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January 4, 2019 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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Steve (North Shore)

Yay!
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January 4, 2019 8:00am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  That is the bright side of menstruation, it doesn’t last forever although yesterday it did seem as if it might
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:03am
  - VicParking
    
    But remember you now have Menopause to look forward to.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:11am
    - ldypen
      
      Well now I have hurty feelings, you have not considered my gender.. you MUST change it to MANOPAUSE otherwise I will be OUTRAGED and will require an apology which must be delivered to me in person on a unicorn when I am at my safe space!
      
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      January 4, 2019 8:22am
    - holysheet
      
      Menstruation, Menopause, female. Why are these terms still in use in this day and age of Me2?
      Surely the luvvies can come up with new names for these female functions. Opps, there’s that gender name again.
      
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      January 4, 2019 8:25am
      - SGA
        
        Not sure whether you are just taking the piss or not, but more in the spirit of trivia than anything – we get words like menstruation from the Latin “mensis” meaning month. Similarly, “manufacture” comes from the Latin “manus” meaning hand). Neither family of words has anything to do with gender.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:55am
      - VicParking
        
        Not when the Snowfakes read it
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:33am
      - slightlyrighty
        
        Derivation of words mean nothing when it comes to taking offence.
        
        Used Niggardly in a sentence and see what happens. It’s fun!
        
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        January 4, 2019 10:00am
    - dime
      
      men go through andropause. hence more fat around the mid-section etc.
      
      no one gives a shit cause fuck men right.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:49am
    - Wangas Feral
      
      I have ciswhitemale-menopause to look forward to.
      
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      January 4, 2019 11:12am
  - Liberty
    
    The AC/DC types have now had their very long day in the sun.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:36am
    - Longknives
      
      AC/DC in the sun? Sounds awesome!
      Warm up drinks at mine?
      
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      January 4, 2019 11:26am
      - sooty
        
        Can you just imagine the camp boys in the public service. Well they have days off periods etc, why can’t we.
        
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        January 4, 2019 11:56am
Notsofast

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It is important everyone reads this judgement with great care, print it out, make notes, and analyse carefully. No document will prove to have greater ramifications for the New Zealand judicial landscape.

http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/cases/lundy-v-r/@@images/fileDecision?r=405.381746405
It is long but profoundly important.
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January 4, 2019 8:01am
- harvey wilson
  
  Yeah, I’m not going to print that out and make notes. I did give it a downvote though.
  You’re welcome.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:04am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Nope, yesterday was bad enough without your nonesence again today.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:05am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I didn’t need to read further than this Notsofast:
  
  IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NEW ZEALAND
  I TE KŌTI PĪRA O AOTEAROA
  
  CA232/2015
  [2018] NZCA 410
  
  BETWEEN MARK EDWARD LUNDY
  Appellant
  AND THE QUEEN
  Respondent
  
  Hearing: 17, 18 and 19 October 2017 (further submissions received 27 October, 6 November, 10 November and 11 December 2017)
  
  Court: Cooper, Winkelmann and Asher JJ
  
  Counsel: J H M Eaton QC, J Oliver-Hood, J-A Kincade and H C Coutts for Appellant
  
  P J Morgan QC, B D Vanderkolk and M L Jepson
  for Respondent
  
  Judgment: 9 October 2018 at 11.30 am
  
  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
  
  A The appeal is dismissed.
  
  Justices Cooper, Winkelmann and Asher got it dead right, in my ever-humble opinion.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:06am
  - Notsofast
    
    The suggestion is you read it carefully then comment. I am hoping a few people do.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:20am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      I did, when it first came out. It merely reinforced my conviction that the right man is behind bars.
      
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      January 4, 2019 8:22am
      - Notsofast
        
        Yes, I appreciate you at least did read it. Unfortunately there is no point in me killing the thread by pointing matters out. Could you maybe quote what persuaded you most?
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:31am
  - ldypen
    
    Well done… you spent more time reading through that than our great Minister in charge of Immigration reads through documents.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:25am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  What? Lundy is still a murdering prick? That’s a surprise.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:10am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    And seems to be tying up the courts and wasting considerable tax money – money that could be used to help victims of domestic violence.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:17am
    - harvey wilson
      
      Its weird that these weirdos get fixated on obviously guilty people who butcher their families and trying to free them.
      Does Notsofast see himself as the next joe Karam and is hoping to also get close to one million off the NZ taxpayer in legal aid?
      
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      January 4, 2019 8:20am
      - Notsofast
        
        This case is bigger than Bain, a killer has not been called to account and may well be at large.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:23am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Many believe, with good cause too, that the killer in the Bain case also “may well be at large”.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:33am
      - harvey wilson
        
        Well kiwibloggers, I think 40 minutes until the op was downvoted out of existence is a new record.
        
        Btw notsofast if anyone fits the description of “at large” it was Lundys physique when he butchered his wife and kid.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:41am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Harvey Wilson
        
        I think 40 minutes until the op was downvoted out of existence is a new record.
        
        Actually William of Ockham has the record – 17 minutes!
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:46am
      - Notsofast
        
        Keeping Stock:
        
        They may believe that. Here is Jim Lovering from Seattle on the case
        
        Very interesting. I have always thought Bain was probably innocent but could never prove it. This is solid new evidence in his favor.
        
        then
        
        In the video I watched, investigators exactly replicated the marks shown in the crime scene photo. The marks are distinctive and unusual. You offer no reason to accept your claim that they were “clearly older marks with ingrained dirt.”
        
        then
        
        It happens I own a .22 semi-auto, with a slightly different magazine cartridge, but it loads the same way, and I see the point exactly. I have had those marks on my own thumb and index finger.
        They didn’t “try very hard.” They merely demonstrated what happened when they reloaded the magazine after shooting the gun.
        Asserting that something is nonsense does not make it nonsense.
        
        ……………………………………………………………………………………..
        
        No axe to grind, just an independent crime analyst.
        
        Never mind, ignore the evidence as always, but consider how likely it is you will have these marks that were much later discovered in a photo undisputedly from the crime scene on your thumb for morning prayer.
        Jude Collins for prime minister that clever woman.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:48am
mandk

It’s OK guys – no menstruating men today.
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January 4, 2019 8:01am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Except for Notsofast.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:02am
  - flipper
    
    I/we know he has a fixation about the hatchetman.
    But he is really best ignored!
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:53am
- G152
  
  Its a bleeding miracle
  or piles
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:11am
Captain Mainwaring

There is a positive to having a day without General Debate, and that is that the rest of us don’t have to put up with Muttonbrain, Morris Moron, Stupidboy and all the other Ztev impersonators for a whole 24 hours.
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January 4, 2019 8:02am
- harvey wilson
  
  My new years resolution is to mock Muttonbird more for his terrible life choices and his bitterness as a result of them .
  Having seen his behaviour on two other forums I can confirm he is an awful bitter little man only too happy to accuse people who disagree with him of suffering from mental illness or mock those actually suffering from mental illness is one of the many nasty things he does online.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:18am
  - VicParking
    
    Gee the sounds just like harvey wilson.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:37am
    - harvey wilson
      
      Vicparking, can you point out where I have mocked people with mental illness? Muttonbird refers to them as “being hopped up on goofballs”.
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:13am
    - Muttonbird
      
      I’d like harvey to try get through one effing comment without mentioning me. Perhaps next year.
      
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      January 4, 2019 6:30pm
  - GazzaW
    
    It must be contagious harvey as mikey has done little else other than accuse us collectively of being morons since he returned from exile. It will be a temporary return – gone by the end of the month.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:47am
jp_1983

Question, If someone dies or gets seriously injured as A result of testing your drugs tested at these drugs safe venues, could these testers be held liable for negligence?
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January 4, 2019 8:03am
- Colville
  
  No.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:30am
  - KevOB
    
    That depends… A good QC could well present an argument. Only a Court can decide.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:04am
    - fernglas
      
      It’s ACC.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:16am
      - KevOB
        
        That’s a constitutional nicety if the State itself is at fault or is claimed to be at fault. This govt is too hasty and may well fall into traps that more capable administrations would avoid.
        
        The idea of certifying drugs are safe using some quick tests pre-event makes a mockery of the extensive testing expected under the Medicines Act. Some relaxation may be reasonable but that needs to be applied uniformly.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:57pm
- holysheet
  
  One would expect that this testing has been thoroughly tested before being used here. The taxpayer doesn’t want to be paying out millions yet again in the future to drug users. The meth testing and consequent evictions, apologies and payments are evidence that this testing needs to be done correctly.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:34am
  - VicParking
    
    Just put their heads on a spike in the town square with a card saying. Stupid Idiot who took drugs when Zee did not know what was in them.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:40am
  - tf78
    
    Take them for testing (pretend test) say they’re full of rat poison or paint stripper so you shouldn’t take them, then just confiscate them – costs nothing and gets rid of them at the same time.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:25am
    - MH
      
      wot about the squirrels and rats then ?
      
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      January 4, 2019 3:45pm
- dubya
  
  Good question. I don’t think the charitable trust that test the drugs promote any drug as ‘safe’, though. They are simply testing it to ascertain what is actually in it, versus what the dealer told you it was. Even if you got ‘lucky’ and were sold pure MDMA instead of something cut with rat poison, lighter fluid and tripe, the testers aren’t telling you ‘go ahead, it’s completely safe’.
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:25am
artemisia

Hotel and motel owners in Auckland are concerned they will be pinged with a higher bed tax because of the much lower than expected number of Airbnb etc providers paying.

Not unsympathetic but hotels and motels have agitated persistently for a ‘level playing field’ (aka pay less bed tax). How much risk analysis did they do? Did they actually consider that AC might get numbers very wrong?

Roberts said he was concerned that hotels and motels would have to make up the difference by paying more in next year’s rates. “They were looking to collect a set amount per year and the way of collecting that is by simply dividing up the number of targeted properties by that sum.

“The more properties paying, the less each property will pay.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12178787
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January 4, 2019 8:03am
- Wangas Feral
  
  Did they actually consider that AC might get numbers very wrong?
  
  They should have because AC rarely ever get the numbers right.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:14am
Pete George

Farrar acts on ongoing attacks on Ardern
It looks like a majority here don’t like the levels of abuse that Kiwiblog is well known for.

SGA: “Nowadays, I seem to scroll over increasing amounts of content-free bitterness and name calling to find anything worth reading. But maybe that’s just me”.

Not according the the ticks in support of this comment (and small number against).
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January 4, 2019 8:05am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  In this context, define abuse.
  
  Because someone writes something that you disagree with, that post does not necessarily constitute abuse. In your mind perhaps but not so much in the wider held preception.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:09am
- redeye
  
  That’s pretty disgusting link whoring for mine.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:26am
- Nostradamus
  
  Pete George:
  
  Get back to us about “abuse” after you’ve brought Griff into line at your blog.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:30am
  - Simon
    
    Ha ha ha Griff. This clowns goes onto https://realclimatescience.com/ and gets taken apart in seconds.
    
    Griff is in much much better being bitter and angry on a safe space like yournz. org.
    
    Perhaps the many labo fluffers on KB can also move onto safe space yournz. Better for everyone.
    
    But it is a free world. Well parts of it.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:37am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Griff’s doing a good job there against the anti-science morons.
    it is unlikely though, that anyone arguing agasint the physical realities of climate science is amenable to any method of persuasion. Griff has settled for the amotionally satisfying reponse of pointing out the logical flaws and cherry-picked data relied upon by those wishful thinkers and adding a cherry on the top in terms of well-deserved abuse.
    A better response would probably be to ignore those moons and just concentrate on supporting rational responses to the problem as proposed by an overwhlmingconsensus of those who actually know what they are talking about.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:51am
  - Pete George
    
    Nostradamus:
    
    Griff is learning to stick to addressing the issues rather than attacking people. Not only does it improve the quality of debate it helps make stronger and more credible arguments.
    
    Blog moderation is difficult, but better moderation deters less people from joining in discussions.
    
