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KiWombat

Time to put your money where your mouth is Shame – show us the trees – time to put up or shut up !

Are you out there Shame? – wakey wakey, hands off snakey – 80 million trees to go now Shame – that’s 80 followed by a bucketful of zero’s !

This is a very large number. To put it into context, if 80,000,000 x 5mtr high trees were laid end to end then they would reach the moon, and half way back again.

Summer’s over now, winter is winding up, so it’s the right time to start planting – better go wake up your cuzzies and give them a shovel some time soon !
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August 2, 2018 8:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  so it’s the right time to start planting
  
  It’s fast becoming the wrong time to start planting.
  If, as NIWA reckons, we have a 55% (!) chance of heading for a dry spring/summer on the east coast, then new plantings might be in for a stressful time.
  https://www.niwa.co.nz/climate/seasonal-climate-outlook/seasonal-climate-outlook-july-september-2018
  
  And if site preparation hasn’t been carried out already, then I’d leave the planting until next year.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:52am
  - KiWombat
    
    “Sigh!”
    
    – – – and if we do the same thing next year then I suppose these trees will never make it into terra firma – but then I think that is what most of us expected anyhow !
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:56am
  - Chris R
    
    Do you still have faith in NIWA? You may be alone in doing so? Your points are well made however.
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:08am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      faith in Niwa?
      
      I’d love to know the error limits attached to their seasonal prognostications.
      
      I mean is the chance of us having an El Nino summer exactly 55%…… could it be 56%, or even 52%?
      What the hell does a chance 30% above normal, 35% normal and 35% below normal really mean?
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:24am
      - stephieboy
        
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        MW, you have little faith in NIWA?
        
        Why precisely?
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:53am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Why precisely?
        
        I have outlined a reason above.
        
        Do you understand the concept of precision?
        
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        August 2, 2018 10:00am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        And once you have the concept of precision precisely in your mind, try tackling the concept of accuracy.
        
        How accurate are the Niwa seasonal forecasts?
        
        Mullan reckons Niwa gets long range rainfall forecasts right about 40 per cent of the time, and long range temperature right about half the time. In comparison, if predictions were made randomnly, they would be right about a third of the time, given the three choices – below average, average, and above average.
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/76827016/seasonal-forecasts-try-predicting-1000-coin-tosses-by-everyone-on-earth
        
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        August 2, 2018 10:38am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Forget him Maggy.
        He’s as dumb as a sack of hammers.
        Even these parrots have more comprehension than stupidboy.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dTvF53buTc
        
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        August 2, 2018 11:11am
      - Harkman
        
        40% isn’t good enough, ever read ‘Fortune Sellers?’
        
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        August 2, 2018 11:14am
      - KevOB
        
        NIWA are also attributing the El Nino to climate change. Where did they ever get there qualifications: Robert Mugabe University?
        
        More authoritative sources will be tracking any El Nino.
        
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        August 2, 2018 11:14am
      - realityczech
        
        Climate is driven by an incredibly complex array of influences and interactions, only a few of which we understand. For this reason the best we can come up with are some rough as guts probability estimates, that demonstrably are little better than guess work.
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:36pm
      - realityczech
        
        “MW, you have little faith in NIWA?”
        
        stupidboy you gibbering imbecile. Perhaps because Maggie is trained in an evidence based scientific method of inquiry and not “faith”.
        
        Didn’t they teach you anything at that Sharia based faith school?
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:39pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Right Chrie R they should be re-badged NIerWA. That too would be only somewhere nearer their ability levels when they can only manage to assess the CO2 uptake with a 70% underestimation. Priceless now even more so as the public sector wage are on the way.
      
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      August 2, 2018 5:33pm
  - Peter S
    
    55% is not much better than a coin toss.
    Reminds me of a few years ago when a “hottest evah” year was breathlessly reported. A bit of checking showed that the claim had a 48% confidence rating.
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:17am
    - DJ Ward
      
      That’s more than Labour got!
      
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      August 2, 2018 10:09am
    - KevOB
      
      It’s an easy claim to make when temperature measurement stations are sited on some airline tarmacs and gently warmed by jet engines.
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:20am
- Piniwi
  
  Steady KiWombat they are still getting all the ducks in a row until the cuzzies can attend Micro trade training so they can be paid at a premium rate for gaining a minimal skill set. Did something like that once in a short course to be able to legally attach a plug to electrical appliances. Very short but never go to go to the revised course when the wiring colour codes were changed. Chances are the Micro scheme will be a good cover for building defects when the surface down stream. What a farce to create even semiskilled manpower for any industry.
  
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  August 2, 2018 5:27pm
duggledog

I really do think somebody from the National Party needs to come right out with it and let the State Media especially know – publicly – next time they are in Government (and it might be sooner rather than later) that unless they can become a little less partisan, funding for RNZ will be halved, with a commercial imperative introduced, TVNZ sold off and there will be no more sweet deals such as Joyce did with Mediaworks etc.

Trump blasted the media on the hustings and it paid huge dividends.

For its population size, New Zealand has a colossal number of media outlets and many of them rely on the massive annual cash injections from Government coffers via the taxpayer who now watches Netflix.

DPF has posted here before the discrepancies between positive articles about the Left and negative articles about the Right, and the leanings of the various journalists.

The fact there’s hardly a ripple this morning about the Greens lying about the waka jumping bill proves it to me. Bridges appears content to wait till the media dies; this could take a long time.
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August 2, 2018 8:34am
- srylands
  
  I quite like a national radio service. But I would advocate a back to basics model. It can run a New Zealand news service without the left spin. For 12 hours a day it can just broadcast selected international news (BBC, DW, etc).
  
  New Zealand on Air can die. Read the list of programmes they fund.
  
  TVNZ can die. It is too late to get anything for it. Just unplug it.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:44am
  - Harkman
    
    But the BBC is the propaganda arm of the “climate change” brigade.
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:51am
    - Colville
      
      Not Radio 1
      Doof Doof Doof… 🙂
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:23am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Just stream Radio 4 and 2 24 x 7
      
      The joy of ‘Play for the Day’ not being some hammy poorly written local option peppered with maori references, the main characters being Mani or Tania (soon to be replaced by Muhammad and Binliner with no speaking part), all done by one presenter without the ability to actually present a monologue, more suited to presenting the speaking clock in real time, and, the story with the almost compulsory bird noise intro and ending.
      
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      August 2, 2018 10:13am
      - freethinker
        
        Brilliant satire and possibly a prediction to come true.
        
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        August 2, 2018 1:00pm
    - kowtow
      
      And DW is the propaganda arm of the ‘hug millions of Muslim migrants’ brigade.
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:17am
    - stephieboy
      
      Harkman, and coy there is, of course, always Infowars to satiate your hankering for ignorance and stupidity.
      
      And there is yet another,
      
      https://redice.tv/red-ice-radio
      
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      August 2, 2018 1:10pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Free to air ? It’s mostly advert riddled puke.
    Shit – I’m glued to youtube.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:16am
  - KevOB
    
    BBC should be off limits too.
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:21am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  All politicians desperately need the media to give them the oxygen of publicity, a biased media is better than no media.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:46am
  - howitis
    
    Prez D. J. Trump gets direct cut through with Twitter.
    Then the media have to report off that and there is the original tweet in plain sight.
    This reduces room for fabrication.
    All the lyin’ media are left with is ranting, raving, and gnashing of teeth.
    Control freaks get their gatekeeper role removed.
    It is wonderfully undignified -for the media.
    
    Sometimes the simple methods are the best.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:37am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Social media is dying. Twitter and Facebook are collapsing as people realise how vapid and dangerous they are to use.
      
      Politicians have to have some way to reach voters who aren’t interested. Not many free avenues left.
      
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      August 2, 2018 12:24pm
      - stephieboy
        
        UN, twitter? I don’t think the US President would agree with?
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:27pm
- MrTips
  
  This might heat up sooner than you think.
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:43am
- Holly Roggerz
  
  Well and we get all the do gooder govt adverts about everything from smoking to driving or election enrollments, must bring in much money to these advocacy outlets, like TVNZ etc..etc…
  
  Frankly I don’t think the government should sponsor political activism and other such lobby/pressure groups. It undermines the notion that they work for us, what if they prop up political institutions that seek to influence our views.
  
  The point of democracy is that we have periodic elections where we decide what sort of government we would like to have, not lobby/preasure groups pushing the public to some predetermined outcome. Fortunately people seem to be waking up with the demise of the msm pressure groups and despite their activism we got brexit, we got Trump, outside of the loss of UF and the Maori party their big push in NZ was basically a N/C in Parliamentary seat distribution.
  
  So at least the msm is now a failure as an advocacy pressure group, still it is time to defund this institution.
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:41pm
- Piniwi
  
  Perhaps duggledog but taking on the Media party is surely a battle for another day as there are SO many more serious battles to be fought. Suggest noting that the COL are doing a fine job of displaying their incompetence even with the supporting Media party doing their damnedest to shield the worst. It has become impossible for the Media party to keep some things under raps especially as more choose to view OQT where so many need the witless protection time to find refuge. Those left to answer on behalf of also soon become revealed as hardly being capable of their Associate Ministerial roles.
  The biggest challenge for Simon Bridges is picking from the massive list of targets being presented by the COL as well as the rapid rate new additions are included in the list. Like after a suspicious uncle top appointment the chosen head of a very restrictive inquiry was told/chose to resign.
  It failed like every quick fix they try to resort to as well as the failed drip feed plan of what turned out to be false accusations against the previous Government. It sees the list keep getting expanded as incompetent Ministers stoop to foul means to effect a cover up as even Parliamentary rule are flaunted.
  While many still see the leadership of the National party as the B team they deserve a fair shot of lifting their game which is best served by a steady path than a radical one. IMO the recent conference while certainly putting the fear of the devil in the COL will prove to be a turning point for National. We also got some serious indicators of an early start to a strong campaign ahead as firm, sound policy direction have started to be announced. The strong foundations are being formed but it is quite some time before the roof is celebrated. Unlike the building industry they have an a abundance of affordable priced material. Anybody who has missed out of some direct line of communication to motivate this team is missing their chance to be part of the solution.
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:04pm
plc

Do we know whether the Police received an complaint from Ms. Davidson re the FB death threats?
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August 2, 2018 8:36am
- MrLovebucket
  
  Nah, with her it is another day, another lie.
  
  She will justify it in her head as being part of some sort of greater good.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:47am
  - kevn
    
    @MrLB.. Send her back to Gaza with a one-way ticket.
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:22am
KiWombat

My CoL runsheet posted in GD debate yesterday reached 98 upticks ! Never seen one that high before – which tempts me to ask whether it might get skyrockets and sparklers when it reaches 100 ?
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August 2, 2018 8:38am
- waikatogirl
  
  I’d been back to check if your very popular comment had reached a 100 upticks. I was willing it to get there but alas no cigar. Your brilliant comment must be added to and reposted, especially closer to the next election, but great for a regular reminder. Well done KiWombat. ?
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:43am
  - KiWombat
    
    Thanks WG – it might run into something akin to a Pavlevich epic by then though !
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:45am
    - Harkman
      
      You’re just showing off coz I posted something yesterday that got zero upticks. I bet you captained the First XV as well ?
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:10am
    - Peter S
      
      102 now.
      Well done.
      Keep re-posting at intervals, with the additions that will surely be needed.
      Calamity Jane has just had weeks with little limelight, so she will be bursting with the need to be seen to be doing and saying significant things and making captain’s calls, so there should be plenty of new material for the list.
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:23am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I tried my best to tempt the shy to uptick it..
    
    But congrats, nevertheless.
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:54am
    - KiWombat
      
      Thanx Maggy et al !
      
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      August 2, 2018 8:57am
      - RalphT
        
        Just done my bit for your cause, but sadly you’re only on 99
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:01am
      - KiWombat
        
        Thanks Ralph – one more and we might see fireworks !
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:03am
      - KiWombat
        
        Just looked again and it has reached 101 !
        
        Page is still pasty yellow though – c’mon DPF – invent a new background colour at least !
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:20am
      - waikatogirl
        
        101 upticks. Well done from the West Coast!
        Couldn’t find you any fireworks KiWombat so this lot will have to do.
        
        ? ? ? ⚡️ ?
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:26am
      - KiWombat
        
        Thanks WG
        
        We’re waiting on the busts that Shane promised us last week – not sure what we are going to do with them all though !
        
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        August 2, 2018 10:12am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      If I was an enterprising journalist, I’d plagiarise your list and give it a Page 1 headline….obviously an eye-catching article.
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:28am
      - sooty
        
        But the scum media would be shown up!!!
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:36am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        They will have seen it all the same. Someone may have had to read it to them but they will have seen it for sure.
        
        Won’t understand the post either but it will have been noticed and they know that there are some here who write and present better than they do, the ‘trained and professional’
        
        Steady, not you Hugh.
        
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        August 2, 2018 10:23am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        MW – perhaps KBer should start a givealittle page so KWs post gets a full page print in some failing newspaper or other?
        It’s not like they’d print it all by themselves.
        
