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Manolo

The mullahs (and stephieboy) refuse to believe:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-iran/iran-tells-north-korea-trump-could-cancel-deal-before-getting-home-idUSKBN1J813Y

Iran warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday against trusting U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he could cancel their denuclearization agreement within hours.
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June 13, 2018 10:28am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  I’ve always thought NK was second on Trump’s agenda.
  First was Iran who are pulling the strings in NK and backing the nuke program there.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:32am
  - gump
    
    Iran is backing the nuclear program in North Korea?
    
    I think you’ve got that back-to-front. There’s a long and well documented history of NK quietly selling its nuclear technology to the world.
    
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-north-korea-sell-its-nuclear-technology/
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:45pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I hope that the noted nitro-glycerine manufacturer award giver has the good sense to rescind the honour given to a pervious American President in the peace field and award the prize to the American President who (may) have achieved a tangible peace outcome in the Korean peninsula.
  
  Not holding my breath.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:32am
  - ztev
    
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    1994- US North Korea De nuclearisation agreement
    
    2003-2008 a string of meetings/agreements and yes pathways to de nuclearisation.
    
    Any credit Trump ( and Kim) get, Trump loses credit for abandoning the Iran nuclear agreement.
    
    Yes Donald it is like a reality show, they are keeping score.
    
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    June 13, 2018 10:56am
    - Simon
      
      “Any credit Trump ( and Kim) get, Trump loses credit for abandoning the Iran nuclear agreement.”
      
      Twice recently, including last night as well at the Trump SG presser Trump has said that the Iranian attitude has changed in the last 3 months.
      
      Events are rolling out fast. They aint covered by MSM because they are too useless to ask follow ups on why Trump would say that about Iran.
      
      If you follow Trump Admin via MSM you are out of date.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:05am
      - Simon
        
        But we are — we’re doing really well. And the Iran deal, I have to be honest, I did it because nuclear is always number one to me. Nuclear is number one.
        
        But on the Iran deal, I think Iran is a different country now than it was three or four months ago. I dont think they’re looking so much to the Mediterranean. I dont think they’re looking so much at Syria, like they were, with total confidence. I dont think they’re so confident right now.
        
        But I hope — with that being said, I hope that, at the appropriate time, after these sanctions kick in — and they are brutal, what we’ve put on Iran — I hope that they’re going to come back and negotiate a real deal, because I’d love to be able to do that. But right now, it’s too soon for that.
        
        https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/full-transcript-president-trump-holds-press-conference-after-singapore-north-korea-summit
        
        There has been no follow up on this. MSM mongs.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:10am
      - Harkman
        
        When US Treasury starts fining German, Chinese, Arab businesses for dealing with Iran. The carpet kissers will be back around the negotiating table.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:14am
      - ztev
        
        “When US Treasury starts fining German, Chinese, Arab businesses…”
        
        Everyone did fine during US embargo on Cuba. Everyone just carried on regardless.
        China and such like will carry on regardless
        
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        June 13, 2018 2:13pm
    - mandk
      
      If you believe that the Iranian Islamic Theocracy was adhering to the nuclear agreement, you will believe anything.
      
      Trump pulling out of the “deal” will advance the cause of peace.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:43am
Inandout

‘Simple Simon met a Muslim going to the mosque;
Said Simple Simon to the Muslim “Let me wear your hat”
Said the Muslim to Simple Simon “Show me first your loyalty”
Said Simple Simon to the Muslim “Sir, I have no issue there”
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/06/faces-of-the-day-71/
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June 13, 2018 10:30am
- secondcumming
  
  *Simple Soymin* praising Allah…….for Christ’s sake Judith – do something!!
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:52am
- ztev
  
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  Its a pakol
  
  Did he pray to Mecca ?
  
  After all its the same god he loves in a baptist church.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:10am
- Justitia
  
  No women or girls, gays or transgender in that audience. Not the behaviour of a future Prime Minister of New Zealand. What a plonker.
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:07pm
  - softail 1450
    
    Justitia ,even worse, no booze …..
    
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    June 13, 2018 2:15pm
    - Justitia
      
      Too true softail, even worse.
      
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      June 13, 2018 4:20pm
Paulus Gnome

‘Hager said the main source for the book went cold for months after the raid, which almost led to the book not being written.’

sooooooooo close . . . . . .
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June 13, 2018 10:31am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  I call BS
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:33am
  - Harkman
    
    Nicky Hager is a horrendous liar.
    
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    June 13, 2018 10:38am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Only when his lips move and / or he publishes something; all good at other times
      
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      June 13, 2018 10:41am
      - secondcumming
        
        I think it was WO that described Hagar, ‘as looking like a sucked Throatie’.
        
        BoL!!
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:59am
      - lifesgood
        
        He is a spoilt trust fund kid. Never had to work in his life and is desperate to make himself relevant. He’s a complete moron because if the lefties had their way trust funds, which have given him his cruisey life, would be abolished.
        
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        June 13, 2018 2:02pm
    - ztev
      
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      His books are based on fact.
      
      The NZ Army now says ( after denying it first) that the villages it attacked and the ones in hager book ARE THE SAME
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/03/defence-force-u-turn-hit-and-run-location-was-accurate.html
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:13am
      - Harkman
        
        In the Hollowmen he called Friederich Hayek a conservative, though Hayek had actually written a widely circulated piece, “Why I am Not a Conservative.” Hager said Julian Robertson was a foreign take over of the National party, forgetting Robertson actually immigrated to NZ in the late 1970s because he liked the place and owns numerous properties in NZ. Hager was obsessed with the Exclusive Brethren, who should be allowed to campaign for whatever they want. Hager paid zero attention to the shenanigans of Labour, particularly the ‘Pledge Card’ and Winston’s massive overspending, or his denial of Owen Glenn’s money. Hager missed all that. And no commented that they changed the law by legislation to cover it up. And this was just a few. Hager is okay with hacking National because he is a Marxist but if nz security officials monitors these hackers he his panties in a twist. Judith Collins was completely cleared of Hager’s allegations. The U-turn is political.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:34am
      - rangitoto
        
        “His books are based on fact.”
        
        So is Harry Potter. I have seen Kings Cross station with my own eyes.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:35am
      - Bullion
        
        @Harkman
        
        I don’t think Hager really cares who is in power, if you remember he released ‘Seeds of distrust’ just weeks prior to the 2002 election.
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=2351073
        
        The “corngate” scandal ruined the Greens chances of winning 10 per cent support at the election because it created the impression they were indulging in dirty politics, says campaign manager Cate Faehrmann.
        
        Ms Faehrmann said the release of Nicky Hager’s book Seeds of Distrust, about an alleged genetically modified corn crop, was a turning point for the Greens during the election campaign.
        
        Two weeks before the election, the Greens were enjoying a dream run.
        
        But when Seeds of Distrust hit the shelves, people became suspicious of the party because they believed the Greens had known about the book and were playing dirty politics.
        
        Labour Party president Mike Williams told the conference the contaminated corn issue was a turning point in the election campaign.
        
        “Corngate was half time in a game of two halves,” he said.
        
        During the campaign, Labour had emphasised the need for a majority Government to provide stable leadership.
        
        But the corn issue made “majority government” dirty words, he said.
        
        https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/3-news-corngate-interview-with-helen-clark-2002
        
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        June 13, 2018 12:06pm
      - igm
        
        You are as treasonous as Hager, if not worse. People such as you, in many other countries, would be incarcerated or worse.
        
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        June 13, 2018 4:00pm
      - sam green
        
        How is the truth treasonous igm?
        
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        June 13, 2018 4:17pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        That would require igm to provide more than an mouthful of bilious words, sam.
        
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        June 13, 2018 4:26pm
      - starboard
        
        ..and up pops dumb and dumber
        
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        June 13, 2018 5:25pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Did it shut up the voices in his head?
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:05am
  - riffer
    
    The facts remain that Police broke the law. Nicky Hagar was treated appalingly, and we’ve ended up having to pay up as taxpayers because our former PM and Police Minister leaned on the Police to do so. If Police management weren’t such gutless liars about it all there would be some comeback on those who demanded this action. Downvote me and throw your petty slurs in about Hager all you like but it does not change the fact that the Police broke the law, and have had to apologise publicly and pay up a lot of money. Idiots.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:42am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      So the Police are not allowed to break the law but weasel-face is?
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:51am
      - riffer
        
        What law are you claiming he’s broken?
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:58am
    - hullkiwi
      
      …and he hadn’t by including clearly stolen communications in his book?
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:53am
      - riffer
        
        Au contraire. Journalistic privilege overides that. The precedents are many. Whistleblowers, for one.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:59am
      - 4077th
        
        FFS Riffer, the guy is no fucking Journalist he is a fiction-for-effect writer and nothing more. He is no more a Journalist than that other tin foil hat wearer Ian Wishart.
        
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        June 13, 2018 2:01pm
      - riffer
        
        News flash dude.
        
        Just because you think it don’t make it the truth. I think you’re confusing truth with the opinion of the majority (on here).
        
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        June 13, 2018 2:08pm
    - KevOB
      
      The Police actions should be tested in Court. What is the difference between receiving and Hager’s actions.
      
      The Police have only been reported as doing their usual on a raid. They are intimidating, they do pull things apart, they do look in strange places, they can make a person feel like a criminal. That’s their job. Often they wake people up before daybreak to start a search.
      
      Hager has no more rights than any other citizen and has brought the nuisance on himself.
      
      The “settlement” feels like a Hager benevolent fund payment.
      
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      June 13, 2018 3:48pm
- KevOB
  
  Hager shouldn’t have accepted property he was not lawfully entitled to. His source had no rights to it so Hager can have none either. In another context that is called receiving stolen property.
  
  How can Hager be damaged by legitimate Police inquiries? He chose to accept property he had no legal right to.
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:40pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You really should read the reporting on this before you make yourself look even more stupid than usual.
    Try this, for example:
    https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/why-the-polices-apology-to-nicky-hager-matters
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:29pm
    - KevOB
      
      The issue is simple does a person have a better title to property than the one they receive it from? Hager knew the emails had come from someones else’s computer without their permission. I call that theft. and receiving. Hager calls it entitlement. Some are more equal than others.
      
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      June 13, 2018 6:03pm
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The Dallas media are taking a keen interest in their crooked little Texan, Rod Miller. This dissembling of the process by which the fine family Mark Lundy was kidnapped by his countrymen is gathering speed.

This article is hilarious for all but Lundy,

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2018/june/mark-lundy-murders-new-zealand-brain-ut-southwestern/
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June 13, 2018 10:32am
- kowtow
  
  Lundy was definitely hard done by.
  
  He never got the Oscar he deserved for that performance at the funeral.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:49am
  - Lance
    
    More Razzie than Oscar
    
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    June 13, 2018 10:53am
  - ztev
    
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    Do you think Police case should be a series of ‘adaptations worthy of an Oscar’
    
    Court of Appeal has had a long time since hearing his last application Oct 17- 8 months
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/98078774/Four-key-points-from-Mark-Lundys-Court-of-Appeal-hearing
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:16am
    - Notsofast
      
      It took a long time for Grantham and Kelly to get their man where they wanted him, and the appeal decision is supposedly seen as part of the great undress. Helen Winkelmann j is highly intelligent and concluded quickly Lundy had nothing to do with this crime. Beside her are two jaded white male amateurs. How they are all dealing with the inevitable fallout is anybody’s guess, but I imagine more stories might flow this weekend.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:24am
    - Notsofast
      
      I can clarify amateur. This 8 month wait is profoundly unprofessional, and completely unacceptable in any other field of human endeavor.
      It shows reckless disregard for their judicial victim, and for the taxpayers who are going to be charged for the malfeasance of the authorities.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:42am
    - riffer
      
      I’d heard (unverifiable of course) that an uncalibrated speed camera had caught Lundy’s car on the night in question. Obviously inadmissable as evidence due to the camera not being officially operable but would explain the Police’s keenness to prosecute. Has anyone else heard that rumour? Or have I been lied to (wouldn’t be the first time).
      
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      June 13, 2018 12:01pm
      - Notsofast
        
        The car never left Petone. Jonathan Eaton proved there was a 30 liter petrol deficit if 3 trips rather than one had been made. There has been a litany of lies by the authorities for 2 decades to keep him in jail, but where they start is not always known. By definition the police are prolific liars in cases like this. Think of Hutton in Thomas, Hughes in Tamihere, others in Bain, and so on.
        
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        June 13, 2018 12:28pm
      - starboard
        
        Give it up man, Lundy is as guilty as sin.
        
