General Debate 27 June 2018

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AgainstTheFlow

Who’s volunteering for an economy that is between 10 and 22% smaller than ‘business as usual’?
The 10-22% is from government-commissioned NZIER research.

https://croakingcassandra.com/2018/06/21/putting-a-price-on-the-hair-shirt/
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June 27, 2018 8:01am
- alex Masterley
  
  Venezuela, here we come.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:06am
  - Justitia
    
    Zimbabwe’s my bet. How to take a moderately successful economy based on agriculture, mining and tourism and run it into the ground through lies and sheer incompetence. It’s the COL to a tee.
    
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    June 27, 2018 8:24am
    - Johnboy
      
      Stop moaning. This is how Winnies going to get house prices down to $200,000! 🙂
      https://www.google.com/search?q=Zimbabwe+native+house%27s&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGjIyz1fLbAhUH7LwKHfDyBq8QsAQIJg&biw=1680&bih=885
      
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      June 27, 2018 1:16pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Right Justina but what Karma it will be when it is finally seen that the silly little girls move on fossil fuels being her “nuclear moment” lets the rest of the world realise she is indeed a silly little girl. Nothing more than a lame attempt to have some ground breaking news to take to CHOGM that hardly even got noticed because of bigger real issues.
      
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      June 27, 2018 11:27pm
kowtow

Who’s telling porkies?

‘ASB data shows the actual number of homes sold to foreign buyers in the year to March 2018 is likely between 11% & 21% nationally, not the 3% reported by Stats NZ ‘

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/94482/asb-data-shows-actual-number-homes-sold-foreign-buyers-year-march-2018-likely-upwards-11
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June 27, 2018 8:05am
- rangitoto
  
  What do they mean by “likely to be” versus an actual measurement?
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:16am
- Don the Kiwi
  
  Yes – but do they have ‘chinky’ sounding names?
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:20am
- tom1980
  
  Goodness, what possible reason could an Australian-owned bank have for sucking-up to the gubmint right now?
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:27am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  ASB break down the numbers as follows:
  
  3% foreign corporates
  8% NZ visa holders
  10% NZ corporates
  
  So the 8% is people who are entitled to live here and will be occupying a house regardless of whether they buy or rent. When they choose to buy it does not reduce the number of houses available for the rest of us.
  
  The 10% includes every Mum and Dad with an LAQC so it’s absurd to suggest they might all be foreign owned, just because the bank doesn’t know the residential status of the shareholders. Even some of the 3% may have NZ resident shareholders.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:57am
- Local Miller
  
  ASB: “He says a further 8% of purchases were made by New Zealand visa holders,”
  
  This is a BS stat. When I bought my house 7 years ago, I was an NZ visa holder! That is I had Permanent Residence Status, but wasn’t yet a citizen. I would have been in this group, even though at that point I’d lived in NZ for 5 years, only leaving the country once for 14 days.
  
  Now why would ASB want to be seen to push the foreign buyer numbers up?
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:39am
- ztev
  
  Thats an easy one .
  
  The low number counts ALL property title ‘transfers’ which include estates and other things like family trusts which just change beneficiaries and so on. These arent real sales
  
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  June 27, 2018 10:01am
VicParking

ASB, simple. Don’t believe an Australian bank over Statistics NZ
“he says anywhere from”
“the citizen status of which is unknown.”
“Trade Minister David Parker says number “sounds quite high to me.” (Although who would believe David)
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June 27, 2018 8:15am
- MrLovebucket
  
  ASB will have an ulterior motive. Stats NZ won’t
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:18am
  - ztev
    
    Counting different things . Stats numbers include ‘non sales’ like an estate transferred to beneficiaries and family trust transfers.
    They even have specialised codes for these sorts of things in the title transfer system, thats how they know
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:03am
Simon

NZ government can only spend 30% of GDP. This is both for National & Labo. (IMF have set this amount??)

Anyway with government spending capped it comes down to which party is more competent in spending the 30%, and which party can grow GDP.

(National didnt get 50% last election because of open door immigration, their way to boost GDP, which created infrastructure & social issues)

There are also social issues which can also be partially address with legislation. Such as Angry Little insane attempt to release criminals into society. ( Why do so many on the left hate normal people so much?)

Anyway with spending capped at 30% Labo cant piss money away to cover up their many horrible fuck ups. Labo dont have a plan to grow GDP.

It will all be too hard for them. Hence many Labo ministers & Peters already cracking open.
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June 27, 2018 8:16am
- backster
  
  “National didnt get 50% last election because of open door immigration, their way to boost GDP”
  
  ….But the Annual immigration numbers to May 2018 show no reduction (except in quality) on the previous year.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:37am
- srylands
  
  The government may be committed to capping expenditure to 30 percent of GDP. But there is no requirement that it does so, or that it must always do so. And the 30 percent number has nothing to do with the IMF.
  
  The public finance act specifies that the government must do the following.
  
  “once prudent levels of total debt have been achieved, maintaining those levels by ensuring that, on average, over a reasonable period of time, total operating expenses do not exceed total operating revenues”
  
  There is nothing in there about expenditure being capped at 30 percent of GDP.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:44am
  - ztev
    
    Thanks srylands, a voice of reason.
    Some other comments are more like cow pats than actual reality, indicates their background
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:05am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right srylands the 30% figure is an agreement between the members of the Mud Mob AKA Labour and Gang Green which to our benefit might be stopping a serious blowout in borrowing.
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:34pm
secondcumming

I first met *Kim Dotcom* about 6 years ago, when he bought a Personalized Plate from my collection.

Whilst our paths have never crossed since, I’ve always taken a mild interest in the big Kraut’s antics….mainly from an entertainment perspective.

But love him or hate him, you have to admire KDC’s undoubted tenacity, in standing up to some pretty heavy artillery that has been leveled against him from the highest levels.

Now it appears his latest stoush, with the *Government* and the *Police*, is no exception……

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1011384656531341312

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1011386683177046016

…and if what he has tweeted out here yesterday is any indication, things could get even more entertaining in the months ahead 🙂
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June 27, 2018 8:19am
- VicParking
  
  Secondcumming if you sound like a Dotcom supporter, you, Write like a Dotcom supporter and act like a Dotcom supporter………… I suppose trolling like one just adds to my suspicion.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:01am
  - secondcumming
    
    You could well be right in some respects VP….then again, I’d support anyone who’s prepared to pay me 40k for a 300 buck number plate.
    
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    June 27, 2018 9:17am
  - matchbox
    
    Maybe so Vic, but on this one, Dotcom is absolutely correct, and no surprise here in Labour Government’s out and out abuse of everyone’s Bill of Rights.
    
    For David Parker to refuse to comply with Supreme Court ruling, based on information only 5 years old no longer being available (using the excuse that the computer system changed), is disgraceful Labour lying and contempt of the Supreme Court.
    
    In Labour’s totalitarian system, there is absolutely nothing we proles can do about it.
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:26am
- dime
  
  cant wait to see him in a giant orange jumpsuit, crying.
  
  what he tried to do in the 2014 election was a disgrace.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:25am
  - Fletch
    
    I find it hard to picture him out of his trademark loose black tracksuit thing and scarf. He’s like Charlie Brown or Noddy, always wearing the same thing….
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:25am
    - matchbox
      
      I too detest the Jumpsuit Giant, but that doesn’t change the fact that David Parker is in contempt of a Supreme Court ruling.
      
      In his refusal to comply with a Supreme Court ruling, David Parker has used the pathetic excuse that former-AG Finlayson updated a computer system, and therefore information from only five years ago no longer exists. This is Orwellian Newspeak realised.
      
      No New Zealander benefits from having an NZ Attorney General who stoops this low. (But news of this AG corruption will remain entirely below the public radar because of who is involved.)
      
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      June 27, 2018 10:39am
      - matchbox
        
        Indeed DPF, seems to me that this is right up your professional IT alley and that there is a lot more to this very dangerous precedent than is being reported.
        
        Surely we cannot have any court rulings, let alone Supreme Court rulings, being contravened by no less than an Attorney General, on the basis that computer systems have been updated, and therefore all previous data has been conveniently “wiped”.
        
        Very spurious and dangerous grounds here indeed. “Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
        
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        June 27, 2018 10:53am
- ztev
  
  probably the police are calling anything on windows XP – an antiquated system.
  Theres too much hysteria about old operating systems. These internal systems are expected to be ‘wide open to the internet’ and are fine. The trouble is more like staff training and fixing bugs. But if you are happy to live with them – most bugs you dont know about anyway- and for isolated cases of extracting old data . Easy peasy
  
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  June 27, 2018 10:13am
holysheet

What has two wings and an arrow?
A Chinese telephone
“Wing Wing”
“Arrow”
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June 27, 2018 8:23am
- stephieboy
  
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  holyturd , tailored and recorded just for your insipid humour,
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xvfPIBO4Ng
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:45am
  - VicParking
    
    Recorded no doubt after you have just withdrawn ????
    
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    June 27, 2018 9:03am
  - 4077th
    
    What do you call an unemployed goat?
    Billy Idol.
    
    You know what really gets my goat?
    …..A handful of pellets!
    
