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krazykiwi

Vladimir: Hey thanks for the translation of ‘waka’ the other day. It wasn’t in my Maori to Russian dictionary
Winston: Happy to help Vlad. Oh, my legislation was passed yesterday

Vladimir: Ug! I hate legislation! Was it easy?
Winston: Yeah, my puppet PM is away, and the Greens are full-retard pussies. So no problem

Vladimir: It means you can eject democratically elected politicians?
Winston: Yes, and fine them $US200k on the way out.

Vladimir: Draconian for New Zealand, but I still don’t get it
Winston: Don’t get what?

Vladimir: Well those politicians would be, how you say, ‘turncoats’, traitors – Da?
Winston: Exactly

Vladimir: So why not just poison them? Heaps easier.
Winston: Yes, but you can only poison someone once. Listen, most of my MPs are really stupid. You have goat herders in Siberia with more brains, Vlad. I can get these morons elected and then fire them multiple times. There is serious hard currency on offer Vlad

Vladimir: You crafty bastard. Talk next week.
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September 28, 2018 8:00am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
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  Now do one with National and their Chinese overlords talking about how they made a generation of kiwis homeless to prop up the baby boomer’s retirement. That would be funny too.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:04am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I’ll give it some thought 🙂
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:06am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    “prop up the baby boomer’s retirement”
    HA HA HA
    Have you even met a retired person?
    Your parents/grandparents?
    Living high on the hog on a fixed income are they?
    or
    Did they work hard, bring up their families, buy their houses, pay their bills (and yours), build much of what you take for granted and just be good New Zealanders?
    Unlike you!!
    A grasping, self indulgent sponge on New Zealand.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:23am
    - Padriv Ustoev
      
      Yeah yeah, #notall.
      
      Do your kids enjoy a house costing 10x their yearly income?
      
      And you can shove the implication that I’m not a good NZer right up your arse.
      
      I worked every day of my life since 18. Paid tax, and have a mortgage. So I can criticise this country and other NZers as much as I like.
      
      So stick to the facts instead of attacking me and the fact that I’m an immigrant.
      
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      September 28, 2018 8:31am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        HORSE SHIT.
        1. EVERY person (young) who has cried on my shoulder saying “We’ll NEVER have a house”
        Now has one…every single one!!!!!!!!!
        2. My parents (early 70’s) earned too much for a state loan (by 1%), not enough for a bank load, also for a bank loan they needed 1, a substantial min, deposit. 2. A LONG banking history.
        They managed it by working hard, going without any form of luxury (almost nothing new in their whole house) saved an even bigger deposit and bought their house.
        3. In the 80’s We were paying my and sometimes more than my ENTIRE wages to pay the mortgage, my wife had to work for us to pay the rest of the bills.
        With holidays abroad costing less now
        Cars costing less now (compared to wages)
        All manner of LUXURIES (cell phones etc) being cheaper compared to wages, young people have come to call these thing necessities instead of what they are LUXURIES.
        Stop spending on luxuries, start focusing and saving for your home and you will have it.
        Just like everyone that went before you, including the youngsters that cried on my shoulder.
        
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        September 28, 2018 8:44am
      - Local Miller
        
        Well let’s look at this! My 27 year old has just (this week) paid off her student loan. Today she and her husband of one year are doing the pre settlement inspection on their NEW home in Auckland, moving in during October.
        
        Compared to me… I rented for the first 10 years of my married life, before I could afford to buy a house. I sold that and wasn’t able to buy another (my current) one for 6 years. This is a 1970’s x-state house that I still owe more on than my daughter will owe on her new house.
        With a lot of hard work and careful budgeting I may just be able to pay off my mortgage within 15 years, about 5 years after I retire!
        
        So quit with all the media and leftist hype, it’s possible for young people to buy a house if they have any financial sense and discipline. Two things that are sorely lacking in most young people!
        
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        September 28, 2018 8:56am
      - KiWombat
        
        Padriv get a life !
        
        My “kid” bought a house last year for less than $100,000
        
        It was not in Ponsonby.
        
        My “kid” cannot afford to live in Ponsonby, as much as she would like to.
        
        Perhaps you should be teaching your “kid” to either buy somewhere they can afford, or adjust their income to match their aspirations !
        
        There are plenty of affordable houses out there, but many of our “kids” aspire to something they are incapable of achieving, that is not the fault of government or society. The blame rests with parenting that ignores reality !
        
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        September 28, 2018 9:09am
    - dubya
      
      I’m one of four brothers, all of the generation you speak of, Padriv.
      
      Two went into the trades and were home owners in Wellington by 24.
      
      I’m 32 and about to build a new house in Auckland (I’m single, so it’s just my income). Obviously I had to wait longer because Auckland, and I also chose to study (in a field which has set me up for life).
      
      The oldest is 34 and has no savings, and frankly spent too long making enemies and chasing fast women. He may never own a house, though he has settled now and I hope he can find a way to.
      
      Our baby boomer parents own their own home but will probably have to downsize to retire. Certainly none of us were given money towards out first homes.
      
      Life is what you make of it. Houses are too expensive, yes. But is the market insurmountable? Definitely not. Have Chinese contributed to higher prices? Maybe, but so have my yuppie colleagues.
      
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      September 28, 2018 8:35am
      - Biscuit
        
        Agreed, Dubya.
        
        And you forget to point out that your baby boomer parents very likely, like me, lived through a period when mortgage interest rates soared into the mid 20s of percentage points.
        
        We coped.
        
        We certainly didn’t demand ‘instant’ gratification for our housing needs: we saved (forgoing the modern ‘must-haves’ of Sky and the Internet, to name just two) … and got there in the end.
        
        Agreed re the Chinese, too. Those who decry the Asianification of Auckland are just the types that want New Zealand to revert to the protectionist world of the Seventies and before. Remember those days:
        ‘Let’s have takeaways! The choice is:
        A. Fish N Chips
        B. Fish N Chips from the other Fish N Chips store
        C. Chips … with Fish’
        
        Now we have all sorts of options.
        J’approve!
        Thai for me tonight!
        
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        September 28, 2018 8:52am
      - dubya
        
        Biscuit, absolutely. My parents bought an ex-state house in a nice area in 1983, with some very steep interest rates. They sold their Datsun 1600 SSS and Mitsubishi Celeste to help raise the deposit (the love of cars never left though!)
        
        Dad was a toolmaker and spent evenings and weekends building onto it and turning it into a 5 bedroom, three bathroom house. He would have never been able to afford to pay someone to build that for us. It was the 1980s and he worked in manufacturing, which made everything that big more precarious.
        
        In the 1990s they made an even bigger sacrifice and doubled their mortgage so we could be in a better school zone. Once again, bought a dive, built on, one of the nicest in the street now.
        
        If they can now sell that house for a couple of million to an Asian, an Aussie, a Swiss, or a Kiwi, I’d say they well deserve it.
        
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        September 28, 2018 9:03am
      - UpandComer
        
        Boomers are the worst generation. By far.
        
        The boomers had everything handed to them on a platter. Unprecedented wealth, financial and cultural, and they pissed it away, with their bullshit equalitarianism.
        
        Shut up about having to work hard. The income-house price ratio, lack of debt, lack of international competition and job security was completely unbelievable for Boomers. High interest rates or not.
        
        I can’t believe how myopically retarded Boomers are. Aside from my parents.
        
        You let the west fall, you incompetent, vapid, garish, dumb bastards. When you piss off and die, there is a strong chance that a few years subsequently, your children will have to go to war. And you dumb idiots can’t even understand that.
        
        Yes, the Chinese have raped our housing market. The Chinese are going to colonise NZ, and subject your kids to ‘social credit’ scores. And boomer arseholes will support it, because they only understand sexual freedom. Fuck off.
        
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        September 28, 2018 9:40am
      - waikatogirl
        
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        September 28, 2018 9:48am
      - UpandComer
        
        I don’t need recourse to personal anecotes Dubya. One can simply look at economic and cultural fundamentals.
        
        Just one or two of my coin wallets by themselves dispel the critique of ‘ne’er do well’. There’s a reason I have time to read widely.
        
        It’s not just the economic fundamentals like purchasing power, I-H ratios, unfunded liabilities to pay for Boomer ‘entitlements’.
        
        Millennials and Gen Z have had their minds poisoned, physically, and intellectually.
        
        The progressive left arose out of boomers. You had all the tools to stop it from happening, but you were simply blind, totally and utterly blind, to culture and convergence.
        
        http://www.unz.com/article/a-troublesome-intelligence/
        
        The war on the west has got so bad, that now in England, the Shona, Akan, Igbo and Yoruna are achieving higher scores on the GSCE then the English children. Because the English children are being taught social/racial consciousness and sexual play and have boomer parents. That’s in between being raped literally and financially by the immigrants from the Dar-el Islam, and despised uniformly by the friendly Indians etc who ignore the rape of the English like everyone else.
        
        It doesn’t matter if the nice friendly immigrant’s are doing so well. They vote hard left. And the opportunities they were presented by a soft civic nationalist right will not survive their vote for the socialism they ran away from.
        
        Those initial results might actually support civic nationalism. It will be incredibly interesting if they hold up, regardless of the selection bias and the doctoring that Mr Chisala has engaged in. Needs another 15 years. Let’s see if the results replicate at the A-levels and university, without total destruction of standards as occurred with GCSE.
        
        Maybe Boomers will understand when Jeremy Corbyn is Prime Minister of Britain, and Bernie Sanders is President of the United States, if it even exists by the end of Trump’s second term. Anyway enough from me.
        
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        September 28, 2018 10:59am
    - AgainstTheFlow
      
      The plural of anecdote is not data.
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:38am
      - dubya
        
        UpAndComer, you sound like my most unsuccessful brother 😉
        
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        September 28, 2018 10:06am
      - Woz
        
        Sorry Dubya, somehow I managed to click “report” instead of “reply” on your post. I trust DPF will have the sense to ignore that. I was going to say that UpandComer sounds a lot like my own youngest brother, a 38 year old ne’er-do-well.
        
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        September 28, 2018 10:31am
  - Tall Man
    
    Well I guess you associate and have bred a bunch of losers. I have thre children, all own their own homes and are student loan free. Their wives/partners have also cleared their loans and yes, they are all well educated and motivated, not your typical labour whinger that wants all off what others have for no effort.
    
    Was it tough, yes and the years at university were hard, gaining a good education and working at whatever jobs could help them pay the bills.
    
    Did i say motivated or is that a dirty word in the lazy labour brigade? Much better to sit around and whinge until someone comes along and does the hard yards so you and your thieving mates can come along and take it off them.
    
    Keep waiting but stay in the gutter where you belong.
    
    Life is tough, harden up and stop blaming others for your own deficiencies.
    
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    September 29, 2018 2:27am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Yes my three are all in stable relationships and have mortgages and in demand jobs, eldest (m) had first child after 30, youngest two, (m) and (f), now mid to late 20’s and haven’t had children yet.
      
      Contrast that with myself who had first mortgage at 21, first child at 17 and haven’t had a high tolerance for relationships, especially when it gets to around the time that if you split that you have to give some one half your stuff.
      
      They have all entered into mortgages and homes with their partners, far more equitable.
      
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      September 29, 2018 6:48am
- Dave Mann
  
  Pure gold, krazykiwi! 😀 😀 😀
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:07am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  I just stole that and dropped it on my Facebook. Prob get a 24 hour ban.
  Thanks
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:29am
- ross411
  
  It is little known Winston Pyotrs grew up on the steppes. The steppes of a farm house in Whananaki, but the steppes none the less!
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:45am
- Harkman
  
  I can’t wait for next week’s conversation. ?
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:08am
  - stigie
    
    I can’t wait for the next inquiry..? //
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:19am
    - freethinker
      
      Won’t have long to wait.
      
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      September 28, 2018 12:56pm
- UpandComer
  
  . Lol
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:17am
- UpandComer
  
  https://archive.fo/2kAdp – Daily Mail. Russians ‘strike the home’ by putting nerve agent on the front door handle. Same story says they arrived in Salisbury at 11.48am.
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20180927110520/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal – the Skripal’s leave home at 9.15am.
  
  There is no surveillance of them returning home.
  
  So how did they get contract the ‘Novichok’ by touching the front door at 9.15am if the Russians didn’t arrive until 11.48am?
  
  Further, Novichok is supposed to be deadly. Why wasn’t it in this case? – overnight rain, hmmm (https://archive.fo/7umkG)
  
  But it stopped raining around 3am. The door handle had some shelter, and Novichok is completely inert. I’d happily link, but can’t.
  
  The official narrative is a joke. The GRU guys were there to extract information about how the UK an “”ally”” committed hostile acts against the current President of the United States.
  
  But if it makes people feel better, just think of this as all a way to get Winston to double down on Russia and look bad internationally.
  
  Also yesterday I was told the Oligarchs were Russians. No, the important ones were not. But I can’t link. But don’t get me wrong. They were Lubavitzers, Sabbatean-Frankists, Lurianists, and Je-ev Jabotinsky line Zionists – not standard, good-willed orthodox who fought bravely for Russia and Germany in world war 1. But they had no qualms reducing the entire population of Russia by many percentage points in their brief interregnum. I’ll accept no lies about their identity. Nor about what happened to the Skripals.
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:36am
  - UpandComer
    
    Lol is this for real? I just btfo the entire British establishment narrative, and you rubes downvote it? Eat it. The British are liars. They were liars when Marjoribanks Darsey was diddling kids and betraying thousands of troops, including ours in Crete, during world war 2, they’re liars and degenerates now. They have been for a very long time. They aren’t our friends. They aren’t the people of England’s friends. They’re Israel’s best friends.
    
    Speaking of which:
    
    http://www.unz.com/tsaker/russia-will-establish-an-unofficial-no-fly-zone-over-syria/
    
    Israel shouldn’t have shot down a Russian IL 52 and then lied and said it was the Syrians. Now:
    
    Syria get S300 missile systems
    Automated air defense management systems which can track and destroy Israeli aircraft the moment they are airbourne from Israel
    Disrupt enemy aircraft systems and sattellite comms.
    
    And all because not only did the Israeli’s shoot down a plane, lie about it in the most gormless manner possible, they sent a delegation to Moscow where they aggressively and arrogantly expressed zero apologies and threatened the Russians.
    
    So now their air-force exists at the courtesy of Russia.
    
    No Russian ever called me white male. Plenty of Israel supporters have. The amateurish stupidity of the Skripal clean up is only exceeded by the amateurish hubris and incompetence displayed after they murdered a Russian air-crew engaged in a peaceful mission preventing the ISIS-fication of Syria.
    
    And yes – the Oligarchs were what they were. Putin is superior to the Oligarchs, because he doesn’t regard gentiles as sub-humans. Go and have a look at the contraction in the Russian population under the Oligarch rule. You don’t even need the Holodomor to exceed the Holocaust narrative.
    
    All the ‘can’t mess with the Zohar’ supremacists had to do was apologise for blowing a high-crew Russian plane out of the sky. And they would have got away with it. They couldn’t even do that. Now I wonder if any of their planes are going to be blown out of the sky engaged in ‘peaceful self-defence’ missions bombing Syrian Christians in Syria.
    
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    September 28, 2018 4:05pm
secondcumming

My missus just called out. “FFS, someone give Brett a hanky!!”
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September 28, 2018 8:01am
- Inandout
  
  When you get fingered by the ‘me too’ movement in the US you may as well give up. He was correct though that the future will become almost impossible for anyone wishing to stand for public office, because 90% of us have a ‘background’.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:07am
  - G152
    
    This will have its own reward because when the recipient of such treatment gets into a position he will remember his treatment and who caused it.
    In the meantime any respect for a political party that employs such tactics will fall so low as to wipe out that party.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:31am
    - MickMac
      
      hopefully
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:47am
  - MCos
    
    So what are you saying, Inandout, 90% of men are rapists?
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:36am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      That is just insane; you are insane.
      
      Find a rock and apologise for being a man, there is a precedent . . . .
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:45am
    - Ed Snack
      
      More like that in our late teens and perhaps early 20’s, many of us (I know I did on a few occasions, just a few) got hammered at a party where there were others (male and female) present and we may not have behaved exactly like angels. We may also have a fairly hazy remembrance of what happened.
      
      If someone wanted to create a lot of trouble for basically anyone, all they have to do is “remember” an incident where, say, you (the target), inappropriately touched someone at one of these parties. No evidence needed, just have a victim who only needs to remember that it was you, can’t be sure when (or even the year), where (aparty at someone’s house). You can even provide the names of a number of witnesses who can all claim that they remember nothing like that at all and that isn’t important. In fact, it helps because not only can it be claimed that the trauma of the incident made the accuser forget the circumstances, but that the lack of trauma is why the “witnesses” forgot – and be believed ! (by some, or by some who claim to believe).
      