    I know some people like things as they are here as a virtual free-for-all, but how some abuse the privilege is quite unfair on DPF as it impacts on his reputation (but he chooses too do little about it).
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:32am
- Simon
  
  Count dem ticks PG.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:39am
- igm
  
  Do you not think Ardern deserves abuse . . . wake up you tosser!
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:40am
- Surely Knott
  
  The great thing about Kiwiblog is it’s democratic. The downtick system and subsequent replies already made it clear that people didn’t support the comment and that it had gone too far.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:41am
- starboard
  
  PG reported for link whoring
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:43am
  - Pete George
    
    There were many more people clicking from here yesterday via the link that DPF provided under Links. Did you report that ‘link whoring’?
    
    Are you aware of how the Internet works, and how much it relies on links between different sites? DPF utilises this fundamental feature a lot as does just about every blogger.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:41am
- Longknives
  
  Good Morning Pete
  
  Did you read the bit where I wrote “I certainly don’t wish any harm on Ardern’s child?”
  
  And yes- I do believe that Ardern’s Labour/Green Government’s bizarre Law and Order reforms, and the signing of the Migration Pact, will cost many innocent New Zealanders their lives.
  Hence I do believe that she is a repulsive and vile woman.
  And no I don’t believe she cares one iota about my kids and their future…
  This is simply my opinion.
  
  (*Incidentally do you remember when Homebrew wrote that song about raping John Key’s daughter? Who was the MP who came out supporting them again?…)
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:43am
  - Pete George
    
    “…will cost many innocent New Zealanders their lives.
    
    Hence I do believe that she is a repulsive and vile woman.
    
    And no I don’t believe she cares one iota about my kids and their future…
    This is simply my opinion.”
    
    I’v e heard very similar opinions about John key and National. I’ve argued against them.
    
    In my opinion every leader and every MP and every party does care about people and children, but it is very difficult (impossible) to get policy balances that keep everyone safe. And different parties have different approaches.
    
    Do you think that the Government is entirely responsible for everyone, and everyone’s children and their well being?
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:38am
stephieboy

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How fake images spread racist stereotypes about migrants across the globe

On social media, blogs and in the mouths of certain politicians, migrants are regularly associated with criminality, taking handouts or, even worse, terrorism. Manipulated or fake images are often used to illustrate these racist stereotypes, which are then massively circulated online. The FRANCE 24 Observers team has collaborated on a project aiming to sort and analyse various fake news stories about migrants. Here are our initial results.

https://observers.france24.com/en/20180105-fake-images-racist-stereotypes-migrants

This is one of our local ones, Whale Oil, with this fake news item,

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2019/01/jacinda-is-leading-lambs-to-the-slaughter/?fbclid=IwAR1XjBGkwqqaPb57y20RG1pUgXfj-CIHhhHqiNgNF3RJj2IbjgkbSDDy8fo

With this local response on TM,

Jacinda leading lambs to the slaughter

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Is this what passes for decent political opinion?
– A random quote from a third party
– A linked source called “viridian” that actually just links to another random WOBH page where a German woman is hassled by police for having braids
– A budget-tier meme of a Biblical verse
– A bunch of unproven allegations about the PMs personal beliefs and attitudes about immigration, brown Muslim men and women
– Wild unfounded claims of “skyrocketing rape statistics, Muslim child rape gangs, female genital mutilation, child marriage, polygamy and Sharia law”
– Then a random picture of a bunch of assaulted women (which a Google reverse image search shows the same image used on sites like mormondiscussions, dailystormer, thewhiteresistance, and 4chan archive site 4plebs – where the question “How do we protect ourselves from false rape allegations?” on /pol/ was answered with the same image, including the reply “Murder as many as possible. Those who remain will comply or die.”)
I suppose if you get your information from garbage sources, you’ll end up with garbage opinions as well.
Edit: Oh, I see now. viridian is a commenter on that German braid page. WOBH is making a whole post out of a random commenters reply? Lols. Outstanding alternative media journalism. They should be very proud.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=1785247&topic=7
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January 4, 2019 8:06am
- harvey wilson
  
  As well as soiling yourself on a regular basis on kiwiblog you also read whaleoil and the trademe messageboard? Have you though of getting a life?
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:12am
  - KevOB
    
    With a multitude of personalities choosing a life must be difficult. Whaleoil offers several bronze tbrough platinum.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:08am
    - sooty
      
      No record for stephie this morning. Just over an hour to hid his head in the sand.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:28am
  - Steve Todd
    
    @harvey wilson
    
    You follow Muttonbird and Stephieboy on two other forums (each), and you ask Stephie if *he* has thought of getting a life? Perhaps you should take a good, long, look at your own life, pal.
    
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    January 4, 2019 3:12pm
    - Muttonbird
      
      +1.
      
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      January 4, 2019 6:31pm
- GazzaW
  
  What reliable source do you suggest we go to steffie? The Standard?
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:15am
- VicParking
  
  Stephie if you have an issue with the Whale rant about it on Whale Oil not here, OH yes you are banned on that site.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:18am
  - stephieboy
    
    Never posted anything on that site!
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:04am
    - GazzaW
      
      You might not have but how about the rest of the steffie squad?
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:21am
- Sofia
  
  As this comment is about WhaleOil, have you this comment on WhaleOil?
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:19am
  - harvey wilson
    
    While you’re at it pop over the standard and complain about Muttonbird wanting people to be murdered starting with Cameron Slater.
    
    https://thestandard.org.nz/national-is-now-barking-at-tahrs/
    
    Even by my low expectations of the losers at the standard that thread is full of lies and misinformation.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:27am
- holysheet
  
  The man responsible for the New Year’s Eve stabbings in Manchester is detained under the mental health act.
  All because he actually obeyed Islamic teaching
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:37am
  - igm
    
    holysheet: If this is the case, then all practising Muslims must be mental health risks. Surely that means they should not have been allowed entry here!
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:43am
    - sooty
      
      His goat does’nt love him anymore!
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:11am
  - kowtow
    
    The diversity dividend, the gift that keeps on giving.
    
    ‘The son of radical hate preacher Abu Hamza is being questioned over the murder of a doorman outside a New Year’s Eve party in Mayfair.’
    
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/03/abu-hamzas-son-questioned-doormans-mayfair-murder-charged-gun/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:36am
    - igm
      
      And Ardern wants to open the gates to these mongrel bastards!
      
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      January 4, 2019 1:23pm
      - Manolo
        
        So does our own stephieboy.
        
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        January 4, 2019 1:28pm
  - stephieboy
    
    hs, deep stuff.
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:05am
- pentwig
  
  oh goodie
  the stoopidthing has arrived
  i suppose the young girls in st lukes will be safe as the self confessed pervert is trying to play on here
  
  duh
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:41am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Even after Rotherham and Luton Stafaknee is declaring child rape gangs exist amongst the Pakistani population in the Uk.
    
    Pathetic.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:51am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      Yes, they do. Just as murderers and rapists, arsonists and blackmailers, taggers and litter bugs exist among the white male community. So?
      
      Once again. Kiwiblog is very quick to take instances of atrocious or stupid acts by a few as evidence that everybody who shares their ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual preference or political opinion (whichever is least likely to be shared with other Kiwibloggers) must be condemned as if they too were guilty of the same crime.
      
      Unless the perpetrators in a particular instance are white men. Then we are all about individual choices and steadfastly opposed to identity politics and collective responsibility.
      
      Even where we had been arguing the exact opposite before it emerged that a white guy did it and we were assuming that the perpetrators must have been Muslim or Maori.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:25am
      - sooty
        
        Law of averages and all of that!
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:30am
      - igm
        
        Are you running on a half tank of gas or what?
        You are a real example of losers supporting CoL and Pete George.
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:39am
      - kowtow
        
        Nah. It’s an issue because the Establishment bent over backwards to not investigate the crimes because of PC multiculturalism.
        
        https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/08/30/why-did-british-police-ignore-pakistani-gangs-raping-rotherham-children-political-correctness/#1791e24b754a
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:44am
      - Rich Prick
        
        No, the chaps and chapettes are simply recognising propensity. People who explode, stab, run cars into crowds or otherwise cause death and mayhem are almost exclusively Allah’s little soldiers.
        
        People who kill little babies (either then own, or more commonly those of a new partner) tend to almost always be … you get the drift.
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:58am
      - Jack5
        
        Albert, ethnicities seem to have propensities for different types of crime.
        
        In Western countries, most white-collar crime – embezzlement, fraud, etc – seems to be committed by white people.
        
        In Britain, have any people but Pakistanis and Bangledeshis been involved in the huge paedophile rape networks that have offended against many hundreds of children?
        
        Are those who beheaded an unarmed English soldier and stabbed or run down people in England and Melbourne white people?
        
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        January 4, 2019 12:06pm
CJames

Surprise surprise – a Fish and Game sponsored poll says the most serious problem facing NZ is our polluted rivers. Really? Whatever happened to all the children in poverty or the underachieving long tail of mainly brown faces?
No doubt the government will use this poll to bring in more policies to make NZ go backwards.
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January 4, 2019 8:08am
- G152
  
  First find your audience and only then run your poll.
  Pretend surprise at the result
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:14am
  - tf78
    
    Similar poll enabled Len Brown to go ahead with the CRL – they asked people at the railway station if they would like one and of course you get the answer you want.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:31am
    - sooty
      
      Where as if you asked people at the traffic lights it would be different!
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:01pm
- oldgolfer
  
  Fish and Game has become so political I have given up fishing so that I do not have to subsidise it.
  I fancy I am not alone.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:14am
  - sooty
    
    I don’t buy fish and chips anymore. So there!
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:03pm
- Paulus
  
  What did you expect from a poll with the expected results paid for by the subscriber – which is why they did it.
  Fish and Game are the new political party along with Greenpeace and the Greens.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:14am
  - VicParking
    
    And dont forget the The Salvation Army
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:20am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      NZ Herald
      Dompost
      
      (Ok, they’re not new political parties, but they aren’t registered and should be)
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:36am
      - sooty
        
        Don’t need too!
        They will be gone in a couple of years!
        
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        January 4, 2019 12:07pm
      - Miritu
        
        Federated Mountain Clubs (FMC) too
        
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        January 4, 2019 12:33pm
- redeye
  
  It’s a preemptive strike, just gathering support for a water tax.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:30am
- holysheet
  
  Child abuse by the ferals should be at the top of this poll.
  How can any sane person attack a 3 week old baby?
  How can family and friends lie and cover up for the lowlife that did such a thing.
  For fucks sake, A three week old baby lies struggling for survival, and all we are worried about is all this other crap?
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:44am
  - GoVege
    
    You’d think such a young baby would be attached to it’s mum’s chest virtually the whole time, at least until it’s a few months old.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:17am
  - sightpicture
    
    “It’s Kahuitown, Jake.”
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:43am
  - Nermal
    
    As WO succinctly says, they do it because they are SOCKs: Some Other C***’s Kids
    
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    January 4, 2019 3:27pm
- Sofia
  
  C James, No doubt the government will use this poll to bring in more policies to make NZ go backwards.
  
  Indeed how should the Government regard this poll, as it rates Housing as the least concern and doesn’t mention the road toll, or road safety.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:45am
  - kowtow
    
    With this gubmint one must be very careful , they’ll use any excuse for a new law that suits .
    Afterall we got a plastic bag at the checkout ban based on childrens’ letters to the PM !
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:48am
  - tf78
    
    I wonder what the question actually was?
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:32am
- The Heat
  
  I thought it was our generations “nuclear free moment”, namely the natural process of climate variability?
  
  Hard to keep up with the crisis of the month.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:50am
  - VicParking
    
    I notice the following has not hit the NZ MSM.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6549509/Frigid-temperatures-chill-southern-Arizona-West.html
    “Arizona residents in awe as frigid temperatures chill southern part of the state and much of West”
    Global Warming Strikes again…
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:46am
    - Peter Wimsey
      
      I lived in Phoenix for nearly 20 years. Every few years we had snow on the mountains around the city and I remember 2006 December it snowing in the city itself . Nothing new for Phoenicians.
      
