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KiWombat

Eugenie Sage met with either a man from the EPA or a woman from the Ministry for Environment – not sure which – she should have gone to Specsavers !

Sage didn’t really blame the Overseas Investment Act for signing away rights to water, that was just a misunderstanding which was cleared up as soon as she read her copy of the act –

Sage couldn’t blame John Key for the sale of Mount White station to a Czech National – It was her signature on the OIO documents –

Acting PM WeeWinnie didn’t really select a NZ First Minister to be responsible for the inquiry into former NZ First candidate Wally Haumaha’s selection as deputy police commissioner, and then appoint one of Haumaha’s “bro’s” to head that inquiry – they just drew the names from the hat in the wrong order –

Tracey Martin didn’t really claim that Kingi had vouched for Haumana 16 years ago on LinkedIn, 10 years before that LinkedIn function had even been invented – the “teen” was just a slip of the tongue – again –

Clare Curran didn’t arrange a meeting, that was just another unfortunate misunderstanding –

– neither did she warn anybody away from attending a Parliamentary Select Committee – that was just an unfortunate misinterpretation –

– nor was she involved in a committee that she established not keeping minutes because they could be OIA’d – another misconstruction of the facts –

WeeWinnie didn’t attempt to sue Bill English & Co – the media misinterpreted that as well –

Cindy didn’t mean to say “A true mark of leadership is whether you front those mistakes“:- the camera was inadvertently rolling at the time –

Cindy’s candidate for Northcote didn’t really claim to have earned an MBA, its just that his social media page forgot to mention that MBA actually stood for “Master Bullshit Artist” –

David Clark didn’t try to bribe a DHB Chairman, he was just being nice offering him alternate employment – and quickly if he kept his mouth shut –

David Clark also didn’t really go on an overseas holiday the day before the nurses strike began, he just had to attend to a “secret mission” that coincidentally included the wife and kids –

Ron Mark didn’t misuse military aircraft, they just happened to be misguidedly passing his back porch –

Tracey Martin didn’t deliberately avoid a meeting she had called with the 15 Oranga Tamariki CRF chairs, she had a “senior moment” that morning and forgot which hat she needed to put on –

The government didn’t really try to short circuit the law for one of David Parker’s workmates, it was supposed to be koha for the local iwi –

Labour didn’t supply booze to underage children, their caterer just made an unfortunate miscalculation –

JAG didn’t mean to be nasty about old white men – we just got all confused about her terminology – after all there’s probably an “old white man” at the helm of her daily flight to work, isn’t there ?

We didn’t really cancel oil and gas exploration – it’s just that we have found an amply supply of hot air in Wellington to compensate –

Shame Jones was told his project feasibility study was a waste of money, but he unfortunately misread that and carried on regardless –

Jenny Marcroft didn’t attempt to bribe Mark Mitchell, Mitchell became confused and misunderstood what she said –

Cindy didn’t promise “no strikes on my watch” – that was just misreporting by TVNZ and should have been edited out –

Similarly – she didn’t mean to say “no new taxes under Labour – but then the fuel taxes are mostly being applied by Councils anyway –

Nobody put their hand down a kiddies pants at the Labour Youth Camp, somebody was just brushing the ants off their tush – another unfortunate misunderstanding –

Twitford didn’t promise us 100,000 new homes – then have to re-define the term “year” – just another unfortunate miscalculation –

Likewise, Twitford was just suffering brain fade when he telephoned his staff from an aircraft, then stood and moved around the aircraft whilst it was taxi-ing – the witness just misunderstood what he saw –

Shame Jones didn’t really promise 100,000,000 trees per year, this was an unfortunate misassessment, and in any case he couldn’t control the Autumn from hell –

Paul Eagle didn’t attempt to bribe his local panel beater into committing insurance fraud – the poor panel beater unfortunately suffers from mistaken belief syndrome –

This agglomeration of misfits, misunderstandings, false impressions, misreadings, miscalculations, mistaken beliefs, slips of the tongue, misinterpretations, fuck ups, errors and mix-ups is beginning to get somewhat tedious. The time has come for one or two heads to roll !
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August 1, 2018 8:01am
- oldgolfer
  
  Brilliant.
  That list should be sent to all NZers asap.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:09am
  - Harkman
    
    Especially Mike Yardley, he claimed yesterday that Winston did a good job as PM. WTF? He pissed off Australia, insulted John Howard, took jabs at Trump, and the strikes continued.
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:11am
- slightlyrighty
  
  and it’s only been 9 months?
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:12am
- holysheet
  
  Look here your negatividy is glaring. Why not show your posadividy and do a list of all the good things this govt has done.
  Oh, that’s right, I couldn’t think of any either…
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:33am
  - KiWombat
    
    I’ll start your list off Holy:-
    1) Get pregnant and go off on maternity leave –
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:29am
- KevOB
  
  But how do we roll them? They can stiff us with canoe jumping, Unions controlling Labour’s selection of Leader, MMP giving an unelected Winston power of appointment…
  
  How can we intervene against a rogue government. The People need rights too. This is not A.D. 1,000. If the Gov. General does not act that, at present, only leaves rebellion to adjust the scales.
  
  What has NZ been reduced too?
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:38am
- Philview
  
  Good list!!
  Thrown in the mix was Winston Peters seemingly siding with the Russians over Salisbury and election rigging. Siding with the Russians against the EU at a time when the NZ Government was was engaged in important trade dialogue with the EU. Cindy saying it was just Winston’s “personal views”. Shane’s “personal view” on Fonterra and Air NZ. Grant Robertson attending a Labour Fundraiser and giving a report on the budget in and he was there in a “personal” capacity.
  
  Let us not forget Kelvin Davis “Why wasn’t I told about prison numbers forecasts”.
  
  It has been a busy few months.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:19am
  - KiWombat
    
    I find it hard to keep a straight face whenever Kelvin Davis enters the equation. He just seems so totally inept at anything he touches, and lacks the backbone to stand now for what he parroted before the election. Where would I begin ?
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:33am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Just like the first 100 days they were busy, and they have remained busy.
    
    However, it is now clear the only thing they have been busy doing, is creating a mess!
    
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    August 1, 2018 2:49pm
    - KevOB
      
      Children in a playroom are busy too.
      
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      August 1, 2018 10:25pm
- Fletch
  
  Can you link to Jacinda’s promising of no strike action? I thought it might be handy to have but I can’t seem to google it.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:22am
  - KiWombat
    
    It was in the last leaders debate, about 3/4 of the way through.
    
    Remember she said “Not on my watch”
    
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    August 1, 2018 12:26pm
    - Fletch
      
      Found it!
      
      https://youtu.be/1Ch1k1bz7Rc?t=58m38s
      
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      August 1, 2018 1:00pm
  - KiWombat
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ch1k1bz7Rc
    
    at about 59 minutes
    
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    August 1, 2018 12:57pm
    - Fletch
      
      SNAP!
      
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      August 1, 2018 1:45pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Boom! Busted bitch. Now let’s see TV1 ask her to deny that she said that.
      No more lies would be a good start.
      
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      August 1, 2018 5:47pm
- RF
  
  KiWombat
  
  Pure gold. Worth a million up ticks…..
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:29am
3-coil

1 August:

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Jacinda
Happy birthday to you
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August 1, 2018 8:04am
jp_1983

Happy birthday to the horses out there
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August 1, 2018 8:05am
- waikatogirl
  
  Especially all the good-looking horses ?
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:15am
  - G152
    
    You beat me to it 🙂
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:22am
  - DigNap15
    
    That’s a good one WG!
    
    A bit under the belt, but still a good one!
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:41am
- holysheet
  
  Don’t miss parliament TV tomorrow. You will see a mare feeding her foal for the first time in our parliament.
  It will be making a statement that all the luvies will enjoy
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:40am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Won’t be the first time. Ruth Richardson did it.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:48am
    - holysheet
      
      Yeah but we are talking about horses here.
      Keep up.
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:50am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    No, she’s not actually returning to Parliament until next week. Tomorrow will be an office day.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:52am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Will Kelvin be at the crease or will he be in the witless protection program again?
      
      I hope so, let’s hope we get Curran, Mark, Mahuta or some other intellectual heavy weight like Twyford to lead the brains thrust!
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:08am
  - noskire
    
    Don’t be surprised if all the Members on the CoL benches giver her a standing ovation when she walks in.
    
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    August 1, 2018 4:21pm
- Harkman
  
  I showed my brother’s seven year old Mr Ed over the weekend and he thought it was hysterical.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:03am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Mr Ed ended up going to Jimbo’s, is that some sort of portent for the princess of the nation
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:11am
igm

Interesting to read about Murri woman assaulting disabled lady after disagreement over disabled parking place in Pamerston North.
This irks me, as it is noticeable in many areas PI, Maori, and rug pilots totally disregard these restricted areas.
On Saturday we noticed a obese Maori male leaning against a people mover puffing on his cigarette. When someone pointed to the sign he told them, “Get stuffed, our land, not yours, and I park where I like”.
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August 1, 2018 8:09am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Funny, given he’s smoking the white man’s tobacco, driving the white man’s car, and when his smoking and obesity take their toll, he’ll happily go to a white man’s hospital!
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:24am
  - waikatogirl
    
    In the USA there are large fines and court appearances to explain yourself to the judge if you park in disabled parking.
    
    In Britain they are now issuing disabled parking permits to parents who have children with hidden disabilities such as autism. I thought that’s what the mother and child parks were for?
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:29am
    - DigNap15
      
      In the USA they have sensible judges
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:43am
    - Lance
      
      Conversely we are good friends with a women who has a reconstructed spine. Smashed by one of the fine young people at Weymouth. She was a strong woman but had her back broken in several places.
      She is not in a wheelchair now but can only walk short distances even years later.
      She regularly receives abuse from FUCKWITS who have it in their tiny brain that she shouldn’t use a mobility space, even though she has a card.
      Usually old bastards.
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:48am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        So is it or is it not acceptable to challenge sombody who does not appear to be disabled but who is using a disabled parking space?
        
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        August 1, 2018 1:16pm
      - Lance
        
        The mobility card is the identifier, if not then who is the mobility police?
        Do you have to pass 20 questions.. attempt sit-ups?
        
        Fuck off
        
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        August 1, 2018 9:19pm
  - holysheet
    
    You forgot the white mans money paying for everything.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:42am
  - Harkman
    
    I want our muskets back, and the blankets.
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:06am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      . . . the language, the wheel , metal and 200 years of education, welfare and sensible civilisation . . . .
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:14am
  - alloytoo
    
    Isn’t it technically the Red Man’s Tobacco?
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:00am
Nukuleka

Only in the People’s Republic of Christchurch.

Having narrowed CBD roads, reduced the speed limit, removed many on street car parks, constructed mega million dollar obstructive cycle ways and made it clear that the only people deemed suitable to enter the CBD are cyclists and bus users, the Christchurch City Council is now imploring locals to support central city businesses that are failing because of lack of patronage. And the cause of the lack of patronage- the policies of the Christchurch City Council. Well done Lianne Dalziel, Vicky Buck and the rest of the traffic planning nutters responsible for the irresponsible CBD catastrophe. CBD businesses are reaping the results of the foolishness you have sown.
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August 1, 2018 8:10am
- igm
  
  This happens when anyone gets to vote in local body elections. We must return to principal ratepayers only, having the vote . . . these clowns only get elected by non-ratepayers who see them as another way to get at those with something.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:13am
  - kowtow
    
    Not just local gubmint…….
    
    How did we ever get this coalition…..
    
    “I used to vote for National but Jacinda is such a breath of fresh air” FFS!
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:15am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      More like a fart in a lift with a hint of follow through . . .
      
      Everyone is looking around to blame someone . . . .
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:18am
      - kowtow
        
        Classic definition of a sociopath.
        
        A person who farts in a crowded lift.
        
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        August 1, 2018 11:08am
  - stephieboy
    
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    igm, shall we return to a property franchise in general elections too?
    
    A landlord would have to be stupid not to apportion raters into the rent which does and must happen.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:19am
    - igm
      
      Like Trev, your knowledge of commerce is abysmal.
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:22am
    - KevOB
      
      …shall we return to a property franchise in general elections too?
      
      Yes. We would get a much better class of candidate-no youthful votebuyers.
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:02am
    - KiWombat
      
      Stephie took an IQ test – but the results were negative !
      
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      August 1, 2018 4:34pm
  - MT_Tinman
    
    igm, you make the same comment 7,486 times a month.
    
    How do you propose to make this distinction?
    
    Is that one vote per household? One vote per ratepayer?
    
    One vote per owner?
    
    What happens when a property is jointly owned by a couple? Half a vote each?
    
    Do vehicular road users, who pay for many of the roads through a city, get to vote on what happens to and around those roads?
    
    Do you have any proof that a single non-ratepayer has, in the last 25 years, vote in a Local Body election?
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:46am
    - igm
      
      One rates demand, one vote . . . simple.
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:50am
      - MCos
        
        Forget it.
        Not going to happen.
        
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        August 1, 2018 9:01am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Should make each vote’s power proportional to tax(rates) paid. For general elections as well.
        
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        August 1, 2018 9:10am
      - stephieboy
        
        UN, won’t happen either!
        
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        August 1, 2018 11:10am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        So if I and my partner, who live at and jointly own the same house, have different voting intentions, who gets to vote?
        