      And just to get a bit of extra icing on the cake, when you, the target, get angry at this ridiculous charade, that you get angry is further proof that you are unsuited to role you are being proposed for.
      
      You don’t need to be a rapist, you don’t need to have done anything at all, you just need to be male, but most importantly, you just need to be a progressive TARGET
      
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      September 28, 2018 10:03am
  - JIV
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:39am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Brett, just tore the Dems especially Finestein, a very large new rectum.
  He not only refuted the allegations he:
  He bought with him:
  A detailed calendar, written at the time, showing he was out of town for much of the time mentioned.
  When the parties were held (weekends) he was out of Washington DC.
  This is backed up by dozens of people.
  Unlike his accusers, who have NO evidence and no corroboration.
  ANYONE who votes for ANY Dem. in the midterms, should be ashamed of themselves.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:29am
  - Lance
    
    How sexist of him, he presented actual evidence… bastard!
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:35am
  - Nermal
    
    Hasn’t he worked out that with the Left, it’s the narrative that counts, not the facts.
    
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    September 28, 2018 3:30pm
    - Jack5
      
      You can here Kavanaugh accuser, Chrisine Blasey Ford, giving evidence to the Senate committe here – suggest you start around 28.35.
      
      https://youtu.be/nUp5-FRj5-8
      
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      September 28, 2018 4:38pm
igm

This is what we have ended up with under MMP:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/107404413/jacinda-ardern-to-speak-to-the-un-general-assembly
Thank you Winston, may you never rest in peace!
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September 28, 2018 8:03am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Listened to it on the radio. The Reo, Maori, #metoo, global warming, equality for vaginas, trump bad.
  
  Ticked all the boxes, excellent speech.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:07am
  - JIV
    
    Anything about the economy or something that takes a modicum of intelligence or is it all just feelz.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:42am
    - Padriv Ustoev
      
      I said, “ticked all the boxes” economy is for the heartless National government. Not for the glorious progressive government we have now.
      
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      September 28, 2018 10:36am
      - igm
        
        You are the sort of immigrant this country can do without. Obviously you are a real self-enetitled Labour-loving leech, probably a union exec to boot!
        
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        September 28, 2018 11:25am
      - Padriv Ustoev
        
        Trolling is so easy these days. Unless you put #sarcasm after every sentence people get so butthurt.
        I would have thought ” equality for vaginas” was a give away.
        
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        September 28, 2018 3:12pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Sycophant. Grow a spine and stop spouting the garbage the party feeds you.
    
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    September 29, 2018 2:30am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Was it translated in real time?
    
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    September 29, 2018 7:14am
- Inandout
  
  But she spoke text book Moree.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:08am
  - gump
    
    As does Bill English. What is your point?
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/09/we_have_had_a_pm_that_could_speak_maori_-_the_last_one.html
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:37am
- Rich Prick
  
  I have a spare bucket if anyone needs it.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:48am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    She could have described the CoL economic solution.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzm9urjQbWU
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:09am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Capitalist pig, you should give your spare bucket to someone that doesn’t have one.
    
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    September 29, 2018 7:43am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  How many delegates were in the hall to hear Miss Adhern speak and how many were holding cleaning implements?
  
  How many babies were present?
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:48am
  - Paulus
    
    The wide photo I saw of the Auditorium shows NO people appear to be in the main body of the Auditorium.
    All the people who could be seen were the hangers on and the NZ media on the outsides at the back.
    Anyway the Kavanagh crap was the only thing on at the time so nobody could be bothered to attend – and the baby was not there.
    
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    September 28, 2018 1:47pm
    - RF
      
      There is a comment that in spite of being asked by Arderns team, out of all the international correspondents available to cover the speech, there was only one who bothered to stay.
      
      I guess the fact that squirrel was crying, drove them away.
      
      In a couple of video shots you can see the scruffy individual with the baybee out the back. Has he been living under a bridge as he looks bloody scruffy ?
      
      Is the bimbo so desperate for publicity that she puts her baybee through the wringer.
      
      Not the actions of a good mother.
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:06pm
- Piniwi
  
  But igm again it was staged, structured and managed all to try and make the silly little girl look good to the UN included the baby crying on cue. Unfortunately it was as big an event of her media appearances playing to a very limited audience. As always carefully worded to appeal directly to the live audience while forgetting the much wider group who might only see the start. Then seeing the level of attendance knew it did not warrant further viewing thus reducing that potential audience as well. Meanwhile back home the Media party were as usual hanging on every word while the real people heard it start with gibberish and ended the same way. Her visions for the world are as hollow as her visions for NZ where an increasingly growing number have decided “we can get along without her” fine.
  
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  September 28, 2018 3:21pm
Steve (North Shore)

UN. What did she actually say? My head hurts.
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September 28, 2018 8:03am
- NewInoffensiveName
  
  She signalled her virtue over and over again. She had the opportunity to improve relations with pretty much the only big economy on the planet that is growing well, to solidify relations with the one nation that actually and meaningfully protects NZ’s security, to negotiate deals with the single greatest dealmaker ever to hold the Oval Office, etc., etc., etc. Instead she used code words like “collective” to signal to the globalists and communists that she was still a comrade. Skeletor, formerly The Princess, is an idiot, a virtue signaller, a communist, a globalist, and an embarrassment.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:31am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Mrs Trudeau had an opportunity the make deals with Donald Trump? Right. Deals like what? How to fuck a Country and still get votes?
    A lot of New Zealander cringe every time she sees a camera and reporter.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:54am
    - MickMac
      
      Don’t forget Neve!
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:15am
      - sooty
        
        Ah yes, the babyeeeee!
        
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        September 28, 2018 1:53pm
  - Paulus
    
    She collected herself and did not say “Comrades” this time.
    
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    September 28, 2018 1:48pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Right NewInoffensiveName it was nothing more than a global version of the clap trap we’ve heard regarding the domestic situation of the village or community responsibility by default for every problem. Problems to a large degree are the direct result of poor personal choices and actions while rejecting any responsibility. Even worse is that while there is need for a degree of empathy there is far less tolerance for stupidity. Made worse by the the same attitude being employed within the COL as they too have become adept at ducking responsibility that is diluting their credibility. It has got so bad even poor old John Armstrong all but begging them to get it together ASAP. A sort of #Lets do this – quick smart.
    
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    September 28, 2018 3:41pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    The whole meaning of the word ‘virtue’ has been high jacked.
    
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    September 29, 2018 7:50am
- DigNap15
  
  I already know.
  I couldn’t bear to watch or listen to it.
  I’d be so angry for the rest of the day!
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:45am
  - Justitia
    
    #metoo!
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:32am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      #wetoo, I guess that means I watched it.
      
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      September 29, 2018 7:59am
- rightoverlabour
  
  I have not heard a word she says. the moment her voice comes on the radio I hit the off button. The only time I might indulge her is when Hoskin asks her questions. When Soper plays bits, it’s the off button. Now, am I missing anything important? I have also never looked at a single picture of her baby. ( I never watch TV either, so I haven’t seen much of the fawning…). Could I be missing out on stuff that could stunt my emotional intelligence? Asking for a friend.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:22pm
fernglas

Apropos of the Kavanaugh hearing, isn’t it interesting that in the US the perception of what is and isn’t true is divided along party political lines. Can’t be healthy.
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September 28, 2018 8:03am
- kowtow
  
  The revenge of the Salem Witches.
  
  We’re witnessing a modern version of the old Soviet/Nazi era show trials .
  
  It’s all political and designed to ensure the total destruction of ones opposition. The stakes are huge and the accusers know it.
  
  Due process and evidence not required.
  
  Just plenty of emotion.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:12am
  - VicParking
    
    Been watching on and off all night. The democrat senators just go into a #MeToo speach when its their turn to question Ford. At the end they ask one question along the lines of “Tell how this horrifying attack has effected your life”. Every time Ford is asked a difficult question by the GOP her lawyers stop it and say to answer would disclose Client Lawyer privilege. Ford sits there sucking on a bottle of Coca-Cola (label towards camera) looking like the mad cat lady from the Simpsons.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:51am
    - Piniwi
      
      Right VP perhaps you missed the start where the chair offered her the opportunity to stop or take a break at any point, just ask for anything she needed at ant time. To that she said she would need coffee after her statement? Then she needed to suck on Coke from that point on which was so prominent being clutched and sipped by her like some sort of prop.
      
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      September 28, 2018 3:49pm
- DigNap15
  
  But as Leighton says, it seems that the left are always more nasty and hateful than the right.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:14am
  - NewInoffensiveName
    
    And it is going to blow up spectacularly. Mid-terms are going to be a Democratic bloodbath. A huge amount of work has been done to prevent the rampant voter fraud that has plagued USA elections in the past. The old tricks will just not work for the globalist left. Trump will get his nominee on SCOTUS, will secure increased majorities in both houses of Congress, will see Republicans rise in local/state elections, and will see the traditional power structures of the Democrats, especially the Clintons, crumble. I really look forward to the reaction that the founder of this wonderful blog has on the day after the elections!
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:34am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Better than watching TV, a live fucking train wreck
      
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      September 28, 2018 8:56am
    - Piniwi
      
      Right NewInoffensiveName this sad episode might be the best thing to galvanize Republican support making them more determined to make their vote count. Even many women who have sons, daughters, husbands and family will flatly reject such a blatant hit job on any individual based on an unsubstantiated accusation.
      Only jury call was for a case of sexual assault brought by a female employee against her boss. When we reached the jury room a woman with attitude tried to take control standing by a whiteboard she had drawn two columns on to list “evidence”. The reaction of the rest of the jury was to just completely ignore her and start getting down to the “facts”. It was a false accusation and of no consolation to the accused he was acquitted as we know how mud sticks and he would have to live with it for longer that any penalty he might have attracted for a guilty verdict.
      
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      September 28, 2018 4:05pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    It’s all that emotion.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:42am
  - Justitia
    
    You had better believe it. The Regressive Left base themselves in unreason, are fanatical in pursuit of their goals and are impossible to dialogue with. They are known to the media as “progressives”.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:37am
- Viking2
  
  No different here.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:32am
- Chuck Bird
  
  fernglas, what have we here with Meka the Muss? At least in the US it is in the open. We should see the full report including the photos with only the name of the victim redacted.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:52am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Not “evidence” as such.
  But his calanda’s and corroborating statements by others (dozens).
  Have just blasted a hole in the Dems case.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:53am
- Nermal
  
  Hasn’t he worked out that with the Left, it’s the narrative that counts, not the facts.
  
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  September 28, 2018 3:33pm
AgainstTheFlow

The Prime Minister is using baby Neve as a political ‘human shield’ – in spite of the PM’s insistence that Neve’s privacy be respected, and the Mallard enforcing that in Parliament.
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September 28, 2018 8:08am
- sooty
  
  Womans day can run any picture they want know.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:11am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Only from America, I have no need to see the baby.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:15am
- kevn
  
  @Against… Trump got a good finger wagging from JA.
  What a joke,
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:12am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Heard, on the radio.
    “She asked for the tariffs on Aluminium and steel be lifted, just like Australia.
    Sound like a whinny begging 3 YO to anyone else?
    Instead of making a rational argument, putting a case, negotiating OUR position, she:
    Whines
    “But I want a bike, tommy next door has a bike why can’t I?????”
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:57am
    - KiWombat
      
      Problem is that she needs to offer him something in return – that’s what negotiating is all about !
      
      Perhaps she could offer him a photo op with the baybeee !
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:19am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Learned her “negotiation” from the unions.
        Giver us ……
        or
        We strike….
        Oops, Trump doesn’t appear to be receptive to threats, especially when you have nothing to threaten with.
        
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        September 28, 2018 9:33am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Trump has been photographed with plenty of babes in the past, our nations first baby has nothing to offer.
        
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        September 28, 2018 2:00pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Perhaps he could ‘hold her beer’?
        
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        September 29, 2018 8:16am
    - Piniwi
      
      But RW Capitalist of greater concern was the dumb things she blurted out about trade only to illustrate it is another area of woeful knowledge or comprehension.
      
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      September 28, 2018 4:11pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Yep, she has him under her thumb.
    Trump is pissing his pants laughing
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:58am
    - OTGO
      
      Trump has no idea that Jacinda is speaking. He’s watching Fox all day. And when he’s finished he won’t even make the effort to watch a reply of her speech. Why would he? She is the antithesis of everything he believes in.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:10am
- MickMac
  
  Jacinda is a Liar
  
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  September 28, 2018 11:17am
secondcumming

EMAIL

To: Andrew Little @ Minister of Justice

From: The Residents of Te Kuiti

Subject: For fuck sake man – do something for the good people of this country!

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1045215229607579648
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September 28, 2018 8:09am
- Southern Raider
  
  Unbelievable that these goons have been bailed back to that small town
  
  What justice
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:18am
  - DigNap15
    
    I always wanted to set up a “Judge Watch” website.
    Where we could list stupid decisions such as this!
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:43am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Judge the Judges: View the Hands Judges have Dealt Victims
      
      http://www.judgethejudges.co.nz
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:01am
- Southern Raider
  
  If the Police and Courts won’t make the town safe how about hand it over to the local farmers to sort out. A few hundred farmers with shot guns and rifles would sort the problem out quickly
  
  If this “club” is associated with the Mongrel Mob then we know this is another cultural benefit to NZ
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:20am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    The Te Kuiti Court is pretty much closed, if the local courts were open and used, then there might be more local accountability, for decisions like this.
    
    I will make the assumption that Hamilton was the court in question that allowed bail, against Police advice.
    
    I doubt that the local cops are impressed.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:22am
- MickMac
  
  Little is another Liar
  
  Remember the assault on the woman Prison warder and Little’s “low end of offending in the workplace”.
  
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  September 28, 2018 11:18am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Little is also stupid. Hoskin had him on the ropes. $26,000 for MCs at his $1,5 Mil Justice wank fest (but one was fluent in Maori!!!)
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:26pm
sooty

Yesterday the far left herald was poking the borax at Cindy!
The only worse for Labour would be the Standard, joining in!
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September 28, 2018 8:10am
Gravelroad

People do all sorts of dumb things when they are teenagers.
Hope parents/extended family/ caregivers are now warning their youngsters that today’s behaviour could well ruin their lives 40 years from now.
They won’t believe it – it won’t happen to them – but it just might.
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September 28, 2018 8:10am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  If only we can teach teenagers not to rape.
  
  Or not to tell lies for political gain, not sure which one is worse.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:12am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    In the context of politics…they are the same thing.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:12am
  - Tall Man
    
    I suggest that you pop off and have a real close look at the rape stats.
    
    Your attitude and comment is offensive and misleading.
    
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    September 29, 2018 2:36am
- Inandout
  
  And with Facebook the idiots are posting their mistakes online, for ever and ever (if Google allows). This sadly is McCarthyism through and through, and McCarthy was a Democrat FFS!
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:20am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Facebook is dying for this and other reasons.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:28am
  - howitis
    
    This stuff on display in Washington today is an exact replica of Joseph McCarthy methods:
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
    … He also used various charges of communism, communist sympathies, disloyalty, or sex crimes to attack a number of politicians and other individuals inside and outside of government….
    ..With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, and following the suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester C. Hunt that same year,[6] McCarthy’s support and popularity faded. ..
    This is what these DemocRATs go for.
    
    … McCarthy became the youngest circuit judge in the state’s history by defeating incumbent Edgar V. Werner, who had been a judge for 24 years.[17] In the campaign, McCarthy exaggerated Werner’s age of 66, claiming that he was 73, and so allegedly too old and infirm to handle the duties of his office..
    This was in the 1930s. Dem Rats don’t change their tactics much. Lies are stock in trade.
    
    McCarthy changed to become Republican later.
    Ok Then.
    Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others !!
    
    …McCarthy identified himself as Catholic, and although the great majority of Catholics were Democrats, as his fame as a leading anti-Communist grew, he became popular in Catholic communities across the country, with strong support from many leading Catholics, diocesan newspapers, and Catholic journals…
    
    Joe McCarthy truly was a scumbag.
    We are seeing a revival in Washington today and in the last two years of this lowlife activity.
    
