General Debate 3 July 2018

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KiWombat

I always used to think that we could achieve gender equality when we were able to elect to public office women who were as incompetent as some of the men already there.

Once again New Zealand has shown the world its global influence by being first to reach this zenith – I can die a happy man !
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July 3, 2018 8:00am
- Disillusioned_Voter
  
  The longer this goes on, the more I believe Yes, Minister is a documentary.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:05am
  - KevOB
    
    I know it is. More concerning is Ministers playing off different Departmental advisors. Ideological arrogance is not govt. Being “right” without knowledge is dangerous.
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:19am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    The same as “gliding on” was a documentary.
    I actually knew people who behaved like that.
    Use the Glide time system like this
    Monday start at 8am work till 6pm….9 hrs
    Tuesday start at 8am work till 6pm….9 hrs
    Wednesday start at 8am work till 6pm….9 hrs
    Thursday start at 8am work till 4-30pm… 71/2hrs
    sign in for
    Friday start at 10am work till 2pm….3 hrs
    But could never get hold of anyone on Friday
    Rules
    Must be there between 10am and 2pm
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:07am
    - Nermal
      
      I remember the opening scene – before anyone said a word the audience cracked up because we all recognised the office
      
      Yes, Ministry of Works
      
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      July 3, 2018 3:29pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  Seems to be one thing the fairer sex excels at and even surpasses their male counterparts – with the CoL being especially gifted.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:14am
waikatogirl

Update on TV3 Duncan Garner banning Winston Peters, acting PM, from the weekly Tuesday 6.20am morning slot on their breakfast programme:
Winston was significantly late for the interview slot on his first week. The 2nd week he did not bother to show again so Duncan banned Winston Peters, saying the programme had a schedule and if Winston could not make the effort to arrive on time, while Cindy had got herself there every week, including at 39 weeks pregnant, he would find someone else to fill the weekly slot.

Update: The PM’s office rode to Winston’s defence saying Winston is a good acting PM, that it was not his fault and should be given another chance. Winston on being asked by Duncan to return has turned down the offer to be interviewed on TV3 weekly morning slot saying “I have better things to do, such as an interview with Australian media at 4.50am.”
Winston bloody Peters just can’t help being an Arrogant Arse Hat. ?
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July 3, 2018 8:02am
- hullkiwi
  
  Don’t worry at rate he is going Peters will ban himself from RNZ Morning Report. He provided good comedy, squirrels galore & tried last week’s trick. Blaming Espiner for trapping the witless Davis over which report he had or hadn’t read.
  
  Expect Curran bun to start having special meetings with John Campbell to get the message put right.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:27am
- lifesgood
  
  I’m disgusted that Garner asked him back.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:34am
- Duxton
  
  When would a 4.50am interview broadcast in Australia? 2.50am?
  
  Or 2.20am in Adelaide?
  
  Or 12.50am in Perth?
  
  Why haven’t the media called him on such an obvious lie?
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:39am
  - ztev
    
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    “”He’s on Sky News Australia. It’s about 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning there, so it’ll be a pre-record that they play later in the day. ”
    
    Still too early for you though
    All these sorts of shows do pre records for later
    use as their presenters and producers are working hours earlier
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/whats-on/entertainment/105163543/The-AM-Show-Winstons-naughty-ban-revoked-but-hes-a-no-show
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:23am
    - Duxton
      
      Sorry ztev, you are lying as well.
      
      I don’t believe for a moment that SKY News Aust would expect a NZ PM to make themselves available for a 4.50am interview, which they will then replay later.
      
      And I don’t believe that any NZ PM would be so stupid as to agree to such an arrangement. Unless, that is, they are a stupid, narcissistic schoolgirl who just loves the limelight, in which case I guess it is entirely possible.
      
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      July 3, 2018 12:43pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But Duxton could he be intending to join the brain drain to Australia too? Bearing in mind the way they pay higher rates is he lining up for an advisory roll to instruct MPs on handling questions?
    
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    July 3, 2018 2:53pm
- gorse
  
  I am confident the voting New Zealand public will ban Peters from Parliament in 2020.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:43am
  - thedavincimode
    
    Oh I don’t know about that. As long as there are grey greedies like chuck bird about who think the sun rises and sets in peters’ arse, that he’s got a great bunch of policies, that porno jones has great leadership potential and who also want to teach National a lesson, there’s always a chance of the old shyster getting back in on the back of his triennial slush campaign.
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:03am
  - Paulus
    
    Not if current GreyPower expressed views have their way – he is still their hero in keeping National honest.
    
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    July 3, 2018 1:21pm
- ztev
  
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  The program ‘had a schedule’ ?, you clearly have never seen it.
  Clearly thats the story around why Garners 3rd wife left him. It was ‘the schedule’ that caused it.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11983311
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:58am
  - dime
    
    lol wtf? youre a weird lil fella aint ya
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:16am
    - igm
      
      Ztrev will turn on his own to push his vile agenda.
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:48am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Jeez, ztev, is there anyone else’s marriage/personal life you need to rubbish here on GD?
    
    Do you keep files on everyone’s peccadilloes?
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:47am
    - sooty
      
      What about Labours sex deviate from camp?
      
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      July 3, 2018 12:27pm
      - Paulus
        
        Labour sex pervert is before the Court this Thursday in Auckland – expect he will plead not guilty so whilst remaining sub judice with name suppression the trial can be delayed until next year, and Cindy will see that legislation is changed retrospectively by then.
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:24pm
  - stephen2d
    
    How is silent T doing with his new mrs?
    
    What about Parker? Any more disabled friends he can help by “servicing” their wives?
    
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    July 3, 2018 1:06pm
- Harkman
  
  After yesterday’s press briefing, the dwarf scumbag walked off smirking with Jon Johansson, now that is a guy that has truly shot any semblance of credibility he had.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:59am
  - double d
    
    the beautiful thing is Jon Johansen will be feleing so relevant and powerful for the moment ….. despite working for Peters who is truely the vilest, most self centred polly in NZ history.
    
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    July 4, 2018 4:38am
artemisia

Crybaby of the month – mum Kelly Phillips and partner can afford to run two utes but she can’t manage to pay less than $10 a week for parking in Christchurch.

We should all be so lucky.

Mind you mum is a law student citing 3 separate Acts to support her case that it is ‘revenue gathering, pure and simple’. So? I rest my case.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/02-07-2018/2-5-million-in-two-years-why-is-my-university-taxing-students-for-parking/
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July 3, 2018 8:02am
- waikatogirl
  
  Poor, poor students! This morning they are reporting there are 10 graduated students living overseas who still have not paid back their student loans of over $300,000 each, totalling $4m odd. Apparently, it is unfair that they cannot return to NZ without facing repercussions for their lack of intent to repay money THEY chose to borrow from the taxpayer for their education.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:12am
  - Paulus
    
    They will bet let off repaying it if they return and vote Labour !
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:38am
    - Piniwi
      
      But Paulus we can well imagine this debt being wiped as the next big electoral student bribe as a sort of sequel of Once Were Warriors being they Once Were Students. While they have signalled they are going to bust gut to chasing any delinquent tax payers they are ignoring the bigger fund pools. Outstanding student loans and unpaid parental contributions. Thus opening the door with their new fees free policy along with no sanctions on beneficiaries coming up they will treat it like whiteboard calculation. Wipe it all down as they etch it in another millstone for the taxpayers. We know how they struggle with missing millions and new taxes on fuel, increased RUC and road tolls tick up faster then the tree count seen here. Instant money there for the taking.
      
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      July 3, 2018 3:08pm
  - ztev
    
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    Loans wouldnt be $300k. Just that with interest and penalty interest its blown out.
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:00am
    - dime
      
      ztev – if only you were around when i had back my 50k.. on 23k borrowed.
      
      fuck em. they did what i did – went overseas and said kiss my ass. eventually, like me, they will pay
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:41am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Welcome to the real world and real life.
      
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      July 3, 2018 10:13am
    - double d
      
      cry me a fucking river …
      
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      July 4, 2018 4:41am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Government should sell their debt to collectors.
    
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    July 3, 2018 4:33pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  The spinoff is just mindless leftwing drivel and not worth your time. I see it popping up more and more around the place and it really should come with a warning. Not sure who is funding it.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:18am
- peterwn
  
  If a VUW or Auckland University student can get get University parking at that price, they would think all their Christmases would have come at once.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:23am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Somewhere you’d imagine VicParking is getting a seriously white hot KB comment e mail alert update.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:28am
- cmm
  
  She could of course park off campus and walk 10 minutes, but that might give her some exercise.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:50am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    In a bastardized version of Tsun Tsu
    She would want he classes to come to her
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:15am
artemisia

Lovely tribute from David Seymour to his mum this morning.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12081763
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July 3, 2018 8:05am
ztev

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
remember this false claim

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/05/all_motorists_will_pay_the_auckland_fuel_tax.html

Gibberish spouted by Hamish Rutherford

the truth:
‘Data from fuel-app Gaspy, which tracks petrol station prices, shows Auckland’s prices at the pump are now the third most expensive on average throughout New Zealand.
App co-founder Larry Green said the RFT had brought Auckland prices closer to those seen in some of the more expensive parts of the country. ‘

Aucklands prices raised by the tax, no one elses.
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July 3, 2018 8:08am
- KevOB
  
  Ideology begets ignorance. What’s your excuse?
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:21am
  - KiWombat
    
    Don’t be too hard on him – he’s doing his incompetent best !
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:52am
    - KevOB
      
      I assure you I was being very tolerant.
      
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      July 3, 2018 1:35pm
- VicParking
  
  Give it a chance ztev. It will take them a week to workout the leveling process.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:31am
  - igm
    
    Vic: Ztrev is a fiscally dyslexic left-wing leech whose understanding of commerce is nil.
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:42am
  - Harkman
    
    Prices were up for virtually everything in the economy except phones. The price of oil did this. Whether Stats NZ (the data propaganda arm of the Labour party) shows this to the public is another thing.
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:04am
    - Piniwi
      
      But Harkman there is one thing that will not be so easily concealed about occur even before Auckland has absorbed the new RFT. A jump in fuel prices as the dollar drops even well below the previous 12 months low when the COL was formed. With further pressure as crude has started to rise again the entire country will be looking at a rapid increase that may be as heavy as the RFT was. Then above the Bombay Hills they too will start to feel the pain inflicted by the Fool Factor (unintended consequences) which seem to be the dominant element of the COL policy direction. That should add more inertia to the winter of discontent. The rolling snowball could become an avalanche as they create a domestic crises far and beyond what nature can. Lets do this.
      
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      July 3, 2018 3:33pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Did you know ztev, that the fuel tax only applies to NEW deliveries of fuel from 1st July? So many gas stations won’t yet be pumping taxed petrol, although you can guarantee that some will have hiked their prices nonetheless.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:40am
  - rangitoto
    
    A local Gull near me actually had a lower price on Monday than last Friday. So it’s difficult to tell with the games they play. In any case, they are not stupid and can easily cover up moving the tax to other regions by changing price over a period of time and blame the tanking dollar and crude price movements,
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:58am
brett68

Kiwi on the way to .65
https://www.dailyfx.com/nzd-usd

Expect more pain at the pump.
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July 3, 2018 8:09am
- Lance
  
  And now people will blame Labour for all fuel price rises. The butt-hurt will be significant.
  You can see the ztev troll out quickly this morning in a shallow and pathetic attempt to ‘head it off at the pass’
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:13am
  - stephen2d
    
    It will be “peak oil” and perfect time to “shut the entire fossil fuel industry” and “invest” (read: subsidise) into solar! What could possibly go wrong?
    
