General Debate 29 November 2018

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krazykiwi

There have been a spate of identity reclassifications recently, including the 69 year old man who identifies as 49, and the woman who claims her dog identifies as a cat.

While all intelligent people (and perhaps even stephie) know this will lead to societal chaos, and it must be stopped, that doesn’t prevent us having some fun in the meantime. So I invite anyone to share a fantasy re-classifications in the general form:

I am a [truth], but I identify as a [fantasy] so that [personally advantageous outcome]

For example, “I am a 47 year old, 100kg male weightlifter, but I identify as a 18 year old female wrestler so that I can win the next world champs”
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November 29, 2018 8:01am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  I identify as the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
  What will be my first lie??
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:04am
  - G152
    
    That was it 🙂
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:17am
- Pateke
  
  I am a 74 yr old overweight man seeking to become a gorgeous they so I can play with Terfs
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:21am
- Viking2
  
  krazykiwi
  
  There have been a spate of identity reclassifications recently, including,
  
  a personage of older age that’s become a born again nice guy. Apparently our speaker is no longer a thug.
  Short man with an even shorter memory.
  
  Least we forget.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:50am
- krazykiwi
  
  I am a 40-something failed media celebrity, but I identify as a 20-something party boy so I can have access to imported lawnmowers
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:56am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Why don’t you reinvent yourself as a SNAG and become a ~~house-hubby~~, ~~baby wrangler~~, domestic administrator.
    The Weekly Mags will luv you.
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:46am
    - Longknives
      
      You will need to grow a Hipster Beard first krazykiwi.
      *Oh and have You Tube quietly remove all those embarrassing sleazy videos you made when you were a ‘shock jock’..
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:53am
- Jazzby
  
  What about this obvious one?
  “I have one-sixteenth Maori blood (forget the other fifteen-sixteenths), and so I identify as Maori. This automatically entitles me to all manner of unearned political and social privileges; it also confers a deep sense of grievance. Suck it up, you mugs.”
  “P.S. I might even get a knighthood out of it.”
  
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  November 29, 2018 4:56pm
Inandout

ILG must resign NOW. He is a joke now in the immigration area, and staff despise him for laying the blame on them.
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November 29, 2018 8:01am
- Poppa
  
  What a train wreck that man is.
  
  The interesting part now is, will the convict squawk?
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:03am
  - marcw
    
    The COL are backing ILG now to buy TIME. They know the criminal will not squawk while he still has appeal opportunities – these will take years to resolve, so the triumvirate of Ardern, Peters, and “nothing to see here” Commissioner Bush are safe until after the 2020 election. Notice how “a fisherman” has already been distanced from the inner circle – trying to minimise the damage when the truth emerges.
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:31am
- igm
  
  Mike cut the philandering liar up well and truly this morning.
  Suppose he will be off to see the imam to get some more Muslim instruction.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:04am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Why do you want a flailing embarrassment to be sacked ? I want him to keep proving what incompetent fools the coalition of the damned are .
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:08am
    - cmm
      
      Don’t worry. If ILG goes:
      1) It will just expose the next moron who takes his slot, showing that they have depth when it comes to incompetence.
      2) The case is not over. As Sroubek goes through the court processes which will take years, it will continue to refresh ILG’s “image” in the media.
      
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      November 29, 2018 8:19am
      - sooty
        
        Corruption!
        Or just following orders from on high?
        You would asume from someone in parliament and not from the unions!
        Why, is what you have to ask?
        Is there something they don’t want us to know?
        Does someone on high partake in what the dud cheque was convicted off?
        Wooden know, just reading between the lines!
        My take is Slease Gallopaway is too dumb and stuffed up his orders.
        Resign!
        No backbenches for you!
        Byelection!
        
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        November 29, 2018 8:30am
      - sooty
        
        Has any sitting minister been convicted of corruption in NZ?
        
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        November 29, 2018 8:32am
    - Tarquin North
      
      I, and I would imagine plenty of others want to know what “read between the lines” means. Why did Jacinda say that? What relevance does it have? Why did she and Winston back ILG to the hilt? More to come for sure.
      
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      November 29, 2018 8:20am
      - igm
        
        Is there any truth in the strong rumour in political circles it involves Jethro?
        
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        November 29, 2018 8:23am
      - RF
        
        ILG made an interesting comment to Mark Mitchell in the house yesterday. He was denying that anyone had put political pressure on him and that he had also heard the rumours.
        
        Does this relate to Jethro’s activities ?
        
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        November 29, 2018 8:57am
      - KevOB
        
        If there is actual corruption it will out. Someone who did not get their fair share will rat.
        
        Meanwhile I am inclined to accept ILG’s personal admission yesterday. That revealed absolutely awful judgment by someone with authoritative Ministerial discretion. AI would have done better.
        The PM and Dickerty did no better. They suspended judgment too about the quality of the decision.
        
        Peters may have stretched truth by claiming to have previously read the file which ILG says he personally has only now gotten around to doing that.
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:08am
- krazykiwi
  
  Anyone read this:
  
  Lees-Galloway said Sroubek claimed that he was in danger if he was deported back to the Czech Republic. He had put weight on Judge Roy Wade, who dismissed Sroubek’s conviction on the basis that Sroubek was in danger if he were deported.
  
  He? Who exactly ‘put weight’ on a judge, and is this acceptable?
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:06am
  - dave_c_
    
    Reading between the lines . . . .
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:15am
  - peterwn
    
    Poor wording. Seems that ILG when making his decision ‘put weight’ on the judge’s decision and reasoning. Hopefully ILG would have not been so daft as to try and pressure a judge. That would be totally unacceptable and would cause a constitutional issue. A judge would presumably respond to such pressure by ignoring the pressure but stating that pressure had been attempted when giving a judgment or ruling.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:22am
    - dave_c_
      
      Edit – “A totally independent judge would ……”
      
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      November 29, 2018 8:29am
      - peterwn
        
        I have no reason to believe that NZ judges are not totally independent. Ok they may make some daft or misguided decisions but that does not mean they are not independent.
        There was an orchestrated attack by a journo and on Whaleoil some years ago against a retired District Judge (now deceased) who chaired a couple of tribunals (a quite normal retirement job for retired judges). This was partly to try and derail decisions that some people did not like. At no point was the judge’s independence under any serious attack.
        
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        November 29, 2018 9:47am
    - KevOB
      
      Re: Judge attack by WO.
      When the matter was brought to the attention of the judiciary officials the attacks ceased immediately.
      
      We have on balance an enviable judiciary.
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:16am
      - peterwn
        
        It went on for quite a long time and I weighed in with some pretty lengthy postings, such as rebutting the suggestion made more than once that he was improperly appointed because he did not have a lawyer’s practicing certificate. He handed in his certificate when appointed a judge and there was no need for a practicing certificate for the tribunal chair positions. He was also inappropriately accused of drinking too much because his speech was slurred – the poor guy was suffering from motor neurone disease and slurred speech is a symptom.
        
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        November 29, 2018 11:06am
      - KevOB
        
        I saw the whole of the scurrilous attack. I know the work of the Tribunal well and have appeared before a previous Judge.
        
        I am aware of who spoke to the judiciary staff officer who did not know what was going on.
        No further posting occurred.
        
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        November 29, 2018 3:45pm
    - freethinker
      
      Your faith in the Judiciary is touching but probably misplaced.
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:39am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Krazykiwi:
    
    The “put weight” on wording could have been expressed more precisely, but in an administrative law context, it relates to weighing up different considerations when exercising a statutory decision-making power.
    
    The only person who seems to be “putting weight” on in Team Jacinda is Megan Woods. Ian Lees-Galloway is (for now at least) still skinny enough to hide behind a pillar to avoid journalists!
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:28am
    - sooty
      
      No chance of ILG putting on weight at the moment. He would be shitting yellow.
      
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      November 29, 2018 8:36am
- artemisia
  
  For years, the Sroubek situation is going to hang around the Minister’s neck like an albatross. It will be mentioned in relation to every immigration decision he makes, and of course will erupt in the media time to time even after finally being resolved in around 2028.
  
  Since he is so keen on following the previous government’s processes, what’s the betting he delegates all decisions back to officials in line with the previous practice. Then officials can take the Sroubek and any other heat.
  
  Result!
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:07am
  - RF
    
    In merry old England they used to have gibbbets hanging at cross roads. Executed criminals were stuck inside and there they rotted away with crows
    feeding on their putrid remains.
    
    ILG reminds me of a what you would expect to find in one of these delightful cages.
    
    Interesting that with Cindys world collapsing around her she has gone to ground with Jethro. I guess Chinese meals are off the menu. May I recommend the cold turkey.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:37am
    - freethinker
      
      Perhaps Horse face is already going cold turkey judging by her white face and petulant manner in the house yesterday. On the other hand perhaps her forceful assault on the green seat indicates that she is suffering from Liar Lair Knickers on fire so excluding the air starves the fire of oxygen.
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:44am
- cmm
  
  Last night on RNZ they really threw ILG in the wood chipper.
  
  Normally when they read the feedback comments, they will read a whole lot of leftie-positive comments, then one or two leftie-negative comments for “balance”.
  
  Well last night it was just a string of negative comments. Harsh by their standards.
  
  Lefties are like a barn of chooks. Once the pecking starts, everyone has a go!
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:16am
  - sooty
    
    Stick a fork in him he’s done.
    When the media sticks him, he’s toast!
    Just wait till the journalists start on him!
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:40am
- JIV
  
  Winston yesterday was an embarrassment. Haranguing the speaker and quite obviously trying to be thrown out of the debate. His only point appeared to be wanting to know who was leaking information to National. It seems to be his ‘go to’ defense. He doesn’t deny the allegations just wants to know how you found out.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:18am
  - Tall Man
    
    He was either well under the weather with a double skinful or on some serious meds.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:22am
    - freethinker
      
      Possibly white powdered meds?
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:46am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      Try Korsakoffs Syndrome
      
      https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/types-of-dementia/korsakoff-syndrome
      
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      November 29, 2018 11:44am
  - RiP NZ
    
    Just yesterday?
    He is a permanent embarrassment. Never before has someone achieved so little for such a long period of time. Curse the 7% retarded section of society.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:32am
    - KevOB
      
      A min of 8% for MMP.
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:20am
  - Liberty
    
    Watching Winston being kicked out of the house for being a total prat. Priceless.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:39am
    - KevOB
      
      Being was being an arrogant rude bully. Reminiscent of drunks.
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:22am
  - greybeard
    
    I sent the following email to Larry yesterday just before 4pm.
    “Just watching Parliament TV:
    Paula Bennett & Nick Smith are terrific.
    Peters was embarrassing.”
    Pity there were so few members in the House.
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:29am
  - softail 1450
    
    JIV, the gnome peters is pointing the finger of blame at the criminals ex partner, reading between the lines I can see this fiasco getting much sleazier
    and down right dirty , get a good stock of popcorn and drinks its going to be great fun.
    
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    November 30, 2018 6:55am
- calendar girl
  
  PM Ardern herself has said that she would not accept ILG’s resignation if it was proffered. It seems that both of them have been more focused on the protection and welfare of a drug-dealing foreigner (who entered this country using fraudulent means) than they are in the interests of New Zealand and its ongoing fight against the illegal drug trade.
  
  Monumental incompetence on the part of both of them.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:19am
  - sooty
    
    No, not looking after the dud cheque. Looking after someone in the top echelon of the NZ parliamentry Labour party!
    Just reading between the lines.
    Why? What makes lines?
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:46am
  - cmm
    
    Of course she does not want ILG to go any more than she wanted Curran to go.
    
    Forget the RNZ mess, Curran’s biggest mess was setting up Handley’s job because PriNZess asked. It was all going well until Curran went, the next minster took over and reversed the Handly appointment – bringing the whole mess of PriNZess’ involvement to light. While Curran was still minister the wraps stayed on.
    
    It could be the same plays out here. With ILG in office, the true story behind the story stays hidden. If ILG goes then another, less trusted, minister takes up the portfolio and gets involved. Then what is going to spill out?
    
    Nope. PriNZess will want ILG in place for as long as possible. He’s her heat shield in this mess.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:52am
    - Paulus
      
      Where is Faa Foi today – get back to Wellington – I have another job for you.
      Seems to be the only clean one at present.
      
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      November 29, 2018 1:59pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I notice she just says No very quickly
    No reason or justification.
    Just No
    What an evil woman
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:54am
    - GoVege
      
      “Evil?”
      For saying no?
      