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        August 1, 2018 1:17pm
  - Westiepete
    
    How about scrapping the optional postal voting bullshit and make voting compulsory for all residents. If you don’t vote don’t fucking whinge about the result.
    
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    August 1, 2018 12:43pm
  - ex-golfer
    
    @igm
    I rent, by choice.
    I have better things to do with my money.
    Obviously a proportion of my rent is used to pay the rates on the property I live in.
    Are you proposing that I have no democratic say in the operation of my city?
    
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    August 1, 2018 3:30pm
    - igm
      
      If you have five in your household, all voting age, they get a vote. If I have five properties, I get one vote. Call that a fair deal, when I am the one wearing all sorts of associated costs. If you do not pay specific rates you should be paying a poll tax. If this is the case time for a separate component in rentals covering outgoings as in commercial rentals.
      
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      August 1, 2018 4:56pm
      - ex-golfer
        
        I’m not sure if that answers my question or not but I am surprised to hear you advocating for a new tax.
        
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        August 1, 2018 6:10pm
- nasska
  
  It must be terribly frustrating for the experts when the hoi polloi just won’t do what they’re supposed to do.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:15am
  - softail 1450
    
    nasska, ztev’s doesn’t require facts ,just a keyboard and access to the web.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:46am
- KevOB
  
  Very large numbers of former residents have been re-homed outside the central region. Why return? The business area is mixed wasteland and commerce with restricted traffic flows. A recipe for avoidance and keeping to arterial routes.
  
  Christchurch is potentially a developers nightmare.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:58am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    The earthquakes did a number on the CBD. The zealot city planners just delivered the coup de grace.
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:12am
kowtow

How many western tax dollars go to fund terror against Israel?

‘Muhammad Tareq Dar Yusuf, 17, snuck into the West Bank community of Adam on Thursday evening before fatally stabbing Yotam Ovadia, a father of two young children. A 58-year-old man was also seriously wounded during the attack, as was a third victim who sustained light injuries before fatally shooting Yusuf.’

https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/07/31/family-of-palestinian-who-killed-israeli-father-qualifies-for-monthly-terror-payments/
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August 1, 2018 8:11am
kowtow

Meanwhile western taxpayers fund their own govt’s efforts to ferry terrorists to Europe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6008369/Manchester-bomber-rescued-Royal-Navy-Libyan-warzone-evacuated-Britain.html
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August 1, 2018 8:13am
Pete George

Winston Peters in particular, but also Labour, have put their strongly expressed immigration policies from the election campaign on the back burner at least.

Corrin Dann: You told your supporters you wanted it at ten thousand.

Winston Peters: Yeah well I lost the argument because I didn’t get enough votes because people like you said it wouldn’t work. Now you say it will.

It was one of Winston’s most prominent ‘bottom lines’, but he isn’t even bothering to try to hold Labour to their immigration policy.

https://yournz.org/2018/07/31/government-so-far-reneged-on-immigration-promises/
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August 1, 2018 8:15am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Peters is a known liar. After all, he’s the only MP in Parliament to have been investigated by the Privileges Committee and censured by his peers for knowingly filing a false pecuniary interest return.
  
  Despite that, New Zealanders voted for him in sufficient numbers to make him the Queen-maker. Did many of those truly believe that he was going to “keep National honest” when he has been a serial bullshitter for most of his political career?
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:23am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Well Chukie… did ya?
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:41am
    - holysheet
      
      Like all the other morons who did vote for the drunken dwarf, none will admit doing that.
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:46am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Awww C-mon:
      
      Chuck has told us he voted for Winston. He also told us that attended the National Party conference last weekend. What should we make of this7
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:50am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        To be fair, I think Chuck realises he made a collossal mistake last year, and has repented.
        
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        August 1, 2018 8:54am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        And, we as a community here, may forgive him in time, but it does not mean I will forget . . .
        
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        August 1, 2018 9:29am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Just kidding Chuck, you are entitled to your opinion, even though it was wrong. No hard feelings.
        
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        August 1, 2018 9:30am
      - stigie
        
        Poor ole Dad won’t come on here now and admit that he voted for Winston for fear of a backlash from us aids infested creepy lot !~
        
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        August 1, 2018 10:17am
  - KevOB
    
    Winston is a fraud–he didn’t tell us he had gone full commo prior to his selection choice speech. That’s equivalent to rejecting the mandate he stood on.
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:07am
  - Colinxy
    
    Next time, Winston will keep his promises, honest.
    
    My father believed that people’s memories were short when it came to elections. Winston Peters has proved my father’s saying time and time again.
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:49am
  - backster
    
    When those figures came out I read that the difference between the 72000 and 66000 was New Zealanders leaving for Australia following the election.
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:11am
    - dubya
      
      We’ve had three employees leave or are about to leave NZ. All were on six figures or close to it, and in their twenties or early thirties. We’re still busy, very busy, but overregulation and difficulty attracting good workers is frankly tiresome and only going to get worse, if unions have their say and skilled immigrants stop coming.
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:08pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  So immigration was not possible, but he could get:
  -20% of cabinet posts.
  -3 billion NZF re-election bribe fund.
  -PM for 6 weeks.
  -tax breaks for good looking horses.
  
  He’s NZ’s own Comical Ali.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:16am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    What a crap negotiator he is. Should have sealed at least 90% of his party’s policy
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:27pm
Hugh Pavletich

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Rat-wheel economy drives massive NZ infrastructure deficit – Leith van Onselen – MacroBusiness
… behind paywall …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/rat-wheel-economy-drives-massive-nz-infrastructure-deficit/

By Leith van Onselen

In August last year, Bernard Doyle, a strategist at JBWere, penned a ripping report on the New Zealand economy, arguing that rabid population growth was masking underlying weak productivity and poor per capita GDP growth:

New Zealand has been in a productivity recession since 2012. Not that you’d notice from headline GDP numbers, which continue to print impressively. However GDP per hour worked has flat-lined for five years … read more via hyperlink above …

… PAVLETICH COMMENT ON THREAD …

Thank you Leith.

On the ‘priority’ front, the Government is currently actively working to get bond infrastructure financing in place.

Infrastructure New Zealand led a delegation of 42 people from the public and private sector to the United States in April as well. Here is their report released mid – June …

Enabling City Growth: Lessons from the USA (pdf) … Infrastructure New Zealand

https://infrastructure.org.nz/resources/Documents/Reports/Infrastructure%20NZ%20USA%20Report.pdf

… with this media report soon after …

How to solve housing affordability in New Zealand? Look to the United States | The Spinoff

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/30-06-2018/how-to-solve-housing-affordability-in-new-zealand-look-to-the-united-states/

Recently … Housing Minister Phil Twyford reinforced this, in responding to my concerns …

Govt criticised for moving slowly on Auckland growth boundary | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105295016/govt-criticised-for-moving-slowly-on-auckland-growth-boundary

While the above is being put in place with urgency … Financer Minister Grant Robertson is wisely engaging the NZ Productivity Commission to investigate why local government costs have got out of control …

A decade after the Shand Inquiry, the Finance Minister has asked the Productivity Commission to take another look at local government spending | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/94951/decade-after-shand-inquiry-finance-minister-has-asked-productivity-commission-take

Productivity Commission to investigate Local Government funding and financing | Beehive.govt.nz

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/productivity-commission-investigate-local-government-funding-and-financing

Do check out the June Update and Ardern / Twyford sections of my archival website http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org for further information.

The root cause of the housing affordability crisis is local government losing control of costs … and the ability to meet its infrastructure responsibilities and cope with normal growth.

The forced 1989 local government amalgamations … followed by the truly idiotic recent Auckland Councils amalgamations, set the stage for massive ‘institutional failure’.

The public is acutely aware of the bureaucratic basket cases of the Auckland and Christchurch Councils … and in recent times rejected the (Anti) Local Government Commissions proposals for the amalgamation of Wellington, Hawkes Bay and Northland Councils.

I understand on a population basis, the United States has as many units of local government as New Zealand did pre – 1989.

Local Governments reputation in New Zealand is truly dreadful … as its own polling illustrates (interestingly … no media reporting of these surveys in recent years ! … wonder why ? ).

Here is a 2015 report on the 2014 survey (it tool Local Government New Zealand a year to massage the media release !)… …

Poll shows local government has a reputation problem | The National Business Review

https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/poll-shows-local-government-has-reputation-problem-b-172979

Check out the small and therefore functional Selwyn and Waimakariri Councils performances in comparison with the large bureaucratically bloated Christchurch City Council.

Don’t get me started !
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August 1, 2018 8:16am
- Nostradamus
  
  Hugh:
  
  “Don’t get me started !”
  
  You’re right – today, for a change, instead of replying to your own comments all day, you could put your keyboard away and slay some dragons instead!
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:27am
- Jade Warrior
  
  Change the record Hugh. Go on. Surprise us.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:50am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Massive changes looming.
    
    Are you prepared ?
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:04am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      What! Are you saying that is your last post here for ever and ever?
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:32am
      - stephieboy
        
        Paulus Gnome unlike you and Nostradamus etc, Hugh is far better informed than you lot ever will be.
        
        Furthermore doesn’t deny reality unlike you.
        
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        August 1, 2018 11:13am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        He is indeed very well informed. But he is such an almighty f*cking bore about it that he is routinely ignored and/or downticked into oblivion whether or not he is actually saying anything worthwhile. You, stephie, could learn from that
        
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        August 1, 2018 1:22pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        unlike you and Nostradamus etc, Hugh is far better informed than you lot ever will be
        
        I defer to your expertise when it comes to maintaining a logbook of pervy activities at St Lukes. But what, apart from that, do you say you’re “better informed” than the rest of us about?
        
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        August 1, 2018 2:05pm
RW Capitalist

Saw some of winnie on TV3.
Heard, in the middle, winnie say …”we are doing our best….”
We winnie, no matter what the subject, if this is your “BEST”……..god help us
and
now we know that the title of our national anthem is to defend us against you.
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August 1, 2018 8:26am
peterwn

So Barry Soper (journalist) is claiming that Simon Bridges is the ‘invisible’ man.
This says more about the attitude of journalists than about Simon.
What does Barry think that Simon should do to become more ‘visible’ to Barry’s journalist mates. Drive a tractor up the steps of Parliament, streak down Lambton Quay, needle Winnie about his habits etc?
Perhaps Simon needs a new member to his family and be the principal caregiver including having the bub in the Chamber. If that does not give the media something to write about – what will?
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August 1, 2018 8:28am
- Happychappy
  
  He will be on Winstons trip overseas and being one of his drinking buddies he was probably reminded to do a hit on Simon before they leave.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:40am
- Philview
  
  Simon has been travelling the country meeting the people without any great media interest. I have heard that he presented himself well in those meetings. Some media were quite vicious about him introducing his family at the Conference but they lap up Jacinda doing similar.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:32am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Simon Bridges has a family, the other one has a ‘partner’ and a child
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:35am
- oldpark
  
  @Peterwin
  Mrs Soper on Newstalkzb Wellington edition,completely endorses Barry as number one arse licker of Peters. Think she has told Barry support our drinking buddy Peters anywhich way.
  Mrs Soper just another out of control biased mouth piece who after being fired from TV3 allowed nepotism to make sure she got employed with the questionable Newstalkzb. Think very quickly HDPA who started out as not too bad, has quickly become just another also ran talk back ranter and raver.Was a sad say for Wellington when Tim Foowkes went off to Australia,allowing dopey Mrs Soper to fluke the job. Nuff said.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:32am
Happychappy

I wonder if Winston was getting some practice in on being intoxicated in Parliament yesterday according to Jerry Brownlee. I guess these Foriegñ Affairs trips need practice to keep up with others like Boris Johnston and co.
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August 1, 2018 8:33am
- 3-coil
  
  Winnie, the ersatz Prime Minister was pissed in Parliament yesterday…why no media coverage of this??
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:20am
holysheet

The police knocked on my door to tell me that they had received complaints and that I was offending my Muslim neighbours, and the lesbian couple that lives across the street. I was blissfully unaware of any behaviour of mine that could be bothering them, so I asked, “What am I doing wrong?” “Existing as a white heterosexual male,” they replied.
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August 1, 2018 8:35am
Lee C

The only way Soper’s claim can be true, is if he and others in the press are admitting to ignoring him. He is the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition.
If he is ‘invisible’ theonly logical reason for it can be that the press is refusing to make him visible.
For Soper to then blame the victim is a risible admissin of his own bias.
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August 1, 2018 8:35am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Spot on Lee. Bridges was certainly visible to the thousands of New Zealanders who turned up to his 70-odd meetings in halls, bowling clubs and churches up and down the country. That’s where elections are won and lost, and not in Barry Soper’s red-tinted columns.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:41am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Keeping Stock:
    
    I think Barry Soper’s columns are more than “red-tinted” – they’re a deep shade of red that’s impossible to miss!
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:46am
    - stephieboy
      
      Nostradamus,
      red flag, hammer and sickle stuff?
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:33am
  - kowtow
    
    KS
    
    Alastair Scott’s proposed private members bill to amend the arms act in respect of cut down weapons was well intentioned but a disaster.
    
    However Chris Bishops’ reaction to the firearm’s community’s concerns is exactly what us the voting public (who are engaged in the political process as it effects our rights) want to see from our elected representatives.
    
