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August 31, 2018 8:00am by Kokila Patel

General Debate 31 August 2018

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holysheet

There was a businessman who was getting ready to go on a long business trip. He knew his wife was a flirtatious sort, so he thought he’d try to get her something to keep her occupied while he was gone, because he didn’t much like the idea of her screwing someone else. So he went to a store that sold sex toys and started looking around. He thought about a life-sized sex doll, but that was too close to another man for him. He was browsing through the dildos, looking for something special to please his wife, and started talking to the old man behind the counter. He explained his situation, the old man. “Well, I don’t really know of anything that will do the trick. We have vibrating dildos, special attachments, and so on, but I don’t know of anything that will keep her occupied for weeks, except …” said the old man, and then he stopped. “Except what?” asked the businessman. “Nothing, nothing,” said the old man. “C’mon, tell me! I need something!” protested the businessman. “Well, sir, I don’t usually mention this, but there is the ‘voodoo dick,'” the old man said. “So what’s up with this voodoo dick?” the businessman asked. The old man reached under the counter, and pulled out an old wooden box carved with strange symbols. He opened it, and there lay a very ordinary-looking dildo. The businessman laughed, and said, “Big fucking deal. It looks like every other dildo in this shop!” The old man said, “But you haven’t seen what it’ll do yet.” He pointed to a door and said “Voodoo dick, the door.” The voodoo dick rose out of its box, darted over to the door, and started screwing the keyhole. The whole door shook with the vibrations, and a crack developed down the middle. Before the door could split, the old man said, “Voodoo dick, get back in your box!” The voodoo dick stopped, floated back to the box and lay there, quiescent once more. The businessman said, “I’ll take it!” The old man resisted and said it wasn’t for sale, but he finally surrendered to $700 in cash. The guy took it home to his wife, told her it was a special dildo and that to use it, all she had to do was say, “Voodoo dick, my pussy.” He left for his trip satisfied things would be fine while he was gone. After he’d been gone a few days, the wife was unbearably horny. She thought of several people who would willingly satisfy her, but then she remembered the voodoo dick. She got it out, and said “Voodoo dick, my pussy!” The voodoo dick shot to her crotch and started pumping. It was great, like nothing she’d ever experienced before. After three orgasms, she decided she’d had enough, and tried to pull it out, but it was stuck in her, still thrusting. She tried and tried to get it out, but nothing worked. Her husband had forgot to tell her how to shut it off. So she decided to go to the hospital to see if they could help. She put her clothes on, got in the car and started to drive to the hospital, quivering with every thrust of the dildo. On the way, another orgasm nearly made her swerve off the road, and she was pulled over by a policeman. He asked for her license, and then asked how much she’d had to drink. Gasping and twitching, she explained that she hadn’t been drinking, but that a voodoo dick was stuck in her pussy, and wouldn’t stop screwing. The officer looked at her for a second, and then said, “Yea, right. Voodoo dick, my ass!”
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August 31, 2018 8:01am
- NZpatriot
  
  Paragraphs mate. Paragraphs.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:22am
Sofia

Voodoo dick? What a hard act to follow.

However, since it appears there could possibly be a by-election in a special Maori electorate, how does Winston’s waka-jumping bill work?
It has puzzled me for some time.

In the case of a list member qualifying for dismissal, the party has a new member come off their party list, do they not, to replace the one leaving?

With an electorate member leaving, a by-election is triggered, and if a candidate from the same party is returned, the election night party vote percentage is unchanged. So that is it?

However, what happens if a by-election is run, and another party wins the seat.
Forget that it may be remote, but if a National Party candidate won in the vacated Maori special seat, do all the parties effected have to adjust numbers to maintain what Winston calls party vote integrity – to preserve what the voter voted for, although Winston has totally destroyed the validity or integrity of most of the policy that they also voted for?

So does National, picking up the electorate sat in this case, have to loose a list member, and Labour gain one off their party list for the electorate member they lost? All the maintain party vote percentages?

And if the Maori Party resurrected itself and managed to win the seat, would Labour have their numbers maintained with a seat off their List and Parliament then have a one seat over-hang.
All to keep Winston happy and in power – if that is the way it works.
Is it?
Any link to something that actually explains it, would be welcome, thank you.
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August 31, 2018 8:01am
- Duxton
  
  No, the proportionality rule only applies to List seats. If a Party other than Labour wins the seat, Labour loses one and the other party gains. That is what happened in the Northland by-election.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:28am
- tas
  
  Winston only has list MPs, so the rules for electorate MPs don’t matter.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:30am
  - RalphT
    
    And in any case Winston doesn’t bother with the normal rules as they don’t apply to him…
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:39am
    - Bottomless_Pit
      
      Of course not. The normal rule never apply to the drunken dwarf
      
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      August 31, 2018 9:04pm
  - Sofia
    
    So the bill which Little (because he is the muggins handling it) argues is entirely democratic, only applies to half of Parliament – to list seats only?
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:41am
    - tas
      
      The proportionality argument is a farce. The point of the bill is to allow Winston to fire his MPs.
      
      The waka jumping bill means list MPs can simply be replaced with the next person on the list. The bill still applies to electorate MPs, but a by-election happens and voters get to decide on the replacement.
      
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      August 31, 2018 9:22am
- Harkman
  
  Sofia great question, that Northland by-election exposed our electoral system as complete scam. If the left lost a seat without a national popular vote it would the no.1 news item @ 6PM, red radio would be howling blue murder. National should have been given an extra list seat after Winston won and he shouldn’t have gotten an extra seat.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:07am
  - Sofia
    
    Surely legislation that addresses only half the problem – list seats only, but not electorate seats – is some sort of mockery of the democracy the bill purports to protect, itself being unequal and undemocratic.
    And is there no online source that actually explains how the bill works? I have tried several times to find information on it – obviously unsuccessfully – so I’d claim it is not wildly accessible.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:25am
    - tas
      
      Sofia: I find the best information is to read the actual text of the bill, which is here
      
      http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2017/0006/latest/whole.html#DLM7514004
      
      And you can see some more details about its progress in parliament here
      
      https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-proposed-laws/document/BILL_75706/electoral-integrity-amendment-bill
      
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      August 31, 2018 9:30am
      - Sofia
        
        Thanks, Tas. So it does seem a list member replaces a list member (maintains party vote percentage) and an electorate member departing triggers a by-election that any party can win (doesn’t preserve party vote “integrity”).
        
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        August 31, 2018 10:19am
      - tas
        
        Right, the proportionality argument is a bit silly. If that’s all that mattered, we would do away with electorates and have only list MPs.
        
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        August 31, 2018 10:36am
  - tas
    
    I don’t think a by-election has ever actually brought down a government, but can you imagine the shambles that would be? 1.4% of the poplulation voting in an election that brings down the government mid-term!
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:25am
MrLovebucket

It’s Friday, and Friday afternoons are generally a good time for Governments to release bad news in a bid to bury them.

Seeing as they had to announce the issue over their thug minister yesterday, maybe they have something particularly big to announce later today. Otherwise, I would have thought yesterday’s news would have been pushed back to today.
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August 31, 2018 8:01am
- RW Capitalist
  
  BBBBB AAAAA BBBBB YYYYY
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:09am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    The Billion Dollar Baby!
    
    (baby designed to mask the 11 billion dollar hole + undercover borrowing and other catastrophes)
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:26am
    - Simon
      
      Michael: Is that why you slapped my brother around in public?
      
      Fredo: Aw now that, that was nothin’, Mike. Now, Now uh Moe didn’t mean nothin’ by that. Sure he flies off the handle once in a while, but Moe and me, we’re good friends, right Moe? Huh?
      
      Moe Greene: I gotta business to run. I gotta kick asses sometimes to make it run right. We had a little argument, Freddy and I, so I had to straighten him out.
      
      A little bit of violence in the workplace is never ok. Ask Moe Greene.
      
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      August 31, 2018 8:37am
      - Harkman
        
        Didn’t Mo Greene hold the 100m World record 20 years ago?
        
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        August 31, 2018 9:09am
    - sooty
      
      How come there is no baby photos outside of parliament? Outside the ducks realm if power, I would have thought. Maybe the papers and magazines are keeping quite hoping for a big payoff! They don’t want upset the commie chick.They had better hurry up, because on the first overseas trip with squrriel the photos will be out.
      
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      August 31, 2018 8:42am
      - cas
        
        Jacinda takes the baby to all the photo opportunities it seems but someone else must hold it while she beams in front of the cameras. Is that poor Clarke or do they have a nanny?
        
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        August 31, 2018 11:28am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        It seems Jethro and Squirrel follow SLG everywhere.
        Do they have security clearance for the things they might see/hear?
        
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        August 31, 2018 12:23pm
  - fluffykiwi
    
    Teething !!!
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:35am
Chris2

In the last Parliament, Todd Barclay, a first-term inexperienced backbench National MP had a falling-out with one of his Electorate office staff, apparently secretly recording his Electorate office to hear what she was saying about him.

All the media ran with this story for many many months and even after Barclay decided not to contest last year’s General Election he was still being reported on for holidaying in Europe, even after he was no longer an MP. The Police also investigated and no charges were laid.

Yesterday, it was reported that a Labour Government Cabinet Minister, Meka Whaitiri, has been stood down as Minister of Customs, after allegedly assaulting one of her Ministerial staff. It was also reported that during the last Parliament, five Personal Assistants working for her had quit her Parliamentary office because she was difficult to work with.

The current case appears to be more significant as it involves a Government Cabinet Minister and an alleged assault and an enduring pattern of conflict with a number of staff.

My question is: Will the same media that pursued Barclay for months on end, demonstrate the same enthusiasm in pursuing Whaitiri? Will they track down all her former employees and interview and report their comments? Will the Police investigate Whaitiri’s alleged assault?
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August 31, 2018 8:02am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Asking a bit much ???
  Open and transparent govt.
  This is Labour
  They even covered for David Lange (the savior of the human race), when he ran over a homeless man coming back from his mistress’ house.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:08am
- Gravelroad
  
  The answer to your question Chris2 is: NO!
  Woman, race, socialist, behaviour caused by and excused because of colonisation.
  End of story.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:12am
  - sooty
    
    Five eights of sweet nothing in the newspapers!
    Then they wonder why they are failing!
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:17am
  - holysheet
    
    You left out the ultimate excuse, her diminished mental capacity and her immediate mental breakdown
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:18am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Has anyone checked her mobile phone then?
      