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      November 29, 2018 7:06pm
- Paulus
  
  Can he trust or be trusted again by the Immigration Department people or will they sit back and watch him continue to SNAFU ?
  No Minister whoever he/she is should blame his Department like Galloway has done.
  Did he learn nothing at Kings or the Nurses Union – obviously he was not taught to read either.
  Foolish boy as it will come back to bite him on the bum.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:21am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    Remember Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. When a Minister throws the Departments under bus the Department will eventually reciprocate. They know where the bodies are buried and at the right time will dig them up.
    
    ILG is toast. At some point very damaging info on this case will be leaked and the real reason exposed.
    
    It could be enough to bring the COL down.
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:51am
- Philview
  
  The great thing about this is that Jacinda looks like a guilty 5 year old when she lies. I saw her in action last night and the face puffs up, worried eyes go wide and the words coming out of her mouth don’t connect to the expression on her face. Someone send that woman to acting classes.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:30am
  - sooty
    
    No, she’s perfect the way she is.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:48am
- peterwn
  
  There are those who thinks he should not resign. They fall into two groups:
  1. PM, Labour MP’s and those who comment on the ‘Standard’.
  2. Those who think he is the gift that keeps on giving – from National’s perspective.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:40am
- niggly
  
  ILG’s statement’s yesterday were somewhat confusing – he outlined to reporters that he read the 12 page summary and had an official from Immigration point out and discuss important aspects (pages/sections) of the report with himself …… yet ILG then doesn’t take ownership of his poor decision making (how hard can it be when he has an Immigration official with him helping him explain why Sroubek is a bad character?) and then to take matters worse, he still blames officials for not providing him with the correct advice and now is going to waste further taxpayer money to have yet another top official review the Immigration official’s process – this is unbelievable and does ILG’s credibility no good (and he is one of Labour’s “better” Minister’s)!
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:01am
  - calendar girl
    
    “…. ILG’s credibility ….”
    
    Euphemism of the week.
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:58am
  - KevOB
    
    He also explained how previously Ministers had left these discretionary decisions to officials. ILG would have been wiser to have done that too. A Deptl. team has consistency and saves the Minister much effort.
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:32am
    - sooty
      
      Unless he was told what his opinion was.
      
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      November 29, 2018 12:24pm
    - peterwn
      
      There is one aspect where I may have sympathy.
      Did the Departmental report have a recommendation and a few key facts in the Executive Summary? If so then the ‘I did not read it’ excuse would not wash. However if the Minister was sitting in the back of a CR limo with a box file full of papers to deal with by the following day (AFAIK a quite normal situation) and thought at a glance residency was OK, I would have some sympathy for him. In that case officials deserve a kick in the backside for not producing a clear concise paper with an executive summary.
      
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      November 29, 2018 1:23pm
- KevOB
  
  ILG’s explanation in the house yesterday showed a peculiar legalistic way of thinking. He said he felt almost bound by a previous trial judge finding that Sroubek was in danger if he was returned. That arose during sentencing. The probable “read between the lines”?
  That excuses ILG from consideration of likely corruption on his part. It does not excuse the appalling lack of judgement. Which takes precedence the safety of NZ or Sroubek? Is the UN that persuasive?
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:55am
- MickMac
  
  Don’t forget so did Jacinda the unelected PM also blame the NZIS staff to defend him.
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:28am
dave_c_

ILG must resign NOW.
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November 29, 2018 8:02am
- harvey wilson
  
  No. He must embarrass Ardern more
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:09am
  - igm
    
    Does Ardern not embarrass herself every time she exposes that mouthful of crockery.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:12am
    - freethinker
      
      Spelling mistake its crookery.
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:50am
Sofia

3 headlines –
Parliament review will reveal drinking, cheating, sexual abuse, bullying – Duncan Garner
Winston Peters kicked out of the House after testy exchange with Deputy Speaker
Winston Peters has ‘no idea’ why bullying review into Parliament is taking place
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November 29, 2018 8:02am
- pdm
  
  Sofia are you saying Peters is a bully?
  
  I thought he was just a dictator.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:05am
  - cmm
    
    “I thought he was just a dictator.”
    
    Why did you bring the tator into this?
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:12am
    - sooty
      
      Should have to take a drug test!
      Edit. Everyother workplace does. Why not them?
      
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      November 29, 2018 8:49am
  - KevOB
    
    He attempted to bully Madam Speaker Tolley yesterday.
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:57am
    - sooty
      
      Just as well it wasn’t Trev, cause he would have got the biff!
      
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      November 29, 2018 12:27pm
      - igm
        
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        November 29, 2018 4:48pm
- igm
  
  One common denominator: Mallard . . . he is responsible for committing everyone of these offences.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:15am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes the irony of Duckie ordering an enquiry into bullying. I wonder if he’ll revert to fists if he doesn’t get his way?
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:23am
    - igm
      
      He only resorted to fists (pathetic attempt) because he knew Henare had serious cardiac problems.
      He is, and always has been, a wimp!
      
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      November 29, 2018 8:27am
    - GoVege
      
      Trevor only resorts to fisticuffs in defence of a lady.
      What a man…. 🙂
      
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      November 29, 2018 11:42am
- Paulus
  
  I heard from inside the Belt that Mallard in no way wanted this review.
  He was told to do it by Ardern/Simpson to continue obfuscation of a terrible Government.
  Peters is right too for a change.
  See his piles were hurting him yesterday in the House.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:24am
  - Philview
    
    Even the TVNZ news team were cracking up with laughter about another review.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:32am
- MickMac
  
  Will The Speaker Mr Mallard, resign over his involvement in the Setchell affair and bullying of state employees?
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:37am
dave_c_

Not sure what others think, but I believe the Bill passed last night – requiring country of origin details on foodstuff – is a great outcome.
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November 29, 2018 8:04am
- softail 1450
  
  dave c ,if it did that is indeed a good thing ,I for one am sick of reading labels to verify where my food originated .
  a large “NZ made” label will be a welcome thing when shopping for food….
  
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  November 30, 2018 7:05am
Lance

I have to say, I enjoyed Hosking grilling interview of ILG this morning.
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November 29, 2018 8:05am
- dave_c_
  
  Indeed – this will put more heat on the PM, as she indicated his job is secure.
  So she is now seen as continuing to support a liar, incompetent, arrogant, non remorseful arsehole.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:08am
  - krazykiwi
    
    support a liar, incompetent, arrogant
    
    Those are traits he shares with Ardern. She won’t recognise anything’s amiss.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:11am
  - VicParking
    
    She skipped question time yesterday and will be in Westland today. Reading between the Lines I would think she is a scaredy-cat and that her lies, like all lies, are going to bite her real bad when she returns to the house.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:33am
    - Lance
      
      This calls for a marathon schedule of televised primary school and preschool visits, with frenetic head nodding and talking without saying anything.
      
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      November 29, 2018 8:37am
      - RF
        
        Is squirrel attached to her upper arm in lieu of a cell phone ?
        
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        November 29, 2018 8:43am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yep,
      The woman is incapable of leading.
      Imagine her at the helm in a time of crisis.
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:02am
      - Longknives
        
        Maggy-
        Imagine her response when (God Forbid) we get our first Terrorist attack?
        ‘Prime Minister we have a truck mowing down and killing dozens of Pedestrians on Queen Street’ (or something like that..)
        I honestly think she would go into blind panic and lock herself in the toilet cubicle…
        When the Media finally catches up with her she will tilt her head sideways, put on her frowny face and babble something about ‘I don’t accept this is Terrorism’ and ‘launching an Enquiry’ before rushing off to hand out participation prizes at the local Primary School…
        This woman isn’t fit to manage a Fish and Chip shop let alone a major National crisis!
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:01am
    - Paulus
      
      She is shelling out Millions in the West Coast today along with the Jones boy to try and prop up O’Connors job.
      The retiring newspaper owner Mayor is after his seat.
      
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      November 29, 2018 2:04pm
- MCos
  
  About the only thing running in the chap’s favour is that he’s at least fronting up for these interviews.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:28am
  - dave_c_
    
    He has no option – any other position would only make the hole 10 times larger.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:34am
    - MCos
      
      I constantly hear on the radio or TV
      ‘We asked for an interview, but they declined due to ’
      
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      November 29, 2018 8:51am
- hullkiwi
  
  Listening to Red Radio this morning, I didn’t get all the interview, but iLG wouldn’t even answer Espiner’s first question, “was your first decision wrong”. He continued to evade.
  
  Last night with Owen he was dancing on a pin head. Trying not to blame officials while throwing them all under the bus.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:28am
  - MCos
    
    What do you expect; he’s a politician?
    
    Of course he could blame the police, the justice department, Immigration, Czech Republic, Sroubek‘s mum . . . . . . . Jacinda.
    That’s the sort of thing that works for Trump, but he’d be celebrating Christmas with Jamie-Lee Ross if he tried that here!
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:05am
secondcumming

Made a point yesterday of watching the *Urgent Debate* on what is the Scroubrek cluster. Firstly, big-ups to Madame Chair, for engaging in a bit of *Dwarf Tossing*.

But, OMG…..that new-look *Paula B*, is she beautiful or not, when she gets ANGRY!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeIL_ZNZ_Y
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November 29, 2018 8:08am
- freethinker
  
  Very concerning that first term MP and past POlice union president Greg O,Connor made a remark that Paula considered sufficiently Obnoxious & unnecessary to briefly mention it and skillfully dismiss it .
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:08am
Longknives

Where is our ‘Part Time Prime Minister’ hiding this week?
Both her and that arrogant prat of a boyfriend of hers seem to have been laying very low of late…
Any sightings? Honestly- How long can you hide when you have gnashers the size of the Easter Island Statues?..
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November 29, 2018 8:08am
- Tall Man
  
  $10k per week to do what…….
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:27am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Telling us:
    She really understands…
    She is fight poverty…
    Have a baby….
    Tell us about baby, when publicity requires
    Go on overseas junkets and throw out NZ cadsh to her adoring fans….?
    Photo shoots in magazines & gushing interviews abroad….
    Making bad captain’s calls
    Talking about foreign leaders at awards do’s with comedian friends who then talk in the media…
    
    She is really busy, doing anything, but the job we pay her to do that is running our country….
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:43am
Maggy Wassilieff

Mallard’s bullying revealed:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/11/he-was-a-bully-christine-rankin-accuses-crude-trevor-mallard-of-bullying.html

Ms Rankin says she was relentlessly bullied by senior Labour Party ministers after they took power in 1999, and that group included now-Speaker Mr Mallard.

“He was a bully,” she told Newshub. “They were all bullies and they revelled in it.”

She says ministers would whisper and laugh about her during meetings – with Mr Mallard using language that still makes her too uncomfortable to repeat.

“He was crude and rude and it was directed at me.”
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November 29, 2018 8:10am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Which makes Mallard’s decision to order an inquiry into bullying in Parliament all the more surreal.
  
  Let’s not forget Erin Leigh either, a PR consultant working at the Environment Minister, and defamed under Parliamentary Privilege by Mallard and others:
  
  So who is at fault for what happened? The Ministry for the Environment or Trevor Mallard?
  
  “Both; 50/50. Both made up complete lies about me. The Ministry for the Environment started it and Mallard added to it and took it to an even more vicious level. So, in my opinion, both are equally to blame. Mallard is accountable to the Privileges Committee and the Ministry for the Environment is accountable to the State Services Commission and, now, to the High Court. Both had the power to remedy the situation and both had editorial control over what they said about me. The Ministry for the Environment could argue that they felt Mallard pressured them into providing false information but they have never said this. Both have done nothing to put things right nor issued a sincere apology to me. Iain Rennie the State Services Commissioner was in the room and in attendence when all of this took place but did nothing to intervene.”
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/09/erin_leigh_qa.html
  
  Can a leopard change his spots? I somehow doubt it.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:26am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And remember Clare Curran’s role in that affair.
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/opinion/duncan-garner/rennie-its-time-to-apologise-over-erin-leigh-2011092113
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10477645
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:06am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Trevor Mallard and Clare Curran (before she became an MP) were both involved in a systematic destruction of a public servant’s reputation. Now Mallard wants to investigate bullying in Parliament.
      
      You have to hand it to the man; hypocrisy doesn’t get much more brazen than that.
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:26am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It wasn’t just one public servant’s career that was destroyed by Mallard & Co.
        
