General Debate 10 November 2018

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krazykiwi

There are a couple of comments from kiwiblog contributor oob that are worth re-posting for wider circulation. The first one was this, from September 7

Fuck it, both barrels.

DPF I should be most appreciative if you tell me when they ask you for my IP address.

Who knows what I know about buying “lawn mowers” via text messages?

And then this, from yesterday

Okay I’m going to spill what I know. What follows is uncorroborated hearsay from oob on the Internet, make of it what you will.

Several months ago a senior member of the NZ police, disgruntled by Mike Bush’s statement to the Press, contacted me asking if I could arrange questions to be asked under parliamentary privilege.

This person alleged:

1. Clarke Gayford’s cellphone number was identified in a sweep of a drug dealer’s phone number.

2. Clarke Gayford’s cellphone number exchanged text messages with the drug dealer’s cellphone number, concerning the purchase of “lawnmowers.”

I told the senior member of the NZ police that I might be able to pass this along but I would require some corroboration. This person was unwilling to provide corroboration so that is where we left it.

For what it’s worth, I’ve known this person for a long time and I thoroughly trust them. I believe these allegations to be true.

Remember Jacinda, it’s not the scandal that gets you. It’s the coverup. And you’ve been working overtime on this coverup. We’re coming for ya. Just sayin’
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November 10, 2018 9:17am
- Harkman
  
  Maybe some of the truth will start to come out.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:27am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  To be fair to Cindy, whether Jethro was involved with these guys or not it probably happened before they were an item.
  Doesn’t stop her knowing about it now though.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:28am
  - krazykiwi
    
    The only rational reason for ILG to grant residency is because of pressure from Ardern. She has confidence in him all right. Confidence that if thrown under the bus he’ll feel compelled to explain how his nightmare started.
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:32am
    - Jules99
      
      That is a reasonable assumption, but if someone was going to prosecute, they would need proof she knew. It could be that others around her tried to protect her, without her knowledge. People have done sillier things. You don’t want her walking from this squeaky clean as it implodes around her – unless of course she is squeaky clean in which case she can use it to weed out the scum and put in good people. And pigs could fly – LOL.
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:32am
  - holysheet
    
    Nor necessarily true. Jethro is not the brightest candle in the chandelier. If he hasn’t already, he will be biding his time until he can find a new “lawnmower seller”
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:34am
    - michael_s2
      
      Did he buy any “lawnmowers” from Karel Sroubek?
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:03am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Well someone or somehow ILG was influenced in his decision making by someone that knew about a special someone ordering lawnmowers! ?
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:34am
    - secondcumming
      
      There could of course be a totally innocent explanation…..this from the ‘URBAN DICTIONARY’
      
      lawnmower (v.) Over zealously removing anal beads from ones ass, as in pulling the start cord of a lawnmower, which may often times result in the loss of bowel control
      
      Just saying 😛
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:36am
  - MrTips
    
    Nope. She’s potentially abused her position to cover for her boyfriend – that’s the implication here. If true, gone burger.
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:39am
  - Inandout
    
    Well he had hundreds of conquests before her but she did hang off him for a couple of years, so she would have had a nose for any white powder.
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:44am
    - Harkman
      
      Hint hint you need to watch the Wolf of Wall Street again, hint hint.ssssh!
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:05am
  - toby1845
    
    @ Captain Mainwaring,
    
    As I recall, Arden and Gayford have been ‘an item’ for at least three years now.
    
    I also recall a veiled comment from Cameron Slater (yes, I know), posted on WOBF about the time the CoL was formed, about a senior Labour MP’s partner having purchased cocaine during the afternoon of election day. Obviously, there is no way of knowing if that is true; and, if so, who the MP and partner might be.
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:19am
- Gandolfo
  
  Ah, now I see why the Czech crim is allowed to stay, he has “insurance”….
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:37am
  - Souvlaki
    
    Are you sayin the Czech doesn’t wanna ” grass”……?
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:10am
- MrTips
  
  Posted these allegations on Stuff. Lasted 5′ before they got pulled. LOL. The media know all this stuff anyway – it’s all on blogs so defamation is a lower risk. Why don’t they ask the direct questions?
  
  Unless……tinfoil hat time…..senior media folk are also clients of Sroubek….
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:43am
  - Inandout
    
    Mr Tips, you are closer to the truth than you realise. The Auckland (in particular) media crowd are swimming in drugs; perhaps the only way they can keep their sanity with all the Leftish rubbish they are forced to dispense.
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:47am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Now, what makes this interesting is that the police, in an unprecedented, way stated that the first sperm donor was not under investigation. I know there were “rumours”, but so what, there are rumours about lots of people, but never before have the police specifically made this statement. Now we have Fuckwit ILG doing everything he can to dodge the facts of the case. Simple people like me start to add things up…. If there is one thing I really hope, is that this blows up like a nuke in their faces. Because if the adding up is true, the facts will come out and SLG will have that frowny face on for a long time.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:10am
artemisia

A Maori land protester is planning mass rallies against Fletcher Residential at Mangere, likening it to Bastion Point for its importance to those opposing a just-allowed 480-residence housing scheme.

That would be just-allowed by the Environment Court, not notably on the side of big business.

Not sure what Ms Newton hopes to achieve by encouraging even more illegal occupiers on to privately owned land. No doubt Fletchers will take a softly softly approach, in case a few taniwha suddenly materialise, but build they can and will.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12157259
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November 10, 2018 9:19am
- kevn
  
  @art… Compensation = money would sort it. Remember the taniwha issue on the Waikato expressway near Mercer? Compensation = money = sorted.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:25am
  - peterwn
    
    Looks like a few Taniwha coming the way of 5G mobile too.
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:29am
    - Jack5
      
      Maori were allocated part of the wireless spectrum in NZ as part of the Treaty handouts. This was in recognition of the fact that Maori invented radio before 1840.
      
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      November 10, 2018 12:07pm
      - sooty
        
        Didn’t you know they had radio comunications between the wakas.
        
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        November 10, 2018 12:12pm
  - holysheet
    
    I am sure fletchers have got this “Koha” in their budget for this job. As usual it’s the end users who pays.
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:29am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Is it my phone or have all the comments pertaining to Clark Gayford and his lawn mower buying gone from GD starting at 9.16am
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:53am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    They are all gone. Looks like some people were getting a bit close to the truth. But enough have read them to know that all is not well when buying lawnmowers.
    
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    November 10, 2018 11:40am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Looks like Fraser House has been busy with the DELETE function.
      This is getting very dirty.
      
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      November 10, 2018 11:46am
      - sooty
        
        Can you please tell me all about lawnmower buyin. I slept in.
        
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        November 10, 2018 12:14pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    DPF must have put my root comment into moderation (I can still read it), but that hides all comments on that thread for everyone else.
    
    There were, to my thinking, some astute comments made. They’re now lost.
    
    Still, this is DPF’s place. His rules.
    
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    November 10, 2018 1:21pm
    - dubya
      
      Linda Clark and Mike Bush’s rules, actually.
      
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      November 10, 2018 1:51pm
Keeping Stock

Interesting Krazykiwi…

Does Richie Hardcore also mow his lawns?
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November 10, 2018 9:19am
- mic
  
  Probably gets nice straight lines with it.
  
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  November 10, 2018 4:10pm
DigNap15

Is this the client list they keep talking about as regards to that Czech guy?
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November 10, 2018 9:20am
- Keeping Stock
  
  It could be his direct case, or it may refer to Operation Ark.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:31am
peterwn

So small independent electricity retailers are squealing at the way the five ‘gentailers’ allegedly carry on. The main problem is they are undercapitalised for the task (compared with the gentailers who are well capitalised as they own the generating plant). It is relatively easy to set up a power retailer who can carry on happily for several years by buying cheap electricity. But when the wind stops blowing and rainfall in hydro lake watersheds is low, they get caught between a rock and a hard place so want the Electricity Authority to tilt the playing field in their direction.
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November 10, 2018 9:25am
kevn

Who was on the guest list at the crims wedding back in 2016?
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November 10, 2018 9:25am
holysheet

What is it about the liabors world wide? Months ago it was our liabours and the sex camp in the woods. Yesterday it was the Aussies, and now it’s the poms.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/nov/08/teach-schoolgirls-about-orgasms-says-labour-mp-jess-phillips
Jess Phillips says open discussion of female pleasure is vital to redress gender power balance.

Do they all go to some special school where they are taught this shit?
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November 10, 2018 9:26am
- Harkman
  
  It must be me as I always thought that they taught females when to have a headache. ?
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:41am
- Twinkletoes
  
  It’s called ‘finishing school’.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:37am
- Jules99
  
  Here, I think is the ‘logic’. It’s biological determinism to suggest that sex is for producing babies – that’s wrong apparently. So what is sex for then? Fun! But women don’t always want to do it – confusing because if it’s fun, then surely they would be doing it all the time. Must be due to patriarchal oppression I guess. Well we’ll teach them how to enjoy sex again. Sadly, you then end up with young women having meaningless sex and wondering why they are unhappy. And the men don’t know either, so they are unhappy too. Plus, added bonus, it breaks down the ‘patriarchal’ family structure that oppresses women and children even if they don’t realise it.
  