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      August 31, 2018 8:33am
  - cmm
    
    Colonialism!
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:51am
- kowtow
  
  Ah but Barclay is a white male from the right and presumably grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth.
  
  That makes him a prime target for the c#nts in the lurgenpresse.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:13am
  - Harkman
    
    So you’re saying Barclay is bad but Brownie is good (still) unless Barclay publicly slams Donald Trump? ?
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:13am
  - gump
    
    Lügenpresse
    
    “BERLIN — When a video of two Donald Trump supporters shouting “Lügenpresse” (lying press) started to circulate Sunday, viewers from Germany soon noted its explosive nature. The defamatory word was most frequently used in Nazi Germany. Today, it is a common slogan among those branded as representing the “ugly Germany”: members of xenophobic, right-wing groups.
    
    Its use across the Atlantic Ocean at a Trump rally has worried Germans who know about its origins all too well. Both the Nazi regime and the East German government made use of it, turning it into an anti-democracy slogan”
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:24am
- Keeping Stock
  
  My question is: Will the same media that pursued Barclay for months on end, demonstrate the same enthusiasm in pursuing Whaitiri? Will they track down all her former employees and interview and report their comments?
  
  In a word, no. Meka Whaitiri ticks so many diversity boxes that she is clearly oppressed and suffering the after-effects of colonisation, so she gets a free pass from the media. Barclay’s biggest error was being a privileged, white male, which gave him no wiggle-room.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:13am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    Shane Jones will claim she is only being picked on due to racist attitudes of the opposition.
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:30am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    She appears to be intellectually handicapped, in keeping with all the other ministers in the Worst Government Ever!
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:06am
    - Harkman
      
      Hey, it could have been worse, she could have made her staff member work on her holiday home in Samoa.?
      
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      August 31, 2018 9:16am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Surely not…
      She has a bright red Cirriculum Vitae (sic)
      and a Master of Education
      http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1305/Meka__Cirriculum_Vitae_May_2013.pdf
      
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      August 31, 2018 9:27am
      - dave_c_
        
        And no doubt the typical boisterous fisty cuff experiences in the school grounds – learnt at an early age !
        
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        August 31, 2018 9:44am
      - Felt
        
        What did she do from 93 to 99? There seems to be a hole in her CV.
        
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        August 31, 2018 9:53am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Worked at Whakatu Freezing Works
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12116837
        
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        August 31, 2018 10:23am
      - holysheet
        
        MA of E?
        What cornflake box is giving them away?
        Being a dyke shouldn’t that be Mistress of E?
        Oh so many questions….
        
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        August 31, 2018 10:32am
  - fluffykiwi
    
    So she is a lesbian as well, or transgender.
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:36am
- flipper
  
  Naahhh …….
  Peters and his fellow travellers have the fix in.
  
  BTW …. who was the National MP hounded out Parliament by a blogger and Peters before being found not guilty in court ?
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:16am
- G152
  
  Of course not and (baby) how dare we even expect such of this (baby) marvelous open transparent government (baby)
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:26am
- Elaycee
  
  Will the same media…. … demonstrate the same enthusiasm in pursuing Whaitiri?
  
  Cue Tui Advert.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:59am
- RF
  
  Chris2.
  
  The Police Commissioner took it upon himself to publically clear loverboy of any misdeeds.
  
  Some say on the directions of either H1, H2 or porcelain chops – pick a card.
  
  I guess he will be waiting for instructions concerning the current Labour thug.
  
  I suspect she will be toast as Ardern is desperate to flex her muscles and try to show leadership.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:11am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Of course they won’t. The Herald buried it the same way they buried the cover up of the sex attacks at the Labour Camp. They published about it at 18.15 at night after sitting on it all day. That was they can say they reported on it but they don’t have too many people seeing it.
  
  If they are true to form, expect light exporting on it for a li ited time followed by completely forgetting about it.
  
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  August 31, 2018 11:16am
secondcumming

I actually found this story quite disturbing. Could someone have it in for the Whale?

https://twitter.com/abcdarwin/status/1034990345421877249
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August 31, 2018 8:04am
- igm
  
  Fat Fairy telling lies about government borrowing. This pathetic example of a CoLaP (Coalition of Leeches and Perverts) will show his ineptitude at the expense of every hard-working business owner and worker before we toss the shower of shit out of power.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:15am
  - Paulus
    
    There are no dead perverts in Tauranga -the Police cannot find anybody to substantiate that Awanui Black was part of a Paedophile Ring.
    One person only said that he was molested when he was eight by Black I assume from the local media.
    It would be quite wrong to suggest that the Whanau and Iwi clammed up as other earlier cases of abuse have shown, Kahui Twins for example.
    Mrs Black has been ostracised of course.
    There is a movement afoot to have the file completely closed down by the Police Commissioner not just put to one side.
    I hope that the file is not passed to Haumaha the senior Maori in Head Quarters.
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:32am
    - Viking2
      
      Much more could be known but it will never be public.
      
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      August 31, 2018 8:47am
Thought Criminal

Labour are now up to 150 working groups etc or around 3 per MP.

Who thinks they can get to 4?
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August 31, 2018 8:13am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Cabinet ministers must be up for new desks soon.
  The current ones must have huge holes worn in them where they have been resting their feet.
  Afterall, all these working groups, are doing their work for them, aren’t they?
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:30am
- MrLovebucket
  
  A better question is “When will they get to 4?”
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:32am
  - VicParking
    
    Keep it up I say. Sooner or later they will get to the bottom of the barrel and appoint me to one.
    I like the idea of a quality based one, Quality of coke, Wine or Hookers for instance. I would settle for Quality of Limo Travel or First Class on Air NZ.
    Knowing me it would proberly be the Quality of Almond Milk, Cloth nappies or Electric Bikes.
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:46am
- sooty
  
  Of course they will. They have not run out of taxpayers money. But then there will be no money left to implament the changes.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:32am
- hullkiwi
  
  Funny, last night while the world was talking about the latest errand minister, Standarniatas were getting worked up about Bridges making a story out of the 152 working groups. All the could come up with was that Key & co created 75 in the first 6 months & the CoL 77. Their problem was Key & co slowed down over the next 6 months, but the CoL have continued at an even greater rate. Got the Standarniatas frustrated that there might be something to the story. Oh dear how sad, there is always the babbbbbbyyyyy to talk about…..
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:48am
secondcumming

*RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*

Is the Supercity ready to have a Chow for Mayor?

1ZB reports: “…one of the well known brothel – owning Chow brothers, John Chow, is contemplating standing for the Auckland mayoralty”

To use an old sailing metaphor, with Auckland’s population now more than 25% Asian…….this could put a whole new slant on things.
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August 31, 2018 8:14am
- igm
  
  Would vote for him in preference to Goff or Clark. He has experience in commerce and will not be a follower or disciple of Islam.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:17am
  - Sofia
    
    And as someone has expressed elsewhere –
    It may be better to have a mayor who hires prostitutes rather than is one.
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:26am
- ldypen
  
  Heh..”new slant on things”
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:35am
- noskire
  
  At least his opponents wouldn’t be able to accuse him of being unable to even organise a shag in a brothel…
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:51am
kowtow

A bit rich for the fat blowhard , I’ll have a wank on the taxpayers account, Shane Jones, to have a go at the Ozzie banks when our very own “Kiwi”bank is shafting not only its own punters but also its own staff. So much for regional development.

‘Kiwibank and NZ Post have announced they are closing four joint branches around Dunedin.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/closure-nz-post-kiwibank-branches-confirmed
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August 31, 2018 8:16am
- RW Capitalist
  
  It’s spelt H Y P O C R I S Y.
  Not that shane or winnie would know.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:22am
- G152
  
  Yup. Wondered that myself.
  Surely the NZ bank would jump at the chance to fill all those current and looming vacancies….
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:30am
- kevn
  
  @kowtow… Too many low value transactions maybe? KiwiBank have been going for businesses but not that successful I guess.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:44am
  - DigNap15
    
    I remember Paul Holmes once said about some banks
    They get slots of money in on benefit day, but it all goes out the same day!
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:48am
- geoff3012
  
  That was back in June…..Clare is now on to it…so just you look out.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:07am
RW Capitalist

Lets talk hypocrisy
NZF rep…(shane Jones), is blasting the Aussie banks.
Winston Peters is considering handing the control of the TAB to Aussie betting companies and spending our tax money in the process.
My solution:
1. Introduce competition, allow on track bookies,
2. Allow other companies to set up betting agencies
3. Reduce the No. of race tracks to major centres eg One in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, New Plymouth , Trentham, Christchurch and Dunedin.
4. One multi purpose track per venue.
This would allow the punters/customers easier access to more racing.
Reduce costs, maintenance etc.
With the sale of the remaining land, that the unused tracks are on, a huge injection of cash to the industry.
Use the tracks for concerts, cassinos etc when not used as race tracks.
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August 31, 2018 8:19am
- Paulus
  
  Think of all the houses that Twitford can build on these obsolete Racetracks when they are closed down.
  Sure he has already started planning for all these cheap houses.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:36am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Phillis Twitford…..plan????
    Not words you can use in the same sentence, I think you will find.
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:53am
  - dave_c_
    
    Yup – ‘Tent cities’, are likely to be a hit.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:49am
- KevOB
  
  It looks like the racing industry is going out of fashion as digital entertainment takes over. Gambling is on line too.
  Death throes.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:06am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Not necessarily.
    We all said the same about vinyl records when CDs came in and then downloads.
    Now they are finding a niche in the market.
    I think racing could do the same.
    It is competing for LIVE audiences such as concerts, sport etc.
    Run it like that, and it may have a chance.
    Open the TAB to competition
    Reduce the venues to populated main centres
    Use the venues for functions, concerts restaurants, hotels etc as well as all racing.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:29am
- hullkiwi
  
  Got to love Peters. Calls his party NZ First, campaigns as a xenophobic party.
  Gets into power:
  1. Does nothing about immigration;
  2. Gets an Aussie racing industry mogul to do do a report on the NZ racing industry, with major findings that hand significant influence and financial benefits to the Aussies. Surprise, Surprise!!
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:14am
  - Harkman
    
    Hull, next time you watch the Olympics 100m and you see guys with bulging neck muscles and muscles protruding from muscles just remember they’re cleaner than our horse racing industry. The thought of giving these dirty bastards more of our money is outrageous.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:27am
- Harkman
  
  NZ is one of the few countries with only one allowed betting company (the TAB). Yet another example of Socialism failing in broad daylight, yet the solution is more Socialism.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:22am
- MCos
  
  One of the race tracks earmarked for closure is Avondale owned by the Avondale Jockey Club.
  This piece of land must be worth millions.
  