    Extract from his email
    
    ‘As Police spokesperson, I am very keen to engage with licenced firearm owners. Later in the year along with your local National MPs I will be holding a series of “National Firearms Forums” where licenced firearms owners will have the opportunity to meet me and in some cases our Justice spokesperson Mark Mitchell. The forums will be a great opportunity for licenced firearm owners shape our policy going into 2020. The sessions will primarily be held in the evening to allow people to attend after work and will be held in as many parts of the country as feasibly possible.’
    
    My point is that these are issues very dear to many firearms holders and it is important that National listen and respond , which they are doing.
    
    None of this is reported in the MSM .
    
    BTW Ron Mark is very well regarded in that community for his advocacy in that regard.
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:09am
secondcumming

*QUOTE OF THE DAY* 😎

“After Jim finished as Prime Minister and was chair of NZ Post he said to me that the only reason he was in National was because Labour never asked”

[Andrew Little]
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August 1, 2018 8:40am
- holysheet
  
  Yeah but hes certainly making up for that lost opportunity now.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:48am
- kowtow
  
  Fark!
  
  Looks like its the same in Oz with Turnbull.
  
  https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/labor-rejected-turnbulls-offer-to-join-alas-liberals-didnt/news-story/902507bee1d7616b204d4185b7b89638
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:19am
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
First-home buyers – and investors – look to Dunedin … Susan Edmunds … Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/105894402/First-home-buyers-and-investors-look-to-Dunedin?cid=app-iPad

Hamilton woman Angela Cuming is moving to Dunedin in search of an affordable first home for her family.

She and her husband had always thought they would settle in the Waikato city. But, when they applied for a mortgage, they were disappointed.

Although they had saved $80,000 for a deposit and had household income of $130,000, they were priced out.

“Having three kids makes it more difficult. So a friend of mine moved from Auckland to Dunedin and loved it and we went from ‘ha, that’s a thought’ to ‘hey, let’s seriously consider this’. The house prices were a big drawcard, obviously, but we’ve both been down to Dunedin and love it. And happily neither of us mind the cold.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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WHAT SHOULD A ‘MEDIAN’ HOUSE COST ? … STUFF / FAIRFAX READERS POLL …

(Original title) Don’t’ 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
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… Recent Media Report … The Inaugural New Zealand IPSOS Survey …

UPDATE – New (IPSOS) survey reveals housing, poverty and healthcare most concern New Zealanders – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12047092

A recent survey on key issues concerning New Zealanders has shown that housing accessibility and affordability are at the forefront of people’s minds.

The first of the quarterly New Zealand Issues Monitor reports, run by global market research company Ipsos, interviewed 610 respondents over the age of 16.

It sought to track what New Zealanders were concerned about, who is worried about what and which political parties are seen to be best able to improve matters. … read more via hyperlink above …

… Preference always trumps policy …
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August 1, 2018 8:46am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Didn’t you post that crap yesterday?
  Alzheimer’s much?
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:56am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    No.
    
    Check out the date of the Edmunds article above.
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:02am
  - MCos
    
    Maybe he’s checking to see who’s paying attention
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:09am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      MCos … the IPSOS poll and Stuff Readers poll above will tell you that.
      
      And the GONE GONE GOING section at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org will tell you why the Tories were thrown on to the Opposition benches last October … deservedly …
      
      http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/National%20News.html
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:19am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Link Whore
        
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        August 1, 2018 9:46am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Moody’s: New Zealand housing affordability worsens, a credit negative for covered bonds | Markets Insider
        
        https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/moody-s-new-zealand-housing-affordability-worsens-a-credit-negative-for-covered-bonds-1027418865
        
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        August 1, 2018 5:31pm
  - sooty
    
    And the day before and the day before that!
    
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    August 1, 2018 2:34pm
oldpark

Heard two days in a row,the latest shoot himself in the foot mouthpiece Hosking. He supports peters Waka jumping bill as if it was no big deal. In fact it is an abomination on NZs Electoral voting system.
Maybe it could be fine for so called List MPs.
Certainly not for Electoral voted in MPS.
Hosking attempts to argue that Electoral MPs should also come under Peters mad dog Waka jumping umbrella.
They will says Peters and Hosking.
Hosking says Electoral MP crosses floor ,not agreeing with someting that would be detrimental in the interest of his electors .
Flap jaw Dictator Peters and Hosking say leave and fight a by-election.What a bloody insult to our democracy. Makes one wonder what is the point of voting if such a punitive Waka Jumping Legislation can over rule the wishes of Electoral MPs voters.
Why should Peters Waka jumping Bill apply to Democratically Elected Electoral MPs.
Starting to see that NZs world famous democracy is under attack with Peters Waka jumping Bill.
NZs may have to think abit more about our so called Politicans.
Are NZs voters living in a fools Paradise,or a Paradise run by fools or self serving Dictatorial Pests.
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August 1, 2018 8:46am
softail 1450

I was reaching for the sick bag this morning watching drunken Garner arse lick and french kiss the drunken dwarf , Peters didn’t even deny the comment by the national parties president that he was a “whiskey swilling heavy smoking “bullet that the nats were lucky enough to avoid….
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August 1, 2018 8:52am
Grant

Starter for ten points: Who said the following? “The Government has a tranche of explosive policies that we intend to put into place, or are already having in place, and we can see a rapid turn-around in our country’s economy because we’re based, in terms of this Government’s plan, on production and exports and real wealth, not mass immigration and consumption.”

For a bonus five points, wtf is an explosive policy?
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August 1, 2018 8:57am
- Nostradamus
  
  Winston Peters said it in parliamentary question time yesterday. An explosive policy is what happens when you {or rather he) walks into the Pike River mine clutching a whiskey bottle…
  
  Is that 15 points to me? 🙂
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:04am
  - Grant
    
    15 plus an extra 20 for humour
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    August 1, 2018 9:07am
- KevOB
  
  One that blows up the economy. Shaw has announced the death of GDP as a measure.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:13am
- MrLovebucket
  
  I noted he used the word “rapid”.
  
  The clueless finance minister keeps repeating the opposite and that the reason why the numbers are so poor is because it’s going to take ages to turn the economy around.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:41am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  That was Sweet Cheeks Robertson
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:59am
Poppa

So we now have economists agreeing that the NZ economy is tanking & about to get worse. Combination of factors but most of them caused by a train wreck of a Government

Where were they when Joyce predicted the hole? That’s right lining up behind Robbo
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August 1, 2018 8:58am
- peterwn
  
  Winnie warned that the world economy was going to tank and implied he would be the saviour for NZ. NZ seems to be leading the way with this – come on Winston, what are you doing about it?
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:10am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    The US just announced GDP of 4.1% Sounds like the world is in terrible shape
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:39am
  - backster
    
    Well for a start he is making employers financially liable for employee’domestic abus.es
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:21am
    - sooty
      
      How about retire at the next election after been PM for most of this term. His retirement fund will be overflowing.
      
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      August 1, 2018 2:37pm
- KevOB
  
  The train wreck already visited on us by the COL is probably about to get worse from international credit tightening. If so they won’t be able to handle it.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:17am
- Philview
  
  I thought Grant had debunked that as “fake news”! “Business owners need to get over the election result and get behind the government”. They will be called in for a “chat”. Just like the petrol companies were called in for a “chat”.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:25am
  - peterwn
    
    With or without coffee?
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:14am
  - KevOB
    
    Does a crayfish sense the slow heating of the cooking pot? NZ takes what comes in the outside world.
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:53am
graham

UK author Kim Goodwin posts a chart about mansplaining on Twitter.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12098716

Now I have no problem with her posting the chart, it’s actually not too bad.

But looking at her Twitter feed, someone commented,

Why make this a gendered issue? What you are basically defining here is condescending behaviour that can happen in any human interaction, regardless of gender. I take offence at the sexist implication that this is a male oriented behaviour.

To which Kim replied:

It’s gendered because the behavior is predominantly gendered. You might also notice I don’t say “all men” anywhere…the chart just asks if you ARE mansplaining. And by the way, men are by definition not targets of sexism.

Sorry? Has the definition of “sexism” changed and nobody told me?

Just to make sure, I checked the online Oxford dictionary (would like to check my 30 year old Collins dictionary but it’s at home), which defines sexism thus:

Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.
‘sexism in language is an offensive reminder of the way the culture sees women’

So, by definition, men CAN be targets of sexism. It may “typically” be against women, but that is NOT the same as saying women are “exclusively” targets of sexism.

I don’t mind people posting charts about so-called “mansplaining”, or voicing their opinions or feelings … but when they start stating something AS FACT OR DEFINITION that is actually demonstrably false, then I get pissed off. It’s a failing of mine, I admit …
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August 1, 2018 9:01am
holysheet

Happy National Girlfriends Day!
The 1st of August marks a special day to celebrate the girlfriends in your life.

I wonder how many get this wrong and send the flowers to the wrong person? Clarke needs to be very very careful here.

All the PC brigade will be up in arms at the sexist name. Just waiting for the happy boyfriend day for all the howls of outrage.
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August 1, 2018 9:01am
- Nostradamus
  
  Holysheet:
  
  Do you have any advice for Stephieboy on this auspicious day?
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:09am
  - Grant
    
    A handful of alfafa perhaps?
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    August 1, 2018 9:49am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Tonight, men around the world will be offering up a toast; “To our wives and girlfriends, may they never meet!”
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:20am
  - kowtow
    
    Not in the Royal Navy!
    
    More PC bull.
    
    ‘Royal Navy sailors will never again make their traditional Saturday night toast and drink to ‘Our Wives and Sweethearts.’
    
    The toast, which prompts the response, ‘May they never meet’, has been banned because there are so many women officers serving in the Navy.’
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346330/Navy-ditches-toast-wives-sweethearts-time-200-years-women-sea.html
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:32am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Couple of men walking down the road when one says to the ‘ crikey, look over there, my wife and my lover!’
    
    The other bloke says ‘that’s what I was just about to say!’
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:46am
- VicParking
  
  Its also Raspberry cream pie day and the start of Anti-Frizz Month. I’m off to get a Brazilian using Rasberry cream instead of shaving cream.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:52am
- Longknives
  
  I hope Clarke doesn’t send Jacinda flowers today!
  August 1st is also every Thoroughbred Horses Birthday..
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:52am
Keeping Stock

Bryce Edwards has absolutely skewered the Green Party over their u-turn in agreeing to support the Peters/Little Waka-Jumping Bill (emphasis mine):

The Greens have never been willing to front up over how they were going to deal with this contentious bill. First, when the coalition was formed, we were told by co-leader James Shaw that his party wouldn’t vote for any policies that they disagreed with. The Greens later changed this to say that they would support the waka-jumping bill through the first stages of the legislation, but wouldn’t guarantee that they would vote for it in the end.

Then last week the party finally revealed that they would indeed vote for the legislation, even though they still opposed it. They justified this capitulation with the notion that their hands were tied by the coalition agreement that they signed up to with the Labour Party – especially the part in which they promised to deal in “good faith” with Labour to fulfil coalition agreements with New Zealand First.

It turns out that the Greens have always known that there is nothing in the coalition agreement they signed with Labour that obliges them to vote for the waka-jumping bill. A leaked Green Party caucus document from January, titled “Advice to caucus – Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill”, reports on official advice informing the Greens that there is nothing in their coalition agreement that binds them to provide support.

This is what the document says about the “good faith” provision in their agreement with Labour: “Advice from the Cabinet Office is that firstly this is a political statement around how we’re endeavouring to work with the Government. It commits us to work through areas of concern in good faith, but does not bind us to support everything set out in the Labour/New Zealand First coalition agreement”.

The fact that the Greens have tried to tell the public the opposite therefore raises some big questions about why they’ve mislead the public on this, and what the real reasons are for their U-turn on the bill.

There are two main possible explanations: weakness or opportunism. In the “weakness” explanation, the Greens have acted like doormats – the leader of New Zealand First has simply demanded that the Greens vote for the bill, or there will be some sort of very negative consequence (perhaps even threatening to walk away from the coalition Government). In this scenario, the Greens have meekly rolled over and given away their principles easily.

https://pro.newsroom.co.nz/articles/3760-bryce-edwards-the-process-of-the-waka-jumping-bill-shows-why-we-shouldn-t-trust-politicians

Kudos to Edwards, whose views I seldom agree with. He has the honesty to tell this one like it is though, and that’s refreshing.

When the Bill comes back to the House for its second reading debate tomorrow, the Greens should hang their heads in shame. Such is their determination to stay on the right side of Peters, they have completely and utterly sold out on their principles.
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- KevOB
  
  they have completely and utterly sold out on their principles.
  
  They have sold out NZ. The passage of the canoe hopping Bill would leave power solely in Winston’s hands.
  
  We did not elect a monarchical government.
  The GG’s intervention is overdue.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:25am
- Rich Prick
  
  Correction, the Greens have no principles to sell out. Rather, they hold a collection of bumper slogans and in a very distant second place, Golly Gee’s fuckwittery.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:37am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    The only Green MP’s who haven’t (yet) blocked me on Twitter are Golriz Ghahraman and Chloe Swarbrick. I have posed the following question to each:
    
    Is Bryce Edwards correct when he says that the Greens are NOT obligated to support the Waka-Jumping Bill? If so, why ARE you supporting it?
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:04am
    - graham
      
      So you’re trying for the clean sweep of EVERY Green MP blocking you? 🙂
      
      The ones who have blocked you so far would appear not to have read their own values:
      
      “Support ideas on their merit, regardless of where they originate”
      “Maintain a community focus”
      “Enable participation with dignity and challenge oppression”
      “Encourage new voices and cherish wisdom”
      
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      August 1, 2018 10:11am
      - Rich Prick
        
        With the Greens, those are platitudes not principles.
        