        They destroyed Hugh Logan’s stellar career.
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10480529
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:46am
- freethinker
  
  Come on Christine tell us all, if the language is as crude as you infer follow Kiwibloggers do and insert * were required, we can work the words out.
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:11am
- GoVege
  
  Christine Rankin, Maggy!
  Surely you could find a better example.
  Isn’t this the #%$@ who apparently sent a memo to Winz staff NOT to let clients know about their entitlements?
  And married her friend’s husband shortly after she suicided?
  Guess who might be the “bully”?
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:48am
cmm

The CO2 game for young and old

Gather around folks. Let’s play a game. This is fun and instructive. But first, the boring bit…

Humans, even people with an engineering and science background like myself, really are bad at processing big numbers. This game is intended to scale things down and bring things into context.

When the climate folks speak of gigatons of CO2, that sounds very scary. No wonder we have kids, and even some adults, freaking out we’re all going to burn to a crisp in the next ten years. This game is designed to alleviate some of the anxiety.

The atmosphere is HUGE too. What does gigatons of CO2 really mean?

All the calculations used here were done by a real scientist who even wore a white lab coat!

Enough blaah, blaah, blaah. The fun starts…

First find yourself a few things. These are what I used, but substitute things roughly the same size:
* Tiny thing: Get a grain of rice and cut it in half.
* Two small things: I used a pingpong ball and a box of matches.
*Medium thing: Something about the size of two egg boxes or a pre-internet Yellow pages. I used a big dictionary (one with complicated words like “trivial”).
* Big thing: Something about 20-25 litres. A big bucket or a big couch cushion. I used a big cushion.

Now take them too your lounge. The cushion is already there. Handy eh?

Now put on your imagination hat. The whole atmosphere in the whole world has been scaled down to fit into your lounge by an Evil Scientist called CMM. You can blink the lights a few times for effect if that helps.

If the room is the size of the atmosphere, guess what’s the size of all the CO2 in the atmosphere? Is it the size of the couch or the size of the grain of rice? It is actually the size of the big cushion. Not much compared to all the size of the room is it?

Now guess the size it would be if everyone in the world got together in a big group? Would it be bigger or smaller than the cushion? It is actually the size of the half grain of rice. We’re really really tiny! So much for taking over the whole planet!

Now guess the size of a pile of all the bacteria in the world? You know, all those things you can’t even see. Bigger or smaller than the gain of rice? They’re the size of the box of matches. There’s way more of them. Which do you think has more impact on the planet? Size-for-size, bacteria produce much more CO2 than people do. Which do you think has more influence on the world the people or the bacteria? Well duh! The bacteria of course!

Now guess the size of all the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels in cars, factories, planes, power stations all all that for a whole year. All of it together! Is it bigger than the cushion or smaller than the grain of rice? It’s about the size of the pingpong ball. Put the pingpong ball on top of the cushion. The cushion (all the CO2 in the atmosphere) hasn’t really got any bigger has it? Well that’s what all the climate change people are freaking out about!

Now guess the size of the CO2 from the bacteria. Do you think it is bigger than the cushion or smaller? It is about the size of the dictionary. Compare that to the pingpong ball. Which makes more us or them? Which do you think has the most effect?

The cushion is all yummy plant food so the plants are eating it up. They eat lots, while us, and the bacteria, are putting food into the cushion, the plants are eating it making the cushion smaller. In fact the cushion really is so small that the plants can’t get enough food and are starving.

Now consider this: until the industrial revolution, we humans were not making the pingpong ball of CO2. We have only been making that pingpong ball for about 150 years, but the bacteria were making the dictionary of CO2 for hundreds of millions of years and the world was fine. Are we really supposed to believe that the pingpong ball makes all the difference?

All the CO2 from cars is only a small part of the pingpong ball. Say the size of a pea or a small grape for a year of using cars. Are we really supposed to believe that if everyone changed to electric cars (which still make CO2), that a pea will change the whole picture? Put a pea on the cushion and consider.

Have fun discussing!

Bonus Game: Get another dictionary size thing (or reuse the same one). Remember PriNZess’ flight to Nauru? If everyone made a trip like that, then that is the amount of CO2 that would be produced by just doing that one trip. Does that square with her concern for CO2 levels? Why is she saying the pea (petrol cars) is so bad but the dictionary (her flying around) is fine?
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November 29, 2018 8:11am
- dave_c_
  
  Excellent analogy CMM.
  My immediate reaction was that the cushion would appear to consume more room of the lounge in one of those new Kiwibuild homes, than in my living room. This is how the gweenies make a mockery of the true scale of any issue they rasie.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:22am
- lofty
  
  A long post but I couldn’t stop reading it..bugger ya.
  Nicely done.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:27am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  If you separated the gases of the atmosphere and layered them at constant sea level densities Nitrogen would be a layer 7.8km thick, Oxygen 2.1km, Argon 100m, Steam 5m and CO2 4m. 100 years ago it was about 3m thick.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:52am
  - cmm
    
    Yup, but people struggle to think of 10km thickness going up into the heavens.
    
    If you scale it to 1 metre, that’s easier to grasp:
    Nitrogen = 78cm
    Oxygen = 21 cm
    Argon = 1mm
    Steam and CO2 etc = thickness of cling film
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:07am
- cmm
  
  I genuinely urge people to play this game, especially with the kids having their minds filled with dross in schools etc.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:56am
- cmm
  
  Fun Fact:
  
  The atmosphere is massive. For every person on the planet there is approximately 1 cubic km of atmosphere (ie. a cube 1km on each side).
  
  That is the size of a 300metre by 300metre square, going up all the way into space.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:37am
  - All_on_Red
    
    So is the Ocean.
    It covers 361,000,000 sq kms.
    How many Argo Buoys do they have measuring the sea temperature?
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    3800. So one every 95,000 sq kms.
    Accurate eh.
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    November 29, 2018 10:52am
- cmm
  
  Oes noes! I see some climate hugger down-tickers can’t cope with science and need their puppy room!
  
  Fun fact: If you took all the puppies in the world and made them into a pile next to the grain of rice, they would be smaller than a single grain of sand!
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:20am
- stephieboy
  
  cmm , the real scientific take and evidence on co2 and climate change and not your rambling conjectures and guesswork,
  
  https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/basics-of-climate-change/
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:35am
  - cmm
    
    My lab coat is bigger than your lab coat. I win!
    
    Trougher “scientists” will say what they need to say to keep the trough full.
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:46am
  - Rich Prick
    
    You’re that bloke at parties who likes to talk about his job at Inland Revenue.
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:50am
    - cmm
      
      Yup and make boasts about how much value they make for the country.
      
      “Yesterday I processed $5m of IR3s. That’s what’s paying for all your roads and schools. My hard work!”
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:53am
  - MickMac
    
    Stephie
    The whole gambit of Climate Change science is political and not science at all. (as you well know).
    Mr Mann and Climate gate showed us that.
    models made by people, not science…..
    Follow the money dear boy.
    
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    November 29, 2018 11:56am
JIV

Is there a climate conference coming up? We’re getting bombarded with climate stories in Stuff with a lot of use of the word “could”. Its almost as if they are angry their predictions for a hot dry November fell apart.
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November 29, 2018 8:14am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep, its in 4 days time. (Though some preparatory meetings already happening)
  http://cop24.gov.pl/
  
  It lasts for 11 days.
  
  Can’t imagine that the temperature will be too balmy.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:16am
  - JIV
    
    Does the world still need climate change conferences?
    They keep telling us the science is settled and theres no need for debate, therefore the scientists dont need to do any more worthless study on it.
    Added to that the Paris agreement will save us all. They promised. It was such a huge success.
    Therefore why do we need annual conferences??
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:19am
    - cmm
      
      If they really do need the conferences, then just use Skype.
      
      No need for burning all that jet fuel. But no, troughers must trough!
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:29am
    - KevOB
      
      It’s a demand fest for more control and money.
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:43am
      - cmm
        
        Yup
        
        Read the conclusion of just about every public funded research paper any you will find a statement saying something like:
        “More research needed. Further funding required.”
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:50am
  - Paulus
    
    Isn’t Ardern going for the photoshoot in Poland ?
    
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    November 29, 2018 2:08pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      James Shaw has gone over…
      as has our Climate Change Ambassador – Jo Tyndall
      
      not sure if Jacinda is going.
      Matthew Hooton has put in an OIA on how many folks NZ are sending
      https://fyi.org.nz/request/9106-katowice-climate-change-conference-costs-objectives-success-measures
      
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      November 29, 2018 3:00pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Has he taken the galah to give him advice?
        And iPad with a connection to google and SB will have them all scattering birdseed everywhere.
        No worries, planet saved.
        
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        November 29, 2018 6:46pm
hullkiwi

Even Soper is turning on the CoL. His piece in the Horrid is even taking a swipe at Peter’s, as well as putting the boot into ILG.

I read the Stanit last night. Other than Trotter and one other, their lines of defence were:
1. Attack National for being nasty about the dud Czech;
2. It was all MBIE/Joyce/Coleman’s fault.

However, Trotter and 1 other summer it up well – ILG failed to engage brain, because he hasn’t got a brain.

One other point I noted from the Stanit, is that some of Tribal Labour also believe like we do, that the SLG & Peters know more about this decision than they are telling. Like us, they point to the SLG’s comment of “you’ll have to read between the lines” that they are hiding something.

In my opinion, whatever it is, goes way back before the current CoL & goes back to the days of the Clark govt. It must be something big, but I doubt whether the Czech’s lawyers can do anything with it, other than blackmail people. I doubt it is something than can be argued in public, else we would have learned of it already.
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November 29, 2018 8:16am
- Paulus
  
  I see that Stroubec has engaged a top QC to represent him in overturning “again” the stupid Minister’s decision.
  At probably $450 an hour – who is paying ?
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:28am
  - cmm
    
    There’s a saying in poker: If you can’t work out who the sucker is, then it is you.
    
    Can you feel your pocket getting lighter yet?
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:58am
  - godruelf
    
    He might be paying just have to sell a few more lawnmowers. So long as the QC isn’t impacted by the AML laws.
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:09am
  - KevOB
    
    That’s less than 1 gm cost.
    
    Shouldn’t a QC be certain that he is not being paid with drug proceeds laundered or unlaundered?
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:45am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      Good question – are lawyers fees subject to the “Proceeds of Crime” Act?
      
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      November 29, 2018 11:51am
Maggy Wassilieff

After a long wait……A result!
Magnus Reigns Supreme
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/nov/28/magnus-carlsen-beats-fabiano-caruana-in-world-chess-championship-tie-breakers
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November 29, 2018 8:16am
- EAD_TWO
  
  For me, no-one ever beats the brilliant mind of Bobby Fischer.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:18am
  - SGA
    
    From you, that’s praise indeed.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:34am
- Manolo
  
  Indeed! He is a beast in rapid and blitz.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:14am
cas

Strange of Jacinda to choose to attend a 39th anniversary of Erebus function in Auckland rather than answer questions in Question time yesterday and also miss the 125th celebration of women’s first vote. Perhaps not many reporters at the first.
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November 29, 2018 8:17am
- dave_c_
  
  She’ll be taking every opportunity to escape scrutiny – this is but the start.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:25am
  - Paulus
    
    For her it is Christmas Holiday already with Bubba.
    Hope the other half can make it !
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:30am
    - Longknives
      
      She deserves another Holiday.
      Must be at least a month since her last taxpayer-funded sojourn?
      Our Princess needs her rest!
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:40am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Not strange at all.
  She lacks the guts to support her Ministers when they are in strife.
  
  I wouldn’t want this woman anywhere near me when the going gets tuff.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:19am
- freethinker
  
  Horse face probably considered the Erebus crash less of a catastrophe than answering questions in the house.
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:18am
secondcumming

Unpacked our *Nativity* scene yesterday.
Removed all the Jews, Arabs, and foreigners.
Ended up with a jackass and a handful of sheep.
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November 29, 2018 8:17am
- Tall Man
  
  “The Coalition”?
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:31am
- MH
  
  St Peters has taken to the myrrh in a big way.
  
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  November 29, 2018 2:25pm
Keeping Stock

Lees-Galloway has misled Parliament and the public. A few weeks ago he claimed not to know that Karel Sroubek was wanted by Czech Republic authorities.

Craig McCulloch from Radio NZ has exposed Lees-Galloway’s untruth. He has published a document released to him under the OIA; the summary information that was supplied to Lees-Galloway by Immigration New Zealand. Check out the paragraph highlighted in green:

https://twitter.com/craigmcculloch/status/1067659854255337477

It clearly shows that the Minister was advised by INZ that Sroubek was wanted, to serve a 54 month jail sentence for two violent attacks, the first on two police officers, and the second on a taxi driver.