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    July 3, 2018 1:08pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The price of crude has also risen significantly recently. I expect 91 to be $2.60 a liter by the time I get back to Auckland.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:34am
  - igm
    
    Saudi Arabia have considerably increased output so we should see a small flow-on to our benefit.
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:44am
    - rangitoto
      
      Thanks to Mr Trump
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:27am
      - igm
        
        Watch out, you may get sent to the naughty corner.
        
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        July 3, 2018 12:07pm
  - Paulus
    
    And 98 which I have to use in a small engined car 1400 cc) will be 2.80 a litre.
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:45am
    - dubya
      
      Do you use the Gaspy app? My car also only takes 98, and most stations won’t advertise the premium price on the sign, just 91 and diesel. Gaspy is great, lets you find the cheapest type of petrol within a search area.
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:54am
  - gorse
    
    I expect it to be over $4 by the time I get back to Auckland. I am not planning on going back up there for well over a year, hopefully never.
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:46am
- Harkman
  
  Yes our standard of living in USD is down 8% since election day and what’s the bet they will soon propose taxes on the “rich” which in other western countries is considered working class or poor.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:14am
  - KiWombat
    
    Great for those of us who have some currency offshore – it’s hard to make a profit here, but we can sit on our bums and watch our US$$ return as our dollar slides into the abyss !
    
    Unfortunately price of diesel has risen over 50% already, with no end in sight. Makes it harder to move stuff around !
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:38am
    - dime
      
      reckon i could get away with cashing in my 1.2 mill US i have in forward cover (average about 72 cents)?
      
      take the profit then jack all my prices?
      
      i wish.
      
      it never ceases to amaze me how price sensitive our little, low wage country is.
      
      a dime can dream though
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:44am
      - brett68
        
        Ever tried currency trading?, same sort of leverage as buying a house
        
        If you’ve got the stones, 12k USD will give you 1.2 million to play with.
        
        Big money to be made if you get it right, you could have made around $84000 USD if you’d shorted the NZ Dollar at .74
        
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        July 3, 2018 11:04am
      - dime
        
        yeah ive seen a few dudes lose big doing forex.
        
        the problem is you cant play a long game when geared that high. it only has to go slightly in the wrong direction and your 12k is gone.
        
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        July 3, 2018 11:57am
      - brett68
        
        Yep, that’s the downside 😀
        
        It’s all about money management, you don’t want to put up anymore than 2% of your capital as margin.
        
        So if you had 50k capital, at most you’d leverage 200k with a risk factor of 1k per trade.
        
        Most will only risk 1%
        
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        July 3, 2018 12:19pm
      - stephen2d
        
        I wish I understood how that all works – I’d love to play with virtual money first before I can do it with (someone else’s) real money 🙂
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:13pm
      - brett68
        
        You can it’s called demo trading
        
        Start with that
        https://www.fxcm.com/au/forex-trading-demo/
        
        Then once you’ve actually made money get yourself a mini account
        
        A standard fx lot is 100k a mini lot is 10k
        
        If things go well get yourself a full trading account
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:21pm
      - brett68
        
        You can
        Start here
        
        https://www.fxcm.com/au/forex-trading-demo/
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:23pm
      - brett68
        
        You can
        
        Start here click on the practice account button
        I can’t provide a direct link for some reason wordpress is deciding the link is spam?
        
        https://www.fxcm.com
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:28pm
- Piniwi
  
  Right brett68 you too have been watching and with the fantastic tech age we live in anybody can download the neat little XE app for any platform. Updated every time you open it and instant graphs for any currency being watched. Since taking a breather at NZ$0.69 to the US$1 it seems to be gathering momentum on a slippery path as it passes through NZ$0.67.
  It will be interesting soon to compare the graphed fuel price rises against the graphed borrowing at increased costs as they race upwards. What was the intended toll rate for Transmission Gully? Better double it quick before the sheeple think it is already set.
  
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  July 3, 2018 3:52pm
Monique Watson

The proposed Transmission Gully Toll, to stop people using the most direct safest route. Build a road then ‘levy’ people to use it. Same old Phil Twyford fairy tale:
“Once Upon a Time
Stuff You
The End”.
Watch out for a Capital Gains Levy on the table in the lead up to the next Budget.
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July 3, 2018 8:10am
- MrLovebucket
  
  Not to mention a new “rich prick” income levy of 60% for income earned over $70,000 to go alongside new “no questions” unemployment and baby benefits to top everyone up to $70k a year.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:21am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Well there goes the nurses pay rise.
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:19am
- Inandout
  
  Cindy said she thought of the baby bonus whilst lying on the carpet with a friend, so maybe she is thinking of Transmission Gully whilst feeding Nev.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:24am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    would that be the national tit?
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:20am
    - double d
      
      love your work rich cap.
      
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      July 4, 2018 4:49am
- peterwn
  
  If the toll means that some Wellington Labour MP’s lose their seats (my order of preference – Chris Hipkins, Grant Robertson, Greg O’Connor) then it would be worthwhile tolerating (Rob Muldoon increased Auckland Harbour Bridge tolls to dislodge a National MP he had fallen out with).
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:27am
  - stephen2d
    
    The majority of those in central Wellington who vote Labour and Green would probably never use a car – if they have one. They wouldn’t give a shit, as long as they have access to freshly batch brewed kombucha.
    
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    July 3, 2018 1:15pm
- Piniwi
  
  Right MW but road tolls might be as effective for the Gang Green getting cars off the roads as the Mbovis is for herd reduction. But lets not be rash the fun has just started as Greenpeace seem very willing to help the COL to self destruct. They are pushing for the COL to revise water standard levels to be far more stringent. Not because last time in Government they ignored water quality but because they are now in a position to do their bidding. Thus in their ignorance as with the O&G decision they will bend and then find they will find it difficult to sit as they will have multiplied the task they have created. Ouch feels like another levy (tax) on the horizon.
  
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  July 3, 2018 4:02pm
Southern Raider

Once again news trotting out “all of NZ needs to resolve its horrific child abuse stats”

No we don’t. I love my kids and treat them with care and respect.

If you want to resolve the issues
– stop hiding facts on who the offenders are
– start having real sentences for these thugs

Killing a two year old through drowning should be 30 years in jail
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July 3, 2018 8:12am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Exactly. Nobody needs to resolve my child abuse stats, or yours. It’s not “our” problem. It is the problem of those who do it, those who enable it through an overly generous welfare system, and those whose job it is to protect the kids and prosecute the offenders.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:21am
  - GoVege
    
    WE are ALL to blame because we passively allow violent criminals/ useless excuses for “mothers”/ serial breeders for pokie money and drugs, to have access to vulnerable babies and children.
    If we all started PROTESTING on a regular basis that our taxes are being squandered on totally incompetent and criminal parents, our authorities MIGHT resist the emotional blackmail of various interest groups and start handing out grocery vouchers to these types to get the injection.
    (!!!)
    
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    July 3, 2018 12:09pm
- Gravelroad
  
  But, but, but, it’s not the thugs’ fault that they feel the need to murder a two year old.
  It’s someone else’s fault.
  Wait and see – they will have had a bad childhood.
  Will have been drunk or on drugs at the time.
  The child will have been crying and wouldn’t “shut the f..k up.”
  There are a lot of out of control, needy, immature thugs in our midst – who shouldn’t be having children.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:24am
  - Southern Raider
    
    The news articles went on to say more support is needed for these people to help them with their issues raising kids
    
    FFS he was 32 years old. He’s not a bloody 14 year old who has just become a father
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:05am
  - hullkiwi
    
    GR your on the right path with it’s someone else’s fault – it’s society’s fault. You we must all share the blame.
    That way:
    – nobody takes ownership to resolve the underlying problems of the deadbeats involved;
    – the drunken hob doesn’t get blamed for the harm;
    – we don’t see the abuse being suffered in certain families and parts of the community;
    – we make the job far bigger than any one govt agency or social worker can resolve – without more money and staffing;
    – we can involve any number of useless sociologists, psychologists and criminologists in undertaking endless studies to tell us what is patently wrong; and
    – nobody can point a racist finger at the perpetrators of these crimes.
    
    Meanwhile, we are told we have a problem with our children……
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:44am
- igm
  
  Stop paying ferals to lie in bed all day breeding for payment and this will stop the problem.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:46am
  - suzieq
    
    Yup. Pay for two kids only. Any further kids and the money follows the kid, not the parent(s). Why are we so afraid of saying these things and debating a population policy?
    
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    July 3, 2018 5:06pm
    - double d
      
      i think it is becasue we are afraid of having a population policy debate! (Racist, xenophobe etc)
      
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      July 4, 2018 4:57am
- cmm
  
  Yes, all of NZ does need to resolve its horrific child abuse stats.
  
  All of us need to resolve the issue by identifying where the major problem lies and saying enough is enough.
  
  If we are not prepared to call a spade a spade then we have no interest in resolving the problem.
  
  This, like all crime, is overwhelmingly a “once were warriors” issue.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:56am
  - Paulus
    
    You are not allowed to identify the areas or people who are the most degenerate at child mortality and molestation in this country.
    UN does not allow such a thing.
    
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    July 3, 2018 1:30pm
    - sooty
      
      Now they are complaining about a 17yr old feral locked up in Aus prior to us getting the poor misguided lovely child back.
      
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      July 3, 2018 4:53pm
- cas
  
  Sadly the media reported this am that she lived with her grandmother. That tells you everything.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:43am
- kowtow
  
  It is not a New Zealand problem.
  
  The problem is in Aotearoa . Where ever the whuck that is.
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:00am
- Piniwi
  
  But SR it was bad enough reading of the drowning of a two year old in a river only to later see it develop into a murder charge of “somebody who was known to the child”. That turned what had been a great day into an absolute gut wrenching ending. Two years old! Words fail me.
  
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  July 3, 2018 4:11pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    And there a good potential white parents who can’t adopt because they aren’t whanau
    
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    July 3, 2018 7:04pm
secondcumming

SOME *SOUND* ADVICE ?

I always make a point of tuning into *Kate Hawkesby* on ZB’s Early-Edition

It’s an informative and fast paced hour…..and Kate knows how to engage with her audience. However, it’s always in the final 5 minutes that she lets herself down, every freekin morning!

When it’s time for Mike to come into the studio to discuss what he’s got coming up on Breakfast, *Katie persists in trying to talk over the top of him* – and that really pisses me off.

I mean, two people speaking at once doesn’t make for good radio. It’s at this stage I often find myself switching stations to hear what’s happening on Newshub

Honestly, Mike needs to take his wife aside and give her the message…”When I’m talking, S.T.F.U!”

Even my missus knows better than that. I can tell you now, she would never dare open her gob when I’m speaking.
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July 3, 2018 8:18am
- softail 1450
  
  S C, Watch out you’l have govege on your case with that last statement …..
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:27am
- Happychappy
  
  You must have been growing up in the 1950’s / 60’s where you were taught to been seen and not heard.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:49am
  - starboard
    
    Those were the best days, without doubt.
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:27am
- suzieq
  
  I hope you don’t talk over her, either …
  
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  July 3, 2018 5:08pm
softail 1450

Take away the beautifully kept hair and what’s left?
A short fat bloated nasty ugly big jowled old Maori.
My tv was lucky to survive watching the dwarf lying his arse off again on tv1 this morning.
If that’s what whiskey and ciggies does to a man who’s only 70 i’m glad i don’t do either.
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July 3, 2018 8:25am
- RF
  
  Yep.
  