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      January 4, 2019 1:06pm
- KevOB
  
  This is softening up NZ for the attack on our water rights. Maori are lining up too to carve off a share so they can eventually sell of rights to Nestle and others. Expect more.
  Hopefully the pending GFC will divert them.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:13am
- alloytoo
  
  Bizarre how this was released after Auckland Council declared a number of urban beaches not safe to swim.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:47am
  - sooty
    
    But that’s sea water and they are compaining about fresh water!
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:11pm
sooty

My prediction for 2019.
Mike Mild does not see the month out before been binned again.
He is just one sorry arse, soured, troll.
His time away certainly did’n ot improve him!
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January 4, 2019 8:08am
mikenmildagain

Happy World Braille Day to you all.
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January 4, 2019 8:18am
- VicParking
  
  And happy NATIONAL SPAGHETTI DAY
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:23am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Pastafarians rejoice! A day to become one with the godhead by touching His Noodly Appendage.
    
    Our S’ghetti,
    Who “Arghh” in colander,
    Swallowed be thy meatballs.
    Thy noodle come,
    Thy sauce be yum,
    On top some grated parmesan.
    Give us this day our daily pasta,
    And forgive us our trespasses,
    As we forgive those who trample on our lawns.
    And lead us not into heartburn,
    But deliver us some pizza,
    For thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce
    For ever and ever.
    
    R’Amen
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:36am
    - starboard
      
      Twit.
      
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      January 4, 2019 8:46am
- G152
  
  touching
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:04am
- Keeping Stock
  
  There’s none so blind as he that will not see…
  
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  January 4, 2019 5:46pm
Inandout

Have a relative who owns a property on the proposed new Otaki to Foxton two lane highway. She can’t sell because she won’t know where the road will go until 2020. It could take half her house, half her section or go just metres away. As Tate’s granny would say, ‘what a fucken’ liberty’. This useless shambles of a government is leaving hundreds of people in limbo because they can’t decide or haven’t got the money. National had it all sussed.
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January 4, 2019 8:28am
VicParking

Red radio is lauding Nancy Pelosi and how she is going start the impeachment of Trump. They fail to mention that to do that they need 70% of the Senate to vote for it too. F*k all chance that will happen.
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January 4, 2019 8:31am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  It seems unlikely that any genuine move to impeach Trump would come before the Mueller investigation is complete. Even then, it would take a virtual revolution among the Republican senators to take that ultimate step.
  Meanwhile, the changed control of the house committees seems likely to spark multiple investigations of Trump and a fair number of his dodgy cronies. None of that will matter to the Trumpkins in the base though.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:40am
  - Jules99
    
    I think the plan is to bury him subpoenas so he can’t do his job. No need to prove any guilt, just stop him from actually achieving anything so they can win the next election. That’s all they have left after two years of hard core investigation. Stuff what the American people want.
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:47am
    - MCos
      
      As I recall Hillary Clinton was the subject of about nine inquires related to Benghazi prior to the last election.
      Nothing much came of them nor whatever else she was supposed to be locked up for.
      If Trump has does nothing wrong, as he continually reiterates, it’ll all just be piss and wind this time too.
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:16am
  - VicParking
    
    “dodgy cronies” Did not know the Clintons were cronies of Trump.
    Please name some?? With Proof!!!
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:51am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Should we just start with his associates who have so far pleaded guilty when indicted, like his campaign manager, national security adviser and personal lawyer?
      
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      January 4, 2019 2:05pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Manafort was campaign manager for a brief period during the convention, and has been convicted on crimes that had already been investigated (and not followed up on) from 2013 or so. Crimes that incidentally he was involved with on an equal footing (as partners) with the Podesta brothers, who not at all surprisingly have not been indicted for the exact same crimes because they have the magic “D” after their names.
        
        Flynn, railroaded because of a long standing dispute between him and Andrew McCabe, plus considerable dodgy dealings by the FBI. Did you know that the “302” written statement of the interview between Strzok and Flynn that is the basis for the charges was not written until a number of months after the interview – or at least the one presented to the court was. Andrew Weissman who is the prosecutor has a known history of attempts to pervert justice (the whole prosecution of Arthur Anderson as part of the Enron case collapsed because of his malfeasance) and there more yet to come out about this case.
        
        The whole exercise is a “show me the man and I’ll find you a crime” basis. Only those rules only seem to apply to those without a “D” after their names.
        
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        January 4, 2019 3:22pm
  - Nermal
    
    I predict Meuller will still be on his witch hunt next year, still hoping to find that one of Trump’s extended family once got a traffic ticket in Moscow, Idaho, thereby proving Russian collusion in the election process
    
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    January 4, 2019 3:33pm
- KevOB
  
  Pelosi believes impeachment could be done on political grounds if no other is available.
  If governments can be switched on a don’t-like basis a military junta is the only long term option.
  
  Congressional Speaker Pelosi will be 79 in March.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:24am
  - VicParking
    
    Pelosi can think what she likes but as long as the GOP has control of the house they are all pipe dreams. Infact they will just harden the Polulation against the Dem’s
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:53am
    - Ed Snack
      
      You mean control of the Senate. The Dem’s have the House (Congress).
      
      And yes, a baldly political impeachment will likely encourage the Dem’s base but also likely turn off independents and swinging voters.
      
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      January 4, 2019 3:24pm
  - flipper
    
    But KevOB,
    Alan Dershowitz ( a life-long democrat and a Clinton supporter in 2016) says that political differences do not amount to “high crimes and misdemeanours”. And that is before the likes of shifty Schiff, bank frauding Walters, and all the other nutters get handed their arse by the Senate.
    A great MSMedia diversion, but never going to fly.
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:09am
    - KevOB
      
      Dershowitz is correct. Speaker Pelosi has no concept of the rule of law. If successive Congresses play the game of take out POTUS civil government is over.
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:37pm
      - flipper
        
        Absolutely !!!
        
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        January 4, 2019 2:00pm
  - tf78
    
    I heard her saying the old chesnut “one in four children are in poverty” etc. etc. she’s talking from the same song sheet as Macron, Trudeau, Corbyn, Shorten and Jacinda – do they all have something in common. They are all very original.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:40am
  - Nermal
    
    Maxine Waters will have nothing to say if they actually do impeach Trump
    
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    January 4, 2019 3:37pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  It gives the media something to chatter about, which is a win for Pelosi.
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:16am
oldpark

With the Peters supported Islamic Federation fuelled UN Migrant Compact with the ink hardly dry and signed for by our Socialist Engineering gang running NZs Government at the moment.
Next it is a free pass and a rubber stamp for druggies at Music festivals about to be legislated for in not too distant future.We will have zonked zombies coming out of the festival driving blindly. Of course with our friendly Police Force they will be waived on. Nothing to see here. Just like the appointment of the Police Bully Hauhama and a buddy of NZs wee man Peters. Once more it is bullying is a crime. Only time it is not when The Peters selected NZs Government says ,if the accused policeman is a buddy of Peters, It is move on nothing to whinge about.
Seems with Peters running the show,every decision and call by Ardern and her gang of never wases,has Peters fingerprints all over them.
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January 4, 2019 8:36am
- Jules99
  
  If you look behind the pop culture of the 1960’s, it was attempt by those in power to break down the structures of society and implement a communist regime. It failed, and I think that they are trying it again, with more control of the media this time. It will fail again, but sadly, many young people will suffer along the way.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:51am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Wow. That. Is. Mind. Blowing.
    All the time I was thinking that it was about “all you need is love” when John and Paul were really preparing world revolution.
    But I should have guessed, I suppose. It was right there in their (undoubtedly assumed) names: Lennonist-MarxCartney.
    Your nurse should be round with the medication trolley soon.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:03am
    - VicParking
      
      As soon as Zee visits the Milkman
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:54am
    - Longknives
      
      The clues are all there in the album cover Mikey…
      
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      January 4, 2019 11:33am
  - SGA
    
    If you look behind the pop culture of the 1960’s, it was attempt by those in power to break down the structures of society and implement a communist regime.
    
    huh? “those in power”. Who were these people in power that were attempting to do this? Kennedy? Johnson? Nixon? Hoover? Holyoake? The Illuminati?
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:24am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      All of the above, but mainly the “cultural Marxists”, aka the Jews.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:38am
    - MCos
      
      In the sixties through to the demise of Muldoon NZ was far closer to socialism than anybody these days would want, apart from a few wild eyed extreme left wingers that no one pays any heed except extreme right wingers trying to scare the shit out of impressionable.
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:26am
Notsofast

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Jamal Khashoggi murder: Five suspects face death penalty.

And Trump’s lawyer goes to jail for paying off his hooker.

These guys are nicety nice.
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January 4, 2019 8:37am
- kowtow
  
  Suspects or scapegoats ?
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:56am
hello

Hey, general question for those of you who feel sceptical about our welfare state/ over-payed MPs/ look-good-do-nothing policies:

Why National over ACT? I don’t have a stake in it either way, but I’m curious. I do feel a fair criticism of the National Party is that it tends to administer Labour legislation instead of repealing it, and ACT seems less inclined to do so. And yet – National gets far greater support than ACT.

What’re everyone’s thoughts?
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January 4, 2019 8:44am
- mikenmildagain
  
  That Act’s policies and personalities are extremely unpopular with the voting public?
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:55am
  - hello
    
    It shouldn’t bother you that other people won’t vote for them though, surely, given they’re guaranteed to bring all their elected MPs in Parliament?
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:59am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      They don’t bother me. They are an interesting study in self delusion and their twists and turns have been quite entertaining over the years. Remmber how thay were going to be ‘values, not politics’ and all that?
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:08am
    - Happychappy
      
      The best thing National could do is cut David Seymour and Act adrift and let them fend for themselves as the days of Act getting above the 5% threshold are well and truly gone.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:20am
- hello
  
  Whoops, *paid (how embarrassing)
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:00am
- tf78
  
  I think National have to tow the line in a lot of respects because people have got so used to hand-outs they can’t live without them. Whereas David Seymour working on his own can say pretty much what he likes about other parties policies.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:45am
  - rangitoto
    
    Toe the line.
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:21pm
    - tf78
      
      sorry
      
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      January 4, 2019 1:39pm
holysheet

As Alexander Graham Bell put the ear piece to his ear and taped the number, he waited for the click, he knew it had connected, then the worlds first telephone call started with the voice on the other end saying,

“Your call is important to us, please hold for the next available operator….”
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January 4, 2019 8:46am
- peterwn
  
  He also wanted to know if anyone had a dime to put in the slot.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:19am
  - MH
    
    if only it had been recorded for training porpoises.
    
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    January 4, 2019 4:00pm
- fernglas
  
  And he was forced to listen to a seemingly endless loop of Dave Dobbyn songs
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:12am
Jack5

Ten hours seems a long time to let someone block a major road, as in Wellington yesterday.

If the loon had been a heterosexual, white boy racer or a Maori mobster would he have been picked off hours earlier by a police marksman?

The police are so brainwashed with multiculturism, Islamic PR, feminism, anti-gun pacifism, and LGBTQIA-ism, should they still have our confidence?

The next question is which golf club will the courts send Tunnel Man to?

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379424/police-charge-man-in-10-hour-standoff-over-terrace-tunnel
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January 4, 2019 8:50am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Surely there needs to be a simple cost/benefit calculation performed. I don’t have the exact figures to hand, but I estimate that if traffic is halted in state highway one by one individual for over 37.5 minutes then a summary death penalty should certainly be applied in the interests of causing no further delay to the holiday plans of the wider populace.
  
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  January 4, 2019 8:59am
  - Jack5
    
    Milky, you have no talent for satire.
    
    You are the amateur-night oaf who gets bombarded with stale cabbages. ?
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:03am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      You’ll have to be more explicit in telling me who the police should shoot for the sake of unravelling a traffic jam.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:13am
      - Jack5
        
        No, just finish your amateur-night skit, FFS. ?
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:18am
  - KevinH
    
    Traffic jams are de rigueur up here in Jaffaland, with no knife wielding madman in sight. Try driving through the never ending roadworks at Takanini, such a joy. The kids play spot the road workers to pass the time, oh look daddy, there’s one, where, where, we all chime in.
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:56pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It demonstrates how vulnerable much of Wellington is if folks need to evacuate quickly.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:04am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Maybe not quite. It shows the general principle that folks need to be personally prepared for foreseeable curcumstances. An example in Wellington recently was the ‘Long Walk Home’, in which people were encouraged to practice walking home after a major disaster. for many people working in central Wellington, such an endeavour could easily take 2 to 3 days.
    People need to prepare along the lines of knowing where they are most immediately safe, and how can they stay there for up to five days.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:12am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It shows the general principle that folks need to be personally prepared for foreseeable curcumstances.
      
