claimed credit for the record low unemployment rate announced last week.
  He seems to have retreated from his “the sky is falling” speech in October
  
  Lesson here:
  Statistics that are good = Col did it!
  Statistics that are bad = its all Nationals fault
  
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  May 8, 2018 6:06pm
cmm

In Maoist China they melted down their serviceable ploughs to achieve idealogically driven metal production goals. Unfortunately the resulting metal was useless… and people starved due to lack of food.

In NZ we knock down serviceable accommodation to build idealogically driven train tracks. Unfortunately the trains likely will not achieve their desired effects… and there’s 21 less apartments in an accomodation-starved Auckland.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12047181
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May 8, 2018 1:48pm
NZDirect

So after munting Oil & Gas and demo’ing Dairy – both decisions based on nil consultation, involvement of Treasury or any economic impact assessment, could this be the next target http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44005013
I trust Mr Bridges makes a serious play at reversing these decisions in order to secure >50% and govern alone without minority interest groups hellbent on driving NZ into a new decade of mediocrity.
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May 8, 2018 2:00pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Well, the important folks will still have to jet across the world and through the Pacific to attend important chat fests and spread goodwill.
  
  The hoi-polloi may just have to do with a weekend at Himatangi Beach or a visit to some exposed old tree.
  
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  May 8, 2018 3:40pm
Steve (North Shore)

CH31. Oh boy, there are some angry people today!
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May 8, 2018 2:17pm
- Gentleman Bastard
  
  Are the CoL catching up with the hoi polloi in anger stakes yet?
  
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  May 8, 2018 2:34pm
Nostradamus

I’ve decided to do a Morrissey and transcribe part of a Radio NZ interview from this morning – Nanaia Mahuta ~~discusses iwi water rights, pollution reduction~~ talks gobbledygook:

Guyon Espiner: I go back to your policy in 2017: “Labour will seek to resolve the issue of Maori rights and interests in freshwater”. That’s your policy. I’m asking how you are going to do that?

Nanaia Mahuta: We’re a coalition confidence and supply government. We are currently all around the table balancing up all the range of interests. We know that this is a difficult issue. We’re up for the conversation. We know that transitioning current land use to future land use to move from a volume to value economy will require some rethinking of a number of things. If I look to the gains that have been had, so for example, in the Waikato as a result of a Treaty settlement, where the emphasis was on water quality, it led to a planned change because there was intensification in the upper catchment. It took 2 years for all the stakeholders – farmers, iwi, regional councils and the like – to get around the table and say what can we do to transition to a different space, so that water quality is improved, so that we’re giving farmers time to transition to the way in which land is used, so that everybody is a part of the solution, so there are examples out there… [Guyon cut her off]

It’s a toss-up between Willy and Nanaia as to who is more useless! (Mind you, on the bright side, Willy was able to correctly state the minimum wage when Guyon asked him this morning – so that’s something!)
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May 8, 2018 2:41pm
- Rich Prick
  
  The only salads Mahuta is familiar with are ones made with slogans.
  
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  May 8, 2018 2:59pm
- lifesgood
  
  What a load of rubbish she spouted. How on earth do these people get into a position of power? She’s thick.
  
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  May 8, 2018 5:36pm
Anne Glen Eden

Interesting work which needs to be revisited.

“In a 1962 edition of Scientific American, the ecologist John B Calhoun presented the results of a macabre series of experiments conducted at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).1 He had placed several rats in a laboratory in a converted barn where – protected from disease and predation and supplied with food, water and bedding – they bred rapidly. The one thing they were lacking was space, a fact that became increasingly problematic as what he liked to describe as his “rat city” and “rodent utopia” teemed with animals. Unwanted social contact occurred with increasing frequency, leading to increased stress and aggression. Following the work of the physiologist, Hans Selye, it seemed that the adrenal system offered the standard binary solution: fight or flight. But in the sealed enclosure, flight was impossible. Violence quickly spiralled out of control. Cannibalism and infanticide followed. Males became hypersexual, pansexual and, an increasing proportion, homosexual. Calhoun called this vortex “a behavioural sink”.

Their numbers fell into terminal decline and the population tailed off to extinction. At the experiments’ end, the only animals still alive had survived at an immense psychological cost: asexual and utterly withdrawn, they clustered in a vacant huddled mass. Even when reintroduced to normal rodent communities, these “socially autistic” animals remained isolated until death. In the words of one of Calhoun’s collaborators, rodent “utopia” had descended into “hell”.