  He is a shifty eyed little prick…. at the end of the presser he reminds me of a rat scurrying away.
  
  I notice that the poor bloody translator who signs for Peters does not have a clue what he is mumbling about.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:51am
  - sooty
    
    That’s alright, because whinney would not either!
    
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    July 3, 2018 4:57pm
Odakyu-sen

What is the difference between “diversity” and “ethnic replacement”?
Does a country with an established dominant ethnicity, such as Japan, New Zealand, England or France, have the right to decide to maintain that dominance, or is this an outmoded way of thinking in the Age of Globalisation?
In my recent visit to England (am in Tokyo at the moment) I was struck by the “Aucklandization” of London.
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July 3, 2018 8:28am
- VicParking
  
  Japan a country full of elderly Japanese. Diversity personified.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:36am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Japan is very much aware of the issues of its graying and sub-replacement birth rate.
    But at least Japan is still Japan! (Oops! I said it, but I am no longer in England, so I can’t be fined for expressing “offensive” opinions.)
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:47am
    - ztev
      
      hell no they arent.
      The current Japanese government is probably the most right wing in the western world.
      Trump, Orban etc …. they have led the way on that and more
      The future workforce problem is solved by exporting the low value assembly jobs to Asia, even US. While the brain power stuff is kept at home.
      And of course they barely have scratched the surface on women in the workforce
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:08am
      - ztev
        
        https://thediplomat.com/2018/06/why-steve-bannon-admires-japan/
        
        ‘[Bannon] he praised Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, calling him a “Trump before Trump.” Bannon is not the only Western right-winger to admire Japan. Simone di Stefano, leader of Italy’s neofascist Casa Pound, is dreaming of an alliance between Italy, Russia, and Japan. And for Jan Moldenhauer, an ideologue of the xenophobic Alternative for Germany, when it comes to immigration, “Japan is the alternative.”
        
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        July 3, 2018 9:17am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  “Londonization” of Auckland ?
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:39am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Yes to maintaining culture and values. No to maintaining ethnicity.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:51am
- stephieboy
  
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  Odakyu-sen, ever visited Auckland’s “no-go” areas like Mt Roskill?
  
  LOL
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:52am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy , Thats exactly his point you moron,FFS.
    And septics back with his LOL….
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:57am
    - stephieboy
      
      softtail, so you’ve walked around Keith Hay Park in fear and trembling and fulling your pants?
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:03am
      - ztev
        
        Those golf courses in Mt Roskill must be deserted….
        
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        July 3, 2018 9:12am
      - VicParking
        
        How would you know Stephie, Morning, as you spend all you time in the Myers park toilets. ??
        
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        July 3, 2018 9:44am
  - ztev
    
    Wasnt Remuera a recent no- go area for the police helicopter ?
    The wealthy areas didnt want your ‘stinking unitary plan’ changes either
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:11am
- Harkman
  
  Hence the Brexit.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:17am
- Justitia
  
  Yes, I believe we do have the right to maintain our culture and values and to require those who come here to respect them. I am rather tired of immigrant media commentators , often from shithole countries, lecturing New Zealanders on how to live their lives. People are waking up to the fact that “globalization” is a scam where migrant labour is continuously imported to suppress wages and conditions. “Populism”, decried by “liberal” media, is a reaction and a genuine expression of the will of the people to put a stop to this. I greatly admire modern Japan which has achieved so much since WWII – don’t change a thing.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:50am
Paulus

Its only Tuesday but the Wally of the week must run between the real Prime Minister and the ex School Teacher from up North.
I am amazed to see the unreserved support of the SNAFU made by the so called Minister yesterday obfuscated later in the day as if we did not understand when he read the report he denied having read.
What is more surprising is that Peters’s view that we are all fools.
I thought he was a wily long term politician but now it can be seen that he is all fake and bluster.
Well it is day two this week and with Tracey Martin’s led conversation it will be interesting.
And the Labour Sex perp is due in Court Thursday – assume he will plead Not Guilty so the case becomes sub judice until sometime next year unless the law is retrospectively changed and that we will have forgotten it all – those perped will have to wait to give evidence, so that they can be taught to say that it was all consensual anyway.
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July 3, 2018 8:35am
- VicParking
  
  “But its a different report” the Report in November said there would be 14,000 Prision beds required the full Report he only got a day before the interview said 13,999. Big difference
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:39am
softail 1450

Odakyu-sen, 20 years ago Globalisation was a conspiracy theory ,now its the western governments agenda.
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July 3, 2018 8:37am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  In Japan 20 years ago, “internationalisation” was the big buzzword. We didn’t have a clue of what the politicians meant by it, and to be fair, neither did they know what it meant.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:03am
- stephieboy
  
  softtail 1450, a conspiracy theory? You do have an overheated and vivid imagination.
  
  Odakyu-sen , keep Japan racially pure?
  
  (Volksgemeinschaft)
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:05am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy, “overheated” like certain parts of your goats anatomy .
    Just once try to make some sense ,go to night school and learn English FFS.
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:15am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    a conspiracy theory?
    
    Yes, stephieboy.
    why don’t you swat up on a bit of general knowledge
    Try these for starters:
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212567115004748
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2000.tb03520.x
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:34am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    stephieboy,
    While in London I visited the Imperial War Museum. The Holocaust exhibit was well put together. It clearly showed the horrors created by the desire of a modern state to purge a definable minority from its midst.
    My only criticism of the exhibit is that it implies that the desire of a people to maintain their “purity” (ethnicity?) should be discarded. At the end of the exhibit were videos of people speaking of the importance of tolerance and diversity (which are in keeping with current UK policies).
    Obviously it is wrong to liquidate a minority. But it is also wrong to turn a majority into a minority? Or it that the necessary first step?
    The Holocaust exhibit was educational. We must not forget its lesson.
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:42am
    - stephieboy
      
      “Obviously it is wrong to liquidate a minority. But it is also wrong to turn a majority into a minority? Or it that the necessary first step?’
      
      There is no conspiracy to turn the UK or NZ for that matter into an Islamic Caliphate or a North Africa.
      
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      July 3, 2018 10:15am
      - Komata
        
        SB
        
        ‘There is no conspiracy to turn the UK or NZ for that matter into an Islamic Caliphate or a North Africa’
        
        Prove it!!
        
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        July 3, 2018 11:10am
      - DigNap15
        
        We all know there is.
        Stop sticking up for them.
        They are doing it slowly by
        stealth.
        Its in their Koran.
        Islam is more of a law or way of life than a religion
        
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        July 3, 2018 5:00pm
Poppa

It seems suppliers are starting to react to the increased cost of fuel with costs going up

It has started now folks & I am expecting inflation to start ramping up. How long before interest rates start to move?
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July 3, 2018 8:37am
- VicParking
  
  I have noticed the Minimum wage increase (+ living wage idiots have implemented) has started to effect prices all over town. Wont be to long before 375g packages become 750g at the same price. My haircut went up 25%, put down to increases in Rates, Power, rent and min wage.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:43am
  - ztev
    
    Minimum wage was increased every year under national- nothing has changed with that.
    
    See something about national I can agree with . LOL
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:14am
    - softail 1450
      
      trev “see something about national” WTF?
      ztev has been smooging septicboys goat for so long he’s caught the LOL syndrome,a very nasty ailment.
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:20am
      - pentwig
        
        Softtail 1450
        Yep, alt left nutters can only work in groups.
        They don’t have the intelligence to work singularly.
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:31pm
  - KiWombat
    
    Our fuel prices have been too low for too long. Remember 2007-8 when petrol was around $2-20? We’ve only just managed to get back to that level now after 9 long years of fiscal mismanagement !
    
    Unfortunately $2-20 will become a thing of the past very soon – already starting to fade away !
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:45am
- KevOB
  
  A little more tightening by the FED and there will be more pressure on our interest rates and currency too.
  
  Happy days are here again Grant.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:32am
Maggy Wassilieff

Such good news about the Thai soccer boys.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44688909
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July 3, 2018 8:43am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  That is good news.
  Rumour has it that the German and Spanish football teams have voluntarily opted for cave occupation – at least until the dust settles a bit. Safer with the Taliban for now than their own fans it seems.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:54am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Don’t forget
    this is doing the rounds
    Don’t cry 4-3 Argentina
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:32am
    - double d
      
      even better
      Dont mention the VAR (referencing Germanys loss)
      
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      July 4, 2018 5:08am
secondcumming

this just popped up on twitter……got me thinking

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhIBVDuXUAE-_BC.jpg
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July 3, 2018 8:51am
- Inandout
  
  I thought Old Bill was involved in ‘gagging’, not Trump.
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:56am
- softail 1450
  
  S C it wouldn’t be her 1st time , her nickname in the industry is “airtight Daniels”.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:07am
- VicParking
  
  I’m suprised they did not say shag instead of gag. FAKE NEWS
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:48am
Maggy Wassilieff

If our climate activists are considering a similar whakapohane protest, they should understand that cold is not conducive to grand displays of vital attributes.
http://joannenova.com.au/2018/07/bums-up-for-climate-change/
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July 3, 2018 9:01am
- stephieboy
  
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  MW, in the meantime you can begin to take these practical steps, Here’s how you can actually help and mitigate climate change,
  
  It takes more than turning off the lights, but it’s all doable.
  
  https://www.popsci.com/how-to-stop-climate-change
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:22am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy ,,,,virtue signalling at it’s worst, Fuck off .
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:28am
- waikatogirl
  
  Not very attractive bums Maggy.
  I would have thought bum signage protests would have been a summertime event. ?
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:02am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Not very attractive bums Maggy
    
    Extremely disappointing.
    Obviously not sun worshippers.
    Perhaps too much tofu and not enough cycling to protests.
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:31am
Inandout

Leighton is discussing the plastic bag scam at the moment. Isn’t it weird how all retailers are now getting on the ‘we have stopped using plastic bags’ bandwagon. Oh, but you can always buy a 15c bag at checkout, which is equivalent to the cost of about 30 plastic bags.
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July 3, 2018 9:05am
- MT_Tinman
  
  I don’t understand this plastic bag thing.
  
  If a shop advertises that it will not supply me with a container to transport the items I purchase I shop elsewhere.
  
  Mitre10 will be finding that out shortly.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:19am
  - Inandout
    
    And that huge problem in the form of plastic baby nappies escapes the spotlight, as does plastic wrap around toilet rolls. Aussie customers have been turning up to checkouts with foul smelling reusable bags, some still having faeces at the bottom. Our checkout staff should demand gloves when handling these bags.
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:29am
    - sam green
      
      That makes no sense.
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:40am
      - KiWombat
        
        Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity !
        
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        July 3, 2018 9:48am
    - sam green
      
      Why reusable bags would have faeces in them was my point – unless you’re completely barmy and carry your poo around in a reusable supermarket bag.
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:29am
  - jcuk
    
    It already has .. I shopped at Bunnings last week!
    Just as I cancelled my term deposit with Kiwibank.
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:54am
- stephieboy
  
  Leighton and Inandout , put one over your head, tighten and breath deeply!
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Under the Crimes Act 1961, it is illegal to encourage/incite anyone to commit suicide.
    
    https://www.netsafe.org.nz/incitement-to-suicide/
    
    http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM329347.html
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:11am
    - GoVege
      
      Relax Maggie.
      I’m sure Leighton and Inandout can think that one through. 🙂
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:58am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It’s not the point, Govege.
        
        No-one should be posting messages on someone else’s blog telling folks to kill themselves.
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:06pm
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      Yup, a bit like encouraging assassination. Will he get a strike? Fair’s fair.
      
