General Debate 20 November 2018

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SECRET SECRET
APEC TAPE #5
NOTE: ONE PARTY OBSCURED BY FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

Jacinda Ardern (JA): inaudible (approx 20 seconds)
Karen Pence (KP): No thank you. I don’t need any tampons, but why have you got 150 of them stuffed in your handbag?
JA: inaudible (approx 47 seconds)
KP: No, I’ve never heard about period poverdee. I don’t think we have that in America.
JA: inaudible (approx 125 seconds)
KP: So you cut GST on tampons and save women 83 cents per month and that makes a difference? How do you pay for it?
JA: inaudible (approx 42 seconds)
KP: So you cancel tax cuts which costs menstruating women $100 a month, but give them back 83 cents in tampon GST. No wonder there is period poverdee in New Zealand.
JA: inaudible
KP: Actually, can I have two tampons? I’ll use them as ear plugs.
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November 20, 2018 8:01am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  You made my day CMM. ROFLOL!!
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:05am
  - cmm
    
    It takes a huge amount of computer processing to decrypt these intercept messages, but I think it is worth it in the interests of transparency.
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:08am
- Simon
  
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  Ruh roh real tape.
  
  Bridges: Good work though man, that’s a lot of money.
  Ross: Yeah they’re good people. Now there’s no catch or anything to it. You may recall at the dinner they did discuss candidacy, and another Chinese candidate.
  Bridges: Two MPs, yeah.
  Ross: Colin Zheng? The younger one, he’s put his name in for Candidates’ College and so I assume he’ll get through and we’ll make some decisions as a Party further down the track as to what we want to do with candidates.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:09am
  - Simon
    
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    Pence said the base would help “protect sovereignty and maritime rights in the Pacific islands”, and later said he was prepared to “more than double” the tariffs imposed on Chinese goods.
    
    He urged countries to work with the US because the US did not “coerce, corrupt or compromise your independence”,
    
    China run by the CCP is a vile shithole. No freedom of speech and no rule of law. But the CCP have bought both Labo & National. Sell out to CCP shitheads.
    
    “coerce, corrupt or compromise your independence”
    
    Sorry already happened in NZ. NZ political scum.
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:25am
    - NewInoffensiveName
      
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      The extent to which the Nats are owned by the Chinese is a serious problem, in my view. Given the flow of campaign contributions, it is unlikely to change soon.
      
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      November 20, 2018 8:32am
      - Lance
        
        Oh look, left and lefter are trying to be funny.
        Don’t give up your day jobs
        
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        November 20, 2018 8:44am
      - KevOB
        
        Unhappy intern.
        
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        November 20, 2018 9:07am
      - kowtow
        
        You Nat apologists need to get real about Chinese influence. Once they’ve paid the piper they will call the tune.
        
        They’ve pumped billions into PNG and did come knocking ……..the police were called to APEC , was that reported by our media ?
        
        “When Chinese diplomats turned up unannounced to persuade Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister to back their wording, things turned ugly.
        
        Rimbink Pato refused to meet them.
        
        “Police were posted outside the minister’s office after they tried to barge in,” one source privy to summit negotiations told the AFP news agency, requesting anonymity.”
        
        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/18/police-called-asia-pacific-summit-tensions-boil-us-china-trade/
        
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        November 20, 2018 9:19am
      - Tall Man
        
        “The extent to which labour are owned by the unions is a serious problem in everyone’s view.”
        
        Sorted you paranoid twat.
        
        Did the nice Chinese lady not want to suck your cock after the massage? Seems odd that she wouldn’t as you seem to be quite a big dick 😉
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:15am
      - Jack5
        
        Looks like National is going to keep its head in the sand over Chinese infiltration of the party in Auckland.
        
        So many posts defending the Beijing-National pact. Have all the Beijing agents in the country registered as Kiwiblog posters?
        
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        November 20, 2018 11:53am
      - Lance
        
        The yellow peril, the yellow peril!!!
        Chinese people are joining the National party.
        
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        November 20, 2018 12:28pm
      - sooty
        
        You haven’t seen yet how deep Labour is with Fat Da Crim is.
        Who was on the trips to the mansion and how any?
        Is the dud chque saga a prelude to giving him a free pass?
        
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        November 20, 2018 12:31pm
      - Jack5
        
        ?? Lance sneers:”Chinese people are joining the National party.”
        
        No problem with that, Lance. But bringing in a former employee of China’s stop spy agency as a list MP is a step too far. So is putting up as a potential candidate the son of a rich Chinese donor. So was a senior National MP approaching the police on behalf of a Chinese supporter.
        
        When it comes to accusations of racism, it’s the deep-blue posters here who toss around terms like “Chinky” and “yellow peril”.
        
        Here’s an American view on Chinese influence in NZ and Australia:
        
        https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/18/china-news-us-australia-criticize-beijing-political-influence-attempts.html
        
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        November 20, 2018 12:42pm
      - Pascal
        
        I guess English language tutors are a scary thing now.
        
        Personally? Anyone playing to the Labour party xenophobia can fuck off. First it’s everyone with a Chinese surname, now this?
        
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        November 20, 2018 12:52pm
      - Jack5
        
        Pascal, are you the new Kiwiblog censor, trying to suppress any criticism of China’s influence on the National Party?
        
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        November 20, 2018 12:58pm
      - Jack5
        
        Oh dear, which way will National jump?
        
        New Zealand will have to choose between the United States (with which re-arming Japan seems to be aligning) and China, says an analysis of the APEC meeting in the Guardian. It includes this:
        
        ” New Zealand can pretend it has its own, independent process, but when the chips are down, it doesn’t. ”
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/20/despite-apec-drama-china-is-winning-the-fight-for-the-pacific-step-by-patient-step
        
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        November 20, 2018 1:40pm
    - Justitia
      
      Indeed, New Zealand is the focus of a major campaign of subversion by the CCP, at all levels of government, central and local. The principal object at this stage is to detach us from our former traditional friends. Both major parties are contaminated yet in spite of the considerable evidence that has been brought to bear they refuse to address the situation. Our universities host Chinese government Confucius Institutes whose purposes are to control Chinese students and to spread pro-CCP propaganda. Senior members of the bureaucracy have also been targeted. Social and racial divisions will also be exploited. “P” ,most of which is sourced from China, is a very useful tool for causing major social dysfunction. Eventually New Zealand will become a quiescent satellite and a useful “overseas farm” for China.
      
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      November 20, 2018 9:16am
      - tf78
        
        Divide and conquer is always a winner.
        
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        November 20, 2018 11:38am
      - Tall Man
        
        Have asked before but still nothing from you xenophobic paranoid pussies.
        
        Name me one piece of legislation from either National or the xenophobic labour party that could be seen as being pushed from China.
        
        Not fussy, just one will do. Until then, piss off with your childish tirades.
        
        You rant about a former english language teacher from China being a “spy” yet the only “comrade” spouting twat that I see is Ardern the liar.
        
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        November 20, 2018 2:08pm
      - Tall Man
        
        If you can be bothered giving me a down tick how about you list the legislation that is taking us to the “yellow side”………
        
        I know why…there isn’t any.
        
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        November 20, 2018 2:40pm
      - Goon
        
        Bigman…nothing as oververt as legislation, but very disturbing if you give a shit about sovereignty both of nz and our neighbours.
        
        https://croakingcassandra.com/2018/10/31/on-the-background-of-zhang-yikun/
        
        https://croakingcassandra.com/2018/11/07/the-prc-and-new-zealand-bits-and-pieces/
        
        By all means pull the rasis card….but maybe try looking in a mirror first
        
        https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asshat
        
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        November 20, 2018 6:06pm
- Biscuit
  
  The transcript goes on, cmm, with Jass telling a suddenly-wanting-to-be-elsewhere Mrs Pence that ‘the tampons come in all colours. Except yellow. I can’t wear yellow.’
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:56am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    They should have asked first lol.
    
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    November 20, 2018 12:01pm
- Harkman
  
  Yesterday’s one was just as funny CMM. You know what would be a really great gag? Is if the White House laid and official complaint, “We requested that Mrs Pence be seated next to Mrs Trudeau, but instead she was shown disrespect by being seated next the wife of the leader from some “New” country.”
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:05am
  - cmm
    
    Bugger, the pressure is on!
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:39am
    - Biscuit
      
      cmm, we’ll know you’ve REALLY succumbed to ‘the pressure’ when you start dangling a new-born in front of you and add ‘My baybeeeee’ to every sentence you utter!
      
      Love your work! Look forward to tomorrow’s effort. With the CoL you just know you’re never gonna run out of material to work with.
      
      I’d offer you some of these here M&Ms as a reward but:
      
      1. You might say ‘Yes’
      2. I don’t share my food
      … Swallow …
      3. They’re gone…
      
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      November 20, 2018 9:44am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Let’s do this!
      
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      November 20, 2018 4:24pm
- alloytoo
  
  I recently saw a 12 pack of sanitary products for $2 in countdown.
  
  That’s about two months worth.
  
  ex GST thats $1.74 a grand saving of 26c
  
  Alternatively a cigarette costs about $1.25.
  
  One less Cigarette per month, (or beer) solves the problem.
  
  One less Hamburger solves the problem for 6 months.
  
  If we can find a family that doesn’t subscribe to these “vices” which still cannot afford these products then I will personally whip $12 out of my wallet and solve the problem for a year.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:28am
  - Fletch
    
    I don’t understand why this is suddenly an issue now. Women have bought these for themselves and their daughters and coped for decades, yet now, in the most affluent time the world has ever been in, it’s suddenly a thing?
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:52am
    - Thought Criminal
      
      Virtue signaling
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:00am
      - lifesgood
        
        It’s utterly pathetic. Makes me angry. What next?…soap, shampoo, shavers etc. I don’t believe for one minute girls can’t afford these. In the old days girls used old sheets torn up and washed them out to use next time. They had done that for centuries.
        
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        November 20, 2018 1:29pm
    - kowtow
      
      ‘I don’t understand why this is suddenly an issue now’
      
      All part of the matriarchal media , far left hysteria .
      
      They are out to literally create new classes of victims / impoverished .
      
      So we had edukashion poverdy , housing poverdy , fuel poverdy , feel free to add your favourite poverdy , but now they have “period poverty” , see there’s even a nice alliterating name for it.
      
      Another thing stale pale males must be made to pay for.
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:54am
  - cmm
    
    I’m not a domain expert and only top shelf fluffy goods for my family, so I used $6 for 16 per cycle.
    
    Apparently the $2 stuff is rubbish and false economy as you need to use twice as much.
    
    Apparently even with the good stuff you want to be changing about 4 per day, so the 12 for two months would seem to be a bit tight.
    
    Still, the main point stands. The GST on $6 is only 78 cents per cycle, $10 per year.
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:54am
    - alloytoo
      
      I don’t confess to be a usage expert, but if you can’t make a few sacrifices then really do you deserve to be a parent?
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:36am
  - tf78
    
    I think men should have razor blades subsidized as they are essential as well.
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:40am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Ffs the $2.00 ones are not fit for purpose, the woman in your life is indeed fortunate if she can make do with them.
    
