General Debate 3 June 2018

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MrLovebucket

Ever wonder why the police and the justice system in NZ get labeled as being institutionally racist due to the high proportion of Maori in prison. But aren’t labeled as being institutionally sexist due to the high proportion of male prisoners. Why are there far more men in prison than women? Surely it’s down to policing….
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June 3, 2018 8:03am
- KevOB
  
  It’s also down to ethnic character. Some groups are inherently more violent than others. Look at dogs, some breeds likewise–care for a pitbull?
  We have made no provision for the “warrior” classes in our society. Physical work like tree planting gangs is needed.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:00am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Bugger all to do with ethnicity, it’s almost purely cultural.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:01pm
    - KevOB
      
      You will find violence endemic throughout Polynesia.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:07pm
  - stephieboy
    
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    KevOB, silly billy. You seem to have forgotten largely palefaces wars like WWI and 2
    
    Let’s add the Boer War , Vietnam, Afghan, 2003 invasion of Iraq etc by the Warrior classes worldwide.
    
    Aye?
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:09pm
    - VicParking
      
      What about the warlord to beat or Warloads Mohammed.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:28pm
      - stephieboy
        
        VicParking, forgetting naturally the Crusades, the Wars of Religion ( Europe 16th 17th centuries ) etc, etc
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:35pm
    - KevOB
      
      Have you lived the Pacific for a substantial number of years?
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:41pm
    - Viking2
      
      Fuck off back to bed. Do something useful.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:51pm
    - suzieq
      
      It’s “eh”, Stephie. Aye means yes …
      
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      June 3, 2018 7:21pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Ah KevOB you will pleased then to see that the old drunk has a dastardly plan to get cell mates into rescue the Jones boys flagging planting rates. This as several native MP’s with shovels all planted the same little tree while at the same cast cash around like fairy dust. You and I know it will just equally effective while we note how so much is being concentrated in the far north. Could that be where the SLG has promised the old drunk his lifesaver seat? Watch this space.
    
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    June 3, 2018 5:30pm
- emmess
  
  They are institutionally racist (and sexist and ageist) because of comments from goverment ministers like Genter.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:48am
- RF
  
  Where I once worked there was a transient population of Maori shearing gangs.
  
  To put it bluntly the crime rate soared while these guys were in town for the shearing season.
  
  The Police did their thing as it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
  
  Basically this resulted in complaints of racial profiling as it was claimed the outsiders were being targeted.
  
  Don’t do the crime if you don’t want to do time….
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:55am
  - lifesgood
    
    Apparently VD rates among shearers were the worst in the country too.
    
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    June 3, 2018 11:22am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Yeah – those promiscuous bloody sheep.
      Take the warning Johnboy. 😉
      
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      June 3, 2018 11:24am
      - VicParking
        
        Stephie, How many of your goats have you given the clap too.
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:30pm
    - suzieq
      
      Such rates are found at rest homes now …
      
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      June 3, 2018 7:22pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Interesting comments on the Pareto Distribution and why so few have so much. It flies right into the face of the notion of “equality of outcomes.”
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k_FfS1kHfY
  
  Might violence in society be similar? A few bad apples doing a disproportional amount of bad things?
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:02am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Interesting.
    
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    June 3, 2018 11:28am
  - kowtow
    
    I have read of studies done (UK) on crime in estates etc
    
    It’s something like 80 % of the crime committed by a few families . All well known to the “authorities”.
    
    I’d warrant it’s the same evrywhere.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:07pm
    - Viking2
      
      Well known in NZ. Schools also know that the trouble makers are from a few families.
      
      One principal I heard say one day that he didn’t know 3 families could cause so much trouble. The three had packed up and gone to live in the country. Peace descended upon the school.
      
      There they started to cause trouble but the Principle called them all in and laid down the rules; such as come to school with lunch so you don’t need to steal someone else’s.
      They had been used to Mum giving them money to spend at the shop but there were no shops for about 10km.
      
      Police know this as well, indeed either Paula Bennett or Anne Tolley spoke about this a lot.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:56pm
Monique Watson

Six words summarises this Labour Government: “Let Them All out of Prison”.

Actually there are more words. A lot of four letter words.
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June 3, 2018 8:09am
- stephieboy
  
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  Monique Watson, interesting that you have appeared to have embraced Ruth Davison as a hot contender for the UK Tory leadership?
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:41am
- Philview
  
  Remember Jacinda’s words back in November
  “A true partnership in every sense of the word”.
  We are now seeing “Consult with Iwi” just about everyday. Even the proposed new hospital in Dunedin had tagged “Consult with Iwi”. It is starting to smell like a layer of Governance that sits above the democratically elected Government. ‘This is what we plan to do but we will consult with Iwi first’.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/11/jacinda-ardern-outlines-post-settlement-era.html
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:56pm
JibberJabber

Another day, another racebaiting article printed by Stuffed.
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June 3, 2018 8:09am
- EAD_TWO
  
  “Maori have had 200 years of bad press”
  
  Wrong
  
  They had maybe 130 years of truthful press, 50 years of slightly biased press then with the last 20 years being outright bullshit fiction about a “noble hunter gatherer race”.
  
  Read Irish Savant on this:
  
  http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2010/10/tyranny-of-guilt.html?m=1
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:17am
  - stephieboy
    
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    EAD TWO , you must be miffed thatPascal Brucknerforgot to mention 70 or so years of Jewish Guilt?
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:33am
    - pentwig
      
      Good grief sillyboy
      so early and so stupid
      I would suggest a coffee but I took pity on the young ladies in the cafe having you ogle them with your tongue hanging out and hands deep in pockets
      instead have a water and lots and lots of pills
      
      LOL
      
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      June 3, 2018 9:58am
- JamesP
  
  I got to the end of the first paragraph and stopped reading.
  1) Holding writers of 100-200 years ago to the PC niceties of current-year is stupid.
  2) Aborigines do score low on IQ tests. This is a complex issue. What does IQ measure? What biases does the test have? But merely mentioning this fact does not ipso-facto make you a racist.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:02am
  - KevOB
    
    The purpose of IQ testing was predictability for work placement. There are standardised tests with national comparisons. Euro-Kiwi (Pakeha) mean IQ is 100 in line with Europe generally.
    
    Comparatively NZ Maori and Polynesia have a mean IQ’s of 85 with China 105. These are significant differences. The standard deviation for Euro-Kiwi is 15, putting their bottom third at IQ=85 or less. That is the same as the average for the Maori population. Those at IQ=85 are marginal for achieving work attainment skills. So half the Maori population cannot gain or are marginal for work skills. These statistical facts are buried in demographics.
    
    Schooling cannot help–these are innate differences. We need to seek hard for creative solutions to providing work for the lesser abled. Manual, factory work or even stuffing envelopes is not demeaning if it provides gainful employment and substantial independence. That problem too may be visited yet on the higher orders when further automation occurs.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:37pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Would that IQ mean score of 85 for NZ Maori be for individuals who are at least half Maori? Would it include individuals with one grandparent (1/4 Maori) or one great grandparent (1/8th Maori)?
      
      Or would “Maori-ness” be determined by “feelz”?
      
      At what point would an individual (in IQ testing) be classified as Pakeha-European?
      
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      June 3, 2018 2:10pm
      - KevOB
        
        Good questions. Subject to correction I believe IQ produces a blend i.e. two mixed groups produce one whose offspring has a mean IQ of the aggregate of the composites.
        
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        June 3, 2018 4:49pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Even so JamesP the Aborigines seem light on an IQ measure they predominantly very knowing from years of adherence to their centauries of culture. They learn new ways too. An Aborigine settlement beside a highway in Darwin included many who bore serious scars. Most gained when they wrapped their heads in a towel before walking in front of a speeding car. They retained their wits along with enjoying the cash benefit they were paid out for being injured. The lower IQ was later evident when asked what they later what they were normally doing these days. “I been Green Can dreamin on my silver pillow”. VB beer is the Green can and the silver pillow is the metallic bladder from a wine cask.
    
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    June 3, 2018 5:47pm
DifferentPerspective

CO2 reached a new average high of 410 ppm in the US in April……

….. which coincided with the coldest April in a generation!

Here’s how you spell “Global Warming”

“C O G N I T I V E” “D I S S O N A N C E”
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June 3, 2018 8:10am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Inconvenient!
  
  Life expectancy has risen in accord with CO2 levels – that’s a bit of a problem – we wouldn’t want people to live longer, healthier lives because of the benefits of using fossil fuels would we?
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:18am
  - stephieboy
    
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    DP , more and more of this kind of things, eh ?
    
    https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=fossil-fuels-ones-that-harm
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:35am
  - MCos
    
    Life expectancy in America has regressed over the last couple of years and is well behind NZ.
    May have something to do with pollution levels, but more likely spotty access to healthcare for the pecuniary challenged.
    BTW
    Cuba, which has a public health system, also has a higher life expectancy. About the only reason to live there.
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:13am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Perhaps many of the US health problems are due to the vast levels of obesity? Not too poor to eat far too much.
      
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      June 3, 2018 10:10am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘Life expectancy in America has regressed over the last couple of years and is well behind NZ.’
      
      Just like here, identifiable minorities and their lifestyles bring down national averages.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:09pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Maybe you rely too much on Cuban statistics. Their health care system is like the least Soviet one, looks really good to the visiting journalist and it is – for the top apparatchiks. The general population, not drugs, no hot water, no bedding, but lots of manufactured statistics.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:10pm
    - suzieq
      
      Literacy levels, too, oddly.
      
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      June 3, 2018 7:28pm
- NZpatriot
  
  Hi, here’s a respectful other view. The IPCC said in 2014 that at least 51% of global warming is caused by human induced emissions.
  
  That’s not to say that the factors contributing other ‘up to 49%’ can’t do something different to mean you see a drop in temperature.
  
  So I don’t think your point demonstrates great intellectual integrity to basically say it’s all a joke/ con.
  
  I think the real question is how senstitive the climate *actually* is to CO2 – the models seem to be running too hot, meaning the expected temperature increases are not eventuating (as found in Nature Geoscience last year).
  
  Cheers.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:21am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Always happy to enter into debate with well-reasoned and civilly worded gentle(persons) like yourself.
    
    My main concern is about the “A” in AGW. I absolutely support the hypothesis that the climate is changing – after all the geologic record shows that the climate has always changed. To whit, there will always be warming and cooling going on.
    
    My problem is with the mega-lie that there is an Anthropogenic component to the infinitesimally small temperature fluctuation that has fed the current socialist orgy of taxation in the name of “saving the planet”. For a start, it appears that CO2 is a lag indicator rather than a lead causal agent. Also, our science is so primitive and unrepeatable that the our best brains (personally I suspect they’re actually second-rate careerist brains rather than Einstein calibre types) have had to resort to “consensus” because of their inability to prove the bogus hypothesis.
    
    The geologic record shows that CO2 has been present in the Earth’s atmosphere at nearly 20 times the current level – yet somehow the Chicken Little ‘runaway global warming’ scenario peddled by the left and the MSM never eventuated.
    
    I could go on, but the problem is not with the detail, it is with the vastness of the fraud. Socialists in the past have used the big lie to build the fear they needed to create the space for their unconscionable evils – that evil socialist from the last century Goebbels advised the use of a
    
    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
    
    It seems to me the globalist community is using “all of its powers to repress dissent” where Climate Alarmism is concerned.
    
    My intent is to continue to chip away at the massive edifice of this lie, one fact at a time.
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:37am
    - NZpatriot
      
      Thanks, interesting. ?
      
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      June 3, 2018 8:44am
    - KevOB
      
      The edifice is corroding. The MSM are increasingly reporting the failure of the IPCC projections. Where has the warming got too over the last 20+ years?. Has the sun stolen it by taking away its spots? Some scientists are being reported as now expecting a cold several-hundred-years snap coming up; some have detected it has already started.
      
      The sea level hasn’t done the decent propaganda thing either. Turns out that there is no global sea level and the local changes are geologic or population (like sardines on land–Kirbati.)
      
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      June 3, 2018 9:12am
    - Liberty
      
      Spot on. Yet you voted for winston.
      Who was allways going to go with the left.
      
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      June 3, 2018 9:18am
      - KevOB
        
        Winston didn’t get my ☑️☑️.
        I believe Winston is “past it”.
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:46pm
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        Again. I wanted National out. They are now a clear centre-left party, and one that is drifting further left all the time.
        
        The appointment of the infinitely ineffective Soimon has deepened my resolve to continue to vote for anyone other than National until they return to observing their values. I knew Winston was utterly self-serving and was only likely to do what was best for him. I just couldn’t vote for a party that set themselves up as the priest when really they were the pedophile. At least Labour are honest about their politics being left of centre.
        