Focus now shifted away from simply identifying the pathological consequences of density and towards factors that mediated its effects. This was aided by a distinction between “density” as a physical measure and “crowding” as a subjective response. Feeling crowded was determined by a range of social and psychological factors: AN INDIVIDUAL’S DESIRED LEVEL OF PRIVACY, THEIR ABILITY TO CONTROL A SITUATION OR THEIR SOCIAL ROLE. ….By reducing unwanted interaction through improved design of space … crowding stress could be avoided… Through improved design and increased control, Calhoun attempted to develop more collaborative and adaptable rodent communities capable of withstanding greater degrees of density.

In focusing upon crowding, not only were the benefits of dense city-living ignored, but other causes of urban pathology, such as poverty and inequality, were neglected. Yet Calhoun’s work considered many of these factors, suggested how they could be overcome, and as such, his role deserves reconsideration.

“…medical historian Edmund Ramsden about Calhoun’s work: Ultimately, “rats may suffer from crowding; human beings can cope,” … Another researcher, Jonathan Freedman, turned to studying actual people — they were just high school and university students, but definitely human. His work suggested a different interpretation. MORAL DECAY COULD ARISE “NOT FROM DENSITY, BUT FROM EXCESSIVE SOCIAL INTERACTION,” Ramsden says. “Not all of Calhoun’s rats had gone berserk. THOSE WHO MANAGED TO CONTROL SPACE LED RELATIVELY NORMAL LIVES.”

So – in our society, particularly in the age of social media:

* Just how many individuals do not suffer from ‘density’?

*Have “a desired level of privacy, ability to control their situation or their social role”?

*Have “control of their space”?

That’s the problem. Current society wants control of every individual’s mind, body, and soul – and society goes out of its way to drag them into unwanted contacts to “re-educate” them. Different people may know the theories, but ‘fiscal realities’ and lobby groups with agenda prevent the correct actions/designs being followed. The results are not going well and bear a marked similarity to:

“…increased stress and aggression… in the sealed enclosure, flight was impossible. Violence quickly spiralled out of control. Cannibalism and infanticide followed. Males became hypersexual, pansexual and, an increasing proportion, homosexual… “a behavioural sink”. Their numbers fell into terminal decline and the population tailed off to extinction. At the experiments’ end, the only animals still alive had survived at an immense psychological cost: “socially autistic” animals.”
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May 8, 2018 2:45pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Calhoun was an ethologist not an ecologist.
  
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  May 8, 2018 3:09pm
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    Thanks, Maggy. Not my quote – wasn’t going to misquote.
    
    He may have been an ethologist but he worked on the ‘Rodent Ecology Project at Johns Hopkins University’. I assume that’s why they used the term.
    
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    May 8, 2018 3:15pm
Paulus

I saw on TV last evening a programme on the City of Moscow.
It went through a number of active scenarios in which the Muscovites attended parades and the organised salutations of Putin the Tzar,
I also reflected as an very mature citizen that we had seen all this before.
The only difference was that the bloke shouting the odds before was called Hitler.
He was like Putin the master of salutary demonstrations.
Underneath both examples was the leaders of fear and violence installed by the protectors.
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May 8, 2018 2:45pm
- Harkman
  
  But did Hitler ever ride shirtless?
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:39pm
starboard

Breaking ( wind ) news..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/103718683/lizzie-marvelly-turns-down-lgbti-award-and-comes-out-as-a-bisexual
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May 8, 2018 3:10pm
- Nostradamus
  
  That’s a shame Starboard. You and Lizzie could have made a great celebrity couple, but now you’ll have to settle for the Thai princess!
  
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  May 8, 2018 3:18pm
- RalphT
  
  Oh No! This will mean even more stories about this talentless wannabe, “my struggle for acceptance” “people don’t understand”…
  
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  May 8, 2018 3:31pm
- alex Masterley
  
  I don’t care!
  
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  May 8, 2018 3:50pm
  - lifesgood
    
    As a matter of interest do you have to be gay to be a woman comedian in NZ? And where have all these transsexuals come from suddenly? They used to be as rare as hens teeth as they should be. It is not normal to think you are a male or female when you are not.
    
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    May 8, 2018 5:38pm
Gentleman Bastard

Keep reporting Hughs posts and hiding them from view. At least 6 of his screeds of text have been destroyed today, including the one where he called us all “stupid motherfucker yellow tories”.
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May 8, 2018 3:30pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Gentleman Bastard:
  
  The Sarlacc (in Return of the Jedi) offered a horrible death:
  
  Because most sarlacci inhabit isolated environments and rely on prey to stumble into their pit, they rarely feed; the digestive system dissolves prey into nutrients over a period of several thousand years.
  
  Now Hugh, with his “dumb motherfuckers” comment, will discover that there’s a worse fate than “Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see”. His comments will be dissolved in DPF’s moderation system over a period of several thousand years!
  