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        June 13, 2018 5:27pm
- wreck1080
  
  “in August 2000, Dr. Rodney Miller was in Palmerston North, a dreary town on the country’s North Island”
  
  Terrible place. Except if you are going to Massey uni . There is hope of escape.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:58am
  - Notsofast
    
    It is a hallmark of amateur hour in policing from a small town the plods have no idea how to investigate, except by concealing evidence that does not suit, such as that offered by the highly respected pathologist Dr Heng Teoh, and preferring buffoons like Cynric Temple-Camp.
    And we know a child does not die at 7 pm then later at 3 am. But Dr James Pang concocted that notion through the decades, ably assisted by the recently decorated local Martin Sage, who knew damn well that kid did not prowl around eating at midnight, but that the plods needed him to say it. So he said it in a court of law.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:29am
- waldonz
  
  (cue x-files music) 🙂
  
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  June 13, 2018 5:30pm
Captain Mainwaring

Meltdown in the Greens. Is this too good to be true?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104668519/green-party-members-revolt-over-water-bottling-decision

Yet another crack opening up in the CoL. Yay!
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June 13, 2018 10:35am
- RalphT
  
  Couldn’t happen to a nicer party…
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:39am
- Simon
  
  Ever since Princess declared man (white) made climate change to be the “Nucular” issue of this morning the Greens have been irrelevant.
  
  Greens, the party of fraud and ever decreasing circles, all that is left is bitter infighting.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:41am
  - artemisia
    
    Nucular being first cuz to stastistics and atheletics.
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:33pm
- kowtow
  
  I’ve always thought the Greens were revolting.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:41am
- Gravelroad
  
  Bahahaha : after all their pontificating pre election about selling our lovely “pure” water to evil, greedy bottlers!!
  Eugenie Sage!! Greens!! Joke!
  Never mind, the shaming and bashing about rural water use by filthy farmers was a huge success for you Green Party.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:42am
- Rich Prick
  
  The Greens protesting against themselves is certainly a worthwhile cause.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:44am
  - Piniwi
    
    @RP so funny to watch as they are really starting implode mostly because they think that being part of the COL (unofficially according to the old drunk) they think they can do everything their way. Instant gratification and their impatience is really starting to be displayed in those vial places where things quickly go viral. Others have to wait for the Media party to catch on to what is taking place right under their noses. Imagine the weapons grade whinging about what they promised. While Davidson is singing her latest rendition of “Oh Cow papa” Let the fun continue. Lol
    
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    June 13, 2018 5:24pm
- mikenmildagain
  
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  It’s an emotional issue for the Greens.
  Like ‘charter schools’ for ACT or ‘boot camps’ for National. No connection to reality is required.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:45am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    ACT has a rational argument for Charter Schools
    National has a rational argument for boot camps.
    Greens feelz
    
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    June 13, 2018 10:54am
    - ztev
      
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      They produce the same results as State schools.
      
      20% leave without any qualification, given this was the only reason they were introduced, sort of makes it a feelz of the ‘methlab testing’ kind.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:19am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        No they don’t
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:26am
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        Given they take kids that are struggling in state schools, it’s quite impressive to have the same results as state schools and 80% leaving with a qualification.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:36am
      - gravedodger
        
        That maybe ztev but their clientelle is largely already abandoned by your “State Schools”.
        They have in the main dropped out of the state system and the charter schools using a different policy are getting them motovated and back learning.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:52am
      - mandk
        
        Another idiotic comment, ztev.
        
        Most of the kids in charter schools are refugees from the state system that failed them.
        
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        June 13, 2018 12:44pm
      - ztev
        
        ‘Given they take kids that are struggling in state schools’
        
        Thats a myth, some do but most are a cross section. One even left his private school at Albany to attend vanguard.
        Nipped in the bud were new Charter schools for STEM in Ponsonby. That aint struggling students baby.
        
        The only way to get better results is be ‘selective’
        
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        June 13, 2018 2:23pm
  - Simon
    
    “It’s an emotional issue for the Greens.”
    
    Everything is an emotional issue for the Greens.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:01am
    - sooty
      
      Of course it is! It’s all about the feelz!
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:17am
  - Ed Snack
    
    And being anti-charter schools isn’t an emotional issue for Labour ?
    
    Actually, I can see a valid argument that it isn’t emotional as such, it’s more a money issue, if they don’t oppose them the Teacher’s Unions get upset and probably won’t send money to the party, and it needs that money badly.
    
    And for the Unions charter schools are an anathema without a logical basis no matter how much they try to dress it up, or lie about statistical outcomes.
    
    Me, I think charter schools work very well for some, but not necessarily for all. As such, to me they have a deserved place in the overall educational landscape, helping those who simply cannot be helped by the standard centrally driven model. Teachers unions though want only the standard model because it gives them personal and political power. That such a model may impact detrimentally on some children is a complete irrelevancy for the union as they don’t and never have had any concern for the children in the system except in so far as they provide an emotional appeal to add weight to their personal quest for power and influence.
    
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    June 13, 2018 6:34pm
- godruelf
  
  Love it that all that water will be exported I guess in evil single use plastic bottles..
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:50am
  - kowtow
    
    God forbid anyone use a single use plastic straw to suck water out of a single use plastic bottle.
    
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    June 13, 2018 10:55am
    - lifesgood
      
      Thanks for reminding me to go and buy a few packets of plastic straws while I still can.
      
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      June 13, 2018 2:08pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘and more concretely respect Treaty of Waitangi rights around water.’
  
  WTF?
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:52am
  - ztev
    
    Thats treaty rights spelt as M O N E Y.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:20am
    - sooty
      
      It’s spelt as KOHA.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:33am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Or taro….
        
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        June 13, 2018 12:52pm
- thedavincimode
  
  No word yet from chinky twyford regarding the new owners.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:00am
  - ztev
    
    Same as old owners. They were just extending site so had to apply to OIA
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:21am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Yes, but he will not be playing racist politics as he did in West Auckland, in the same manner as he did in 2015?
      
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      June 13, 2018 12:54pm
- riffer
  
  Good grief. A green party member has a hissy fit and you suggest it’s the end of government? Ridiculous. Look at how many party members bitch and complain here, on TS, WhaleOil and TDB. Unbelievable that it’s even reported as news. Still, the news reports every Bridges has to say about Government as evidence the coalition is failing or about to so it’s to be expected I suppose. No wonder people from both sides of the discussion are so cynical…
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:46am
- Komata
  
  CM
  
  So the gweens are revolting then?
  
  (Just asking)
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:18pm
  - riffer
    
    There most definitely are a few revolting ones. Can’t say that’s any different from any other party though.
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:59pm
- 4077th
  
  Yes, I see some little rainbow snowflake got it’s tiny frilly panties in a bunch about it and Marxist Davidson is about spontaneously combust. It’s the most entertaining sideshow I’ve seen for a long time and would be amusing if it wasn’t so serious. What is some spotty faced snowflake doing anywhere near government decisions? Master (oh yes I did go there and not care about your pronouns) Tweedie is barely old enough to vote and has the ear of the Co Marxist!
  
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  June 13, 2018 2:16pm
- KevOB
  
  Who is Marama Davidson anyway in Maoridom? What rank and title does she hold and from which tribe?
  
  I suspect she a self appointed yakkety-yak.
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:55pm
  - starboard
    
    Her father is Rawiri Paratene, a maori radical from way back in the 70’s.
    
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    June 13, 2018 5:50pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Perhaps better known as an actor
      On Play School for yonks, Koro in Whale Rider.
      
      Paratene is Ngapuhi.
      
      Davidson’s mother was Hana Jackson/ Hana Te Hemara….
      
      She achieved notoriety in 1988 when she was reported to have told Auckland University students to “kill a white and become a hero”.
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=15781
      
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      June 13, 2018 6:01pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Murri gratitude day seems just so ….far far far away! 🙂
        
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        June 13, 2018 6:06pm
      - KevOB
        
        Maori nobodies.
        
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        June 13, 2018 6:07pm
    - lifesgood
      
      His real name is Graeme McFarland. Only became Rawiri Paratene when he thought there’d be something in it for him. Obviously lots of Scots ancestry.
      
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      June 13, 2018 9:52pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Wikipedia says his real name is
        Peter David Broughton
        (English, I reckon ..)
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawiri_Paratene
        
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        June 13, 2018 10:16pm
- rangitoto
  
  Weird that the Greens are upset at miniscule amounts of water being bottled but are happy about ditching the Kermadec Sanctuary. Dolphins and fish must be on the Green’s hate list now.
  
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  June 13, 2018 4:29pm
  - KevinH
    
    Russel Norman would have choked on the news that NZ First blindsided the Greens over the Kermadec Sanctuary. What a sell out by the Greens.
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:50pm
AgainstTheFlow

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12069642

If Winston Peters and Eugenie Sage are that worried about water leaving the country, they should go down to Port Waikato and arrest the river as it flows off-shore.

But the river-mouth isn’t Asian so its not an issue.
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June 13, 2018 10:35am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Helluva lot of fresh-water flushing into Poverty Bay today…. if you filter the clay and silt out, and pick out the logs and sheep corpses then sterilise the stuff (E. coli overload), you might be able to flog it off to some sucka.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:52am
  - David Garrett
    
    MW: Love your work Maggy…
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:14am
  - stephieboy
    
    MW . of course not a extreme or unusual weather event for Gisborne and the country?
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:15pm
    - pentwig
      
      good grief, you are so intelligent sillyboy
      is it the goat?
      
      LOL
      
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      June 13, 2018 1:54pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Of course not, stephieboy.
      It’s winter, if you hadn’t noticed.
      
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      June 13, 2018 4:27pm
  - freethinker
    
    Water down the Waitaki has been known to exceed 200 cumecs a second and the Manapouri outflow can be over 500 cumecs a second so perhaps the greens should address this colossal waste of fresh water.
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:38pm
- redeye
  
  Top comment ATF. Significantly more water has rained down on NZ in the past 24 hours than will be exported by bottlers in the next 10 years.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:57am
oldgolfer

TVNZ send two people to cover the Trump-Kim meeting.
TVNZ wasted its money and our time.
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June 13, 2018 10:36am
- Harkman
  
  I know, they added absolutely nothing, they weren’t live. It was just a holiday for Dallow and Dann. What did Dallow do? He went to little Korean town and talk to one couple. Completely irrelevant.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:43am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And they pretended to show a clip of folks in a Seoul underground station watching the meeting on a big screen…and it was the same clip they had played a couple of months back when a meeting was first mooted.
    
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    June 13, 2018 10:56am
  - geoff3012
    
    What did Dallow do?
    
    Bag carrier FFS
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:02am
    - oldgolfer
      
      He acted as a face for Dann to speak at.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:32am
  - lifesgood
    
    The most hilarious thing was Dallow and Dann interviewing each other. What an absolute rort!
    
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    June 13, 2018 2:10pm
    - KevOB
      
      The taxpayer was paying for that.
      
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      June 13, 2018 3:56pm
- Simon
  
  As Trump said to Kim the past doesn’t have to be the future.
  
  Are TVNZ still on the air now because they were on the air in the 1970s?
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:49am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  TVNZ is a state owned enterprise innit? Therefore it has wasted OUR money and and our time!
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:09am
  - backster
    
    Waste just wait until Claire and Winston get their new Red TV Station up and running.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:24am
- MickMac
  
  What do you expect ?
  I don’t watch unless pointed to a suitable program.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:09am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  TV3 had two people in Scotland interviewing scientists looking for evidence of the Loch Ness Monster.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:53am
  - Harkman
    
    I know ?
    
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    June 13, 2018 5:16pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I heard a radio story about that a while back. It seems to be an attention seeker for their method of surveying life in lakes or rivers by sampling minutes traces of DNA.
    Quite impressive, not that their inevitable conclusion that no such creature could exist in Loch Ness will convince the fans.
    
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    June 13, 2018 5:27pm
Ross12

The MSM are trying desperately to paint the Singapore meeting as a failure for Trump (as they think he gives away too much) or at least not achieving anything. They fail to understand it is just a first but very important step.

The WH produced a video that was shown to Kim during the talks. This shows Trump and his team are willing to try different, unconventional things to try to get a result.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/12/white-house-created-production-video-to-assist-singapore-summit-talks-with-north-korea/

Scroll down in the comments and there is another video from Scott Adams which reviews the video from a position of how persuasive it is.
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June 13, 2018 10:43am
- oldgolfer
  
  You are right. A day after the biggest deal in recent history – one which look likely to lead to the de-nuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula – it has all-but disappeared from local pages.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:48am
  - ztev
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Amnesia ?
    You have missed the de nuclearise agreemnt of 25 years ago in 1994
    
    And the same again from 2003-2008.
    
