General Debate 6 September 2018

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Captain Mainwaring

Curran was an utter stumblefuck in response to Melissa Lee’s questioning yesterday.
Minister of the Crown? You must be kidding.
She came across more like a dopey waitress caught with her fingers in the till. When Jacinda hears this will she administer the last rites?
Worst. Government. Ever.
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September 6, 2018 8:01am
- AgainstTheFlow
  
  When Ardern does chop Curran, how will it make Ardern look?
  
  Weak and unable to demand high standards.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:04am
  - dave_c_
    
    ‘Owned and used’
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:13am
- holysheet
  
  You must have have missed the announcement when the drunken dwarf said he prefered dumb and dumber to run the country. It’s the only way to get rid of capitalism.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:06am
- JibberJabber
  
  Unfit to Govern!
  Repeated here endlessly in the run up to the circus’s inception, we must all be clairvoyant.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:40am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    AAAHHH that’s it….Curran’s new name.
    Claire ….Vacant.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:01am
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      Crooked Claire. It’s an email thing.
      
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      September 6, 2018 12:24pm
- Chris R
  
  Captain: I understand that both PMs Holyoake and Kirk used to hold signed but undated letters of resignation from all of their Cabinet Ministers. If one stuffed-up all that was required was the addition of the date and they were gone. Jacinda would not have been smart enough to do so but I wager Winston would operate a similar safety mechanism!
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:41am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Bet Kirk didn’t have one for himself…the incompetent ass.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:02am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Curran’s response needs translation:
  “Oh, fuck!
  What has Melissa Lee found out about now?
  How am I going to get out of this one?”
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:36am
  - hullkiwi
    
    I prefer the WTF expression of the lady doing the signing.
    
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    September 6, 2018 2:58pm
secondcumming

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION…..

Is NIKE about to become the only N word white people will stop saying?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmV6w-4VAAI7Qpb.jpg
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September 6, 2018 8:03am
- Harkman
  
  Well Nike are free to do what they like, but this was a terrible business decision. Interestingly Nike’s biggest star, Federer, didn’t re-sign and it looks like they’ve replaced him with this knucklehead. Kaepernick isn’t good enough to make a team. I bet in future some Nike athlete will turn up to support Trump or something, the SJWs will get outraged and Nike will bow and drop them further isolating the company with half of America.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:02am
  - secondcumming
    
    You are absolutely correct there Harkman! This was a ridiculous decision by NIKE. They completely underestimated the true feelings of the American people – many have already been photographed burning their Nike apparel……..
    
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmTxN23XcAABl9t.jpg
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:28am
    - gump
      
      I laughed. Cheers. 🙂
      
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      September 6, 2018 11:08am
- Scott
  
  I imagine Nike want to be seen as edgy and cool in their decision to use Colin Kaepernick as the face of the brand.
  
  The difficulty I see is that first of all many football players and athletes in America have to have the support of their fans. And the average American football fan hates football players disrespecting the National anthem!
  
  Secondly the left’s desire to politicise everything is driving everyone crazy. Because of Colin Kaepernick American football has become political. Most sports fans just want to enjoy the game and forget about politics for a while.
  Now even the sneakers you wear has become a political statement!
  
  The wider theme is the left’s politicisation of everything. Not everything is political. Politics is not the highest order of things. People don’t want politics in everything.
  
  Thankfully we are seeing pushback against all this politicisation and political correctness.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:26am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Over $3.7 Billion in value wiped off Nikes Share Price..
    As the saying goes ‘Get woke, go broke’
    (Although Nike is still worth $120 Billion but I’m sure you get my point)
    
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    September 6, 2018 12:51pm
- kowtow
  
  Yes , interesting business decision.
  
  Appealing to the fan base made up of folk who don’t actually buy your product but who prefer to steal and rob it from people who did actually pay for it.
  
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  September 6, 2018 11:09am
Sofia

Strike 1
This has shown terrible political management by Andrew Little. He obviously announced his intention to repeal Three Strikes without even talking to NZ First. Why would you do that?

Strike 2
The Prime Minister appears to have caved to Winston Peters, throwing her immigration minister Iain Lees Galloway under the bus. The Government even made a cash commitment to the quota, spending $14 million in this year’s budget to support two new accommodation blocks at the Mangere Refugee Centre to support the increase in the refugee quota to 1500 a year.

Strike 3
Is inevitable
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September 6, 2018 8:04am
- Colville
  
  If you were to hand pick a minister of the COL to throw under he bus you couldnt ask for a more deserving guy than ILG.
  
  Total arsewipe.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:52am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Good call but there are so many to choose from, and surprise surprise, there are no reserves on the bench to call on!
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:01am
  - cmm
    
    Gonna need an 18-wheeler bus!
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:08am
  - igm
    
    Colville: He typifies the Labour/Green leech. Has never had a real job, is totally incompetent, and attends local mosque frequently. He is as stated, a total arsewipe.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:24am
- waikatosinger
  
  I’m up to around strike 17 at this point, although I might have missed a few.
  
  Clearly. Our. Worst. Government. Of. All. Time. …
  
  COWGOAT
  
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  September 6, 2018 3:45pm
slightlyrighty

Do you think that Ardern looks around the Cabinet table and thinks “Which one of you bastards is going to fuck up next and ruin my week?”
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September 6, 2018 8:05am
- holysheet
  
  There you go again making assumptions. The silly little girl doesn’t know how to think.
  I have a baaaybeee now.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:09am
  - Simon
    
    Problem is that the Prog Princess thinks rising petrol prices is as popular as rising house prices.
    
    There aint a lot going on there.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:17am
    - MrLovebucket
      
      Rising petrol prices contributes to “Stronger retail sales” and shows the positive effect their policies are having on the economy…. NOT!!
      
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      September 6, 2018 8:22am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Have you noticed the apparent increase in special deals, for no reason, for new cars.
        Are they preparing for a down turn in sales?
        
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        September 6, 2018 10:07am
  - Viking2
    
    Its known colloquially as “baby brain”.
    😆
    It happens, we currently have one like that at work,
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:19am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Jacinda was incompetent before the baby.
      
      Nothing has changed in relation to her lack of leadership skills and her constant need to surround herself with sycophantic fans.
      
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      September 6, 2018 8:33am
    - cmm
      
      Eating for two, but thinking for half.
      
      I expect wee Neve is the brains in the “family”.
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:09am
      - holysheet
        
        Well she doesn’t need to be much of a thinker to be bedder than her ditzy parents. Poor wee thing.
        
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        September 6, 2018 9:26am
      - pdm
        
        SC – Imagine waking up and finding that in bed beside you.
        
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        September 6, 2018 10:01am
  - tf78
    
    And Jacinda is really a blonde – no offence to blondes but that could explain a lot.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:43am
    - secondcumming
      
      https://i.imgflip.com/20kr85.jpg
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:45am
      - Komata
        
        SC
        
        ‘Not a Pretty sight’; you REALLY shouldn’t have…
        
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        September 6, 2018 12:44pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Any one who says “no offence but” is actually going to be offensive.
      
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      September 6, 2018 10:27am
  - howitis
    
    There is such a large vacancy in S.L.G. Ardern’s head that you could create a Special Housing Area (SHA).
    
    It is not like that area is being used for any otherwise useful purpose 🙂
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:15am
- igm
  
  slightly: She had best take a mirror . . . she would be one of the worst offenders.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:24am
- sooty
  
  Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who’s the dumbist of them all!
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:40am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    How big is that mirror?
    
    Not as big as the glass whiteboard on Marama Fox’s office in Masterton I bet!
    
    Sorry, my bad; ex office that she was evicted from.
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:05am
    - softail 1450
      
      PG,, Fox is just crooked and it’s shameful that such a person was actually in parliament making law for the people of NZ.
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:26am
      - marcw
        
        From watching Fox in Parliament last year I think that she truly believes she is the second coming of Christ. Totally narcissistic, and smarmy with it. The country saw the true Fox when she was voted off Dancing WTS. Delusional is too soft a word to describe her, and if other people wanted to advance her credit, well boo hoo, your loss.
        
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        September 6, 2018 10:37am
- Huevon
  
  Honestly, I think she believes her own bullshit. So she looks around the table and thinks they are all wonderful and diverse, compassionate etc. Everyone knows they are on the best wicket of their lives so will smile and nod. This government is a joke.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:47am
  - 3-coil
    
    All the various party Ministers are so totally conflicted.
    
    Eg how must the Green Party ministers (and members) feel re the adoration and worship of Adern’s baby Neve? Following the extra jet (“Air Ardern” – thanks TVNZ!) return trips to Nauru, poor/privileged wee Neve must now have the largest carbon footprint of any 2 month old human being on the entire planet, ever!! Another inconvenient “first” for Jacinda’s Labour Party, but not a peep from the fake “environmental” guardians in our government (the Green Party).
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:03am
    - Komata
      
      3-C
      
      No, not a peep, since given the chance they’d do it as well and even more quickly…
      
      (You’ve go to make the most of the situation you find yourself in)!
      
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      September 6, 2018 12:47pm
- Mr_Blobby
  
  She should be looking around the table and saying “the next one of you who fcuks up next week will be looking for a new job”.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:39am
  - igm
    
    When I first went into business my father said, “To succeed you must lead by example”.
    This sure is not the formula for CoLaP.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:28am
- Paulus
  
  Surely Cindy is perfectly capable of fucking up all on her own as she has shown.
  
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  September 6, 2018 2:57pm
Keeping Stock

Check out this small excerpt from the Clare Curran train wreck yesterday. But watch it with the sound off, an focus your attention on the poor woman trying to do the sign language interpretation.

https://twitter.com/Redbaiternz/status/1037238507272425479

If Curran’s ineptitude wasn’t so serious, it would be hilarious. But it’s not. This woman is earning a quarter of a million dollars of our taxes as a Minister, and she is frankly the worst Minister I have ever seen in my lifetime.

Jacinda Ardern has one job to do when she returns to New Zealand, and that’s to cut Curran loose. Curran is now the poster child of the Labour government, and I don’t mean that as a compliment!
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September 6, 2018 8:07am
- lifesgood
  
  That poor sign language woman. I loved the fluttery fingers!!
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:11am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    I loved the way Curran leapt to her feet like someone had activated an airbag under her.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:18am
  - Simon
    
    The sign language woman was going what the actual fuck?
    
    Curran has invented a new language called mumble fuck. They haven’t worked out the signs yet.
    
    Curran mumble fuck isnt an official language yet but the Prog Princess intends setting up a working group with all stake holders to investigate and make recommendations.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:23am
    - secondcumming
      
      You’ve got to hand it to *Chris Bishop*….sums it up beautifully 🙂
      
      https://twitter.com/cjsbishop/status/1037288441543675904
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:38am
    - KevOB
      
      Curran was practicing tereowkakacurena.
      
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      September 6, 2018 10:16am
  - Joely Doe
    
    The sign language woman should have just flipped the bird.
    Would have made more sense.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:57am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      The sign language woman was on a break and Curran was filling in keeping the language of um and ah to one syllable which is all she could handle.
      
      I recommend KS’s link
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:08am
- krazykiwi
  
  Baitie! He’s still around then?
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:23am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Only on Twitter.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:27am
- realityczech
  
  See how Mallard stepped in to shut down the questions in an attempt to save face for Labour?
  
  Worst government ever.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:41am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Not only that, but he managed to get in a snarky dig about the National Party. If evidence was ever needed that Mallard’s political affiliations cloud his impartiality as Speaker, that was it.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:45am
    - Tricati
      
      Yes, I thought Mallard’s comment about a National Foreign Affairs person supposedly using private E/mail was totally out of order.
      This omni-shambles is just appalling.
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:00am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Brownlee should have been on his feet when Mallard injected himself into the argument on behalf of the labour party.
        