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  May 8, 2018 3:39pm
  - labrator
    
    Came back to find Hugh’s fate and it seems like it all just disappeared. Not even on the ban page either… no fun.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:07pm
- Gentleman Bastard
  
  Remember you dont have to report all of them, only the first one – if there is a block of nested comments under it they all disappear too.
  It’s a kind of magic!
  
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  May 8, 2018 3:42pm
  - Poppa
    
    It saves my scroll finger getting RSI anyway
    
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    May 8, 2018 3:44pm
    - sooty
      
      Maybe if Hugh was happy with just one post, people could live with it. But no he has to be a dick and post multiple shit. So more than one, I report him and hope that four more feel the same and he disapears into moderation rather than having to get 30 down ticks.
      
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      May 8, 2018 7:20pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How many folks in the USA still have dirty little secrets?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/07/eric-schneiderman-abuse-allegations-harvey-weinstein-new-yorker
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May 8, 2018 3:52pm
starboard

Im gutted Nosty, firstly Ally Mau changed sides and became a carpet muncher, now marvelous Lizzy is batting for both sides. Woe is me.
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May 8, 2018 3:54pm
- Monique Watson
  
  If she’s polyamorous will it be a case of come back Lizzie all is forgiven! 😉
  
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  May 8, 2018 4:40pm
- Inandout
  
  Ali is a carpet bragger.
  
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  May 8, 2018 4:49pm
- ex-golfer
  
  That’s because no self respecting man would go anywhere near her.
  So she has had to resort to DATY.
  
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  May 8, 2018 6:01pm
Nostradamus

The intellectual giant Lurcher1948 comments at YourNZ:

Listening to the scrawny ANDREW DICKENS right now on NZME ZB, Andrew is a really RIGHTWING HOST, who hates most NZs and the target today is the need for kiwifruit pickers,Andrewyou are a long skinny runt with skinny features,i will post a picture if required, ANDREW pick fruit for a while it could bulk you up a bit and stop you being a nasty righty,just saying

This is the same “Lurcher” who made a perfect human experiment for DPF’s new moderation system:

UPDATE: It is working well. Only one comment has had five reports against it, moving it to moderation. The comment is or was:

Lurcher:

Just watched REAL NZs with their insurance problems in ChCh on TV3 campbell live then i thought of the crap like IGM and the other wankers on HATE KIWIBLOG saying LEECHER lefties.If i was Mr Farra i will say you are attached with the rightwing fuckers who hate real NZs Dipshit posters are still dipshit posters, but they are still your blog base you and slater, ME i dont give a fuck IM RETIRED YOU CUNTS SUPPORT ME WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, work hard im RELAXED like key

A perfect example of what the plugin is designed for.

In all my 13 years of reading Kiwiblog, no one has come close to this level of derangement!
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May 8, 2018 3:55pm
- big bruv
  
  “In all my 13 years of reading Kiwiblog, no one has come close to this level of derangement!”
  
  I’ve been here for Fifteen years, I can think of one or two who come damn close.
  
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  May 8, 2018 4:09pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    philu? Luc Hansen? 🙂
    
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    May 8, 2018 4:15pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Big Bruv and NZR
    
    ?
    
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    May 8, 2018 4:47pm
    - stigie
      
      Big Bruv and Dad or should i say the 13 identities and Dad..?
      
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      May 8, 2018 5:18pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Yeah, I shouldn’t make fun, I’m one of those 13 ?
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:20pm
      - stigie
        
        Formenting happy mischief Awww C- mon
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:26pm
      - Longknives
        
        I too have been accused of being Big Bruv by a few people in my time.
        It’s seemingly incomprehensible to some that there two New Zealanders who don’t wear All Black eye patches and blindly gush over them…
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:29pm
      - realityczech
        
        “I’m one of those 13”
        
        Same here, but that is nothing. The religious lunatic Lucia reckoned I was over 30-something identities.
        
        Basically anyone who does not go full retard over my posts is accused of being me, as is anyone who is not a pro zionist zealot. That hilariously included a Jew who has since moved to Israel and now lives on a kibbutz 🙂
        
        Funnily enough we got on just fine, after a few scraps…
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:30pm
      - stigie
        
        Well bugger me, the first husband was useful for something..?
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/02/formenting_happy_mischief.html
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:35pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        Well bugger me, the first husband was useful for something..?
        
        When you click through to your Kiwiblog link, and then to the embedded NZ Herald link, it takes you to the home page. Has the Peter Davis story been deleted? What could this mean? 🙂
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:45pm
      - sooty
        
        It’s them nasty rumors that done it!
        