  Where does the money go?
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:14am
  - RF
    
    I imagine Peters has his sights on Hokitika, Kumara, Greymouth, Reefton & Westport race tracks.
    
    The Feral West Coast (Clark’s words) getting shafted again.
    
    I know Muldoon saved Kumara from getting the chop years ago.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:30am
    - MCos
      
      I had a look at that list of racetracks and googled the first one.
      I can understand why the Kumara racetrack is on the list for the chop. It’s sole meeting this year was canceled due to bad weather.
      http://www.kumarawestcoast.org/kumara-races/
      
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      August 31, 2018 10:50am
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        Reefton, Omoto and Hokitika are on the chopping board. Kumara will be the sole West Coast racecourse for gallopers.
        
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        August 31, 2018 3:18pm
  - fluffykiwi
    
    Depend on their constitution, or Rules. Most clubs have something relating to closure and dispersal of assets. Avondale got bailed out years ago when it was “broke”, in fact maybe twice.
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:41am
  - alex Masterley
    
    The Avondale Jockey Club is an incorporated society.
    Its constitution provides in general terms that on the dissolution of the club the assets are to be dealt with and disposed of for such public and charitable purposes as the members shall determine at a special meeting. And if they can’t the minister in charge of gaming laws gets to determine the public and charitable purposes.
    
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    August 31, 2018 3:31pm
- Liberty
  
  “Winston Peters is considering handing the control of the TAB to Aussie betting companies”
  
  It’s a bit hypocritical of Col to give “ Our Assets” away.
  After all their hysterical ranting in saving “Our Assets.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:54am
Keeping Stock

I couldn’t be further apart politically from Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn. But he calls it as he sees it with the crony appointment of Steve Maharey to Chair PHARMAC:

The previous government was notorious for cronyism, running fake appointment processes for form’s sake before shoehorning their preferred cronies in at the last minute. That was pretty blatantly corrupt, but in less than a year the new government has managed to surpass them, with the appointment of former Labour MP Steve Maharey as chair of Pharmac. When Maharey was appointed, I submitted the usual OIA request seeking details on the process. The released documents show cronyism so naked that I have not seen it before in New Zealand.

How bad is it? First, Health Minister David Clark received advice to reappoint the existing board chair Stuart McLauchlan to manage Pharmac through upcoming changes, or at least temporarily reappoint him so a proper process to find a replacement could be run

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2018/08/steve-mahareys-crony-appointment.html

Check out the documents he has received after an OIA request. Clark was advised to reappoint the existing Chair to provide stability, but instead appointed his mate Maharey, in I/S’s words “No position description, no application, no interviews, nothing. Just $48,000 a year for knowing the right person.”

Readers will remember that Clark also sacked the Chair of Counties-Manakau DHB, and appointed a former Labour minister to that role; Mark Gosche. Was there a proper process followed with THAT appointment, or is Clark simply looking after his Labour mates?
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August 31, 2018 8:21am
- RW Capitalist
  
  The major difference
  National at least appeared to employ someone competent to do the jobs and not all were ex politicians.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:24am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Maharey? $48,000? Hes worth every cent of that 😀
  
  Ill look forward to the media picking up on these appointments.
  
  Right after Winston pays back the $158,000.
  
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  August 31, 2018 12:01pm
artemisia

Give a person an inch and they think they’re a ruler.

Strictly random observation.
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August 31, 2018 8:26am
- DJ Ward
  
  Interesting word ruler. Obviously in common use but originally the word was just rule meaning strait stick from the Romans. It is more correct to say “Give a person an inch and they think they’re a rule”. You measure something with a rule. A ruler is a queen etc. Interesting how words develope. Was it a person who measures is a ruler, so “go get the ruler”.
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:16pm
sooty

Mike Bush, you had better warm up your typewriter, when you get to work as you may have a press release or two.
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August 31, 2018 8:27am
Steve (North Shore)

Where does the COL fit in here? What type of Govt are they? Come on, show your true colours.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+american+form+of+government
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August 31, 2018 8:28am
- KevOB
  
  My wife has now decided that we have a one term government.
  Keep it up COL–but no more damage.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:10am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    What’s her prediction form like?
    Should we put money on her tip?
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:30am
    - KevOB
      
      My wife’s like a fine wine with a good nose. She’s seldom wrong but Jacinda pushed the right PR buttons.
      
      She agrees with me now. She applied a classic test how does the PM stack up as manager: fail. She senses this govt will be in difficulties if there are any financial problems.
      
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      August 31, 2018 12:49pm
  - Paulus
    
    Once the woman turn this Government is toast.
    The women backed the media’s proclamation for Wonderwoman.
    Turning now I think, but the media will not like it – they are sold on the baby.
    
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    August 31, 2018 1:43pm
Shaun the Sheep

Mike Williams on Hosking this morning said we should remember that people become Minister of the Crown with no training for becoming employers.
You’d think Whaitiri might have learned as a child at school that shoving other people around is unacceptable.
Did no one teach her this was unacceptable as an employee in the workplace?
It is unacceptable to shove other shoppers at PaknSave.
Why would anyone need training that manhandling the staff is unacceptable for an employer?

This is just another bull dyke with anger management issues.
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August 31, 2018 8:38am
- sooty
  
  More likely bitch slapping, than shoving.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:44am
  - backster
    
    Well slap or shove she only appears slightly smaller than Val Adams so it might be unwise to retaliate.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:42am
- kowtow
  
  Captain Cook’s fault or some other white male.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:55am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Captain Cook and every other white male; you’re welcome
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:14am
- Gravelroad
  
  Shaun – People should not be elevated to a Ministerial level on behalf of the taxpayers and the nation if they do not have even the basic leadership skills and experience necessary.
  The Labour Party, NZF and the Greens have demonstrated their ignorance and carelessness when it comes to selecting candidates for office.
  Our country is being governed by mobs of amateurs for whom doctrine, cronyism and personal status is more important than true leadership.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:56am
  - Harkman
    
    Further proof we have too many MPs.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:30am
  - dave_c_
    
    This is what happens where the bar is set lower than ground level. Second thought is that there is no one capable of setting a decent threshold.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:53am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “Mike Williams on Hosking this morning said we should remember that people become Minister of the Crown with no training for becoming employers.”
  Really??? you’re going to make that argument Mike????
  Remember:
  ” we should remember that people become employers with no training for becoming employers, before they employ their first employee.”
  Going to allow them to assault a union member without repercussion?
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:57am
- Swifty
  
  Mike is using the Costanza defence….
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RvNS7JfcMM
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:05am
- KevOB
  
  Whaitiri may just be an arrogant entitled Maori. Her push & shove comes with her mana. Males are not the only ones lacking the self control restraint gene.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:12am
  - Paulus
    
    Once was a butch Warrior !
    
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    August 31, 2018 1:44pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Rubbish..
  she has had plenty of opportunities to interact with minions in her life…
  She was Head Girl of her secondary school
  A Senior Manager/Deputy Secretary in the Dept of Labour
  General Manager Maori Women’s Welfare league
  Chief Executive Officer, Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated.
  
  If she hasn’t the mastered the art of being a decent employer with all that experience, then she never will.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:38am
  - Swifty
    
    Exactly.
    
    Williams is trying to make her out as a victim.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:46am
- Swifty
  
  “Mike Williams on Hosking this morning said we should remember that people become Minister of the Crown with no training for becoming employers.”
  
  That looks like an admission from MW that she is guilty as charged. You’ll notice there is no denial.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:48am
  - lifesgood
    
    Mike Williams is a plonker. The very same man who flew to Australia to find the non-existant dirt on John Key. What a despicable thing to do. I have no time for the man.
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:45am
- sam green
  
  Hekia Parata?
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:29am
Keeping Stock

The latest brain fart from Golriz Ghahraman:

Golriz Ghahraman
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@golrizghahraman
Following Following @golrizghahraman
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Replying to @ETaff1 @FQ_Labour and 2 others
It’s not about an unfettered right to speak. It’s about whether the person’s speech poses a risk (maybe read stuff I say first). During & after Farage’s dishonest & callous Bexit campaign hate crimes went up exponentially in the UK, including murder of a pro-diversity MP, Jo Cox.

https://twitter.com/golrizghahraman/status/1034721305910697984

Ghahraman will be at the forefront of protests when Farage speaks in Auckland next week. She is listed as one of the speakers at a protest by Tamaki Anti-Fascist Action. TAFA is Auckland Peace Action in drag, because the name “Peace Action” doesn’t match up with the threats this group makes to shut down free speech.

Golriz Ghahraman is drawing a very long bow insinuating Farage is somehow responsible, even by proxy, of Ms Cox’s death. She is starting to show her true colours.
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August 31, 2018 8:43am
- Viking2
  
  The sooner she gets a criminal conviction the sooner she is gone.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:51am
- secondcumming
  
  What would GollyG know about anybody being responsible for other peoples death……..she defended the actions of *Simon Bikindi* for christ sake!!
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:57am
- kevn
  
  @KS…. Can someone remind me as to how actual votes this golly g character got please? There was a suggestion of around 1000. Really? God save NZ.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:13am
- KevOB
  
  Golriz lack of tolerance or reason manifests in her expression of hatefulness. She should get a job in childcare in the Beehive.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:15am
- Huevon
  
  Bexit….?‍♂️
  
  I bet Gloriz is a major headcase and is, or should be, on psych meds. Chicks like her – leftie, over-credentialed, reasonably attractive- usually are in my experience.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:17am
  - kevn
    
    Heuvon…. golly reasonably attractive? Not so. Notice there is never a side shot of her.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:15am
    - holysheet
      
      Thats because her hook nose is the size nobody would want
      
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      August 31, 2018 10:41am
- hullkiwi
  
  Minor correction for G Golly, Cox was murdered during the Brexit campaign. It’s a fact, I know, but when have facts ever stopped G Golly?
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:25am
- Philview
  
  Ms. Ghahraman only just scrapped in as an MP but is sure making a lot of noise. I note the double standard that she supports Private Manning’s decision to leak to Wikileaks but is very critical of Wikileaks when it acted against Hilary Clinton.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:31am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Wikileaks was a stick that all sides used to beat each other with.
    Ended as a zero sum game.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:35am
  - Chris R
    
    Philview: Ms G forgets that what Mr or Ms Manning did was as scurrilous as the behaviour of the Rosenbergs who ended their days together in the electric chair for their activities! The issue surrounding Manning is not simply a question of free speech but whether NZ wishes to allow a profiled criminal to address citizens of this country. Had Obama not caused his release he’d be nowhere near NZ. (Remember Mike Tyson?)
    