        Mallard is a disgrace; if we are going to have a duck in parliament, I nominate the Nauru puddle duck as it could hardly be worse that what we have at present.
        
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        September 6, 2018 9:10am
      - RF
        
        Mallard just proves we are a banana republic and a disgrace.
        
        Our smile & wave airhead may make headlines over seas but back home here she is just a sick pathetic joke completely out of her depth.
        
        I am picking that in the months leading up to the next election this lot will bankrupt the country with bribes as they like the position of power.
        
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        September 6, 2018 9:55am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        I’d suggest it has been filed away for future use RF. Brownlee is playing the long game.
        
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        September 6, 2018 9:58am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Perhaps it would look better if she did not look like she had just gotten out of bed.
  
  Smartened up her appearance, combed her hair, put on a nice jacket, there is only so much that make up can do.
  
  Or perhaps talk to her doctor about changing her medication.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:56am
- howitis
  
  The silly little girl is hiding at home today.
  We get pretty poor value for money from this commie.
  
  She is hiding from reality.
  -the reality of retaining Curran when mumble stumble should have been gone weeks ago
  – the reality that her Deputy Dawg and master Crim-hugger Kelvin is such an embarrassment
  -the reality that she is beholden to Winston E Coyote so the Coyote can contradict her with impunity
  (so many cartoon characters, just so many!)
  -the reality that she is under fire internationally for blowing $100,000 of a one day trip instead of being a leader and seeking alternatives like a milk bank or wet nurse.
  
  TGIF tomorrow.
  She can come out from behind her newly built big white wall at Cambourne and push the pram 150 metres to Balmoral School to feelz the love.
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:12am
slightlyrighty

The highlight of my day yesterday, was not the Curran onmishambles at Question Time, but the fact that this was the lead story on Stuff for a period.

Could the MSM finally be realizing that this shower of shit that they helped put in place do not have the capacity to run a country?

They can’t even run themselves FFS!
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September 6, 2018 8:10am
- holysheet
  
  Ah but they can run a sex camp.
  The nigger in the WOOD pile is hidden in the WOOD. Who WOOD a thought it Wood be hidden from us.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:16am
  - Simon
    
    Curran.tard@ gmail.com
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:26am
  - igm
    
    I love it!
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:27am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    HS I WOOD’ve thought you WOOD have the WOOD on that by now. WOOD’nt you?
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:14am
    - igm
      
      Now, now guys, you will have Waynieboy screaming about contempt!
      
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      September 6, 2018 10:34am
Simon

With Labo wall to wall full of mongs the real fear is that socialism will not get implemented properly this time around.
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September 6, 2018 8:13am
Maggy Wassilieff

Here’s this morning’s RNZ interview with Melissa Lee.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018661331/curran-needs-to-be-very-clear-over-emails-melissa-lee

Melissa Lee doesn’t believe that Clare Curran would give her staff access to her personal gmail account
(to check for official business).
Surely her staff would have told her that trawling through her personal gmail is not part of their work.
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September 6, 2018 8:15am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Curran is on a hiding to nothing here, and Melissa Lee has her on the ropes. Curran told Clark that she used Gmail to make the appointment with Handley and didn’t tell her staff. But yesterday she seemed to be saying that her staff knew about the Gmail account, and had access to it.
  
  One of these things is not like the other. It appears Curran has either misled Ardern or misled the House, but whichever, the consequences are severely career-limiting. Maybe she’ll go back to being a self-described “communications expert” 😉
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:31am
  - sooty
    
    She used that email account to keep everything secert! So what else is she hiding?
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:45am
    - KevOB
      
      Her ambitions for a job in the Hirschfeld empire.
      
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      September 6, 2018 10:20am
- Durden
  
  There if course the clear possibility that there is more than one Gmail account — with business and dodgy usage all mixed up among all of them. Twitterrer – GeoffsViewsofNZ
  seems to be suggesting something on these lines.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:50am
- realityczech
  
  Maggy, we are getting a glimpse of how things really work in Wellington. The fact is her crime was getting caught at it. Don’t think others are not up to the same shenanigans.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:57am
godruelf

Watched 7 Sharp last night. No wonder we have no confidence in MSM and the overpaid Sock pupppets presenters. Their article on Cash in New Zealand was a disaster. Possibly the fact that they said there was only 6 Million instead of 6 Billion in cash in circulation wasn’t so bad as a background figure but then they went on to analyse this and said this meant there was only $1.20 per head.
How does this get past the Fact Check Editor when it doesn’t even pass the sniff test.
They joked about sacking the reporter when they corrected it later in the show but there should be a number on the mat today.
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September 6, 2018 8:18am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Is that the left using variable arithmetic with a roving decimal point again?
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:51am
- realityczech
  
  “Fact Check Editor”
  
  No such thing. That job has been replaced by the: Spin Doctor.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:53am
- dave_c_
  
  What amazes me is that there appears to be no attempt to hide their blatant promotion of bankings and governments wet dream – the removal of cash, so that total control and transparency of an individuals financial status can be implemented. There will be no way to avoid such scrutiny when executing any financial transaction – even what you spend at the dairy !
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:55am
- billr
  
  To be fair, they looked puzzled by the low amount, then corrected themselves later in the show.
  
  The programme is broadly unscripted, hence you get things like this.
  
  It’s no big deal.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:28am
- septic skeptic
  
  Rename the show 7 dull, covers all bases.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:46am
oldpark

Caught on camera and a dirty shitty disgrace .
Two of the so called protestors were intimating NZs going about their lawful business attending the speech of Nigel Farage.
For some reason or other two bags of shit one called Val Morse a recently deported NZ charged with terrorist actitivies damaging a USA military aircraft. The other bag of shit a counterfeit Iranian refugee called Golriz from the terrorist supporting NZ Green Party.Most people know that NZs Green Party is full of far left Lunatics ,yet whats going on when they set out to prevent NZs going about their lawful business.
Surely even Peters that master of Obfuscation and Meglamaniac actions must be part of the intimidation with his decision to select the Coalition of Corruption and Chaos and allow the Green party full of single use shit bags personified into the tent, to operate intimidating NZs going about their lawful business.
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September 6, 2018 8:19am
- tf78
  
  Apparently Valerie’s nickname is “Molotov Morse”.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:51am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I like Jackson’s ‘bottle’
    
    (for those who are not aware, it references to there being nothing above the neck)
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:41am
  - Jack5
    
    It could have beens “Stripper Morse” after the nude protest she took part in in 2003.
    
    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0711/S00020.htm
    
    AND
    
    Trevor Loudon’s take on Valerie Morse, starting with this burst of alliteration: “Arrogant, Agressive, Anti-American, Auckland/American, Anarchist Author and Anti Automobile Activist”
    
    http://www.trevorloudon.com/2007/08/val-morse-arrogant-agressive-anti-american-aucklandamerican-anarchist-author-and-anti-automobile-activist/
    
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    September 6, 2018 4:03pm
    - Jack5
      
      A fuller record of Valerie Morse’s protests and brushes with the law because of them:
      
      http://keywiki.org/Val_Morse
      
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      September 6, 2018 4:08pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Women in the workforce are “fat, hairy lesbians”, “power pussies” and “hairy-legged feminists”.

.. The views of a Green Party politician exposed.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-06/former-victorian-greens-leader-accused-of-running-sexist-office/10178894
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September 6, 2018 8:19am
- realityczech
  
  Finaly a real environmentalist who is not using it to push a radical feminist ideology.
  
  I would consider voting for someone like that.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:59am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh Grief, He was born in Auckland.
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:25am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Now he sounds like my kinda Bloke.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:17am
rangitoto

Just connected to the Horrid website and my browser says that their digital certificate has expired. Maybe they are broke and can ‘t afford to renew it. LOL

http://www.nzherald.co.nz uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on Thursday, 6 September 2018, 7:43:21 AM. The current time is 6 September 2018, 8:20 AM. Error code: SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE
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September 6, 2018 8:22am
- krazykiwi
  
  Still faulty. That’s an appalling bit of IT mismanagement. Someone should lose their job.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:31am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    Some one should get a promotion and a pay rise.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:07am
  - howitis
    
    They should all lose their $weet little number if their job description is to deliver ‘balanced, informative, verifiable News’
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:07am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I’m getting the same result both on Chrome and Firefox. It’s working fine on my iPad though.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:36am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    That is a bit of a bugger; put the iPad to one side for the day and save yourself the stress!
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:43am
- VicParking
  
  Site is now down
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:39am
  - sooty
    
    May it stay there. Lying MSM.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:47am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    Latest push to get people to buy the paper version. giving it away has not worked.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:08am
- realityczech
  
  Allow me to summarise todays content for you:
  
  1. Trump is evil.
  2. Men are evil.
  3. White people are evil.
  4. Intolerant authoritarian lefties are good.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:51am
  - Harkman
    
    Ha I was thinking the same last night on the news, they have a checklist:
    
    1. Find a good story about Cindy.
    2. Hide a negative about Cindy.
    3. Lavish praise on Cindy for wasting yet more money.
    4. Talk about climate change somehow.
    5. Over emphasize something bad about Donald Trump.
    6. Bury the truth about the story about Donald Trump or any exculpatory evidence.
    7. Give no stories about how things are going well under Trump.
    8. Look for stories where whites have mistreated blacks in some way.
    9. Treat CoL ministers like they are competent in interviews and don’t question their bs.
    10. Run a story about plastic bags.
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:16am
    - realityczech
      
      The media decide what ideology they want to promote then fabricate stories to achieve that goal. They do this as much by what they don’t report as by what they do report.
      
      They only report negative things about the left is it is going to leak out through blogs etc anyway. They get in early to give the appearance of balance, but what they are really doing is spinning the story and controlling the narrative.
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:48am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Collectivists, by their very nature, MUST have all their members working in lock step. This helps to explain their authoritarian and intolerant streak.
    
    To operate a collectivist system requires top-down command (another factor contributing to authoritarianism).
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:35am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    How about a lone duck living in a puddle, in Nauru.
    
    Front page news, refugee duck looking for ride back to NZ on Airforce VIP plane.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:11am
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Same here wanted me to change my clock, but the time was correct.
  
  No problem just came here instead, easy problem solved.
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:06am
- KevOB
  
  That can be a problem with your own PC having incorrect clock settings–time & date. A prior date can be the problem.
  
  I have encountered it several times servicing PC’s.
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:24am
Viking2

😆 😆 😆
Many a true word spoken.
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September 6, 2018 8:22am
tedbear

KS..Curran isn’t ‘earning’ one cent. To earn income you have to produce things people need.
She’ll keep raking in $5000 a week until she’s been given notice.

This is a major problem with MMP, all and sundry can get paid mega bucks for stuffing up.
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September 6, 2018 8:28am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Agree with you tedbear about MMP, but Curran is not a good example. The reason is that she was elected by the slow-learners of South Dunedin as their electorate representative.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:23am
mandk

Brilliant photo of Ardern and Peters on the Newshub website: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/09/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-caves-to-winston-peters-after-refugee-remarks.html

Peters is obviously thinking: “See, girlie, I told them who is boss.”
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September 6, 2018 8:29am
- Keeping Stock
  
  To be fair, that photo has been in circulation for some time. But yes, Peters looks as happy as a pig in shite.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:48am
Viking2

Your connection is not secure

The owner of http://www.nzherald.co.nz has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.