    THATS why the experts arent impressed , all the same phrases and commitments and working towards bumpf trotted out for a new show.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:00am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Yes we will have to wait and see. China will continue to use NK as a cats-paw to irritate US. Maybe Kim is scared of China’s hegemonic ambitions (South China sea etc) and hopes to re-align, or maybe more of same old games. Trump is less predictable for Kim, so maybe that impacts developments of ‘deals’
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:13am
      - stephieboy
        
        UrbabNeo Colonialist,
        
        Oink, Oink, Wank, Wank..!
        
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        June 13, 2018 12:20pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      For a change ztev isn’t all wrong. I’m quite impressed with what has happened so far but a lot remains to happen before we can call this any sort of success beyond a minor diplomatic coup.
      
      What is interesting to me is that Kim himself has tied his personal reputation around this. It may or may not be important but it is different, and must surely represent a form of risk for him. Trump is in many ways unconventional, I imagine that if things don’t go forward in general terms he will quite rapidly drop the carrot and revert to the stick again.
      
      Be interesting to know just how much leeway Kim actually haves and how much China is dictating to him. In geopolitical terms China probably doesn’t want a strong, confident and united Korea on thei border so may make sure that any real movement gets stymied, but maybe, just Maybe, Kim sees an opportunity to play the US off against China and gain some flexibility. Maybe he can see that he needs a more developed and wealthy country to be able to assert himself.
      
      All in all, everyone is speculating as we don’t really know the full story. But cautious optimism is allowable. If Trump does Pull this off, he should get full credit. If not, well, it’s no worse than anyone else managed.
      
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      June 13, 2018 6:46pm
  - KevOB
    
    Like the Irish-English settlement it might take 50 years to all work out but it will be worth it. Peace like a good marriage requires work by both parties.
    China was all buttoned up before Nixon visited it and was even more closed in the 19th century. Japan likewise. Myanmar is not much different now.
    
    Just imagine the sights that Chairman Kim has encountered–he will be having culture shock.
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:05pm
    - Ross12
      
      I think part of his education was in Switzerland.
      
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      June 13, 2018 4:14pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Yes, Kim is probably well aware of what the rest of the world is like, having spent some years in Switzerland. It may colour his views, or merely harden them.
        
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        June 13, 2018 6:48pm
- Simon
  
  “The MSM are trying desperately to paint the Singapore meeting as a failure for Trump”
  
  Yep MSM/left fury because Trump “stole” the election from Hillary will pale in comparison to the fury directed at Trump as this highly competent & effective Prez rolls out his agenda.
  
  The hate directed towards Trump by the Left & MSM is terrible. Already they have attempted to destroy his marriage. As Trump is more successful as he goes along hatred is going to be off the charts.
  
  Basically the left / MSM are attempting to destroy Trump because they dont want anyone else that effective for the American people to run again.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:58am
  - Piniwi
    
    Amazing Simon That left struggle to understand the significance of this ground-breaking event wisely conducted on neutral ground eliminating any one-upmanship pomp and ceremony. Optimistic followers of international affairs see it as the most significant first step arranged in a very short time which in itself confirmed the willingness of both parties to initiate the process.
    The MSM are consistent in their almost outright rejection of every move made by Donald Trump which nothing new for NZ to understand. After watching the same from Labour for 9 years resisting every action of the previous Government we see similar on the world stage.
    The funniest aspect of their biased coverage is how even as the milestone document was signed they were screaming for NK to instantly switch to their failed PC dream. Having been screaming for change they are aghast that a world leader is ringing in real changes in a manner they can not comprehend or understand. Poor little snowflakes.
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:40pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  What they should be very afraid of:
  That after Trump has rebuilt the USA.
  Pence will be the front runner to take over in 7 years
  by the time he has finished, nobody will remember what a democrat is.
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:58pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Ross you are spot on. The anti-Trump media brigade have painted the meeting as Kim got everything and Trump nothing. This was certainly the case on Red Radio this morning when their American based English reporter gave his analysis of the summit.
  
  Oh for journalists who report the news, rather than interpret the news through their own bias.
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:08pm
  - artemisia
    
    Problem with National Radio bias is that they don’t think they have one.
    
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    June 13, 2018 3:27pm
graham

Has Julie-Anne Genter completely lost the plot?

https://yournz.org/2018/06/12/minister-for-women-questions-twitter-follower-imbalance/

Gender equality apparently means you must now follow at least 50% women on Twitter … at which stage Ali Mau will probably accuse you of being a stalker and rain down the wrath of the #MeToo movement …
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June 13, 2018 10:44am
- RalphT
  
  Vote Green; we concentrate on the important things in life.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:52am
- Harkman
  
  I still can’t believe that JAG is allowed in our Parliament. Flabbergasted.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:53am
  - GazzaW
    
    She very nearly lost it at QT today. A real dust up with Shane Reti and interventions were required by Mallard, Woodhouse and Brownlee to try and get adequate replies. Even Mallard was not happy with her waffling. As an aside she looked dreadful – she might be pregnant but she’s paid enough to look smart and ministerial and not look as though she’s just walked out of an opshop.
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:15pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  I follow a few people on twitter, but none of the people that I follow have ever been selected on the basis of gender! having said that, I wouldn’t choose to follow JAG on twitter at all, but that’s because I think she’s a lunatic. I wouldn’t follow Jimmy two-mums either!
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:12am
- Rich Prick
  
  Genter will be pleased to know that I regard the Green girls and boys with equal disgust.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:19am
  - RalphT
    
    Oh, so you try and put the Greens into male and female roles? What about their many members who are gender fluid, trans, intersex… XYZ?
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:25am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Oh yes mustn’t forget those with “issues”. My contempt for them is divided equally by 58.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:43am
  - Piniwi
    
    However RP a very large percentage stop at them being Gang Green since beyond that everything is hazy.
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:45pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Hope Ms GenderGenter also turns her attention onto the equality of use of tinder.
  That should provide an interesting distraction for her.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:33am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    We don’t have squirrels in NZ
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:14pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    And Grindr!
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:31pm
- alex Masterley
  
  Who follows who on Twatter is an issue for Ms Genter?
  Spare me Jesus from this idiocy.
  I am so pleased I have never thought about diving into Twatter.
  Or is mummy brain setting in for her as well?
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:56am
- dime
  
  did the yank skank just assume their gender?
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:09pm
  - graham
    
    Heh, very good point dime!
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:55pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    She has probably had her 20 week scan and found out she is carrying a boy…
    
    I wonder if she corrected the radiographer?
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:13pm
- RF
  
  Bat shit crazy
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:20pm
VicParking

Red Radio this morning quoted “Expert” commentators one after another criticising the Trump meeting. No names just titles like “American military advisor” (Advised on the battle of the Somme). Most of the MSM are sucking back their bile at the success of the meeting. One even commented that “there has not been any concrete outcomes from the meeting as yet”. Christ they have not even finished digesting their lunch yet…..
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June 13, 2018 10:45am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  NZ listeners would have been better served if our MSM had interviewed people who know something about life on the Peninsula.
  SK President Moon Jae-in is positive about the summit meeting
  “It lays the foundation for peace”
  http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_In_detail.htm?No=136975&id=In
  
  Japan’s Shinzo Abe thanked Trump for raising the issue of its kidnapped nationals.
  http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/diplomacy/article/2150426/japan-pm-shinzo-abe-thanks-donald-trump-raising-north-koreas
  
  Perhaps the lefties running our MSM are really war -hungry folk.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:33am
  - stephieboy
    
    MW, why do you believe in rhetoric and polemic rather than even-handed and sober analysis like here ,
    
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/359450/nothing-new-or-tangible-in-trump-kim-commitment
    
    Recalling that two similar agreements were reached before.
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:18pm
    - KevOB
      
      What’s tangible is they were together. Asia has a history of closed societies. Another is now opening. NK has had plenty of reasons to keep to itself from the invasions it has had to endure over the past century.
      Be pleased that NK is considering and taking the first steps to joining the main international community. Live and let live. Peace is never an undesirable option.
      
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      June 13, 2018 4:13pm
    - Ross12
      
      C’mon stephieboy.
      Even you acknowledged the other day that this was just a first meeting and there will be many more to come if progress is made.
      
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      June 13, 2018 4:17pm
Harkman

I meant to post this the other day but did anyone Mrs Trudeau at the G7? She is way tidier (dressed in pink) than our Airhead. Cindy’s lie that Trump confused her with Mrs Trudeau (who’s politics I likely disagree with) is wishful thinking from our idiot’s perspective. Cindy is still in high school, “that guy he’s into me.” Gosh.
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June 13, 2018 10:51am
niggly

Winston Peters got off to a terrible start filling in for the PM at Question Time yesterday – even the MSM are calling him out (already)!

Looks like Winston didn’t know which bullshit line of answers to give back to Simon Bridges’ questions so Robbo had to help him out until he got busted by the MSM (incredible that Robbo is so full of himself that it he could naturally try it on without thinking this is wrong)!

Good on Simon for remaining composed as Peters made a mockery of answering questions – if it were anyone else they would have been labelled incompetent and a joke, but we all know it’s just the lazy old fox Winnie playing his games due to lack of substance (flippin’ sheesh, we taxpayers pay him for this crap)!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12069352

Even RNZ’s Guyon calls him out – and how the heck can SSC Peter Hughes have any confidence in Peters when working alongside him, since Peters is throwing mud at him, hoping it will stick (knowing all too well that it won’t)!

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/359471/peters-deploys-favourite-political-weapons

Stock up popcorn before the shops run out, the next 6 weeks will be crazier than it has been under Ardern, and that, was crazy enough for middle NZ! Now we have the Greens threatening internal revolt – wait until Peters makes their MP’s swallow more dead rats!
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June 13, 2018 10:54am
- Brigitte
  
  What was interesting was the number of times he started by repeating “on behalf of the PM”. This is totally unnecessary (esp after the first answer) so is likely his way of distancing himself from the PMs position.
  
  One answer that made me chuckle was when asked (as a Q to the PM) about a meeting that the deputy PM had, he responded “I don’t know I wasn’t there”. Which is true for the PM on whose behalf he was replying, but sounded so weird.
  
  These next 6 weeks are going to be most interesting in my opinion.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:06am
  - David Garrett
    
    Brigitte: six weeks? Six months more like…and that is assuming Cindy doesn’t get post natal depression or encounter some other complication…and I certainly don’t wish that on her…poor out of her depth thing that she is…
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:25am
    - RalphT
      
      I agree, I wouldn’t wish PND on her (or anyone; I’ve seen first hand what it can do). But it’s not her I feel sorry for – it’s us who would have to suffer the consequences
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:28am
    - riffer
      
      Gosh David, did you mean for that to sound as condescending as it did? You’re not getting caught up in all the women hating on here are you?
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:53am
      - sooty
        
        Back in the new year when they sit again as an ordainary MP.
        
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        June 13, 2018 2:41pm
  - KevOB
    
    Schoolmaster Mr Speaker would have insisted on the usual “on behalf” preamble.
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:16pm
- stigie
  
  Yes, and all you fellas on here saying Simon is weak, he did the right thing yesterday to keep calm with direct questions to the slimy Peters.
  If he had banged on the table and shouted out the questions to Peters with anger, it would have suited Peters who would hold the upper hand.
  Need to give Simon a chance with the way he is handling himself and the chances will be more cracks appearing in the COL’s !~
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:17am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I agree stigie; Bridges was pretty calm when questioning Peters yesterday.
    
    But if Peters is going to rely on answers from Robertson being mouthed to him, he needs to take great care. Next thing you know, Robertson will be asking Peters to wave around a couple of dead fish…
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:26am
- riffer
  
  Funny how people see things from a different perspective. I saw Peters playing with Bridges like a mouse with a cat. He was getting nowhere and ended up getting nothing out of all those questions. A waste of supplementaries to keep asking the same thing again and again. Strange to me why Mallard didn’t suggest to him that he was wasting his time and that the questions were asked and answered. Still, it’s Bridges call on how they ask the questions. I thought Peters came out of it the better though. He was hardly touched, considering how much the exchange had been talked up prior to yesterday on here.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:52am
  - stigie
    
    “I thought Peters came out of it the better though.”
    
    Its easy when you can obfuscate around every question as the slimy Peters does with the help of the speaker.
    Keep it straight to the point Simon, no one is going to do any better against the slime bag Peters..?
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:14pm
    - riffer
      
      Short memory stigie. I can recall a certain Knight used to be the master of obfuscation.
      
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      June 13, 2018 1:01pm
    - riffer
      
      Not to mention all that nonsense with “I did not have my Prime Minister’s hat on at that time so I don’t have responsibility for that.”
      