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    June 27, 2018 9:46am
  - softail 1450
    
    holysheet ,What has two working brain cells and an abused goat and goes squawk,squawk,squawk all fucking day long?
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:56am
igm

About time this clusterfuck of unelected misfits attempting to govern gave us full facts on Mycoplasma bovis and how it arrived. Dumped on my desk is some damn serious claims as to its origination and distribution, and if it is 100% correct, we have not only enviro terrorists, but also agriculture terrorists.
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June 27, 2018 8:24am
- KevOB
  
  My instincts have expected the Ag Terrorists.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:29am
  - stephieboy
    
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    KevOB, instincts vs evidence and facts!
    
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    June 27, 2018 8:52am
    - ztev
      
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      Plus it wasnt spread around the country by ‘ag terrorists’ just lots of farmers and herd managers avoiding IRD beady eyes by selling and moving stock on the sly and not using NAIT.
      The NAIT was introduced when Anderton was Agriculture minister but national made it a joke for its 9 years. karma
      
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      June 27, 2018 10:17am
      - thedavincimode
        
        Bare-faced lie.
        
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        June 27, 2018 10:23am
      - ztev
        
        https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/dairy/view/farmers-make-tracing-stock-hard
        
        <i.Dairy farmers pay lower tax than a couple on the pension, IRD says; Fonterra gets tax credits. This fair or sustainable?
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/rural-news/53495/dairy-farmers-pay-lower-tax-couple-pension-ird-says-fonterra-gets-tax-credits-fair
        
        Its a bit old now , 2011 but generally still true.
        
        IRD figures showed the 17,244 entities registered as being in the dairy sector, including companies, trusts and individuals, paid only NZ$26 million in tax.
        
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        June 27, 2018 11:45am
      - thedavincimode
        
        Only a complete moron would expect to be able to present those two articles as somehow substantiating the preceding bare-faced lie and get away with it. You tried and failed. You’re clearly even more stupid than you think the readership here is.
        
        ztev: licking peters’ arse since September 2017.
        
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        June 27, 2018 1:53pm
      - igm
        
        ztrev: I thought you were low, but you are lower than a snake’s navel, and unworthy of air.
        
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        June 27, 2018 2:30pm
      - igm
        
        ztrev: You are getting very close to that defamation claim.
        
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        June 27, 2018 5:31pm
    - KevOB
      
      I have been a professional investigator. Coincidence often hides deceit. Green thuggery has to be disproven at this stage to remove suspicion.
      
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      June 27, 2018 10:41am
- sam green
  
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  You must be important.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:32am
- backster
  
  Do we know if more than one cow has ever been found in a herd to have the disease.? Is there any case where half the herd has the disease.? I have only seen reports of one cow infected yet up to 1200 slaughtered.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:45am
- brett68
  
  What are these claims?
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:45am
- stephieboy
  
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  igm , Proof!
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:48am
  - starboard
    
    “fap fap fap fap faaaaaaapppppppp”!!!!
    
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    June 27, 2018 1:26pm
- Gerrit
  
  Like the speed at which the PSA virus spread through the kiwifruit industry, mycoplasma bovis speed of spread has been faster than one can move cows from Central Canterbury to Northland.
  
  I would have thought the best method of control was to test for m-bovis at the same time as the TB testing is done (is TB testing still done?). Infected cows with either disease are culled and no cows can be moved from that farm until all are cleared in a second round of testing.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:51am
  - KevOB
    
    Too sensible to be comprehended any govt Ministry.
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:44am
  - KiWombat
    
    Gerrit – Whilst it is relatively simple to spread m-bovis around the south island, we should have had biosecurity at Picton to monitor stock movements across Cook Strait. Not doing this was a massive fail !
    
    Then – at least m-bovis would have been confined to the south island.
    
    I have crossed the strait a number of times this year, and whilst I have been asked about fishing and tramping, there has NEVER been a question about dairy farms – even when I was wearing gumboots with evidence blatantly obvious !
    
    Now it is too late. MPI and the Minister deserve a real bollocking over this – there has been very little effort at containment, and what effort has been made seems to be driven by the industry with little – if any – input from MPI !
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:18pm
- holysheet
  
  It’s well known in the industry that it suspected to be imported by the Zeestraten family in Southland.
  https://issuu.com/ruralnewsgroup/docs/rn_655_june_19
  page 34/35
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:16am
  - calendar girl
    
    Thanks, holy. That article is well worth a read by any lay-person who wants a better understanding of the myco-p bovis disease.
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:31am
- oldgolfer
  
  I very much hope you are wrong.
  God forbid.
  
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  June 27, 2018 10:29am
- sam green
  
  What bullshit iga – M.Bovis, varroa mite and PSA all have rather similar origins – importing of, respectively, semen, queen bees and pollen by people in those industries. M.Bovis was likely here before the government changed anyway so if you want to politicise – look to the government that didn’t give a shit.
  
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  June 27, 2018 10:35am
rangitoto

Trump wins again.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/26/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban-on-some-muslim-majority-nations.html
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June 27, 2018 8:29am
- stephieboy
  
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  Rangitoto with lots of exceptions like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
  
  Muslim-majority countries where Donald Trump does business left untouched by travel ban
  
  Wealthier countries which could pose a risk of terror but do business with the Trump Organisation will not face restrictions
  
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslim-majority-countries-donald-trump-travel-ban-immigration-entry-visa-three-main-countries-exempt-a7552526.html
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:54am
  - VicParking
    
    Man Stephie get a brain. Is there Mold on the walls of Frasier House
    
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    June 27, 2018 9:07am
    - igm
      
      Pity we did not adopt Donald’s sanctions then we would be rid of f/wits like the goat shagger and his rug pilot mates.
      
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      June 27, 2018 9:13am
    - pentwig
      
      Too late Vic
      The self confessed pervert was born brainless as well as shameless.
      
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      June 27, 2018 10:53am
- Harkman
  
  Naturally, One News won’t show this, it shows that Trump was constitutionally correct from the beginning. Remember One News thought the wacky neo-Marxist protesters were legal geniuses and bet big on their causes.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:05am
  - kowtow
    
    Last night One “news” led with that nutter getting his just desserts saying he was “gunned down” .
    
    Well duh , that’s called self defence.
    
    Home owners , winning. Yeh haw!
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:26am
    - Padriv Ustoev
      
      Well they are not wrong. If some asswhipe threw a brick through my front door and tried to come in the jouse, he would get a musket ball from that wall hanger jazail.
      I’m surprised anyone is surprised, as they say.
      
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      June 27, 2018 11:07am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Not only them. Also RED Radio. This morning, Ferguson was interviewing a commentator from Denver to find a base of anti Trump sentiment to his travel ban.
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:41am
Manolo

A mad snake:
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-laura-loomer-confronts-maxine-waters/
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June 27, 2018 8:51am
- VicParking
  
  I can see why half the COL got elected
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:08am
- Harkman
  
  By the end of yesterday Maxine Waters, had claimed that she hadn’t encouraged violence, unapologized and reincouraged violence again. Wacky woman.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:08am
- Fletch
  
  Yeh, the woman is crazy, fomenting violence and discord.
  
  “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” Waters, who has called for President Donald Trump to be impeached, told supporters over the weekend.
  
  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rep-waters-draws-criticism-saying-trump-officials-should-be-harassed-n886311
  
  I think she is actually becoming senile. She is 79 years old. Might be time to retire.
  
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  June 27, 2018 10:31am
- softail 1450
  
  Manolo ,Black trash ….
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:07pm
EAD_TWO

I watched a bit of this turgid affair and at one stage I counted just the one actual Frenchman on the pitch for Les Blues. Just ONE.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-game/105035124/football-can-be-boring–players-defend-heavily-booed-france-v-denmark-fifa-world-cup-sellout

One interchangeable brown soup globalist team that happens to be called Denmark V another interchangeable brown soup globalist team that happens to be called France.

If they swapped kits at half time would anyone really notice, or care?

What a perverse spectacle it all is…..and yet, the normies still lap it up (and Denmark ain’t even that bad compared to the team representing the “English” nation).
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June 27, 2018 9:06am
- VicParking
  
  The whole competition seems a doggy right from the original selections Just look at the puppies Russia got to face in the round section.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:11am
MCos

Some people like to listen to Morning Report or watch grumpy Richardson or whoever else is on local morning TV so they can moan about it afterwards.
Some like to listen to the news so they can agree with whatever Trump has been up to over night or disagree with our Government.

Right now at that time of day nothing can compete with the human drama of the World Cup.
If Argentine had fallen by the wayside this morning I’m sure my TV would have dissolved in a flood of tears. The other day when Iran lost was heartbreaking.
Maradona was as much a star of the show as Messi!
These’s a man who really does love his country . . . . .
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June 27, 2018 9:09am
- VicParking
  
  He also loves to be in the camera lens
  
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  June 27, 2018 10:21am
Harkman

Piece of advice, don’t buy one of Winston’s cheap and nasty houses.
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June 27, 2018 9:10am
- VicParking
  
  I cry for those with $650k houses with a $300k mortgage who will find there house worth $250k. The Aussie Banks will not be sympathetic.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:14am
  - Paulus
    
    Neither will the companies who insure these cheap properties in the event of a claim where the policy holder gets sweet fa in the end.
    
