General Debate 21 November 2018

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krazykiwi

BREAKING NEWS – Reports are coming in of a riot at Police National Headquarters in Wellington. Details are sketchey at this stage, but tweets from inside the building indicate violent protests after senior staff learned of pay increase the New Zealand government has given to their counterparts in Papua New Guniea. One tweeter, @pistoffplod noted ‘Bentleys. Masaratis. And now huge bonuses. They didn’t even need to threaten to strike. Where our money?’. Our reporter managed a short verbal exchange with a police constable as he afixed an “Equity with PNG” protest banner out of a level 2 window. The staffer claimed that the PNG Police at APEC did little other than drink, and loiter at the security cordon waiting for selfies with Ms Ardern. He continued, “While we’re busy dealing with real criminals, for example New Zealanders who fail to belt up in carparks, those PNG Police were cheating local dealers out of their hard-earned drugs and generally making a nusance of themselves with Masarati drifting competitions in the APEC carpark”. As our correspondent left the PNHQ, a negotiator with a loudhailer had arrived, and she was emploring those inside to desist from the violent protest and to instead plan a strike like every other decent New Zealand public service organisation. “If it’s good enough for St Johns, it’s good enough for New Zealand police”. She reportedly offered priority access to the Labour Government’s award-winning ‘Schedule a Strike’ service. We will bring you more as this story unfolds. ENDS
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November 21, 2018 8:00am
- Fletch
  
  The NZ Taxpayers Union comments on Facebook –
  
  The New Zealand Government, and by association New Zealand taxpayers, have been made to look like fools by a wasteful and corrupt government.
  
  The $15 million we gave was specifically meant to be used on APEC security. Instead, wages went unpaid and Papua New Guinea’s government bought a fleet of Maseratis!
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/20/papua-new-guinea-parliament-in-lockdown-after-soldiers-attack-building
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:34am
- MH
  
  This is faux news..however the LGBiTransgender branch in PNG has confirmed the Straight hetero parade will go ahead with or without uniformed personnel. Six mazdas have been provided for trans porters. Light causalities are expected from spear attacks.
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:53am
Captain Mainwaring

Why is all the bullshit about the problems with the Auckland Gay Parade taking up so much space in the media?
In fact why is gayness something that needs to be celebrated and promoted in the first place? Are the deviants trying to attract recruits or something?
The best news is that the whole thing might be canned because the differences are insurmountable.
Bloody good job.
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November 21, 2018 8:01am
- igm
  
  Spot on Captain . . . they are deviants. People are born either male or female, anything different is because of perverted preference. They are not gay, they are queer.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:04am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Being gay or having a strong persistent feeling that you are stuck in the wrong body type makes life pretty hard and frequently unhappy. It costs us nothing to accept these people as they are give them a bit of latitude and not persecute them for mental issues that are beyond their ability to control. If they are happier they are more likely to contribute productively to society. Live and let live.
    So calling them perverts is unnecessary – doesn’t improve your life and makes theirs worse. That said they are becoming waaay too precious about requiring special treatment, needs to be a bit of push-back of the fit in or fuck off variety.
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:48am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Do such people respect “normal” people or do they seek to “normalize” their behavior in society?
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:56am
    - igm
      
      Urban: The only thing they contribute to society is Aids, demanding hardworking male and female taxpayers funding of their unnatural and perverted behaviour.
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:57am
    - logan0312
      
      The problem as I see it is not ‘accepting’ homosexuals as being entitled to the same human rights as the rest of the population. It now goes much further than that.
      When homosexuality was first de-criminalised I seem to recall being assured by the powers-that-be that we would still be free to regard the behavior as morally wrong if we could not agree with it. We were lied to in this regard, and the issue is no longer just about ‘acceptance’.
      We are now being required to positively affirm that such behavior is morally acceptable, and to agree that it is proper for gay activists to actively promote their lifestyle choice within schools and wider society as well. It is no longer acceptable in the public space to promote traditional moral values without being persecuted as a ‘hater’ or bigot. We are no longer allowed, without abuse, to argue that the behavior of homosexuals (males in particular tend toward gross promiscuity) is morally wrong or indeed pathological and unhealthy in nature.
      Personally I have no particular beef with homosexuals as individuals. But I have problems with not being free to discuss moral issues any longer freely in our communities, and I have a problem with the power of the State being used to effectively coerce conformity with the political and social objectives of the ‘movement’.
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:20am
      - Sacha
        
        Once upon a time people’s sexual orientation was their own business, and of no interest as long as they didn’t act out in public and frighten the horses.
        It all started to unravel with the homosexual law reform activity, and the publicity (Shock! Horror!) it engendered.
        Most of us still have no interest in other people’s gender unless it is the orientation as ours, but when it is constantly drawn to our attention we begin to have opinions too.
        Today’s young alphabetically gendered activists have no sense of discretion about their private lives, and seem to think that everyone should know about them in detail.
        No thanks. Not interested.
        
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        November 21, 2018 1:38pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Don’t disagree with your sentiment but just trying to reconcile your concern with making them feel worse when they advertise their post parade ‘fisting and cock action’ party (or whatever it was) that goof chipped in for last year. I’m not aware of other community-based groups that go out of their way to advertise an intention to engage in promiscuous sexual behaviour in a way that can be reasonably regarded as a breach of good taste. Even the skanks on bikes didn’t advertise a mega root/anal fest post their parade.
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:57am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Meh, if you want to get outraged go ahead, I find that over-the-top sexuality more comical than anything – lots of ‘straight’ deviants get up to that level of weird and far beyond. All consenting adults, it doesn’t affect us in the slightest so don’t see why I should care or (from a libertarian standpoint) have any say in the matter.
        
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        November 21, 2018 5:15pm
- Longknives
  
  This sums it up for me-
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12163614
  
  Though I would also add- NZ Police are fucking idiots for getting involved in this shambles in the first place.
  The Police function is to uphold the law and maintain Public safety- Not Gay parades, Hip Hop dancing or ‘Diversity’ Training at Mosques etc etc…
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:07am
  - G152
    
    But but but you don’t realise just how much hurty feelings go into this.
    And they’re all just so nice and all.
    If they’re so petty that they discriminate against straights in their parade unfund them shut them down and no more poncing about outside drag clubs
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:20am
    - sooty
      
      The reason for so much coverage in the MSM, is because so many of them are queer, lesbian and christ knows what ever deviants.News worthy, my ass!
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:47am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Careful sooty, some may take that as an offer.
        
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        November 21, 2018 10:46am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Perhaps NZ society does not know what it stands for, and thus is drifting like a ship without an anchor?
    
    In Japan, one has a clearer idea of what it means to be Japanese. In New Zealand, no-one really does. Therefore, anything goes.
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:58am
    - gump
      
      Why is the suicide rate in Japan twice that of other developed countries?
      
      As an outsider you may admire the “clearer idea of what it means to be Japanese” without realising that it leaves no room for people who don’t fit in…
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:56am
  - AgainstTheFlow
    
    NZ Police have become largely heavily-armed social workers.
    
    Plus a few hard-edged squads for the armed and violent.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:00am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Agrees, it’s a good piece by Hoskings.
    
    I couldn’t care less if those that feel the to need to abbreviate their gender/sexual orientation, live their lives as consenting adults. Same with sex workers and in the porn industry in general. But FFS when you need a parade to celebrate your diversity while maintaining you’re just like everyone else, do it with your own coin. And please don’t go throwing your bits around and then getting upset if someone wants to touch them.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:36am
    - Jack5
      
      You’ve nailed it, NW. ?
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:43am
    - lifesgood
      
      Yeah, I’m sick to death of it all. You’re gay? Fine, you’re gay. I’m heterosexual, fine, I’m heterosexual. Do I feel the need to prance around in sequins, simulating sex in public? No! I fear for the world my grand children are growing up in. Morality and decency is so last century it seems. How did we allow this to happen?
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:16am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Yes! ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:06am
  - Shunda barunda
    
    “The Police function is to uphold the law and maintain Public safety”
    
    Wrong, the police function is increasingly to police our thoughts and attitudes, not protect our freedoms.
    NZ is following the UK model where they are more interested in the facebook posts of working class Brits rather than stopping stabbings in the street.
    Our govt just placed a Corbanite in charge of the NZ human rights commission to assist the police with their new task.
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:02am
  - RF
    
    Don’t forget the bloody rainbow Police car.
    
    Cringe……
    
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    November 21, 2018 6:12pm
- Paulus
  
  What are the COLL hiding in the hope it will soon be the Christmas break with Bubba ?
  After trip to Poland to have photoshop on Climate Change.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:09am
- godruelf
  
  Interested to hear on the news last night that Fletcher Building were major sponsors. I’m sure their shareholders will be feel better with that news when their dividend cheque doesn’t turn up after their disasterous performance this year.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:16am
  - VicParking
    
    Another bad investment by Fletchers
    
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    November 21, 2018 1:19pm
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      I thought only one dud czech had been passed?
      
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      November 21, 2018 1:33pm
- Huevon
  
  It’s all about having the NZ Police do an appropriate amount of grovelling and kowtowing to the new cultural high priests in the “LGBT community”.
  
  As I understand it, the Police were happy with being humiliated while in uniform. But there is a radical faction in the “LGBT” movement that wants to demonstrate ever more power over our national police force by making them remove their uniforms.
  
  The fact that one of our most important national institutions is willing to be bullied in this manner just shows how fucked up our society has become.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:18am
  - trout
    
    Similar in many respects to the Maori demanding a corrections officer remove his shoes before he enters a marae (handcuffed to a violent crim). As always it is all about power – using cultural diversity as a weapon.
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:19am
  - MH
    
    wot about having under-cover gay police in the parade and?
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:00am
- lastmanstanding
  
  What amuses me is that since ‘outing” became OK the gays cant help themselves from overt and over the top displays.
  
  FFS guys and gals get over yourselves and get a life.
  
  There is only so much mincing and PDAs an old fella like me can take before throwing up.
  
  OK I get it you are gay. So Bloody What!!!
  
  Just show a little decorum and class ( or is the class all in your arse)
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:30am
- rightoverlabour
  
  The only time a persons sexuality is relevant to me is if I want to fuck them. Since I am married, this is not too often the case. So for the most part a person’s sexuality or orientation doesn’t interest me. I don’t want to know, and I don’t fucking care.
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:21am
srylands

Spotted in Wellington this morning. A Nissan Leaf with number plate MY EV.

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November 21, 2018 8:02am
- hullkiwi
  
  Sad really that a snowflake has to virtue signal in the extreme. Says it all about some in this country.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:08am
- ldypen
  
  Was in Taupo during the power cut, an EV parked up at the charging kiosk.. hahahah NO POWER to be had… I drove passed in my petrol powered car and gave them a helpful wave!
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:16am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Hahahahahaha.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:58am
- mandk
  
  I read the other day that the Ministry of Health has advised vegans not to drive EVs.
  
  The Ministry fears that an overload of self-righteousness could cause their heads to explode.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:20am
  - VicParking
    
    As for Vegans, There is nothing like a bit of Wallaby
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6409597/Im-Celebrity-Fans-baffled-vegans-campmates-eat-meat.html
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:40am
  - Jack5
    
    ???????!
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:45am
- stephieboy
  
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  Why the fear of technological change and innovation otherwise known as Luddite thinking.
  
  Drongoes!
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:57am
  - Tall Man
    
    And another irrelevant post from a particularly irrelevant intern.
    
    Ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a girl
    
    Come on steffy, we all know now that you are a female intern despite your silly perverted sex comments. Just own up and you’ll feel so much better. Perhaps you could alter your non de plume to “silli steffy”
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:02am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Electric cars aren’t new technology, stephieboy.
    They’ve been around for about 150 years.
    https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car
    They’re just not very efficient.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:07am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Bit like trains?
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:06am
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, true but an ever-evolving and rapidly improving technology that you appear to despise.
      
      Why?
      
      Witness the Nissan Leaf, the Toyota Prius and other hybrids ( hugely popular amongst Taxi drivers ) etc.
      
      Japan has of course like Germany a real interest in this technology given as they have to import their oil and other fossils fuels.
      
      Makes sense!
      
      Or?
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:19am
      - cmm
        
        “rapidly improving technology”
        
        Nope this is the idiot trap for people with no understanding of physics.
        
        People of little understanding will say crap like: “My computer has improved by a factor of 2000 in the last twenty years, so electricity and battery technology will too. If they don’t it is because of Big Oil.”
        
        They won’t. That’s because computers are still nowhere near the maximum theoretical efficiency while battery and electric technology is. Therefore computers can still improve, but EVs can’t improve much.
        
        Then they say crap about quantum physics and carbon nano tubes etc are going to be a game-changer. Nope, sorry, the industry has been promising silver bullets for decades, but they seldom turn into reality.
        
        One thing that is true, is that all these fake technologies etc have generated a deep trough. Tesla gets something like US$37k per car they make.
        
        Our pie-fueled energy minister wants to give away $420 million in a stupid troughing exercise.
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:05pm
      - stephieboy
        
        cmm, garbage !
        
        “The best proof is experience ”
        
        Francis Bacon
        
        Which I’m sure guides vehicle engine design engineers at Nissin, Toyota, Ford, etc, etc
        
        Not your pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo!
        
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        November 21, 2018 1:14pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        that you appear to despise.
        
        Again you are putting your spin on the information I post here.
        
        Have I ever written that I despise electric vehicles? No!
        
        Do you not realise that every time you incorrectly interpret what I write, it shows you up as being someone with little comprehension of written text?
        
        Japan has of course like Germany a real interest in this technology given as they have to import their oil and other fossils fuels.
        
        I think you will discover that China has sewn up the
        market for supply of raw materials for ev batteries.
        One Chinese company now controls most of the metal needed to make the world’s advanced batteries
        https://qz.com/1292202/china-now-effectively-controls-half-the-worlds-lithium-production/
        China Takes Control of Cobalt Mines as It Advances Its Battery Industry for Electric Vehicles
        https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-takes-control-of-cobalt-mines-as-it-advances-its-battery-industry-for-electric-vehicles_2622794.html
        
        Doesn’t bother me one whit, 同志.
        