    And indeed fortunate to have you?
    
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    November 20, 2018 12:37pm
- skyblue
  
  Q. What do PNG girls and Ice Hockey players have in common?
  A. They both change their pads after 3 periods.
  
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  November 20, 2018 11:00am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Look out, JA is going to spit the dummy over this (she has no sense of humour)
  
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  November 20, 2018 12:19pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I was waiting for the hard hitting ‘interview’ of our PM by Duncan Garner this morning, what a joke, he is now officially a soft cock.
    
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    November 20, 2018 12:38pm
  - artemisia
    
    Unlikely the PM reads Kiwiblog, but more probably relies on her staff to tell her about themes from this and other media.
    
    Positives will be in abundance. Negatives mentioned mildly so staff look like they are fair minded. I doubt yellow tampons will get a look in .
    
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    November 20, 2018 2:12pm
hullkiwi

NZ an honest broker. Helps if the politicians meeting this are honest themselves!
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November 20, 2018 8:02am
sooty

Is Broomstick 1 back in the country carrying Comrade Cindy.
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November 20, 2018 8:03am
- dave_c_
  
  Sorry – but it’s the new model Broomstick II – bought at half the cost that it would in NZ.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:07am
  - calendar girl
    
    Great identifier, sooty, for the PM’s plane on her overseas trips. Hope the name sticks.
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:21am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      My idea, but I don’t mind if sooty takes the credit.
      (It’s actually an old one from the Klarkula days).
      
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      November 20, 2018 9:26am
      - calendar girl
        
        Thanks, Captain!
        
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        November 20, 2018 12:33pm
    - RF
      
      Dear god. Our bobble head globe trotting object of derision is back in the country for a few days.
      
      I hear sweet cheeks is now working overvtime trying to work out how much of our money she has thrown away to the rich pacific island fat cats who can afford to buy luxury vehicles whilst our pensioners back here wait for clapped out buses… that’s when they are not on strike.
      
      The saviour of the poor is nothing but a lying POS.
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:23am
- Paulus
  
  And the senior advisor Heather Simpson.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:29am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes, a broom stick for a pair of witches…
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:46am
  - Tall Man
    
    I hear she has a good head..or was that gives a good head…
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:10am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Really? Unnecessary comment in my opinion.
      
      She does enough awful shit, does she have to get bagged for doing something well also?
      
      As for men asking for sexual stuff from women and then denigrating them if they oblige, let alone being ungrateful lol, no wonder we tell you all to get stuffed as often as we do :).
      
      Besides which, hearsay or just rumour that is the usual male put down of women in general, not just our totally unsuitable PM.
      
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      November 20, 2018 12:52pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Touchy touchy. The reference was to the unelected heather simpson, you know, the one helen used to jump over the back fence to meet. that is now being foisted on us by Ardern the liar
        
        I have no personal experience of her “head giving” expertise as I wouldn’t be brave enough to let my personal equipment near the teeth of an avowed man hater. not that any offer would be forthcoming, but I hear she kept a smile on helen’s face so assumed it was good service being provided.
        
        I strongly object to someone like heather and helen for that matter being put in a position whereby they can influence government policy to the detriment of us all. If we had desired h1 & h2 to return to power we would have asked winston to select them not Ardern the liar.
        
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        November 20, 2018 2:16pm
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I hope somebody rolls Simon Bridges over the Christmas BBQ season. He is useless.
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November 20, 2018 8:05am
- Justitia
  
  Another set of polls should do it.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:08am
  - Tall Man
    
    The fear of Simon Bridges among the stooges of the left is palpable. Keep up the good work Simon they are obviously scared shitless of you 😉
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:05am
    - Justitia
      
      Every time Soimun opens his mouth I have an uncontrollable urge to burst out laughing.
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:56am
      - Tall Man
        
        As do we with your continual paranoid ramblings about reds under the bed.
        
        winston has selected the reddest little commie to be our PM which should be of more concern to you but hey, keep up your anti Chinese tirade as it clearly demonstrates the limited ability of racists in general.
        
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        November 20, 2018 2:20pm
      - Happychappy
        
        Are you a pom as you always whinge about Simon even when the majority of people reckon he has done a great job over the JLR email saga.
        
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        November 20, 2018 4:03pm
- VicParking
  
  If you want to see useless, look in a mirror.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:09am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    He ain’t going to win you 202 elections bro!
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:38am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Nobody from the Nats will win the 2020 election.
      The CoL will lose it all on their own.
      
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      November 20, 2018 9:28am
      - Tall Man
        
        That is it in a nutshell.
        
        The lefty loonies are banking on the fact that the bulk of the electorate is as stupid as the politicians they vote for but I think not.
        
        Simon is a calm hand at the wheel currently and all National have to do is repeat back to the electorate the promises made by Ardern and not delivered.
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:08am
    - stigie
      
      “He ain’t going to win you 202 elections bro!”
      
      If you think Judith will, think again. Anyone in National going up against the SLG and the feelz in 2020 ain’t going to cut it..?
      
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      November 20, 2018 9:48am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      202?
      
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      November 20, 2018 1:06pm
  - flipper
    
    Those few idiots are really Alice in Wonderland characters. But I insult Carrol …..
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:42am
- KevOB
  
  Is coke or meths preferred for higher strata barbebeques?
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:09am
  - sooty
    
    You would have to read between the lines!
    
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    November 20, 2018 12:38pm
    - KevOB
      
      That might make me ecstatic.
      
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      November 20, 2018 3:04pm
secondcumming

No doubt this is only the tip of the iceberg!

What I’d like to know, is what the fuck *President Xi Jinping* intends doing about these koonts who are trying their best to stuff up New Zealand?

https://twitter.com/nzpolice/status/1064341667677794304

They’ll be able to stay here of course…..China has the death penalty. Go figure.
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November 20, 2018 8:08am
- Justitia
  
  Most of the meth or precursor that enters New Zealand is sourced from China. You don’t think the CCP authorities are unaware of this do you? It’s a tactic learned from the Opium Wars.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:11am
  - igm
    
    How much is dispensed from Mosques . . . saw meeting between a number of gang members and two weirdly dressed Muslims (thought halloween had passed), they were very close and it was not an impromptu gathering.
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:56am
    - tf78
      
      igm – Did you have the opportunity to watch the TV program ‘Next of Kin’ – frighteningly real, I’m sure that’s exactly what happens. Don’t know if it’s on demand, but worth a look if you have the time.
      
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      November 20, 2018 11:44am
    - Komata
      
      igm
      
      Part of the programme. Islam is deliberately targetting the prisons for converts, converts who, just (accidently of course), have gang associations. Nothing like having a few staunch believing bros behind you when you start stirring-up trouble after the 2% threshold has been passed.
      
      The gangs are being set up to be eventually used when the immams start their stirring, but, ‘cos they tend to ‘live for the moment’ and their own self-interest, simply don’t see it.
      
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      November 20, 2018 11:49am
  - Tall Man
    
    FFS, China is a player certainly but so are many others.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066192
    
    https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/08/opinions/myanmar-shan-state-methamphetamine-intl/index.html
    
    Your obvious obsession with China is slightly disturbing. Did you get turned down at the massage parlour once?
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:00am
    - Jack5
      
      Tall Man, your obsession with defending Communist China is more than slightly disturbing. It’s suspicious.
      
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      November 20, 2018 12:49pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Whereas you obsession with continual conspiracy theories is healthy?
        
        Try your rant out at your next counselling session and see how that pans out.
        
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        November 20, 2018 2:24pm
      - Jack5
        
        Tall Man, you are a “useful idiot” of Beijing.
        
        Presumably, you go along with China’s repeatedly affirmed Marxism.
        
        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-marx-china/no-regrets-xi-says-marxism-still-totally-correct-for-china-idUSKBN1I50ET
        
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        November 20, 2018 5:54pm
      - Tall Man
        
        At least I’m useful. You are just a useless idiot with a childish paranoia about China. List the legislation they have influenced for their betterment….still waiting from last month.
        
        There isn’t any so take your anti Chinese stance elsewhere where it will be appreciated like the Standard or any other paranoid idiot blog.
        
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        November 20, 2018 6:08pm
      - Jack5
        
        You reveal yourself as a Commie fellow traveller, Tall Man, with naive love of Beijing putting you to the Left of Ardern.
        
        You claim to be useful. Perhaps useful to Labour. Enough supporters like you and National will be on the Opposition benches for decades.
        
        Hell! Tall Man, you aren’t by any chance a Labour agent provocateur?
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:17pm
  - Paulus
    
    And by the Vietnamese – they flooded the US troops with cheap home grown Opium/Heroin/Morphine and any other drug they wanted.
    Made many zombies and still are.
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:22am
    - Jack5
      
      Get your facts right, Paulus. One in five US Vietnam veterans reported heroin addiction, but most successfully withdrew and relapses were few.
      
      The statement “made many zombie and still are” is bullshit.
      
      I also doubt your statement that the Vietnam War heroin was “home grown”. Most of it likely came from the Golden Triangle over the borders.
      
      https://www.michaelshouse.com/blog/what-we-can-learn-from-the-vietnam-war-and-heroin-addiction/
      
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      November 20, 2018 12:52pm
RW Capitalist

Hipkins, this morning.
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
We will have 80% trained teacher by 2022 and will work on 100% after that.
Then later admits that almost all ECE schools have 80% now.
So not much of a promise, is it Chris? by 2022 (4 years)
Q: How did we go from about , a few hundred job vacancies a year 2 years ago and before, to NEEDING 6000 new “teachers”.
OOHHH….you changed the definition of what a “teacher” is…didn’t you Chris?
Hipkin’s…hiding the smoke coming from his en-flamed trousers?
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November 20, 2018 8:13am
- Liberty
  
  What an overkill.
  Early childhood education will only have fully trained teachers.
  To make pink playdough and play in the sand pit.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:39am
  - Lance
    
    And demand more money
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:46am
  - cmm
    
    You oversimplify the training needed by ECE teachers.
    They also need to know the words to “The wheels on the bus.”
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:47am
    - dave_c_
      
      And also need to be competent in changing nappies, wiping the noses, consoling those with a sore finger, providing and distributing breakfast and morning tea…..
      Not to mention the social services they need to provide.
      
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      November 20, 2018 9:06am
    - Dave Mann
      
      You’re absolutely wrong. Actually they need to know the words to the song in Moory.
      
      As well as that, they need to be able to articulate how the Tiriti impacts on their work and how to empower the children who self-identify as ‘female’ to recognise and successfully articulate their leadership roles in internalising global strategies for learning.
      
      It’s not easy mate.
      
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      November 20, 2018 9:12am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      In Hamilton for Go Bus they don’t!
      
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      November 20, 2018 1:33pm
  - flipper
    
    Not so Liberty. The Memsahib is a fully trained EC teacher and she does NOT teach sandcastles. almost ALL of her pupils can use a pen/cil and write their name when they go to primary. You, “liberty, are the dummy in the class!
    