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  November 10, 2018 12:38pm
- Viking2
  
  She is on to it.
  Imagine guys ,if all these ladies get excited about orgasms then how much better off we would ALL be.
  Lot more smiley faces and less sick bastards like SB.
  
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  November 10, 2018 5:38pm
Manolo

Another peaceful Muslim in Melbourne, Australia:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-10/security-strengthened-after-terror-in-bourke-street–melbourne/10484390

Mr Ashton said he believed the attacker moved to Australia from Somalia in 1990s, and that his family members have been known to police on terrorism-related matters.
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November 10, 2018 9:28am
- Keeping Stock
  
  There were multiple videos doing the rounds of Twitter and the news channels last night, including the shooting itself of the terrorist by a very heroic police officer.
  
  The two cops who took him down deserve the highest bravery awards, and there should also be awards to the bystanders who helped the police, using things like chairs and shopping trolleys to try and get the terrorist to ground.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:35am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    There were multiple videos doing the rounds of Twitter and the news channels last night, including the shooting itself of the terrorist by a very heroic police officer.
    
    Asians recording Somalis destroying western civilization on their smart phone will summarise the 21st century.
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:47am
  - RF
    
    It would be an interesting situation if this happened in one of our cities where our beat cops are only armed with tasers. The taser success rate is not 100%.
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:10am
    - DJ Ward
      
      Guns are available, the officer just needs the decision to get it plus a little bit of extra time.
      
      Or every cop caries a gun like uncivilised nations.
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:54am
      - starboard
        
        LOL. Are you for real ?
        ” Excuse me knife wielding thug whilst I just tip toe to my car , sign some HSE forms and retrieve my water pistol.”
        
        GET REAL MAN !!
        
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        November 10, 2018 11:37am
      - kowtow
        
        Cop to machete wielding Muslim.
        
        ” Kia Ora , bro , could you just stop hacking people for a mo while I run back to the car and get my fire arm , thanks mate “.
        
        ps Where did I leave the keys.
        
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        November 10, 2018 12:02pm
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        Just like trying to put on your seatbelt just before you are going to crash.
        Edit. In Alaska those who open and conceal carry also chamber a round, just habit
        
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        November 10, 2018 12:37pm
      - cmm
        
        Having bobbies running after crims waving their notepads might work in a place and time where everyone shows respect to authority and acts in a civilised way.
        
        Those times are gone. Long gone.
        
        Cops of today need to be able to safely deal with the threats they face on our behalf. That sometimes means the ability to administer deadly force is necessary.
        
        I do not envy cops having to do this. Having to shoot people sucks.
        
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        November 10, 2018 2:33pm
      - Tall Man
        
        FFS, he is right. If an officer needs a weapon. it is there/
        
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        November 10, 2018 10:03pm
      - RF
        
        Those cops in Melbourne involved in the shooting were asigned to beat duty and did not have a patrol car to run to to grab a firearm. Like they do here.
        
        Our cops would have been toast….
        
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        November 10, 2018 10:13pm
  - Gulag1917
    
    At least 43 seconds of knife wielding action before the terrorist was taken down. The longer the drama the greater the danger. Terrorists and anybody who shows a knife should be given twenty seconds to put the knife down, lie face down five metres away from the knife with hands behind their back to stop serious disabling action from the police.
    
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    November 10, 2018 12:59pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      20 seconds? Its basically drop the knife, 1, 2, 3 bam bam. (Two shots as you always double tap when dealing with scum.) 20 seconds is a hell of a lot of time to cause damage. If the guys actively shooting, you just engage. There is a great youtube clip of a Brazillian lady cop taking out a perp at a school.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VThEm-UhFIs
      
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      November 10, 2018 2:59pm
      - Gulag1917
        
        20 seconds is to allow for people whose first language may not be English. 20 seconds is better than the 43 seconds plus and I suspect some incidents may last for minutes. The police could make known the 20 Second Rule to all of society so people will know that is the limit of the police’s patience.
        
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        November 10, 2018 3:24pm
      - Jack5
        
        Rightoverlabour’s post includes: “Two shots as you always double tap when dealing with scum.”
        
        The second shot – is that the warning that goes into the ceiling?
        
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        November 10, 2018 4:53pm
      - RF
        
        Double tap into critical mass. Chest area.
        
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        November 10, 2018 10:15pm
  - GoVege
    
    This guy was a nutcase hearing voices.
    The trouble with primitive cultures is
    1) interbreeding that exacerbates faulty genetics
    2) every problem is caused by “evil spirits” etc so they won’t get mental health problems seen to by a doctor.
    
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    November 11, 2018 9:57pm
- kowtow
  
  It will only get worse and then the west will be gone. Our gubmints are signing up to a UN compact on migration that will eventually destroy the west and turn our countries into what these hordes are leaving behind.
  And in the not too distant future it will be a crime to say what I just said.
  
  It’s already a crime in England to burn a cardboard box. A country that was warned about the dangers and now sees a knife crime pandemic perpetrated mainly by young black males.
  
  ‘Soaring birth rates in developing nations are fuelling a global baby boom while women in dozens of richer countries aren’t producing enough children to maintain population levels there, according to figures released Friday.’
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6370295/Baby-boom-nations-bust-study.html
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:40am
  - wiseowl
    
    It looks like NZ will sign up to the UN Global Compact on immigration.
    It should be put before the people.
    National should be opposing such a move .
    It could be the final nail in the coffin for us.Swamped with muslims and swimming in debt funding poor countries via the Paris ageement and global warming scam.
    We’re doomed.
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:37am
    - Jack5
      
      This is a great opportunity for a smart NZ political party to tap into populism. I doubt National has the smarts to pick it up.
      
      Trump took America out of the pact last year. Australia says it won’t sign. Poland and Austria are among other countries that have rejected the compact. There is vigorous debate in Germany about whether it should sign.
      
      Given falling birth rates in the West and soaring birth rates in the Third World, the compact is highly relevant to NZ. It is even more relevant because it mentions Global Warming migration.
      
      You can read the compact at the link below. It’s mostly trendy rubbish that illustrates how the United Nations has evolved into a Leftist international bureaucracy that seeks to subsume independent nations.
      
      Leftists such as Labour will sell it to us as being merely about orderly migration, and point out it is non-binding. Don’t trust them!
      
      The first “Global Refugee Forum” under the compact will be held next year at “ministerial level”. This is “to announce concrete pledges
      and contributions towards the objectives of the global compact.”
      
      The compact:
      
      https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/migration.pdf
      
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      November 10, 2018 11:30am
      - Rodney Randall
        
        Thanks Jack for highlighting this.
        
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        November 10, 2018 4:29pm
    - Wangas Feral
      
      LOL National oppose it? Pull the other one. They are just as into that stuff as Labour.
      
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      November 10, 2018 11:37am
- Southern Raider
  
  Can we please please please have some more refugees in NZ
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:41am
  - kevn
    
    @Southern… South African displaced farmers? Yes.
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:33am
    - DJ Ward
      
      Native Britons.
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:58am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Like many Kiwis I visit Melbourne at least once a year. (It is quicker for me to get to Melbourne than it is for me to get to many cities in NZ.)
  
  It’s a lovely city and its multicultural vibe is one of its attractions.
  Such a pity a few immigrants don’t appreciate the great place in which they live.
  https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/two-people-stabbed-man-shot-after-car-set-alight-on-bourke-street-reports-20181109-p50f55.html
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:43am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    It’s a lovely city and its multicultural vibe is one of its attractions.
    
    What does “multicultural vibe” actually mean?
    
    If I wanted to experience Tonga or Pakistan or Somalia or Greece I’d go visit said countries.
    
    Most people who say such shit usually use it to mean that they can be served a coffee by a Brazilian them eat some Wontons or a Kebab.
    
    Is it really worth It?
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:01am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      What does “multicultural vibe” actually mean?
      
      Ever been to Lygon Street or Chinatown in the evening? It’s fascinating to see such a concentration of eating places with similar cuisines, all well-patronised. Lygon Street is our particular favourite; bartering with the maitre d’s outside all the Italian places to see who will give us the best deal.
      
      I bring a Scottish approach to value for money to an iconic Italian eating district, and that’s a pretty good “multicultural vide” I reckon 😀
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:16am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      For me it means life happening 24hr/day…. the place doesn’t close down at 5pm.
      
      There is exposure to people, ideas, products that I don’t encounter here in NZ.
      
      Because food is an ever constant in my life….
      
      Food – Vietnamese restaurants galore – Try Richmond for choice (“Anchovy” is on my must eat at list)
      Korean & Chinese food stores
      S.E. Asian restaurants ( “Sunda”)
      Melbourne South Market Cheese Room – selection of cheeses from everywhere
      
      gorgeous colourful clothing being worn,
      lots of different languages being spoken,
      
      Bookstores– wider variety of material on display than I can find in NZ
      
      Other folks might have different interests/experiences.
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:24am
      - Jack5
        
        So multiculturism is for foodies!
        
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        November 10, 2018 11:32am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        So multiculturism is for foodies!
        
        Na, Jack5
        
        Food is one of my interests, as are people… of all sorts/all colours/all beliefs.
        