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        November 21, 2018 2:52pm
      - cmm
        
        stephie moron:
        
        “The best proof is experience ”
        
        Quite. I have been in the technology field and such for over 35 years. Got the degrees, got the patents, got the scars to prove it…
        
        In that time I’ve seen a lot of bullshit and lots of promises.
        
        Experience is that:
        A) You can’t feelz away the laws of physics.
        B) Hype is bullshit.
        C) Almost all researchers that are feeding on the public trough promise all sorts of breakthroughs in the next 5 years etc and almost none of them come to be.
        
        There was as much hype about solar this and EV that 20 years ago. Not really much progress and certainly nothing ground breaking. Lots of taxpayer money sunk into the trough though which has bought off many used-to-be scientists.
        
        Batteries have advanced a bit in the 20 years, but little else has. Batteries don’t supply power. They only store it. Still need to burn coal/whatever to charge the batteries.
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:16pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Stephanie, it is not the fear of new technology. Indeed we have just installed a solar electricity system at home.
    
    It is rather an example of practicality and cost. For those of us who live beyond the comfort of urban Auckland or Wellington, an EV makes as much sense as an ashtray on a motorbike.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:18am
    - KH
      
      Hullkiwi. A post that thinks the only place to live is where you live.
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:34am
      - hullkiwi
        
        KH, people like Stephie & for that matter most of the supporters of the CoL seem to think that NZ can do without rural NZ. Fine I suppose, if you enjoy living on skinny soya lattes.
        
        In the real world of rural NZ, where there are still regular power failures, & our vehicles are a necessity of life, a snowflake vehicle like a Nissan Leaf would survive just as long as a Maseratti limo on streets of Port Moresby (not very long at all).
        
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        November 21, 2018 9:50am
- Longknives
  
  Wish I could find the link to the brilliant Southpark episode on Electric Cars!
  They are all Virtue Signalling to each other and sniffing their own farts…
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:16am
- Fletch
  
  Shoulda been ‘MY VS’ for Virtue Signaling….
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:39am
igm

It is with great fury I read this article:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/108736569/the-super-fund-a-40-billion-nest-egg-which-could-quickly-become-a-political-football
Parker is a weasel, a liar, and a charlatan, having ruined the perfectly viable business of his so-called friend/business partner during easy trading times. He then misled parliament as to the problems he had misleading Inland Revenue, being demoted by Clark and sent to the back of the class.
If he gets his scone grabbers on this fund he will totally mutilate every cent of those that have contributed. Never mind, they won’t be Labour/Green voters . . . they just leech off taxpayers for life!
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November 21, 2018 8:02am
- dave_c_
  
  Indeed – as has happened with just about every significant retirement fund in the US
  Stolen
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:34am
- stephieboy
  
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  igm, you omitted this,
  
  “While he was still in Opposition, John Key issued statements that the fund should be used to increase investment in New Zealand infrastructure….”
  
  Why?
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:00am
  - Tall Man
    
    Big difference between NZ infrastructure and “early stage companies”.
    
    FFS, what do they teach you interns at “camp molestation” these days?
    
    Perhaps if you spent less time letting the pervs put their hands down your pants and actually read something you may be less of a twit than you seem to be.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:05am
    - igm
      
      -1
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:44am
  - igm
    
    Islam Apologist: John Key had a successful background in finance; dirty little Parker has a background of failure, deception, and immorality.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:16am
  - Ed Snack
    
    The fund has to invest in something, and infrastructure companies are often used for such purposes because they are typically in stable environments with reliable cash flows.
    
    Almost the exact opposite of early stage companies. Those are speculative investments where the hope is that five failures will be offset by one spectacular success. But when you introduce government into the equation with all the virtue-signalling and corruption possible, the odds of success are likely to plummet.
    
    So in other words, Key had a clue or two, Parker, not a clue at all.
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:11am
- Harkman
  
  “Parker is a weasel, a liar, and a charlatan” this is actually an understatement, this guy reeks of dodgy, like there’s something not quite right about him. There’s skeletons in this guy’s closet alright but how shocking it is will surprise us someday.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:22am
  - igm
    
    Harkman: One of the worst I have heard of is that he befriended an infirm man, gaining his trust, then when the time was right, took off with his wife . . . a real nice bastard!
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:33am
    - Vory v zakone
      
      And that was #NotGivenLightly
      
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      November 22, 2018 1:45am
- lastmanstanding
  
  I expect the Fund to invest in accordance with a prudent long term strategy and in classes of assets and in geographical locations in proportion to maximise the return on capital without a diminution of that capital.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:35am
- Fletch
  
  I don’t trust Parker. Remember when he was exposed for incorrect declaration on his tax returns over Queens Park Mews and resigned as Attorney General and stepped down from Cabinet under the Clark govt? He resigned all portfolios.
  
  https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Attorney-General_resigns
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10373671
  
  He said he was “ashamed”. Anyone else would have been prosecuted, of course, but he was let off. Rodney Hide objected at the time –
  
  ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that the Companies Office failure to prosecute David Parker was a disgrace, and that business laws now mean nothing in New Zealand if you’re a Minister in Helen Clark’s Government.
  
  “David Parker has already admitted that he did wrong, and that he knew it was wrong – even as he did it”, Mr Hide said.
  
  “The Companies Office, after that admission, has come up with an excuse that there was some confusion. There was no confusion.
  
  “David Parker knew that it was wrong, but for several years in a row, he signed the returns anyway.
  
  “Once again, we see that Helen Clark and her Ministers put themselves above the very laws they expect every other New Zealander to follow”, Mr Hide said.
  
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0604/S00379.htm
  
  He returned to Cabinet, of course.
  
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0605/S00050.htm
  
  Winston defended him, of course – http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0604/S00380.htm
  
  The guy ought not to be in government still. Somehow these sorts of liberal guys manage to hang in there. Thinking Helen had a hand in getting him off the hook.
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:57am
  - hullkiwi
    
    But most voters are quick to forget what they had for breakfast let alone more than 10 years ago.
    
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    November 21, 2018 6:17pm
krazykiwi

Hey no edit function today?
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November 21, 2018 8:03am
- MCos
  
  Shock Horror
  
  You’re wrong
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:23am
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    Yeah, odd. My first comment had no Edit, but the one just above did. Trump’s fault. Obviously 🙂
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:43am
    - Tall Man
      
      Or Sir John Key’s. That man was a miracle worker 😉
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:06am
    - Biscuit
      
      Folx, mee inclooded, whu neva er wiv there Keeweeblog comments hav know kneed ov Editt, crazykiwi!
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:43am
brett68

What’s Nationals position on the United Nations Migrant Compact?

It’s getting signed next month yet not a word in the media about any of it.
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November 21, 2018 8:04am
- BananaLlama
  
  They will support it like they supported an increase of the refugee quota.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:24am
  - brett68
    
    It would be good to know, someone needs to ask Bridges.
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:26am
    - tf78
      
      Simon was asked that last week at a stand up Q&A we went to – he said no way.
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:04am
      - brett68
        
        He needs to start talking publicly about it then.
        People need to know what’s going on, what’s been planned, how it will affect New Zealand.
        
        This is serious stuff.
        
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        November 21, 2018 9:08am
- dave_c_
  
  NZ’s position is the UN position.
  Deviate from that and your country will be punished.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:36am
  - brett68
    
    Countries that have pulled out.
    
    United States
    Austria
    Croatia
    Bulgaria
    Czech Republic
    Hungary.
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:51am
    - mark15
      
      Denmark
      
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      November 21, 2018 1:51pm
    - simpleton1
      
      Australia 🙂
      
      Scott Morrison is following in Donald Trump’s footsteps by refusing to sign a global covenant on migration.
      
      The prime minister says the UN’s Global Compact on Migration would compromise Australia’s border security and undermine its immigration settings.
      
      “It doesn’t distinguish between those who illegally enter Australia and those who come the right way,” https://www.wellingtontimes.com.au/story/5769327/scott-morrison-snubs-un-migration-pact/
      
      So will we follow Australia, or bugger up the system by going with the UN.?
      
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      November 21, 2018 2:16pm
      - calendar girl
        
        If NZ fails to take a position similar to Australia’s on the UN’s Global Compact on Migration, don’t be surprised if NZ’s visa-free access to Australia comes to an abrupt end.
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:30pm
- kowtow
  
  That “compact” is causing unease in many places.
  
  Not to worry though , the Permanent Political Class will ensure it goes through. And the mass migrations continue.
  
  ‘Leading Christian Democrats are warning their colleagues not to call Germany’s participation in the UN’s Global Compact for Migration into question. Jens Spahn and other CDU members have gone rogue on asylum policy.’
  
  https://www.dw.com/en/cdu-in-showdown-over-un-migration-pact/a-46350322
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:37am
- brett68
  
  Climate change refugees.
  
  If NZ signs up to this Migrant Compact there’s a high chance we will be flooded with Pacific Islanders and we have to take them in.
  
  Fucking Politicians.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:04am
  - Paulus
    
    We to do so now – whether legal or overstayers from the Islands.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:16am
- Sacha
  
  The media would be asleep after reading the first clause. It’s a heap of good intentions, but full of ambiguities, and god knows what ‘interpretations’ will emerge to satisfy the hordes of pressure groups with agendas.
  Watch ‘The Terrible Truth About the UN Global Migration Compact”. Stefan Molyneux. 1.17.13.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4633&v=5WRszRZBfYw
  
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  November 21, 2018 2:08pm
secondcumming

Christmas must be getting close……

I see Countdown are selling Cadbury’s Creme Eggs.
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November 21, 2018 8:07am
- Paulus
  
  Easter Eggs surely !
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:11am
  - hullkiwi
    
    The shops always have to look forward to the next holiday/festival/seasonal calendar event for sales. So, they get a bit ahead of themselves – they can hardly put out red Rose’s and heart shaped chocolate boxes in November…be warned the chocolates will be in the warehouses for distribution late next month.
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:17am
- VicParking
  
  Its Black Friday this week. What the F*k has this to do with NZ. I will refuse to wear Black Face on Friday, even though I will be in Harwea for the Day. I’m going to pull out my VCR of ‘White Christmas’ and binge on Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:47am
- kevn
  
  @SC…. Cadburys, the payers of halal tax.
  Whittakers is where it’s at.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:59am
  - freethinker
    
    Cadburys products are off my shopping list since Mondelese their parent treated NZ shabbily – you make the rules and I play by them.
    
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    November 21, 2018 1:17pm
- tf78
  
  AND hot cross buns!
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:04am
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I posted this yesterday but fear it may have escaped your attention. The season ends soon so be quick!

Theatre review: “Jacinda” is a coalition worth celebrating,

“JACINDA”

“ 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
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November 21, 2018 8:07am
- krazykiwi
  
  The election of Jacinda Ardern
  
  She wasn’t elected. She was bartered for and chosen, just as one might select a can of beans from the supermarket shelf.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:18am
  - G152
    
    So the ‘can of beans’ is responsible for all the hot air ?
    🙂
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:23am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    hmm – we got ‘Homebrand’ then eh ?
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:28am
    - RalphT
      
      Homebrand? Aren’t they the cheap alternative with little substance?
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:34am
  - KevOB
    
    Worm farms are acquired and sold that way too.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:02am
- dubya
  
  Sorry Stephanie, not going to make it. Fully booked out with preferable appointments involving sharp sticks and my eyeballs.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:26am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  It’s escaped my attention today as well.
  What a load of shite.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:27am
- Tall Man
  
  An idiot play for an idiot sycophant like you.
  
  I really hope that the extra benefit that you were hoping for in your back pocket has been used to fund this load of bollocks. I mean why would you need money when you can attend this and be in ecstasy for days.
  
  steffy is a girl
  
  Ardern is a liar.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:29am
- cmm
  
  Sorry, washing my hair that week.
  
  What a crap review. So full of shit and contradiction even the CoL themselves would blush to print it.
  
  ” no better subject than our Prime Minister.”, yet “the play is not about Jacinda herself ”
  
  Huh? How can a play not be about it’s subject?
  
  If it was a play about Jacinda it would be called “Half a scoop with chicken salt”
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:37am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “I posted this yesterday ”
  and I replied
  We don’t need a theatrical rendition, we already have a circus…calling itself a govt.
  But if they are short of a title for this piece.
  They could try:
  “When comedy becomes tragedy”
  The story of their comedy and it’s transition to our tragedy.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:45am
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Overnight has seen a typical day in the Trump presidency. His daughter has been conducting government business through her personal email account, as Hillary did – her of “lock her up” fame. Ivanka Trump is a crook and should be arrested: Drain the Swamp.

Trump has defended Saudi Arabia over the barbaric murder of Khashoggi, the worst human rights abuse in my living memory. He said the facts are unclear, despite previously saying the Saudi story was “credible”. He said there won’t be any sanctions. Of course he’s highly critical of China’s human rights abuses.

Finally, a Federal judge has ruled his immigration policy is contrary to the constitution.

Three examples of why this POTUS is as corrupt as any other. Yet you’ll all defend him simply because it’s not Hillary.
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November 21, 2018 8:08am
- tas
  
  It’s different when Trump does it.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:11am
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    Take away all the Stupid Clinton Conspiracy theories and other fake moons landing type of nonsense and what do you have
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:21am
    - Tall Man
      
      An idiot much like yourself and Ardern, is that what you were asking?
      
      steffy is a girl
      
      Ardern is a liar
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:30am
    - big bruv
      
      Stephieboi
      “Take away all the Stupid Clinton Conspiracy theories and other fake moons landing type of nonsense and what do you have”
      Fair enough, lets do that and see what we are left with.
      1. The fraud that is the Clinton Foundation
      2. The fact that the Clinton’s ripped off the people of Haiti
      3. The endless line of females who were abused, raped and then victimised by the Clinton’s
      4. The illegal use of her own email and the destruction of those same emails.
      