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      June 13, 2018 1:06pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Of course you did, since you are another of Labour’s rostered trolls.
    
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    June 13, 2018 2:17pm
    - stigie
      
      I suspect another Winston supporter to teach National a lesson !~
      
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      June 13, 2018 2:27pm
      - RF
        
        I smell the putrid stench of another lefty troll that has invaded our ranks.
        
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        June 13, 2018 3:32pm
      - riffer
        
        Trip trap trip trap….
        
        Someone’s got to keep you monkeys honest. The smell of all the poo you guys are hurling around here is starting to affect the rest of the internet.
        
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        June 13, 2018 8:08pm
    - riffer
      
      Yes, well, now they are in government they are paying much better now. DPF and CS are lousy payers.
      
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      June 13, 2018 8:07pm
- peterwn
  
  Winston and Robbo needs to get the Parliamentary sparky to install an indicator system. Robbo will have two little buttons marked ‘yes’ and ‘no’ which flash a green or red light on Winston’d desk.
  Alternatively they could get some training from a elocution teacher and ventriloquist. Robbo can answer the question in Winston’s voice while Winston moves his lips.
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:04pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But peterwn it is apparent that sweet cheeks has spent his time during the recess developing his own line of waffle that would be hard to signal to the old drunk. Knowing where all his most vulnerable buttons are with his Fudget and forecasts has forced him to prepare to avoid the real situation. Glad to see Amy Adams use the same method so favoured by sweet cheeks in opposition by quoting the quarterly per capita slump in GDP. In his typical hypocritical manner he made fun of this while overlooking how significant that change is. It highlighted how fast they have turned things around after the surplus has been blown while the flow on from that great result have started to thin. Perhaps today it will be pointed that it is the second quarter showing an increasing trend downwards. Lol
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:29pm
- Piniwi
  
  Right niggly but trouble of another kind is coming as the Speaker yesterday eluded to “changes” he intends to introduce to OQT. This will surely be a new primary means to provide more protection for the COL by dictating how question are to be formed and presented. While at the same time he has dispensed with his earlier instructions to the COL to answer questions instead of making protracted policy speeches.
  After the old drunks performance yesterday and knowing he is chasing more exposure it is time to neglect him completely to emphasise his limited power in the COL. Targeting the Ministers where targets abound to show up policy/performance weaknesses will better serve the opposition as under pressure so many struggle. This then would leave the old drunk only a supplementary option to take part where he has consistently made a fool of himself with his failed humour. Sure there is always a patsie question option but he can stuff those up too with probing supplementary questions for detail. The fun has started.
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:10pm
- artemisia
  
  Well today Ms Ardern was not in the House. Nor was Mr Peters. Nor was Mr Davis. So Mr Robertson was in the hot seat. Bit poor really.
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:36pm
KevinH

It is largely irrelevant what commentators expoused on RNZ this morning because Trump achieved what many leaders should aspire to in that he has initiated a peace treaty without firing a shot or using brute military force.
Further to that commentators who expect a comprehensive agreement to be achieved in the initial meeting are simply demonstrating their naivety, this takes time and is dependent on the goodwill of Kim Jong un and his desire to pursue a lasting peace.
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June 13, 2018 10:57am
- Harkman
  
  Lefties are clutching at straws, “he gave up too much.” Nonsense, he gave up nothing. The war games aren’t scheduled till next year (April 2019), by which time we’ll know if the little rocket man is playing nice.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:08am
  - Brigitte
    
    What about the current war games that Trump said are going to cease (and a Rep said no it has to go though Senate).
    
    My understanding (during the dotard-rocketman saga) was that the US wanted NK to completely disarm (nukes and other missiles) after which (when completely defenseless) they’d think about removing sanctions. More likely would be an invasion, killing of Kim, and destruction of NK as that’s what’s happened to most countries marked out as evil (Iran they’re still working on, the Russkies spoilt their Syria game). What he got was “complete denuclearisation” which includes the US. So he’s backed down and Kim’s position remains. Excellent winning (even if I’m not sure we have the same definition of winning).
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:23am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    And as he pointed out: the war games are expensive. It’s a better *deal* if the U.S. can avoid them.
    
    Why have the ‘peacenik’ Lefties suddenly turned into such war mongers?
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:24am
    - riffer
      
      Good question. Can you point to where the left-leaning commenters have espoused war?
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:55am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        World stage, not little Kiwiblog. The Democrats for instance – even the NYTimes writes: “Sadly, Democrats in Congress are responding in a quite Trumpian way: They seem more concerned with undermining him than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/opinion/north-korea-summit-trump-kim.html?contentCollection=opinion%C2%AEion=rank&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1
        
        Plus all the fuss about Russia, as if the cold war were still on and the U.S. needed to be ready to fight Russia any moment.
        
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        June 13, 2018 12:32pm
      - riffer
        
        Ah true that. However, we must remember that the left of politics in USA is far more right than the right of politics here.
        
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        June 13, 2018 1:08pm
      - cha
        
        Plus all the fuss about Russia, as if the cold war were still on and the U.S. needed to be ready to fight Russia any moment
        
        Tell that to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Lithuania, and Estonia as they actively prepare for war with their neighbour, or Poland, who’ve actually offered to pay the US to establish a permanent military presence in their country.
        
        https://www.armytimes.com/news/2018/05/29/why-poland-wants-a-permanent-us-military-base-and-is-willing-to-pay-2-billion-for-it/
        
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        June 13, 2018 2:06pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Sadly CL it is alright when the left do it but they missed the point completely because his emphasis was on the waste of money. There will be far more pressing needs for the many ways the USA can stimulate the NK economy thus it can be seen as being redirected to much better use.
      Nobody expects NK to change overnight in any radical way but we can be sure that in their time together Donald Trump would have talked fast tracking internal economic recovery. With 25.6 million people ready and waiting to be producers and consumers. The jewel in the crown might be tourism where so much foreign money is right on their doorstep with so many wealthy neighbours. Only the translators know as much as the two leaders and they will not be saying much.
      
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      June 13, 2018 2:15pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Right Harkman it was so funny watching the lefties clutching at straws even so hare hard the even had a military opinion that claimed they were confused as had not been briefed. Must have got that from a disgruntled transgender soldier after the cutting out of cutting things off and they need to be fighting fit too.
    The MSM raced to highlight it was not in the signed document but however failed to understand how it was later referred to by Donald Trump. It is all a matter of timing and he said they are far enough out to be considered more from the point of being a cost saving for the USA than a bargaining chip. They struggled to grasp the most significant point that nothing that was in place before the meeting had been changed by this initial face to face. It was a starting point for what may be some extensive discussions and negotiations to be undertaken by the team below Presidential level. The also seemed to overlook what Pompeo achieved in the lead up to this momentous moment in history. Unfortunately for the MSM he is a doer and not so much a talker and we can bet the farm he has a game plan ready to swing into play to keep the momentous up.
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:58pm
- Piniwi
  
  While KevinH understanding also that there is still the Democrats resistance to change likely to make it yet another tussle in Congress.
  Funny watching Fox News post the meeting where they had a balanced panel that included a beady eyed blond Democrat spouting her scepticism. Her biggest beef though was the number of unfilled positions in the State Department that should be handling this issue. It is the result of continual blocking tactics by the Dems that have delayed so many appointments. The news anchor repeatedly tried to get her to acknowledge that the meeting was progress but she kept ducking it with further irony in faithfulness to their hypocritical MO.
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:41pm
  - Harkman
    
    Yesterday CNN had Denis Rodman on and it was hilarious, he had a Make America Great Again cap on. He was crying with joy. Naturally MSNBC was chanting for war.
    
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    June 13, 2018 2:12pm
    - riffer
      
      The big problem as I see it (and it’s happening here as well) is that often a good idea is rejected simply because the other side has introduced it.
      It is very good to see National supporting the government in their attempts to eradicate m. bovis though. Well done guys.
      
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      June 13, 2018 8:12pm
cmm

Finally the true native people of South Africa are starting to push back.

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

The Cape Coloured people are an interesting melting pot of people. They are the original Koi and San peoples, infused with the Malayan slaves brought in by the Dutch as well as various European etc genetic material you would also expect from a 350-year old port city.

Black Africans never went that far South because their crops would not grow. Black Africans have only really been arriving in Cape Town in the last 50 or so years – well after whites.

Cape Town is the last non-Black African city in Africa. When the 1.2 million or so Cape Coloureds get taken over/wiped out by the Black Africans (as is almost inevitable), Africa will finally be African from end to end.
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June 13, 2018 11:09am
- MickMac
  
  If they don’t run out of water first!
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:12am
  - ztev
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    That was fake news. never happened
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:24am
    - UpandComer
      
      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-africa-water-shortage-cape-town-drought-water-restrictions-patta/
      
      “”Never Happened””
      
      https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/cape-town-water-crisis-cities-should-prepare-for-water-scarcity.html
      
      “”Fake News””
      
      https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/09/africa/cape-town-day-zero-crisis-intl/index.html
      
      “”South Africa’s 9/11″”
      
      https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/cape-town-running-out-of-water-drought-taps-shutoff-other-cities/
      
      “‘Day Zero approaches””
      
      “”That was fake news. never happened””.
      
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      June 13, 2018 11:37am
      - stephieboy
        
        Upandcomer , well it appears it did happen and according to this report date 4th May continues to happen,
        
        How Cape Town was saved from running out of water
        
        Reusing shower water, limiting toilet flushing and night-time irrigation were among measures that saved South Africa’s second city from running dry
        
        Late last year, as the South African government faced the prospect of its largest city running out of water, they took an unprecedented gamble
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        The government announced “day zero” – a moment when dam levels would be so low that they would turn off the taps in Cape Town and send people to communal water collection points.
        
        This apocalyptic notion prompted water stockpiling and panic, caused a drop in tourism bookings, and raised the spectre of civil unrest.
        
        It also worked. After years of trying to convince residents to conserve, the aggressive campaign jolted people into action. Water use was (and still is) restricted to 50 litres per person per day. (In 2016, average daily per capita use in California was 321 litres.) Households that exceed the limit face hefty fines, or having a meter installed in their home that shuts off their water once they go over.
        Capetonians started showering standing over buckets to catch and re-use that water, recycling washing machine water, and limiting loo flushes to once a day….”
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/04/back-from-the-brink-how-cape-town-cracked-its-water-crisis
        
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        June 13, 2018 12:59pm
      - cmm
        
        Everyone patted themselves on the back that the shower saving etc is what achieved the results.
        
        But that is bullshit. That might have helped a small amount, but they were still using far more than the targets to make it through.
        
        What saved the day was farmers (mainly from the Elgin-Grabouw area) donating two months worth of water and compromising their own farms in the process.
        
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        June 13, 2018 1:56pm
    - cmm
      
      Stupid nob.
      
      It did happen. They ran out but the problem was sidestepped by using other peoples’ water.
      
      The crappy socialist government ran out of water, but they’re claiming a win that they did not run out.
      
      Farmers, who had been putting in dams at their own cost to take care of agricultural needs did not run out of water. They then gave up their water to bail out the government and city dwellers. Those farms are now destroyed and the jobs gone. When fruit trees etc die it takes a good 7-10 years to get them productive again.
      
      If they had not freely handed the water over then they would have had it nationalised.
      
      THe government did not learn from this. Next time they run out there won’t be farmers to screw over.
      
      Responsible people got screwed over by irresponsible people. Who would have thought?
      
      This could easily happen to socialist mismanagement here too. What’s going to happen if the state runs out of money? First port of call will be to nationalise all the KiwiSaver accounts. Responsible savers getting screwed over again.
      
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      June 13, 2018 12:38pm
  - backster
    
    Eugenie and Winston will sell them some.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:44am
waikatogirl

Stuart Nash calling for Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after his extraordinary achievement of meeting with the Dear Leader of NK in Singapore which may lead to the de-nuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. Stuart says he can’t believe he is saying it, “but credit where credits due”.

Stuart should expect a smacked wrist by Cindy, one of Trumps biggest fans, this afternoon.
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June 13, 2018 11:13am
- cmm
  
  Well so far he’s far more deserving of it than Obama.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:24am
  - Harkman
    
    I bet they’ll give it to Moon Jae-In or Singapore’s Lee, not Trump. Or the Duchess of Sussex (for being multi ethnic) or her mum or the Episcopalian minister for talking about love. Trump has no show with Scandinavian Marxists.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:42am
    - calendar girl
      
      They’ll ultimately give the Nobel Prize to Kim, not to Trump (or jointly to both of yesterday’s prime figures).
      