        I fear for our nation if we go down the path the US has taken over the past 15 years with two centre-left parties being the only electoral options. Therefore the longer term interest for me is in National suffering so much that their hubris is washed away and they return to their political roots.
        
        On current form – I fear that is going to take us down a Germany-like path of utter progressive fucktardery – but I’m remaining ever-optimistic that the current leadership of cucks will go and decent folk will hold the reins one day.
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:51pm
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Exactly. Cool water retains gasses. Heat the water, and the gasses are released – basic kids’ year 9 science/physics. CO2 increases AFTER the warming.
      
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      June 3, 2018 10:28am
      - KevOB
        
        There is a measured 800 year lag!
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:05pm
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Look at Kilaueia volcano in Hawaii. With the rising lava, the methane is being expelled – and burning.
        It was quite happy in the ground until things heated up.
        I don’t necessarily want to have the cooling from a Maunder Minimum, but the sooner it happens the better to stop the leftist ideological idiots imposing all this carbon claptrap on us.
        
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        June 3, 2018 3:50pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Hi Different Perspective, I would agree 100%. There is no doubt CO2 and temperature are correlated. The causation is the issue. I would argue that oceans control the heat budget much more than gasses in the atmosphere. Further, the saturation with respect to CO2 and the atmosphere with respect to temperature is hugely debated as is the actual mechanisms of the black body radiation involved. Unfortunately, a highly complex issue has been dumbed down to human released CO2, which supposedly has a simple solution. And no one is taking the solar physicists seriously who are warning of a Maunder Minimum type event in the near future.
      
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      June 3, 2018 11:50am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Agreed, I think of it this way
      Let’s assume for a minute that anthropogenic GW is the cause and fossil fuels is the reason.
      How to solve it?
      Reduce dependence of fossil fuels.
      Q: How will moving money to the 3rd world, solve it?
      A: It won’t, because our society (western) is dependent on it and 3rd world society will just spend money on using more fossil fuels, to be as wealthy as us.
      So the opposite result of what lefties SAY will happen. My opinion, the lefties don’t believe or care whether AGW is solved or not, they want POWER over the 3rd world, so make them dependent on them for it. Beware those in the 3rd world….”Greeks bearing gifts” the price of the gifts is subjugation.
      The answer lies in real science, it appears, as at the end of the 19th century, it is time for scientific break through, as radical as the movement from:
      Horse to car
      Cart to train
      Train to plane
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:06pm
  - wiseowl
    
    The IPCC is made up of a leftist bunch with an agenda.
    NZP
    If you watch ‘Outsiders ‘ today there may be some interesting informative , realistic discussion on climate .
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:15am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @NZpatriot
    
    Have a look at the latest entry and comments on Judith Curry’s blog.
    
    She is trying to place opposing ideas (with associated evidence) on the Climate warming debate into a format that can be easily understood by layfolk/policy makers etc.
    
    https://judithcurry.com/2018/05/30/fundamental-disagreement-about-climate-change/
    
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    June 3, 2018 11:21am
    - NZpatriot
      
      Thanks Maggy. I have very much enjoyed Judith Curry’s contribution through her blog. I’ll check out her latest entry too, cheers.
      
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      June 3, 2018 5:46pm
- fernglas
  
  The UK just had the hottest May since records began
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:35am
  - CJames
    
    No – depending on which source, it was supposed to be the warmest May since 1910, when their “records” began. That means they don’t have to acknowledge the very warm May of 1833.
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:45am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Na, It was May 1833.
    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/warmest-may-evah-no-that-was-in-1833/
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:07am
  - secondcumming
    
    I’ve always thought she was hot. Certainly got a great pair of legs on her….for an oldie.
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:27am
  - kowtow
    
    Middlemarch , Central Otago has just had its coldest May.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:10pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    and over the last 5 years, some of the coldest winters.
    SO WHAT.
    Remember the guy who said, “There will be no more snow, in Europe”
    His statement was followed by the COLDEST winter in 100years, they even skated on the Dutch canals, I believe.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:11pm
- Harkman
  
  When things cool it is call ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ remember.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:43am
  - stephieboy
    
    Harkman, in other words, frequent extreme weather events!
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:11pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    ie when you get caught in a lie, change the name and focus of the subject…..Sound like every Labour party you ever heard of?
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:13pm
    - Harkman
      
      Yes it does ? and apologies for my spelling (rushing this morning).
      
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      June 3, 2018 2:12pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Funny Harkman back in the day well before global warming arrived the most widely accepted weather theory was based on a ten year cycle. Ten years cooling and the ten years warming sort of like the ribbons on the Morris dance. One way they wind up and the other they unwind. It also was understood if the northern hemisphere had a very cold winter it would also be a cold winter for the southern hemisphere. Likewise summers being hotter north then south with the usual pattern being observed of a colder winter being followed by a hotter summer. As a general run of events since they lacked the benefit of computer modelling which we know is wonderful but totally dependent on the raw date entered. Garbage in will only result in garbage out. This at a time when the radio doctor was telling people white bread is best since being made from grain than had completed the grinding process. While also saying there was more nutrition in the Weetbix box than there was in the contents and it was only the addition of milk that made the difference.
    
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    June 3, 2018 6:15pm
    - Harkman
      
      Classic ?
      
      (Unfortunately for me I’ve had porridge since Sanitarium discontinued Branflakes).
      
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      June 3, 2018 8:56pm
SGA

From the NZ Herald

Police were called after All Blacks star Jordie Barrett ended up in a stranger’s house in the early hours yesterday after a night out. The 21-year-old brother of Beauden Barrett was discovered by two women in a Dunedin student flat about 5am.
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But Casey told the Herald on Sunday the pair unwittingly entered the wrong house. Casey, 22, said it was a case of “a couple of muppets making a stupid error after a few beers”. The pair had stopped for McDonald’s and were eating in the living room when two women came out of their bedrooms, Casey said.
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All Blacks management confirmed it was aware of the incident and was investigating.

As well the AB management should. I’m sure MacDonalds isn’t part of a professional athlete’s regime. No wonder the wheels are falling off the Hurricane bus. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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June 3, 2018 8:16am
- Monique Watson
  
  Never got high, scoffed a McChicken and ended up in the wrong house myself.
  I call bullshit.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:19am
  - SGA
    
    According to the report, the police didn’t seem to think they were particularly intoxicated
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12063606
    It sounds relatively innocent (by this account anyway).
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:22am
  - Longknives
    
    Interesting that their mates flat is directly across the road- Yet they somehow got ‘the wrong house’ and ended up in the Girl’s address.
    Lads trying their luck I would say…and been shot down in spectacular fashion.
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:32am
    - SGA
      
      LOL – Trying their luck by sitting in the living room at 5am eating MacDonalds? Did you read the article carefully?
      
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      June 3, 2018 9:34am
      - Longknives
        
        Can The Hurricanes not afford Hotels mate?
        Are they being billeted out these days??
        
        Anyone who went to Otago Uni will tell you what visiting Rugby teams get up to with the Student Girls-Stop trying to make out your heroes are any different.
        
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        June 3, 2018 9:40am
      - SGA
        
        Oh my goodness, never let the chance of a good conspiracy go by 🙂
        As Freud is reputed to have said – sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
        It doesn’t sound as though the police, university security, or the girls seem particularly upset at this stage of the game. Why are you?
        
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        June 3, 2018 9:50am
- igm
  
  If it was Muslim Bill nothing would have been reported. Blues maybe pathetic, but they sure as hell would clean up Super Rugby Competition for most disreputable and grubby looking side.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:26am
  - SGA
    
    On the other hand, Sonny Bill Williams is one of the few clean cut of that lot.
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:33am
  - doggone7
    
    The Blues aren’t reputable when it comes to winning games.
    
    Are there other reasons you call them a or the “most disreputable” side?
    
    Or is that just another ignorant braindead slur?
    
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    June 3, 2018 10:01am
    - SGA
      
      I think the Blues serve an important role in NZ rugby. At the end of every weekend, Hurricanes, Crusaders, Chiefs, and Highlanders supporters have the comfort that, no matter what happened to their team, things could be worse.
      
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      June 3, 2018 10:17am
- Southern Raider
  
  Congrats to that man. Everyone knows that after a few beers the quickest road to recovery is a diet of fat and carbs.
  
  He was just getting ready for today’s training session.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:28am
  - SGA
    
    Those were the days 🙂
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:35am
- Southern Raider
  
  What’s the point of being a sports star these days if you aren’t allowed to pick up a scarfie after a few beers.
  
  Also how was he supposed to know if he was in the right house, she was the local.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:29am
  - SGA
    
    Read the article 🙂
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:36am
SGA

Been busy, so I haven’t been looking at Kiwiblog as much lately. I remember Kimbo receiving a yellow card – is he still in the bin? Just asking because I haven’t noticed him here lately and I know he has health issues. Just wondering whether he is doing ok.
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June 3, 2018 8:20am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  I hope it’s the sin bin, I never agree much with Kimbo, but I do respect his erudition and his ability to frame his position with intellectual integrity and logic. Positive vibes going in your direction if you are reading Kimbo.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:43am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Well said DP. Kimbo is one of the gentlemen of this blog. Although I don’t often agree with him, he always writes well and frames his arguments respectfully and eruditely.
    
    Sending you my best wishes and I hope you’re OK.
    
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    June 3, 2018 10:51am
- calendar girl
  
  Kimbo received a 2-week ‘strike’ on 4 May.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:45am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He hasn’t put in an appearance since he was sent off.
  
  I think he said he was being treated for oesophageal cancer.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:54am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  FGS, Someone enquires about the well-being of a KB commenter and the down-striker strikes.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:42am
  - SGA
    
    meh – don’t let it bother you Maggy. Up and down ticks on KB have always been a bit of a joke (imho).
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:51am
  - Dave Mann
    
    In all fairness Maggy it might just be fat finger syndrome. On my phone the buttons are so close together that I’m sure it would be easy to make a mistake.
    
    (Disclaimer: Once I accidentally upticked stephieboy! OMG 😀 )
    
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    June 3, 2018 10:56am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      I just had to downtick you for upticking The Resident Galah!
      
      LOL
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:07pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Actually, anyone complaining about downticks does seem to be targeted with them…
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:40pm
DifferentPerspective

More proof Trump is a racist – black employment hits new low

If there ever was more evidence needed that Trump is out to do horrible things to black folks in the US, the May employment stats show that more blacks than ever before are finding work and freeing themselves from the shackles of welfare dependency that Obama forged for them.

I’ve been watching CNN for mention of this and they seem to have somehow overlooked to report on this racism by Trump – funny that!
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- stephieboy
  
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  “… from the shackles of welfare dependency that Obama forged for them”
  
  ????.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:37am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Sqwawk – I could suggest you go look up on Google how food stamp use ballooned under Obama, but you are not open to facts where your ‘feelz’ have already cemented a viewpoint in your mind.
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:40am
    - MCos
      
      I’m no expert on the American food stamp system, but I believe that mega employers such as Walmart paid their workers so poorly in some areas they qualified for welfare.
      Same sort of thing happens here with Working for Families. Poorly paid workers are subsidized by the taxpayer.
      
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      June 3, 2018 9:02am
      - stephieboy
        
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        MCos “, Poorly paid workers are subsidized by the taxpayer.”
        
        The President’s constituency in the Rust Belt included?
        
        Interesting.
        
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        June 3, 2018 9:09am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Everyone in NZ is somewhat subsidised by the taxpayer: ACC, GP visits, medication costs, infrastructure, Working for Families etc. If we all had to pay full costs for everything (e.g. health insurance), many of us would be too poorly paid to cope.
        
        That doesn’t make it less valuable to be working, contributing what we can and building a career.
        
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        June 3, 2018 10:22am
      - hullkiwi
        
        MCos, you are correct with your comment about WFF being a subsidy and means to cover up for employers and poor rates of pay. This phenomenon became common in the UK as the GFC bit in 2008/10.
        
        1. Employers cut hours and wage rates;
        2. To keep “full employment” unions even arranged with employers to cut wages to just above the minimum wage, knowing the government would pay Working Tax Credits.
        
        It is a rort, that is not good for an economy in the long term.
        
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        June 3, 2018 10:05pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Or DP that the massive failure of about as much money wasted on attempting to use cash to combat poverty equals the USA national debt for it to get worse before Donald Trump took the reigns. It is even a great turnaround if we take the half way mark from CNN negative and Fox News positive. MAGA.
      