      Should I go on?
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:43am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        The FACT that Clinton had state secrets on a PRIVATE SERVER, not on govt. premises.
        Ivanka sent a couple of nondescript EMails (no secrets) on a non govt. email account…
        Months ago
        that she declared to the state dept. at the time
        Not quite the same as, the SECRETARY of STATE, the 3rd highest position in the US govt., send secret info. over a non secure, non govt. SERVER housed at a insecure location.
        
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        November 21, 2018 8:50am
      - stephieboy
        
        big bruv , The fraud ..”” The fact…” , The ” Endless line … Hillary abused females? etc etc
        
        ???
        
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        November 21, 2018 9:05am
    - Inandout
      
      A lonely goat stephie.
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:43am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vtq9t08ktU
        
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        November 21, 2018 8:51am
      - VicParking
        
        Stephies off to Lithuania with his no 1 Goat Aisha
        https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-36641585/lithuania-s-goat-beauty-pageant
        
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        November 21, 2018 8:51am
      - lifesgood
        
        High on a hill sat a lonely goat herd. Yoddle eddle oddle eddle oh, oh, oh! Poor no friends Stephie.
        
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        November 21, 2018 11:25am
      - howitis
        
        High on a hill was a lonely goat herd
        Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo
        
        Then Stiffie girl found them
        Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo
        
        They were lonely no more
        All night it was
        Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7pl1DAcRos
        The Lonely Goatherd
        
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        November 21, 2018 11:48am
    - MrTips
      
      Hey stephie, I heard you offered your services to Cindy as an expert on resident aliens, but you got fired for checking out to many Area-51’s?
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:14am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Galah, I don’t know where you’re orbiting.
      Earth has only one moon and it isn’t fake.
      
      Birdseed
      Sqwark
      Alt-right
      Trumpeter
      See your doctor
      Who really cares
      
      SIGH
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:10am
- SGA
  
  @NK
  Relax, take deep breaths, chanting “TDS, TDS, TDS” on each exhale. It’s easier than actually thinking.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:15am
- lilman
  
  lol, I just like Trump,so he can do whatever he wants.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:17am
  - SGA
    
    lol – at least you’re honest. 🙂
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:17am
    - lilman
      
      Straight up- Trump can do whatever, anyone who gets in his way can suffer his attention.
      CNN Acosta ,what a wanker.Could you imagine him attempting that shit with Putin in the Kremlin?
      
      Trump is a doer, not a waffler like that coward Obama.
      
      No one will fuck with USA whilst Trump is there as you can’t call what his response is, so they tread carefully.
      
      I love it, more power to Trump.
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:05am
      - stephieboy
        
        lilman,
        
        “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
        ― Albert Einstein
        
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        November 21, 2018 9:08am
      - SGA
        
        lilman
        
        Could you imagine him attempting that shit with Putin in the Kremlin?
        
        Only once, I’d guess. But I’m not sure such regimes are what I’d want NZ to aspire to. But, hey, tastes vary.
        
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        November 21, 2018 9:32am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  TDS much NK?
  
  Let me help you with your facts… they are so inconvenient aren’t they ….
  
  “…. an activist DNC Federal judge (appointed by Obama) from the 9th circuit – which boasts the dubious record of experiencing the highest proportion of bogus judgments having to be overturned by SCOTUS has ruled his immigration policy is contrary to the constitution.”
  
  There – now your comment looks like it was written by someone with a grasp on reality.
  
  And, besides, all sane people know that this corrupt swamp dweller’s decision will also be overturned in time like all the rest of the dodgy activist judgments from Obama 5th columnists.
  
  But keep on drinking that KoolAid!
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:17am
- tas
  
  And don’t forget that Trump’s administration is borrowing over US$2,000,000,000 per day!
  
  Republicans made such a fuss about the federal deficit under Obama, but, when Trump doubled the deficit, they said absolutely nothing.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:19am
- KevOB
  
  It’s Wednesday.
  The interns, at least, should read this:
  
  Why has the Democratic Party gone mad?
  
  https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/why-has-the-democratic-party-gone-mad/
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:05am
  - stephieboy
    
    KevOB ,the wnd is mad!
    
    Fact!
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:09am
    - KevOB
      
      It maddens you.
      
      Who is madder a Christian or derivative blood thirsty hating followers of a so called called prophet who are still fighting among themselves as to succession 13 centuries after his expiry date?
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:10am
      - stephieboy
        
        KevOB, the real fake news and falsehoods,
        
        https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/WND
        
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        November 21, 2018 9:14am
- cmm
  
  “the barbaric murder of Khashoggi, the worst human rights abuse in my living memory”
  
  Yup Saudis are bad, but you must have Alzheimer’s if topping an activist posing as a journalist is the worst human rights abuse you can remember.
  
  Golly’s mates in Rwanda were far worse (1994), so is the Obama-Clinton enabled slave trade in Libya (right now) and many other abuses throughout the shitholes of the world.
  
  The journalists only need smelling salts over this because he was a “journalist”, I guess “mainstream” if they dissolved him and flushed him.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:14am
- rangitoto
  
  Killery had her own private email server and arranged for 30,000 emails to be erased. Ivanka is dumb but Killary is a crim.
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:07am
- MCos
  
  According to the President it’s fake news; so that’s an end to that.
  https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/417697-trump-says-ivanka-emails-fake-news-and-unlike-clinton-controversy?amp
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:08am
- Ed Snack
  
  First point, Ivanna did so when not an actual Federal Employee. However it was indeed still wrong and when notified she admitted the use and stopped using the private email and all emails sent that way have been archived and are available. It is said that there was no classified or secret information in any of those emails but we cannot be sure of that – however it will be possible to check as the emails are stored.
  
  Contrast that with the Clinton case where she used a private server shared by a number of people, large numbers of the emails send and received on that server were not just deleted but also wiped clean in defiance of both the law on retentions and a subpoena issued before they were deleted. Clinton also lied about the presence of the server, as did Obama and other members of his administration. Evidence collected by the FBI revealed that classified information up to and including information supposed to be restricted to SCIF facilities was contained in emails on the server. Some of the deleted emails that were later recovered contained classified data.
  
  So Ivanka is possibly guilty of the improper use but has complied with the data retention rules and isn’t as far as we know guilty of security breaches. She also has been as far as has been so far revealed, been truthful about this matter. Just BTW this happened in early 2017. Any investigation could easily review the emails to see if there was security lapses and maybe just to confirm that all emails were indeed turned over. Clinton was guilty of deleting emails in breach of the law, of obstructing justice by doing so when under subpoena, and of breaches of the security laws which don’t require intent to apply. So undoubtedly guilty from the evidence we have, but for some reason never prosecuted.
  
  On Saudi Arabia, real politik. Bad behaviour, but you are responding to a Turkish information operation intended to undermine any US – Saudi cooperation to benefit Turkey and Turkey’s ally, Iran.
  
  The Judge, Obama appointed who simply ignoring Obama’s blatant ignoring of the Constitution relating to the DACA executive orders yet ruling falsely that Obama can break the Consitution, but Trump cannot attempt to right that wrong. The ruling will be appealed, but it is a limited ruling anyway. Only applies to denying asylum to illegal immigrants who entered illegally. Can not prevent efforts to stop them entering in the first place.
  
  Unlikely to happen, but that Judge needs to be impeached and removed for blantantly ignoring the Constitution and ruling on narrow and biased political grounds.
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:35am
- Komata
  
  NK
  
  You really don’t like the guy do you?
  
  (And also quite happily swollow the MSM’s somewhat-biased narrative).
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:57am
- flipper
  
  Geez NK and Tas et al (just a few) are idiots. They write balderbollocks, driven by the customary left wing MSM/Judges on the west and east coasts.
  As for daughter….. The Secretary of State v a minor WH appointee? ( The story is 14 months old) No private server in her house, no 30,000 deletions, no classified info, all emails preserved for records. Bias is understandable. Stupidity and bias unforgivable.
  As for the 9th Circuit Judges…. How did their immigration rulings do in the SCOTUS? Zip upheld.
  NK, Tas et al, stupidity coupled with bias is …. piss off jerks!
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:28pm
Left Right and Centre

A 52 year old woman motorcycle passenger dies during a Pike River Memorial ride.

Now they’ll need a memorial ride for her too – can I suggest with a 15km/h limit ?

And here is a Pike River mother who thinks re-entry is a costly futile load of bollocks.
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November 21, 2018 8:11am
- lilman
  
  Over Pike.
  
  Little should be sued and jailed for taking money from Miners and DOING NOTHING to safe guard them.
  Criminal.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:07am
- KevOB
  
  I am looking forward to the ensuing legal liability mess if a spare spark goes BOOM.
  
  No way they can guarantee safety so they knowingly taking a risk.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:07am
EAD_TWO

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6407593/Police-leader-fires-warning-calls-help-frontline.html

Police chief warns PCs need more help from the public after officer was kung fu kicked into the path of an oncoming bus as witnesses simply stood by and filmed

If some black African savages (sorry “thugs” or “youths“) were attacking a white person I would help.

If they are however attacking the same people (the Police) who would arrest me for speaking out about the mess that has been made of our countries by importing said Savages, (and are all too happy ticketing people without seatbelts in parking lots), why I should care?
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November 21, 2018 8:17am
Poppa

This global warming is really starting to grind my gears. Had to turn the fire on last night at the end of November.

Where is all of this promised heat? It must be buried under a pile of falsified temperature records
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November 21, 2018 8:17am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Poppa! That looks remarkably like hate-speech to me!
  
  Don’t you know that it really is very poor form to point out when the Emperor is wearing no clothes.
  
  Your departure from the accepted narrative can only be seen as an attack on democracy, decency and on science in general. You are clearly an alt-right, misogynistic, Islamophobic, gun-toting, pro-life, vote suppressing, white supremacist, Nazi who just spouts GOP talking points while not believing woman and mansplaining.
  
  (I know look forward to fellow libtards re-quoting my post explaining how you got “schooled”)
  
  Retreating to my safe-space now, jazz-handing myself for sticking it to the man and sipping my almond milk latte while I bathe in my self-righteous indignation and white saviour complex.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:26am
  - dave_c_
    
    Excellent – that’ll turn up the heat.
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:40am
- Local Miller
  
  Oh, didn’t you get the memo? It isn’t referred to as Global Warming any more, that’s so last century. It’s now called “Climate Change”. All this nasty CO2 stuff is going to CHANGE the climate, some places will got colder and some will got hotter.
  
  Please, get with the times 😉
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:53am
  - tf78
    
    In the olden days we used to call it a weather pattern.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:11am
- marcw
  
  We could save a truckfull of money by getting rid of a few of these nutbars.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108281711/grab-your-jandals-and-get-set-for-a-scorching-november
  
  They really are a waste of space.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:29am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yikes!
    And these chaps have access to NZ’s most powerful supercomputer.
    
    (And Fitzroy…NIWA’s recently scrapped supercomputer was meant to be the most powerful in NZ a few years back)
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/108396474/powerful-new-supercomputer-ready-to-provide-glimpse-into-nzs-climate-future
    Could someone buy them a couple of thermometers and a rain-gauge please, then teach them how to use them.
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:41am
    - alex Masterley
      
      Or get them to look out the bloody window,
      
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      November 21, 2018 12:47pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Couple of days ago, they were talking about raised sea temp.s off the South Island.
  Q: Does snow fall on the oceans?
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:15am
Maggy Wassilieff

Head of UN Environment Programmes spent $500,000 on his flights
and indulged in a spot of nepotism.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/20/un-environment-chief-erik-solheim-resigns-flying-revelations
Some countries are withholding funds for UNEP.
Might pay for our Government to check out where it tosses our dough.
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November 21, 2018 8:18am
- stephieboy
  
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  MW,
  
  “tosses our dough “???
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:23am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Is there something you don’t comprehend?
    
    NZ taxpayers via our Government pay money to the UN.
    Some of that goes to the UNEP.
    This year we have tossed them $361,000.
    https://www.unenvironment.org/about-un-environment/funding/why-invest-us/your-contributions
    
    (That doesn’t even cover the air fares for their recently sacked corrupt boss)
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:20am
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, they call it a” contribution not” throwing/ tossing” money around!
      
      And it is the accumaltive amount that counts!
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:27am
      - thedavincimode
        
        Shouldn’t you be scrubbing your raincoat in time for the school bus run?
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:03pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        they call it a” contribution
        
        So what, stephieboy?
        
        I don’t have to swallow that bullshit…. and neither do you.
        
        It is our money being poured into a CORRUPT organisation…. just like our money has recently been TOSSED into a corrupt regime in PNG.
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:08pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, anti UN, Climate denial, Islamaphobic conspiracies ?
        
        Birds of a feather flock together!
        
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        November 21, 2018 1:21pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        Would you label the NZ Police, NZ Government or the UN Islamaphobic for treating ISIL (Daesh), al-Qaida, or the Taliban as Terrorist entities?
        http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/advisory-on-obligations-to-suppress-terrorism-under-the-terrorism-suppression-act-2002.pdf
        
        Why do you think I am Islamaphobic, when it was me that reported you for invading the privacy of young moslem women sitting at an Auckland cafe?
        
        Was it not Islamaphobic for you to be commenting on the size and shape of the breasts of these women in a public forum?
        
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        November 21, 2018 3:09pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW,
        
        “Why do you think I am Islamaphobic, when it was me that reported you for invading the privacy of young moslem women sitting at an Auckland cafe?”
        
        ??
        
        You’ve off your tree! Go and visit your Doctor!
        
