General Debate 18 September 2018

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krazykiwi

I enjoy good satire, and The 12th Man was one of my favs.

There was a regular segment called The Pitch Report where the commentator de jour gave a mock review, usually lamenting how bad the pitch was. This coalition bring to mind one such Report, lamenting the cracks on the pitch: (Adopting a Afrikaans accent ) “I havin sein so many carracks since the lars gay n lesbieen maar dee grrar”.

I never seen so many cracks in a coalition government.

They’re everywhere, and spreading.
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September 18, 2018 8:00am
- Longknives
  
  The late-great Tony Greig and his beloved car keys!
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:01am
  - insider
    
    “Thanks Richie. The wind’s coming from the west at 10 knots and out of my arse at 15.”
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:04am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Gottim, yes, stick that up your arse Tony Greig!
      
      Billy Birmingham is a bloody cracker.
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:07am
    - krazykiwi
      
      “I’ll hav da barrrstd barrrd from dis parrrrt ovde parrrk”
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:12am
      - Disillusioned_Voter
        
        Tew Meee, Rutchie, a Graudge is nothing moor thaan a place to pork yor coor!
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:52pm
Paulus Gnome

One from the Judith Collins Fanboi, more entertaining than Curren at Question Time

https://i.redd.it/lm7owd023ug11.jpg
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September 18, 2018 8:00am
- Prince
  
  Very odd seeing a cartoon that even questions the COL.
  Mind you I’m in Wgton so we get a daily diet of Tom Scott’s adulation for the left.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:34am
  - Biscuit
    
    Tom Scott’s increasing descent down the red slope was one reason I cancelled the Dom Post years ago…
    
    His making out he was the victim of a Rob Muldoon vendetta (when all Muldoon did was, once, call one of Scott’s comments ‘silly’) was another.
    
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    September 18, 2018 11:37am
mikenmildagain

Happy World Water Monitoring Day, everyone!
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September 18, 2018 8:00am
- krazykiwi
  
  500 trillion litres of rainwater falls on NZ every year. Take your measuring cup milky, and start counting.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:17am
  - MCos
    
    Unfortunately a fair bit of that rain falls where it’s not needed i.e. on our place in Mangere Bridge and not where it is needed i.e. on my nephew’s farm in Mid-Canterbury.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:29am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Swap homes 🙂
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:50am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Best conditions for farming are zero rainfall all irrigated good drainage to sea and maximum sunshine. Canterbury is fantastically set up for efficient farming with its low rainfall and high water availability.
      
      Above about 1000m on the west coast there is 5-10m of rainfall per year that could be harvested (Eg Otira 5m, Arthurs Pass 4m average), less than 20km from east cost river catchments.
      There are also lots of high-country lakes or valleys that could be dammed and used for water harvesting/storage. Or (less efficient) you could collect fresh water outfall from Rakaia and Rangitata near their mouths and pump it back up to irrigate most of Canterbury. Canterbury is less than 50% irrigated at the moment. That would employ ~10,000 more people and produce billions a year more in exports.
      
      Only thing preventing this boost is urban green fuckwits who (due to anti-change religious convictions) think they should dictate how land they drive past once or twice a year is used.
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:01am
      - MCos
        
        Who pays?
        
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        September 18, 2018 9:14am
      - big bruv
        
        Who repairs the damage that the farmers will do to the streams and rivers?
        Whilst I hate the Greens with a passion I do agree with them when it comes to farmers getting a free ride. If you pollute the streams and rivers then you should pay to clean it up. Farmers in NZ think that is the job of the tax payer.
        
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        September 18, 2018 9:37am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        From 2013 report “The economic value of potential irrigation in Canterbury” full irrigation adds about $5billion a year to turnover (mostly export earnings) and 20000 jobs. The govt would be taking more than a billion a year in extra tax revenue, and increased exports would get us closer to no trade imbalance.
        
        Unirrigated farms would be generally happy to pay for a massive region-wide irrigation scheme.
        Irrigation more than doubles land value – adding something like $20-30k per hectare. That is $10-20billion. for the 600k hectares that are unirrigated.
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:36am
      - Piniwi
        
        Right UN we drive past and see potential, opportunity while knowing every drying northwester in Canterbury plains is being offset by some serious rainfall beyond where the bush line starts.
        
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        September 19, 2018 4:17am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    This is why sea levels rise. Ban rain
    
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    September 18, 2018 10:15am
- hullkiwi
  
  It rained last night & we finished putting the roof on our pergola at the weekend. So, the concrete porch was nice and dry for the dogs.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:19am
  - Prince
    
    Hope you had resource and building consents.
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:35am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Dont require as roof area is too small.
      The rules are, provided a single roof area is smaller than 20sqm you do not require a building consent, so you can have multiple pieces of roof area with a cumulative total area greater than 20sqm provided it is not a single continuous roof. So, a judicious gap is all that is required. The law is an ass!
      
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      September 18, 2018 11:14am
- VicParking
  
  National Cheeseburger Day ? as well. More fun than monitoring your down pipe
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:30am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The jury is still out on whether clean water supplies or tasty cheeseburgers are more essential for human survival.
    #notsettledscience
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:35am
    - MT_Tinman
      
      No it’s not.
      
      The jury unanimously found in favour of the cheeseburger.
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:38am
- Biscuit
  
  I have monitored my water consumption, mikenmildagain.
  
  So far today I have used one (1) pint of water for the morning coffees.
  
  And I have balanced that out by expelling one (1) pint of water for the morning visit to the toilet.
  
  I am unwashed thus far today, ha, so that’s it!*
  
  *Subject to an imminently-anticipated ‘Get into that shower NOW!’ dictat from The Boss. We are out to dinner tonight, mmmmmmmmmm!
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:41am
  - sooty
    
    Play your cards right and you might get lucky.
    She’s been fed and watered. All you need are flowers and chocs!
    
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    September 18, 2018 5:26pm
holysheet

There was this old woman who heard a song called “Two Lips and Seven Kisses”.
She called up information after hearing the song on the radio to get the name of the record company.
In dialing, she accidentally called up a garage, and she asks, “Do you have “Two Lips and Seven Kisses?”
The garage attendant who answered the phone said, “No, but I have two nuts and seven inches!”
So the woman asked, “Is this a record?”
To which the man replied, “No, its average!”
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September 18, 2018 8:00am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  To which she said, ‘no its not!’
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:09am
srylands

So Selwyn Council is removing basket ball hoops from parks. Because someone in Auckland swung from a hoop and fell from it, suffering some injury. So the kids can’t shoot ? basket any more.
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September 18, 2018 8:08am
- Woz
  
  OMFG. That is all.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:10am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Can’t let the Darwin theory work itself on such dumb idiots. The blessed nanny council must protect.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:23am
- cmm
  
  For decades kids in Whitecliffs (Selwyn) played down at the river using logs, diverting the stream and, of course, tying up the odd rope swing.
  
  Every year I, or someone else, would hang up a rope swing in the domain and replace it again when some nob head set it on fire and burned it. The rope swing saw constant use.
  
  A few years ago they decided that the kids needed a safe play area (within the government approved 400 metres from where the houses are). Up went a city-style playground costing $20-30k.
  
  Over the next 3 years that I lived there, I saw that playground used twice.
  
  Oh, and the Selwyn Council banned putting up further rope swings.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:20am
  - hullkiwi
    
    That is called market forces. Control the supply of the goods to market (what the kids can play on), then charge what you like (rates bill to the families), because you are a monopoly and know what the market wants.
    
    Sadly, that is what happens in both the private & public sectors in NZ and the market doesn’t stop it.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:28am
    - VicParking
      
      Its like the philosophy the building of cycleways. “Build. It and they will cum”.
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:36am
      - alloytoo
        
        “They”, not necessarily the intended users.
        
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        September 18, 2018 8:52am
secondcumming

Word for today……

*FEMINISM* (n/adj)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dm_vHLOXgAEdJfa.jpg
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September 18, 2018 8:08am
- VicParking
  
  Nga wahine whawhai. Woops its a new week
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:38am
oldpark

When it all boils down seems the problem for Commie Chic Comrade Ardern, Peters is her “Nemesis in the Woodpile”.Not to be confused with another Woodpile at a recent Liebour Party summer camp. Nuff said.
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September 18, 2018 8:09am
- Inandout
  
  Son of…..
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:12am
  - sooty
    
    Wood’n you like to know!
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:48am
- calendar girl
  
  Is Simon Wilson, political journalist for the NZ Herald, the media’s most besotted fan-boy for the Ardern-Peters coalition government? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12126735
  
  It seems that all a government needs is a “vision” (forget about implementation specifics, budgets, timelines and project responsibilities). Wouldn’t it be great if all of us as individuals could fashion our own lives on such inspirational objectives, without being expected to make any specific plans to bring our personal visions to fruition!
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:27am
  - oldgolfer
    
    He is a tool.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:39am
    - Harkman
      
      He called Cindy our greatest leader back 8 months ago because she got pregnant.
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:02am
    - lifesgood
      
      I remember seeing him in an interview on TV years ago and was shocked by his childish petulance when the conversation didn’t go his way. I can’t even remember the topic now but I’ve intensely disliked him ever since. All his views are totally worthless IMO.
      
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      September 18, 2018 2:09pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    From the article:
    
    Is Ardern’s programme all talk? We don’t know yet. A week may be a long time in politics but a year is a short time in Government. However, 2020 will not be too soon to measure the strength of the Government’s commitment.
    
    What utter drivel. NZers need actual results, not strength of commitment. What we do know, based on their last year in government, is that the COL is clueless, fractured, and collapsing our economy.
    
    [Huh? This comment went to moderation!]
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:41am
    - Piniwi
      
      As krazykiwi the silly little girl will be startin to worry about what might be her toughest week in politics spent 16 hours behind NZ in the USA. What is the prospect of sound sleep while the old drunk is doing what he does best with a free hand. Political wedgies.
      
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      September 19, 2018 4:39am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    During being in opposition, let alone a year into a three year term.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:44am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right calendar girl apparently it is the similar problem for the Jones boy getting the bro’s off the couch to plant trees. They too are having visions after what is being claimed to be some good “shit”. Locally grown and far too good to export past their closest ATM were they have fortnightly gatherings when the big hand goes past the 12 eh bro.
    