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        August 2, 2018 4:35pm
- oldgolfer
  
  It deserved a ton, and I would happily have ”dropped” a catch to get it there, such was the skill of the scorer.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:47am
  - Harkman
    
    Anyone remember when Hugh was the first poster and he got 98 thumbs down ?? Now that was classic, KiWombat should invite him to a match ?
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:38am
- hullkiwi
  
  Kiwis, yesterday was a good day for the infection that is e-COLI (the electoral Coalition of Losers & the Inept)
  
  Yesterday:
  1. In the space of 6 hours their defence of a conflicted chair of a non-enquiry turned to being announcing the resignation of the conflicted chair. So, now we have a non-enquiry into a non-enquiry;
  2. Martin was forced to confirm she misled the House on Tuesday;
  3. Peters acted in (or said things in the House) that denigrated another Member – did Duckie hold him to account for it?;
  4. Two construction companies went to the wall, & there are suggestions there are more – suggesting not all is grand in the economy. All of which is helping to feed negative sentiment of the business community; and
  5. To top it all off, our favourite troll from the e-CoLI troll farm earned Strikes 7 & 8 and got a ban. Read it & weep zdivvy.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:54am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I am at home on ACC at the moment and I watched what my million dollars a minute buys.
    
    Pretty horrible and needs to be compulsory viewing once a week for all, that alone will push voter participation close to 100% and empty the prisons because even the meth heads would want to change that shower of shit.
    
    Bishop was good, Martin would have got a ‘see me later which I did a lot of myself at school.
    
    During one of the exchanges being refereed by Mallard, I am fairly sure I heard Peter’s voice say ‘throw fattie out’ in reference to Brownlee’s barracking of the A team (yeah right for sure)
    
    Why does toxic turd think he can say anything with such impunity and then reach for the solicitor at the slighest precieved slight against his self justified integrity?
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:38am
- timmydevo
  
  Make that 100!!
  (Sorry. No fireworks.)
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:09am
- labrator
  
  I was ever so slightly disappointed when my most popular post topped out at 97 so congrats on the ton!
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:47am
  - KiWombat
    
    Thanks Lab
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:14am
- kowtow
  
  ‘whether it might get skyrockets and sparklers when it reaches 100 ?’
  
  Under the Ardern regime it will attract SIS interest as “far right” extremism.
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:19am
EAD_TWO

Another day, another puff piece from the MSM giving us a different angle on why diversity is so wonderful despite the entire non-white world not engaging in such masochistic demographic self-immolation. Must be a day ending in Y.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/australia/105157286/melbournes-a-multicultural-and-cultural-hub-a-city-for-everyone

From the article:

It’s easy to find your own niche in a city as diverse as Melbourne. Perhaps that’s partly why it’s known as the world’s most liveable city.

If multiculturalism was in any way useful or desirable it would encounter very little resistance and would be self-evident in its benefits. But instead it’s accompanied by propaganda and social/legal sanctions of a type and scale not seen since the height of Communism.…..

Of course, many of Melbourne’s five million people are born-and-bred Aussies, but almost a quarter of the population was born overseas……

People from more than 200 countries live there, speaking more than 230 languages.

It’s staggering that the diversity pushers use such nonsense as a “positive” when our grandparents were told they fought WWII propaganda to stop “our children speaking German/Japanese”. Now we have large swathes of our cities where aliens can’t speak any English and my local DHB prints guides on how to use the local hospital in 11 languages.

But while the inner city is a melting pot of hundreds of cultures, it’s worth taking a tram or a train to suburbs a little further out to truly immerse yourself in some of them.

Buzzwords like melting pot, diversity, enrichment, vibrancy, enhancement essentially appeal to a personality overly impressed with novelty – an essentially childish trait. Multiculturalism is an illness of a dumbed down infantile society.

In the west, Footscray has cultures spanning from Vietnamese to Ethiopian. It has recently started to attract the hipster crowd, and is becoming gentrified. You’ll find plenty of dining options, international food stores and markets there.

In the north, Brunswick has a diverse mix of cultures; Middle Eastern bakeries, Mediterranean shops, Arabaic eateries, and a distinct hipster vibe

What about that Congonese and Sudanese enrichers? The Vietnamese and Chinese Triad gangs or the Arabaic allu snackbars? Why no mention of them?

What really grates me though is the self-hatred and hypocrisy of the authors who use this line of argument. These sorry people have been brainwashed into believing our own people and culture are so shit you need droves of Somalian taxi drivers, Arab Bakers, Indian dairy owners or Pakistani kebab-makers to make our countries better.

Liberalism is a mental sickness
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August 2, 2018 8:38am
- stephieboy
  
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  EAD TWO, Nazism = mental health.
  
  Oh Sure!
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSD0Mjt64LQ
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:57am
  - sooty
    
    You are have to try harder than that stephie, you are the No 1 troll here now. That nasty zit has been popped!
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:42am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Duncan Garner made an interesting comment this morning in his support of the teachers pay claims. He rightly pointed out that a lot of society’s issues are landed at the feet of teachers and gave the example of fathers who won’t turn up to a kids teacher/parent interview because they don’t believe that women should be allowed to work. WTF? Surely if any foreigner wanting to immigrate here harbours such views they should be deemed incompatible to our society and refused residency?
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:53am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Oh dear – why the fuck on earth should they change anything about themselves coming here ?
    
    Aotearooted.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:28am
  - freethinker
    
    Speaking the language and acceptance of a host culture are critical aspects so without both, immigrants are coming to the wrong country and NZ is wrong in accepting those who wish to turn NZ into the same type of shithole they escaped from.
    
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    August 2, 2018 1:15pm
Paulus

Have I missed the figures which we were told would be advised which show the effectiveness of the little fat teletubby one from Christchurch on the number of Earthquake Claims that her special Committee have now settled since she gave an outstanding figure of 2,600 a some month ago ? Still waiting.
Is it like the Kiwibuild house numbers and the Trees planted ?
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August 2, 2018 8:41am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  She was on fire in the house yesterday!
  
  Hopkins was surrounded by three harpies, Mahuta Scribble Chin, woman wearing the garden on her head and three pies Woods.
  
  Made Hopkins look slim, good looking, sane and an intellectual giant.
  
  Anyway three pies nodded all the time mmuttering ‘that’s right, that’s right’ as some sort of incantitation. I think she had it written on the back of her hand but she really knew her lines.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:52am
- Tricati
  
  Given Woods has had to deal with 2600 claims out of the 450,000 made, or 0.006%, its just to hard for her as ‘talking’ just won’t fix it.
  My daughter is one of the 2600 and the crap she has had to endure is unbelievable, despite all the Wood’s rhetoric that all is changed within EQC. My daughter received her settlement letter, which was based on a flawed scope, but put her over-cap so now has to deal with her insurer.
  An example of the scope omission – How do you remove and replace a reinforced concrete ring foundation WITHOUT removing a double brick fire wall and external brick chimney that sits on it, as both the firewall and chimney were missed, let alone all the consequential works. You would have to be a moron to miss this.
  Additionally, all the noise Woods made in regard to the supposed $75mil cost over-run of the new sports complex, when it was in fact Risk Contingency. I bet the contractor is now glad she pulled the pin given the number of contractors going to the wall due to them having to absorb cost over-runs (Risk) within their margin.
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:00pm
holysheet

A labour man is waiting in line to purchase vodka from a liquor store, but due to restrictions imposed by Jimmy two mums, the line is very long. The man loses his composure and screams, “I can’t take this waiting in line anymore, I HATE Jimmy two mums, I am going to the beehive right now, and I am going to kill him!”
After 40 minutes the man returns and elbows his way back to his place in line. One man asks him if he has succeeded in killing Jimmy two mums .
“No,” he responds. “That line was even longer.”
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August 2, 2018 8:42am
The Heat

Oh, what a surprise:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/363164/thicker-plastic-bags-free-for-coles-shoppers-after-outcry

“After banning single use plastic bags, Coles has bowed to customer pressure and will hand out thicker plastic bags free of charge.”

You gotta laugh….
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August 2, 2018 8:43am
- DigNap15
  
  I love the single use bags
  And I tell my supermarket staff that everytime chance I get.
  Its like going back to the stone age
  Paper or Jute?
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:28am
  - sooty
    
    When you look at the amount off plastic in supermarket wrapping, you have to ask. WHY?
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:44am
  - waikatogirl
    
    I asked the NW checkout operator what date bags were being fazed out and she said there had been no decision by NW. I told her I was saving the bags as they are useful for all sorts. I wonder how many others are protesting quietly as they go through the checkout?
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:28am
- peterwn
  
  Bill English can be blamed – he is a director of Perth based conglomerate Wesfarmers who owns Coles. They also own Bunnings who sell sandpaper so he was also implicated in the cricket ball tampering incident.
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:30am
- Rich Prick
  
  Overheard at dinner last week, a couple of airhead lefties moaning about having to pay for bin liners when the supermarket bags are banned. One suggested a subsidy. Gotta laugh.
  
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  August 2, 2018 3:49pm
  - sam green
    
    Bullshit.
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:07pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Nah. Dogshit and/or catshit is what they’re good for sam! 🙂
      
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      August 2, 2018 8:12pm
The Heat

Oh, what a surprise:

radionz.co.nz/news/world/363164/thicker-plastic-bags-free-for-coles-shoppers-after-outcry

“After banning single use plastic bags, Coles has bowed to customer pressure and will hand out thicker plastic bags free of charge.”

You gotta laugh….
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August 2, 2018 8:44am
- srylands
  
  Yes I saw that. Talk about unintended consequences.
  
  I have started using reusable shopping bags. After about 6 months they will be manky and I will throw them out.
  
  Also I have bought a roll of 1000 single use plastic bags from Mitre 10 for my bin liners, dog shit duties, drycleaning, and gym gear.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:49am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    I’ve been using the same re-usable shopping bags for about three years.
    
    Line them with old newspaper, wipe them clean when appropriate and all three are still in pristine (almost 😉 ) condition.
    
    My store of plastic bags for rubbish is getting rather low though 🙁
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:59am
    - GazzaW
      
      The best value bags come from PaknSave at ten cents a time. They are larger than Countdown bags and line buckets or kitchen bins very effectively.
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:16am
      - waikatogirl
        
        NW bags are slightly bigger and fit the kitchen bin as well. I buy from NW sometimes on that basis!!
        Lots of people virtue signalling about one use supermarket bags but what are they going to use when they’re no longer available gratis. Hadn’t thought of that had they!
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:30am
      - Harkman
        
        Aren’t they 5 cents Gazza?
        
        Wednesday last week Paknsave was on fire, Snickers bars for 49c, yogurt 6 packs for $2, baguettes and Toffeepops 0.99c (and I don’t eat much junk food). I pity those folks with only a Countdown nearby, they’re getting shafted.
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:33am
  - DigNap15
    
    You can buy single use bags in bulk from Trade me.
    (I bought a pack of 500)
    They are called T Shrt Bags
    Get the large or jumbo ones.
    They are less than 1 cent in bulk from Ali Babas
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:30am
  - Ed Snack
    
    I/We use reusable bags (as long as we remember to take them) and they last several years. Almost all the ones we have were given out free by NW. They don’t get noticeably dirty if you empty them out – most stuff that could soil them is wrapped anyway.
    
    Given up mostly on using the supermarket plastic bags as bin liners – at least the large ones. For about $2 we can buy a roll of 50 such that are larger, don’t have a 25% chance of having a hole, and fit into the bin better. That lasts 3-4 months so hardly a ruinous expense.
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:04am
EAD_TWO

Hot on the heels of the articles on why it is so amazing to be a cat woman @ 40, here comes more anti family sh*t from the MSM:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/little-kids/105929088/the-parents-who-regret-having-children

How about for once the MSM publishes just one article about the joy and wonders of the nuclear family?

How about publishing this depiction of The Two Paths – What Will the Girl Become? in the Dominion Post?

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e480ad8faa1fa251ceba04e408a0ae63ffa5035f194371b7d125098a80567d18.jpg
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August 2, 2018 8:44am
- stephieboy
  
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  EAD TWO, how many sprogs did Adolf and Eva have?
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:01am
  - GazzaW
    
    You need to step up the quality of your posts now steffie. You are after all now the Senior Troll.
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:20am
    - sooty
      
      That was poor taste ,stephie. You will have to do better.
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:47am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Is there a hat and a badge that comes with the Senior Troll title? Something that others can recognise, admire, aspire to or is it one of those things you ‘do’ in the privacy of one’s curtain drawn bedroom that smells kinda funky?
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:09am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Senior Troll definitely carries a clip-board and has 3 pens in his shirt pocket ?
        
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        August 2, 2018 11:47am
      - sooty
        
        One up his arse as well to give that puckered look all the clipboard idiots have.
        
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        August 2, 2018 3:42pm
doggone7

Fake news?
“President Trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12099580
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August 2, 2018 8:45am
- All_on_Red
  
  Media:”Hold my beer”!
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:54am
  - sooty
    
    Them snowflakes are still crying that their Hillary missed out!
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:49am
- stephieboy
  
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  dogggone7 , shall we begin here by going through them one at a time?
  https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:03am
  - Inandout
    
    I’ll leave that task to you muzhugger, I have better things to do.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:11am
Poppa

So how many more construction companies will we see go down the plug hole in the near future?

I have heard there is another one on very shaky ground but I suspect there could be more.

There are only a very limited number of companies able to do large construction projects so this could spell big trouble.