        Sigh!
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:08pm
BananaLlama

Ongoing protests in France over the increase in fuel prices have now spread to Belgium.
https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/taxation-and-legislation/europe/news/french-and-belgian-protest-against-high-fuel-prices
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November 21, 2018 8:19am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Macron and Merkel want an EU army – no doubt to put a stop to this sort of thing
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:33am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Yeah. Denmark forced their citizens to vote again when they rejected a referendum on joining the EU in 93 and it became violent. Danish police shot 11 protesters in “Self Defence” so there is precedent for pro EU political factions to use violence against their own citizens.
    ‘The European train will travel on without any stops,’ Chancellor Kohl of Germany said.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/may/20/eu.politics
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:42am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Didn’t Ireland have 2 votes too?
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:16am
      - kowtow
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/13/eu-ireland-lisbon-treaty
        
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        November 21, 2018 2:06pm
- kowtow
  
  Interesting the detail the media went into on reporting this particular protest / unrest from the Frogs……right down to the “racism”
  
  I don’t recall the same level of detail when “French youths” go on their regular violent sprees in the banlieux.
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/19/french-fuel-protests-block-roads-third-day-amid-injuries-racist/
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:17am
BarryB

I thought that the rainbow lot simply wanted to be treated just like everyone else – so why do they want to flaunt themselves in front of the nation. Maybe they were just joking when they said they want to be treated like everyone else. Doesnt matter why – just so long as they keep screwing up (ie: no uniformed police) then they will be seen as weirdo’s.

Another thing that amused me – and which is actually an idea worth considering – it has been decided in New Plymouth that black faces should not be seen in public (Ive been incommunicado for a few days) – theyve never worried me but maybe they should be banned. Were banning everything else that offends 2 or more people.
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November 21, 2018 8:30am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  I don’t see the pride in parading around in public like you didn’t have time to change out of your cheap ugly nasty disgusting sleazy pornsite fetish gear first.
  
  And they don’t have anything to show off either – 3 out of 10 looks most of these idiots.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:51am
  - Longknives
    
    A well intentioned (but somewhat naive) female friend took her kids along to watch the Parade a few years ago.
    She left utterly disgusted- Her children saw grown men exposing themselves and simulating/performing sex acts on each other.
    I asked her “What the hell did you expect?”
    “Oh I thought it was a celebration of Gay culture”
    “Mate that IS Gay culture..”
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:09am
    - kowtow
      
      I don’t believe it !
      
      When the media do coverage of such events they have never shown such behaviour , last night both tv news’ did extensive reporting and not one image of such perversity , in fact criminal behaviour , was “exposed”…….
      
      …..but of course not , the media engage in active and deliberate self censorship as we must all get onboard the diversity bus and celebrate such normal activity ……..
      
      ps How the hell could Plod want to be associated with public displays of criminality , depravity and perversity ?
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:22am
    - Surely Knott
      
      The Pride Parade is advertised on Auckland for Kids event page as a great family friendly thing to do. They say there will be pirates, ben and jerrys ice cream, stilt walkers and a bubble man “and more will be heading down the road for the little ones before the parade kicks off.”!
      
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      November 21, 2018 2:37pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I can’t understand this gay pride parade emphasis on the “flaunting.”
  Do heterosexuals have parades in which they flaunt themselves?
  
  Perhaps some gays are excessively hedonistic? Perhaps they don’t have the burden and responsibilities of heterosexual people when it comes to raising the next generation of citizens (which is a multi-decade project for any parent).
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:29am
secondcumming

Chatting with a new member at the gun club last night and he was telling us he had a background in radio advertising…..and had actually worked with Clarke Gaylord a few years back at George FM.

He reckoned Clarke always used to say, “Dating is a lot like fishing. Sure there’s a lot of fish in the sea, but until I catch the right one, I’m stuck here holding my rod”

One of my mates chipped in…… “He must have been targeting the Patagonian Toothfish”

BOL!!
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November 21, 2018 8:31am
- VicParking
  
  Did he recommend grass clippings for ground bait
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:55am
- stephieboy
  
  secondcumming, one thing your sure very good at and that is making it all up and faking it!
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:24am
  - secondcumming
    
    You must face the same dilemma every morning stephieboy……
    
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoLZXN5XUAA-tEd.jpg
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:46am
  - skyblue
    
    Bit like your goat, fakes the orgasm.
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:17am
igm

So Stuart Nash was impressed when a queer cop proposed to another queer cop at a passing out parade.
Shows how low the morals of politicians and police are.
Can now see why neither are shown respect any longer.
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November 21, 2018 8:36am
Happychappy

TV One and Three don’t seem to want to publish the story of Lee’s Galloway making the decision all on his own to give our criminal drug dealer residency after the Ministry was found to have not given any advise to do so. It could be a interesting week for the show pony if this is fact when the report from the enquiry is released as the Ministry look like it is not prepared to take the fall for the Ministers blatant incompetence.
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November 21, 2018 8:37am
- cmm
  
  I still have not found the story behind the story:
  
  Who leaked the Sroubek case to the media and why?
  
  All I can think of is that someone in INZ decided that after all their work setting up a file for his deportation, ILG overrode them and they got pissed off.
  
  Does anyone know?
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:54am
  - kevn
    
    @cmm… The crims legal team have asked (and got it seems) an extension to now due report. Why?
    Something smells bad.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:13am
    - cmm
      
      That’s because there’s a hole in the whole “one the minister has signed, they can’t change their mind” narrative.
      
      They hoped for a rushed decision which would have avoided the required scrutiny. They got it. Then the scrutiny happened and it all turned to shit.
      
      Of course ILG wants to delay things as much as possible. If nothing else, a minister’s pay is an extra $500 a day so every extra day he can keep his name on the door is a win.
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:33am
  - KevOB
    
    Sroubeks dossier is set out the High Court Judgment CA302/2016 [2017] NZCA576
    
    A most informative read. Thanks to whoever posted it here previously.
    It confirmed my opinion that Sroubek is a serious ambitious criminal. Rare and dangerous.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:34am
    - kevn
      
      @Kev… With the resources to pay for a legal ‘team’.
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:37am
      - KevOB
        
        I noted that.
        
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        November 21, 2018 11:16am
      - cmm
        
        They took quite a bit of his money under proceeds of crimes, but left him with a healthy $100k or whatever + whatever they didn’t get their hands on.
        
        He hasn’t had a grocery bill for the last few years, so I suspect he can get some lawyers.
        
        Perhaps, too, if there is someone trying to bury this, they will also be shovelling money into the lawyering.
        
        If not, there’s always the taxpayer to fund his legal team.
        
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        November 21, 2018 11:45am
- sooty
  
  Not incompetence.
  It was coruption!
  Why the coverup? Who?
  Why?
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:58am
- septic skeptic
  
  Personally I don’t but the incompetence theory.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:08am
  - cmm
    
    Sure, but ILG didn’t then make a press release saying: “Guess what everybody, I just gave a serious crim residence!”
    
    Nope, someone leaked it to the media.
    
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    November 21, 2018 4:07pm
- KevOB
  
  The Ministry wont want to be accountable for such a strange decision. The reasons may be hidden for a while but if it is corruption it will be outed.
  The underlying level of criminality revealed will be hard to stop for all parties. There is too much money at stake. This is the scenario for bribery and that leaks when a party feels aggrieved about not getting their “rightful” share.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:27am
Kiwi_in_Paris

China caught being naughty, yet again, and deny all Russia style:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/china-uses-the-cloud-to-step-up-spying-on-australian-business-20181119-p50gze.html
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November 21, 2018 8:37am
- Jack5
  
  Ahoy ?? Tall Man! Did you read this?
  Not good!
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:52am
- rangitoto
  
  The largest proportion of the crap hitting our firewalls is sourced from Chinese subnets. They are worse than the Russians
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:15am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Have to say that the Ukrainians used to be up there as well. Not quite as active right now.
    
    But yes, the Chinese are the dominant source of attempts to illegally access my networks as well.
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:49am
- kowtow
  
  ‘ It was the great microchip heist – a stunning Chinese-backed effort that pilfered as much as US$8.75 billion in patented American technology.’
  
  https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2173843/china-has-taken-gloves-its-thefts-us-technology
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:26am
dubya

Nanaia Mahuta named on the BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women list.

Wonder if they know she’s married to a man convicted of beating his first wife?

Wonder if they know that man is her first cousin and they had a child together, against the advice of basically every paediatrician who has dealt with incest related birth defects?

Wonder if they know she has achieved nothing in her two plus decade parliamentary career? (Apart from first woman to deface herself)
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November 21, 2018 8:45am
- Poppa
  
  The word sloth comes to mind when I see her
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:54am
  - tf78
    
    Sloth’s have cute faces.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:18am
- big bruv
  
  dubya
  
  I read that list as well. The best thing about it, neither Horse Face or Klark are on it. 🙂
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:58am
- Felt
  
  Honestly, how could anyone, even those on the other side of the world, come to the conclusion that she has any sort of influence at all. If they had even spoken to her they would soon realise that she is a few kumara short of a full hangi.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:59am
- Biscuit
  
  I had a look at that list, dubya.
  
  A motley bunch, to say the least.
  
  There are a few that fall into my ‘Commendable’ category – the Russian model burned in a fire who helps people with scars, a Nepalese lady working to change perceptions about ‘untouchables’ in her country, a Peruvian lass who is the face of a movement against domestic violence after a video of her being attacked by her boyfriend went viral, a Senagelese lady who has broken the males-only club at FIFA by becoming that corrupt organisation’s first female Secretary General.
  
  But there’s also Chelsea Clinton, good grief, described as ‘the vice-chair of the Clinton Foundation’ (i.e. works for Daddy) and two Australian politicians – and when was the last time you were ‘inspired’ by one of them, eh?
  
  I’m not putting our Nanaia down – she didn’t ask to be included, right? – but, really, does someone who has done the same job for 22 years (for no tangible improvement in ‘her’ people’s lives that I can see) deserve to be called ‘influential’, a ‘leader’, a ‘trailblazer’ and/or an ‘everyday hero’?
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:29am
- KevOB
  
  Nanaia Mahuta has rank in Waikato tribal society. She could become the next Maori Queen.
  
  Her moko goes with her rank.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:37am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Ahhh…. that explains a lot. Thank you.
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:44am
- gump
  
  @dubya
  
  Personally I find first-cousin marriage to be a bit weird.
  
  But wikipedia says your assertion that it leads to incest related birth defects is a bit overblown. The science says their risk of birth defects is about the same as it is for pregnant women aged 40:
  
  “In April 2002, the Journal of Genetic Counseling released a report which estimated the average risk of birth defects in a child born of first cousins at 1.1–2.0 percentage points over an average base risk for non-cousin couples of 3%, or about the same as that of any woman over age 40. In terms of mortality, a 1994 study found a mean excess pre-reproductive mortality rate of 4.4%,while another study published in 2009 suggests the rate may be closer to 3.5%.Put differently, a single first-cousin marriage entails a similar increased risk of birth defects and mortality as a woman faces when she gives birth at age 41 rather than at 30.”
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:42am
  - Tall Man
    
    I mean without incest related defects how would we ever get enough people to stock a coalition of liars and also, where would we get gump and steffy girl from eh?
    
    I think fetal alcohol syndrome has also given us a couple of labour interns as well.
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:02am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-23183102
    
    “Researchers said the risk of birth defects among children of blood relatives remained small, at 6%.”
    
    6% is not a small risk, it is PC infected academia doing their mendacious best to excuse cultural stupidity.
    
    cousin marriage also depresses intelligence of kids a lot, by 2.5-10 IQ pts in different studies, reducing their potential for success (and being good tax payers), and increasing potential for criminality.
    
    It is insane for society to countenance the unnecessary breeding of cripples and idiots. Let cousins marry if that is so necessary, but don’t let them breed – IVF.
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:08am
    - gump
      
      As I said, I consider first cousin marriage to be weird.
      
      But the link you posted doesn’t support your argument. The figure of 6% is for all forms of blood linked relationships – which includes father/daughter, mother/son, aunt/nephew, uncle/neice and other closely linked couplings.
      
      As your article points out, the rate of birth defects observed in Bradford was 3%. Which reflects the risk suggested by the linked articles on Wikipedia.
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:29am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        3% was for all of Bradford, including non-co-sanguinous parents, 6% for (mostly) cousin marriage. 1.7% for whole of England, but would be slightly little less than that if excluded progeny of cousin marriages.
        
        So from that about 4x the risk of birth defects from cousin marriage, and significantly dumber kids to boot.
        
        But a little more googling:
        British Pakistanis are 13 times more likely to have children with genetic disorders than the general population. They are three percent of all births, but produce just under a third of all British children with genetic health problems.
        
        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5927581/The-tragic-truth-cousin-marriages.html
        
        Embrace the ~~diversity~~ stupidity
        
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        November 21, 2018 10:43am
      - gump
        
        The birth defect rate for first cousin marriage isn’t 6%. That’s the birth defect rate for all blood linked relationships.
        
        If you take the time to actually read the wikipedia article, it goes on to explain that the birth defect rate goes up considerably when first-cousin couplings are carried out across multiple-generations. Which I understand is the principle cause of the problems that are being seen in ethnically closed communities like the British Pakistanis. As any farmer knows well – multi-generational inbreeding always leads to disaster.
        
        I think Nania Mahuta is a worthless slug who needs to find a new gravy train. But I don’t think it is fair to criticise her for marrying her cousin.
        
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        November 21, 2018 11:05am
  - kowtow
    
    “Weird” you say ? How very offensive !
    
    A lot of “British” people are into it .
    
    ‘First-cousin marriages, which are are legal in the UK, are practised within Britain’s Pakistani community, as well as among some Arab and African families. Medical data previously suggested that while British Pakistanis were responsible for 3 per cent of all births, they accounted for 30 per cent of British children born with a genetic illness.’
    
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11723308/First-cousin-marriages-in-Pakistani-communities-leading-to-appalling-disabilities-among-children.html
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:11am
    - kevn
      
      @gump… Pakis (and others) have been at this for generations.
      It would seem there is a compounding effect.
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:52am
      - gump
        
        That’s my understanding.
        
        Multi-generational inbreeding leads to horrific outcomes for offspring.
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:47pm
    - Twinkletoes
      
      And, unlike Pakistan and other Islamic countries) these children are looked after until they die. The drain on the British taxpayer is enormous – many of these children are looked after 24/7 in hospital wards and the others have special daily carers at home as the mother will usually have several other children to look after. And what is worse, every child in the home may suffer the same genetic defects – but Insh’alla!
      