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    September 19, 2018 4:33am
MT_Tinman

Some fellow who makes his living pretending to be someone else has complained about a journalist telling the truth for once and describing a bunch of leeches as a bunch of leeches.

This is of course no surprise.

What is surprising (to me) is that it’s seen as news by local slime.

Don’t they have enough to do polishing the turd that is the CoL?
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September 18, 2018 8:11am
Maxx

Green MP Golriz Ghahraman’s message to her Government on NZ’s Iraq troops: ‘That money could so much better be spent on humanitarian aid’
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/green-mp-golriz-ghahramans-message-her-government-nzs-iraq-troops-money-could-so-much-better-spent-humanitarian-aid

I wonder who she’d be calling if gangs were breaking into her neighbour’s house – the police or social workers. Wait, I answered my own question…
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September 18, 2018 8:12am
- kowtow
  
  That money could be so much better staying in my wallet.
  “Humanitarian aid” simply lines the pockets of dictators and corrupt bureaucrats in the shitholes it gets sent to.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:17am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Whereas military aid never, ever helps dictators to thrive in their shitholes.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:39am
  - hullkiwi
    
    But sod all of the costs would be saved. We have to pay for and accommodate the soldiers irrespective of where they are. Be it NZ or Iraq, at least on deployment our investment is being used to good purpose. Unlike humanitarian aid, which ends up helping to line the pockets of a warlord elsewhere.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:43am
  - Biscuit
    
    Humanitarian aid implies the use of the United Nations.
    
    The most corrupt organisation on the planet.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:59am
- alex Masterley
  
  I dont care what she thinks. She should start keeping her thoughts to her self as she continually removes the doubt that she is an idiot everytime she has a brain fart.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:48am
- Prince
  
  Ardern’s claim that the extension was all National’s fault was skewered by Kim Hill, of all people this morning.
  Ardern’s lie was exposed by the simple question ‘had a commitment to extend past November this year been made previously’ ?
  “No, but…but…but…” Ardern squirmed and squealed but another lie was exposed.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:40am
- kloyd0306
  
  I am dreaming of the day that List members are merely seen and not heard, that their vote is worth 50% of an elected, constituency MP.
  
  This woman has way too much to say considering that less than 6% of the voting public actually think the Greens have any relevance whatsoever.
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:42am
Rachael Membery

Phil Goff on the AM show this morning couldn’t even bring himself to shake Mark’s hand, how rude.
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September 18, 2018 8:12am
- Inandout
  
  Phil went out and briefly roughed it up with the hopeless, surrounded by security of course. What a fuckwit that man is, and if I was one of his targets I would have spat in his face saying ‘there, got you back, that was from the Vietnam Vets’.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:17am
  - kowtow
    
    Spitting ?
    
    When the left do it it’s “activism” , if you did it it’d be assault.And you’d be charged.
    
    eg Dildo thrower wasn’t charged.And she has form for that .
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/101457900/my-dildo-achieved-more-than-his-bullets-ever-did
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:22am
  - igm
    
    I remember when the useless wanker turned up at Parliament wearing a new jacket on a borrowed new Triumph to support a group of bikies who were pissed off when National upped our ACC levies. He looked like a dork, acted like a dork, and is a dork. He once owned a Commando — waste of a decent bike. Bet the tosser has never done the ton or arsed off . . . just a fucken leeching loser!
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:30am
oldgolfer

For a few minutes of joy, go to RNZ to listen to Ms K Hill skewer Ardern.
I never thought I would write that sentence.
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September 18, 2018 8:13am
- Souvlaki
  
  a MUST listen…..a left wing interviewer who appears to have integrity, rather than fawning adulation.
  I also suggest listening to Hooton on Larry William’s ” Huddle” last pm on Newstalk ZB. He pulls no punches 🙂
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:39am
- Simon
  
  “Ms K Hill skewer Ardern”
  
  Is Ardern betraying the revolution through her stupidity??
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:39am
- srylands
  
  Kim Hill must have been given an exemption from the mandatory Te Reo
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:49am
  - lifesgood
    
    So glad she was there and not that wet wonder, Espiner. It was radio gold. Jacinda squirmed and wriggled and struggled but Kim didn’t let her off the hook. I also never thought I’d say this about lefty Kim, but Go Kim!
    
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    September 18, 2018 2:13pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Listen here:
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018662977/jacinda-ardern-defends-iraq-extension-govt-unity
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:59am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Thanks Maggy.
    
    Today’s word (brought to us by Jacinda) is “refute”. How many times did she say “refute” during the interview? I lost count after about 10 times.
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:10am
    - JIV
      
      I think the word of the day must be ‘owned’.
      
      Kim Hill, relentless.
      
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      September 18, 2018 10:02am
      - hullkiwi
        
        The moment I loved most when I heard the interview i
        this morning, was Hill offering the SLG a copy of the transcript of yesterday morning’s interview with the Toxic Gnome. It was pure comedy gold.
        
        Over at the Standard, some are getting concerned that Hill has gone feral against Jacinda and Winnie.
        
        In a word…..tough!
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:05pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      refute…. Not in my English-Maori dictionary.
      
      but in anticipation of next week…..
      Chinese Language week:
      
      反驳 (Fǎnbó)
      
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      September 18, 2018 10:10am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      Someone should explain to her that ‘refute’ does not mean the same as ‘deny’.
      
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      September 18, 2018 10:42am
    - DigNap15
      
      Please see my Maori Vocab lesson below at 5:25
      
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      September 18, 2018 5:22pm
  - stephieboy
    
    MW, did you oppose the original Iraq deployment by the Keys government?
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:40am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Of course, I did.
      Is there something you are not getting about me, stephieboy?
      
      I am a pacifist.
      
      I’ll write it again… I am a pacifist.
      I am a life-long committed, convinced pacifist.
      
      Have you not read any of the stuff I have written here on KB?
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:50am
      - stephieboy
        
        MW. oh!? A pacifist and right winger? A real oxymoron don’t you think?
        
        A concie WWI like Labour PM Peter Fraser?
        
        But not WW2?
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:38am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        A pacifist and right winger? A real oxymoron don’t you think?
        So where is the evidence that I am a right-winger, stephieboy?
        
        that is about the 5th time on Kiwiblog you have made that claim.
        
        Where is the evidence that I am an advocate of a right-wing political philosophy?
        
        Now, think carefully here…
        have I ever advocated for the overthrow of the Social welfare system?
        Have I ever advocated for fee-paying education?
        Have I ever spoke in favour of privatised health care?
        
        You do realise I was a member of the PSA and my work union rep?
        
        Ever looked at my Ph.D. thesis?… you might find in the acknowledgements that I thank the NZ Workers Union for granting me free accommodation.
        
        The fact is stephieboy, you don’t know me, but you indulge in running a harassment and smear campaign against me here on a blog that is read by the public.
        
        Your tactics are those of a bully.
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:08pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @stephieboy,
      perhaps you would to tell everyone on Kiwiblog why you have singled me out for questioning about my stance on deployment of troops to Iraq?
      
      I had just put up a link to Kim Hill’s interview… which also dealt with the Government’s disunity.
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:56am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Come on stephieboy, an hour has passed and you have not explained why you singled me out to explain my stance on deployment of troops to Iraq, and not those above who actually were referencing that topic (Maxx, Mikenmildagain, Hullkiwi, Prince).
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:08am
      - All_on_Red
        
        We all know why Maggy.
        He’s a perving little Stalker
        
        Fwiw, I wouldn’t consider you a right winger.
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:44am
      - ross411
        
        The real mystery is why you don’t ignore all his comments given their unhinged nature.
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:04pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The real mystery is why you don’t ignore all his comments given their unhinged nature.
        
        I have no other defence.
        
        If you check back over the last 4-5 years, there are 3 or so commenters who have made repeated, abusive and probably defamatory comments about me. They have not been removed from this blog.
        Perhaps some folks believe them.
        I don’t know.
        
        All I can do is REFUTE them.
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:12pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        I note with interest that Mikenmild rushes to Stephieboy’s defence, and he’s made a point of doing so recently, but he’s never (to my knowledge) rushed to your defence when Stephieboy targets you.
        
        I think the same thing can be said for Itstricky, who seemed very one-eyed in his defence of Stephieboy a few days ago.
        
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        September 18, 2018 1:52pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Nostradamus..
        
        that is true..
        
        He and a couple of other trolls are quick to try and expose me as a hypocrite and then head for the hills, when I give examples of the abuse I have received here.
        
        Of course, I just need to harden up, stop being a sno-flake and take the shit, the lies and harassment that these anonymous men rain down upon me.
        
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        September 18, 2018 1:58pm
    - starboard
      
      ” the Keys”
      LOL…birdbrain
      
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      September 18, 2018 11:02am
    - calendar girl
      
      Stephie, the former PM’s name was John Key, not John Keys.
      
      It’s hard to comprehend how – during very recent times – you lived through close to nine years of his being Prime Minister, yet still can’t spell correctly his three-letter name. That’s a little frightening in relation to a person commenting frequently on political matters.
      
      It’s not difficult to feel sorry for you, and I do.
      
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      September 18, 2018 3:46pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, Ok then shall we start again? A leftie climate change denier, Obumma supporter and a Trump loather ?A seeming trench critic of labour Interwar foreign policy with Pacifism added to the mix?
      
      Invariably defended by a cabal of Alt-righters on KB
      
      Help me as I remain very sceptical!
      
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      September 18, 2018 5:33pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Dear, oh dear, oh dear.
        
        So unaware.
        
        Sigh
        
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        September 18, 2018 5:50pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Obumma supporter and a Trump loather ?A seeming trench critic of labour Interwar foreign policy with Pacifism added to the mix?
        
        What is wrong with you?
        
        I have repeatedly told you I am a NZ citizen.
        
        I do not support any US President of any ilk.
        War-mongerers the lot of them.
        
        A seeming trench critic of labour Interwar foreign policy
        
        When have I ever discussed Labour Interwar foreign policy?
        
        Help me as I remain very sceptical!
        
        Are you the only person on this blog that is unaware of my Quaker education?
        
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        September 18, 2018 7:38pm
- kevn
  
  @oldgolfer…. Interesting technique JA has of repeatedly naming the interviewer.. Kim, Kim, Kim.
  Trying to get her on-side. To no avail. The MSM seem quite turned off JA.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:55am
- Biscuit
  
  I was astonished too, oldgolfer.
  