Learn more…

How to shut out your readers. 😆
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September 6, 2018 8:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I just had my Mac overhauled…
  so figured it was my problem when I went to the NZ Herald site… TXs for clarifying.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:37am
- KevOB
  
  I’m connecting OK. (10:28 am).
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:29am
  - rangitoto
    
    Yes. They have installed a new certificate which expires on the 5th December. I notice that it’s a “Lets Encrypt” cert which is free (who would have guessed the Horrid are cheapskates).
    
    https://letsencrypt.org/
    
    “If you provide an email address to Let’s Encrypt when you create your account, we’ll automatically send you expiry notices when your certificate is coming up for renewal. We send the first notice at 20 days before your certificate expires, and more notices at 10 days and 1 day before it expires. ”
    
    So I guess they ignored the reminder emails?
    
    PS. I believe Let’s Encrypt have a facility for web sites automatically updating their certs. If the Herald were using that then it could be a technical failure rather than an admin one.
    
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    September 6, 2018 2:33pm
The Heat

She has a truly bizarre way of responding to questions.

Her facial expressions and cadence don’t match her dialogue. It’s like “pull this face now”….”now pull this next face”….now do the “sing-songy voice”…..

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/09/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-caves-to-winston-peters-after-refugee-remarks.html
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September 6, 2018 8:36am
- niggly
  
  OMG – from 1’00” onwards the reporter outlines how the Govt has already spent $14M of taxpayer dollars on upgrading the Mangere refugee centre to accommodate an increase to 1500 refugees (which was Labour’s election policy) ….. then at 1’33” Jacinda states that it was simply Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway “expressing a personal commitment to increase the refugee numbers” (which got shot down by Winston on Monday).
  
  How can Jacinda lie to the media/public like that, brushing off the $14M already spent as if it wasn’t Govt approved/policy … to now make out that it was simply Labour’s Immigration Minister’s personal wishes for a refugee increase to happen (as if it wasn’t policy)?
  
  Plus if I were Iain Lees-Galloway I’d lose confidence in Jacinda by the way she effectively dismissed all his work and efforts bringing these issues to the Cabinet table (and getting $14M sign-off and spent) as if it was simply some sort of pie-in-the-sky “personal wish”!
  
  And clearly Jacinda just loves Winston pulling her strings!
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:52am
  - cmm
    
    $14M for 1500 refugees???
    
    That’s almost $10k each!
    
    If these people are so desperate, why do they need such flash accommodation?
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:20am
    - alloytoo
      
      What I find interesting is the willingness to spend money on refugees, coupled with the obstacles they place in front of high value immigrants who contribute more than $10K in tax in their first year alone.
      
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      September 6, 2018 11:11am
  - Harkman
    
    Ha Labour are already preparing for life after Winston post 2020. They figure they’ll get back in with the Greens. Winston is so stupid.
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:20am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    Maybe we could turn it into another Prison 😀
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:42am
sooty

I hear that Kelvin Davis has a snappy new suit and looks smart.He’s as happy as a sand boy, he’s off to a funeral and it’s not his.
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September 6, 2018 8:37am
G152

Well well.
The mentally challenged member of Parliament has revealed herself and will now disappear into witless protection and will probably resign from Parliament owing to ‘family pressures’ or some such other excuse
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September 6, 2018 8:37am
Colinxy

The rhetoric by the left leaning media to change the rape law into guilty until proven innocent (and part of Labour Party policy, but currently “parked”) continues with this “opinion” piece by Michelle Duff:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106679040/she-says-she-was-raped-in-a-classroom-and-her-life-changed-forever-what-about-his

This is a blatant one-sided piece. She claims to have asked for the other side, but with journalists you never know how honest the attempt was.

I note the push for extra-judicial justice in the article.

Quote:
“Whether someone meets a criminal criteria for conviction is not the only way to validate what has happened. Employers can provide a cultural environment in which safety and autonomy and respect for others is paramount.”
End Quote

Here you can see that if someone is “not guilty” of a crime, he can be served “justice” in other ways. Employers have to do something. Duff has all but said the male teacher in this case should be fired.

I note this from the same article:
Quote:
Asked to comment, the accused man did not reply. His lawyer told Stuff that discussing the case breached name suppression. He said documentary evidence showed Sarah’s allegation was “maliciously based”, but declined to provide the evidence.
End Quote.

Why add the last bit the way she did? Did it not occur to her that “providing evidence” might mean subjudice? No, she just gets to treat the male as a punch bag for free.

Michelle Duff, biased much?
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September 6, 2018 8:38am
- realityczech
  
  Media representation of this invariably assume guilt, even after a not guilty finding.
  
  Accusers are refered to as victims without a shred of evidence any wrong even occured. In my view there is grounds for defamation proceedings by the respondents when accusers are refered to as victims. It could also taint any trial.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:34am
- Longknives
  
  This disgusting attack piece by Michelle Duff sets a chilling precedent.
  Is every other male who has been accused and then acquitted of Sex Crimes going to have their nightmare dragged up again by some angry Femnazi in the Media?
  (It happened repeatedly to Scott Kuggeleijn as well)
  Remember these allegations were never proven in Court.
  False and Malicious allegations are way,way more common than the ‘All men are Rapists’ brigade would have you believe- These poor guys should be allowed to move on with their lives..
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:48am
  - realityczech
    
    There needs to be some radical reforms to protect those falsely accused in NZ. The low number of convictions raises serious questions about the conduct of the police in taking evidence free accusations to court.
    
    Most false accusers are never prosecuted let alone convicted. There needs to be manditory sentencing for false accusers.
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:51am
- rightoverlabour
  
  The thing that bothers me is the “can’t name anyone bit”. Every school on the North Island is now under suspicion. If he raped her, he should be dealt to. If its a case of “he said she said”, then it should go to court and let a jury decide. There are two types that really piss me off. Rapists, and false accusers. They are equally as bad as each other. And lastly, its a Stuff report. Full of lies, innuendo, exaggeration and badly written to boot. I hope the truth comes out.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:46pm
  - itstricky
    
    Full of lies, innuendo, exaggeration and badly written to boot
    
    Yeah – lies, innuendo, exaggeration and bad writing. You’d never find any of those anywhere on Kiwiblog.
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:54pm
Keeping Stock

The Herald is reporting this morning that Penny Bright is “occupying” Auckland Hospital, but not for political reasons. She’s terminally ill, with only days to live. I can’t access the Herald story, but here’s Newstalk’s take on it:

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/activisit-penny-bright-talks-from-hospital-bed-as-she-fights-death/

As much as I disagree with Penny’s politics and her ways of doing (or not doing) things, I can’t help but admire her conviction and spirit. She turned 64 yesterday, and it would be churlish not to wish her as happy a birthday as one could have in the circumstances. Kia kaha Penny.
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September 6, 2018 8:43am
- alex Masterley
  
  Well said KS.
  Like you I never agreed with Penny’s modus opperandi. What has been impressive is her indomnitable spirit but even that seems to be flagging.
  Listening to her on the radio this morning I could tell that the cancer afflicting her has taken a terrible toll. It is a horrible thing.
  I wish her all the best.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:47am
  - sooty
    
    Life is a box a chocolates! To blame the stress for her cancer, is a bit much! She could have backed off at any stage. Her life was her choosing!
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:52am
  - wiseowl
    
    Had a lot of time for Penny.
    Have taken on councils on issues in my own small way and have been surprised at the dirty underhand tactics used to discredit me along with other well meaning ratepayers.
    Thoughts with Penny.
    
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    September 6, 2018 12:03pm
- Mobile Michael
  
  You do have to admire Penny’s pluck, even if you disagree with her cause.
  
  But in the end, the Council will win.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:04am
  - Disillusioned_Voter
    
    Indeed,
    I think it speaks very well of our society that Penny has such a profile, dissenting voices are more important than we may care to admit.
    
    Go well, Watchdog.
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:16am
    - sooty
      
      As long as the concil has shows some balls. Which they have not, up untill now! They still need to recover the ratepayers cost.
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:40am
      - Jack5
        
        FFS, Sooty, do you think the bureaucrats really care about ratepayers?
        
        Penny Bright, Penny the Welder, and on Kiwiblog Public Watchdog a two-strikes veteran, fought long and hard, and proved right in some of her causes.
        
        Penny was one of the few who battled against Rodney Jekyll’s Super City Super Fuck-up, for example.
        
        Penny often took a hammering from us in the General Debate thread. Sometimes some of us were brutal, but it took cancer to break her grip.
        
        It would have been great if Penny had got a good price for her castle before the Auckland bubble bursts, then had been able to get a nice near-the-sea cottage and retirement with more gentle debating, rarking up Establishment oldies.
        
        I wish her an exit as gentle and painless as possible.
        
        From Penny’s deathbed interview in the Hooerald with David Bloody Fisher today:
        
        “That needs to be the epitaph on my gravestone,” she said. “She gave it arseholes.”
        
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        September 6, 2018 10:21am
      - SGA
        
        Really nicely said, Jack5 (and Keeping Stock). Well done 🙂
        
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        September 6, 2018 10:30am
    - realityczech
      
      I admire how she has gone off-script to challenge those in power in her own unique way. We need people like that. Good on you Penny.
      
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      September 6, 2018 10:36am
- BananaLlama
  
  Feel sad for her. She was the only political candidate i know of that would come here and argue with us. Bigger balls than most.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:28am
- lofty
  
  Like you KS, I wish Penny a happy birthday and I really do wish her well.
  We have jousted in the past, but I have always recognised her spirit and commitment to her causes.
  I miss her missives on this site, which I always read.
  Kia Kaha Penny
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:19am
- KevOB
  
  We need our Penny Brights. She was honest and a champion of her causes. Integrity is her legacy.
  Go in peace.
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:37am
- Dave Mann
  
  Well said, KS and thank you for bringing this up.
  
  Penny Bright has been a genuine pain in the establishment’s arse for many years…. but she has never actually done any great harm (like wrecking the economy, betraying a nation’s trust, destroying industries etc) and she has always fought vehemently for what she believed in. Some of the points she has made about ‘corruption’ were, I think, broadly on the right track, but she went totally OTT.
  
  Like you, I can’t help but admire her conviction and her spirit. I hope her meds mean that her suffering isn’t too great as she approaches the end of a very bumpy ride. Go well.
  
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  September 6, 2018 12:50pm
holysheet

I’ve just been arrested by Anti Terror Police for advertising my new fast food outlet.
I was driving around, shouting ‘Alan’s Snack Bar’ at the top of my voice when all hell broke loose.
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September 6, 2018 8:45am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I hear there’s another fast food chain opening up, serving halal burgers only. It’s going to be called Burqa King.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:50am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Have to tell the kids to leave the pin in place in the happy meal!
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:51am
- noskire
  
  Two Arabs are sitting in a Gaza Strip bar chatting over a pint of fermented goat’s milk.
  One pulls his wallet out and starts flipping through pictures and they start reminiscing.
  “This is my oldest son, he’s a martyr.”
  “This is my second son. He is a martyr also.”
  After a pause and a deep sigh, the second Arab says wistfully, “They blow up so fast, don’t they?”
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:26am
  - Jack5
    
    ❗Realityczech❗ is gonna dive bomb you for that, Noskire. ?
    