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      June 3, 2018 6:33pm
  - Manolo
    
    Why do you make excuses for the lazy, stephieboy?
    Work and education will set you free.
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:04am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Manolo, like ” The Kenyan”?
      
      LOL
      
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      June 3, 2018 9:10am
      - starboard
        
        Drop kick. You wouldn’t work in an iron lung.
        
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        June 3, 2018 1:37pm
  - Harkman
    
    Food stamps actually has gone down (for now) under Trump after surging under Obama.
    
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/05/food-stamp-recipients-down-2m-under-trump-usda-figures-show.html
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:14am
    - Piniwi
      
      Right Harkman in large part due to the tax reductions which are now starting to show the tax take increasing due to the velocity of money. More jobs being created in vast numbers but most important is the attitude of the workforce who are happy and content with having more disposable income. They might not be getting any big jumps in their wage rate but at the end of the day they have a better wage slip that reminds them at least Donald Trump cares about them. He is doing nothing more or less than he promised and campaigned on to turn America around. Fix the domestic market then the rest of the world can take an example from this rapid improvement that they too could achieve.
      
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      June 3, 2018 6:43pm
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy , irrelevant goatbotherer.
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:51am
- Piniwi
  
  Funny DP while it is reported elsewhere that some Australian working at a university in USA has prepared a study that says the exact opposite. It gets even funnier when the study is for the UN. All the ingredients are included to make it just another load of bullshit used by brainy people in the knowledge that it baffles the least active brains.
  
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  June 3, 2018 6:28pm
Paulus

Bowing to those more closely in the Beltway in Wellington on Friday it was suggested that all is not well on the 9th Floor and surrounds.
Heather Simpson, as ordained by H Clark is back and appears to believe she is in charge as she always was when she was Cindy and Robbo’s boss. She ran Clark’s office with a rod of iron as she did with Clark in New York, with the result that Clark was not wanted.
The new blood with Cindy do not like being usurped by her way of doing things – when they got on Cindy’s back they thought they were home and hose.
So she has been booted to head the Health Review (which was completed last year under National) to unloose her influence.
It is believed that this may be a good move as Prime Minister elected Peters is certainly in no way a friend of Simpson, and a real shit fight would ensue as he takes no notice of his instructions that presumably Simpson had a lot to deal with (Cindy hasn’t the intelligence to write such a letter).
I am not sure that Peters will take any notice of anybody currently on the 9th floor when he become Prime Minister shortly – that would be contrary to his long political way of life despite what Cindy and her cohorts think.
If what I understand has some truth then the fun has just begun as Minister’s will not know who they report to.
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June 3, 2018 8:26am
- tf78
  
  I now realize why Jacinda has so much time on her hands for school visits and photo shoots etc – Simpson does all her real work for her.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:44am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It doesn’t show.
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:18am
- KevOB
  
  When Taxcinda’s away the mice will have to play with Winston. H2 may lose her head.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:18am
- artemisia
  
  Reckon Mr Peters will keep his head down and act very very responsibly. At first. Then nature will triumph. Wot larks.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:37am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I think people are overestimating Winnie’s power. What chance would he have in a fairly short timeframe and with very little real support in Parliament to make any big changes? Taxinda, unless seriously unwell, will be back quite soon.
    
    Sure, Winnie can blackmail the CoL because they need him, but he’s already got what he wanted with horse racing etc.
    
    I reckon now he just wants a few nice photo ops as ‘PM’ to become the pride of his mantlepiece.
    
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    June 3, 2018 10:26am
    - backster
      
      Classic …….your last sentence should read ‘she’ and ‘her’ as befits and Acting PM.
      
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      June 3, 2018 10:43am
    - sooty
      
      She’s only away for six weeks. How much trouble can Whinney get up to?
      
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      June 3, 2018 10:44am
      - artemisia
        
        Six weeks is the plan. The reality may be different.
        
        Still if Ms Ardern does manage to be back in the big chair after six weeks it may be in name only with a few photo ops but decisions back to being made by the kitchen Cabinet.
        
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        June 3, 2018 1:20pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      If the CoL are frightened of losing Winston First’s support, they might consider what The Drunken Dwarf’s options are.
      1. ……
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:16pm
    - calendar girl
      
      CL: Winnie also stuffed the fishing sanctuary that was being set up legislatively.
      
      Having got most of what was sought (by Peters personally, and by his backers), will Peters now forget earlier principles and go along with Labour’s “soft on crime” approach (i.e. reducing imprisonment levels)?
      
      That’s not an outcome for which most NZ First supporters voted. I hope that they criticise and punish his blatant deception in a very public manner.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:51pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Perhaps CL but he has already started his come back campaign in Northland with a fauve tree planting (by the team) and sloshed some more cash around. Remember he is one of the best at political numbers and if his slide in popularity continues he is playing his best long game to once again gain an electorate seat. The mood is right for Davis to go on the list so they can get him out of sight opening a big door for the old drunk. We will again see the Pareto distribution curve as the smaller northern minority get the bulk of the slush fund. Watch this space while noting a lightly stepping acting PM for a few short weeks.
      
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      June 3, 2018 6:55pm
Lee C

We are currently being run by three administrations. The one people think they have voted for:
Lead by Jacinda Ardern
The one lead by Helen Clark’ and her cronies
and the one which rubber-stamps all the decisions
lead by Winston Peters.
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June 3, 2018 8:48am
- Chris R
  
  Lee C:Nobody thought “they voted for” any of the above alternatives.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:25am
  - Piniwi
    
    While Chris R we remain in the dark completely over what those who voted for this shambles are going to get thanks to the secret 38 page agreement. They wont even release a severely redacted version of that infamous document.
    
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    June 3, 2018 6:59pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Lee C.
  I’ve been appointed spelling monitor for the day.
  Did you mean ‘lead’ or ‘led’?
  
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  June 3, 2018 10:22am
  - Chris R
    
    Captain: I think he meant “led” as in Zeppelin but “lead” in the context of this government is OK too as in “lead weight” for NZ and our economy.
    
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    June 3, 2018 11:02am
    - Longknives
      
      Legend has it that Led Zeppelin were named by Keith Moon who, upon hearing that Jimmy Page was forming the ‘New Yardbirds’, reportedly said ‘That will go down like a Lead Balloon’…
      Page liked the name.
      
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      June 3, 2018 11:36am
      - Longknives
        
        If that doesn’t bring Kimbo out of retirement I don’t know what will…
        Kimbo loves Led Zep!
        
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        June 3, 2018 11:52am
cas

Eleanor Ainge Roy who writes for the Guardian will be creaming it with all the stories about Jacinda and the baby. Another puff piece today interviewing four other women having babies this month who all say J is amazing. There is no end to the spin this baby is taking on.
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June 3, 2018 8:53am
- Viking2
  
  Yesterday it was Gaylord on father hood.
  He ain’t yet so what the f…k does he know and he can come tell us all about it in 25 years time when the kid has been thru its teens and all the other trauma.
  
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  June 3, 2018 1:31pm
  - sooty
    
    Still ain’t learned, stick a cake in it!
    
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    June 3, 2018 2:19pm
Happychappy

How can the the coalition of losers keep tossing the money at NZ Firsts promises when they can’t fund most of what they promised themselves. The money that Winston and Jacinda promised the far north shows that this is all about Winston First and the poor poll results that could be seen as his Party not being able to survive, so the best way to address the problem is to get the bribes out early and spend money that should have gone on other more worthy promises. They say this money will create jobs, get the economy producing in Northland but how will that be achieved when the bro’s don’t want to even understand the word work let alone do it so does this mean more immigration numbers heading to do these jobs and stimulate the the far north economy just so Winston First can win the seat of Northland.
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June 3, 2018 8:53am
- tf78
  
  Do you think that there is a chance that dope plants could be re-defined as “trees” then they will plant millions of them – win, win for Jonsey.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:01am
  - kevn
    
    @tf78…. Might have already have pre-empted jones in that dept.
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:12am
    - Tarquin North
      
      NZF are toast up here. They were popular for years, mainly because of Brin Donnely who was a good bloke. Winston and Jones had their chance and blew it. They need an electorate seat to survive after the next election – it won’t be Northlake.
      
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      June 3, 2018 9:32am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Hm tf78, I think you’re onto something. A bit like suddenly ‘third hand meth’ is fine and a whole lot of state houses useable after all. It’s all just a matter of definitions!
    
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    June 3, 2018 10:34am
  - VicParking
    
    They have redefined Manuka as trees so its not a big step to take. “Gangs plant 12000 dope trees while on a job assistance program.”
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:48pm
    - Piniwi
      
      @Vic Parking watching the annual dope round up by chopper can be fascinating in various parts of the mainland. Pine plantations of even young trees which start out densely planted conceal a lot of dope plants. The funniest event though was watching out the Engineers window at the Deniston mine office. The chopper hovered at the end of a small native bushed island and the guy retrieved several healthy plants on the way back to the dump site on the local rugby grounds. They do love their rugby down that way.
      
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      June 3, 2018 7:17pm
  - Viking2
    
    Be a dammed good idea actually.
    Then we can stop imprisoning people for using and trading the stuff.
    IRD can collect a legitimate tax from those that make and sell.
    
    We can do what we should have done and remove the restrictions on ecstasy, (which never killed anyone), set a reasonable standard for the use and again collect the tax.
    Then the police can get back to doing the hard yards and dealing with the meth.
    Which will probably become a much lesser problem with the above changes.
    
    Too simple really.
    
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    June 3, 2018 1:36pm
- Piniwi
  
  But Happychappy the old drunk has this covered by emptying out the prisons and putting them to work tree planting and learning forestry management and planning. If nothing else had confirmed he supported Angry Andy catch and release plans then that statement in Northland did. It hastens us to ask what else has the old drunk been promised for his support of this devastating legislation? It is all qui- pro-quo with him and there will a quo to come for that “aye” on the changes.
  
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  June 3, 2018 7:08pm
Manolo

It could be an entertaining meeting:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-in-early-talks-for-potential-summit-between-trump-and-putin-1527898635

The White House is planning for a potential summit between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, according to people familiar with the efforts, a meeting that would bring to the international stage one of the world’s most enigmatic political relationships.
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June 3, 2018 8:55am
- Inandout
  
  Brilliant move by Trump, just before a Kim meeting. That President is using all his business experience to confuse these pricks.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:54am
Harkman

Classic. Anyone ever seen some of those websites dedicated to public works stuff ups? In particular pics of stuff-ups where road signs are put in the wrong place or most commonly road markers do horrible stuff ups (like swerving to avoid roadkill or driving over it or the really hilarious one where the road marker drove the marking truck home but forgot to turn it off and had street lines up their driveway). Well I was off for a walk Friday evening and my block is a trapezoid with the longer side having a triangular point (local government wants traffic to flow down my street not the street behind). Anyhow, there is no room for parking at this point of my block but the council decided somebody should place yellow ‘no parking’ markings there anyhow. But this is where the stupidity comes in, the marker has gone up to the first driveway on that side of the block and then about two metres past it and then the chap has realised, “Oh heck I’ve put yellow markings over over somebody’s driveway” and then they have tried covering up their ballsup with dark grey paint that only does about 97% and doesn’t cover the edges so there is a yellow edge. The stupidity of these people is staggering. Did they really believe no one would notice? ? I’d love to post a pic here.
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June 3, 2018 9:05am
stephieboy

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Manolo,

“..one of the world’s most enigmatic political relationships.”

“Enigmatic” for good reason and as Mr Mueller well knows.
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June 3, 2018 9:05am
- Fletch
  
  Mueller has nothing. What is more troubling is the FBI spy planted in Trump’s campaign team before the election. It’s actually bigger than Watergate but the media doesn’t think it is serious enough.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:28am
  - stephieboy
    
    Fletch,
    
    “FBI spy planted in Trump’s campaign team ”
    
    Another Birther Pizzagate type conspiracy has been hatched?
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:14pm
    - Fletch
      
      As the Federalist reports, when even the NY Times admit to the FBI spying on Trump’s campaign, you know you’re in trouble.
      
      http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/17/10-key-takeaways-from-new-york-times-error-ridden-defense-of-fbi-spying-on-trump-campaign/
      
      https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/crossfire-hurricane-trump-russia-fbi-mueller-investigation.html
      
      http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/16/leakers-to-nyt-confirm-fbi-ran-spy-operation-against-trump-campaign/
      
      Even Clapper admits the spying, but says it was “a good thing” – http://thewashingtonstandard.com/james-clapper-good-thing-fbi-was-spying-on-trump-campaign/
      
      AT this point, there is no denying it happened. They are now quibbling over nomenclature like “spy” vs “informant” as though those are different things.
      