  I was half-expecting a ‘But you’re supposed to be on OUR side, Kim!’ whimper…
  
  Closely followed by a ‘and I have a baby. Be nice to me’…
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:46am
AgainstTheFlow

If Meka Whaitiri gets off because it’s a “she said, she said” inconclusive result of the investigation, how on earth will Jacinda Ardern have any credibility on issues of domestic and family violence?

Or workplace bullying?
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September 18, 2018 8:14am
- Chuck Bird
  
  If Meka Fightery gets off it will be because of a big payout to the victim so she does not press charges.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:24am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Come on guys, it’s been 3 weeks. Nothing is going to happen to Meka the Muss. We were meant to have forgotten about that little non-event by now. Squirrels have been let loose –> Look over there, Cindy’s doing a Ted Talk!
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:37am
    - VicParking
      
      Friday 4pm
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:43am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Liked the way Hosking slipped a comment in this morning: :’By the way, stop dropping announcements on Friday afternoon, its so obvious’.
        or words to that effect.
        
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        September 18, 2018 10:15am
    - igm
      
      What is happening to the obese ex-co leader of Jimmy Two Mummies Green Party?
      I assume because of her ethnicity and political association she is not being charged.
      Where is that guy McCready — he could be of some use here!
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:52am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Meteria Turei is probably been given a cushy seat on one of the govt committees having a conversation about our future, and receiving more taxpayer trough monies for doing so.
        Again like Meka the Muss, you are supposed to have forgotten her fraud. Red Alert: Send out more squirrels, questions are still being asked.
        
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        September 18, 2018 9:59am
    - riffer
      
      LOL. How many weeks has it been since the unfortunate events between Todd Barclay and Glenys Dickson?
      
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      September 18, 2018 11:45am
      - Happychappy
        
        riffer has Winston found the emails yet we are all still waiting. LOL
        
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        September 18, 2018 1:07pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Similarly, I suspect the Labour Youth camp predator is biting his fingernails while each of the victims is delicately pushed/bribed/threatened into dropping their claims.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:49am
    - igm
      
      Wood you believe he is probably counselling the victims.
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:54am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      I think that happened initially. I doubt if any will drop charges now. It what you suggest was tried there could be very serious charges for perverting to course of justice.
      
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      September 18, 2018 10:32am
- Simon
  
  Newsflash for you, Marxist trash Ardern doesnt have credibility on any issues.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:37am
- oldgolfer
  
  Yeah, and most employment disputes, if that is what this is, are sorted out in hours or days. This is setting a record. Unbelievable.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:41am
  - riffer
    
    I know. Second only to the Todd Barclay debacle.
    
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    September 18, 2018 2:52pm
- holysheet
  
  There you go again, making the same mistake. Cindy never ever had any credibility on any subject
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:30am
  - riffer
    
    Tell us about those Northland bridges again, why don’t you, since we’re talking about credibility?
    
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    September 18, 2018 11:49am
    - Happychappy
      
      rigger please inform us how Winston is going with his libel case, very quiet on evidence like usual all piss and wind. Has Winston been teaching you on how to be a troll if so you need more lessons.
      
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      September 18, 2018 1:15pm
      - riffer
        
        Like all legal cases, I guess it takes time to get to court. And the bridges?
        
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        September 18, 2018 2:54pm
kowtow

‘NZ Initiative report suggests up to one dollar in three of NZ general government spending is wasteful, representing about 13% of GDP, or $20,000 per household annually’

https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/95880/nz-initiative-report-suggests-one-dollar-three-nz-general-government-spending-wasteful
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September 18, 2018 8:15am
- krazykiwi
  
  From the government’s perspective that 13% of GDP isn’t wasted.
  
  It provides wealth for the faithful mid-term, and the promise of wealth for the marginal at the end of the term.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:20am
- Harkman
  
  It’s actually closer to 38% and it is easy to tell.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:06am
EAD_TWO

I see Stuff is really ramping up the hyperbole against Viktor Orban and calling him a “neo-fascist” for the temerity of wanting Hungary to be full of Hungarians:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/107035780/neofascist-blackmail-coward–europes-parliament-erupts

It’s incredible just pausing, standing back and looking objectively the shrill hysteria that accompanies the accusation of “Fascism” at any white person (Dali Lama was OK to say it) who wants their nation to remain a high trust, homogeneous society.
It’s incredible as every single low intellect journo not having the foggiest what Fascism actually is/was.

For those who want to learn first hand (rather than via Mikenmild), what it really is about, I highly recommend listening to Oswalds speech on Globalism from the 1930s (length = 5 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isq6YltjRRU

“They talked of what they called multiracialism. Which was simply a universal mix up. Take humanity, put it in a bag, shake it together, and heaven knows what would come out. They wanted to get rid of what existed. All the little grey people of the world, who hate the beautiful color diversity of human development. They always want to get rid of the natural, the noble and the beautiful. They wanted to get rid of it, they wanted to make all nature as gray as themselves. We were always opposed to that. We said: “No it won’t work and it’s undesirable that it should work.” We can live in peace and friendship side by side in separate nations and separate developments, but we cannot have the mix up of peoples and races who are widely different and diverging, it will lead to nothing but trouble.”

When you look at the chaos that has ensued since the Globalists began their great reshaping of humanity project post WWII, one can’t but at the minimum be impressed at just how prescient the “fascists” were in the 1930s
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September 18, 2018 8:16am
- Chris R
  
  Mr Orban was the first (perhaps the only?) European leader to telephone Donald Trump on his Presidential victory. For that reason alone he is worthy of admiration. He was also instrumental in building a fence across the path of the so-called refugees who were trespassing on Hungarian soil in their bid to get to Germany. There’s little chance of Mr Orban being invited on a state visit to NZ by the CoL. I would like to think he’d decline the offer if it was ever made.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:42am
- kowtow
  
  Cos “multiculturalism and diversity” is so enriching.
  
  ‘A business owner who operated in Southland and forced a worker to cook and clean his house has now been convicted of exploiting migrant workers on student visas.
  Davinder Singh, an Indian national who also holds New Zealand citizenship, has been sentenced to nine months home detention, 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay $150,000 in compensation for exploiting 12 Indian nationals.”
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/southern-business-owner-convicted-exploitation
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:54am
  - stephieboy
    
    kowtow, but if this had been a white migrant worker what then?
    
    Or is there something more to this?
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:21am
    - Komata
      
      SB
      
      YOU OWE MAGGY AN EXPLANATION!
      
      Or are you a Coward?
      
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      September 18, 2018 11:29am
      - stephieboy
        
        Komata, an explanation? I’ve done so!
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:40am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        There is no explanation of why I was singled out on a topic I wasn’t even referencing.
        
        … Just another load of abuse and smears aimed at me.
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:31pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Stephieboy – you claim that you have provided an explanation to MW for your stalking of her on this blog, but no one has seen it.
        Provide citation and references please.
        
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        September 18, 2018 3:59pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, Untrue! You IMO are the architect of your own misfortunes in that disregard.
        
        For example, the way you link to various climate change deniers and support the climate sceptic movement is easily open to misinterpretations and misunderstandings.
        
        IMO!
        
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        September 18, 2018 5:45pm
    - Garbageman
      
      Whats the matter Stephie are you muzzo hugging losers scared of a strong independent intelligent woman, Maggy has asked some very pertinent question about your continual stalking of her on this blog, i would say man up but you piss weak lefties arnt to good at that eh, Mo the pedo would be proud of you
      
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      September 18, 2018 3:03pm
- dave_c_
  
  lol – ‘Multiracialism’ – Boney M immediately sprang to mind. ‘Take a pinch of whiteman ….’
  
  Agree entirely with your post EAD. Most never learn from the past.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:18am
  - SGA
    
    I think you mean “Blue Mink” not “Boney M” (unless they too recorded it).
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:47am
  - Longknives
    
    That song was by Blue Mink.
    
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    September 18, 2018 10:06am
    - dave_c_
      
      Ah ta – The mind needs some re-training !
      
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      September 18, 2018 11:37am
    - Inandout
      
      They also sang ‘yellow chinky’ originally.
      
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      September 18, 2018 11:40am
MCos

Down here in Canterbury, which has a remarkably high road toll for the population, a lot of the car seem to havebeen born without indicator lights.
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September 18, 2018 8:19am
- Gravelroad
  
  Same here.
  Indicator use is an optional extra.
  Likewise rear vision mirrors. Of course when driving on the gravel road, there would be no-one coming along behind you, would there, so why bother to look?
  And in town, when it rains, it turns drivers into mad versions of formula one wannabes.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:42am
  - VicParking
    
    Signal, Foot off accelerator, break, turn except in Whanganui when its Break, weave, turn signal.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:46am
  - G152
    
    `Put the car in for a WOF the other day.
    After an hour they (a large garage) claimed that the horn didn’t work so no WOF which was okay and cost $50 but they wanted the car for a day or so to ‘find the fault’ ..
    This exercise would cost several hundred dollar so I took the car home and later took it to the Muffler Man here.
    WOF no problem and the horn fuse had blown.
    Cost $71…
    Goodbye Collins you’ve lost a customer
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:11am
    - riffer
      
      You could have saved yourself $50 if you did a simple few checks at home before you went for your WOF. By law, you’re supposed to keep your vehicle in warrantable condition all the time, not just on the day you get it checked. Too many people expect the WOF testers to keep their vehicle maintained for them.
      
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      September 18, 2018 11:52am
- JibberJabber
  
  Heh, here in the north-west of Auckland a large percentage of motorists, bikers and cyclists don`t even have the survival instinct of keeping left when travelling on the road, let alone purchasing that optional extra for their vehicle of choice, which is indicators.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:17am
Catons

We had a lesson on wasteful Government spending when Cullen tried to spend his way out and ended up deepening the recession with sky high interest rates.
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September 18, 2018 8:19am
- sooty
  
  He paid too much for a train set aswell.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:54am
  - stephieboy
    
    sooty, which a private company could not manage or make a profit!
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:44am
    - starboard
      
      “which a ”
      
      LOL…bird brain
      
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      September 18, 2018 10:54am
      - stephieboy
        
        shall we say a private company that could not make a profit?
        