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      July 3, 2018 12:38pm
  - sam green
    
    FFS stephieboy – that’s a crap comment.
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:33am
- Paulus
  
  Even taking in a bag this morning at a Countdown the girl automatically put the purchase into a plastic bag !
  Uh !
  
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  July 3, 2018 1:35pm
Keeping Stock

Barry Soper has just been made persona non grata by the Labour Party:

It was a tired looking Jacinda Ardern with her “human hot water bottle” draped across her lap telling us on a Facebook video how she designed the $60-a-week baby bonus some years ago on the floor of a friend’s home in Hastings.

The most important years of a child’s life are the early years, the nursing Prime Minister told us from her lounge, and it’s a time in New Zealand when children were facing the most persistent poverty.

So that’s the rationale behind it. Trouble is it’s paid to everyone when they have a baby, regardless or how much dosh they’ve got.

And if they don’t have much then the payment will go on for three years.

There’s an old story about giving a man a fish but not teaching him how to fish.

And that’s the trouble with welfare, some get so used to it, that’s the only life they know of and indeed are interested in knowing.

This Government is certainly handing out plenty fish but if the recipients can’t be bothered learning how bait a hook, or to cast a line there’s no need, or compulsion, for them to learn how to.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12081859

Soper hits the nail squarely on the head. Then, as if referring to Baby Neve as a “human hot water bottle” wasn’t enough, he invokes the spirit of Michael Joseph Savage:

The Act was designed to “safeguard the people of New Zealand from disabilities arising form age, sickness, widowhood, orphanhood, unemployment or other exceptional circumstances.”

So it was more of an ambulance on the way down the cliff face rather than one taking its passengers to the supermarket.

This is heresy from Soper, if you are a supporter of the current three-headed government. But he’s right on the money, quite literally.

We will NOT eliminate poverty, simply by showering people with more money. That of course will not stop this government giving away the taxes paid by a workforce that gets more stretched by the day.
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July 3, 2018 9:17am
- stephieboy
  
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  KS, at one stage on KB Barry Soper was ripped to shreds by the rabid right on KB.
  
  Whats changed?
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:27am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Maybe he’s finally worked out what was in the Koolaid that Labour was dishing up.
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:29am
  - double d
    
    you would have to be pretty fucking stupid to say everything BS writes is wrong. i absolutley hate his politics …….. but if he is saying this WAKE UP
    
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    July 4, 2018 5:14am
- KevOB
  
  Poverty we will always have. It’s just a description of social relativity. Ensuring vital necessity is met is reasonable.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:39am
  - Piniwi
    
    You KevOB like so many watching the lead balloon descending know that higher wages will mean more people in the poverty group because it remains relative with the method of calculation. The silly little girl has created not one but 3 new criteria for establishing the numbers to add to the confusion but not helping with real reductions. Then will come the weapons grade whinging when those getting accelerated wage increases break into the next tax bracket. While forgetting how much more disposable income they would have had from the abolished tax cuts. Karma.
    
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    July 3, 2018 4:35pm
Longknives

Locating those young Thai lads in that cave is awesome news!
Fingers crossed all goes well getting them out now (Apparently they are in a very tricky spot)
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July 3, 2018 9:20am
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Average asking price for Auckland homes down more than $82,000 (-8.3%) from its February peak – prices also down in BoP, Wellington and Canterbury | interest.co.nz

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/07/links-3-july-2018/#comment-3137809 … and …

Average asking price for Auckland homes down more than $82,000 (-8.3%) from its February peak – prices also down in BoP, Wellington and Canterbury | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94591/average-asking-price-auckland-homes-down-more-82000-83-its-february-peak-prices-also

The housing market is cooling with average asking prices and the number of new listings on Realestate.co.nz taking a tumble in June.

The average asking price of all properties from throughout the country that were newly listed on the property website last month was $645,133, compared to $658,170 in May and $661,129 in April.

The national average asking price is now down 4.2% compared to its February peak of $673,659.

Average asking prices in June were down compared to May in most parts of the country, with just four regions, Waikato, Taranaki, Central Otago/Lakes and Otago posting gains and asking prices declining everywhere else.

In Auckland the average asking price declined for the fourth consecutive month to $912,071 and has now lost more than $82,000 (-8.3%) since it peaked at $994,873 in February.

It is now the lowest it has been since July last year. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Auckland’s middle class plummeting down property ladder | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105169816/aucklands-middle-class-plummeting-down-property-ladder

Auckland’s middle class have seen a huge drop in their ability to own the home of their choice.

Auckland Council has released a report Who can buy Auckland’s houses analyses housing affordability at 10 and 20 per cent deposit rates for different income levels.

David Norman, Chief Economist at Auckland Council says middle class groups in Auckland “actually had it pretty good” in housing terms after the global financial crisis of 2008. … read more via hyperlink above …
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More than half of Auckland households unable to buy ‘affordable’ (Kiwibuild) $650k home, council says – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12081733
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July 3, 2018 9:22am
- Harkman
  
  Hey Hugh, have a use, tell us what the average mortgage level is (please).
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:24am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    … Great news at the local level … May Building Consents …
    
    Surge in new dwelling consents in Auckland could be the beginning of the end for the region’s housing shortage | interest.co.nz
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94554/surge-new-dwelling-consents-auckland-could-be-beginning-end-regions-housing-shortage
    
    There was a surge in the number of new dwelling consents issued in May, particularly in Auckland where they hit a 15 year high, Statistics NZ says.
    
    Around the country 3407 new dwelling consents were issued in May, up 25% compared to April and up 22% compared to May last year.
    
    It was the highest number of homes consented in any month since June 2004. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
    https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/building-consents-issued-may-2018
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    A few further lessons from Greater Christchurch … (The GREATS are the smaller and functional Selwyn and Waimakariri Councils) …
    
    Lincoln (South Christchurch): From mill town to boom town … John McCrone … The Press
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/103331085/lincoln-from-mill-town-to-boom-town
    
    It was supposed to be a post-quake phenomenon, yet there is little sign of it slowing. Why are rural fringe towns like Lincoln still growing so fast? JOHN McCRONE reports.
    
    The contrast is striking. In central Christchurch, Fletcher Living is taking forever to get going on its East Frame townhouse and apartment block development.
    
    Government and council have agreed that denser inner city housing is vital to making a success of the earthquake rebuild. Yet despite inking a deal with Fletcher to build nearly 1000 homes back in 2015, the first 20 properties won’t be finished until late this year.
    
    The buyers just don’t seem to be there for them. And so the East Frame development has been uphill all the way.
    
    However, take the road half an hour out of town to Lincoln and the story is the opposite. This once sleepy village has exploded with subdivisions. Its residential footprint is now 10 times what it was 20 years ago.
    
    READ MORE:
    * Rolleston: Time to take it seriously
    * Christchurch’s $600 million motorways
    * Christchurch’s next problem: bringing residents back into the CBD
    * Government ‘locked in’ to contract for delay-riddled east frame
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    WHAT SHOULD A ‘MEDIAN’ HOUSE COST ? … STUFF / FAIRFAX READERS POLL …
    
    (Original title) Dont touch the HAM: Its off ! … Rob Stock … Stuff / Fairfax NZ
    
    https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/104817263/Don-t-touch-the-HAM-its-off
    
    … Extract … Readers poll …
    
    What should a ‘median’ house cost?
    
    No more than three times median household income
    33%
    Up to four times median household income
    29%
    Five times is acceptable
    18%
    Six or more is okay in this day and age
    9%
    Not sure
    11%
    2.2k votes
    
    … Recent Media Report … The Inaugural New Zealand IPSOS Survey …
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    UPDATE – New (IPSOS) survey reveals housing, poverty and healthcare most concern New Zealanders – NZ Herald
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12047092
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:17am
    - Harkman
      
      Nope Hugh that’s not it. See I gave you a chance to have a use and you continued your edit & paste act. Disappointing.
      
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      July 3, 2018 10:38am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters gives it to them straight … again today …
        
        NZIER business confidence numbers show firms’ optimism at its lowest level in seven years | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/business/94606/nzier-business-confidence-numbers-show-firms-optimism-its-lowest-level-seven-years
        
        … as he did late October 2017 … in announcing the coalition government decision …
        
        New Zealand’s new Government revealed by Winston Peters | Newshub
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghA0YW7ST4E
        
        … as I explained within the June Update at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org …
        
        http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/General%20June.html
        
        … Acting Prime Minister and New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters is extremely clear …
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:20pm
Debbie

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360923/national-mp-nikki-kaye-s-stepbrother-convicted-of-murder-in-california

Must be hard for this poor little rich boy to comprehend US justice, after all if he’d done the same in NZ he’d be out already on time served.
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July 3, 2018 9:24am
- Komata
  
  Debbie
  
  Now, let me see, which part of that news clip will RNZ concentrate on? The one about h0w this Kiwi, already inside for other offences will continue to be incarcerated and face the US justice system, OR, the part that says that HE IS [National MP] NIKKI KAYE’S STEP BROTHER, with particular emphasis on Ms Kaye HERSELF, since it’s so salacious and [delightfully] appalling that, through no fault of her own she is related to a KILLER!!
  
  Me thinks the latter; hopefully I will be proven wrong (although I doubt it).
  
  Time will tell…
  
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  July 3, 2018 11:20am
  - Debbie
    
    Yes that’s so true. It’s obviously not Nikki’s fault at all; it’s so unfair that her name gets dragged into it.
    
    If anything it highlights the fact that some people are just a waste of space. On the one hand you have Nikki who has worked hard and achieved well at every level, making the most of her opportunities in life…… on the other you have the likes of Clinton who, despite the same advantages of wealth and opportunity, squanders the lot and turns to a life of crime and drugs. Then still has the audacity to pretend he is some kind of “victim”
    
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    July 3, 2018 12:25pm
ztev

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Oh dear
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360923/national-mp-nikki-kaye-s-stepbrother-convicted-of-murder-in-california

in jail for a bank robbery and then convicted of murder of cellmate.
What way can this be spun….
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July 3, 2018 9:25am
- Debbie
  
  “Mental health problems”
  
  “Lack of suppport”
  
  “His cell mate bullied him first”
  
  Obviously not HIS fault
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:29am
- srylands
  
  Why would it need to be spun?
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:31am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Once again, ztev tries to find a political context for someone else’s offending. WTF has this got to do with Nikki Kaye? Thinn may be her STEP-brother, but the choices he has made in another country are his, and his alone.
  
  Get out of the gutter ztev; you’re starting to smell even more offensively than usual.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:33am
  - stephieboy
    
    KS, now if this was a Labour Party politician?
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:20am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      You can’t visit the sins of the family on the politician stephie. One thing I have always been strong on is that families of MP’s should not be judged by the MP in the family.
      
      This is a sad case, and doubtless there is more to it than the media is reporting. It’s a tragic situation for all concerned, and if the person involved was the step-sibling of a Labour, NZF or Green MP, I would still feel some sympathy for the MP concerned.
      
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      July 3, 2018 10:57am
      - sam green
        
        “You can’t visit the sins of the family on the politician…”
        
        Yet many on here chose to negatively comment on Sepuloni’s parent and many on here are pushing the line that the perp at the Labour camp is related to an MP.
        
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        July 3, 2018 11:38am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Many have sam; not me. Politicians families should be off limits, except where they publicly try to influence opinion. In that case, they open themselves to criticism of their comments.
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:28pm
      - sooty
        
        If MPs trott out family, siblings, babies and friends to the media expecting a free ride,they can expect an open shooting season in return. If you trott them out your are just a media whore.
        