Perhaps hard hat Twyford could ride his white horse in to save them
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August 2, 2018 8:45am
- Niz
  
  Phil wants builders to stride in and build umpteen houses with little to no profit margin. Shouldn’t this failure be a warning to them?
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:52am
- dubya
  
  I wouldn’t put it past Twyford to use it as an excuse to reinstate the Ministry of Works (highly unionised and deeply inefficient, naturally).
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:53am
- holysheet
  
  No problems Bro, Twitford will get a new company up and running tomorrow.
  Comm-kiwibuild
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:54am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Cunliffe has it all drawn up and left for him on the back of a fag packet just like he did for Fonterra and the Sydney Opera House
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:12am
- MCos
  
  From what I hear run of the mill electricians, plumbers etc are now in short supply due to the building boom and subsequently make more money than the developer allowed for in his original quote.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:06am
Fletch

A new painting by conservative artist Jon McNaughton, Trump Crossing The Swamp.
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August 2, 2018 8:48am
- All_on_Red
  
  This funny from Greg Gutfield
  https://mobile.twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/1024639654505500672
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:59am
- stephieboy
  
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  Fletch and All on Red,
  
  Uncannily similar to this,
  
  https://russianlegacy.com/stalin-propaganda-poster-p-1336.html
  
  LOL
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:07am
  - Fletch
    
    Actually Stephie, it is based on the famous painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware River. – https://presidentgeorgewashington.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/washington_crossing_the_delaware.png
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:14am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Fletch, ah unlike Stalin not an original but a copycat?
      
      Whats missing is the hooks, lines and sinkers.
      
      LOL
      
      Yet like Stalin, crude propoganda !
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:19am
      - Fletch
        
        What is funny and ironic is that you bring up Stalin but it is leftists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who are the real Socialists and are totally clueless as to why their ideas will not work.
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:24am
      - Harkman
        
        And those “Hope” t-shirts weren’t propaganda?
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:36pm
  - Inandout
    
    Not in the slightest similar stephie, so take a little more time when you Google.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:14am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Not even remotely similar.
    Still struggling for relevance, Galah
    
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    August 2, 2018 4:45pm
- Urban Redneck
  
  That’s actually very well done.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:09am
EAD_TWO

An article on George Soros in the NYT on how and why he is one of the biggest pushers of diversity (into White countries at least) and what motivates him:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/magazine/george-soros-democrat-open-society.html

From the article:

But he had always “identified firstly as a Jew,” and his philanthropy was ultimately an expression of his Jewish identity, in that he felt a solidarity with other minority groups and also because he recognized that a Jew could only truly be safe in a world in which all minorities were protected.

Explaining his father’s motives, he said, “The reason you fight for an open society is because that’s the only society that you can live in, as a Jew

A rare moment of honesty from a member of the tribe….

The subversion has come so far they don’t even feel the need to hide it anymore.

The idea of a “minority” is that there are less of “them” in a given area. At what point will whites be given minority status/treatment? Most likely not even when we are outnumbered in our own countries.

Just ask White South African Farmers what it is like being a white minority and the “privilege” that brings…..
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August 2, 2018 8:51am
- Harkman
  
  I got to agree with you on this occasion, Soros is dangerous and an ar$ehole. Didn’t the Malaysian Prime Minister have an assassination order out on him?
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:55am
  - stephieboy
    
    Harkman, so you agree then with EAD TWO that Soros is dangerous because he is a Jew?
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:09am
    - Harkman
      
      No, I used to read about Soros (mainly Jim Rogers) for investment strategy. But now he is just dangerous. I’m not anti-Jewish, how stupid is that? I think that Israel is doing what weakling Western governments are too afraid to do, fight terrorists. My mother lost uncles fighting the Nazis. BTW isn’t the British Labour party (the mother of NZs Labour party) in full on antisemitic mode? You do realise that Fascism is a left wing economic movement, that is anti-free markets? (Just listen to Winston)
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:20am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Soros is dangerous because he is a zealot.
      
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      August 2, 2018 4:47pm
VicParking

Youth crime down 60%. Looks like the Catch and Release program is working. Serious youth crime however has gone up because its not covered by Catch and Release. Catch the teens, teach them how to make a Hangi or weave a mat, introduce them to other gang prospects and send them back to the street wiser and trained to do more serious crimes.
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August 2, 2018 8:52am
- VicParking
  
  If my comment is bad enough to go to moderation I will withdraw it. It seems the KB have become Wooses. Seems however that Delete does not work so I will join the other delusioned KB’s
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:58am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Everyone’s posts go into moderation at some time or other on KB.
    It seems to be a random part of the soft-ware.
    If you really want to post up quickly, you go into the edit mode, copy the content, then delete… then paste/repost.
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:15am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Delete option hasn’t worked for weeks. Just delete, type a full stop and save that to replace comment.
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:44am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Thank you, I thought I was missing something when there was just a .
      
      I was I suppose, something not worth the effort I suspect.
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:22am
Nukuleka

Yesterday in PQT Winston Peters clearly referred to Gerry Brownlee as Fatty, perhaps an accurate description. But given that the media, including overseas worthies such as the Guardian, went overboard recently when Trevor Mallard (and he alone) allegedly heard a National MP refer to Jacinda Adern as ‘a silly little girl’ I am wondering where the outrage is about Winston’s sin of ‘fat-shaming’. Those with long memories will recall the hot water Jim Bolger found himself in when he used the well-known saying ‘it’s not over till the fat lady sings’. The nation’s fat ladies and their advocates went ballistic. The media as always are selective about whom they choose to criticise. And they wonder why we have so little respect for them.
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August 2, 2018 8:53am
- waikatogirl
  
  Peters calling Gerry Brownlee a fatty was in response to Gerry questioning the Speaker, during QT Tuesday, whether it was appropriate to call a member a drunk, after that drunk called Simon Bridges career a joke. Peters always has to have the last word – before departing the country last night. ?
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:04am
  - stephieboy
    
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    waikatogirl , but its OK to call Winnie a dwarf?
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:16am
    - RF
      
      When you see Peters in the flesh with other males in his age group he certainly fits the criteria for a dwarf.
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:21am
    - waikatogirl
      
      sb, I’ve never referred to him as a dwarf. Ask those who do. ?
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:45am
      - Inandout
        
        Smoking stunts the growth, my Gran used to say.
        
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        August 2, 2018 10:20am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I do believe only a couple of days ago it was stephieboy who referred to Peters and Howard as “Both suffering from Dwarfism”.
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/07/general_debate_31_july_2018.html#comment-2269735
        
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        August 2, 2018 11:02am
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, no! This what actually stated,
        
        stephieboy
        
        “Both suffering from Dwarfism?”
        
        Stop misquoting and twisting things !
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:20pm
  - Harkman
    
    WG I’ve known Gerry for many years, and the truth is, he is fat ? But the good news is Winston is on the last train to Oblivion. ?
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:23am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Yes Gerry is fat, and I’m sure he knows he is. While peters is in denial about his drinking! ?
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:48am
- MrTips
  
  Gerry should have shouted ” Yeah, I’m fat, but I can lose weight – you’ll never get taller yah cretinous dwarf!!”
  
  But seriously, Gerry could care two stuffs – call him anything you like, but don’t call him late for lunch.
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:39am
  - RF
    
    Years ago I went to a wedding and sat at the same table as a well known ChCh National MP who has now retired. This was during the time Shipley dumped Peters. The wine flowed freely and the MP was telling us about the time he shared a flat in Wellington with Peters.
    
    He was too much of a gentleman to call Peters a liar however it was obvious that he considered him to be very casual with the truth and loved indulging in conspiracy theories. There was always an excuse why he did not front with supporting evidence. Peters always had ambitions to be a PM, just like Ardern.
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:20am
- secondcumming
  
  I’ve always thought Damien O’Connor was a good bastard…..
  
  https://twitter.com/cjsbishop/status/1024599566476177408
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:50am
- MCos
  
  Kiwiblog is a public forum.
  Quite a few people here regularly write derogatory remarks about the physical characteristics of those they despise and are very seldom challenged.
  A bit rich to suddenly go all PC!
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:23am
  - calendar girl
    
    ” ….. the physical characteristics of those they despise ….”
    
    Hardly a realistic comparison when most such commenters on KB are anonymous – i.e. behind a nom-de-plume.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:37am
  - Lance
    
    Do you really have to have the issue spelled out to you… sigh
    ITS THE FUCKING HYPOCRISY OF THE LEFT
    They get all precious when they perceive a slight against them but it’s all good when it’s against the non far left.
    And yes.. Whinny has nailed his colours to the mast and is now a lefty. A vote for NZ first is a vote for the left, and will be for many moons to come.
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:12am
    - MCos
      
      To my way of thinking it doesn’t matter where you sit on the political spectrum mocking someone because of their physical appearance is bad form, and likely to backfire in NZ.
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:30am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        meh. Bad form if it is not a personal choice. Being fat or tattooed or having a ridiculous beard, moustache or haircut or wearing silly clothes (cowboy hat, high heels or a burka) are all personal choices and so are fair game.
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:36pm
      - doggone7
        
        So today you’ve found that writing derogatory remarks about the physical characteristics about those you despise is okay. Unless it’s someone doing it about Gerry Brownlee. And it’s specially okay if you do it on KB anonymously.
        
        No doubt most with that attitude are raising children or have done so and passed on their great values.
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:55pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Peters has always been a lefty. His sister said in a doco that Peters joined the Nats purely to be on the winners side. Reptile in the grass comes to mind.
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:52am
  - Nukuleka
    
    I wasn’t be in the slightest bit pc in my initial post MCos. I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the msm. Fail for comprehension.
    
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    August 2, 2018 3:03pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Don’t talk to loud as you have been guilty of the same remarks in your posts.
    
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    August 2, 2018 3:47pm
MT_Tinman

I’ve been giving a deal of thought lately to NZ politics – What else can you do after Joyce, Bridges and co completely fucked your industry?

Things like the Waka-jumping bill mean SFA to most, what NZ politics desperately needs is an end to the whipping system.

Make every vote in Parliament except those on confidence or supply a “conscience” vote.

This way pollies would have to negotiate every bill right through the parliamentary process and the poor bloody voter will get back some of their power.
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August 2, 2018 8:55am
- brett68
  
  I’ve been giving a deal of thought lately to NZ politics – What else can you do after Joyce, Bridges and co completely fucked your industry?
  
  What industry has Joyce and Bridges fucked?
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:00am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    Mine!
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:20am
    - Lance
      
      Are you selling carbon credits?
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:13am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Unicorn futures
        
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        August 2, 2018 11:26am
    - Duxton
      
      Which is……..?
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:25am
    - Happychappy
      
      Wasn’t Winston able to help you with that, again it’s easy to play the blame game with out your audience knowing the facts.
      
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      August 2, 2018 3:53pm
- howitis
  
  Finally !
  Those basket- weaving degrees from Te Whoa Flunga da Dunga are useful.
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:27am
secondcumming

An alternative to *Single use Plastic Bags* in Supermarkets ?

It seems the answer may have been under our very noses for hundreds of years….thanks to the entreprenurial skills and innovation of early Maori.

https://www.officemax.co.nz/images/ProductImages/500/2404133.jpg

It’s believed that the Maori woven flax bag known as *Kete* have been used for centuries by Maoris to do their shopping….well before plastic was even created and have always been valued in Maori culture.

Countdown Supermarket’s Kiri Hannafin told One Ewe’s , “We’ve been looking into the *Kete* solution, and while there are other options available, there is an opening and if Kiwis want them we will consider it”

It’s rumored that Tainui are considering an approach to Regional Development Fund Minister Shane Jones, regarding a proposal to reopen the *Foxton Flax Mills*.
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August 2, 2018 9:00am
- stephieboy
  
  secondcuming , bring in the Uber styled paper bags,
  
  Yah !
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:15am
- DigNap15
  
  Well may be they could start a business and employee all the unemployed maoris.
  (then they would see how hard it is to run a business in NZ and make a profit or pay our high wages.
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:33am
  - sooty
    
    They don’t pay taxes.
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:56am
    - sam green
      
      Ffs sooty.
      
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      August 2, 2018 8:18pm
- Inandout
  
  Before the white man came over here the kete was used for shopping at Pukusave.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:23am
- KevOB
  
  They are large enough to carry a head too.
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:35am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    a) cauli
    b) lettuce
    c) broccoli,
    d) neighbours
    
    Pick one
    
    The answer is the one that has a feature that can be picked and was not green at time of harvest.
    
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    August 2, 2018 1:42pm
Harkman

So I caught what I think was Tracey Martin last night on Radiolive (NewsHub) defending her corrupt appointment of Kingi etc and she was trying to counter attack saying it was a smear on a good person for political purposes, who was “serving NZ.” Does this clown not remember the previous 9 years? If you check the parliamentary archives for them, every appointment was “one of Key’s mates” or “a National donor.” It’s funny when they’re in the spotlight, shoe on the other foot.
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August 2, 2018 9:04am
Hugh Pavletich

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AUSTRALIA: 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 9:08am
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  The end of the global housing boom? … The Irish Times
  
  https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/the-end-of-the-global-housing-boom-1.3582836
  
  From London to Sydney and Beijing to New York, house prices in some of the world’s most sought-after cities are heading south … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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    Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/links-2-august-2018/#comment-3157791
    
    Fran O’Sullivan: Vehicle for change… but at what cost? – NZ Herald
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12099296
    
    COMMENT:
    
    It’s refreshing that the Labour-led Government is not so shy that it won’t steal the best of its predecessor’s policies when it comes to infrastructure funding.
    