        DUH!
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:33am
      - starboard
        
        yee a bird brain anyway goatshagger
        
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        September 18, 2018 1:58pm
stuarts-burgers

New York Times has an interesting article on Ted Cruz’s latest fundraising attempt.
He sends out a letter that looks like a summons from the way the envelope is printed.

It is posted so he must have some cash lying around or his operation is not as slick with their hand-delivered addressed mail as some here in NZ.

Remember Winnie’s letter that arrived on Election Day, cause NZ Post had stuffed up (yea right ), the one the that had a personalised link in it.

Better not show Winne the following article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/ted-cruz-fund-raising-letter.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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September 18, 2018 8:20am
- Harkman
  
  This was in 2008 with Winnie’s letter? I got one of them on election day, it actually motivated me to vote him out. National should have gone after him for that and buried him with massive fines then.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:09am
MCos

Kim Hill sounds like she doesn’t like getting up early in the morning.
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September 18, 2018 8:20am
- Lance
  
  Urgent … stop press….
  Cindy has muffed up another interview. Deploy trolls immediately to mar question asker.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:28am
  - MCos
    
    Didn’t hear that interview, as it happened.
    
    I did hear her give Ron Mark a grilling. I thought Mark made a couple of good points, but then even South Africa occasionally gets the better of the All Blacks. Hill fought back, but sounded a bit ragged and finally called time.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:59am
- riffer
  
  I listened to the interviews. Kim Hill is always tough on inteviewees, but at least she gives them an opportunity to answer the questions. I though JA and RM did okay under the pressure. If anything Kim gave them an opportunity to get their message out. Hardly a fail then.
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:54am
Jack5

An Australian wife has ended her marriage, discord climaxing when she found what her husband’s name for her in his mobile texts, reports the Hooerald.

The husband’s code for her was SWMBO. When the wife confronted himshe found the letters stood for – She Who Must be Obeyed.

The wife said she”felt like she’d been slapped in the face”. It had never been a matter of him “obeying” her.

Wasn’t “She Who Must be Obeyed” the way the fictional London Barrister, Horace Rumpole, of the TV series “Rumpole of the Bailey,” referred to his wife?

The Rumpole TV series was first shown in 1975. People have got a lot more sensitive about language since then. Perhaps the Australian wife is too young to have seen “Rumpole of the Bailey” – a great series.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12126642
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September 18, 2018 8:20am
- Lance
  
  He might be better off without her if that’s all it takes to trigger her?
  Not rooting around, getting pissed and vomiting everywhere on a nightly basis, not domestic violence etc… no… a mild oft used gibe from the 70’s.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:31am
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    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Jack5,” reports the Hooerald.” Still manages to engage your rapt attention!
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:43am
    - Jack5
      
      Good morning to the Stephiestani Trolls Ltd’s rostered-on whack-a-mole.
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:48am
    - VicParking
      
      Stephie, morning, your the expert at Jacking off 5 in a row.
      
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      September 18, 2018 8:50am
      - riffer
        
        Dude, your masturbatory fantasies are hardly helping the conversation.
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:55am
- stuarts-burgers
  
  Snowflake, when I saw the click bait on NZHerald I thought it would be a reference to her looks, her body size or the fact that that he had a bedwarmer at home who was happy to whelp his offspring. But no it was a reference to the fact that he saw her as the Dominant partner in the relationship.
  
  Me thinks this Snowflake needs to visit the “Firth Pharmacy” to purchase some concrete pills.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:42am
Evadne

Rumpole made it famous, but it goes back further than that. (H Rider Haggard & Virginia Woolf used it, for example)

SWMBO has been a tongue-in- cheek reference ever since.

Women often use DH (dear husband) in the same spirit.
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September 18, 2018 8:39am
- Rachael Membery
  
  When my grandchildren really want something or are in trouble, they refer to me as Nana dearest, always brings a smile.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:55am
- chiz
  
  It started with H Rider Haggard didn’t it?
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:06pm
secondcumming

Pauline Hanson interviewed last night on *The Outsiders* (Sky News)….

“Allah will provide – or in this case the Australian taxpayer”

….when referring to a *Muslim* man living in Sydney, 4 wives and concubines, 11 children, owns 3 houses, has never worked a day since arriving in the ‘lucky country’ four years ago.

This would never happen here – would it??
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September 18, 2018 8:42am
- igm
  
  It is happening all throughout NZ, and is sanctioned by lying losers such as Cull — another leech elected by non-ratepayers.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:58am
  - Jack5
    
    Cull is a useless Leftist. Pete George would be a far better mayor for Dunedin than Cull.
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:04am
  - stephieboy
    
    igm,
    
    “..another leech elected by non-ratepayers”??
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:42am
    - igm
      
      I take it you are not a ratepayer — par for the course goat shagger.
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:53am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Of course it is happening here.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11802143
  The second wife… gets the single parent benefit for herself & kids.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:30am
  - GoVege
    
    It’s been going on for years with other chauvinist races too.
    I member the Laughing Samoans making a joke about it once.
    The difference is the women don’t both live with the tool or they’d probably kill eachother.
    They live in separate residences kindly provided by the NZ taxpayers, but close enough for the boss to not have to inconvenience his uphimselfness visiting both families.
    The women compete for the pr**k’s attention by each trying to produce as many sons as possible….
    
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    September 18, 2018 4:49pm
- Inandout
  
  That is Cindy’s ideal NZ where you just grab a sperm donor and breed. In 50 years genealogy will be a distant dream because most ‘unions’ that produce offspring will be unmarried or unrecorded.
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:57am
  - riffer
    
    Citation needed.
    
    I’ve seen no evidence to suggest anything near that possibility. Try to keep things realistic.
    
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    September 18, 2018 11:57am
Jack5

Auckland can’t be too far behind Vancouver in the proportion of its population that is Asian.

There’s a local backlash in the Canadian city (metro area population about 2.5 million), fuelled by the effect on property prices.

Here’s an Asian look at the issues of Vancouver Asians and their effect on property prices:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2164218/crazy-rich-asians-blamed-vancouvers-housing-affordability-crisis-political
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September 18, 2018 8:43am
- stephieboy
  
  Jack5 , I suggest you look to Hugh Pavletich for some ideas and solutions regarding this problem. Certainly, apply some breaks on immigration but not exclusively Asian.
  
  Agreed?
  
  I wonder if these happened to be” Vancouver Whites ”
  
  What then?
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:27am
- kowtow
  
  Vancouver is an interesting case study.
  
  The media and political class go on and on about integration/diversity /multiculti there.
  
  However when it comes to facts on the ground the Chinese have created a ghetto in Richmond ,while the Indians have done the same in Surrey , meanwhile whitey has voted with his feet and those places are literally almost exclusively inhabited by said ethnicities.
  
  Integration ?
  
  Not a fucken chance.
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:02am
waikatogirl

Auckland Council have suggested any cat caught without a micro-chipped will be put down. 97% of cats are not micro-chipped. 44% of household have at least one cat.
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September 18, 2018 8:44am
- VicParking
  
  Have they enough baseball bats. I have a spare I can donate.
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:53am
- Rachael Membery
  
  It will encourage microchip uptake, that is not necessarily a bad thing, there would have to be a lead in time, I live rurally so would resist that myself ;).
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:58am
  - igm
    
    Time we microchipped fakeugees, they are more predatory than cats.
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:14am
    - stephieboy
      
      igm , time the Auckland Council gave you poison for vermin destruction.
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:34am
      - sooty
        
        Stoopid boy. Do you want igm to go out and poison himself now? You are a bitter and twisted soul. I think you need to go for reeducation.
        
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        September 18, 2018 9:47am
      - igm
        
        You would be the first POS I would chip!
        
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        September 18, 2018 9:55am
      - Komata
        
        SB
        
        And so far you haven’t touched yours.
        
        Why not?
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:34am
      - stephieboy
        
        igm , I apologise and withdraw the remark. Domestic cats are not part of the eradication program so cat lovers can feel reassured.
        
        However, chipping them is a good idea so owners can take more responsibility for their moggies. Also, compulsory desexing unless a registered cat breeder.
        
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        September 18, 2018 11:52am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Just for the record: Stephieboy’s comment (expressing hope that Auckland Council would give IGM poison to kill himself with) has been removed from this thread. I see “for the record” because Stephieboy has a well-established track record of denying statements he’s previously made.
      
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      September 18, 2018 3:58pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yep, I saw that comment about giving igm poison to kill vermin.
        (with the implication that igm was the vermin)
        This is (at least) the 3rd occasion stephieboy has made comments suggesting a KB commenter kill themselves.
        
        Is he trying to destroy DPF’s blog by deliberately putting up illegal posts, or does he genuinely not realise the implications of his posts?
        
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        September 18, 2018 4:04pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW. nonsense and untrue. It was hyperbole and I have been accused of much worse including joining suicide bombers
        
        As you must know I’ve been called a pervert, goat shagger, a c…., FW etc, etc.
        
        And your silence is deafening!
        
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        September 18, 2018 5:54pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I have never abused you.
        I do not join in any of the sexual innuendo against you.
        I have spoken out here about someone releasing your private details.
        
        But I will not defend you,
        for you abuse people,
        
        you disrespect young women of the Muslim faith who have the right to go to cafes without details of their body form being posted in a public forum
        
        you have on a number of occasions called for people to kill themselves.
        
        You mock people with mental illness.
        
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        September 18, 2018 6:05pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nor I have abused you!
        
        Fact.
        
        More making a monkey of you that includes climate denial weirdness such as linking to Anthony ” what’s up with that ” Watts
        
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        September 18, 2018 6:16pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        You have repeatedly called me an alt-righter…as you have subsequently posted neo-nazi and racist images when you use this term, we can all recognize that you are labelling me as a neo-nazi and a racist.
        
        That is abuse.
        
        You have called me mad, deranged etc..
        That is abuse.
        
        you have asked for details about my underwear in a public forum..
        that is abuse.
        
        I am a private citizen. I do not know who you are. I do not know who the other trolls on this blog are who join in with your abuse of me.
        
        Are you paid to abuse me?
        Do you take instructions from other anonymous commenters here on how and when to abuse me?
        
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        September 18, 2018 6:27pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, have I called you a goat shagger, a c…, perv etc, etc
        
        Sigh!
        
        Stop being so precious!
        
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        September 18, 2018 9:46pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Here’s the thing, Galah.
        
        So long as you parrot the same crap everyday – alt-right, Trumpeters, see your doctor etc, sigh, LOL, DUH, others will take the Mick out of you.
        