      Giving the Nobel Prize to Trump would draw unhelpful comparisons with the Nobel award to the useless Obama – a few months after his election to the Presidency, and without his achievement of anything remotely related to world peace.
      
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      June 13, 2018 12:07pm
      - freethinker
        
        Delete – of anything remotely related to world peace. and your 100% correct
        
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        June 13, 2018 3:49pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  WG, Nash qualified this by expecting full human rights in NK. That is totally unreasonable. The US is no longer interested in regime change or trying to get countries to convert to democracy.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:33am
  - cmm
    
    What does “full human rights” even mean?
    
    Nashy could maybe first try ask for that in NZ.
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:40pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Credit to Nash where it’s due, but a brickbat for claiming that a lawyer who stole clients’ money doesn’t belong in prison because he wasn’t violent.
  
  Mugging by any other name – from people who will not recover from the damage.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:37am
  - waikatogirl
    
    I realised this morning who Stuart Nash reminds me of – Justin Trudeau.
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:11pm
    - cmm
      
      Naah, Trudeau is a virtue-signalling leftie that is coat tailing into politics on his family name and Nash is… ummm, nice weather we’re having today.
      
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      June 13, 2018 12:43pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I did wonder when I heard that – hadn’t he kept/invested the money and could compensate the victims?
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:41pm
  - freethinker
    
    Restorative justice requires that the Lawyer has an equivalent % of his money stolen by his victim.
    
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    June 13, 2018 3:54pm
- oldgolfer
  
  Stuart should just cross the floor and be done with it.
  He knows he wants to.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:42am
- mic
  
  Stuart Nash seems to be a really decent guy, shame he’s in the wrong party.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:51am
- stephieboy
  
  waikatogirl , if that is the case then Stuart Nash has erred This stuff has all been seen before.From an earlier post,
  
  “1994- US North Korea De nuclearisation agreement
  
  2003-2008 a string of meetings/agreements and yes pathways to denuclearization.”
  
  Singapore 2018 ditto above.
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:04pm
  - KevOB
    
    Looks like a repeat of Ireland/England–that’s taken 50 years to settle down. Be pleased they’re visiting once again.
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:27pm
brett68

Peters after 1.8 million dollars

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/06/12/118327/deputy-pm-seeks-million-plus-from-state

The cheek of the man.
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June 13, 2018 11:14am
- cmm
  
  He knows he’s out on his arse in 2020, so he’s stuffing as much as he can under his mattress.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:26am
- sooty
  
  He must have borrowed Robbos queer pants. You know the ones with both butt cheeks hanging out!
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:26am
  - GoVege
    
    Enough of the homophobia, Sooty!
    They get enough from the immigrants you know…
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:13pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Those are very funny pants though, you must admit :).
      
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      June 13, 2018 12:43pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Well listen here sonny, Peters’ will get that overpayment one way or another. ?
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:27am
- stigie
  
  How many people has this prick sued now and made money from accusations that forced them to court..?
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:28am
  - riffer
    
    Not sure, but you’d think they would learn not to be so stupid by now. Goodness only knows what the hell kind of strategy meeting led to that insanity.
    
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    June 13, 2018 8:17pm
Manolo

Jafaland to the fore:
https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/aucklands-latest-claim-shame-dl-216292
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June 13, 2018 11:23am
- ztev
  
  These survey are rubbish. It may seem true but like the one the other day about Auckland being xx most expensive public transport.
  The ‘crowd sourced’ the costs but didnt look up ATs fares at all.
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:26am
  - VicParking
    
    Your and expert on rubbish so for half a second I believed you.
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:22pm
sooty

He was over paid $158,000 as well. Did we get it back? No, we we did not! edit Reply to Waikato girl.
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June 13, 2018 11:28am
- waikatogirl
  
  Peters will need several mattresses to keep all the loot he acquires. ?
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:18pm
  - G152
    
    One good thing is that Peters wont have all that money for long.
    
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    June 13, 2018 12:40pm
- riffer
  
  IIRC the entirety of that $158,000 was gifted to Starship Hospital in lieu of paying the money, which was actually raised by supporters, to the state.
  
  It was not stolen, they simply spent more than their allocated amount.
  
  Would you have it taken off Starship so children suffered? Nah, didn’t think so.
  
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  June 13, 2018 8:21pm
kowtow

Perhaps Labour want to let the feral dogs out because they can’t be controlled even behind bars.

Who runs the prisons , the Crown or the gangs.

‘Waitere fell to the ground where Bartlett stomped on his head multiple times.

“All defendants then parade around the exercise yard, again demonstrating what appears to be gang slogans to a prison building,” court documents said.

“The defendants boast and applaud amongst other prisoners.”

Even the introduction of Corrections staff was not enough to put an end to the incident.’

Perhaps we need a Royal Commission into how safe people in state “care” are , afterall the state has a duty of care to all persons in it’s custody , eh Andrew?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/crime/second-attack-during-court-first
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June 13, 2018 11:33am
- ok2Bwhite
  
  I’m amazed that Corrections can find new suckers to sign up as prison guards.
  
  1 Is it undercover gang affiliates signing up?
  
  2 or is it the 3rd World scab labour flooding the NZ market that is recruited?
  
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  June 13, 2018 11:45am
sooty

Did I notice that ztev was called in for reducation yesterday and a late start today. Stephie has slept in today or is it his turn?
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June 13, 2018 11:36am
- rightoverlabour
  
  I’ll get them out of bed
  
  Read this you useless twats: Stephie, Ztev, ( and your goat)
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/12/newt-gingrich-trump-has-accomplished-more-than-clinton-bush-and-obama-combined-this-is-just-beginning.html
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:20pm
  - stephieboy
    
    rightoverlabour , Fox ( faux) news?
    
    Rubbish!
    
    Been there and done that 1994 and 2003/8!
    
    Fox and Trumpeters like you are seriously deluded if Km and his regime will easily give up this ,
    
    https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/north-koreas-pre-olympics-military-parade/
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:08pm
  - riffer
    
    LOL. Fox news is as politically neutral as the Huffington Post.
    
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    June 13, 2018 2:06pm
dime

Wake up Punchy!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHA
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June 13, 2018 11:45am
rangitoto

Has Winston’s spokeslady had the baby yet?
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June 13, 2018 11:55am
- riffer
  
  Mate, when she has it’s you’ll bloody know. It’ll be everywhere.
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:05pm
  - RF
    
    Look for the bright star in the eastern sky.
    
    The three wise men were on the piss and not available so 3 old crones will take their place – H1, H2 & sweet cheeks.
    
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    June 13, 2018 3:41pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Another report on the importance of only breastfeeding for the first 6 months. Will Superwoman Cindy be able to do it all?
  
  I only say this after Cindy’s comment earlier in the week about being superwoman. I wish her and the baby well but she should be careful about putting herself on a pedestal.
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:25pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I think you might find her comment was to the effect that she is not a superwoman.
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:02pm
    - artemisia
      
      Well she will need to be superwoman to run the country and with a tiny baby as well. Running the country is a full time (plus) job on its own.
      
      Takes up to 2 years for the bod to be back to pre baby, certainly months.
      
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      June 13, 2018 3:26pm
  - Longknives
    
    Did you see the shoes she was wearing on the news yesterday Waikatogirl?
    My Fucking God.
    *I know you are a huge fan of our People’s Princess and her ‘Fashion’..
    
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    June 13, 2018 3:06pm
    - RF
      
      Not those bloody boots again ?
      
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      June 13, 2018 3:42pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      No, missed the shoes.
      
      Cindy will need her designer gumboots when she officially opens the National Fieldays at Mystery Creek, south of Hamilton tomorrow. It has been raining for days. Muddy it will be. ? ?
      
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      June 13, 2018 4:10pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Today’s update for the adoring masses is here.
  
  Ardern did indicate it will be just her and partner Clarke Gayford in the room when their new baby arrives.
  
  So I guess Trevor won’t be scalping tickets to the big event.
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:02pm
  - riffer
    
    Oh good grief. This is people you’re talking about here, with real lives. You’re letting your political bias interfere with your humanity.
    
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    June 13, 2018 2:02pm
    - lifesgood
      
      They are not real people, they are publicity sluts. Real people have babies and get on with life. They remind me of The Real Wives of Beverley Hills.
      
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      June 13, 2018 2:23pm
      - sooty
        
        You rekon Clarkey will whip out his cellphone and take family snaps of the business end!
        
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        June 13, 2018 2:35pm
      - riffer
        
        It’s funny, you clowns all wet your pants when Johnny and Bronagh were courting public opinion.
        
        What a bunch of fucking hypocrites you lot are.
        
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        June 13, 2018 8:23pm
  - freethinker
    
    Gaylord got his Midwives cert then?
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:01pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Bloody hell, what about midwives, obstetricians, and nurses.
    I was at the birth, through the sun roof admittedly, of my kids and there was, even before the decision was made to go down the c section path, a throng of people floating around.
    and might I add the chances of a c section delivery are higher the older the mother is.
    Other than that I do wish the PM all the best for the delivery of her baby.
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:08pm
  - KevOB
    
    Will Clarke being doing the live ~~feed~~ screencast?
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:31pm
UpandComer

If you don’t let your sons watch these shows, you’re homophobic, ok? This is wonderful. It’s about time.

“Baby Drag Queens” – headed up by Ru Paul – check out the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkkoZyggH4

And a show on Netflix Kids called ‘Super Drags’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERQ9wN8uXWw

Elsa’s going to get a girlfriend, that’s just wonderful, I totally support that. The original Crowleyian verse wasn’t enough. I can’t wait for the third movie in the series where she will no doubt get a sex change.

https://www.avclub.com/frozen-director-might-give-elsa-a-girlfriend-in-the-seq-1823435878

Now the sequel of ‘the last of us’ (one of the best games on playstation) is going to feature heavily a lesbian relationship between the protagonist and some suspiciously archetypal looking latin lass:

https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2018/06/the-last-of-us-2-trailer-hammers-home-ellies-lesbian-relationship/61112/

Brilliant – and now it’s coming to the gaming industry courtesy of Neil Druckmann from Israel. Druckmann who is re-shaping a game in his own image.

In a nationally representative sample survey last year of 2,500 Germans, 1% self reported being bisexual, whilst 1.5% reported being exclusively or predominately homosexual. That’s the maxium ratio generally across the West, when actual surveys are done, now just in say, inner Sydney or San Francisco.

In Israel a sample of the population aged 18 – 44 found 11.3% of men and 15.2% of women reported same sex attraction of various exclusivity.

So it would seem to be problematic if there were a preponderance of people from that culture representing to the world it’s image of the world (itself) via the media. Not that I would ever suggest that, of course.

Watch the ‘Baby Drag Queens’ trailer and the ‘Super Drags’ on loop 5 times each, and see how you feel. Can only imagine the effect on a little boy in a critical period of formational learning. But then again, that’s the point.

http://usatodayhss.com/2017/connecticut-transgender-sprinter-andraya-yearwood-wins-two-state-titles-amidst-controversy

Well done to this lovely young woman.

It’s never going to stop, as I keep saying, until it’s illegal to stop your son mutilating himself into a woman. Screenshot it.
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- UpandComer
  
  I’d love to just talk about economics and dwell in the nice safe banal environs of accepted discourse.
  
  I just despise verboden territory that is rendered beyond the pale purely because of feewings. Despise. It.
  
  I don’t mean to cast a pall. Oh Noes. Not a pall. Not one of those.
  
  But the fact is, teaching kids to turn themselves into this:
  
  https://www.pride.com/dragqueens/2017/10/18/drag-queen-dressed-satanic-goddess-read-kids
  
  Is wrong. I’m sorry, but it’s just comi-tragically ridiculous. I mean, it’s amazing. So brave. We need more of it.
  
  Protected Attribute Theory whereon 1% of the sexual identity population gets to decide on the rights of participation of the majority in all legacy institutions, and force their adherence to absolutely wildly extreme agenda, is also tragi-comically ridiculous. Wait, no it isn’t – it’s perfect. We need more of it.
  
  There’s a video in this extremely popular Youtube series that teaches adults to groom kids into cross dress and sexual exploration. I’ll leave it to you to find it.
  
  http://queerkidstuff.com/videos/
  
  How brave.
  
  Consenting adults is one thing.
  
  Saturation and appropriation of the entire culture and economy and education and subversion of children is quite another. Lol, jokes, no it isn’t.
  
  Cartoonishly garish and obvious grooming of toddlers is wrong. I don’t care how consenting adults behave. Don’t groom kids. Is that so difficult to demarcate? I mean, whatever, fire away.
  