    Urban Development Authority? Tick. Special Purpose Vehicle to fund infrastructure? Tick.
    
    It is not yet clear if Crown Infrastructure Partners — which was one of former National Cabinet Minister Steven Joyce’s brain children — will be the special purpose vehicle that Cabinet finally adopts when it looks to operationalise the plan for the Urban Growth Agenda which was unveiled by Cabinet Minister Phil Twyford in Auckland last night. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:24am
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Jeff Sessions announces new ‘Religious Liberty Task Force’ at Department of Justice

A Religious Liberty Task Force Has Been Created — Here’s What We Know

Attorney general warns US has become ‘less hospitable to people of faith’

https://www.bustle.com/p/a-religious-liberty-task-force-has- been-created-heres-what-we-know-9928710

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag & carrying the cross.”

Attributed to Sinclair Lewis
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August 2, 2018 9:13am
- Fletch
  
  Sessions is correct though. Religious liberty is being stifled by groups like Freedom From Religion which attack any religious symbol or practice that has been ongoing for generations, and they rationalize it by pointing to the infamous ‘separation of church and state’ idea that was never in the Constitution and is used in error.
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:20am
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    Fletch, you’re not suggesting that the Constitution makes room for a Christian theocracy?
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:00am
    - Harkman
      
      Democrats want to make America entirely Spanish speaking and get rid of the constitution.
      
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      August 2, 2018 10:58am
    - Ed Snack
      
      No, and don’t be even more stupid than usual. The Constitution forbids having an “established religion”, where that refers to have an official state religion. It was a direct reference to the Church of England being the “established church” of Great Britain and how many of the original settlers to the US were fleeing religious persecution.
      
      It would forbid an Islamic theocracy for example, it also forbids Sessions or anyone in Government from favouring one religion to the exclusion of others. It does not forbid and in fact encourages state action to prevent discrimination against a religion.
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:34am
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        Ed Snack, I take it that includes Muslims?
        
        Or.. ?
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:22pm
lastmanstanding

As far as I am concerned the COL have declared war on myself and all others who believe in good governance. They are knowingly and deliberately insulting us with their refusal to follow good governance principles.

The Davidson issue the Martin issue both incidents where good governance principles were ignored and worse lairs were told.

These people must be held to at least the same account as an employee.

They are not my Masters even though they think they are.

If my employees acted as they have I would dismiss them and the Employment Court would support my dismissal as it had in previous cases.
All employment contracts include clauses that if applied to Davidson and Martin would see them gone.
We must keep the pressure on them.
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August 2, 2018 9:18am
- doggone7
  
  National always followed due process. John Key always followed the good governance principle of doing it if it suited him.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10799997
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:45pm
DigNap15

Yes National
Tell the media their state funding will be cut by 10% a year every time they publish a really leftist biased article, or Bash Trump.

Double Down on everything within the first 100 days
Carter School make it compulsory for 100 new ones a year
Three Strikes – remove the “manifestly unjust clause”
Unions
Make them quasi illegal
Remove Leave for family violence.
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August 2, 2018 9:26am
Manolo

Is the end near?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/trump-urges-attorney-general-sessions-to-stop-mueller-probe-right-now.html

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now,” the president wrote in a post on Twitter. “Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!”

http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/01/giuliani-to-mueller-put-up-or-shut-up/
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August 2, 2018 9:29am
- Fletch
  
  I hope he does. It’s a total farce meant to cover up the wrongdoing of the intelligence agencies who spied on the Trump campaign, tried to stop him being elected, and let Hillary off the hook. Instead they created the Russia boogieman to scare the low information voter.
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:34am
- Scott
  
  My understanding is that the special counsel will report back around September.
  I feel confident that the central claim of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has no substance whatsoever.
  It seems manifestly clear that the real collusion was between the Hillary campaign and Russia via the Steele dossier which led to the appointment of the special counsel in the first place. There was also collusion between the mainstream media, the Democratic party, the FBI and the Justice Department to bring down Trump.
  
  What I still am worried about is that the real colluders will not be brought to justice. Hillary Clinton, the DNC, there is heaps of wrongdoing there. Unfortunately the special counsel is not concerning himself with that side of the investigation.
  
  But I feel confident that Trump will be exonerated. I feel less confident that the real wrongdoers will be punished. And they need to be. We can’t have a special counsel investigation launched just because the Democratic candidate lost an election that she thought she would win. That idea needs to be stamped out forthwith.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:16am
  - Inandout
    
    Scott, Trump will not testify, that is for sure. It would be like walking into the lion’s den with a traitor like Meuller doing the bidding.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:31am
    - Scott
      
      Agree that there are lots of traps around walking into the Mueller investigation to be interviewed.
      The latest reporting I have read is that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is setting out with the Mueller team some conditions around what Trump will be interviewed about. The reporting says that the interview will be around instruction of justice.
      
      The president does want to be interviewed and wants this investigation to conclude. He believes that he is innocent and that by agreeing to being interviewed he will go a long way to wrapping up the investigation.
      
      One of the difficulties is with the whole concept of special counsel. They end up looking for a crime, any crime. Bill Clinton was investigated by the special counsel for real estate dealings called Whitewater. He ended up being investigated for sexual dalliances with an intern and lying to investigators.
      
      But for the good of America this investigation should come to a conclusion ASAP.
      
      https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-mueller-president-obstruction-justice-sources/story?id=56973384
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:52am
      - Batman
        
        I’m going to have a fantastic time coming back to laugh in your faces over this.
        
        Anyone who’s been involved with government or political campaigns can see that Trump’s team, though not Trump himself, were donkey deep in contact with Russia and Russian state agents.
        
        Mueller isn’t a fool and isn’t known for being political. He will deliver as per the evidence in front of him. It would seem a fair few people are going to end up in prison for a wee while.
        
        Even Trump’s tweet this morning is extremely close to obstruction of justice. Heck, if Obama had tweeted that, this blog would be in full meltdown mode, and the msm probably would be too!
        
        No wonder Giuliani is playing the “opinion” card so quickly.
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:18pm
      - Scott
        
        Okay Batman. We know that the DNC did fund the steele dossier which was sourced from Russian operatives. So there was collusion with Russia by the DNC and the Hillary campaign. That’s a fact!
        
        So please name the facts of Trump campaign collusion with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.
        
        At present after 2 years of investigation the worst thing we can find is that Don Jr met with a Russian because he believed that she had dirt on the Hillary campaign that came from Russia. However everyone agrees that the meeting ended abruptly because the woman had no such dirt and was actually lobbying for the rules to be changed around Russian adoption.
        
        So after 2 years of investigation we still have no evidence of Trump/Russia collusion.
        
        But look if I am wrong I will personally apologise. However if you are wrong, which the facts seem to show that you are, then I’ll be happy to accept an apology from you 🙂
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:53pm
Fletch

Tommy Robinson is out of prison.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/01/tommy-robinson-freed-on-bail-after-court-quashes-conviction
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August 2, 2018 9:39am
- EAD_TWO
  
  http://nwioqeqkdf.blogspot.com/2018/08/living-in-madhouse-tommy-and-his-merry.html?m=1
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:53am
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  Fletch , you mean Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (1982–), better known as Tommy Robinson, Paul Harris, or Stephen Lennon?,
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:01am
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    Your point being?
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:16am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Same as the last 20 times he’s posted that: irrelevant
      
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      August 2, 2018 8:08pm
  - Inandout
    
    Try finding Stalin’s or Lenin’s real names, or perhaps most Hollywood ‘stars’.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:33am
  - Swifty
    
    You use an alias – or have you overlooked the irony in that.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:42am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      He got the ‘boy’ bit right LOL
      
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      August 2, 2018 5:28pm
- Scott
  
  Awesome! Tommy Robinson has been in solitary confinement for months. His crime is being a gobby white guy who won’t shut up about the problems that Islam is causing in Britain.
  
  Hopefully we will see justice done for Tommy Robinson. He has done the UK a great service by speaking out against the Islamic apologists.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:19am
  - stephieboy
    
    Scott, “..solitary confinement for months” ??
    
    He has form as a fraudster.
    
    Fact!
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:23pm
    - sooty
      
      Just as you as a goat shagger.
      
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      August 2, 2018 3:51pm
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    His crime is being a gobby white guy who won’t shut up…
    
    In this universe, his crime was contempt of court. And not just contempt of court, but egregiously breaching the conditions of the suspended sentence he got for contempt of court.
    
    Hopefully we will see justice done for Tommy Robinson.
    
    We did. He was made to do the jail time that was coming to him for contempt of court and breaching the conditions of his suspended sentence. Personally, I think “justice” would have involved him also copping some extra time for deliberately endangering some pretty expensive trials, the collapse of which would have been a serious injustice for the victims involved, but funnily enough the judge didn’t ask for my thoughts on the subject.
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:45pm
    - MT_Tinman
      
      Silly judge!
      
      While I’m here and since you made the statement:
      
      How did broadcasting outside (on the street) the sentencing hearing threaten to deliberately endanger… some pretty expensive trials, the collapse of which would have been a serious injustice for the victims?
      
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      August 2, 2018 1:13pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        If you think about it real hard, you might be able to figure out how the defence lawyers could make use of some clown posting videos of the defendents entering the court, whether with a voiceover declaring them guilty of the alleged crimes or just putting the videos on a site where other people will declare them guilty of the alleged crimes.
        
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        August 2, 2018 2:59pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        The video was recorded at the Sentencing not during the actual Trial. Robinson arguably breached the reporting limits on the case but saying that he was “declaring them guilty” is not true.
        He says “alleged ” multiple times and just reads out the names of the defendants and the charges.
        As it turns out they were all declared guilty so saying that “other people will declare them guilty” is moot given the video was recorded at the actual sentencing
        Here’s the Video
        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuq2ZAgjGwk
        
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        August 2, 2018 3:14pm
      - MT_Tinman
        
        If you think about it real hard,
        
        PM I’ve thought about it “real hard”.
        
        I really have!
        
        I still cannot figure out how any defence lawyer could make use of someone making an online video of the outside of a building while mouthing off about what goes on inside while the defendants inside, represented by those defense lawyers, are sentenced after already being found guilty.
        
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        August 2, 2018 6:29pm
Kabull

So it is going to happen ‘legally’ …
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12099235

Lauren Southern’s documentary set out the issues correctly. ‘Farmlands’ needs to be shown on a main TV channel – but I bet it wont be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_bDc7FfItk
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August 2, 2018 9:46am
Maggy Wassilieff

‘Sinister’ Facebook stalker jailed for abusing woman
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45038379
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August 2, 2018 9:47am
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  MW, relevancy?
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:02am
  - pentwig
    
    stupidboy
    Maggy completely owned you at 10:00am
    
    you do not possess the intelligence to take her on
    
    you have to be crazy to try
    
    sigh!!
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:38am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    It is called General Debate. It is a forum on this blog where one can introduce topics of their choosing and allows others to comment or not.
    
    Can you please do more of the ‘or not’, your assistance will be greatly appreciated
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:33am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    As I said above, Stupidboy is as dumb as a sack of hammers. He would think the light is a lolly.
    Even these parrots have more comprehension than stupidboy.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dTvF53buTc
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:02pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Is that a Galah I see before me?
      
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      August 2, 2018 5:02pm
DJ Ward

RE: FAMILY COURT REVUE.

Rosslyn Noonan is a Labour Party lap dog. Unionist but most importantly spent years representing women kindi teachers. She was then a Human Rights Commisioner and we know how men were treated by her during her tenure. (Having read some rulings. Women first, children second, men are scum).

La-Verne was a founding partner of law firm King Alofivae Malosi based in Auckland which assisted in the growth and development of many Maori and Pasefika women lawyers. She is part of a all women law firm, and has created maternity leave schemes.

Chris Dellabarca is a senior Lawyer for Child, in a Law firm specialising in being Lawyer for Child.

So we have 2 people who clearly hate men and 2 people who rely on conflict in the system to make a living.
They will also have some expert help from within the “system”

The only people that will benefit from this will be women and Lawyers.

Mr Little. You said this.

“A human rights approach will ensure everyone’s perspectives are considered, including survivors of family violence, and men who say they’re not being given the opportunity to do some of the parenting when relationships end.”

Is that all we are.
Some of the parenting. (I thought Feminism means equality like 50:50 being automatic)
You have already condemed us.
You state human rights but belittle us to just an extra in our kids lives.

Be a good boy. We may give you some, but just a little, parenting role.

Where’s the father representative?
Where’s the person with the history of representing men?

More Bigotry is not a solution.
It’s just more corruption.
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August 2, 2018 9:50am
EAD_TWO

Morgoths Review on Tommy Robinson:

http://nwioqeqkdf.blogspot.com/2018/08/living-in-madhouse-tommy-and-his-merry.html?m=1
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  EAD TWO, whats wrong with the tweet?
  
  Retarded man-child Owen Jones Tweeted:
  
  Owen Jones ? Retweeted
  Tommy Robinson is quite literally a fraudster who was imprisoned for fraud in January 2014. https://twitter.com/weareeurope95/status/1024712368859881473
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:04am
RW Capitalist

My opinion
This “buying off the plans”, is an admission by phillis twyford, that “kiwibuild” has failed and HE can’t do it.
Also
Isn’t this the much hated “Corporate welfare” they touted so much?
But when National did it, it was to save jobs (Aluminium smelter).
Labour are doing it, to try and sell their own policy, by covering the fact that “Kiwibuild” is a scam and a falsehood.
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August 2, 2018 10:07am
DigNap15

Funny
Year ago there were huge inflation cost over runs on building projects. And we all complained.
Now they seem fixed price and they are going under!
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August 2, 2018 10:12am
cmm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104100739/treaty-of-waitangi-what-was-lost

Apparently Maori were screwed when they handed over 2/3 of NZ for the value of three properties in Auckland.