        So long as you prefer cut & pastes and whataboutisms from various low calorie sites over offering a thoughtful on-topic comment, you invite derision.
        
        And to single out one individual to challenge every post in some misguided attempt at ‘gotcha’ is very unwise when that individual has a doctorate in a subject you have only just heard about on google.
        
        And for the life of me I cannot follow the logic behind relentlessly challenging MW and whining because she hasn’t stepped up to defend you from other commenters. She doesn’t seem to accept the mother role you are expecting from her.
        
        I suggest you stop leading with your chin.
        
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        September 18, 2018 10:41pm
- G152
  
  Get rid of the feral cats and watch the populations of rats and mice explode.
  Not the brightest people are they
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:14am
  - stephieboy
    
    G152, the program is targeted at particular wildlife sanctuaries in Auckland, not suburban domestic cats.
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:36am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Winston there are some pesky cats about, please go and sort them out. Specially near Dave Mann’s place….
    
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    September 18, 2018 10:37am
  - jcuk
    
    Funny that is what I thought when I read about the proposal …. unintended consequences etc
    
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    September 18, 2018 3:01pm
- Dave Mann
  
  Any interfering fucker I catch trying to put my cat down will get a bullet through the head.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:21am
  - Jack5
    
    The Stephies have been muttering about doing the same to anyone who tries to put down their goats.
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:44am
  - waikatogirl
    
    ?
    
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    September 18, 2018 10:06am
- Harkman
  
  Yes the war on cats will mean an inner city rat problem is around the corner. Newton’s Law.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:23am
  - igm
    
    Prefer rats to fakeugees.
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:56am
- Inandout
  
  This will be spitter Goff’s idea, totally insane. There are thousands of cat owners out there that will regard this as the ‘shower head’ moment.
  
  There was a previous hapless Rowling Labour government which gave Muldoon an election win partly on the issue of cats.
  
  ‘The Labour government of 1972–75 decided to change health regulations to ban cats from dairies – the ubiquitous New Zealand corner stores. In the 1975 election campaign National Party leader Robert Muldoon mocked this, claiming that cats were the victims of out-of-control bureaucracy’.
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:08am
- Nermal
  
  How about every dog not registered be put down. Oh no, that would affect Goff’s voter base
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:09pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  It’s about time they did the same with dogs.
  
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  September 18, 2018 6:43pm
artemisia

Am I the only one to notice the PM increasingly looks like Nicky Hager?

What was that about people growing to look more like their pets? Or twins separated at birth?
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September 18, 2018 8:54am
- igm
  
  Gnashers, Hager, and Minto must be from the same stable.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:16am
  - sooty
    
    Certainly not bueatiful horses are they. They got hit by the ugly stick too many times!
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:49am
    - lifesgood
      
      Oh, so that’s why they hate the world, people with money, themselves, life in general and want everyone else to be as miserable as they are!
      
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      September 18, 2018 2:25pm
Harkman

Anyone receiving on-page advertising of Cindy editing the Herald on Wednesday? What a way to shoot what little credibility you have left. I seem to recall Labour calling it undemocratic when Key had a 1hr show on Radiolive.
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September 18, 2018 9:21am
- Inandout
  
  The woman is desperate, and so is the dying Herald.
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:25am
- riffer
  
  A guest editorial?
  
  Seems fitting on the anniversary of Suffrage Day to have a female Prime Minister comment on it via an editorial in the largest paper in the country.
  
  It’s not as if she’s on the radio being asked about when she last “fed the chickens”.
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:02pm
  - lifesgood
    
    I wonder if she’ll suddenly pull out due to diary issues.
    
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    September 18, 2018 2:25pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Hosking offered to write a piece for SLGs Herald edition, but instead we’re going to hear from Lawless Lucy and how wimmin can run da world bedder than stale pale males cos babies an everyfing.
  
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  September 18, 2018 6:03pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But Shaun the Sheep we can never compete with their ability to grip a broomstick to fly away.
    
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    September 19, 2018 5:04am
BeaB

Simon Wilson and the Herald cartoonists are all fan boys of Jacinda. The news is all about the coalition and their tensions and power plays but the cartoonist today has a go at Judith Collins!
They used to hold governments to account but now they want to hold the Nats to account because they can’t bear to criticise their princess.
Simon Wilson isn’t even worth reading now – he should sign up as her press officer.
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September 18, 2018 9:39am
- igm
  
  As with Tracy Watkins . . . both Gnasher’s sycophants.
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:04am
- Inandout
  
  BeaB, these comfortable socialists gather like fleas in the cafes of Ponsonby and Grey Lynn, chatting about
  how bloody marvellous it is that they have a PM like Jacinda. If the cafe wasn’t so public they would ejaculate at the mere mention of the toothed one ( and for some journos, Clarke). These types are of course as false as a concrete parachute, and would not mix easily with a genuine working person of the old Labour mould.
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:25am
DJ Ward

A man was driving down the street. It wasn’t a very nice day being cold, windy, and looking like it was about to rain. There was already the ocasional drop on his windscreen.
To his surprise walking the other way was a person on the footpath. The person looked depressed with his head hanging low and with a lazy stride. As he got closer he realised it was a good mate and he quickly stopped to see what was going on.
“What’s up bro, you all good?”

“Yeh, yeh, chur, bro. Just heading to aunties house. The missus has just kicked me out”

The driver noticed he was carrying a single use plastic bag with what looked like a couple of 6 packs of premix cans.

“Going to drown your sorrows bro?” Pointing to the bag.
“Nah, she got the house, I got the contents”
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September 18, 2018 9:40am
BeaB

I think we need to move on from what a great communicator Jacinda is. Yes she has the gift of the gab, yes she can unleash a torrent of glibness but the substance isn’t there. Her dreadfully artificial performance on Sunday showed it with her rehearsed gestures and jokes and empty rhetoric. Where is her natural voice?
Okay if she is launching a new vacuum cleaner but not for the leader of a country.
She also needs some lessons in grammar, pronunciation and vocab. Kim Hill in the first real interview we have ever heard with Jacinda rightly pulled her up over her use of refute. It doesn’t just mean reject.
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September 18, 2018 9:46am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  To refute something, you have to prove the error of falseness of a statement/proposition.
  
  Jacinda can’t refute anything if she has no evidence or argument to offer.
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:06am
- RalphT
  
  A vacuum cleaner wouldn’t be so harsh on the ears…
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:54am
wreck1080

I listened to Hosking interview the PM this morning… and was surprised when she said she was very pleased with the GDP figures that will be released later this week.

These kind of statements affect markets, and it is very rare for government to give hints prior to the official information release.

But she did, and now it has been acknowledged as a mistake…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/107160622/prime-ministers-office-admits-mistake-over-arderns-economic-growth-hint-claim

Seems to be an amateur mistake too.
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September 18, 2018 9:55am
- sooty
  
  What else would you expect from an amateur!
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:00am
- Rich Prick
  
  Cindy fucks up … again. Colour me surprised.
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  How can any business have confidence in this silly woman?
  
  How can any other country trust her?
  What is she going to ~~leak~~ blab out next?
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:44am
- MrTips
  
  This creates an interesting situation.
  
  If Cindy saw the GDP figures – that’s not good, its a data breach and she certainly can’t keep her mouth shut + PM’s office has just lied to everyone.
  
  If she didn’t see the GDP figures, the PM’s office is right and Cindy is even more of an idiot for confusing them.
  
  Russian roulette with a fully loaded clip!
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:55am
- All_on_Red
  
  The dollar has gone up.
  Stats NZ just tweeted she has neither been shown them or given a ‘hint’
  Looks like she’s making shit up again.
  This is pretty serious though as her comments have moved the market
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:41am
  - stephieboy
    
    All on Red, do you think the COL should follow in the US President’s footsteps and rachet up tariffs on Chinese imports?
    
    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/trump-puts-new-tariffs-on-china-as-trade-war-escalates.html
    
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    September 18, 2018 11:55am
    - All_on_Red
      
      No, because Moronboy,our FREE trade agreement is well balanced in our favour whilst the US China one isn’t in the US’s favour.
      You’re quite stupid and ignorant aye.
      
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      September 18, 2018 11:59am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red,
        
        “You’re quite stupid and ignorant aye.” ?
        
        Nope!
        
        According to Ford his tarriff polices make no sense ,
        
        http://fortune.com/2018/09/10/trump-ford-focus-active-donald-trump-china-tariffs/
        
        DUH !
        
        LOL!
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:00pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Lol, your question just proved you are.
        You might have missed that Mexico just folded and have negotiated a new Agreement.
        Stooopidboy- Kiwiblogs Dumbest Commentator
        
        Hey, got a joke for you.
        Did you hear about the Scotsman whose nose got broken by his mouth?
        Funny huh
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:05pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed.con,
        
        You are a sore loser.
        
        Quite simple actually!
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:07pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Lose what?
        Every day you get shown up as an idiot.
        I don’t think I’ve ever come across anyone quite as despised as you on a blog.
        You really are deluded.
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:11pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        The galah is flapping his birdseed all over the place again.
        Unless you can point him to the google page that cures stoopid, you’re wasting your energy AoR.
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:15pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    This fake-it-till-you-make-it shit from Ardern is getting tiresome. Her first real experience as a minister or as a manager/leader is as a Prime Minister!!! FFS she is obviously not ready for the job, and its looking like she lacks the necessary awareness and intelligence for the job.
    
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    September 18, 2018 12:04pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Plus All_on_Red woke the folks at Stats NZ up to do a Mike Bush block job. We believe them. Yeah right.
    
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    September 19, 2018 5:11am
sooty

How many elves are toilling away in the darkest backrooms of Wellingtons flashest hotels, living the life or rielly at our expense. How much is this going to cost the taxpayer, Cindy. Labour spent nine long years eating all the pies and doing nothing. They are trying to find ways for Cindy to save NZ. The trouble is they could not find their ass with a mirror on a stick!
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September 18, 2018 9:58am
- riffer
  
  I’m waiting with baited breath for the next video from Soimon showing us how he is so much better at finding his arse with a mirror on a stick than the government is. And it’s “Life of Riley”. Do try and get your insults right sooty.
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:50pm
  - graham
    
    It’s “bated breath”, not “baited breath”.
    
    Do try to get English right.
    