    McCarthy died of alcoholism at 48.
    From Wikipedia
    …It was reported that McCarthy suffered from cirrhosis of the liver and was frequently hospitalized for alcoholism. Numerous eyewitnesses, including Senate aide George Reedy and journalist Tom Wicker, reported finding him alarmingly drunk in the Senate. Journalist Richard Rovere (1959) wrote:
    He had always been a heavy drinker, and there were times in those seasons of discontent when he drank more than ever. But he was not always drunk.
    He went on the wagon (for him this meant beer instead of whiskey !!! ) for days and weeks at a time. The difficulty toward the end was that he couldn’t hold the stuff. He went to pieces on his second or third drink. And he did not snap back quickly.[142]
    McCarthy had also become addicted to heroin. Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, became aware of McCarthy’s addiction in the 1950s, and demanded he stop using the drug. McCarthy refused…
    
    Worth a read if you don’t know about this dreadful person.
    How he had influence and ruined the lives of many is truly scary.
    We are seeing this attempted destruction of a life being played out by the Dirty Dems live on TV today.
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:53am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Makes no difference if you don’t even have a past.
  Some slimeballs can come into a public forum and make up lies and smears about you.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:46am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    “Mit Romney” remember him…….apparently he didn’t pay tax for 10 years.
    ACTUALLY…that too, was a lie.
    
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    September 28, 2018 4:53pm
- Evadne
  
  Under the New Order, violent criminals and gang members are just misunderstood, and should be released from prison. Thieves just need more support. Meth heads should be compensated. Physical bullies and domestic abusers should have their tikanga respected.
  
  Successful men who may or may not have had a drunken fumble 30 years ago must be hounded, humiliated and destroyed.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:51am
Sofia

Handley was offered a $400,000 chief technology officer (CTO) role by the Government earlier in 2018 and verbally accepted the position.
But before he signed a contract, the job was re-scoped and he was offered a $107,500 payout instead.

This is similar to Broadcasting, once a portfolio important enough to be represented by a Cabinet Minister, but then it apparently does not matter so much, as it was downgraded with Curran – and that may really be something to do with gender numbers of Cabinet Members, which is dopey.

One has to wonder about the entire performance of a Winston-selected Government, where people drag down portfolios or change the importance of tasks by what they personally do.

What was Handley actually going to do for New Zealand’s technology?
Does New Zealand actually need another state television channel as was the Labour Election proposal, RNZ+, with Curran seeking out Hirschfeld (perhaps at friend and ex-flatmate Ardern’s advice, or not) to bypass the resistance of Griffin and others. And in the face of proposed RNZ+, what reason to have TV1, TV2 or Bravo?

When will this Winston-selected Government actually involve itself with work, instead of screwing around with personalities?

It all registers on the bull-shit meter for Election 2020, or should do so …
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September 28, 2018 8:11am
- cmm
  
  “What was Handley actually going to do for New Zealand’s technology?”
  
  Nothing.
  
  It was a way to get us to pay for him to help Cindy achieve her personal goals.
  
  Remember his offer? Something along the lines of “what can I do for you [Jacinda] and NZ?”
  
  Jacinda first, us last.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:19am
oldpark

Heard the woman selected by Peters as NZ PM Talk in the UN. She was referred to as Mrs Ardern.
She was waxing strong on the so called #METOO group. Could see how pissed off she was when it was revealed and leaked that one of her hand picked Ministers Meka Whaitiri was dumped by her for attacking one of her workmates.Also how the other gang of far left Lunatics in the Misandrists infested Green Party daily abuse men,because they are men.
As being called Mrs Ardern is she embarrassed to be called M/S Ardern in the front of the World body UN. Probably, she would not get too many brownies points with having on board a three month old baby. Nuff said.
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September 28, 2018 8:12am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  I liked the part of the speech about equality for vaginas.
  “Metoo must be wetoo.”
  Such incisive eloquence.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:15am
- cmm
  
  Being called Miss would be waving her status in the face of many people who would be very offended.
  
  By calling herself Mrs she gives everyone an out.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:22am
  - MickMac
    
    Jacinda is a Liar
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:20am
    - cmm
      
      Truth manager.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:36am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        not a very good one imho
        
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        September 28, 2018 2:07pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Maybe it was an assumption made by some clerk, it would also suggest a lack of knowledge about our PM.
    
    Not that our media would note that.
    
    You would think that no other countries leaders spoke but ours, were they equally not noteworthy?
    
    What a waste of time and money.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:35am
- waikatogirl
  
  Mark Richardson on TV3 AM Show has been holding up a sign this morning that states:
  
  Rich, old white men
  MATTER TOO!
  
  ?
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:22am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    I would settle for just white men mattering in this country, frankly.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:24am
  - plc
    
    I don’t think there is anybody I find more offensive than his offsider, Amanda Gillies.
    
    Vacuous, pious, virtue signalling, shallow, celebrity focussed
    
    Poster girl for soy latte socialists everywhere
    
    “jacinda has been great this week. her performance in New york has been worth billions to NZ in terms of trade and tourism”
    
    Fruit flies have more nous
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:27am
Fletch

Watching the Kavanaugh hearing et al, live now. They are currently taking a 15 minute break during his being questioned, but his opening statement – WOW. He was in tears, having to defend his honor, saying that his life has been ruined by this and he may not ever be able to teach again or coach his daughters’ basketball teams, etc. Very emotional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGIiiZXdl4

This has all been an exercise in how to destroy a good man’s name.
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September 28, 2018 8:15am
slightlyrighty

So while the media fawns over Jacinda at the UN, Democracy died in this country last night with the passing of the so called electoral integrity act.

Allowable Dissent is a vital component of any well functioning democracy. It makes the government work to find a consensus rather than run roughshod over the people that elected them to govern.

Winston doesn’t care, but the Greens should hang their head in shame. As Shaw said, “we don’t agree with it but voted for it anyway”

Get used to that feeling lad. You just voted for that statement as the new status quo. In My Opinion, you are a gutless moron that has no principles. You have sacrificed our democracy in a craven longing for a sense of power. You have sacrificed the Kermadec Sanctuary on that same alter, all to keep Winston onside.

In my opinion, you are a pathetic piece of pond scum, unfit to wear the mantle of “Elected Representative”
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September 28, 2018 8:15am
- krazykiwi
  
  +10. I know a few Green supporters. They are mostly unaware or disinterested in all this. In speaking with a couple I get the feeling they’d vote Green even if Shaw ate babies on national television. Democracy is being mocked.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:22am
- oldpark
  
  @slightlyrightly.
  Yes to heard the sick fugh snakeoil Peters trying to change the subject about Waka jumping when he talked about the leaking and dumping regarding the racist Maori Party bully Whaitiri who attacked her work colleague.As or the Waka jumping bill supported by the Far left Lunatic nut bar Greens. It is an abomination.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:27am
- Paulus
  
  So Peters can do what Ardern agreed to in the secret papers to reduce the MMP level of 5% to 3% (or even 2% it is suggested now).
  By so doing should Peters lose his 7% by half he still gets in to prop Ardern up and continue to run things.
  He may announce this ate the NZF AGM this weekend.
  
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  September 28, 2018 1:56pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Well said. Today is the day democracy was murdered in New Zealand. Well done Greens, you pathetic, moronic, Nethanderals. Fuck you, and every thing you stand for.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:31pm
- Tall Man
  
  That’s a bit soft 🙂
  
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  September 29, 2018 2:41am
DigNap15

I wonder if Ardern asked the Canadian and Chilean leaders at their trade talks what their average wages were?
She would have got a surprise when they told her that our wages are higher than both of theirs!
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September 28, 2018 8:17am
- niggly
  
  Plus Trudeau would have been gobsmacked if he discovers that Jacinda gets paid more than him as a PM!
  
  According to Wiki: $172,400
  “The Prime Minister’s total compensation consists of the Member of the House of Commons Basic Sessional Indemnity of CAD$172,400, the Prime Minister Salary of CAD$172,400, and the Prime Minister Car Allowance of CAD$2000.”
  
  $172K Canadian dollars is (only) equivalent to $199K NZ dollars!
  
  Jacinda gets paid 2.5x more than Justin!
  
  Clearly Capitalism hasn’t failed our Jacinda!
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:09am
  - howitis
    
    The Salary for the Prime Minister of the UK is GBP 142,500 base.
    This is for the PM of a Nuclear power and member of the UN Security Council.
    A UK Backbencher is on a base of GBP 77,379
    
    The Salary for POTUS is USD 400,000 and has been since 2001.
    No change since. In fact:-
    From Business Insider in Feb 2018:-
    …Between 1789, when George Washington came into office, and today, there have been five pay raises for the President, the most recent one coming in 2001, when Congress doubled the presidential salary. George W. Bush, who took office that year, was the first to benefit from the increase …
    
    Back then in 2001 Clark would have been on just over NZD 200,000 pa base.
    The salary rises for top Government roles in NZ have been absurd.
    
    See what Department Heads in the US Government get paid compared to what people in Auckland Council get donated for being useless.
    In the USA
    “The Secretary of the Treasury pays a taxable pension to the president. Former presidents receive a pension equal to the pay that the head of an executive department (Executive Level I) would be paid, as of 2017, $207,800 per year. ” (USD)
    
    So, the head of a US Govt Dept gets little more in dollar terms than a Green Pardy list MP in NZ.
    Troughers in NZ are well overpaid.
    No wonder Handley wanted a perk NZ Govt appointment.
    
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    September 28, 2018 12:04pm
- Piniwi
  
  Funny DigNap15 it is possible the money markets do not see things as simplistic as the silly little girl does or is that they see a simple silly little girl too as the NZ$ has started slipping again. It may be as a result of the farming industry confidence levels also slumping as they get a share of her feelz. Best tell her to add trade matters to her list of no go subjects ASAP.
  
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  September 28, 2018 4:46pm
Fletch

Found Kavanaugh’s opening statement in full –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQF9e4y1LQM

They have ground this poor guy down and ruined his life, even if he does get confirmed.
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September 28, 2018 8:18am
- All_on_Red
  
  http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/09/27/bunch-bull-graham-blasts-dems-ambush-tactics-ford-allegations
  
  I’m not really a fan of Lindsay Grahams but he sums it up well.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:27am
  - Harkman
    
    In the last couple of months Graham has been a revelation, he’s taken some mellow pills or seen the light. I think John McCain was dragging him down. He’s now a free man.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:14am
    - MickMac
      
      John McCain may have been a hero once in his life but he died a Traitor.
      
      He instigated and enabled the weaponising of the IRS against the ordinary American.
      He assisted the British Fake dossier from UK to USA and to deep State Brennan.
      
      McCain died a Traitor to America and Americans.
      Good riddance.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:25am
      - Harkman
        
        Yes only the Washington establishment grieved when he passed.
        
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        September 28, 2018 12:18pm
- MCos
  
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  ‘Poor guy’ my arse. He’s as guilty as sin.
  
  Just a guilty as Meka Whaitiri who denies touching her office worker.
  Just as guilty as Bill Cosby who has just gone to prison, but denied everything.
  Just as guilty as Harvey Weinstein who denies everything.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:52am
  - cmm
    
    Two teenie tiny differences:
    * Mega Fighter’s accuser didn’t do nothing about it for 30 years then come out of the woodwork.
    * Photos of bruises.
    
    That woman’s allegations are absurd. She claims she went to many parties there over a 3 year period and they all had gang rapes going on. Bullshit. Why would you go back to a party at the same place multiple times if there were rapes going on? She didn’t report the issue to the police at the time and nor did the hundreds of other women that would have been involved.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:08am
    - KiWombat
      
      Sounds a little too much like Louise Nicholas to me !
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:25am
  - Fletch
    
    Guilty, based on what? There is no evidence. All the people the accuser claims were there have denied it happened, including her good female friend. I think the Dems have overextended their hand with the latest ’10 gang rape parties’ accuser though. A friend of Kavanaugh’s was on Fox last night, and she said that it was a small community, and if there’d been even ONE gang rape party that everyone would have known about it – parents, etc, in a small Catholic community.
    
    No, this is all a massive smearing of this guy.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:13am
  - Ed Snack
    
    I do trust there is a /s in there MCos.
    
    Whaitiri’s victim has medical evidence, photographs, exact knowledge of where and when, and there are witnesses who can be named and who agree that they were present.
    
    Cosby had numerous allegations against him, and some of them had contemporary complaints, medical evidence, and all could remember where and when. Plus there was a trial and he was found guilty.
    
    Weinstein the same, numerous allegations, people could name times and places, and there are contemporary witnesses who agree that they were present for some of the complaints. He has not, I don’t think, been formally charged yet bu several prosecutors have announced that they are considering it.
    
    Kavanaugh’s accuser cannot remember where or when, she named 4 witnesses – ALL of whom provide zero support for her claim and under oath (and she threw her only female witness, her supposed “best friend” under the bus saying she had health issues that she needed to attend to). Plus the alleged offenses took place 30-40 years ago, no medical evidence. It is hard to see how one could investigate anything.
    
    And Ford is by far the most “credible” accuser that the Democrats have been able to find and pay.
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:20am
  - Jazzby
    
    I wish that I had your certainty.
    Blasey Ford, as a psychologist, of all people, should be aware of the considerable fallibility of memory, especially at a distance. Her declaration of “100% certainty” is, to me, suggestive of an attachment to the emotion rather than to the fact: this is not uncommon on the part of those who have been emotionally traumatised in one way or another. The more that they are challenged on their recollection, the more they convince themselves of the accuracy of it, and the more obdurate their stance. Their certainty can readily infect others, who rally to the cause; again, particularly if they have an emotional investment in it. I’d treat her claims with great scepticism.
    And yes, I do consider myself to be an expert in this regard, having practised psychiatry, as a specialist, for nearly forty years.
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:11am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Hopefully though, they (the Dems) will now lose the midterms.
  But I guess he is too much of a real man to gloat.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:14am
- MickMac
  
  He must be confirmed and fck the progressives on the bench, for the next 20yrs by doing the right thing not the expedient like the progressives on the SC.
  
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  September 28, 2018 11:22am
RRM

I just read the following by Willie Jackson on failbook.

Feel free to ?, ?, or ?

Let’s just take a pause from all the angry politics and allow the joy of Jacinda, Clarke and beautiful wee Neve at the UN to wash over us and feel pride at our leader and us as a people.

“We must not be silent in the face of intolerance, hate and discrimination. We must speak for those who do not have voice”, when Jacinda spoke these words at the UN General Assembly during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, while Clarke held Neve, she not only channeled a new type of leadership based on kindness and compassion, she challenged every stereotype that has locked women and men into the career or family trap. They showed everyone that with support, people can have family and career.

She has also shown the planet that leadership doesn’t require brutal tough guy masculinity, there can be an equally strong leadership through simple kindness. She has done more for our international standing in one appearance than many Prime Ministers manage in a lifetime. We should all feel a deep pride in the way Jacinda, Clarke and Neve have shone and represented us on the global stage. Their humble grace reminds us all of our basic humanity. There is a joy in all of this and we should all drink deeply from it, this is a moment where we are all included and have all been served wonderfully by our Prime Minister and her family.

We can get back to arguing and bickering about politics tomorrow, but today was truly special.
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September 28, 2018 8:18am
- krazykiwi
  
  They showed everyone that with ~~support~~ a $500,000 salary, people can have family and career
  
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  What sanctimonious bullshit.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:24am
- waikatogirl
  
  Did Willy Jackson write that himself? Doesn’t sound like him. By the way, that is sickeningly sugary. What a total suck-up. ?
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:33am
  - krazykiwi
    
    I agree. For example:
    
    Their humble grace reminds us all of our basic humanity. There is a joy in all of this and we should all drink deeply from it
    
    To anyone who thinks Willie wrote this: I have this bridge …
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:43am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      I don’t see anything humble or gracious about the Kardashian-wannabe Ardern-Gayford party.
      
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      September 28, 2018 12:27pm
- Viking2
  
  Willie Jackson. Hummmmph.
  Racist, biggotted and a supporter of violence against women it seems.
  No principals at all.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:37am
  - niggly
    
    “No principals at all”.
    
    Like when he supports Labour policy to abolish Charter Schools, after spending years managing one?
    
    Perhaps someone should write out a list of Jackson’s double-standards … no doubt it would be epic!
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:15am
- Sofia
  
  She has also shown the planet that leadership doesn’t require brutal tough guy masculinity, there can be an equally strong leadership through simple kindness. She has done more for our international standing in one appearance than many Prime Ministers manage in a lifetime. We should all feel a deep pride in the way Jacinda, Clarke and Neve have shone and represented us on the global stage. Their humble grace reminds us all of our basic humanity. – Willie Jackson
  
  Mr Jackson has been vocal in his support for Ms Whaitiri throughout the investigation and met regularly with the prime minister to discuss his endorsement of the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP …
  As for whether Ms Whaitiri should continue to co-chair Labour’s Māori caucus, Mr Jackson said “nothing has changed”.
  