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      June 3, 2018 1:29pm
      - cha
        
        Trump’s lawyers have said he can’t be charged with obstruction, because his presidential power gives him unchecked authority.
        
        So, if all the deep state claptrap and the alleged spying on the campaign accusations true, they were perfectly legal because Obama’s presidential power gave him unchecked authority, too.
        
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        June 3, 2018 2:07pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Does stupidboy ever look at how many downticks he collects and wonder why so many here think he’s a total waste of space?
  
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  June 3, 2018 10:39am
  - Nermal
    
    Trolls enjoy feedback. If he was ignored he’d go away.
    
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    June 3, 2018 11:11am
  - stephieboy
    
    In the wider picture of things, those downticks are totally meaningless.
    
    Especially if look at the last and previous election results.
    
    That fact encourages me to expose alt right lunatic fringe stuff.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:16pm
    - VicParking
      
      Your an expert in Lunatic fringe stuff Stephie
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:51pm
Nookin

If Mr Mueller knew the reason why the relationshipwas enigmatic then it would not be enigmatic would it?
The relationship is enigmatic because of all the conflicting stories and the fact that nobody, including Mr Mueller who is devoting an inordinate amount of time and money to unravel the enigma, really knows the dynamics of the relationship.
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June 3, 2018 9:17am
secondcumming

Just been watching Damien O’Connor on Q&A…..he is one of the few in Labor that talks any sense.

My missus described him as ‘ruggedly handsome’ and thinks he’s in the wrong party. I’ve always thought Damien was a real good bastard, especially after he was reported as saying, “Labor’s list MP selection process was run by self-serving unionists and a gaggle of gays”.

Has anything changed in that regard?
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June 3, 2018 9:23am
- Harkman
  
  Bryce Edwards is being a plonker this morning.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:34am
- Gravelroad
  
  Oh yes, Mr O’Connor talks it up, but achieves……?
  Handsome is as handsome does.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:53am
- Piniwi
  
  Perhaps secondcumming you have not enjoyed any of that great West Coast hospitality while also missing out on catching up with the local assessment of O’Connor. Tits for hands would put it politely. Then he confirms it by stating:
  “There have been failures,” he said.
  Mr O’Connor said it was not productive to point fingers, instead he thought “we have to focus on the future”. This no doubt is due to the SLG saying about owning up to mistakes and doing something about putting it right. Politics 101 is avoid mistakes to save the embarrassment of having to fix something that wasn’t broken. My bet is he even sleeps in a shut pocket knife posture as he soon closes up over his blunders.
  
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  June 3, 2018 7:29pm
- Duxton
  
  Yes. What has changed for me is O’Connor’s recent (about three weeks ago) comment to the media after meeting with a rural group, to the effect of:
  
  “Once we have sorted out farming, we can work out how to share farmers’ profits more evenly across the community.”
  
  A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Just another thieving c*nt like the rest of them.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:12pm
Monique Watson

Doesn’t he wake up in Plonkersville, wearing plonker pajamas with Gluckman as a bedfellow? Other than that, Edwards gets a back slap for writing fairly erudite bullshit that no-one reads.
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June 3, 2018 10:49am
cha

Because the bibly says so.

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Republican candidate Mike Saari first denied then defended comments he made on Facebook seeming to normalize pedophilia.

When Michigan Republican Mike Saari was asked in February about a comment he left on Facebook seemingly normalizing pedophilia, he claimed his account had been hacked and someone else had written the comment.

But this week, Saari seemed to forget about the alleged hacking, because he gave a full defense of that same Facebook comment.

What had Saari said?

“Woman [sic] don’t seem to understand that from the very beginning of time men have taken young girls (Prior to periods) as wives and concubines. Even the bible talks of this so don’t make it sound like men that are attracted to 12 year old girls are sick… it’s you woman [sic] that can’t get a grip on reality is whats [sic] sick…it’s only normal and you can’t change normal or a persons [sic] DNA.”

https://politicsmaven.io/theintellectualist/feminism-womens-rights/gop-candidate-thinks-its-normal-to-have-relationships-with-12-year-old-girls-OhdtsjUhPkuqGVvWNoGScw/
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June 3, 2018 10:49am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Most men are sexually attracted to females that have only just gone through puberty (even if we know they are annoying, over-emotional clueless idiots). Perhaps to do with their historically higher chances of being fertile and surviving and retaining fitness and health long enough to raise many children in our mostly long-term mated species.
  
  (Extremely) Polyamorous chimpanzees have similar time to adolescence and maturity but their males are more attracted to mature females who have proven themselves capable of raising young.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:50am
- Inandout
  
  He mistook the Bible for the Koran.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:52am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Gosh, my references note that he was a Michigan Democrat candidate in 2014.
  https://ballotpedia.org/Michael_Saari
  http://www.theoaklandpress.com/government-and-politics/20140731/three-republicans-two-democrats-running-for-39th-district-house-seat
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:14pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Maggy Wassilieff,
    
    kind of reminds us of GOP candidate Roy Moore endorsed by the President,
    
    https://www.theroot.com/president-pussy-grabber-endorses-accused-pedophile-for-1820977307
    
    LOL
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:28pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Kind of reminds me that powerful people cover-up/excuse pedophilia in all walks of life:
      Politics:
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3181783/Did-Jeremy-Corbyn-try-protect-fellow-Left-wingers-implicated-paedophile-scandal.html
      
      Religion:
      https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/anglican-bishop-quits-over-sexual-abuse-coverup/news-story/357ff0d9c077d4c5fc4869af3b83ef1c
      
      Charity Groups:
      https://www.jpost.com/International/UN-staff-allegedly-responsbile-for-over-60000-cases-of-sexual-exploitation-542817
      
      Media:
      https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/26/bbc-bosses-cover-tracks-savile-2012-andy-kershaw
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:40pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Maggy Wassilieff, interesting that you appeared to excluded this notable alt righter,
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart-pedophilia-comments
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:50pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I’m hardly an expert on paedophilia, stephieboy.
        
        Thanks for filling in missing gaps.
        
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        June 3, 2018 1:01pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        I’m hardly an expert on paedophilia, stephieboy. Thanks for filling in missing gap.
        
        Ouch! Another entertaining episode of Wile E. Coyote (Stephieboy) and the Road Runner (Maggy) – Stephieboy always loses!
        
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        June 3, 2018 2:31pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Nostradamus
        Honi soit qui mal y pense
        
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        June 3, 2018 3:47pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    He is referred to as GOP candidate in the article’s title.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:29pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yep, he’s flip-flopped from Democrat 2014 to Republican 2018.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:35pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, so his alleged Paedophilia was cured by switching political allegiances?
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:52pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        MW, so his alleged Paedophilia was cured by switching political allegiances?
        
        I have no idea, stephieboy.
        I lack an in-depth knowledge of the motivations and ways of pedophiles.
        Always happy to consider your considered opinion on this topic.
        
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        June 3, 2018 1:03pm
Morrissey

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Brave, brave Israeli snipers on the job.

It’s another nurse this time….

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/06/01/may-these-nazis-burn-in-hell/
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June 3, 2018 10:53am
- Awww C-mon
  
  You don’t think calling Jewish people Nazi’s might be a little ott?
  
  Cunts like you are why Darwin’s theory of evolution has been discredited.
  
  #banjoplayinginbredsaresmarter
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:09am
  - Morrissey
    
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    “Jewish people”? The heroes who murdered that nurse are Israeli executioners—possibly extreme Christian fundamentalists, possibly extreme Jewish fundamentalists.
    
    Norman Finkelstein, by the way, is a Jewish scholar whose parents survived incarceration in a Nazi Death camp, so I think I’ll go with his judgement over yours, thanks very much.
    
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    June 3, 2018 11:47am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Do have sugar in that big cup of self-righteous indignation you drink each morning? A bit of honey to disguise the bitterness?
      You should probably up the dose of sweet and dial back on the rest.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:01pm
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        What else should one feel when snipers target nurses? Indifference, like you?
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:05pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        when you find the source of the conflict that is the Middle East, and can prove one side has behaved better than other at all times, I’d enjoy that debate and information.
        
        however, when you sit in some leafy Auckland suburb writing offensive shit from a partisan view point not out of care for the people involved, but because it suits your agenda as a trendy, latte sipping, non gender cuck, well expect to be called a cunt, cunt.
        
        and if you don’t like my choice in language, go and watch your clip again.
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:12pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Finkelstein addresses the charge that his language is why he is cut out….
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X8q95gOWss
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:00pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    You don’t think calling Jewish people Nazi’s might be a little ott?
    
    Nazi used to just mean somebody from the German National Socialist Party whose raison d’etre was the opposition of Bolshevism.
    
    Now the word “Nazi” through decades of misue has just come to mean either:
    1) somebody who is opposed to mass immigration
    2) someone who criticises Jewish behaviour
    
    or in the case of Morrissey, a catch all to describe anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:50pm
- Longknives
  
  Go Israel!
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:02pm
- kowtow
  
  I’ve noticed a supreme effort by the international MSM to cover the Gaza invasion of Israel and the resulting shooting which is self defence of an international border.
  
  And a supreme effort by the MSM to not give nearly as much cover to the Sandinista massacres in Nicaragua.
  
  What’s that about ?
  
  Media bias ? Never !
  
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  June 3, 2018 2:47pm
holysheet

One of my employees said me “nice new Mercedes”
I said “Well if you hit your targets, work hard, stay focused, next year I’ll be able to buy an even better one”
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June 3, 2018 11:03am
- kevn
  
  @holy…. Another angle is to eat rice for a couple of years then go buy a (not so new) Mercedes Benz.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:21am
- Inandout
  
  European vehicles are not trouble free like Japanese or Korean.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:50am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Yeah, but the BMWs will tell you when something is wrong, like a wheel is off, or the gearbox is fucked. A normal person would know that but BMW has to tell you
    
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    June 3, 2018 5:50pm
cha

Who woulda thunk it.

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Background: This study investigates whether assault frequency increased on days and in cities where candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton held campaign rallies prior to the 2016 US Presidential election.

Methods: We calculated city-level counts of police-reported assaults for 31 rallies for Donald Trump and 38 rallies for Hillary Clinton. Negative binomial models estimated the assault incidence on rally days (day 0) relative to that on eight control days for the same city (days -28, -21, -14, -7, +7, +14, +21, and +28).

Results: Cities experienced an increase in assaults (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 1.12, 95% CI: 1.03–1.22) on the days of Donald Trump’s rallies, and no change in assaults on the days of Hillary Clinton’s rallies (IRR = 1.00; 95% CI: 0.94–1.06).

Conclusion: Assaults increased on days when cities hosted Donald Trump’s rallies during the 2016 Presidential election campaign.

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2018/07000/Assaults_on_Days_of_Campaign_Rallies_During_the.5.aspx
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June 3, 2018 11:18am
- rangitoto
  
  As suspected, the dems went feral when Trump was in town.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:36am
  - Harkman
    
    It was exposed after the election that groups linked to Hillary’s campaign paid people with serious mental disorders to go and disrupt Trump’s events and cause trouble. I think Soros was linked in someway. I still love it how during the campaign there was all these howls that Trump supporters were racist, then the next rally there was shots of a black Trump supporter kicking the shit out of some white hippie/tree-hugger/activist as he was leaving. Oh the conundrum in Don Lemon’s head.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:06pm
Inandout

Meanwhile in Obama’s Chicago it was black on black murder as usual.
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June 3, 2018 11:48am
Morrissey

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Mr Less-Than-One-In-Ten is putting a brave face on it

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-marathon-not-sprint-nationals-simon-bridges-happy-nine-per-cent-in-preferred-pm-stakes-despite-shadow-arderns-40-rating

Here’s some music to cheer up the unimpressive fellow….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYgf8cVfvU
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June 3, 2018 11:55am
- Morrissey
  
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  Four loyal souls have registered their support for Mr. Nine Per Cent. Pity they didn’t poll you fellas, eh!
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:01pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Logic is not one of your strong points, I see.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:04pm
    - Morrissey
      
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      How does my pointing out the sad souls who support a beleaguered party leader amount to a failing in logic, Maggy? I admit it might be a failing in civility and politeness—darn it, I just have to be nicer to suffering politicians.
      
      But a logical failing? How so?
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:08pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh dear, oh dear…
        
        You could at least try to fudge a correlative link between a downtick and support for your proposition.
        