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        I’m not into music, the Arts, Fashion, wine, gambling, sports… I’m sure folks who are interested in these will also find Melbourne’s multi-cultural mix means there are lots of attractions.
        
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        November 10, 2018 2:43pm
    - kowtow
      
      Don’t ask any drop kicks there to not smoke in the hospital.
      
      “A thud. And then screams. That’s what passers-by heard at a Melbourne hospital where an Otago-trained surgeon was allegedly punched and later died from his injuries, a jury in Australia has heard.
      
      Joseph Esmaili (24) is on trial in the Supreme Court for the manslaughter of chest surgeon Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann.”
      
      So enriching.
      
      https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-of-otago/screams-heard-after-otago-trained-surgeon-punched-court-told
      
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      November 10, 2018 12:04pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Yes MW Melbourne city as well as the surrounding areas are indeed a wonderful place to visit but to see the the place as it really is you need to reside there for a while. Many parts of the city have already been claimed by various ethnic groups who all seem to hate all others while creating many no-go areas for the majority. Each are known for their dominance in not only their type of crime but also their “commercial” activity. In residential areas it not so much crime watch but crime watch out for yourself as most others live in their own bubble. But boy do they know how to build good roads over there that are also popular with visiting criminals slipping in and out on their drug funding raids. According to the insurance accessor who said all our burgled possessions would be long gone. This was in response to the police suggested checking the Pawnshops which he said was pointless after a day spent doing just that. Yes a great place to visit.
    
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    November 10, 2018 1:42pm
    - sam green
      
      Ahh – the notorious Melbourne crime families – pretty much equal opportunity crime families though.
      
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_crime_in_Australia
      
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      November 10, 2018 10:56pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  Not too long before we get the attacks here. And Cindy et al will cry crocodile tears and wring their hands and still keep on importing Terrorists to our shores.
  
  Nothing will change. Its all about George Soros and his UN mates and their open borders nut case policy to destroy Western Civilisation.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:54am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘And Cindy et al will cry crocodile tears and wring their hands and still keep on importing Terrorists to our shores.
    
    Nothing will change.’
    
    Standard response is : “The victims are in our thoughts and prayers” , while the utterers of such mealy mouthed platitudes sign us up to UN conventions to make the mass migration of the perpetrators easier and faster.
    
    Or t grant them residence against all the evidence ; Zouai/Stroubek/Tampa/Manus Island.
    
    The only major world stage politician standing up for citizens’ rights is Trump and he is universally vilified by the media and other elites who are actively for importing more mayhem.
    
    The one party in Germany talking sense is gleefully pilloried there for same.
    
    “The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has demanded that Germany follow the US example and withdraw from the UN Migration Compact. Other parties welcomed the chance to correct the far-right’s interpretations of the agreement.”
    
    https://www.dw.com/en/german-parliament-rows-over-un-migration-compact/a-46213002
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:25am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The Australians are acting like a nation of sheep who are facing (what their media claim to be) the actions of a few “lone sheep with mental issues” when in reality they are trying to cope with wolves.
  
  Sheep-handling policies don’t work with wolves. Wolves don’t think or act like sheep.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:06am
DigNap15

How many peaceful muslims are there?
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November 10, 2018 9:30am
- igm
  
  DigNap: None!
  This is a good read also:
  https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/11/theyre-gonna-need-a-bigger-bollard/
  We don’t want, need, nor appreciate these bastards.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:48am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  It depends on the environment.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:08am
DigNap15

Lets Do some shit!
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November 10, 2018 9:31am
DigNap15

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had been briefed about the incident and state and federal agencies were working together.

“I condemn the act of terrorism in Melbourne today that has tragically taken the life of a fellow Australian who has died as a result of this evil and cowardly attack,” he said in a statement.

“Australians will never be intimated by these appalling attacks and we will continue to go about our lives and enjoy the freedoms that the terrorists detest.”

Will never be intimidated !
But will continue to put up with the crimes and killings they commit.
And continue to allow them into our country so that they can walk around all day doing nothing productive as they are refugees and not only that they are known to the police.
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November 10, 2018 9:36am
- Southern Raider
  
  How is that women Vic State Police Commissioner or what ever her role is going to say about this as she has defended every other attack and African gangs
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:43am
  - Jack5
    
    I think the very first reports talked of an “African looking” perpetrator. So if the terrorist had been an albino or (even more unlikely) a Japie (I’m sure you know that means an Afrikaaner, Odakyu-sen), no-one would have noticed he stood out?
    
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    November 10, 2018 11:37am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Jack5,
      
      I appreciate your mention of the “jaapie,” Jack5.
      
      If we can laugh in the face of slurs and insults, we shall overcome our enemies.
      
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      November 10, 2018 8:27pm
- kowtow
  
  One of the cops seemed to have a pepper spray out as his first option , that was as the Muslim had already carved someone upand was waving the knife about at the cop , says it all really , should’ve been popped rather than risk any further injury .
  
  Likewise all those people standing round watching , they could have been hit by cross fire or had the car been a bomb ………
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:43am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The car was a bomb…. It had been filled up with gas cylinders.
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:30am
    - Jack5
      
      Lucky the terrorist hadn’t visited this web site, Maggy:
      
      https://www.elgas.com.au/blog/365-busting-media-mythology-lpg-gas-bottles
      
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      November 10, 2018 12:04pm
- srylands
  
  When I visited Sydney last week, both (female) border security officers I encountered were wearing hijab head coverings. They were both friendly and pleasant, but it did cross my mind that even five years ago, this would not have been a thing.
  
  Just as an aside, in the 70s very large numbers of Lebanese emigrated to Australia. They had high birth rates, so now we have third generation young men from those immigrants. All Australian citizens, living in ghettos, radicalised and violent. If you want to scare yourself, Google “Bilal Skaf”.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:48am
  - igm
    
    If we don’t rid NZ of the scum in power (unelected), we will have the same problems . . . suppose the illegitimate sprog will be mixing Ratana with Islam to become “Progressive”!
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:51am
  - kowtow
    
    The Lebs that were allowed in in the ’70’s were meant to be Christians. The Fraser gubmint fucked up big time , they got Muslim dross .
    
    It will be interesting to see the same outcome in Germany.
    
    “More seriously, the September 1976 report expressed concern about “the possibility that the conflicts, tensions and divisions within Lebanon will be transferred to Australia”. This was a reference to the tension between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The report stated that violence had occurred within the Immigration Department’s Nicosia office when applications for entry under the Lebanon Concession were being processed.
    
    By November 1976, according to cabinet records, Mackellar was warning his colleagues about “the declining quality of many of the Lebanese people being sponsored for entry under the (Lebanon Concession) relaxed entry requirements”. Mackellar’s report to cabinet was blunt, to say the least: “A high percentage is illiterate. Personal hygiene is poor … The balance between Muslim and Christian applicants has risen to 90 per cent Muslim.”
    
    http://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/1970s-lebanese-commission-led-to-an-immigration-debacle/
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:46am
dcrown

No doubt the latest ‘shooter’ is a paid Soros actor. He had his democrat party talking points ready for the MSM to gobble up.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/thousand-oaks-shooter-mocked-hopes-and-prayers-in-pre-shooting-facebook-post/

Pelosi is already on the record saying her first piority is tearing up the 2nd amendmant…
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November 10, 2018 9:36am
holysheet

I was as pissed as a fart in the pub with my missus in her wheelchair when this woman come up to me and started,
“You bring this poor lady in every night, you humiliate her, get drunk, and just act like a total prick. Why do you bring her? ”
“It’s got fuck all to do with you, ” I replied, “but what kind of prick would you think I was if I parked in the disabled space without her?”
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November 10, 2018 9:38am
secondcumming

Headline…

‘LONE WOLF’ ATTACKS & KILLS INNOCENT AUSTRALIANS IN MELBOURNE CBD

So tell me again – how many of these filthy ‘lMANGY DOGS’ does this government what to let in here from Manus ?’
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November 10, 2018 9:39am
- DigNap15
  
  He was not a lone wolf!
  Isis have claimed responsibilty
  And his brother did something last year!
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:14am
  - kowtow
    
    ISIS .
    
    I see on the UK Telegraph , behind a pay wall.
    The Kurds have sent “foreign” ISIS deserters back to ISIS who execute them , this in exchange for Kurdish prisoners that ISIS were holding.
    
    The media tone is this is not very nice .
    
    Me , it’s a win for the Kurds and the west.
    
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    November 10, 2018 1:47pm
  - simpleton1
    
    A known wolf as guided by the sayings, actions and deeds of the respected perfect man, Mohammad as can be read in the koran, hadith and sunnah.
    
    Also “known to counter terrorism agencies”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6370669/Car-smashes-Melbournes-Bourke-Street-Mall-bursts-flames.html
    Can one deny Mohammad, and say he is wrong? 🙂
    
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    November 10, 2018 1:55pm
  - simpleton1
    
    RNZ radio repeating that IS is the inspiration in the news.
    
    Islamic State (IS claimed responsibility for the attack) and police confirmed this morning that Shire Ali was “inspired” and “radicalised” by IS. https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/375614/police-name-melbourne-knife-attacker
    
    NO, not inspired by “IS”
    INSPIRED by the deeds, actions, sayings and guidance of Mohammad as found in the koran, hadith and sunnah, just as IS is also inspired.
    Can a follower of Mohammad deny him.
    