      Ten years ago it cost the taxpayer 25o,000 p.a.sterling to care for a child at home compared to a diabetic who needs about 80.000 per annum for treatment. I dread to think what those figures are now, not much left in the NHS for the indigenous folk who have paid their taxes for medical help they are not able to access. Plus the fact that Muslim wives don’t work but their disabled child will get all the help it needs because of our tolerance and Christian way of life.
      
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      November 21, 2018 1:07pm
skyblue

Whom is the Czech guy supplying drugs to who are associated with the Labour Party?
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November 21, 2018 8:46am
- Longknives
  
  I don’t think many of us will have to use our ‘Phone a friend’ on that one skyblue!
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:03am
  - skyblue
    
    Jacinda Adern might need to.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:32am
    - Tall Man
      
      Now you’re just being silly, she doesn’t have friends, she has “comrades”.
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:03am
- Komata
  
  Skyblue
  
  Amongst others, it has been suggested that a ‘collector’ of lawn mowers, with very high connections has been involved; just fishing, of course…
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:12pm
TMC

EAST WEST LINK through Onehunga? What happened? The last update was in January. The project was cancelled but Labour promised alternatives. Meanwhile 1000s & 1000s of voters sit in that ridiculous traffic everyday. What’s the plan? You’ve got major manufacturing, shipping, transport on top of heavy car use, all along there and currently using highly inefficient small roads with lights. Same with Favona road – that’s even worse. Small two lane road used by big trucks. Come in Auckland! Optimise it. Do something! If National want to win 1000s of voters, they should start popping up signs along these corridors at peak traffic times with a plan to fix it.
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November 21, 2018 8:50am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “…they should start popping up signs along these corridors at peak traffic times with a plan to fix it.”
  In your own words
  “The project was cancelled but Labour promised alternatives.”
  National not only had a plan, they had a project, LABOUR canceled it and then
  PROMISED……..
  Labour promises’ ….worthless.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:58am
  - Tall Man
    
    “Let’s do this”.
    
    FFFS, do what you SLG?
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:11am
  - Tall Man
    
    That’s not very fair, I’m sure there is a committee set up somewhere with really really relevant labour has beens coming up with a really really clever plan that will be implemented as soon as………….
    
    Now, where the fuck was I?
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:15am
  - gump
    
    What was the BCR for the East-West Link?
    
    Yes. This is a trick question. Nobody ever calculated the cost-benefit ratio – because National was afraid of the answer.
    
    When a project looks like a dog and barks like a dog, it’s a dog.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:21am
    - Tall Man
      
      When a poster looks like a labour intern and whines like an a labour intern…..
      
      Sometimes a project analysis does not get it right, just like winston the drunken gnome can’t get it right.
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:05am
      - gump
        
        So Act voting fiscal conservatives like me who demand BCRs for major infrastructure investments are indistinguishable from Labour interns?
        
        I support the construction of public infrastructure like roading upgrades. But the money needs to be invested wisely and justifiably.
        
        National couldn’t economically justify the East-West Link. You might want to reflect on that.
        
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        November 21, 2018 11:11am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        and Gump
        How are the CoL “justifying” the underground train set in Auckland?
        It’s only just started and is already way over budget.
        Who will catch it?
        
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        November 21, 2018 11:21am
    - TMC
      
      Gump — That’s ok. I think what they had was insanely overpriced. BUT my question is something needs to be done… and it’s been crickets ever since… all the while people, traffic, goods, all sit or crawl along everyday. Look at google maps — it’s a clusterf*ck from 3:30. In fact it is right now even. And Fridays are diabolical. They could even do small fixes to optimise current lanes — add a turn only lane at Nielson and Onehunga, extend the turn lane at Church and Gt South… lots of sensible options I’d think. The rail link certainly isn’t going to help.
      Someone should campaign on “Optimise Auckland” with actual fixes across the city.
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:08am
Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/links-21-november-2018/#comment-3230844

Crude Oil Crashes …

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL=F?p=CL=F

Dairy prices drop; US housing starts fall; US retail weak; S&P500 sinks; China resue plans gamed; IMF tells RBA to hold; China grabs Aussie internet traffic; UST 10yr at 3.05%; oil plunges, gold unchanged; NZ$1 = 68.2 USc; TWI-5 = 72.7 | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/96984/dairy-prices-drop-us-housing-starts-fall-us-retail-weak-sp500-sinks-china-resue-plans
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November 21, 2018 8:54am
- Cobolt24
  
  “feared glut” they say, OPEC have planned cuts for next year so those low prices won’t last too long unfortunately.
  
  Also:
  ANZ economists see continued strength in the regional housing markets with further ‘catch-up’ on Auckland prices while Auckland chills.
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/property/96973/anz-economists-see-continued-strength-regional-housing-markets-further-catch-auckland
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:30am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    10% of new car sales in California 2018 are electric, 2% for USA. China is shifting to electric very fast too (buses first). OPEC need to make all the hay they can now because the sun is starting to set.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:51am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Interesting comments on the MB Links thread noted above by Wiley Wolf and Triage.
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:02am
    - kowtow
      
      Tulip bulbs and bit coin were a sure bet too…..
      
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      November 21, 2018 11:14am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Cars are already fashion items – people happily pay 2-3x as much for German vehicles with similar utility to cheaper Jaanese vehicles for something they can show off their wealth with. Electric cars at 1.5-2x cost can survive easily in the current marketplace, and as they move down to similar price (battery costs are falling rapidly as mass production cost curves do their thing) they will cut into fossil fuel market rapidly.
        
        Battery swapping would make it happen all the faster.
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:04pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … Piers Morgan on Hollywood’s hatred of Trump … Hannity / Fox
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AFt7iIP3Bg
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:12pm
- Cobolt24
  
  Rising house prices have more than offset falling interest rates in 11 of 12 regions over the last six months – Home loan Affordability Reports
  —LINK—
  https://www.interest.co.nz/property/96982/rising-house-prices-have-more-offset-falling-interest-rates-11-12-regions-over-last
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:15pm
Nookin

“This is why you have an inquiry – so you don’t have sneaky PR drops with a one-sided point of view.”

Oh dear. Poor Mr Hager is upset that somebody had the gall to publish something without first consulting him and giving him an opportunity for input. What an appalling state of affairs. What a hypocrite.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12163270
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November 21, 2018 8:55am
- Rich Prick
  
  What a hypocrite, have any of his “books” been anything more than sneaky PR drops with a one-sided point of view?
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:17am
Philview

I had one of those “facts of life” conversations with my son last night. Out of the blue he said “Dad, what is socialism”. The time has come I thought to sit him down and talk politics. I thought it went well and his natural instincts seem to be in agreement with capitalism. Try telling a kid that a hard working, innovative, gifted teacher gets paid the same as a lazy, ignorant teacher and the message hits home. A child’s instinctive belief is that hard work and talent should be rewarded in a fair society.
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November 21, 2018 8:58am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “A child’s instinctive belief is that hard work and talent should be rewarded in a fair society.”
  
  But, but, but….! Then you won’t have equality of outcome!
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:05am
  - Tall Man
    
    Equality through zero outcomes………
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:12am
- secondcumming
  
  My father in-law reckons jokes about Communism aren’t funny………unless everyone gets them.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:11am
- flipper
  
  Good stuff 🙂
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:41pm
kevn

and … who was on the crims wedding list back in 2016?
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November 21, 2018 9:02am
Kiwi_in_Paris

If only the BBC’s negative Trump “reporting” had been as thorough with Jimmy Savile, when it really counted.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/26/bbc-bosses-cover-tracks-savile-2012-andy-kershaw
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November 21, 2018 9:04am
dcrown

The dems are so desperate they are resorting to personal attacks on Ivanka over her email use. Until they hold Hillary Rodham accountable nobody cares what these hypocrites think.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/417603-house-oversight-dems-to-investigate-ivanka-trumps-personal-email-use
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November 21, 2018 9:09am
- Jules99
  
  Use of personal email should be investigated. If it is found that she had classified information in those emails, kept them on a purposely-built private server in her house, and failed to hand over 30,000 emails to make them available for discovery via the Freedom of Information Act, then she should be charged. I await crooked Hillary’s conviction for the crime. And note the evidence of Obama using a private email address while president found in Wikileaks.
  
  Interesting timing – Judicial Watch just got a judge to rule that HRC has to testify on her private email scandal – quick deflect to Ivanka.
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:00pm
- itstricky
  
  The dems are so desperate they are resorting to personal attacks on Ivanka
  
  I’m sure NO ONE here EVER said something personal about Hillary during the LOCK HER UP LOCK HER UP stage. No one. Not one. Not an utterance. Not a whimper.
  
  And of course, those same nobodies would have taken no joy in Republicans attacking her personally. Not at all. Ever.
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:52pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    but Hillary broke the law and there in lies the difference.
    
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    November 21, 2018 1:11pm
brett68

What’s with this Your comment is awaiting moderation.?

Is it a wordpress bug?
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November 21, 2018 9:12am
- Tall Man
  
  Probably someone hit the report button……….
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:13am
- Lucia Maria
  
  A random bug that gets everyone eventually.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:24am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  What’s with this hidden due to low comment rating .?
  
  Is it a KB bug stephieboy?
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:31am
- Biscuit
  
  brett68, you must have missed the news story.
  
  There was a worldwide poll:
  ‘Who should the Internet pick on for the week?’
  
  No idea why but there was only one name on the ballot list:
  brett68
  
  Still, you can’t sniff at 4,556,876,342 votes!
  
  I feels your pain!
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:53am
Longknives

Anyone notice how well Labour have managed to bury the Karel Sroubek story?
Media outlets have clearly been warned to leave this alone.
I know plenty of people from my former workplace have been gagged under warning of legal action..
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November 21, 2018 9:13am
- Tall Man
  
  Get that out as much as possible, someone must have access to an email or something.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:18am
  - Longknives
    
    This is the Opposition’s job Tall Man.
    Have they got the Cojones??
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:33am
    - sooty
      
      Just proves there is something corrupt is going on in the Labour party!
      What is been covered up?
      By who?
      Why?
      
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      November 21, 2018 10:19am
    - Tall Man
      
      True but with the press running block for Ardern and the rest it is not an easy task for the opposition to gain traction and the sheep of this country are generally incapable of looking at the facts themselves, just repeat the soundbites like steffy girl and the rest of the labour interns do on here.
      
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      November 21, 2018 1:11pm
- KevOB
  
  Can you reveal the workplace where gagging is in force.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:44am
  - Tall Man
    
    Why, do you like the idea of gags at work..;)
    
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    November 21, 2018 1:08pm
simpleton1

It seems the police decided with out direct evidence to do a pre-emptive raid, as it seems that it is too easy to go to full attack.
Need to go through hours of tapes, messages and encryption systems
The Dad said they were good sons, and there was no gun. 🙂

A woman in a burqa has furiously confronted people outside the Melbourne home of a man arrested for suspected terrorist offences today, calling them “cockroaches” and blocking entry to the premises with her vehicle.

The angry scenes came after police swooped in on three Victorian men after they were caught allegedly preparing an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack in Melbourne, which officers say was being planned to “kill as many people as possible”. https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/victoria-police-arrest-three-people-allegedly-planning-a-terror-attack-in-melbourne/news-story/e6a92273b37dce750937e1e0f86a7dcd

These 3 have been investigated, passports cancelled earlier. They had become ‘energized’ by the last week’s attack in Melbourne.
It was even though the previous attacker was on the “list” the police were too late as it was too easy to load a few gas cylinders and drive on the footpath, light up the vehicle, and then try and stab people. It fortunately did not go off as that dead jihadi wished.

Maybe the beginning of new policing system?
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November 21, 2018 9:22am
- kowtow
  
  The media love to say “Islamic state inspired” .
  
  It should be Koran inspired and copying the life and example of the perfect Muslim , Mohammed himself.
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:18am
  - Tall Man
    
    The pedophile you mean?
    
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    November 21, 2018 1:03pm
lastmanstanding

At a conference 2/3 Dec Cindy will sign us up to a UN Refugee Agreement that allows the UN to decide the numbers and where refugees come from.
At a conference 8/9 Dec in Poland Cindy will complete the signing of the Paris Agreement. In Dec 2015 countries were given 3 years until 12 Dec 2018 to pull out without any ramifications. After that NZ will be committed to whatever cost the UN decides we will bear.

Neither matter has been subject of debate in the Parliament. neither has been the subject of a Bill with the usual public Submissions.

The reasons are the conditions of both are so onorus no citizen with any common sense would agree to the terms and conditions.

Signing up to both is part of Cindys strategy to get a UN job when the morons who voted for her wake up to her real and personal agenda.
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November 21, 2018 9:26am
gump

Another day of carnage on the US sharemarkets. All of the gains for 2018 have been wiped out.

It turns out that feeding sugar to the economy doesn’t actually produce meaningful economic growth. Who knew…
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November 21, 2018 9:29am
- skyblue
  
  No worries Forrest. I am mortgage free and have 10’s of thousands in cash. Looking for bargains when the shit hits the fan, hell I might even purchase your mortgagee house.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:48am
  - gump
    
    Am I supposed to be impressed?
    
    But yes. The shit is about to hit the fan. That was the point of my post…
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:31am
  - Jules99
    
    Bitcoin is a good buy at the moment.
    
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    November 21, 2018 12:01pm
    - KevOB
      
      Yeah? What is it’s value as distinct from its price?
      
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      November 21, 2018 1:21pm
    - skyblue
      
      How to make $100,000, “invest” $1,000,000 in bitcoin.
      
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      November 21, 2018 1:30pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Gump,,mortgage, surely you jest.
    
    The continual envy that emanates from that twat clearly shows he/she is one of the greedy lazy tossers that live of the taxes of the hard working middle class NZ that Ardern plans to tax into poverdee…
    
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    November 21, 2018 1:01pm
    - gump
      
      Yes. In your idiotic world an Act voting Company Director with 20+ years experience in the logistics sector is a “greedy lazy tosser”.
      