        I’m always happy to be disproved that the downticks associated with your posts are not correlated with a reader’s disapproval of you/your posts.
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:25pm
      - Ross12
        
        The logic I see from those stupid preferred PM polls is more people do not like any of the options –ie. 42+% fall into that category from the last poll I saw. More than Ardern’s numbers.
        
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        June 3, 2018 12:27pm
Longknives

Alice Snedden is having a crack at Mark Richardson.
Richardson’s Crime? He doesn’t want State Houses built in his street.
Seriously Alice? That’s the best you can do??
99% of sane New Zealanders wouldn’t want State Houses full of Ferals and Gangmembers next door to them…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/104317848/alice-snedden-the-am-shows-mark-richardson-has-an-oldfashioned-way-of-thinking

I would have thought a TV ‘Personality’ making jokes about aborting a Politicians children was slightly more controversial than what Richardson said? But hey..
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June 3, 2018 12:01pm
- Morrissey
  
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  Alice Snedden’s generosity and willingness to give people a fair go is representative of the average Kiwi. Richardson, on the other hand, is representative of National voters—you know, the sheep who will vote for a cabbage in Epsom if instructed.
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:04pm
  - Harkman
    
    Found that Labour party sexual assaulter yet?
    
    Amazing how you guys cover up crimes.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:13pm
- Harkman
  
  It is such a waste of money, building statehouses in the richest neighbourhoods.
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:10pm
  - Philview
    
    The intended consequence is that it will crash property prices in those suburbs. The Government is deliberately saying F.U. to hard working New Zealanders.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:37pm
    - artemisia
      
      The unintended consequence is that there will be a concerted and co-ordinated effort to make sure the authorities are notified of every instance of noise, antisocial behaviour, damage to property including the tenant’s own place, crimes committed in the hood, inconsiderate or illegal parking…..
      
      I happen to live in a leafy suburb with no state or other social housing, and even here complaints are made at the drop of a hat. Tolerance levels very very low.
      
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      June 3, 2018 12:59pm
    - Morrissey
      
      “Hard working New Zealanders”? What, like John Key and John Banks? You jest, surely.
      
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      June 3, 2018 8:01pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    That’s why some of us have high fences, security lighting and monitored alarms – and a few other electric things…..
    
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    June 3, 2018 5:54pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But Harkman a great source of doer uppers down stream remembering how Labour previously deferred so much or the repairs and maintenance to their housing stock. We will remember them.
    
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    June 3, 2018 7:38pm
- Philview
  
  I just commented on Richardson article below. I didn’t see your comment. This Government is twisted in a nasty way and will not last long.
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:34pm
- artemisia
  
  As people probably know, state housing is allocated on a points basis. One of the categories is being unable to access private rental housing. One of the criteria in that category is recent release from prison.
  
  Mr Garrett tells us the average number of convictions a prisoner has is 46. Nice neighbours, regardless of the price of houses. Not.
  
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  June 3, 2018 1:02pm
  - KevOB
    
    The number of convictions tells little. Police can frequently find a large number of technical offences arising out of one event. The number of charges depend on Police mood or the attitude they want to present to the Court. The number of charges is significant in plea bargaining too.
    
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    June 3, 2018 5:10pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But artimisia this is another situation where the Fool Factor (unintended consequences) dominates so much “new” policy. The extra housing supplement that comes in the great Families Package due to kick in on July one actually removes points in that state house scheme. While the extra cash supplement helps in gaining a private rental there are none available in their location or price range or so many other hindrances from the COL that have reduced private rental stock. Thus though still entitled to go on the list for a state house they are further down the list because of how the points are allocated. An early home goal for the COL when giving people more achieves so much less.
    It is very much like MMP since the more electorate seats a party has the less each party vote is worth. The votes value is devalued by the algorithm applied hence a list only party get 100% vote value for all votes the highest electorate seat party gets only 25% vote value. Now how could that ever be considered proportional?
    
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    June 3, 2018 7:55pm
Tom Barker

There will be a demonstration in London next week against the imprisonment of “Tommy Robinson”. Will all those who attend be delivering Nazi salutes to declare their passionate and deeply held commitment to free speech and human rights, or only those who are members of “Mr Robinson’s” political party?
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June 3, 2018 12:09pm
- stephieboy
  
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  Tommy Robinson, alias Stephen Lennon etc is an alt right snowflakey
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:22pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Good morning Galah
    Sqwark
    Alt-right
    Trumpeters
    Ooooo, Stormy ….
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:41pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Ah Shaun the Sheep you know the Galahs then who leave town with the sunrise and return to squawk and shit at sunset. They are almost in big enough numbers to cast shadow on those endless sunny days in the NT.
      
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      June 3, 2018 8:00pm
  - pentwig
    
    sillyboy, as opposed to you being an alt left snowflakey
    
    LOL
    
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    June 3, 2018 1:03pm
  - KevOB
    
    Alt left snowflakes are more mushy.
    
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    June 3, 2018 5:03pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  You don’t have to like Robinson’s politics to be deeply concerned about the methods by which the establishment is working to silence him. Targeting an obnoxious individual with judicial vendetta to keep him quiet is not good for democracy or the rule of law – and the large numbers of relatively middle of the road people that have been seriously disturbed by the judiciaries’ actions in this case is pretty telling and will likely have some electoral consequences.
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:26pm
  - MCos
    
    Robinson is a in prison for contempt of court, which by pleading guilty he didn’t challenge. He had already received a three months suspended sentence on another occasion so the outcome this time was obvious.
    It’s as plain as night follows day that if he was not incarcerated he would have carried on as before until he was.
    
    Nothing like martyrdom to rouse public sympathy.
    
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    June 3, 2018 2:52pm
Hugh Pavletich

“Bank of Mum & Dad,” Huge Prop under UK Housing Bubble, is Running Out of Liquidity … Don Quijones … Wolf Street

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/weekend-reading-2-3-june-2018/#comment-3116518

“Bank of Mum & Dad,” Huge Prop under UK Housing Bubble, is Running Out of Liquidity … Don Quijones … Wolf Street
h/t GF

https://wolfstreet.com/2018/05/31/bank-of-mum-dad-huge-prop-under-uk-housing-bubble-is-running-out-of-liquidity/

“Mum & dad are lending money to their kids so their kids can afford to pay the prices demanded by mum & dad & their friends. It’s like a giant Ponzi scheme but where the victims are your children.” …

… So widespread is this phenomenon that in 2017 the so-called “Bank of Mum and Dad” became the ninth biggest mortgage lender in the UK shelling out some £6.5 billion in loans. Parents helped provide deposits for more than 298,000 mortgages last year — the equivalent of 26% of all transactions. “The Bank of Mum and Dad continues to grow in importance in helping young people take their early steps onto the housing ladder,” said Nigel Wilson, chief executive of the financial service company Legal & General. …

… “Mum & dad are lending money to their kids so their kids can afford to pay the prices demanded by mum & dad & their friends,” explained buyers agent Henry Pryor. “It’s like a giant Ponzi scheme but where the victims are your children.”

More than one in four transactions in the UK’s property market this year will depend on the Bank of Mum and Dad’s financial support, according to Legal & General. The “bank” is expected to help fund 317,000 homes this year, up 3% on 2017. It’s not just twenty and thirty somethings that rely on its “lending”: 20% of those aged between 45 and 55 are also receiving some form of assistance. … read more via hyperlink above …

Bank of mum and dad could be NZ’s sixth largest first-home mortgage lender | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/103712810/bank-of-mum-and-dad-could-be-nzs-sixth-largest-firsthome-mortgage-lender

Google search ‘Bank of Mum & Dad’

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=bTATW5zkD6GUmAWWiaH4CQ&q=bank+of+mum+and+dad&oq=bank+of+mum+and+dad&gs_l=psy-ab.12..
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June 3, 2018 12:20pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  NEW ZEALAND: LATEST DUMB HOUSING (FINANCIAL FUEL) IDEA (LIKELY MIS- SPOKEN … WATCH TAIL END ‘THE NATION’ INTERVIEW) : NEW RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR ADRIAN ORR …
  
  Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/weekend-reading-2-3-june-2018/#comment-3116345
  
  … NEW ZEALAND: LATEST DUMB HOUSING (FINANCIAL FUEL) IDEA (LIKELY MIS- SPOKEN … WATCH TAIL END ‘THE NATION’ INTERVIEW) : NEW RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR ADRIAN ORR …
  
  … IS ADRIAN ORR OUT OF HIS DEPTEH ? …
  
  Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr says if the aim is to get more people into houses, it makes sense restrictions don’t apply to KiwiBuild | interest.co.nz
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94068/reserve-bank-governor-adrian-orr-says-if-aim-get-more-people-houses-it-makes-sense
  
  Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr thinks KiwiBuild homes should be exempt from loan-to-value ratio (LVR) restrictions.
  
  Speaking to The Nation on Saturday, Orr said this makes sense as the policy is aiming to get people with lower incomes and families into homes. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  … Roger Witherspoon comments on thread above …
  
  How do you make the unaffordable affordable? By making credit freely available to sub prime borrowers. Or am I missing something here?
  
  Surely all these well intentioned schemes just inflate the price of housing? Like National’s laughable first home buyer subsidy, effectively adding $50,000 or more to the price of all entry level housing. If you give someone an extra 5% towards their deposit then they can borrow an extra $50,000 at a 10% deposit rate. So they can bid $50,000 more for a house.
  
  All these bright, well intentioned bods are all from the same intelligentsia caste that created the house price problem in the first place, not to mention the leaky home fiasco. When will they actually identify the real causes of the house price bubble and stop believing in comfortable platitudes?
  
  The Texans make us look really dumb:
  
  https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Gainesville-TX/pmf,pf_pt/house_type/87245387_zpid/45382_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/33.768017,-96.960869,33.524223,-97.329941_rect/11_zm/
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  … New Zealand Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr interview on Newshub The Nation …
  
  Reserve Bank Governor ‘scared’ by level of mortgage debt in NZ | Newshub
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2018/06/reserve-bank-governor-scared-by-level-of-mortgage-debt-in-nz.html
  
  … Has Adrian Orr learnt anything from the Irish 2007 experience ? … access Central Bank Of Ireland research via …
  
  Central Bank Of Ireland – Mortgage Measures
  
  https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/links-24-april-2018/#comment-3092390
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:22pm
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    Hugh,
    Economists have predicted seven of the last three depressions.
    Get over it.
    
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    June 3, 2018 12:27pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    He’s repeating the shit that he put up last night.
    3 more reports and he’s gone again.
    Thanks team.
    
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    June 3, 2018 1:37pm
Philview

I have just been reading on Stuff that Mark Richardson is wrong for criticising the Government’s plan to build state houses in affluent Auckland suburbs. This highlights the insane ideology of this Government.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/104317848/alice-snedden-the-am-shows-mark-richardson-has-an-oldfashioned-way-of-thinking
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June 3, 2018 12:20pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  It’s a sad state of affairs when one of the country’s most astute political commentators is an ex-cricketer entertainer.
  
  Labour have always been keen on this pepper-potting integration (except of course where their own homes are concerned, in those cases the chardonnay socialists are always up in arms and NIMBYing for all they’re worth).
  
  It’s all about social engineering and setting up community conflict and tension as part of the Alinsky plan to create the social context for introducing a socialist (one-party) state.
  
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  June 3, 2018 12:57pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Right DP if you build they will come so first devaluation is the state house dwellers then it will be the tram tracks and rattily rail to drive down further. In the meantime there will be a price to pay for “progress” in those areas where so much investment is being made in infrastructure. Only one colour to paint this work of art.
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:06pm
- doggone7
  
  Is this government responsible for the insane ideology of Richardson?
  
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  June 3, 2018 1:00pm
- calendar girl
  
  Philview, I had never heard of ‘Alice Snedden’ until about a week ago. Already I’m tired of her haughty admonition of anyone who dares to hold an opinion different from hers.
  
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  June 3, 2018 2:00pm
- MCos
  
  What you read was someone expressing an opinion on someone else’s opinion.
  NZ seems to have a surfeit of these populist opinion writers.
  
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  June 3, 2018 2:30pm
  - Philview
    
    Except Phil Twyford’s terse statement last week sounded like a plan rather than his opinion.
    
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    June 3, 2018 2:48pm
- Komata
  
  Philview
  
  Re: ‘This highlights the insane ideology of this Government’.
  
  Actually no, it ‘conforms’ to their ideology. Socialists HATE those who are prosperous (except themselves of course), calling such people ‘Rich Pricks’.
  
  Therefore, what better way to undermine such individuals than to place ‘lower class’ state homes in the midst of such areas (although noticeably messers Adern, Twiford et al will NOT have any such homes near them!!)
  