That is a really dumb way of looking at things.

A much better way of looking at things is to recognise how much value the white man has added.

By selling 2/3 of the land to whites, the value of that land has increased so much that it is now worth millions of times as much as it was. A teenie bit of land (eg. one hectare of Auckland) is now worth more than what the whole NZ was worth.

The 1/3 not sold to the whites has also increased in value – perhaps not to the same extent – but still by many thousand times.

Thus, the deal might have reduced their land by a factor of three, but has increased the value of the remaining land by a factor of many thousand. All up, they are thousands of times better off. Clearly a very good deal.

Until raw material is developed it has very little value. The same goes for land, oil, sand, timber, fisheries…

An analogy I like to use is taking sand and making stuff with it. You can take sand and make glass, microprocessors, cell phones,… In the value of the sand is increased millions of times over.

A bucket of sand is maybe worth 1 cent. A bucket of sand made into microprocessors is worth millions of dollars.

What Maori are bleating about is they sold a bucket of sand, it got made into microprocessors and now they are complaining that they should have been paid millions of dollars for that bucket of sand.
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August 2, 2018 10:17am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Yeah – they should love white people.
  I mean – white people aren’t likely to put you on the menu for starters (pun intended).
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:31am
  - cmm
    
    ongans & Samoans that continue to come to NZ are coming to New Zealand because it is New Zealand, not because it is Aotearoa.
    
    If the exploitation by whites really was so shit, then surely the Tongans & Samoans would have stayed at home. Something like a third of all Samoans and Tongans live in NZ.
    
    Note: I have nothing against the Samoans & Tongans that come here to add value and better their lives in the process.
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:30am
- Longknives
  
  Stuff have jumped the Shark and gone full tilt ‘Activist’ with this new project.
  I had a read last night- There isn’t even a semblance of balance..
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:40am
  - Jack5
    
    Put this anti-Treaty, anti-white campaign by Stuff alongside:
    
    -Its boring tripe from the half-Maori Joel (“I am learning Maori”) Maxwell;
    
    – Its adoption of macrons; and
    
    – It’s use of a Maori title banner on the Dominion Post.
    
    This is a news industry version of suicide by police. It’s suicide by provoking and turning off your readers.
    
    No wonder that Fairfax can’t find a buyer for the Stuff chain.
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:53am
    - Jack5
      
      If some Right wing salvage expert buys the Stuff chain for a song, a lot of Leftist scribblers will be looking for PR jobs.
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:16am
      - Jack5
        
        Or there just might be articles saying how lucky a violent, Stone Age culture was to have a mild British introduction to the Modern World. Instead it could have been a shock introduction, perhaps with the French (Tahiti and New Caledonia still colonies), or the Spanish-Latin-Americans (Easter Island, pretty Chilean now).
        
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        August 2, 2018 11:34am
      - stephieboy
        
        Jack 5 , stone age?
        
        Patronising and condescending drivel!
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:25pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Do you get paid for saying dumb things Stephie? Pre-European Polynesians/Maori had no metal ergo they were stone age.
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:41pm
      - stephieboy
        
        UN, there were not readily available mineral resources like copper, tin and iron for them to exploit and use.
        
        In the absence of this their tool making was both refined and sophisticated.
        
        I can assure the brains of pre-European Maori( like the present )physiologically and biochemically are no different to yours or those advocates of the Bell Curve nonsense!
        
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        August 2, 2018 12:54pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Copper
        Compounds of copper are found at many localities in NZ.
        2500 tonnes mined from Kawau Is.
        Other small copper mines have been opened in Northland, near Woodville and at Dun Mountain.
        
        Tin
        Mined from the Tin Range, Stewart Island
        
        Iron
        Iron ore at Onekaka
        Iron sands – copious amounts.
        
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        August 2, 2018 1:29pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Wheel, when was that going to make it’s appearance in this utopia of nothingness SB?
        
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        August 2, 2018 1:47pm
      - MrLovebucket
        
        Calling them stone age is actually a compliment. I was wondering if they had even reached that.
        
        Did they use Stone effectively? Sure they used bones as weapons but there may be a case to say they had barely reached stone age. And this was as recent as a handful of generations ago.
        
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        August 2, 2018 3:14pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        2,000 years ago, the Japanese were making brilliant swords and knives from iron sand.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamahagane
        
        (They had pottery though….. so could make kilns/chimneys)
        
        Polynesian settlers to NZ had long ago lost their Lapita pottery knowledge.
        
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        August 2, 2018 3:15pm
      - rangitoto
        
        For Stephieboy:
        
        Neolithic
        
        The Neolithic, or New Stone Age, was approximately characterized by the adoption of agriculture. The shift from food gathering to food producing, development of pottery, polished stone tools.
        
        Well they didn’t have pottery, so half way between the old and new stone age.
        
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        August 2, 2018 3:16pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        No bows and arrows (60000 year old invention), no pottery (30000 year old invention), Maori were exceptionally primitive by Neolithic standards.
        
        An equal population of stone-agers from 5000BC Europe, America, Asia or Africa would have quickly wiped Maori out.
        
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        August 2, 2018 3:22pm
- Swifty
  
  I’m still waiting for my breakfast in bed.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:45am
  - Lance
    
    You’ll lose your knighthood for writing that, or shortly after they give you one.
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:18am
- Harkman
  
  Here’s a funny one for you, I’ve been looking after my brother’s boys and one of them talks in his sleep and relitigates what he was up to during the day. @ 11:30PM he told off his brother (asleep next to him) for “cheating” and then at 12:30AM he started reciting the Maori alphabet, “aaaaa, ee, eye, oh, ooooooow!” So you know what he is learning at school. ?
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:10am
- KevOB
  
  Who is behind this campaign? Are Labour softening us up for a further raid? Maori needed us to save them from themselves. They had no better rights to NZ territory than us. They recognised right by forceful acquisition. In most cases there was a peaceful transaction.
  
  At 7% compounded over 150 years 1M grows to over 30 Billion. Retrospective price adjustments are not proper. If any are to be considered we would have to charge for protection, technology transfer, governance and economic development.
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:54am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes why was that piece on Stuff at all?
  Is it news?
  Who has an agenda?
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:01pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Helen.
    
    Any other points I can help you with?
    
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    August 2, 2018 1:49pm
    - sooty
      
      NO! She has dimemtia. She can’t remenber.
      
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      August 2, 2018 3:58pm
- thetiedarch
  
  The argument that the land was sold for the equivalent of 3 auckland properties is ridiculous as well. If that argument is valid, then my parents should have the right to compensation from the government because the house they sold in 1989 is now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars more, an whoever bought it off them obviously ripped them off!
  
  The reality is the chiefs who sold their land for guns, blankets, whatever, thought they were getting a good deal. They weren’t capable of farming, developing,mining the land so to them most of the land was worthless!
  
  About time they just accepted that and moved on.
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:04pm
- Philview
  
  Reminds me of a documentary I saw the other night, some run down shithole suburb in the UK where you can buy a house for a £1. People are buying and renovating and adding value despite risks to personal safety from local undesirables.
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:32pm
dime

Great to see Tommy out of prison!

That judge was clearly in the wrong for what he did. I’m sure the repercussions will be severe.. tui ad.

On the plus side, a shit ton more people know who tommy is now and will be watching what his videos.

also, it triggers that old creep stephie so its all good!
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August 2, 2018 10:26am
- Duxton
  
  Sorry, dime. I accidentally down ticked you.
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:33am
  - dime
    
    im not gonna lie, that stings ha
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:37pm
MrTips

Teachers going on strike 15th August – you heard it here first.

Bloody slackers.
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August 2, 2018 10:34am
- Manolo
  
  Capitalism must have failed the teachers claims the accidental PM Ardern.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:41am
- Longknives
  
  The great irony being every Teacher I know was shrieking that Jacinda was their new messiah at Election time last year!
  Including this memorable effort (From a Teacher friend’s Facebook)-
  “I don’t care about the bloody Economy- I care about kids with hungry tummies!”
  *Thankfully she doesn’t Teach Economics..
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:49am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Which is ironic as Thicky Ardern doesn’t understand it.
    
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    August 2, 2018 7:03pm
- MrTips
  
  Now this is interesting. Media release, yesterday here:
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1808/S00002/primary-teachers-and-principals-vote-for-full-day-strike.htm
  Yet nothing in the MSM on Newshub, Stuff, NZME or anywhere.
  Why?
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:05am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    There was.
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:39am
    - Batman
      
      I think Mr Tips missed the news yesterday. I managed to hear it on both RNZ and One News.
      
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      August 2, 2018 12:34pm
- Lance
  
  But but but.. Cindy said no strikes while she was PM
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:20am
  - doggone7
    
    Cindy didn’t say there’d be no strikes while she was PM. You are either uninformed, distorting what she she said or proof that if she lied once she could lie twice.
    
    She said there she was going to do something about mental health in the community too.
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:35pm
  - Psycho Milt
    
    She did? That sounds a surprisingly foolish thing for someone who isn’t a fool to say, which means I’m going to assume you’re a liar unless you can provide a link to her saying it.
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:53pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Here you go
      Video in this comment yesterday
      At about 59 minutes
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/08/general_debate_1_august_2018.html#comment-2270781
      
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      August 2, 2018 1:13pm
      - Longknives
        
        I hate to say it Psycho Milt – But you absolutely spanked there!
        
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        August 2, 2018 4:43pm
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        And see the face of Bill English after she said “not on my watch” Priceless! He was thinking ‘ BOOM!’ gotcha!
        
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        August 2, 2018 5:47pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        I see. So, Ardern responded to a direct question about whether Labour’s proposed industry collective bargaining legislation would result in industry-wide strikes, to which she unsurprisingly answered no it wouldn’t. Nothing foolish-sounding there.
        
        Since then, various dim bulbs on Kiwiblog have applied their limited mental faculties to this exchange and eventually pureed it into the incorrect but easier-to-digest and definitely foolish-sounding “Cindy said no strikes while she was PM.”
        
        Just another day on a Kiwiblog comments thread, I guess.
        
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        August 2, 2018 6:42pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        And yet there’s been a “nationwide” nurses Strike and about to be a “nationwide” teachers Strike.
        Talk about “foolish sounding”! Both you and her.
        You really are a dumb fucken c**t PM
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:22pm
      - doggone7
        
        Sit with an adult, go through the video and get them to explain to you what’s going on. Preferably an adult with a reading age of more than 11 years so they appreciate the context of what’s going on.
        
        After they’ve explained it to you and you understand what she was talking about, wallow in the satisfaction of knowing you’ve learned something a lot of the about-to-strike teachers tty to get kids to learn on a daily basis in activities in their reading programmes.
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:06pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        And yet there’s been a “nationwide” nurses Strike and about to be a “nationwide” teachers Strike.
        
        Is English your second language, or is it simply a willful determination to give things you hear the meanings you’d prefer them to have?
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:23pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Yeah, nah
        Collective Agreement- Nurses✔️NZ wide Strike ✔️
        Collective Agreement-Teacher✔️NZ wideStrike ✔️
        Ardern’s a liar
        It’s funny watching you having to defend this lot.
        
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        August 3, 2018 12:49am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Waiting for Cindy to have it deleted from YouTube? Maybe tomorrow if she gets H1 to pull some strings and give a few the ‘look’
      
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      August 2, 2018 5:49pm
    - realityczech
      
      You really are a lying piece of shit Milt. The world is a much worse place for having you in it. You contribute nothing and diminish the lives of everyone.
      
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      August 2, 2018 5:56pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        And I should care about your personal assessment of my character because…?
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:27pm
- cmm
  
  Every time I point out that teaching is only a part time seasonal job (like fruit picking) so should not expect to be paid like a full time job, I get a whole bunch of people telling me how teachers work so hard during holidays too.
  
  If it really is a full time job then why don’t they strike during the summer holidays?
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:23am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    They did, twice, but nobody was inconvenienced
    
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    August 2, 2018 11:41am
    - RalphT
      
      Or noticed
      
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      August 2, 2018 1:46pm
  - MCos
    
    Non-teachers have been saying similar things on social media for as long as I can remember.
    I’m not a teacher so I’m not going to be drawn into that discussion.
    However.
    What I’d like to know is where do the hard working people who bitch & moan about teachers, the unemployed and all the other slackers & ‘troughers’ find the time to fuck around on their phones when they should be working?
    The answer for a lot of people is they do it on the bosses’ time. I see them as I walk down the street or previously when I used to work in an office.
    I’m not pointing the finger at you. I don’t know what your personal circumstances are, but often I see masses of nasty comments on Stuff or elsewhere at times when quite clearly a percentage of the people are distracted from some menial job.
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:58pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Hard to strike from the Islands, or Europe, or Oz
    
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    August 2, 2018 5:51pm
Left Right and Centre

Geez mate – this thread is littered more than Mt Roskill by just one idiot.
I feel like a teacher marking every question wrong on a test – *sigh*
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August 2, 2018 10:40am
- stephieboy
  
  Left Right and Centre, your feeble minded knowledge and understanding of Mt Roskill are based on mindless pure ignorance, fear and prejudice.
  