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        July 3, 2018 5:24pm
    - Komata
      
      SB
      
      There would be absolute silence in the media as well you know! Just like the ‘investigation’ into activities at a certain labour party event on the Waitawheta…
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:23am
    - stephen2d
      
      There was a Labour politician and minister at the time, whose brother was serving prison for a brutal murder. And no one ever thought of using it politically. Ever.
      
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      July 3, 2018 1:46pm
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    You dont know much about politics do you ? Inferences are everywhere.
    It even checks the ‘lock them up and throw away the key’ debate.
    lets ask Nikki about the 3 strikes shall we … how does the family feel…what do you think about the victim …
    Wheres Garrett when you need him
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:28am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      Okay no inferences then. Who’s the Labour Party kiddie fiddler ztev? You must know. Surely.
      
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      July 3, 2018 12:06pm
      - Paulus
        
        Will we know who the Labour sex pervert is after his Court appearance on Thursday – no doubt the Judge will give him name suppression though.
        
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        July 3, 2018 1:39pm
    - KiWombat
      
      He’s spending a month in the naughty corner – not sure what his crime was !
      
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      July 3, 2018 4:49pm
- realityczech
  
  Sounds like self defense.
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:18am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Jesus you are a shithead. Nikki Kaye is somehow responsible for the actions of a relative? What sort of antediluvian idiocy is that?
  
  Honestly Ztev, you do have interesting things to say and some good points to make, but you destroy any credibility you might otherwise have with your flailing unbalanced partisan attacks and comical ali defence of CoL stuff-ups. If your job is to influence then you are only diminishing respect for your opinions by doing so.
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:23am
  - ztev
    
    I never said she is responsible… its you that have made an ‘inference’.
    Poor Nikki must be grieving now…. but what about 3 strikes in NZ and the affect on families. Nikkis voice should be heard…
    
    I love the smell of napalm in the morning
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:34am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      What way can this be spun….
      
      No ztev, it’s YOU who has made an inference, against Nikki Kaye. It’s not even as though the bloke in question is a blood relative.
      
      Parents separate, then partner up again. They often bring their own children into the relationship, and that can be fraught with difficulties for all concerned. I know this, from bitter personal experience.
      
      We all know you’re running interference for the coalition, given so many Ministers have proved to be hopelessly out of their depth. However on some subjects you would be better to remain silent, than prove once and for all what a bitter, twisted prick you are.
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:05am
    - Komata
      
      And at times like these it’s perhaps a pity that you weren’t on the receiving end of some, at high speed and air-delivered. but hey, you and your mate Goff were real heros weren’t you.
      
      Some here will know…
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:26am
    - Komata
      
      And at times like these it’s perhaps a pity that you weren’t on the receiving end of some, at high speed and air-delivered. but hey, you and your mate Goff were real heros weren’t you??
      
      Some here will know…
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:27am
      - sam green
        
        Fucked up comment dude.
        
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        July 3, 2018 11:39am
- Harkman
  
  Sort off like Phil Goff’s daughter being charged for drugs, or Carmel Sepuloni’s mother committing benefit fraud,
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/67565730/carmel-sepulonis-mother-sentenced-for-benefit-fraud
  
  Or John Tamihere’s brother murdering TWO tourists.
  
  Or Hone Harawira’s nephews assaulting the democratically elected Prime Minister of NZ.
  
  Or Metiria Turei’s rampant benefit fraud.
  
  Oh, STEP brother so she is not related to him.
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:48am
  - Paulus
    
    Or I believe Annette King’s daughter’s drug charge which were found in a Minister’s car she was driving, or crashed possibly.
    VW Beetle.
    
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    July 3, 2018 1:41pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      And ztev goes quiet. Must have gagged on his napalm. Or KY. Whichever he was using.
      
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      July 3, 2018 5:18pm
      - sooty
        
        I hope he got them mixed up!
        
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        July 3, 2018 5:28pm
- GoVege
  
  I couldn’t give a xxxx what a politician’s relation does.
  The only reason I don’t like Nikki Kaye is because she apparently made the decision to send a young man back to Fiji….despite his family raising the ENTIRE cost of his medical treatment….where he could not get that treatment and died shortly after.
  That’s what I call F’N heartless and I’d say the same about a Labour politician.
  
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  July 3, 2018 12:17pm
Captain Mainwaring

Breaking news. June new vehicle sales down 8.2% on June last year, ending a six year record of year on year increases.
Nothing is a surer sign that the CoL has got the economy starting to go backwards.
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July 3, 2018 9:36am
- ztev
  
  or in the same news
  http://www.driven.co.nz/news/news/new-vehicles-registrations-remain-steady-in-june/?ref=nzhhome
  
  ‘still remains the second strongest month of June ever’,
  EVAH!
  particular months are driven by marketing events
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:37am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Christ what a fuckwit.
    Yes, the year to date June figures were on a par with last year, but only because prior months were so strong. June was the turning point, the graph is going down.
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:35am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      It’s a race to the intellectual bottom with the Red team but we have a clear leader despite it being one of the most even and competitive fields in the history of supidity.
      
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      July 3, 2018 12:08pm
Longknives

Anyone interested in a little game?
I’m calling it ‘Adern uses Baby as a Political stunt’
or ‘Aubaaps’ for short…
I’ve got a theory that every time Labour screws up over the next six weeks (And that will be quite a few times given the way this Government is lurching from one disaster to the next) the self-professed ‘Mother of the Nation’ will drag out her poor baby for a photo shoot/’impromptu’ cutesy update..
Anyone care to wager how many ‘Aubaaps’ we will get while she is on Maternity Leave??
It really is the ultimate distraction tool for this Labour Government.
The hell with morals,ethics or the kid’s best interests..
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July 3, 2018 9:39am
- RF
  
  There is a good chance it will be dragged out on Thursday when the sexo fronts court.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:57am
- Komata
  
  And after it arrives, (and CoL-type things start to go really pear shaped), JAG’s little one will ‘appear’ as well so that all the mums, grans and MSM can go ga ga.
  
  Possibly the ultimate distraction?
  
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  July 3, 2018 11:34am
VicParking

Failing newspapers article “Ute driver’s highly dangerous manoeuvre slammed after nearly taking out a cyclist.” why didn’t he hit him? Are drivers getting soft? Driver loses Lycra point for missing Cyclist!
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July 3, 2018 10:00am
- realityczech
  
  All we know is the driver had to past a test to ensure he knew the road rules and the cyclist did not.
  
  Cyclists should have to have insurance to pay for the damage they cause to cars so frequently. There should be licencing fees to pay for cycle ways. Around $20,000 a year should do it.
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:12am
  - stephieboy
    
    rc, sniffing petrol for breakfast this morning?
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:24am
    - pentwig
      
      far better than sniffing goat poo stupidboy
      LOL
      
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      July 3, 2018 1:48pm
  - Disillusioned_Voter
    
    I got taken out a few weeks back by a driver who ran through a give way and scooped me up on his bonnet, then slammed on his brakes and sent me flying. My bike looks written off and insurance won’t be worth claiming, and I have to pay for my treatment.
    Cos some dickhead driver didn’t know how to give way, or didn’t care.
    Disclosure; I have held a full license for over 20 years, and paid insurance, wof and Rego on various cars for the same.
    
    Get fucked realityczech. You know nothing.
    
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    July 3, 2018 3:41pm
    - realityczech
      
      “Get fucked realityczech”
      
      Thanks. I took your advice btw. 🙂
      
      Here is some sound advice in return: STOP PLAYING ON THE ROAD ❗
      
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      July 3, 2018 3:58pm
      - double d
        
        fuckwit.
        grow up and stop talking shit.
        the “road” is not an exclusive playground for cars.
        tough guy.
        
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        July 4, 2018 5:26am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Sorry to hear about your troubles D_V.
      
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      July 3, 2018 4:57pm
      - realityczech
        
        Fuck me they are having a pity-party.
        
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        July 3, 2018 5:39pm
Maggy Wassilieff

A NZ mum talks about what really happens when you are having a baby in NZ.
(Spoil alert: no macaroni cheese delivery)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12081711
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July 3, 2018 10:05am
- ztev
  
  NZ Mum , actually a lifestyle reporter for NZME overshares her birth experience.
  heavy user of the call button and wonders why they were slow to respond – hint its for emergencies.
  
  Plus she got shafted by 2 midwives before birth…. yes she does sound too precious to me as well.
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:44am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    reporter for NZME overshares her birth experience.
    
    That’s what mums do…
    that’s why I’m very interested in finding out how easy it is for a healthy new mum & her babe to get 3 nights in hospital care nowadays.
    
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    July 3, 2018 1:40pm
- GoVege
  
  Oh come on Maggie!
  You must know childbirth “is a natural process”!!!
  No need for unnatural interventions or …doctors!
  That’s why anything goes now, and mums n babes are kicked out of hospital after a few hours these days.
  My first grandchild had tons of old meconium backing up before they let a doctor at him.
  (Meconium is no longer a danger signal in the 21st century. )
  He had a collapsed lung and was grey when he finally was born.
  I wasn’t permitted to make a complaint.
  Second boy had an easy birth but after being sent home, developed sky-high jaundice levels.
  GP and midwife said don’t worry. ..just bring him in after the long weekend.
  Fortunately the kids consulted a paediatrician (miraculously on a long weekend ) and got him to hospital before he developed cerebral palsy.
  
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  July 3, 2018 11:33am
igm

Surely if Newstalk ZB can politicise the fact a man on murder charges in US is the stepbrother of Nikki Kaye, they can name the father of the pervert who molested young children at a Labour Party brainwashing camp, or is this editorial policy to try and discredit Opposition at any cost.
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July 3, 2018 10:13am
- stephieboy
  
  igm, Nicky Hayes stepbrother was convicted of murder charges. The alleged ” molester ” has yet to be formally charged and is due to appear in court this Thursday.
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:23am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    The alleged molester HAS been charged stephie; with four counts of indecent assault. He was given police bail, and will appear in court to answer the charges on Thursday.
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:07am
    - double d
      
      this is the bit where SBoy says sorry, you are right and i was wrong. (just saying)
      
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      July 4, 2018 5:28am
Fletch

Columnist Matt Walsh says that things are about to get very, very ugly in America because of the Supreme Court nomination and the threatening of the liberal sacrament of abortion –

As recently as yesterday morning, I said that I couldn’t foresee America descending into a full-blown civil war. I may have to slightly amend that statement. The retirement of Justice Kennedy and the very real (though far from certain) possibility that Roe could be overturned changes the equation somewhat. I still can’t imagine a civil war along the lines of the first one — two sides, complete with uniforms, meeting for organized combat on the battlefield — but I think that the chances of chaos in the streets and violent clashes across the country just rose considerably.

Abortion is the Left’s high sacrament. It has built its entire movement upon this bloody altar. With abortion, it claims a godlike power over life and death. Leftists, through abortion, make life itself relative to their whims and desires. Life begins whenever the mother wants it to begin, the Left proclaims. And oh, what power! Who would claim such power and then give it up willingly? Especially when this power protects and fortifies your hassle-free, responsibility-free, consequence-free sex life. To give up abortion is to give up power, to give up convenience, to give up relativism, to give up your self-centered approach to sex and life in general. The Left will not go gently into that good night. They will rage, and rage, and rage, against the dying of the light.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/32425/walsh-left-will-go-any-length-protect-its-right-matt-walsh
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- GoVege
  
  Yeah Fletch.
  The “Right” wana take us back to the good old days when the #1 cause of death for teenage girls was by DIY / illegal abortion.
  When will girls stop coercing guys into consequence-free, responsibility-free sex???
  