  It’s best to talk about these things. Because other people are talking about them.
  
  https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/acting-associate-attorney-general-jesse-panuccio-delivers-remarks-national-law
  
  2,300 suspected pedophiles just got arrested in the United States – and it starts in the videos I posted which everyone likes to pretend aren’t there, but which are there. 2,300 is a lot of people.
  
  Trump may bring in the death penalty for pedophilia. He’s talked about it. Now I hope it doesn’t happen. But it might promote some discourse, I imagine.
  
  The head of the Islamic Council in Australia is talking about it, according to Mr Quaradawi.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8BatZ2oIxU
  
  “The garbage heaps of Syria are better then the gardens of Australia”.
  
  Well I disagree with him as well in his directives.
  
  What happens to everyone in the middle when two unstoppable forces and immovable objects meet?
  
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/06/11/twitter-jack-dorsey-chick-fil-pride/691298002/
  
  The head of twitter shouldn’t get death threats for eating Chick Fil-A during pride month.
  
  People shouldn’t be getting fired and ruined for giving constructive feed-back. And this is constructive feed-back. Because it’s up to that community to stop it’s excesses. No one else can do it. Too question is to be thrown in prison.
  
  And as I pointed out with the G7 statement, the agenda here:
  
  http://www.sexualrightsinitiative.com/about-us/who-we-are/
  
  “Sexual rights of adolescents and young people” which is camouflaged alongside “Early and forced marriage” is quite malign.
  
  It’s included with:
  
  “HIV/AIDS and human rights” – like the fact that blood donors in the US no longer have to disclose if they have AIDS because that’s discrimination. It’s a human right to give other people AIDS. If you say otherwise, you’re homophobic. Damn right. I agree entirely. AIDS is a small price to pay to preserve the delicate membranes of the feelings of the second most protected attribute community in the universe. Blood with AIDS in it is the same as blood absent AIDS. Because blood is blood.
  
  “Intersectional discrimination” i.e. parents stopping child transgendering preferences;
  
  “Patriarchal gender norms” i.e. women have babies and men don’t and this is a breach of human rights – for men who want to give birth and women who don’t.
  
  I could be writing in a university, but I’m not diverse enough for the Academy you see – I’m so sorry about that. As always, the problem is insufficient diversity and people who aren’t diverse.
  
  My long comments and subject matter no one likes are because of my lack of diversity. I promise I’ll improve my diversity. I’ll get a Snookie tan and watch “Drag babies” until I think and speak correctly. Yes, that will do it.
  
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  June 13, 2018 2:35pm
  - Longknives
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/love-sex/104673149/understanding-people-who-identify-as-straight-but
    
    “Straight men in heterosexual relationships who like to have sex with other men are not uncommon”
    
    Ha Ha you couldn’t make this shit up! It’s like a fucking Monty Python skit…
    Sorry Stuff.co.nz but that bloke who has sneaky sex with other blokes down the Western Springs toilets isn’t ‘Straight’!
    
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    June 13, 2018 2:52pm
    - UpandComer
      
      Lol dated today. How timely. Clearly I’m wrong.
      
      ‘Not uncommon’.
      
      Yeah, ‘Nic Beets’ and ‘Alex’ aren’t gay. They just have sex with men all the time. Off Grindr. For 30 years. ‘Not gay’.
      
      It’s a ‘spectrum’. You know? It’s a ‘spectrum’. Like visible light. They’re just shining a light. Human sexuality is fluid, you know? Like water. Water never stands still, don’t you see. See these are all metaphors. If you were progressive you’d understand. Lol.
      
      This is all science bro – like Freud. Like implicit racial bias. Like neuronal regeneration through the life-span. You know – ‘science’.
      
      Remember how all straight men are actually gay? Bro? Remember? All gay? That’s why it’s so homophobic to say protected attributes dressed as Satanic witch demons neutrally teaching kids how to explore themselves are iffy. All these young boys know the truth. They just need encouragement.
      
      You know how men can’t have friends? It’s all non-gay sodomy before lunch?
      
      They’re just so repressed. Obviously. That must be it.
      
      If they want to work in a university or in any legacy firm they have to stop being homophobic and add the P to the LBGTQI. It’s only fair, and just.
      
      Because protected attributes are victims – that’s why they have to control who gets to work where, what people can say, what they can think, and we have to read these stories and applaud. Because they’re victimised.
      
      Oh look, some of those oppressors locked out of the economy seeing their kids perverted are starting to get a look in their eyes – bigots lol. Better criminalise speech. To preserve human rights. Better double down on discrimination to prevent discrimination.
      
      What made them think these are their countries? ROFL. They’re just not clever. Not clever enough. That’s why they don’t become PHD’s and get to work in universities and legacy firms and study what they want to study. It’s an absence of cleverness, and lack of diversity. If they aren’t willing to free themselves, they better be allies, or they can eat dirt lol.
      
      I wonder – how long can supreme and supremacist minorities maintain goodwill via professed victimhood?
      
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      June 13, 2018 3:34pm
      - sam green
        
        Dear UpandComer
        
        You are obsessesed with the gays – just saying.
        
        Great name by the way – somewhat ironic given your fetishistic observations. Well bordering on to be kind.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:18pm
GoVege

Island people are so kind and generous.
Was just walking past the McDonald’s drive-thru.
Saw an Island lady putting some cash in a person begging’s cup.
Then I hear her say….”Do you want an ice cream too?” 🙂 🙂
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June 13, 2018 12:17pm
- Komata
  
  GoVege
  
  Yes, they CAN be, but as others here can no doubt be able to attest, Pacific Island people can also be incredibly violent, and have been known to go to Church on Sunday (invariably Pacific Island Congregational, although that can depend on the Island), yet literally beat the life out of someone on the Monday; all the while being of the opinion that they are a ‘Good Christian person’.
  
  It can also be ‘all on’ in seconds and, after the ‘deed’ has been done (and the ‘supposed’ offender physically , severly, injured), it’s all back to ‘sweetness and light’ as if nothing had ever occured.
  
  Oh, and BTW, as the WOMEN tend to be more violent than the men, the person you observed must have been having a very good day; perhaps she only beat her kids with a 6 x1 rather than a 4 x 2… (and yes, I AM being perfectly serious)
  
  And my ‘sources’ for all the above? Let’s just say that I ‘married into’ one group (no names) and as a white, middle class white boy quickly learnt how things were within that society, and observed levels of violence which would make your hair curl – all perfectly normal of course… (‘Nuff said)
  
  They are an ‘interesting’ people group…
  
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  June 13, 2018 12:44pm
  - sam green
    
    Yes – christianity has a lot to answer for.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:09pm
- kowtow
  
  Giving beggars money only makes the problem worse.
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:01pm
  - artemisia
    
    That certainly is the general opinion among those that care for those asking for money.
    
    Wellington City Council a few years ago spend tens of thousands on a phone app where givers could donate to eg night shelters rather than direct. Seem to recall they raised about $700 then quietly folded the initiative.
    
    Someone’s bright idea, pity about the rubbish business case.
    
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    June 13, 2018 3:09pm
- Longknives
  
  “Island people are so kind and generous”
  
  Indeed they are.
  It was only a few years ago that I found myself in a rather sticky situation in the wrong part of town and a group of nice young Pacific Island men offered to behead me with their machetes…
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:15pm
gump

An alternative opinion on what Trump has achieved in North Korea:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-kim-summit-north-korea.html
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June 13, 2018 12:53pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  ‘It’s breathtaking to see an American president emerge as a spokesman for the dictator of North Korea.’
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:10pm
  - rangitoto
    
    “A year ago the pundits & talking heads, people that couldn’t do the job before, were begging for conciliation and peace – “please meet, don’t go to war.” Now that we meet and have a great relationship with Kim Jong Un, the same haters shout out, “you shouldn’t meet, do not meet!” “
    
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    June 13, 2018 1:46pm
    - gump
      
      If you read the article then you have to ask serious questions about the cost at which peace is obtained.
      
      It’s fairly easy to earn peace by giving a dictator everything he has asked for … but everyone who has raised a child understands the long term cost of capitulation.
      
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      June 13, 2018 3:05pm
      - waripori
        
        Headlines from American News papers ( maybe)
        
        North Korea Annexes the Sudetenland. Trump returns to USA proclaiming “Peace in our time”
        
        Trump gets great deal on war games. Saves jet fuel.
        
        Kim Jong Un invited to White House. Philadelphia Eagles not patriotic enough.
        
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        June 13, 2018 3:40pm
      - Ross12
        
        Do you seriously believe that what is in effect a letter on intent was the final agreement?
        The USA has given nothing away –so Trump says they could stop the 2nd defence exercise for this year. If Kim goes back on one thing that exercise will be back on agenda in a nano second. Nothing lost.
        
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        June 13, 2018 7:27pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Trump has given Kim:
        1. Legitimacy on the international stage.
        2. Cancellation, without notice to close allies, of military exercises long denounced by North Korea as ‘provocation’, language Trump has explicitly endorsed.
        Kim has given Trump:
        1. The opportunity to boast
        
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        June 13, 2018 7:45pm
riffer

Fascinating. New Zealanders replying to a Victoria University survey reported they are hugely more likely to trust this latest government than the last.

https://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2018/06/research-shows-new-zealanders-trust-government-more,-churches-and-charities-less

I wonder what’s changed their minds? Obviously they’re not spending enough time here.
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June 13, 2018 1:10pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  By ‘spending enough time here’, do you mean here on Kiwiblog?
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:11pm
- rangitoto
  
  The survey must have been of cabinet ministers.
  
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  June 13, 2018 1:17pm
  - riffer
    
    Nah, I got rung up for it. Definitely not a cabinet member.
    
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    June 13, 2018 2:03pm
- Piniwi
  
  Funny riffer this is the same crowd who gave the SLG such a rousing reception after the O&G announcement. Yet it took her several weeks to pluck up enough courage to go to Taranaki to talk to the unions alone.
  
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  June 13, 2018 2:27pm
- Happychappy
  
  I wonder if that’s the reason why their was a lot of Proffessors that were awarded honours on Queens Birthday weekend.
  
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  June 13, 2018 4:28pm
  - sam green
    
    No – it was because they could spell.
    
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    June 13, 2018 11:00pm
Ross12

Looks like soccer, as a game, has a bright future. Despite the Chinese national team not getting into the World Cup, 100,000 Chinese tourists and fans will go to Russia. President Xi is a big fan and hints at bidding for the World in the future.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2149949/40000-fifa-world-cup-tickets-snapped-chinese-soccer-fans?utm_source=news_chinaskinny_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+Weekly+China+Skinny&utm_campaign=20180612_m145825725_20180613+-+1&utm_term=100_2C000+Chinese+Tourists+are+Descending+on+Russia+to+Watch+the+Fifa+World+Cup
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June 13, 2018 1:31pm
- MCos
  
  I was in Thailand at the time of the last World Cup, which occurred shortly after the military staged a coup.
  Football is popular in the Kingdom and to placate the masses the the Junta coughed up the money to put all the games on the free to air channels.
  One of the reasons the military had given to stage the coup was to stamp out populism. That didn’t last long.
  Unfortunately the commentary was in Thai & the expenditure didn’t extend to any graphics displaying the score.
  
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  June 13, 2018 6:12pm
  - Johnboy
    
    We all know why dirty old men go to Thailand of course. 🙂
    
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    June 13, 2018 6:15pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The very ugly Einstein

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/12/einsteins-travel-diaries-reveal-shocking-xenophobia
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June 13, 2018 1:53pm
- Harkman
  
  Maggy, there is a book called “Einstein the Incorrigible Plagiarist” and after skimming through I was suspicious of him, no big name is as ever as perfect as they’re portrayed (Newton was flawed, Darwin was, H. Ford was, Lincoln oversaw +700,000 deaths etc). At the same time (15 years ago) I read it I told my grad school Finance Professor (a visiting Prof married to another Prof) who researches famous historical figures and they worked out that after his marriage fell apart all Einstein’s genius vanished. They hypothesized that Mileva, a scientist herself, was a significant collaborator in his discoveries, hence the massive divorce settlement for her silence. Then Richard Feynman gives an account of a doctoral or a research speech that he gave at Princeton (late 1930s), and all the big names turned up and after the student finished it was traditional for all the old luminaries to ask questions and one physicist asked something and then some old chap (probably Jewish with a German name that had never heard before) started to explain how such & such was possible if such & such happened. Then out blurted Einstein something that was contentious, everything went off topic & argumentative. Feynman said that the old guy was onto something that evening, but he never got to postulate it, and later it would have potentially solved things riddling physicists in the 1970s-1980s. Most people I had read always thought the likes of Claude Shannon and John von Neumann were smarter. The other thing about Einstein was he was hounded out of Germany in the early 1930s by national socialists, yet in the late 1940s he was advocating socialism. After all those deaths.
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:08pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Oy vey…you should have just watched “Genius” on the History Channel and you would have realised that the whole television world knew all these secrets you have just revealed already! 🙂
    
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    June 13, 2018 6:20pm
- Inandout
  
  Einstein (Jewish) lived in another time with other views, but now he will be destroyed by liberals; yet Stalin and Castro will be idolised. Fuck revisionists.
  