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    September 6, 2018 3:10pm
  - realityczech
    
    “One pulls his wallet out ”
    
    Clearly not a Jewish joke 🙂
    
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    September 6, 2018 3:44pm
NK

Um, er, um, um, er, um, er, er, er, er, um,
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September 6, 2018 8:49am
- mandk
  
  Thank you for that clear and succinct explanation, Minister.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:01am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Someone on 5000 bucks a week should be ale to do better
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:07am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  “I think it is clear the minister has answered the question. The member will resume her seat.”, – Duckman
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:29am
Happychappy

If anyone ever had any doubts over who was Leader of the Coalition they should be much wiser now when they see that Jacinda would rather have the power and the stardust that goes with the job of Prime Minister than implement her election promises to her voters and the Labour Party. Winston says jump and Jacinda obeys and even to the point of being belittled by his announcements that are made without consultation. Now would be the time to try again to have the Coalition agreement come out of hiding to see exactly how much Power NZ First hold as this again shows Peters is the scourge of NZ Politics.
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September 6, 2018 9:01am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Akshully, I’m rather glad Winston is on deck..
  
  The silly labour/green crew are trying to sink our waka and looks like it’s only Winny who’s keeping us afloat.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:14am
- Poppa
  
  I am no Peters fan that is for sure but just imagine what Cindy would be running around doing if he wasn’t there to yank her back into line
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:15am
  - sooty
    
    Between photo shoots and expressing milk, no she hardly had time to talk to anyone!
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:35am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      You forgot her other ‘primary’ role – the Minister for school visits.
      
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      September 6, 2018 10:31am
- cmm
  
  Sorry Maggy and Poppa, but Winnie is only there to look the hero because he chose these morons in the first place.
  
  Analogy: If someone pushes you into the river, then pulls you out, do you thank him for saving you?
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:30am
  - Jack5
    
    Well, there would be a sigh of relief.
    
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    September 6, 2018 3:12pm
lastmanstanding

Im always amused when the Left are described as Progressive.

Progress suggests improvement or improving.

There is nothing improving about.

Denying free speech to those you oppose.
Destroying the traditional family unit.
Cuddling up to Crims.
Corrupting democracy.
Paying your selves exorbitant amounts from the public purse with no accountability.
Lying to the people you are supposed to be serving.
Treating these people like an ATM.
Need I go on.
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September 6, 2018 9:08am
- MrLovebucket
  
  It’s an Ironic label. Just as it would be if we called them a bunch of “Winners” {snigger}
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:39am
Poppa

More arrests yesterday in the harness racing scandal
possibly drug related. This is a very bad look for the industry and will take some time to settle down

There are a lot of good people involved in the industry & this is just the sort of thing they don’t need. As usual it is a few ruining things for the majority.

Race fixing is very serious & if found guilty they should be banned for life in my opinion. That would send a strong signal to anyone thinking of it in the future
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September 6, 2018 9:13am
- holysheet
  
  What? You saying there are boootiful horses that are drugged?
  Like all the drugged up boootiful humans?
  Nah surely not.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:24am
  - wiseowl
    
    It looks like the drugs have been for the humans not the horses.
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:29am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Having been the recipient of ketamine in unfortunate circumstances, I can understand why.
      
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      September 6, 2018 9:54am
- Longknives
  
  Poppa
  
  I’ve been involved in both Harness and Gallops all my life (My Dad had Trotters, I own a couple of Gallopers)
  I lost interest in Harness a few years ago when this shitty element started creeping in to the game (Team Driving/Race Fixing/Doping etc)
  That some of these characters have also been charged with Drug and Weapon Offences doesn’t surprise me either.
  Sadly I think this is the death of Harness in New Zealand. Kaput.
  
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  September 6, 2018 12:18pm
  - Poppa
    
    I hope you are wrong LK.
    
    I too have an interest in a harness horse yet to race & thankfully our trainer is not involved as far as I know.
    
    It must be gutting for the owners with horses in stables which are effected by this, I note a couple of Dunn runners are scratched on Saturday. That is unfair on the owners as it is not their fault in any way
    
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    September 6, 2018 2:39pm
    - Longknives
      
      Very unfair on the owners Poppa.
      Sadly it’s why I invested in Gallopers- I found out a lot of the dodgy crap that goes on in Harness…
      
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      September 6, 2018 3:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How to silence a protester at a Capitol Hearing

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-45428138/congressman-auctions-shouting-protester-out-of-hearing
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September 6, 2018 9:18am
- sooty
  
  Should have tazered them!
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:32am
- Scott
  
  I do like you Maggie but in this case again I am going to have to call a miss. Although the congressmen was very funny and I appreciate his point of view my problem is this.
  
  The protestor is the brilliant (and gorgeous) Laura Loomer who is quite rightly protesting the antics of Twitter. Twitter appears to be Shadow banning conservatives. They lose their followers, conservatives find their tweets disappear and they appear to be suffering mistreatment when compared to twitters treatment of liberals.
  
  The attitude of social media like Facebook and Twitter and indeed Google does need to be looked at.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:32am
Harkman

Seriously I thought Soimon was finished after his expenses were leaked, but Cindy’s $80,000 for a day just saved him. Noticed how our tv news media ignored the foreign media’s shock at the extravagance. This might well have been Cindy’s ‘Weiner laptop moment.’
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September 6, 2018 9:30am
- Komata
  
  HK
  
  But, but, its been done for the ‘Baybeee’ and isn’t jacinda just showing SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much strength (And COURAGE) by doing all this flying simply so she can spend as much time at home as possible, with dear little Neve…
  
  The ‘sacrifices’ such a wonderul working mother has to make!!
  
  (And the ‘Remuera Mummies’ will lap it up, cos now she’s ONE OF THEM!!)
  
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  September 6, 2018 1:09pm
- waikatogirl
  
  I don’t know about that. Newshub video link above called the separate flight by Cindy to Ngaru “Adern Air”. Taking the piss out of the PM Select? Never!! ?
  
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  September 6, 2018 6:35pm
sooty

Just as well Winstone went on the junket before you Cindy. After all you were only there for 12hrs, had 6 or 7 photo shoots, expressed milk every 2hrs, got a red shirt for the main photo shoot. Man you were a busy lady. Mean while Winstone was there doing the heavy lifting, with all the other men and women!
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September 6, 2018 9:31am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  What about that creepy song! FFS, cringe-worthy or what!
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:55am
  - sooty
    
    How cringing was that for Cindy to be doing selfies. Show some class, woman. That’s why you have staff. Shape up or piss off!
    
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    September 6, 2018 11:22am
    - Happychappy
      
      Don’t worry Winston would have only been doing the heavy lifting because it suited him and his narrative, I don’t trust Jacinda but give Winston a inch and he will take a mile.
      
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      September 6, 2018 2:13pm
softail 1450

I see septicboy hasn’t managed to drag himself passed the “have a hard boner all night long ” add at the top of this blog ,or is he banned.
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September 6, 2018 9:38am
- realityczech
  
  Last night he was trying to get everyone else banned for asking about his comments.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:39am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Lay off the poor dear, he’s having a rotten week.
    
    Yesterday he was talking about Bob Woodward’s new book:
    
    stephieboy
    I’m Sure Bob Woodard has his sources including this recent insider view,
    
    Fire and Fury,
    
    https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Fury-Inside-Trump-White/dp/1250158060
    
    Thumb up 2 Thumb down 24REPLY REPORTSEPTEMBER 5, 2018 9:06AM
    
    Trouble is Bob Woodward didn’t write Fire & Fury and Stephieboy has his lefty loonies mixed up.
    
    https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trump-White-Bob-Woodward-ebook/dp/B07G26TD4V/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536225369&sr=1-1&keywords=fear+bob+woodward
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:19pm
realityczech

New York Times Op-Ed: Anonymous ‘Senior Official’ Admits White House Staff Working Against President Trump

The swamp is being drained and decent people everywhere are right behind this great leader. I had my reservations about Trump, but he has proven himself. You only need to look at the sort of people who hate him to see what is happening here.
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September 6, 2018 9:38am
- fernglas
  
  Is there a halfway house between the decent people who are right behind Trump, and those who hate him? Like maybe for those who think he is doing a good job but is a bit of a wally? Or those who admire him but feel he could have done more to fulfil his promises? Or is it a binary choice between adoration and hate?
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:56am
  - realityczech
    
    I agree with your point. Yes there is middle ground. Personally I can’t believe he is the best America could do.
    
    However, Trump haters are a self selecting group. I judge them by their actions. They are dishonest elitist nasty people.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:18am
- gump
  
  It might be instructive to read the essay. It confirms what most of us already knew.
  
  Trump is a cancerous tumour. His administration is doing its best to contain him.
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:29am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Part of draining the swamp includes Republicans. RINOs such as the author of that shit. It’s a hard job when your allies are stabbing you in the back – anonymously.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:38am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Anonymous commentator…New York Times…
    Meh, Trump might be a narcarcisstic blowhard but the NYT has no credibility. They laud McCain but this is the very paper that falsely accused the senator of having an affair roughly a month before his 2008 presidential election, not owning up to its lie for months!
    
    Meanwhile Trump is actually doing good work.
    
    ‘President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Speaker Paul Ryan have teamed up this summer to do something that hasn’t happened in two decades — write and pass department spending bills instead of lumping eveverything together’
    ‘The House and Senate are moving at a brisk pace to pass the appropriations bills, with the Senate leading, approving nine of 12.
    What’s more, the Trump administration has pushed through key priorities on wall and Pentagon spending, as well as curbing wasteful programs’
    ‘“This is all driven by the president,” said a key congressional insider. “It’s a win for the president. For 20 years this system has been busted.”
    
    Nobody is as pleased as McConnell. Last week he said that the passage of department spending packages was a huge achievement, “given how completely fouled up the government funding process has been for 20 years, 20 years.”
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trump-breaks-20-year-fouled-up-budget-gridlock-scores-big-wins
    
    But Mcos thinks he’s a ‘cancerous tumour’…
    
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    September 6, 2018 1:07pm
    - gump
      
      The NYT was sued for libel over John McCain’s affair.
      
      The story was not retracted, no money was paid to the plaintiff, and no apology was issued. Doesn’t sound like a ”false accusation” to me.
      
      https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/business/media/20lawsuit.html
      
      I often feel that the real reason so many Republicans hate the NYT because it publishes the truth. Reality doesn’t suit their politics.
      
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      September 6, 2018 2:39pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Both parties denied the affair.
        From your link
        ‘Mr. Hoyt, who works independently from the newsroom, added that “if a newspaper is going to suggest an improper sexual affair, whether editors think that is the central point or not, it owes readers more proof than The Times was able to provide.”’
        
        The NYT’s record of accusations without proof by anonymous commentators continues.
        But I’m sure ignorant morons will still lap it up.
        Eh Gimp.
        
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        September 6, 2018 2:45pm
- DigNap15
  
  I backed Trump from the time he stood as a candidate, and everyone laughed that he would not stand a chance.
  
  He has done more for the USA in 2 years that Obama did in 8 years!
  
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  September 6, 2018 1:49pm
NZDirect

Ardern is clearly not able to commit 100% to the role as she is working from home today! – why is the media not pursuing this when she should be fronting up to what is a disgrace in her COL. People in NZ are now not even sure who is running the country Ardern or Peters? Is this COL policy or Labour Policy? She is clearly unable to commit to the role and I am sick of everyone in the MSM making excuses for her. NZ needs a PM not PR – she can’t do this.
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September 6, 2018 9:55am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yeah, it’s nuts.
  
  Consider how many professional women nowadays have babies and return to work.
  They make the appropriate arrangements to ensure that they aren’t letting down their patients, clients, students etc, by not turning up to do the work they are paid to do.
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:20am
  - KevOB
    
    Home, Premier House, is only 1 km from Parliament. Any PM having to endure the recent travel needs a bit of rest. Time alone for a politician is scarce. They are the highest paid social workers in NZ.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:46am
  - Piniwi
    
    Perhaps MW it is only now there is a space for her in the witless protection program. Apart from collecting their pay this is thew most popular option of all. Or could it be like the way some people get their own car from the car plant, one piece at a time. The silly little girl is getting her full quota of maternity leave one or two days at a time?
    