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        May 8, 2018 7:25pm
  - Longknives
    
    Who was the guy who used to brag about Mass Murdering his neighbour’s Cats?
    He was pretty odd…
    
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    May 8, 2018 5:31pm
    - nasska
      
      Cricko was the cat hater. Yet we’ve had a few kooks over the years.
      
      Who can remember the oddball who used to hump Baity’s leg every time the Great Conservative made some off the wall comment? 🙂
      
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      May 8, 2018 5:40pm
      - stigie
        
        “Who can remember the oddball who used to hump Baity’s leg”
        
        You have me there Nasska, i can only remember Dad and he wasn’t really an oddball…bless him !~
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:50pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Perhaps you refer to NZ’s leading shoe consultant to portly members of the feminine persuasion?
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:52pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Dad has been quiet lately. I assume he’s keeping a low profile after this traumatic experience:
        
        [T]he day my tax goes to pay for transgender freaks will be the last straw for me! It was bad enough being pulled up by a transgender cop. I was scared of getting aids from the freaky creep
        
        Getting “pulled” by a transgender police officer is, well, what can you say?
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:54pm
      - nasska
        
        Nah. We’ll probably have to wait for Nostra to fill in the details unless my last few rusty braincells come up with the pseudonym.
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:54pm
      - stigie
        
        Nostra:- I remember Dad asking me “How would you feel if a transgender cop came up your driveway late at night”, I couldn’t get the gist of what he was trying to say but only guess that it had something to do with catching aids..? Bless him !~
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:05pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        I assume you’re referring to this comment? Surely Dad didn’t ask you that question based on personal experience?
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:08pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        For you Nasska:
        
        I was recently reading through a file copy of part of a General Debate about six years ago Dad. It was a Saturday afternoon when every man & his dog was having a go….you amongst them. KrisK was acting like Baity’s poodle humping Baity’s leg after every one of his raves.
        
        It’s amazing just how well mannered we all are now. ?
        
        November 24, 2015 9:33pm
        
        And here we are, 2.5 years later, as well-mannered as ever!
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:22pm
      - nasska
        
        Thanks Nostra. The more I thought about it the less I could recall.
        
        Things are rather tame although nowadays, more’s the pity. Baity & KrisK enjoying a two participant circle jerk remains a “unique” experience! 🙂
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:40pm
      - sam green
        
        Is “driveway” a euphemism?
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:49pm
      - nasska
        
        We’ve been wondering about that but he’s never let on Sam. 🙂
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:56pm
    - stigie
      
      Correct me but was it Bereal (beryl) *Hic*..?
      
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      May 8, 2018 5:41pm
      - nasska
        
        Bereal morphed into Cricko after a series of demerits.
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:49pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Yes and with anti-freeze as I recall.
        
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        May 8, 2018 5:49pm
      - Gentleman Bastard
        
        Whatever did happen to Reid and UglyTruth?
        Actually just Reid on second thoughts, did he died?
        UT was probably another of Kea/RC/JazzHands/KrissX/Gabby’s multis
        
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        May 8, 2018 7:56pm
- realityczech
  
  That is terribly mild stuff compared to our friend JasonJohns.
  
  JJ’s submissions require far more of the reader 🙂
  
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  May 8, 2018 5:23pm
  - Gentleman Bastard
    
    That’s why I am sure you are not him old friend 😎
    
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    May 8, 2018 7:57pm
- Happychappy
  
  SPLOOGE
  
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  May 8, 2018 5:42pm
Inandout

Winston making speech just before bed.
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May 8, 2018 4:47pm
- Gentleman Bastard
  
  That speech of his was fucking near unintelligible. Some one put the old bastard out of his misery.
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:59pm
EAD_TWO

I’ve had unconfirmed reports that the German Police, after an enormous man hunt, have captured 89 year grand mother Ursula Haverbeck after an American Jewish Shoah group launched a worldwide MSM “name and shame” on the German Police because Haverbeck was 2 days late in showing up to start her 2 year prison sentence for free speech.

I will keep you posted as this develops.

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/05/07/german-neo-nazi-89-lam-failing-appear-jail-term/

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/shoah-group-urges-german-police-find-fugitive-neo-54971424

http://wap.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/germany-hunting-nazi-grandma-as-she-skips-jail-118050700753_1.html

https://nypost.com/2018/05/07/nazi-grandma-89-fails-to-show-up-for-prison-sentence/

If only the MSM and German Police could show as much fervour for the actual violent crimes committed by the 3rd world savages swarming their lands as the thought crimes of an 89 year old frail women.

Interesting to observe as well how this story gets breathless worldwide coverage yet murders and rapes get memory holed and no coverage beyond a few lines in the local press.