So, either ILG deliberately misled the House, the public and the PM, or his “careful consideration” of Sroubek’s case was not careful enough. Whichever, it is not good enough. He needs to resign or be sacked.
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November 29, 2018 8:19am
- cmm
  
  Well clearly telling us about the “careful consideration” was a huge lie too.
  
  So too were PriNZess and Winnie’s corroboration of his findings.
  
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  November 29, 2018 8:22am
  - Colinxy
    
    If he has a magic 8 ball named “Careful Consideration” that he consulted, could it be considered a lie?
    
    It’s probably how Ardern can make the claim she doesn’t lie as well…
    
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    November 29, 2018 2:05pm
- DigNap15
  
  Good point!
  
  This Monsignor he told Mike Hoskins that he did nto want to send him back to Czech Republic as his safety was in danger.
  What about the safety of New Zealanders!
  That should be his main priority.
  
  He is making his own rules up!
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:59am
- Komata
  
  KS
  
  And YET, noone in the MSM is asking the two questions that I have been asking for the past fortnight:
  
  How much did the Czech pay and to whom?
  
  What has he ‘got’ on at least one individual (Perhaps more?) in the upper (highest) reaches of the NZLP?
  
  I thought that Paula Bennett would have asked that yesterday, but she didn’t.
  
  Ian Wishart where ARE you…?
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:52pm
Justitia

From the Society Pages: Hanging out in Hangzhou last week was our very own Peter Goodfellow, President of the National Party. Things were buzzing in Zhejiang Province as the local Communist Party of China showcased the region’s spectacular development. The event reportedly drew a truly cosmopolitan cast of characters from as far away as Egypt and exotic Pakistan, not to forget lil’ ol’ NewZild. Pavel Budakov from the Socialist Party of Serbia – Slobadan Milosevic’s old party- was just one of the many notables with whom it was possible to rub shoulders (Slobbo himself of course having expired in a prison cell in the Hague in 2006 while on trial for war crimes).

Local scribes reported attendees expressed a willingness to strengthen friendly exchanges with the Communist Party of China and participate actively in Belt and Road – (that’s the one about a “fusion of civilizations” for those of you who haven’t been keeping up).

All good stuff and grist to the mill. For those with a particular interest in things oriental don’t miss the screening at Auckland’s Rialto next Monday of the movie “Bleeding Edge” starring Anastasia Lin. Take a hankie though, it’s a real tear-jerker about China’s organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. If your calendar’s so busy you can’t make it here’s a little consolation clip about a real Chinese kiwi’s tale of heartbreak. Enjoy:

https://youtu.be/IDbt2tn_28I
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November 29, 2018 8:28am
- flipper
  
  I am not advocate for Goodfellow.
  But Bullshit is Bullshit and what you have said is bullshit.
  Goodfellow’s family owns (still, if I recall) Amalgamated Dairies. That company does massive business in Asia (inc China) and elsewhere.
  To earn his salary and expense3s from the company (The NP position is unpaid) Goodfellow has to do some Amalgamated Dairy work.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:39am
  - Justitia
    
    Thanks for your comment flipper. I don’t think the event in Hangzhou was for dairy traders, but am ready to be corrected on that point.
    
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    November 29, 2018 11:50am
oldpark

Yes another downtick for the Legacy of NZs pest for all reasons and seasons. What a bloody disaster Peters decision to get into bed with the most inept inane bunch of low rent no hopers ever to be in charge of NZs Government.
Just a couple of cases in point in the last few days. Lets mention the clown called Lees- Galloway promoted from being a minor trade union official to one of the most powerful jobs in NZ . The Minister of Immigration. Need one reiterate the awful fughing mess he has made on the recent decision of a drug running Gangster from Europe.
Next it is the decision of the ex Bible Basher David Clark ,know as the Minister of Health to keep secret the latest results of the inquiry on Mental Health in NZ not to be released until the end of the year. Whatever for, whats he hiding.
Also another kicker or who is in charge when so called Ministers fugh up. Yesterday when Lees-Galloway was giving out mea culpas on his stupid mad dog decision to keep a convicted overseas Gangster in NZ . Where was the Peters selected PM the small town twerp Commie Chic Comrade Ardern . Certainly not in Parliament. She was conveniently absent from supporting the low rent Lees-Galloway as well as being unavailable for Question time.
No photo opportunites in this instance,just embarrassment for her and the amateur pack of clowns that have been given the status of so called Ministers. For Peters most time never right. His stupid decision to make NZs Parliament in his image and liking has worked. What a fughing Legacy.
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November 29, 2018 8:31am
- freethinker
  
  Just wondering if National should/would embarrass the PM by not asking her any questions for a week then the following have all questions to the PM to rattle her or let Peters or Davies front and risk more stuff ups?
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:23am
- Paulus
  
  She was in Auckland yesterday with Goff carving up the new Housing legislation along with his Knighthood.
  
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  November 29, 2018 2:12pm
kevn

Got to be more to come in the Czech crim caper.
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November 29, 2018 8:44am
MCos

Harry Leslie Smith died yesterday aged 95.
He was a Great Depression survivor and flew with the RAF during WWII. He wrote five books and lately, in his nineties, has been an advocate for refugees.
His politics might not have been everyone’s cup of tea, but the old bugger had the courage of his convictions.

“If you saw thousands of refugees wearily dragging their feet along the dusty roads of war, in your youth & now in your old age you see the same thing happening again to innocent people and do not raise your voice against it you’ve got no humanity”

There’s one bloke who deserves to rest in peace.
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November 29, 2018 8:45am
- kowtow
  
  ‘If you saw thousands of refugees wearily dragging their feet along the dusty roads of war, in your youth & now in your old age you see the same thing happening again to innocent people and do not raise your voice against it you’ve got no humanity”’
  
  Nah , hell of a difference between the refugees of WW2 and today’s rapefugees.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:04am
  - MCos
    
    I’ll take the word of a bloke who took the time and effort to go to the refugee camps and find out for himself.
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:19am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Like this guy?
      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RT0aMubKdAI
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:51am
  - fernglas
    
    Explain to me in words of one syllable why people fleeing Assad’s gas and Putin’s shrapnel are any different from those “dragging their feet along the dusty roads of war” in 1945?
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:55am
    - kowtow
      
      Mus lims com ing to Eu rope: can stay in Tur key , Jor dan or some other shit hole of their own making.
      
      And taking speed boats to Greece paid for to people traffickers is still a hell of a long way from dragging feet along dusty roads blah blah.
      
      Or indeed the Iranians now taking dinghies across the Channel to England , they can stay in France.
      
      Etc
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:04am
      - MCos
        
        Refugees have never been popular anywhere, as a rule.
        Everyone knows about the boat load of Jewish refugees rejected by America in 1939, & others, who eventually went back to Germany.
        
        https://www.good.is/infographics/refugee-public-opinion
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:37am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      They (and their children) would be happy to live in a Western country and rejoice in its local culture.
      
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      November 29, 2018 12:07pm
- igm
  
  Men, such as Harry should be an inspiration to our young . . . but teachers today would not want a bar of it.
  Too interested in poisoning young minds with poofterism and Islam.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:50am
Inandout

I await Mr Bush making a further statement to the effect, ‘Police are not investigating Clarke’.
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November 29, 2018 8:54am
- RF
  
  From what I hear Jethro will be getting a “get out of jail” card. A special one for him.
  
  In some corrupt small town Police Depts in the US if you were a friend of the Police Chief or Sheriff you were given a badge to flash if got into trouble.
  
  Saves Bush having to make those embarrising denial statements.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:27am
  - Longknives
    
    RF
    I know quite a few Senior Cops (And a few Commissioned Officers) who were utterly astounded by PNHQ getting involved in the Gayford saga.
    It was totally unprofessional and goes against the whole concept of ‘Political Neutrality’.
    As an Ex Cop what are your thoughts? Because I know plenty of serving members have pretty strong feelings about this…(But obviously have to keep their gobs shut)
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:51am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  ‘… And while he’s the PMs f-buddy Police will never be investigating Clarke’
  
  There, fixed it for you.
  
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  November 29, 2018 6:56pm
secondcumming

Pleased to see the GCSB have told *Huawei* to F-off.

Don’t let the ‘back-door’ hit you in the arse on the way out.
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November 29, 2018 9:06am
- cmm
  
  In theory there are all sorts of back doors to get at traffic, but in reality this is not as bad as it sounds:
  
  A) Any important traffic is fully encrypted (eg. https traffic or VPN traffic). Man in the middle snooping doesn’t give you any real advantage.
  
  B) Outfits like Spark run continuous network analysis. If a Huawei router etc was snooping, it would have to send that data out via the network. Snooped data is likely to be detected by this monitoring.
  
  About the only big thing I would worry about things built in so that the devices could maybe be used to DDOS or shut down comms at the behest of the Chinese.
  
  Disclaimer: Huawei have been a customer of mine in the past.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:14am
  - KevOB
    
    The USA is having a trade war with China. Nothing from China is now acceptable.
    How dare the NZ govt oppose US wishes? Aren’t we one of the US global spy network “partners”?
    
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    November 29, 2018 11:03am
- tom hunter
  
  True, but in light of these past columns from DPF:
  
  Huawei
  
  It is of some significant concern that Australia has blocked Huawei, seemingly on security grounds, but I think there is a whiff of paranoia that all Chinese companies are controlled by the Red Army or PRC Government.
  
  Nonsense about Huawei
  
  I’ll be interested to see an article from DPF on this matter, because the GCSB call is a pretty big one – at least as important as TERF-wars I would have thought.
  
  Further reading & history for those interested…. Croaking Cassandra: China
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:08am
Manolo

I listened to the loathsome Mr Cullen on the radio this morning. He promised “a tax-neutral capital gains tax”.

The future is bleak. Capital will leave NZ in droves before this abomination becomes law.
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November 29, 2018 9:08am
- hullkiwi
  
  One simple question, how is a tax neutral?
  
  Another simple question, if you implement a neutral tax, what is the point of it? Because it will cost additional money to implement and administer – making it a waste of money!
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:16pm
  - sooty
    
    Still have the cost of compliance by everybody!
    
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    November 29, 2018 12:38pm
Classic Liberal

No Capital Gains Tax

If you need some reasons and want to post them about:

1. CGT will have the opposite effect desired. People will buy larger, posher homes instead of buying a rental unit or apartment.

2. CTG will hit rural people hard: large sections and lifestyle blocks will be charged.

3. CGT will hurt separating couples leaving a lifestyle block or a home business and each get half of the money to start a new life.

4. CGT will stop single people moving in together (e.g. starting a second marriage): if each owns a home they can’t set up in one home and rent the other out, because the rental will be charged CGT.

5. CGT will hurt young people who have bought in other towns because Auckland and Wellington are too expensive, but are currently renting the houses out.

6. CGT will hurt traveling people who are currently renting the houses out.

7. CGT will hurt women trying to set up a small business from home after taking time off work for children.

8. CGT will hurt older people trying to set up a small business from home after leaving a larger business.

9. CGT will have exactly the wrong effect: it will *prevent* people from working at home.
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November 29, 2018 9:13am
- Classic Liberal
  
  10. CGT will affect homeowners with some flatmates.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:45am
- igm
  
  It is a socialist tax of envy to redistribute to useless lazy bastards that cannot get out bed in the mornings and need more money to fund their breeding, boozing, drugging, state houses, etc., etc.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:54am
- Classic Liberal
  
  11. CGT will affect half of the previous family home when one partner has moved out and the other keeps living there until they are ready to sell (e.g. with children).
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:54am
  - mandk
    
    12. It will bring with it a plague of tax lawyers and accountants, and it will raise bugger all in revenue, even in the longer term.
    
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    November 29, 2018 11:20am
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
A homemade hoarding here in Auckland depicting our PM, hammer and sickle and the ancient USSR flag has got to be a local on KB.

Stating Lets Do ( Tax) this!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sideswipe/news/article.cfm?c_id=702&objectid=12167237

Will the clown own up so we can have a good laugh at him/ her?
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November 29, 2018 9:14am
- Manolo
  
  Are you a card-carrying member of the Muslim branch of the socialist Labour Party, dear stephieboy?
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:18am
  - stephieboy
    
    Manolo, did not the ancient Sovie regime collapse in 1991?
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:20am
    - Manolo
      
      Yes, to your totalitarian dismay!
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:25am
      - stephieboy
        
        Manolo, just continue reading your Cosmology for under fives!
        