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    August 31, 2018 1:28pm
- Harkman
  
  Notice she never criticised Bernie Sanders or CNN & MSNBC for the near murder of Steve Scalise.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:34am
- Ross12
  
  Since GG is an expert on everything, she might explain the massive increase in crime ( knife attacks in particular) since Sadiq Khan became London mayor.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:15am
holysheet

Knowing the drunken dwarf was not in Wellington last night, Mrs Holy and I ventured into the Green Parrot.
It was like going back to the 70’s. Formica tables and the food not much better than the fare they used to serve in the Te Kuiti pie cart in the same era.
Now I can understand why The drunken dwarf likes it so much. Reminds him of the good old days.
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August 31, 2018 8:45am
- VicParking
  
  Is this another joke. You actually went to the Green Parrot?
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:52am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    There’s not many places around now that serve a decent Lamb’s fry & bacon grill.
    https://www.zomato.com/wellington/the-green-parrot-te-aro-wellington-city/menu
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:46am
    - VicParking
      
      Well at least you wont find Stephie there
      
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      August 31, 2018 10:35am
- dubya
  
  Hope they had wool carpet!
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:08am
  - fluffykiwi
    
    Yes how is that coming along, office by office nice new NZ woollen carpet. I see the price of fine wools went up latest auction, Winnie might be hoping that crossbred or carpet wools don’t rise in price.
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:45am
- Keeping Stock
  
  There’s nothing wrong with the Green Parrot, if you like straightforward food in generous portions. Last time I went there my mate had the flounder meal. He got TWO pan-fired flounder on one plate, then a separate plate with chips, salad and the GP’s iconic potato salad, plus a large plate of white bread and butter to share.
  
  Fine dining it ain’t, but I’ve never left the Green Parrot needing to stop on the way home for a burger because I’m still hungry.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:04am
  - holysheet
    
    $44 for two small overcooked flounder is not my definition of good food.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:45am
  - alex Masterley
    
    The menu is similar to what used to be Ivans on Ponsonby Road back in the day.
    
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    August 31, 2018 3:35pm
- MCos
  
  Never known so many people go somewhere they obviously don’t like . . . . .
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:59am
  - holysheet
    
    Had to see what all the fuss was about.
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:21am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Holy, its been a while since I last ventured in, do they still do the little triangles of bread as well?
  
  As Maggie notes, their LF&B is the business, reminds me of my mum that meal does 🙂
  
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  August 31, 2018 12:06pm
  - holysheet
    
    No they served full slices of bread
    
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    August 31, 2018 5:46pm
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Just wonder when a deluded KB Alt righter, suffering MSM derangement syndrome, pulls off a similar feat identifying Red Radio or the Hooreld as “ enemy of the people,

Man charged with making threats to Boston Globe, calling paper ‘enemy of the people’

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/08/30/boston-globe-man-charged-violent-threats-enemy-
people/1146112002/

Only a matter of time.

Sad!
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August 31, 2018 8:49am
- Simon
  
  Soyboy
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:11am
- Harkman
  
  And the left are peaceful and never commit acts of violence?
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:35am
DigNap15

Following the lead of Stuff to get us all speaking Te Maori, here is today’s new Maori word.
Its Considerable.
Oops, sorry, I can’t give it to you as its NOT in my Maori dictionary.
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August 31, 2018 8:51am
- Viking2
  
  Is” get fucked” in the dictionary.
  They all seem to use it.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:52am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    V2, the F or C word happens to be a favourite among many, many KB posters.
    
    Wonder where they picked that habit from?
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:56am
    - VicParking
      
      Goat boy hi. Early shift at Fraiser House before your off to pray. To you I say “F of C”
      
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      August 31, 2018 9:01am
      - stephieboy
        
        Vic Parking, a typical family discussion around the dinner table?
        
        Plus severely limited or no Brain Architecture?
        
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        August 31, 2018 9:07am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Wonder where they picked that habit from?
      
      From reading Chaucer, Shakespeare, D.H.Lawrence, Henry Miller, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Philip Larkin, Pushkin, etc.
      
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      August 31, 2018 10:07am
      - holysheet
        
        Maggy when will you learn that all those names count for nothing. They were all pale old white men, so whatever they said means jackshit.
        
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        August 31, 2018 11:24am
      - Chris R
        
        Maggy:The celebrated Pete Belt banned me from Whale Oil for posting a direct quote from Philip Larkin’s most famous poem…”This Be The Verse.” Perhaps he believed I made it up?
        
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        August 31, 2018 1:32pm
  - VicParking
    
    whai taangata
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:57am
- VicParking
  
  He mea nui
  Or
  pene nui
  More likely the latter
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:55am
- KevOB
  
  It’s expressed by duplication like rewarewa– hot hot -boiling…
  
  A good reason why not to tease children with compulsory Maori lingo. The grammar is vastly different.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:18am
Chuck Bird

“This is just another bull dyke with anger management issues.”

Is it a fact that she is a dyke?
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August 31, 2018 8:52am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Yes.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/10591582/Labours-gay-conundrum
  
  However I don’t believe Ms Whaitiri’s sexuality is the issue here. If the allegation that she assaulted a staff member is correct, she should be sacked, as should any MP, male or female, Maori or non-Maori, gay or straight, or able-bodied or disabled, who did likewise.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:56am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    KS, her sexual preference is relevant. If a male MP had an aggressive dyke as a staffer and there was pushing and shoving he would be changed with man assaults female. The logic for keeping this law is that the average male is stronger than the average female.
    
    Looking at Meka Whaitiri she appears to be a hefty heifer. I have no idea of the size of the staffer. If this woman is petite that is a prime example of why we should get rid of this sexist law. We should have one law for all regardless of race, the religion or sex.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:32am
    - DJ Ward
      
      The fact is it’s not the actions of the individual, the motive and intent of the individual, the harm caused by the individual, but the junk dangling between their legs that determines justice.
      
      The fact is it’s not what’s happened the governs if an act is investigated, or prosecuted, but the junk dangling between the persons legs that guides those who act on behalf of victims.
      
      The fact is it’s not what’s happened that governs guilt, or punishment for ones actions, but the junk dangling between a persons legs that makes a person exempt, forgiven, or arbitrarily persecuted.
      
      Man hating bigotry is alive an well in Her Majesty’s NZ.
      
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      August 31, 2018 10:30am
    - holysheet
      
      Chucky, to call her a heifer is the ultimate miss use of the word. A heifer is a virgin bovine.
      However, you are partially right in the cow part.
      
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      August 31, 2018 10:52am
  - realityczech
    
    Bull dykes are notoriously violent and abusive. Almost all bash their partners.
    
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    August 31, 2018 12:27pm
- cmm
  
  woohoo three victim cards!
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:58am
- kevn
  
  @Chuck… Pop her in the room with haumaha.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:15am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  She was celebrated as one of Labour’s rainbow victories at the last election.
  I assumed she was a dyke rather than a cock in a frock.
  You choose.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:59am
  - VicParking
    
    The former.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:39am
- Inandout
  
  FGS why do gays flock to Labour like moths to a flame?
  
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  August 31, 2018 11:18am
  - lifesgood
    
    10% of the population…how many percent of Labour? It would seem a lot more than 10%
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:49am
  - realityczech
    
    Only angry bitter gays with a chip on their shoulder flock to Labour.
    
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    August 31, 2018 12:28pm
Viking2

Victory for a rich white male.
But the police accept the offending was not as sinister as when 51-year-old Dean Alan Lindsay Graham was arrested 18 months ago in a raid on a property southwest of Christchurch.

They dropped six charges against Graham at the Christchurch District Court on Thursday. He then admitted charges of allowing his premises to be used for growing cannabis, a licensing breach under the Arms Act over firearms found at the property, and possession of a cannabis pipe.

His father, Neil Graham, co-founder of trucking giant company Mainfreight, died in September 2015, aged 71, after a long illness.

Not off to jail then?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/106707927/businessmans-son-unaware-of-cannabis-operation-size

Be nice if we managed to get rid of this stupid law.
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August 31, 2018 8:55am
Inandout

Big Mike Williams agrees that Manning should be kept out of NZ, although he was probably influenced by the TV3 poll which showed 65% were also against his/her coming here. I note Manning still has an Adam’s apple, perhaps handy if she wants to go he again.
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August 31, 2018 9:06am
- stephieboy
  
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  Inandout, Chelsea is a useful reminder that there is always hope for you when the difficult decisions have to be made.
  
  LOL
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:09am
  - Inandout
    
    It is paradoxical that Manning would be thrown off the highest building by an Arab Muslim.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:25am
    - stephieboy
      
      Inandout, more accurately members of ISIS!
      
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      August 31, 2018 9:34am
      - Harkman
        
        Is ISIS in Iran, Pakistan and Sudan?
        
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        August 31, 2018 9:38am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Did you get that from Google?
        
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        August 31, 2018 10:51am
      - Inandout
        
        From your lovable Guardian:
        
        ‘In Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, homosexuality is still punishable by death, under sharia law. The same applies in parts of Somalia and northern Nigeria. In two other countries – Syria and Iraq – the death penalty is carried out by non-state actors, including Islamic State.’
        
        I suspect not only ISIS throws gays off buildings.
        
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        August 31, 2018 11:23am
    - realityczech
      
      “It is paradoxical that Manning would be thrown off the highest building by an Arab Muslim.”
      
      More likely to be killed by a Jew for revealing the warmongering done on their behalf.
      
      The Jew has no regard for the life of you goy. You only exist to serve them.
      
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      August 31, 2018 12:35pm
starboard

Nice one fatboy..

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/106704499/billions-borrowed-for-new-state-homes-against-treasury-advice
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August 31, 2018 9:10am
Manolo

The Argentinian peso tumbles down:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/argentina-crisis-peso-crashes-to-record-low-amid-imf-plea.html

The Argentine peso crashed to record lows on the news. It saw steep losses in the previous session and collapsed another 15% to hit 39 pesos against the U.S. dollar on Thursday morning.

The peso is down more than 45% against the greenback this year, exacerbating fears over the country’s weakening economy while inflation is running at 25.4% this year.
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August 31, 2018 9:11am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Bit of a shame. I believe Grant was looking at pegging the NZ$ to the Argentinian Peso after his favoured currency model, the Bolivia, was not doing so well of late
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:20am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Do you mean the Venezuelan Bolivar?
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:42am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Yep, spell check, sorry.
      