  ‘Me Too must become We Too’
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:38am
- Gravelroad
  
  Well, Mr Jackson, if your Prime Minister is so inspirational about humanity, let’s hope your people take a bit more notice of her leadership than they have thus far.
  Will your people stop assaulting each other, and others, if Jacinda says so?
  Will children be safe at home from drug and alcohol rage behaviour if Jacinda says so?
  Will all children have money spent on them for food and shoes to wear to school if Jacinda says so?
  Will you put less focus on blame and grievance and more on “basic humanity” if Jacinda says so?
  But, but……….no.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:50am
  - MickMac
    
    No Willie won’t.
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:27am
- Rich Prick
  
  Fuck, she really is Super Girl.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:54am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “We must not be silent in the face of intolerance, hate and discrimination. We must speak for those who do not have voice”
  or
  We must not be silent in the face of incompetence and dishonesty. We must speak for those who do not have voice”
  1. Us…re This CoL
  2. Us…the NZ voter.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:17am
Im Right

From this day on the Supreme Court nomination process will forever be tarnished, when the next nomination takes place and if the Democrats are in power, or Republicans, it will just end in allegations of corruption, sexual abuse and anything else that can put doubt into publics mind (true or false). What it ends up being is that NO ONE will actually want to be nominated as they know that they will be subjected to character assassination and claims from 10-40 years in their past.
No matter what side you support, left or right, the damage has been done and it again stems from the left in poising the well to score political points. Basically anything Trump supports or in this case nominates has to be shot down in flames…unfortunately in this case Kavanaugh is collateral damage to embarrass Trump…sad day!
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September 28, 2018 8:19am
- Fletch
  
  That’s a point that Kavanaugh made in his opening statement as well. That no one will want to be nominated and have to face all of this. It is going to have repercussions in America no matter what happens.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:22am
  - MickMac
    
    Now hopefully the old woman Ginsberg will die quickly and Trump can put another Kavanagh on the SC next year.
    That’ll serve the Dems right…
    
    and help bring America right.
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:28am
- RRM
  
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  Hold up –
  
  The left (and the people who made sworn statements) seem pretty adamant he’s an actual rapist.
  
  That’s not an unpaid library fine from 1993, if it’s true it’s a serious crime with a victim, and left and right don’t really matter.
  
  I don’t think it can just be ignored for the sake of polite and seemly conversation?
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:24am
  - All_on_Red
    
    There’s enough information now to know it isn’t true
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:30am
  - Fletch
    
    Ford isn’t accusing Kavanaugh of rape, just that he threw her on a bed and held her down, and that she escaped. Of course, she can’t remember where or when it happened, and every person she claimed was present doesn’t remember it either, including her good female friend Leland Keyser.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:31am
    - backster
      
      She is obviously reading a carefully prepared and rehearsed statement not giving off the cuff evidence and no cross examination.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:04am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      It seems highly unlikely it happened like she says, with who she says, but relationships with teenagers can be a little clumsy and few of us have not had a similar experience.
      If that has traumatised her for 40 years she really has bigger problems in her head. Like so many in her profession, she’s on the wrong side of the desk.
      
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      September 28, 2018 12:34pm
  - Im Right
    
    No one is saying rape RRM, sexual assault is the allegation. No-one is saying the women should not be given the platform to state their case but politics being what it is the Left have already found him guilty!
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:46am
  - Ed Snack
    
    RRM, Ford doesn’t claim that he raped her, it was a sexual assault – held down and attempted to remove clothes, desisted when she resisted. The second (laughable) accusation is that he flashed his dick in a woman’s face. The third (and really insane) claims that he was somehow involved in an unspecified way with a group of men who drugged and actually raped girls at parties over several years. It isn’t specifically alleged that he raped anyone but that he was present and knew of the activity and was possibly complicit in the drugging.
    
    The problem with investigating any of these is that there have been a number of witnesses cited, and for Ford’s allegations, they all deny under oath having any knowledge of the activity claimed. So how could you investigate it, 6 people allegedly present, one claims he did something, he claims he did nothing of the sort (and given the unspecificity of the time and place, what more can you say), and the other 4 people claim no knowledge of the activity or even any such occasion. What more could you find out ?
    
    The “dick in the face”, again witnesses who say no such thing happened to their knowledge, one hearsay “I heard from someone that they heard that….” which is worthless. So pretty hard to substantiate anything.
    
    The Rapist parties allegation shouldn’t even be dignified with any investigation, it is the equivalent of the Pizza Restaurant paedophile conspiracy theory which wasn’t ever investigated either.
    
    What should be investigated is who is organizing this orchestrated series of stories, what are they paying these people, and to what extent are the actual Democrat Senators complicit in the attempted perversion of Justice.
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:33am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And does Coke want to be associated with it?
      
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      September 29, 2018 12:05pm
- Jules99
  
  Was reminded of Clarence Thomas’ ‘uppity blacks’ comment : https://youtu.be/egTyaIAaqz8
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:30am
  - Ed Snack
    
    That short clip should be played on National TV. Puts it so accurately and so succinctly.
    
    The Democrats loathed (and still loath) the idea of an “uppity” black man daring to come off the reservation they so carefully superintend.
    
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    September 28, 2018 12:11pm
holysheet

Winston walks into the Green Parrot.
He finds his table and sits down. He asks the waiter for a scotch.
As he waits for his scotch, he looks at the TV. The news headline flashes a headline, reading, “Sources state that Winston is reported to have a very low IQ.”
Winston, feeling that the news headline was wrong, stands up and shouts “FAKE NEWS” at the TV and shakes his hands at the tv.
The waiter looks at Winston and asks him why he was mad.
Winston says, “Look here sunshine, this TV is spewing fake news! It was probably made in China. This is a total bullshit! This TV says that I have a low IQ when I actually have a great IQ!”
”How so?” questions the waiter.
Winston shakes his hands. “I took two IQ tests, and when I averaged the tests, it told me that I had an IQ of 150!”
The waiter frowns. He thinks for a moment and says, “ Excuse me Winston, don’t you have to divide by 2 to find the average?”
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September 28, 2018 8:19am
- secondcumming
  
  LOL!! Keep ’em coming Holy…….unfortunately, ever since this CoL of losers was handed the reins, there’s been a noticeable rise in the number of *humorless PC twats* wanting to infest our lives .
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:33am
Chris R

The worst publicity Ardern is creating for NZ is her adamant mantras that man-made climate change is beyond question and that therefore all NZ’ers must swallow the “science” blindly. Her knowledge of science is minute yet she is dumping her convictions on all of us and trashing our economy in the doing so. The sooner NZ’ers can rid ourselves of Peters and the filthy circus he has placed us all in the better. I detest these pricks!
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September 28, 2018 8:20am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  You will pay how much we tell you to pay peasant!
  In the name of Mother Earth!
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:22am
- kowtow
  
  Climate change ?
  
  The Gnats aren’t much better.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/103460105/national-party-resetting-our-approach-to-environmental-issues–bridges
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:24am
  - Chris R
    
    kowtow: I agree but the saving grace for the National lot is that they’re not in business with the idiot Greenies. Ardern is singing from the Greenies song-book word-for-word rather than forming anything like her own ideas…which of course requires brain-power and deliberation.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:33am
- DigNap15
  
  Looking out at the sea, I cannot see any rises, and its still cold in the winter!
  Science is never settled, they change their minds every decade or so.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:22am
secondcumming

This one from my mother in-law………

What’s hairy and got ten fingers?
A thalidomides armpits.

🙂
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September 28, 2018 8:21am
- Chris R
  
  Second: On an equally insensitive line…the smallest hotel in the world is the “Thalidomide Arms.”
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:34am
- Nookin
  
  You know, somehow the distatefulness of that “joke” somehow smothered any semblance of humour that it might have had.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:37am
  - BeaB
    
    This blog would be greatly improved if we could lose all the sleazy, tasteless jokes.
    Tell them to your witless mates but please spare us.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:38am
    - AgainstTheFlow
      
      Yep – fully agree.
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:45am
    - Swifty
      
      Have to agree with you on that.
      
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      September 28, 2018 10:29am
Happychappy

With kiwibuild in a shambles and Winston trying to link Michelle Boag and the Handley saga to National so he can take the heat away from him and his mates dodgy dealings it looks like the Labour led Coalition are inept and need to go back to learning what the Government is and what is expected of them. These bunch of clowns think that they suggest whst they wantto do then the people get behind them and do it without thinking about the profit or loss senerio that follows. If this is what they expect from the business sector God help NZ and our wealth as it won’t take long for Twyford to send us down the same track Zimbabwe took under their former President.
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September 28, 2018 8:22am
- KevOB
  
  Watch out for the Maori Caucus too. We seem to being prepared for demands over a lot more “rights”.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:49am
Inandout

Lambie is getting a hard time from Mark on Garner. Lame Lambie actually said she cried listening to Jacinda, is this actually true? And the gay guy next to her said patriots were scoundrels.
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September 28, 2018 8:23am
- ross411
  
  Clearly you have never lived in neighbourhood with dog before. One dog bark, another dog bark. One dog howl, another dog howl.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:34am
  - Inandout
    
    Yes I know dogs and their behaviour. I forgot to add that Lambie referred to ‘stale, pale and male’ people.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:51am
    - ross411
      
      She is signalling to the rational that she is irrational. Better than she have sense to choose deceptive wording that hides her prejudice. Perhaps her owners beat her too much? ???
      
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      September 28, 2018 8:59am
  - Piniwi
    
    But ross411 the standout dog can also be mans best friend who know the time when a bark is needed to protect his territory as well as those who feed and care for him. They also understand quickly that their ability and strength can make an equal contribution to the family when seen as part of it.
    
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    September 28, 2018 6:40pm
- waikatogirl
  
  I liked the email from the woman who slammed Cindy for showcasing Neve to the UN, and saying Kiwi women were getting sick of her showing how easy it is to have a child and work at the same time while earning $500k, and asking when women in the navy will be able to take their babies on the frigates with them, or the women in the army can cart their children to war zones. ?
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:52am
- niggly
  
  Lambie did a guest slot on Radio Live drive the other week and was constantly sucking up to Jacinda and playing down all the mistakes Jacinda was making.
  
  I thought it was strange because even the rest of the MSM were being critical.
  
  Anyway, riddle solved, last week I read or heard that Lambie …. lives next door to Jacinda (and Clarke)!
  
  What’s the bet Lambie pops over to Jacinda’s with freshly baked scones whenever the heat is on Labour to “cheer her up”?!!!
  
  Another example of the incestuous relationships politicians have with MSM journalists?
  
  If so, no wonder why “Jacindamania” was a MSM promoted phenomenon!
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:25am
  - AgainstTheFlow
    
    Can we map where the journalists live in relation to the PM’s house?
    
    Shows the incestuousnesses of the Point Chev/Grey Lynn elite.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:48am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Female apologists, how embarrassing for the rest of us
    
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    September 29, 2018 12:12pm
Lee C

Jacinda Did the ‘MeToo’ movement ever come out about the Labour Youth Camp?

“No”.
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September 28, 2018 8:28am
- sooty
  
  I think half the Labour party have come out!
  
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  September 28, 2018 1:59pm
Fletch

Kavanaugh accuser Ford throws her friend Leland Keyser under the bus.

Question: Why did everyone you named as witness come out against you? Including your best friend who says she never met Kavanaugh & the party did not happen?

Dr. Ford (literally): “Leland has significant health challenges, and I am happy that she is focusing on herself”

This was after Keyser released a statement through her lawyer the other day saying, “Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.”

So, because she doesn’t agree, she has “health problems”?
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September 28, 2018 8:28am
- Poppa
  
  I haven’t followed it closely, but, that Ford appears to be a nut case.
  
  One bit I did hear was that she insisted on two front doors being fitted to her house. That is not normal behaviour in my book
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:37am
  - Ed Snack
    
    The reality of the story about the “doors” is far more damaging to Ford, her credibility and the news media’s credibility (not that they have any).
    
    The story as it started is that the abuse came out when she insisted on have a second “front door” in their house when they remodelled it and gave the explanation that her trauma of many years ago made her fearful and needing a second exit for emergencies.
    
    Turns out they were signing up for airb-n-b and wanted a second entrance for the paying customers.
    
    If anyone thinks that the fairy-tale being being spun by Ford and the Democrat’s has any credibility at all needs to check with their psychologist urgently.
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:40am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    I was listening to her recount events. Now, maybe I am old and forgetful, but her collection of events seemed very clear. If I think of events that took place 35 years ago, there is no way I can remember that much detail, and much of what I do remember is actually wrong. Our brains distort memories every time we recall the memory. It just seems dodgy.
    
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    September 28, 2018 5:52pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Right Poppa books have played a very big part of this woman’s life but sadly for her they seem to have been read but not learned from. We are left wondering what could ever have convinced her to commit to this process that has the potential in one so fragile to only add to her own “significant health challenges?” Wonder if it will need a lot more family group sessions ahead?
    
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    September 28, 2018 7:42pm
- Piniwi
  
  Funny Fletch but that was one of the double take moments that lady doing the questioning the accuser let her make a fool of herself. Questions started to arise about her own “significant health challenges” long before that little gem was revealed. In fact it started as her education or qualifications were enumerated which in any well adjusted person would have well ahead of most in the “head” department. Then the struggle she had getting started with being able to handle the classes she was attending setting her career path. Next there was so many references to her many therapy sessions that seemed to start very early. Couples therapy as well as parent/child therapy with the former being a need for two front doors?
  While there is much debate the wisdom of having questions put through an experienced legal professional it was the best option to avoid the accusations of pale stale old males challenging her. By the third time that process was followed she was being challenged to confirm which version of some details were correct after giving more than one.
  The polygraph issue was a significant failure for the accuser over the extent of recording the process then only providing the barest results. Finished off by the confusion of the offer to go to California to let her give her statement when it turns out she was not even there though let it be thought she was there. No wonder she was confused about whether she was given that option that was even reported in the media at the time. Just too many holes in her oratory then to attempt to do such a hit job without a shred of corroborating evidence left her totally dependent on her faltering delivery exposed as a complete sham.
  
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  September 28, 2018 7:33pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  I hope Ford isn’t her Dr that would be unethical to make such a comment .
  
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  September 29, 2018 12:15pm
Evadne

I see Stuff is doing its best to make out the Handley thing was all a National plot.

Clickbait headline: Handley quiet on Nat links.

Article headline: Handley refuses to confirm or deny links with National.

A bit like the old “stopped beating your wife yet?” question. Bet he’s silent on that, too.
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September 28, 2018 8:29am
- cmm
  
  Considering his sickly sweet texts to Jacinda it is very hard to pin this on National.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:59am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep, the narrative is moving away from Jacinda, Clare and all their Labour Cronies who are donkey-deep in getting Jobs for their mates:
  
  President of Labour Party dining with Derek just before Election 2017.
  2 of the PMs staff on the CTO Interview Panel
  23 what’s app messages between Clare Curren and Jacinda about the CTO appointment
  PM’s Acting Chief of Staff calling up Handley…
  
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/released-read-emails-and-messages-clare-curran-exchanged-derek-handley?auto=5840774457001
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:25am
  - cmm
    
    I assume that was Kirton.
    
    So they’re trying to pin this on a bloke who has already been thrown under the bus for Fingergate. Good idea. Kill two birds with one stone. Pity we can’t pin Mega Fighter on him too.
    
    Nice cushy bus though: take the fall for this and get a job at Air NZ as “head of government relations” whatever the hell that means.
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:08am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      No, it was Nigel Haworth …He’s the Labour Party President.
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/107416614/Derek-Handley-met-with-Labour-Party-president-and-spoke-with-PMs-chief-of-staff-ahead-of-job-offer
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:14am
      - cmm
        
        Thanks for the clarification. Confusing since Kirton was the president when the meeting happened.
        
        Geez it’s looking more and more like this CTO gig was hand crafted for Handley after his meeting last year.
        
        I’m still gobsmacked anyone could think a country (especially of our size) needs a CTO. Many billion dollar tech companies don’t even have a CTO.
        
        But, hey, we live in a world where having a Maori Climate Change Commission makes sense!
        
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        September 28, 2018 11:45am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Maori Climate Change Commission makes sense!
        
        If you are in business, of course it makes sense to be claiming money for Carbon credits….
        
        Remember The Maori Climate Commission is a private organisation…set up by the Maori Carbon Foundation (not the NZ Government)
        https://www.maoricarbonfoundation.com/about-us/about-us/
        
        They are chasing C credits by planting up land, going 50/50 with a landowner.
        
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        September 28, 2018 12:52pm
- AgainstTheFlow
  
  Chris Trotter thinks Handley has been working for Michelle Boag for the past many months to trap Jacinda Ardern, through her youthful networking.
  
  Even the sHandley’s shift back to NZ is part of an elaborate trap for the ‘shining beacon of hope’ AKA the PM.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:53am
  - cmm
    
    Far too elaborate.
    
    You don’t need a cunning plan to trip up PriNZess. You just give her 5 minutes and she’ll tell enough lies to tie herself in knots.
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:12am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Handley was virtually felating Jacinda. No ways is he part of a national plot.
  