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    November 10, 2018 4:13pm
- cmm
  
  Calm down mate, PriNZess has assured us that all the ones we get will be vetted by the same people who sorted out Sroubek.
  
  I don’t think she means they will have their balls chopped off, but there’s always hoping!
  
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  November 10, 2018 2:37pm
Komata

Dig…

Absolutely none, they (every one of them) are OBLIGED by the Koran to take over EVERY bit of land on the planet, and to either kill or enslave the Kaffir ( that’s us BTW), whom they encounter while so-doing.

Be under no illusions, those muslims who are ‘law abiding citizens’ and supposedly doing nothing are, effectively, simply waiting for the right time to rise and take back all the land they have walked over (and, ipso facto), now ‘Own’ for islam.

The term ‘Peaceful’ in sch a situation is totally illusiory.

(Awaits the arrival of the usual suspects to defend ‘The Cause’).
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November 10, 2018 9:40am
Harkman

Is the Reserve Bank still independent?
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November 10, 2018 9:43am
- secondcumming
  
  CYCLOPS: How do u spell Hawaii ?
  
  WIFE: [biting lip] Well – u need 2 i’s
  
  CYCLOPS: [puts down pen] my life is just a joke to u isn’t it Linda
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:01am
- pdm
  
  `Is the Reserve Bank still independent?’
  
  Maybe – but not for long if Winston and Grunter get their way.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:02am
  - Jack5
    
    How independent should the Reserve Bank be?
    
    https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/10/20/a-debate-about-central-bank-independence-is-overdue
    
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    November 10, 2018 12:25pm
- Piniwi
  
  Shish Harkman only in the same way so many “independent” inquiries are under the COL. Like Stats NZ the RBNZ now has new riding instructions and get their backs to the wind by facing the rear of the horse. Ironic really as everybody knows that left to it’s own devises a horse always points it’s arse to the wind.
  
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  November 10, 2018 1:52pm
  - Harkman
    
    Stats nz desensitized the cpi petroleum component back in Dec 2017, reducing it from 6% to 4%, meaning that next time there was an oil shock (like 2018) inflation would be lower, then interest rates.
    
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    November 10, 2018 1:57pm
lastmanstanding

Has anyone else noticed that most of the artie types actors singers etc are Lefties. Ive been pondering this and reckon its because they are ashamed and embarrassed about the obscene amounts they earn for their sometimes dubious talents.

So to assuage their conscious they support the poor and all other Leftie movements.

Sad really. They aint true to themselves and are living a lie.
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November 10, 2018 9:45am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  A few years back there was the PACE scheme
  
  (Pathways to Arts and Cultural Employment) – a special programme for artists on the benefit.
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/4612498/What-happened-to-the-Pace-scheme
  
  I was horrified when my youngest kid expressed some desire to end up collecting PACE when she finished school (or Uni…. I can’t quite recall the dates). Some of her musician mates were on the scheme.
  Fortunately, creative artistic musical talent doesn’t run in our genes… and she opted for the real world of training and work.
  None of her musical mates have hit the big time… they were (and possibly still are) Jacinda fans.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:59am
  - waikatogirl
    
    That was a Helen Clark pet policy. It would be interesting to know how many ‘artists’ the taxpayer-supported, and what it has cost us, while they worked on their craft?
    I’m sure there were plenty of govt types, etc taking free tickets to all the concerts and ballet as it was seen as promoting arts and culture. Win-win, except for the sorry old taxpayers. ?
    
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    November 10, 2018 11:34am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right MW just another trough as so many know it can not be forced and would have been much more successful if they included a primary head check for what is known as the music bump. A conspicuous shape on the rear of the scalp that accommodates what we might term a supplementary brain capacity. However PACE was just another of many programs Labour introduced over the years for an artificial reduction of the number of unemployed “reported”. It was common practice to shuffle as many of the great unwashed into such schemes between the indicated figures to be released and the final release of unemployment figures. Still happening as we note from the latest release showing such a low figure. Like a $27000 handout to a charity group who hired a handicapped girl for “office” work on a limited term placing. Or $20000 odd to get a regional ethnic woman into a public service job in Wellington. These special schemes all have supplementary funds to facilitate the shuffling process which some key staff struggled to do what they were instructed to do. Particularly those who were aware of much more deserving recipients locked out simply because of gender/race preferences being the dictates. Even in the days of glide time.
    
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    November 10, 2018 2:35pm
  - cmm
    
    It isn’t really to support the “artists”.
    
    It is there to support all the lecturers etc at unis and such by creating more demand for tertiary-level arts training.
    
    Without PACE, the students would go do something useful with their lives and the arts programmes would dry up.
    
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    November 10, 2018 2:40pm
- JIV
  
  I find it incredibly annoying. I used to quite like watching 7 Days but once Jacinda came to power they are so grovelling it turns your stomach. Two statements made me never watch it again
  
  When it was raised she earns $500k a year, Jeremy looks lovingly at the camera and state “worth every penny”. And then they stated that Cindy is “our most beloved leader”
  Wow, what a cutting edge, satirical show.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:04am
- holysheet
  
  Only problem with your assertions is that the lefties don’t give a fuck about the poor. Never have and never will. Its all about the feelz and being seen to be sympathetic to the poor.
  
  While they increase the costs of living daily, which group suffers the most?
  That’s right. It’s the poor.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:04am
- The Heat
  
  Many of them have confused a hobby with a job.
  
  The problem with the arts, sports and other hobbies that people will willingly pay to participate in is massive oversupply. So obviously most are never going to make any money from engaging in these activities.
  
  Letfy government will make arts grants, so it’s little wonder many artists are lefties as this is their only chance of a pay check, especially in this country.
  
  Those who actually do hit the big time seem to act just like free market capitalists, although much of the left rhetoric remains.
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:14am
- Piniwi
  
  Right lastmanstanding it runs a bit deeper than that as they like the so called PM are totally dependent for their “success” on being liked by the LCD. While the majority prefer to acknowledge and support real genuine talent of dedicated artists content in saying all they need to with their music.
  
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  November 10, 2018 2:08pm
Harkman

I’m still waiting for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Maxine Waters, Cory Booker and Michael Moore to be blamed 24/7 by CNN for the hate crime by an Antifa mob terrorizing Tucker Carlson’s family in DC. His wife Susie hid in a cupboard out of fear. Did One News mention this last night?
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November 10, 2018 9:47am
- igm
  
  One News is staffed by the same disgusting gutless shitheads as the rest of our MSM.
  Am still waiting for one to be directly affected by either Isam or released criminals. I would call it karma.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:59am
- Inandout
  
  Gutless arseholes should be frog marched into the US Army, and fuck the academic outcries.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:58am
krazykiwi

One of the key skills of foreign ministers is their knowing when to speak, or not to speak on any given issue. And if speaking, choosing the right language to convey the message.

Just occasionally someone will get under their usually thick skin and the bile filled language spills over, as was the case in Sweden recently:

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström slammed Canadian professor Jordan Peterson’s recent visit to Stockholm saying the academic should “crawl back under the rock he came from.”

I guess even foreign ministers will resort to ad-homs when they lack the intelligence to debate objectively.
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November 10, 2018 9:47am
- Harkman
  
  Ah Sweden, the example of a country committing suicide.
  
  Wallström is not too bright, 2 + 2 doesn’t equal 4 in her world,
  “Shocked by attack in Melbourne. We can never accept terrorism. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and loved ones.”
  mobile.twitter.com/margotwallstrom/status/1060957979426676737
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:57am
  - kowtow
    
    Have they been able to form a new gubmint there yet ?
    
    Political paralysis because no one wants to acknowledge that a large minority of voters have had enough of Muslim immigration.
    
    This is the country that lefties and the media constantly held up as being the model for the rest of us.
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:31am
- Inandout
  
  If you watched the last series of Wallander you would see the BBC in full globalist mode. The wayward Norwegian cop was scripted to announce his ideas that Norway was getting destroyed from within, and even the swastika was wheeled out. Not sure if the Jews were mentioned. The BBC take ideas of ‘nationalism’ and twist them into Nazism, and the feigned disgust on the lead female Tosh’s face was a joy to behold. Next series we shall behold a hard done by Muslim.
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:06am
  - Jack5
    
    Given that it seems more than 400 of the BBC’s staff are transgender, you would think the BBC would have reservations about Islam given, for example, Muslim Malaysia’s persecution of transgender people:
    
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5905129/BBC-chief-stunned-secret-staff-sex-survey-reveals-417-workers-transgender.html
    
    AND, in Malaysia:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCl0NkQ6Qg
    
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    November 10, 2018 12:22pm
Fletch

Andrew Klavan from Daily Wire has pointed out the hypocrisy of the media (again!) Back in 2015, Obama was holding a press conference in the White House when a reporter kept interrupting him, shouting out questions. Obama complained that “you’re in my house” and “shame on you, you shouldn’t be doing this”, before having the reporter ejected.