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    September 6, 2018 7:34pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Maybe Cindy is having a secret meeting with Clare?
  She needs to do it Trump style:
  “You’re fired, FIRED!!”
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:40am
- realityczech
  
  Maybe the baby sitter is not pulling his weight and helping out with the spore enough?
  
  Something is up. I would not be surprised if she stood down citing personal/family/baby reasons blah blah…
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:42am
  - howitis
    
    That is growing such that it could become a reality.
    
    S.L.G. Ardern can play the former PM of NZ stuff for UN credentials hence why she may hang in there to the one year point in a month’s time.
    
    Note that Klarkenfuhrer is raising her profile and may slip back in as MP for Mt Albert.
    She would be at the top pretty quickly.
    Curran would be gone quickly and the Fuhrer could insert one of her cronies to take over that seat.
    All sorted by Christmas.
    
    There is an alignment for this to happen. Ardern steps down after the UN visit and one year as PM; so longer than Bill English and Mike Moore, who parlayed 7 weeks as PM into some juicy roles; Palmer was only PM one year and a few weeks – but did damage that is with us 30 years later .
    
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    September 6, 2018 11:49am
    - realityczech
      
      Yes, they would spin it to make Ardern look good. It would be evidence of how hard things are for women and blame men. Also how selfless and humble she is for putting bayyyybeee first etc.
      
      Ardern is clearly not coping and looks increasingly unhinged and stressed. I think she is looking to exit.
      
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      September 6, 2018 11:55am
    - Paulus
      
      You really thinks that Cindy will step down to look after her baby (and avoid political scrutiny).
      You must be joking – there is no way she will do anything of the sort – whatever her mental or physical state she will continue – she is Wonderwoman and an example to all women in the world by being so brilliant.
      
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      September 6, 2018 3:17pm
  - Longknives
    
    “Something is up.”
    
    Well she clearly isn’t coping at work and looks fucking dreadful- But that’s nothing new for Ardern.
    Maybe she just found out what everyone else in Auckland knows about Cl…(Wait my phone is ringing- It’s the Lawyers telling me shut up!)
    
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    September 6, 2018 12:03pm
- graham
  
  Agreed.
  
  When Ardern’s pregnancy was first announced, the debate was around “can a woman do two jobs – mother and PM”, and of course people were falling over themselves to assert that of COURSE she can, how could you even begin to question that? Anyone who had the temerity to even begin a sentence with “But what about …” was roundly abused. And of course, famously, Mark Richardson was practically burned in effigy for daring to ask Ardern about any possible baby plans.
  
  I found this all quite frustrating, because to me the question should never have been “can a woman do two jobs – mother and PM?”
  
  The question should have been, and as far as I’m concerned still is,”can a woman do two jobs – mother and PM – WELL?”
  
  In other words, can Ardern give her very best efforts to being a mother, at the same time as giving her very best efforts to being PM?
  
  Or will one job only get second-best?
  
  Several weeks into her return to work, I suggest the answer is obvious.
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:44am
  - Disillusioned_Voter
    
    I thought it was well established that one cannot serve two masters…
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:54am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right graham but the silly little girl is now attempting to do two jobs and like those who think they can multitask it seems both are being equally badly. This after already failing with her “first” job before she flew to bits.
    
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    September 6, 2018 7:41pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    There are some jobs where the commitment of anything less than 100% at key times can be fatal. For example, I don’t want the captain of the A380 I’m travelling in to have an urgent need to breastfeed while on turbulent finals into Akl. PM’ing the country is no less critical, indeed many more lives are at risk.
    
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    September 6, 2018 7:49pm
- Dave Mann
  
  Is this COL policy or Labour Policy?
  
  How would anybody be able to tell? The ‘coalition agreement’ is unpublished and secret and policy announcements by the PM are often on-the-hoof brain farts released literally without prior warning or any proper consultation.
  
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  September 6, 2018 1:07pm
Manolo

Will this be the future of Mt Roskill?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6130061/Anti-migrant-mood-boosts-far-right-party-Swedish-election.html

A Swedish far-right party is expected to soar in popularity on the back of a wave of anti-immigrant feeling ahead of this week’s general election.

Sunday’s vote will be the first since the nation of 10 million accepted 163,000 migrants in 2015 – the largest number relative to the total population of any European state during the massive migrant influx into Europe that year.
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September 6, 2018 9:56am
Hugh Pavletich

CHRISTCHURCH … A COUNCIL IN CRISIS …

… Superbly explained by Gerry Brownlee …

… Former Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee blasts Mayor Lianne Dalziel on local Chris Lynch NewstalkZB …

Democracy questioned at Christchurch City Council … Christchurch NewstalkZB

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/christchurch/canterbury-mornings/audio/democracy-questioned-at-christchurch-city-council/

… concluding …

… National MP and former Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee told Chris Lynch the city is in a bad state when you have the non-elected people telling the elected people what they can and cannot ask or say publicly. …. HEAR AND READ MORE via hyperlink above …
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Christchurch councillor in trouble over staff ‘tampering’ claims | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/106824010/christchurch-councillor-in-trouble-over-staff-tampering-claims

A Christchurch City councillor faces a disciplinary hearing after publicly claiming council staff had deliberately altered the city’s district plan.

David East, who represents the Coastal ward, met with Mayor Lianne Dalziel after calling for an independent inquiry into claims staff erased a clause after it had been signed off.

During a press conference on Monday he alleged legislation that would have made it easier for residents in flood-prone areas of the city to renovate and build homes had been removed from the plan. … read more via hyperlink above …
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September 6, 2018 10:07am
- Jack5
  
  Excellent ZB interview with Gerry Brownlee. Thank you for the link, Hugh!
  
  Christchurch council is a mess. Rates shooting ever higher, lycra-mob turning the city centre into a bike track maze, potholes all over the town, a bloated management structure …
  
  Meanwhile, a $100 million-plus library with all the electronic gizmos possible and scores of new staff about to open in the still-broken city centre.
  
  And now, it seems, democratic councillor questioning being shut down.
  
  Gerry for Mayor!
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:51am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  So socialist largesse is only an issue in Christchurch Hugh? Try Auckland Council under two successive Labour mayors. Fingers crossed the leader of the coven doesn’t get a look in either.
  
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  September 6, 2018 11:06am
RW Capitalist

With so many political screw ups (which I’m not that concerned about)
and
so many actual and policy screw ups (which effect all of us)
It’s difficult to:
1. Point all of them out, if you don’t have a lot of time on your hands.
2. See labour getting above 25% in the next poll.
Unless only blind and deaf idiots, were asked.
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September 6, 2018 10:13am
realityczech

Where are all our resident lefties this morning?

Have they all been called into a (secret) meeting at headquarters?
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September 6, 2018 10:28am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “Have they all been called into a (secret) meeting at headquarters?”
  Sounds like a line from “Maxwell Smart”
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:32am
  - realityczech
    
    Well it is certainly comedy 🙂
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:45am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Under the ‘cone of silence’
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:47am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Meeting at Mike’s place, with H1 and H2
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:46am
Hugh Pavletich

Australia’s property boom ends as credit squeeze begins | Financial Times
… google search title if blocked …

https://www.ft.com/content/cf5bcbf8-b0b1-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c

Maggie Lu is one of thousands of borrowers experiencing a credit squeeze, which has abruptly ended Australia’s housing boom and could pose a risk to one of the world’s most successful economies. “

I got pre-approval for a mortgage last year but couldn’t find a house we could afford before it lapsed,” said the mother of two, who wanted to move from her Sydney apartment into a house. “

Prices are falling but now my bank will only agree a mortgage worth A$170,000 [US$120,000] less than the level agreed last year. So we are stuck.” …

… concluding …

… Some analysts said the housing correction should reduce financial risks over the long term, tackle a deterioration in housing affordability and inequality. Sydney is ranked the second least affordable city in the world, with house prices almost 13 times median income according to Demographia, a group that measures housing affordability. “

“The rise in house prices has arguably been the biggest source of increased inequality in the distribution of wealth, not only between rich and poor, but also between young and old, and urban and rural areas,” said Saul Eslake, a fellow of University of Tasmania. “As long as the decline doesn’t get out of hand, a gradual deflation of property prices, though painful for some, will do more social good than harm.”
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September 6, 2018 10:41am
- KevOB
  
  I appreciate your more moderate posts.
  Could you please let the govt know too. They don’t seem to have any awareness that NZ is not under their sole control.
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:52am
Maggy Wassilieff

Met Service and NIWA have some of the most restrictive practices in the World regarding public access to weather data.

A Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment report on public access to Niwa and MetService weather data, released in January, found their restrictions were some of the toughest in the world and might be stopping third-party competition and hamstringing innovation.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/claim-metservice-not-operating-fairly
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September 6, 2018 10:44am
- realityczech
  
  So what is so secret about the weather?
  
  And is this appropriate for a government science agency?
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:47am
  - KevOB
    
    I believe that NIWA followed the formulaic adjustments discussed in the leaked emails from UK’s Hadley Centre. Couldn’t find the warming so past data was adjusted downwards to fix it and they took control of peer review as well.
    
    Piltsdown comes to climate science.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:57am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    2 agencies, actually.
    also from the ODT article:
    
    Earlier this year, Research, Science and Innovation Minister Megan Woods, said she was going to look into an apparent double-up. New Zealand taxpayers pay millions of dollars a year to support both MetService and Niwa forecasting operations.
    
    She said then she wanted to ”look closely at this and speak to Niwa and MetService to ensure there isn’t undue duplication of roles and effort”.
    
    Time to bring this costly duplication of weather forecasting to a close.
    
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    September 6, 2018 10:59am
    - stephieboy
      
      MW and cmm , were NIWA able to recover their costs by Climate sceptics rather pointless court action?
      
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/7634489/Climate-sceptics-fail-in-NIWA-case
      
      Something that Minster Woods should attend to before an imminent merging is announced.
      
      Maybe ready to put hands in your pockets?
      
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      September 6, 2018 1:51pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I have put my hands in my pocket..
        I’ve put in $1000 into the CCG Prize
        
        It’s been available for over a year and a half.
        
        https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2017/03/if-you-can-prove-dangerous-man-made-global-warming-you-win-5000/
        
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        September 6, 2018 3:03pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        SB could easily submit a paper and win the prize.
        He is an expert in climate science and everything else.
        The problem would be getting the paper peer reviewed.
        Our resident google jockey has a ‘Brian architecture’ which has no equal.
        
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        September 6, 2018 6:45pm
  - cmm
    
    I tried once to get info from Niwa, but they refused to release it until it had been “corrected”.
    
    They also refused to say what “correction” they applied to the data.
    
    So much for science.
    
    They’re just bloody activists.
    
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    September 6, 2018 11:28am
Longknives

I certainly hope that when the Reaper comes for me there isn’t some D-List New Zealand ‘Celebrity’ nearby to trumpet the story to Stuff and and make jokes about it-

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/106862413/kim-crossman-reveals-what-happened-when-a-passenger-died-on-her-flight

And Stay Classy TV3’s ‘The Project’..(I believe she is one of the Hosts of this Left-Wing shitfest?)
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September 6, 2018 12:00pm
Jack5

Discussions of ways to improve Maori health don’t progress far when a Maori doctor says the problem boils down to racism.

Here is the basis of what Dr Bryn Jones, who from his name is of mixed white-Maori descent says on the Red Radio web site:

… people were becoming more aware of how colonisation – in stripping Maori of land and income – had ongoing impacts on housing, education and wealth, which were all considered determinants of overall health.