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        August 1, 2018 10:16am
    - Colville
      
      KS,
      you are such a polite shit stirrer 🙂
      
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      August 1, 2018 12:50pm
- peterwn
  
  An interesting relationship between NZF and Greens. Winston keep his distance – will not allow Greens to even lick his boots. Yet somehow Winston has enormous hold over the Greens, despite never talking to them.
  Greens and their supporters are too dumb to realise that as long as they refuse to even have a chat with the Nats leader, they are like Sampson with a crewcut. Think Waka Hopper, Kermedecs, cameras on fishing boats, etc.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:21am
- backster
  
  Yeah but the Greens owe Winston plenty for selling out on the Taranaki province.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:36am
  - KevOB
    
    That’s the real biggie. They believe in world domination anyway so Winston in control is all normal.
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:56am
secondcumming

Whenever I get home from the office these days, I make a point of NEVER asking the missus how her day was….

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjNtA2mWwAA4Dbn.jpg
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August 1, 2018 9:13am
Poppa

I see Ebert Construction have been put into receivership.

That is very significant for the large construction projects, particularly with Fletchers no longer involved

Cost rises anyone?
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August 1, 2018 9:21am
- MrLovebucket
  
  Unions on the horizon
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:36am
- secondcumming
  
  According to the Chinese Calendar……
  
  ‘2019: THE YEAR OF THE VULTURE’
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:03am
kowtow

Hot Chinese money pouring out of commie China .

Shhhhhh , that’s wacist.

‘Last year Ping An, another Auckland-based money remitter, was fined $5.29 million in a DIA case for “calculated and contemptuous disregard’ for anti-money laundering laws. Ping An unsuccessfully challenged the fine. And last December the DIA filed proceedings against a third Auckland-based money remitter, Jin Yuan Finance Limited, under the AML/CFT Act. ‘

https://www.interest.co.nz/business/95049/auckland-based-money-remitter-qian-duoduo-moved-almost-95m-china-nz-without-having
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August 1, 2018 9:28am
Manolo

Our Muslim resident could suffer a seizure after reading this:
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/399701-bbc-fox-news-pbs-ranked-as-tvs-most-trusted-news-brands

The BBC, Fox News and PBS are the most-trusted TV news brands in the U.S., according to an analysis released Tuesday.
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August 1, 2018 9:33am
- Komata
  
  Manolo; thank you. I’d question the ‘trusted’ title in respect of the Beeb though; despite being (like RNZ; supposedly) a ‘mouthpiece’ for the British Government, their biases are at times quite evident and frequently do not comply with stated Government policies…
  
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  August 1, 2018 1:06pm
cmm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/105864396/one-year-since-jacinda-ardern-saved-the-labour-party

Big banner: SHE DID THIS!

All it seems she has really done is help line Labour up for a longterm oblivion.

She has:
* Assembled by far the most corrupt and inept government I have seen in my 26 years of living in NZ. Stuff that would almost make an African government blush.
* Killed business confidence: third highest in OECD rankings to second from bottom in 9 months, only a whisker from being at the bottom.
* Over promised, under delivered.
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August 1, 2018 9:36am
- Rich Prick
  
  But, but, but … The Baaaaby!
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:40am
  - cmm
    
    Please say it properly:
    
    BAY-BEEEE
    
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    August 1, 2018 11:05am
    - sooty
      
      Named Squirrel.
      
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      August 1, 2018 2:41pm
- Harkman
  
  I just caught the Press and the cartoonist Murdoch had a doodle of her “glowing,” If it is satire, I don’t get it. Right now she looks really tired. Our media is deluded.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:44am
  - sooty
    
    A tired old nag, ready for the glue factory?
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:06am
    - Harkman
      
      The “glue factory” ? hilarious, you crack me up.
      
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      August 1, 2018 10:27am
- Colville
  
  Some of the comments are priceless and most are very very anti Labour.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:46am
- cmm
  
  … and the strikes.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/105910145/primary-principals-and-teachers-to-strike-for-a-day
  
  The last time there were this many strikes in NZ, Cindy wasn’t even born.
  
  But adding to the list just makes me depressed.
  
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  August 1, 2018 11:05am
EAD_TWO

Four people reaching an ORGASM will feature in a risqué advert airing on UK TV tonight after the watershed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6010129/Ad-featuring-real-couples-point-ORGASM-air-TV-tonight.html

The levels of degeneracy being pushed on our nation’s has gone wayyy past those imposed on Weimar

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/24/sexual-decadence-weimar-germany/

Where are our modern day National Socialists to destroy the anti family degenerate filth that is being pushed 24/7 into our children?

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis

Woops – in the current year, destroying books thay encourage 11 year olds to change gender would make you a “Book Burner” and against “freedom of speech”.

Much better that our Sons be taught to cut off their d*cks and our daughters be taught to act like porn stars.
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August 1, 2018 9:57am
- EAD_TWO
  
  FWIW, knowing how much some people on here would love to “shut me up”, I’m a big believer in freedom of speech but it just doesn’t work in a society that doesn’t have any moral framework where it’s become a literal religious mantra that “everything is equal”.
  
  Thinking about it further, the one form of speech I would make an exception for however and proscribe by law for, is the banning of the promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism to children.
  
  I support this on the basis that children should be protected from indecency to a greater extent than adults, because it represents a form of grooming, and because homosexuality/sodomy is a civilisation destroying poison. This ban would include all positive depictions of homosexuality in the media, any teaching in schools other than to identify the health and disease risks, gay pride parades etc.
  
  Although I would hope that the general citizenry would largely enforce this standard for themselves as they do in Russia but the pushers of the such are doing there darndest to normalise their perversions.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:09am
  - secondcumming
    
    Time for a Coffey? 🙂
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:14am
Odakyu-sen

I was thinking about the actions of that elderly police officer who told Lauren Southern to move along from her interview in Lakemba, Sydney, on the fears that some incident would occur.

What is the best way for police to “keep the peace”? (This depends on whether you mean in the short term or the long term.)

In the short term, it is far easier for the police to remove a non-aggressive and rational element from within an aggressive and irrational environment.

Is this the best approach? If the aggressive and irrational environment remains at a constant size in a fixed location, then this strategy will work. However, it will tend to empower the aggressive element.

What is the best long-term policing approach?
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August 1, 2018 10:10am
- Scott
  
  I must say I was very impressed with Lauren Southern who is an articulate young woman with very sound ideas actually about multiculturalism and the threat to the West of Islam.
  
  To sum up she was not allowed to walk towards the mosque in Sydney. The police made up the rules on the spot and would not let her walk along the pavement, talk and be filmed.
  
  She quite rightly says that sharia law now rules in this part of Sydney. Because she is unable to walk or film or talk in this certain neighbourhood, because it will upset the Muslims.
  
  Think about that for a moment. The police now in Australia are barring people from criticising Islam or even walking past the mosque because they are afraid it will cause Muslim upset and probably violence.
  
  Think about freedom of speech. Think about freedom of religion. Think about the right to go where you like in Sydney. All those things are under threat because of a virulent minority that hates Western civilisation and will not assimilate.
  
  So why the heck would we bring them here?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdEaWXomhFU
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:36am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The police (who wish to keep their jobs until their retirement on a civil service pension) will do what is easy rather than what is just or right. It’s human nature. It is not the job of the front-line police to think in the long-term. In addition, no policeman will want to step out of line or rock the boat, so nothing will happen.
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:46am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Abolutely no tolerance for ethnic/religious thuggery and intimidation. Big fines and long sentences.
  
  Female police or army should be sent to wave Mohammed cartoons and Criticisms of Islam and Mohammed outside every Mosque every day until this stops being a problem.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:50am
- RF
  
  The scary thing is that the elderly Police Officer is an inspector so has some authority over his staff.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:52am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    No policeman ever got into trouble for keeping the peace (in the short term).
    
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    August 1, 2018 11:09am
- sooty
  
  Guns.
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:42pm
Philview

I heard on the radio this morning that Teachers are going on strike on the 15th August. There was a figure mentioned that there are big teacher shortages and there will be a 40,000 increase in primary school children soon. Do we have a massive baby boom going on?
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August 1, 2018 10:10am
- RalphT
  
  Sorry, Philview, but you are wrong, the teachers will not be going on strike. Cindy assured us that there will be no national strikes while she is PM and as you know, she doesn’t lie.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:17am
- Holly Roggerz
  
  Aha, I always hear this sort of crap on the radio, ‘we, we, us, ours’ it is as if the left leaning political activists that campaign every day for Labour on their fake news shows can’t distinguish between themselves, the people, and the government.
  
  They are always bemoaning some great new crises or ‘controversy’ which no one ever heard of before they mentioned it and no one ever hears of after they stop mentioning it, and every single time it is something that requires huge government intervention!
  
  They have been going on lately about a lot of ‘shortages’ sorry folks you don’t have shortages under the free market, prices adjust accordingly to maintain equilibrium. It is only when you have massive state intervention, price fixing and stuff can you have shortages.
  
  For instance if education was marketized pay would be set on supply and demand and the education ‘budget’ based not on some arbitrary figure from the ministry of finance but on what the level of demand is. If they had trouble finding teachers pay would go up.
  
  But if they are having trouble finding teachers which I doubt, then I think the solution is genuinely simple and requires no budget increase, firstly drop requirements for teacher certification (half of all teachers in UK private schools are uncertified) for skilled professionals who want to become teachers. Secondly axe the whole ‘everyone gets paid based on number of years working as a teacher bs and pay based on performance’ thirdly axe the PC BS, no serious person is going to put up with that…
  
  Do those 3 things and the supply of teachers will hugely increase. Teachers get paid a fairly mediocre wage by professional standards, but they aren’t professionals and their hourly rates for the few hours they work are really high. I think a large number of people who either don’t like the stress or who basically want to retire would jump ships. It is a pretty crazy job.
  
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  August 1, 2018 11:14am
Maggy Wassilieff

Sexual abuse and exploitation in the aid sector.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmintdev/840/84002.htm

The lid blown on the do-gooders
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August 1, 2018 10:20am
- backster
  
  Isn’t Twitford and expert on that organisation it seems almost as big a mess as Kiwibuild.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:50am
- stephieboy
  
  MW , the fact some people are compassionate about those who are disadvantaged and less well off troubles and disturbs you.?
  
  https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/get-help/alcohol-and-drug-support
  
  The fact that there might be shortcomings in some charity based organisation doesnt mean they are all like that.
  
  Correct?
  
  Also it seesm to b an obssesion for you ?
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:52am
  - Jack5
    
    Stephie X, when you say “some people are compassionate”, are you talking about the aid workers’ special help to Haitian prostitutes?
    
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    August 1, 2018 11:02am
    - stephieboy
      
      Jack 5 , note my comment which you might like to answer,
      
      “The fact that there might be shortcomings in some charity based organisation doesn’t mean they are all like that.
      
      Correct?
      
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      August 1, 2018 11:06am
      - Jack5
        
        The fact that some Stephiestanis are mall-trolling perverts doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few non-perverts in Stephiestan.
        
        Correct?
        
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        August 1, 2018 11:21am
    - realityczech
      
      …are you talking about the aid workers’ special help to Haitian ~~prostitutes~~ children?
      
      https://www.businessinsider.com/oxfam-sex-scandal-aid-workers-raping-and-sexually-exploiting-children-in-haiti-2018-2/?r=AU&IR=T
      
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      August 1, 2018 12:38pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Correct?
    
    Of course it’s not correct..
    
    The fact that there might be shortcomings in some charity based organisation
    
    Oh, so sexual exploitation and sexual abuse are shortcomings, are they?
    
    Like sexual abuse in religious institutions there has been decades of systematic cover-ups of the activities of folks in some international charities.
    
    Read the report.. just released from UK Parliament.
    
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    August 1, 2018 11:27am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Or here are some dumb-downed versions, if you don’t want to read the entire report.
      
      https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cme28xx5grnt/charities-sexual-misconduct-scandal
      
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      August 1, 2018 11:37am
      - realityczech
        
        Those who stand on a soap box of morality are massively over represented in sexual deviancy. This is especially so if they attach to religion.
        
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        August 1, 2018 12:45pm
Fletch

Great. NZ has made the Telegraph thanks to some ‘woke’ 7 year old kid complaining that “linemen” worker signs are sexist.

A letter from a seven-year-old girl in New Zealand to the transport authority about its “unfair” road signs has prompted the agency to change the wording of the nation’s signage from “Linemen” to “Line Crew”.

During a visit to her grandparents in the city of Eastbourne, Zoe Carew was angered by the signs, which indicate that people are working on local power lines.

In a letter to Fergus Gammie, the chief executive of the New Zealand Transport Agency, the seven-year-old wrote: “Why does the sign say ‘Linemen’ when the people working on the lines may be men or women? I think this sign is wrong and unfair. Do you agree?”

The letter continued: “I don’t really want to be a line-worker when I grow up because there are so many more exciting things I would like to do, but some girls might want to learn to be linewomen. Can you please change the sign to say ‘Line-workers’ instead, or something else correct and fair like that.”