      Good man… spread the message.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:34am
    - Sacha
      
      In the event of a major quake along the Fault line that separates the business centre of wellington from points north, the road and rail lines would be hugely damaged and people WOULD have to walk home, and it WOULD take some people 2-3 days to get home, provided that they could scale the debris and fallen cliffs. We knew this back in the ’60s when we bought our first house in the city. So we bought in the Eastern suburbs, on a hill. And a freezer.
      
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      January 4, 2019 11:42am
    - KevinH
      
      Aucklanders would use a lime scooter, beats walking.
      Anyway, did’nt the Welly council piss everyone off putting in cycle lanes, I think they were trying to drop a big hint to Wellytonians to invest in bicycles.
      
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      January 4, 2019 1:01pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        As more people are cycling (and scooting?) each year, it seems likely that local authorities will have to keep investing more in roads, lanes, paths, etc to cater to those changes.
        
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        January 4, 2019 2:08pm
  - Sacha
    
    And it amuses me that so many people seem to think that the Terrace tunnel is the only access to Wellington City .
    It does indeed provide the most direct route to the airport by bypassing the central city but a more scenic route is by taking the roads round the harbour – and at any time you can divert into the city itself. Or, you could take the ‘back route’ off the motorway and round the southern coast.
    I was listening to Talkback radio last evening, and the dopey presenter didn’t have a clue. Of course, he’s an Aucklander . . . . .
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:35am
- kevn
  
  @Jack5… Helicopter with a monsoon bucket would have flushed him off. Easy.
  Second choice courtesy of the Zoo. Tranquilizer gun.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:54am
  - G152
    
    Fire engine powered hose would get all the offending dross off the pipes
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:09am
    - godruelf
      
      Why when all this was happening yesterday was I thinking the answer was in the “Fire Brigade Song” from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
      
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      January 4, 2019 2:27pm
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    How about replacing the fixed pipes with rollers? But not quite far enough apart for bodies to drop through –
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:44am
    - sooty
      
      Could have poked him with a stick aswell. Half a doz people with a trampoline beneath him to move as required to catch him.
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:20pm
Nostradamus

So far Notsofast and Pete George have come and gone.

Just for Harvey Wilson, though, since my comment got swallowed up too: the record time for a comment to become “Hidden due to low comment rating” (due to a net 30 downvotes) belongs to William of Ockham – an impressive 17 minutes.
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January 4, 2019 8:53am
- harvey wilson
  
  Thanks for that mate, its good to have goals.
  Lets make 2019 the year 17 minutes was beaten. Well here we go.
  
  Hey Notsofast, I heard that might not have been his wifes brain matter on his shirt. That DNA could have come from a pie.Thoughts?
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:04am
  - Notsofast
    
    Cow sheep and pig dna were found when the crown asked Elizabeth Wictum from the US to further analyse.
    
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    January 4, 2019 3:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Downvotes are largely meaningless as practised on KB as they belong to a small minority as translated outside in the real world of our national life and politics.
  
  Deluded lunatic fringe stuff and as per Whale Oil.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:32am
  - Jack5
    
    Slight change in the idiom in the “Stephieboy” posts. A roster change? Reads like the posts of someone more recently arrived from Stephiestan.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:36am
    - VicParking
      
      Stephie Girl is back for dress down Friday. The Real Stephie is away banging his head on the ground
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:00am
  - pentwig
    
    stoopidthing
    surely you realise that the only lunatics on KB is you and a handful of other trolls
    you really are dumb
    sigh
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:39am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Stephieboy comments ironically from his rich vein of intimate knowledge of the deluded lunatic fringe.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:49am
  - harvey wilson
    
    “Downvotes are largely meaningless as practised on KB as they belong to a small minority as translated outside in the real world of our national life and politics.
    
    Deluded lunatic fringe stuff and as per Whale Oil.”
    
    Cool story bro, btw I downvote all your posts without reading them first.
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:15am
  - kevn
    
    @septic…. Well, on yer bike then.
    Easy solution for you all.
    Just go.
    Now.
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:19am
ldypen

Boy racers in Christchurch.. how hard can it be?
Cops see boy racers breaking ANY law, instant impound of vehicle for 60-days, after that time the idiot racer pays for the initial vehicle tow and the storage or CRUSH it. But it’s mum’s car.. sorry Mum you were stupid letting your moron son/daughter drive it, now pay the fees or NO MERCY!
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January 4, 2019 8:54am
- Jack5
  
  Nah, first nail the lycra mob who run through red traffic lights on their way to work at City Council traffic planning.
  
  Just because the boy racers are spirited young, white heterosexuals is no justification for a moral panic.
  
  It’s significant that the leader of the lynch mob is an LGBQwhatever championing city councillor.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:06am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Wouldn’t it be better to get the police to shoot one or two of the ringleaders?
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:14am
    - Jack5
      
      ??? You have me in stitches, Milky.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:16am
      - Jack5
        
        Milky, you were away for a long time before you popped up again in the last few days.
        
        I hope nothing like this happened to you in the Wellington equivalent of the Hillmorton hospital shed. Did it? Deprived in darkness without the light of Kiwiblog? ?
        
        https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379427/missing-hillmorton-mental-health-patient-found-in-locked-shed
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:26am
    - Komata
      
      Nah; if you shot the Counsellor responsible for all this ‘anti boy racer’ thing, the lgbt etc. community would IMMEDIATELY be just so, so utterly offended…
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:49am
    - alloytoo
      
      It’s considered bad form to shoot elected officials.
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:22pm
- mark15
  
  Maybe the police minister is for a restorative and compassionate approach to boy racing.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:06am
  - Jack5
    
    For normal young boys, mainly white – no.
    
    The mob wants these young guys’ cars impounded and trashed. Golf lessons are for Muslims who want to murder townsfolk in knife-plus-car mayhem.
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:09am
- Harkman
  
  See that is how Chch central switched to National, Labour let boy racers go crazy. Literally as soon as Winnie chose Cindy all heard that night was “brrrrrrmm” and I had earplugs in.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:08am
- MT_Tinman
  
  Cops see boy racers breaking ANY law, instant impound of vehicle for 60-days
  
  The problem there is the worst “boy racer” types in Canterbury are the gang members driving (mainly) white cars with red and blue decorations.
  
  If they followed your policy the pigs would be back on bicycles very quickly.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:12am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Cops need to get savvy with these morons.
  They don’t need to arrest the all at once, that just leads to wackamole. They need to identify leaders and pick them off one by one.
  Strategically placed cameras, loss of traction, we’ll have that vehicle crushed thanks.
  The brats have been offered a racetrack for shine & show, burnouts etc, but they would rather annoy and endanger other road users and residents.
  No sympathy, no second chances, no car.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:54am
secondcumming

*FACTOID*

90% of dogs in South Korea are inbred
…….like in a sandwich or something.
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January 4, 2019 8:59am
- Komata
  
  sc
  
  A bit ruff there sir, a bit ruff
  
  (and that’s only on the OUTSIDE of the ‘sandwich’…)
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:52am
Harkman

Anyone see One News two nights ago (no GD yesterday)? If that didn’t pass for leftist propaganda then I certainly wouldn’t have a clue. Apparently a poll by Colmar-Brunton, commissioned by Fish and Game found NZers are most concerned about our rivers/lakes, not the economy or nuclear war, but thanks to Labour & the CoL our water ways are all suddenly clean, in less than 11 months (they didn’t really start work until February)! I suspect the river they showed people swimming in was never dirty in the first place? ?
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January 4, 2019 9:03am
- rangitoto
  
  From memory it was at Kaitoke, which is a water catchment area.
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:35pm
Nostradamus

This is disturbing.

Organise Aotearoa occupies Brazilian Embassy

Today the Brazilian Embassy in Wellington was occupied by Organise Aotearoa, an emerging socialist organisation based in Aotearoa, to protest newly inaugurated far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s first day in office.

Activists occupied the embassy in solidarity with the people of Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro controversially emerged victorious in Brazil’s national elections last year despite huge public outcry. His plans to rollback protections of the Amazon forest and attacks on indigenous and LGBT rights in Brazil threaten working class Brazilians. Organise Aotearoa’s spokesperson Kat Buissink notes “It was important to occupy the embassy today because the Brazilian Embassy in New Zealand represents a fascist government, we want to make it clear to the Brazilian regime that the people of Aotearoa do not accept fascism in any form, including a diplomatic presence.”

These fuckwits could have protested outside the embassy, in which case I’d say it was a misguided protest, but a legitimate one. I assume from the words “occupied the embassy” in the press release that they went inside the embassy as a deliberate form of disruptive protest.

Embassies and consulates operate under international law, and diplomatic staff should be free to go about their lawful business.
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January 4, 2019 9:15am
- kiwitoffee
  
  Clearly, they have no knowledge of or respect for democracy. Or the rule of law.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:21am
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    Nor would it seem President Jair Bolsonaro!
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:50am
    - kiwitoffee
      
      Sorry. Hard to follow your point.
      
      Who won the election?
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:10am
  - ex-golfer
    
    “What do we want?”
    “DEMOCRACY!”
    “When do we want it?”
    “ONLY WHEN OUR SIDE WINS!”
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:31am
- SGA
  
  I suspect that Organise Aotearoa could hold its meetings in a telephone box. Anyone know?
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:33am
  - kiwitoffee
    
    I’ve just had a brief look at their website.
    They want ‘liberation and socialism’.
    Talk about trying to square the circle.
    
    They also want ‘revolution.’
    That is, they want to be the boss.
    
    (Perhaps, given your point about the size of this thing, instead of ‘they’, I should say ‘he, she or it’)
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:42am
    - kevn
      
      @kiwi… Acting like a 2 legged version of Animal Farm.
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:21am
- Scott
  
  A couple of thoughts from me. First of all this doesn’t seem to be reported in the mainstream media? I just looked on stuff and no mention of it. I would have thought that the illegal occupation of the embassy of a foreign nation on New Zealand soil would be big news?
  
  Secondly Brazil has been run into the ground by raggedy tag leftists for the last decade or so. As in America, as in Brexit, the people are revolting and going for something else – right-wing populist policies.
  
  Thirdly I like the sound of the Brazilian government. Apparently the new president is not afraid to talk about God. Given the problems in Brazil they certainly need divine intervention. He apparently is against the homosexual takeover of society and I say amen to that as well. Who knows he may also free up the market and allow the economy to boom for the benefit of everyone?
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:34am
  - SGA
    
    First of all this doesn’t seem to be reported in the mainstream media?
    
    On the other hand, Scott, the only reason to perform such an act is to get publicity. So if the mainstream media isn’t making a big thing about it, it is actually working against these people.
    
    For all I know, this “occupation” compromised of three people and their cat sitting on the floor of the embassy’s lobby and refusing to leave until the police took them away?
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:40am
    - VicParking
      
      Like Cindy going to R&Vs
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:05am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I just love it when these so-called “progressives” lash out and protest when democracy delivers them a result they don’t agree with!
  
  And before Mikenmild launches in calling me a hypocrite, I will repeat what I said after OUR current government was formed. Using phrases like “not my PM” is futile, because whether we like it or not, Ms Ardern IS our PM until such time as she either resigns or is voted out of office. We may not like it, but that’s the reality, and instead of moaning about the government, we need to campaign against it.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:34am
  - stephieboy
    
    KS, with this crazy from whale oil leading the charge with fake news,
    
    https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2019/01/jacinda-is-leading-lambs-to-the-slaughter/?fbclid=IwAR1XjBGkwqqaPb57y20RG1pUgXfj-CIHhhHqiNgNF3RJj2IbjgkbSDDy8fo
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:44am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      That is the second time you have posted that reference on GD this morning.
      Your first post has been downticked to oblivion.
      You, like your beloved Whaleoil, are completely irrelevant.
      