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        November 29, 2018 9:28am
    - Longknives
      
      “Ancient Soviet Regime”???
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:33am
      - stephieboy
        
        Longknives , dead and gone kicking up the daisies since 1991.
        
        Ancient by modern standards don’t you think? Millennials and GenX would likely know what it was?
        
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        November 29, 2018 9:49am
      - oob
        
        Stephie meant ancien regime I suspect but fucked it up.
        
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        November 29, 2018 9:49am
      - Longknives
        
        “Ancient by modern standards”???
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:07am
    - Inandout
      
      Yes stephie, and that year hordes of soviet sympathisers joined Greenpeace. Sad people generally attach themselves to ‘progressive’ organisations.
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:53am
      - oob
        
        Quite. The basis of this strategy is outlined in Lenin’s 1902 pamphlet What is to be done? and it was broadly adopted by the Fourth International.
        
        By the 1970s the communists had thoroughly co-opted the environmental movement and it continues to today.
        
        The Green party is an example: despite the identify politics it is a Trotskyite party that pays only enough lip service to environmentalism required to secure the hippie vote.
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:07am
- krazykiwi
  
  That’s brilliant. The teeth aren’t quite right. Thanks for sharing.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:23am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    They don’t look like an open piano?
    
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    November 29, 2018 6:59pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  has got to be a local on KB.
  
  Evidence?
  
  Or is this yet another of your unsubstantiated smears?
  
  There’s quite a few folks who know nothing of KB that think our PM is useless.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:31am
  - stephieboy
    
    No evidence just a reasonable surmise.
    
    Agreed?
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:50am
    - All_on_Red
      
      No
      Judging by your comments we ‘surmise’ you’re so stupid you probably can’t tie your shoes laces let alone come to any logical conclusions.
      Stephieboy-Kiwiblogs Dumbest Commentator
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:56am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed,
        
        Snooze button alert!
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:15am
- Longknives
  
  5 out of 10.
  The sentiment is spot on but the teeth are nowhere near big enough.
  And Jacinda doesn’t have that much colour in her face (She is a ghastly white colour)
  And her face is much more skeletal in real life..
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:34am
  - stephieboy
    
    Longknives, you’ve met our PM in person or was it something else?
    
    Hmmm…
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:51am
- Classic Liberal
  
  You put it so beautifully, Stuffy:
  
  “Our PM, hammer and sickle and the ancient USSR flag”
  
  That’s pretty much how she looked on that stage singing the *Internationale* at the International Union of Socialist Youth.
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:15am
  - stephieboy
    
    Classical Liberal, who but the seriously paranoid such as you actually cares?
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:17am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      LOL, who cares that she is a total socialist? Hmm, can’t imagine who else cares…
      
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      November 29, 2018 11:17am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        And what could possibly go wrong with unfettered socialism.
        
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        November 29, 2018 12:00pm
- pentwig
  
  stoopidthing
  there is no need because we all laugh at you
  ha ha ha
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:43am
- Woz
  
  If it isn’t a KB local, he/she/it should be invited to join. Thanks Stephanie, for once you’ve made me laugh.
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:24am
Chuck Bird

Does anyone know how many appeals and judicial reviews Sroubek can take? The fat German has gone on for years.
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November 29, 2018 9:20am
- septic skeptic
  
  And the final outcome of both cases is not at all certain. The lawyers really only need to win one round out of three.
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:22am
  - sooty
    
    I don’t think the dud cheque would have as much money.
    
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    November 29, 2018 12:43pm
- realityczech
  
  “The fat German ”
  
  Who gave money to the scrawny Jew.
  
  I supported both of them personally.
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:47pm
stephieboy

Raging bushfires in Queensland, and an unprecedented dumping of rain in Sydney!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-28/sydney-weather-and-queensland-bushfires-linked/10561792

What’s going on Christopher Monckton, Anthony Watts and other climate change deniers?
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November 29, 2018 9:24am
- krazykiwi
  
  ‘Bushfires’ … every year.
  ‘Unprecedented’ … but more rain in 1987, 1984, 1961 etc
  
  What’s going on? Nature is ‘going on’. Just like it has for eons.
  
  I’m sorry if this is a bit too complex for you to grasp.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:30am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Unprecedented?
    LIES
    
    Sydney’s wettest Nov. day since 1984
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/some-of-the-worst-i-ve-seen-sydney-has-wettest-november-day-since-1984-20181128-p50iz9.html
    
    Might be time for Sydney to build bigger drains (or at least clear them of leaves)
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/why-can-t-sydney-cope-when-it-rains-20181128-p50iyj.html
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:37am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Stephie is a Science Denier
      I don’t know why he keeps criticising Monckton.
      For a start Monckton is much better looking and given Ralph’s proven lack of comprehension it’s clear Monckton is waaaay smarter.
      Hey, did you know Al Gore got a D in his course of Natural Science at Harvard?
      Pretty funny.
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:45am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red, tell us about your history of following and believing in Lord Monckton’s quackery?
        
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        November 29, 2018 9:53am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Actually I’m not really a ‘follower’ but I know enough to recognise he’s smarter than you.
        Let’s be honest. Slime under a rock is smarter than you.
        
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        November 29, 2018 9:59am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red, tsk, tsk. tsk, Try his Lordship’s snake oil cures for dementia etc.
        
        http://hot-topic.co.nz/monckton-is-a-fraud/
        
        LOL!
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:02am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        But Stephieboy – you just stated “unprecedented dumping of rain in Sydney” which Dr Wassilieff immediately disproved. Who is actually guilty of quackery here? Or is it just lies, ignorance or blind ideology that you are espousing?
        
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        November 29, 2018 12:05pm
      - Tall Man
        
        “Science denier”…
        
        steffy is a deeply disturbed and dysfunctional labour intern.
        
        Probably waiting for the “new gender legislation” so she can review her gender to “them” or “us”.
        
        ardern is a liar
        
        steffy is a girl
        
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        November 29, 2018 1:52pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, months dumping of rain in two hours is unprecedented,
      
      https://weather.com/news/news/2018-11-28-australia-sydney-storms-flash-flooding
      
      Stick to Monckton, Watts and other climate change denying loons
      
      More here about Sydney rains,
      
      https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/wild-wetnesday-torrential-rain-expected-to-lash-sydney-and-surrounds/news-story/1385a57d99fde7796d39324aa1d40b5b
      
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      November 29, 2018 9:56am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Stephie says ‘unprecedented’
        
        From his link;
        ‘That is the highest rainfall total in a single November day since 1984’
        
        Since 1984…
        Yep, slime under a rock is smarter.
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:01am
      - Inandout
        
        Crap stephie.
        
        https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2011/11/the-worst-bushfires-in-australias-history/
        
        http://www.nma.gov.au/explore/blog/deadliest-flood
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:02am
      - stephieboy
        
        A months rain in two hours according to my reports above is unprecedented!
        
        THICKO!
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:06am
      - All_on_Red
        
        It happened also in 1984
        You clearly don’t know what ‘unprecedented’ means.
        But thanks for proving me right that you don’t have comprehension skills.
        Hey, how do you feel about Monckton being better looking that you
        Lol
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:11am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        Unprecedented means that there has never been a previous occurrence.
        
        There is nothing in those links you provided to indicate that Sydney’s rainfall in that 2hour period was unprecedented.
        
        There are numerous mentions that Sydney has had higher rainfalls in the very recent past.
        In fact from your 2nd link:
        
        So much rain has fallen, Sydney has had its wettest day for three years and its wettest November day in 34 years.
        
        i.e. Sydney got a damn sight more rain in one day 3 years ago.
        
        Intense rainfall is a fairly common event for New South Wales.
        
        When you get more than 254mm in 2hours… as happened at Wantabadgery Station in 1902… then you’ve got unprecedented rainfall.
        http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/rainfallEvents/ausRecordRainfall.shtml
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:39am
- Longknives
  
  Yep.
  Bushfires are a completely new phenomenon Stephieboy….
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:36am
  - stephieboy
    
    Longkives , no! But extreme weather events are!,
    
    https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/impacts/extreme-weather-climate-change.html#.W_8ELy17FjQ
    
    Plus, plus..,
    
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-extreme-weather-events-linked-to-climate-change/
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:11am
    - Longknives
      
      ‘Extreme Weather’ is a new phenomenon?
      Really Stephieboy??
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:18am
      - All_on_Red
        
        You gotta laugh at the request for money at the bottom of that (puts on serious voice) Union of Concerned Scientists article.
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:20am
      - stephieboy
        
        Longknives , yes! Refer my links above!
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:20am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        To quote:
        
        stephieboy
        
        No evidence just a reasonable surmise.
        
        Agreed?
        Thumb up 2 Thumb down 19REPLY REPORTNOVEMBER 29, 2018 9:50AM
        
        Translation: SB couldn’t find it on Google search, but it must be right because he said so!
        Agreed?
        
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        November 29, 2018 7:05pm
    - Woz
      
      Funny, you can find the opposing view just as easily, and just as heavily cited.
      
      https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/trends-in-extreme-weather-events-since-1900–an-enduring-conundrum-for-wise-policy-advice-2167-0587-1000155.php?aid=69558
      
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      November 29, 2018 11:26am
- JIV
  
  Taxes will fix it all. Just start giving the UN $100 billion a year and they promise no more floods, fires, wind, rain snow, hail, heat, cold etc etc etc
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:54am
- KevOB
  
  What going on with you that you cannot read the IPCC report 5? They specifically ruled out these natural events as having anything to do with climate change.
  
  There’a more: the TAR (the UNIPCC 3rd Assessment report) rejected their ability to make any projections as they were dealing with a chaotic system.
  
  It’s all about control and money.
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:02pm
- Tall Man
  
  “What’s going on”?
  
  Didn’t mummy ardern tell you before your last selfie?
  
  Guess what dipstick, weather happens.
  
  ardern is a liar
  
  steffy is a girl
  
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  November 29, 2018 1:49pm
lifesgood

Mallard continues to bully. Now it is the constant removal of supplementary questions from the opposition when they ask perfectly reasonable questions that might show the col up.
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November 29, 2018 9:26am
- marcw
  
  His smug attitude and total bias in QT yesterday was frankly just offensive. A disgrace to the role of Speaker.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:48am
- freethinker
  
  Time for a vote of no confidence in the speaker – won’t pass but may be unprecedented.
  
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  November 29, 2018 2:01pm
Captain Mainwaring

I need a small painting job done on my house. Would do it myself but I’m a bit old to get up that high and am worried about working around power wires.
Dropped into Resene with the intention of asking them if they had any tradies who didn’t mind small jobs. Saw a tradie in there so asked him, and the reply was he couldn’t be bothered and he was booked up until April.
Went home and got on the internet. Found a very professional website belonging to a Vietnamese guy who responded straight away. He was here to do the quote as soon as the rain stopped and is doing the job the weekend after next, even though he is very busy. Yes, working at the weekend.
And we wonder why we need immigrants.
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November 29, 2018 9:35am
- kevn
  
  @Captn… Ca$h please?
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:43am
  - Tall Man
    
    Not necessarily, they just have a better work ethic unfortunately.
    
    Have tried to get a painter here as well, last response…..the roof is too steep.
    
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    November 29, 2018 1:45pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      The Vietnamese painter is probably cat-like and less likely to crash through the roof than a 105-kg tubby from South Auckland.
      
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      November 29, 2018 5:25pm
- brett68
  
  This what what Twyford is up against.
  
  You can have all the money and land in the world but if there’s no one to do the work, it means nothing.
  
  Trades people have got New Zealanders by the short and curlies, personally I hope they bring in as many builders and sub trades as they can find and drive down the cost of building.
  
  The prices you have to pay to get any work done is bullshit, lucky I can do pretty much everything myself but I feel sorry for those less practical and have to take it up the arse if they need any work done.
  
  If I was Twyford I’d be looking at South Africa place is full of builders and other trades people desperate to get out.
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:48am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Name another industry that has to take on the liability and risk of a licensed builder please.
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:12am
    - Tall Man
      
      Doctor, dentist, lawyer, insurance broker, accountant, IT professional……
      
      All the above plus a tradesman have access to professional indemnity insurance so what’s the problem?
      