  Historically, there was a very deliberate plan during the 1960’s to do exactly this, under a policy known variously as ‘Salt and pepper’ or ‘Shotgun’ housing, the rationale being that, by placing’lower class / state Type’ homes in perceived ‘Affluent’ areas, the inhabitants of such ‘state’ houses would be ‘improved’ and persuaded to ‘improve’ themselves.
  
  Unfortunately, the reverse hapened and the land and social values of hitherto ‘well-off’ suburbs declined markedly, as ‘the lower orders’ extended their ‘influence’.
  
  Given that human nature doesn’t change, this ‘new’ idea is merely the old scheme remembered. As with its predecessor, the end result will be the same.
  
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  June 3, 2018 4:05pm
  - KevOB
    
    In the 1960’s there was also a policy of placing Maori and other lesser popular tenants in Canons Creek. It was deliberately ghettoised. The policy was never spoken of–just operated.
    
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    June 3, 2018 5:01pm
Goon

29 years since Tiananmen Square…..or do we not mention topics that are slightly unconfortable for our paymasters?

https://croakingcassandra.com/2018/06/01/new-zealand-the-prc-and-the-29th-anniversary-of-tiananmen-square/
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June 3, 2018 12:22pm
Manolo

Supreme stupidity:
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/means-little-sour-pelosi-craps-on-trump-economic-success/
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June 3, 2018 12:59pm
Monique Watson

Shat the bed Hugh? I was wondering where you were while I was sucking back a cigar the size of Porky.
Not.
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June 3, 2018 1:24pm
cha

Priorities.

In 1221 pope Honorius III mentions in a letter that he was informed that prince Leszek the White cannot go on a crusade, since being ill he can only drink beer or mead; and since there is no beer or mead in Palestine, there is no way he is going. Best excuse ever. #goals pic.twitter.com/D26oWCgbWd— Mateusz Fafinski (@Calthalas) June 2, 2018
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June 3, 2018 1:50pm
- mandk
  
  Nice, but it doesn’t say Palestine. It says Holy Land.
  
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  June 3, 2018 4:49pm
starboard

Get on board guys..its the only way out of this maori/kiwi shit fight we are currently stuck in.

http://www.hobsonspledge.nz
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June 3, 2018 2:37pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  All have the same rights? Silly. You know who will object to the special rights they already have – and it won’t be me
  
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  June 3, 2018 5:59pm
stigie

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder !~
Ms Klark saw this but nobody else did..?

https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/q/3/j/1/d/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1q4mrg.png/1527964436897.jpg
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June 3, 2018 2:57pm
- starboard
  
  Noooooooo!!!
  Hand me the janola, I need to rinse my eyes ?
  
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  June 3, 2018 3:12pm
  - stigie
    
    After the Thai girls, i can see why starboard..?
    
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    June 3, 2018 3:14pm
    - starboard
      
      I had a second peek.. and vomited in my mouth..
      
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      June 3, 2018 5:07pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Stigie:
  
  That can’t be right. Helen and Peter were in love at first sight. Everyone knows that!
  
  http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Helen-Clark-and-Peter-Davis-kiss-is-it-real/tabid/131/articleID/49419/Default.aspx
  
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  June 3, 2018 3:21pm
  - Longknives
    
    It’s like the cover of a Mills and Boon Novel!
    
    Look at her- All Feminine Sensuality!
    As for Peter- That guy just drips Machismo..
    
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    June 3, 2018 3:33pm
    - stigie
      
      Now you’ve just fucked it all up for those Mills and Boon readers Longknives..? //
      
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      June 3, 2018 3:36pm
  - Inandout
    
    Where is the photo of that guy kissing Peter after a Labour election win. Was on TV3 later in the evening but for some reason my recording of the event had stopped.
    
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    June 3, 2018 4:46pm
    - stigie
      
      Dr Ian Scott was the man hugging and kissed the Professor Inandout.
      A very “close friend” so they tell us !~
      
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      June 3, 2018 5:29pm
      - lifesgood
        
        Dr Ian Scott , a well known gay who married a woman who knew he was gay. What a weird F***ed up world we live in.
        
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        June 3, 2018 5:33pm
      - Inandout
        
        This guy?
        https://wellington.govt.nz/your-council/elections/elections-2016/2016-candidate-profiles/ian-scott
        
        The kiss was full on the lips as I remember.
        
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        June 3, 2018 5:40pm
    - RF
      
      Argh….. the tongue. Full deep throat…..
      
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      June 3, 2018 11:24pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  The illusive H2
  
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  June 3, 2018 6:00pm
stigie

Beautiful Nostra just beautiful. This is the same photo that people use to gush over are the same people gushing over the womens mags in a months time !~

Finger down the throat.
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June 3, 2018 3:25pm
Monique Watson

Honest question: “Can you say Cunt in Canada”?
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June 3, 2018 3:36pm
- Don the Kiwi
  
  Depends if you live in the cuntry.
  
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  June 3, 2018 3:39pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Tell everyone in Canada you’re an Australian; they’ll understand.
  
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  June 3, 2018 4:25pm
  - lofty
    
    You are on fire today Maggy. ?
    
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    June 3, 2018 6:33pm
RW Capitalist

To talk about tax.
From a report done about the Australian CGT
after 15 years of implementation.

CAPITAL GAINS TAX:
ANALYSIS OF REFORM OPTIONS
FOR AUSTRALIA
Alan Reynolds
Senior Fellow and Director of
Economic Research, Hudson Institute
(Washington D.C., United States)

Capital Gains Tax Hits Older Tax Payers Hardest
The concept and measurement of “fairness” in taxation has been muddled by static views about
the apparent burden in a single year (without even considering the lock-in effect), rather than over
a lifetime. Young people begin their careers with valuable human capital, which depreciates in old
age and must be replaced by financial capital. The immediate burden of a capital gains tax falls
very heavily on the old. The U.S. capital gains tax accounts for a larger share of the tax burden
on elderly taxpayers earning less than $20,000 than it does for younger taxpayers earning more
than $100,000.
Note:
Australia doesn’t have Kiwi saver or National Super, who derive their income from the capital gain of share sale.
Shares are subject to CGT in Australia.
I mention Aus. because Labour has always said, it is the model they wish to copy.
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June 3, 2018 4:45pm
Captain Mainwaring

Well done team, we did a nice quick job on Hugh this afternoon.
Keep up the good work.
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June 3, 2018 4:56pm
Viking2

The taxpayer picked up the tab for eight chauffeurs used by ex-US president Barack Obama in his three day golf holiday here.

The total bill for his visit to New Zealand earlier this year was more than $30,0000 .

Documents released from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) under the Official Information Act, show a break-down of the Government’s spending on the March visit.

welcoming powhiri came at a cost to the DIA of more than $4,500. Transport-related costs, including Crown cars, exceeded $21,500. Domestic travel, recovered salary costs from communications staff and sundry expenses brought the total bill to $31,960.30.

The DIA’s general manager of ministerial and secretariat services, Morag Ingram, said Obama’s brief stint in the country was “a private visit with government support”.

“The visit was accorded Guest of Government status by the prime minister,” Ingram said.

“The Department’s Visits and Ceremonial Office is responsible for supporting Guests of Government. The DIA role was one of logistical support and co-ordination of parts of the visit programme.”

Obama was brought here by the New Zealand United States Council with the financial support of Air New Zealand, Westpac and Mastercard.

He played two rounds of golf at exclusive courses alongside former PM John Key, then spoke at an invite-only dinner at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre.

Where did the taxpayer get any return from this vanity project?
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June 3, 2018 5:27pm
- sooty
  
  Jacinda got the feelz. Could have gone to one of Labours sex camps for less!
  
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  June 3, 2018 5:36pm
- stephieboy
  
  V2 , in response to your rather futile post a comparative costing in respect of the President’s trip to Saudi and the Gulf states would be a useful exercise.
  
  Get the bean counters out go for it!.
  
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  June 3, 2018 6:24pm
  - Viking2
    
    weird logic.
    Kiwi earners paid for this vanity project for a few to listen to the worst President in the history of the USA. A vanity project of Key’s.
    
    The kiwi taxpayers will not be paying for any visit to other places by any other US President.
    
    See what I did there.
    
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    June 3, 2018 6:57pm
- david
  
  Any visiting ex President would be accorded similar privileges. It’s part of the deal.
  
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  June 3, 2018 7:44pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  “Where did the taxpayer get any return from this vanity project?”
  
  Those who were paying attention got a good idea of what a waste of space he is.
  A net improvement in out country’s collective IQ.
  
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  June 3, 2018 8:09pm
- RF
  
  But but.. The SLG invited him.
  
  It must be ok.
  
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  June 3, 2018 11:21pm
Happychappy

What the fuck is NZ doing by giving air time to the Greens to promote that reducing your red meat intake by one day a week will help climate change. Are we about to be told what we can and can’t eat now by the Coalition of losers or is this a project to soften us up before they try to make it law.
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June 3, 2018 5:31pm
sooty

Paul Little in the Herald, use drones to chase the fleeing drivers. He has to be Angrys brother, because no one else would be as stupid. Is every police car going to have a drone on board, ready to go at a moments notice. How fast are these drones to fly. How do they avoid tall buidings, power wires and trees, it’s dark for half the time and the return to sender, won’t work either. Now you know why he’s Angrys brother!
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June 3, 2018 5:32pm
- lifesgood
  
  Paul Little…ugggh!
  
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  June 3, 2018 5:34pm
- Harkman
  
  What about those US military drones that they use to zap terrorist buildings/vehicles? They might work. ?
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:11pm
Viking2

After attending a pomp-filled military parade, Italy’s new populist leaders are promising to get to work creating jobs and expelling migrants.

“The free ride is over,” new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini warned migrants at a rally in northern Italy on Saturday. “It’s time to pack your bags.”

The pledge of mass deportations to come was a reminder that Italy has a staunchly anti-immigrant, right-wing party in its governing coalition – and that the European Union has a new partner governing its fourth-largest economy and a country on the front lines of migration into Europe.

Earlier, Salvini joined Premier Giuseppe Conte and the rest of the newly sworn-in Cabinet to view the Republic Day parade. Italy’s aeronautic acrobatic squad flew low and loud over downtown Rome trailing smoke in the red, white and green of the Italian flag.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/104431252/new-italian-govt-vows-to-create-jobs-depo

Si, immigrants gone and get to work.

Another fun to watch leadership.
So that’s Denmark, France and now Italy. When will the Germans start to cry?
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June 3, 2018 5:41pm
Happychappy

So we are about to see the Government stop farmers from deciding how big a dairy herd they want by there saying there will be no more increase in the number of dairy stock from what we have now. Is this the first step to dictatorship in NZ.
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June 3, 2018 5:44pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Not only that, we are also going to be told by the government when and how often we are allowed to eat meat.
  This by the unelected James Shaw.
  Puts that business a few years ago about what type of shower heads we should be choosing in the shade as an example of unchecked authoritarianism.
  Will the National Party have anything useful to say?
  I very much doubt it.
  
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  June 3, 2018 6:52pm
  - RF
    
    Shaw is just a lttle turd…
    
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    June 3, 2018 11:15pm
- rangitoto
  
  If the Greens were in charge we would be banned from eating meat.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:12pm
- oldgolfer
  
  I fear it is.
  
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  June 4, 2018 5:09am
Johnboy

Can I just ask a question. If Bodo Lang was a marketing expert why would he be languishing at a nothing job at Auk Uni instead of making a fucking fortune peddling his ability to major corporates? 🙂
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103942366/customer-satisfaction-and-profits-driving-plastic-bag-ban-experts-say
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June 3, 2018 6:00pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  University of Auckland head of marketing
  Victoria University of Wellington head of marketing
  
  You’ve just booted two people off the taxpayer payroll and on the path to “a fucking fortune peddling [their] ability to major corporates” – well done!
  
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  June 3, 2018 6:16pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Thank you Nostra. I do feel that these folk should stop hiding their obvious light under the proverbial bushel. I’m sure the corporate movers and shakers would snap up a chap like Bodo if only he put himself forward a little more! 🙂
    
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    June 3, 2018 6:23pm
- Viking2
  
  Victoria University of Wellington head of marketing Val Hooper said customer satisfaction was important to companies.
  
  Was discussing this today.
  Here is one of many customers who is pissed off by the action.
  I reuse all the bags we get often refilling them for a customer with stuff.
  
  I have to wonder why you would want to piss off your customers.
  
  And that what this is, based on all the bullshit from a few. As usual.
  