If it’s all colonisation’s fault, might as well give up trying to improve Maori health then. You can’t change history.

Ignoring minor genetic health differences, the health problems must be related to living style as well as to wealth. This includes food, drink, exercise, smoking.

The longest living people in the world live in: Okinawa; Sardinia; Loma Linda, California; Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; and Ikaria, Greece.

The Okinawa people went through a devasting war experience in 1945. Colonisation is restricted to an American base. The Sardinians have a healthy diet. The people of Loma Linda’s lifestyle is explained in the link below. The second link explains the life styhle of the poor Nicoya Peninsula folk.

The point is: if you want to improve Maori health, don’t turn the problem into a backward-looking bitch about colonisation; look at what practically can be done now.

Loma Linda’s oldies:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30351406

The Oldies of the Nicoya Peninsula:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzNVa4I7CbY
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September 6, 2018 12:13pm
- Jack5
  
  Whoops, forgot to post the original link to Red Radio, where Maori health problems are blamed on racism:
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/365816/maori-health-we-have-to-be-talking-about-racism
  
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  September 6, 2018 12:14pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It was an evidence-free rave.
    
    What examples of racism in the Health Service were provided?
    
    Do nurses/doctors/midwives give preferential attention to non-Maori?
    
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    September 6, 2018 1:28pm
    - kowtow
      
      Years ago when Linda Clark used to present the morning party political broadcast on tax payer radio aka rnz there was a constant refrain of “lack of access to health services for Maoris and PI’s ” as if some Klan clad honkey was standing at the door of the clinic holding a shot gun and saying “Whites Only”
      
      Eventually she actually one day said ” The reason there’s a problem is cos they don’t keep their appointments”
      
      So that’s all been forgotten in this latest # all whites are racist c#nts and stopping browns from getting health services.
      
      Where is anyone on air , in the media or in politics callng out this bullshit?
      
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      September 6, 2018 1:58pm
- Sarkozygroupie
  
  This Maori doctor is masquerading as a Welshman with a name like that!
  
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  September 6, 2018 12:21pm
- realityczech
  
  Studies have shown you do not need to be rich to eat healthy. Infact not having much seems to help.
  
  Maori have a lot of advantages that should lead to better health outcomes. Blaming YT is not the answer. That is using Maori health for political goals.
  
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  September 6, 2018 12:23pm
Sarkozygroupie

Attention the men here.

Do not give up your day jobs:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12120291
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September 6, 2018 12:20pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Adds new meaning to the phrase: “Come closer and talk into the microphone…”
  
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  September 6, 2018 12:41pm
- cmm
  
  … for the hard of hearing…
  
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  September 6, 2018 1:16pm
realityczech

Interesting ideas:

Women Lie… About Everything

The key to understanding this is to realize that all women today are the daughters of slaves; slaves both in the physical sense and mental sense. Until a hundred years ago, women were chattel and were passed from father to husband at a public ceremony called a wedding. All the aggressive, self-aware, moral women were long since gone; killed in disputes with their partners or the enemies of their family and tribe. The rest greeted their conquerors as heroes, threw flowers at them and opened their legs.

As slaves, women developed a kind of prisoner mentality: no snitching with the guards, secret codes, networking, compartmentalization of thought. This went on for generations, decades, millennia, until we arrive at today where these patterns of thought and actions are genetic as well as cultural. Women live in a world of compartments. They have one for their partner, a second for their female friends, a third for a lover, and a fourth for their imagination. Actually, they can expand that number easily to create a separate box for every one of their relationships.
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September 6, 2018 12:43pm
- cmm
  
  Putting on make up is lying.
  
  Blusher, lipstick and eyeshadow etc are all designed to provide the markers that a woman is ovulating and aroused.
  
  It is like a man walking around with a false boner in his pants (like the codpieces of old). I am sure that would raise complaints of sexual aggression.
  
  This is designed to mislead the lizard brain sex response in males and make the woman more appealing and hike up her sexual market value.
  
  Of course men do this to an extent with a smart suit, a flash car and a Rolex to make them appear to be more resourced and worth trying to attract.
  
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  September 6, 2018 12:56pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Maybe some women are competing with other women?
    After all, men compete via their cars, so why wouldn’t women compete via clothing and makeup?
    
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    September 6, 2018 1:34pm
    - realityczech
      
      All true – but women are far better at manipulation and lies.
      
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      September 6, 2018 1:46pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        realityczech,
        
        You’d have to be pretty stupid to lie to an intelligent man who has a long memory.
        
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        September 6, 2018 1:51pm
  - stephieboy
    
    cmm , also men using aftershave, underarm, cologne amd atture etc ??
    
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-finds/2018/04/04/9-of-the-best-mens-cologne-you-can-find-our-top-picks-for-2018/#348a9324d941
    
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    September 6, 2018 1:40pm
    - realityczech
      
      stupidboy, good afternoon. How did the emergency meeting go at Labour HQ this morning?
      
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      September 6, 2018 1:43pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Perhaps he took the hint
        http://www.stopitnow.org/help-guidance/online-help-center/worried-about-an-adults-behavior
        
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        September 6, 2018 2:07pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      men using aftershave, underarm, cologne amd atture etc ??
      
      Is this how you “scrub up” before popping into St Lukes for a “coffee”?
      
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      September 6, 2018 2:12pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    How do you explain old chooks wearing blusher, lipstick etc when they are clearly no longer able to reproduce?
    
    What about the blue-green tattoo of moko kauae?
    https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/384354149420442511/
    
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    September 6, 2018 1:52pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Desperation?
      
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      September 6, 2018 6:59pm
- stephieboy
  
  A rather pointless post when you consider the father and mother of all lies Donnie Trump,
  
  https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/05/28/call-them-lies-why-we-sometimes-dont-use-the-l-word-when-trump-is-wrong.html
  
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  September 6, 2018 1:43pm
wiseowl

Out of the Nauru meeting.
Australia (and maybe NZ) have agreed to help fund a 1 billion dollar Pacific Resilience Facility to help Island nations adapt to rising sea levels and more frequent storms.
The talk fest was all about money. Absolute fraud because of the climate change scam.
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September 6, 2018 1:24pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Pacific nations can no more influence the climate than I can raise the level of the ocean by pissing in the harbour.
  
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  September 6, 2018 3:27pm
UpandComer

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/pristine-inner-experience/201110/not-everyone-conducts-inner-speech

The teiniest release in censorship under Trump, and look.

Look. Huge swathes of people have no capacity for interior monologue, emotional thinking, visual thinking.

Guess who?

Diverse super people. The ones that tell us we’re white privileged and need to disappear.

Imagine having no cognition. You’re just a magnet and a spark. You’re just a brain stem creature. Muh dick, hungry, cold. NPCs (non player character).

Equalitarianism is a mistake.
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September 6, 2018 2:02pm
UpandComer

https://www.rt.com/news/437719-jerusalem-post-idf-censor/

Israel caught arming ISIS by Jerusalem Times. Israel are the murderers of Christians and NATO troops. There is literally no distinction between Israel and Judaism and ISIS and islam. Judeo Islam is the enemy of the west. If they weren’t, Israel wouldn’t have been arming muslim terrorists and Christian murderers.

The west needs to simply have it’s own nations. Others have demonstrated intrinsic inability to inculcste western ethos. They will have to go back.
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September 6, 2018 2:07pm
kowtow

National need to get the rights to the Rita Coolidge song All time high , and run it with a petrol pump in the background , just to remind voters how sensible a Labour /Green vote was .
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September 6, 2018 2:12pm
kowtow

Faaark , talk about playing victim to get off serious charges and bugger me , it worked!

‘ Judge Kevin Phillips said he had no doubt any interrogation of the teenager would be more severe with a conviction and he ruled it would be unduly harsh for him to carry ”all the implications of sexual depravity” for the rest of his life.

He discharged Ali without conviction on the condition he pay the victim $1500.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/crime/israel-grilling-feared-after-nudes-taken-dunedin
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September 6, 2018 2:20pm
UpandComer

https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/05/anonymous-tell-alls-in-the-new-york-time

NYT today published for the first time ever an anonymous op ed from a supposed senior official in Trumps’ administration. This official confirmed a deep state secondary government is acting to prevent Trump implementing the agenda which won him the election. Allusions are made to the 25th amendment. It’s all completely speculative, unverifiable, and amounts to admission of outright treason. Yet its getting enormous support from Liberals.

This wouldn’t happen in a Tom Wolfe thriller or House of Cards. The media are now entirely deranged.

We live in unprecedented times.
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September 6, 2018 2:29pm
- Prince
  
  Only in America.
  Can you imagine an unidentified source in NZ Parliament having accusations published that are unverifiable, anonymous, speculative and damaging to another MP, say a major party leader.
  Of course not, the media would never fall for that.
  
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  September 6, 2018 3:11pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Lol nice. Not quite the same…
    
    You’re seeing the old Trotsky – John Barnham – Israel – Neo Liberal technique of construing oppositional legitimate politics to mental illness.
    
    It confirms everything every ‘conspiracy theorist’ has said about unelected shadow government in the west.
    
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    September 6, 2018 4:29pm
Odakyu-sen

Big earthquake up in Hokkaido, Japan at 6:08 a.m. (NZ time) this morning.
The Herald has a video clip showing where a section of hillside ridge some 2 km in length came down on a group of houses, in the town of Atsuma-cho. Some dozen or so people are missing, probably caught in the large landslide.
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFr_RamnSo
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September 6, 2018 2:39pm
- Jack5
  
  Rough times at the northern end of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
  
  Hope the human toll isn’t too high.
  
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  September 6, 2018 2:54pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    My sympathy to the Japanese who have been hammered over the last few years.
    Thanks goodness we didn’t get another quake here.
    We don’t have a competent government to lead us out of it.
    
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    September 6, 2018 6:54pm
Nostradamus

Just enough time to refill the coffee mug before today’s parliamentary question time reaches its crescendo:

12. MELISSA LEE to the Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media: Does she stand by all her answers to oral and written questions?

Stand by!
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September 6, 2018 2:41pm
- rangitoto
  
  As I said yesterday “Um, um er ah eeeh, awww, doh” in the context it was given.
  
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  September 6, 2018 2:43pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Oh – it turns out that Claire Curran isn’t in the building!
  
  Melissa Lee moves a motion to hold over her question until next time. The Labour groupies object to her motion and Megan Woods steps up to answer on behalf of Claire Curran. She says (twice): “I don’t have that information to hand”.
  
  What a joke!
  
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  September 6, 2018 2:45pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Absolute farce.
    So where is Curran today?
    Probably in Auckland being consoled by Cindy and having a turn at holding the baby.
    Worst. Government. Ever.
    
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    September 6, 2018 2:48pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Captain Mainwaring:
      
      So where is Curran today?
      
      Busy reading and responding to emails sent to her Gmail account?
      
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      September 6, 2018 2:51pm
    - ex-golfer
      
      Curran applied for personal leave from the House today.
      
      So, after two weeks recess and only two days back in the House, she melts and can’t handle the pressure.
      
      And we are paying her how much?
      
      #CurranHasToGo
      
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      September 6, 2018 3:13pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Is she unwell?
        We’ve been waiting for a certain leaker to take stress leave.
        
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        September 6, 2018 6:57pm
    - godruelf
      
      Is she hanging out with Nash today. His delegate didn’t have his diary details either
      
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      September 6, 2018 3:22pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Tuned in for the fun to only to hear the non-responses of Dr Woods.
    Ms Curran can run but she cannot hide though. Melissa Lee will continue to stalk her at question time.
    