Also interesting to observe how the German Police complain about not having enough resources to deal with violent sexual assaults from 3rd worlders but can launch huge manhunts to find 89 year old grandmother’s at the drop of a hat because a Shoah group in America starts kvetching.
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May 8, 2018 5:29pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  Im guessing the 4 downtickers approve of this fanatical global hounding of an 89 year old grandmother who didn’t show up for her prison sentence over her right to free speech?
  
  You people are truly sick – come and defend the position of the Shoah group instead of hiding behind downticks.
  
  Don’t be like mandk.
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:12pm
Fletch

This is how pathetic the Left are getting –

A male professor got in an elevator at a conference and said “lingerie department, please,”

Now he’s being accused of sexual harassment.

A male political theory professor said Friday he won’t apologize to a female gender studies professor for a joke about “ladies’ lingerie” he made while both were riding in a crowded elevator. The public spat comes amid heightened sensitivity to sexual misconduct propelled by the #MeToo movement.

Professor Ned Lebow, who teaches political theory at King’s College London, told The Associated Press that he has refused to apologize because he did nothing wrong and because a complaint filed by Professor Simona Sharoni against him with the International Studies Association is “frivolous.”

Sharoni, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, said in a complaint she filed last month that she was standing near the elevator at a San Francisco hotel and she offered to press the elevator buttons when Lebow “said with a smile on his face, ‘women’s lingerie’ and all his buddies laughed.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2018-05-04/male-professor-wont-apologize-over-lingerie-joke

These people are the saddest, lamest, unhappiest, most pathetic people ever.
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May 8, 2018 5:34pm
- nasska
  
  …..”These people are the saddest, lamest, unhappiest, most pathetic people ever”….
  
  They’re pretty bad but on a par with the purse lipped, gossiping moral policewomen who used to frequent churches so they could display their up-righteousness & goodness to all & sundry.
  
  Nowadays the religion is Political Correctness & Feminism instead of Christianity but other than that not much has changed.
  
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  May 8, 2018 5:47pm
- Longknives
  
  Have a read of all the Femnazi comments supporting her-
  
  https://twitter.com/simonasharoni?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
  
  Look you are taking your life in your hands making jokes like that at a Lefty University, it was ill advised- But People calling this a ‘Hate Crime against Women’ and likening it to Sexual Violation? Jesus H Christ….
  
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  May 8, 2018 5:52pm
  - Longknives
    
    Oh and a couple of people triggered into ranting about ‘White Privilege’…
    
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    May 8, 2018 5:58pm
    - EAD_TWO
      
      I get sick of the use of the word “femanazi” when the behaviour she is exhibiting is the direct result of Communist subversion and her doxing is classic Stasi tactics.
      
      When looking into Simona Sharoi, there are very little surprises in her background:
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simona_Sharoni
      
      Every damn time.
      
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      May 8, 2018 6:08pm
      - Longknives
        
        ‘Femcommie’?
        
        Jesus I had a read of her Wiki Bio- She looks like the life of the freaking party doesn’t she?
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:11pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        I’ll have to admit Longknives that “femicommie” doesn’t quite have the same ring nor roll off the tongue so easy❗
        
        What never ceases to amaze me is the deep visceral hatred the likes of her have for the pillars of Western Civilisation. Their bestial vindicativness and wickedness means they have no hesititation in ruining white males livelihoods over nothing.
        
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        May 8, 2018 6:15pm
- GoVege
  
  If he’d asked for the gynecology department, she’d have an excuse to be offended, but lingerie???
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:24pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

Like last night we have a mainlander, this time Georgia Nott of Nelson in the Broods (a two piece with her brother Caleb) with their song Bridges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7Eu8a46mw
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May 8, 2018 5:52pm
slightlyrighty

Nearly 1 Billion new spending to MFAT.

I’ll remember that the next time my kids are sick.
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May 8, 2018 6:02pm
- Prince
  
  The price of power.
  Puts the 2017 bullshit re poverty and homelessness in perspective.
  
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  May 8, 2018 6:12pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Yes, Winston has gone on a huge spending spree of nearly 1 billion on further aid for the Pacific and opening new diplomatic posts, including one in Stockholm. He is empire building while the “poor” NZ’ers who were promised to be helped by the CoL are left waiting.
  
  Simon has said NZ’ers won’t be happy. I believe he is right about that!
  
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  May 8, 2018 6:13pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You would think it would make more sense to open an Embassy in Oslo than to reopen the one in Stockholm.
    
    I don’t think the Swedes have oil to spare.
    
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    May 8, 2018 6:39pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      The re-opening the embassy in Stockholm was due to Winston’s well-known support for climate change! ?
      
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      May 8, 2018 6:52pm
  - milkmaid
    
    What are these 50 people in Stockholm going to do all day?
    