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  July 3, 2018 11:14am
  - Fletch
    
    You know girls don’t have to have sex, right? By my understanding, you can’t get pregnant any other way 😉
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:17am
    - realityczech
      
      Fletch, Why are you so fixated on what women chose to do with their lady bits?
      
      Seeing chastity as virtue is a major marker of sexual perversion by the way.
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:22am
    - GoVege
      
      Sounds great in theory Fletch.
      Unfortunately the reality, especially for young vulnerable and unsupported teenagers can be very different.
      Sex tends to occur away from eye witnesses and most males are more powerful than most females.
      Even women in their 30s can be frightened/coerced into not insisting on a condom being used.
      Happened to victims of Peter Mwai who only came to public attention because he gave them aids.
      Creeps like him are far from unique.
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:42am
- MCos
  
  “liberal sacrament of abortion”
  
  Hysterical clap trap
  
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  July 3, 2018 3:21pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Morrisey, Morrisey, Where are you?
Groper Alert!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/02/justin-trudeau-denies-groping-reporter-music-festival-2000-british-columbia
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July 3, 2018 10:35am
- Inandout
  
  And from The Guardian of all publications…. unbelievable!
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:43am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh, there’s lots of TV coverage now and old Newspaper reports and pics that Morrissey could dissect through.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeQoo4tGvl0
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:52am
- Harkman
  
  Wow, good spotting Maggy.
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:53am
Fletch

NBC story in which a DHS official admits that child separation started before Trump. The money quote –

A DHS official told NBC News that the practice of dividing parents and kids predates the Trump presidency. “DHS has continued a long-standing policy by the previous administration,” said the official, listing risk to the child and criminal prosecution of the parent as among the reasons for separation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/trump-admin-ran-pilot-program-separating-migrant-families-2017-n887616
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July 3, 2018 10:37am
noskire

Get your popcorn ready for Question Time this afternoon.
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July 3, 2018 10:38am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Indeed. There are so many candidates for Witless Protection this afternoon that the government benches may be all but empty.
  
  Grant Robertson will answer on behalf of most Ministers, and will whisper answers to Winston Peters when the Acting PM is quizzed.
  
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  July 3, 2018 11:09am
  - noskire
    
    That’s assuming he bothers to turn up.
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:19am
  - RalphT
    
    They’ll have to build a new prison just to keep the Witless safe, such are their numbers
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:26am
Fletch

Holocaust survivor – no, detention centres at the border are not the same as concentration camps.

Tuck has a message for those comparing American illegal immigrant detainment facilities to the Holocaust. “They know nothing of the Holocaust,” Tuck says, “Grow up. You can’t compare. Every time I hear it, it’s sickening.”

https://www.facebook.com/Americanvoicesthedailycaller/videos/708920546106834/
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July 3, 2018 10:42am
UrbanNeocolonialist

Couple of weeks back a gay hairdresser put up this video about leaving the left due to their promotion of hate/racism/bigotry. “Walkaway”, is hammy, but has had a ton of views. Interesting that viewers are noting that youtube has been massaging the views numbers down (at one point was at over 1.6million, now down to 300k, Google’s agenda? or an advertiser’s demands?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pjs7uoOkag
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July 3, 2018 10:43am
- Ross12
  
  Apparently Twitter is playing numbers game as well. I do not see how their games will affect the spread of the message.
  
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  July 3, 2018 12:14pm
- cha
  
  a gay hairdresser
  
  Seems the professional attention whore, failed actor/singer/writer, former game show contestant, and part time bludger has remade himself for his latest scam.
  
  https://www.gofundme.com/resist-a-rock-revolution
  
  https://www.gofundme.com/brandos-birthday-bash-fundrasier
  
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  July 3, 2018 1:37pm
- sam green
  
  Sounds like another CT (or equivalent) sponsored event.
  
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  July 3, 2018 7:00pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Is CT a right wing equiv of Dem astroturfing operations like Correct The Record or Share Blue?
    
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    July 3, 2018 8:11pm
lifesgood

I saw a tweet yesterday that suggested there is another big Labour scandal about to hit the fan. Popcorn time!!
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July 3, 2018 10:52am
- Harkman
  
  Any hints or links?
  
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  July 3, 2018 10:54am
  - lifesgood
    
    Sadly, neither.
    
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    July 3, 2018 10:56am
- KevOB
  
  There will always be one in the pipeline.
  It worries me being a bit left leaning to have any association with those incompetents.
  
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  July 3, 2018 1:51pm
Jack5

Where’s Morrissey?

A big groper is nibbling on his line – Trudeau.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5910715/Justin-Trudeau-denies-groping-female-reporter-18-years-ago.html
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July 3, 2018 11:06am
- realityczech
  
  “Alleged incident happened when Trudeau was 28 and working as a teacher”
  
  He found a job that gave him access to young people at the time of the attacks.
  
  Now watch the rape enablers on the left come out in support and start ranting about Trump and other squirrels ….
  
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  July 3, 2018 11:09am
- Jack5
  
  And another bite on your groper line, Morrissey, this time the nibble comes from an NZ fish, a registered NZ charity.
  
  The MeToo mob are cannibalising the Left – that is they are eating themselves.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/104677651/crew-of-floating-foundation-aid-mission-abandon-ship-on-waiheke-island
  
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  July 3, 2018 11:13am
  - realityczech
    
    Jacksie, what is it with these lefties and praying on kids?
    
    This sort of thing has been going on for decades among activists. Take Greenpeace ships, they get a bunch of hot young girls on board and root them senseless while telling us they are saving the world to keep the $$$$ coming in. Great work if you can get it!
    
    If anyone speaks out they are persecuted for harming environmentalism. If the media would dare even report it.
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:32am
    - Longknives
      
      “Take Greenpeace ships, they get a bunch of hot young girls on board and root them senseless ..Great work if you can get it”
      
      Except Lefties don’t wash.
      Or shave..
      
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      July 3, 2018 6:36pm
  - Jack5
    
    Whoops, sorry Maggie, didn’t intend to double up on your post.
    
    I must not read Kiwiblog threads from bottom up
    I must not read Kiwiblog threads from bottom up
    I must not read Kiwiblog threads from bottom up
    I must not read Kiwiblog threads from bottom up
    I must not read Kiwiblog threads from bottom up
    
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    July 3, 2018 11:45am
    - Jack5
      
      Morrissey meantime will be as usual listening to two radio stations at once and trying to transcribe accurately what both are saying.
      
      Can anyone get a “bites on the line” message to Morrissey through radio callback?
      
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      July 3, 2018 11:54am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      No worries, I do it all the time, Jack5.
      
      Saves tripping over the troll tracks.
      
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      July 3, 2018 1:44pm
Prince

Heard on RNZ news this morning. Our PM has tweeted her congratulations to the kayaker who crossed the Tasman (first time solo).

What a magnificent feat of strength, endurance and courage. Filled me with pride.

Not bad from the kayaker too.
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July 3, 2018 11:26am
- sooty
  
  I think he deserved a state of the nation address from the couch by the Commie Chick.
  
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  July 3, 2018 5:43pm
Odakyu-sen

We in Auckland know about the cowboy wheel-clampers who pay commissions to owners of private parking spots (that remain unused on weekends).
Things are much much worse in England. There is a company called Parking Eye that supermarkets, hotels and other owners of parking spaces contract with. Parking Eye installs cameras and uses AI to recognise the vehicle number plates. If you stay longer than allowed at the supermarket, you get an automatically generated invoice for a fine (or face civil prosecution). Beware hotels if you venture into their parking lot without registration of your number plate. I rented a car at Heathrow, then drove to my hotel to pick up my family. I had only learned about Parking Eye by accident. Lucky me. After I parked, I had 15 minutes to register my car with the hotel reception, or else face a hefty penalty charge to my credit card from the rental company.
If you Google “Parking Eye” you will find many stories of unwary tourists being burned.
How long before Parking Eye comes to New Zealand?
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July 3, 2018 11:39am
Jack5

Setback for cannabis champions.

A large study has found that marijuana does nothing to help people with chronic pain.

(The report does note that cannabis has proven medical benefits in treating drug-resistant epilepsy in children, chemotherapy-induced nausea and multiple sclerosis.)

https://www.smh.com.au/national/in-major-study-cannabis-shows-no-benefit-for-chronic-pain-20180702-p4zp0z.html
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July 3, 2018 12:44pm
Jack5

Are radical Maori now rejecting the United Nations because it is a “Western built mechanism” ?

They want NZ to hold a meeting of world indigenous rights leaders. In the meantime they want to go to a meeting in that old Western city of Geneva

I suppose the Maori radicals would bring indigenous leaders to NZ on Western-culture airliners. They’ll probably use them to get to Geneva, too.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/360957/rangatahi-s-un-trip-the-un-is-a-western-built-mechanism
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July 3, 2018 1:02pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Speaking of Maori stuff, what’s this sneaky new spelling of ‘Rimutaka’? ‘Remutaka’ FFS.
  And how does the ridiculous new Maori name for Wellington’s failed newspaper make any sense unless their only remaining readers are down at the Marae?
  
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  July 3, 2018 1:13pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wairarapa/9967900/Remutaka-correct-spelling-says-iwi
    
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    July 3, 2018 1:47pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      What is missing from the Dompost article is the tale of Haunui who rested on the Remutaka hill-top.
      
      He was in pursuit of his wife & slave who had done a runner together.
      https://rangitaneeducation.com/the-story-of-haunui-a-nanaia/
      
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      July 3, 2018 2:09pm
      - Jack5
        
        Interesting that Haunui’s return trip was by air – Eagle Air.
        
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        July 3, 2018 3:18pm
      - Longknives
        
        ‘Slaves’??
        But my kid’s Schoolteacher teaches her that Maori lived peacefully and at one with nature before the evil white man turned up..
        Surely someone’s lying?
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:33pm
      - GoVege
        
        I wonder how Haunui “exacted revenge” on the runaway lovers?
        I suppose they had to leave that bit out to avoid trouble with the censors….
        
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        July 3, 2018 7:14pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Govege
        
        He slew the slave(s) and turned his wife Wairaka into a rock.
        
        Here’s another version (last couple of paragraphs)
        http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bes02Reli-t1-body-d4-d2-d4.html
        
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        July 3, 2018 7:24pm
    - Nermal
      
      If that’s the way it was spelled in pre-European times we should honour that
      
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      July 3, 2018 3:51pm
      - Jack5
        
        Were they using macrons back then, Nermal?
        
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        July 3, 2018 4:02pm
  - sam green
    
    How does it hurt you Captain? Or even impact on you?
    
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    July 3, 2018 2:10pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Not at all sam, I just said it to wind you up.
      
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      July 3, 2018 3:23pm
      - sam green
        
        Funny – I’m not wound up – I just think you’re a dick.
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:06pm
      - realityczech
        
        Do you think of dicks a lot spam?
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:10pm
      - sam green
        
        Only yours rc – if you had one.
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:24pm
      - realityczech
        
        “if you had one”
        
        I have had way less than you spam.
        
        Guys like you give filthy perverts a bad name.
        
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        July 3, 2018 7:18pm
    - itstricky
      
      How does it hurt you Captain?
      
      The intense pain The Captain feels is much like evil macrons that stab viciously at Jack’s heart daily.
      