      I can’t even chuckle at your insults because they’re so badly crafted. Please try harder or just stop trying.
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:27pm
- kevn
  
  @gump… Make that ‘some’ not ‘all’.
  Great opportunity for buyers as usual.
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:15am
- kevn
  
  Still about 10,000 up on early 2016. Was 16,000 then, now at 26,000. Just rounding to make it easier for you.
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:19am
  - gump
    
    Are you getting your market data from the back pages of the ODT?
    
    The DJI fell to around 24,400 this morning and is still falling….
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:51am
- dime
  
  dow at 24,000.. up 8000 since the great Trump came in.
  
  Dimes portfolio still up 13% this year.
  
  life is good my friend 🙂
  
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  November 21, 2018 1:28pm
  - gump
    
    The fact you don’t know how to even check historical pricing data makes me suspect you have never owned shares.
    
    Trump became President on 20 January 2017. The Dow Jones Index closed at 19,732.40 on the 19th.
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:22pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      You’re such a dumbass
      Stocks rise in Jan and often at year end there is profit taking
      https://learn.tradimo.com/advanced-stock-trading/how-seasonsa-holidays-affect-stocks
      
      Hey, how is that backstabbing undermining c***! Glenys these days?
      Lol
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:32pm
      - gump
        
        I’m guessing you weren’t captain of your school debating team?
        
        But since you bought it up, how is Todd Barclay doing since he got expelled by National? Oh shit – nobody cares.
        
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        November 21, 2018 10:31pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Oh and before Trump was elected the Dow in Oct 2016 was 18,126
      Nice cherry picking from you huh
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:42pm
      - gump
        
        The US Presidential election was in November 2016.
        
        But since you want to concentrate on October 2016 as being representative of the US stockmarket prior to Trump being elected, the Dow Jones Index never closed below 18,000 during the entire month.
        
        And yet two separate Trump supporters have claimed the index was 16,000 prior to Trump’s election. How peculiar.
        
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        November 21, 2018 10:25pm
secondcumming

My missus made our 4-year-old nephew Spaghetti Bolognese for dinner last night.
To save time, she rubbed the mince in his face and threw the rest on the carpet.
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November 21, 2018 9:31am
- Harkman
  
  Ha! I know one of my sibling’s little girls had what looked like red paint on her face Halloween night, as her older (4 year old) sister had on face paint from Kindy for the occasion so I said, “Did someone put a Heather Ledger, Joker face on her?” She laughed, “Oh no that’s just dinner.” Little terrors.
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:12am
Harkman

Man has it been cold in the last few days? I’ve never had on a heat pump this late in the year and for two days in a row! I went to the local Uni gym yesterday evening and the alarm went off for an official fire drill, and they called it off because it was too cold outside! Seriously!
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November 21, 2018 10:16am
- dcrown
  
  Must be Global Warming.
  /s
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:18am
- MCos
  
  Not often you see the word ‘gym’ bandied around on this forum.
  I had to look it up in the dictionary.
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:44am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    MCos, I own one. Love not talking shop on here, y’all are my only break from sets and reps
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:57am
- MH
  
  its all to do with the alignment of stars and planets….and intersectionality of them.
  I missed a few macrons there. A speed of a macron is proportional to the square root of 1 kilo-pascal per domestic unit.
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:26am
secondcumming

Great to just hear on 1ZB News that the *Clutha River* might be getting close to bursting its banks.
It was only last week that Genesis Energy were saying they had concerns about SI lake levels, and the possibility of power outages in Auckland over summer.
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November 21, 2018 11:13am
rangitoto

Twitford’s “affordable” houses coming to New Plymouth:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/108755451/new-plymouth-kiwibuild-houses-set-to-sell-for-100k-more-than-suburbs-median-price
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November 21, 2018 11:32am
- sooty
  
  Kiwi slum coming to a burb, hopefully not near you!
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:23pm
Morrissey

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
We Remember the Great War, While Palestinians Live It
by ROBERT FISK, Counterpunch, Nov. 19, 2018

There was something gruesomely familiar about the way we commemorated the supposed end of the First World War a hundred years ago. Not just the waterfalls of poppies and the familiar names – Mons, the Somme, Ypres, Verdun – but the almost total silence about all those who died in the First World War, whose eyes were not as blue as ours might be or whose skin was not as pink as ours might be or whose suffering continues from the Great War to this very day.

Even those Sunday supplements that dared stray from the western front only briefly touched on the after-effects of the war in the new Poland, the new Czechoslovakia, the new Yugoslavia and Bolshevik Russia, with a mention of Turkey. The mass famine – perhaps 1.6 million dead – of the Arabs of the Levant under Turkish looting and Allied blockade in the First World War received not a word. Even more astoundingly, I could find not a single reference to the greatest crime against humanity of the First World War – not the murder of Belgian hostages by German troops in 1914, but the Armenian genocide of a million and a half Christian civilians in 1915 by Germany’s Ottoman Turkish ally.

What happened to that key document of the First World War in the Middle East, the 1917 Balfour Declaration which promised a homeland for Jews in Palestine and doomed the Palestinian Arabs (a majority in Palestine at the time) to what I call refugeedom? Or the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement which chopped up the Middle East and betrayed the promise of Arab independence? Or General Allenby’s advance on Jerusalem during which – forgotten now by our beloved commentators – he initiated the first use of gas in the Middle East. So smitten are we by the savagery of modern Syrian and Iraqi history, that we forget – or do not know – that Allenby’s men fired gas shells at the Turkish army in Gaza. Of all places. But gas in the collective memory last weekend was confined, yet again, to the Western Front.

First World War Allied war cemeteries in both the Middle East and Europe contain tens of thousands of Muslim graves – Algerians, Moroccans, Indians – yet I did not see a photograph of one of them. Nor of the Chinese labourers who died on the Western Front carrying shells for British troops – nor the African soldiers who fought and died for France on the Somme. Only in France, it seems did President Macron remember this salient feature of the conflict, as well he should. For more than 30,000 men from the Comoros, Senegal, the Congo, Somalia, Guinea and Benin died in the Great War.

There used to be a monument to them in Rheims. But the Germans launched a ferocious racist attack on black French troops who participated in the post-First World War occupation of Germany for raping German women and for “endangering the future of the German race”. All untrue, of course, but by the time Hitler’s legions reinvaded France in 1940, the Nazi propaganda against these same men had done its work. Well over 2,000 black French troops were massacred by the Wehrmacht in 1940; the monument was destroyed. …..

Read more….
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/19/we-remember-the-great-war-while-palestinians-live-it/
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November 21, 2018 11:33am
- Morrissey
  
  Four boofheads have downvoted Robert Fisk, for pity’s sake.
  
  There’s no accounting for stOOO-pid.
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:49am
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    Make that Five Footling Frabjous F**kwits have downvoted one of the world’s most renowned journalists.
    
    SToo-pid, STuuuuupid, St0000pid, stooPID, stupidd.
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:51am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Most renown journalist????
      HA HA HA
      He is neither renown nor a journalist.
      He is a biased anti western society white hating comment er……AT BEST.
      NOTHING the west or the white race has ever done, has ever been written, by him, in positive terms.
      His self loathing is palpable.
      
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      November 21, 2018 12:00pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Idiot. Why don’t you read him instead of recycling what you’ve heard Leighton Smith say about him?
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:25pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Fuckwit Morrissey I have read him.
        It’s Leighton Smith I haven’t read!!!!!!!
        
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        November 21, 2018 1:00pm
      - Garbageman
        
        Now Now RW dont you know in this day & age its unfair to pick on the spastics anymore best just to scroll past otherwise it only inflates their sense of importance or worse that they think anyone gives a flying rats fandango what they think
        
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        November 21, 2018 1:25pm
    - Jack5
      
      Morrissey, re Fisk on the Chinese recruited to be labourers for the Allies in World War 1.
      
      Civilian helpers of armies don’t get memorials, and their contributions are often unjustly overlooked. Some of the volunteer pacifist ambulance drivers in World War 2 shared the danger of front-line soldiers, but I don’t know of any memorials to them.
      
      I wonder whether the hundreds of American civilians killed helping the South Vietnamese got their names on the Washington Vietnam War memorial wall?
      
      I don’t share your high opinion of Fisk as a journalist, Morrissey. Fish pushed or pushes his own views. He’s more of a propagandist.
      
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      November 21, 2018 1:26pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  and yet
  If all those British and British Empire troops had not lost their lives fighting the Turks.
  The Palestinians would have suffered the same fate as the Armenians.
  BUT being a smaller population than Armenians, it would have been genocide (the complete destruction of the Palestinian race).
  Then we would have not had this problem.
  History, is history, in the past.
  People made the best decisions they could with the tools and circumstances they had, at the time.
  Some were honest
  Some corrupt
  Some incompetent
  Q: Without hind sight, would YOU have made better decisions, on the available info. and social circumstances?
  I think not and looking at your posts here, a bigger disaster would have been wrought.
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:55am
- Longknives
  
  Go Israel!!
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:57am
  - Morrissey
    
    Precisely 75 years ago, fools like you were shouting: “Go Germany!!”
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:59am
    - igm
      
      And your ilk were dodging conscription papers!
      
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      November 21, 2018 12:04pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Correct.
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:25pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Israel has gas chambers?
      Israel is rounding up Palestinians in the street (for no reason) and sending them to death camps?
      Israel is making Palestinians wear yellow stars?
      Why didn’t you say so?
      Man!!!!!
      OOOHHH, because they aren’t
      
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      November 21, 2018 12:08pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Of course Israel is not the same as Nazi Germany. But the expression by the likes of yourself of hatred and contempt for the victims of an occupying army are identical.
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:28pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        my family spent 5 years under the Nazi’s and nearly starved.
        For a fuckwit like you to assume I don’t understand and know the difference!!! Is way past insulting!!!
        I have no hatred for Palestinian’s nor do I have overwhelming love for Israel.
        But I do like the truth.
        Of which neither you or Mr Fisk are remotely acquainted.
        
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        November 21, 2018 1:05pm
      - Morrissey
        
        But I do like the truth.
        Of which neither you or Mr Fisk are remotely acquainted.
        
        Could you tell us of just one occasion when Mr Fisk or I has not told the truth?
        
        Thanks for that, RWC.
        
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        November 21, 2018 8:03pm
    - Tall Man
      
      And dipshits like you were…dipshits.
      
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      November 21, 2018 12:55pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Morriessy, Noam Chomsky crude false equivalence stuff!
      
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      November 21, 2018 3:58pm
      - Morrissey
        
        What the hell are you on about Stephie? What a ridiculous thing to say.
        
        You obviously have not read anything by Chomsky.
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:30pm
      - sooty
        
        Ooh goodie! Stephie and Morrisey are going to have handbags at dawn dragem out fight!
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:36pm
- flipper
  
  again?
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:46pm
Fletch

The Balfour Declaration not only declared a Jewish homeland, but also mandated that nothing be done to prejudice or disrupt any exiting Arab communities. But that changed with the Nebi Musa riot in April 1920, when, in Jerusalem, Palestinians from nearby towns poured in and fomented jihad against the Jews: the mayor of Jerusalem (who is himself a Muslim) was quoted as saying: “If we don’t use force against the Zionists and against the Jews, we will never be rid of them.” Many in the crowd shouted back: “We will drink the blood of the Jews!” The mobs vented their anger, burning, pillaging, and beating up Jews and Arab police officers alike wherever they went.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/11/seven_times_palestinians_rejected_peace.html

Just one of seven times the ‘Palestinian’ Arabs have been offered a two-state solution, and rejected it every time.
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November 21, 2018 11:49am
- Morrissey
  
  Similarly, the existence of Irish mobs occasionally rioting against the English justified the imposition of starvation on Ireland in the 1840s.
  
  You’re ignorant.
  
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  November 21, 2018 11:54am
  - Longknives
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHqgHFcmAOc
    
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    November 21, 2018 11:57am
    - Morrissey
      
      Perfectly expressed, Michael.
      
      Seriously, dude: you’re ignorant. You know nothing. You don’t read. You hang about all day on a right wing blog haunted by people who reinforce your prejudices.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkoPq5AOCOA
      
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      November 21, 2018 12:08pm
      - sooty
        
        What makes you the rightous font off all knowledge? It’s only your own opinion!
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:19pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Potato famine fuckwit.
    
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    November 21, 2018 12:49pm
  - kowtow
    
    The Oirish imposted the famine on themselves by having too many children on plots of land that they themselves subdivided into subsistence holdings that could neither pay the rent on nor feed the family.
    
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    November 21, 2018 1:26pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Stoopid. Go back to sleep, f-wit.
      
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      November 21, 2018 3:10pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Extreme Ulster Loyalist stuff!
      
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      November 21, 2018 4:00pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Extreme Protestant lunatics like him are the main supporters of Israel.
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:29pm
      - howitis
        
        Ah, the tag team known as ‘two twats twaddling’
        Stiffie and Morrie
        
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        November 21, 2018 5:46pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Beware Killer Lettuce
E. coli outbreak: Romaine lettuce probed in US and Canada
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46284236
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November 21, 2018 11:59am
- sooty
  
  Killer greens! Who would have thunk!
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:16pm
  - Tall Man
    
    It’s starting……
    
    Zombies next….
    
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    November 21, 2018 12:40pm
- Jack5
  
  This is “cos lettuce” in British English, according to Wikipedia, which adds it is tolerant of heat compared with other types of lettuce. Could that be part of the problem?
  
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  November 21, 2018 1:19pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    There will be a contaminated water source somewhere in the food chain.
    
    https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/what-growers-are-doing-to-keep-romaine-lettuce-safe-to-eat/
    
    Don’t grow raw crops close to filthy fields (cattle ranches) or polluted irrigation canals.
    
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    November 21, 2018 3:42pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Or more simply take precautions and wash your veggies before cooking them.
      
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      November 21, 2018 3:53pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ stephieboy
        Read the article…
        Your advice is incorrect and dangerous.
        
        They are talking about Romaine /cos lettuces…
        salad greens…
        
        If contaminated with E.coli., discard.
        Rinsing/washing isn’t effective….
        