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  September 28, 2018 5:49pm
Fletch

OK, the hearing is all on again live –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGIiiZXdl4
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September 28, 2018 8:32am
- ross411
  
  Feel free to continue the updates. Sounds too painful to watch.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:35am
- Fletch
  
  Durbin being an asshole… “Can you turn to [name?] and tell him you want this hearing and this whole nomination suspended until the FBI can investigate”
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:43am
- Fletch
  
  Graham, “this is the most unethical SHAM since I’ve been in politics. I’d never have done what you did to this guy. Boy you all want power, and I hope you never get it. Ford is as much a victim as you have. You looking for a fair process, you came to the wrong town at the wrong time. This is going to destory the ability of good people to come forward because of this, This is HELL”.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:48am
- Fletch
  
  Democrat trying to smear Kavanaugh as an alcoholic now.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:05am
krazykiwi

While we lament the child-like foolishness of our PM, and the damage she’s doing to NZ, spare a thought for our UK brethren. Lumbered with May today, they have weapons-grade socialist Corbyn as leader of the opposition waiting in the wings. In addition to the swathe of soviet-era plans he has cooked up, Corbyn now promising to waste £50 billion of other people’s money on solar and windfarm madness.

Mr Corbyn’s aides last night admitted the vast turbine and solar push would involve significantly boosting government subsidies handed over to energy companies to build them.

Energy expert Peter Atherton told The Sun: “This is an investment programme that is likely to cost well north of £50 billion.

“And it’s difficult to see how Labour can ask the private sector to fund that when they are the same companies who are being told Labour will confiscate their assets.*”

*Corbyn’s nationalization programe involves seizing electricity, water and railway company’s assets.
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September 28, 2018 8:34am
- ross411
  
  But when Corbyn was younger, sitting around being served cognac by plebes with union leaders of the day by candlelight in the brownouts, were some of the best times of his life! He will make the UK great again by bringing this wondrous experience to the people. They however will have solace of loud “wooooooop wooooooop” noise from large turbine beside their house, while they don’t drink cognac and sit in dark.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:39am
Steve (North Shore)

What happened here? Cash drop from Soros?https://www.facebook.com/terrencekwilliams/videos/1889699904483788/
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September 28, 2018 8:36am
VicParking

I see that now that all the clothing adverts on TV and in flyers ensure that the women are balanced between ‘Models’, plus sized women, women of colour, and aged women.
The men however are all athletic “Spunks”. Why is this so? As a ugly overweight white male I have been growing by belly for 30 years and cultivating lines and worts all over my body. When I send my photo into the advertising agencies I get a thanks but no thanks. #UglyWhiteMalesToo
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September 28, 2018 8:38am
- ross411
  
  Social justice outrage is based on laziness and easy targets. Why does it have to be ugly women of colour? Can’t they sneak a few hot ones in?
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:40am
- Im Right
  
  Ahhh VicParking, have you also noticed that almost all TV advertising in NZ that shows a couple, with or without kids present, shows a Maori or Pacific Island man with a white female partner…if you haven’t, take some time out and watch a few adverts that show a couple…not all of course but many. Social engineering from ad makers?
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:53am
  - VicParking
    
    Just watch the Farmers Ad.
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:03am
MCos

One of the tweets of the day

‘Jacinda: Looks like I’m going to be New Zealand’s most viral global sensation this week.
The seal: hold my octopus.’
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September 28, 2018 8:38am
ross411

Born in Whangarei, his birth name is recorded as Wynston Raymond Peters.[1] His father is of Māori descent and his mother of Scottish descent. His iwi affiliation is Ngāti Wai and his clan is McInnes. Two of his brothers, Ian and Jim, have also been MPs, and another brother, Ron, has also stood as a New Zealand First candidate.[14][15] According to the journalist Ian Wishart, Peters had little exposure to the Māori language and culture during his childhood years due to vigorous assimilation policies that encouraged integration into Pākehā/New Zealand European society.[16]

So, quick quiz. Is it more likely Winston Pyotrs did not learn Maori because:

1) His father did not bother to learn it and did not bother to teach him.
2) Assimilation police came around and beat him and his father if his father taught him or spoke Maori to him?

Hmm..
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September 28, 2018 8:49am
- cmm
  
  The assimilation police also came and beat up all the Dutch people I know in NZ. Born of Dutch parents, some born in Holland, none can speak or read Dutch.
  
  It is terrible to strip people of their culture. No wonder Dutch people have such negative social outcomes and kill their kids.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:55am
  - ross411
    
    Those assimilation police must be some really stealthy bastards ?️‍♂️
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:02am
  - Evadne
    
    The assimilation police got to Winston’s Gaelic, as well, it seems.
    
    I can’t speak Gaelic, either. Who do I complain to?
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:25am
    - ross411
      
      The standard approach is to combine the following:
      
      1) Complain to everyone.
      2) Blame everyone else.
      
      Congratulations, applying this makes you eligible for your victim card. Please apply at your local press office.
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:29am
    - cmm
      
      Yup my Gaelic too. Bugger. I better go beat someone up!
      
      Pity my kids are now in their 20s and can protect themselves.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:14am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Some folks have no interest in learning/speaking their “native” language.
  
  The hubby could speak no English when he started school here in NZ. Russian and German and sometimes Italian were the languages spoken in his childhood home.
  He came back from his first day at primary school and demanded (with a stamp of his little feet) that his parents and grandparents only speak English to him. His Grandma never did… so he retains a smittering of Russian, but never speaks it and has no intention of ever regaining any fluency in it.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:37am
- KevOB
  
  Read his bio. Maori was dropped from schooling because the Elders foresaw the present day scenario. They did not see an advantage in trying to modify their language as it would not be helpful in a written English world.
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:19am
- Paulus
  
  Noted that Peters’s mother was a Scottish Lady – guess what – same as Trumps Mother who was also Scottish.
  Might be related.
  
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  September 28, 2018 2:10pm
  - KevOB
    
    I might be through Clan Innes.
    
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    September 28, 2018 4:05pm
Poppa

So has Chompers finished her “application for a UN job” speech yet?

Thankfully I am unable to watch it, but I feel for anyone who did
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September 28, 2018 8:51am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Better,
  Better get a bucket
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:36am
Hugh Pavletich

Higher interest rates threaten overvalued property markets | Financial Times
… google search title if blocked …

https://www.ft.com/content/723fd474-c21c-11e8-8d55-54197280d3f7

Rising interest rates are piling pressure on some of the world’s most over-heated property markets, with Hong Kong exposed as the least affordable housing sector globally, economists have warned.

Some of the largest global banks increased lending rates in Hong Kong on Thursday for the first time since 2006, before the global financial crisis. Analysts said the higher rates would affect borrowers and could slam the brakes on soaring residential prices.

HSBC and Standard Chartered boosted their prime lending rates, from which mortgages are priced, after Hong Kong’s de facto central bank increased the base rate, in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve. … read more via hyperlink above …
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September 28, 2018 8:52am
- skyblue
  
  Does not worry me. Mortgage free as of last month.
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:29am
  - OTGO
    
    #metoo
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:20am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    I think I speak for many here when I say go fuck yourself you smug bastard. 😉
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:40am
Inandout

Will today witness NZ judges-to-be furiously deleting 0nline and from old school records anything from their childhood that may mar their chances? I have dealt with lawyers who could easily be described as ‘wide boys’, and who took full advantage of their female underlings. The Law Society of course ‘looks into’ things, but it is a club after all.
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September 28, 2018 8:57am
Cunningham

The frenzy about Ardern this week from the media has been nothing short of cult like behavior. Although she looks good to international media, they don’t have to live with her government.
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September 28, 2018 8:58am
- Inandout
  
  Well Cindy did bring Lambie to tears while the latter was commuting to the studio. This is no easy task for such a hard boiled socialist.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:00am
  - Cunningham
    
    The hype around Ardern is ridiculous and completely unjustified. Especially if you look at her history and complete lack of achievements prior to becoming PM and then all the shockers her and her government have had since being in charge. Love or hate John Key at least he had some major life achievements before becoming PM.
    
    The fact Ardern became PM based on her history just illustrates how much media and a lot of voters value style over substance.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:34am
    - GoVege
      
      Key had “major life achievements “?
      Don’t be silly!
      They both got there on their good looks and winning smiles…
      
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      September 28, 2018 12:18pm
      - Poppa
        
        If Cindy is good looking there is hope for me
        
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        September 28, 2018 1:56pm
      - sooty
        
        No wining smile either.
        
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        September 28, 2018 2:04pm
      - KevOB
        
        Key made $50M from his work competency. Ardern $50/wk.
        
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        September 28, 2018 4:07pm
lastmanstanding

Forget the comforting noises from the Governor of the RB. Wage increases and fuel prices are going to drive up inflation and with it interest rates particularly mortgage rates.

The net impact will the final nail in the COL coffin come election 2020.

The punters always vote with their hip pockets and petrol at $3 plus a litre and mortgage rates north of 7/8% will see them vote against the COL.

My pick is W1st and the Greens wiped out and the Nats at close to 50 points so they can govern alone.

Back to the good days of FPP thank God. Instead of the omnishambles we have now.
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September 28, 2018 8:59am
- DigNap15
  
  Sadly, I hope you a right.
  But in the meantime the COL will have taken us back 10 years!
  As you say all the planned wage rises, and goverment worker demands and petrol and our low dollar are going to push inflation up.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:19am
  - MCos
    
    So you’re in favour of low wages for nurses, teachers, police.
    Let me remind you that with low wages comes understaffing . . . . .
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:30am
    - cmm
      
      Ah, I see what you do there. You said “wages” when you really meant “salaries”. Wages has a way of making them sound like poor downtrodden workers.
      
      If you want high salaries then you need performance pay. If you don’t have performance pay then the good teachers just end up subsidising the rubbish teachers.
      
      You would not pay more for a car or a loaf of bread unless you knew you were getting something worth it. Same for teachers.
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:47am
      - stephieboy
        
        cmm, what suggests to you that nurses and other medical professionals and teachers are underperforming?
        
        How would your performance pay work in say an Emergency dept or Operating theatres??
        
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        September 28, 2018 10:23am
    - JIV
      
      I believe the good workers should be paid well. If you live under a collective agreement then you agree to get paid what the position dictates not your abilities.
      
      Tell them to get rid of the union and stand on their own merits.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:04am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    The joke is that the CoL have already given everyone a collective 10% wagecut via plumetting NZD. They ate just too thick to notice.
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:42am
- skyblue
  
  Orr will keep rates low to appease the Welly Central faggot.
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:32am
- Paulus
  
  W1st and Green will not be wiped out when Peters gets MMP 5% reduced to 2% or 3% shortly.
  Now Waka Law is enacted the Labour led coalition must comply with 100% with such a vote.
  
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  September 28, 2018 2:14pm
Left Right and Centre

Anyone see the NZ PM on an American talkshow ?

Gee – I’m glad that wasn’t an uber cringefest.
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September 28, 2018 9:00am
Maggy Wassilieff

Our Government has just committed to sending $300 M to the Pacific Islands for Climate Change Funding.

But it looks like some of these Island Governments don’t like auditing their Annual Accounts… and some money seems to go walkabout
https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/367421/trouble-abound-in-tokelau-as-nz-investigation-into-alleged-corruption-stalls

And it doesn’t appear that our Government has been doing much to check that everything is okeydokey
https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/364737/tokelau-fiscal-controls-never-imposed-by-nz

You’d think Jacinda would be a bit cautious about splashing around the moola… especially as her daddy is being sued by one of the sacked Tokelauans
https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/programmes/datelinepacific/audio/2018664378/new-zealand-accused-of-not-investigating-corruption-in-tokelau
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September 28, 2018 9:00am
- ross411
  
  Things we won’t see the local ‘journalists’ report.. “Jacinda funnels pay off money to Tokelau as bribe to end lawsuit against her father”.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:05am
  - MCos
    
    Is this what you are referring to?
    ‘Mr Suveinakama is suing Tokelau’s government, Ulu Gaualofa, and Mr Ardern, New Zealand’s Administrator, over his removal from government last year.’
    Mr Ardern took up his position this year.
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/367421/trouble-abound-in-tokelau-as-nz-investigation-into-alleged-corruption-stalls
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:42am
  - lifesgood
    
    Isn’t he meant to be a good upright mormon man? Sheesh. Didn’t teach his daughter the ten commandments, either.
    
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    September 28, 2018 5:13pm
- cmm
  
  I am surprised Andrew Little allows this to happen.
  
  He has personally witnessed the vile consequences on the wonderful original culture of NZ through colonialism and the corruption caused money.
  
  By sending money to these islands we are inflicting exactly the same fate on them. Why would he want to allow that?
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:16am
  - ross411
    
    The true left winger knows that it is different when they do it.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:31am
- GoVege
  
  This is taxpayers’ money.
  We need accountability!!
  
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  September 28, 2018 12:20pm
- backster
  
  Are recipients of Shanes slush fund any more accountable?
  
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  September 28, 2018 3:54pm
Richard

Our Prime Minster has said at the UN she wants a govt of “Kindness”. So here’s a few ‘kindness’ suggestions for our Mother of the Nation:
1. Be kind to the people of Taranaki. Save their jobs and communities by letting the NZ Oil and Gas industry continue. You’ll also be reducing our future carbon footprint by not having to import so much oil and gas as well.
2. Be kind to middle and low income earners. Do the tax bracket adjustment that National were going to do. Otherwise inflation and minimum wages rises are going to wipe out any gains they make by forcing them into a higher tax bracket.
3. Be kind to farmers. Agriculture produces 40% of NZ’s GDP each year. Don’t hit them with Green taxes, capital gains, carbon taxes, water use taxes etc. Work with them and with district/regional councils to achieve common water standards and waste minimisation. This may require some investment by govt but hey, agricultures contributes billions to the Crowns revenue.
4. Be kind to employers. Listen to them and act on what they have bene trying to tell you for months, especially small business. They can’t afford your policy plans for the workplace.

There are so many more kindness suggestions I have for you Prime Minster. Just ask anytime.
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September 28, 2018 9:24am
- ross411
  
  The true left winger knows you have to be cruel to truly be kind. Your suggestions do not pass the cruelty test, and have been thought through too much. Fail!
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:32am
- Dave Mann
  
  5. Be kind to your press secretaries.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:46am
- Rich Prick
  
  6. Be kind to Young Labour kids at their camps.
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:02am
- cmm
  
  To be kind you first need to have security and some wealth.
  
  Commies aren’t kind. They can’t afford to be.
  
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  September 28, 2018 11:16am
krazykiwi

I’m sure that in front of cameras, with their virtue signalling antennae quivering, the UN’s old battlers are happy to smile and applaud Ardern’s impassioned platitudes.

But behind closed doors they’ll be tossing back the XO and laughing at the weapons-grade naivety of this silly little girl, so obviously intoxicated with hubris, and massively lacking in self-awareness.
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September 28, 2018 9:46am
- ross411
  
  ? <- That is supposed to be bullseye, but whoever drew it is left wing jobsworth so god knows what it actually looks like.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:51am
Tom Barker

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
How’s that big, beautiful wall coming on, Donnie? Got the foundations in yet?
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September 28, 2018 9:46am
- ross411
  
  Troll fail. You are as relevant as Clint Eastwood talking to imaginary Barry Obama.
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:50am
- Fletch
  
  It will begin on Saturday.
  
  https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/09/23/border-wall-construction-begins-in-el-paso-texas/
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:00am
  - stephieboy
    
    Fletch, Mexico, of course, is fronting with the cash?
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:02am
    - DigNap15
      
      Just stop donating to the UN etc and use that cash!
      
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      September 28, 2018 10:39am
    - cmm
      
      Yes Mexico is paying, if not directly.
      
      Billions of dollars a year of money is sent to Mexico by illegals. Cut down on the illegals and the amount of money going back to Mexico is reduced and stays in the USA. Mexico has paid.
      
      Billions more gets given to illegals on welfare etc. That gives them more money to send back to Mexico. The wall and reductions in welfare to illegals reduces the money they send back to Mexico. Mexico has paid.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:02am
      - stephieboy
        
        cmm, specious reasoning. That money collected would be earmarked for military spending or paying off trillion dollar debts.
        
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        September 28, 2018 1:12pm
burt

Great moves at the UN, everyone now needs to get together on Sunday and say something nice about each other.
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September 28, 2018 9:53am
- stephieboy
  
  burt , I would say far better than a Syrian or Yemen civil war etc, etc?
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:12am
  - burt
    
    I disagree, anything that reduces the number of young girls having their genitals hacked by stone age sky fairy worshipping weaklings is a good thing.
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:18am
- PhilP
  
  Muldoon said to Lange, “I love/like you to Mr Lange”, back in 1984 during a pre-election television debate. So Muldoon was way ahead of SLG! (sarc).
  