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      July 3, 2018 6:00pm
      - Jack5
        
        Itstricky, they’re only evil when they pop up in the English language. They are fine in the Maori language, and in other languages that use macrons.
        
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        July 3, 2018 8:02pm
- KevOB
  
  Maori are busily self destructing as their former elders expressed they would. They foresaw the shift away from the marae and the lack of cultural control for the future. Now the present generation of elders is passing on what leadership is left to these disparate tribes?
  
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  July 3, 2018 1:45pm
  - sam green
    
    Like these losers …..
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=11876564
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/104319074/rotorua-farm-wins-ahuwhenua-trophy
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12078553
    
    Etc etc etc …..
    
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    July 3, 2018 6:19pm
- GoVege
  
  Nah, they’re gonna paddle there by canoe.
  After all if a Pakeha can do it….
  
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  July 3, 2018 7:16pm
Surely Knott

Akd Council’s PR team in hyperdrive with a clear change in direction. Yesterday’s press coverage – “Auckland Council drops liveable city goal now to focus on Jobs due to high unemployment. ” And then today “Stephen Town $700k chief exec planning to cut costs. ” Trying to shake off their elitist big government bureacratic big spending big taxing centralised planning image and now trying to look old school labour union jobs and cost cutting . LOL. Too little too late
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July 3, 2018 1:52pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Stephen Town should set the example by trying to live on about 400 stacks. That should be plenty.
  
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  July 3, 2018 3:28pm
Surely Knott

Akd Council’s PR team in hyperdrive with a clear change in direction. Yesterday’s press coverage – “Auckland Council drops liveable city goal now to focus on Jobs due to high unemployment. ” And then today “Stephen Town $700k chief exec planning to cut costs. ” Trying to shake off their elitist big government bureacratic big spending big taxing centralised planning image and now trying to look old school labour union jobs and cost cutting .Perhaps they think they are in political trouble. Council elections not too far away. But too little too late – me thinks.
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July 3, 2018 1:54pm
rightoverlabour

Has stephieboys comment about plastic bags and heads been deleted?

Just curious.
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July 3, 2018 3:05pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  I should hope so. And with luck, Stephieboy will have disappeared with it, for a few more months.
  
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  July 3, 2018 3:40pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Rightoverlabour:
  
  Was Stephieboy’s deleted comment as perverted as this one?
  
  duggledog, do something useful like pouring your own vomit on yourself or in your panties.
  
  Stephieboy is obsessed with panties and (as he informed us yesterday) has some weird fantasy about having his nipples fondled by a dentist. He really needs to see a sex therapist.
  
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  July 3, 2018 4:18pm
  - realityczech
    
    Nosty, you forgot to add that was after the dentist had stupefied the victim. I wonder where he learnt that sick stuff?
    
    I doubt it was the Mosque as they are helping the police with their enquiries. Unlike Labour who are are not.
    
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    July 3, 2018 4:22pm
Jack5

Another foreign-exchange con – and one of the con men gets off with home detention:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12082329
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July 3, 2018 3:22pm
noskire

I thought Nick Smith did a pretty good in The House today. Davis and Parker are just blubbering idiots.
I’ve also sent through an OIA request for a report on domestic and overseas travel expenditure incurred by Golriz Ghahraman and Chlöe Swarbrick since the last election, and for what purpose. I’m picking it will be quite an eye-opener.
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July 3, 2018 3:49pm
realityczech

I thought with a mix of parties the current regime might not be too bad as it would move too slow to do much and National would be able to repair the damage within a term or so.

I now believe my optimism was naive. This regime is moving much faster than I predicted and is attacking the very core of the economy first and fast.

Next they will begin a process of destroying our social structures and sowing conflict. They will bring in law changes targeting men and institutionalising bigotry against the hated white cis gender straight males.

For the sake of your families I strongly suggest you turn gay-trans-disabled asap and get a DNA test to try and find a dab of the tar brush in your past. Either way you are going to get it up the arse dear reader. 🙂
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July 3, 2018 3:54pm
- noskire
  
  Yup, remember one of their recent “leaders” apologised for being a man. Be very afraid New Zealand.
  
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  July 3, 2018 4:00pm
  - realityczech
    
    At least Klark never apologised for being a man.
    
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    July 3, 2018 4:08pm
    - noskire
      
      Ouch, is this him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=civE8_5SDYg&t=5s
      
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      July 3, 2018 4:11pm
Jack5

There are barely any mountain gorillas left, and it looks like China is trying to grab some for its zoos.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/02/outrage-alleged-plan-export-rare-animals-democratic-republic-congo-china-gorillas-endangered-species-zoos
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July 3, 2018 4:06pm
Happychappy

So Winston First will be excepting the Pensioners Electricity subsidy that the Government has made available from the 1st of July for 3 months. This despite earning over $340.000 as the Deputy Prime Minister and a extra $300 a week from his Pension. This Leech is a disgrace and is now showing his true colours which should give his army of superannuants that support him reason to believe it is all about what Winston can get and not about them.
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July 3, 2018 4:21pm
Nostradamus

Is anyone else following this story: Operation to save 12 boys and a football coach trapped in a Thai cave is ‘likely to take months’?

Starving and terrified as they sat together in the dark, 12 Thai schoolboys and their coach had not seen the outside world or another human being in 10 days. … However, it is far from over for the young boys. In fact, an Australian cave diving expert has warned they may be trapped inside the cave for months.

The article suggests that the boys can’t swim:

The navy has brought in four months worth of food for the operation and as the navy gives the boys diving training to evacuate the group from the complex underground system.

Peter Wolf, the national director of the Cave Divers Association of Australia told The Guardian the boys will not be able to exit the cave anytime soon as they are unable to swim. “The length of the cave and the conditions that they’re actually diving in means there are probably very few people on the planet who can actually get those provisions to them,” he said. “But the cave divers they’ve got over there are some of the most experienced in the world, especially when it comes to search and rescue operations.”

Is anyone able to share their insight on what’s actually going on?
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July 3, 2018 4:30pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Deep water flowing with a current through much of the cave system; places where the water reaches roof height, so divers have had to swim under water for some metres before emerging into a breathable space.
  
  As it’s monsoon season at present, the cave system will be flooded until September-October.
  
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  July 3, 2018 4:56pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Thanks Maggy.
    
    So, if I may ask an ignorant question, is there any reason why this situation is different from scuba diving, where the diver stays underwater for a period of time? Could the rescue divers “carry” an extra set of breathing apparatus in and rescue people one person at a time?
    
    I’m sure the answer is no (otherwise they’d be doing that now), but I’m just wondering why.
    
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    July 3, 2018 5:02pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I think some of the channels must be very narrow/or the water very swift.
      It must be too dangerous to try buddy-share breathing..
      
      My best friend got into caving at Massey Uni and dragged me along on one caving trip to some god-forsaken place in the Wairarapa.
      We had to swim underwater through a couple of passages (for a few metres only).
      I have never felt any desire to repeat the experience.
      
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      July 3, 2018 5:25pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        one caving trip to some god-forsaken place in the Wairarapa
        
        Now it makes sense! Nasska used to tell us how he stockpiled cans of baked beans after receiving news (via Kiwiblog) of economic turbulence. Did this caving trip happen to take you anywhere near Eketahuna?
        
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        July 3, 2018 5:36pm
      - nasska
        
        And sardines. We only finished the last of the pallet in January! 🙂
        
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        July 3, 2018 5:46pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Gracious no, the locals of Pahiatua and Makuri were enough to discourage us from venturing further south.
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:02pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Some of the kids can’t swim either so imagine the panic scuba diving through coffee coloured water unable to see and nowhere to come up for air if you panic while scuba diving through tunnels. Scary stuff.
        The rescuers are looking for alternative rescue escape routes, including an appropriate place to drill a hole through the ground above.
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:48pm
  - nasska
    
    Let’s look at the bright side. Three months sitting in a cave studying their navels waiting for the water to go down should make them a little more cynical & worldly wise.
    
    The next time some clown says, “I’m bored. Let’s all enter a cave system in the monsoon season” they’ll probably go to McDonalds instead. 🙂
    
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    July 3, 2018 5:13pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Nasska:
      
      Rove McManus used to have a segment on his TV show where he’d ask someone a series of questions, and the final question was always “Who would you turn gay for?” Kevin Rudd said he’d turn gay for his wife.
      
      But this is Kiwiblog.
      
      I imagine if we edited the script slightly, and asked people “Who couldn’t you live with in a cave for 3 months?” we’d get a comprehensive list of Labour, Greens and NZ First MPs!
      
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      July 3, 2018 5:41pm
      - nasska
        
        What about Godnutters? Three months in a cave with a few of them & you’d drown yourself for a quick release! 🙂
        
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        July 3, 2018 5:44pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        You could swap American Pie quotes with them – it’d make for a hilarious 3 months in hell!
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:18pm
      - Longknives
        
        I’d suggest that if given the opportunity to disappear into a cave for 3 months with a dozen young Thai boys, Most of the male Labour MPs would dive into those floodwaters in the blink of an eye…
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:29pm
      - nasska
        
        I wouldn’t last that long Nostra. After the first week I’d go postal!
        
        But for a Yank film not much beat American Graffiti released in 1973. I was dragged along to it under protest but it was good.
        
        The highlight for me was when our heroes got a wire rope around the diff of a cop car then baited the cops into a chase. The lights go on, the engine revs, they take off but the rear drive train stays put.
        
        It didn’t take long for some wag in Wellington to copy the idea. At the time the Wellington Traffic Dept had a base in Cumberland Place in Wellington & used to park their cars in six allocated angle parks. Some wag put a snig around the McPherson strut of one of their new Mk3 Cortinas & attached it to a parking meter.
        
        The traffic cop gets into his car & boots it in reverse leaving the front suspension on the ground. At the time I was working as a truck driver carting over the Rimutakas & putting up with their harassment on a daily basis.
        
        I would have given a week’s wages for a chance to watch it. 🙂
        
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        July 3, 2018 6:37pm
- realityczech
  
  It is an extremely dangerous and technical dive for the best specialists in the world. Trying to get out kids who can’t dive, or probably even swim, through a dark underwater labyrinth is unlikely to end well.
  
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  July 3, 2018 5:10pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Lots of comments from “experts” who have not even seen the cave system in question.
    
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    July 3, 2018 6:25pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      There has been information about the cave system and the rescue on international TVs for over a week.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Tham_Luang_cave_rescue
      
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      July 3, 2018 7:09pm
  - godruelf
    
    Send in Angry and Winnie. Reprioritise the Pike River team
    
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    July 3, 2018 7:48pm
- Johnboy
  
  Confucious say. “Anyone who ventures into a big hole with open mouth, tongue out and brain off deserves to eat sardines” 🙂
  
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  July 3, 2018 6:30pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Johnboy:
    
    I had no idea that “eat sardines” was such a coded message in Hagley Park circles!
    
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    July 3, 2018 6:52pm
ex-golfer

So the “Trougher-in-Chief” W. Peters (Acting PM) confirmed to reporters today that he has no intention of opting out of the Winter Energy Payment – as a matter of principle.

He says he has been against the theory of means-testing all of his life and he will not change that now.

The only difference, which of course reporters did not point out, is that the Winter Energy Payment is not means-tested, but provides an option for people who do not believe they need it to opt-out of receiving it. Opting out is NOT means-testing.

Obviously Mr Peters believes that on his $340,000 salary (+ benefits) he NEEDS the Winter Energy Payment because he is living in poverty.