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  June 13, 2018 5:03pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Please tell me who idolises Stalin, apart from Trump’s bestie Putin.
    
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    June 13, 2018 5:19pm
    - Inandout
      
      A lot of Russians you idiot.
      
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      June 13, 2018 5:22pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh, I thought you might have been thinking of some Western politicians who admire the likes of Stalin, Putin or Kim Jong-un.
        
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        June 13, 2018 5:32pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      The Greens. After all Stalin wrote the book on how to deal with pesky Kulaks.
      
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      June 13, 2018 10:03pm
  - MCos
    
    It’s interesting you should make that claim.
    One of the most loathsome current world leaders is Kim Jung Un, who was described yesterday by the US President thus
    “A talented man who loves his country very much. An honor to meet him.”
    
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    June 13, 2018 5:33pm
    - Inandout
      
      You want Trump to be more like a politician, well he was. You can’t have it both ways. Trump’s thinking is streets ahead of this dictator, and time will tell.
      
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      June 13, 2018 5:46pm
Nostradamus

Republic of Northern Macedonia: Decision finally made on new name after decades of debate

The prime ministers of Greece and Macedonia say they have agreed on “Republic of Northern Macedonia” as the new name for the Balkan country, ending a bitter 27-year dispute that had prevented the former Yugoslav republic from joining international institutions such as NATO. … Greece had long demanded that Macedonia change or modify its name to avoid any claim to the territory and ancient heritage of Greece’s northern region of Macedonia — birthplace of ancient warrior king Alexander the Great.

To adapt Monty Python’s Life of Brian:

Brian: Excuse me. Are you the Macedonian People’s Front?

Reg: Fuck off! ‘Macedonian People’s Front’. We’re the People’s Front of Macedonia!
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June 13, 2018 2:14pm
- ztev
  
  Considering ‘Greek Macedonia’ or even Crete wasnt a part of Greece until 1912 arent greeks being a bit jumped up.
  
  Tell them that India doesnt give a hoot about American Indians
  
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  June 13, 2018 2:34pm
- Longknives
  
  “Where is the Macedonian People’s Front these days?”
  “He’s over there!”
  
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  June 13, 2018 2:56pm
4077th

Another example of the commies thinking they can just tax their way to prosperity..

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/seattle-repeals-head-tax-after-backlash-from-amazon-starbucks

It lasted a month before someone sensibly pointed out that taxing the city’s largest employers may result in even more homelessness after they fuck off to a city that actually wants to have them and not tax the living shit out of them or force them to pay higher wages for no good reason. Yes dear readers, this is the sort of thing Aucklanders will see when Hulse and Goof reach even deeper into your private pockets and soon your business pockets.
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June 13, 2018 2:23pm
- Harkman
  
  It lasted a month. Ha.
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:09pm
Nostradamus

The High Court of Australia hands down a significant decision regarding internet defamation:

A man who claims to be defamed by Google has now been given the green light to sue the search engine by the High Court.

Milorad Trkulja was shot in the back by an unknown gunman in Melbourne in 2004, at the time of a series of underworld killings. He wants to sue Google for defamation after discovering that searches for his name brought up images of mob figures due to the shooting coinciding with gangland activity in the city.

The case raises isn’t limited to images in Google search results:

[Mr Trkulja has alleged] that defamatory text, autocomplete predictions and images showed him alongside convicted felons when searching phrases such as “Melbourne underworld criminals”. Autocomplete predictions are the suggestions that appear under the searcher’s text before they have finished typing.

This will be an interesting case to follow. For those who are interested, the High Court judgment is here.
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June 13, 2018 2:25pm
- Johnboy
  
  Whoever put the contract out on the turd must be pissed. If it had been me I’d have expected to read..”Milorad Trkulja was shot in the back of the head by an unknown gunman.” That hitman should be dead or looking for a new job or identity! 🙂
  
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  June 13, 2018 6:03pm
ex-golfer

Interesting contrast of styles in Parliament these days.
National members consistently asking questions in quiet, purposeful and measured tones.
Labour Minister’s (especially Twyford) getting increasingly angry and shouty.

Twyford and now Little both caught out with their answers today.
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June 13, 2018 2:28pm
- godruelf
  
  I think JAG takes todays award for getting angry and shouty,
  
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  June 13, 2018 2:57pm
  - Longknives
    
    JAG is completely out of her depth in Parliament.
    She completely loses her shit whenever questioned.
    Where the heck do the Left find these people?
    
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    June 13, 2018 3:01pm
    - ex-golfer
      
      In Unions and at universities (under: Student Union).
      
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      June 13, 2018 4:10pm
    - Harkman
      
      Bottom of the barrel
      
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      June 13, 2018 5:11pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Ops godruelf JAG got the short straw while Clark is in witless protection and all she can do is try the default “National” did nothing. The fact remains there is a serious conflict of interest issue that has been exposed that the guilty party begged to not be made public. Talk about an opossum caught in the headlights. Two moons country there today and she was too dumb to know how to fend off the question. Don’t know the answer? Easy suggest raising the specific matter in a direct question to the Minister. No penalty and no foul but that would be beyond her comprehension level not to mention competence. Credit to Shane Riti who uses a very clinical approach when asking questions and is not easily fobbed off.
    
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    June 13, 2018 5:35pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Quite right ex-golfer.
  For someone who’s painted as an angry attack dog, Judith Collins couldn’t be more soft, polite and respectful in her questioning style.
  I love the way she gently inserts it up Twatford then gives it a couple of twists to really get him going.
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:58pm
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    That Labour front bench are really, really thick but it probably isn’t fair to keep reminding them of it.
    
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    June 13, 2018 7:17pm
ztev

Oh really.
So its a flip flop from 2 weeks ago when it was maximum disruption and storming out.
This must be a change in medication thats doing it, from ritalin to valium
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June 13, 2018 2:48pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Perhaps Trevor has stopped hearing sounds beyond the limits of human and electronic detection.
  https://yournz.org/2018/05/24/brownlees-to-the-speaker/
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:05pm
  - sooty
    
    Or he’s got tinnitis?
    Or he needs a tinfoil helmet!
    
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    June 13, 2018 3:52pm
- KevOB
  
  You’ve seen nothing yet.
  The govt should be gone within 12 months.
  
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  June 13, 2018 4:43pm
- Salacious Crumb
  
  How about escotalipram? It is safe during pregnancy apparently.
  
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  June 13, 2018 7:14pm
sooty

Looks like the Commie Chick has made another captains call, she has a bullshit and fluff interview with Ali at stuffed and says no supermax prisons! OK, so your going to let them out are you? Whatyou going do?
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June 13, 2018 3:50pm
- Nostradamus
  
  From the Stuff article that Sooty’s referring to:
  
  “It’s time to look at alternatives with better outcomes, and when you have better outcomes that means safer communities. But that is a conversation we need to have with the public.”
  
  Another conversation?!
  
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  June 13, 2018 3:59pm
  - rangitoto
    
    “It’s time to look at alternatives with better outcomes, and when you have better outcomes that means safer communities”
    
    Is she bringing back the death penalty?
    
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    June 13, 2018 4:35pm
  - Prince
    
    Yes another committee, and they hope they might have some ideas, ‘cos this government is absolutely clueless.
    
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    June 13, 2018 6:17pm
Nostradamus

Christchurch’s new Hoyts multiplex looking for more eateries – Megan Woods appears to be an experienced “eatery” and she lives in Christchurch. Is she available to help? 🙂
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June 13, 2018 3:54pm
Manolo

CNBC joins the crowd. Just imagine the elation if Obama were behind this, or remember his trip to Cuba, hailed as a breakthrough by the MSM.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/donald-trump-meets-kim-jong-un-scoring-the-us-north-korea-summit.html

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump both celebrated Tuesday’s historic summit as a victory. But many experts see Kim, having won a substantial concession from the world’s largest economy while simultaneously gaining greater claims to legitimacy, as the real winner.

“I suppose President Trump would get an incomplete … for Chairman Kim Jong Un, it’s an A+,” David Adelman, former U.S. ambassador to Singapore, told CNBC on Wednesday.
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June 13, 2018 4:06pm
- MCos
  
  Trump on Kim: “A talented man who loves his country very much. An honor to meet him.”
  
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  June 13, 2018 5:19pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    So much winning.
    
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    June 13, 2018 5:21pm
  - itstricky
    
    “A talented man who loves his country very much. An honor to meet him.”
    
    He loves it so much, he’s locked it up in a little dark box in the corner of his room and told all its friends that left for Brazil last week and won’t be back for a while. That kind of “love”.
    
    Good god. Surely he’s not that stupid.
    
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    June 13, 2018 8:13pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      You’re so dumb, it’s a wonder to behold.
      
      What would you have done with Kim?
      – actually I don’t give a shit what a fool like you thinks.
      Time for a swim before lunch.
      Cya
      
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      June 13, 2018 8:18pm
      - itstricky
        
        Whether Trump signed the deal or not, and whether he did good work to do that or not, saying that a malicious, population controlling, state dictator “loves his country” is stupid.
        
        It’s laughable how you can’t make a comment without an insult. It’s like some little coping mechanism you have. Often those are self reflecting. Take some time to think about it.
        
        The easy way out, of course, would have been to completely ignore me if you “don’t give a shit what a fool like me thinks”. But you didn’t. Take some time to think about that too.
        
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        June 13, 2018 10:51pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Ha triggered.
        You run around going ‘keeping stock’!
        Think about how lame that is.
        You’re such a gullible dumbass pretending to be oh so moral
        It’s a joke.
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:08pm
      - itstricky
        
        Ha triggered.
        
        So the personality who said s/he didn’t care what a fool like me thought is back from the important swim, commenting less than 20 minutes after I post, to read my reply and to openly show me it was just a ruse to try and work me up? Sad. The very definition of a troll (and not just “I don’t agree with you, you’re a troll, an actual troll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll). You’re obviously not here for real debate. Just to try and push buttons.
        
        Think about how lame that is.
        
        Is it? Keeping Stock has made a big deal of defending woman’s honour. He should also be doing that every time someone calls Jacinda a horse face, if he’s worth the paper he’s printed on.
        
        gullible dumbass
        
        Another insult? Gullible this time? You need to make up your mind what I am and stop just slinging random words out left, right and centre.
        
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        June 14, 2018 5:36pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘You’re obviously not here for real debate’
        Yeah,sure..
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/06/the_zero_eviction_policy.html#comment-2231511
        
        ‘It’s laughable how you can’t make a comment without an insult’
        Yet there you were insulting Trump. Nice lack of self awareness you got going on huh.
        
        And your insult shows how dumb you are. If Trump has to give some false praise to stop rockets flying over Japan then so what. If you think haranguieng Kim and lecturing him would work then you are truly the stupid one, because that’s what you seem to think he should have done.
        I could play whataboutism with Obama and various Dictators and ask, where was your criticism of that?
        Why don’t you grow up and at least try to put your TDS aside and be a bit objective.
        Btw- I’m in Spain and the water is warm.
        
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        June 14, 2018 6:02pm
      - itstricky
        
        Nice lack of self awareness
        
        No, because I’m not directly communicating with Trump. I’m not saying it’s off limits to have an outspoken opinion about a politician but I would have expected some sort of mutual respect from any human I directly communicate with. And not to pepper every single sentence with an insult. Not so with you.
        
        If you think haranguieng Kim
        
        I don’t think that. I didn’t say that.
        
        I could play whataboutism with Obama
        
        Go for it. But, just remember while you’re at it that you don’t care what a fool like me thinks.
        
        Why don’t you grow up
        
        Says the personality who uses “Haha triggered”
        
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        June 14, 2018 10:05pm
EAD_TWO

@ UpandComer,

Do not under any circumstances read Paul Craig Roberts views on Ron Unz:

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/06/08/ron-unz-defender-truth-paul-craig-roberts/
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June 13, 2018 4:08pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  It begins:
  
  Ron Unz is one of the best men of our time. He searches for truth and he supports others who do the same. In this article, he comes to the defense of David Irving, the best historian of the 20th century.
  
  http://www.unz.com/announcement/the-remarkable-historiography-of-david-irving/
  
  Zionists destroyed David Irving’s livelihood with slander and libel, because he made public a letter from the former chancellor of Germany, Hitler’s predecessor, to Winston Churchill, a letter that Irving found in the American publisher’s file of Winston Churchill’s history of the war, and which the publisher prevented Churchill from publishing in his history. The former chancellor of Germany, who escaped the Nazis and lived in England, wrote to Churchill that two of Hitler’s financiers were Jews who managed two of the largest banks in Germany. One was a Zionist leader. The letter exists, and there is no reason to doubt its honesty. However, for making an important historical document public, Irving was labeled by a vicious propaganda campaign an “anti-semite” and “holocaust denier.”
  