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    September 18, 2018 1:19pm
    - riffer
      
      Quite right graham. Most unlike me. I will try harder. 🙂
      
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      September 18, 2018 2:56pm
starboard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/107158609/former-north-shore-board-chairman-sent-to-jail-for-livestreaming-child-sexual-abuse.

Dirty old bastard, bet he’s a lefty filth bag.
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September 18, 2018 10:19am
- igm
  
  Wood not be too hard to find out!
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:38am
  - starboard
    
    Wood have to be a relative
    
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    September 18, 2018 10:47am
- stephieboy
  
  starboard ,
  
  “Auckland businessman Martin Henry Lawes has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison for sexually exploiting children”
  
  His occupation would most likely make you lose your bet.
  
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  September 18, 2018 11:31am
  - riffer
    
    I reckon. Sounds like a potential National candidate to me.
    
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    September 18, 2018 12:04pm
    - riffer
      
      Oh, and a millionaire to boot. Definitely not a lefty then.
      
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      September 18, 2018 2:57pm
Jack5

US Government threatens to ban flavoured “tobacco” for e-cigarette use so stop use by teenagers and children:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-12/fda-threatens-to-pull-e-cigarettes-to-fight-rise-of-youth-vaping?srnd=premium-asia
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September 18, 2018 10:40am
- riffer
  
  Perhaps if they also fired bullets they would have no problems with regulation.
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:48pm
dave_c_

Ha ! More embarrasing evidence – Adern references details about the economy which were meant to have an embargo on them until Thursday ! (“PM hints at healthy growth, days before figures are out”) When is enough enough ?
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September 18, 2018 10:40am
- dave_c_
  
  Aargh – Wreck1080 has already mentioned this – apologies folks.
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:41am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s worth repeating…
    and I hope there’s some curly questions as to how this “error” happened.
    
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    September 18, 2018 11:12am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Nah Maggy, it will be explained away with she mis-spoke, how was she supposed to know, a mother and such a lovely smile. ?
      
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      September 18, 2018 1:00pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Maggy:
      
      You have a good memory, so you’ll recall that Jacinda isn’t the first Labour politician to speak out of turn:
      
      PM cleared of Air NZ insider trading
      
      The Securities Commission [now the Financial Markets Authority] has cleared Prime Minister Helen Clark of insider trading in Air New Zealand shares. But it ruled that her comments about the airline’s future at the height of the company’s financial crisis last September were inappropriate.
      
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      September 18, 2018 4:07pm
      - alex Masterley
        
        The late unlamented David Cunliffe also had an issue with an ill judged blurt in the house regarding telecom in the last labour government that set shareholders back by some considerable amount.
        Labour has form for this sort of thing.
        
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        September 18, 2018 4:10pm
- riffer
  
  Ooh. That reminds me. How’s that enquiry into who leaked Soimon’s expenses going?
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:05pm
  - rangitoto
    
    We already know which Labour MP did it.
    
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    September 18, 2018 12:30pm
    - riffer
      
      Oh do share. We’re all so fascinated.
      
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      September 18, 2018 12:42pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Yeah, the one (of many) with mental problems. We all know but, Riffer, why would we tell you?
      
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      September 18, 2018 2:30pm
      - riffer
        
        Would be nice if the National Party MP, whoever they are, were getting the help they needed eh?
        
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        September 18, 2018 6:19pm
Hugh Pavletich

Disaster a ‘defining strand within the Christchurch story’ … Mike Yardley OPINION … The Press

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/107135479/disaster-a-defining-strand-within-the-christchurch-story

OPINION: Have you taken a stroll under our famed sweep of cherry blossom trees in Harper Ave yet?

With the seasonal blaze hitting fever pitch, I ventured down there on Sunday, half expecting to find our Thinker-in-Residence making a faux discovery about our city, basking in the blossoms.

Tel Aviv’s Hila Oren has been brought to Christchurch by one council-funded entity, the Christchurch Foundation, to help another council-funded entity, ChristchurchNZ, craft the city’s narrative. But the merit of this venture and Oren’s reported insights have spectacularly fallen flat in the court of public opinion.

The Press website comments section and local talkback radio has been shuddering under the weight of derision. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… Paulson (Pavletich) comment on thread …

One does wonder, with this nonsense, Eastgate and the rest of the idiocy from Mayor Lianne Dalziels Christchurch City Council, how much more political damage the Labour Government is prepared to absorb, before they put Commissioners in to the place.
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Manolo

It is getting uglier by the day:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/trump-puts-new-tariffs-on-china-as-trade-war-escalates.html

President Donald Trump will impose 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, and those duties will rise to 25% at the end of the year.
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September 18, 2018 11:50am
- DJ Ward
  
  If countries will not make fair deals with us, they will be ‘Tariffed!'”
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:13pm
- dime
  
  excellent.
  
  I wonder how many companies will start to move their production out of China?
  
  good for other Asian countries me thinks
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:48pm
Brigitte

Q&A Today:

6. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: How many KiwiBuild homes has the Labour-led Government completed to date, and how many will be completed by 1 July 2019?

So is the answer 0 since the “Labour-led” Govt doesn’t exist????
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September 18, 2018 11:52am
- riffer
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Gosh, you have got your knickers in a bunch about having a genuine MMP government haven’t you? Still pining for the days when the majority partner in a government stifled all their partners and led a coalition in a dictatorial fashion? Newsflash… that never works out well for the “junior” partners… and that leads to no friends … and that leads to the opposition benches.
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:07pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    No, I’m pining for stable, competent government.
    
    Those attributes are negatively correlated with leadership by committee as per the COL.
    
    Actually, what what we have is worse than a committee. It’s a cluster of egotistical, lying ineffective politicians who have kept NZ’s most preferred leadership from power.
    
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    September 18, 2018 12:23pm
    - riffer
      
      You don’t get it. You need over 50% to get into power. If you don’t have enough votes, and you don’t have enough friends, you don’t get to play with the fun things. Better luck next time.
      
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      September 18, 2018 12:47pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        So MMP means a couple of million kiwis vote and then a grumpy narcissistic and frequently under the weather 72 year old decides how the country will be run purely for his benefit. That’s dictatorship not democracy.
        
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        September 18, 2018 3:37pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Fraser House has hired another deluded lefty idiot by the name of ‘riffer’.
    
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    September 18, 2018 12:25pm
    - riffer
      
      More of a centrist really, but I do enjoy pointing out where some of you guys are being hypocritical fuckwits.
      
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      September 18, 2018 12:45pm
      - dime
        
        the far left always claim to be “centrist” and anyone centre right becomes “extreme left”
        
        its probably milky under another name
        
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        September 18, 2018 12:49pm
      - riffer
        
        The right wing always say they’re centrist too. I imagine this country is made up almost completely of centrists. 🙂
        
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        September 18, 2018 2:59pm
      - riffer
        
        Oh – and dime. I ain’t Milky. Although, after winter I do have a bit of a Playstation tan.
        
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        September 18, 2018 6:20pm
    - RF
      
      I thought Ztev got handed his arse.
      
      Has he been reincarnated ?
      
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      September 18, 2018 2:44pm
DJ Ward

Since policy as recently announced is…

Everybody will be….Working, Learning, Caring, or Volunteering.

Has the unemployed figure reached 0%.

Question.
What one of those things is not like the other ones?
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September 18, 2018 12:21pm
- Rich Prick
  
  My 75 year old neighbour isn’t interested in of those things. Is Cindy suggesting the gulags for everyone?
  
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  September 18, 2018 1:16pm
- DigNap15
  
  You forget to add everyone will be bashing, breeding or dealing as well.
  
  I can just imagine many of our unemployed ferals ‘Caring” or Volunteering”
  
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  September 18, 2018 5:27pm
  - artemisia
    
    Dealing is working.
    
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    September 18, 2018 6:20pm
Sarkozygroupie

John Kerry has been meeting the Iranian Foreign Minister behind Trumps back…

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/trump-pompeo-accuse-kerry-undermining-policy-iran-180915060848825.html
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September 18, 2018 12:26pm
- dime
  
  maybe he is over there cheating on his wife again?
  
  the guy is the ultimate loser
  
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  September 18, 2018 12:49pm
- All_on_Red
  
  No doubt Cha, Waripori et all will be along shortly screaming about the Logan Act being breached.
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  September 18, 2018 1:00pm
- Inandout
  
  Isn’t that treason to go behind the official line?
  
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  September 18, 2018 1:50pm
  - Sarkozygroupie
    
    I would think it would be very close to it.
    
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    September 18, 2018 2:14pm
Manolo

Sanders, another socialist crook:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-and-jane-sanders-under-fbi-investigation-for-bank-fraud-hire-lawyers/

Senator Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane Sanders have hired prominent defense attorneys amid an FBI investigation into a loan Jane Sanders obtained to expand Burlington College while she was its president, CBS News confirms.
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September 18, 2018 12:30pm
Manolo

Too little, too late for mamma Merkel. The damage is already done by opening Europe’s door to hordes of invaders:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6175555/Angela-Merkel-announces-new-bid-tackle-migration-alongside-Austria.html

Angela Merkel has said she will work with her Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz to secure Europe’s borders, in her latest move away from the open-door policy which has sparked a wave of protests in Germany.

Mrs Merkel, who has faced a backlash since she allowed a million refugees into Germany in 2015, agreed to work with African countries to stop the flow of migrants.
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September 18, 2018 1:00pm
- kowtow
  
  Germany is getting the Croats to be their border for them.
  
  But they are fakeugees , they are in Bosnia ,(having passed through any number of other countries) they should claim asylum there .
  
  But they want to go to Germany , where Mama Merkel will put them on the taxpayers’ back.
  
  https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/refugees-stranded-bosnia-report-campaign-police-brutality-180915100740024.html
  
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  September 18, 2018 3:06pm
krazykiwi

This chap wanted to go to jail, but our uncaring society forced him into home detention. I suspect he’ll get his wish this time around.
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September 18, 2018 1:57pm
RF

I am sick and tired hearing Cindy mangling our language.

It’s not poverdy … it’s poverty.

It’s not bin…… it’s been.

There are many others but it makes me sick thinking about her slurping them.
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September 18, 2018 2:41pm
- riffer
  
  Indeed. She should take elocution lessons from that master of speech, Soimon.
  