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      January 4, 2019 9:59am
- KevOB
  
  Seeing the occupiers were on Brazilian territory unlawfully they ran the risk of summary justice there.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:34am
  - Nermal
    
    A la Khashoggi?
    
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    January 4, 2019 3:46pm
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Yet it is worth thinking about as another alt right president is let loose on a country claiming a quick fix for Brazils woes.
  
  True to form of most authoritarian politicians in our midst eg. this crazy,
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44610872
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:37am
  - pentwig
    
    what should we be thinking about that would be worth it stoopidthing?
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:45am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy:
    
    [I]t is worth thinking about as another alt right president is let loose on a country
    
    No – here’s something that’s worth thinking about. This BBC article notes that Jair Bolsonaro won “a sweeping victory” in Brazil’s presidential election with 55.2% of the vote compared to 44.8% for Fernando Haddad of the left-wing Workers’ Party.
    
    Do you have evidence that the election result was illegitimate? If so, please pass it on to our government, because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website confirms that NZ has strong diplomatic relations with Brazil:
    
    – New Zealand is represented in Brazil by the New Zealand Embassy, Brasilia
    – New Zealand also has a Consulate General in São Paulo and an Honorary Consul in Rio de Janiero.
    – Brazil is represented in New Zealand by the Embassy of Brazil, Wellington
    
    And, by the way, about that “Workers’ Party”:
    
    For the past four years, Brazil has been consumed by a criminal investigation – known as Operation Car Wash – that has uncovered massive corruption. Dozens of business and political leaders have been jailed. Among them was former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was barred from standing in the election.
    
    Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was a founding member of the Workers’ Party – and the reference to “political leaders” probably includes people from the Workers’ Party.
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:09am
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      Nostradamus. going back to Peron and Mussolini populist politicians like Bolsonaro usually don’t on the law of averages turn out that well.
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:13pm
  - KevOB
    
    You don’t equate ideologues with authoritarians?
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:39pm
- Justitia
  
  Their invasion of an embassy is a very serious matter under international law. I trust the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will summon the New Zealand Ambassador in Brazilia immediately and leaves them in no doubt about their anger over New Zealand’s failure to provide adequate protection for the Brazilian Mission here. These mongs should feel the full force of the law.
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:38am
  - sooty
    
    Police here should have been in straight away with their “Minto” sticks!
    
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    January 4, 2019 9:52am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Yep – try that on with the American, Russian or Israeli embassies and see where it gets you.
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:02am
    - SGA
      
      Probably a similar sort of reaction. If, as I suspect, this “occupation” was a bit of a joke (in a pathetic rather that funny way), the embassies would rather not give media oxygen to their cause.
      
      It wouldn’t surprise me if the Brazilian Govt chose not to press charges and not give the protesters their day in court.
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:08am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    The protesters were lucky they didn’t wind up like Khasoggi.
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:35am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘These mongs should feel the full force of the law.’
    
    Plenty of hot wax followed by tape’ll do the job.
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:44am
- MH
  
  hopefully unlike the Saudis the Brazilians will stick to shaving only if anyone is detained there..
  
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  January 4, 2019 4:11pm
secondcumming

*IT’S A LEMON!*

Owners of Sydney’s ill-fated *Opal Tower* apartments told the SMH, “None of us feel safe. We feel traumatised. We’re concerned for our lives.”

They claim there is more damage than the Developers are admitting, including the apartments on the upper levels. Beyond safety issues, owners are worried the Developers are rushing the repairs, with the cracks being ‘papered over’. “We are suffering. It’s a big weight on our shoulders” they said. “Some of us put all the money we have into this, but everything is destroyed. It’s a lemon!”

A property speculator friend of mine over there was saying he’s “..hoping to pick up a few real cheap apartments once some of the owners panic and look to quit their investments real cheap”.

He’s just not sure whether he’d be better off buying above or below Level Ten.
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January 4, 2019 9:41am
- ex-golfer
  
  The developers of Opal Tower are currently building a high-rise apartment complex in Auckland.
  I hope the investors have got their insurance sorted.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:15am
Ross12

Not sure how to take this

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6549273/British-Armys-new-recruitment-drive-targets-millennials.html

If it is meant to be satirical and effectively “take the mikey” with young people then the young are more likely to be pissed off rather than join up.

If it is serious and they are rebranding as outlined by Conservative Treehouse, then it says something about the UK armed forces.
“The indulgent trait of self-centeredness becomes “self-belief;” the generational obsession with phones and gadgets becomes “focus”; and those with a propensity for compulsive selfie-taking are now cast with internal “confidence.”
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January 4, 2019 9:42am
- Nostradamus
  
  Ross12
  
  I enjoyed the SAS: Are You Tough Enough? TV series. There’s a low-quality YouTube video here. The introductory speech of Ex-SAS Staff Sergeant Eddie Stone (see video from 1 min 20 seconds in), who fronted the show, would have the millennials pissing in their pants!
  
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  January 4, 2019 9:52am
  - stephieboy
    
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    “Pissing on their pants.” Crude supposition not born by any facts.
    
    Show us evidence that millennial recruits are less than their gen x etc predecessors?
    
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    January 4, 2019 10:01am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      “Pissing on their pants.”
      
      I said “pissing in their pants”. Surely you can tell the difference? And you do realise that SAS training is at a level beyond “normal” armed forces training? (Actually, on second thoughts, maybe the answer to both questions is no.)
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:13am
      - G152
        
        Stephie appears to be a ‘walt’ type.
        A dreamer and not a doer
        
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        January 4, 2019 11:14am
sooty

Coal Power Stations.
Country Present Building Total
EU 468 27 495
Turkey 56 93 149
South Africa 79 24 103
India 589 446 1036
Phillippines 19 60 79
South Korea 58 26 84
Japan 90 45 135
China 2363 1171 3534
Total. 1892. 5615
Canada to decommisson 15 to save the world
Where’s Comrade JacinDUH and Woods with this sitting around in a circle with their hands down pants!
What are you going to do for our power needs, you fools! Wind and solar aint going to cut the mustard, fools! You want more EVs. What are you going to hook a horse up to them?
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January 4, 2019 9:50am
Sofia

It will be ‘many decades’ before the road toll is substantially reduced – Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter

In 2007, the road toll climbed to 421 people – that figure fell to 253 in 2013 before going back up to 382 last year.

If it will be “many decades” before New Zealand sees a substantial change in the road toll, why was there a 40% drop in deaths 2007 to 2013?
Was not 40% in just six years a substantial reduction?

And suicide – The number of people who have taken their own lives in New Zealand is the highest since records began, with 668 dying by suicide in the past year [July 2017 to June 2018]

If only two of the 2018 road deaths were classified as suicides (“self-intended deaths”) it could be questionable as to whether last year’s road “accidental” deaths were higher, or not, than the year before, and so possibly not the worst in a decade.
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January 4, 2019 9:51am
- SGA
  
  Sofia, there is a whole post by DPF immediately below today’s GD on this topic:-)
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:03am
- flipper
  
  It is all a matter of chance!
  1 accident may equal
  1 death, or
  … work it out …. 0 , 2, 4, 8, 12… or …. whatever…. name your number.
  That was known 50 years ago. And under-pinned the National Roads Board’s policy of accident reduction via road improvement.
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:40am
BananaLlama

So that’s the end of Republican control of the American government. So good at what they do they managed to obstruct themselves from accomplishing anything. Trumps approval ratings are still shit so i wouldn’t be surprised to see him challenged during the primary.
After all the crap that has been pulled during the last two years i don’t see how any President is going to govern the country effectively. What comes around will go around.
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January 4, 2019 9:52am
- flipper
  
  Tell me Banana…
  How is it that even with the support of the US MSM, Obama, did not have a higher rating than the MAGA man two years after starting his Presidency ???
  
  That unlike Clinton and Obama, Trump lost fewer HoR seats and actually gained in the Senate ???
  
  And have you ever heard, and if so thought, about the Presidential veto? Or the fact that the GOP now has a nice comfy majority in the Senate ???
  For the next two years there will need to be compromise by both sides. There will not be any infamous Pelosi-like comments (on Obama care) such as “read it to find out”.
  But pass it anyway.
  Lordy, what to expect from a dumb, but wealthy property developer’s wife. AND …. living in a walled suburb.
  What? A wall …. ???
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:02am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Are you asking me a question or making a statement. His approval ratings ARE shit. Republicans DID spend two years infighting instead of getting key policies passed.
    Romney and the Bushes would rather burn Trumps presidency to the ground than see it succeed. They will probably primary him during the next election because they are so assblasted over his victory.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:23am
    - kloyd0306
      
      Trump’s approval numbers are the same as Obama’s after two years in office.
      
      Now, if Trump’s number s are shit, so were Obama’s.
      
      Do some research. You might learn something.
      
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      January 4, 2019 11:56am
    - flipper
      
      CRAP Mr Banana, uninformed CRAP
      
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      January 4, 2019 2:16pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        What an informed rebuttal.
        In the real world, of course, Trump’s approval ratings have beein in the toilet for two years and he remain the only US president since polling began to never reach even a 50% favourability rating.
        
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        January 4, 2019 2:21pm
- Jules99
  
  Trump has 80% approval ratings among Republicans so the only way he won’t be running is if the mainstream media and celebrities get their wish and he is assassinated. In fact, one of his most impressive achievements has been uniting a divided Republican party.
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:21pm
- Nermal
  
  The Republican’s “control” of the government was crippled by the RINOs like McCain and Flake who were Dems in disguise
  
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  January 4, 2019 3:52pm
adventure

“We do not promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option to use all necessary measures” – Xi Jinping 2 Jan 19. Nothing in Herald, Fairfax article on Stuff. If China invades Taiwan who will NZ side with, looks like Xi is taking advantage of predicted US turmoil under Trump. 2019 could be an interesting year for us all.
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January 4, 2019 9:54am
- kowtow
  
  Yep our media literally obsess about all things Trump , while that lot buys MPs and influence here, burgle academics ,militarise the South China Sea and now are warned to actively prepare for war.
  
  Trump , Trump, Trump.
  
  “Drilling soldiers and war preparations are the fundamental jobs and work focus of our military, and at no time should we allow any slack in these areas,” the PLA Daily said in its New Year’s Day editorial.”
  
  https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/2180309/chinas-military-priorities-2019-boost-training-and-prepare-war
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:09am
  - KevOB
    
    President Xi may have no present intentions of re-taking Taiwan. The Americans do need reminding they don’t own any of the world outside US territory. Taiwan is in China’s backyard not off the coast of California.
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:47pm
    - kowtow
      
      As does your mate Xi.
      
      Do a search on where the Spratly Islands are and what the Commies are doing there.
      
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      January 4, 2019 2:19pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’m more worried about how much money the commies are spending here on tame MPs and politicians from both parties who will prasie the president-for-life…
        
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        January 4, 2019 2:23pm
      - Jazzby
        
        Exactly. Now they have an operating railgun, and hypersonic missile capacity: hardly the stuff needed for peaceful purposes. They will, in due course, seize the South China Sea by force, and will defy any other power to intervene. The CCP are ruthless expansionists, and now have the technology to match anything that the West possesses (and ironically, they almost certainly got the know-how through military and commercial espionage). They’ll use their military might, sooner or later, and I suspect that it will be sooner than we expect.
        
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        January 4, 2019 6:16pm
secondcumming

My missus won’t take any video calls after 9pm.
Her face has been restored to the factory setting.
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January 4, 2019 9:59am
Manolo

The relentless progressive pursuit:
https://news.grabien.com/story-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-radical-mandate-government-con
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January 4, 2019 10:03am
- harvey wilson
  
  For someone who is fairly irrelevant she gets a lot of attention and the majority of it is negative.
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:18am
Morrissey

They gave that a**hole a KNIGHTHOOD?!!??
No. 1: Sir Simon William English
Presented by Lester Poppins, for Daisycutter Sports

Sir Simon William English, but you can call him “Dipper”
Newsrot 04/06/2018

Former Prime Minister Bill English has been made a Sir in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. He says it is great to be acknowledged.

“I was a bit surprised actually, in view of the fact I was busted for rorting my housing allowance! But I’m pleased because it’s an honour that acknowledges not just myself, but other people as well – particularly my wife Mary. My public life would not have been possible without her.”