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    June 27, 2018 9:36am
  - Happychappy
    
    They should have thought about that before they voted for Labour or NZ First the Greens were preaching this before the Election and Peter’s was saying it won’t happen. As the old saying goes play with fire you get burn’t , they had a choice and voted for a Jacinda and her star dust agenda.
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:42am
  - GoVege
    
    Don’t cry for me, Argentparking.
    Don’t care if my house is valued at 50 cents….so long as I gotta home! 🙂
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:33am
    - softail 1450
      
      govege, 3 million dollar house one side of me ,1.6 million dollar section on the other and my 60 year old house has a govt valuation of 30k ,wouldn’t be without for quids,just spent the valuation on the kitchen alone .
      
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      June 27, 2018 12:15pm
      - KiWombat
        
        Well done softy – but don’t tell council or they’ll bung your rates up !
        
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        June 27, 2018 12:25pm
Longknives

Christ does anyone else wish this ‘Matariki’ thing would just end??
Most Culture’s New Year celebrations last one night-This Matariki nonsense is reportedly going to drag on for the next month as well…
Apparently the celebrations begin on 6th July- So much for all the Lefties shrieking how ‘incredible’ it was that Jacinda had her baby during Matariki..

*Oh and the Herald have found some guy claiming to have an Ancient ‘Matariki’ Manuscript-Funny how they don’t have any photos of this..
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12077956
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June 27, 2018 9:13am
- igm
  
  Like matariki, it is a load of s . . t!
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:15am
- VicParking
  
  And Maori had no written language, Writting implements or material to write on. Aliens? ?‍♂️
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:17am
  - Paulus
    
    Nah – Maori invented writing many centuries ago – before the Greeks and Romans and Egyptians.
    
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    June 27, 2018 9:38am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    Maori are the original Atlantians. Educate yourself fools.
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:17am
  - GoVege
    
    Well weren’t we all just darn lucky our ancestors came from the “cradle of civilization” so we had the benefit of all those wonderful things like writing?
    The luck of the draw I suppose.
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:44am
  - Nermal
    
    No it’s from the celts who lived here first
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:17pm
  - softail 1450
    
    vicparking, the wheel was a complete mystery to maori ,you would have thought someone would have said “hey lets roll that very heavy whaka on these beach logs” but no .
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:21pm
- dime
  
  i can never remember what its called. i keep getting looks when i call it matakana.
  
  i havent the slightest idea of what its meant to be, when it is.. i just dont give a flying fuck.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:28am
- G152
  
  The document cant be all that ancient… Don’t the nutters talk a load of crap sometimes
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:51am
- GoVege
  
  Matariki sounds lovely.
  I’m all for “remembering the dead”.
  Doesn’t the bible say “honour thy mother and father”?
  The only reason we are all here is because our ancestors nurtured and worked to support our forebears.
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:41am
- sam green
  
  The article says “traditional” not “ancient”.
  
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  June 27, 2018 1:54pm
MrLovebucket

The Newshub feed seems to be infected with more and more hate speech from the extreme left “The Spinoff”, these days. Every single article is complete an utter drivel and I wonder how much they are paying Newshub to repeat.
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June 27, 2018 9:31am
- Dave Mann
  
  I always record ‘7 Days’ and I noticed something called ‘Spinoff TV’ so I recorded that too to see what it was like.
  
  The programme seemed to be a bunch of primary school children slagging off Mike Hosking and someone else for not having orgasms over that stupid little woman’s baby.
  
  I just couldn’t watch any more so I deleted it. Is this idiotic puerile nonsense related to the website of the same name?
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:47am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Did you see the Seven Days programme a few weeks ago when a female “comedienne” said she’d like to stalk Simon Bridges, get pregnant to him, then abort the foetus?
    
    Seven Days of course is a Mediaworks programme, made with the support of the taxpayer via NZ On Air. It’s also the organisation that employs Tova O’Brien, who has called on Bridges to apologise for “transphobic” comments about Baby Ardern-Gayford.
    
    I’m glad Bridges has refused to apologise, and I look forward to Ms O’Brien being so vehement in demanding an apology from the Seven Days crew.
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:39pm
    - Flash
      
      “Did you see the Seven Days programme a few weeks ago when a female “comedienne” said she’d like to stalk Simon Bridges, get pregnant to him, then abort the foetus?”
      Once upon a time not so long ago, humour like that would have been censored. Everyone would have considered it coarse and vulgar in the extreme.
      That woman should be called out and shamed for her nastiness.
      
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      June 27, 2018 12:59pm
      - GoVege
        
        What the hell is funny about that????
        
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        June 27, 2018 1:28pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Haley Sproull’s “comedy” is no longer on view.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l31OPsWbI3I
        But some of us remember seeing it.. and the clowns on TV3/Media Works who thought it was great fun to laugh about aborting Simon Bridges’ baby.
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/06/meet_a_second_striker_5.html#comment-2223820
        
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        June 27, 2018 2:48pm
    - Dave Mann
      
      Yes I remember that and I thought it was in extremely bad taste. And there are other notable leftie wankers on sometimes as well who’s names escape me, but you’ll probably know who I mean…
      
      I still watch the show, though, because it is generally extremely funny and the regulars are very good. They even make fun sometimes (but not so often) of the present ‘government’.
      
      I think 7 Days is a credit to New Zealand’s great talent and creativity. There’s nothing else on TV3 that comes anywhere close; particularly the programmes that often follow it attempting to continue the comedy vibe – usually complete failures.
      
      I’d like to see a couple of right wing panellists rotating on 7 Days. It would be great to see the cut-and-thrust of some good natured and funny talent from opposite sides of the spectrum.
      
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      June 27, 2018 2:51pm
Manolo

The crooked hag is history. There is now a new idol for stephieboy:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/06/26/bloomberg-considering-2020-presidential-run/

Michael Bloomberg is revving up to run for president in 2020, making him both the oldest and richest person to seek the job.
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June 27, 2018 9:49am
- dime
  
  trump would destroy him. just outright destroy.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:56am
Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/links-27-june-2018/#comment-3131808

… NEW ZEALAND: ACTING PRIME MINISTER WINSTON PETERS DISCUSSES HOUSING AFFORDABILITY …

Acting PM Winston Peters says enabling young couples to buy houses for the equivalent of 5x their income is the Govt’s long-term objective, but it won’t happen during its first term | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94470/acting-prime-minister-says-getting-average-house-price-5x-average-income-government%E2%80%99s

Winston Peters wants affordable homes for those on living wage … Henry Cooke … Stuff / Fairfax NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/105020637/Winston-Peters-wants-affordable-homes-for-those-on-living-wage?cid=app-iPad

(originally titled) Dont touch the HAM: Its off ! … Rob Stock … Stuff / Fairfax NZ
… take particular note – readers ‘median multiple poll …
Have Peters, Twyford and Robertson seen it ?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/104817263/Don-t-touch-the-HAM-its-off

… What are Winston Peters and Shane Jones view on this ?

Do they care ?

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

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

… extract …

… Hon Phil Twyford acknowledged the seriousness of the housing crisis for Auckland MÄori with the home ownership rate among MÄori now tracking below 30%. The Minister highlighted the impact this has on intergenerational wealth and resources, reducing opportunities to accumulate wealth to pass on to the next generation. This creates critical long-term impacts that must be addressed. … read more via hyperlink above …

… essential background information … check …

ARDERN / TWYFORD SECTION
(recently updated)
PERFORMANCE URBABN PLANNING
http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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June 27, 2018 9:50am
- Dave Mann
  
  Just 3 more reports needed from one reader and this troll will be gone. Report/refresh/report again. Repeat.
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:54am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Dave Mann … I have just reported you !
    
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    June 27, 2018 9:56am
    - Dave Mann
      
      Go for it you boring troll 😀
      
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      June 27, 2018 9:58am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … DON’T FORGET WELLINGTONS BIG EVENT … TONIGHT ! …
        
        … Wellington Presentation Event … WED 27 JUNE 2018
        
        Infrastructure New Zealand – WELLINGTON – WED 27 JUNE 2018 EVENT: Lessons from the USA – Planning, Funding and Enabling City Growth
        
        https://infrastructure.org.nz/event-2932846
        
        Infrastructure New Zealand – Home
        
        https://infrastructure.org.nz/
        
        Enabling City Growth: Lessons from the USA (pdf) … Infrastructure New Zealand
        
        https://infrastructure.org.nz/resources/Documents/Reports/Infrastructure%20NZ%20USA%20Report.pdf
        
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        June 27, 2018 10:04am
Happychappy

Barry Sopers column in the Herald this morning waffling on about like him or hate him Winston First deserves respect from the media after Duncan and Mark ridiculed him on the AM Show yesterday for not being their at his allotted time and saying they would get someone else to fill the PM spot. Well while I don’t care for Garners political leanings it is his show and like most things with the arrogant politician he gives no respect to most people and is quick to either slander some under Parliamentry Privilege or blame them for his own misgivings, a great example is his pension over payments. Winston First is a leech that that cons old people into voting for him and his Party and then never gets to give them what he has promised apart from the pensioners card which goes back many years, so if he wants respect maybe he should learn to respect others and keep his promise’s would be a good start.
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June 27, 2018 10:13am
- ztev
  
  Arent these sort of shows allways saying ‘Coming after the break we have XXXX YYYY’
  of course they dont tell you its 3 or 4 more breaks.
  