  Irving simply thought that he was being an historian.
  
  It was amazing watching the MSM make a martyr of the world’s most acclaimed Historian for doing his job.
  
  Irving, like Tommy Robinson, Ursula Havebeck and Jeremy Bedford Turner found out the hard way that some subjects aren’t up for discussion.
  
  We are allowed free speech and intellectual curiosity in this world only if one tows the line on “3rd rail” subjects from climate change to the Treaty of Waitangi to Islam.
  
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  June 13, 2018 4:17pm
Shaun the Sheep

HDPA making mincemeat of Kelvin the rocket-scientist on ZB
I think Kelvin would struggle with his shoe laces.
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June 13, 2018 5:14pm
sooty

Greens are eating Sage over the Whakatne bottled water. Just imagine all that water been exported overseas. In single use plastic bottles. 3.5 million bottles a day. You could not script it any better.
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June 13, 2018 5:31pm
Happychappy

So Shane Jones has used his mouth instead of his brain to lash out at business with his outburst against the Chairman of Fonterra today, it’s time for NZ to stand up against these bullys that want to abuse and sue people because they don’t agree with NZ First or their Leaders opinion.
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June 13, 2018 5:47pm
- 4077th
  
  @ Happy and Sooty
  It’s hilarious, the lot of them are clueless. It’s delicious to watch the rope heads eating their own and Shame Jones flapping is jibber jabber while firmly gripping his appendage. The toothy one is gone for 5 minutes and the lunatics are running the asylum.
  
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  June 13, 2018 5:55pm
RW Capitalist

Wonder if Andrew Little will donate his brain to science.
After all, he’s not using it.
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June 13, 2018 5:55pm
- Johnboy
  
  What the fuck could science use it for? 🙂
  
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  June 13, 2018 6:13pm
  - nasska
    
    The laboratory door stop? 🙂
    
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    June 13, 2018 6:14pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Too lightweight nasska! I’ve been thinking on the problem for sometime now and all I can come up with is turning it into broth so that micro-organisms can get to enjoy it! 🙂
      
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      June 13, 2018 7:00pm
    - stigie
      
      You would have to fill it up with concrete with such a hollow scull like that..?
      
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      June 13, 2018 7:07pm
  - Nookin
    
    To prove that nature does not, after all, abhor a vaccuum?
    
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    June 13, 2018 7:29pm
- Nostradamus
  
  RW Capitalist:
  
  If you’re proposing that Labour MPs donate their body parts to medical science, I assume you won’t ask Grant to donate his arse, as that’s been well-used – and we’re still trying to repair the fiscal hole he’s created!
  
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  June 13, 2018 6:25pm
Inandout

Who are these entertainment slaves who stand for De Niros’s outburst?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/12/trump-robert-de-niro-response-tonys-fuck-speech-twitter-latest

He is such a sad individual who was once a mediocre actor.
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June 13, 2018 6:24pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I think people could agree that De Niro is a great actor without endorsing his moronic public outbursts.
  
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  June 13, 2018 6:35pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Quite so old chap! Why not, after all some of us overlook some of the shit Winnie spouts for years and still vote for the prick! 🙂
    
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    June 13, 2018 6:40pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Well, voting for Winston Peters is not only foolish, it’s also a sign of fast-approaching senescence.
      
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      June 13, 2018 6:42pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Johnboy:
      
      I bet Winston feels miffed that he missed out on a Hollywood gong for his acting talent!
      
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      June 13, 2018 6:45pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  Imagine anyone taking literal court jesters, aka actors, seriously when it comes to matters of politics.
  
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  June 13, 2018 7:02pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    EAD:
    
    To be fair, Robert De Niro isn’t the first Hollywood actor to assume (incorrectly) that people who live outside the Hollywood glass bubble care what he thinks about anything other the movies he’s featured in!
    
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    June 13, 2018 7:11pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Fucking De Niro!! What a wanker! The last movie I watched was called “The Deer Hunter” I thought the turd was going to be as adept as me at killing the redheads and I might learn something! What did I get? Some shit about Vietnam!!
      Never been to a shitty Hollywood crapfest again! 🙂
      
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      June 13, 2018 7:18pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film
        
        It sounds like you’ve missed out on a lot, Johnboy. Perhaps you could ask Shane Jones for some movie recommendations?
        
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        June 13, 2018 7:21pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        You haven’t been to the movies since the 1970s?
        
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        June 13, 2018 7:22pm
      - Johnboy
        
        No. That was the last one I ever went to. Before you ask…I don’t have Sky movies and have never watched that horrible soho shit either. I always turn the sound off on their dreadful eternal ads for their shit channels if I’m actually watching TV! 🙂
        Now fuck off cause I’m about to watch Allo Allo, On the Buses and Dad’s Army! 🙂
        
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        June 13, 2018 7:28pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Johnboy:
        
        I’m about to watch … Dad’s Army!
        
        That explains why Dad hasn’t commented on Kiwiblog lately – he’s been busy recruiting people for his army!
        
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        June 13, 2018 7:30pm
waikatogirl

3 Northland iwi were given a financial settlement in an agreement they jointly manage 90 Mile Beach. Trouble is the 3 iwi have not been turning up to meetings to discuss management of the beach in conjunction with the local regional council. Apparently the problem is who among the different iwi have the “greatest mana”!

Kelvin says it is not up to Government to interfere with iwi.
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June 13, 2018 6:26pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Waikatogirl:
  
  who among the different iwi have the “greatest mana”
  
  How do you propose we resolve that problem? A pissing contest where the longest distance (without wind assistance) wins? 🙂
  
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  June 13, 2018 6:28pm
  - Johnboy
    
    May I propose that the iwi that can get the most traditional moko’s out of a standard sized vivid should be the winners? 🙂
    
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    June 13, 2018 6:37pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Do you mean a standard-sized face canvas, Johnboy?
      
      Damian Karl Wereta would win by default – but I doubt any of the iwi would care to admit that he’s part of their team!
      
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      June 13, 2018 6:41pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Nostra, Unbelievable isn’t it! Anyone else who did not fulfil a financial contract would have to refund the payment. Last we see of that. while, as you say they hold a pissing contest. Funding spent at the local pub no doubt.
    
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    June 13, 2018 6:40pm
ex-golfer

The Peoples Princess is off the scene for 48 hours and the gates of lunacy are thrown open:
– Andrew Little thrown under the bus
– Peters suing Government officials
– Green party members frothing at the mouth over the actions of one of their Ministers, and her colleagues put the boot in too
– Shane “shoot from the lip” Jones attacking business leaders again

What a shambles.
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June 13, 2018 6:43pm
- sooty
  
  Everything running smoothly and to plan. Where’s H1 to keep them in control.
  
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  June 13, 2018 6:57pm
big bruv

I see that the NZ under 20 rugby team has been beaten in the semi-final of some minor world tournament. I take it the local refs did not get the memo about the NZ team always winning.
Still, I had a good laugh when I heard the result. I just hope that the under 20 team keep the bashings, sexual assaults and home invasions to a minimum as they ‘let off some steam’ after the loss.
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June 13, 2018 6:50pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Big Bruv:
  
  Have you considered a career as the All Blacks coach? They haven’t been the same since Richie left to make a movie and go flying – and you’ve taken a close interest in their progress over the years!
  
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  June 13, 2018 6:58pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I just find it so difficult to believe that a chap like Ritchie could treat Dad so badly once he got his full licence! 🙂
    
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    June 13, 2018 7:03pm
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Im sure they’ll get over it Bruv and I’m sure next years RWC will remain in the top 4 televised sporting events.
  Still I take it you’re looking forward to celebrating the start of the festival of corruption, drugs and violence next week?
  
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  June 13, 2018 7:10pm
  - GazzaW
    
    I can’t wait for the poms to disappear from the FIFA World Cup in pool play and for their hooligan mob followers to take on the Russian paramilitary.
    
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    June 13, 2018 8:49pm
    - Jack5
      
      It’s the Russian football hooligans, more than the Russian police, that the foreign fans will have to worry about.
      
      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6005698/russian-football-hooligans-warn-england-fans-world-cup-2018/
      
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      June 13, 2018 10:57pm
      - GazzaW
        
        You’re not wrong Jack!
        
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        June 13, 2018 11:25pm
EAD_TWO

The red pilling continues……

Now, after examining the evidence, Vox Day yesterday touched the 3rd rail and addressed one of the proverbial elephants in the room:

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/06/darkstream-wrong-about-hitler.html?m=0

We truly are living in interesting times.

“Sunlight is the best disinfectant” – Louis D. Brandeis

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. -Augustine of Hippo
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June 13, 2018 6:56pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Vox Day – historian
  Snigger
  
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  June 13, 2018 7:06pm
  - itstricky
    
    But he’s ‘published’ an article on ‘Surviving SJW attacks’ and authored such classics as ‘SJWs always lie’ and ‘Cuckservative’.
    
    He must be a qualified intellectual historian. Far more knowledgeable than those ivory tower quacks, that’s for sure.
    
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    June 13, 2018 8:03pm
- itstricky
  
  The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. -Augustine of Hippo
  
  I can hear a barely audiable ‘miaow?’ from a scared kitten.
  
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  June 13, 2018 8:06pm
Tom Barker

I have never before had occasion to feel grateful to the bloated blowhard Cameron Slater, but I am delighted that his police complaint about Nicky Hager has resulted in Mr Hager receiving a substantial payout from the public purse. As a result we can nopw hope for many more impeccably researched revelations from the only NZ investigative journalist with an international reputation.
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June 13, 2018 7:16pm
- lifesgood
  
  I trust you are being ironic. I simply can’t believe otherwise.
  
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  June 13, 2018 8:02pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So says Tom Barker from the planet Neptune.
  
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  June 13, 2018 8:18pm
DigNap15

Yes, very sad to read about the guy in Whakatane who is now brain dead and the 3 guys that kicked and stomped him only get 3 years!
Their mothers apologised!
That is good.
But I would have given them 20 years as they have ruined that guys life and will cost us all a fortune to look after him.
What punishment is 3 years?
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June 13, 2018 9:47pm
- Inandout
  
  More of Angry’s chaps soon on the loose.
  
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  June 13, 2018 10:54pm
Jack5

The authoritative Foreign Affairs magazine is sceptical about the success (from an American point of view) of the Trump-Kim talks. It includes this in its analysis:

The question of whether Trump made meaningful progress in Singapore will hinge on one key word: “verification.” The litmus test for a process that could potentially lead to denuclearization is whether North Korea will make a full declaration of its nuclear inventory and facilities and whether credible international inspections will be able to verify that declaration as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Verification is the threshold that North Korea has never before agreed to cross, but it is the gateway to peaceful denuclearization and stability in Northeast Asia.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-korea/2018-06-12/historic-breakthrough-or-historic-blunder-singapore?cid=nlc-fa_fatoday-20180612
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June 13, 2018 10:50pm
Hugh Pavletich

… Just updated …

PERFORMANCE URBAN PLANNING
… refresh / reload if necessary …
http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/

… Update comment … June 2018 …

Generally, I endeavour to update this archival website twice a year. First, around a month or two following the release of the Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey late January. Second, around October / November.

Readers will note I spoke in glowing terms about the change of New Zealand government September / October last year, within the Introduction section of this year’s Demographia Survey. And too, highlighting the major housing policies within the Ardern / Twyford section near the top of the front page of this website.

Following the Christmas break and the release of the Demographia Survey Monday 22 January, things ‘went to custard’ somewhat, as Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford went seriously ‘off message’, inflicting us with constant doses of density drivel (with light rail for bad measure), as he unwisely capitulated to elements to the left of Labour. … read more via hyperlink above …
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June 14, 2018 2:17am
- Nostradamus
  
  … Just updated …
  PERFORMANCE URBAN PLANNING
  … refresh / reload if necessary …
  
  Definitely not necessary – no one reads your blog!
  
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  June 14, 2018 6:11am
Manolo

The battle goes on: Trump vs the MSM:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5840261/Trump-calls-media-countrys-biggest-enemy-right-North-Korea-nuke-summit.html
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