Sir Bill says he hopes it encourages the next generation—“outstanding individuals like Aaron Gilmore, Todd Barclay and Jami-Lee Ross”— to be involved in public service.

“You can change things for the better – give people better lives, create a better country – and I’m pleased I was part of a team that helped tout New Zealand as a low-wage country to potential investors like Kim Dotcom, Karel Sroubek and Peter Thiel. That was, despite what the Negative Nigels and Moaning Moanas say, the way forward for us.”

He first entered Parliament in 1990, representing the electorate of Wallace. By 2001 he was leading the National Party, but lost the 2002 election in a landslide, after a mortifying election year which saw him booed by university students, beaten senseless in a charity boxing match, and repeatedly humiliated in the House by an ascendant Helen Clark.

In 2008 he became Finance Minister under Sir John Key’s leadership, before taking the reins again in 2016 when Key suddenly baled out.

His wife Mary says it is a different life for the family after nearly three decades in politics.
“It’s quite weird.”

Though his full name and title is now Sir Simon William English, he told Stuff he hopes people call him plain old ‘Dipper’.
Newsrort.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/06/sir-simon-william-english-but-you-can-call-him-bill.html

Lester Poppins is part of the Daisycutter Sports Inc. intern program. He is sponsored by Pimms: “Anyone for Pimms?”
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January 4, 2019 10:25am
- flipper
  
  Jeepers guanobird.
  YOU ARE AN ARSEHOLE!
  Were you trained to be one just like the other resident Fraser House/Standard arseholes?
  or
  Is its direct from your gene pool?
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:11am
secondcumming

My father-in-law retweets:

*The Donald* is right of course……..while the Obama’s are against building a *Border Wall* to protect the rest of America from all the filthy drug dealers, rapists, murderers and Dem Voters looking to get into the country, they’re quite happy to erect a huge fence around their own pile in Washington!

https://twitter.com/Allan78727186/status/1079756498220199936
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January 4, 2019 10:33am
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Your father-in-law sounds like a piece of work.
  
  Voted for that catastrophe in the Oval Office, did he?
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:37am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Oops. Looks like your father-in-law might be as stupid as you.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/31/trump-claims-theres-foot-wall-around-obamas-dc-home-neighbors-say-theres-not/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.abc4dde4f035
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:06am
  - mandk
    
    Oops, looks like you are as stupid as Morrissey.
    
    Obama doesn’t need a wall. He has secret service agents constantly watching over him and his family.
    
    Trump just wants all American families to feel equally secure.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:20am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yes, so why would the deranged be claiming he built a wall around his home?
      
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      January 4, 2019 11:43am
    - KevOB
      
      There have been many reports of the wall around Obama’s home.
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:50pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Even if there were an enormous wall around the Obamas’ home, what would that mean about building a wall on the US southern border and making Mexico pay for it.
        Very few people would argue that the Obamas should not be protected (letter bombs, anyone?). Just as very few people argue that the US border should not be protected.
        If the Obamas’ ‘wall’ were equated with Trump’s wall (now a fence), wouldn’t it be more like a wall being built around all of Washington DC to protect the street where the Obamas live?
        
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        January 4, 2019 1:07pm
  - Jules99
    
    ” the Obamas added security fencing to a retaining wall in front of the home (it is not a compound) for the needs of the Secret Service. A guard booth was built, and fencing was added to the back.”
    
    Probably helps when “there are security checkpoints at either end of the street.”
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:17pm
KeaRea

From Yarov Hazony on the Virtues of Nationalism

“For all their bickering, proponents of the liberal construction are united in endorsing a single imperialist vision: They wish to see a world in which liberal principles are codified as universal law and imposed on the nations, if necessary by force. This, they agree, is what will bring us universal peace and prosperity.”

Universal Liberal Imperialism.

Progressives are imperialists. A good trigger word.
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January 4, 2019 10:36am
- KevOB
  
  Peace is more likely if people stuck to their own patch and respected others.
  
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  January 4, 2019 4:47pm
EAD_THREE

We need more right wing Politicians like Bolsonero using the language of the right:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jairbolsonaro/status/1080461738666012672

One of our strategies to get Brazil to climb from the lowest spots of the educational rankings is to tackle the Marxist garbage in our schools head on. We shall succeed in forming citizens and not political militants.

BRAVO THAT MAN – take note National. Marxism, especially Culutural Marxism of the Frankfurt School type is the ideology that is bringing the West to its knees. The only way to fight it is naming it is what you are againstand stop using the language of the left❗
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January 4, 2019 10:43am
- kiwitoffee
  
  Telling it like it is. How refreshing.
  
  We could do with some of that here in NZ.
  
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  January 4, 2019 10:54am
  - ex-golfer
    
    David Moffett seems to be taking up the challenge:
    https://twitter.com/DavidMoffett47
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:06am
    - stephieboy
      
      ex golfer, David Moffett our answer to Jain Bolsnaro waiting in the wings 2020?
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:24pm
- stephieboy
  
  EAD THREE, the language of a political thug of the kind you’d be well familiar with.
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:18pm
- KevOB
  
  The left have no ability except their fists–their brains are captive to ideology.
  Even if they “govern” a mess will ensue and all will eventually be rebuilt anew.
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:53pm
Poppa

I have been away at the beach so please correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t recall seeing any Baaaabbyyy
photos in the news.

That is a shock, I would have expected an exclusive interview with photos of the first family at Xmas
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January 4, 2019 11:01am
- ex-golfer
  
  The first family have been in hiding all through the Christmas period. She doesn’t want to disappoint her followers by being seen to support a Christian festival.
  
  No doubt she will re-emerge at Matariki and Diwali.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:05am
  - kiwitoffee
    
    Yes, Christmas has become the ‘Holiday Season.’
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:10am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Chinese New Year comes first, at which time there will a new ceremony where Jian Yiang and Raymond Huo present the Bridges and Ardern-Gayford families with sacks of cash.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:25am
    - kowtow
      
      Two Chinese NY Festivals better value than one Diwali.
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:01pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        But we can take the cash at any occasion. The Chinese commies, in particular, must be chortling at how cheap it is to buy politicians in this part of the world.
        
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        January 4, 2019 1:15pm
  - GazzaW
    
    @ ex-golfer
    
    ……more likely Ramadan.
    
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    January 4, 2019 1:05pm
kowtow

Talking of seasonal festivities and the current fashion for virtue signalling , surely the carbon footprint of all these NY Eve fireworks displays , not to mention the cost to tax and rate payers ( children are starving and homeless) should make them the target of hashtaggers the world over , except in China of course as we have culturally appropriated their invention.
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January 4, 2019 11:11am
- GazzaW
  
  Food parcels & fireworks are the modern equivalent of bread & circuses to help keep the plebeians controlled.
  
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  January 4, 2019 1:10pm
secondcumming

BREAKING

So, it’s reported this morning that the total fukwit responsible for shutting down most of Wellington yesterday, has had his Court appearance…. ‘postponed’. Why?

How many other people like me shake their heads and ask, “What good are c**ts like this to the rest of the world?”

Just saying……
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January 4, 2019 11:14am
- fernglas
  
  Probably to ensure he was mentally sound enough to make it a meaningful appearance, rather than waste taxpayers’ on what would inevitably have been an adjournment for that purpose.
  
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  January 4, 2019 2:34pm
  - sightpicture
    
    Was he a snackbar devotee… and are TPTB trying to keep that quiet?
    
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    January 4, 2019 2:59pm
MCos

Some bloke in Chumphon had his nose out of joint on account of his perception of his in laws attitude towards him so he pulled out a gun and killed six of the family including two of his own kids.
Then he shot himself.

I personally haven’t seen any reference to this tragedy in our local media, but I’m sure if it was America we’d know all about it.

Pro tip
If you have a car accident in Thailand and the other guy gets agitated, it’s your fault whoever caused the collision and work on the principle that he has a gun in the glovebox.
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January 4, 2019 11:17am
ex-golfer

They need to give him time to wake up from his comfy bed in the police cells. He’ll be tired, dehydrated and sunburnt and in serious need of some loving attention. Perhaps Kim Workman can go and lend a hand – maybe make him a nice cup of tea and a scone.
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January 4, 2019 11:19am
- Nostradamus
  
  Ex-golfer
  
  It’s “Sir” Kim Workman old chap! Yes, I know, I know… 🙂
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:20am
Keeping Stock

Remember how Labour and the Greens used to berate National about various security breaches? It’ll be interesting then, to see how they handle this:

National says a lost USB drive, containing information on more than 1000 NZTA employees, is a massive security breach and is calling on the Privacy Commissioner to investigate.

The USB drive was misplaced somewhere between Auckland and Wellington late last year, Transport Minister Phil Twyford confirmed in written parliamentary questions a week before Christmas.

He also confirmed the USB drive was not password protected, nor was it encrypted.
It contained the names and email addresses of 1104 NZTA staff.

National’s Data and Cybersecurity spokesman Shane Reti said the misplaced drive constitutes a “significant data privacy breach”.

“It is hard to believe, and completely unacceptable, that NZTA would courier staff identity data without password protection and without encryption.”

It is unclear from the written questions if the drive was recovered, but Twyford admits it was misplaced.

He said he was made aware of the situation by the NZTA’s chair on December 2.

“Transport Minister Phil Twyford is responsible for the NZTA and his lack of transparency over this data loss is another example of NZTA failing under his watch,” Reti said.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12185490

Another cock-up on Phil Twyford’s watch; same shit, different year. Let’s look on the bright side though; there’s an election NEXT YEAR 😀
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January 4, 2019 11:20am
- Nostradamus
  
  Keeping Stock:
  
  somewhere between Auckland and Wellington
  
  Well at least we’ve narrowed it down to the North Island!
  
  The Office of Treaty Settlements seems to be more responsible when it comes to losing confidential documents:
  
  The ministry’s Office of Treaty Settlements was in confidential talks with an iwi in May 2016 when a negotiator took home a report on the proposed multimillion-dollar settlement. They had the 12-page document on the 8am train from Naenae to central Wellington the next morning, but realised it was gone halfway through the short walk to the Ministry of Justice office. After checking their bag, the negotiator re-traced their steps back to the station and arrived to see the now-empty train pulling away. Nothing was handed to lost-and-found and, back at the office, a privacy incident notification form was completed.
  
  Stop that train!
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:24am
  - ex-golfer
    
    Did he still have his Playboy magazine and meat pie?
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:31am
- ex-golfer
  
  Whats even more concerning is why do they need 1,104 staff to farm out multiple $99,999 contracts to JAGS partners consultancy firm?
  Surely a couple of staff can handle that?
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:27am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I think you will find they dish out a few more contracts than that. In 2016/17, for example, NZTA paid 459 individuals or firms a total of $31,686.90 for contracts or consultancy advice.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:40am
    - ex-golfer
      
      An average contact value of $69.03.
      Were you on the committee that came up with that bright idea Milky?
      
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      January 4, 2019 11:46am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Sorry, about my typo. Should read $31,686,490. Average of $69k.
        
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        January 4, 2019 12:29pm
      - sooty
        
        I wonder how many working groups mikey was on during his leave from here? Is there a list of everyone on them floating around somewhere?
        
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        January 4, 2019 12:37pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Surely to be a member of a working group one would have to be working?
        
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        January 4, 2019 12:43pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Minimal work content required. The only essential qualification is a mate in Willis House.
        