    But does she support the NZEI and its mouthpiece MP(so called Minister) ? Absolutely NO!
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:53am
  - Sacha
    
    Perhaps Hipkins and his boss have been reading
    this:
    http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/russia-and-its-empires/elise-alexander/
    The Soviet Cult of Childhood
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:13am
  - Paulus
    
    And Union members !
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:22am
  - tf78
    
    It didn’t work last time they were in power so it’s unlikely to have a remote chance this time.
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:46am
- VicParking
  
  Simple policy to bring the Industry under union control….no other reason.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:08am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  National started this by agreeing that instead of a toddler playing with blocks on the floor at home, he/she should play with them on the floor of a government institution supervised by taxpayer funded union members.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:18am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Not quite, under National more PRIVATE preschools opened, this was the intention.
    Now those same PRIVATE preschools will be the ones that can’t afford to stay open, which appears to be the current govt.’s intention.
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:24am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      One of our local preschools had ONE “teacher” supported by 5 parents at a time (on rotation).
      This model, will not exist if Hipkins and his union assholes have their way.
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:28am
  - tf78
    
    It was the unions more than National.
    
    Another great TV program was ‘The Secret Lives of Four Year Olds’ – it’s really fascinating and sometimes hilarious how the little ones make friends, lose friends, fall in love and choose their friends. They are filmed and recorded in their natural day to day play. (available on line – I watched the UK one).
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:50am
- Southern Raider
  
  I love how they use “qualified” as the under cover term for “registered” eg everyone must be a union member and this is solely about pushing up union membership numbers therefore Labour Party donations
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:39am
  - Piniwi
    
    Funny Southern Raider the real crunch will come when the the ” qualified” teachers decide to start listing the tasks they will NOT do because they are below their station. It is already very obvious to any who have seen how so many already open suffer from this hindrance.
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:37am
- Southern Raider
  
  Best school teacher my daughter had was ….. a Chinese man with a thick accent and probably no degree.
  
  He was absolutely fantastic and the kids loved him.
  
  There is no science behind teaching kids at this young age having any positive impact on future life.
  
  At a young age the positive impact comes from learning emotions, feeling loved, feeling secure and trying new experiences!
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:41am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    “At a young age the positive impact comes from learning emotions, feeling loved, feeling secure and trying new experiences!”
    Parental responsibility?
    What are these “teachers” supposed to teach them?
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:26am
artemisia

Former IRD deputy commissioner Robin Oliver is a member of the Tax Working Group, and is indicating deep divisions among members.

Very telling is this –

While the official line of the Sir Michael Cullen-chaired group is that it was trying to make New Zealand’s tax system fairer, the reality is the group was set up to design a capital gains tax regime, Oliver said.

What a shock, who could ever have guessed it!

http://www.goodreturns.co.nz/article/976513942/tax-working-group-divided-on-approach-to-cgt.html
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November 20, 2018 8:13am
- backster
  
  Art…Who would have guessed this was the proposal
  that grabbed me
  “He said Iwi weren’t keen on a capital gains tax and he suggested they may end up being outside the regime. The argument being advanced by iwi was that their assets had been confiscated, and now they were being returned to them through the treaty settlement process. Any CGT regime would be another confiscation,”
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:09am
  - Jazzby
    
    Why doesn’t this surprise me? The iwi corporations already enjoy tax exemption on the basis of their phoney charitable status.
    Maori greed is endless; we compensate them handsomely for the supposed confiscation of land which, in fact, they never owned (and not all of which they even occupied). They’ve also been granted ‘Treaty recognition’ in respect of the electromagnetic spectrum, despite the fact that they didn’t have the remotest idea about physics, before the Europeans arrived (and I’ll vouch that the overwhelming majority of Maori – and even our politicians – still don’t have the first idea of what the electromagnetic spectrum actually comprises).
    And wait to see what they have to say about water ownership: suddenly, Maori spirituality will have a hefty price tag attached.
    The division of this nation into Maori and “the rest” is steadily accelerating. Trouble looms.
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:05am
- KevOB
  
  IRD have form with taxes. The COL expected the working group to satisfy the required political position. An own goal with IRD involved.
  Trying to knock a Dept into conformity was known as “political interference”.
  Treasury are on the outers too wiith MBIE being the preferred financial go to.
  
  Why do self determined ideologues pay for these very expensive smoke screens?
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:19am
Keeping Stock

What a fantastic cricket test over the last few days. The bowling performance of the Black Caps last night was superb, especially left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel, who took five wickets in the second innings on debut.

The cynics will say it was another dodgy Pakistan choke, but pressure can do that. As the wickets fell, and Pakistan needed 15 runs with one wicket left, the tension in our home was palpable. And when Patel dismissed Azhar Ali for 65 to win the match, I apologise to any neighbours of mine awoken from their slumber.

Of all the sports I follow, cricket is my one true love. I was born in the year New Zealand was bowled out by England for 26, which was probably an omen. The New Zealand team has delivered some fantastic highs and some devastating lows in the nera 60 years I have followed them, but last night was something else again.

Kudos to all the Black Caps players, and a special mention to Gary Stead, coaching the side in his first test. We have a great group of players now, and I cannot wait until 7pm on Saturday night when the second test begins in Dubai.

Well played lads!
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November 20, 2018 8:20am
- oldgolfer
  
  Hear hear. And Patel started life as a seamer and switched to spin when he realised his height was against him.
  All power to that man.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:23am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    He reminds me a bit of Andrew Jones, coming into test cricket later in his career, but immediately looking comfortable. That’s because of the volume of first class cricket he has played. He’s well and truly paid his dues.
    
    With Sodhi, Patel and Sommerville currently in the UAE, and Santner and Astle recovering from injuries, our stocks of spin bowlers are as good as I can ever remember them.
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:29am
- Poppa
  
  Totally agree KS. That man Wagner, what a trooper!
  
  The man can bowl all day with the same heart as the first ball, amazing stuff.
  
  That first over Patel bowled was sublime, I sure hope he can carry on like that in upcoming matches
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:30am
  - oldgolfer
    
    Yes, please.
    Wagner gives it all.
    All day, every day.
    A cricketer’s cricketer.
    NZ’s Alec Bedser?
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:36am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Agree wholeheartedly Poppa. Wagner has a fantastic work ethic, and a good dose of South African hard-headedness and bloody-mindedness. He just bowls, and bowls, and bowls.
    
    Interestingly, the playing XI contained five players not born in New Zealand; Wagner (Pretoria, South Africa), Patel (Mumbai, India), Sodhi (Ludhiana, India), Raval (Gujarat, India) and Watling (Durban, South Africa). Immigration has its positives, in cricket, at least.
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:11am
    - Poppa
      
      De Granhomme – Zimbabwe I think
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:56am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Indeed; how did I forget him? Born in Harare, Zimbabwe.
        
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        November 20, 2018 11:29am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        But how much longer will he be in the team based on recent form?
        
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        November 20, 2018 3:20pm
- Gravelroad
  
  KS – an ancestor of mine played in the February 2nd 1864 cricket match between All England and Otago – held in Dunedin.
  The match report states that Otago “totalled 71 on a disgraceful wicket” and “the Englishmen were hard pressed and scored only 99” in the first innings.
  However, Otago had 22 players in their side and they all took the field and all batted.
  England won by 9 wickets.
  “E.M. Grace hit freely for 24 and 26.”
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:38am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Stunning result and sad that our first thoughts are about the legitimacy of it…
  Not sure I share your optimism though KS – the batting throughout this tour has not been up to standard and they know runs are a must in this climate which produces carpark wickets. Still, great effort once again by the bowling unit; they’ve pulled a rabbit for us yet again.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:40am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    To be fair, the Pakistani batting was no better, and the 249 New Zealand scored in the second innings was the highest batting total of the match. But often, low scoring test matches provide the most drama.
    
    Let’s also not forget that they are playing in conditions which SHOULD suit the Pakistan side, give they play almost all their “home” cricket in UAE and Dubai now. It’s not as though we knocked them over on a juicy seamer.
    
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    November 20, 2018 8:51am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Finally a fellow Kiwi who loves cricket (other than me)!!. I share your happiness and thrilled that our Black Caps gave a fight right until the end. That is what I like about our team. They never give up. Even if they didn’t win, I would have been happy because they gave their 100% effort, that is all we can ask for.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:42am
- flipper
  
  Agree Keeping.
  My memory of the infamous 26 was only from Radio. I keep telling myself that it wautely
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:58am
  - Biscuit
    
    flipper, the All Blacks would have LOVED to have scored 26 on Sunday a.m.!
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:05am
- hullkiwi
  
  Totally agree. I was born 5 years later than you, and I’ve seen both the highs, lows and moments when the team (through personality) have self destructed off the field.
  
  Last night I saw the score on the web & thought why bother after Sunday’s rugby. But what a result, and all kudos to Patel on debut. Well done the Black Caps!
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:35am
- trout
  
  A great result but Pakistan have a reputation for rolling over to produce an unexpected outcome; the payoff from the sub continent betting syndicates is huge. I recall they threw a match against NZ in Sagar in a cup tournament some time ago.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:36am
- MCos
  
  Pakistan beat Australia by a gazillion runs at that venue last month.
  The second test was a draw even though Pakistan led by 280 on the first innings.
  
  Maybe the Aussies couldn’t find a Bunnings.
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:26am
- MH
  
  have you noticed the score board in the herald has changed- prob to make it sexy-with no breakdown of bowling and batting caught bowled byes etc. The running scoreboard is in the writing of the game’s incidents by a reporter..durrr
  
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  November 20, 2018 5:03pm
Sofia

The Minister responsible for Pike River re-entry, Andrew Little, says the previous government should make a public apology for its failures at the mine.

Should any apology not await completion of the re-entry, so everyone knows whether the current actions – and perhaps false expectations – should be included in any apology?

[And for a Minister of Justice to consider – to what extent is an apology an admission of guilt and to what extent is that then legally actionable for prosecution or compensation? And how valid will any of this be when most likely the majority of remains and evidence will lie in the mine itself beyond the rockfall and so beyond recovery or examination, and final determination of cause?]
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November 20, 2018 8:21am
- artemisia
  
  Minister for Pike River Re-entry preaching to an extremely small choir.
  
  Reminds me of that definition of chamber music – music for a very small audience.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:28am
- dave_c_
  
  Indeed – the political footballs seem to be getting bigger year on year.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:31am
- Paulus
  
  How much more money does Bernie want. With a Government apology (not mine) he can claim greater bragging money rights.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:32am
  - KevOB
    
    Him and some others will never be satisfied with money. They expect some others to be destroyed to satisfy their lust for revenge. Their losses can on be paid for that way.
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:25am
  - Komata
    
    Paulus
    
    Bernie DOESN’T want the money, he wants the FAME!!
    
    He wants to be forever known as the MAN WHO BOUGHT JUSTICE TO PIKE RIVER!
    