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      November 29, 2018 1:47pm
Hugh Pavletich

Sydney’s house prices are collapsing – MacroBusiness Australia (behind paywall)

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/sydneys-house-prices-collapsing/

By Leith van Onselen

It’s been a disastrous month for Sydney’s housing market. With two days left, dwelling values have tanked by 1.3% – the biggest monthly decline since May 2004:

Quarterly growth has also deteriorated, down 2.7% – the sharpest decline since July 2008: … read more via hyperlink above …
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There has been enormous ‘multiple stretch’ in Sydney’s detached housing market … 12.9 Median Multiple (September Qtr 2017) …

Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions

http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm

Note within the above Surveys, Irelands metros overall peaked at an unweighted 4.7 Median Multiple, sliding to 2.8 some years later … with all the Banks going to the wall and requiring about 70 billion euros of bailouts.

In subsequent research, the Central Bank of Ireland found ‘multiple stretch’ the greatest problem (much greater than high loan to value ratios) … and imposed a general lending cap of 3.5 times annual household earnings …

Mortgage Measures | Central Bank of Ireland

https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures

The overall metros unweighted Median Multiples for Australia and New Zealand are 5.9 and 5.8 respectively … considerably higher on a weighted basis.
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November 29, 2018 9:52am
- KevOB
  
  And the govt approved Res. Bank Gov. doesn’t want it to happen in NZ! Tough call telling the tide to stay out because Twyford would get flummoxed.
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:06pm
- Cobolt24
  
  Early next year will be interesting to look out for Sydney and Melbourne with the way the housing situation is going over there.
  
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  November 29, 2018 1:55pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    AUSTRALIA: Final auction clearance rate crashes to new low – MacroBusiness
    … behind paywall …
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/final-auction-clearance-rate-crashes-new-low/
    
    Last weekend, CoreLogic released its preliminary auction clearance rates, which revealed the following results:
    
    Today, CoreLogic has released its final auction results, which reported a large 5.0% decline in the national auction clearance rate to 41.9%, with Sydney’s auction clearance rate diving 7.6% to 44.8% and Melbourne’s falling 2.6% to just 41.4%: … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    November 29, 2018 3:22pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/links-29-november-2018/#comment-3237856 … with further posts …
      
      Housing slump now worse than GFC | Sunshine Coast Daily
      
      https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/property-prices-drop-at-fastest-rate-since-decembe/3589029/
      
      by AIDAN DEVINE
      
      29th Nov 2018 10:53 AM
      
      PLUMMETING home prices in Sydney and Melbourne have dragged the Australian housing market into its biggest slump since the start of the global financial crisis.
      
      Preliminary figures from CoreLogic’s Hedonic Home Value Index showed national property prices fell 0.9 per cent over the first 28 days of November.
      
      This would push total falls for the year to an estimated 5.6 per cent – the largest national drop in prices since December 2008.
      
      Sydney recorded the biggest price falls of all the country’s five major capitals, followed by Melbourne and Perth. … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      November 29, 2018 5:25pm
Manolo

AGW zealots like our own stephieboy love this sort of “scientific” prediction:
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/rising-sea-levels-will-swallow-wellington-suburb-research-shows/ar-BBQbyP1

New research shows rising sea levels will swallow an entire Wellington suburb by the end of the century.

It may sound outrageous, but the insurance industry is already taking notice of coastal towns like Petone, according to Climate Stigma managing director Belinda Storey.
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November 29, 2018 9:56am
- All_on_Red
  
  The Sea had better hurry up and start rising then.
  According to NOAA Tides and Currents the ACTUAL measured rise since 1944 is 2.4mm per year.
  Here’s a link to the Data
  https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_station.shtml?stnid=690-011
  
  (Stephie runs from the room “my eyes, my eyes, actual science, noooooo”)
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:09am
  - stephieboy
    
    All on Red, fo on invest in close to shoreline properties in Auckland,
    
    http://auckland.kingtides.org.nz/about/sea-level-rise/
    
    THICKO!
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:29am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Aucklands is around 1.2mm per annum.
      Data back to 1880
      Sea Level rise is such a concern that Cheltenham Beach property can only fetch $8-10,000,000 when for sale.
      
      You’re quite the Science Denier eh.
      
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      November 29, 2018 11:02am
    - Tall Man
      
      And the obnoxious twat is back.
      
      ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
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      November 29, 2018 1:43pm
- MCos
  
  I don’t think rising sea levels are going to be the issue, from what I understand, but increasingly violent storms brought about by heightened sea temperatures.
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:47am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Petone has yet to be flooded by the sea but Kohimarama has.
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:58am
  - All_on_Red
    
    I don’t know how auckland rates but NOAA/IPCC has data showing Tornadoes and Hurricane frequency in the Atlantic has actually decreased over the last 70 years.
    They still get a big one from time to time but they always have since records began. I don’t think there’s any evidence they are more extreme.
    Iirc Galveston in the 30’s was a bad one.
    
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    November 29, 2018 11:06am
EAD_TWO

Not happy with the sanitising of the Schofield Bible, the Jew continues to whitewash Biblical history as they call for the Bible to have “trigger warnings” due to so called “anti-semitic material”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6421233/Jewish-leaders-call-religious-texts-carry-warnings-highlighting-anti-Semitic-passages.html

Shall we do the same with anti-goy material in the Talmud? Psssst – they think 1 Jewish life is worth more than 10,000 goyim lives:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-why-more-u-s-jews-will-walk-off-birthright-this-summer-1.6269655

They never stop. Concession, concession, concession for these paranoid psychopaths.

The audacity is mind boggling but at least they are coming out of the shadows and into the light for the whole world to see. The goys just need to extend their reading beyond their daily dose of prolefeed:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/florida-amendment-allowing-felons-to-vote-passes-with-help-from-jewish-groups/
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November 29, 2018 9:58am
- Jack5
  
  ‘Morning, 卐EADolf. You’re actually accusing somebody-else of being a “paranoid psychopath”?
  
  That must be almost the final stage of paranoia.
  
  Or … you are so far gone in your obsession about Jews, that a smart Jewish proselytiser could convert you to Judaism.
  
  I see you got an upstick, 卐EADolf. ~~❗Kea~~ ❗Realityczech must be up early today.
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:05am
  - Jack5
    
    Wakie! Wakie, ❗Realityczech❗ It’s long past kea-fart. ?
    
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    November 29, 2018 10:14am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Morning Jack.
      
      Which part of the above is false?
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:23am
      - Jack5
        
        You are correct, EADolf. ❗Realityczech❗ can’t be both still asleep AND be giving you upticks.
        
        Unless a password was lent to another member of the alpine kea clan, which of course I wouldn’t suggest for a minute. ?
        
        PS: If you become Jewish you can get to knees-up like this: https://youtu.be/eHlau4xnQYs
        
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        November 29, 2018 10:35am
- mandk
  
  “the Jew”
  
  That’s one straight out of Kea’s book of vile epithets.
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:23am
  - realityczech
    
    Want me to share how Jewish religious leaders speak of the Christian?
    
    A view I share with them btw.
    
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    November 29, 2018 12:50pm
    - mandk
      
      No thanks, Kea.
      
      Besides, contrary to what you imply, there is not a Jewish view of Christians. There are many views.
      
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      November 29, 2018 1:25pm
Jack5

Oh dear, NZ is only the 17th most healthy country in the world. Stand by for the wailing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6438685/Which-healthiest-nations-world.html
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November 29, 2018 10:02am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Luxembourg and Singapore are not real countries…
  
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  November 29, 2018 5:28pm
harvey wilson

Doublespeak on the standard

“It is not a matter of censorship. It is a matter of ignoring their views because they are not reality based and are a waste of time.”

https://thestandard.org.nz/stuff-is-banning-climate-change-deniers-from-articles-and-comments/
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November 29, 2018 10:09am
- KevOB
  
  Who cares? Who reads Stuff?
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:09pm
secondcumming

Just tried to pre-register for *Leighton Smiths Podcasts* in the New Year.

I put my password as ‘BeefStew’ but it said password wasn’t stroganoff.
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November 29, 2018 10:20am
- Morrissey
  
  Good password—you need to have Mad Cow Disease to listen to that marginally sane, utterly incoherent fuckwit.
  
  https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2017/12/not-everybody-appreciates-charm-and.html
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:26am
  - igm
    
    Breen: Do you not realise your popularity . . . time you woke up as many take strong exception to your attitude towards decent people.
    I, personally, know how gutless, and what a narking bastard you are, but many do not.
    
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    November 29, 2018 12:18pm
  - MrTips
    
    Goodness Morrissey. So snarly. You need to go back to your job as DNA Matchmaker for “Queer Eye for the Dead Guy”.
    
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    November 29, 2018 12:32pm
    - Swifty
      
      The other day someone said his job was cleaning the one way mirrors in porno booths – is this not correct?
      
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      November 29, 2018 4:07pm
      - Morrissey
        
        That was the Talented MrTips.
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/11/general_debate_27_november_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2367739
        
        He’s so good that we’re thinking of approaching him to join the Daisycutter Sports team.
        
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        November 29, 2018 5:16pm
kevn

Which one or more, of our esteemed (not) pollies are going to vote at the UN Migration conference in Morocco 10th/11th December?
UN want to promote (human rights etc) migration.
Aussie says no, along with Hungary, Czech, Croatia, Poland, Austria, Israel and Bulgaria.
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November 29, 2018 10:32am
- DigNap15
  
  I really despise the UN and people like George Soros and the Green Party and Ardern.
  
  With so many strong countries saying NO what will happen?
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:09am
  - Tall Man
    
    More shit for us until this travesty of a government is consigned to history
    
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    November 29, 2018 1:38pm
- Morrissey
  
  What a sorry bunch of rogue states.
  
  “In Canberra last week I met some Australian members of parliament. It gave me hope, because until I heard them speak I had always thought that Israel’s right wing politicians were the worst. —-(LAUGHTER)— I’ve never heard any Israeli politician speak about the Palestinian people the way that those Australian politicians did. But they are Australia’s problem, not mine. (LAUGHTER) I spoke with the Australian foreign minister; she talked and she was very nice but we could not agree on anything.” (LAUGHTER)
  
  —-Israeli journalist GIDEON LEVY, speaking in Auckland, 3 Dec. 2017
  
  https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-16-12-2017/#comment-1426789
  
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  November 29, 2018 11:49am
  - igm
    
    Hey gutless arsehole, are you going to give this mongrel a home and keep him?
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/108953105/new-zealand-man-jailed-over-islamic-state-videos-granted-parole
    You and he would be well suited on a plane to Iran.
    
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    November 29, 2018 11:55am
    - Morrissey
      
      Ha ha ha! Priceless.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=871-3XMhtAk
      
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      November 29, 2018 5:08pm
wreck1080

Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Revenue Minister Stuart Nash wrote to the Tax Working Group chaired by Sir Michael Cullen last month, asking it to come up with a “revenue neutral” tax package that reduced inequality, as an option for tax reform.

For those against a capital gains tax (most kiwibloggers!)… many of you have been saying the government is not going to reduce income tax after introducing a CGT, but you are clearly wrong. Grant Robinson wants revenue neutrality.

So, there could eventually be quite substantial drops in income tax.

Of course, the devil is in the detail and they could still royally screw up big time… the danger is that they make the tax overly complex such that you need an accountant.
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November 29, 2018 10:41am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Neutral for the government does not mean neutral for us who have worked most of our lives to save something up!
  
  Remember, they want it to be ‘fairer’ – like Robin Hood did.
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:57am
  - wreck1080
    
    Robin Hood? Income tax reductions benefit all income earners, including those on million dollar incomes. So, your point is lost on me a bit.
    
    The main losers will be those retired people who paid high taxes all their lives and own multiple properties and now face a CGT also. I agree this is not ideal as those people should not have to face a CGT in their old age.
    
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    November 29, 2018 11:44am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Ah, but the CoL lovies *think* they are being like Robin Hood. You, know, the way KiwiBuild does such a good deed…
      
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      November 29, 2018 12:12pm
- KevOB
  
  There never can be “revenue neutrality”. Revenue is the govts cash intake. Any CGT is likely to swap certain revenue for uncertain outcomes. You can’t dodge PAYE but you can object to many assessments. Getting the revenue then becomes problematical. There will need to be more govt borrowing to make up the shortfall. Higher interest costs.
  
  Practical taxation is beyond Poohbah Grant and senile historian Cullen.
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:19pm
- alloytoo
  
  As I have told you before, revenue neutral is not the same as tax neutral.
  
  CGT will cost substantially more to implement and comply with than existing taxes, therefore the rates will either be higher, or the so called reductions will be stunted.
  
  Want an equitable tax, make PAYE flat rated, otherwise it continues to be an extremely unfair tax.
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:33pm
  - Tall Man
    
    The “benefit”to the govt is that we bear the bulk of the compliance costs.
    
    Already working on it…….
    