      Who do I see about compensation for being a victim of spell check because it is unreasonable that I take responsibility for the spelling on my post before pushing send?
      
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      August 31, 2018 12:24pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        I suffer from it all the time with my mobile phone and predictive text. Even worse when I throw in the odd bit of DEnglish (German/English).
        
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        August 31, 2018 6:36pm
- cmm
  
  Why be surprised?
  
  Oz and NZ are the only two countries in the Southern Hemisphere that have solid currencies.
  
  I wonder why? Maybe eating pavlova? More research required.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:32am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Equador, not strictly speaking Southern Hemisphere has a pretty stable currency. It’s the $US
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:45am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Chile is pretty solid, Uruguay and Paraguay aren’t bad economies either. Basically all slowly working their way up the ladder with sensible restraint.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:34am
- DigNap15
  
  Its very sad.
  I Really hope the IMF does not help them (with our money)
  The Argentinian people need to be taught a hard lesson that you cannot have popularist policies Peronism and military juntas and keep the high living standards which you once had.
  Argentinians I know tell me that their country is a basket case, you cannot borrow money to buy a house even if you are a doctor
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:57am
- VicParking
  
  Argentinian key interest rate to 60%.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45360223
  Thats why Cindy and Robbo are saying we are doing so well compared with ….. and …..
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:44am
Philview

I read on Stuff that Chelsea Manning has been barred from Australia. I have noticed how the NZ media was generally supportive of stopping Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux from coming here but with Chelsea Manning they are critical of people who don’t want her (?) to come.
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August 31, 2018 9:18am
- igm
  
  Get it right, it is not a “Her”, the treasonous apparition is an “It”!
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:48am
  - Fletch
    
    Don’t mess with Mr In-between…
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qk9o_ZeR7s
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:52am
    - sooty
      
      I don’t think that he will come as there will not be enough money just coming here. Aust has said no way so there goes their money out of the pot.
      
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      August 31, 2018 10:50am
  - VicParking
    
    Zee
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:45am
starboard

Really?
Nice one Hosk !

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12116784
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August 31, 2018 9:19am
Captain Mainwaring

Breaking news:
The Manning thing has been given a visa to come to NZ.
Words fail me.
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August 31, 2018 9:28am
- Inandout
  
  Captain think about it, all the Manning publicity that will deflect the real problems the CoL has.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:32am
  - SGA
    
    meh – to be fair, Michael Woodhouse has helped generate some of that publicity.
    
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    August 31, 2018 9:55am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And he was quite right to tell the truth of it, in my opinion.
      
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      August 31, 2018 2:26pm
- igm
  
  What would you expect from the lowest form of life that now fill the Treasury benches. Suppose our new GCSB members, Hager and the horrible lawyer Manning would have been instrumental in this decision.
  Very rarely have I ever wished misfortune on anyone, but these CoLaP bastards deserve everything that befalls them.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:42am
  - VicParking
    
    Getting offside with Aus again. We will be lining up at the Australian high commission to get out tempoary 30 day visa to visit Aus before two long.
    Passport less than six months old, 7 year clean police record and $100,000 lodged incase of medical issues.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:50am
- DigNap15
  
  He is a traitor and years ago would have been executed.
  We should not encourage people like him by letting them come to NZ.
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:52am
lastmanstanding

In the early 70s I was a part time student studying law and accounting. I refused to join the Clerical Workers Union figuring my virgin legal knowledge would allow me to be exempt.
The Union rep threatened to send me to Coventry (Google it) and to prosecute me.
My boss who was very sympathetic took me aside and said pay the fees and I will reimburse you in cash on the quiet and for God Sake dont tell anyone.

My point is IMHO compulsory union membership is next on the agenda. It will start out with the “vulnerable sectors” to protect t he workers from the Bad Bosses and then spread.
Just like industry Awards are going to spread.
The COL will claim success in the early few as the reason for the rest.

This will be both Utu and payback for the Unions support.
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August 31, 2018 9:32am
- Ross12
  
  lastmanstanding
  My wife had a similar experience in the early 80’s with the teacher’s union. She told them to stick their union. Not long after that she went to work in a private school where it wasn’t an issue.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:21am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    With schools being desperate for decent staff, it’s not such a problem these days.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:34am
- simpleton1
  
  Recall some of those days too.
  
  Engineers Union wanted me to join their Union.
  Storeman and Packers wanted me to join their Union.
  Carpenters Union also wanted me to join their Union.
  All simultaneously as I worked as a “casual” at that factory.
  
  Demarcation disputes came close to boiling up as they all seemed to want a pound of flesh too. It was was thought I was part of the Engineeers Union, as I operated a processing machine. It needed more material input and so I ended up unloading containers. That came to the attention of store man packers union.
  Some of the wooden pallets needed a minor repair, tapping a few nails back in to tighten them, but the carpenters Union caught a whiff of that.
  
  Any way I had another job, where I did pay Union dues, to a totally different Union, but I often had much time off.
  
  Those Unionist were all so grubby people, just like that Labour Party 20 year old, under court charges and wondering hands!
  
  I look back that I was poorly paid, just union rates, but it seemed that my out put was often 20+% more per shift.
  Paying massive taxes in those days soon learned me.
  
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  August 31, 2018 12:34pm
RW Capitalist

The Auckland mess.
Resource consents to be reviewed for 100’s.
On Phils watch?? You don’t say…colour me so surprised.
The underground rail is WAY over budget, well you’ll run out of crayons colouring me surprised on that one.
Labour govt., Labour council, you say.
Well maybe not that surprised.
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August 31, 2018 9:42am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Does anybdy know what exactly is the provision or requirement that might have been breached by Auckland’s granting consent?
  
  I am trying to work out whether there is anybody whose interests were damaged by Auckland getting the consents wrong, and therefore whose interests will be served by Auckland now getting the consents right.
  
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  August 31, 2018 12:18pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Naw, go on, fake it RW, follow the lead set by the muppet government.
  
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  August 31, 2018 12:28pm
Rich Prick

Happy International Overdose Day everyone!

Yes, it is a thing.
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August 31, 2018 9:46am
- Fletch
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQ6X4g4vCA
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:32am
- VicParking
  
  Is that because its also “National Eat Outside Day” as well.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:53am
RW Capitalist

Cost per Km of underground railway in Auckland?
How much per Auckland resident and will it ever pay for itself, even with the OVERESTIMATE of savings in traffic congestion?
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August 31, 2018 9:48am
Fletch

Looks like Manning is being granted a special visa.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/08/chelsea-manning-granted-permission-to-apply-for-nz-visa.html
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August 31, 2018 9:57am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Meh.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:23am
  - Fletch
    
    I wonder if he shouldn’t change his name to Womanning.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:28am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Personning
      
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      August 31, 2018 12:30pm
Manolo

An animal is taken out:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/one-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-terrorists-is-now-dead-few-seemed-to-notice/2018/08/29/78677972-aabd-11e8-8f4b-aee063e14538_story.html
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August 31, 2018 10:05am
gorse

Got all excited with hope as I read a headline in Stuff – “PM takes step in right direction” thought it might be out the door and quiting. Wrong.
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August 31, 2018 10:10am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hasn’t she booked a trip to the UN this September with Partner & Baby?
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/105966511/jacinda-ardern-is-going-to-the-un-and-shes-taking-baby-neve
  She won’t be missing out on that wee junket.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:37am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    Job interviews?
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:52am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Burger King are hiring, she will be pleased she has set the rate to rise to $20.00
      
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      August 31, 2018 12:32pm
    - kevn
      
      @MrLB… Yep, an eye to her future. Put money on it.
      
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      August 31, 2018 2:13pm
DigNap15

What we need is for Labour and the Greens and NZF to start falling in the polls.
Until that happens, we are stuck with them.
So far they have bribed the electorate with our own tax money.
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August 31, 2018 10:17am
srylands

So Wellington at 0730 was wet and very gloomy? So 95 percent of drivers have lights on. So that means that 1 in 20 with no lights on become very hard to see.

Are they unaware or stupid or what?
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August 31, 2018 10:39am
- VicParking
  
  Well they live in Wellington Dah
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:55am
Right of way is Way of Right

Chelsea Manning has been granted a special direction to apply for a visa to enter NZ.

I can’t wait to attend the event and ask a few very pointed and direct questions to see if Chelsea will be as forthright to answer as Molyneaux and Southern are.

One suspects not!
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August 31, 2018 10:44am
- holysheet
  
  Can’t wait to see Paddy interview it.
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:58am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I can only imagine how soft that interview will be.
    I’ll be washing my hair.
    
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    August 31, 2018 12:33pm
hullkiwi

Turned on the internet this morning, & lead story was a Newshub Comment on why Jacinda is angry.

It appears she is angry because she perceives the Australians are interferring in NZ politics. This is as a response of yet another poor business confidence survey published by ANZ (An Australian bank).

Let me make it simple for the poor wee SLG, with a neon sign and fireworks.

Business confidence is falling, as evidenced by:
1. Flat lining of new business capital investment;
2. The anecdotal story run by RNZ on Wednesday surveying Morrinsville businesses;
3. Reports by the IT sector that new engagements are getting harder to find. I have friends who are IT consulting contractors in Auckland and they report business is drying up and are looking more keenly at the public sector. When consultancy type businesses seek safe haven with the public sector, that is a clear sign things are getting tougher and confidence is ebbing; and
4. Reports that some categories of consumer spending is not as buoyant as previous.

But why is confidence ebbing:
1. The changes to the minimum wage were implemented without consulting business;
2. The axing of the tax cut package, putting pressure on middle NZ who are the people upon whom business rely;
3. The axing of future oil and gas exploration without consultation or a plan to replace oil & gas requirements;
4. Policy making made without proper evidence to support the validity of the decision e.g. the plastic bag decision;
5. Interference in the management of NZ business by Shane Jones & Winston Peters, first their is the Regional slush fund, then there is Jones telling the management of Air NZ & Fonterra to take a hike. This coupled with an orchestrated programme in the media to attach Fonterra coming from those aligned to the government.
6. The Employment Relations bill, 90 day trial etc. – why fix something that wasn’t broke?; and
7. The constant talk of transitioning, transitioning to what? Where is the plan? why do need 150 plus working groups? And what will be the outcome..?

The above is why confidence is sinking, it is not the Australians running squirrels. It is the inept leadership of Jacinda and Winston and the lack of direction of the CoL and it’s policies.