    He’s actually a publican by trade, but has certainly grabbled his chance for stardom with both hands and is running with it for all he’s worth.
    
    Sad really, becoming a ‘media-whore’ and (in)famous on the back of a tragedy and the death of a family member.
    
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    November 20, 2018 12:05pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  This is the clown who said the safety practices at the mine are perfect.
  
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  November 20, 2018 8:45am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “Andrew Little, says the previous government should make a public apology for its failures at the mine”
  
  Considering the last govt. neither built, designed or approved the mine.
  Shouldn’t it be the previous LABOUR govt. that does the apologizing?
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:48am
  - Komata
    
    RW
    
    Shhhh; you’re not supposed to have remembered that, it doesn’t fit the narrative
    
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    November 20, 2018 12:08pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Waiting for the apology to the families of 115 victims of the CTV building collapse, the compensation from government, and holding those responsible to account.
  
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  November 20, 2018 12:51pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    What a coincidence, Labour was in when the CTV building was built too. They seem to fuck everything up.
    
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    November 20, 2018 2:09pm
- Liberty
  
  Andrew Little history retention is appalling.
  It was under labour the Pike river mine was designed and constructed
  To appease the greens they tunneled under the worms.
  The end result a total clusterfuck.
  Then the inept labour Government had a history of fails.
  Nova Pay and Kiwirail being prime examples.
  Only imbeciles would pay over the odds for a rust bucket.
  When a sell at any price was in the wind.
  
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  November 20, 2018 1:33pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

Chinese Oscars hit by Taiwan controversy:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46250674
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November 20, 2018 8:32am
secondcumming

Watching Sky News last night live from Port Moresby, and all the cringe-worthy reporting about *PNG* taking delivery of about 60 Maserati’s and a couple of Bentley’s. Who cares?

As my missus said, “Probably the bigger scandal, was the number of Government Ministers wearing blackface”.
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November 20, 2018 8:34am
- hullkiwi
  
  If you have been to Port Moresby, you’ll know those cars will not stay in the country for long. Aside from there being no way to service the cars & other than the new Chinese highway, there are no roads in the city suitable to drive the cars.
  
  Given what a corrupt place PNG is, I’ll guarantee you that each one of those cars will head to Australia, Indonesia, the Phillipines or Singapore. As for the money, don’t ask.
  
  For the doubters, I lived & worked in PNG for 2 years. While living their I witnessed relatives of politicians run off with Asian Development Bank money, a politician turn rogue such that a family had to be escorted on an Aussie military/diplomatic flight, a dusk to dawn curfew because criminal/rascals activity was threatening the hosting of the South Pacific Games in the country.
  
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  November 20, 2018 11:44am
Paulus

I was taught that Charity begins at Home, but nobody has taught Ardern/Peters that.
Here we have just seen something like $28.5 million having been gifted to PNG, one of the most corrupt countries in the Region.
Mr O’Neil, Premier controls one of the most undesirable countries along with his handpicked coterie of political friends. Bribery is endemic.
So did we also participate additionally in providing 4 new Bentleys and 28 Maserati cars for the meeting ? They were garaged as riots would have taken place if they were seen.
By now they will all have been given to friends or flogged off to special people.
So I wonder what else Ardern will do to try and get herself to the UN – which she will not do – her predecessor fared very poorly so it will reflect on Ardern and babee.
I hear that there are enormous waiting list for Child Dentistry currently – months of waiting for free treatment.
With this money which O’Neil would not give thanks for – cancelling the Princesses meeting at the last moment, along with the ridiculous Pike River fiasco could pay for these children’s teeth to be seen, with some left over for the Teachers.
But these children must pledge not to drink loaded sugar – some hope.
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November 20, 2018 8:46am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Not to mention the billion dollars to the Pacific Islands, making this look like pocket change.
  Buying PI votes in NZ?
  If you say the words million/ billion fast enough, it doesn’t sound like much.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:08am
  - KevOB
    
    Is Taxcinda seriously try to set herself and NZ up as champions of the smaller Melanesian/Polynesian island states and horn in on the Aussies who aim to keep as low a profile as is sensible?
    Aid requests are always with us but taxpayers are fleeting.
    
    She has the basic competence of a UN Cafe servery hand.
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:34am
    - RF
      
      Cindys father is a chief in one of the islands. Maybe she likes the title and wants to be one as well.
      
      In some islands the chiefs wear a necklace of large pigs tusks. Cindy has a head start in this area.
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:33am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Actually, Ross Ardern is our High Commissioner to Nuie, having previously served as Police Commissioner there. I doubt that his dress, even for ceremonial occasions, extends to pigs tusks 😀
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:54am
      - RF
        
        KS.
        
        Cease and desist. I had this vivid picture in my mind of Ross dressed up in all his finery complete with spear.
        
        Seriously I find it hard to believe that Cindy is his daughter as he is a very intelligent nice guy.
        
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        November 20, 2018 11:58am
      - david
        
        I think you will find that Ross Adern is now domiciled in Auckland having completed his term as HC in Nuie. He was appointed Administrator for Tokelau earlier this year and took up the position in May. Neve’s grandmother is handy for babysitting I suppose.
        https://www.tokelau.org.nz/…/NZ+announces+HE+Ross+Ardern+to+take+on+top+To…
        
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        November 20, 2018 4:27pm
- VicParking
  
  O’Neil’s assistant: “And the Meeting with the New Zealand Prime Minister?”
  Pause
  O’Neils assistant: “I take it that you showing me your middle finger means you want the meeting cancelled?”
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:13am
- KevOB
  
  Our bribery will not go unnoticed either in Canberra. They have cautiously picked up the PNG tab over the years.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:29am
- srylands
  
  And those super cars will be driven on PNG “roads“. Not serviced. Within 2 years they will all be wrecked.
  
  Why has the New Zealand Government not commented on this?
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:29am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    They will probably actually be in Queensland, at the holiday homes of the PNG Ministers.
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:05am
    - kowtow
      
      No we paid relative chicken shit for the cars to be driven on Chinese built roads.
      
      ‘Chinese investment in Papua New Guinea – mostly in the form of infrastructure projects such as building roads and ports – grew to US$2.46 billion last year, a significant rise from 2016’s US$860 million, according to data compiled by China Global Investment Tracker.’
      
      https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2173707/papua-new-guinea-should-learn-malaysias-mahathir-avoid-becoming
      
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      November 20, 2018 11:15am
      - starboard
        
        Courtesy of Taxpayers Union..
        
        “As if there wasn’t enough wasteful spending at home in New Zealand, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters yesterday confirmed the Government will give more than $40 million in aid to Papua New Guinea – a country with a shocking and recent record of funnelling aid money to private benefits.
        
        This new $40 million is on top of the $15 million Kiwi taxpayers already gave for the country to host APEC – money that went to the slush fund that Papua New Guinea’s government used to spend $7 million on a fleet of Maseratis and Bentleys.
        On behalf of taxpayers we have publicly called on Winston Peters to take a tougher line on foreign governments accepting New Zealand aid.
        Just this morning there are reports of a company owned by the prime minister receiving a $32 million contract from the Asian Development Bank, but only carrying out 10 percent of the work.
        
        Winston Peters needs to take a tough stance against corrupt foreign governments getting their hands on our money. Sadly, he appears to be naïve.
        Most aid experts will tell you that the best way to help the people of Papua New Guinea is with third party aid groups, not by shuffling cash through a corrupt regime.
        Denying aid to the Papua New Guinean Government will send a powerful message to other foreign governments that expect New Zealand taxpayers to subsidise their corruption.
        
        Just this morning there are reports of a company owned by the prime minister receiving a $32 million contract from the Asian Development Bank, but only carrying out 10 percent of the work.
        
        Winston Peters needs to take a tough stance against corrupt foreign governments getting their hands on our money. Sadly, he appears to be naïve.
        
        Most aid experts will tell you that the best way to help the people of Papua New Guinea is with third party aid groups, not by shuffling cash through a corrupt regime.
        Denying aid to the Papua New Guinean Government will send a powerful message to other foreign governments that expect New Zealand taxpayers to subsidise their corruption.”
        
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        November 20, 2018 1:45pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    2 years, there’ll be nothing left of them if they wait that long!!
    
    Those cars will be at the wharf in Port Moresby by the end of this week destined for Australia, Singapore, the Phillipines or Indinesia.
    
    Corruption is a key industry in PNG, & whatever you do dont ask where the money went.
    
    As for driving those cars there:
    1. There are no qualified service agents in the country;
    2. The roads are shit there with the exception of the new Chinese highway. From now until March it is the wet season, the roads degenerate into nothing but potholes and craters. They then fill the holes in about May.
    
    So, what do you do with a low profile limo in a shithole like Port Moresby, export it to your holiday home on the Queensland coast.
    
    I live there for 2 years in the 1990s, nothing has changed in 20 years there. The only growth industries in the country were/are the 3 Cs (Corruption, Crime & Compensation).
    
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    November 20, 2018 1:51pm
    - KevOB
      
      It was the same in the early 1970’s. A car expired when it needed service after two years.
      
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      November 20, 2018 3:15pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Jacinda did this morning on AM, she informed Dunky that she chose not to ride in one. All jolly you know what. No questions on ILG or anything else to do with government or even what she had achieved by going.
    
    Despite how savage Dunky is on Simon I bet Simon is glad that he doesn’t get treated like a light weight.
    
    Makes one ashamed of being a capable woman.
    
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    November 20, 2018 6:51pm
- krazykiwi
  
  So I wonder what else Ardern will do to try and get herself to the UN – which she will not do – her predecessor fared very poorly so it will reflect on Ardern and babee.
  
  I’m no fan of Clark, but in terms of personal ambition she did pretty well getting to #3 at the UN. She is more cunning than a sewer rat, and intelligent with it. She was just too nasty to make the #1 spot.
  
  By contrast Ardern is vapid and vacuous. Much as she might aspire to sup from the UN trough she isn’t up to any serious role.
  
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  November 20, 2018 1:00pm
  - artemisia
    
    I expect the UN recruiters know about Google. Would not be long before SLG pops up. End of.
    
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    November 20, 2018 2:17pm
    - Tall Man
      
      “Ardern the liar” won’t help either
      
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      November 20, 2018 6:21pm
  - KevOB
    
    There are hints that a tax free position is available serving in their Cafe particularly helping with the hot chips luncheon trade. $16USD /day/shift.
    
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    November 20, 2018 3:18pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Soon UN will not have any money – if United States pulls out and the the bludging Europeans don’t pay their share
    
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    November 20, 2018 4:39pm
    - artemisia
      
      I’m sure Yemen or Bangladesh will be happy to host the UN if New York City is no longer available.
      
      Inflow of funds for the country leaders, cheap living for UN staff. Win / win.
      
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      November 21, 2018 7:16am
  - thedavincimode
    
    Much as she might aspire to sup from the UN trough she isn’t up to any serious role
    
    Makes her sound like a bolter for the top job eventually.
    