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  September 28, 2018 11:28am
UpandComer

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-engineer-linked-to-china-allegedly-stole-power-plant-technology-fbi-says-1533235590

There is another story. Boomers are retarded. When are they going to learn that the photo-copying Bug-men just steal, every single thing they can, whilst planning to enslave your children?

Why are Boomers congenitally retarded? Why is it that they were given free, rich, homogeneous countries and they pissed it away?

Boomers are the worst generation. The single worst generation. No other generation has been so evolutionarily deficient as to collude in their own soft genocide. But boomers managed it. Many worthy boomers exist, most are completely unworthy.

Boomers have no idea what they even had. That’s what annoys millennials the most, in a deracinated sea of anti-western culture the Boomers can’t quite perceive, for reasons unknown.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-systematically-pries-technology-from-u-s-companies-1537972066

The Bugmen of China are just thieves, do you get it? The Belt and Road initiative and the ‘colonisation by non-assimilation’ policies mean that in two generations at most, your forebears, idiot, stupid, boomers, are going to be subject to social credit scores, unable to catch a bus or leave a demarcated zone if they express badthink.

The Bugmen of China, steal, absolutely everything they possibly can lay their hands on, then screech about ‘racism’. Everything China is and has, everything, is the result of transfers from Kissinger and his generation, and then forced renditions of IP. I hope Trump absolutely destroys their economy and they have to eat all the dogs and baby foetuses in the entire country. Ingrate bugmen and their stealing.

Never hire a Chinese person for your business. I’m sorry. They may indeed be intelligent, and excellent workers. But they have zero ethics. They will steal, absolutely everything they can get their hands on, and then they will use it to curry favour from their govt, and then compete with you, against you, using your own hard earned IP and thought.

The Bugman world we’re all heading towards will not be a world of order and harmony. It will be a world of productive stasis – at best, just like it was in China after the 16th century. It will be a vile dystopia at worst. These people cannot think up ideas for themselves. They steal, fricken everything they can possibly touch.

And the lack of understanding by Boomers in particular of how the world actually works, is quite bizarre.
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September 28, 2018 9:55am
- stephieboy
  
  Boomers who can be said to have contributed to safely bringing the world through the cold war without a nuke being dropped or fired in anger?
  
  There will always be attempts at technology espionage and spying ( the US included )
  
  “Soft genocide ” ??
  
  Absolute nonsense like the rest!
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  These people cannot think up ideas for themselves.
  
  I do recommend a visit to the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
  
  You need to read some Joseph Needham….
  in the meantime, read this
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:07am
  - UpandComer
    
    Irrelevant.
    
    I don’t have time. What matters is how those ideas were used, and disseminated, and popularised and replicated, and what is happening now.
    
    China was created, on purpose, by Kissinger and Nixon after they took the West off the gold standard and destroyed Bretton-Woods at the instruction of their handlers with ringing applause from the Boomers. China are not our friends, and never will be.
    
    Boomers had purchasing power. That’s what I find so aggravating when they yammer about interest rates. Compare the purchasing power of the dollar just post Nixons dissolution of Bretton-Woods, versus what it is now.
    
    When the last European is in the European commisariat gulag, or in the Caliphate of Britain’s prison Mosque, I hope they spit for the Boomers before they’re dispatched.
    
    My parents excepted, and a few others, Boomers are the worst generation in the history of the world. Certainly the worst in the West.
    
    Not their fault entirely, indoctrinated and programmed as they were when there was no internet to provide counter-narratives and alternative information, but not everything can be blamed on Kurt Lewin.
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:25am
    - UpandComer
      
      The WSJ encapsulates perfectly the US Chamber of Commerce data showing ZERO capital investment increases in the US since the year 2000. The US was and still is, in a death-spiral, and Trump’s actions are a last second resuscitation that probably won’t work. The insiders are selling out – so I’d be getting out of US shares pretty quick. I certainly will be. There is a crash being timed.
      
      Ricardo is entirely outmoded in the face of free-trade entailing the free movement of Labour and their cultural co-morbidities, and completely mobile Capital. The transfer of production and manufacturing East was not organic. It was planned, because the planners understood the nature of the Chinese which suit better then those aggravating Christian westerners and Europeans with their metaphysics of freedom and individual conscience and creativity. The fact that boomers are so blind as to what it actually means and will mean isn’t my problem. The left and the lolbertarians can both be wrong together.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:41am
      - Jack5
        
        UpandComer, I’m sceptical about globalisation of trade, too, but challenge your assertion:
        
        “… the nature of the Chinese which suit better then those aggravating Christian westerners and Europeans with their metaphysics of freedom and individual conscience and creativity.”
        
        The Chinese have been very creative over the millennia. Printing, gunpowder, the compass, paper money, metallurgy, blast furnaces .. are a few of their inventions.
        
        Piping (bamboo) reticulated natural gas for lighting across a Chinese town 1800 years ago, I recall the Western science historian, Needham, writing.
        
        Whoops! Posted this initially before I saw your post, Dignap…
        
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        September 28, 2018 12:00pm
- DigNap15
  
  I agree with you.
  But they did invent….
  Paper, gun powder, rockets, the rudder, porcelain and they had a written language 5,000 years ago.
  And the Willow Pattern plates
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:58am
Maggy Wassilieff

I’d rather listen to Glen Campbell than Jacinda’s fluff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX7NNMKBPsw
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September 28, 2018 9:57am
- Jack5
  
  A noble post towards a Campbell, Maggy, given you have told us you are the granddaughter of a Flora Macdonald.
  
  A tip of the hat to you from someone with a few Clan Campbell genes.
  
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  September 28, 2018 12:08pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    My mother’s middle name was Campbell.
    
    Iona Campbell Macdonald.
    
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    September 28, 2018 12:58pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, Who would have thought. I would have taken you for a Lady GaGa or Madonna fan,
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy4nu3sT680
  
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  September 28, 2018 1:18pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    So Stalker, you’re back to posting videos of half naked women again.
    Dirty little man
    
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    September 28, 2018 1:22pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Stephieboy,
    
    once again you show that you have no clue as to what my posts are about.
    
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    September 28, 2018 1:50pm
    - sooty
      
      That’s right, idiot! No one reads them!
      
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      September 28, 2018 2:08pm
Fletch

I can’t watch any more of the hearing – been watching, like, an hour and a half now. What’s happening at the moment is that both sides are taking turns “questioning” him. The Republicans are supportive, apologizing for what has happened to him and commenting on how bad it all is. The Democrats are trying to paint him as an alcoholic and ask whether he has ever got so drunk that he blacked out, and each of them keeps pushing for him to ask for an end to the hearing and the nomination process so that it can be investigated by the FBI. Kavanaugh, replies, “I am here. Now. Ask me anything you like”. The reply comes that it’d only take a week, to which he replies he has been already doing this for 10 days, and do you know how painful each day is?

The whole thing is a circus. Breitbart is keeping up a blow-by-blow of reporting.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/27/live-updates-brett-kavanugh-christine-blasey-ford-testify-before-senate-judiciary-committee/
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September 28, 2018 10:12am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Fletch, with Breitbart’s track record why should we believe them?
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:18am
  - rangitoto
    
    It’s public record you dufus
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:19am
  - Fletch
    
    They are only summarizing live what is happening per the timestamps. I’ve been watching almost two hours, and it is correct. Go and watch some of the video if you have doubts.
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:20am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Probably because they’re a good deal more accurate and unbiased than CNN or MSNBC ?
    
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    September 28, 2018 10:46am
  - VicParking
    
    A lot more than the crap you spew out Stephie.
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:13am
Chuck Bird

It is good to see the Herald’s stance on this. I would have been interesting if the Herald sat on the leaked report until Labour released its doctored report and then released to true report.

Editorial: Meka Whaitiri leaked report: Is this open and transparent government?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12132861
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September 28, 2018 10:17am
- cmm
  
  Pretty bloody obvious why they tried to bury this and Mega Fighter has not been kicked to the curb.
  
  This government is staffed by quid-pro-quo:
  * Maori caucus will say nice things about PriNZess, but then allow us to appoint whomever we want and also set up some lolly scrambles for some of our mates: Maori Climate Change Commission, etc etc. and don’t mess with our members.
  * You can have a sweet gig for your Handley mate, but we want a sweet gig for our mate Wally.
  * We pay you nice Island money. Please be nice to dad and roll out the carpet on fishing trips.
  * You give me waka jumping bill and I’ll let you fuck over Taranaki to look good in in front of the UN.
  * You give us more refugees and we’ll allow your mates to fish the Kermedic Islands.
  
  It’s like three Generals dividing the spoils of war, we being the spoils.
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:41am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  A forensic pathologist needs to look at the photos of the bruising.
  
  As bruising often doesn’t show until the 2nd or 3rd day after trauma (when haemoglobin begins to break down), there might be a clear impression of the agent that caused the bruising.
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:43am
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    the pics were taken 2 days after the assault
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:17am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      That’s when the bruising might be the clearest.
      
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      September 28, 2018 11:34am
Fletch

Flashback on Joe Biden from 1991 saying that an FBI investigation is useless as an effort to clear SCOTUS nominee Clarence Thomas. At least two senators have referenced this video in the hearing today. Funny how the opposite opinion is held now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoSXQEfBd6E
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September 28, 2018 10:22am
- Inandout
  
  Even more ironic is that the infamous Joseph McCarthy was a Democrat. OK, an old timer did say to me that McCarthy was correct about communists in Hollywood. I believe that situation came later on.
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:55am
Hugh Pavletich

… IPSOS poll … 50% of Kiwis concerned about housing costs … 24% of Aussies … read on …

New Zealand Issues Monitor – Concerns about housing grow

https://www.ipsos.com/en-nz/new-zealand-issues-monitor-concerns-about-housing-grow

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2018-09/2nd_ipsos_new_zealand_issues_monitor_released_september_2018.pdf

New Zealanders’ concerns about housing issues grow, while New Zealanders are also feeling more positive about the Labour-led government compared to last year when National was in power.

New Zealanders have nominated housing (50%) as the most important issue facing the nation in the latest Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor, released today ( 13 September ) . Poverty (32%), healthcare (31%), cost of living (26%) and crime (24%) rounded out the other top concerns.

The Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor regularly asks over 600 New Zealanders to select from a list of 20 issues the ones that they feel are the three most important issues facing the country.

While the top three issues in July 2018 are the same as those seen in February 2018, results have increased for all three, indicating increasing levels of concern. These were: housing (50%, up from 41%), poverty (32%, up from 29%) and healthcare (31%, up from 27%). … read more via hyperlink above …

Access earlier information / reporting
Inaugural IPSOS poll
Performance UrbanPlanning
http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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September 28, 2018 10:24am
- cmm
  
  Late this morning Hugh.
  
  Not good enough!
  
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  September 28, 2018 10:52am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Cmm … this morning …
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/09/general_debate_28_september_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2320436
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    … and yesterday …
    
    AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND … HOUSING BUBBLES: ARE THE AUSSIES AND KIWIS ‘DOING AN IRISH’ ? …
    
    Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/09/links-27-september-2018/#comment-3192555 … and … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/09/general_debate_26_september_2018-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-2319338
    
    … Note the massive interest in the Digital Finance Analytics and Macrobusiness Australia items … accessible below …
    
    Do the Aussies have the capacity to withstand about a $A3.5 trillion hit to its $A7 trillion bubble housing market ?
    
    Do the Kiwis have the capacity to withstand about a $NZ600 billion hit to its $NZ1.1trillion bubble housing market ?
    
    Will Australian property repeat the Irish crash? … Digital Finance Analytics / Macrobusiness Australia
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/09/will-australian-property-repeat-irish-crash/
    
    … Pavletich comment on thread …
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/09/will-australian-property-repeat-irish-crash/#comment-3190179
    
    … CONSIDERING THE 2007 IRISH EXPERIENCE …THE MASSIVE RISKS OF MULTIPLE STRETCH … CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND RESEARCH …
    
    The unweighted average median multiples of its metros in 2007 was 4.7, which crashed to 2.8 in subsequent years … putting all its Banks to the wall and requiring bailouts of in excess of 70 billion euro … about $NZ109 billion.
    
    Currently the average Median Multiples for the Australian and New Zealand metros overall are about 5.9 and 5.8 respectively … refer …
    
    Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions
    
    http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
    
    Research by the Central Bank of Ireland found high lending multipoles was the greatest problem (more so than loan to value ratios) … and subsequently imposed a general mortgage cap of 3.5 times annual household income. A year earlier the Bank of England had capped at 4.5 times annual household income … VIEW & READ MORE via hyperlinks above …
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:22am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Auckland’s house building boom continues to ramp up reaching a record high in year to August | interest.co.nz
      
      Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/09/links-28-september-2018/#comment-3193499
      
      Auckland’s house building boom continues to ramp up reaching a record high in year to August | interest.co.nz
      
      https://www.interest.co.nz/property/96079/aucklands-house-building-boom-continues-ramp-reaching-record-high-year-august
      
      Annual Auckland homes consented at record levels | Stats NZ
      
      https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/annual-auckland-homes-consented-at-record-levels
      
      Building consents issued: August 2018 | Stats NZ
      
      https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/building-consents-issued-august-2018
      
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      September 28, 2018 12:01pm
      - UpandComer
        
        Consents don’t count. They didn’t count for National.
        
        Labour will build less houses then National would have, and to the extent they’re good will be to the extent they purloin National’s plans and claim credit.
        
        You were a total dick during the election. I hope you’re creating comparative analyses Hugh – I certainly will be.
        
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        September 28, 2018 3:08pm
      - UpandComer
        
        No, they didn’t ‘deservedly lose’ because of housing – it was bottle necked. It was all the same bullshit as with water. Blah blah blah the water’s poison – oh wait we’re just going to adopt National’s water standards whole-sale and give even more leeway to takings.
        
        Don’t lie. Labour are subject to the same bottle necks. I hope you are doing comparative analyses. Or I will question your probity.
        
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        September 28, 2018 6:11pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Why Labour comes up smelling roses in the IPSOS polls …
        
        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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        Access earlier information / reporting
        Inaugural IPSOS poll
        Performance UrbanPlanning
        http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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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 28, 2018 7:14pm
      - Swifty
        
        Oh, oh, ooooh, my name is Hugh and I must pull out my willie and play with it every day – I must play with my willie, I must play with my willie, I must play with my willie EVEEEEEEEERY DAY!
        
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        September 28, 2018 7:15pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Pavletich comment on thread
      
      Wankity wank wank wank!
      
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      September 28, 2018 1:57pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        UpandComer … Deservedly National lost the last election late last year for its housing failures … following John Key mutinying 5 December 2016 when poor Bill English got the hospital pass … refer GONE GONE GOING section Performance Urban Planning …
        
        http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/National%20News.html
        
        Remember my mid 2016 ‘Waterloo’ prediction … accessible above ?
        
        Read my June Update at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org as well.
        
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        September 28, 2018 6:08pm
      - starboard
        
        pills for Hugh, nurse….NURSE !!..oh, and he has defecated again in the wardrobe.
        
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        September 28, 2018 6:15pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The Labour – led government will be very encouraged by the latest IPSOS Survey … at top of thread.
        
        Poor and pathetic National … sorry lost souls.
        
        Just on – the – tit Tories really.
        
        Losers.
        
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        September 28, 2018 6:42pm
      - starboard
        
        “NUUUURRRSSSEEEEE !!!!”
        
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        September 28, 2018 6:57pm
RF

Please.. please do not tell me that the serial playboy and squirrel attended Arderns speech to the general assembly this morning.

If that’s true it’s really creepy……. ugh…
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September 28, 2018 11:24am
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  September 28, 2018 11:33am
igm

Face reality Gnashers . . . you are in a fantasy land dream:
https://i1.wp.com/www.whaleoil.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/jacinda-tour.jpg?w=630&ssl=1
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September 28, 2018 11:26am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The reality back here in NZ is exactly what she isn’t facing.
  
  She’s probably planning her next trip away….
  probably to a UN Climate Change Talk Fest in Poland
  http://cop24.gov.pl/en/
  
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  September 28, 2018 11:37am
  - cmm
    
    With all the shit at home I doubt she wants to come back too soon.
    
    Maybe a bit of couch surfing with Justin in Canada?
    
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    September 28, 2018 11:50am
  - Paulus
    
    APEC in November in PNG is next.
    Presumably a one day photo trip on the 757.
    Not sure she will want to leave Peters in charge again though.
    However he will probably be along to take charge, along with Grunter.
    
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    September 28, 2018 2:23pm
    - MrLovebucket
      
      Not as many illegal immigrants in PNG
      
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      September 28, 2018 2:49pm
- stigie
  
  https://acclaimperformancehorses.com/images/horse_laughing_photo_15056.jpg
  
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  September 28, 2018 11:38am
Poppa

Apparently there is a Newshub poll on Chompers week in New York. Worth a visit folks

Looks like it has been an epic fail. Just maybe people are sick & tired of her using the baby as a political prop.