  Often its then said , we have lost the link, we cant get through or for nobodies ‘we have run out of time’
  
  Are their advertisers promised ‘Mr Big at a certain time and they cant move it 10 mins ?
  
  Doesnt make any sense at all for these types of programs that are always making a deal out of ‘Breaking news’
  
  Listen up Luvvies on Breakfast with Whoever – you arent all that important , you really arent
  
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  June 27, 2018 10:26am
  - thedavincimode
    
    ztev: felching peters since September 2017.
    
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    June 27, 2018 10:27am
    - starboard
      
      In between inserting gerbils, don’t forget the gerbils…
      
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      June 27, 2018 1:39pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  My father always taught me that respect had to be earned. He also taught me to be early for appointments, so that the person you were meeting felt that their time was more important than yours.
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:40pm
secondcumming

*HEARTBREAK ISLAND* TV2

My missus is totally addicted…..she even watches the unexpurgated compilation on Friday nights!

Personally, I’ve never seen *such shit* screen during prime-time. Still, must be popular though, I hear TVNZ have even prepared Storyboards for a *West Auckland* version…….

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgZ8HsCU0AAgH7e.jpg
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June 27, 2018 10:41am
KiWombat

Are you out there Shane? – wakey wakey, hands off snakey – sometime today 70 million trees to go now Shane – that’s 70 followed by a bucketful of zero’s !

This is a very large number. To put it into context, if 70,000,000 x 5mtr high trees were laid end to end then they would reach the moon.

Summer’s over now, winter is well under way, so it’s the right time to start planting – better go wake up your cuzzies and give them a shovel some time soon !
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June 27, 2018 10:58am
Fletch

Is anyone keeping track of the dick moves this Labour government is making? I want to start a list in case I have a lunchtime debate with anyone at work etc… They are coming thick and fast, but I can remember –

* The myriad of new taxes.
* The cancelling of oil and gas exploration.
* The Labour camp sex abuser.
* David Parker’s call to reduce cow numbers when he doesn’t know the effect.
* The “Amazon” tax.
* Scrapping of health targets (from today).
* The backdown on foreign home buying and bottling of water.
* The (almost) dumping of the three strikes law.
* Closing of charter schools.
* Clare Curran’s RNZ meetup.
* The acting PM suing the government.
* Business confidence in negative numbers.

etc, etc…

What are some others?
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June 27, 2018 10:58am
- KiWombat
  
  Here’s my list Fletch
  
  It’s beginning to look as though MeTu had at least an iota of common decency about her – she was prepared to fall on her sword when her indiscretions became known to the wider electorate, although she did wait until it became more than just warm in the kitchen – but –
  
  Eugenie Sage met with either a man from the EPA or a woman from the Ministry for Environment – not sure which – she should have gone to Specsavers !
  
  Sage didn’t really blame the Overseas Investment Act for signing away rights to water, that was just a misunderstanding which was cleared up as soon as she read her copy of the act –
  
  Clare Curran didn’t arrange a meeting, that was just another unfortunate misunderstanding –
  
  – neither did she warn anybody away from attending a Parliamentary Select Committee – that was just an unfortunate misinterpretation –
  
  WeeWinnie didn’t attempt to sue Bill English & Co – the media misinterpreted that as well –
  
  Cindy didn’t mean to say “A true mark of leadership is whether you front those mistakes:- the camera was inadvertently rolling at the time –
  
  Cindy’s candidate for Northcote didn’t really claim to have earned an MBA, its just that his social media page forgot to mention that MBA actually stood for “Master Bullshit Artist” –
  
  David Clark didn’t try to bribe a DHB Chairman, he was just being nice offering him alternate employment – and quickly if he kept his mouth shut –
  
  Ron Mark didn’t misuse military aircraft, they just happened to be misguidedly passing his back porch –
  
  The government didn’t really try to short circuit the law for one of David Parker’s workmates, it was supposed to be koha for the local iwi –
  
  Labour didn’t supply booze to underage children, their caterer just made an unfortunate miscalculation –
  
  JAG didn’t mean to be nasty about old white men – we just got all confused about her terminology – after all there’s probably an “old white man” at the helm of her daily flight to work, isn’t there ?
  
  Shame Jones was told his project feasibility study was a waste of money, but he unfortunately misread that and carried on regardless –
  
  Jenny Marcroft didn’t attempt to bribe Mark Mitchell, Mitchell became confused and misunderstood what she said –
  
  Cindy didn’t promise “no strikes on my watch” – that was just misreporting by TVNZ and should have been edited out –
  
  Similarly – she didn’t mean to say “no new taxes under Labour – but then the fuel taxes are mostly being applied by Councils anyway –
  
  Nobody put their hand down a kiddies pants at the Labour Youth Camp, somebody was just brushing the ants off their tush – another unfortunate misunderstanding –
  
  Twitford didn’t promise us 100,000 new homes – then have to re-define the term “year” – just another unfortunate miscalculation –
  
  Likewise, Twitford was just suffering brain fade when he telephoned his staff from an aircraft, then stood and moved around the aircraft whilst it was taxi-ing – the witness just misunderstood what he saw –
  
  Shame Jones didn’t really promise 100,000,000 trees per year, this was an unfortunate misassessment, and in any case he couldn’t control the Autumn from hell –
  
  Paul Eagle didn’t attempt to bribe his local panel beater into committing insurance fraud – the poor panel beater unfortunately suffers from mistaken belief syndrome –
  
  This agglomeration of misfits, misunderstandings, false impressions, misreadings, miscalculations, mistaken beliefs, slips of the tongue, misinterpretations, fuck ups, errors and mix-ups is beginning to get somewhat tedious. The time has come for one or two heads to roll.
  
  Cindy – lets do this !
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:09am
  - Swifty
    
    Good work.
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:16am
  - Poppa
    
    Very good KW
    
    I believe the buck stops at the top. So that means you Cindy
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:28am
    - Fletch
      
      The bucktooth stops at the top…
      
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      June 27, 2018 12:34pm
  - RalphT
    
    And the government is only nine months old. After reading that sad litany I think I need a lie down.
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:19pm
  - softail 1450
    
    KiWombat, and not one shariagull type lie in any of your points ,excellent .
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:31pm
  - Fletch
    
    Thanks!
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:32pm
- Dave Mann
  
  Hey well done Fletch! A week or so ago it occurred to me to ask our readers the same thing…. but I didn’t act on it. You’ve started the ball rolling. Good one!
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:31am
Fletch

ps, I freely admit to not knowing too much about the ‘Business Confidence’ index or how it works. I just had a look at the list of confidence from around the world and it seems that New Zealand is sitting at minus 27.2 (-27.2). It seems to be the country with the lowest confidence on the list, with Angola second at -15. Our business confidence is worse than Angola?

I’m assuming this is bad?

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/business-confidence
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June 27, 2018 11:00am
- riffer
  
  To a certain extent Business Confidence is a meaningless measure, however it does seem to inspire a lot of doomsaying talk which isn’t helpful to the economy – a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:19am
- riffer
  
  Besides, the countries at the top of the list are Equador, Ukraine, Sri Lanka and Mauritius. I’m not sure how keen we are to be seen as “enlightened” as those countries.
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:22am
- riffer
  
  I see it more like a popularity contest, in which Labour governments are going to always look bad, in that they tend to be more employee (read: union) friendly than National governments.
  If we had a employee-confidence rating I would expect to see a similar trend, but in reverse.
  
  Swings and roundabouts folks. Taking the macro view over time it seems to even out somewhat.
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:24am
Sarkozygroupie

I am impressed with the very careful management by Stuff and the Dom Post to minimise then remove all articles about the Labour Party camp sexual predator in less than 12 hours off its websites.

The first came on at 8:57am yesterday- in small print and not as a headline article – and by 3pm had progressively been moved as far as possible down the page to as discreet a spot as possible. There was just one other article in small print that was placed well down the page, off to one side in small print.

Checking today both articles have completely disappeared, including under the politics page. I guess Stuff thinks that was enough time to be seen to be being bipartisan.

Meanwhile after days and days we still have multiple articles about a messianic baby and its amazing parents. A baby that is carrying a Government.

Good to see Stuff putting its relationship with left wing politics ahead of victims of sexual assault.
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June 27, 2018 11:09am
- thedavincimode
  
  It’s to protect the victims.
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:11am
  - riffer
    
    Jesus TDM, you can’t kill the conspiracy theory immediately. Where’s your sense of fair play?
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:20am
    - thedavincimode
      
      I meant the victims in the liebour heirachy.
      
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      June 27, 2018 4:09pm
- Gravelroad
  
  There was a prominently placed “investigative” story on Stuff about a child who died at the Gloriavale religious community, for weeks and weeks and weeks…….and weeks.
  “Weird” religious people, with a bit of sexual innuendo thrown in, tops someone actually charged with an offence if they are associated with the Labour Party. Apparently.
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:21pm
Jack5

Hell’s teeth! What is the Hooerald trying to do with the shooting a knife-carrying New Zealander who was trying to smash his way into the home of a 14-year-old American girl?

It reports on the freedom of gun buying in Virginia, and then gives details of mass shootings in America.

C’mon, this is a case where a kid seems to have been saved by a pistol shot from her mother.