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    November 20, 2018 6:10pm
igm

So the coalition of leeches, losers, layabouts, and envious scum will be looking at taxing us on capital gains if we buy and sell the right shares. What if we do a bundle on something that goes to shit, will we be given a tax kick . . . they are fucked in the head and must be the lowest and most hated bunch of arseholes ever to hold power, and they are not even elected.
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November 20, 2018 8:50am
- stigie
  
  Its not reckonised in Kullens playbook on capital losses. Hell no, if you’ve made money via working hard, the rich prick must hand it over to this fucking government to squander on their fucking feelz projects !~
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:18am
  - KevOB
    
    This not income tax. You gain: you pay. Losses are just expired hoped for gains so irrelevant.
    
    Trained valuers are on hand to assess the deemed annual incremental rise in private company shares including personal businesses. Meanwhile the valuers are assigned to certain tribal matters about fair return from forestry.
    
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    November 20, 2018 3:21pm
lastmanstanding

IMHO if it was Christians doing the terrorism then here in NZ all Christian Churches would be subject to overt scrutiny with the religious leaders required by law to report any suspicious followers to the authorities.

The penalty would be that if they didn’t and a follower committed a terrorist act the religious leader would be tried alongside them for the same crime.

Christians would be regularly questioned by the authorities and their houses subject to search without warrant.

Citizens would be told by the Government that all and any activity against the Christians was necessary to protect the population from Christian Terrorism.

Moderate Christians would be treated as terrorists by the rest of the population until they were able to prove otherwise.
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November 20, 2018 8:54am
- VicParking
  
  Winston is looking ahead to when the UE falls apart and be can become Ambassador to Ireland. IRISH WHISKEY.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:16am
  - Tall Man
    
    Not a bad plan…..
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:46am
RW Capitalist

I hear, we are opening an embassy just 300 Km from our London embassy….in Dublin.
Is this useless enterprise, to put a smoke screen against our other worthless foreign affairs enterprise, an embassy in Sweden.
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November 20, 2018 9:10am
- RW Capitalist
  
  I have an idea. We have embassies in:
  Austria
  Begium
  France
  Germany
  Ireland
  Italy
  Nederlands
  Poland
  Spain
  ………..UK(soon, not due to BREXIT)
  How about we keep the Belgian embassy to the EU, enlarge it, and CLOSE the rest?
  Why do we need more than one embassy to the EU?
  How much money would we save?
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:21am
  - Tall Man
    
    Might cover “period poverdee”.
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:46am
  - kevn
    
    @RW Cap… Wasn’t whinney opening an embassy in Sweden as well? Big bux for all this stuff, billion as I recall.
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:49am
  - Felt
    
    Where does that farm in Saudi fit into your scheme?
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:38am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Why do we need more than one embassy to the EU?’
    
    So we can milk tax payers for funds to provide cushey sinecures for our mates.
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:02am
big bruv

lastmanstanding
Not sure that Christians deserve a free pass. There are two groups of people I instinctively distrust, Muslims and Catholic priests.
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November 20, 2018 9:14am
- lastmanstanding
  
  big bruv If you gotta explain your lost the argument but here goes.
  
  Substitute Christians for Muslims and it would all be different.
  
  There would be no PC bull shit with Christians they would be treated as I said. No pussyfooting around them.
  
  Same as the so called feminists say nothing about how Muzzies men treat their wimmin.
  
  Can you imagine of Christian men as part of their religion treated their wimmin like the Muzzies.
  
  NO.
  
  I called it Two Faced hypocrisy cause that’s what it is.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:23am
- kowtow
  
  Just two ?
  What about rugby coaches?
  
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  November 20, 2018 11:10am
Biscuit

Another day, another draw in the World Chess Championship…

That’s eight in a row now.

You’ll all be desperate to see how the latest game panned out, right?

Game 8: Caruana–Carlsen, ½–½
Open Sicilian, with the Sveshnikov Variation

1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Nd5 Nxd5 8. exd5 Nb8 9. a4 Be7 10. Be2 0-0 11. 0-0 Nd7 12. Bd2 f5 13. a5 a6 14. Na3 e4 15. Nc4 Ne5 16. Nb6 Rb8 17. f4 exf3 18. Bxf3 g5 19. c4 f4 20. Bc3 Bf5 21. c5 Nxf3+ 22. Qxf3 dxc5 23. Rad1 Bd6 24. h3 Qe8 25. Nc4 Qg6 26. Nxd6 Qxd6 27. h4 gxh4 28. Qxf4 Qxf4 29. Rxf4 h5 30. Re1 Bg4 31. Rf6 Rxf6 32. Bxf6 Kf7 33. Bxh4 Re8 34. Rf1+ Kg8 35. Rf6 Re2 36. Rg6+ Kf8 37. d6 Rd2 38. Rg5 ½–½

Apologies to those of you yelling ‘I don’t follow Chess!’
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November 20, 2018 9:23am
- RalphT
  
  Are you using DFP’s site to send coded messages to your masters in Moscow?
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:30am
  - Biscuit
    
    RalphT, I have only two masters: the puddytat and the woman I have shared a cot with for nearly 40 years!
    
    Master 1 has been fed already.
    Master 2 ‘fancies a Food Court lunch’ in the local Mitre 10 and is forgoing brekky so as to work up a decent appetite…
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    Based on some of the loonies posting here, you know who you are, it’s probably a coded message for the Chinese house buyers telling them there is no change to NZ policy so please come back and buy more houses to make the dipshit Twitford’s plan look clever.
    
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    November 20, 2018 9:44am
  - MH
    
    czech mate again.
    
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    November 20, 2018 5:32pm
- dave_c_
  
  I believe they are considering introducing the sport of ‘watching the grass grow’ to the olympics.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:54am
  - Biscuit
    
    It’s there already, dave_c_: they call it Synchronised Swimming.
    
    I really really really really really really really really (stop it, Biscuit!) want to see the routine wherein one Synchronised Swimmer starts to drown and her partner has to follow suit!
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:09am
    - SGA
      
      Perhaps the Olympics could combine some sports to make them more appealing – dressage, synchronised swimming, and diving, say, could be combined into synchronised equestrian diving?
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:32am
      - MH
        
        with sharks….
        
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        November 20, 2018 5:16pm
- SGA
  
  While appreciating your efforts to bring a touch of refinement to KB, I suspect that those interested enough to follow a move-by-move description of a drawn game are already looking at the game’s website 🙂
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:30am
- rangitoto
  
  Caruana is playing from memory of super computer analysis of the common openings. It gets him in a strong position but as soon as the game goes off script Carlsen recovers.
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:48am
RightNow

The CoL is desperate to make Kiwibuild look like it’s getting results. HNZ Build is established to effectively underwrite risk for housing developments that wouldn’t raise finance on their own merits. HNZ Build will then be the vendor for legal purposes and have to provide a warranty on the houses. They will also wear any loss between the cost of the build and the sale price.
What could possibly go wrong?
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November 20, 2018 9:31am
- KevOB
  
  Who’s going to pick up the tab for shonky building work 10 years in?
  
  If the houses weren’t marketable except for the underwriting what have they to commend them?
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:40am
  - RightNow
    
    The problem they have is that it’s currently too obvious that they’re not actually building any more houses than would already have been built. All they’re doing is adding layers of cost.
    Now they’ll still be adding layers of cost to developments that already didn’t stack up financially and backing them with taxpayer money.
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:06am
Odakyu-sen

There’s a protest at the corner of Kupe Street and Kepa Road (Kupe Street leads to Bastion Point). There are half a dozen swathy men of working age (who should be at work) who are tatooed and are waving flags. There’s the red and black Maori separatist flag, and the 1834 United Tribes of NZ flag (I thought these two didn’t get along?). No sign of the NZ national flag (no surprises there).
The men were holding up signs extoling “No sale of our land.”
For a moment I felt like joining in to protest the handing over of overship of the summits of the hills of Auckland to exclusive Maori organizations bent on depriving Kiwis of their customary rights of a drive up to the top of the hill to see the sunset.
But common sense prevailed.
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November 20, 2018 9:32am
igm

So the left-wing scum in MSM are claiming NZ ownership of foreign criminals. This liar’s name is hardly “Kiwi”!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/108717611/unqualified-kiwi-woman-who-practised-psychiatry-in-uk-for-22-years-sparks-review
Wake up NZ, this is a joke.
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November 20, 2018 9:32am
wreck1080

Jacinda makes me vomit. She is such a liar and manipulator of facts, the likes of which we have not seen in a generation. In her words on our foreign aid spending…

Most developed nations have an aspiration of 0.7 percent so we fall well shy of that and have done for a long time.

She is using the word ‘aspiration’ to muddle reality and confuse people.

In reality, we are fairly in the middle of the pack, spending more than australia, the US, Japan , but less than the UK and a bunch of Nordic nations.

The 0.7% is a UN wish. Not what most countries are actually spending!! Yet jacinda wants to double or triple our foreign aid spending. She has eyes on a UN job and is using the taxpayer cash to fund her application.
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November 20, 2018 9:40am
- KevOB
  
  She might a UN job in the Cafe servery. Chips need cooking.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:49am
- stephieboy
  
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  According to these stats it is 0.27% our GNI. It would be not that difficult to raise along with France and Ireland to0.37%.,
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors
  
  Why the greediness?
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:53am
  - igm
    
    How much do Islamist countries contribute?
    They are at least allowed to drill for oil/gas . . . you tosser.
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:00am
    - stephieboy
      
      igm, according to this Saudi Foreign aid is considerable not far behind the US,
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_foreign_assistance
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:06am
      - igm
        
        If that is the case, why do they not financially support Muslims and keep them off our shores?
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:09am
      - alloytoo
        
        Gosh golly couldn’t they assist the Palestinians to become Saudi citizens?
        
        no, they don’t want them either.
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:31am
      - Tall Man
        
        What a load of bollocks you spout. Saudi aid is directed to only moslem countries and is primarily in soft loans..loans fuckwit and projects that give political and fiscal benefit to Saudi Arabia plus those figures are over 20 years old.
        
        Current figures are more revealing….
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors
        
        They do not accept refugees from other moslem countries, even those that they destroy with their military aid.
        
        It must stick in your throat though that your link shows the US and China as the largest benefactors of foreign aid as like most lefties you despise the US. How did your beloved dipshit of a leader describe the current president of the US..that’s right, aa “professional arsehole” Very revealing from a professional liar.
        
        Ardern is a liar
        
        steffy is a girl
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:32am
      - cmm
        
        That’s because the Saudis count building mosques in foreign countries as foreign aid, but it is really just an attempt to force their religion on the world.
        
        That would be about equivalent to US also included all its overseas military spending in foreign aid – something that would be somewhat more legitimate since they are a actually going in to help other countries.
        
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        November 20, 2018 12:07pm
  - Tall Man
    
    You mean the greediness from the countries complaining that they “need” more aid because their political masters need more in the offshore accounts. You are really are a silly little girl supporting another SLG.
    
    Ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a girl
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:22am
  - KevOB
    
    Tell that to our tired out taxpayers. The COL is reducing their number too. Careless spending of this COL must have repercussions. Why should the net taxpayers pay for folly when they can take their skills elsewhere.
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:36am
secondcumming

Having a drink with a few mates at the pub last night when one of them went outside for a smoke.

Some dude in a wheelchair came up and said to him, “Why do you smoke when you don’t have to?” My mate looked at him and asked, “Why the fuck are you wearing shoes?”
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November 20, 2018 10:01am
- Biscuit
  
  Ouch!
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:11am
Right of way is Way of Right

OK, here’s how fucked up the looney left is, and it’s all about the politics of diversity, and the pride parade.

The NZDF have withdrawn support for the Auckland Pride Parade, and will no longer march in the event.

Had this happened in the past, the left would be screaming from the rooftops, “HOW DARE THE NZDF REFUSE TO ALLOW IT’S LBGTQIEIEIO PERSONNEL TO MARCH IN UNIFORM…. SCREECH, WAIL, GNASH!”

However, now the NZDF is seen as the inclusive, supportive environment, and the Auckland Pride Committee are the narrow minded bigots!

How times have changed!
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November 20, 2018 10:03am
- stephieboy
  
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  How times have changed, indeed,
  
  Theatre review:” Jacinda” is a coalition worth celebrating
  
  “ There is no better time in New Zealand for a new state-of-the-nation play and no better subject than our Prime Minister.
  
  The election of Jacinda Ardern sparked plenty of reaction but after a year of coalition bargaining, ground breaking announcements and ministerial failings, the anticipation of Winston Peters’ decision has slipped from memory.
  
  Jacinda, the latest from star playwright Sam Brooks, is all about that long (nearly) month where the nation held its breath.
  
  Yet, despite the title, the play is not about Jacinda herself and only fleetingly covers the political world. The election is merely the springboard for a range of subplots about where New Zealand is, where it’s going and whether change is really achievable….”
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12160523
  
  Tickets: be quick and join the
  ques
  
  !https://basementtheatre.co.nz
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:08am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    We don’t need a theatre production, they are a theatre production.
    and I have a name for this coalition of circus performers.
    “When comedy becomes tragedy”
    Their comedy, our tragedy.
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:14am
    - RalphT
      
      And a farce
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:26am
  - Tall Man
    
    Queues FFS. Correct spelling is weak in the left.
    
    Yep, plenty of “announcements” but no actual delivery. Sounds about right doesn’t it steffy girl because……
    
    Ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a girl
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:18am
    - RightNow
      
      He meant que as in the French for “what?”. As in what the fuck?
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:24am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Thought that was Spanish
        But then again, my reference material is “Fawlty Towers”
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:33am
      - kowtow
        
        Clearly you’re not from Barcelona…..
        
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        November 20, 2018 11:07am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Why is being a girl used as an insult? I’m a girl, (well once) very few have insulted me to my face, but I have been told that I have bigger balls than a lot of men, come to that, I have said it about myself to quite a few men:) and they haven’t argued.
      
      Anyway, that is one of two things about you that I find incredibly sexist.
      
      There is such a thing as period poverty so please stfu about it, and there is nothing wrong with being a girl. Don’t denigrate my gender group thanks a lot, or we might chew you up and spit you out!!!
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:20pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Not too sure why you are proud to have big balls, most of us men don’t bother to compare.
        
        steffy is a girl, just read the posts and you will see that the tone alters markedly so my assumption is that stephanie is hiding behind a pseudonym to appear tough and the bulk of the stupid comments bear a similarity to the idiotic babblings emanating from Ardern with whom steffy is so enamoured.
        
        “Period poverdee” was a comment made by the original poster as reference to the idiot Ardern so my continuing it was not sexist anymore than his was.
        
        If there is period poverty, is that the same as TAB poverty or “Pokie machine” poverty or “ciggie poverty”?
        
        Having worked in the field with the type of person you seem to assume is suffering from “period poverdee” I can assure you that all I have seen is “idiot” poverty. That is the definition applied to those who cannot differentiate between “needed and wanted”.
        
        Next time you are in Asia or some of the Pacific Islands, ask the women how they cope and I’m sure you will find that disposal baby nappies are regarded as a luxury as are some more personal feminine items.
        
        Have a nice day and remember, in my opinion, steffy is a girl but in almost everyone else’s opinion,
        
        Ardern is a liar.
        
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        November 21, 2018 8:20am
  - Longknives
    
    First NZSO write songs for her baby and now ‘Jacinda’ the taxpayer-funded play??
    
    Sweet Mother of Christ do we live in Stalinist Russia??
    This propaganda is fucking beyond ridiculous…
    
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    November 20, 2018 10:28am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Haven’t they already had a giant poster of her on a multi story building somewhere?
      Just waiting for the statues and busts to start appearing in every town.
      Notice only socialists and dictators, put up statues of themselves, while they are still alive.
      The rest of us wait till after the leaders are dead, then decide whether they deserve one.
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:36am
    - cmm
      
      The first person to stop clapping at the end of the show will be shot!
      
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      November 20, 2018 12:01pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        You are mistaken, appearances are everything
        They will instead be “VACCINATED”…..
        …………with a gun.
        Come to the show and get your “shots”.
        
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        November 20, 2018 12:41pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        …and those that don’t come to give praise and applause will also be shot….
        
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        November 20, 2018 3:14pm
  - Inandout
    
    Mel Brookes still alive, wow. I won’t pay $25 even, sorry.
    Another show here with Jethro in mind.
    https://basementtheatre.co.nz/whats-on/snort
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:21am
secondcumming

You certainly have to admire *Katie Hopkins* and the consistent stand she takes against the Islamification of the UK…..which is more than you can say about most of the koonts that comment on her twitter feed 🙁

https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1063819000512212992
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November 20, 2018 10:37am
RF

Don’t worry Longknives…. Move over Jesus Christ Super Star… the baybee will soon have a show named after her.

Years ago I can remember a black plastic blow up doll that had arms that could be clipped around objects. ? Kewpie doll.

Little girls walked around with them attached to their upper arm.

Remind you of anyone we know ?
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November 20, 2018 10:44am
- Longknives
  
  I’m just hoping some wit in the National Party puts the Prime Minister on the spot and asks her what her two favourite Metallica Albums are?
  “I grew up listening to Metallica”
  What utter fucking bollocks- Is she a pathological liar or what?
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:55am
RW Capitalist

I see they are witch hunting for blame over the CTV building.
They look like they are going after the design engineer again.
Only 2 Questions, to ask:
1. Did it meet the design spec.s for the time it was built? If so then shut up (will we be going after the designer of the Auckland Harbour bridge for all the car crashes on it?)
2.Did it survive an earthquake?
YES, just not 2, who let the people back into the building afterwards? (the council?)
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November 20, 2018 10:53am
- Tricati
  
  The fact the building survived the original earthquake would indicate it was fit for purpose (Structure maintains status for period to allow people to safely egress), and if there were cracks or separations in the structure post the first earthquake, then I agree the onus was on those that approved re-entry to now show how they established safety and integrity for the building – Given the council was involved, I wouldn’t hold your breath & easier to go after a soft target.
  
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  November 20, 2018 12:50pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes those council “engineers” that gave the green sticker should be named and shot!
    
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    November 20, 2018 5:26pm
- MCos
  
  I think the answer to your #1 is not as simple as you make out.
  
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  November 20, 2018 1:16pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    YES it is.
    The rules are written down
    The plans are available
    Do they comply or not?
    
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    November 20, 2018 3:27pm
    - srylands
      
      There is a royal commission report that says it was not designed or built properly.
      
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      November 20, 2018 3:43pm
rangitoto

Global warming hits NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108716716/wintry-conditions-set-to-continue-as-heavy-snow-and-rain-forecast-for-south-island
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November 20, 2018 11:03am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Sarcasm is a taxable offense.
  
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  November 20, 2018 11:20am
  - kowtow
    
    Carbon dioxide is a taxable commodity and we all exhale it.
    
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    November 20, 2018 11:40am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbQiVQuiu04
      1 for you 19 for me
      
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      November 20, 2018 12:44pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And methane, a cull?
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:29pm
- krazykiwi
  
  kk’s climate change reporting pattern:
  
  If it is [hot | cold] or there is some major [wind | rain | snow | storm] and some [scientist | politician | reporter] says this is attributable to [global warming | climate change | global climate disruption], you are to feel guilty, open your wallet, and definitely, definitely not question the orthodoxy.
  
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  November 20, 2018 11:27am
Shaun the Sheep

Dear Mum & Dad,

I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin’ on the station – tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don’t hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody horses to get in, no calves to feed, no troughs to clean – nothin’!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there’s lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!

At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there’s no kangaroo steaks or goanna stew like wot Mum makes. You don’t get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we’ve been on a ‘route march’ – geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the bullock paddock!!

This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin’ – dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody dingo’s arse and it don’t move and it’s not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target – it’s a piece of p…!! You don’t even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and ya don’t have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!

Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy – it’s not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
Turns out I’m not a bad boxer either and it looks like I’m the best the platoon’s got, and I’ve only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers – he’s 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I’m only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin’ wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.

I can’t complain about the Army – tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is.

Your loving daughter,

Katherine.
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November 20, 2018 11:07am
- Komata
  
  shaun
  
  An oldie but a goody.
  
  Thank you.
  
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  November 20, 2018 12:30pm
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: Quietly one arvo the Aussie property bubble burst – MacroBusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/quietly-one-arvo-the-aussie-property-bubble-burst/

Game over. Via ABC coverage of CBA CEO Matt Comyn at the Hayne Royal Commission yesterday afternoon: … read more via hyperlink above …
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November 20, 2018 11:21am
- Cobolt24
  
  Interesting comment from the story:
  
  Now factor in the interest only swith to interest and primary adding at minimum 30% increase to more than 40% of all loans……
  
  Unemployment levels are 100% irrelevant. They simply will not be able to pay their loans, and will not be able to refinance and will not be able to sell.
  
  The housing crash will CAUSE unemployment – precisely as it has done in every single crash on this planet – from Spain to Ireland to the United States – credit event precedes unemployment event.
  
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  November 20, 2018 11:43am
stoptheboats

Scene 3 James Shaw visits the Ice .
90 year old C130 lands at Scott Base,spewing usual plumes of exhaust,penguins flying in all directions etc.
J – “made it – but where are the bears?
Aide – sorry sir, alcohol was banned from base when you guys took over last year.
J Haha , no I meant I cant see any polar bears,which is more proof of a rapidly warming planet.
A – umm bears didnt inhabit Antarctica ,sir.
J – hey I will run this trip eh, Al Gores narrative is to be followed religiously, is that clear you media people?
Media Pack- eg nzh,stuff,HDP,cnn,frogblog etc – chorus YESSS,nodding heads
J – right I will now plant a seedling to mitigate our carbon footprint from this trip, a big thank you to Shane for his donation
(Clapping)

J -look Im not coming all this way without banning something- what are those horrible barrels for over there?
A – fossil fuels for the generators sir
J – oh shit,you cant make this stuff up. I want to see this whole base on batteries before the next IPCC novel comes out ok?
Crashing Sound, James and MSM go snow white.
J what the hell was that?
A just a berg calving off,happens all the time sir.
J arrghhh we are doomed , quick get Tuvalu on the phone and get everyone onto high ground before the continent melts.
hey, What is that metal pole thing coming out of the ground?
A – it’s a drilling rig for scientists to get core samples of plant social life from 67 trillion years ago
J – this is friggin’ outrageous, I want all rigs taken away right now before 2 Pies finds out.