And what was the response of the other reporters? Did they come to the defense of the person who was ejected? No, they chanted Obama’s name. I am not kidding – see the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpF9ObMoIDc

As Klavan says,

Are you freaking kidding me? Member’s of the press, this is why we hate you. We hate you because you lie. We hate you because you lied to us for eight years, you treated Obama like he was heaven sent. [T]his is why we hate you. It’s not because of what you do to Trump, if you had done it to Obama too, we might still think “oh you’re rude” – but at least you’d be treating everybody the same way. You are liars, and when Trump says you’re the enemy of the people – ok, that may be over the top – but you’re certainly the enemy of the President. The best thing Trump is doing is attacking you, because you deserve it for what you did with Obama. It’s not what you do to Trump, torment the President all you want. What do they say? “Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted”? Fine, but for eight years you didn’t do it. Now you’re saying, “can we be journalists again?” No, no you can’t.

It’s plain to see that media treated Trump and Obama differently. They bent over backwards for Obama, and carried water for him. They all hate Trump and do anything they can to be critical of him to the point of inventing stories.
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November 10, 2018 9:49am
- Harkman
  
  The reporter was a little rude because he wasn’t finished speaking but I love it how people make out that Obama is so smart. I saw a clip from a 2007 Democratic debate on NAFTA and Obama said that as soon as he was elected he would get on the phone and “call the President of Mexico and the PRESIDENT of Canada” to renegotiate the deal. He once said there was 57 states. How stupid was this guy?
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:55am
  - howitis
    
    Very!
    
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    November 10, 2018 1:47pm
- gump
  
  @Fletch
  
  I appreciate you posting stuff like this because it gives me an insight into the weird distortions and mental gymnastics that form your bizarre world view.
  
  Some easily verifiable facts:
  
  1. That’s clearly not a press conference. It’s a speech at an LGBT pride month reception at the Whitehouse.
  
  2. The person ejected from the room was not a reporter. It was a transgender political activist who was heckling the President to protest against the deportation of LGBT immigrants.
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/politics/activist-removed-after-heckling-obama-at-lgbt-event.html
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:00am
  - Fletch
    
    Fair enough point. But at the same time, do you think the press would have reacted the same way if Trump had had an LGBT activist silenced and thrown out? Would have have cheered and shouted “Trump! Trump! Trump!” Or would they have all gone on their nightly programmes to condemn Trump as being homophobic?
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:06am
  - Tall Man
    
    Jeez gump, you’ve been a bit quiet, topic not to your liking today?
    
    Should Lees-Galloway be sacked….should Ardern go with him?
    
    Has Simon shown the Ardern liar up to be just that, an incompetent liar?
    
    Go on, pop over to the discussion and give us the benefit of labour’s perspective or just tell a bunch of lies like normal.
    
    Ardern is a liar.
    
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    November 10, 2018 3:34pm
artemisia

How long will Judge Ginsburg last on the US Supreme Court bench? I get she is hanging on, and why, but regardless of her age two bouts with cancer and two rib breaking falls must be some sort of signal to her and her supporters that her time on the bench is coming to an end.

President Trump waiting patiently, in public at least.
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November 10, 2018 10:04am
- tas
  
  Based purely on age and gender Ginsburg has about a 15% probability of dying in the next two years. Plus she is pretty active. So I think the chances of her making it to the end of Trump’s first term are good but not great.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:24am
  - Fletch
    
    Did anyone see Kirk Douglas on TV the other day at the event of his son Michael getting a star on the Hollywood walk of fame? I thought he was dead, but he is due to turn 102 years old…
    
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    November 10, 2018 10:28am
    - Inandout
      
      Fletch, he has solid Russian blood.
      
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      November 10, 2018 11:30am
      - Jack5
        
        Douglas’s parents were Jewish refugees/migrants from what is now Belarus in the pre-Communist days when vicious pogroms occurred in Russia.
        
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        November 10, 2018 11:42am
      - Jack5
        
        I thought you would be thrilled to know that, 卐EADolf.
        
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        November 10, 2018 12:11pm
  - Tall Man
    
    First term or second 🙂
    
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    November 10, 2018 7:10pm
- Huevon
  
  If there was a white man this age clinging on like this to prevent a Democratic president appointing a leftie judge, what would be happening?
  
  Exactly.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:41am
rightoverlabour

There is a lot of comment about sending good teachers to lower decile schools to miraculously improve the lot of the students there. The reality is that you could send some of the best teachers in the world to those schools, and very little would change, as many of those students in those schools just don’t want to do anything except play at being “gangstas”. And they have the support of their deadbeat parents. Not surprisingly, the worst offenders are Maori. Teachers soon become picky about the schools they want to teach at. You could pay me $1,000,000 a year, I wouldn’t set my feet in some of those schools. (And for the record, I have spent the last 12 years teaching mostly Pacifica in decile 2 schools in Auckland)
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November 10, 2018 10:21am
- Woz
  
  There is hope for us all if teachers like you exist.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:39am
- dog_eat_dog
  
  Problem is though you have no way of knowing who is a good teacher and who isn’t. And they seem quite happy with that.
  
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  November 10, 2018 10:40am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, they need to send a few big All Blacks and army guys with them.
  
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  November 10, 2018 12:01pm
- Jules99
  
  I had a client who was a te reo immersion teacher. She was talked into moving to the school with a reputation for behavioural difficulties, which was bringing in expertise from the US to manage the problems in the school and support the teachers with proven techniques. The students’ behaviour so bad she left at the end of the year. Sounds like they were pretty much feral – I think they need to bring the army in. They can work wonders with disadvantaged young people once you take them away from the bad influences at home.
  
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  November 10, 2018 12:47pm
- Tall Man
  
  I’d go…wouldn’t last long but hey, I’d give it a go Nigel as the dying mouse said.
  
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  November 10, 2018 7:13pm
Huevon

Follow the Kiwibuild money.
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November 10, 2018 10:46am
- Felt
  
  I had in the back of my mind who within the COL supports the Kiwibuild program?
  
  Winston said from his speech in Wgtn last Oct when he anointed Cindy as the PM:
  
  “and that we start building 10,000 affordable homes, per year, and affordable homes are what we are talking about, which we clarified in negotiations, that New Zealanders can hope to get on the rung of home ownership, as first homeowners, far more than has been the case in recent times”
  
  He did not announce which portfolios anyone had, or what his role was in Govt (that was the role of the PM) but he clearly stated that they negotiated the 10,000 homes kiwibuild program.
  
  Now let’s watch NZF crawl out of responsibility for this program when it all goes tits up and fails to even get close to its target of 10,000 homes per annum.
  
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  November 10, 2018 2:55pm
krazykiwi

Hmmm, my 9:17 comment has been put into moderation. Odd. Oh well. It’s sunny and warm. I need a new lawnmower
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November 10, 2018 11:07am
- Souvlaki
  
  Just being Chequed out huh ?
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:15am
- secondcumming
  
  Talking about new lawnmowers, I decided to buy one to leave at the bach rather than having to take the one from home.
  
  So jumped on Trademe to see what was available, and was surprised to see just how many different brands there are these days.
  
  A search on google for ‘lawnmower reviews’ turned up this beauty from the *Urban Dictionary*…..
  
  lawnmower (v) : Over zealously removing anal beads from ones ass, as in pulling the start cord of a lawnmower, which may often times result in the loss of bowel control.
  
  LOL!!
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:30am
  - Tall Man
    
    Awesome, that’s the problem in the Ardern poofy Gaylord house hold. Good work.
    
    I wondered why they both had verbal diarrhoea.
    
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    November 10, 2018 7:18pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Could you repost it with some “redactions”?
  Did DPF contact you?
  Who is heavying DPF?
  Why did the Police put out that absurd statement about not being under investigation?
  Does the guy with the porn star name who is into the same types of sport have recreational evenings with the First Sperm Donor and the Bounced Cheque?
  Why are some in the Police not happy with their Boss and how he handled this?
  Will the truth prevail… It always does.
  
  Is SLG shitting herself?
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:53am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    November 10, 2018 12:39pm
    - igm
      
      Captain: Evidently Gnashers and lying Curran were greasing around residents of an RSA home in Dunedin where one of the oldies had turned 100.
      Gnashers asked the old gentleman what he attributed to his long life: He retorted, “Telling the Truth”.
      Would like to have seen the two maggots’ faces!
      
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      November 10, 2018 2:15pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    My post was basically a re-post of two comments, both by ‘oob’. The main one here, the earlier one here.
    
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    November 10, 2018 12:49pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Excellent stuff mate. Well done. Everybody, definitely click on those two links…..
      
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      November 10, 2018 1:10pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Anybody with a few $$$million to burn?

NZ’s sharemarket welcomes its first carbon fund
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12156894
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November 10, 2018 11:17am
Manolo

The ineffable Marie Antoinette has written a book. Hoooray!
https://apnews.com/f2f7a48a56a04c93b4e18f3f9bc1518d

Former first lady Michelle Obama blasts President Donald Trump in her new book, writing how she reacted in shock the night she learned he would replace her husband in the Oval Office and tried to “block it all out.”
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November 10, 2018 11:28am
- Rich Prick
  
  Is it printed on one or two ply?
  
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  November 10, 2018 1:50pm
- cmm
  
  Pity she doesn’t mention that the “birther” stuff she blames Trump for was started long before Obama even made a swing at president: back in 2004. Even
  
  Hilary Clinton’s team repeated it in 2008 during the primaries.
  