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  September 18, 2018 3:00pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Riffer:
    
    Soimon
    
    Well, seeing as you’ve referred to Simon in that way, let me ask you this: would dental treatment help Jacinda with her speech issues?
    
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    September 18, 2018 4:31pm
    - riffer
      
      I wouldn’t think so Nostradamus. Some kiwis do have terrible accents. You are right though … her accent is just as bad as Soimon’s.
      
      Buggered if I know what it has to do with her ability though. And his.
      
      I was just winding a few of y’all up, but some people can’t take a bit of a ribbing. 🙂
      
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      September 18, 2018 6:23pm
dime

even school visits arent safe for chompers now hahaha

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/rodney-times/107137119/tenyearold-girl-accosts-pm-about-orewa-colleges-new-school-zone
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September 18, 2018 2:45pm
Jack5

Here’s one immigrant who deserves to be kicked out pronto if the allegation is true – that he is prostituting his intellectually disabled NZ born wife.

The report is by Lincoln Tan, who hails originally from the sophisticated Republic of Singapore, and who has been more diligent in reporting any downsides of multiculturism than the swathe of local-born PC journos in Auckland.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12126605
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September 18, 2018 2:55pm
- riffer
  
  Yeah, that’s not on. Definitely failing the good character test. See you later, arsehole.
  
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  September 18, 2018 3:01pm
- kowtow
  
  A lot of questions raised by that article that aren’t addressed.
  
  How could she be enter a “marriage” if she’s so intellectually disabled.
  
  Was her family involved and was it arranged so the “student” could get a visa to stay?
  
  What’s going on ?
  
  Are we being enriched ?
  
  Are we embracing the diversity?
  
  Isn’t multiculturalism wonderful?
  
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  September 18, 2018 3:26pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There was another case last year where an autistic woman was in a relationship with an Indian Guy here in NZ and fell into loads of debt.
  
  She then disappeared off to India and her father couldn’t trace her for some weeks…
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12035020
  
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  September 18, 2018 3:48pm
- GoVege
  
  I don’t believe it…a social worker reporting a client pimping out a family member to the police.
  Maybe it’s because the guy is not tangata whenua….
  
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  September 18, 2018 4:26pm
igm

What has happened to Andrew Saville from TVNZ sport and NewstalkZB?
Have not heard or seen him in weeks and wondered if something was amiss.
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September 18, 2018 3:29pm
- Poppa
  
  Good point you raise IGM I have not heard anything of him either.
  
  He used to do radio rugby but not sure if that is still the case
  
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  September 18, 2018 3:35pm
- Happychappy
  
  If you look at the story on sports commentator Jenny Coffey on her appointment on the TV One Sports News I think it said Andrew Saville was on personal leave. You should be able to find the story on TV One.
  
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  September 18, 2018 6:54pm
Gravelroad

Does anyone know why Vodafone has decreed that a fee of $1.80 is now to be added to cellphone contract account payments made via Post Shops?
Local Post Shop employee said it was a Vodafone imposed extra. Are they not making enough coin already?
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September 18, 2018 3:45pm
Fletch

Trump has taken the unprecedented step of ordering documents declassified related to FISA warrants and Carter Page, texts by Sztrok and Page, documents related to Papadopolous, James Comey etc – all with no redaction. The media, which should be totally for transparency, etc, don’t like it.

I think we may discover the depths to which the Obama Administration intelligence service sank to. The public will be able to see how rotten these people are.
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September 18, 2018 4:21pm
Tauhei Notts

That Russian plane shot down near Syria with 14 people on board; this could be serious.
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September 18, 2018 4:22pm
- MrTips
  
  Only for the Russians. Dumb Syrians did it. Lol.
  
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  September 18, 2018 5:32pm
  - kowtow
    
    A variation on the WW2 joke.
    
    When the Israelis bomb , the Palestinians duck.
    When the Palestinians bomb , the Israelis duck.
    When the Syrians bomb , everyone ducks.
    
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    September 18, 2018 7:54pm
Jack5

This year’s “Ignoble” awards – for “funny but practical scientific” studies includes a do-it-yourself home colonoscopy.

https://www.dw.com/en/ig-nobel-prize-winners-self-colonoscopy-roller-coaster-kidney-stones/a-45482410
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September 18, 2018 4:30pm
Maggy Wassilieff

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/jacinda-ardern-guest-edit-new-zealand-newspaper-on-anniversary-of-suffrage
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September 18, 2018 4:43pm
- sooty
  
  How’s she gunna prove she had no help!
  
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  September 18, 2018 5:30pm
- rangitoto
  
  Will the Horrid also be submitting all their articles to the politburo for approval to publish and change their name to Pravda?
  
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  September 18, 2018 5:52pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 42: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh

Under immense pressure, Chuck Grassley, the Republican chair of the Senate judiciary committee, said his panel would hold a hearing next Monday with both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who alleged that he sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers in high school. …..

Ford, 51, is a research psychologist at Palo Alto University in northern California. Speaking to the Post, she described an incident she said happened when she and Kavanaugh were in high school in the early 1980s.

She alleged that Kavanaugh and a friend – both “stumbling drunk” – corralled her into a bedroom at a party. Kavanaugh then pinned her on a bed, she said, groping her and placing his hand over her mouth. Ford said she was able to escape only when the friend jumped on top of them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/17/brett-kavanaugh-accuser-testify-senate-committee

http://time.com/5397986/trump-jr-kavanaugh-sexual-assault/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvvxkszIBkg

“GROPERS” is presented by GroperWatch®, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.

1 George Herbert Walker Bush; 2 Bill O’Reilly; 3 Al Franken; 4 Robin Brooke; 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; 7 Joe Biden; 8 Rolf Harris; 9 Harold Bloom; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey; 12 Prince Harry; 13 Bill Clinton; 14 Judge Roy Moore; 15 Matt Lauer; 16 Richard Branson; 17 Warren Moon; 18 Donald John Trump; 19 Damian Green; 20 Gene Simmons; 21 Sylvester Stallone; 22 Louise’s husband Charlie; 23 Father O’Hagan (AKA “Father Gropius”); 24 David Lloyd George; 25 James Franco; 26 Joel Kramer; 27 Rene Naufahu; 28 Steve Wynn; 29 Vince McMahon; 30 Rob Porter; 31 The old buffers at Russell McVeagh; 32 Otago law students; 33 Tom Brokaw; 34 David Scott; 35 Justin Trudeau; 36 Morgan Freeman; 37 Hugh Hefner’s guests; 38 Brock Turner; 39 Les Moonves; 40 Asia Argento; 41 John Key
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September 18, 2018 4:43pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Morrissey:
  
  a hearing next Monday with both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who alleged that he sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers in high school
  
  An allegation – not yet substantiated. And an allegation about something that happened at high school.
  
  You can do better than this!
  
  What about a groper item on, say, the Labour Party sex camper? Why are you so reluctant to address a sexual assault case in a New Zealand setting?
  
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  September 18, 2018 4:49pm
  - stigie
    
    Also, what about a groper item on Labour’s deviant arse bandit Darren Hughes..?
    
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    September 18, 2018 5:42pm
    - skyblue
      
      He would love the Woods.
      
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      September 18, 2018 6:30pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Nostradamus, thanks for filling us even though you don’t have the full facts.
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:23pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hey Morrissey,
  
  You seem to be missing that Nobel Prize-winning, United Nations IPCC chap from your groper list.
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/17/ex-ipcc-chief-rajendra-pachauri-headed-for-trial/
  
  https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2018/01/15/the-harvey-weinstein-of-the-climate-world/
  
  https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2016/03/01/pachauri-criminal-charges-total-1400-pages/
  
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  September 18, 2018 4:50pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Great work. Welcome to the team, Maggy!
    
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    September 18, 2018 5:06pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      My fee is in the post.
      
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      September 18, 2018 5:31pm
- Fletch
  
  This is probably bullshit. A rerun of Clarence Thomas/ Anita Hill. The Democrats did it for purely political reasons.
  
  * It is telling that 65 women who knew Kavanaugh have signed their names to a letter defending him, including two women – ex girlfriends – who appeared on Fox, saying he could never do something like that.
  
  * The accuser is a pussy hat wearing, anti Trumper, who has written letters against Trump’s border policy.
  
  * Kavanaugh’s mother presided over the foreclosure of the accuser’s family home.
  
  * Kavanaugh’s background has been thoroughly vetted by the FBI on six different occasions throughout his decades of public service, and no such allegation ever surfaced
  
  In short – the truth will never be gotten to in this case. It was 35 years ago, when Kavanaugh was 17 and in high school. He says it didn’t happen. His friend Mark Judge who was supposedly there, says it didn’t happen.
  
  It’s a slander move by the Dems because they have nothing left. He is being convicted in the media.
  
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  September 18, 2018 6:52pm
Maggy Wassilieff

PM Jacinda Ardern admits getting text message from Derek Handley about CTO role

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12127374

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received a text message from entrepreneur Derek Handley about the role of Government chief technology officer but says she did not respond to it.

“I can rule out any direct verbal communication. I haven’t spoken with Mr Handley in at least a year, maybe two,” Ardern said in Parliament today.

Anyone else got the PM’s no.?
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September 18, 2018 4:47pm
- insider
  
  Is this the equivalent of Bill Clinton’s “I didn’t inhale”?
  
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  September 18, 2018 5:14pm
  - skyblue
    
    I wonder if Gayford has a soggy fish smelling cigar.
    
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    September 18, 2018 6:28pm
- MrTips
  
  As expected Cindy is in la merde. And for once, Mallard isn’t helping, but what’s the bet not all emails are released? https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/govt-told-to-front-up-with-personal-emails-between-curran-and-handley/ar-BBNubn6?li=BBqdmGR&ocid=mailsignout
  
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  September 18, 2018 5:30pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep, and I wonder whether partner’s phones/ laptops can be accessed for texts, gmails ?
    
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    September 18, 2018 5:52pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Given that he has reportedly been domiciles in USA for the last ten years, I wonder what might have occasioned a conversation with an opposition NZ Labour MP one or two years ago?
  Do they have a social relationship?
  