        “Consumers who have any type of romaine lettuce in their home should not eat it and should throw it away, even if some of it was eaten and no one has gotten sick,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said in its food safety alert.
        
        Refrigerator drawers and shelves where romaine lettuce had been stored should be sanitized, the CDC said.
        
        https://www.voanews.com/a/u-s-canada-warn-about-e-coli-in-romaine-lettuce-/4667001.html
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:26pm
Biscuit

Is Peter Williams for real?

In the ‘Horrid’ today he says that Steve Hanson, 15 years in his job with All Blacks coaching, ‘should go’ because he is exhibiting ‘signs of staleness’.

Not the same Peter Williams who has been in the media business for over 40 years and who DEFINES ‘staleness’?

Que?
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November 21, 2018 12:00pm
- igm
  
  Where is Andrew Saville . . . has he been shown the arse card or what?
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:03pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Useless fat b*&tard.
    
    PAUL HOLMES: Andrew good morning. You’re locked in your chair. What happened?
    
    SAVELOY: Errrr… ummmm…
    
    HOLMES: Listen, I woke up this morning and thought I’d written Lord of the Rings.
    
    SAVELOY: [nervously] Ha!
    
    …Long silence…
    
    HOLMES: And then I realised I’d been Tolkein in my sleep!
    
    …Long silence…
    
    SAVELOY: Ahhhhhmmm…
    
    …long silence…
    
    HOLMES: Hul-lo?
    
    SAVELOY: Errrrrrmmmm….
    
    HOLMES: Moving on….
    
    https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/daisycutter-sports-rugby-world-cup.html
    
    https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/is-andrew-saville-new-zealands-worst.html
    
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    November 21, 2018 12:23pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Seriously, why do you continue to self promote when no one is interested.
      
      That was rhetoric…
      
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      November 21, 2018 12:28pm
      - Morrissey
        
        “No one is interested.”???
        
        Really?
        
        http://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1538509687.html
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:31pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Not on this blog.
        
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        November 21, 2018 12:41pm
      - sooty
        
        Nor his own! Has to come here because other wise he would only have echos in his head.
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:31pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Nor his own!
        
        Good to see I’ve got another visitor to The Breen Report. I recommend you have a look at my recent entry about the mad Standard stalker “Jenny”. Disturbing and piteous.
        
        Has to come here because other wise [sic] he would only have echos [sic] in his head.
        
        Oooohh, no, no, no. One comes here because it does one good to see what other people are thinking—or not thinking, as in the case of the likes of dear old “igm.”
        
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        November 21, 2018 7:50pm
- kowtow
  
  Is he back on the turps ?
  
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  November 21, 2018 1:22pm
- dime
  
  yeah i saw that and laughed. peter williams calling someone stale BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA’
  
  what a fucking hack.
  
  not sure why hansen is coping it and the guy coaching the backs (who i think sucks balls) is getting off scott free.
  
  remember when we couldnt win a line out? that was on the forwards coach, not henry..
  
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  November 21, 2018 1:31pm
Hugh Pavletich

Piers Morgan on Hollywood’s hatred of Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AFt7iIP3Bg
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November 21, 2018 12:04pm
- sooty
  
  Branching out there, hughie.
  
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  November 21, 2018 12:14pm
  - howitis
    
    Will the branch sustain the weight of his ego?
    
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    November 21, 2018 5:57pm
- stigie
  
  You mean CNN’s hatred of Trump Hughie..?
  
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  November 21, 2018 1:22pm
Rich Prick

Hahaha, in New Plymouth it’s the KiwiBuild houses that everyone is priced out of. And you get the shit neighbours to boot.
*snigger*
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November 21, 2018 12:51pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Still hate Angry Andy up there?
  
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  November 21, 2018 1:07pm
- Poppa
  
  What a winner that Twyford is, I see the sections he wants others to build on & then put his badge on are only 200sqm in Te Kauwhata
  
  I didn’t realise he is building dog kennels
  
  He never fails to astound me at his incompetence
  
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  November 21, 2018 1:41pm
Swifty

Arrive here and then being systematically rorting our institutions for personal gain……

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/108752477/driving-testing-officers-took-bribes-for-licences-court-hears

I hope they get slammed in sentencing – and then kicked out.
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November 21, 2018 1:35pm
Rodney Randall

Today, the Polish government officially announced that Poland will not sign the United Nations Global Compact For Migration.

In doing so, Poland joins the United States, Hungary, the CzechRepublic, Bulgaria, Estonia and Austria.

These countries respect sovereign nationhood laws, not the edicts of unelected globalists seeking to legalise illegal migration.

Is NZ a UN puppet?

Will ILG bend over for the O.I.C?
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November 21, 2018 1:39pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Will ILG bend over for the O.I.C?
  
  He hasn’t already?
  
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  November 21, 2018 1:44pm
- simpleton1
  
  Australia 🙂
  
  Scott Morrison is following in Donald Trump’s footsteps by refusing to sign a global covenant on migration.
  
  The prime minister says the UN’s Global Compact on Migration would compromise Australia’s border security and undermine its immigration settings.
  
  “It doesn’t distinguish between those who illegally enter Australia and those who come the right way,” https://www.wellingtontimes.com.au/story/5769327/scott-morrison-snubs-un-migration-pact/
  
  So will we follow Australia, or bugger up the travel system we have with Australia, by going with the UN.?
  
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  November 21, 2018 2:20pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Thanks for the link re. Australian position
    
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    November 21, 2018 3:56pm
    - sooty
      
      Of course we are going to require a visa and passport to visit Australia. Comrade is going to stuff it up further than Herr Klark did! They have to stop refuges entering via the back door and the deportees that are returning here.
      
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      November 21, 2018 4:25pm
secondcumming

*RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*

‘Is there a softer cock on radio than that bloody Andrew Dickens?’

FFS!! I just about smashed the tranny!!!!
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November 21, 2018 2:50pm
- howitis
  
  “smashed the tranny”
  Careful with your choice of words 🙂
  …on the day we find out the rainbow mob are fighting each other in the carpark.
  Handbags and heels at high noon.
  
  I guess there won’t be any cops in the carpark there giving out tickets – in uniform or tight T shirts!
  
  Oh for the days when we had classy 6′ 2′ trannies like Carmen.
  
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  November 21, 2018 6:05pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”Oh for the days when we had classy 6′ 2′ trannies like Carmen.”….
    
    I still remember the night she & a few of her mates threw four of us fairly large lads out of “The Balcony” on Victoria St. With the admonishment, delivered in a deep baritone, “we don’t like that sort of behaviour here” we were summarily despatched to the footpath.
    
    My future Missus was our sober driver for the night & she’s never let us live it down. 🙂
    
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    November 21, 2018 6:31pm
    - howitis
      
      I remember going to Carmen’s ‘coffee shop’ when we were 17.
      We thought we were pretty cool.
      We certainly behaved when most of the ‘hostesses’ were way bigger than any First 15 Front or second rowers.
      It was all a bit of fun.
      
      Funnier still when Carmen stood for Mayor in 1977.
      Backed by dry-humoured Bob Jones.
      This was after Bob had written his book of:- the Achievements of the Third labour Government. Blank, cover to cover.
      
      What does Bob make of this vacant lot- Cindy’s Charlatans; vacant of morals; vacant of empathy; vacant of honesty; vacant of intellect; vacant of financial ability.
      The winner in 1977 was Michael Fowler who proved a very good 3 term mayor.
      Oh how times have changed in Wellington.
      
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      November 21, 2018 7:02pm
      - Swifty
        
        Get in behind!
        
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        November 21, 2018 7:55pm
Ross12

Mark Jennings has a column out, commenting on the demise of Radio Live and how it is going to merge with Magic.
This comment in the article shows why the MSM just do not get it

“Over the years, more than one radio consultant advised the company that its line-up was too left leaning or centrist when compared to ZB’s Paul Holmes, Mike Hosking, Leighton Smith and Larry Williams.

It might be overstating it to say talkback’s main consumers are rednecks, but ZB has certainly had success with its consistent conservative focus.”

So according to Jennings anyone with a centre -right or right wing view is a “redneck” but his previous paragraph listed the radio hosts who have made ZB the very dominant market leader and why Radio Live has failed. Can’t Jennings understand his own writing ?
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November 21, 2018 3:00pm
slightlyrighty

On the subject of random impertinent questions.

Why has the PMs department lost one of 3 press secretaries and its strategic communications director in the last week?
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November 21, 2018 3:07pm
- Poppa
  
  Anyway why does she need such people? Being the communications expert that she is, I am sure she can handle it all by herself.
  
  All she does is repeat the same lines every day, with a little bit of padding
  
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  November 21, 2018 3:22pm
- cmm
  
  I’m sure they’re superfluous given she has a BA in communications!
  
  The last one with major staff issues was Mega Fighter. Has PriNZess also been slapping the help around?
  
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  November 21, 2018 3:58pm
  - stephieboy
    
    cmm, and you a Ph d in ignorance!
    
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    November 21, 2018 4:02pm
    - Longknives
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHqgHFcmAOc
      
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      November 21, 2018 4:09pm
      - sooty
        
        And you just plain ignorant!
        
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        November 21, 2018 4:18pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      a Ph d in ignorance
      
      Hopefully you have the PhD-level qualifications needed to complete this investigation that you told us about earlier this year?
      
      All on Red , first could you please help with enquiries regarding a notice put on the door at St Albans ,
      Ralph Taylor
      ( stephieboy from Kiwiblog )
      cyberbully and a
      PERVERT .
      
      Kiwiblog readers would appreciate an update on your investigation!
      
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      November 21, 2018 5:48pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus. so far All on Red has not obliged. maybe you would like to help and persuade him or maybe yourself?
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:00pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        maybe yourself
        
        I have experience in investigations, particularly those of a regulatory nature, but I don’t think you could afford to pay me for my services – even at a discounted rate!
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:07pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus, unthinkable to make use of an incompetent like yourself!
        
        Besides its best to ignore puerile and infantile pranks like that.
        
        Agreed?
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:18pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        an incompetent like yourself
        
        Thanks for your opinion. Which file should I add it to: the “St Albans pervert” file (which I opened before you told me that you no longer require my services) or to the ongoing “St Lukes pervert” file?
        
        its best to ignore puerile and infantile pranks like that
        
        So why did you raise it in the first place?
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:26pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus, I brought it up a long time ago but you chose to bring it up again!
        
        Not me!
        
        Now try to grow up and move on with your life!
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:34pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        You come to Kiwiblog with the apparent intention of disrupting debate and insulting people. If you choose to question Cmm’s qualifications, as you did in your 4:02pm comment, then I’m equally entitled to question yours (particularly as you seem to fancy yourself as an investigator specialising in church door notices).
        
        I might add that Cmm’s comments indicate that he’s far more qualified on a number of subjects, including technology, than you are.
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:44pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus, cmm can speak for himself unless he has appointed you!
        
        It’s that simple!
        
        Now move on!
        
        BTW you don’t dictate what people may or may not post or say on KB.
        
        I like to say how things are as I see it. without apologies!
        
        If you don’t like it then tough!
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:58pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        cmm can speak for himself unless he has appointed you!
        
        Another reading comprehension fail. Who said I was speaking for cmm?
        
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        November 21, 2018 7:01pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Evening.
        Stephie
        You stupid effwit.
        I “obliged” you by telling you the ‘notices’ were nothing to do with me.
        I laughed and laughed though.
        Your embarrassment must have been huge
        Good job
        You deserve it you dirty little man.
        Edit- must say the comment looks pretty factual to me!
        
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        November 21, 2018 7:33pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Iranian immigrant found guilty of manslaughter after killing Melbourne Surgeon.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/man-who-punched-surgeon-in-smoking-row-found-guilty-of-manslaughter-20181121-p50heo.html

Joseph Esmaili had been on bail at the time of his attack
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/sep/22/man-charged-with-manslaughter-over-surgeons-death-on-bail-at-time-court-told
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November 21, 2018 5:10pm
- secondcumming
  
  Manslaughter?? FFS!!
  It’s just another filthy prick that deserves to swing.
  
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  November 21, 2018 5:18pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, an Islamophobic exclusive?
  
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  November 21, 2018 5:55pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Do you know this person’s religion?
    I don’t.
    I don’t care… I think all religions are nutty.
    
    But here is another example of an immigrant committing crimes in his new country.
    
    Why do you think they do that?
    My father didn’t commit crimes in NZ, neither did my in-laws.
    They were grateful that they had citizenship here and abided by this Nation’s laws.
    
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    November 21, 2018 6:00pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, irrelevant! obviously, people whether immigrants or naturally born Australian citizens commit crimes. Or is that not the case?
      
      But do continue to keep us entertained you with your Islamic Melbourne crime watch!
      
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      November 21, 2018 6:10pm
      - igm
        
        As far as I am concerned if they are born in a country and fail to integrate they are not citizens.
        The weird looking scum walking our streets in clothing resembling halloween garb is pissing me off.
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:13pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        irrelevant!
        
        Of course it’s not irrelevant.
        A human being has lost his life because an other thought he had the right to hurt him.
        
        Don’t you care about innocent people?
        
        The killed Surgeon was trained at Otago Med School.
        https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-of-otago/screams-heard-after-otago-trained-surgeon-punched-court-told
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:15pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Dr Pritzwald- Stegmann went to Hillcrest High School, Hamilton before doing his medical degree at Otago.
        
        But stephieboy thinks all that is irrelevant.
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:28pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, of course, I do but I think the fact the offender is Iranian is irrelevant.
        
        Or…?
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:31pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        but I think the fact the offender is Iranian is irrelevant.
        
        A young man doesn’t understand that he cannot smoke inside an Australian hospital….
        I wonder why?
        
        Perhaps you shouldn’t jump to trying to smear me before you reflect on why I might have posted a link to this story about the tragic death of a chap with friends and colleagues here in NZ.
        