Surely NZ Lefties can see that it supports American gun lobby arguments about citizens’ rights to have guns.
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June 27, 2018 11:28am
- Sarkozygroupie
  
  Picked up by Stuff too:
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/105037838/troy-skinner-travelled-to-a-us-community-armed-with-guns
  
  What a shame the mother didn’t shoot him in the nuts.
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:43am
  - Longknives
    
    “Skinner was likely to face charges of breaking and entering with a deadly weapon with the intent to commit rape, robbery or murder”
    
    And this character is the ‘Pin up Boy’ for the Anti-Gun/Anti American Left in New Zealand?
    Jesus they sure can pick ’em…
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:39pm
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      How likely is it, do you think, that the global/liberal MSM will pick up the attitude and run a headline like:
      
      “NZ joins anti-gun lobby to protect NZ psychopaths engaged in violent crime in the US”
      
      “Mother and daughters should have surrendered themselves to killer in the name of Obama,” says NZ. “They could have just asked him nicely to stop. Where was their empathy?”
      
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      June 27, 2018 1:21pm
- Jack5
  
  Whoops! My apologies to the Hooerald and thanks to Skarkozygroupie!
  
  I was referring to the Stuff article.
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:45am
- GoVege
  
  One of the rare occasions a gun was put to good use.
  But a big furry German Shepherd would have done the job equally well. 🙂
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:49am
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    You mean like the ‘big furry’ Police dog that was just nearly killed with a knife?
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:55am
  - Jack5
    
    The problem is an intruder could be carrying a knife – and this one is accused of having one.
    
    Do you want your dog knifed? Then what?
    
    It’s difficult with a pistol to hit a moving target, even a close one, and your German Shepherd would be moving the intruder around. The Shepherd could get shot.
    
    You would get a far clearer shot if you kept the Shepherd away.
    
    For the girl’s Mum, even if she had a German Shepherd, it might be the pistol or the dog, but not both. You don’t need to feed a pistol or take it for walks, and range practice isn’t boring.
    
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    June 27, 2018 11:57am
    - GoVege
      
      Yeah, but has a German Shepherd ever taken out dozens of people in a school or nightclub?
      
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      June 27, 2018 12:31pm
      - Garbageman
        
        Yeah they dont drive white vans into crowds of people either or let off grenades or run around stabbing people this list does go on Vege but i think you get my point, fyi i have had German Shepard’s all my life and can testify to not noticing this kind of behavior
        
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        June 27, 2018 1:34pm
      - Jack5
        
        GoV ege: The Nazi death camps were big users of German Shepherds.
        
        That’s no reason to be prejudiced against the dog. They do what they are trained to do.
        
        Similarly, a householder using a pistol for self-defence is unrelated to school and nightclub massacres.
        
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        June 27, 2018 2:04pm
      - GoVege
        
        But Jack…many guns purchased by harmless individuals have ended up in the hands of murderers or even mass murderers.
        Most of those kids taking guns to school stole them off their parents.
        God knows how those bast**rds of Nazis managed to train a beautiful dog like the German Shepherd to do their work.
        I think that’s why they started calling it the Alsation for a while.
        
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        June 27, 2018 4:32pm
      - GoVege
        
        Lifesgood: going vege is what we need to do to save the animals, save ourselves from disease, and save our lovely planet for our great grandchildren and future generations.
        BTW. …have you been living in a cave for 20 years not to know this?
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:47pm
    - GoVege
      
      And a pistol won’t give you hugs and companionship and lay down its doggy life for you…. 🙂
      
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      June 27, 2018 1:24pm
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        Not when they’re dead, they don’t.
        
        How come you reject the idea of killing animals for food to sustain human life, but have no problem sacrificing them to keep you alive in the face of killer – rather than just shooting the killer and keeping the responsibility where it belongs.
        
        Of course, I know you don’t think that.
        
        And again, of course, you’re in complete denial of those who train dogs to attack other animals/people, whether singly or in numbers. Animals can be used to kill just like guns can – everything can, right down to germs.
        
        The problem is in the human beings, not the weapons.
        
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        June 27, 2018 2:38pm
      - GoVege
        
        Excuse ME Anne but I would never put my animals in danger to save my own skin.
        In fact, my hubby once had a pit bull sink it’s fangs into his leg defending our dog!
        This particular dog deterred criminals for 14 years and never bit anyone once (or was injured herself.)
        The bark has an amazing effect on would-be intruders.
        But if it’s a choice between the remote possibility of Fido being injured, or altetnatively packing heat, with all the attendant dangers of a firearm falling into the wrong hands, I’d risk the pooch.
        
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        June 27, 2018 4:43pm
      - realityczech
        
        Vege wants people raped, robbed, bashed and murdered, so she can feel smug.
        
        She is very excited about kids and others being ripped and torn to shreds by pitbulls.
        
        She is showing the true nature of a vegetarian, which is based on the hatred of her fellow humans.
        
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        June 27, 2018 4:46pm
      - lifesgood
        
        Why would anyone in their right mind go veg?
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:09pm
      - realityczech
        
        Veges are gun grabbing freedom hating commies who fundamentally reject the natural order of our planet and hate nature and all its works.
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:12pm
      - GoVege
        
        You silly bugger, rc!
        How did you reach that ridiculous conclusion?
        FYI, I would love to see all dangerous breeds of dogs banned.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:43pm
      - realityczech
        
        My mistake. What other animals do you want exterminated?
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:46pm
      - sam green
        
        Hahahahaha. Anne of Green Gables and realityczech are one and the same.
        
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        June 27, 2018 10:25pm
  - Jack5
    
    A diversion for Kiwiblog’s gun enthusiasts, and also to rark up our anti-gun lobby: the Washington Times’s list of top AR-style assault rifles for 2018.
    
    The fifth on the list is from Lewis Machine Tools, the manufacturer that the NZ Army chose for its latest rifles.
    
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/top-ar-rifles-2018/?page=6
    
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    June 27, 2018 3:58pm
- holysheet
  
  Whilst in America, my son and I went shopping in Wal-mart. I asked the cashier if they had any Kinder eggs. “Oh no, sir, we don’t sell them in the States – they are a health hazard!” “Okay,” I replied. “I’ll just take these two assault rifles then.”
  
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  June 27, 2018 11:52am
  - Jack5
    
    Walmart stopped selling assault rifles in 2015.
    
    Now it won’t even sell toy rifles that look like AR15s (assault rifles).
    
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/28/walmart-bans-gun-sales-21-years-airsoft-rifles-look-like-ar-15s/
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:03pm
    - MCos
      
      Imagine going to Bunnings or the Warehouse or Pak n’ Sav or the Mad Butcher and buying a gun.
      
      That would sort out the unemployment problem in the Funeral industry.
      
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      June 27, 2018 12:22pm
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  Since when would ‘NZ Lefties’ either think rationally or consider that victims should have the right to defend themselves, especially women and children? And, I mean, this was a NZ psychopath – entitled to attack others in their opinion, followed by a lengthy investigation and discourse on what social tragedies motivated them and how they can be ‘helped’.
  
  Who would then populate all their PC victim groups? What possible fun would their disciples have if the victims were allowed to fight back on equal terms – despite it catering to their goal of reducing the prison population? I can’t imagine Maori would approve either.
  
  Nevertheless, ‘go’ that mother! And may all mothers acquire the same spirit to defend their innocent (as in ‘not criminal’) children.
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:09pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    So men have less right to defend themselves compared to women? So boys and girls aren’t born equal? You’ve been listening to the feminist left far to much.
    
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    June 27, 2018 7:14pm
- Paulus
  
  I assume that we will hear that she was actually older than 14 on the net “conversation” ?
  
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  June 27, 2018 2:11pm
Monique Watson

Payload Deployed! That was Bloody Marvellous seeing the footage and a room-full of mostly Kiwis and hearing “Auckland Mission Control”. Good on that Man!
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June 27, 2018 11:41am
- 4077th
  
  Did I miss it? I thought Rocketlab launch schedule was for around 2pm today? Are we talking about a different launch?
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:02pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think Monique exists in a different time frame from us.
    
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    June 27, 2018 12:11pm
    - Monique Watson
      
      Yep about five hours ahead. And Herald put up a link with today’s date.
      
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      June 27, 2018 12:28pm
Monique Watson

https://youtu.be/PPN3KTtrnZM
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June 27, 2018 11:43am
- Longknives
  
  Love me some Monty Python!
  Did you see Cleese sticking it to the Left the other day? (They were shrieking that Monty Python were ‘Old White Men’ and shouldn’t be on TV etc)
  The man is an absolute legend..
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:41pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    I was watching the Twitter for once and saw that. I showed one of my boys The Ministry of Silly Walks and he did the Silly Walk in a pretty good imitation for laps ?
    
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    June 27, 2018 2:09pm
Jack5

Aussie banksters slammed for driving farmers off land.

You think the same can’t happen here, after lax investment controls have pushed farmland prices through the ceiling?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/105034715/anz-admits-decision-to-force-farmer-off-his-land-was-not-fair-and-reasonable
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June 27, 2018 11:52am
- Sarkozygroupie
  
  The same has happened here. In the 80’s and 90’s and 2000’s.
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:02pm
- wiseowl
  
  It has already happened here Jack.
  I am following the Aussie commission very closely.I have a friend who was put in to receivership for no good reason and at the same time the same bank picked on 9 other farmers/producers.
  The bank thought my friend would end it all hut he didn’t. He has fought back and something is coming up very soon in court.
  Mirrors stories from Aussie so will be interesting to see what evolves especially given what is happening across the ditch.
  