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  August 2, 2018 1:03pm
  - Swifty
    
    I’ve just spent 8 years living there – I’m telling you its going downhill.
    
    There is all sorts of scumbaggery going on there these days.
    
    What your virtuousness blinds you to is the fact that people who immigrate largely continue with the lifestyles they have been brought up with. Its not that hard to understand.
    
    I’ll give you one example of many I could give: I have forgotten the number of times I’ve seen recent arrivals exit shops, unwrap their purchase and instantly throw the wrappng on the ground – rather than use the rubbish bin standing a few feet away. Time and time and time again.
    
    Extend this to other elements of their lifestyle and there you go.
    
    “If you import numbers from Calcutta, you don’t help Calcutta, you become Calcutta” – said one wise person.
    
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    August 2, 2018 1:33pm
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      scumbaggery; love it!
      
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      August 2, 2018 1:52pm
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Stephie is the one of the right.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dTvF53buTc
    
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    August 2, 2018 3:02pm
  - Longknives
    
    Mt Roskill is fucked.
    I know of at least one incident where Ambulance Officers were attacked while treating these wonderfully ‘Diverse’ people-The Ambulance being rocked and almost pushed over!
    The place is turning into Mogadishu..
    
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    August 2, 2018 4:42pm
  - realityczech
    
    stupidboy, are you still trespassed from the mosque for your lewd conduct around young Muslima?
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:02pm
Inandout

Saw a video about San Francisco and how it can be described accurately as a shit hole. The so called homeless shit at random on the streets, leave council supplied needles and rubbish everywhere, and have driven decent people out of the CBD. Cafe owners are complaining that the rubbish drives customers elsewhere.
https://tipolitics.com/san-francisco-is-a-shithole-15ff433ae032
Paradoxically San Francisco has some of the most expensive real estate in the US, but these homeowners (such as Nancy Pelosi) live well away from the shitty areas.
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August 2, 2018 10:42am
- MCos
  
  “San Francisco has some of the most expensive real estate in the US . . . . . . well away from the shitty areas”
  
  Well, fancy that!
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:35pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  ♫ If you’re going to San Fransisco, be sure to wear some bags over your shoes. ♫
  
  “I went to San Fransisco and all I got was this shitty t-shirt”
  
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  August 2, 2018 12:45pm
  - stephieboy
    
    UN , that destitute?
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:57pm
calendar girl

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August 2, 2018 10:44am
- Jack5
  
  The varying meanings of a solo fullstop, or dot, as post in a blog:
  
  https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/300419/whats-the-meaning-of-a-text-message-consisting-only-of-a-dot
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:49am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It means “delete button does not work, but edit button does.”
    
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    August 2, 2018 10:52am
    - Jack5
      
      Or, “Help! Only one of my keyboard keys works!”
      
      Or, “Help. The Nigerian division of Microsoft says I am only allowed to use the fullstop key. And they’ve stopped talking to me.”
      
      Or, I’ve just started learning Morse code. I’ll finish this post later.
      
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      August 2, 2018 11:04am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Or “I pressed the send icon and didn’t mean to…”
        
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        August 2, 2018 11:40am
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        Or how you start General Debate at 8am sharp. Post as first and then edit before time is up.
        See Hugh
        
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        August 2, 2018 5:55pm
  - MT_Tinman
    
    I found Calendar Girl’s 10.44 comment concise, accurate, and well observed.
    
    At least the second best (behind this) and most valuable comment on this blog this month.
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:39pm
DJ Ward

New York has decriminalised pot possession.

NZ still living in La La Land.
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August 2, 2018 11:14am
- rangitoto
  
  Duterte has a much better solution.
  
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  August 2, 2018 3:04pm
  - stephieboy
    
    rangitoto, like shooting innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire or mistaken identity?
    
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    August 2, 2018 3:17pm
Swifty

It’s a pity that this tribal infighting still exists. I take no sides, I’m not aware of the issues, but this is a sorry spectacle:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12099767
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August 2, 2018 11:28am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Is this the beginning of the end of the Maori love affair with Labour?
  National seemed to sort these things out so smoothly in comparison.
  Not that I agree with the endless gravy train.
  
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  August 2, 2018 11:34am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    And Angry Andy’s dour demeanour wouldn’t exactly be helping.
    
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    August 2, 2018 12:02pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Andy was not a happy lad answering Nick Smith’s questions today. I suspect that there’s a lot of water yet to flow under the bridge with Andy’s Bill.
      
      There were a lot of Ministers absent today under the Witless Protection Programme – most noticeably Twyford who left the guileless Jenny Salesa to cope with the aftermath from Judith Collins over the Ebert receivership and its financial implications for the Government. Predictably Kelvin was absent to avoid any leadership embarassments. Todays highlight was a toss up between Andy’s obvious discomfort over waka jumping and Bishop’s skewering of Tracy Martin.
      
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      August 2, 2018 3:21pm
RF

I see a comment from Soper where he suggests that Jethro will have to hang up his fishing tackle while the commie chic gets back to work.

I suspect she will be hoping that’s not the only tackle he will hang up.
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August 2, 2018 12:59pm
- Longknives
  
  No chance of that RF.
  Sources tell me that this Gayford character has never stopped fishing at all…
  
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  August 2, 2018 1:28pm
  - sooty
    
    With the amount of homehelp and nannys, he is not needed to look after squirrel.
    
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    August 2, 2018 4:09pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Fishing and catching, or just washing some bait? Just make sure you don’t get caught catching
    
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    August 2, 2018 5:57pm
  - RF
    
    I understand rather than stalk the fish and present a colourful fly he just goes for the large treble foul hook and catches anything that swims into it. He is rather desperate for a good feed as he has been on rations plus he is not fussy.
    
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    August 2, 2018 7:15pm
Manolo

The incompetent messiah has the power of veto:
https://www.mediaite.com/online/barack-obama-releases-list-of-dem-midterm-endorsements-see-if-you-can-spot-ocasio-cortez/

Barack Obama has come out of relative political hiding to endorse an array of Democratic candidates in the midterm elections.

The former president released the list of 81 candidates on Twitter Wednesday — in elections as large in scale as Governor, as well as smaller races such as State Senate.
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August 2, 2018 1:32pm
Longknives

The Kiddie Journalists at Stuff have done it again-

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/105945165/photograph-of-first-war-photographer-on-her-deathbed-found-80-years-later

The first ever War Photographer eh Stuff?
Killed in 1937..
I wonder who took all those photographs during The Great War some 20 years earlier?..
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August 2, 2018 1:38pm
All_on_Red

Fletch/Scott
If you’re interested in the Paul Manafort Trial @techno_fog is posting Transcripts
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August 2, 2018 2:07pm
- stephieboy
  
  All on Red, the same Paul Manfort ?
  
  Paul Manafort fraud trial: Former Trump campaign manager ‘lied’ and placed himself ‘above law’ amid lavish lifestyle, court hears
  
  “Paul Manafort has been branded a “shrewd” liar by prosecutors as they sought to build a picture of a multimillion dollar conspiracy to evade US tax laws by Donald Trump’s former campaign manager during the first day of his criminal trial.
  Assistant US attorney Uzo Asonye painted a picture of Mr Manafort’s lavish lifestyle, alleging in a Virginia court that money funnelled through 30 offshore accounts was used to buy items including a $21,000 watch and a $15,000 ostrich jacket, telling the jury that Mr Manafort considered himself “above the law”..”
  
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paul-manafort-trial-donald-trump-robert-mueller-rick-gates-russia-a8472141.html
  
  Sigh !
  
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  August 2, 2018 3:16pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    The charges stem from as early as 2006. Manafort has worked for Reagan, the Podestas and Dole. Trump sacked him.
    His charges have nothing to do with Trump.
    If you look at the Link the conclusion is Manafort is in big trouble for Tax Fraud etc.
    So is the Podestas.
    Fuck, you are thick if you think this reflects on Trump.
    Oh wait, you are.
    Lol
    
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    August 2, 2018 3:24pm
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Yep – He’s the parrot on the right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dTvF53buTc
    
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    August 2, 2018 5:28pm
Maggy Wassilieff

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180731-can-27m-a-year-bring-a-language-back-from-near-death
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August 2, 2018 3:09pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, you seem to put great value in sameness with English hegemony?
  
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  August 2, 2018 3:20pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Stalker!
    
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    August 2, 2018 3:27pm
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dTvF53buTc
    
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    August 2, 2018 5:29pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    брось думать duine gòrach.
    Te taea hoki e koe te korero kohe?
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:54pm
Manolo

Banana-republic stuff:
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/andrew-dickens-afternoons/audio/mallard-threatens-journalists-who-take-photos-of-ardern/

Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard is threatening to expel Press Gallery journalists if they take unauthorised photos of the Prime Minister or Clarke Gayford on their return next week.

Newstalk ZB Political editor Barry Soper says Mallard is promising that if his rules are breached, he will withdraw the offending journalist's accreditation and penalise their employer.

As an example, if the first couple happens to walk behind an interview being videoed with baby Neve, he expects that part of the interview to be deleted.
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August 2, 2018 3:21pm
- sooty
  
  Mallard’s out there protecting the Commie Chicks monetry deal with the likes the womans weekly. By the way, will she be putting this on the pucunary interest or is the fisherman going to trouser it?
  
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  August 2, 2018 4:16pm
- niggly
  
  Looks like the Labour Party have scored another own goal, as even the media themselves are either scathing of this move (or are taking the piss)!
  
  Well done Fraser House, you’ve managed to piss off the parliamentary press gallery!
  
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  August 2, 2018 5:31pm
Happychappy

Why would the speaker do that when Jacinda has chosen the media ever since she has become the PM and used them to increase her popularity. Labour and Jacinda Ardern can’t have it both ways.
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August 2, 2018 4:06pm
- sooty
  
  But you have to protect the squirrel from the photos the royal couple do not get paid for.
  
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  August 2, 2018 4:18pm
graham

According to Stuff, Mallard said he wants to make Parliament more family-friendly.

Stuff have managed to … err, stuff up in one regard:

Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard has issued a warning to journalists planning to take unauthorised photos of returning Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern or husband Clarke Gayford.

Nope, they’re not married, Stuff.
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August 2, 2018 4:12pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Well if Mallard said ‘partner’ it could open up a can of worms ….
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:00pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Nobody cares. Literally. Other than religious loonies, people over 70 and (in some circumstances) lawyers, nobody gives a shit whether any couple they meet has a wedding certificate or not.
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:50pm
Longknives

‘Capitalism has Failed Comrades!’

*But I’ll take those Woman’s Day and New Idea $$$…
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August 2, 2018 4:38pm
- nasska
  
  …..”I’ll take those Woman’s Day and New Idea $$$”….
  
  With the coin she’s being paid to stuff the country she should give the royalties to charity.
  
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  August 2, 2018 5:19pm
  - stigie
    
    No chance of that, she would rather give to Winston to stuff the country !~
    
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    August 2, 2018 5:24pm
Gravelroad

It’s started.
Big coverage on Stuff about Ms Ardern and the baby and the boyfriend and breastfeeding….
Nooooooo……
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August 2, 2018 5:11pm
- niggly
  
  OMG interviews with the airhead seem to have been embargoed until 5pm, simultaneously then playing on Radio NZ, Newstalk and Radio Live as I was driving.
  
  WTF is this, Celebrity Prime Ministership?
  
  Now manipulating the MSM and dictating when, where and how messages from the 9th Floor (Directed by Fraser House) are to be broadcast to the pleb masses?
  
  I couldn’t even envisage things getting even more ridiculous prior to this, but Labour have managed to out do themselves! What’s possibly next?!!!
  
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  August 2, 2018 5:24pm
  - Longknives
    
    I think we all know what’s next.
    This dreadful Ardern woman has been planning the ‘Breastfeeding in Parliament’ Virtue Signal for quite some time.
    I actually feel sorry for the kid- It’s entire existence seem to be some kind of dramatic Publicity stunt- Only a few weeks old and being blatantly used as a Political tool…
    (Call me Old-Fashioned but I don’t think that’s any way to start life)
    
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    August 2, 2018 5:31pm
    - niggly
      
      Fully agree and after the Larry Williams interview with the airhead, he read out some text comments from the public – they were scathing!
      
      Looks like Labour and Jacinda are too stupid to realise that despite the media adoring babies manipulation of the media, there is a growing amount of people that are getting sick of this circus show, want the baby to be left alone to grow up healthily without these unnecessary publicity gimmicks and for the PM to get on with her generously taxpayer funded job!
      
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      August 2, 2018 5:36pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Well Longknives, if she doesn’t breastfeed in Parliament the Feminazis will scream like you never heard before!
      
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      August 2, 2018 6:02pm
      - sooty
        
        No bottles for no squirrels.
        
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        August 2, 2018 6:06pm
- realityczech
  
  They fuss on this hideous hag and her vile spore while ignoring one of the biggest issues in NZ history, the waka jumping bill, and the lies of the Greens.
  
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  August 2, 2018 5:35pm
  - niggly
    
    ZB have been mocking the Greens – “Golriz swallowing dead rats” are the actual words they have been using!!
    
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    August 2, 2018 5:37pm
    - realityczech
      
      Good. But it should be the headline item – for days. Not promotional pictures of the evil bitch and her wretched cursed spawn.
      