Aides cell phone rings and brief conversation in te reo ensues.
A – that was Kelvin. Looks like we are stuck here for a while. The NgatiAntarctica Iwi have slapped a Rahui on the runway after a plastic bag of 3 bones were found under the snow. Some airforce clown must have had KFC last night…
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November 20, 2018 11:38am
- softail 1450
  
  Very good, but to close to actually being possible to qualify for the K B laugh of the day,half of NZs population would think you were reporting seriously…..L O L…..
  
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  November 20, 2018 11:45am
- Komata
  
  Stoptheboats
  
  A bit rough on the RNZAF there mate, especially as without them mr shaw won’t be able to get home….
  
  Mind you the ‘aide’ is probably ‘navy’ (or even worse, ‘army’), so that might explain his comment…
  
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  November 20, 2018 12:33pm
kowtow

What the fuck is going on with Melbourne’s Islams ?

‘Three men arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Melbourne had tried to source a semi-automatic rifle to kill as many people as possible in a crowded space, police have alleged.’

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-20/three-men-charged-with-planning-a-terrorist-act-in-melbourne/10513328

The terrible thin is lots of people knew mass Muslim immigration was never going to be a good idea.

“Here it is worth reminding the words of Sir Harry Gibbs, formerly Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia:

“While it would be grossly offensive to modern standards for a state to discriminate against any of its own citizens on the grounds of race, a state is entitled to prevent the immigration of persons whose culture is such that they are unlikely readily to integrate into society, or at least to ensure that persons of that kind do not enter the country in such numbers that they will be likely to form a distinct and alien section of society, with the resulting problems that we have seen in the United Kingdom.”

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/
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November 20, 2018 11:39am
- rangitoto
  
  Amazing that Chief Justice doesn’t know the difference between a race and a religious cult.
  
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  November 20, 2018 12:17pm
  - KevOB
    
    There is every proper right to exclude potential immigrants who are a serious mismatch for an existing society. Muslims by the nature of their faith are such a mismatch in many societies including NZ and Australia.
    
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    November 20, 2018 3:40pm
    - DigNap15
      
      Yes.
      Muslims do not contribute to any western society in any positive way.
      In fact they are a complete drain on those societies and also a huge drain on resources and security services to monitor them. Best not to let them in in the first place,
      
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      November 20, 2018 5:29pm
- igm
  
  Bet our MSM in general, give this story a wide berth!
  
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  November 20, 2018 12:52pm
Jack5

And The Age take on the latest terror threat in Melbourne:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/three-men-arrested-over-alleged-melbourne-terror-plot-20181120-p50h2g.html
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November 20, 2018 11:50am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Make terrorism a capital offense, as a crime against the people.
  Shut down any institutions where the clerics encourage crimes (on religious grounds) against non-belivers.
  Have the media name-and-shame the perpetrators and their enablers.
  
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  November 20, 2018 1:53pm
  - igm
    
    Pull down mosques, ban Muslim gatherings, ban burkhas and that white crap the wanky imam males wear in public.
    If they don’t like it I, for one, would gladly make a handsome donation toward repatriation of dissenters.
    
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    November 20, 2018 5:23pm
Komata

Jack5

In summary: ‘Nothing to see, we DO know what we’re doing, move along please’.

Rinse and repeat when it happens again, and again and…
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November 20, 2018 12:39pm
Chuck Bird

There is a simple solution. Leg irons. This is not the first time this has happened in our courts.

Court chaos as manslaughter accused storms victim’s family

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12163109
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November 20, 2018 12:59pm
- DigNap15
  
  There is a better solution.
  Three quick bullets in the back of their heads
  Chinese and Iranian style
  
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  November 20, 2018 5:43pm
cmm

We’re seriously eroding as a society when all the PC bullshit stands in the way of us helping each other.

Cops get investigated for detaining a suicidal person to prevent him from topping himself.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108722511/police-unlawfully-detained-suicidal-man-but-their-actions-were-reasonable-report-finds

This just compounds other such cases like:
* Teachers who will no longer intervene in fights.
* Men no longer giving women hitchhikers lifts, or wanting to travel in lifts with them, due to the fear of some trumped up sexual assault charge.
* No longer offering to help look after a child or intervene when it falls over, change a nappy etc etc.
* No longer holding doors open for women in case you get called sexist etc.
* No longer talking to kids who are interested in what you are doing.

Sux really.
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November 20, 2018 1:03pm
- stephieboy
  
  cmm, so when someone threatens to jump off a high building do you just say, do it!
  
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  November 20, 2018 1:18pm
  - igm
    
    No, just say they were queer and help them learn to fly . . . that is the Muslim way!
    
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    November 20, 2018 1:22pm
    - kowtow
      
      ‘Gruesome scenes were visible through an open window as the mob savagely beat and stabbed two or possibly three of the soldiers to death.
      
      Then a body was thrown from an upstairs window. The frenzied crowd clapped and cheered as more blows were rained down on the lifeless figure by the crowd outside.’
      
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/969778.stm
      
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      November 20, 2018 2:04pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Not usually, but if they are a goat fucker, well, maybe I’d just be looking the other way, so to speak….
    
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    November 20, 2018 4:23pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Only if it’s you steffy girl.
    
    Aredern is a liar
    
    steffy is a girl
    
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    November 20, 2018 6:37pm
Hugh Pavletich

AUCKLAND: Overall sales rate of 22% at Barfoot & Thompson’s latest auctions | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/96972/overall-sales-rate-22-barfoot-thompsons-latest-auctions

Barfoot & Thompson sold less than a quarter of the properties at its auctions last week.

The agency, which is the largest in the Auckland region, marketed 172 residential properties for sale by auction last week and achieved sales on 37 of them, giving an overall clearance rate of 22%. … read more via hyperlink above …
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November 20, 2018 1:11pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Congrats on such a short post hugh, but it would still be great if you could take the trouble to pack up your real estate failures in your old kit bag and fuck off.
  
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  November 20, 2018 6:16pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Thats fine feral fuckwit.
    
    No wonder the slut that bred you didn’t give you a name !
    
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    November 20, 2018 6:29pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Fletcher Building warns on Australian property – MacroBusiness
      
      https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/fletcher-building-warns-australian-property/
      
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      November 20, 2018 6:32pm
    - Swifty
      
      Woooah!
      
      The real Hugh Pavletich comes out!
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:07pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        And still no one looks at Hugh’s blog
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:18pm
      - Cobolt24
        
        His work did get mentioned at parliament http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmbhzs3JcS4
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:11pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        He’s already out Swifty. The only person in the western world to not make money out of real estate one way or another. That takes a special kind of determination.
        
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        November 20, 2018 10:13pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Goodness. No link – not even to your own little wasteland. Well done you!
      
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      November 20, 2018 10:10pm
Rodney Randall

https://youtu.be/5WRszRZBfYw

The Terrible Truth About The Un Migration Compact
Steffan Molyneaux.

Is NZ a UN Puppet State?
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November 20, 2018 1:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Rodney Randell,
  
  Is NZ a UN Puppet State?
  
  No!
  
  Repeat and post 50 x,
  
  Molyneux is a fraud!
  
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  November 20, 2018 1:16pm
  - MrTips
    
    SB: are you aware of the symptoms of rampant chomosomal damage?
    
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    November 20, 2018 3:30pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Doesn’t apply to him, only the progeny of him and his goats.
      
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      November 20, 2018 4:59pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a girl
    
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    November 20, 2018 6:39pm
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
To add to the moral panic and hysteria amongst KBs alt-righters we have yet another mass shooting in the USA under Donald Trump’s watch,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/11/19/chicago-hospital-shooting-reports-multiple-victims-mercy-hospital/2060629002/
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November 20, 2018 1:14pm
- igm
  
  Probably same breed as the ones arrested in Aus planning to murder as many as they could. Time we all awoke to the fact that anything Muslim is as dangerous as Bin Laden.
  https://www.theage.com.au/national/three-men-arrested-over-alleged-melbourne-terror-plot-20181120-p50h2g.html
  
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  November 20, 2018 1:17pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I woke up years ago, as did most of us on here.
    It is the sickly white liberals in our society and our politicians that need to wake up and be made to wake up, and start acting to keep us safe!
    
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    November 20, 2018 5:45pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Galah – Do you actually have a point, or did you just need another opportunity to chant your alt-right mantra again?
  People are dead and injured and you just flap your wings and scatter birdseed everywhere.
  Do you ctrl-left wankers have no humanity? or brain?
  
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  November 20, 2018 1:51pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  @stephieboy
  Perhaps you should have read to the bottom of your link and discovered that under Trump’s watch Chicago’s murder rate had dropped by 18%.
  
  Chicago recorded 762 murders in 2016 and 650 in 2017. The city has recorded 488 murders for 2018 as of Nov. 11, more than any other U.S. city but an 18 percent decline since last year.
  
  Obama never cleared up the gangs and corrupt officials in Chicago in all the time he held power there.
  
  https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-murders-down-20-percent-in-2018-compared-to-last-year-police-say/4382216/
  
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  November 20, 2018 2:17pm
  - stephieboy
    
    MW, apart from waving his magic wand what did the President actually do to achieve this?
    
    Why ,
    
    The Chicago Police Dept
    
    https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-police-report-drop-in-homicides-shooting-victims-in-chicago-2018-10/?r=AU&IR
    =T
    
    DUH!
    
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    November 20, 2018 3:43pm
    - rangitoto
      
      Jobs. Thank you President Trump.
      
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      November 20, 2018 3:48pm
      - stephieboy
        
        rangitoto, nope! Thank Obama 4.4% in his last year. A dramatic drop of 3.7 % under Trump.
        
        Yeah right!
        
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        November 20, 2018 6:59pm
      - rangitoto
        
        rangitoto, ~~nope!~~ yep!
        
        Fixed for ya.
        
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        November 20, 2018 8:35pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Unlike your adored dipshit leader, Donald Trump only made election promises that he would do his best to keep.
      
      Despite Ardern’s announcements that have you so excited, what has she actually done, apart from deliver a baby which obviously no other working woman has ever done.
      
      Ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
      You are a poor excuse for an intern steffy, I bet even your own billy goat wouldn’t fuck you.
      
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      November 20, 2018 6:44pm
- cmm
  
  Sure, sad for the people involved, but small potatoes in the grand scheme of things.
  
  Only an idiot would invest so much time in worrying about mass shootings.
  