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    May 8, 2018 6:40pm
    - rangitoto
      
      Drink champagne and eat caviar. The usual mfat business.
      
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      May 8, 2018 6:46pm
- Ross12
  
  Is this an example of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing?
  Peters spending a billion extra over 4 years but at the same time Ardern and others” kill off” the O&G industry which currently generates $0.5 billion/year and the dairy industry gets kicked in the the rear end and just happens to be our biggest export earner.
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:10pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  There is no poverty ‘crisis’ or housing ‘crisis’ if we can throw close to a billion in foreign aid.
  If you were struggling to pay your rent or put food on the table for the kids would you increase payments substantially to charities?
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:22pm
  - sooty
    
    Don’t forget all the largess she spread on the pacific jolly, earlier this year.
    
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    May 8, 2018 7:31pm
    - Humble Capitalist
      
      Free family holidays in the Islands for life.
      Miz Adern and Peters don’t do it for the adoration though. They do it because they are poverdy crushers.
      
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      May 8, 2018 7:57pm
ex-golfer

WP announces a $1 billion spend-up for MFAT over the next four year (much will be going to the Pacific region).

Sigh…..if only those $10 doctors visits for New Zealanders were considered as important.

Edit: Snap slightlyrighty
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May 8, 2018 6:10pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  Great minds and all that…..
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:37pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Some more White girl/woman privilege for you chaps…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/08/how-white-women-use-strategic-tears-to-avoid-accountability
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May 8, 2018 6:42pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Thank you for bringing that quote to our attention.
  Tears always follow when one tells white women the errors of their ways.
  When my white woman tells me the errors of my ways it is called nagging.
  When I tell a white woman the errors of her ways it is called bullying and I must desist.
  
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  May 8, 2018 6:59pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I find it hard to believe that your white woman makes errors.
    
    And being told off once is not nagging. You should be grateful that your white woman is paying attention to your mistakes/errors.
    
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    May 8, 2018 7:32pm
  - nasska
    
    You’ve hit on two of the great truths of this life Tauhei. Men don’t listen & women nag yet there’s often plenty of humour to be had.
    
    Mrs Nasska is a sensible level headed woman not given to rash decisions but about five years ago she went along with our eldest daughter to a local kennel & came home with a bloody german shepherd puppy! We were farmers & shepherds are some of the worst wool classers bred but logic wasn’t going to win……I didn’t like cats & she’d decided to have a pet. Worse, as an ex stock truck driver & then cocky I’d always had dogs but they’d never been allowed in the house. That rule went west too!
    
    The inevitable happened. She had no idea about training dogs & things were coming unglued rapidly. In the end I stepped in & the dog responded as you would expect. It still loved the missus, still ignored everything she said yet sat at my feet & as expected with an intelligent breed will do anything I tell it to.
    
    The humour kicks in when I’m due for a telling off. Tara comes & sits beside me & looks sad! 🙂
    
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    May 8, 2018 7:41pm
    - stigie
      
      “The inevitable happened.”
      
      Im hearing you loud and clear Nasska, we have a miniture Poodle that sleeps under the covers with us at night.
      I’d be down the road like JBs Blossom if i kicked up a fuss ole chap..?
      
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      May 8, 2018 7:53pm
    - Gentleman Bastard
      
      To be fair, dogs will always look to, and take cues from the alpha of the pack in any situation. It takes a lot of dedication and training from women for them to accept being 3rd in the relationship, even though they would defend your wife with their life, they would do it because in their eyes you own the wife as well.
      My rescued dog is exactly the same.
      
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      May 8, 2018 8:10pm
    - Monique Watson
      
      hahahaha! Always be pack Leader. If you can’t be pack leader then keep the treats under lock and key.
      
      I got called to school for a conference in 6th Grade after my oldest decked another student who took a swing at his mate. They both got suspended. At the conference, the principal asked who my son was most scared of. Mom or Dad. My son Ozy said Mom 🙂
      Similarly, the dog is more scared of me than any other member of the family. The Man of the House gets home and the dog will be beside himself and would piss himself as a pup but he knows who cleans the stone run and will only listen to me.
      Lest I withdraw my affection I assume. The dog is a nibbler not a biter and the most gawd awful scrounge but if he goes for my kids noses and I growl at him he makes like a cushion on the couch. All I can see is one eye looking at me while he considers if I’m still pissy.
      I crate trained him from 5 months after a stint in Kings County animal shelter and have been rewarded by more recognition and devotion than I ever expect to receive from the offspring. Or the husband.
      Doggo understands fourteen words and directions including “hide his boxers ”
      
      I’ve trained him to be a weapon in the battle of the sexes.
      The males in the house only listen when they are dependent on me for clean underpants and I’m not above recruiting my mutt to make a point.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:04pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Does hubby often go commando to work?
        