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      August 2, 2018 5:41pm
graham

Welcome back Jacinda

From baby bliss to soothing economic fears, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern faces an immediate crisis to quell over growing levels of uncertainty about her Government’s agenda.

When Ardern returns to Parliament on Monday – following six weeks of maternity leave – she is set to walk into a building storm over plummeting business confidence that threatens to shake the economy in real terms.
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- realityczech
  
  “uncertainty about her Government’s agenda.”
  
  I know the agenda of this regime. Kiwis should be given refugee status by the international community. This government is the biggest single threat our young country has ever faced.
  
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  August 2, 2018 5:49pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  …a building storm over plummeting business confidence…
  
  Gosh, the terrible storm of sulking National supporters, eh. Will it be worse than the “storm” over canning charter schools that saw, ooh, dozens of protesters on the streets?
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:53pm
  - Longknives
    
    You do understand basic economics don’t you Psycho Milt?
    We kinda need Business Confidence and a healthy Economy!
    Otherwise we end up a Shithole third-world Country..
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:02pm
Longknives

Ardern has clearly been taking Prevarication lessons from her good mate Marama-
“I absolutely believe that our agenda will grow the economy, will make sure businesses are in a position to grow and prosper..”

Really? Yet you axed our ENTIRE Oil and Gas industry (and pretty much our Economy) on a whim?
Ardern is nothing but a lying little Communist…
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August 2, 2018 5:40pm
RF

I might have missed this but why are some Labour MPs wearing fruit bowls and flower hats in parliament.

I know they are fruit loops but this is taking it to the extreme.

We have a bloody weird Govt. It’s just got worse now we had a self doubting PM turning up. I would prefer one with balls who is not afraid to make decisions.
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August 2, 2018 6:13pm
- sooty
  
  You would think that at would be the greens with the wierd headgear complete with fruit fly investion.
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:17pm
- kowtow
  
  Yeah, who’s the guy with the dried up branch ’round his ‘ead?
  
  Looks like he belongs in a garden centre, not the House.
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:19pm
sooty

Oh no, she off to flop her tit out at the UN! They are having a masive squirrel feeding event. Will be interesting to see if her Auntie is allowed there!
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August 2, 2018 6:14pm
- stigie
  
  Don’t think so sooty, Peter’s not allowed for some “strange” reason..?
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:40pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Sooty:
  
  Will be interesting to see if her Auntie is allowed there!
  
  I’m not sure which would be funnier.
  
  Option 1: Aunty Helen hissing at the people who rejected her as their boss in the beauty contest:
  
  As head of the UN development program, Clark had been considered a strong contender when she announced her candidacy, particularly given the groundswell of support for a female leader. By 30 September – the week before the former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres was confirmed in the top job – her chances had reportedly dwindled to nil.
  
  “I won the public vote, I won the social media scene, I won the staff votes – all of that, but it didn’t matter at all,” says Clark pragmatically, without bitterness. “Clearly, the security council wasn’t looking for someone like me, from a small, independent-minded country, having been an independent-minded leader, who looks at the evidence and makes decisions accordingly. “That’s fine. That’s the outcome.”
  
  Option 2: Uncle Peter who might find that the gent’s room clears out quickly when he arrives!
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:45pm
  - stigie
    
    Option 2, you took the words right out of my mouth Nostra..?
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:50pm
  - RF
    
    Won the Staff vote. That bull shit. She was hated by staff for her micro management.
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:54pm
Nostradamus

Where’s GoVege?

Revealed: What a vegan diet does to your body

As time without animal products grows into weeks, there is likely to be a shift in bowel function either towards a more regular, healthy pattern or an increase in bloating, wind and loose motions. This is due to the higher fibre content of a vegan diet and the simultaneous increase in carbohydrates that ferment in the gut and can cause irritable bowel syndrome.
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- nasska
  
  “The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”
  
  Author: Jasper Fforde
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:19pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Avocado is not a nut…it is a single-seeded berry.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/87a56e5c-6d41-4495-9e22-523efb6b4cb0
    
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    August 2, 2018 7:45pm
- realityczech
  
  Do some research and see for yourself the terrible devastation a vegan diet will do. A few people’s bodies can cope, though they need B-12 injections, but normal humans can’t.
  
  There are plenty of stories on the internet from recovering vegetarians. Sadly the damage to the nervous system and brain can be permanent.
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:22pm
  - nasska
    
    ……”bloating, wind, loose motions & irritable bowel syndrome”…..
    
    By now GoVege is probably having an affair with her proctologist! ?
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:23pm
    - realityczech
      
      https://wellnessforce.com/resource/the-science-of-why-vegans-get-sick/
      
      It is no joke the lies people like her tell. Heartless psycho that she is.
      
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      August 2, 2018 6:32pm
      - GoVege
        
        F-I-S-H!
        VegeQUARIAN means you eat fish!
        Though some jerks on TV last night using “livebait” nearly put me off for life.
        Bast*rds.
        
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        August 2, 2018 6:48pm
  - GoVege
    
    Millions of healthy vegetarians in India prove that theory wrong, dear RC.
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:51pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Whatever works for you GoVege. Each to their own needs.
      
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      August 2, 2018 7:19pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Oh well. By jolly old goodness gracious me! 🙂
        https://www.indiatimes.com/health/buzz/vegetarian-diet-not-so-healthy-afterall-could-make-indians-prone-to-heart-diseases-252928.html
        
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        August 2, 2018 7:22pm
    - realityczech
      
      No Vege, many Indians are over weight and prone to poor health. Recent studies show that they get animal protein from insects in the food. Its enough to keep them alive. Just.
      
      9 of 10 Indians lack adequate protein
      https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/9-of-10-Indians-lack-adequate-protein-Mumbaikars-score-high/articleshow/47521432.cms
      
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      August 2, 2018 7:42pm
      - rangitoto
        
        So don’t be too fussy about washing your lettuce and you will get plenty of protein from the slugs.
        
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        August 2, 2018 10:54pm
Nostradamus

Thursday, 2 August 2018, 5:38 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government
Official Photos: The Prime Minister and her family

Images of the Prime Minister and her family, taken on Tuesday 1 August 2018 by Derek Henderson.

I see Clarke has adopted a new beard look. But a NZ government press release? Really?
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- realityczech
  
  By “family” they mean some guy she shagged. A well known serial rooter, so she should not feel too proud of the fact she scored.
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:37pm
  - nasska
    
    You’ve got to give credit where credit’s due RC. At least she went out & found a male to do the job.
    
    Most of her Labour & Green offsiders would have relied on a gay wanker & a turkey baster. 🙂
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:47pm
    - realityczech
      
      You sound more confident than I am that a self described lady-man and cross dresser is the father.
      
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      August 2, 2018 6:51pm
      - nasska
        
        After no less than the head policeman stating that….
        
        …..”on this occasion we can say that Mr Gayford is not and has not been the subject of any police inquiry, nor has he been charged in relation to any matter.”…..
        
        …..I feel that raising doubts about the paternity could earn you a new lifetime career at the Lake Grassmere salt works RC. 🙂
        
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        August 2, 2018 7:00pm
      - realityczech
        
        I will continue to express my doubts until I have been told what to think by the police commissioner, as per the custom.
        
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        August 2, 2018 7:03pm
  - Longknives
    
    A self-professed serial rooter in fact realityczech!
    Gayford is all over You Tube bragging of ‘hundreds’ of sexual conquests with a sleazy smirk on his face…
    
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    August 2, 2018 7:54pm
- stigie
  
  That couch looks as though it belongs in Penny’s hovel, is Cindy trying to tell the great unwashed that money is hard to come by these days..?
  
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  - realityczech
    
    Can’t you see the effort they gone to in an attempt to make them look like ordinary people?
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:57pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      They are very ordinary people.
      
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      August 2, 2018 7:21pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        They might be very ordinary people, but those photos are extraordinarly terrible.
        
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        August 2, 2018 7:41pm
Surely Knott

Did Ardern and Clarke have a bit of a shotgun wedding over the break. They both appear to have new rings on their ring fingers. https://scontent.fakl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38027335_10156835642198606_2564446709547532288_n.png?_nc_cat=0&oh=2b15b7dcf91182cdc16a0a30b941203b&oe=5BCB052A
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August 2, 2018 6:44pm
- realityczech
  
  Clarke won’t be keeping his dick in his pants now the hag is has gone off sex for a while.
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:49pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You normally wear wedding rings on your left hand. Those folks have their rings on their right.
  
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  August 2, 2018 6:55pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Folk that wear their rings on the right are OK with Trumpie and me Maggs! 🙂
    
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    August 2, 2018 6:58pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    Ah, you are right Maggie. I thought they had them on the wedding finger.
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:00pm
- Longknives
  
  Ha Ha- No chance these pathetic publicity whores Ardern and Gayford would even contemplate getting married in private!
  Smart money is a few weeks before next Election!
  
  ‘OMG OMG Isn’t Jacinda just sooo awesome!’
  
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  August 2, 2018 7:53pm
gorse

What is the big change coming that Adern alluded too today? Scary stuff – what will this cost us?
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August 2, 2018 6:47pm
DigNap15

It really is time to re-name every governmental and public organization back to a proper meaningful name

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/105946557/accused-murderer-had-history-of-schizophrenia-when-he-beat-pensioner-to-death

This guy went to “Te Whetu Tawera” what the hell is that ?
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August 2, 2018 6:52pm
- GoVege
  
  Is this one of the young disabled/mentally ill Japanese we learned some years ago were being quietly dumped here in NZ because their families don’t want them?
  Now they’re apparently killing our old pensioners.
  How did NZ ever get conned into taking them?
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:18pm
  - realityczech
    
    They must have sneaked them in with the darkies Vege.
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:21pm
    - GoVege
      
      I’ll tell you one thing about “darkies”, RC: they look after their own.
      Whereas Asians refuse to accept their own child with a disability or mental illness.
      
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      August 2, 2018 8:33pm
      - realityczech
        
        Asians do look after their own, notwithstanding their aversion to any disability.
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:54pm
      - GoVege
        
        Maybe some do.
        But I don’t think many Chinese and Japanese do.
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:29pm
- Johnboy
  
  All the Asylums have jigoboo names these days Dig.
  Makes their usual clients feel more at home mate! 🙂
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:24pm
Johnboy

“And she also hinted at further moves designed to bring business around to the Government’s way of thinking.

“What I intend to do is, within a month at least, bring together some of the work we’ve been doing in earnest around working together with the business community, to make sure that we are tackling some of the challenges that we’re facing collectively,” Ardern said.

“But what I’m really proud of is that we know and recognise some of the challenges that businesses are saying to us they have. Finding and attracting skilled labour, making sure that we grow our exports, diversifying our economy beyond housing and dairy – those are challenges we’re tackling head on.”
Yeech…reeech…..chunder…….chunder…… Fuck I think I’ve got morning after sickness! 🙂
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- nasska
  
  Barring a miracle we’ve got two more years of this shit to go JB.
  
  We’ll be chest deep in the bullshit by then!
  
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  August 2, 2018 7:06pm
  - GoVege
    
    Godzone is probably headed down the gurgler whoever is in power.
    Decades of paying losers to breed means we apparently have to bring in immigrants to work because so many of the general population can’t pass a drug test.
    The immigrants only have a couple of kids but we need to house the 10plus kids of the meth-heads.
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:25pm
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      Yes vege. The real cost of the benefit is the wider socio economic impact. The benefit itself is pittance by comparison.
      
      The reason for the benefit has nothing at all to do with the welfare of children and everything to do with feminism and the destruction of the traditional family unit.
      
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      August 2, 2018 8:30pm
      - GoVege
        
        I think it’s more to do with shameless bludgers using their kids to guarantee them a free income, free housing while simultaneously bankrupting the country, don’t you think, RC?
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:44pm
      - realityczech
        
        Exactly. But the social fallout from their offspring is terrible. Some turn out fine, but not enough to make a difference. They are largely commercial baby farmers paid by the government to fuck.
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:51pm
      - GoVege
        
        It would be OK if they actually raised the kids they’re paid to have.
        The reality is they keep the kids out of school to raise them, while they go to the pub/pokies.
        The kids end up illiterate, then mum teaches them how to burgle houses or worse, pimps them out.
        The better mums just leave the kids in the “care” of teenagers while they’re off for weeks at a time.
        And wonder why their 12 year old is pregnant when they get home.
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:36pm
- stigie
  
  I think you just put your own fingers down ya throat after reading that JB..?
  
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  August 2, 2018 7:06pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I never ever thought that I would pray for Winnie to stay on permanently but I can see it coming up if this mother&child shit carries on for any longer mate! 🙂
    
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    August 2, 2018 7:14pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Johnboy:
      
      I would pray for Winnie to stay on permanently
      
      Where’s Dad when you need him? 🙂
      
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      August 2, 2018 7:20pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Hagley Park public toilets/Richie McCaws hanger? 🙂
        
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        August 2, 2018 7:28pm
      - stigie
        
        Im sure Dad is welcome to Richie’s hanger anytime..?
        