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  June 27, 2018 6:10pm
- realityczech
  
  “Aussie banksters slammed for driving farmers off land.”
  
  Bear in mind they also hold most of the NZ mortgage market.
  
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  June 27, 2018 6:14pm
Monique Watson

Well I’m no Rocket Scientist heh, and instead of linking to Monty Python I meant to link to the Launch footage. One of my boys learned to walk at Mahia and we’ll be visiting down the road from you Maggy next year. When the weather isn’t as cold 🙂
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June 27, 2018 11:53am
- Sarkozygroupie
  
  I did like the look of that Wensleydale shop.
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:04pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Too cold here today…
  must make plans to escape.
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:14pm
- holysheet
  
  Have you missed the email from Cindy?
  We have global warming here now…
  
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  June 27, 2018 1:55pm
Captain Mainwaring

The anti-flouridation crackpots in south Taranaki have lost their case.
A victory for common sense. Hope they got a big bill from the lawyers.
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June 27, 2018 12:03pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Best news I’ve heard all day. The anti-flouride zealots were trying it on, and I’m glad the Supreme Court has seen past their pseudo-science.
  
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  June 27, 2018 12:44pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Supreme Court rules South Taranaki fluoridation allowed
  
  Anti-fluoride campaigner Mary Byrne said outside court this morning she was disappointed with the ruling. “We think it’s really disappointing and we think it defies logic,” she said. “If you go to the pharmacy and you buy fluoride tablets it has directions and dosage and it has warnings … fluoride is a medicine.” She said fluoride was shown to lower IQ.
  
  Why do people continue to peddle this “lower IQ” claim?
  
  And who remembers UglyTruth: “But the killer argument against fluoridation is the manner in which it was introduced. Andrew Mellon’s links to industrial production of fluoride (as a by-product of aluminium production), the eugenics movement, and the promotion of fluoridation should give anyone pause”.
  
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  June 27, 2018 1:46pm
  - Johnboy
    
    “She said fluoride was shown to lower IQ.”
    I always knew all those grinning, toothsome, photo’s of the all the stars of the COL hid a major downside! 🙂
    
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    June 27, 2018 1:51pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Johnboy:
      
      William of Ockham, in the days before he made a splash at an Auckland beach with his plane, was apparently a dentist. Maybe he could offer his services for Government ministers who need a bit of dental love?
      
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      June 27, 2018 1:58pm
  - lifesgood
    
    My son, who has ingested fluoride from birth, is now in his mid forties, has a genius IQ and is a Professor. I suppose if you are thick you can blame fluoride, beats admitting you are just plain thick.
    
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    June 27, 2018 6:05pm
Captain Mainwaring

Dreadful crash at Waverley. Black ice seems to be the culprit.
Now wait for the road safety zealots to call for a wire rope barrier and 70 km/h limit all the way from Bulls to New Plymouth.
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June 27, 2018 1:01pm
- Monique Watson
  
  More driver education. You can get on the road in snow but stay well clear of ice.
  
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  June 27, 2018 2:02pm
- Johnboy
  
  We teach folk that they’ll get a ticket if they speed Captain. We’ve never, ever taught folk actually how to drive! 🙂
  
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  June 27, 2018 5:56pm
- Piniwi
  
  No CM that is some sort of fake news. The road was described as clear and dry when the crash happened at 11am.
  
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  June 28, 2018 12:06am
Poppa

So there is apparently a shortage of construction workers! Isn’t this exactly what the previous govt were saying last year?

Labour are painting it as new problem & want 30,000 immigrants to sort out the problem

Whaaaat? I thought they were cutting immigration by 30,000. That is what Cindy promised

Another fail
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June 27, 2018 1:08pm
- starboard
  
  Have ya not heard, Cindy horse face is a compulsive LIAR.
  
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  June 27, 2018 3:59pm
softail 1450

meanwhile in our household there is a sweepstake going ,which media poodle will be the first to say “didn’t she get a flat stomach back quickly” all the good money is on Jack lame on tv1, followed by Amanda gillies on tv3.
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June 27, 2018 1:44pm
- Poppa
  
  Jack is lame alright.
  
  He thinks he is rather cool but sadly………
  
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  June 27, 2018 1:51pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Just out of short pants and thinks he’s an authority on everything.
    
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    June 27, 2018 6:02pm
Manolo

Fight the bastards!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/26/donald-trump-warns-left-about-harassment-his-staff/
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June 27, 2018 1:57pm
- oob
  
  God I am sick of ignorant fucktards who equate being rightwing with uncritical support for Trump.
  
  Read a book, Manolo.
  
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  June 27, 2018 5:02pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Yeah, especially since Trumps a Conservative!
    
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    June 27, 2018 5:10pm
    - realityczech
      
      Trump has been a long time Democrat supporter and has traditionally held positions considered leftist in the US context.
      
      He is not a war monger and interventionist and has done tremendous work raising the circumstances of the working class, in a matter of months.
      
      He is the most left wing US president in my lifetime.
      
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      June 27, 2018 5:17pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Trump is of no ‘wing’, Kea. He’s a messed up bunch of insecurities, resentment and rage.
        
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        June 27, 2018 5:41pm
      - realityczech
        
        Yeah Milky you read it on Stuff so it must be true eh?
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:57pm
Jack5

A big win for Trump. US Supreme Court upholds travel ban.

The Court ruled that President Trump acted lawfully in imposing limits on travel from several predominantly Muslim nations.

Our NZ media will be full of anti-Trump protests for days.

https://www.nytimes.com/
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June 27, 2018 2:44pm
- Manolo
  
  Expect a few more anti-Trump cartoons from Tom Scott, Labour Party hack.
  
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  June 27, 2018 3:00pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Manolo, you will be most relieved to know that your homeland like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are exempted from the travel ban
    
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    June 27, 2018 3:06pm
    - Manolo
      
      I live now in NZ, stephieboy. My loyalty is to this wonderful country.
      
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      June 27, 2018 3:09pm
      - Jack5
        
        And you’re very welcome, Manolo.
        
        You won’t want the Islamic mob following you here, though.
        
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        June 27, 2018 3:22pm
    - Jack5
      
      What about Stephiestan? Is it in the ban?
      
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      June 27, 2018 3:20pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Stephiestan? Is there support in the US for bombing that, along with Agrabah?
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:26pm
      - realityczech
        
        Jacksie, Stephastania has been excluded as they are dying out naturally due to them only have sexual relations with goats and young boys. All the women were stoned to death for being unclean whores.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:00pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jack5, interesting you linked a much-maligned MSM media source.
  
  I suppose like your “Hooreld ” old habits die hard?
  
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  June 27, 2018 3:08pm
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, the Hooerald is dying hard as the print media become obsolescent.
    
    I think it would last longer if dropped its Leftist stance and returned to the middle ground it long occupied.
    
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    June 27, 2018 3:23pm
Jack5

Huawei is active in NZ, but Australia has banned it from its national broadband on security grounds, and more recently blocked a Huawei bid to lay cable in the Solomons and build a security centre there.

However, the South China Morning Post reports that Huawei is the top sponsor of overseas trips for Australian politicians.

http://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2152667/chinas-huawei-top-sponsor-australian-politicians-overseas-trips-think-tank-says
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June 27, 2018 3:34pm
Jack5

I’m surprised the Kuomintang – the China-friendly Auckland branches of the National Party – haven’t pointed out this obvious solution to Auckland’s housing crisis.

China has as many as 64 million vacant apartments. Fly Auckland’s homeless to China and give them NZ-subsidised rent and a locally relevant unemployment payment if there are no jobs (which is unlikely).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-27/china-ghost-cities-show-growth-driven-by-debt/9912186
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June 27, 2018 3:47pm
Nostradamus

News from Australia: Court lifts suppression on identity of Adelaide student accused of supporting Islamic State

The ABC can now reveal 23-year-old Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif is charged with knowingly being a member of a terrorist organisation.

The woman was arrested by Australian Federal Police in May last year after allegedly trying to fly to Turkey on a one-way ticket.

She allegedly pledged her allegiance to Islamic State after communicating with extremists online who were involved in terrorist attacks in Kenya. The prosecution alleges the woman had been repeating oaths and singing songs connected to Islamic State in her bedroom.

It’s probably just a matter of time before someone in New Zealand moves from passive terrorism (singing songs connected to Islamic State in his or her bedroom) to active terrorism. It only takes one nutter…
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June 27, 2018 4:09pm
- Jack5
  
  But, Nostradamus, we’re heading the terrorism off with golf lessons!
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/103168707/supervised-golf-for-christchurch-teenager-who-planned-terrorist-attack
  
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  June 27, 2018 4:44pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    From Jack5’s link:
    
    The youth seemed confused when Judge O’Driscoll asked him about his handicap, while defence counsel Anselm Williams tried to explain it to him. The youth replied, “Yeah, I hit it far.”
    
    Was the confusion over whether he hit a golf ball or a severed human head?
    