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        November 21, 2018 7:06pm
igm

stephiewimp: What about this . . . MSM should be hung, drawn, and quartered!
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/11/jamal-khashoggi-and-osama-bin-laden-were-mates/
Maybe there is karma.
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November 21, 2018 5:59pm
- stephieboy
  
  igm , and Trump refuses to intervene against an important ally.
  
  Why?
  
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  November 21, 2018 6:01pm
  - igm
    
    Your filthy Islamist mates are becoming so detestable even Gnashers may have to reappraise her love of these misfits of society.
    We don’t want them, need them, or deserve them . . . there are decent people wanting to make new lives for themselves and their families who would appreciate the opportunities given, not abuse them.
    
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    November 21, 2018 6:07pm
    - stephieboy
      
      igm , most Muslims do make a valuable contribution to our society unlike riff-raff like you!
      
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      November 21, 2018 6:13pm
      - igm
        
        I happen to have a number of business interests and employ, and at one time even housed people.
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:18pm
      - stephieboy
        
        igm, wow! How do you manage given your state of mind?
        
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        November 21, 2018 6:36pm
      - DigNap15
        
        Can you give us any examples?
        
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        November 21, 2018 10:20pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Why would Trump intervene against them when they got rid of one of Bin Laden’s pals?
    
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    November 21, 2018 6:22pm
    - gump
      
      Bin Laden was a part of the Afghani Mujahideen that the Americans backed and financed because they were fighting against Soviet forces that had entered Afghanistan during the cold war.
      
      Bin Laden was considered to be a US asset for many years before he became radicalised and turned against the West.
      
      I don’t know why Whaleoil thinks Bin Laden was always an enemy of the US – but he is known for his idiotic opinions. Speaking of which, has he been bankrupted by the Hell Pizza guy yet?
      
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      November 21, 2018 8:40pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Riiiiight
        So at the end he was an enemy of the US
        And Khashoggi was his friend
        Another pointless comment from the Gimp
        You’re a pretty shit troll eh mate.
        
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        November 21, 2018 8:51pm
      - gump
        
        @All_on_Red
        
        Against my better judgment, I read the linked article on Whaleoil.
        
        It just reiterates what I said: That Khashoggi and Bin Laden were friends during the 1980s when Bin Laden was considered to be a useful ally of the US during the Cold War.
        
        But of course Trump has chosen to forgive Saudi Arabia for murdering Khashoggi. Even though Saudi Arabia was the country which financed and supported the September 11 hijackers. How peculiar…
        
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        November 21, 2018 9:50pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Where has Trump said he forgives the Saudi Crown Prince?
        Just like the world won’t miss Bin Laden they won’t miss his friend Khashoggi
        
        I note Obama was quite happy to deal with the Saudis and even bow to the King.
        Unlike Trump who didn’t bow.
        Alas real politik means the US needs the Saudis to deal to Iran
        Good job. They are bigger thugs than the Saudis
        
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        November 21, 2018 10:12pm
RW Capitalist

The govt. spending $80 mil on repairs to hospitals that were found, a year ago, not to be necessary.
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November 21, 2018 6:21pm
- kowtow
  
  Who built and signed off that shoddy shite ?
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:47pm
adaman

Following Phil Goff’s disastrous reign as Mayor (also see linked article), I’m starting to seriously consider throwing my hat into the ring for next year’s election (under a local body ticket called “Prosperity Auckland” that I’m thinking of setting up). I’m young (late twenties), but believe that I can do a better job as Mayor than Phil has done.

As of yet, this is what I plan on campaigning on if I run (ideas I had some time ago):
1. The regional fuel tax…gone.

2. Rates cut between 2-5% first year and no raising the rates first term. Potential for further cuts in second and third year depending on budget. Candidates would be required to sign a document that if they run under the Prosperity umbrella and break this rates pledge if elected, they resign.

3. Slashing of council spending by minimum of 5-10% within first term and overall reduction of spending by a minimum of 15-25% by six years time from next year’s spending level. This would mean the council could focus on paying off its ballooning debt and have room for further rates cuts whilst still having money available for infrastructure like transport.

4. A reduction in bloated council staffing levels by 10-20% over six years.

I wouldn’t put my name forward if someone who is more qualified and is of a similar policy mindset steps forward. I’d want to play a role in helping them in that case (if something is in the works in the background, I would love to know and get involved). But for now, I’m looking at potentially getting into this, and if I do, would love to create a local body group under which to run, and get buy-in from anyone here or elsewhere as well.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/108751855/opinion-is-phil-goff-losing-control-of-his-council
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November 21, 2018 6:29pm
- stephieboy
  
  adaman,
  
  Other local body or Central government political and management experience?
  
  A Donald Trump supporter as a matter of interest?
  
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  November 21, 2018 6:39pm
  - adaman
    
    Hey Stephieboy,
    
    No local body/central xp, but did initially start my career in public sector, now in private. Only low-level employee. Worked in an entrepreneurial arena for a few months recently. Currently working on my own business endeavour (very early stages) as a side hustle.
    
    Initially ambivalent on (but intrigued by) Donald Trump, but over time my feelings of him have started to move towards a negative direction. I disagree with many of his stances, but do agree on some. But as we all know, Donald is full of surprises……..though it’s not a discussion I’m having now. Latter stage perhaps.
    
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    November 21, 2018 6:53pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy:
    
    Maybe you should stand for mayor? Len Brown has set up an office for you:
    
    Thousands of dollars have been spent building a private bathroom and dressing room hidden behind a bookcase in under-fire Auckland Mayor Len Brown’s new office. And eyebrows have been raised about the secret rooms, given Brown’s past indiscretions. During a two-year affair with Bevan Chuang, the pair had sex in the mayoral office and other council rooms.
    
    You could go to the St Lukes cafe and invite girls to join you back in the office!
    
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    November 21, 2018 6:55pm
    - nasska
      
      Have mercy on the Auckland ratepayers! It’s taken years of elbow grease, Handy Andy & countless expensive blessings to get rid of the cum stains in the Ngati Whatua room! 🙂
      
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      November 21, 2018 7:05pm
- Surely Knott
  
  The most interesting thing re the Speedway was how the councillors voted. We had 11 opposed to Goff. And 10 for Goff. Those 10 included: Goff, 2 x National Party Members, and 2 x unelected Maori Statutory Board Members. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12163439
  
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  November 22, 2018 3:38pm
howitis

Stiffie boy sure shoots his seed around!

When ample young girls at St Lukes are simply not satisfying enough (is his dreams, of which there are many I’m sure). Others would see the same as a nightmare.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/11/sign-of-bad-luck-philippines-locals-in-fear-after-birth-of-bizarre-half-pig-half-human.html

…A farmer has been left in shock after one of her GOATs gave birth to a mystified half-pig half-human creature at a small farm in southern Philippines.
Josephine Repique, 40, says one of her goats went into labour earlier this month, pushing out two babies – one of which “looked like a pig, with a mix of human”….

…Unfortunately, both babies died shortly after the birth, prompting fears among local villagers that the creature might be a “cursed mutant devil”.
A vet was called in to perform a caesarean section, and removed one healthy baby – however, when the other one was pulled out, it immediately turned heads.
The bizarre creature, much larger than its sibling, had seemingly shiny pink skin, trotters likes a pig and a belly button similar to a human’s…

…”Nobody knows what it is, but it’s not a goat. It’s scary. We’re all wondering why it happened and if it’s bad luck,” Ms Repique said….

There is a picture. [Stiffie’s offspring]

Let’s hope Stiffie does the right thing and pays for a decent burial.
That is some real Moozlem blowback.
Shagging goats and the offspring looks like a pig.
Making Bacon!
Oh the Shame.

Should we start a GoFundMe so Stiffie can buy some condoms?
Such shame brought upon the Goat’s family.
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November 21, 2018 6:47pm
DigNap15

Most of kiwi blog members seem to be comedians these days.
Nothing but post after post of mindless childish drivel and abuse
No wonder Whale Oil has a much higher rating!
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November 21, 2018 6:57pm
- nasska
  
  Have you thought about taking the matter up with our host Dignap?
  
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  November 21, 2018 7:09pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    Dignap (with his numerous “Maori dictionary” contributions) presumably includes himself in the aspiring comedian category?
    
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    November 21, 2018 7:21pm
    - nasska
      
      I feel that our earnest friend wants 24/7 serious debate while neglecting the small problem that there’s neither topics nor commenters to oblige.
      
      Baity had a similar problem though in his case he wanted a full time platform for his own version of coproconservatism that Trueblue didn’t provide.
      
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      November 21, 2018 7:28pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        Hugh would happily step up to provide “24/7 serious debate” on housing affordability. He’s just waiting to be asked!
        
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        November 21, 2018 7:37pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        You mean 24/7 cut ‘n’ paste
        
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        November 21, 2018 7:42pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red, share with us your “indisputable “expertise in town / urban planning?
        
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        November 21, 2018 8:50pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        No
        Gee Stephie, we all NOTICE you seem a bit uptight these days.
        Anything you want to share?
        
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        November 21, 2018 8:54pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes I have
    Do you think I should?
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:18pm
nasska

“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”

Genesis 1 : 29

Yet even in our God saturated society eating a cannabis-infused biscuit can earn you an introduction to a judge.

Time for the conservatives to get their shit in one sock methinks.
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November 21, 2018 7:46pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  But don’t rush to eat the seeds of Strychnos nux-vomica trees or Ricinus communis shrubs.
  
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  November 21, 2018 7:54pm
  - nasska
    
    I wouldn’t join a rush for a dose of strychnine nor ricin. Indeed the by-product of the humble almond doesn’t do much for longevity.
    
    Yet the average citizen sees out his three score years & ten by reading, learning & observing valid health warnings rather than relying on conservative dogma based on denying use of a plant for no other reason than it may be pleasurable.
    
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    November 21, 2018 8:06pm
Maggy Wassilieff

NIWA backtracks on its earlier predictions.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/108743395/soggy-start-to-summer-likely-after-november-deluge

Time to dump the NIWA climate unit and let the Met Office run the show.
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November 21, 2018 7:48pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, maybe Jacinda and Winston should put you in charge with your expertise in plant physiology.
  
  To be fair to NIWA climate change can complicate weather patterns and make precise predictions.
  
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  November 21, 2018 8:58pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Lol, Stephie is Preaching on Climate Change.
    What are your qualifications again?
    Say, is it true your ‘underwear fetish’ has been reducing blood flow to your brain?
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:01pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I am not and never have been a plant physiologist.
    
    I am retired… I’ve done my 40 years of Hard Labour.
    
    There is no need to have a climate section at NIWA… Met Office can cope with Weather and Climate…. they managed well enough for decades.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:04pm
  - Tall Man
    
    steffy is a girl
    
    Ardern is a liar.
    
    Now piss off you mentally slow fuck.
    
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    November 21, 2018 9:29pm
    - sooty
      
      And Labour is supporting corruption!
      
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      November 21, 2018 9:53pm
- howitis
  
  As you referred recently Maggie, NIWA has one hell almighty Cray super computer.
  Sadly all their crap is based on computer modelling and no-one even has to look out the window.
  GIGO
  And we know that much false data has been backloaded in various ‘weather models’ around the world.
  They simply ignore reality.
  The year of the warmest temperatures
  NZ 1973; AU 1960; USA 1913 (more than 100 years ago, Dem damn Model Ts) and so on.
  We are currently on the verge of a Maunder minimum.
  
  Bear in mind the people who push this crap (climate fairy tales) are generally heartfelt believers in socialism and communism.
  They ignore facts there like the number of countries own citizens that were murdered in the name of Communism. Tens upon tens of millions in the 20th Century.
  Facts can be a bit of a nuisance …when you are liar.
  Facts are so judgy!
  
  The unfortunate thing is that on the Fisheries Management side NIWA has been World Class in its research over the last 30 years. Certainly in my knowledge up to five years ago.
  They have the brand tarnished by the wannabe barometer ignorers.
  
  The weather side of NIWA is crap. The last time I looked in October last year – noting they had been wrong for 4 years in a row- They say above average – and this is what dumb dumb media report but then you read it:- Above average 40% chance; Average 30% below average 30% so NIWA spread their bets and as any punter knows you will pick up some wins but lose more often.
  
  Hell they even have Adam Sandler doing the ‘forecasting’. See video.
  https://www.niwa.co.nz/climate/seasonal-climate-outlook/seasonal-climate-outlook-november-2018-january-2019
  
  This is theft of taxpayer money to pursue this route when there is a Met Office. Literal double dipping.
  Nats should have addressed it 08 to 17 along with TVNZ, RNZ, and so much other wastage.
  
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  November 21, 2018 9:48pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    We are currently on the verge of a Maunder minimum.
    
    That is the beauty of Zharkova’s hypothesis…
    She has placed a time-frame on the next minimum…
    A testable hypothesis
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_yqIj38UmY
    
    Unlike the IPCC Global warming folk who still can’t produce a model that resembles the real world.
    
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    November 21, 2018 10:33pm
wiseowl

Australia are not going to sign the UN Global Compact on Migration.
Hooray.
NZ should be following this lead.
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November 21, 2018 8:08pm
- DigNap15
  
  We should be, but with the COL and National lite, we wont be.
  
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  November 21, 2018 10:17pm
stigie

“NZ should be following this lead.”

NZ should but the bitch with the feelz won’t !~

Where’s Dad, nice to see him around last night..?
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November 21, 2018 8:15pm
Viking2

Understanding the millennial.

https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn

Good listen.
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November 21, 2018 8:34pm
nasska

If we understood the concept of freedom we wouldn’t be begging the government to allow us to use a plant.
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November 21, 2018 8:46pm
Surely Knott

Sue Bradford, ex green mp and leftist protester, will be promoting her new book at the Titirangi Library this weekend where you can purchase copies. Interesting that if you want to talk about ideas on the right you need to book a venue, hire security and then have your ideas approved by Phil Goff. But even if your ideas are political or militant on the left and you have been arrested, no worries, free council facilities are provided which will be a great opportunity to promote the book and also her party politics. Will they be consistent. Can other politicians promote books at the library.
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