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        August 2, 2018 7:38pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Always here Nostra great to see my fan club still jealous haha.
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:27pm
      - Johnboy
        
        You do realise dad that we really do love you mate.
        It’s just that you don’t appear here much these days unless we give you a bit of shit! 🙂
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:32pm
      - realityczech
        
        You abandoned us dad and now the blog is crawling with perverts rotting with aids.
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:36pm
      - stigie
        
        Must admit, you do have a huge fan base Dad and probably bigger than Winston Peters !~
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:07pm
niggly

Crikey, Newshub reckons the PM pocketed $54k salary during her 6 weeks off (full pay because apparently PM’s don’t qualify for maternity leave) and Tova O’Brien asks Jacinda if she will donate any of her salary to charity, yes to Plunket says Jacinda, so an amount up to $50k(?) asks Tova, no several thousand says Jacinda (several = seven in my book, so that’s several thousand)!

So Plunket (deservedly so) to receive several thousand dollars thanks to the generous ~~taxpayers of NZ~~ I mean Jacinda, but could it have been more, a lot more (ponders Newshub)?!!!

From 10 minutes into the interview:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/08/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-to-donate-several-thousand-dollars-to-plunket.html
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- Nostradamus
  
  Niggly:
  
  That will be on top of the $5,000 that Jacinda donated to the “Pillars” charity (generously funded by NZ taxpayers) instead of giving Harry and Meghan a wedding present!
  
  Jacinda Ardern reveals Harry and Meghan’s wedding present from New Zealand
  
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  August 2, 2018 7:24pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Do folk that are stupid enough to make such a donation get to be called “Pillocks” Nostra? 🙂
    
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    August 2, 2018 7:30pm
  - itstricky
    
    That’s really strange. I don’t remember debating the thousands & thousands of hard working, long suffering, NZ taxpayer (TM) dollars John Key gave to charity. How come we didn’t ever have that conversation?
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:38pm
    - realityczech
      
      “the thousands & thousands … dollars John Key gave to charity.”
      
      Tricky, makes Ardern’s contribution seem a bit miserable. John is a very generous man though who really cares about people.
      
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      August 2, 2018 8:40pm
      - itstricky
        
        seem a bit miserable
        
        If you get this upset about Jacinda’s “several thousand” – you chaps must have worked up something wicked when he was in charge, aye?
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:58pm
      - realityczech
        
        We are happy that she is making an effort to emulate the great leader John Key, but wish she did more than offer a token for her own self promotion.
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:01pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        If only she would emulate JK standing down, Monday would be good
        
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        August 2, 2018 10:48pm
    - softail 1450
      
      Itstricky, stepping up to ztev’s stupidity since ???????
      
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      August 3, 2018 6:51am
- GoVege
  
  Don’t Plunket pay their top people 180gs a year?
  I doubt if they need it.
  
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  August 2, 2018 9:39pm
Woz

I can’t stand the sight of that fucking woman. Do I need help, therapy, something?
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August 2, 2018 7:41pm
- stigie
  
  Just a tad Woz, just a tad, but we are all in the same boat !~
  
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  August 2, 2018 7:43pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No Woz, you are perfectly normal. Just try to get on with life under this clusterfuck like the rest of us.
  
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  August 2, 2018 7:44pm
- Longknives
  
  Just wait until the Mother of all Virtue Signalling stunts next week Woz!
  The Media are going to go batshite crazy over her Breastfeeding in Parliament-They will roll out Feminists from across the Globe saying how ‘groundbreaking’ she is..
  *And all the Coalition’s sins will be forgiven!
  
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  August 2, 2018 7:48pm
  - stigie
    
    Give me fucking strength !~
    
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    August 2, 2018 7:51pm
    - RF
      
      Jesus fucking Christ.
      
      It’s worse than I anticipated. Has she no shame.
      
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      August 2, 2018 9:56pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Prime News actually referred to it as ‘the First Baby’ tonight. Photos are to be strictly limited – is that because they genuinely want privacy or have the rights been flogged off to a glossy?
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:02pm
- Woz
  
  You’ve reassured me, thanks. The moment her great toothy grin filled my TV screen tonight I felt gripped by a choking rage and had to turn it off. I don’t think I’ve ever felt such antipathy towards a front bench politician before. I think it’s the disingenuous, lying fakery of the ghastly creature. She’s so false.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:02pm
  - realityczech
    
    Woz, what you are feeling is an instinctive revulsion that all decent and intelligent people feel when they see her. Anyone who does not feel disgust is not a decent person and should never be trusted.
    
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    August 2, 2018 9:14pm
Hugh Pavletich

AUSSIE MORTGAGE CREDIT CRUNCH … KIWI STRAIGHT TALKING ON LAND SUPPLY …

… Australia …

Mortgage credit crunch to send Australian house prices tumbling – MacroBusiness

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/mortgage-credit-crunch-send-australian-house-prices-tumbling/

By Leith van Onselen

Endeavor Equities Strategy has released a detailed report predicting heavy price falls for both Sydney and Melbourne as the “largest regulatory credit crunch in 30 years” bites: … read more via hyperlink above …

… and New Zealand …

Reality check for Ministers (really some … just some … asleep enviros) at environment conference | Politik

http://politik.co.nz/en/content/Environment/1400/Reality-check-for-Ministers-at-environment-conference-Environmental-Defence-Society-Gary-Taylor-Phil-Twyford-David-Parker-RMA.htm

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… Attendees probably left last night with more questions than when they arrived as Ministers, who in Opposition had seemed sympathetic to environmental issues were left qualifying and modifying their stance on major issues.

This was starkly evident in an exchange between Urban Development Minister, Phil Twyford, and the EDS CEO, Gary Taylor over urban sprawl.

Twyford had set out an impassioned description of the impact of high house prices in Auckland and advocated the linking together of transport and other infrastructure and new housing developments.

But he also advocated the scrapping or urban-rural limits.

“We believe that we have to manage growth on the fringes of the city,” he said.

“If we do not allow new land to come into the supply we will never ever fix the problem of absurdly expensive urban land.

“With good investment in infrastructure and transport, with more planning, not less to create the future urban environment that we want, setting aside areas of special value and open spaces, acquiring land for transport and other infrastructure, if we then allow the city to grow we will bring down urban land prices and it is absolutely critical that we do,” he said.

Twyford had proposed this when he was in Opposition but, even so, any suggestion that more rural land was going to be absorbed for housing was going to be controversial at an environmental conference.

And Taylor was quick to respond.

“Everything makes sense except I worry about why you need to do away with rural-urban boundaries altogether,” said Taylor.

He said that giving free reign to developers seemed inconsistent with Twyford’s overall objective of having a compact city.

Twyford replied that it was a question of values.

“This is for us, for Labour, for our coalition government, this is fundamentally a social justice issue.

“Our objective is not to build a Copenhagen of the South Pacific.

“We could build a beautiful city with a whole lot of the policies we have talked about.

“We could build a Vancouver of the South Pacific; beautiful but utterly unaffordable.

“I’m interested in us fixing this totally dysfunctional urban land economy.

“If we don’t deal with affordability we will have completely wasted the opportunity that has been given to our generation.”

Twyford said the only way to deal with the affordability issue was to deal with the land price issue and that meant dealing with the artificial scarcity of land caused by the planning system and the availability of finance for infrastructure.

However he didn’t dispute that the Auckland region was going to become more heavily built up.

“You know what,” he said. “In two or three generations this is going to become a tri-city conurbation between Hamilton, Tauranga and Auckland whether we like it or not.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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… Why is Gary Taylor of the Environmental Defence Society apparently ignorant of the broad consensus (with The Greens too) built up over recent years … and that we are now in the implementation phase ? …

Refer June Update, Pavletich Message – Imtro Section Demographia Survey, Ardern / Twyord section and the IPSOS poll at …

Performance Urban Planning

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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August 2, 2018 7:41pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Oh fuck off Hugh. Take your rantings to Zimbabwe, Venezuela, or anywhere but here.
  Whatever you say there will be nothing done about whatever you’re going on about.
  
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  August 2, 2018 7:47pm
  - Andrew Atkin
    
    The good thing about anonymous identifies is we get to see what people are really like (when they feel safe enough).
    
    Remember, Captain. If you don’t like Hugh’s commentary all you have to do is not read it.
    
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    August 3, 2018 12:34am
- Johnboy
  
  You know Hugh if you could make a short, concise, readable precis of your argument and it all stacked up some of us might give you an uptick for a change. 🙂
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:02pm
  - Longknives
    
    Yeah Hugh!
    Come on mate- ‘Jazz it up’ a little!
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:15pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      … Briefly …
      
      What have the Kiwi Tories learned after being deservedly thrown on to the Opposition benches last October … mainly for your housing failures ? … refer GONE GONE GOING section Performance Urban Planning …
      
      http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/National%20News.html
      
      … and …
      
      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
      
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      August 2, 2018 8:38pm
      - Johnboy
        
        “What have the Kiwi Tories learned after being deservedly thrown on to the Opposition benches last October “….Never trust the dirty little rat Winston? 🙂
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:41pm
      - realityczech
        
        Hey Hugh see DPF is selling his house? He might value your input 🙂
        
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        August 2, 2018 8:42pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … May 2016 report by Fairfax / Stuff New Zealand …
        
        Labour, National both tell council Auckland city growth limits should be abolished … Sam sachdeva … Stff NZ (May 2016)
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80113578/labour-auckland-city-growth-limits-should-be-abolished?rm=m
        
        Auckland’s urban growth boundaries should be abolished to tackle property speculators and the city’s housing crisis, the Labour Party says.
        
        The move means Labour and National are now on the same side as they push the Auckland Council to free up its restrictive planning rules.
        
        Finance Minister Bill English has welcomed the news, saying the council was “on notice” from both parties over the need to beef up the city’s housing supply. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
        
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        August 2, 2018 9:53pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        November 2017 MacroBusiness Australia report …
        
        NZ housing reforms to kill the land bankers – MacroBusiness
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/11/nz-housing-reforms-kill-land-bankers/
        
        By Leith van Onselen
        
        Six years ago, I penned an article entitled Why developers land bank, which attempted to explain the drivers and motivations for land banking.
        
        Included in this article was the argument that land banking is more common in markets with regulatory barriers to land supply, such as urban growth boundaries (UGB), because this restricts competition from adjacent land owners on the wrong side of the UGB.
        
        By contrast, by removing the UGB, competition from adjacent land owners would increase, in turn making land banking particularly risky since another nearby owner would always have the opportunity to move to the market ahead of the land banker. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        August 3, 2018 3:04am
MrTips

Oh dear. I sense another pounding of public health research coming up: https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago692457.html
This does not look good at all.
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August 2, 2018 8:01pm
- Johnboy
  
  Is it just me or does Tim Chambers look like a silly little gullible sort of prat to any of the rest of you? 🙂
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:06pm
  - realityczech
    
    He looks like he would benefit from a punch in the throat with brass knuckle dusters.
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Q. How do you wangle 1 day a week off work for 6 years ?

A. Become a school teacher.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/363207/teacher-did-not-fake-hundreds-of-sick-days-tribunal-finds
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August 2, 2018 8:22pm
- realityczech
  
  And predictably her defense was she was a victim of [insert fashionable cause here] “bullying”.
  
  I would let her off with a warning for slacking, and 50 lashes for the lies and manipulations.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:26pm
- Johnboy
  
  I’d almost bet the house on it that she’s a tangata whenua! 🙂
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:29pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Is it a nice modern house?
    
    All mod- cons?
    Got a basement to stash the hubby in?
    
    Biology Teacher/Auckland Girls Grammar/
    https://educationcouncil.org.nz/sites/default/files/2015-25_2.pdf
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:44pm
- itstricky
  
  Become a school teacher
  
  Abuses of employment like this happen in every industry.
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:34pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Doesn’t appear to be an abuse according to the Education Council Disciplinary Tribunal.
    https://educationcouncil.org.nz/sites/default/files/2015-25_2.pdf
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:47pm
realityczech

dad4justice is lurking around tonight. All those filthy homos “rotting with aids” better be careful.
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August 2, 2018 8:33pm
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  How come you still alive Kea?
  
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  August 2, 2018 8:35pm
  - Johnboy
    
    He always used a condom dad! 🙂
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:36pm
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    No one really knows
    
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    August 2, 2018 8:37pm
stigie

Dad will come back if you all are not infested with aids !~
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  Not sure milky & stupidboy will pass that test.
  
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  August 2, 2018 10:17pm
Hugh Pavletich

… Christchurch former central area … The Bureaucrats Bog … continued …

Johnny Moore: (Christchurch) Rebuild roosters hurting CBD hospitality | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/105921739/johnny-moore-rebuild-roosters-hurting-cbd-hospitality

… extracts …

… The most destructive thing for central city hospitality has been the rebuild. Whether Cera, Otakaro, or the lousy city council, those charged with helping us have fumbled their way across the central city, leaving a trail of destroyed businesses in their wake.

A few less consultations for the sake of saying you’ve consulted or hacks selling future utopia and a few more on the end of shovels would have seen a better result.

The roosters charged with rebuilding have been so obsessed with master plans, visions and blueprints that they’ve failed to recognise that those doing business in the current environment want to be a part of the future city, want to be the genesis of the future city.

An obsession with removing parking from the street, parking wardens aggressively and vindictively targeting streets where life is peeping through, bike lanes at the expense of everything else and a dogged determination to have hacks with no skin-in-the-game lecture business owners on how to run a business will ensure that more good hospitality businesses go the way of the Neanderthal. … read more via hyperlink above …
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August 3, 2018 4:10am
softail 1450

TOMMY ROBINSON , FREE AND IN GOOD HEALTH,,,,,,,,
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