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        May 8, 2018 9:15pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Welcome back BallSack.
        Try and behave yourself this time.
        
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        May 8, 2018 9:31pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Captain, wheres the fun in that? Thanks mate, I will concur until some dweeb tugs my nuts. Then it’s pistols at dawn time.
        
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        May 8, 2018 9:43pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  White women were a useful ally when attacking White Males but now that they (in the most part) have been emasculated, white women will find themselves next in the firing line.
  
  The revolution is devouring it’s own children.
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:04pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Compulsory Te Reo in our schools

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/103716538/nanaia-mahuta-compulsory-te-reo-in-schools-not-if-but-when
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May 8, 2018 6:46pm
- big bruv
  
  “Compulsory Te Reo in our schools”
  
  Ensuring our kids are dumber than ever.
  
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  May 8, 2018 6:53pm
  - sooty
    
    Reading, writing and arithmetic is not important anymore, says scrible face.
    
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    May 8, 2018 7:35pm
  - Morrissey
    
    How does speaking more than one language make you dumber? Oh, sorry, I forgot: you’re a Trump supporter, aren’t you.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:13pm
    - big bruv
      
      “How does speaking more than one language make you dumber? Oh, sorry, I forgot: you’re a Trump supporter, aren’t you.”
      
      Because Maori are such high achievers aren’t they.
      
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      May 8, 2018 8:21pm
      - Morrissey
        
        You talk like Trump too, you moron.
        
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        May 8, 2018 8:22pm
      - ex-golfer
        
        Thats true MB.
        I’ve always thought big bruv talks like a winner.
        
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        May 8, 2018 8:29pm
    - Fletch
      
      If it was a useful language, yes. But the Maori language is primarily a novelty language that we speak at home for fun – it’s not really used as, I don’t know, a means of communication.
      
      You speak it to show how woke you are.
      
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      May 8, 2018 9:06pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Not going to happen without Mr 7% support.
  He who forms the Government calls the shots.
  And he has fired clear shots across the bows of Mahuta and Jackson on this issue.
  
  I see he has also stated that NZF will not support the members bill to entrench the Maori seats into Parliament.
  
  Cracks starting to open up in the CoL?
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:19pm
  - GoVege
    
    Thank God for Winnie.
    Not that there’s anything wrong with learning Maori….just the kids should have a choice of language.
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:24pm
big bruv

Special treatment for Moari scum.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103338085/in-the-fledgling-maraebased-justice-system-offenders-are-instead-called-participants

This type of ‘justice’ is coming to a place near you very soon folks.
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May 8, 2018 6:51pm
Happychappy

I have just had had a great feed of steak and kidney stew with dumplings and can’t believe all these family’s that are in poverty would rather go down the Street and buy McDonald’s or Kentucky Chicken that more than five times the cost of a good old stew. The more money this bunch of clowns from the Coalition from hell throw at poverty the richer the takeaway business becomes. Our tea tonight cost about $12.00 and their is still enough to have on toast tomorrow.
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May 8, 2018 6:59pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  My highlight of visiting Wellington; kidneys at the Green Parrot. They do them brilliantly. The Greek chef told me that NZ has the best food in the world, but the NZ cooks do not know how to cook it.
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:06pm
  - jedmo
    
    Love how they bring you a plate of buttered bread as soon as you walk in the door, real old school kiwi fine dining.
    
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    May 9, 2018 8:35am
Nostradamus

Another day, another broken promise by the Govt

The Government’s trail of broken promises is set to get longer after Police Minister Stuart Nash admitted that its pledge to put an extra 1800 cops on the beat will be downsized to 1100, National’s Police Spokesperson Chris Bishop says. … “With yet another broken promise on its record, how can New Zealanders have any confidence in anything this Government says?”
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May 8, 2018 7:00pm
nasska

….”its pledge to put an extra 1800 cops on the beat will be downsized to 1100″….

Shit o’dear! The reality of killing dairy tax payments, petrochemical royalties & killing off the aluminium smelter must be hurting!
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May 8, 2018 7:14pm
ex-golfer

WP reminding Labour ministers who is really in charge: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/103716538/nanaia-mahuta-compulsory-te-reo-in-schools-not-if-but-when

It seems all is not well in the relentlessly positive CoL!
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May 8, 2018 7:14pm
Nostradamus

Today in Parliament:

Hon STUART NASH: … This is, as the Deputy Prime Minister mentioned—
Mr SPEAKER: All right. OK—OK.
Hon STUART NASH: —the largest increase in police numbers—
Mr SPEAKER: Order!
Hon STUART NASH: —ever.
Mr SPEAKER: Order! I just say to Mr Nash, when he sees that I’m on my feet, he will resume his seat. He doesn’t deliberately look away like a naughty child.
Hon STUART NASH: Oh, for goodness’ sake! Stop that—I reject that.
Mr SPEAKER: The member will stand, withdraw, and apologise.
Hon STUART NASH: I stand, withdraw, and apologise. I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker.
Hon STUART NASH: I do not—you know, I find it objectionable that you would stand there and compare me to a naughty child. I take personal offence to that.
Mr SPEAKER: Well, Mr Nash, it is my experience of naughty children when they see their parents have observed them doing something they shouldn’t do—I was on my feet; you saw I was on my feet, and you, after that, looked away and continued to speak. That, in my opinion, deserves that sort of approach.
Hon STUART NASH: I disagree.
Mr SPEAKER: Well, the member might want to disagree, and the National Party will have an additional two supplementary questions for the interjection while I was on feet—again.

Today in ~~Parliament~~ Kindergarten!
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May 8, 2018 7:25pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Unfortunately the Duck, on reflection, apologised to Nash later in question time.
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:28pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Nash is in the wrong Party
  
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  May 8, 2018 7:44pm
  - ex-golfer
    
    Agreed – he is only in the Labour party courtesy of his great-grandfathers name.
    He is more blue than most from National!
    
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    May 8, 2018 7:49pm
Ross12

The Tax Payers Union has a petition going to get the payments to Clinton’s Foundation stopped. This year it is $5.5million. Everyone should sign this!!

https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/clinton_foundation_2018-19
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May 8, 2018 7:26pm
- Morrissey
  
  Let’s sign it, fellas, to show how much we DETEST PEOPLE WHO RORT PUBLIC MONEY.
  
  Signed by….
  
  Simon William English
  Rodney Hide
  John Banks
  Todd Barclay
  
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  May 8, 2018 8:08pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Oh shit. Its the resident pervert, Morrissey, the one with a face like a slapped retarded babies arse. Inveigled any interns into committing fraud or hacking on your behalf lately Breen?
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:30pm
  - rangitoto
    
    One poster registers support for the corrupt Clinton Foundation.
    
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    May 8, 2018 8:48pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Speaking of rorting money. How did Mahmoud Abbas afford a USD $50,000,000 Private Jet?
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:01pm
Morrissey

This hapless bimbo is still plagiarizing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/07/melania-trump-plagiarism-row-be-best-campaign
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May 8, 2018 8:04pm
AgentBallSack

Oh shit, yeah boy. Did you miss me?
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May 8, 2018 8:23pm
RF

I see Ardern is using the services of an interpreter in the house. I can understand the need for that as she does lisp.

What is a concern is when she trots off to the hatchery and the old fool takes her place.

How in the hell can an interpreter understand his mumblings / ramblings let alone interpret them. He talks garbage so we are in for an interesting translation.
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May 8, 2018 8:57pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s NZ Sign Language Week.
  http://deaf.org.nz/nzslw
  I think the interpreter is only there this week.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:22pm
  - RF
    
    Bugger Maggy…
    
    There goes my post….
    
    Back to the drawing board.
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:38pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Notice how under National we generally knew it was Sign Language Week? This crowd of clots can’t convey anything in English, let alone hand signals.
    *Does wanking symbol* Tossers!
    
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    May 8, 2018 9:50pm
ex-golfer

I wish people would stay on message…..

“The country’s in a mess, the books are worse than we thought, we can’t afford to implement our election promises, we need to borrow an extra $10 billion, its all Nationals fault”

“Horray – here’s a $1 billion for MFAT to splash around, and we’ll give most of it to the Pacific Islands”
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May 8, 2018 9:27pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Isnt Arderns father King of a Pacific Island?
  How do you spell FRAUD?
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:52pm
  - Sponge
    
    It stinks to high heaven….
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:47pm
- ex-golfer
  
  If the comments on the Stuff story are anything to go by the next poll will make for interesting reading.
  Middle NZ is not impressed.
  
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  May 8, 2018 9:55pm
  - rangitoto
    
    It’s going down like a cup of cold sick. The tyranny is just getting started.
    
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    May 8, 2018 10:17pm
DigNap15

Its time someone had the balls to tell Mahuta and Willie Jackson that their maori language is really just a small pigeon langue with hardly any words and any 12 years old Eurpoean could learn it in a year.
It belongs on the Marae for ceremonial purposes only.
No many maoris want to speak it anyway.
If they don’t want to, why should anyone else?
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May 8, 2018 9:39pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Winstons already told Mahuta and Jackson to get in back in their boxes.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/103716538/nanaia-mahuta-compulsory-te-reo-in-schools-not-if-but-when
  
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