  Soon the bakeries will have to go back to wax paper wrapping for your bread or even before that hand wrapping with sheets of brown paper. Having wrapped thousands of loaves of bread that way I reckon that will be uneconomic and cause more problems that a good plastic bag.
  
  Pissed off customer.
  
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  June 3, 2018 7:06pm
- Harkman
  
  Sort of like Robo, if he had any financial ability, somebody in finance would have given him a job. ?
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:31pm
cha

This afterlife business is tough.

Billy Graham, who has died at the age of 99, was philosophical today after finally getting to meet the person he had devoting his life to promoting.

“It’s true what they say – never meet your idols.”

Asked what exactly about Jesus had disappointed him, Graham said it was hard to pinpoint, other than a general sense of being let down.

“He’s a lot shorter than I imagined.”

Graham emphasized he wasn’t trying to portray Jesus in a bad light – it’s probably just that his expectations as a superfan were always going to be too high.

“He told me that whole Second Coming thing was more about showmanship than something he really believes in.”

The late Pastor says he’s sure it will pass, but he does feel like something has been lost.

“I guess I never really considered that he’s basically a deity trying to get by just like the rest of us at the end of the day.”

For his part, Jesus was surprised to learn Graham was one of his most enthusiastic followers.

“He certainly didn’t act like one during his time on Earth. I’m confused.”

http://www.breakingburgh.com/billy-graham-downbeat-first-encounter-jesus-never-meet-idols/
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June 3, 2018 6:10pm
- nasska
  
  At least being disappointed after meeting Jesus won’t be a problem I have to worry about cha.
  
  Satan: Hey Nasska! You sold your soul to me last week and…….
  
  Me: No returns!
  
  Satan: Yeah. It’s just that it’s a lot more twisted than I thought it would…..
  
  Me: No returns!
  
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  June 3, 2018 6:24pm
Fletch

Get this – greenie and climate change minister James Shaw wants us all to eat one less meal with meat a week to reduce our carbon footprint.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/meat-consumers-could-have-immediate-impact-climate-change-reducing-intake-one-meal-week-shaw

My response – oh, do F*ck off!!
Bloody liberals.

[edit] sorry, didn’t see post above on same subject.
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June 3, 2018 6:20pm
- Johnboy
  
  Fuck you cunt! I’m going to have charcoal fried with cauliflower for dinner tomorrow!! 🙂 🙂
  
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  June 3, 2018 6:25pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Johnboy, your first three words captures the essence of the mentality of the alt-right hyena pack on KB.
    
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    June 3, 2018 6:28pm
    - nasska
      
      Under a bridge, harassing goats…
      
      That’s how he trolls. 🙂
      
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      June 3, 2018 6:31pm
      - stephieboy
        
        nasska, as I stated the” first three words “ essential “ and most favoured for the alt-right hyena pack lexicon,
        
        http://www.krugerpark.co.za/Kruger_National_Park_Wildlife-travel/kruger-park-wildlife-hyenas.html
        
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        June 3, 2018 6:34pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Have you ever considered why you struggle to gain traction here steph? 🙂
        
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        June 3, 2018 6:39pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Your right stephie. I do apologise! 🙂
      I’ll eat some coal instead of charcoal with my cauliflower tomorrow as it should sequester a tad more carbon. 🙂
      
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      June 3, 2018 6:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Some meatless ideas, if you can stomach these offerings:
        https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/05/worst-vegetarian-foods_n_5652147.html
        
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        June 3, 2018 6:52pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”Some meatless ideas”…..
        
        The scary thing is that we share this world with people who would consider crap like that to be food!
        
        Fortunately 99% of them are homosexual & don’t pass on the affliction. 🙂
        
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        June 3, 2018 6:58pm
      - Johnboy
        
        If you offered to cook them for me Maggy I’d be prepared to keep the meat under cover for the night! 🙂
        
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        June 3, 2018 6:59pm
      - Johnboy
        
        And the other 1% are named Stephie! 🙂
        
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        June 3, 2018 7:01pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Johnboy
        
        My days of cooking for men are coming to a close.
        After 54 years of doing so, I have resolved to never provide another meal to any sad bugga who can’t fend for himself.
        
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        June 3, 2018 7:57pm
- cha
  
  Yeah, you go right ahead Fletch and spite the bloody liberals, and if it means shortening your odds of being afflicted with colorectal disease, all the better.
  
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  June 3, 2018 6:35pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Shaw’s just trying to change our eating habits so we don’t toss out the WAG’s once beef price’s get totally out of range of their voting base due to their Mycoplasma Bovis policy! 🙂
    
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    June 3, 2018 6:44pm
  - nasska
    
    There’s plenty of room for all of God’s creations……right next to the mashed spuds! 🙂
    
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    June 3, 2018 6:59pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Still once the price of mince gets to $50/k nasska the peasantry can always eat Oysters old chap! 🙂
      
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      June 3, 2018 7:05pm
- oldgolfer
  
  I heard what the pasty Shaw said and went straight to the freezer and emerged with a large roast of beef.
  Fuck you, Shaw.
  This might be, just might be, the tipping point for the public, with O’Connor intimating that there are too many cows – well, they haven’t killed them all yet – Shaw telling us what to eat and moves to take farming away from “sensitive” areas, they being the ones the panty-waists like to point out to the kids in the back of the beamer as they head to Queenstown for week of skiing.
  What a shower of shit.
  
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  June 4, 2018 5:17am
Viking2

Lost in translation

After living in Shanghai for 50 years a Chinese man decides to move to Australia.

He buys a small piece of land near Mt Isa.

A few days after moving in, the friendly Aussie Neighbour decides to go across and welcome the new guy to the Region.

He goes next door, but on his way up the driveway, he sees the Chinese Man running around his front yard chasing about 10 Hens.

Not wanting to interrupt any Chinese custom, he decides to put the welcome on hold for the Day.

The next day, he decides to try again, but just as he is about to knock on the front Door, he looks through the Window and sees the Chinese Man Urinate into a Glass and then drink it.

Not wanting to interrupt another Chinese custom, he decides to put the welcome on hold for yet another Day.

A Day later he decides to give it one last go, but on his way next Door, he sees the Chinese man leading a Bull down the Driveway, he pauses, and then put an Ear next to the Bull’s Bum.

The Aussie bloke can’t handle this, so he goes up to the Chinese man and says, ‘Jeez Mate, what the hell is it with your Chinese customs?

I come over to welcome you to the Neighbourhood, and see you running around the Yard after Hens.

The next Day you are pissing in a Glass and drinking it, and then today you have your head so close to that Bull’s Arse, it could just about shit on you.’

The Chinese man is very taken back and says, ‘ Sorry sir, you no understand. These no Chinese customs I doing, these Australian Customs.”

What do you mean mate’ says the Aussie, ‘Those aren’t Australian customs.

‘Yes they are,’ replied the Chinese man, ‘travel agent man say to become true-blue Australian, I must learn chase chicks, drink piss, and listen to bull shit.’
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June 3, 2018 7:47pm
nasska

In the jungle there lived a gorilla and a rhino. The gorilla and the rhino had been best mates for over 5 years. They went to the watering hole together and stuff.

The next year winter had finished and spring had sprung, and the gorilla was feeling a little randy. After about a month he hadn’t managed to pull and he was feeling more randy. After another month he still hadn’t so he was feeling even more randy.

One day he was walking through the jungle and there ahead of him was the rhino bent over drinking from the lake. This was too much for the gorilla who saw the rhino’s arse right there in front of him swaying gently from side to as he drank. The gorilla couldn’t contain himself any more and ran straight at the rhino and buggered him senseless for a good half-hour……all the time the rhino was screaming, “get off me, I’m going to kill you, you bastard!” but he couldn’t do anything because the gorilla was holding on too tight.

Eventually the gorilla finished and climbed off. “Right, now I’m going to kill you, you bastard!” the rhino shouted and started running after the gorilla. The gorilla was yelling, “We’ve been best mates for 5 years, we shouldn’t let a little thing like this come between us!” but the rhino wouldn’t have any of it and he was slowly catching up.

The gorilla ran into a camp where an explorer was sat in a chair reading the newspaper. He ran off to the north but he couldn’t get past the cliffs, so he ran back to the camp. He ran east but he couldn’t get past the river, so he ran back to the camp. He ran west but he couldn’t get through the undergrowth, so he ran back to the camp. Then he wrung the explorer’s neck, grabbed his clothes and newspaper, threw the explorer over the trees, sat down, and started to read.

The rhino ran into the camp. He ran off to the north, but couldn’t find the gorilla so he ran back into the camp. He ran off to the east, but couldn’t find the gorilla so he ran back into the camp. He ran off to the west, but couldn’t find the gorilla so he ran back into the camp.

“Excuse me,” he said, “but have you seen a gorilla around?”

The gorilla, still reading to hide his face asked, “What, the one that buggered a rhino by the watering hole down there?”

“Oh God! Don’t tell me it’s in the papers already.”
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Hugh Pavletich

UNITED KINGDOM: Priti Patel: Conservatives no longer the party of meritocracy and have become lazy in the battle of ideas … UK Telegraph
… behind paywall …

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/06/02/priti-patel-conservatives-no-longer-party-meritocracy-have-become/

Theresa May’s Conservatives are abandoning their position as the party of meritocracy, Priti Patel has warned.

The former cabinet minister states that while Margaret Thatcher was “in tune with the hopes and aspirations of the British public”, there is scant evidence of “meritocracy” or “political and economic freedom” in the “DNA” of the party today.

The Conservatives had become “very, very lazy” in the battle of ideas against Labour, she claims. … read more via hyperlink above …

Priti Patel: The Conservative party is retreating from the battle of ideas | PoliticsHome.com

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/conservative-party/house/95635/priti-patel-conservative-party-retreating

Priti Patel – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priti_Patel

… Earlier important article …The UK Telegraphs Allister Heath …

The real ticking time bomb for the Tories is home ownership – Telegraph
… ask the trashed Kiwi Tories …
GONE GONE GOING section
http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11917816/The-real-ticking-time-bomb-for-the-Tories-is-home-ownership.html

… extract …

… Remarkably, 354,700 new homes were built in France last year, compared with 140,880 across the UK, a pathetically inadequate number barely half of that required. The French were actually bitterly disappointed with their own performance: their recent average has been around 400,000 homes a year. … read more via hyperlink above …
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  Captain Mainwaring!!!!!!
  
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    OK Nasska, I’m here, just going through the 3 reports process.
    Please join me.
    
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    June 3, 2018 8:29pm
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      Used all my reports, now it’s your turn.
      
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        Very slow reaction times in the National Party Rest Home !
        
        Some more material …
        
        NEW ZEALAND: LATEST DUMB HOUSING (FINANCIAL FUEL) IDEA (LIKELY MIS- SPOKEN … WATCH TAIL END ‘THE NATION’ INTERVIEW) : NEW RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR ADRIAN ORR …
        
        Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/weekend-reading-2-3-june-2018/#comment-3116345
        
        … NEW ZEALAND: LATEST DUMB HOUSING (FINANCIAL FUEL) IDEA (LIKELY MIS- SPOKEN … WATCH TAIL END ‘THE NATION’ INTERVIEW) : NEW RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR ADRIAN ORR …
        
        … IS ADRIAN ORR OUT OF HIS DEPTEH ? …
        
        Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr says if the aim is to get more people into houses, it makes sense restrictions don’t apply to KiwiBuild | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94068/reserve-bank-governor-adrian-orr-says-if-aim-get-more-people-houses-it-makes-sense
        
        Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr thinks KiwiBuild homes should be exempt from loan-to-value ratio (LVR) restrictions.
        
        Speaking to The Nation on Saturday, Orr said this makes sense as the policy is aiming to get people with lower incomes and families into homes. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        … Roger Witherspoon comments on thread above …
        
        How do you make the unaffordable affordable? By making credit freely available to sub prime borrowers. Or am I missing something here?
        
        Surely all these well intentioned schemes just inflate the price of housing? Like National’s laughable first home buyer subsidy, effectively adding $50,000 or more to the price of all entry level housing. If you give someone an extra 5% towards their deposit then they can borrow an extra $50,000 at a 10% deposit rate. So they can bid $50,000 more for a house.
        
        All these bright, well intentioned bods are all from the same intelligentsia caste that created the house price problem in the first place, not to mention the leaky home fiasco. When will they actually identify the real causes of the house price bubble and stop believing in comfortable platitudes?
        