    However, they haven’t got the balls to implement it before 2020 even if they could, they will throw out large bribes to the “committed labour voters”…yes, more benefits, and try to claim a “mandate” to introduce it.
    
    I doubt the electorate will fall for it. In 2017, over 20% of eligible voters stayed away. My pick is that they weren’t fooled by the “lipstick” on the pig but couldn’t motivate themselves to vote for National.
    
    That 20% represents more than enough to wipe out the coalition and I strongly believe that we will see a tidal wave against the coalition.
    
    Remember, 25% prior to ardern the liar and a small jump of 12% with all the bribes offered plus the total lies about the state of the economy. 7% for the watermelons which will remain about the same unless a “true” green party appears.
    
    The leaves the shit bag winston with 7% of whom I would guarantee more than 50% wanted/expected a National NZ first coalition.
    
    Take the 3.5% back to National, which will happen, and it’s bye bye to ardern the liar and winston the utter mongrel.
    
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    November 29, 2018 1:36pm
    - DigNap15
      
      I’d like to think that you are right.
      But the polls show that Labour is up!
      
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      November 29, 2018 4:12pm
  - KevOB
    
    Flat income taxes are so regressive.
    
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    November 29, 2018 3:57pm
- Tall Man
  
  Are you by any chance interested in a second hand bridge? It’s a wee way away from here but I can get it to you for a really good price inc freight?
  
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  November 29, 2018 1:24pm
Classic Liberal

Red Radio today: Freedom Camping in cars now allowed in a number of Auckland parks – using the public loos.

They interviewed a few *homeless* people living in their cars. I thought all that was over under the Col?

Photos (w permission needed probably?) and stories everything – the MSM isn’t paying much attention to continuing homelessness.
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November 29, 2018 10:45am
- Paulus
  
  What homeless – I thought we had cleared all that crap ups ?
  Ardern said so !
  
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  November 29, 2018 2:23pm
- DigNap15
  
  What a disgusting thing Freedom Camping is.
  It makes NZ sound like a hole!
  
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  November 29, 2018 4:10pm
KeaRea

https://www.infowars.com/between-6000-and-10000-churches-in-the-u-s-are-dying-each-year-and-that-means-that-over-100-will-die-this-week/

Churches are dying because they are churchian not Christian. Christian churches are thriving.
Any church that listens to fake homosexuals or communists like Pope Francis or Russell Moore will die. Those that resist will live.
Any Church that teaches homosexuality is not a sin will die.
Female pastors? Die
Preaching against manufactured non sins like racism and sexism? Die
If women speak from the pulpit it will die. If it preaches equalitarianism and racial and sexual equality it will die. If it lies and says Jesus said you must take refugees until your own nation is gone it will die. If it says all religions are equal and true, it will die.

This is great. We are going through a cleanse.

Related:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/donald-trump-is-destroying-my-marriage.html?utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=di&utm_medium=s1

Men are finally divorcing women who are unintelligent and unable to see aggregates or longtitude over fashion and undermining of their authority, in droves. If your wife thinks turning Germany into Syria is required by the parable of the Samaritans, or that prisoners or 16 year olds should vote, or that gender quotas are valid, with no prospect of improvement or rectification of her errors she is a congenital moron and defect not worthy of fidelity or of harbour. Replace her. Take the financial hit. Move on to a younger and most importantly smarter model. No woman no matter any particular merit should be permitted to destroy civilization due to unfettered ignorance and coarseness.

This is a good thing. There is nothing Trump cannot do apparently 🙂
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November 29, 2018 12:09pm
- KevOB
  
  What a crazy mixed up theological mess.
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:23pm
  - KeaRea
    
    Oh boy. You want to tango??? Just try me on this subject matter. But I don’t even need to educate you. The attendances speak for themselves. People hate inauthentic spiritual garbage. And even the megas do not sustain. But I would be leery of calling me a theological mess. You better really really be able to back that up.
    
    The Liberal Churches are all dying or becoming irrelevant or beimg desertes by men. The ones that say unpopular hard things which cohere to truth are thriving.
    
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    November 29, 2018 12:30pm
KeaRea

https://www.henrymakow.com

So yesterday we here the lamentations that some incoherent pig is vulgarly hawing about our fellow Judeo Christians. And to be fair he was being a prat.

What of this? At the link.

Jews are 1000% more likely to receive Ivy League aceptance then white gentiles of the same ability. And as jews have taken over the administration of all said institutions the white gentile cohort has declined 70% even as its relative entrance merit has increased.

Right. Whats a word for this kind of brazen and specific racism. Lets call it ‘anti caucasionism’

So there is ‘hate speech’ – what do we call ‘hate behaviour’ of such a fundamental and wildly hostile nature? Anti caucasionism.

I would dearly love to see an article on this particular issue. The issue of jewish anti caucasionism.

Because people who are this primitively nepotistic in ways that actually matter don’t deserve to have their feelings given credence or validated. Why should any white gentile locked out of leadership of their own nation care what her oppressors feel or think?

These are the facts which mean in 25 years the Jews will be totally isolated and friendless. The left will hate them in its primitive low IQ manner. However large swathes of the right will simply be neutral. Why should they do anything when President Alexandria Ocacia Cortez or Le Keqiang announces new bans? These are the facts of life being dealt with by generation Zyklon. They don’t see noble victims and Nobel Prize winners. They see gate keepers and enemies. Until proven otherwise, how are they wrong. If it is impossible for something not to happen it is necessary that it happened.

Screeches about anti semitism that make no reference to rorts of this magnitude or the fact almost all of the acts are hoaxes can’t and won’t be taken seriously.
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November 29, 2018 12:28pm
- stephieboy
  
  KeaRea, why should we ever take Henry Makow and his blog seriously?
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:34pm
  - stephieboy
    
    The Makow equation ‎Everything = Illuminati
    
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    November 29, 2018 12:37pm
  - KeaRea
    
    Because sound analysis is sound. I take Ron Unz seriously. Why are you so anti semtical. Arw you saying because they are both former Ivy League Jews they can’t be trusted? If it makes you feel better Asians who don’t have quaint notions of altruism are suing Harvard right now for their lesser discrimination. That’s another matter. But be comforted that it’s so real people are spending millions of dollars on it.
    
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    November 29, 2018 3:12pm
- realityczech
  
  Many Jews have always regarded non Jews with contempt. Nothing new about it.
  
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  November 29, 2018 12:40pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Historic persecution and attempt at liquidation (WW2) would suggest that the balance is vastly outweighed by the Non-Jews.
    
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    November 29, 2018 12:52pm
secondcumming

BREAKING……

The *Beast of Blenheim* has just been sent back to the canister for another 2 years on ‘historical rape charges’……raping a 9-year-old girl and her mum! Another low bastard who should have swung.

And what about that ‘special house’ we built for the filthy prick to stay in? Maybe Twitford can add it to the Kiwibuild total……
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November 29, 2018 12:40pm
- Longknives
  
  Question for Jacinda Ardern, Andrew Little and Ali Mau etc –
  When we close EVERY Prison in our wonderful Socialist Utopia (As is Labour’s wish)- What do we do with the ‘Beast of Blenheim’?
  
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  November 29, 2018 1:27pm
Lucia Maria

Johnboy,

If you would like to talk to me, please do it here rather than the RIP thread for Gordon Copeland.

⛈
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November 29, 2018 12:56pm
- secondcumming
  
  If ‘Johnboy’ doesn’t get back to you Lucia, let me know.
  I’m often available for a quik chat…….
  
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  November 29, 2018 1:30pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Good to know.
    
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    November 29, 2018 1:49pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Lucia Maria:
  
  Johnboy missed this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear your voice last year. He was probably doing something else at the time like painting a fence or taking Flossie for a walk. A big miss for him!
  
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  November 29, 2018 2:51pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Well, you never know, Nostra. There could be other opportunities!
    
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    November 29, 2018 3:19pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Next time some other useless Catholic time server carks it I’ll give you another call Lucia. 🙂
      
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      November 29, 2018 5:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Interesting question in the House today

Q.11. Hon LOUISE UPSTON to the Minister for Social Development: Has she been advised of the date that the member for Dunedin South or her office delivered Labour Party pamphlets to Ministry of Social Development sites in Dunedin South and Mosgiel; if so, what is that date?

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/order-paper-questions/list-of-oral-questions/oral-questions-29-november-2018/
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November 29, 2018 1:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And here is the answer
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=355&v=qEDyCd4oZyg
  Clare up to her elbows in muck again.
  
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  November 29, 2018 4:08pm
  - sooty
    
    Silly lady, taking the pressure of the Slease!
    She should be keeping her head below the parapet.
    
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    November 29, 2018 8:11pm
Philview

I read in the newspaper today a list of the most popular baby names in the UK in 2018. Number One for boys in the UK is Muhammad so if you are expecting a boy and want to follow popular international trends then the name Muhammad could be for you.
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November 29, 2018 2:08pm
slightlyrighty

Boy…..Winston is floundering in the house today……
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November 29, 2018 2:22pm
- KevOB
  
  Much better than yesterday.
  
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  November 29, 2018 4:06pm
softail 1450

FFS ,what is it about lefty politicians and free food ?
Kiritapu Allan the new lesbian labour member from the East coast is morphing from a reasonably thin woman 12 months ago to a fricking all black front
rower now,she is also becoming more manly with every passing month.
The troughing of this one is very strong indeed….
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November 29, 2018 2:23pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Softail:
  
  I seem to recall reading somewhere that Parliament costs $100,000 a minute to run. Now we know why – the catering bill for glutinous Labour MPs must have blown the budget!
  
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  November 29, 2018 2:54pm
- secondcumming
  
  Even my missus commented on *Williow-Jean* yesterday…….
  reckoned the whale tooth necklace she was wearing seemed appropriate.
  
  Wimmin, eh
  
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  November 29, 2018 3:08pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  In fairness to Kiritapu Allan she might look like a lesbian but I understand that she isn’t one and has at least one child.
  I might be wrong.
  
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  November 29, 2018 3:37pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Sorry, my bad.
    Just checked and she seems to have a wife named Natalie Coates.
    
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    November 29, 2018 3:41pm
    - Morrissey
      
      And doesn’t that heat up that filthy, seething, maggoty old brain of yours, Cap’n.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iPC_HhGfAI
      
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      November 29, 2018 5:43pm
    - GoVege
      
      She’s Maori isn’t she?
      Finding a Maori dude who doesn’t use you for a punchbag is the reason so many of the wimmin settle for their own gender.
      Same for quite a few non-western cultures…
      
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      November 29, 2018 10:03pm
- Longknives
  
  Kiri Allan is quite a piece of work!
  She was shrieking earlier in the year that she is just Sooo important that her entire Whanau should get unlimited free travel! (Courtesy of the poor old taxpayer)
  She is a fucking List MP for Christ’s sake!
  
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  November 29, 2018 6:10pm
  - GoVege
    
    It’s called nepotism, Longknives.
    Some humans have moved beyond it….
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:59pm
ex-golfer

In the House today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSM6T8kmupg

National missed an easy hit with a supplementary: “When was the better letters project started?”

This would have forced the Minister to advise that the project she is crowing about now was initiated under the previous National government!

Nice dig by the Speaker at the end too.
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November 29, 2018 2:29pm
MH

chris Finlayson Lisp member of Pike River re -entry fame and pokesperson is to resign. He rubbed noses quite a lot with local indigiknees, and handed out apologies and taxpayers money willy nilly to any tribe that wanted it.
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November 29, 2018 2:54pm
- KeaRea
  
  Chris was a great Attorney General. Maori had valid claims and we are better for Finlayson’s work. He is an excellent lawyer and I have enjoyed his unique capacity to make Winston apoplectic by denigrating him as a lawyer and a politician as he deserves. He is discreet on matters orthogonal to his remit and that is laudable. That’s all anyone ever asks. I don’t make “”awful”” comments to be “”awful””. I make them because they are necessary to drag people to the points of tension in the world which are going to be very salient in the coming years. Whether it be the Ivy League rort and hypocrisy, social credit, the pedophile proliferation or Peterson’s Jordanetics a la Alistair Crowley L Ron Hubbard and Deepak Chopra. If people in the current National party had a broader understanding of human affairs a phenomenon like Jamie Lee Ross might have been headed off. Because it is otherwise, all the good work done for years might be undone. We might very well get inheritance tax because enough people are going to use that affair as a rhetorical proof and pay zero attention to the tax dialectic. And if the US falls into open as opposed to cold civil and civic war we are going to become a Chinese colony decades earlier then planned. So it matters.
  