  So to blame this on Trump is just a stupid person being double stupid.
  
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  November 10, 2018 2:47pm
  - Viking2
    
    Oh but she does. she blames it on Trump.
    It was in the newspapers this morning, but like yesterdays fish and chips it’s gone.
    
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    November 10, 2018 6:11pm
- howitis
  
  Whoop dee do
  Michael hates Whites even though Barry Hussein’s crazy mama was a full whitey (that herself went around chasing non whitey males; but it is quietly acknowledged that she was nuts which is why wee Bazza had to be raised by his grandparents) .
  
  Commander in Chief, President Donald J Trump is white.
  ergo: Michael O hates the current president.
  
  A part of what Michael must hate is that Prez Trump can talk at some length without a teleprompter.
  B. Hussein Obama simply was too dumb to be able to do that.
  The few recordings of him without a script shows he stumbles and stutters because he is just not very bright.
  #Manchuriancandidate
  
  Anyhow, the trashy Obamas are breaking all protocol of not criticising future Presidents but then you expect that from the ghetto.
  It s OK when the left do it.
  
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  November 10, 2018 4:23pm
  - Viking2
    
    Yep that seemed to me to be weird. When I was in Detroit Obama was there winding up the populace as he did in a lot of places.
    Protocol for an ex President or PM is to be seen and not heard.
    The Dems are desperate.
    
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    November 10, 2018 6:13pm
DJ Ward

The Law Commision.
The 3 female commissioners and 18 staff (15 woman, 2 men, and 1 male IT dude) have come up with a new Idea.

FISA.

They consulted the Ministry for Women (all female staff except one gay guy that makes gay guys think they are strait in comparison). Cited their studies.
They cited endless female Women’s Studies, social science PhDs.

They intend FISA to be an arbitrary formula.

Quote:
“This change would be welcomed by everyone, as you can imagine – especially not by the higher-earning partner; but it is a simple solution to what is often a sad and complicated situation.”

Before TallBoy and others shoot the messenger because of my men’s perspective.

The creation of law to control people. To tax people. To arbitrarily act on property rights is politics.

Many KB readers are men, have husbands, sons.

We are without a voice in the process.

Men are the exception to everybody.
Men are not considered.

This is wrong.
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November 10, 2018 11:28am
- wiseowl
  
  It is wrong.
  They wont like my submission.
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:54am
  - DJ Ward
    
    Good on you Wiseowl.
    
    Obviously I can’t voice my opinion here in respect of DPF but you can see other opinions that could help on Menz.
    
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    November 10, 2018 12:15pm
Rodney Randall

The UK denies sanctuary to a Pakistani Christian lady threatened with death by Islamist mobs in Pakistan. Why? Fear of Pakistani Muslims in the UK. NO SANCTUARY FOR A CHRISTIAN IN THE UK.

Perhaps Ian Lees Galloway could grant Bibi asylum in NZ?

Sadly both National and Labour are now beholden to the 2018 UN Migration Compact having signed away NZ’s sovereignty.

The US, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Greece, Italy et al have told the UN ahem O.I.C. to get f!@ed.
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November 10, 2018 11:33am
- secondcumming
  
  We certainly don’t need Asia Bibi granted sanctuary here. Imagine how all the dairy owners would react!
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:49am
  - Jack5
    
    I think Asia Bibi’s husband, Ashiq Masih, called on the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, the Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, and President Trump to “help us exit from Pakistan.”
    
    The Guardian, which to its great credit has championed Bibi, reports:
    
    Wilson Chowdhry, of the British Pakistani Christian Association, said Masih [Ashiq Masih, Bibi’s husband] had already applied for asylum at one Western embassy but it was not expediting the request. Chowdhry said the family needed “immediate asylum”, adding that it was “incredible” no government had stepped forward so far.
    
    NZ accepted as a resident an Islamic Salvation Front politician on the run internationally who gatecrashed into this country. Accepting Bibi’s family would be a chance to do something decent in contrition.
    
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    November 10, 2018 12:46pm
    - GoVege
      
      How about it, NZ??
      We’re far enough from Pakistan not to suffer the inevitable murders/ backlash from letting the blasphemer escape!
      (Good on the Guardian also.)
      SAVE ASIA!!!
      
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      November 10, 2018 5:32pm
  - Inandout
    
    second, I thought non Muslims mostly ran dairies. Liquor outlets are often owned by Muslims; funny that. Not piggeries though.
    
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    November 10, 2018 2:11pm
    - sam green
      
      How do you know?
      
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      November 10, 2018 11:12pm
- kowtow
  
  The current bunch of gutless , chinless wonders mascarading as the Conservative Unionists in Britain would have a PR nightmare on their hands as giving such a high profile Christian Pakistani asylum in the UK would simply incite their home grown Muslim hordes to riot in formerly English cities and suburbs such as Tower Hamlets , Rotherham , Leicester etc
  
  As it is they advise their own service personnel not to wear uniform while off duty and couldn’t protect same while in hospitals…….
  
  Ain’t “multiculturalism” so enriching .
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:58am
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Precisely.
    
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    November 10, 2018 12:03pm
dime

John Adams and Abraham Lincoln chucked various members of the press in prison. Just saying
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November 10, 2018 11:51am
- sam green
  
  Hopefully we have evolved since then.
  
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  November 10, 2018 11:13pm
Fletch

The Dems are already trying to cheat and turn back some of the results of the recent election, especially in Broward County, that liberal hotbed. They are STILL counting votes after the election, and have shaved Rick Scott’s lead from 54,000 to just 17,000 now.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/38143/rubio-broward-county-officials-and-dems-trying-hank-berrien

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/8/rick-scott-sues-broward-county-palm-beach-county-o/

A judge has ordered them to stop and give in final results by 7pm.

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/11/09/breaking-judge-finds-broward-county-violated-fl-constitution-orders-elected-officials-to-comply-by-7pm/

They just can’t stop their cheatin’ ways…

Other leads have also been flipped –

Democrat Kyrsten Sinema flipped into the lead over Republican Martha McSally late Thursday as votes are still being counted in several counties.

https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2018/11/09/kyrsten-sinema-flips-slight-lead-over-martha-mcsally-as-arizona-counts-votes/
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November 10, 2018 12:02pm
- DJ Ward
  
  I can see it now.
  
  A pile of random votes.
  
  Picks one up.
  Democrate vote, everything’s good.
  
  Picks one up.
  Republican vote, Mexican sounding name, check this one.
  
  Picks one up.
  Democrate vote, everything’s good.
  
  Picks one up.
  Republican vote, White males vote, check criminal records, draft records, address records, everything.
  
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  November 10, 2018 12:22pm
- Harkman
  
  They are replacing cast votes which they claim are damaged but they won’t let anybody inspect them or know how many there are. Massive corruption on a gigantic scale, in broad daylight.
  
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  November 10, 2018 2:04pm
- All_on_Red
  
  The Sinema /McSally contest saw 1.65 million votes go 49/50 in favour of McSally
  Then they count an ‘extra’ 85,000 votes they ‘found’ and they break 58/42 in favour of Sinema
  It’s just not statistically possible
  
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  November 10, 2018 5:47pm
Fletch

Journalist Molly Hemingway from The Federalist happened to sit next to New York Democrat Congressman Jerry Nadler on a train and heard him talking on his phone. It seems the Dems are going all-in on the Russia thing, and are also planning to try and impeach the new Justice Kavanaugh via the Judiciary Committee. Of course, they didn’t mention any of this in the run up to the election.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9qkQy283Y

Anything to get their way.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/07/incoming-democrat-chairman-dems-will-go-all-in-on-russia-impeach-kavanaugh-for-perjury/
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November 10, 2018 12:33pm
- Jules99
  
  They are just desperate to stop Trump taking the deep state down. There’s no other explanation – electorally, neither of these things will win them the next election. A sensible party would be bringing in new leadership, coming up with policies and working towards success in 2020.
  
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  November 10, 2018 12:56pm
stigie

Headline in the Herald……..

“Lizzie Marvelly: Why I struggled with my sexuality”

Bwahahahaha, I bet there’s a few on here that could tell her why !~
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November 10, 2018 2:24pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Dear Lizzie,
  No one gives a rat’s arse about your sexuality.
  Shaun
  
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  November 10, 2018 2:54pm
- DJ Ward
  
  She just needs to clear her mind about feminism for a little bit. Get someone like JLR to give her some angry sex and she would probably come right.
  
  Just got to get rid of the cobwebs occasionally.
  
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  November 10, 2018 3:36pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Lizzie has sex? Is she old enough? Fooled me
  
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  November 10, 2018 3:52pm
- Longknives
  
  Very,Very,Very Fashionable amongst Left-Wing Activist types to say you are Gay…
  Makes you even more ‘oppressed’ by old white men you see?
  Just Sayin’…
  
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  November 10, 2018 4:44pm
Komata

Jules

I note that you said ‘sensible’. Unfirtunately, the Dems are proving that that term is an oxymoron in their totally Trump-obsessed world.

He won, despite all their rigging and machinations, and as a result, they had the ‘Power’ and ‘Control’ that they were convinced was to be theirs, taken away from them in the final two hours of voting.