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  September 18, 2018 6:57pm
  - sooty
    
    Where is Aunty Helen in the mix?
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:23pm
- noskire
  
  This girl is toast (sorry, she does not carry the respect of a PM).
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:26pm
DigNap15

From some of the posts above at around 9.20 this morning today’s word of the day by Ardern is

Refute.
I am sorry I cannot give you the Maori for that as it is not in either of my two printed Maori dictionaries.
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September 18, 2018 5:23pm
- Nostradamus
  
  DigNap15:
  
  my two printed Maori dictionaries
  
  Has the dictionary you purchased through Trade Me arrived? Is it a weighter tome than the dictionary you previously used, or still a bit “light on”?
  
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  September 18, 2018 5:28pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes it has arrived, I just said it has.
    It is a bit lighter its 124 pages long, compared with my first one at 153 pages.
    
    I will give you some more info on it later.
    But it was revised by T.S. Karetu of the Waikato University!
    
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    September 18, 2018 5:32pm
    - nasska
      
      Careful research suggests that the most common word used by the Mother of the Nation’s Baby is “um”. According to Collins:
      
      …..“Um is used in writing to represent a sound that people make when they are hesitating, usually while deciding what they want to say next”…..
      
      Without it our prime minister would spend most of her time looking at the camera in the manner of a stunned mullet.
      
      Do your dictionaries offer a Te Reo translation?
      
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      September 18, 2018 5:37pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        I think “um” was the historical Te Reo description of the sound heard when one tribal chief clubbed another tribal chief to death, after a civil discussion between them about who would eat who first didn’t lead to a satisfactory agreement?
        
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        September 18, 2018 5:42pm
      - nasska
        
        Ka pai. 🙂
        
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        September 18, 2018 5:44pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      So you’ve gone from a 153-page dictionary to a 124-page dictionary – and a revised one at that. So has this T.S. Karetu character been busy removing words from the Maori language? Or have you gone from a palm-of-the-hand dictionary to an A4-sized one, so more words on fewer pages?
      
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      September 18, 2018 5:39pm
      - DigNap15
        
        Both books are about the same size about 12×18 cm.
        
        My latest dictionary is
        The Concise Maori Dictionary
        On the back it says that for many years it was a standard reference. And it has now been revised by T.S Karetu head of the Maori Department at the University of Waikato.
        
        To my mind you cannot get a much better review than that.
        
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        September 18, 2018 6:27pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Well that’s Tainui covered then. What about the other regional differences?
      
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      September 18, 2018 7:14pm
Odakyu-sen

NHK TV in Japan is reporting that Trump has tacked on additional tariffs to imported Chinese goods. China is responding, and the Japanese ministries are gravely concerned that Japan will get caught up in the crossfire…

(Nothing much in the Herald about this yet.)
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September 18, 2018 5:47pm
- stephieboy
  
  There is as at 1154am as a developing news item,
  
  “US President Donald Trump’s $200b tariffs to hit China, retaliation expected”
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12127210
  
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  September 18, 2018 6:00pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    So what is your point?
    
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    September 18, 2018 6:50pm
    - starboard
      
      Like the silly little girl, shariaboy does not know.
      
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      September 18, 2018 7:28pm
DigNap15

I hope that Trump choses items that have other potential suppliers so that the importers will move away from the Chinese suppliers.
Also a 10% tariff may not be high enough.
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September 18, 2018 6:29pm
- stephieboy
  
  I understand he wanted 25%. The President ( god bless him ) is mad!
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:20pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    And your business credentials are: ?
    
    Which University awarded your economics degree?
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:21pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Shaun the Sheep, speaking of business credentials do you think Toyota should recommission their Thames auto plant?
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:27pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        WTF does that have to do with Trump or China?
        
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        September 18, 2018 9:56pm
dcrown

Where is Donald J. Trump?

The democrat party is presently slandering a respected judge while the POTUS largely absent?

Donald J. Trump Jr. has accomplished more on instagram countering these libelous claims than his father???
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September 18, 2018 6:52pm
- fernglas
  
  Trump is wisely keeping his head down as any involvement by him will likely backfire on his nominee. Trump jr. does not have form for paying off glorified hookers, and as such is a more astute choice to comment. Yet another illustration of the finesse with which Trump snr. goes about the implementation of the important parts of his agenda
  
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  September 18, 2018 7:18pm
nasska

A mid-level executive was so frustrated at being passed over for promotion year after year that, in frustration, he went to a brain-transplant centre in the hope of raising his IQ by 20 points.

After a battery of physical and psychological tests, he was told by the centre’s director that he was an acceptable candidate.

“That’s great!” the executive said. “But I understand that this procedure can be really expensive”.

“Yes, sir, it can,” the director replied. “An ounce of accountant’s brain for example, costs one thousand dollars, an ounce of a lawyer’s brain costs two thousand, an ounce of a corporate president’s is forty-five thousand. An ounce of a politician’s brain is seventy-five thousand dollars”.

“Seventy-five thousand dollars for an ounce of a politicians brain!? Why on earth is that?”

“Do you have any idea”, the director asked, “how many politicians we would have to kill to get an ounce?”
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September 18, 2018 7:44pm
Hugh Pavletich

Independent report into Auckland Council’s Building Consents Department finds major shortcomings resulting in poor customer service | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/95898/independent-report-auckland-councils-building-consents-department-finds-major

Auckland Council’s Building Consent Department has been blasted in a report commissioned by the Council Itself from a firm of outside consultants.

The report found a number of significant shortcomings with the department and its operations, including poor consent demand forecasting, challenges in recruiting and retaining staff, cumbersome computer systems and a limited capacity to implement improvements.

It concluded that given the growth in demand for consents being experienced in Auckland, the Council’s current consenting situation was “unsustainable.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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Have they bothered to research and report on the consent rates per 1000 population performance history of the smaller and therefore functional units of local government at Waimakariri and Selwyn … and ask WHY ? … extract graphs 5 & 6 … http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/2017%20Information.html
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Mike Hosking (Popular Conservative Commentator): Housing Minister Phil Twyford right to bulldoze his way through councils – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12118208
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Urban Development Authority a long overdue initiative … Auckland Business Chamber of Commerce | Scoop News

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1808/S00741/urban-development-authority-a-long-overdue-initiative.htm
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… and learning from Texas …

How to get a (NZ)$650,000 KiwiBuild-style house down to an affordable (NZ)$300,000 – Stephen Sellwood of Infrastructure New Zealand – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12107783
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AUCKLAND: “A VANCOUVER OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC; BEAUTIFUL, BUT UTTERLY UNAFFORDABLE” … WENDELL COX … NEW GEOGRAPHY

http://www.newgeography.com/content/006072-auckland-a-vancouver-south-pacific-beautiful-utterly-unaffordable
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September 18, 2018 7:54pm
Rachael Membery

Donna Awatere Huata back n the scene, it made me wonder where Metiria Turei is behind the scene being paid? with the Greens?
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September 18, 2018 8:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Donna Awatere Huata secures top job as Māori Climate Commissioner
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12126881
  
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  September 18, 2018 8:40pm
  - Jack5
    
    Interesting that National’s Murray McCully and Michelle Boag are in the mix.
    
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    September 18, 2018 8:46pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Mixed bag indeed.
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:09pm
  - GoVege
    
    I just saw that, Maggy.
    That’s great news.
    Just before Donna was incarcerated for 2 years for….wait for It…pinching $80,000 and paying the entire amount back, she was drawing attention to what was wrong with Maori culture.
    Unlike the Maori Party, she criticized the Maori gangs and the way women were forced to play second fiddle to males…even kids…on the maraes and at meetings.
    Let’s hope she still dares to speak out against tired, out-dated and harmful traditions!
    
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    September 18, 2018 9:15pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I liked her ideas on literacy also.
      
      But I’ve no idea what she knows about Carbon trading, Climate Change, or native forest establishment.
      
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      September 18, 2018 9:29pm
Jack5

Cholera emergency in Zimbabwe: Government seeks crowd funding to battle the disease.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45546699
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September 18, 2018 8:41pm
Hugh Pavletich

Trump Slaps Tariffs On $200BN In China Imports; Will Add Another $267BN If China Retaliates | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-17/trump-imposes-tariffs-200bn-china-imports-will-add-another-267bn-if-china

With traders waiting with bated breath for hours, moments ago the White House announced that it has imposed tariffs on approximately $200 billion worth of imports from China, effective September 24.

The tariffs will start at 10% until the end of the year, but in an unexpected twist, are set to rise to 25% on January 1, 2019, in what is worse case scenario than what the market had been pricing in, namely a 10% rate indefinitely.

Trump also warns that if China takes any retaliatory action “against US farmers or other industries”, the US will immediately pursue “phase three”, and impose an additional $267 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports. … read more via hyperlink above …
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September 18, 2018 9:06pm
Jack5

Maggy Wassilieff said yesterday that she was descended from the Macdonalds. Indeed she’s a granddaughter of a Flora Macdonald.

For any who don’t know, it was a Flora Macdonald who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after Culloden.

Maggy will undoubtedly know of the song I link to below, but in case she’s missed this rendition:

https://youtu.be/8cPitxtk4m0

And I’m sure Maggy knows of the Glencoe memorial erected by Macdonalds who settled in Southland. But it is of wider interest than to Macdonald descendants:

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20134/glencoe-memorial
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September 18, 2018 9:32pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  I have a friend who is also descended from Flora McDonald, I am descended from the Plantagenets and an awful lot of major characters of history and she was peeved. 😉
  
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  September 18, 2018 9:59pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m not descended from the Bonny Prince Charles Flora Macdonald – Originally from Skye.
    
    My lot come from Iona.
    
    Flora is quite a common name for Macdonald girls.
    
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    September 18, 2018 10:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I may have heard a Corries version, but I’d never seen the Lyrics.
  
  I’ve just ridden past Glencoe in a bus… filthy rain, didn’t see much… and filthy rain at Fort William too.
  
  I’m not a Glencoe Macdonald.
  All my lot are Western Isle Macdonalds… (Maternal and Paternal lines).
  But I’ve known of the Glencoe massacre since I was about 3 years old… told to me by my mother.
  
  I don’t know the Southland Glencoe memorial.
  
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  September 18, 2018 10:03pm
Jack5

Oh, oh …

Jack Ma, China’s equivalent of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, warns that the widening trade war between the United States and China will last 20 years.

Ma’s remarks came hours after China vowed to retaliate against U.S. plans to levy tariffs on about $US200 billion of Chinese goods.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/trump-ratchets-up-tariff-pressure-on-china-with-200-billion-hit
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