Jethro probably hasn’t exactly helped either
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September 28, 2018 11:36am
- mandk
  
  I think the UN trip is just spreading more vacuous, fairy dust stuff from Jacinda, but wonder if that poll has been corrupted.
  
  At 8.30-ish it was showing Great + good = 51%, Average + poor = 49%.
  
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  September 28, 2018 12:13pm
  - lifesgood
    
    I’ve just had the great pleasure of voting “poor”. The poll is still up and still showing 95% poor. If it had been corrupted it would have been removed.
    
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    September 28, 2018 5:17pm
- RF
  
  Jeez.
  
  92% against.
  
  Ardern will keep that quiet.
  
  Just heard Soper talking to Tim Roxborogh on Newstalk ZB. Roxborogh was devastated to hear Ardern spoke to a virtually empty room this morning.
  
  As Soper explained the people there would have filled a small country hall.
  
  That will be kept quiet as well.
  
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  September 28, 2018 12:24pm
  - MrLovebucket
    
    I did notice the room was empty. Much like Jacinduhs head.
    
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    September 28, 2018 2:49pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      If Cindy gives a speech in the forest, does anyone hear it?
      
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      September 28, 2018 3:43pm
UpandComer

The WSJ encapsulates perfectly the US Chamber of Commerce data showing ZERO capital investment increases in the US since the year 2000. The US was and still is, in a death-spiral, and Trump’s actions are a last second resuscitation that probably won’t work. The insiders are selling out. So this ‘Ne’er do well’ will be cashing out.

Ricardo is entirely outmoded in the face of free-trade entailing the free movement of Labour and their cultural co-morbidities, and completely mobile Capital. The transfer of production and manufacturing East was not organic. It was planned, because the planners understood the nature of the Chinese which suit planning better then aggravating Christian westerners and Europeans with their Greco-Roman metaphysics of freedom and individual conscience and creativity. But keep telling yourselves how rich and clever you are boomers. We will clean up your mess for you. ‘Ne-er do well’ lol. I almost feel like sending a screen shot.
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September 28, 2018 11:46am
- ross411
  
  What?
  
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  September 28, 2018 12:32pm
- stephieboy
  
  Upandcomer,
  gobbledygook, copy and pasted from where?
  
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  September 28, 2018 1:20pm
  - starboard
    
    That’s rich coming from the chief fapper fap fap…
    
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    September 28, 2018 2:19pm
Captain Mainwaring

On a totally unrelated topic, Penny is still with us after she was supposed to be dead about a month ago.
Christ, say what you like about that woman she certainly has some determination.
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September 28, 2018 12:08pm
kevn

‘Rising sea levels’ re Kiribati etc.
Aren’t those coral reef islands just sinking?
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September 28, 2018 12:33pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, its like some parts of Java, the sea is coming in because they have drained all the wells, and the land is sinking!
  
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  September 28, 2018 12:53pm
  - KevOB
    
    In Kiripati they increased the population 5x on a tiny lagoon island and pushed the fresh water lens below the coral down. Pity the island has droughts and tides that march straight over the island in season.
    
    Climate change cannot compete with human fools.
    
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    September 28, 2018 1:58pm
- Poppa
  
  Shsh man!!
  
  Cindy will have you publicly flogged for that suggestion.
  
  I am in full anticipation that my beach house which is about a mile from the sea will soon be waterfront. I wish this climate change would hurry up & get on with it
  
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  September 28, 2018 1:07pm
- stigie
  
  But that $300 million we gave away today will help !~//
  
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  September 28, 2018 1:07pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    $200m of that we’ve given away twice, so should be twice a useful for ~~King Canute’s tide work~~ Ardern’s mindless virtue signalling.
    
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    September 28, 2018 1:18pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Nope. Not sinking. Most of the islands are growing due to sediment movement, tides etc.
  
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  September 28, 2018 1:15pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep,
    Pacific Island atolls are not threatened by sea-level rise… they are threatened by over population, ecosystem destruction, and corruption.
    
    Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/101319846/pacific-nation-tuvalu-has-grown-by-73-hectares-over-40-years
    
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    September 28, 2018 1:26pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW,
      
      Apparently contradicted by this Nature report on sea level rise and climate change,
      
      Abstract :
      
      Global mean sea level (GMSL) has been rising at a faster rate during the satellite altimetry period (1993–2014) than previous decades, and is expected to accelerate further over the coming century1. However, the accelerations observed over century and longer periods2 have not been clearly detected in altimeter data spanning the past two decades3,4,5. Here we show that the rise, from the sum of all observed contributions to GMSL, increases from 2.2 ± 0.3 mm yr−1 in 1993 to 3.3 ± 0.3 mm yr−1 in 2014. This is in approximate agreement with observed increase in GMSL rise, 2.4 ± 0.2 mm yr−1 (1993) to 2.9 ± 0.3 mm yr−1 (2014), from satellite observations that have been adjusted for small systematic drift, particularly affecting the first decade of satellite observations6. The mass contributions to GMSL increase from about 50% in 1993 to 70% in 2014 with the largest, and statistically significant, increase coming from the contribution from the Greenland ice sheet, which is less than 5% of the GMSL rate during 1993 but more than 25% during 2014. The suggested acceleration and improved closure of the sea-level budget highlights the importance and urgency of mitigating climate change and formulating coastal adaption plans to mitigate the impacts on gong sea level rise …”
      
      ”https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3325
      
      Your willingness to consider more reputable sources rather than the muddied ones like the Heartland Institute and RossMc Kitrick is welcome.
      
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      September 28, 2018 2:26pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        “Your willingness to consider more reputable sources rather than the muddied ones like Whats up etc is welcome”
        
        Wow, Maggy quotes from Nature. Stephie quotes from Nature but he says that.
        Then there’s the problem that Stephie clearly doesn’t understand that his link doesn’t contradict what Maggy’s Nature link is saying.
        Stephieboy is truly Kiwiblogs Dumbest Commentator
        Sooo funny
        
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        September 28, 2018 2:33pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red Herring.con,
        
        Ross McKitrick is a Canadian economist,[1] best known for undermining global warming denialism by advancing a series of bizarre and implausible objections to mainstream science.
        
        Method
        McKitrick has a computer program that he uses. You too can mimic McKitrick’s working procedure:
        1. Load some data into the program. It is helpful if at least some of the data is climate related, but anything will do.
        2. Perform the data analysis with the program. This involves:
        * Clicking icons.
        * Selecting menu items.
        * Entering values in dialog boxes.
        3. Continue analysis until the desired result appears. This is easily recognised as a result that says global warming does not exist.
        4. (Optional) Make sure that there aren’t any minor errors in the analysis, such as, say, forgetting to convert degrees into radians.
        5. Publish the results. If relevant journals will not publish them, put them in irrelevant journals and complain about a conspiracy to hide the truth.[2]
        After publishing the results, people will discuss them. The responses fall into two categories:
        * Those who like the results. Invariably, these people don’t understand what McKitrick has done or why, but they are happy that a professor is agreeing with them that global warming is bunk. These people are called “global warming deniers.”
        * Those who don’t like the results. These people usually have some knowledge of statistics and try to understand why McKitrick has made inappropriate choices for the selection of the average. These people also know the difference between radians and degrees (see below). These people are, without exception, shills for the Illuminati and its project to subjugate humanity with the global warming hoax!
        *
        https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ross_McKitrick
        
        Snigger!
        
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        September 28, 2018 2:54pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        What’s McKittrick got to do with Maggy’s Nature Paper?
        And you being so thick you don’t get it.
        Maybe when adults are talking you stick to looking at your Porn links, dirty little man that you are.
        
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        September 28, 2018 3:05pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        An exchange on Wednesday:
        
        Stephieboy: I often do you shaft or deprecate yourself?
        
        Swfty: WTF?
        
        Stephieboy: How often do you shaft or deprecate yourself?
        
        Secondcumming: How often to you shaft or defecate your self, stephieboy?
        
        It appears that Stephieboy is into kinky sex. When it comes to Stephieboy, nothing surprises me anymore!
        
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        September 28, 2018 3:11pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red, she often links to him and another climate denier crackpots!
        
        People ask me if I believe in global warming. I tell them, ‘No, I don’t,’ because belief is faith; faith is the evidence of things not seen. Science is evidence of things seen.
        
        —Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and evangelical Christian[
        
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        September 28, 2018 5:03pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        No she doesn’t Stephie
        Stop telling lies and get some help for your problems
        Better still, just go away. You add nothing here and are just a disruptive pest.
        
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        September 28, 2018 5:10pm
    - KevOB
      
      Another threat is the locals eating the parrot fish which turn the coral in to sands.
      
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      September 28, 2018 4:33pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Yes, very suspiscious that all these atols are just slightly higher than sea level – which has risen at average rate of 10mm per year for last 13000 years (though only 2mm year currently). Such a load of shit.
    
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    September 28, 2018 1:29pm
    - KevOB
      
      The coral keep up with the sea level changes.
      
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      September 28, 2018 4:34pm
  - Paulus
    
    Haven’t he Government if Kiribati bought enough land in Fiji to accommodate the whole population.
    
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    September 28, 2018 2:25pm
    - gump
      
      Unless things have changed recently, only Fijian citizens are permitted to own land in Fiji. Foreigners are only permitted to lease.
      
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      September 28, 2018 4:18pm
      - Tall Man
        
        There is plenty of freehold land available in Fiji.
        
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        September 28, 2018 4:32pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The Kiribati Government bought an Anglican Estate – Natoavatu Estate on Vanua Levu in 2014 in case it needed to rehouse its inhabitants.
        http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/kiribati-president-purchases-worthless-resettlement-land-as-precaution-against-rising-sea/
        
        https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/322637/kiribati-to-start-farming-its-land-in-fiji
        
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        September 28, 2018 5:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

There is nothing to suggest that the World’s coasts are disappearing under rapidly rising sea-levels.
Some sites have eroding coasts… some sites have growing (accreting) coastlines… Most shores are stable.

Analysis of the satellite derived shoreline data indicates that 24% of the world’s sandy beaches are eroding at rates exceeding 0.5 m/yr, while 28% are accreting and 48% are stable.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24630-6
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September 28, 2018 1:35pm
- DigNap15
  
  Gee, I wish my hairline would start accreting!
  
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  September 28, 2018 3:42pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Ewwww, brylcreem maybe?
    
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    September 28, 2018 4:28pm
VicParking

Stephie here’s your chance, Defend this:
An Islamist mob stoned three Christians to death in western Kenya this week…..

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/09/27/muslim-mob-stones-three-christians-death-kenya/
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September 28, 2018 1:37pm
- igm
  
  To think Ardern and her bunch of no-hoping leeches think this acceptable and want to fill NZ with them. Wait till they impact on Murri, all shit will break loose.
  
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  September 28, 2018 1:47pm
- stephieboy
  
  VicParking , any violence is unacceptable committed no matter by whom whether against Christians in Kenya or Muslims in Myanmar!
  
  Agreed!?
  
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  September 28, 2018 2:08pm
  - Tall Man
    
    And yet you actively support a “selected” PM who wants to bring this type of extremist to our country.
    
    Look around the world, in particular Sweden, Germany, France and even placid Canada and see the issues they are having with these economic refugees not integrating into their new country and are creating problems that are manifestly disproportionate to their numbers.
    
    You and the dipshit PM may share a “view” of “future NZ” but it is certainly not one that I share.
    
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    September 28, 2018 4:59pm
  - Jazzby
    
    This is a genuine question. All institutional religions appear to have the capacity to incite extreme views; sometimes, this can result in bloodshed, murder and mayhem. It is not limited to Islam, but Muslims seem to be disproportionately – by a large margin – involved in this: the statistics are undeniable. It happens in both Muslim and non-Muslim states, and also between Muslims themselves, as well as between Muslims and others. The contrast with certain other religions is stark.
    Are you able to explain this apparent paradox between what is espoused by Islam, and what happens in reality?
    
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    September 28, 2018 6:01pm
VicParking

I wonder if they are talking about Cindy or Clarke changing the baby??
South Korean and Japanese Leaders Clash over ‘Comfort Women’ at U.N.
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September 28, 2018 1:40pm
Pateke

( with acknowledgement to satirist Andy Borowitz NYT)
Labour Coalition Declares Moral Bankruptcy
WELLINGTON NZ

The Labour coalition officially applied for moral bankruptcy on Friday morning, a move that many in the nation saw as overdue.
in filing for moral bankruptcy, the Labour coalition will formally attest that they have no morals, standards or ethics on their balance sheet, and will agree to cease all activity in return for indemnity of any and all legal actions.
Harland Dorrinson, a long-term specialist in moral bankruptcy, said that by making its moral vacuum official the Labour coalition could theoretically break itself up and sell off the parts, but, he warned, ‘There are no buyers.”

“From to Robertson to Ardern to Golly G to Peters, all the coalition’s political capital and assets could only be described as toxic,” he said. “Their breakup value is zero.”

Further complicating such a sale, Dorrinson said, is the fact that the lion’s share of the coalition is already owned by the unions, Greenpeace and the racing industry, and possibly the Russians.

“All these entities are gonna take a major loss on their investment,” he warned. “Russell Norman has been trying to sell David Parker for months and he can’t give him away.”
While bemoaning the demise of a once legitimate grouping of political parties, Dorrinson did see at least one silver lining. “The moral bankruptcy of the Labour coalition will be overseen by Winston Peters, and no-one has more experience in this area,” he said.
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September 28, 2018 3:11pm
Chuck Bird

Below is my post on Comrade Ardern’s FP page.

I heard your lies today Comrade Ardern. Firstly, you talk about being kind. That is as credible as your claim that you have never told a political lie. You were asked if you liked President Trump. Instead of answering honestly you said you hardly knew. If your hardly knew him why did you refer to him as professional arsehole shortly before you became Labour Party Leader?
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September 28, 2018 3:12pm
- gorse
  
  Sorry downticked you by mistake. Couldn’t agree with you more.
  
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  September 28, 2018 3:27pm
UpandComer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTBxPPx62s4

The left have even turned moderate former McCain shadow Lindsey Graham with their nuclear level corruption, unethical immorality and sophistry and lies over Kavanaugh.

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

Kavanaugh is livid. This is a vanilla boy-scout construed as a gang-rapist with zero evidence en masse. I wonder if this is going to harden his attitude towards leftist social policies? Do you think it is going to impact the prism of his jurisprudence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZOxPRNWFr8

This is Kavanaugh and Graham on the inside, being assassinated by these lying Nazi feminists.

Kavanaugh and Graham now understand.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/09/27/breaking-we-have-the-votes-n2523402

They have the votes too. Exactly as I said – before October 1, so he’s in this session, and Trump can start sending people to Guantanamo.

So all the feminists have done, is radicalise Kavanaugh who was as pure an orthodox establishment GOPe conservative who would have left everything alone, and the GOP who were their allies.

I hope the American degenerate feminist leadership who have dined on on destroying women whilst saying they’re their friend, have enjoyed their ‘income-in-time’ alimony, their free birth control, and their Roe v Wade – all of that is going on the dumpster fire. Hopefully a number of them will be warming their hands in the cold streets in front of dumpster fires as well – the way they’ve publicly engaged in the most ridiculous attempted fake assassination of a good man demands it.

The way feminist women have used and abused and destroyed the happiness of women whilst stating they’re doing the opposite is one of the worst aspects of the ongoing cultural revolution.

The debt is so very very very large. I don’t know if it can ever be repaid. But it is going to start to be repaid. I remember when I was palming my way through TARP and saw how much of the $700billion that was meant for ‘shovel ready jobs’ actually went to feminist special interest parasite groups. Feminists need to burn in their bras.
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September 28, 2018 3:41pm
- gump
  
  It’s not at all surprising that your wife left you…
  
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  September 28, 2018 4:15pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Pendulums swing too far when there is an inequality and need to adjust back to a more even keel before it over balances.
    
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    September 29, 2018 6:51pm
- Fletch
  
  The Dems overplayed their hand. If they’d left it at just one woman, perhaps it would have been believeable, but then Creepy Porn Lawyer scrapes up some other woman, Swetnick, from the bottom of a bucket, saying she was present at “rape gang” parties in which Kavanaugh participated, that nobody can take it seriously.
  
  Politico (a very left-wing site) talked to Swetnick’s ex-boyfriend Richard Vinneccy, who said that he filed a restraining order against her, “She was threatening my family, threatening my wife and threatening to do harm to my baby. I know a lot about her. She’s not credible at all. Not at all.”
  
  But, by God, they gave it their best shot. No one has ever seen anything so low and dishonest – ruining a good man’s reputation for power.
  