This was not part of the plan and such is their disappointnent at this development, that they are now in the curious position of having nothing positive to offer the US voter and of being totally focussed on the destruction of a single individual.

‘America’ is irrelevant in such a situation, ‘Destroy the man and his family by any means’ is the new and prevailing mantra.

In such a situation ‘Sensible’ doesn’t apply…
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November 10, 2018 2:25pm
DigNap15

If I ran Kiwiblog, I’d have 3 general debates each day.
One for world topics
One for NZ topics and
One for goats and mindless drivel

I can sometimes get all too mixed up
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November 10, 2018 2:57pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  4.
  We need a generally religious debate for the god botherers
  
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  November 10, 2018 3:51pm
DigNap15

Seven children and cant find a home

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12153423

She says she still friends with the father and that he is supporting them.

Yeah right. He is supporting himself and paying her rent and food for her and her 7 children.

Its very sad, but we need to stop people having so many children. we kind of know what will happen to most of her children (and us)
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November 10, 2018 3:18pm
- artemisia
  
  That article didn’t make too much sense. If she is receiving sole parent benefit for herself and seven children she won’t also be getting child support from the father. It will be going to the government to offset the benefit.
  
  Oh, I forgot, no sanctions for declining to name the dad. So why would she? Financially much better off to be on the benefit plus get contributions from the father. Better than being a two parent family with one parent working.
  
  Bad decision to move to one of the tightest rental markets in the country.
  
  Not much investigation by the journalist, quelle surprise.
  
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  November 10, 2018 3:33pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    There is consequences for fathers not named on birth certificates.
    Often done as blatant benifit fraud from the beginning as they can live together, get the benifit, and he can work as well. Not naming the father makes it nearly impossible for the authorities to know who it is and identify the benifit fraud.
    When the relationship ends the father can find himself powerless. He cannot go to the courts to see the kids. Extortion by the mother for under the table payments is commen at this point. The threat of her naming him putting him into the official system is compelling.
    Before you say it’s his fault.
    Men very rarely create birth certificates and cannot stop not being named or being named as the father. Any attempt to address errors by the father, or not father is at considerable expense, with often severe long term effects.
    
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    November 10, 2018 3:50pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Sepuloni and Ardern are taking away all the sanctions and rules when it comes to this sort of thing.
    Just come into WINZ – ten kids, 5 fathers no problem how much do you need?
    
    National should have got really tough on this, they were tightening up, but very slowly and very quietly.
    
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    November 10, 2018 5:51pm
- GoVege
  
  A lot of chauvinist men force their wives to have heaps of kids, then ditch them all anyway.
  It’s called keeping them barefoot and pregnant….
  
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  November 10, 2018 5:28pm
Chuck Bird

DPF suggested a recall for electorate MPs. The idea has merit. I would also suggest recall for soft cock judges. This elderly woman with mild dementia was ripped off by a scum bag to the tune of $7,000. Yet the fraudster was allowed to drip feed her half the amount at $30/wk.

Why was the full amount not demanded and her car sold and she forced to take out a loan against her house if the car was not worth $7k?

Dunedin community rallies to help Jan Shallard, 80, fleeced by neighbour

And to Shallard’s frustration, it would be at $30 a week.

”She steals from me overnight and they make her drip-feed it back to me,” she said.

”She owns her own house and has a nice, flash car.”

Shallard’s funds were so low she worried the power to her St Kilda unit would be cut off.

”Every time I switched the lights on, I held my breath,” she said.

Then fate stepped in; in the form of a 20-year-old University of Otago student who had never met Shallard.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12156743
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November 10, 2018 4:17pm
Manolo

Our own stephieboy is keeping a discrete silence on the latest Muslim terrorist attack. Why?
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November 10, 2018 4:39pm
- Longknives
  
  I think St Lukes Mall is open late on a Saturday?
  
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  November 10, 2018 6:28pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He never appears on posts where the evidence is so stacked against his dissembling position.
  
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  November 10, 2018 7:15pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9XT0z_1541754628

Stabbed in the face. Poor man. Heart goes out to his family. What a dreadful way to go.

What an appalling state Melbourne is in.

Treasonous politicians allowing vile, evil, scum in under the auspices of human rights. How long did the authorities sit by quietly observing the movements of said terrorist and family?

The Australian Govt have blood on their hands.
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November 10, 2018 5:05pm
- GoVege
  
  Aren’t most of these terrorists the ungrateful children of refugees Oz kindly provided refuge from the civil war in Lebanon?
  Talk about “no good deed goes unpunished”…
  
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  November 10, 2018 5:23pm
- MCos
  
  What about the sixty murders not due to terrorism each year in the city?
  Who’s hands are the victims blood on?
  The answer is the murders’.
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:47pm
dcrown

Lock Him Up!!!

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/416043-comey-talked-about-sensitive-fbi-matters-on-personal-email
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November 10, 2018 5:26pm
DigNap15

And now once again Australia is going to “tighten up security”!

Well why should they have to.
If there were no muslims or Africans at all in Australia they would not need to.

It all costs money and who pays for it?
While those scum don’t work and rip off the tax payers.
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November 10, 2018 5:54pm
DigNap15

Looks like a lot of early comments on todays GD are missing.
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November 10, 2018 5:55pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  There are links. The heat is krazy
  
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  November 10, 2018 6:44pm
DigNap15

Should be a rule that no mother or father on the birth certificate.
Then no benefits for the child EVER and no benefits for the other parent.

Sterislation would be a good idea too.
One strike and you are both cut.

We have to break the cycle, before it overwhelms us.
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November 10, 2018 5:59pm
Viking2

When the State has all the power.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12156071

His story begins in Waikato Hospital, where he was born in December 1987, the eldest child; he had a younger brother and two little sisters.

Childhood was unstable. He remembers moving around. Booze and drugs were as common at home as milk or bread for other families.

By the age of 4, Patrick had suffered sexual abuse at the hands of two male relatives.

Patrick’s case was taken up by Auckland barrister Phil Hamlin, a former Crown prosecutor who specialised in sexual assault cases.

“I was concerned by what I read. I was very concerned nothing had been done for so long.”
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November 10, 2018 7:20pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Oh my God that is fucking awful, I hope he gets some breaks and finds some kind of personal fulfillment where he can use his life experience to help others.
  
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  November 10, 2018 7:31pm
  - Tall Man
    
    He’ll get lots of feelz but fuck all else.
    
    I have seen this up close and personal and they need more than money, they need a friend.
    
    This guy will be lucky..
    
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    November 10, 2018 7:50pm
- Tall Man
  
  I was also very concerned but all I would say is that you have one side of the story here. Now don’t get fizzy but this lad, at the age of 31, is no angel as he has admitted but we need to work this shit out.
  
  How can someone convicted of a crime where the complainant rescinds the accusation still stay in prison?
  
  There is more at play here, let’s push it and help this man/boy.
  
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  November 10, 2018 7:44pm
DigNap15

Yes that was very sad.
A lot of foster families just do it for the money.
And some of them have too many at once.
I was lucky to be brought up by my two natural parents with a brother, and a father who had a good job at a time when only the men worked.
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November 10, 2018 7:26pm
Tall Man

I posted this on an old item..apologies.

We probably should look at some of the “interns” IP addresses as well.

I don’t mind coordinated labour input but perhaps it should be flagged as such in the interests of “open and transparent ” governance.

Sorry people, my mistake, that’s just a smokescreen from Ardern. What we have is the most dishonest concealed shit house government so far…
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November 10, 2018 7:30pm
Viking2

President Donald Trump responded after former First Lady Michelle Obama slammed Trump in her upcoming memoir.

He was asked by a reporter about the comment on Nov. 9 before he got on a plane. “She got paid a lot of money to write a book. And they always insist that you come up with controversial,” Trump told reporters.

Trump didn’t specifically address the former first lady’s comments, but he made a statement about former President Obama’s administration and how it dealt with the military.

“Well, I’ll give you a little controversy back. I’ll never forgive him for what he did to our United States military. By not funding properly, it was depleted. Everything was old and tired. And I came in and I had to fix it,” the president said. “What he did to the military made this country very unsafe.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-slams-obama-ill-never-forgive-him-for-not-funding-military-properly_2712484.html?fbclid=IwAR1pHWeCD1o0Aec1A4nLK2y6ag6U6Z7r7vZhykukd3BimHKOu5znj4LvPB4
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November 10, 2018 7:47pm
Viking2

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-slams-obama-ill-never-forgive-him-for-not-funding-military-properly_2712484.html?fbclid=IwAR1pHWeCD1o0Aec1A4nLK2y6ag6U6Z7r7vZhykukd3BimHKOu5znj4LvPB4
The United States expects the arrival at the border between the United States and Mexico (southern border) of a substantial number of aliens primarily from Central America who appear to have no lawful basis for admission into our country.
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November 10, 2018 7:55pm
Viking2

Every time you host drinks, you run the risk of prosecution
Aimee Dartnall05:00, Nov 09 2018

The penalties can be hefty for hosts who fall foul of non-compliance over alcohol laws.
ROBERT STEVEN/STUFF
The penalties can be hefty for hosts who fall foul of non-compliance over alcohol laws.