Mr Gammie responded, saying that he accepted the criticism and that the agency would change its signs. He said the wording would be changed to “Line crew” rather than “Line-workers” because this would not require adjusting the size of the signs.

“I commend you for your suggestion and for taking action where you think something unfair should be fixed. Well done,” he wrote.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/31/seven-year-old-girl-forces-new-zealand-authorities-change-sexist/

https://twitter.com/nzta_news/status/1024056804324470784

This is just fkn embarrassing.
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August 1, 2018 10:29am
- Longknives
  
  I mentioned this in yesterday’s GD- Some quick Longknives Detective Agency work discovered that (Shock/Horror!) the Girl’s Mum is a Green Party friend of JAGs…
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:48am
  - Jack5
    
    Gammie seems to be keen to respond to the public (he says “stakeholders”, which presumably includes us).
    
    This link contains his email and an invitation to email him:
    
    https://www.nzta.govt.nz/about-us/news-and-media/keeping-connected/introducing-our-new-chief-executive-fergus-gammie/
    
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    August 1, 2018 11:29am
- Holly Roggerz
  
  Well you couldn’t call them linewomen, women if they bother to work at all work in all the safe, easy professions, mostly human orientated/facing that pay slightly less well but are rather quiet easy. Lots of talking, think nurse, teacher, receptionist, hr, call centre.
  
  Men do all the hard jobs, the thinking jobs like being a dr or starting a company, the hard jobs like building roads or houses, the dangerous jobs like mining. So yes they should be called linesmen, just as firemen should be called men because it is what they are. It would be a lie to call them anything else.
  
  By definition a women Doesn’t have the physical strength to drag a 80kg man out of a burning building and so can only be a firemen from corruption or sexism. But hey we hire females in the police force now, we have men that aren’t much better…
  
  Just more craziness from the deranged cultural Marxists, hopefully they reverse the decision of removing gender confusion from the dsmv on the basis of political correctness and lobbying from career activists…
  
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  August 1, 2018 11:28am
- KevOB
  
  Whereabouts in NZ is the City of Eastbourne? There’s a posh suburb of Lower Hutt by that name full of greenies.
  
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  August 1, 2018 1:15pm
- namron
  
  I don’t believe those are the ideas and writing style of a 7 year old!
  I wonder what she will come up with next!
  “fireman” will have to go and perhaps there could be “firewomen” or maybe “firepeople”.
  It is stupidity but JAG will be happy.
  
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  August 1, 2018 5:05pm
  - KevOB
    
    Fire JAG.
    
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    August 1, 2018 5:18pm
DigNap15

What would you do with this thing?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/105881776/rapist-too-fat-for-prison-costs-1250-each-day-in-hospital
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August 1, 2018 10:32am
- Rich Prick
  
  How can someone be “too fat” for prision? I think he’s more worried he might be “too slow” for prision … should another inmate take a shine to him.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:43am
  - Jack5
    
    It would be cheaper for Corrections Minister Klever Kelvin to allow Solomon to stay at the Ngai Tahu marae in Kaikoura with an ankle bracelet.
    
    Or, Klever Kelvin could just take the hospital cost out of the company tax Ngai Tahu pays.
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:50am
    - calendar girl
      
      Ngai Tahu pays tax?
      
      And even if it does, isn’t such tax already spent in a deficit Government spending budget?
      
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      August 1, 2018 2:11pm
  - Holly Roggerz
    
    The same way you can be too black for prison, a black person was let go recently because the police didn’t have the required paperwork to satisfy the judge or should I say career activists in charge of the law that the person who was carrying drugs was not stopped because of his skin colour.
    
    Apparently that would have been unlawfully gathered evidence and been inadmissible in court, the problem is that this creates an absurd precident where you now need to somehow prove every black person being breath tested for instance is not being breath tested because of his skin colour.
    
    Not being black I don’t think I could get out of jail, pass get go and collect discrimination lawsuit payments by suggesting that it is because I am white. Somehow I think a real judge would first of all laugh at me, then secondly require I prove my allegations.
    
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    August 1, 2018 11:35am
  - Garbageman
    
    RP you would need a hydraulic jack just to pry the cheeks far enough apart somehow i think even the filth in prison have better standards
    
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    August 1, 2018 1:40pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  water and vitamin supplements until he is a sensible weight. A scottish fattie once went without food for 392days to get down to a safe weight.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:45am
- Longknives
  
  Run him behind the car maybe?
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:46am
- cmm
  
  If you can do the crime, you can do the time.
  
  How can a person who is able to commit rape not able to survive in prison?
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:56am
  - Colville
    
    With a gut that size his cock must be 3 foot long for him to be able to rape anything!
    
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    August 1, 2018 11:10am
- DigNap15
  
  I’d put him in a field with an automatic lettuce dispenser at each end.
  So he can to the other end for a piece of lettuce.
  Then when he is down to a normal weight, put him on hard labour so he will want to get a job and never go back.
  And castrate him so he does not rape again.
  Or just drop from a plane in the middle of the Tasman.
  Or feed him custard every day till he dies.
  
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  August 1, 2018 11:25am
- Surely Knott
  
  He had a body that had the physical ability to rape three children, but he is not well enough to go to prison? Give me a break. I’d give him an extra 5 years for wasting the courts time and causing extra distress to his victims. Straight to jail.
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:06pm
- Nermal
  
  At least they aren’t giving this POS a get out of jail card on medical grounds, as has been done with some offenders in the past. Hopefully he’ll be put on an extreme diet until he can fit through the cell door.
  
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  August 1, 2018 3:07pm
Jack5

Britain continues its persecution of its former soldiers – at the same time former ISIL terrorist murderers are coming back into the community.

It reminds me of NZ giving a refugee terrorism planner probation with golf lessons, while the Lefties in the media try to whip up a storm about our soldiers’ actions in Afghanistan.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/31/betrayal-british-soldier-interrogated-police-bloody-sunday-attempted/
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August 1, 2018 10:44am
- EAD_TWO
  
  I blame the Jews:
  
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/surprise-new-uk-trade-minister-is-committed-jew-thinks-israels-amazing/
  
  There are so many Jews at the top of Britain’s Conservative party, Prime Minister David Cameron once quipped, that it should be known as the Torah party rather than the Tory party
  
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  August 1, 2018 3:21pm
DifferentPerspective

Libtard doesn’t understand that illegal means ‘breaking the law’

Great clip of DNC senator getting confused when the Director of ICE explains that to be considered and “illegal immigrant” you have to have “illegally entered the country and broken the law in a civil and criminal capacity”. She winds up with “I’m confused”.

You must be a special kind of stupid to vote for someone as galactically stupid as this. Oh wait … Jacinda is our PM.
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August 1, 2018 10:50am
- stephieboy
  
  DP, rather like that confused US President?
  
  https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/gop-senator-calls-trump-confused-and-shameful-in-summit-with-putin/1307387278
  
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  August 1, 2018 11:00am
Jack5

The Guardian worked up about a new film by Dinesh D’Souza,

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/31/dinesh-dsouza-death-of-a-nation-film-donald-trump
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August 1, 2018 11:01am
- stephieboy
  
  Jack 5 , who can blame them when D’ Souza gives us this kind of rubbish.
  
  From your link,
  
  “Here’s a typical Dinesh D’Souza argument. In Death of a Nation – the far-right commentator, film-maker and recently pardoned ex-con’s fourth political documentary – he tries to make the case that Hitler was a lefty. That’s a tall order, and here’s the best D’Souza can muster: he says Adolf wasn’t a homophobe. Most historians think he was, and will cite as proof the 100,000 arrested for violating Nazi anti-homosexuality laws and the 15,000 murdered in camps. And yet here’s D’Souza claiming there were known gay men peppered about the Nazi top brass. Hitler didn’t have them executed or even demoted. Ergo, Hitler was an SJW snowflake. QED. Right?”
  
  Sheer idiocy
  
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  August 1, 2018 11:04am
  - realityczech
    
    stupidboy, Who wrote these socialist policies?:
    
    13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
    
    14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
    
    15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
    
    16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.
    
    20. In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State.
    
    21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.
    
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    August 1, 2018 12:24pm
    - stephieboy
      
      kea, who?
      
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      August 1, 2018 2:03pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        https://archive.org/stream/Feder-Gottfried-Das-Programm-der-NSDAP/FederGottfried-DasProgrammDerNsdapUndSeineWeltanschaulichenGrundgedanken169.Auflage193565S.text#page/n15
        
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        August 1, 2018 2:46pm
      - realityczech
        
        stupidboy, cut n’ paste Nazi party policy.
        
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        August 1, 2018 6:41pm
Manolo

They have money to burn:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/business/apple-sales-jump-19-percent-in-china-despite-trumps-trade-conflict

Apple, which garners more than half its revenue outside the U.S., continued to expand sales in China in the three months through June despite escalating trade tensions between the Trump administration and Beijing.

Revenue from the world’s second-largest economy grew 19% to $9.55 billion, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company said in a statement.
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August 1, 2018 11:11am
Jack5

You’ve pretty much Godwinned the General Debate thread before lunchtime, Stephie X.

However, read up about Ernst Röhm, Hitler’s homosexual friend who with him co-founded the Brown Shirts – the early storm trooper thugs. Röhm’s deputy, Edmund Heines, was also an open homosexual.

The Brownshirts thugs included many other homosexuals, and this may have led to Hitler and his newer SS killing Röhm and purging the Brownshirt (SA) movement.

Reading for the Stephieboys:

1. Homosexuality and the Nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm

2. Godwin’s law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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August 1, 2018 11:16am
- Jack5
  
  Sorry folks. This post was a comment on the Stephie X post at 11.04.
  
  It ended up here, and the delete function isn’t working so I was unable to move it.
  
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  August 1, 2018 11:18am
  - Longknives
    
    The Nazi Party was surprisingly full of Homosexual Men.
    Many were purged on the ‘Night of the Longknives’ though…
    
    *I got my name from an old AC/DC song by the way…Nothing to do with Nazis
    
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    August 1, 2018 12:15pm
    - GoVege
      
      You can admit it, LK.
      You chose your name to treasure the memory of the boys…. 🙂
      
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      August 1, 2018 12:51pm
      - Longknives
        
        Not my scene Go Vege – I’m ‘Team Israel’ all the way!
        
        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4068388/The-Israeli-soldiers-hot-weaponry-Meet-young-women-chosen-career-military-not-afraid-reveal-assets.html
        
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        August 1, 2018 1:09pm
  - GoVege
    
    Not good enough, Jack!
    (The delete function will work if you press it 20 times.)
    
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    August 1, 2018 12:53pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jack 5, only very partially. More so was that Rohm and his Brownshirts (SA) represented the left and rival faction within the NSDAP which Hitler wanted to purge as the party shifted radically to the right.
  
  Hitler needed Krupp and Farben etc to rearm and put the German economy on a war footing.
  
  https://www.britannica.com/event/Night-of-the-Long-Knives
  
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  August 1, 2018 3:19pm
noskire

Former prime minister strikes iconic pose for New Zealand LGBTI magazine

“Clark’s interview is one of many features in their August issue that celebrates the amazing work of a diverse range of New Zealand women and other members of the LGBTI community” Hall said.

Am I reading this quote wrong or has Helen Clark finally come out of the closet?
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August 1, 2018 11:46am
- Longknives
  
  ‘Years of support for the Gay Community’??
  
  If this was true- Why didn’t she do the obvious?
  It seems to me she is rather ashamed of the Gay Community..
  
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  August 1, 2018 11:54am
  - noskire
    
    Why the f**k is there the need, in fact overwhelming obsession, for many in the “LGBTI community” to consistently put this label on themselves?
    Is it a lack self-esteem? A deeply retrenched anger/guilt that hasn’t found its outlet?
    And they haven’t got their shit together, so don’t give a shit about you, society or anything – but they think the label of being in the LGBTI community makes them important?
    
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    August 1, 2018 12:38pm
    - Garbageman
      
      Exactly noskire the rest of the world doesn’t give a flying rats fandango about them until the start jumping up and down demanding we do stuff its how they try to remain relevant as the world moves on with more pressing issues
      
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      August 1, 2018 1:47pm
- softail 1450
  
  noskire,,, beautiful skin and eyes though…..
  
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  August 1, 2018 12:08pm
- Fletch
  
  LGBTQ-WTF
  
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  August 1, 2018 12:50pm
  - sooty
    
    Baby killer Klark can’t remember if she was a lesbian or not the dementia is kicking in! If she is, does that mean that Peter Davis is relegated to an old caravan down the back of the section?
    
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    August 1, 2018 2:53pm
Keeping Stock

Grant Robertson in the House yesterday (emphasis mine):

Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: I would like to comment on immigration one day, but not today. We’re demonstrating our commitment to fiscal responsibility through our adherence to the Budget responsibility rules. We’ve always said that if there were a major shock to the global economy, we would adjust the rules accordingly. However, that is not the situation that we are facing today. Under these rules, we are reducing net debt to 20 percent of GDP within five years of taking office, delivering sustainable surpluses across the economic cycle, restarting contributions to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, and making sure that unemployment continues its downward track to 4 percent. By sticking to these commitments, we will do the investment in critical public services and make sure that New Zealand is positioned to respond to any shock or downturn.