Remember Jacinda and friends of the CoL it is NZ business that employs the majority of kiwi workers and without NZ business you’ll have a very unhappy electorate in 2020.
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August 31, 2018 10:52am
- Liberty
  
  Col are also going to ban mining on the west coast.
  
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  August 31, 2018 11:01am
  - mandk
    
    No chance.
    
    The local MP is Damien O’Connor, who has a large personal following.
    
    The seat could go National if the CoL decided to ban mining.
    
    Mind you, there is a much stronger environmental case to ban coal mining than there is to ban oil and gas production.
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:14am
    - Inandout
      
      mandk, if you are arguing coal is a ‘dirty’ fuel, then please explain how a clean modern coal burning power generator is not good for the environment?
      
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      August 31, 2018 11:29am
      - stigie
        
        Feelz, Feelz, Feelz and more fucking Feelz !~
        
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        August 31, 2018 11:52am
    - Liberty
      
      “The local MP is Damien O’Connor, who has a large personal following.”
      Maybe in Westport.
      Does anybody still live in Westport?
      Apart from professional beneficiaries.
      As Col have killed off, Milling, Mining.
      Farting cows will be next.
      
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      August 31, 2018 1:34pm
  - Paulus
    
    And close three of the four racetracks on the West Coast so that Twitford can build cheap houses on the land.
    Bye O’Connor !
    
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    August 31, 2018 2:13pm
- rangitoto
  
  I heard that Taxinda was absoludely cwoss and fustraded at that mean Aussie bank.
  
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  August 31, 2018 11:54am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Pot
  Kettle
  Hipkins
  
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  August 31, 2018 12:34pm
Inandout

London’s Mayor Khan ‘doesn’t want a fight with Trump’. I bet he doesn’t because we know who will end up with goat’s fat on their face. Meantime the stabbings and acid throwing continue in the old city.
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August 31, 2018 12:08pm
Manolo

Mamma Merkel’s multiculturalism is working a treat:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6113621/German-police-mole-leaked-details-migrant-stabbing-neo-Nazis.html

Far-right protesters in Germany gathered last night for a fresh march against Angela Merkel’s immigration policies, as a prison officer admitted he was responsible for leaking the names of migrants accused of killing a German national.
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August 31, 2018 12:32pm
- realityczech
  
  Not the first time Germany has had to deal with a religious group hostile to their culture and country.
  
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  August 31, 2018 12:43pm
  - stephieboy
    
    kea, go and see your shrink.
    
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    August 31, 2018 1:24pm
starboard

This is funny..

shariaboy caught balls deep in a goat

You disgusting pervert shariaboy

https://youtu.be/cv-RRjo1oBs
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August 31, 2018 12:36pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Starboard:
  
  shariaboy caught balls deep in a goat
  
  Is that why Stephieboy is urging everyone to see their doctor today?
  
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  August 31, 2018 2:26pm
  - starboard
    
    You would have thought shariaboy would have committed this act of bestiality behind a large rock or something.
    Are you an exhibitionist shariaboy ??
    What was the goats name?
    Did you take him out for dinner first?
    So many questions.
    
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    August 31, 2018 2:50pm
realityczech

Trillions on wars killing innocent people hated by Jewish religious extremists and billions in “aid”

This disgusting parasitic country declared war on NZ for suggesting they don’t have the right to invade and occupy other countries.

Their arrogance, treachery and contempt for others, demonstrates why so many people through out history have been forced to take measures to protect themselves from the Jews.

U.S. Finalizes Deal to Give Israel $38 Billion in Military Aid
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/middleeast/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-military-aid.html
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August 31, 2018 12:41pm
- stephieboy
  
  kea, that’s right initiated by Donald Trump’s predecessor and rubber stamped by Donnie.
  
  Terrible!
  
  PS visit your Doctor ASAP.
  
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  August 31, 2018 1:22pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Some relationship advice for you Stephie:
    https://phys.org/news/2018-08-goats-happy-people.html
    
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    August 31, 2018 1:29pm
- mandk
  
  I’d say $38 billion is good value for money, Kea.
  
  Compared to her neighbours, Israel is a great force for peace in the Middle East.
  
  And her people are a gift to humanity.
  
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  August 31, 2018 1:28pm
  - realityczech
    
    The US has attacked countless Muslim countries and restarted the cold war all for Israel.
    
    Israel is guilty of illegally invading another country and murdering civilians. If Muslims did what they are doing now, they would be wiped off the map. It is a disgrace and should be dealt with severely.
    
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    August 31, 2018 5:21pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    And her people are a gift to humanity.
    
    Nurse – mandk has forgotten to take his meds❗
    
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    August 31, 2018 6:44pm
  - realityczech
    
    “And her people are a gift to humanity.”
    
    Her people have inflicted communism and abrahamic religion on us all. They are the reason for most of the death and war in the world today. Arrogant vile people filled with contempt for those not members of the tribe.
    
    And don’t even get me started on their famous treachery and lies!
    
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    August 31, 2018 6:57pm
- Cobolt24
  
  Israel has sold at least dollars 2bn ( pounds 1.3bn) to dollars 3bn of hi-tech military equipment to China, seriously undermining US efforts to limit the sale of advanced weapons to the Chinese.
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/israel-accused-of-selling-us-secrets-to-china-1510406.html
  
  In the early 1990s then-CIA Director James Woolsey told a Senate Government Affairs Committee that Israel had been selling U.S. secrets to China for about a decade.
  https://www.military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-u-s-military-technology-to-china
  
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  August 31, 2018 4:08pm
  - realityczech
    
    Meanwhile the US gives 38 BILLION to Israel to buy weapons.
    
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-statement/u-s-israel-sign-38-billion-military-aid-package-idUSKCN11K2CI
    
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    August 31, 2018 6:12pm
Ross12

Macron said during their election campaign there was no such thing as French culture. Now he has come out sayin, in a speech in Denmark, there is no such thing as a true Dane or Frenchman. (Soros must being lining his bank account with a few extra millions)

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/30/macron-denmark-true-dane-frenchman/

Given Helen Clark said Ardern is our Trudeau or Macron, can expect the PM to come out saying there is no such thing as a Kiwi/ New Zealander or Maori ?
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August 31, 2018 12:44pm
starboard

Excuse me ?
Say what ?

Check out what Ardern says at 4:50
Unbelievable..

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12116977
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August 31, 2018 12:56pm
- stephieboy
  
  starboard,
  
  “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she has a certain expectation of behaviour from her ministers which is why she acted in the case of Meka Whaitiri.
  
  Whaitiri stood aside from her ministerial portfolios yesterday while she was investigated for an alleged altercation with a staff member in her office.
  
  Ardern would not comment on Whaitiri’s case today, including whether she was aware if her Labour colleague had a history of bad behaviour.
  
  She also would not comment on the reportedly high turnover in Whaitiri’s office….”
  
  ????
  
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  August 31, 2018 1:18pm
  - starboard
    
    Serial goat rooter..I am talking about what she said at 4 minutes 50 about free speech in Nil Ziland..
    
    DUH !
    
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    August 31, 2018 1:29pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Jacinda has been very busy over the last few weeks… she can’t be expected to know that some of her devotees don’t believe in free speech.
      
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      August 31, 2018 2:14pm
krazykiwi

A travel story published in an Australian university magazine has sparked a fierce backlash, with politicians and commentators deeming it “disgusting”, news.com.au reports.

A controversial student magazine has come under fire for publishing a piece that appears to glamorise North Korea.

The article, published in University of Sydney student magazine Honi Soit, is a first-person account of PhD student Jay Tharappel’s nine-day group tour in the reclusive country.

“What I saw was a highly organised, egalitarian and energised society, with good reason to believe that they’re now reaping the fruits of past sacrifices,” he wrote.

The Aussie taxpayer should ask for their money back on this student moron.
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August 31, 2018 1:11pm
Philview

I read on Stuff that nurses feel cheated by the Government over the recent pay negotiations. One thing in particular how much they lose in taxes. Hold that thought until election time where there will tax cuts vs tax increases on offer. 2 ticks blue if you have any sense!
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August 31, 2018 1:29pm
krazykiwi

$17b to be borrowed for roads. Sigh.

The emerging patterm here seems to be:

1. Announce big [spend up OR committee OR review]

2. Work the media to get some mileage

3. Allow (direct) the media to move on.

4. Wait quietly until the same [non-existent] money can be promised to something else. Return to step 1.
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August 31, 2018 1:41pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Didn’t see them announcing it was to be borrowed. I think it is just mostly from previously planned roading budget with a small portion borrowed. Most of the stuff ‘announced’ has been under construction for years. I think only new stuff is a big new spend up on public transport cycle ways and associated bullshit, Not roads.
  
  Good article on Whaleoil about public transport:
  https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/08/park-n-ride-hosking-and-public-transport/#more-405704
  
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  August 31, 2018 2:12pm
Philview

Just read the Government’s $17 billion transport investment announcement. Venezuela’s problems started with big infrastructural investment, hikes in minimum wage and kicking the shit out of rental property owners because of housing shortages but they didn’t anticipate the big drop in oil prices that was coming.
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August 31, 2018 1:49pm
Happychappy

Shane Jones is obviously having no luck getting his whanau off the couch to plant his trees as now he is calling for our criminals to do the job. Anyone wonder why Labour didn’t want him and maybe his whanau learn’ from him how to game the system.
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August 31, 2018 2:05pm
Manolo

An excellent article:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/09/turnbulls-progressive-legacy/
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August 31, 2018 2:19pm
Nostradamus

1 in 50 chance of finding love on an airplane reveals passenger survey

A new study commissioned by the HSBC bank suggests that 1 in every fifty passengers find the love of their life onboard an aircraft.

Why on earth would the HSBC bank want to know this?
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August 31, 2018 2:39pm
Fletch

Is your Kiwisaver doing well?
You can thank Trump and his economy…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/106419717/kiwisavers-for-trump
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August 31, 2018 2:40pm
Fletch

I think we have one of those over here, too 😆

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/106718211/ban-the-single-use-prime-minister-meme-spawns-australian-business
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August 31, 2018 2:44pm
Fletch

So Anika Moa announces that she is pregnant and it is a “blessed day”. No word on who the father actually is.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/106717667/blessed-day-anika-moa-announces-pregnancy

We know that in her last “marriage”, Anika’s brother was the father of the child she and her then wife had.