        The Texans make us look really dumb:
        
        https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Gainesville-TX/pmf,pf_pt/house_type/87245387_zpid/45382_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/33.768017,-96.960869,33.524223,-97.329941_rect/11_zm/
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        … New Zealand Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr interview on Newshub The Nation …
        
        Reserve Bank Governor ‘scared’ by level of mortgage debt in NZ | Newshub
        
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2018/06/reserve-bank-governor-scared-by-level-of-mortgage-debt-in-nz.html
        
        … Has Adrian Orr learnt anything from the Irish 2007 experience ? … access Central Bank Of Ireland research via …
        
        Central Bank Of Ireland – Mortgage Measures
        
        https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/links-24-april-2018/#comment-3092390
        
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        Truth is … the old Captain is exhausted,
        
        A tapped out old Tory.
        
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“China now has the toughest emissions standards in the world,” said an official of Japan’s Toppan Printing. “We have introduced environmental measures, but the regulations have been tightening faster than expected.”

The company was fined 2.35 million yuan ($368,000) in March 2017 for violating China’s air pollution standards at its Shanghai wrapping film plant, which was ordered to partially suspend operations. It has since spent several million dollars to introduce a new emissions treatment system and other upgrades, resuming full operations in April this year.

Toppan is not the only major player to find itself in hot water in China. Plants or affiliated companies of Toyota Motor, Asahi Kasei, Daikin Industries and Mitsui Chemicals have been fined or ordered to suspend operations. German auto parts maker Schaeffler, which does business with the Chinese joint ventures of automakers like GM and Volkswagen, faced a

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Trends/China-s-pollution-controls-catch-foreign-companies-flat-footed
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ANZ’s Business Confidence data shows firms continue to remain pessimistic about the year ahead | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/94035/anz%E2%80%99s-business-confidence-data-shows-firms-continue-remain-pessimistic-about-year-ahead

The Prime Minister’s “elephant in the room” has just got a bit bigger, with business confidence figures showing firms continue to remain pessimistic about the year ahead.

But ANZ’s chief economists Sharon Zollner says the reasons for the drop are not entirely the fault of the Government.

ANZ’s Business Confidence data shows a net 27% of businesses are pessimistic about the year ahead, down 4 points from April.

Firms’ views of their own activity, which has the stronger correlation with GDP growth, dipped from +18 to +14 points – the lowest reading since November.

Zollner says the survey shows there are a lot of tailwinds and headwinds in the economy right now – “but the headwinds are prevailing a little more.”

She says the construction sector is “no question” the area where businesses are the most pessimistic.

“[We’re hearing] anecdotes about cost overruns and project delays, about very, very thin and accidental negative margins and well-publicised losses.”

She says the retail sector is also downbeat.
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Analysis of new mortgage lending shows that the slump in Auckland home sales has affected all types of buyers from people moving up the property ladder to investors and first home buyers | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94010/analysis-new-mortgage-lending-shows-slump-auckland-home-sales-has-affected-all-types

… extracts …

… According to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand figures, Auckland property sales peaked in their current cycle in the 12 months to March 2016, when 30,631 homes were sold.

That number has steadily declined and in the 12 months to March this year had slumped to 21,628, a decline of 29.4%.

However in the rest of the country excluding Auckland, the number of homes sold declined by just 12.7% over the same period.

So the slump in sales is mainly an Auckland problem. …

…That suggests affordability issues in Auckland have probably been weighing on the minds of first home buyers and people considering moving up the property ladder for some time, while investors may have been a bit more gung ho on price, at least up until late 2016. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Why the COL is so batshit crazy.

TOKYO — Liquefied natural gas plant investment in the U.S. is making a comeback. Resources exploration companies have until recently held off on spending, ever since oil prices collapsed starting in 2014.

But things are looking up. U.S. LNG producer Cheniere Energy has decided to construct a new plant in that country, the first such project in two years. Rising LNG imports to China are providing a tailwind for plant construction companies, which have been under pressure to land new orders.

On May 22, Cheniere announced that, in addition to two LNG plants under construction in Texas, it would expand the project by building a third plant. Planning, procurement and construction will be handled by U.S. engineering company Bechtel. The plant is slated to come online in 2021, with annual production capacity of 4.5 million tons. It is the first new LNG project construction in the U.S. in about two years, since Japan’s IHI issued construction orders for its facility in the state of Georgia in 2016.

All of this is happening against the background of rising exports to China. In February, Cheniere entered into a 25-year, long-term sales contract with China National Petroleum. With the prospect of a new LNG customer prompting fresh capital expenditure, the plan is for an annual 1.2 million tons of LNG to be exported from the newly expanded plant.

The Chinese government has launched a policy to switch from coal to natural gas in electricity production facilities and factories. In 2017, it became the world’s second-biggest importer of LNG, overtaking South Korea. Concerns are rising over a potential undersupply in 2022 as demand surges from emerging economies, triggering a strengthening of LNG plant investment.

more:https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Trends/Surging-China-demand-gives-boost-to-LNG-investment-in-US

In April, Dutch-British group Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi Corp. began issuing preliminary construction orders for their planned LNG project in British Columbia, Canada, in which JGC’s share is about 600 billion yen. They are awaiting a final investment decision within the year.

Meanwhile we stopped looking.
Stupid is as stupid did.
That’s our future wealth gone. back to milk lambs and honey.

But look at Trump go.
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June 3, 2018 8:46pm
Nostradamus

Captain Mainwaring – Hugh’s adult diapers are leaking! So far at 8.16 pm, 8.39 pm, 8.45 pm and 8.58 pm. (Edit: three out of four leakages have been cleaned up – just the wet patch at 8.45 pm remains.)
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June 3, 2018 9:28pm
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  Thought i’d better help out tonight to try and clean the mess up !~
  
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  Gone now, I just fixed him.
  
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Pilot praised after making emergency landing on California street

A pilot is being praised for setting down a small plane on a Southern California street while avoiding power lines and traffic. … Video filmed from a car on the street shows the plane gliding over moving traffic to touch down in the middle of a wide road, near a set of traffic lights.

Preliminary police reports indicate that the pilot’s name was Dennis Horne. Now that name rings a bell!
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  Sure it wasn’t Denise? The news said the pilot was a woman.
  
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  June 3, 2018 9:48pm
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    From the article:
    
    I almost just got hit by a plane, pulling out of my gym,” a woman can be heard in the footage.
    
    Dennis almost hit a woman!
    
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    June 3, 2018 9:57pm
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ok Nasska

A man’s car broke down in a remote township, and he asked a few people where he could get help, and each respondent told him “Go and see cocksucker George, the mechanic.”
So he went to the mechanic who told him it was the water-pump and he could fix it in a couple of hours.
While waiting in a local cafe, a number of people told him that Cock-sucker George was a great mechanic, and he’d fix it in no time.
The man returned to the garage, and the car was running like new. Greatly pleased, the man paid the mechanic. As he got into the car to leave, the land said: :Do you mind if I ask you a question?”
George looked at him and said. You want to know about my nickname don’t you?”
The mechanic said: come out into the yard for a minute. He pointed to the Library. “See that? raised the money for that library, and it raised literacy levels in this town overnight. I did walk over the mountain range, and got loads of sponsors. You see the orphanage? I had that fully refurbished and paid for it all myself so the waifs and strays of the town could be looked after. That maternity hospital, same deal, I organised a march on Parliament and we got the beggars to cough up. I was responsible for setting up a safe house for battered wives, I organised a new children’s ward and am a leading figure in the volunteer fire-fighting service. About twenty years ago I went into the local nunnery while it was on fire, and managed to rescue and return to safety every on inside. All in all, without being a braggart about it, I can safely say that practically every citizen of this town, in some way or other, has had the benefit of my selfless devotion to this community over nigh on fifty years now ….”
He looked back at the man.

“…. but you suck one cock….”
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Manolo

The US economy is going strong:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/may-jobs-numbers-are-bad-news-for-democrats.html

Friday’s monthly employment report was great news for anyone looking for a job in America – unless you happen to be a Democrat running for Congress.

Among the many contentious topics swirling around this year’s campaign, none is more important than the perennial issue of employment. Voters who are employed are historically more likely to favor incumbents than those who are out of work.

That poses a major challenge for Democrats in 435 House districts and 35 Senate races who are looking to unseat Republican majorities in both chambers.
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Monique Watson

Love that one Lee. Great one to wake too. The husband cracked a huge grin.
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June 4, 2018 6:18am
Monique Watson

And in the early mornings news, a good honest Bloke and his Blokess have been made Sir Bill and Lady Mary 🙂 They’ve always looked a lovely couple. Good on them.
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June 4, 2018 6:20am
Monique Watson

And the Topp twins! 🙂 Loved them when I was a kid and used to watch them with my Nana.
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Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: Mortgage rejections soar to 40% of applications as (Loan to Income) LTI capped – MacroBusiness

Post at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/mortgage-rejections-soar-to-40-of-applications-as-lti-capped/#comment-3116671

Mortgage rejections soar to 40% of applications as (Loan to Income) LTI capped – MacroBusiness

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/mortgage-rejections-soar-to-40-of-applications-as-lti-capped/

Cross-posted from Martin North:

The root cause of the [house price] falls is simple; credit is harder to get. Our surveys show that up to 40% of applications for mortgages are now being turned down, compared with just 5% a year ago, as lenders apply more forensic analysis of applications received. For example, CBA is now looking at applications with a loan to income of 4.5 times and above.

And I am getting more reports of households who are finding their available borrowing power is as much as 35% down on a year ago. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
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A Deeper Dive Into Loan To Income Ratios … Martin North … DFA / Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xudY2Z5lY&t=1s

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Mortgage Measures | Central Bank of Ireland
… also … access background research …

https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures
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Sydney auction clearance rate plunges into 40s – MacroBusiness
… behind paywall …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/sydney-auction-clearance-rate-plunges-40s/
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“Bank of Mum & Dad,” Huge Prop under UK Housing Bubble, is Running Out of Liquidity … Don Quijones … Wolf Street
h/t GF

https://wolfstreet.com/2018/05/31/bank-of-mum-dad-huge-prop-under-uk-housing-bubble-is-running-out-of-liquidity/

Bank of mum and dad could be NZ’s sixth largest first-home mortgage lender | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/103712810/bank-of-mum-and-dad-could-be-nzs-sixth-largest-firsthome-mortgage-lender
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NEW ZEALAND: LATEST DUMB HOUSING (FINANCIAL FUEL) IDEA (LIKELY MIS- SPOKEN … WATCH TAIL END ‘THE NATION’ INTERVIEW) : NEW RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR ADRIAN ORR …

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/weekend-reading-2-3-june-2018/#comment-3116345

… NEW ZEALAND: LATEST DUMB HOUSING (FINANCIAL FUEL) IDEA (LIKELY MIS- SPOKEN … WATCH TAIL END ‘THE NATION’ INTERVIEW) : NEW RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR ADRIAN ORR …

… IS ADRIAN ORR OUT OF HIS DEPTH ? …

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr says if the aim is to get more people into houses, it makes sense restrictions don’t apply to KiwiBuild | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94068/reserve-bank-governor-adrian-orr-says-if-aim-get-more-people-houses-it-makes-sense

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr thinks KiwiBuild homes should be exempt from loan-to-value ratio (LVR) restrictions.

Speaking to The Nation on Saturday, Orr said this makes sense as the policy is aiming to get people with lower incomes and families into homes. … read more via hyperlink above …

… Roger Witherspoon comments on thread above …

How do you make the unaffordable affordable? By making credit freely available to sub prime borrowers. Or am I missing something here?

Surely all these well intentioned schemes just inflate the price of housing? Like National’s laughable first home buyer subsidy, effectively adding $50,000 or more to the price of all entry level housing. If you give someone an extra 5% towards their deposit then they can borrow an extra $50,000 at a 10% deposit rate. So they can bid $50,000 more for a house.

All these bright, well intentioned bods are all from the same intelligentsia caste that created the house price problem in the first place, not to mention the leaky home fiasco. When will they actually identify the real causes of the house price bubble and stop believing in comfortable platitudes?

The Texans make us look really dumb:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Gainesville-TX/pmf,pf_pt/house_type/87245387_zpid/45382_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/33.768017,-96.960869,33.524223,-97.329941_rect/11_zm/
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… New Zealand Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr interview on Newshub The Nation …

Reserve Bank Governor ‘scared’ by level of mortgage debt in NZ | Newshub

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2018/06/reserve-bank-governor-scared-by-level-of-mortgage-debt-in-nz.html

… Has Adrian Orr learnt anything from the Irish 2007 experience ? … access Central Bank Of Ireland research via …

Central Bank Of Ireland – Mortgage Measures

https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/links-24-april-2018/#comment-3092390
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