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansD_20180731_20180731

The reality today:

Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 11:02 am
Press Release: Statistics New Zealand
1 August 2018

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 4.5 percent in the June 2018 quarter, up from 4.4 percent last quarter, Stats NZ said today.

“The slight rise in the unemployment rate follows five consecutive falls, from 5.3 percent in the December 2016 quarter to last quarter’s 4.4 percent,” labour market and household statistics senior manager Jason Attewell said. “It remains close to the nine-year low seen last quarter.”

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1808/S00010/slight-rise-in-unemployment-and-underutilisation-rates.htm

For the first time since the December 2016 quarter, unemployment has gone up. Labour is no longer going to be able to brag about constant falls in unemployment since it was elected. Sadly, I suspect unemployment will rise more alarmingly in the September quarter, already a month old, as businesses postpone hiring decisions because of economic uncertainty.

It will be interesting to see how Peters and Robertson react to this in the House this afternoon.
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August 1, 2018 11:47am
- noskire
  
  Keeping Stock, it is measured the wrong way, just like business confidence [endsarc].
  
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  August 1, 2018 12:00pm
- Nookin
  
  Somebody slipped me a draft of Peters’ response to Simon Bridges’ questioning on this matter:
  “I see thousands of press releases every day. This is simply one press release. It is not representative of other press releases. As I read newspapers, I see the names of people of whom I have never heard and they have jobs. More and more, I read about people with jobs. That is something that the leader of the opposition will not be enjoying for much longer. I will be calling him “Simon Benefit”.
  
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  August 1, 2018 12:05pm
- rangitoto
  
  Ebert construction just gone into receivership.
  
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  August 1, 2018 12:10pm
  - noskire
    
    Canterbury – 2000 hospitality businesses in the region in 2017, up about 6% from 2016. But the only region where sales have fallen in the same period.
    At least 30 new bars and cafes due to open this year in the Christchurch CBD.
    You would have to have rocks in your head (or extremely deep pockets) to open a new bar/cafe/restaurant in Christchurch at the moment.
    
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    August 1, 2018 1:25pm
- DigNap15
  
  Business will hire less people because of economic certainty.
  Certainty that Labour is going in to bring in its union laws
  Certainty that wages are going to keep rising.
  Certainty that Labour is anti business.
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:04pm
DJ Ward

After kindi, because its a 1/4 hour drive home I often buy my kids an ice block. I happened to buy them a chocolate Corneto and sure enough my daughter managed to create a big chocolate stain on her shirt sleeve.

I pointed to it. “Who did that?”
“The boogeyman daddy”

I realised its my fault. I taught her the word when playing hide and go seek, or being scary with a giant teddy.
I realised its my fault. I’m responsible for teaching her to blame men for her mistakes. I never gave her a gender comensurate option like boogywoman.
I realised its my fault. I taught her to not describe professions in gender neutral ways. I never taught her about the boogycrew, the boogyperson.

It’s my fault Genter.
The patriarchy exposed.
Toxic masculinity at it worst.

Save us Genter.
The English language needs your Devine wisdom and reform.
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August 1, 2018 11:55am
- Longknives
  
  You Evil Toxic Bastard!
  Fifty lashes for you- While listening to a screeching recording of Julie Ann Genter ranting and raving about White Men..
  Self flagellation should purge you of your Guilt!
  
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  August 1, 2018 12:13pm
- Fletch
  
  Blame it on the boogie…
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxVMLVe62U
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:11pm
Lance

I see the CoL are correct
The prisons are filling up with people having only minor traffic offenses
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12099080
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August 1, 2018 11:58am
cmm

So dotcom shouldn’t be sent to USA because he won’t get fair treatment under Trump! What kind of crap excuse making is that?

It looks like he wants to stay with the dumb sheep farmers.

Couple of points:
1) Trump is not the court system.
2) Perhaps he should have gone back years ago when he would have received fair treatment under Obama.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/105880734/opinion-dotcom-should-not-be-handed-over-to-face-trumps-idea-of-justice
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August 1, 2018 12:26pm
- graham
  
  Fairly standard Stuff piece and MO.
  
  1. The author, Phil Quin, decides it must be time to write another anti-Trump rant.
  2. He finds a topical issue to justify this.
  3. Proceeds to bang out a piece, ostensibly about Dotcom, and throws in every anti-Trump sentiment he possibly can, tentatively linking it to his subject.
  4. Comments flood in, the majority of which proceed to tear Quin a new one.
  5. Stuff shuts down comments.
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:47pm
Longknives

So reading this-

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12098422

And I was astonished to read-
“in Wellington, social conservatism, homophobia, and other kinds of bigotry don’t really fly.”

Social Conservatism is a kind of ‘Bigotry’??
I would consider myself ‘Socially Conservative’ -I believe in Old-Fashioned Values, Community being kept safe from Criminals, Not paying kids to breed etc etc
Am I a ‘Bigot’?
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August 1, 2018 12:41pm
GazzaW

I heard that the South Island Secession Movement is underway again with over 1000 members signed up. Presumably because the North Island is a fiscal drag on the region’s progress. If that is the case can we reclassify the billions of dollars of North Islanders’ taxes and donations for the Christchurch quakes and reconstruction as longterm loans rather than assistance to our fellow New Zealanders.

What a load of parochial nonsense. I thought NZ was over this sort of rubbish.
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August 1, 2018 12:51pm
- Komata
  
  Have Ngai Tahu been advised? They seem to have a certain ‘vested interest’ in the area and would probably appreciate being told what is happening…
  
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  August 1, 2018 1:22pm
  - GazzaW
    
    I’m not sure Komata but I hope that the Peoples SI Republic isn’t counting on too much taxation revenue from Ngai Tahu.
    
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    August 1, 2018 1:25pm
noskire

Looking forward to Question Time this afternoon – could be a doozy.
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August 1, 2018 1:46pm
- GazzaW
  
  Will Peters be there? If not will Kelvin be on Witless Protection or playing Robbo’s ventriloquy doll?
  
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  August 1, 2018 1:53pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Thank God we have seen the last of Peters as PM. His breathtaking rudeness will not be missed.
    
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    August 1, 2018 2:59pm
- noskire
  
  Kingi has stepped down.
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:39pm
  - sooty
    
    Kingi of what, where, why.
    
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    August 1, 2018 2:57pm
Surely Knott

Auckland Council 2050 Report, which the media says paints a dystopian future, reads like a school project. What a lot of vague leftist unsubstantiated twaddle. No facts. No information. Just some idiots in the hand wringing department in Auckland Council speculating on what the problems might be. Which just happen to align with the massive Up South and now up West Multi million dollar social engineering projects coming out of council. Fire the lot of them. The Councillors who allow this wasteful nonsense creating make-work for politically aligned social workers , do gooders and academics instead of focusing on providing tangible services and asset based outcomes. Properly costed and transparently procured. https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105888488/auckland-2050-council-report-paints-dystopian-future-for-the-city
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August 1, 2018 1:51pm
Nostradamus

From parliamentary question time yesterday:

Hon Paula Bennett: Does he accept that the very school he has just mentioned will, by having to go back into the State sector, now have a higher teacher-student ratio and will lose mentors who they can currently employ because they are a partnership school and have some more freedom of funding, and those students have been achieving better because of it?

Hon KELVIN DAVIS: No. And what the member has just illustrated is the fact that the charter schools were over resourced in comparison to State schools, which is exactly what the State system was saying about charter schools.

So Kelvin Davis thinks that the answer to an “over resourced” charter school with a decent teacher-student ratio is to bring it back into the public system with a considerably worse teacher-student ratio. No wonder Labour keeps him in witless protection!
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August 1, 2018 2:10pm
- Nermal
  
  Over resourced with less funding. OMG how awful, they should be banned
  
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  August 1, 2018 3:16pm
Fletch

Hmm, a guy has been making his own electricity for 12 years using a stream near his property and an old washing machine…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/105877285/converted-washing-machine-provides-free-power-to-angry-ram-blogger
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August 1, 2018 2:33pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Any of the magnet, multi pole motors can be used for power generation. The smart drive version is good as the bearing housing is easily cut from the bowl with a sturdy 25mm stainless shaft you can mount things on.
  There are many iterations of stator and rotor and lots of work has been done in analysing ideal speeds, combinations and wiring setups to maximise output. There’s even off the shelf impellers for hydro and turbines for wind.
  The motor is out of patent now and due to its efficiency at about 93% as a motor, it’s ability to be precisely controlled like a stepper motor, it is now in widespread and increasing use.
  Induction motors are being phased out with many versions of this motor. Both external rotor as in Smart drive motors and internal rotors as in pumps and other small motors. This results in significant efficiency gains wherever induction motors are replaced.
  
  One of NZs greatest inventions. Chinese owned.
  
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  August 1, 2018 4:25pm
- rangitoto
  
  The Greens will no doubt be outraged by this. He may have injured or scared a tadpole.
  
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  August 1, 2018 4:41pm
4077th

Kingi gone!
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August 1, 2018 2:36pm
Right of way is Way of Right

Tracy Martin has announced that Dr Kingi has stepped down from the Haumaha inquiry! Score, Bishop 1 – Martin 0. A hit, a very palpable hit!
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August 1, 2018 2:37pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  A great scalp for Bishop. And the drunken dwarf is not happy, so it’s a double hit.
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:44pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Couldn’t help but notice Peters’ shakiness when he held up the advice from the Dept of Stats in his right hand in order to make a point. I don’t think he’s well.
    
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    August 1, 2018 3:09pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      I noticed that as well. The piece of paper was fluttering like its holder had Parkinsons.
      
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      August 1, 2018 3:27pm
      - KevOB
        
        I seen that for over 12 months.
        
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        August 1, 2018 5:26pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      After Brownlee’s drunk barbs yesterday perhaps he was operating without his usual preparations today.
      
      He called Brownlee “fattie” today. “Yeah, throw fatty out,” after Mallard told Brownlee to withdraw and apologise.
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:31pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Score, Bishop 1 – Martin 0
  
  Will Ztev come out of hiding and express personal admiration for what Chris Bishop has achieved?
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:47pm
  - sooty
    
    Zits been recalled to Fraser House for retraining. to be prepared next week when the Commie Chick maybe back subject to PNS and new hairdo and makeup. They are trying to bring out the softer, kinder side of him so he can post pictures of the new baby Squirrel and write about it’s bowel movements.
    
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    August 1, 2018 3:07pm
    - stephieboy
      
      sooty and coy, why do you think the rest of our fair land is absolutely not interested in your boring drivel?
      
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      August 1, 2018 3:24pm
      - GazzaW
        
        We’ve been telling you that for months steffie but you take no notice.
        
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        August 1, 2018 3:56pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        why do you think the rest of our fair land is absolutely not interested in your boring drivel?
        
        What makes you think you’re a spokesperson for “the rest of our fair land”?
        
        Oh, and if you want to add something to the discussion, why don’t you tell us about your latest trip to St Lukes? Seen any “honeypots” that you’d like to tell us about?
        
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        August 1, 2018 3:56pm
  - GazzaW
    
    He’s desperately looking for some new squirrels. The old ones have lost their mojo.
    
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    August 1, 2018 3:15pm
    - rangitoto
      
      They died of Karōshi.
      
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      August 1, 2018 5:04pm
- 4077th
  
  She was very snippy in her reply and in a noticeable parrot of her colleagues constant blaming of the former government.
  
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  August 1, 2018 2:51pm
  - GazzaW
    
    No. Kingi’s departure couldn’t possibly be the result of ‘nine long years of neglect’. Or maybe it could -every other fuckup by the current mob seems to be.
    
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    August 1, 2018 4:14pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  Bishop takes Kingi…… Checkmate.
  
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  August 1, 2018 3:32pm
  - jcuk
    
    If only slightlyrightly
    
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    August 1, 2018 7:01pm
- David Garrett
  
  Right of way: I actually feel a tiny bit sorry for the Minister…according to Stuff – which is hardly authoritative – Kingi signed something saying she had no conflict of interest…the woman has a law degree from Harvard; if she couldn’t see the massive conflict, she doesn’t deserve one from Te Wananga o Te Waikato…
  
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  August 1, 2018 3:40pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    If Kingi signed something saying there was no conflict of interest then she has no right to call herself a lawyer.
    If correct the incompetence is breathtaking.
    
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    August 1, 2018 4:01pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    David Garrett:
    
    The Minister doesn’t deserve our sympathy for standing up and saying this in Parliament yesterday:
    
    Hon TRACEY MARTIN: It was common practice at that time—16 years ago—for Māori professionals to support each other on this new medium [LinkedIn], through endorsement.
    
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    August 1, 2018 4:02pm
Captain Mainwaring

http://autotalk.co.nz/news/kiwi-tesla-task-lack-support

What an idiot. Tesla is no different to any other car company. If a car is an insurance writeoff it automatically loses factory support. If come clown wants to rebuild it he’s on his own because in the eyes of the manufacturer the car ceases to exist.
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August 1, 2018 3:21pm
- stephieboy
  
  Toad, you conveniently miss this point,
  
  “Tesla told Newshub that due to the extreme amount of damage the vehicle had, it’s not confident it’s safe and doesn’t want to do anything that could increase that risk.
  
  Tesla apologises for the inconvenience but says it has to prioritise safety.”
  
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  August 1, 2018 3:28pm
  - rangitoto
    
    woosh.
    