I’m sure all those people not receiving this benefit, but contributing the taxes that pay for it are ever so grateful that he is happily accepting their largesse.
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July 3, 2018 4:37pm
lifesgood

Did anyone else see that loathsome woman from scouting NZ on Fair Go last night? What a mean hard faced cow. What a disgrace to scouting.
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July 3, 2018 5:44pm
Steve (North Shore)

It’s trolling Tuesday. Lefties close eyes and ears.
DILIGAF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM_LLxWxLRA
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July 3, 2018 5:59pm
- realityczech
  
  Awesome 🙂
  
  Friends in Safe Spaces. Chad Prather and Steve Mudflap McGrew aka Larry the Liberal
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur07OFbHs9c
  
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  July 3, 2018 6:17pm
cha

Is poppabear mark his BeBo handle?
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July 3, 2018 6:07pm
Johnboy

So 6.1 t0 14.7 percent just isn’t enough Cinders! 🙂
When you sell your big arse to the union shit happens darling! 🙂
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/105199690/primary-school-teachers-vote-to-strike-reject-governments-pay-offer
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July 3, 2018 6:19pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Johnboy, the Unions know they can get what they want under the COL (coalition of losers)
  They are going full tilt now, and until the next Election, giving/promising everything so the poor will vote them back in.
  Teachers are not the Teachers I knew in the 60s. Teachers are now Labour puppets/muppets.
  OK stop here before I get mad
  
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  July 3, 2018 6:29pm
DigNap15

I see the teachers are having a stop work meeting soon for half a day.

Going on strike means you go on strike until you get what you what by inconvenience your employer. Half a day is not going to do that. But then again most teachers probably don’t understand proper English.

Please go on strike for 2 weeks and really piss all the parents off.
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July 3, 2018 6:28pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Stop work meeting means most Teachers will be staying in bed all day, with nothing to do except shower, food and masturbate
  
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  July 3, 2018 6:33pm
DigNap15

We have not yet been told how they found the boys.
From a vertical shaft or by cavers or divers entering the cave.

And if I read another article starting with “What we know…” I will curl up and die.
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July 3, 2018 6:32pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  They were discovered by the British dive team.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Tham_Luang_cave_rescue
  
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  July 3, 2018 7:13pm
  - realityczech
    
    They are 4km in. It is worse than I realised. Great effort by the search team.
    
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    July 3, 2018 7:16pm
  - Johnboy
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVZPqxuPFHg&list=RDcVZPqxuPFHg&t=93
    We who only sat and Googled also served Maggy! 🙂
    
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    July 3, 2018 7:19pm
Longknives

I laugh my tits off at Teachers complaining at how tough they have it..
A Facebook friend (Ditzy girl I knew at Varsity) was complaining recently that “OMG I didn’t finish work until 5.30pm!”..
Oh the Humanity!!
Imagine if they had to work Nightshift on Christmas Eve like Nurses, Ambos, Cops etc etc?…
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July 3, 2018 6:41pm
- Johnboy
  
  You cruel, heartless bastard! Think of them having to miss watching TV till say 6.30pm to get all that onerous marking done! 🙂
  
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  July 3, 2018 6:46pm
  - lifesgood
    
    The trouble with teachers is they have never left school. They think they can just carry on the way they did when they were pupils and anything more than that is utterly excessive. It should be compulsory to work in the real world before becoming a teacher, then see how they like it. Bet they’d soon shut up.
    
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    July 3, 2018 6:58pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I suggest a compulsory 3 years in the civil service/council employee role before going into teaching to show the lazy fuckers what hard work really is lg! 🙂
      
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      July 3, 2018 7:05pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Teachers become Teachers, Income comes from ?????
      
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      July 3, 2018 7:12pm
GazzaW

Another drop across the board today for the NZ$. We have now effectively devalued by 10% against all the major currencies since the election. It seems that a loss of confidence in NZ is not just a domestic issue.

Great news for the exporters but not for our domestic economy with all imports increasing by 10% minimum (+GST) just to tread water. Add in the wage demands and the wages/inflation spiral is about to kick off again.
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July 3, 2018 6:45pm
- Johnboy
  
  $3.00/L gas isn’t too far away! How will the Labour voters of South Jafa have any cash left to pay the church tithe and support the village across the sea? 🙂
  
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  July 3, 2018 6:50pm
  - GazzaW
    
    The workers will go on strike Johnboy and the Government handouts will be increased accordingly. It’s called inflation.
    
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    July 3, 2018 7:06pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I never realised that South Jafa had any actual workers resident GW! Us rural folk are just so far removed from reality I guess! 🙂
      
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      July 3, 2018 7:10pm
      - Longknives
        
        I think the WINZ offices in South Auckland employ a couple of hundred or so people Johnboy..
        
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        July 3, 2018 7:19pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Imagine that a couple of hundred people to protect them from their own kind! Must be from different Islands/Villages I guess. 🙂
        
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        July 3, 2018 7:24pm
      - Longknives
        
        I think Sepuloni has got rid of the Security Guards Johnboy..
        Expect a bloodbath.
        The Left will crow with delight like they did after the Ashburton WINZ killings..
        
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        July 3, 2018 7:28pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Longknives:
        
        Expect a bloodbath.
        
        Would you suggest that Work and Income “clients” are locked up in cages until a case officer is ready to see them? We could learn from Donald Trump and allow one cage per family!
        
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        July 3, 2018 7:39pm
      - Longknives
        
        Nostradamus-
        I was once a Case Manager for WINZ.
        Trust me you would need a bloody big cage to fit in most of these ‘families’…
        Shit I remember dealing with a revoltingly abusive gang-affiliated woman who had nine kids- And she wasn’t even 30!
        
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        July 3, 2018 7:55pm
      - GoVege
        
        In the old days they encouraged women to breed to produce “cannon fodder”.
        Nowadays it’s to produce gang fodder….and they get paid for it. 🙂 🙂
        
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        July 3, 2018 10:12pm
Viking2

A comment on Meth and the rental house business.

“I think the politicians don’t know about the TT and what it does.
I was stunned when the pretty Jacinda said no compensation for landlords over p testing because testing was never required by the government.
A bloody government body was fining landlords over p readings.
Jacinda and her advisors have no idea about landlords, tenants and the TT.
This ignorance may not be confined to housing. ”

Total ignorance of how the govt. and the world works from the talking head.
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July 3, 2018 8:28pm
noskire

I’ve recently had an Indian couple move in to one of my rentals.
She apparently is over here to learn early childhood education – he doesn’t appear to speak English and spends most of his time watching Bollywood crap on his laptop. They didn’t know how to use a dishwasher or waste disposal system.
My point?
Why are we allowing these third-world people in for residence/study when our infrastructure is struggling to cope?
Sure I get the rent paid, but you can bet your bottom dollar they will only shop at an Indian “supermarket”, and if they happen to work as well, it will be for Indians (reckon all those wages are being declared?). Rant over.
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July 3, 2018 8:56pm
- realityczech
  
  “Why are we allowing these third-world people in”
  
  You started with the answer: “move in to one of my rentals”
  
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  July 3, 2018 8:58pm
  - noskire
    
    Well I can’t exactly ask my agent to post an ad for non-curry cooking Europeans only need apply.
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:01pm
    - realityczech
      
      Fair enough. But if they stop immigration for these people you can kiss good bye to most of your capital gains.
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:04pm
      - noskire
        
        There will always be a capital gain on property – unless a neo-marxist government holds power for longer than three years.
        
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        July 3, 2018 9:41pm
      - Jack5
        
        The more people pour in, the higher GDP, which is what politicians measure the economy by, and use to sell their performance to voters.
        
        But it doesn’t help GDP per capita, the true measure of citizens’ wealth.
        
        Example – India:
        GDP – fourth highest in world.
        GDP per capita – 156th in the world.
        
        In the last reporting quarter, NZ’s GDP per capita growth was zero. New Zealand’s GDP last year was the 70th biggest in the world. Its GDP per capita was 47th.
        
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        July 3, 2018 9:48pm
      - realityczech
        
        Invest in food parcels. Get a government contract. Say you are trans gender and identify as Maori. It will work out okay.
        
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        July 3, 2018 9:50pm
- DigNap15
  
  That is the one thing that made me think twice about voting for National.
  We need good people here to build our country.
  Not third world misfits.
  Simon Bridges needs to re-think this.
  
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  July 4, 2018 12:31pm
Morrissey

Their murderous contempt for the citizens of the Occupied Territories is notorious. Next in their gunsights are the citizens of the United States.

There was a radical European regime in the 1930s and ’40s that passed similarly repressive laws to the one proposed by the egregious Charles Schumer….

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/07/02/brother-can-you-spare-a-million-dollars/
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July 3, 2018 9:26pm
- Morrissey
  
  One fascist-minded hater of free speech and liberty has registered his Schumerian sliminess.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:31pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yes Morris Dancer they suspend all morality for the Jews. They think they will go to heaven for it.
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:42pm
- realityczech
  
  This is really no surprise. The USA supported and supplied Nazi Germany to begin with. They could not have done it without them. The American icon Henry Ford even got a big medal from Germany for all his help.
  
  They are again supporting the invasion and occupation of other countries, complete with the usual atrocities.
  
  The biggest trick the zionist Jews pulled was to get the West to adopt their religious enemies as their own. Plenty of decent Jews do not approve and are fearful of the pay back that will come. And it will come.
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:56pm
Jack5

Morrissey, what happened to your Groper Watch?
Have you been asleep at your post? Too much radio noise?
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July 3, 2018 9:40pm
- realityczech
  
  Jacksie, we are watching out for extremist zionist Jews tonight. You wanna join in? 🙂
  
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  July 3, 2018 9:47pm
  - Jack5
    
    So Morrissey was asleep at his post, headphones on – the left side of the set tuned to one radio station,t he right side to another.
    
    And here you are, Realityczech, calling Morrissey into the streets for a Kristallnacht, when he hasn’t dealt with the groping in Canada.
    
    Is Trudeau by any chance Jewish?
    
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    July 3, 2018 9:53pm
    - realityczech
      
      Still fussing over a few broken windows 80 years later. You really need to get some perspective.
      
      To be fair Jacksie, Trudeau was not shooting Eskimos on the land he stole from them.
      
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      July 3, 2018 9:58pm
      - Jack5
        
        Perhaps Trudeau’s read too many frontier poems:
        
        So, I’m going back to the Frozen North,
        Where even the dead sleep two in a bed,
        And the Nights are Six Months long.
        
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        July 3, 2018 10:22pm
Jack5

Wayne Mapp, who pops up on Kiwiblog, gets a roasting on Michael Reddell’s Croaking Cassandra blog over Mapp’s performance on the Q&A TV show on Sunday.

Mapp sounds to have been unconvincing in his defence of the infiltration of NZ politics by the People’s Republic of China.

And McKinnon looks to be stuck in the age when the West was strong while China was still struggling behind the Bamboo Curtain and Asians deferred to colonial diplomats.

https://croakingcassandra.com/
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July 3, 2018 10:20pm
Odakyu-sen

I enjoyed shopping in the Ginza district of Tokyo today.
Uniqlo was full of Chinese. They are really starting to wreck the tourist scene by booking out all the hotels. (Where is the recession when you need it?)
Some of the Ginza stores sell 10-bottle sets of Rothschild’s wine that cost as much as a new car! This is silly nonsense left over from the Bubble Economy days of the early 90s.
I went shopping at the supermarket for dinner, after failing to find the beer garden I had been looking for. The food here is good and relatively cheap.
I’m on the plane back to Auckland tomorrow afternoon. I shudder to think what the price of petrol will be once I return…
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