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  November 29, 2018 3:47pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    KeaRea:
    
    He is discreet on matters orthogonal to his remit and that is laudable. … Whether it be the Ivy League rort and hypocrisy, social credit, the pedophile proliferation or Peterson’s Jordanetics a la Alistair Crowley L Ron Hubbard and Deepak Chopra. … We might very well get inheritance tax because enough people are going to use that affair as a rhetorical proof and pay zero attention to the tax dialectic.
    
    Thank you for reminding me:
    
    Mr. Hutchinson: There is a documentary on BBC2 this evening about Squawking Bird, the leader of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1860s. Now this starts at 8.45 and goes on for approximately three-quarters of an hour.
    Basil: I’m sorry, are you talking to me?
    Mr. Hutchinson: Indeed I am, yes. Now is it possible for me to reserve the BBC2 channel for the duration of this televisual feast?
    Basil: Why don’t you talk properly?
    Mr. Hutchinson: I beg your pardon?
    Basil: No it isn’t.
    Mr. Hutchinson: What?
    Basil: It is not possible to reserve the BBC2 channel from the commencement of this televisual feast until the moment of the termination of its ending, thank you so much.
    
    🙂
    
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    November 29, 2018 4:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear,
another Climate Change Chief in trouble for harassment
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/climate-chief-wael-hmaidan-suspended-after-harassment-claims-s09lxdd2c?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
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November 29, 2018 4:32pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Mr Hmaidan … is from Lebanon.
  
  Hopefully Stephieboy can pop in and assure us that: ~~(1) the media report is alt-right fake news~~; (2) diversity is good for us and we shouldn’t worry about what Mr Hmaidan is alleged to have done. Oh yes – and (3) anyone heading up a climate change advocacy group should be supported – even if they occasionally do a bit of “gropy pervie” stuff on the side.
  
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  November 29, 2018 5:36pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Well I do hope all our Kiwi Climate Folk who are heading for Poland keep their gropey hands to themselves and look out for any vulnerable camp followers.
    
    http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/11/29/sexual-harassment-un-talks-weakens-fight-climate-change/
    
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    November 29, 2018 5:44pm
- Morrissey
  
  Thanks Maggy. We’ll investigate this fellow and see if he fits our criteria.
  
  Hector Stoop
  Head of Groper Identification section, Daisycutter Sports Inc.
  
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  November 29, 2018 5:38pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Morrissey:
    
    Any update on the Labour Party sex camp groper? You’ve promised us an instalment for several months now. Your work product standards are slipping, old chap!
    
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    November 29, 2018 5:45pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Hector and Serena are preparing a post, ‘Damus. Any day now.
      
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      November 29, 2018 5:55pm
Johnboy

I hear on the steam radio that Kim Il Goof has doubled the achievements of Uncle Joe Stalin by announcing a “Ten Year Plan”!
Don’t all stand and politely clap at once unless you have faces like carved stone! 🙂
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November 29, 2018 5:10pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  You might have a reason to pop up to Auckland old chap!
  
  Gender-busting Santa on display at Auckland’s Ponsonby Central
  
  A newly installed gender-busting Santa Claus is on display at Auckland’s Ponsonby Central. Dressed in fish-net stockings, holding a bag and umbrella, this jolly statue pushes the stereotype of the traditional male Santa Claus.
  
  The photo shows an exposed chest (lower part only – sorry Johnboy).
  
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  November 29, 2018 5:42pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Goodness,
    I think he’s wearing bloomers.
    
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    November 29, 2018 5:49pm
    - nasska
      
      Leave us hope that they’re woollen bloomers knitted from the fleeces of virgin lambs. 🙂
      
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      November 29, 2018 5:55pm
  - Longknives
    
    Interesting that the Herald are turning this into an attack on Simon Bridges…
    
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    November 29, 2018 6:07pm
    - Johnboy
      
      It’s time we had a proper right-wing paper to reverse the trend of the dreadful lefty press we have in NZ now! Where the fuck is the likes of “The Truth” or “Der Sturmer” when you need them? 🙂
      
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      November 29, 2018 6:43pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Gee if only there was someone Bridges could emulate who calls the MSM out on their BS and has done very well doing it…
      
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      November 29, 2018 7:18pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Seriously. Why does Bridges put up with it.
        Just call them out on it and be blunt when you do it.
        It would probably earn him votes. He’s got nothing to lose as being noice obviously isn’t working for him eh Mr 7%
        They deserve it too. We all see it as it’s so obvious Effing appalling bunch of biased c****
        
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        November 29, 2018 7:31pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I used to go hunting with a chap that wore only his underpants under his swannie. He claimed it was due to chafing from all the shorts he’d tried.
    Needless to say he got to sleep in his own tent!
    All I can say in his defence here is that he never had pretty lace edging around his grots! 🙂
    
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    November 29, 2018 6:39pm
    - nasska
      
      Whatever happens on the hunt stays on the hunt! 🙂
      
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      November 29, 2018 6:43pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Quite so nasska. I always wore my shorts in a spirit of decency but always had excess butter to grease my loins so to speak! 🙂
        
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        November 29, 2018 6:45pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Fuckme….Why am I getting constantly bloody moderated?? Quite so nasska. I always wore my shorts in a spirit of decency but always had excess butter to grease my loins so to speak! 🙂
        
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        November 29, 2018 6:51pm
    - Longknives
      
      It does get awfully cold and lonely out in the bush at night Johnboy!
      
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      November 29, 2018 6:47pm
Swifty

Hey Maggy – it was just the other day we were talking about ‘incidents’ versus ‘incidence’ – and then yesterday this pops up in the news….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12167870
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November 29, 2018 7:01pm
Swifty

See you later, asshole:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/108978165/karel-sroubek-speaks-out-on-immigration-ministers-uturn-thats-not-justice-thats-politics
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November 29, 2018 7:08pm
- nasska
  
  From Swifty’s link:
  
  …..””[New Zealand] is the only place I’m safe at the moment.””…..
  
  And you shit on us, took advantage of our piss-weak, idiot judges & have made our parliament a laughing stock*.
  
  Fuck off back to the Czech Republic & take your chances!
  
  * Although they didn’t need your help…..they’re a joke anyway.
  
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  November 29, 2018 7:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    Exactly.
    
    “Just one more chance….just give me one more chance….”
    
    What a bloody child. He’s had his chances. Fuck off.
    
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    November 29, 2018 7:20pm
GoVege

An idiotic iwi of ingrates in Gisborne are declaring that the heroic Captain Cook, who brought the rule of law to this land, was “a murderer”, thief etc and should not be commemorated?
You’d almost think it was their own dosh being spent…..
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November 29, 2018 7:18pm
nasska

World’s Shortest Books:

SPEAKING TRUTH IN POLITICS
By Jacinda Ardern

DECISION MAKING FOR DUMMIES
by Iain Lees-Galloway

HOW MY BLOG COMMENTS SAVED NEW ZEALAND
By Redbaiter

THE COMEBACK TRAIL
By Colin Craig

THINGS I DID TO DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
by Barrack Obama
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November 29, 2018 8:15pm
- stigie
  
  HOW I SAVED KAREL SHOUBEK
  By Winston Peters
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:01pm
- Nostradamus
  
  This is fun!
  
  A day in the life of a goat
  By Stephieboy
  
  The exclusive tale of Peter in LA
  By Dad
  
  The Jews
  By EAD
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:13pm
- niggly
  
  OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF THE NZ OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY AND HOW IT ALLEVIATES NZ’S DEPENDENCE ON OVERSEAS FOSSIL FUEL AND ENERGY
  
  By James, Jacinda and Winston with special forward by Dr Megan
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:37pm
nasska

The goatblower of Mt Roskill stalks again! 🙂
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November 29, 2018 9:16pm
Swifty

WOMEN I HAVE SLEPT WITH

by Morrissey.
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November 29, 2018 9:17pm
Swifty

STIFFY’S GUIDE TO ENGLISH COMPREHENSION

By Stephieboy
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November 29, 2018 9:24pm
Swifty

HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS WITH NEWS AGGREGATION WEBSITES

by PhilU
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November 29, 2018 9:28pm
Swifty

JOBS AROUND THE HOUSE OR FARM WHERE MUTTON FAT IS NOT REQUIRED

by Johnboy
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November 29, 2018 9:31pm
stigie

EXCEPTIONAL ROOTS AROUND PARLIAMENT
by Trevor Mallard
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November 29, 2018 9:32pm
Swifty

MY CAREER AND EXTENSIVE ACHIEVEMENTS PRE-PARLIAMENT

by Cindy
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November 29, 2018 9:35pm
Nostradamus

Keep them coming chaps!
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November 29, 2018 9:36pm
- stigie
  
  “NO”
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:37pm
  - stigie
    
    “Keep them coming chaps!”
    
    It’s hard these days to keep the ladies happy Nostra..?
    
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    November 29, 2018 9:42pm
MrTips

EXPERIENCES IN THE REAL WORLD
A Collaboration by the Entire Green Party
Ed. Golly G
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November 29, 2018 9:37pm
Swifty

SUCCESSFUL TEAMS I HAVE LED.

by Winston
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November 29, 2018 9:39pm
Nostradamus

WHY MARK LUNDY IS INNOCENT
By Notsofast
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November 29, 2018 9:39pm
Swifty

HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET.

by H. Pavletich
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November 29, 2018 9:41pm
Nostradamus

HOW TO GET BANNED FROM KIWIBLOG
By Ztev (with a chapter by Mikenmild)
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November 29, 2018 9:44pm
MrTips

MY LIFE AS INDIANA DRUNKEN-BONES AND FINDING THE PROSTATE OF DOOM
By Winston

FAPS I CAN REMEMBER
By Shane Roll-the-Bones
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November 29, 2018 9:45pm
niggly

THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW EVEN A BULLY CAN RISE TO PARLIAMENT’S TOP JOB

By Trev Da Muss’allard
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November 29, 2018 9:45pm
Nostradamus

EDMONDS COOKBOOK (2018 EDITION)
By Megan Woods
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November 29, 2018 9:48pm
niggly

HOW TO THROW A FEW HUNDY MILLION AROUND HERE AND THERE AND BUY SUPPORT WITHOUT EVEN BEING CALLED CORRUPT BY THE PUSSY WUSSY MEDIA!

By No Shame Jones
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November 29, 2018 9:50pm
Swifty

PIES I HAVE NOT LIKED

by G. Robertson
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November 29, 2018 9:51pm
Maggy Wassilieff

IDENTITY THEORY
By R.C. Kea .Ph.D.; M.D.
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November 29, 2018 9:51pm
- stigie
  
  NASSKA HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR
  by stigie
  
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  November 29, 2018 9:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

MY GAY LIFE
D. Garrett

PRAYERS SAVED ME
Nasska
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November 29, 2018 10:01pm
- MrTips
  
  Oh you are awful, but I like you…
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:02pm
Swifty

GROWING THE CAKE; MY PLAN FOR LIFTING NZ’S EXPORT RECEIPTS

By M. Davidson
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November 29, 2018 10:03pm
MrTips

POLITICS MASTERCLASS
by J-L Ross
Imprimatur: LuskOil
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November 29, 2018 10:03pm
Awww C-mon

Independent and Honest Reporting
By, well most the media really

Things I have learnt
By Lizzie Marvelly

Successful Union Leadership
by A Little

Successful Party Leadership
By A Little (forward D Cunliffe)

The All Blacks greatest moments
By Big Bruv

Pumps for Hotties, stories from the supply room
By D4J

Links and comments I couldn’t find in 3 minutes
By Nostradamus
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November 29, 2018 10:11pm
stigie

THE TRANSVESTITE COP THAT STALKED ME
by D4J
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November 29, 2018 10:16pm
- MrTips
  
  Followed up with:
  
  COTTAGING ETIQUETTE IN CHC
  By D4J
  
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  November 29, 2018 10:23pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Whakatuwheratia Kawanatanga i Aotearoa.
Ardern et al.
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November 29, 2018 10:17pm
Maggy Wassilieff

THE ILLUSTRATED HOME-KILL BUTCHER
by Go Vege
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November 29, 2018 10:38pm
Manolo

A word of warning:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/28/fed-warns-that-particularly-large-plunge-in-asset-prices-is-possible-if-risks-materialize.html

The Federal Reserve issued a cautionary note Wednesday about risks to financial stability, saying trade tensions, geopolitical uncertainty and a buildup in corporate debt among firms with weak balance sheets pose strong threats.
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