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    June 27, 2018 4:55pm
- Johnboy
  
  While they keep calling themselves Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif we should be OK Nostra! 🙂
  Now when they start calling themselves Joanna Bloggs we’re fucked! 🙂
  
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  June 27, 2018 6:01pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    We could look for a pattern Johnboy. What about Asha? Or, as Radio NZ called her, Asha Abdille? Or, as the NZ Herald called her, Asha Ali Abdille? 🙂
    
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    June 27, 2018 6:34pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Asha Ali Imbecile would have been far more appropriate. 🙂
      
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      June 27, 2018 6:40pm
nasska

NZ Questionnaire in 2020……

GENDER:

Female

NonBinary

Sexist

SEXUALITY:

LBGTX

Homophobe

ETHNICITY:

Asian

Maori

Oriental

Racist

RELIGION:

Islamic

Infidel
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June 27, 2018 5:48pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Have the last census fuck up not sure they can be trusted to ask even that many questions…
  
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  June 27, 2018 6:02pm
- Johnboy
  
  You should have had religion before ethnicity nasska then I could have ticked SHITE…Sexist..Homophobe..Infidel..Temporary..European! 🙂
  
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  June 27, 2018 6:07pm
Viking2

One is constantly at loss for words when one see’s sentwences handed down to absolute aseholes.
We are left wondering if our Judges have lost sight of sentencing for the good of the community and the victims.

todays case goes like this. # hours and at least 3 rapes on a lady by a perp who decided he was going to jail anyway and what did he get?

“The judge said Perawiti failing to speak to a pre-sentence report writer made sentencing difficult.

However, she found the offending to be partially pre-meditated and marked with violence.

“There is a degree of violence inherent in any rape, but your offending involved additional and significant violence, including strangulation.”

The physical harm was extensive, but the emotional pain would take much longer to heal, the judge said.

Although Perawiti had an extensive history of burglary, driving offences and non-compliance with court orders, he had no record of sexual violence, the judge said.

“I express the hope that during the course of your sentence… you can be open and honest with treatment providers.”

Perawiti was also sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for the burglary of a scrap metal yard a month prior to the rape.

He was also given a warning under the three-strikes law for violent and sexual offending.

no mention of his jail term which should have been forever but please get treatment.
Worse only a 3 strikes WARNING. whatever that is.

Are these judges so desensitized to violence they think its normal?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/105049331/harley-perawiti-jailed-for-repeatedly-raping-woman-over-three-hours
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June 27, 2018 6:01pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  no mention of his jail term
  
  You didn’t read the article – he got nine years’ imprisonment.
  
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  June 27, 2018 6:32pm
  - Viking2
    
    Searched for that but didn’t find it.
    Still 9 years ain’t enough.
    
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    June 27, 2018 6:35pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Third paragraph in:
      
      The man who raped her, Harley James Perawiti, was on Wednesday sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court to nine year’s imprisonment for sexually violating and raping the woman on April 2.
      
      Nothing would be ‘enough’, though, would it?
      
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      June 27, 2018 6:37pm
      - starboard
        
        Milkymong.. Apologist for rapists and general scum, since forever.
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:47pm
      - Johnboy
        
        A .22 dipped in Vivid blue ink, just behind the ear would be just about enough milkey. 🙂
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:53pm
lifesgood

Fletch and KiWombat both put up superb lists of this apalling government’s broken promises and failings today. As we all know none of this will ever be reported by the msm. Wouldn’t it be great if some wealthy person could put up bill boards around the country with these lists on them. Unfortunately the greater public never get to hear of these things because the useless msm never report them. How to get the message out?
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June 27, 2018 6:21pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Start a media company of your own. If your views resonate with lots of people you will be wildly successful. If, OTOH, the current media outlets serve their customer base reasonably well, you will probably go bust.
  Let us know how you get on.
  
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  June 27, 2018 6:30pm
  - realityczech
    
    “the current media outlets serve their customer base reasonably well”
    
    LOL 🙂
    
    Yeah he really said that !
    
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    June 27, 2018 6:32pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Comprehension fail there, Kea. I wrote ‘if’. Only the market will show which media outlets survive, so the media most likely to survive will be those that tend to reflect the aggregate preferences of consumers.
      
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      June 27, 2018 6:35pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Explaining is losing Milkey! 🙂
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:37pm
      - realityczech
        
        Milky lost it long ago. Virtue signalling little creep just repeats what ever he reads on Stuffed news when he should be working.
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:40pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Johnboy:
        
        A quick edit to the original comment and I wrote ‘if’ became an indisputable fact!
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:40pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Try not to suck too much at being a human, Nostradamus.
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:45pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Mike:
        
        Good luck with finding a sense of humour. Are times at The Quarry Inn really that tough? You could try looking for customers at the bus station.
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:50pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Poor Nostradamus. The Quarry Inn closed long ago. You will have to find somewhere else that suit the sordid interests of you and your dubious clients.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:08pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        It’s ok Mike. By all accounts, you made a decent go of the Quarry Inn when it was under your management.
        
        Maybe you could try your hand at writing a NZ version of a Yes Minister book (while we wait for the imminent release of Dad’s book). You write well, and there’s surely a lot of dodgy stuff in the public sector that needs to be told.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:17pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        As it happens, I am planning to write my memoirs. I should like use selected incidents from my life and career to highlight the ironic condition of our post-modern society.
        I am, of course, seeking some sponsorship to undertake this labour. Perhaps you would be interested in contributing?
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:27pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Mike:
        
        If it’s a worthwhile cause, then I could be interested. If it’s not, then we could try setting up a GiveaLittle page!
        
        Seriously, though, I think people would be surprised at some of the stuff that goes on in the public sector.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:30pm
      - realityczech
        
        “and there’s surely a lot of dodgy stuff in the public sector that needs to be told.”
        
        Milky is “dodgy stuff in the public sector”. There is a standing army of these intellectually and morally bankrupt sheeple in Wellington.
        
        “Seriously, though, I think people would be surprised at some of the stuff that goes on in the public sector.”
        
        They would never believe it.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:33pm
  - nasska
    
    What’s your view then of the Government owned media? Channel Commo & Red Radio are lackeys of the Labour Party.
    
    Since we as taxpayers have the misfortune to own the propaganda outlets shouldn’t we have an expectation that they represent us & the Left on at least a 50/50 basis?
    
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    June 27, 2018 6:37pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I think you are making the mistake of assuming that National and Labour represent ‘the right’ and ‘the left’ in some kind of balance.
      Just because the skewed sample of people commenting of Kiwiblog think that Radio NZ is politically biased doesn’t make it so.
      
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      June 27, 2018 6:44pm
      - realityczech
        
        No Milky. What makes it so is the evidence.
        
        They don’t come cheap though with a $50 million + bribe having been paid with our tax dollars.
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:45pm
      - nasska
        
        Okay we’ll try again. Since admittedly the right/left lines are more than a little blurred when it comes to National vs Labour why do the government owned media back one tribe to the expense of the other?
        
        Red Radio & Channel Commo are owned by New Zealanders. They are not the property of the Labour Party.
        
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        June 27, 2018 6:50pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Well, I don’t think that is the case. Radio NZ National broadcasts 24/7 and I think you will find that there is very little content that is political at all, let alone content that would sustain a charge of partisan bias. It may well be that you are not listening to the radio enough, but reading too many comments about what morons think they might have heard on the radio.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:11pm
      - realityczech
        
        “I think you will find that there is very little content that is political at all, ”
        
        Bullshit Milky. They can’t even do a piece on gardening or art without a rant about Trump etc. They are on the lunatic fringe of the far left.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:22pm
Johnboy

The real question of course has to be why do Governments feel they must own and control radio/tv stations?
Are they so insecure that they feel that they cannot trust the people to make up their own minds unless they have a means of influencing that decision? 🙂
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June 27, 2018 6:58pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  That’s a valid question, Johnboy. Very unusual from you. The answer would appear to lie in the overwhelming consensus between our main parties on many issues.
  On matters, cultural, for example, both National and Labour seems to agree with most New Zealanders that we need a national museum, library, orchestra, radio and other civic amenities.
  
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  June 27, 2018 7:15pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Damned interesting response Milkey…I’ve considered all that you’ve said and my answer is….Fuck off! 🙂
    
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    June 27, 2018 7:18pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yeah, well if your main cultural institution has only Lion Red on tap,, we can’t expect too much from you.
      
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      June 27, 2018 7:21pm
      - nasska
        
        I get my culture from a yoghurt punnet & I turned out okay. 🙂
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:23pm
      - realityczech
        
        “only Lion Red ”
        
        Yes Milky, because that is what the working classes drink and we know how you elitist stuck up pricks in Welly look down on them.
        
        You just sip your over priced “craft beer” and virtue signal your fake concern for the workers and the poor.
        
        You really are an epic wanker.
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:26pm
      - sam green
        
        Bring back Leopard!
        
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        June 27, 2018 10:36pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Leopard! Remember its Paw (poor) Lager?
        
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        June 28, 2018 6:46am
Johnboy

Jeeze! Those Ahrab wimmen on DPF’s advert are looking bloody hot!
Anyone tried them out? 🙂
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June 27, 2018 7:01pm
- realityczech
  
  Hey that is stupidboy’s sister you are talking about there !
  