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        January 4, 2019 1:13pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    And what have JAGS partners consultancy firm’s $99,999 multiple contracts been worth to the taxpayer who funded these contracts? Zilch I imagine. Did one of them result in his partner announcing this mornings headline:
    “Genter says there is nothing she can do about the road toll for many decades”. How many more $99,999 multiple contracts will be issued to JAGS partners consultancy firm over those decades???!!!
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:35pm
- Richard
  
  Clearly there is a need for a Working Group to report back in 2020 on this issue. I’ll start making a short list now of people to appoint and post it off on a USB drive to the PM.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:28am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Oh dear, NZTA has got itself into all sorts of messes, hasn’t it?
  Just of the top of my head, there have been the repeated incidents for licensing scams, false trailer WOFs and the ongoing dreadful WOF compliance failures up north.
  This may be a mistaken thesis, but did the successive changes to the structure of the government’s transport entities lead to an NZTA almost entirely focused on building new roads and did that focus come at the expense of effective administration of core safety and compliance functions?
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:33am
  - Richard
    
    “This may be a mistaken thesis…”
    
    Never a truer word said.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:52am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I might extend it to the idea that similar regulatory failures at MPI and MBIE have followed those agencies’ restructure as economic development agencies along the same lines as NZTA. Did the idea that these government agencies should prioritise business growth in theire respective fields lead to people taking their eyes off biosecurity, immigration, road safety and other risks?
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:01pm
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Just of the top of my head, there have been the repeated incidents for licensing scams, false trailer WOFs and the ongoing dreadful WOF compliance failures up north.’
    
    The diversity dividend. The gift that keeps on giving.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:53am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Why would a USB be couriered?
  Have NZTA not heard of the interwebby thing?
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:36am
  - ex-golfer
    
    Its all part of an inter-Governmental and PSA-led plot to keep NZ Post afloat.
    Next thing will be a return of the typing pool.
    All computers will be abolished.
    Gliding On, here we come.
    
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    January 4, 2019 11:39am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Does depend on Volume. Unless one has very high speed connections, sending TB of data is quicker via a physical courier within NZ anyway.
    
    We don’t have super fast lines, so establishing the first cut of our cloud backup was done this way, copied to a couple of USB-3 portable disks and couriered to our cloud backup host and uploaded, followed by an online synch of the deltas. Total amount was a little short of 8 TB and estimated 2-3 days saturating our link to upload live.
    
    So although the quantity mentioned for the NZTA data would seem to be rather light for this to apply, there are still good reasons to physically transport disks.
    
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    January 4, 2019 4:06pm
- Poppa
  
  You are right KS, election next year
  
  I wonder how many more cock ups the current bunch of morons can make during that time?
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:38am
- KevOB
  
  A passing kea picked it up and dropped it off in Kaikoura on its way to a crayfish feed.
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:57pm
- artemisia
  
  So was the flash drive recovered? Looks like Mr Twyford is waiting for more questions from Dr Reti.
  
  Maybe an OIA request would be better as it has a longer time to reply and it might be found in the meantime. Win win.
  
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  January 4, 2019 1:07pm
secondcumming

*RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*

Does Police Commissioner Mike Bush have a *Tribal Tattoo* covering his upper right arm and shoulder?

[I have a friend in the Police Service who was wondering..]
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January 4, 2019 11:36am
- mikenmildagain
  
  You should write to the Commissioner and ask him.
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:41am
  - secondcumming
    
    Will it be *2 ticks red* next time as well, mike?
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:24pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Excuse me for suggesting a sensible method of finding an answer to this vital question.
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:30pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      sc,
      You can’t blame milky and his brethren for voting for more jam on their government jobs. Nobody does increasing the public service like the Labour pardy.
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:40pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Wait till you read how much the public servants are spending on personal tattoos at the taxpayers’ expense.
        
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        January 4, 2019 12:44pm
      - sooty
        
        I would hope that is their barcode ID been put on.
        
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        January 4, 2019 3:10pm
Shaun the Sheep

I love my grandchildren dearly.
Today I’m chanting that under my breath as Mister 3 has kindly picked all my tomatoes.
Does anyone have a recipe for small green marbles?
I love my grandchildren dearly
I love my grandchildren dearly …
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January 4, 2019 11:43am
- Poppa
  
  That is actually funny my friend.
  
  I think you may be able to make a relish if you look hard enough for a recipe
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:53am
- kiwitoffee
  
  Shaun
  
  There was a film called Fried Green Tomatoes from about 20 years ago, maybe more.
  Is that any help?
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:59am
- Jules99
  
  If you put them in a bag with a banana it might ripen them.
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:10pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Unless they are off his Sweet 100 tomato plant, they sound too young for anything. It’s a shame Shaun, but at least you have that story for his 21st. ?
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:42pm
    - GazzaW
      
      At least you get to give them back Shaun.
      
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      January 4, 2019 1:18pm
- MH
  
  hanging by a vine, hanging by a vine.
  
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  January 4, 2019 4:29pm
ex-golfer

Another 11-hour stand-off in progress:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109730925/police-attending-incident-in-south-auckland-where-person-is-standing-on-roof
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January 4, 2019 11:54am
- Nostradamus
  
  Police are talking with a person who is standing on a roof of a south Auckland property.
  
  Police: You’re making a scene. Come down son.
  Loser: No!
  Police: Alright then. Don’t go anywhere. Just come down from the roof when you’re ready.
  Loser: …
  
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  January 4, 2019 11:58am
  - Prince
    
    Police: OK, Close off all roads within 5km radius. Call in all resources. Order the Macca and KFC, it’s gonna be a long day.
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:42pm
  - MT_Tinman
    
    What law is it against to sit/stand on a house roof?
    
    It is/was a sheila by the way.
    
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    January 4, 2019 1:04pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Black jeans and black t.shirt. He’ll be down in an hour or 2 when he has literally begun baking. Like a cat on a hot tin roof. ?
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:45pm
- DigNap15
  
  It really is timer for the police to toughen up.
  Come down right now or we open up with tear gas.
  Holding the whole of Wellington to ransom for 11 hours!
  And if the tear gas fails – 303 bullets.
  
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  January 4, 2019 3:43pm
secondcumming

How many complete HALF-WITS live in Napier?

*The Herald* are reporting, “….that a Napier woman found a ‘substantial amount’ of money on the side of the road and wants to return it to its rightful owner”

FFS!!!
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January 4, 2019 12:01pm
- mandk
  
  How does that make her a half-wit?
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:05pm
  - secondcumming
    
    What area of Napier are you in Mandk?
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:22pm
    - mandk
      
      I’m not in Napier.
      
      It wasn’t a trick question.
      
      What’s the answer?
      
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      January 4, 2019 12:30pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        The answer might be that secondcumming has contempt for honest people.
        
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        January 4, 2019 12:32pm
- wiseowl
  
  I was in Napier yesterday and parked in town for a while waiting for a shop to open.
  I was thinking ‘what a lot of half wits are walking around here’.
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:39pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  It’s mine, I can identify it by the pictures of my distant cousin Elizabeth on it.
  I need it to spend on tomatoes!
  
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  January 4, 2019 1:55pm
  - secondcumming
    
    I read where she’s already had *37 people* claiming it’s theirs……..BOL!!
    
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    January 4, 2019 2:20pm
    - Aliog
      
      You should fuck off to the Standard, secondcumming – that’s where losers who would spend other people’s money reside.
      
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      January 4, 2019 3:45pm
      - secondcumming
        
        Wait a minute……don’t get titchy with me old son!
        Just because you’ve got 36 others from *Maraenui* to fight off!!
        
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        January 4, 2019 5:30pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  General guidance:
  If you find a large sum of cash on the road, etc, please take it to the police. An honest person who has lost a large sum of cash will invariably report the loss to the police. Unsurprisingly, the police are careful about turning over found cash to claimants. If no one is able to claim the mislaid cash, the police will give it to the finder.
  
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  January 4, 2019 2:30pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Just to record this event (it’s not a common one), I totally agree with mma here. Have done so once myself (takes quick break to polish halo…) and the police were indeed able to reunite owner with cash (about $500 as I recall) and they sent me a very nice card and a little gift, which was much appreciated.
    
    sc, it wasn’t mine to keep, so I do hope you were being sarcastic.
    
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    January 4, 2019 4:14pm
Hugh Pavletich

… AUSTRALIA: Do they know what ‘affordability’ is for various dwelling types … and therefore what responsible lending should be ? …

Apple crumbles; S&P500 drops -2%; US data weak; China adds more stimulus; new Italy bank crisis; Google outed on tax; Aussie credit crunch worsens; UST 10yr 2.59%; oil lower, gold up; NZ$1 = 66.9 USc; TWI-5 = 71.3 | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/97538/apple-crumbles-sp500-drops-2-us-data-weak-china-adds-more-stimulus-new-italy-bank-crisis

… extract …

… In Australia, following the Hayne Inquiry, directors are being denied D&O insurance or events like the Hayne Inquiry are becoming exclusions. This is likely to reduce the willingness of many directors to continue in their governance roles. The flow-on impact could be very serious for Australian (and New Zealand) corporate governance standards at financial institutions.

And in a further consequence, home loan flows are slowing sharply as lenders try to work out how to stay on the right side of the Hayne Commission recommendations- and they are even released yet. This risks of getting lending standards wrong are now sky-high and so a very conservative approach is being adopted in the absence of new guidance. The result is that there is a housing credit crunch.
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… Why are they failing to be clear on what ‘affordability’ is for various dwelling types … and therefore what responsible lending should be ? …

Definition of an Affordable Housing Market & Affordability Guide – Various Dwelling Types … Performance Urban Planning

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/affordability.html
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… What was learned from the Irish ’07 experience … and following extensive research by the Central Bank of Ireland the imposition of a sensible general mortgage cap of 3.5 times annual household incomes ? …note comments on this MacroBusiness Australia thread …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/cba-aussie-house-prices-keep-falling/#comment-3227235
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January 4, 2019 12:15pm
- Swifty
  
  Reported for linkwhoring.
  
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  January 4, 2019 1:37pm
CJames

I see the Herald (without evidence) now blames the houses washing away at Haumoana on climate change
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12185163
The earlier headline didn’t mention it, so it can’t have been getting its click quota.
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January 4, 2019 12:20pm
- mandk
  
  Yes, it’s called coastal erosion. Nothing to do with climate change.
  
  Makes you wonder how people think the coastline was formed.
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:28pm
  - Poppa
    
    Looking at the photos as reported it actually looks like they built out over the beach and put in walls to reclaim from the sea in the first place.
    
    Some people really are stupid!
    
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    January 4, 2019 12:58pm
    - wiseowl
      
      No Poppa.
      The houses have been there for a long time.
      It is a part of the coastline that has slowly been eroding over many years.
      Nothing to do with climate change, just natural processes.
      
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      January 4, 2019 1:02pm
      - Poppa
        
        I don’t doubt you are right Owl
        
        The problem is that the so called journalists in this country try and tag everything to climate change.
        
        Where I go to my beach property the beach changes virtually all the time with sand being moved around by the storms. Many years ago groins were built to hold the sand in, and now the groins are buried deeply in sand. It is just nature doing its thing
        
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        January 4, 2019 1:18pm
      - MCos
        
        That would be ‘groynes’.
        
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        January 4, 2019 1:42pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @M Cos
        
        Groins is established spelling in US English
        
        e.g.
        https://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Coastal-Research/volume-34/issue-4/JCOASTRES-D-17-00062.1/Groins-along-the-Northern-Yucat%C3%A1n-Coast/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-17-00062.1.short
        
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        January 4, 2019 2:02pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Actually that part of the coast isn’t being “slowly eroded” – it’s being rather quickly eroded. It’s unreinforced sedimentary fill from the rivers and very vulnerable to storms washing it away.
        
        Also really not helped by the significant mining of aggregate from the coast just a little further towards Napier.
        
        The coast further South from Waimarama down is also being eaten back at a reasonable rate. Very soft sediments of very recent origin. Higher sea levels would encourage erosion, but a properly constructed sea-wall would stop it dead as well.
        
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        January 4, 2019 4:20pm
      - MH
        
        give me a gabion instead, esp a mattress one.
        
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        January 4, 2019 4:54pm
  - Kabull
    
    I wonder how the ‘climate changers’ rationalise the continual (like hundreds of years) erosion of large parts of the coast of Yorkshire and the loss of dozens of towns, many of which are now several miles out in the North Sea. Much of this has been caused by natural erosion and nobody would have claimed ‘climate change’ until the last few years . Exactly the same situation applies in Hawkes Bay and other pars of the NZ coast. It is just what happens and if you want to build/buy on the beach front, you must be ready for your front yard to slowly disappear. If mankind stopped all fossil fuel use and put plus in the bums of sheep and cattle it would make not one iota of difference to the erosion patterns.
    Read ‘The lost towns of the Yorkshire coast and other chapters bearing upon the geography of the district’ by Thomas Sheppard and published in 1912.
    