“The pair became parents in July 2011 after Fyfe had one round of IVF treatment. The donor father is believed to be Moa’s brother.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11168868

I’m sorry, but there’s just something so wrong with all that.
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August 31, 2018 2:51pm
- holysheet
  
  What will happen at the first lesbian divorce? How will both of them get three quarters of everything?
  
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  August 31, 2018 4:00pm
  - cmm
    
    I suspect the state will chip in to make it “fair”.
    
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    August 31, 2018 4:32pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Possibly a repeat of Moa’s first divorce
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11168868
    
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    August 31, 2018 5:53pm
- realityczech
  
  I have no problem with gay marriage, but I have a huge issue with them raising kids.
  
  Lesbians have huge mental health issues and are never good parents.
  
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  August 31, 2018 6:09pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    realityczech,
    
    “Lesbians have huge mental health issues and are never good parents.”
    
    Why might that be? (I am curious…)
    What would some of the mental health issues be? (I use my Colgate mental floss, and floss regularly, so don’t be shy…)
    
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    August 31, 2018 6:40pm
- Piniwi
  
  But Fletch what a sorry looking pair of losers and they already have 3 children. But perhaps the Baby Bonus is still a big draw card.
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:14pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  makes a lot of sense genetically – Anika will have half her brother’s DNA, and so share a quarter with the kid, same as a grandparent.
  
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  August 31, 2018 8:38pm
Jack5

Something lighter ..

Lesbian detectives in fight over meal.

Too much “fucking salt”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/30/detective-attacked-lover-row-salty-meal/
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August 31, 2018 3:01pm
- Inandout
  
  Nice chaps.
  
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  August 31, 2018 3:16pm
  - kowtow
    
    The Met won’t be happy about embracing that bit of “diversity”
    
    They’ve only themselves to blame.
    
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    August 31, 2018 11:09pm
Inandout

YouTube allowed this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=167&v=8wFOkaB5fFg
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August 31, 2018 3:04pm
dime

If you type “idiot” into google and click images, most of the pics are of donald trump.

its a matter of time til he fucks these giant tech firms with anti trust
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August 31, 2018 3:47pm
- stephieboy
  
  dime , I followed your suggestion and came up with this,
  
  “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
  
  ― Mark Twain
  
  Most apt when it comes to KB posters like you.
  
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  August 31, 2018 3:58pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Goat fuckers comes up with some interesting images
    
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    August 31, 2018 4:39pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Kiwiblog’s dumbest commenter quotes Mark Twain:
    
    Never argue with stupid people
    
    Comedy gold!
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:22pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Google have been censoring results and adding liberal bias to their results for ages. Look at a two, simple image searches:
  
  Black couples, and you get the result you’d naturally expect. Loving black couples, smiling cuddling and not a white face in sight. After all, it’s a simple query
  
  … and then …
  
  White couples, which shows nearly a third of the pictures are of mixed race couples, one picture of a black couple holding a white infant, another of Asian dwarfs etc
  
  h/t: The Pointman
  
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  August 31, 2018 3:58pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Krazy Kiwi , if you try European couples different results,
    
    https://www.google.com/search?q=European+couples&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj19veNtJbdAhUXPXAKHTbdBlsQ_AUICigB&biw=1161&bih=908
    
    However, the darker skinned ones might not suit your racial profiling.
    
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    August 31, 2018 4:04pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    You want something really jaw-dropping, google “American Inventors” and see if you can spot any white guys.
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:35pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  The Don has ways of dealing to people who piss him off – not that he is a ‘Hillary’
  
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  August 31, 2018 4:42pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    I find his ‘forever’ names funny.
    When he says ‘Crooked’, everyone knows who he means.
    Just like Stephie is ‘Stoopidboy’
    
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    August 31, 2018 6:39pm
    - stephieboy
      
      And you All on Red = All on Wed Herring.con.
      
      “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
      
      ― Mark Twain
      
      LOL
      
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      August 31, 2018 6:58pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        What’s with the ‘wed’?
        Pretty vague.
        With Stoopidboy the shoe fits.
        And of course there’s
        Pervertboy
        Creepyboy
        Underwear Stalker
        All aptly describe you
        LOL
        
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        August 31, 2018 7:01pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed.con.
        
        Now, why does this make me think of you?
        
        “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
        
        ― Mark Twain
        
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        August 31, 2018 7:04pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Well, obviously since you’re arguing with me you don’t think I’m stupid
        Lol
        
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        August 31, 2018 7:16pm
Fletch

So now libs are in an uproar because an able-bodied actor is to play The Elephant Man in a new TV series. Objectors are referring to the casting as ‘cripping up’. lol

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/08/29/disabled-eastenders-actor-criticises-bbc-casting-stranger-things/
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August 31, 2018 4:06pm
cmm

Stuff shows an artist’s impression video about a new Metro pool/sports complex.

Not one brown face in the whole thing – just whites.

I’m surprised the whining hasn’t started yet!
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August 31, 2018 4:28pm
- stephieboy
  
  cmm, is that a Chelsea Manning in the red two-piece for you to drool over?
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:02pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy:
    
    Chelsea Manning in the red two-piece for you to drool over
    
    Could you check whether she has small but ample breasts (your speciality) and let us know?
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:24pm
hullkiwi

Confirmation this afternoon that as far as the dynamic duo of Twitford and JAG are concerned the regions can go swing.

Twitford has announced the NLTP for the next 3 years this afternoon
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/government-reveals-dollar169b-transport-investment-plan/ar-BBMG5Yn?li=AAaeXZz&ocid=spartandhp

Reading between the lines the Warkworth to Wellsford motorway has been replaced with safety upgrades to the Dome Valley.

That will really help regional development in the North with the main highway remaining no more than a single lane each way, with significant volumes of through traffic still required to travel through the towns from Wellsford to the Brenderwyns.

How is what is proposed going to aid road safety?

Little wonder I refer to Tywford as Twitford.

Further, it is little wonder business is losing confidence in the government, when:
1. they show no strategic thinking about what is required to provide transport/communication links between the regions; and
2. They leave economic regional development to Jones splashing out funds from his regional slush fund!

Strategic Thinking = Nil;

Business Confidence = -1

Jacinda don’t get angry with ANZ bank, get angry with your numpty ministers!!!!
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August 31, 2018 4:56pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Reading between the lines the Warkworth to Wellsford motorway has been replaced with safety upgrades to the Dome Valley. “…..
  
  Think of it in terms of lives. Adults & kids killed & maimed as sacrifices to the Green Gaia & a festering hatred of road transport.
  
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  August 31, 2018 5:22pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The Dome Valley is perfectly safe if you don’t do anything stupid…
    
    It’s only about 20 km long.
    (Can’t wait to fly over the top of it some time this summer. It’s a shame that Springhill airfield is currently closed.)
    
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    August 31, 2018 5:34pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      “The Dome Valley is perfectly safe if you don’t do anything stupid…”
      
      You omitted the fact that it happens to have the highest fatality level of any stretch of SH1.
      
      So, there seems to be a high level of stupid annually in the Dome Valley, but we are saved because Madam Zero (JAG) is going to save us all from ourselves.
      
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      August 31, 2018 7:08pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Cars are going to be banned. So meh, to new Highways.
        JAG is the Minister for No Transport.
        
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        August 31, 2018 7:27pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        The highway through Dome Valley has nothing but blind corners and nowhere to go (into a bank or down a ravine).
        Like I said, not a problem if you are not impatient or stupid or both.
        
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        August 31, 2018 8:18pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Isn’t it a case of prioritising deferred maintenance and upgrades on existing roads rather than offering flash new projects?
  
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  August 31, 2018 6:48pm
  - nasska
    
    SH1 between Puhoi & the top of the Brynderwyn Hills is beyond maintenance, deferred or otherwise. I realise that everyone wants motorways but arterial roads in Northland are no longer fit for purpose & a few judder bars & feelgood signs nagging drivers won’t cut it.
    
    It’s like driving on a poorly ploughed paddock.
    
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    August 31, 2018 7:24pm
  - Viking2
    
    You said as few days ago you don’t travel much. Time you did and just see how bad some of these roads are and how the traffic volume is on them. Ngauranga Gorge in two lanes.
    
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    August 31, 2018 7:52pm
    - nasska
      
      The NZ Transport Agency, or whatever they’re calling themselves this year, have done some great work but in every case there are bottlenecks that require serious money spent.
      
      Eg. SH1 at Ngaruawahia & SH2 Tauranga to Katikati plus most of Northland as mentioned earlier.
      
      The fixation this country has on rail to solve problems defies all logic.
      
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      August 31, 2018 8:03pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Rail solves nothing. The cost benefit of rail is all cost.
        
        Besides NZ’s population is to small and to sparse to support an extensive and expensive rail network. To pay for such a network we’ll than just a magic money tree.
        
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        August 31, 2018 10:07pm
realityczech

Israel is rounding up blacks and placing them in camps for removal as their race-purity pogrom goes into overdrive. This is done against a background of burning churches and increased violence against Christians. Aside from them openly gunning down and casually murdering civilians in the lands they have invaded.

http://www.davidsheen.com/racism/
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August 31, 2018 5:41pm
- DigNap15
  
  Is that new news or 6 months ago?
  Sadly I think all the blacks are still there!
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:07pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘Sadly I think all the blacks are still there!’
    Not funny you racist c**t.
    
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    August 31, 2018 7:34pm
realityczech

Imagine the howls of outrage if anyone dared introduce a Jew tax. What a vile evil country. The global community needs to disarm it and bring in sanctions with a total blockade – nothing in or out.

“Israel backs down on plans to tax Christian property in Jerusalem”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/after-third-day-holy-sepulchres-closure-israel-backs-down-law-changes-1313455606
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August 31, 2018 5:45pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  The Jewish tax on the goyim is inflation.
  
  The Germans of Weimar even called it “Judefetzen” (Jew- confetti) due to the fact that all of the top people at the Reichsbank, led of course by Rudolf Havenstein, were behind the hyperinflation that led to the most massive wealth transfer of all time within a single country.
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7909432/The-Death-of-Paper-Money.html
  
  Now inflation only shears us like sheep officially at 2-3% per annum but in reality 5-6% when you remove the dodgy “official” measurements of it. That’s right – you are cattle to be milked/sheep to be shorn by your Banking Overlords.
  
  https://www.jta.org/2010/10/18/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sephardi-leader-yosef-non-jews-exist-to-serve-jews
  
  “Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat,” he said to laughter.
  