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  September 28, 2018 4:32pm
  - gump
    
    The only person who has ruined Kavanaugh‘s reputation is Kavanaugh himself.
    
    Watching him melt down in front of the cameras makes it easy to believe he was an entitled and agressive teen with a drinking problem.
    
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    September 28, 2018 5:18pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      He’s not exactly one of “the best people”, is he?
      OTOH, he what Trump wanted, when he elevated him over the other Federalist Society picks he promised to choose – someone who would provide ultra-partisan cover in the top court should Trump just happen to find himself in serious criminal trouble,
      
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      September 28, 2018 6:08pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Or perhaps he was annoyed with being called a gang rapist etc and having his family harassed and his reputation torn to shreds.
        I’ve seen you have melt downs for less.
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/05/general_debate_5_may_2018.html#comment-2203532
        
        Oh and Gimp. You’ve got form on here for your defamatory smearing comments. You’re just a piece of shit.
        
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        September 28, 2018 7:01pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh, boo hoo.
        
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        September 28, 2018 7:21pm
      - stephieboy
        
        “You’re just a piece of shit.”
        
        That’s the level All on Red aspires to and never goes beyond
        
        Oink, oink..!
        
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        September 28, 2018 7:35pm
    - Jazzby
      
      You may well be right – but please remember this: impressions are one thing, whilst reality can be quite another.
      What’s more, dissolute youths can mature into worthwhile adults; we have no way of knowing for sure, in Kavanaugh’s case. Frankly, our speculation is pointless.
      This having been said, the way in which this whole business has been conducted must leave a foul taste in everyone’s mouth, regardless of political persuasion.
      
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      September 28, 2018 6:28pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        But Kavanuagh has repeatedly denied, on oath, that he was a dissolute youth.
        
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        September 28, 2018 6:38pm
    - UpandComer
      
      Lol. He was the Liberal GOPe pick. He would have gone along to get along. He’s given no indication ever he would touch the third rails – he was simply going to uphold the status quo. He’s been burned, now, like so many of us, burned in a deeply personal and unjust purely political manner. He hates the left with a thousand suns – he would gladly see them removed from the Republic. After having his reputation assassinated there is no question he is going to go for the jugular at every opportunity on every issue. That’s entirely the DNC’s fault. Along with Clarence Thomas who was treated worse then an escaped N***** by the same people trying to provoke a race war farming the blacks like cattle for their votes and feeding off their immiseration.
      
      He also knows that Vince Foster was murdered, and he will take that knowledge into the SC with him – I’ve no doubt it won’t play any part in his judgements when the public grand juries begin. Not all of it will be military tribunal – although most of it is. He was comped before. Not now. He isn’t going to get the Scalia treatment. He will get his revenge on the Clintons, and the entire Left. And he for what they did to Scalia.
      
      I told you – 1 October 18 – he would be announced. And he is thus announced.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHg3fI5cW7k
      
      A lot of witches are going to burn at the stake. Kavanaugh and Graham have been turned into Geralt – they weren’t Geralt before. They are now.
      
      White men aren’t going to take this shit anymore. The Colleges are going to be cleansed. If Obama could issue a title XI edict that abrogated the constitution, a new head of the Department of Education can do the same – every College professor who sent a boy to the Gulag after putting them through the Kavanaugh treatment needs to go to prison for conspiracy. And they will.
      
      The feminists and their Oxytocin deprivation are going to be prevented from destroying more women and more children.
      
      Justice is coming. I don’t know how much will be publicised.
      
      Instead of being treated like Cattle and objects, discarded and traded and trafficked, poisoned and indoctrinated, women and children are going to be defended and given the measure of their transcendent worth and objective being. Not groomed for sex by degenerates.
      
      You people are so unbearably and amusingly stupid. The left has been allowed to fester for decades. Their hatred of humanity has been allowed to rear it’s head publicly, and now in the US it is going to continue to be revealed and cut out from the body politic like the cancer it is at least for a few more years.
      
      There is going to be no blue wave. The Dems will be lucky to pick up 11 seats. I don’t care if I’m the only person who says it. I think they’ll actually lose seats lol. The Lugenpresse is in exponential Lugenpresse mode. It’s going to be quite a shock for people I think.
      
      Lol Mikewasmild in that mildew manner he has, talking about ‘partisanship’. The entire lower court circuit in America needs to be replaced because the left has simply destroyed the institution. And they will be. Daniel Horowitz and Mark Levin and myself and others have been paying attention.
      
      It was supposed to be Lois Lerner for Ginsberg. Lol, now Ginsberg is going to die and she will be replaced by a human being who actually cares about women and children instead. Ginsberg was greedy – she wouldn’t leave when the Dems could have swapped her out for another corrupted degenerate criminal item of filth. Too late. All her life extending special supplies have dried up. So she’s on the clock. There’s only so much standard life extension will do. She’ll expire before the end of Trump’s second term. Her crimes will never be revealed but she’ll go to the grave knowing she let her cause down. What’s so telling to me is that even the ‘RGB’ fans who don’t know what she’s done are abusing her for not sidling off into that good night – that’s the loyalty of the left.
      
      Interesting times.
      
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      September 28, 2018 6:38pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Can you believe this, folks?

Public sector bosses will now be responsible for addressing the scourge of family and sexual violence in New Zealand.

Green MP Jan Logie – the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues) – has just announced a new joint venture at the annual conference of the Māori Women’s Welfare League in Gisborne.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/367500/govt-outlines-new-plan-to-fight-family-and-sexual-violence-they-re-not-getting-that-help
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September 28, 2018 3:41pm
- starboard
  
  Heard it all before. ” A decent society “..” Closing the gaps “..” A fresh approach”…” Fight family and blah blah group ”
  
  Big on talk but not on action.
  
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  September 28, 2018 4:31pm
- cmm
  
  Sweet. Just don’t employ any Maori women and you don’t have to worry about it.
  
  That’s the sort of unintended consequence these daft policies will bring about!
  
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  September 28, 2018 4:49pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  If you can get 10days off on the employers tab because the bastard at home has knocked you about, why do you have to go through Personal Grievance procedures if the boss does it at work?
  
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  September 28, 2018 9:40pm
DigNap15

Should have just left it to Te Puna Kokiri.
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September 28, 2018 3:49pm
- sooty
  
  Meka could give them the bash!
  
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  September 28, 2018 4:18pm
DigNap15

That stupid naive little girl Ardern wants to spread kindness though the world!
Aah, isn’t that sweet.
She could start at home stopping all the gang violence and robberies and bashings.
Then she could go and visit Yemen, or Nigeria’s northern region, or the Congo, or South Sudan, or Mexico, or Guatemala etc etc.
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September 28, 2018 3:52pm
VicParking

Cindy’s UN speech touched on the abuse of women and childern. I call the parading of Neve from one UN function to another an abuse of a child. It was ironic that part way through her speech Neve protested so loud the Clarke had to take her from the room.
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September 28, 2018 4:03pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Better that she only interrupted her mother’s turn.
  
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  September 29, 2018 6:58pm
Tall Man

This is the lead story from the NZ Herald.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12133539

Do they not get it? Trump and the bulk of NZ couldn’t give a flying fuck about what this this pathetic little try hard who calls herself PM thinks.

The obsequiousness of these sycophants disgusts me.
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September 28, 2018 4:21pm
- stephieboy
  
  Tall Man, what makes you think that bulk of B\New Zealanders seriously cares about your whinge bingeing?
  
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  September 28, 2018 7:38pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Stupidboy, judging by the uptick/downtick ratio, it’s very obvious that a hell of a lot more New Zealanders care a lot more about what Tall Man has to say than they do about your pathetic communist mumblings.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:29pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Well buddy, they seem to outnumber you 50 to 1.
    
    The only place your drivel is welcomed is on the left wing propaganda site Stuff.
    
    Not to sound too condescending but, shouldn’t it be binge whinging or are semantics another weak point for you?
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:06pm
Inandout

John Key spoke at the UN and the comments are just as nasty as anything Jacinda is exposed to. Oh, he did have a big audience though.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/84500371/key-blasts-un-security-council-over-vested-interests-preventing-action-on-syria

Wonder if he regrets pumping for Helen?
One comment:
‘I wish Mr Key would have left hair-pulling in NZ and not been seen playing with the hair of the lady sitting next to him at the UN. It is so embarrassing for a so called world leader to behave in this way. I am sure he can afford the treatment he needs’.
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September 28, 2018 4:23pm
- Tall Man
  
  And we all know how “accurate and valid” comments from obvious labour office interns are.
  
  You and the rest of the pathetic robotic labour interns keep trotting out “hair pulling” as a heinous crime and try to use it as a smokescreen for the blatant lying and total disregard for “due process” that the current bunch of thieves exhibit.
  
  You and the rest of the interns are so mentally slow that you don’t realise your actions are like trying to hide a train behind a bucket. It just highlights your blind obedience to the party regardless of logic and plain common sense.
  
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  September 28, 2018 5:09pm
  - Inandout
    
    TM, who are you referring to?
    
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    September 28, 2018 6:14pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Apologies for being obtuse, probably the dip stick whose comment you repeated. Such repetition of the “hair pulling” gets old really fast. I wonder why some are more fixated on the past Government than the current mess we have.
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:09pm
krazykiwi

SEC sues Musk for fraud, seek to remove him from Tesla

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday accused Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk of fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the electric car company, saying he made a series of “false and misleading” tweets about potentially taking Tesla private last month.

Musk, 47, is the public face of Tesla and losing him would be a big blow for the money-losing car maker which has a market value of more than $50 billion, chiefly because of investors’ belief in Musk’s leadership.

The Department of Justice, which has the authority to press criminal charges, has also questioned the company about Musk’s tweets, the company said this month.

Tesla shares tumbled 12 percent in after-hours trading.
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September 28, 2018 4:24pm
- Inandout
  
  Tesla-philes will still keep buying the overpriced dodgy vehicles.
  
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  September 28, 2018 4:55pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout, dodgy in what way? ( and putting aside possible petrol head bias )
    
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    September 28, 2018 7:48pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      So stupidboy, we’re all assuming that all is going fine with your own Tesla, given that you’ve put your money where your mouth is.
      
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      September 28, 2018 8:35pm
lifesgood

OK folks, I’ve been out all day. What did the COL dump at 4pm today?
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September 28, 2018 5:18pm
- MrTips
  
  A list of their positive actions. That is, nothing.
  
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  September 28, 2018 5:56pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Daylight saving, but the time zone and one week out. Math is never good with the left, so a double bombshell next Friday. Get you harness on for the ride to Narnia
  
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  September 28, 2018 6:49pm
nasska

…..”Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted she did hear Neve crying during her address to the UN General Assembly this morning but says she wasn’t distracted by it.”…..

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-jacinda-ardern-says-she-didnt-miss-beat-during-un-speech-despite-baby-neve-crying-in-audience

How shit does your speech have to be before your own ankle-biter cries in protest? 🙂

(And I’m on Neve’s side. I’d be crying & screaming too!)
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September 28, 2018 6:36pm
- stephieboy
  
  nasska, don’t panic it is likely Neve is only teething. Your faux outrage is at best comical!
  
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  September 28, 2018 7:27pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Your struggle for relevance is just sad.
    
    Sigh
    
    But then who outside of your own little bubble really cares.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:05pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    You must be terribly disappointed by the teething, in Islam she’s probably too old to marry now.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:25pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    At three months? And how the f… would you know?
    Babies cry, she was dragged across time zones surrounded by strange people, how is that normal for a baby?
    It would be more surprising not to cry, oh and did I mention how much I dislike parents who give their babies dummies.
    If a baby chooses to suck its thumb it is their choice, dummies are not the babies choice.
    
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    September 29, 2018 7:07pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Nasska:
  
  The reason why Jacinda could hear Neve is because there was bugger-all in the way of people listening to her speech. In fact, if someone had dropped a pin, the sound effect would’ve rippled through the room!
  
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  September 28, 2018 7:34pm
  - nasska
    
    I’ve read a couple of accounts today that would suggest that the First House Husband & the curtain climber WERE the audience! 🙂
    
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    September 28, 2018 7:40pm
    - stephieboy
      
      snooze button reminder!
      
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      September 28, 2018 7:44pm
      - nasska
        
        Bat one out over this: 🙂
        
        …..”Suddenly there was a huge roar. ‘Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge?’ and out from under the bridge loomed the Troll.
        
        Quaking in his hooves, Little Billy Goat Gruff managed to squeak ‘It’s only me. I’m only going to look for some grass to eat.’”…..
        
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        September 28, 2018 7:50pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Nasska:
      
      It would’ve been cheaper, really, if Jacinda had stayed at home and done a live-feed to New York. It’s not as if anyone important turned up to her big event after all!
      
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      September 28, 2018 7:47pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus, bubblehead as if she or anyone else out there in the real world actually cares!
        
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        September 28, 2018 7:51pm
      - rangitoto
        
        “anyone else out there in the real world actually cares!”
        
        That’s why there was hardly anyone present.
        
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        September 28, 2018 8:21pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        bubblehead
        
        You seem very protective of Jacinda. Do you masturbate over photos of her? Another perverted fantasy of yours? Dirty old man!
        
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        September 28, 2018 8:27pm
      - nasska
        
        Young girls in malls, goats & now the Mother of the Nation’s Baby is featuring in his wet dreams.
        
        Will the sickness never end? 🙂
        
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        September 28, 2018 8:32pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Stephie is so dumb he stubbornly persists in showing how stupid he is every day.
        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqY3VHubd_g
        
        Hey, I hear his favourite search engine is http://www.goatgoatgo.com
        
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        September 28, 2018 8:38pm
      - sooty
        
        Most of the people there were the NZ media and staff. Why would you bother when all the important people had left. They did not hang around to listern to her! She was just making up the support act!
        
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        September 28, 2018 9:31pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        Will the sickness never end?
        
        It seems to me that Stephieboy is self-projecting when he advises other Kiwiblog commenters to see their doctor. It’s now clear beyond a shadow of doubt that Stephieboy needs to see a doctor urgently – preferably one who specialises in curing sexual perversions!
        
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        September 28, 2018 9:34pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        They were all there for the ‘live feed’ don’t you know!!
        
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        September 29, 2018 7:10pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  And Jethro turned up dressed as a homeless yob, unshaven and with no tie. No class but omnipresent.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:01pm
  - RF
    
    Plus Cindy waddling like a cow cocky bringing in the herd wearing those bloody ugly ankle strap shoes.
    
    “Common as muck” is an expression I used to hear from my oldies.
    
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    September 28, 2018 8:53pm
- RF
  
  She heard squirrel crying but continued……
  
  So her bloody speech comes first before her baby…… What a self centered bitch…..
  
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  September 28, 2018 11:33pm
lifesgood

TV 3 showed the actual “crowd” on The Project tonight. Hilarious!! Only a half dozen or so and most of them were doing other things. One woman was standing with her back to Ardern as she prattled and virtue signalled away. Bet they’ve all had enough of her screaming brat as well. How our msm can spin it into a raging success is beyond me.
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September 28, 2018 7:50pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Yep. Cindy dear, put the fucking baby away. It shat itself in front of the Japanese and embarrassed us all. We’ve had enough of it.
  
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  September 28, 2018 8:49pm
  - sooty
    
    Len Brown had some big baby on the nagtifarty table and was changing her naps.
    
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    September 28, 2018 9:26pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Sooty:
      
      Where would we be without Len “one minute” Brown? Ngati Whatua owe him a debt of gratitude for treating their cherished boardroom table with such cultural respect!
      
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      September 28, 2018 9:36pm
Tall Man

And the “real” news on the Herald is that Bishop and Bridges “probably” breached copyright by playing music in their car, singing along to it then posting the short video on Facebook.

What a truly pathetic excuse for a news outlet it is.

They even had to consult two “experts”.

This takes precedence over Winston’s shenanigans and anything else that could portray the coalition in and unflattering way.
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September 28, 2018 10:21pm
Jack5

Where is ‼Kearealityczech⁉

Thought tonight that here I’d wandered into a meeting of church elders.

Footnote: Just seen that the parrot is on a two-month spell in the blog slammer – sentence imposed two weeks ago. ☹
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September 28, 2018 11:24pm
Jack5

? For final reading, a link to one angry-bitch Aussie feminist.

Clementine Ford, from the photograph with her article in Melbourne’s The Age, looks to be the sort, who, if born in the days when she would have been destined to be a suburban mum …. looks to be the sort who would have been an Olympic-sale ? gold medallist? of the fabled kitchen rolling pin.

The Clementines of the world were born to enchain blokes as servile, menial, vasectomised slaves of womankind.

https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/men-continue-to-show-themselves-to-be-uninterested-in-women-s-lives-20180928-p506k6.html
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