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    August 1, 2018 3:32pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      It had an extreme amount of damage, that’s why it was written off. So what the fuck are you arguing about?
      
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      August 1, 2018 3:39pm
- Lance
  
  The guy has at least 1/2 a point.
  I get not being upgradable going forward due to it being written off.
  But downgraded charging from what it used to be capable of?
  That’s bullshit.
  
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  August 1, 2018 3:34pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    When the rear window leaks or the driveshafts break or the paint falls off Tesla won’t cover any of that either.
    He’s bloody lucky any charging is available.
    
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    August 1, 2018 3:42pm
    - Lance
      
      Any car company that had policies like that would put me off ever dealing with them.
      
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      August 1, 2018 4:41pm
      - 4077th
        
        You can thank the American’s litigiousness for that. Anyone in business has so much arse covering insurance they almost cannot afford it!
        
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        August 1, 2018 5:32pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        “Any car company that had policies like that would put me off ever dealing with them.”
        
        They all do. So are you going to ride a horse for the rest of your life?
        A writeoff is a dead car. Anyone who tries to fix one is on his own.
        
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        August 1, 2018 7:38pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Tesla battery packs are sensitive beasts and prone to burning up if individual batteries get damaged. You couldn’t hope to insure them after they have been through a major accident.
  
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  August 1, 2018 4:52pm
- realityczech
  
  Serves him right for buying a Tesla. They are poorly made junk with massive quality issues that would not pass muster in an old time Lada factory. The company is run by a fraudster and loses a fortune. The ultimate wankers car.
  
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  August 1, 2018 7:29pm
GoVege

Apparently Shortland Street is trying to tell viewers that having a downs kid will “crush” the mother, and such kids have “severe medical issues”.
What nonsense.
No wonder 95% of the poor kids diagnosed as downs are never born.
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August 1, 2018 4:09pm
- GoVege
  
  Well I do admit I was “crushed” for the first 6 weeks, until the lil angel started smiling…and never stopped.
  
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  August 1, 2018 4:21pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Most people only have a kid or two in our modern world. When faced with the choice of having a Down syndrome child why would you. They need more care than normal kids, will be very unlikely to be successful in life, and cannot provide grandchildren.
  The same can be said for any syndrome that causes significant, developmental, physical, health disabilities.
  If a mother, informed, chooses termination that’s her choice. If a mother, informed, chooses to have the child that’s her choice.
  
  It’s called Rowe vs Wade. Except dads replaced with the child.
  
  Are you therefore against that legal protection for women?
  
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  August 1, 2018 4:46pm
  - GoVege
    
    Of course every woman or girl should have the choice to continue or terminate a pregnancy.
    But that choice needs to be based on actual facts, not scaremongering.
    Why would you have a DS kid?
    Whether they need more care is debatable.
    My other kids had more serious health problems than my DS kid.
    Yes, the first thing I thought was….no grandkids from this one!
    But you have no guarantee any of your kids will give you grandkids.
    It’s true they won’t have a great career.
    But on the plus side:
    1) they enjoy life more than other people.
    2) they have sweet kind loving natures and are never ever nasty like a lot of “normal” people.
    That’s enough for many people I’d say.
    
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    August 1, 2018 5:24pm
    - GoVege
      
      Oh you old grumpies!
      You don’t deserve to have the joys of a special little person in your life. 🙂 🙂
      
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      August 1, 2018 5:46pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Choosing to have a DS baby condemns others to labour for their life long care and upkeep Fine if the person making the choice picks up the bill, but not if the burden is foisted on others.
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:26pm
      - GoVege
        
        UN: no-one actually “chooses” as such to have a DS baby.
        Nature chooses, and the parents may choose not to reject their child.
        In the past handicapped kids were consigned to institutions, which cost the country a lot more than caring for them at home.
        They are not thick on the ground either, at only 1 in a thousand births.
        You should be worrying about all the thousands of young girls dragging up kids on the DPB, paid for by you, and all the future costs in more bennies, corrections, etc.
        No chance of that with DS babies. 🙂
        
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        August 1, 2018 9:51pm
- realityczech
  
  100% should never be born. Mawkish selfishness that harms the lives of any other children in the family.
  
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  August 1, 2018 7:43pm
  - GoVege
    
    What rubbish, RC!
    Hasn’t hurt the rest of my kids any, in fact it’s probably made them turn out better than they otherwise would have.
    They all adore their special little brother.
    I also know a guy who has an MA with honors and both his parents were physically disabled and one intellectually as well.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:53pm
  - graham
    
    realityczech, I can’t tell if you’re being serious or taking the piss.
    
    If the latter … bad taste.
    If the former … bloody nasty.
    
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    August 1, 2018 9:42pm
    - GoVege
      
      It’s OK, graham.
      RC is just trying to get a rise out of me. 🙂
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:53pm
      - realityczech
        
        Vege, Actually mildly horrified that you do have a kid with downs as it was not meant personally. Glad it has worked out for you, but I do not think we should be have a go at people who opt out.
        
        graham, go fuck yourself.
        
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        August 1, 2018 10:12pm
Lance

So it’s official;
South Africa will confiscate white owned land without compensation.
Of course the CoL will issue as harsh rebuke………. crickets.
Shit hole country status coming to SA soon. Pity.
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August 1, 2018 4:44pm
- GazzaW
  
  I’m looking forward to the announcement from the CoL that there will be a programme set up for South African refugee farmers and their families.
  
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  August 1, 2018 4:51pm
  - nasska
    
    Imagine! Refugees who could do something other than breed & hold their hands out for benefits.
    
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    August 1, 2018 4:54pm
    - GoVege
      
      AND have multiple wives kept prisoners in the house, nasska.
      
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      August 1, 2018 5:28pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    GazzaW:
    
    the announcement from the CoL
    
    I’ve just checked and today’s government announcements (so far) are as follows:
    
    Seventy five young people in Hawkes Bay are being supported into employment through LIFT’s He Poutama Rangatahi Hikina programme, said Minister of Employment Willie Jackson who announced funding of $375,000 for the programme today [Taxpayers can kiss that $375,000 goodbye]
    
    Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will travel to Singapore overnight to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum and East Asia Summit Ministerial Meetings [*Yawn*]
    
    Three experts have been appointed to an Independent Panel to examine the changes made to the family justice system in 2014 by the previous National Government, Justice Minister Andrew Little announced today [More of this “nine long years” crap]
    
    Health Minister Dr David Clark has announced that former Vice-Chancellor of Massey University and senior Cabinet minister Steve Maharey has been appointed as chair of Pharmac [A job for a Labour mate – the “former Vice-Chancellor” needed a new job]
    
    Justice Minister Andrew Little has introduced a Bill to help Cantabrians resolve outstanding residential insurance claims from the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes [A new Canterbury Earthquake Insurance Tribunal – more jobs for Labour mates?]
    
    It is heartening to see the economy continuing to add jobs at a good pace, and that wage growth is picking up for hard-working Kiwis, Employment Minister Willie Jackson says [Is this the same Willie who couldn’t answer a parliamentary question on the current average wage a few months ago?]
    
    And, er, that’s apparently it from our hard-working government for today!
    
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    August 1, 2018 5:11pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Fuuuck. Poor bastards. Yeah, lets take the refugees, hard workers, good for NZ.
  
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  August 1, 2018 4:54pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Southerns doco must have hit a nerve.
  
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  August 1, 2018 5:04pm
- GoVege
  
  OMG!
  Tell me it ain’t true.
  Zimbabwe here we come…..
  
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  August 1, 2018 5:26pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  I think we should halt all sporting contacts with a country that has such race based policies.
  
  Shit….I’m channeling John Fucking Minto!
  
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  August 1, 2018 6:47pm
- realityczech
  
  There needs to be an international plan urgently implemented to provide refuge to white South Africans. Every effort should be made to get them out.
  
  Then severe sanctions should be imposed including a blockade of air, land and sea. Let the savages rot in their own filth.
  
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  August 1, 2018 7:48pm
Monique Watson

Planning to have a fuckin’ home birth.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104975226/minister-julie-anne-genter-reveals-maternity-plans

Let’s see how that goes. I’m just grateful for operating theaters and surgeons. Fuck, after my lot, and in hindsight. I’d plan to have multiple c-sections. I was carried along on the shoulders of the maternity staff at Wellington Hospital to the theater after dumping two ltrs of blood in as many minutes.
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August 1, 2018 5:10pm
- DJ Ward
  
  I’m guessing your partner didn’t bother asking the doc to put extra stitches in.
  
  Yes I know it’s the worst joke in history. Sorry.
  
  I’ve been at 4 births, all required a little extra help like drugs, or cutting the perineum, and 3/4 needed some stitches. I think while the risks are small with a hospital nearby, her concept of what’s about to happen to her is a little in the twilight zone. Similar to fantasyland.
  
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  August 1, 2018 5:29pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Gosh, do these new mums-to-be/dads-to-be know how much blood and gunk is involved with a birth and aftermath?
    
    Why the hell would you want to subject yourself to organising the clean-up?
    
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    August 1, 2018 6:08pm
- GoVege
  
  Sounds like my first birth, Monique.
  I felt all this fluid gushing out with each heartbeat.
  I didn’t dare look as I knew it must be blood.
  They couldn’t even give me a transfusion because the blood hadn’t been checked for HIV then.
  I gained a new respect for the medical profession that day.
  And I was a lot younger than Julie….hope she will be OK.
  
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  August 1, 2018 5:43pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    I hope the doctors not some old white dude.
    
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    August 1, 2018 5:51pm
    - Lance
      
      🙂
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:27pm
  - nasska
    
    The women who keep banging on about home birthing & traditional methods are stark raving mad.
    
    …..”Going back to the 19th century and looking at countries that have the best health today we see out of 100,000 births about 500 to 1,000 ended with the death of the mother. This means every 100th to 200th birth led to the mother’s death”…..
    
    YET
    
    …..”today most rich countries have a maternal mortality ratio of 10 deaths per 100,000 births – the countries with the lowest maternal mortality reached a level of around 1% of the death rate in the 19th century.”…..
    
    https://ourworldindata.org/maternal-mortality
    
    The difference is largely attributable to women giving birth in hospitals rather than under the supervision of mad, untrained midwives.
    
    Anecdotal evidence suggests that today’s unsupported midwives don’t do much better than their 19th Century counterparts.
    
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    August 1, 2018 6:04pm
    - GoVege
      
      That’s partly because doctors have always been arrogant and women used to die unnecessarily because they wouldn’t wash their hands between patients, back in the 19th century.
      Now doctors observe good hygiene but we have to deal with idiot midwives and their brainless mantra that “childbirth is a natural process”…therefore doctors and any kind of medical intervention is unnecessary.
      In fact, it’s perfectly safe to kick mothers and babies out of hospital after a few hours because nothing will go wrong.
      Women have had babies at home for millenia….blah, blah, blah.
      And because our country inexplicably does not record permanent brain and other damage to newborns, but only actual deaths, the true rate of damage done to the country’s babies is unknown.
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:39pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    Oh yeah. I had a stroke when I was eighteen weeks pregnant with #2. Lost all blood pressure and heartbeat and Hubby was told I was Goneburgers. But they opened my head and operated anyway and here I am today. I have a friend who says: ” Monique, you had a stroke, and you went ahead and had three more children! You animal you “!
    
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    August 1, 2018 6:04pm
  - realityczech
    
    “They couldn’t even give me a transfusion because the blood hadn’t been checked for HIV then.”
    
    Vege, why didn’t they just give you carrot juice?
    
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    August 1, 2018 6:45pm
- secondcumming
  
  Wish I’d married someone like you MW.
  With our first, my missus spent 8 months with Pre-Natal depression, and then cost me $12 grand in Auckland BirthCare, eating and drinking piss for a week 🙁
  
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  August 1, 2018 5:54pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  stupidity is it’s own reward, though sadly the baby could pay the biggest price.
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:21pm
KevOB

Strange today. It seems all on the COl benches are now speaking like Grant R. It feels like training has taken place in how to speak re-inforcing the student politic style. It’s eerie how they sound like Grant. Has there been a shake up prior to Taxcinda’s return?

What’s with the Raro head flowers too?
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August 1, 2018 5:47pm
- GazzaW
  
  I see too that after a warning way back from Mallard that the Government benches have reverted to the mass clapping of selected answers to patsy questions. They remind me of a seal colony.
  
  Is anyone getting bored with ‘Nine long years’ ? The current nine long months is getting to me.
  
  I didn’t realise the headgear was Rarotongan. I thought Labour was having a funny hats day.
  
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  August 1, 2018 6:18pm
  - KevOB
    
    I have never seen Parliament like this previously. The COL benches have lost their mana and decorum. It’s like a junior school class rather than the executive leadership team.
    
    Have the the COL been spell bound? Something weird has happened.
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:36pm
Monique Watson

Haha. after three kids and finding out I was having twins, I signed the consent form to have the tubes tied straight away. It was funny. The sonographer said; “there’s a good strong heartbeat. And there’s another good strong heartbeat”. I’m like: “Fuck. My baby has two hearts:?
Hubby who is the light of my life said; “It’s twins, Silly” He strutted around for days. As in: ” I can make twins”.
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August 1, 2018 5:58pm
- nasska
  
  Fair enough too. I found it hard work creating one at a time.
  