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    September 6, 2018 2:51pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I wonder if there will be a special press release from Jacinda late tomorrow afternoon about one of her Ministers?
      
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      September 6, 2018 3:42pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        If there isn’t there needs to be one about herself.
        
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        September 6, 2018 3:48pm
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        About 4pm
        
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        September 6, 2018 6:36pm
- Nostradamus
  
  I’ve found this Twitter thread:
  
  Lucy Bennett (@lucybennett99) Curran asked for personal leave this morning
  
  Paula Bennett (Replying to @lucybennett99) The going gets tough … the tough get going … home
  
  Brutus (Replying to @lucybennett99) Did she do it by her Gmail account?
  
  Jeff (Replying to @lucybennett99) She should be granted all the leave she needs to pack up her shit in her ministerial office and ministerial residence
  
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  September 6, 2018 3:14pm
UpandComer

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/04/massachusetts-primary-election-district-7/

Black woman destroys white male incumbent in Massachusetts district 7 on promise to end ICE, end borders and massively expand welfare.

Identity politics in full effect. I can’t understand why people don’t get it. In diverse societies people vote according to race and religion, not their economic interests, generally. The great fracturing of America is already underway. 2035 it will not exist. You will have loosely ethnocentric separate states.

Steven Sailer is identifying the identity tipping points:

http://www.unz.com/isteve/no-party-for-white-men-another-white-guy-democrat-loses-due-to-his-white-guyness/

This applies in NZ. It’s now practically impossible to imagine a straight white guy leading the Labour party absent extraordinary circumstances. The same will soon apply to the Greens. Everyone instinctively understands this.

You now have Chinese only town hall meetings in Canada. Ocacia Cortez has taken New York because she’s Hispanic.

Its the diversity parties vs the white parties now in the United States. This trend will accelerate and the result will be the steady Latin Americanisation and South Africanisation of the United States.
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September 6, 2018 2:46pm
Jack5

More conclusive evidence has been reached that the Sudanese refugees in Melbourne are committing crime out of proportion to their numbers in the population.

This has been challenged recently by Kiwiblog’s Stephiestani community.

An article in The Age includes this:

…relative to their portion of the population, Sudanese-born Victorians have a rate of offending which far exceeds that of the general community.

https://www.theage.com.au/melbourne-news/are-sudanese-people-over-represented-in-victoria-s-crime-statistics-20180904-p501qx.html
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September 6, 2018 2:52pm
- Nostradamus
  
  From Jack5’s link:
  
  When you take into account the size of the population as well as the number of offenders, it shows a definite over-representation of people born in Sudan or South Sudan in the crime statistics. The data shows that about one in 10 people from Sudan or South Sudan living in Victoria were involved in a criminal incident last year, which is a far higher rate than for any of the other nationalities for which there is data.
  
  The author’s credentials:
  
  Craig Butt joined The Age in 2011 and specialises in data-driven journalism.
  
  He’s written what looks to be a well-researched article.
  
  So what will the “community leaders” say about this disturbing trend?
  
  Eight suburban mayors have come out to express support for Melbourne’s Sudanese community following a spate of inflammatory media reports.
  
  Oh…
  
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  September 6, 2018 2:59pm
- realityczech
  
  What is the final solution to the Sudanese question Jacksie?
  
  “Sudanese Jews recall long-lost world with nostalgia”
  
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/sudanese-jews-recall-long-lost-world-with-nostalgia/
  
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  September 6, 2018 3:42pm
Nostradamus

Jacinda receives a letter from an adoring fan:

Dear Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,

Today I have seen a number of angry men in the media express outrage about taxpayer costs for your trip to Nauru.

So far, that number is seven. At the cost of <$0.02 each, their combined contribution would be nearly $0.14.

I enclose $0.50 to cover the costs to these grown men, because one crying baby is probably enough for you at the moment.

Much love to you and yours.

Cheers,
Sam Gribben.

For a moment I thought it might be “Sam Green” who comments here at Kiwiblog!
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September 6, 2018 3:07pm
- nasska
  
  Two cents each is still too much to have to pay for the worthless dental disaster area to gallivant around the Pacific.
  
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  September 6, 2018 3:30pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    I think Sam Gribben will need to dig deeper. The $0.50 cents won’t be enough to account for all of the following costs:
    
    – Plane charter cost
    – Plane depreciation cost (for wear and tear)
    – Fuel cost
    – Landing fee (for parking the charter plane at Nauru International Airport an extra time)
    – Environment pollution cost (for contributing to climate change)
    – Staff overtime cost (according to Gordon Campbell: “Ardern flew out at 2am this morning to participate in the Pacific leaders meeting, and she will get back to New Zealand at 11.30pm tonight. That’s more than a 21 hour working day”).
    
    Have I missed anything?
    
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    September 6, 2018 3:37pm
    - nasska
      
      ….”Have I missed anything?”….
      
      Well yes! Presuming $80K as the cost of the PM’s PR exercise & a population of 4.5 million two cents each sounds about right.
      
      BUT half of all households in NZ are not net taxpayers. They take far more than they give.
      
      Therefore your & my contribution was more like ten cents each which is nothing short of extortion. Sam Gribben should get an after school job & send Chompers a couple of dollars if she wants to play politics.
      
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      September 6, 2018 3:51pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        your & my contribution was more like ten cents each which is nothing short of extortion
        
        Disgraceful! Well, seeing as the IRD doesn’t allow tax deductions for over-payments to fill the gap left by bludgers, I guess I’ll have to find some extra legitimate tax deductions so that I don’t feel like I’m 20 paces behind where I should be!
        
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        September 6, 2018 4:05pm
    - Longknives
      
      I’m perplexed at what Sam’s point is?
      Even the British Media are reporting Ardern’s Trip as costing “40,000 pounds” and “Controversial”!
      And read the Stuff comments (usually VERY Left Wing) – There are a lot of taxpayers unhappy with Ardern’s ‘Prima Donna’ behaviour…
      
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      September 6, 2018 3:54pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      You can Charter a 757 for just under £10,000 per hour.
      Bargain!
      https://www.privatefly.co.nz/private-jets/large-airliner-hire/Boeing-757-200.html
      
      I reckon some of the estimates of $80,000 are low.
      I guess we will have to wait for the OIA to find out how much
      
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      September 6, 2018 3:56pm
Jack5

Oh dear, send for Dame Devoid …

A British worker has filed a race discrimination case in Hong Kong, alleging an employer would not hire non-Chinese, and also that they called him a gweilo.

Light-skinned foreigners are sometimes called “gweilo”, a Cantonese term meaning roughly ghost-man. If they call you sei-gweilo it means they are calling you a bloody ghost-man or a fucking ghost-man. “Gweilo” is sometimes translated as “foreign devil”.

The Chinese are much more relaxed about racial terms, which suggests the worker in this case won’t have much luck for damages over being called a “gweilo”.

Perhaps no more than a Kiwi could successfully sue an Aussie for calling him a “sheepie”.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2162949/british-worker-files-discrimination-lawsuit-after-being
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September 6, 2018 3:49pm
- realityczech
  
  Gee Jacksie what ever shall we do with these: Maori, Chinese, Arabs, Muslims etc you are ranting about daily?
  
  Surely a man of your ~~bigotry~~ ability can finally come up with a solution?
  
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  September 6, 2018 4:23pm
  - realityczech
    
    Maybe we could try these ideas:
    Non-Jews should be forbidden from living in Israel, says Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
    
    It was also tried in Germany I believe, though that was a bit before my time and records are unclear.
    
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    September 6, 2018 4:28pm
    - Jack5
      
      In his 4.28 post, ‼Kearalityczech‼ does not give the full quotation of Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef (there is also an Ashkenazi chief rabbi). Here is the relevant part of the quotation:
      
      “Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi has sparked controversy after saying non-Jews should not be allowed to live in Israel unless they follow a set of Jewish laws.”
      
      He was referring to the seven Noahide Laws, a basic moral code outlined in the Talmud. Here they are:
      
      1. Not to worship idols.
      2. Not to curse God.
      3. Not to establish courts of justice.
      4. Not to commit murder.
      5. Not to commit adultery or sexual immorality.
      6. Not to steal.
      7. Not to eat flesh torn from a living animal.
      
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      September 6, 2018 5:16pm
      - realityczech
        
        Jacksie stop preaching. You are not in the synagogue now.
        
        I am still waiting to hear your final solution for the racialy impure you keep ranting about?
        
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        September 6, 2018 5:20pm
      - UpandComer
        
        Interesting.
        
        Why is there the prohibition on establishing courts of justice?
        
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        September 6, 2018 7:51pm
      - realityczech
        
        Because they always put the tribe before justice and truth. It is strictly forbidden for a Jew to speak or act against another Jew. No such restrictions apply to the treatment of goy.
        
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        September 6, 2018 7:55pm
- Biscuit
  
  Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack…
  
  Today was going so well for me…
  
  Freezer full of new choice lamb cuts (and guess what we are having for dinner?), got gifted a nice bottle of bourbon, an AFL Finals game to look forward to on Duke tonight…
  
  And then you go and bring up Mrs Devoid to completely spoil things for me!
  
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  September 6, 2018 4:57pm
krazykiwi

Norway is planning to strip 1600 migrants of their refugee status, shipping them back to Somalia. Migrants make up 50% of welfare recipients in Norway.

Politicians with balls. Good on them.
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September 6, 2018 4:00pm
- realityczech
  
  Good on them. They have a proud history of protecting their country. Great to hear you supporting it.
  
  Told that Norway is the West’s most anti-Semitic country, diplomat lashes out at Israel
  
  The original plan was to ship all remaining Jews in Norway in one cargo ship…
  
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  September 6, 2018 4:34pm
- DigNap15
  
  I hope that is true, and that they follow through.
  
  I saw a clip on Youtube of a group of Somali women all in burkas etc, in England demanding better welfare payments for them.
  They were really quite angry and disgusting.
  
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  September 6, 2018 4:35pm
  - realityczech
    
    “and disgusting.”
    
    More disgusting images
    
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    September 6, 2018 4:38pm
    - Jack5
      
      ‼Kearealityczech‼ on another Kiwiblog thread today diagnoses him/herself:
      
      “I am arguably barking mad …”
      
      No-one’s going to give you an argument against that, old parrot. ? No Sigmund Freud, no Jewish head shrink, no non-Jewish shrink.
      
      Just be careful you don’t piss off Mossad. I hear they capture and train parrots for anti-drone target practice.?
      
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      September 6, 2018 4:50pm
      - realityczech
        
        Jacksie, very funny. Now how about your final solution for these religious nuts who make women cover up?
        
        You suddenly seem to have lost interest in it. Everything okay?
        
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        September 6, 2018 4:53pm
Pateke

Those of us from Hutt, New Plymouth and Rodney will remember roger Kerr-Newell as CEO of the cities above. He has just been outed for corruption in Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, a job that brought in A350,000, plus the salary of his girlfriend Bronwyn Little, also of Hutt City.
You may not know but he was also County Clerk of Waihemo County ( Palmerston) before that. He applied to me for a job and I turned him down, partly as he needed desperately to get out of Palmerston before they tumbled to him. Well, Roger, your ‘little’ jaunt has now come to fruition and finally some organisation has now had the gumption to out you. It is a long time coming and you have fleeced many ratepayers, but it ha s happened nevertheless. Best decision I ever made!
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September 6, 2018 4:15pm
- howitis
  
  This underscores what Penny Bright has being saying for years -in her inimitable style- about local Govt and corruption in NZ.
  