  Not some 14 year old strumpet down at the Mt Roskill coffee shop 🙂
  
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  June 27, 2018 7:05pm
- nasska
  
  Thank the Mythical Deity for the mercies afforded by Adblock & Ghostery. 🙂
  
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  June 27, 2018 7:06pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Shit nasska you don’t know what your missing old chap! They’re almost completely nude! No burqua or hijab! 🙂
    
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    June 27, 2018 7:09pm
    - nasska
      
      Probably no clits either JB. 🙁
      
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      June 27, 2018 7:12pm
      - Johnboy
        
        A good effort with a vacuum enlarger could start reinstating the item nasska! 🙂
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:15pm
      - nasska
        
        I don’t know why the queer buggers can’t leave things as they developed JB. The Godaddled won’t keep their dirty perverted hands off little girl’s & boy’s bits & pieces.
        
        Paedophiles the lot of them!
        
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        June 27, 2018 7:21pm
- Nostradamus
  
  There’s nothing like that on my version of Kiwiblog, Johnboy. Are you sure you haven’t “borrowed” Stephieboy’s computer?
  
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  June 27, 2018 7:19pm
UpandComer

Intro.
As stated I’ve written a long piece divided into six sections about the Crimes Amendment (Publicly Threatening and Inciting Violence) Bill 2018. I’m sorry Maggy I just couldn’t do your word limit. I’ll do a few reposts if possible and then disappear. I’m horrified at what is occurring in Australia, and I’m extremely worried for New Zealand.

I have abridged as much as I can. I’m nauseated by free speech and Australia being calculatedly and quietly knifed in the back. I’ve honestly held myself majorly in check in these comments, which are proportionate to what has been done. As offended as people are going to get – I’ve been monumentally restrained. Understanding free speech as I do, watching it casually crushed like an autumn leaf is soul-destroying.

As Father Ripperger states, music should accompany truth. I suggest the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A3tP6Ium80. Or try the music from the Last Samurai – the timbre matches the themes of loss and gravity : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUYpKwgqi1M
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June 27, 2018 7:16pm
UpandComer

Part 1 – Free Speech

Let us review the primary bases for free speech, from its first formal annunciation with Aristotle the Great flowing to the enlightenment:
The ancients – Greek/Romans

Greek

Aristotle: Reason Virtue  Eudaimonia – “Happiness”. Sanity.

How do we employ reason? Discourse; Speech. Question and answer, predicate cascades, identifying truth and modifying behaviour accordingly.

Political rule by a polity can only exist in a society of men who can rule themselves. The suspension of discourse by censorship and importation of alien nations is a formula for societal psychosis.

Roman

Marcus Aurelius: From my “brother” [Claudius] Severus… I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed” (Meditations 1:14)

Christian
“Have I then become your enemy? By telling you the truth?” (Galatians: 4:16)

“If I said something wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said was right, why do you hit me? (John 18:22, 23) – quite aptly, Jesus before the Sanhedrin.

The Enlightenment

John Milton – Areo Pegittica

The Foreword by Thomas Paine to the Rights of Man.

John Stuart Mill in On Liberty, and the Principles of Political Economy

Free Speech is the means by which men change their universe. Censorship enslaves a man to his current universe. Free Speech is about the rights of the listener to hear, deprived when he is robbed of anyone’s words. The limits of a man’s language are the limits of his world – Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein.

People who abrogate free speech, censor truth and persecute truth speakers specifically, only do it for wealth and power – to enslave.
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June 27, 2018 7:18pm
- realityczech
  
  “People who abrogate free speech, censor truth and persecute truth speakers specifically, only do it for wealth and power – to enslave.”
  
  100 % correct
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:02pm
Johnboy

I’ve got to go chaps. It’s Rene, Stan and the real Captain Mainwaring on channel 8….see y’all! 🙂
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June 27, 2018 7:21pm
MrTips

God Shane Jones and David Parker are thick. Trying to stitch up John Key into the Te Arai exemption scandal.

So Key spoke to Jones about it. Whooppee do ding dong dogshit.

Parker admitted that HIS office made the call on the clause that got rejected. If he knew Key had pushed for it, he would have said so. But no. Parker is a bullshitter and dissembler – Key never asked for a legal change – he lobbied for some exemption via a LEGAL mechanism. So what?

Own goal team loser CoL.
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June 27, 2018 7:22pm
UpandComer

Nope looks like I’m not going to get passed the moderators. Ah well. As Marcuse said, the whole has a persuasion of it’s own. But fair enough. Drips.
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June 27, 2018 7:22pm
- UpandComer
  
  Lol it’s hilarious how triggered people get from Christian references. Ah well, it bestows a competitive advantage.
  
  Even here, the hate-facts are too much.
  
  Censorship is so utterly wearing. Vic Alhadeff is going to find that out. He’s created a new form of Zionism, you see.
  
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  June 27, 2018 7:37pm
DJ Ward

Heh! Right wingers here’s a goody.
While under the watch of Aunty Helen.
Now let’s see the fallout. An SOE proven to have acted corruptly. Who would have thought that’s possible.
Heh! Left wingers National did nothing about it while in office.
Was anybody promptly sacked?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2018/06/air-new-zealand-fined-16-3m-for-price-fixing.html
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June 27, 2018 7:26pm
- rangitoto
  
  I remember reading about this years ago. The Aussie legal process must be just as pathetically inefficient as here.
  
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  June 27, 2018 10:25pm
nasska

And in today’s News:

Brother & sister in Christchurch reunited after 50 years apart.

Unfortunately, it was on Tinder.
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June 27, 2018 7:55pm
- Nostradamus
  
  “Unfortunately” seems such a judgemental word Nasska. We should be more tolerant of how things are done in Christchurch old chap!
  
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  June 27, 2018 7:57pm
Tauhei Notts

I got an email which I am having extreme trouble comprehending about me possibly going on the Maori roll.
I was asked the question;
Are you a New Zealand Maori or are you a descendant of a New Zealand Maori.
Hopefully somebody in Kiwiblog land can tell me how I can be a New Zealand Maori if I am not descended from a New Zealand Maori.
I have enjoyed posts on this blog from Ngati Mozart. I have always considered that learned gentleman to be a Kraut Maori. Which means that as a Kraut Maori (I presume the expression Boche Maori to be unacceptable) he is ineligible for the Maori roll as he is not a New Zealand Maori.
Sorry about the lack of macrons, but the only macron I know is a frog.
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June 27, 2018 8:19pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Someone might be be descended from a Maori but not consider himself or herself to be a Maori.
  Same as you might have Irish ancestry but not consider your self to be Irish.
  
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  June 27, 2018 8:55pm
  - Jack5
    
    You can’t define yourself in or out of a race, Milky.
    
    The concept of race is a bit flaky, but where the accepted concept of a particular race is based on inherited physical characteristics, eg skin colour, you just can’t opt in or opt out.
    
    When people are mixed race, it’s fluid which race they may identify with though. In NZ, which has a large number of mixed-race people, the practice seems to be: choose – Maori or white, with Maori being the current favourite.
    
    Perhaps we need an acceptable description rather than “part-Maori” or “part-white”. Something equivalent to mestizo, the term for people of mixed Spanish-Indigenous descent in Latin America, but modified so that today in Mexico it seems roughly to mean every Mexican citizen who does not speak an indigenous language.
    
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    June 27, 2018 9:32pm
    - realityczech
      
      Same issue with the Jews Jacksie. Which makes your acting out and hysterics about them all the more foolish.
      
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      June 27, 2018 9:41pm
sooty

Maori? Where do they get bred to be racist? One reported in msm in Rotorua liquar store giving the asian staff shit, thinks that she is privleged, because she is maori and so can not be arrested. Who’s training these people to believe this?
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June 27, 2018 8:48pm
- Komata
  
  Sooty
  
  In two words ; ‘the Government’, aided and abbetted by the MSM and the socialists in education.
  
  And there’s a lot more yet to come…
  
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  June 27, 2018 9:22pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes that is racist of her to say that!
  And they are certainly an example for other Maori to look up to.
  They own the land, but have probably never done any work for it.
  (If they keep saying it, it may come true)
  We love you Bro/Sis
  
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  June 28, 2018 10:52am
GazzaW

Onyer Jami-Lee Ross. You have had David Clarke on the slow burner for a couple of weeks and today’s effort could be the killer punch.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12078898
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June 27, 2018 9:19pm
Jack5

Sanders apparatchik causes upset by defeating potential future Democrat speaker.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-win-stuns-democrats-puts-new-attention-on-pelosi.html
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June 27, 2018 11:13pm
- Manolo
  
  Bloody socialists everywhere.
  
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  June 28, 2018 5:18am
EAD_TWO

Great result to wake up to this morning as the soccer team representing the Korean people beat the combined Turkish, German, Ghanaian & Sierra Leone team called “Germany”.
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June 28, 2018 5:29am
- mikenmildagain
  
  On the downside, we must commiserate with EADolf as his Nigerian team has been eliminated, beaten by Argentina. I guess his support will now transfer to his fellow-Africans, Senegal, who still have a chance of qualifying if they do well against Colombia.
  
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  June 28, 2018 6:42am
softail 1450

Did i just hear correctly ,Jann logies bill in parliament to make employers pay the cost of domestic violence has been passed in the house to sickening shouts of “you go girl” .
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June 28, 2018 6:05am
DigNap15

I see that they are banning burkas in the Netherlands!
Finally!
Time they closed all the mosques there as well.
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