OPINION: Recent reports of sexual misconduct connected with work drinks have put this hospitable practice under the spotlight. Many people may be unaware that hosting drinks can be illegal. Aimee Dartnall of commercial-regulatory law firm Franks Ogilvie explains.

Don’t alcohol laws only apply to bars and bottle stores?

The law makes it illegal to use any unlicensed premises as a ‘place of resort’, i.e, a place where alcohol plays a “substantial” role in the event. That could be at your office, your local community hall – even your home. Drinking, selling and supplying alcohol at an unlicensed premises is often illegal.

My home?! Seriously?

The act expressly allows you to drink in your home and to share your alcohol with guests. Your guests can bring alcohol to give to you, and you can share it with them and any other guests. But they cannot bring alcohol to keep for their own consumption. Nor can they help you pay for yours.

Otherwise, you can be prosecuted for letting people drink alcohol at any place you control. For employers, this includes your office.

That’s crazy. Surely I won’t be prosecuted if my friends BYO to a Sunday BBQ?

Probably not. Drinking alcohol still has to be a “substantial” part of the event. But it will depend on the occasion: are you having a few beers at a barbecue, or a BBQ to soak up the beers?

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In 2015 the host of a house party in Napier did everything right – he hired security to check ID at the door, he checked if he needed an alcohol licence and he spoke to police before the event. When the party got out of control the host helped police shut it down – then was charged for operating a place of resort.

The court ruled that police needed only to prove that alcohol was an “integral part” of the event, which was at an unlicensed premises. On this occasion, the host was discharged without conviction.

What about a small workplace like mine?

Again, it depends on how key drinking is to the event. Work drinks can be problematic. Just because police haven’t prosecuted before, doesn’t mean they won’t in future. And there are signs of a growing regulatory intolerance.

Last year, police warned hairdressers in Dunedin against offering a glass of wine to clients. Wine as part of the service is considered a ‘sale’.

More recently, police opposed bowling club applications for licence renewal on a technical interpretation of the law, rather than evidence of alcohol-related harm.

And if I break the law??

The penalties for non-compliance are hefty. You could be fined $40,000 or jailed for three months, for sale and supply, or up to $20,000 for supply alone. Attendees can also be fined $2000 just for being there.

What does a licence do?

A licence will protect you from prosecution. But the act only allows licences for events where alcohol is ‘sold’ to attendees, so you’ll have to show you will be ‘selling’ drinks.

The definition of sale is broad. It could include social club contributions. You can also charge a fee or ask people to pay a koha on entry.

So where does this leave us?

Every time you host drinks, you run the risk of prosecution. If alcohol isn’t a substantial part of your event you should be OK. But you can’t always control people attending events and police may come knocking if things go wrong.

If you want to play it safe, you could hire a licensed caterer or relocate to the pub.

Or you can get a licence to cover regular workplace drinks. Watch our vlog series here as we go about applying for our own special licence.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that the host of the 2015 house party in Napier was arrested.

The Dominion Post

Courtesy of your Beloved National Party of course.
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November 10, 2018 8:29pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  None of this applies to supplying alcohol and whatever to minors and whatever to minors at Labour Youth Camp functions.
  
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  November 10, 2018 8:37pm
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    Come FFS, why on earth wood you go to camp without a bit of snatch and grab….
    
    There are a few issues..let’s watch them blame Sir John Key..
    
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    November 10, 2018 9:37pm
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  Yes and what?
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:51pm
- Tall Man
  
  So let me get this right, labour kiddy fuckers are ok but National kiddie fuckers aren’t?
  
  Sorry, don’t mean to be a bit slow but it seems that are happy with moslems fucking children but not labour interns
  
  Can you elaborate?
  
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  November 10, 2018 9:56pm
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12158048

Go for broke on this or wait until the Sroubek Ardern link is established??

We’re coming for you Ardern..because you’re a liar 🙂

Ta ta,
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November 10, 2018 9:32pm
Hugh Pavletich

… NEW ZEALAND: When does Housing Minister Phil Twyford intend to stop playing games (Kiwibuild) … and instead JUST ALLOW new affordable housing to be built ? …

KiwiBuild at threat of going ‘KiwiBust’ over ‘plummeting popularity’ | Stuff.co.nz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/108471157/kiwibuild-at-threat-of-going-kiwibust-over-plummeting-popularity

Kiwibuild’s plummeting popularity could spell out Kiwibust for the Government’s flagship policy.

There are only 338 pre-qualified Kiwibuild applicants, while contracts for 3375 houses have been signed off by the Government. It was forced to push out the Kiwibuild ballot deadline in Wanaka, after receiving just 20 entries for 10 homes. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… Affordable housing is at or below 3.0 times annual household income … requiring a sensible mortgage of about 2.5 times …

Why are New Zealand homes so pricey? It has nothing to do with avocados | Stuff.co.nz
… watch superb video …

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/106789344/why-are-nz-homes-so-pricey-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-avocados
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… Phil Twyford’s wasted 12 months … ignoring public opinion …

Govt criticised for moving slowly on Auckland growth boundary | Stuff.co.nz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105295016/govt-criticised-for-moving-slowly-on-auckland-growth-boundary

New Zealand Issues Monitor – Concerns about housing grow

https://www.ipsos.com/en-nz/new-zealand-issues-monitor-concerns-about-housing-grow
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… Is Phil Twyford going to ALLOW us to build affordable housing out of this bubble … or continue doing nothing and BUST out of it instead … like the Aussies ?

… Your choice Phil …

Falling Australian house prices a warning for NZ: commentator | Stuff.co.nz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/108168646/falling-australian-house-prices-a-warning-for-nz-commentator
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
  … AUSTRALIA: The bursting housing bubble … continued …
  
  CSR, Boral, James Hardie caught in housing blues | afr.com … behind paywall …
  
  https://www.afr.com/business/construction/csr-boral-james-hardie-caught-in-housing-blues-20181108-h17oyp
  
  The heavy sell-off in shares in Australia’s big building products companies is a pointer to where investors think the housing market is headed.
  
  CSR shares have tumbled 43 per cent in the past six months, Boral is off 21 per cent since the start of October and James Hardie has dropped 27 per cent in the past three months. In CSR’s case, $1.2 billion in sharemarket value has vanished since May, leaving shareholders wincing. … read more via hyperlink above (behind paywall) …
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  Plunging mortgage lending levels in Australia mean ‘further weakness in house prices is likely’ | Business Insider
  
  https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-property-home-loan-growth-credit-restrictions-2018-11
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  UBS: Aussie banks still un-investable – MacroBusiness Australia
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/ubs-aussie-banks-still-univestable/
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  … It’s a very rough road to below a 3.0 Median Multiple … as the Irish learned (the hard way) following the ’07 event … when the average Median Multiple across its major metros went from 4.7 to 2.8 …
  
  Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions
  
  http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
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  … and as I explained early 2010 … in quoting Michael Lewis, author of Liars Poker … within …
  
  Housing Bubbles And Market Sense | Hugh Pavletich | Scoop New Zealand News
  
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00046.htm
  
  … extract …
  
  … Michael Lewis, author of Liars Poker wrote recently within a Portfolio com article The End of Wall Streets Boom – most within the finance and investment sector, appeared to be oblivious to the existence of housing bubbles and even less aware of their consequences. As Michael Lewis explains – during late 2004 – only a few, such as Steve Eisman, Ivy Zelman and Meredith Whitney understood that the core problems were the inflating housing bubbles –
  
  “At the end of 2004, Eisman, Moses and Daniel shared a sense that unhealthy things were going on in the housing market.
  
  Lots of firms were lending money to people who shouldn’t have been borrowing it. They thought Alan Greenspan’s decision after the internet bust to lower interest rates to 1% was a travesty that would lead to some terrible day of reckoning.
  
  Neither of these insights was entirely original.
  
  Ivy Zelman, at the time the housing market analysis at Credit Suisse, had seen the bubble forming very early on. There is a simple measure of sanity in housing prices, the ratio of median house price to income.
  
  Historically, it runs around 3 to 1, by late 2004, it had risen nationally to 4 to 1.’
  
  All these people were saying it was nearly as high as some other countries’ Zelman says ‘ But the problem wasn’t just that it was 4 to 1.
  
  In Los Angeles it was 10 to 1 and in Miami it was 8.5 to 1.
  
  And then you coupled that with the buyers. They weren’t real buyers. They were speculators’.
  
  Zelman alienated clients with her pessimism, but she couldn’t pretend everything was good. ‘It wasn’t that hard in hindsight to see it’ she says ‘It was very hard to know when it would stop’.
  
  Zelman spoke occasionally with Eisman and always left these conversations feeling better about her views and worse about the world. ‘You needed the occasional assurance that you weren’t nuts’ she says.
  
  She wasn’t nuts. The world was.”
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  … and explaining a few ‘home truths’ recently to Kiwis as well … with a leading New Zealand journalist Catherine Harris …
  
  Falling Australian house prices a warning for NZ: commentator | Catherine Harris | Stuff.co.nz
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/108168646/falling-australian-house-prices-a-warning-for-nz-commentator
  
  … Why do people … and their (supposed to be in a representative democracy … poll parrots) politicians … have to learn the hard way ?
  
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