  NZ scores favourably on corruption simply because authorities refuse to look into it.
  This could be because so many are benefitting from it.
  
  Muldoon was the last person of profile to kick dodgy bastards in the arse.
  Corso; Scientology; freed Arthur A Thomas immediately without f..ing around.
  Since then.
  Not much.
  
  Clare Curran’s behaviour in recent weeks is appalling yet she gets paid $5000 a week + expenses plus staff, travel, superannuation etc.
  These type don’t want to let the trough go.
  Corrupt pricks like spitting Phar Goff and University Vice Chancellors oppose free speech with no repercussions.
  
  Australia has had inquiries into dodgy Banks and Insurance companies as well as religious orders in recent times. They have had inquiries into corrupt police activity over the years.
  In NZ we know the drink driver police Commissioner is running selective interference for his mates. It comes across as pay for play activity.
  The fourth estate is completely biased – but that is a recurrent theme in westernised countries so pretty much everywhere.
  
  It took an Australian organisation to stand up to a corrupt Kiwi fat bastard.
  Good for them.
  
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  September 6, 2018 6:39pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Very interesting.
  He’s still a Director of NZ Windfarms
  https://www.nzwindfarms.co.nz/about-us/board-of-directors
  
  The Commission’s report said Kerr-Newell had clocked up 72 hours of calls on his Shire cellphone conducting business affairs related to his work with New Zealand Windfarms Ltd.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106862107/former-nz-local-govt-ceos-behaviour-deemed-corrupt-by-oz-commission
  
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  September 6, 2018 7:03pm
  - realityczech
    
    Windmills are the future
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcjxWXJq8RU
    
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    September 6, 2018 7:16pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Tell that to the Workers at Vestas’ Spanish Factory
      
      https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/vestas-to-close-spanish-wind-turbine-factory-due-to-lack-of-demand/
      
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      September 6, 2018 7:25pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Ah Spain. The country that once had such high feed-in tariffs that some enterprising folks set up diesel powered floodlights to have their solar installation generate electricity at night.
        
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        September 6, 2018 7:31pm
realityczech

Let the outrage Olympics begin ❗ 🙂

Michael Laws calls Africa ‘the very worst of humanity’, offends entire continent in one Facebook post

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12120531
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September 6, 2018 4:59pm
- Longknives
  
  Contrary to popular belief it is Black Africans who are slaughtering Elephants, Rhinos etc to extinction.
  The Left wont handle that- Their little heads will explode!
  ‘Waah Racism!’..
  
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  September 6, 2018 7:24pm
DigNap15

The AA – Wants highest fuel prices explained!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12120419

Its simple, the people voted for the COL.
Higher wages, inflation, Auckland fuel tax and a dropping dollar.

Don’t blame the fuel companies!
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September 6, 2018 5:06pm
- realityczech
  
  Here’s ya problem
  
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  September 6, 2018 5:08pm
krazykiwi

The Northern Territory holds enough natural gas to supply Australia for 200 years-plus and is comparable to the shale resources that have revolutionised the US energy sector, Resources and Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan says.

That popping you can hear is Green heads exploding.

Goodbye expensive, ineffective wind and solar.

Drill baby, drill.
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September 6, 2018 5:58pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yeah lets get fracking.
  F the Greens
  Tell India, China and Nigeria and Brazil and Uganda to stop breeding!
  
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  September 6, 2018 6:00pm
- Viking2
  
  As one Aussie said sometime back. Aussie Greenies, never leave the city.
  
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  September 6, 2018 6:41pm
- realityczech
  
  But but but … its running out and only ending democracy can save us.
  
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  September 6, 2018 6:58pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Hydrocarbons are extremely valuable resources, and in centuries to come people will wonder why we sucked them out of the ground just to burn.
    
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    September 6, 2018 7:29pm
    - realityczech
      
      Then stop using them you virtue signalling prick.
      
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      September 6, 2018 7:31pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      The ability to control and utilise hydocarbon energy has lifted billions from poverty in the last 200 years. It is the primary enabler of global advances in health, education, social welfare, trade and peace.
      
      If there is consternation in centuries to come, it will be from those looking back posts like yours, rather than looking back at our use of hydrocarbons.
      
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      September 6, 2018 7:38pm
      - realityczech
        
        “has lifted billions from poverty ”
        
        That is why milky hates them. He wants people desperate and poor, totally dependent on the State.
        
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        September 6, 2018 7:42pm
Steve (North Shore)

Where does Clare live in Dunedin? Maybe some MSM will camp at her door and ask ‘um umum ar yes I answered um um”
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September 6, 2018 7:25pm
RF

After watching Ardern getting handed her arse in Nauru by Peters and not speaking to the refugees in spite of the great promises I have a new name for her…

“Walking Bird”. So full of shit she is unable to fly.
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September 6, 2018 7:32pm
- waikatogirl
  
  “Ardern Air” get’s Cindy where she wants to be! ?
  
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  September 6, 2018 7:43pm
- Longknives
  
  My mate reckons Jacinda took that freaking massive plane with intentions of filling it with shitbag Refugees for the trip home (And Winston actually saved us)
  I pointed out that his theory seemed a little “Far Fetched”..
  He said- “Mate everything Ardern does is Far Fucking Fetched!”
  
  He may have a point!
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:05pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    We’ve had discussions about those vacant seats on Adern Air being filled for the flight home as well KL. I agree with your mate, after the past 11 month nothing the COL do would surprise me anymore. ?
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:18pm
Nostradamus

A protest in Australia: “Muslims are welcome, racists are not”. The video footage shows soap-dodgers interrupting a media conference that they weren’t invited to. Freedom of speech for the protestors, but not for people they disagree with, apparently.

But there’s an interesting point:

[Katter’s Australian Party] will lose four staff tomorrow after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk withdrew extra staffing parliamentary resources because of anti-Muslim migration comments by Senator Anning in the Senate.

The media conference was to be presented by two federal politicans (Bob Katter and Fraser Anning) and three state politicans. Whether one agrees with what Fraser Anning said in the federal parliament or not, it seems like a stretch to reduce state parliamentary funding as punishment. And, it seems, as a punishment unilaterally imposed by the Queensland premier.
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September 6, 2018 7:39pm
- UpandComer
  
  Interesting. A non-Labour administration can and should withdraw parliamentary funding from Labour for promoting muslim migration into Queensland which is anti-semitic. If one knows anything by the ongoing fracas over Jeremy Corbyn (he actually did adopt the IHRA standards for anti-semitism – the corpse of free speech in England has now been cremated) it’s that fraternising with muslims is anti-semitic if it’s a non-jew doing it as opposed to a chosen individual.
  
  Opposing muslim immigration into a western nation is a legitimate political stance. It’s so interesting that it’s both criminalised and even de-constitutionalised by these kind of electoral arrangements. It’s not a matter of disagreement or agreement. One may as well reduce parliamentary funding for advocating for tax cuts or for increase spending on health and education.
  
  I’m so concerned about Australia’s future. In a country that is over one half first generation migrant, it’s now either explicitly or implicitly illegal to have a stance that opposes establishment preferences on immigration and islam.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:01pm
realityczech

Woman let off after violent drunken assault against a man.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106888306/canadian-woman-who-said-nz-judge-bullied-her-into-guilty-plea-has-conviction-overturned
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September 6, 2018 7:47pm
- RF
  
  The judge is a good bugger.
  
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  September 6, 2018 8:11pm
  - realityczech
    
    Tough bugger I hear. He said it like it was in this case.
    
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    September 6, 2018 8:16pm
starboard

Another day another feral Maori sentenced.. Colonisation yeah right
Scumbag.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/106878399/woman-stares-down-gunman-during-julians-berry-farm-and-cafe-shooting
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September 6, 2018 9:13pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Starboard:
  
  Huirua was sentenced to five years in jail when he appeared in the High Court at Hamilton on Tuesday. He had earlier pleaded guilty to a raft of charges including commission of a crime with a firearm, discharge of a firearm with reckless disregard and theft.
  
  The article doesn’t tell us what his defence lawyer said. Normally we hear how the guy was doing it tough, felt misunderstood by society, and wanted to protest against Euroopean colonisation in 1840. In this case I suppose there was a good character certificate from his kapa haka instructor.
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:31pm
- itstricky
  
  Another day another careless old person… accident yeah right…can’t trust old people any further than you can throw them…lock em all up
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106865165/woman-charged-with-careless-driving-causing-death-of-christchurch-woman
  
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  September 6, 2018 9:50pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Itstricky
    
    I think your argument (to the extent you have one) is misconceived. It’s generally accepted that Maori commit proportionately more crimes, and are imprisoned to a greater extent proportionately, than the rest of the population. Andrew Little has just hosted a criminal justice summit that told us nothing new, as far as I can tell.
    
    So, for your argument to work, you’d need to establish that “old people” are more responsible for careless-driving-causing-death incidents than young people.
    
    I assume you’re not really making an argument per se, but just having a dig at Starboard’s “feral Maori” comment?
    
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    September 6, 2018 9:57pm
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: Urgent need to address Australia’s housing crisis … Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

Posted at …
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/09/mortgage-stress-hits-new-historic-highs/#comment-3180852 … and … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/09/anz-hikes-mortgage-rates/#comment-3180853 … and …

Urgent need to address Australia’s housing crisis – Australian Catholic Bishops Conference – Catholic Outlook

https://catholicoutlook.org/urgent-need-to-address-australias-housing-crisis/

The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has today released its 2018-2019 Social Justice Statement at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta. A Place to Call Home: Making a Home for Everyone in Our Land, was launched by Bishop Vincent Long and highlights the urgent need to address Australia’s housing crisis. … read more via hyperlinks above and below …

http://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/files/SJSandresources/2018/050918/Social%20Justice%20Statement%202018%20WEB.pdf

… Page 17 …

A P L A C E T O C A L L H O M E …

Indifference. It is when we say, ‘That doesn’t regard me; it’s not my business; it’s society’s problem’. It is when we turn away from a brother or sister in need, when we change channels as soon as a disturbing question comes up, when we grow indignant at evil but do nothing about it. God will not ask us if we felt righteous indignation, but whether we did some good. Pope Francis 61

… Page 15 …

• We must address the major structural issues
that drive up prices. We need to find ways
of reducing unnecessary demand and curbing
speculative investment. Housing policy experts
say that measures such as restricting overseas
investment and taxing empty dwellings will
not be enough. Increasing subsidies to firsthome
buyers risks driving up prices. Other
more effective solutions may be found in policy
areas such as reducing negative gearing and
capital gains tax concessions, reforming state
land taxes, increasing density with appropriate
affordable housing zoning regulations in
established areas and improving infrastructure
and services to fringe suburbs and non metropolitan
areas.57

Such decisions may be politically difficult, but
they need to be considered on the understanding
that it is the role of society as a whole to make
housing affordable. While there have been some
steps to address housing affordability58, we need
significantly greater investment and cooperation
between governments, the business sector and
the community.
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September 6, 2018 10:05pm
- krazykiwi
  
  I need a safe place
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:06pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Hugh:
  
  The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has today released its ~~2018-2019 Social Justice Statement at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta. A Place to Call Home: Making a Home for Everyone in Our Land~~ Response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
  
  Do you have better and more relevant sources?
  
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  September 6, 2018 10:12pm
DigNap15

Maori Vocab Lesson no 23

Todays word is Construct.

As its not in my printed dictionary, please make up a word yourself.
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September 7, 2018 2:40pm
DigNap15

Its a shame Claire Curran resigned, as she was an example to everyone how bad the COL are.
We lots of bad news to turn the polls strongly in favour of National before the next election.
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