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  August 31, 2018 6:59pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Just don’t ever dare challenge the debt as money system or you will be destroyed and your name blackened for ever. It all started with Jesus but more recent examples:
    
    Hitler – introduced a global barter system (that didn’t require the banking middleman) and a State issues currency free if interest = public enemy #1
    
    Gaddafi – tried to great the gold dinar = brutally executed after the British and French puppets did their masters bidding
    
    Iraq – invaded and executed after 9/11 (don’t ask me for the logic❗) for trading oil in € and avoiding the USD
    
    JFK – passed Exec Order 11110 that would back the USD with silver and thus destroy the Bankers ability to inflate the currency = executed by multiple gunmen from in front and behind as a warning to never pull that stunt again.
    
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    August 31, 2018 7:08pm
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD TWO , the last is a myth,
      
      Myth #9: President Kennedy was assassinated because he tried to usurp the Federal Reserve’s power. Executive Order 11,110 proves it. (Last updated 9/4/2000)
      
      Presidential Executive Order 11,110 is quite infamous among conspiracy buffs. Jim Marrs, author of Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, writes that the order instructs the Treasury secretary to issue about $4.2 billion in silver certificates as a form of currency in place of Federal Reserve Notes.1 Written by John F. Kennedy, Marrs also speculates this order was part of a larger plan by Kennedy to reduce the influence of the Federal Reserve by giving the Treasury more power to issue currency. The order wassigned June 4, 1963. A few months later, of course, Kennedy was killed, and conspiracy theorists hypothesize a link between the murder and E.O. 11,110. They argue that the Federal Reserve was somehow involved in the assassination to protect its power over monetary policy.
      
      The executive order modifies a pre-existing order issued by Harry Truman in 1951. E.O. 10,289 states “The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby designated and empowered to perform the following-described functions of the President without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President…” The order then lists tasks (a) through (h) which the Treasurer can now do without bothering the President. None of the powers assigned to the Treasury in E.O. 10,289 relate to money or to monetary policy. Kennedy’s E.O. 11,110 then instructs that …”
      
      http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/flaherty/flaherty9.html
       
      
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      August 31, 2018 7:22pm
  - Jack5
    
    The real story about Germany’s hyperinflation after World War 1 and into the 1920s:
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic
    
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    August 31, 2018 7:16pm
realityczech

This is on top of the billions this parasitic country leeches off of hard working Americans. It appears 38 billions of goyim money is not enough and the Jew demands more.

It would be great if the US got a president who put America before Israel. However those sorts of people are not allowed near the seats of power.

Key U.S. lawmakers want to boost Israel’s $38 billion defense aid package

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. senators who just returned from a trip to Israel called on Tuesday for an increase in the $38 billion in military aid the United States is currently providing Israel
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August 31, 2018 6:17pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Isn’t that money over 10 years?
  
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  August 31, 2018 6:34pm
  - realityczech
    
    So what? Why should Israel be given money? It does not need it and it is not at all thankful. The US gets nothing in return.
    
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    August 31, 2018 6:52pm
    - stephieboy
      
      A strategic foothold in the Middle East among many things.
      
      It used to be oil but now the US imports its energy requirements from the Western Hemisphere and Nigeria and, of course, local production
      
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      August 31, 2018 6:55pm
      - realityczech
        
        Q. Why do they need a strategic foot hold in the Middle East?
        A. To murder people hated by the Jew.
        
        Iraq, Libya, Syria, Egypt …
        
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        August 31, 2018 7:00pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        One would think a good strategic move for the US as it faces imperial decline would be a withdrawal from the middle east and support for its natural allies in Europe and East Asia.
        
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        August 31, 2018 7:25pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      The US FBI gets those iPhones broken into ?
      
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      August 31, 2018 7:04pm
nasska

The following combinations
DO NOT go together and should be avoided:

1. A nose ring & bifocals
2. Spiked hair & bald spots
3. A pierced tongue & dentures
4. Miniskirts & support hose
5. Ankle bracelets & corn pads
6. Speedos & cellulite
7. A belly button ring & a gall bladder surgery scar
8. Unbuttoned disco shirts & a heart monitor
9. Midriff shirts & a midriff bulge
10. Bikinis & liver spots
11. Short shorts & varicose veins
12. Inline skates & a walking frame
And last, but not least…..
13.Thongs & geriatric nappies.
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August 31, 2018 6:31pm
- Inandout
  
  Speaking of nappies I saw at a hair salon a mincing chap who was wearing some sort of nappy under his trousers. It reminded me of the time a hospital nurse told me she was surprised at the number of gays who came into A&E with leaking bottoms. I guess every action has unintended consequences.
  
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  August 31, 2018 6:47pm
  - kowtow
    
    Well the back passage is an exit point , not a point of entry.
    
    Biology 101 .But we’re meant to “accept” that bum banditry is “normal” , even ‘ natural” , when it’s not.
    
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    August 31, 2018 10:55pm
- UpandComer
  
  What about blue and green?
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:20pm
- kowtow
  
  Passed an old fucker (older than me) today , shambling looking c#nt, must have been 75 . Had a fuckin man bun. What a twat. What was he thinking?
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:59pm
Sofia

Ardern would not comment on Whaitiri’s case today, including whether she was aware if her Labour colleague had a history of bad behaviour.
She also would not comment on the reportedly high staff turnover in Whaitiri’s office.
“I’m leaving this to be completed by Ministerial Services. Once they’ve completed their report then I’ll make a decision on how it will be managed.”

If this is the correct procedure to handle this matter, why has Simon Bridges not advised Ministerial Services of his leak problem and that the person irresponsible confesses to be seriously mentally ill and should require care in handling but, while they threaten to perhaps harm to themself, would seem unsuited to be working as either a staffer or Member of Parliament, as the Speaker asserts is their likely position in Parliament?
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August 31, 2018 6:44pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  There are two separate administering outfits. Ministerial Services, part of the department of internal affairs, employs staff for ministerial offices. Parliamentary Services, part of parliament itself, and under the purview of the Speaker, provides services to MPs. So the Speaker was concerned about the leak of information on parliamentary expenses, but has nothing to do with a staffing matter in a minister’s office.
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:15pm
Jack5

Mmmm…

Tree planting around Beijing is said to be worsening pollution.

New trees are hampering winds from clearing up fog.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2162083/more-trees-more-smog-how-beijings-huge-planting-campaign-may-be
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August 31, 2018 7:07pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Perhaps they should concentrate on emitting less atmospheric pollutants.
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:18pm
DigNap15

Here in the BOP the major road of National Significance from Tauranga to Waihi has been put on the scrap heap.
Many people die on the current road each year as it is too narrow and has very few passing lanes, and dangerous drops by the roadside.
They are going to upgrade the current road with a few cheese cutters.
Meanwhile they have improved the local subsidized bus service by adding free Wi-Fi to a service that no ones uses, as they are EMPTY all day.
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August 31, 2018 7:15pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  major road of National Significance
  
  Never mind. There will be a national government again soon enough, and maybe then you could call it a Road of Nationally Major Significant Importance.
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:21pm
- Viking2
  
  Well we all vote National you see.
  Peters got bridges built when he lived here but we are no longer his friends. Simon fixed that.
  Why would you expect Labour to bother with our roads? They would rather spend the money in Auckland where they own the ground.
  
  We are much to enterprising. After all we built 3 major roads and a bridge with tolls. Utterly pissed off both forms of low life.
  
  Just like we fucked up the Ports Authority by buying our own General Purpose Crane and converting it for containers.
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:33pm
Viking2

Nice sledge of Phil Twyford

https://www.facebook.com/NZNATS/videos/1350812288386489/
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August 31, 2018 7:27pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Those eyebrows…
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:42pm
EAD_TWO

Some good insightful Friday night reading with your bottle of wine:

https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Domination-Weimar-Germany-Eckhart-ebook/dp/B00HV52QZE
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August 31, 2018 7:34pm
- itstricky
  
  Only a single (((bottle))) of (((wine))) while plotting the downfall of the pesky (((hooked noses)))?
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:43pm
- realityczech
  
  Careful Eddy the censors are out in force tonight hunting “Nazi” [chuckle]
  
  How about some holocaust denial. I have heard the current holocaust of Muslims in Burma is:
  
  1. Consequences.
  2. An expression of the people.
  3. Deserved.
  4. Not happening at all – in spite of overwhelming evidence.
  
  There is way way more evidence of this genocide than there has ever been of Jews being exterminated.
  
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  August 31, 2018 7:53pm
  - Jack5
    
    Poor old 卐EADolf is barking mad, but where does ‼Kearealityczech’s‼ hatred of Jews come from?
    
    Is it merely a symptom of Psittacosis – parrot fever?
    
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    August 31, 2018 8:17pm
    - nasska
      
      It may be worse than we thought Jack5.
      
      4.5.2 Health problems
      Kea are not known to have any disease or health problems that are specific to the species (other than a wild flea) however they are susceptible to common parrot diseases and health problems.
      Health problems or diseases which have been known to affect kea or are significant parrot diseases which require monitoring include:
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      Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD)
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      Aspergillosis
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      Avian Malaria
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      Ingestion of foreign bodies
      
      For instance in the case of Aspergillosis:
      
      Symptoms range from respiratory distress, gasping, accelerated breathing, voice changes, abnormal droppings, emaciation, regurgitation
      , poor appetite, diarrhoea, anorexia, gout, increased thirst, nasal discharge, conjunctivitis, dyspnoea, neuromuscular disease, and somnolence, lesions (yellow or gray nodules and/or plaques in the lungs, air sacs, or trachea; less often in the peritoneal cavity, liver or other sites).
      
      Sounds nasty! 🙂
      
      https://www.keaconservation.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/kea_husbandry_manual_draft_sept2010.pdf
      
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      August 31, 2018 8:36pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Cybersecurity IT analyst planned attacks around Sydney

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-31/nsw-police-charge-sri-lankan-man-with-terror-offences/10186784
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August 31, 2018 8:52pm
- Jack5
  
  Bring him over for golf lessons:
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/christchurch-terror-teen-takes-golf
  
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  August 31, 2018 9:12pm
- kowtow
  
  Not a tea growing Fernandes , Mohamed , ‘nuf said.
  
  Other than “Why the hell are we letting them in”
  
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  August 31, 2018 10:51pm
Manolo

Brussels looking after Europe:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/eu-recommend-member-states-abolish-daylight-saving-time

The European commission will recommend that EU member states abandon the practice of changing the clocks in spring and autumn, with many people in favour of staying on summer time throughout the year.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the commission’s president, said a recent consultation had shown that more than 80% of EU citizens were in favour of the move.
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