  Hundreds of times I gave it everything I had yet never got a result! 🙂
  
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  August 1, 2018 6:07pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    Hundreds of times I gave it everything I had yet never got a result!
    
    It’s times like this when I just sense that Redbaiter would have a pearl of wisdom or two to share! 🙂
    
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    August 1, 2018 6:16pm
    - nasska
      
      True Nostra. Some wet Saturday afternoons I fill with nostalgia when I remember helping in my small way as thedavincimode tortured Baity. 🙂
      
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      August 1, 2018 6:23pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Tubes tied? his or yours?
  Love it, proud hubby needs a beer
  
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  August 1, 2018 7:23pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Your husband was an accountant and was an expert in double entry.
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:51am
Maggy Wassilieff

92 upticks for KiWombat’s morning comment.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/08/general_debate_1_august_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2270381

That’s the most I’ve ever seen for a KB comment.
Can it get 100 upticks?

(Gee, I wonder who downticked it)
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August 1, 2018 6:51pm
- realityczech
  
  Which just goes to show that imbeciles enjoy having their prejudices confirmed.
  
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  August 1, 2018 6:57pm
starboard

Errr, what the FUCK is this about ??

https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2018/07/na-niu-tireni-new-zealand-made/
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August 1, 2018 7:03pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  It shows how much land you stole from the bros, Starboard. No matter how long ago, you stole it.
  These days you may have legal title, and that land in a trust/blind trust, but the cuzzy bros really own that land and own you.
  Give it back you mean cunt, just like I do
  
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  August 1, 2018 7:19pm
  - KevOB
    
    It feels like another assault on our pockets.
    
    What about the Bros taking land by force from each other?
    We had to offer security when they got a little too enthusiastic with mutual killing. What’s our bill to be in current terms?
    
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    August 1, 2018 10:43pm
- realityczech
  
  Errr, what the FUCK is this about ??
  
  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-israel-proclaimed
  
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  August 1, 2018 7:34pm
starboard

Conniving fucks. Better start some E cleansing me thinks.
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August 1, 2018 7:22pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Well, well, well

Jeremy Corbyn apologises.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/01/jeremy-corbyn-issues-apology-in-labour-antisemitism-row

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45027582
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August 1, 2018 7:42pm
EAD_TWO

Why is Israel kicking it’s African invaders out?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-africa-migrants/cash-or-custody-israel-kicks-off-deportation-of-african-migrants-idUSKBN1FP214

Don’t they realise that diversity is wonderful and enriching?

They could have let these Africans in and they would have become the new Jews.

Further, these Africans might have helped to win Israel the soccer world cup one day.

Also, they could have mated with the Israeli women to add some much needed vigour and spice to the gene pool

The Jews must be out of their minds to turn these potential neuro-surgeons away.
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August 1, 2018 7:43pm
- realityczech
  
  They are also rounding up black Ethiopian Jews and putting them in camps along with the other untermensch.
  
  Israel is one of the most racist places on earth, going well beyond skin colour, to DNA test and other ways of determining race-purity. That is on top of the religious bigotry.
  
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  August 1, 2018 7:57pm
  - realityczech
    
    Internationally there is currently a campaign by Rabbis to ban intermarriage between Jews and the filthy sub-human goy.
    
    It’s a plague. Like typhus, cholera, smallpox. In Herzog’s view, intermarriage, too, could cause the collapse of bodily systems
    
    I can think of a solution to this that should suit both sides. Deport all Jews to Israel (1948 border) and let them do as they please.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:05pm
    - DigNap15
      
      The 1967 border is better.
      The current one is even better
      They were invaded by 4 countries, so they need to defend a better border.
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:42pm
      - realityczech
        
        Using that logic Nazi Germany was “invaded” when it took over Poland etc, by multiple countries. Germany had a better claim to Poland than Jews do Israel.
        
        Seems you strongly support Nazi party policy though. Just replace Jew with Goyim:
        
        3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population.
        
        4. Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence no Jew can be a countryman.
        
        http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/25points.htm
        
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        August 1, 2018 8:46pm
- DigNap15
  
  You do realise that was dated February 2018.
  Two months from February is May.
  Bet they are all still there.
  I do hope they fly them out.
  Drop them over any African country they want to go to with a free parachute.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:41pm
  - realityczech
    
    Should we do the same with the Jews and drop them over Israel?
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:43pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    You do realise that was dated February 2018.
    
    You do realise that the Holocaust was alleged to have taken place 75 years ago….
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:54pm
    - realityczech
      
      And the nation of Israel thousand of years ago. Before that they lived in Egypt-Africa.
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:04pm
Maggy Wassilieff

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/105915797/declining-student-interest-threatens-victoria-university-of-wellingtons-arts-faculty

“Once you lay off those academics and say their works isn’t important, it’s gone forever.”

Oh dear, how sad.
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August 1, 2018 8:04pm
- realityczech
  
  “art history, classics and religious studies.”
  
  How dreadful. Who will indoctrinate the Labour/Green voters of tomorrow?
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:09pm
- nasska
  
  …..” and religious studies”….
  
  which leads to a Bachelor’s degree in Magic & Hocus Pocus. The course should be redundant….its recipients feign knowledge yet hark back to an age of superstition, ignorance & soothsaying!
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:20pm
  - realityczech
    
    The only place for studying religion in a university is to learn the terrible effect it has on its followers and society. It should be studied as pathology, as are other sicknesses and diseases.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:25pm
- Nostradamus
  
  From Maggy’s link:
  
  Victoria University staff are facing job losses as the institution “has been considering a change” to the school of art history, classics and religious studies.
  
  I’m sure, with suitable encouragement, Nasska would agree to head up the religious studies department!
  
  Windsor said the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences had been considering a “change proposal” that retained art history, museum and heritage, classics and religious subject areas by locating them within “different academic units of the faculty”.
  
  Oh, so we’re actually talking about moving everyone one chair to the right, and taking away two chairs. So which “different academic unit” could religion be shifted to?
  
  [University of Auckland professor Peter O’Connor] said: “Universities have to be about more than training people for industry work. The arts and humanities have always been about creating well-rounded, educated people who understand the world, rather than people who are just trained to do a job.” He said the likes of poets, artists and philosophers made for a “richer, more-wonderful world”.
  
  Yes, we need more poets, artists and philosophers here at Kiwiblog! (But not the poetry that Dennis Horne used to supply when he previously commented under that name…)
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:23pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”we need more poets”……
    
    I’m here Master! ?
    
    The limerick form is complex
    Its contents run chiefly to sex
    It burgeons with virgins
    And masculine urgings
    And swarms with erotic effects.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:28pm
    - realityczech
      
      Poetry is for alcoholic fags and art is pretentious shit.
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:30pm
      - fernglas
        
        We really should Czech our Reality
        If Arts are to become a fatality
        Without poetry and art
        One’s an ignorant fart
        Who is doomed to a life of banality
        
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        August 1, 2018 10:05pm
      - realityczech
        
        Fag alert ^
        Go have another drink pervert.
        
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        August 1, 2018 10:14pm
      - fernglas
        
        QED
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:31am
      - Monique Watson
        
        There once was a fellow McSweeny
        Who spilled some gin on his weenie
        Just to be couth
        He added vermouth
        Then slipped his girlfriend a martini
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:06am
    - Nostradamus
      
      An example of Dennis the poet:
      
      Cock a doodle do!
      Shearer’s in the poo
      Robinson’s in the wing
      And Cunliffe’s still got sting
      I’m John Keywee playing ballyhoo.
      
      What can we possibly say?
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:33pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        There was a young lady named Rose,
        Who had a large wart on her nose.
        When she had it removed,
        Her appearance improved,
        But her glasses slipped down to her toes.
        
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        August 1, 2018 8:48pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @ nasska
      That sounds like you’ve spent too much time studying the Classics…
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolytus_(play)
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:51pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Ahh, some happy news for a change. Goes along with massive decline in studies of the humanities in USA too.
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:29pm
  - realityczech
    
    In today’s climate critical and robust study of human society is impossible. The PC agenda is put before evidence.
    
    A great example is the notion it is unethical to say it is natural for women to breastfeed because it reinforces gender roles.
    
    You can’t make this fucking shit up ❗
    
    http://iwf.org/news/2803518/Study:-Describing-Breastfeeding-as-%E2%80%98Natural%E2%80%99-Is-Unethical-Because-It-Reinforces-Gender-Roles
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:37pm
    - realityczech
      
      Oh here we have actual doctors saying it:
      
      Pediatrics
      April 2016, VOLUME 137 / ISSUE 4
      From the American Academy of Pediatrics
      
      http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/4/e20154154
      
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      August 1, 2018 8:40pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Of course men can breastfeed…
      
      With a holey singlet and a bit of ingenuity
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3622994/Dads-ingenious-way-breastfeed-daughter-mother-returns-work.html
      
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      August 1, 2018 9:07pm
Captain Mainwaring

So that stupid unionist who tried to break the Gaza blockade has been released by Israel and is on his way home.
Two questions:
1. Why were they so easy on him?
2. Who’s paying his fare?
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August 1, 2018 8:34pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Captain Mainwaring:
  
  The Unite Union shared some news with us: Mike Treen repeatedly tasered by Israeli Occupation Forces
  
  We have now received a direct report from Mike in Givon Prison. He was tasered repeatedly by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) while in the wheelhouse of the Al Awda and subsequently tightly handcuffed. He received injuries to his face and head and was bleeding but is now recovering.
  
  It could have been worse:
  
  Of Mike’s fellow flotilla members one was tasered in the head, a 69 year old female surgeon received a head injury and a senior Canadian passenger was received a foot injury and had to be treated in hospital.
  
  But as Mike is “now recovering” we don’t need to worry!
  
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  August 1, 2018 8:37pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Yes, it could have been worse for the stupid fucker and he was lucky that it wasn’t.
    Sometimes the Israelis are really nice to idiots who try to fuck with them.
    
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    August 1, 2018 8:52pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Could we do some crowdfunding to convince the Israelis to keep him?
  
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  August 1, 2018 9:14pm
DigNap15

That is why Steven Joyce told the universities to harden up and offer courses more job and technology orientated.
Engineering, Medical etc etc

We don’t need hundred of sociologists. One or two will do.
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August 1, 2018 8:35pm
nasska

“Oh. Thanks for the tip.” he told his cellmate Leroy, “Not many would be so kind and understanding to the ‘new guy’ in prison.”

“No problem mate.” was the reply, “But next time you’re taking the whole 10inches.”
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August 1, 2018 8:51pm
- sam green
  
  Respect for telling your story nasska.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:45pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Tommy Robinson out on bail
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August 1, 2018 9:56pm
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  Pending a rehearing of his committal for contempt of Court. The hearing was conducted wrongly, but the fact of a rehearing doesn’t prevent the same penalty being imposed. The summary of his conduct that the Court of Appeal set out looks like a strong case of contempt, particularly given his conduct at an earlier hearing which resulted in a suspended sentenced being imposed, after an apology, and his acknowledgment that he understood that if he involved himself in similar conduct in the future the suspended sentence could be activated. Interesting stuff.
  
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  August 1, 2018 10:17pm
EAD_TWO

Well said Rabbi – the Pope could learn a lot.

Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef announces that black people are “sub-humans, monkeys, and nig*ers,” and that secular Israeli courts “are worse than Gentile courts”:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/chief-rabbi-compares-african-americans-to-monkeys/

http://newobserveronline.com/israels-chief-rabbi-blacks-are-sub-humans-monkeys-and-nigers/
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August 1, 2018 11:15pm
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: APRA’s airbrushing of mortgage risks exposed – Leith van Onselen … MacroBusiness Australia

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/apras-airbrushing-mortgage-risks-exposed/#comment-3157717 …and … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/08/nz_business_now_more_pessimistic_than_in_the_last_recession.html/comment-page-1#comment-2271089

APRA’s airbrushing of mortgage risks exposed – Leith van Onselen … MacroBusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/apras-airbrushing-mortgage-risks-exposed/

By Leith van Onselen

Last week, economist John Adams penned an excellent article exposing the way that the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) has airbrushed Australian history to paint over the huge housing risks facing the economy: … read more via hyperlink above …

… PAVLETICH COMMENT ON THREAD …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/apras-airbrushing-mortgage-risks-exposed/#comment-3157717

… CONSIDERING THE 2007 IRISH EXPERIENCE …

The unweighted average median multiples of its metros in 2007 was 4.7, which crashed to 2.8 in subsequent years … putting all its Banks to the wall and requiring bailouts of in excess of 70 billion euro … about $NZ109 billion.

Currently the average Median Multiples for the Australian and New Zealand metros overall are about 5.9 and 5.8 respectively … refer …

Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions

http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm

Research by the Central Bank of Ireland found high lending multipoles was the greatest problem (more so than loan to value ratios) … and subsequently imposed a general mortgage cap of 3.5 times annual household income. A year earlier the Bank of England had capped at 4.5 times annual household income …

Mortgage Measures | Central Bank of Ireland
… access extensive background research via link …

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

A helpful television discussion about the 2007 Irish experience …

Prof. Bill Black & Vincent Brown – Ireland’s Bank Guarantee … Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zd5dRILBw
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August 2, 2018 5:38am
- EAD_TWO
  
  Well said Hugh.
  
  I like the way you’ve hyperlinked back to comments of your own so we can see what you had to say on the matter previously.
  
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