  Mass shootings only kill around 200 people per year in the whole of USA – less than 2% of all the shooting deaths in USA.
  
  Even in Chicago, there are around 700 murders a year, so spending a disproportionate amount of time on the mass shooting that takes out ten people is a poor investment.
  
  If you really are worried about deaths in USA, especially Chicago (St Barrack’s old town), then you’d do far better worrying about its sanctuary city status that makes it the murder capital of USA.
  
  BTW: Chicago is one of the shithole sanctuary cities that Trump is trying to clean up, but is blocked by all the dumb lefties. You can’t blame this on him.
  
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  November 20, 2018 2:29pm
- KevOB
  
  What do you expect with Soros paying agitators?
  
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  November 20, 2018 3:48pm
softail 1450

Septicboy ,KBs solitary “foreskin cleanser” and its a free service FFS.
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November 20, 2018 1:17pm
Fletch

In this age of the internet where just about everything is online, nothing is ever forgotten.
Case in point – ‘Morning Joe’ Scarborough has the Rev Al Sharpton on his TV show to decry Trump’s hate and racism. But what’s this? –

Earlier today, @JoeNBC had Al Sharpton on his show to decry Trump’s hate & racism.

Below are some excerpts of the ‘CONDEMNING THE RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC VIEWS OF THE REVEREND AL SHARPTON’ bill Introduced by then CONGRESSMAN JOE SCARBOROUGH.

Full text https://t.co/TuPlmGOaA4 pic.twitter.com/FsOVhPHQZB

— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) November 19, 2018

——————————————————

The very same @JoeNBC who sponsored a bill in congress accusing Al Sharpton of “inciting the murder of five people,” “racist and incendiary actions,” holding “racist antisemitic views.” now has him on his @Morning_Joe show to decry racism.

Sharpton never apologized. pic.twitter.com/m1VAaVklIO

— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) November 19, 2018

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/11/19/such-a-fraud-joe-scarboroughs-past-just-caught-up-with-him-and-boy-is-it-awkward/
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November 20, 2018 1:38pm
rangitoto

I guess you just have to laugh.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/376301/gas-supply-stumbling-block-to-1bn-taranaki-project-mp

They could always make the hydrogen from good old coal gas.
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November 20, 2018 3:23pm
slightlyrighty

I see that the BBC has named Nanaia Mahuta among it’s 100 most Inspirational and Influential women in the world.

I would recommend that the dear old Beeb get a dictionary and look up “Inspirational” and “Influential”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46225037
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November 20, 2018 3:28pm
- Longknives
  
  Purely because she got a Face Tattoo it seems.
  Jesus they set their bar pretty low…
  
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  November 20, 2018 3:59pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  This whale emits a putrid body odour if you get too close. Resembles hot cheese poo fish.
  
  Has 5 front bums and 10 chins and can barely string a coherent sentence together.
  
  A walking Fat Berg
  
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  November 20, 2018 4:43pm
- DigNap15
  
  I used to enjoy watching BBC world.
  Now its news service is more like a women’s magazine.
  
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  November 20, 2018 5:47pm
  - Longknives
    
    Amusing that Mahuta’s boss doesn’t crack the BBC’s top 100…
    
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    November 20, 2018 6:37pm
  - stephieboy
    
    DigNap15 , mainline with doses of Channel 4 and Infowars?
    
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    November 20, 2018 7:06pm
    - Tall Man
      
      What a shame that your adored Adern isn’t so highly regarded that a tattooed trollop can outscore her but then, no one really likes a liar do they?
      
      Ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:29pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Slightlyrighty, thank you for providing the link. Without the link there is no way I could have ever believed you.
  Thirty seven years ago I attended two events that made the world news on the BBC. In both cases the BBC’s coverage of those two events was so far ahead of NZ’s media that it was embarrassing. Now the BBC have descended into the pits of despair. That is sad.
  
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  November 20, 2018 10:06pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-muslim-lawmaker-elect-proposal-end-head-covering-222721753.html

Ilhan Omar and C.A.I.R
working hard to Islamify the house.

This nefarious Islamist ran unopposed.
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November 20, 2018 4:40pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Someone forgot to pay the cops in PNG for looking after the VIPs
https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/376396/hundreds-of-png-police-descend-on-parliament-reports

perhaps PNG Govt could sell off a few Maseratis to get some Kina for the boys
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November 20, 2018 4:41pm
- cmm
  
  All the $5M or $6M we gave went into flash cars. Not enough left for the cops.
  
  Why do we keep pretending places like PNG are civilised and worth including in APEC etc?
  
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  November 20, 2018 5:03pm
- Piniwi
  
  Funny MW how dimes just slip away in PNG.
  Disgruntled police and prison guards stormed Papua New Guinea’s Parliament today in a pay dispute that stemmed from the APEC summit hosted by the South Pacific island nation over the weekend, a lawmaker said.
  New Zealand gave the country $15 million towards security at the event. That was only a portion of what the SLG and her DPM gave away up there even without face time with the PNG PM. Lol
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:15pm
cmm

What the hell do you do with someone like this?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/108737636/recidivist-drinkdriver-gavin-hawthorn-convicted-again

Kills 4 people, keeps on drink driving. Plus a swag of other convictions…

Preventative detention?
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November 20, 2018 5:02pm
- Inandout
  
  The kind of face that invites retribution.
  
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  November 20, 2018 5:04pm
- DigNap15
  
  What ever “we” do costs us money
  The best way is a Chinese bullet in the back of his miserable head.
  
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  November 20, 2018 5:49pm
  - nasska
    
    Hawthorne used to live in Greytown. Anecdotally, his victims number seven rather than the four on his record.
    
    One died outside the specific time when charges could be laid & for presumably legal reasons the police didn’t proceed with two others.
    
    In his hands a car becomes a lethal weapon. More will die before he kills himself in a crash.
    
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    November 20, 2018 6:59pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Home D and Community service.
  Dud Judge is taking the piss.
  Next time this bastard kills someone I’d want the judge in the next cell.
  
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  November 20, 2018 9:17pm
Inandout

But they were just good Melbourne Muslim boys, and don’t even know what a firearm looks like. They are innocent, I am their Dad…honest.
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November 20, 2018 5:03pm
MH

Out Howick way I couldn’t get over how many “shed” churches there are. So you buy a tin shed give yerself a name and the flock sinners come a running-so many empty innner city Churches going to ruin but in the suburbs, on the fringes, it’s a big deal-presumably there’s mammon to be made.
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- thedavincimode
  
  Yes, shedloads, although this business model was in fact originally developed by a stunted drunk who targeted a bunch of geriatric greedies still worshipping the ground that this country’s biggest wrecker – rob the goblin – walked on. chuckie and dad4dementia were just a by-catch – collateral groupies to paraphrase angry little.
  
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  November 20, 2018 6:22pm
  - stigie
    
    I will have you call dad4justmen by his proper name thankyou davinci ?
    
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    November 20, 2018 6:58pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      dad4justmen
      
      It certainly rolls off the tongue more easily than dad4hagleyparkdunnies stigie.
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:33pm
    - dad4justice
      
      Hi stigie how’s Jamie coping in your ward?
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:35pm
      - Swifty
        
        Welcome back Dad.
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:41pm
      - stigie
        
        Hi Dad, i seem to have aroused you ole chap..?
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:43pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Dad!!! Welcome back chap. How’s the hernia?
        
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        November 20, 2018 8:01pm
  - nasska
    
    You want to set up a business & fleece a few potential Godbotherers Davinci?
    
    We could rent a Skyline shed somewhere, line up a few hymn-books, borrow a couple of collection plates & let nature take its course. You’ll have to front up for the sermons but I’ll take care of the banking! 🙂
    
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    November 20, 2018 7:04pm
    - Swifty
      
      “Gimme that old time religion….”
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:09pm
      - stephieboy
        
        I would have thought Donnie Trump would fit the bill?
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:12pm
      - nasska
        
        Cathedrals have been built & stables of pretty choirboys amassed by perpetrators of the racket Swifty. My business model involves mixing Hugh Hefner’s ideas with Catholic guilt which by my calculations should provide Davinci & I with a harem & worldly riches.
        
        We’ll give you a call if we franchise the scheme! 🙂
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:15pm
      - Tall Man
        
        And the steffy girl pops up with an inane comment so typical of the loonies that think Ardern walks on water. Poor old steffy girl truly thinks she will be a star in Ardern’s eyes yet we all know that..
        
        Ardern is a liar
        
        steffy is a girl
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:25pm
      - Swifty
        
        I await your call nasska, with my seed cash in hand! 🙂
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:27pm
      - Swifty
        
        I await to sow my seed!
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:28pm
      - nasska
        
        Cut him a bit of slack TM.
        
        He’s been wanking so furiously lately that his sperm has become carbonated. 🙂
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:30pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Hey Hillbilly is Jamie in your psych ward?
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:34pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      !
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:31pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Got a real job yet Jason or are you Jamie. What a load of freaks National are haha!!
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:33pm
      - nasska
        
        Just when things had gone quiet & we’d started to read Hugh’s comments.
        
        Welcome back Dad! 🙂
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:37pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      @#$*
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:35pm
      - dad4justice
        
        I guess still no job Jason, but you can go visit Jamie with all your spare time lol.
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:37pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Still re-cycling redbladder’s material dad? What’s he telling you to say next?
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:45pm
      - stigie
        
        Hows that quitting smoking going Dad, bloody hard isn’t, went cold turkey about 10 years ago, the hardest thing iv’e ever had to do..?
        
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        November 20, 2018 7:52pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Hallelujah nasska. Cash preferred but EFTPOS accepted with a 3% surcharge.
      
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      November 20, 2018 7:36pm
Rodney Randall

https://youtu.be/Qqpgts-VmP0

EU President Juncker visits Flemish parliament and gets an earful from leader of Vlaams Belang.

“You will not erase the identity of Europe’s Nations!”
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November 20, 2018 8:06pm
Viking2

Elim Christian Centre’s John Roberts said his church responded to a council survey by saying it was used totally for church purposes.

Elim’s rates bill skyrocketed anyway.

“A few months ago, we received our annual rates assessment, which had increased from the $400 rubbish collection charge to $21,000,” Roberts said.

“That caused a bit of a shock – no explanation, no valuer had been to visit, no consultation, just a new policy and a massive bill.

“Thankfully, as a result of assistance from members from this committee and others, a valuer was fairly quickly dispatched to check the church property, resulting in the rates being reassessed back down to the $400 rubbish charge.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/108697602/Shaken-trust-Churches-attack-Auckland-Council-over-rates-hikes?cid=facebook.post&fbclid=IwAR0Yl4PzUBLJwcKNg78XzOgk5OunEdnxJB62UcU7v3BkS7TREgeaUbI8uNs

so The council caved in to the God botherer’s but still wants to screw anyone using Airnb.
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November 20, 2018 8:55pm
Jack5

Best article on APEC summit and the PNG electrification project to which Ardern has committed New Zealand:

https://croakingcassandra.com/
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