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    January 4, 2019 2:14pm
    - MH
      
      plugs or plums ?
      
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      January 4, 2019 4:38pm
    - KevOB
      
      I once worked with an engineer specialising in NZ coastal hydrology. No one owns the tides, sand or coasts. Any control is brief as ocean currents move around whatever is concerning them. A small change in the distant sea floor can ravage an area of coast.
      
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      January 4, 2019 4:58pm
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  CJJamesm , the NZ Industry doesn’t seem to agree. How extreme weather events caused by climate change will hit us in the pockets,
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/98001955/how-climate-change-could-send-your-insurance-costs-soaring
  
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  January 4, 2019 12:34pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The gigantic international insurance cartels are part of the climate scam so that they can make enormous profits from the sheeple. There’s probably a link with cultural Marxism, too.
    
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    January 4, 2019 1:13pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      mma, you’re almost right on that, oddly enough. But good to know that you trust the insurance companies not to take advantage of irrational panics to increase their profit margins.
      
      Independent analysis (not conducted by Insurance companies with vested interests) show that rising insurance losses are caused by rising investment in vulnerable areas. Just as an example, the hurricane vulnerable coastal areas of the US were very thinly populated 80-100 years ago, but have been very significantly developed since then. Hence any landfalling hurricanes inevitably cause more losses to property because there’s more there to be damaged. the actual increase in losses very closely tracks the increased investments; so about 100% of the increase in losses can be attributed to that, and 0% to any changes in climate.
      
      Fire damage (in California for example) has a similar pattern, until relatively recently no one was building whole suburbs in significantly forested areas; and where there were patches of housing home owners largely cleared fire hazard growth from close proximity to their houses. Neither of those conditions holds now, so a major fire will again inevitably cause far more significant losses because of human actions unrelated to climate. Australia has had exactly the same issue.
      
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      January 4, 2019 4:29pm
  - CJames
    
    No stephie correlation is not causation. Increasing insurance disasters are caused by people being allowed to build in places that are flood prone. That is why the new part of Edgecombe flooded – it wasn’t bigger river flows. Same with the Brisbane floods, though that was sort of climate change related – the council held back water in the upstream dam until too late as they had been told droughts were getting worse. New Zealand isn’t being hit by more bad weather, just bigger effects from inappropriate development.
    As others have noted, insurance companies have a vested interest in talking up disasters. That allows them to increases premiums and profits.
    
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    January 4, 2019 1:59pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Folks have been discussing erosion at Haumoana long before I set foot on this Earth.
  
  THE COAST OF HAWKE’S BAY:
  PROCESSES & EROSION PROBLEMS
  https://www.napier.govt.nz/assets/Documents/westshore-erosion-summary-07.pdf
  
  https://www.napier.govt.nz/assets/Documents/westshore-erosion-full-07-3.pdf
  
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  January 4, 2019 1:49pm
  - kowtow
    
    Extraordinary the fake news these “journalists” pump out.
    
    ‘But the ever-angrier sea, emboldened by climate change, has quickly and quietly eaten away at her backyard.’
    
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    January 4, 2019 2:02pm
  - wiseowl
    
    Thanks Maggie.
    I was involved in that discussion.
    
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    January 4, 2019 2:42pm
  - wiseowl
    
    Poppa
    There was a plan to build groynes at Haumoana but it was a very expensive exercise and the main beneficiaries were those near the beach in the small settlement.
    They thought the wider community should fund the groynes but that raised problems with funding other schemes.
    Impasse.
    
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    January 4, 2019 2:47pm
secondcumming

The missus came back up from her swim earlier on and decided to have a quick shower to get rid of all the sand. I suggested she give her bikini-line a trim while she was in there.

Unfortunately, she gave herself a bit of a nasty little nick, so I had to shoot up to the local pharmacy for some new Band Aids. I was surprised to find the old Chemist had sold the business to some bloke from Germany. He’s completely re-branded the shop, ‘Das Boots’
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January 4, 2019 1:28pm
- DigNap15
  
  Not really funny even in England the home of Boots Chemists.
  Most of your jokes are much better than that.
  
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  January 4, 2019 3:39pm
  - Aliog
    
    No they’re not! As he’s proved earlier today, he just talks shit.
    
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    January 4, 2019 3:48pm
    - secondcumming
      
      Fuck me! That’s a bit harsh Aliog…. even for a resident of Maraenui 😎
      
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      January 4, 2019 4:15pm
- Komata
  
  Sc
  
  Very ‘U’ mein Herr..
  
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  January 4, 2019 6:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Wind farms getting the toss in Poland

https://wysokienapiecie.pl/15011-ministry-wind-turbines-will-scrapped-within-17-years/?fbclid=IwAR1EwReQdnO3hVHkYZV34Yev-oQaffR2REzbLLHV_X1q7gOJ54QvAdDqqtU
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January 4, 2019 2:09pm
- MH
  
  going off shore rather than on land.
  
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  January 4, 2019 4:46pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Off shore!?
    The salt corrosion will shorten the life of the wind turbines, surely?
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:06pm
- Johnboy
  
  Don’t forget Maggy it was Marie Curies homeland!
  Perhaps they know something we refuse to countenance! 🙂
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298952097_Uranium_and_thorium_in_hard_and_brown_coals_from_Polish_deposits
  
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  January 4, 2019 5:09pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, I ould say the glittering prize awaits when a Polish communist-era coal-fired powered station is commisioned for Poverty Bay?
  
  https://voxeurop.eu/en/content/article/1610421-why-poland-says-no-eu-s-climate-policy
  
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  January 4, 2019 5:40pm
Johnboy

You know I suspect that other folk may have posted on this but I really can’t be fucked checking back for that long. 🙂
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/109730498/dangerous-driving-concerns-dismissed-by-rental-company
I cannot believe that Stuff would even bother to stick this shit onto their crappy website. When I saw the initial photo I thought..fine what is this van driver doing wrong?
He’s smoothing out the curves on a bend he can see rather well ahead! The really safe thing is that he’s following another van ahead that can obviously see well ahead of him. I used to drive like this on the Rimutaka and Manawatu all the time on a right hand bend. You’re only in the shit if you are on the wrong side of the road on a blind left hand bend. To crown it all the fuckwit Stuff folk then bugger the whole thing by cutting in all sorts of other video shit! 🙂
I think Nick Seed is a publicity hunter/wanker. He should learn to drive correctly and stop looking at his speedo/dashcam and for fucks sake stop watching that idiot pretend policeman that cant decide wither to wear his bloody hat or not! 🙂
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January 4, 2019 4:13pm
- nasska
  
  …..”I used to drive like this on the Rimutaka and Manawatu “…..
  
  Yes but you probably weren’t texting, yakking to the passenger, changing CDs or drying your nail polish.
  
  You were probably paying full attention to the road other than when you were lighting a fag or levering the top off a beer bottle.
  
  I’ve seen a few whose attention has wandered scraped off the Rimutakas over the years. 🙂
  
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  January 4, 2019 4:48pm
  - Johnboy
    
    This photo the joker in front of you and post it to the media shit is getting out of hand nasska. We have the plods telling us we will be burnt at the stake if we cross the center line/exceed 4kph and all these amateur camera wankers going ….yeh..yeh.
    As I’ve just said a bloke who smooths the corner on the right hand bend is driving well. A bloke who’s on the right hand side of the road on a left hand bend is a disaster. Watch any race what the hell do the drivers do? It’s just that we don’t teach folk to drive here anymore we teach them to pass lot’s of useless idiotic tests. 🙂
    
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    January 4, 2019 5:03pm
    - nasska
      
      I’d largely go along with that JB. As you know I chauffeured livestock for many a year & you get a fair idea of what to watch out for. IMO the consistently best drivers were reps…..they drove fast but competently & had good cars. The very worst were the nervous nellies who only ventured away from the carport on fine summer days which backs up your observation of the value of practise rather than theory.
      
      The good ol’days of 32 ton all up, an overheating Cummins, one gear left (reverse) & the chicky babes flashing from the passenger’s seat when you let their wanky, petrolhead boyfriends pass. 🙂
      
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      January 4, 2019 5:15pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I’ve driven a truck from time to time nasska. It’s bloody amazing what you see when you get to look down into cars beside you and when you’re high enough to look over the suburban back fences! 🙂
        Hard to believe you truckies don’t have more accidents caused by distraction really. 🙂
        
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        January 4, 2019 5:22pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Course nothing you blokes see could beat what us old pilot fellows used to see during low level, throttled back, flights above the Kapiti coast sand dunes or how some of the ladies used to display to us on finals to PPM 34. I’m almost certain they were trying to make us crash! 🙂
        
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        January 4, 2019 5:27pm
      - marleybob
        
        I hear you Nasska, 40 ton with 30 ox had the fuso 285hp working, was a v8 sounded good, need the head muffs tho, Good scenery down the Auckland southern motorway at times, three trips a day at times from the Waikato to Southdown, Westfield, Hellabys. good times with not so much traffic.
        
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        January 4, 2019 7:54pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Yeah, those photos don’t show any dangerous driving, just someone breaking the rules, which is a different thing altogether. I’ve done this plenty of times when I had a good view of the road ahead, because the more you can straighten the road out the more comfortable ride your passengers get.
  
  I still remember a hair-raising drive from Blenheim to Christchurch in my brother-in-law’s Mk III Cortina, in which he made the road as straight as possible at every opportunity so he could go as fast as possible. Made me nervous, but it wasn’t any more risky than the speed I would have driven at.
  
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  January 4, 2019 5:40pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Jeeze PM! Your saying exactly what I’m saying mate! 🙂
    When will we ever start to train people here to actually drive instead of ticking boxes with the help of an interpreter if they can’t actually read English? It almost seems that any useless bastard can get a license even if it takes say twenty attempts. I believe we should be starting in the schools at say the age of 13 and ending up getting them out on a track with a targeted lap time to do and if they fail back down the ladder to more practice.
    
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    January 4, 2019 5:53pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Yep. Learning how to obey the road rules and learning how to drive a car competently are very different things.
      
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      January 4, 2019 7:32pm
Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/housing-crash-blame-game-erupts/#comment-3261002

… AUSTRALIA: Do they know what ‘affordability’ is for various dwelling types … and therefore what responsible lending should be ? …

Apple crumbles; S&P500 drops -2%; US data weak; China adds more stimulus; new Italy bank crisis; Google outed on tax; Aussie credit crunch worsens; UST 10yr 2.59%; oil lower, gold up; NZ$1 = 66.9 USc; TWI-5 = 71.3 | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/97538/apple-crumbles-sp500-drops-2-us-data-weak-china-adds-more-stimulus-new-italy-bank-crisis

… extract …

… In Australia, following the Hayne Inquiry, directors are being denied D&O insurance or events like the Hayne Inquiry are becoming exclusions. This is likely to reduce the willingness of many directors to continue in their governance roles. The flow-on impact could be very serious for Australian (and New Zealand) corporate governance standards at financial institutions.

And in a further consequence, home loan flows are slowing sharply as lenders try to work out how to stay on the right side of the Hayne Commission recommendations- and they are even released yet. This risks of getting lending standards wrong are now sky-high and so a very conservative approach is being adopted in the absence of new guidance. The result is that there is a housing credit crunch.
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… Why are they failing to be clear on what ‘affordability’ is for various dwelling types … and therefore what responsible lending should be ? …

Definition of an Affordable Housing Market & Affordability Guide – Various Dwelling Types … Performance Urban Planning

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/affordability.html
.
.
… What was learned from the Irish ’07 experience … and following extensive research by the Central Bank of Ireland the imposition of a sensible general mortgage cap of 3.5 times annual household incomes ? …note comments on this MacroBusiness Australia thread …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/cba-aussie-house-prices-keep-falling/#comment-3227235
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January 4, 2019 4:22pm
- Swifty
  
  Reported for linkwhoring.
  
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  January 4, 2019 5:50pm
  - nasska
    
    How’s the recovery Swifty?
    
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    January 4, 2019 5:55pm
    - Swifty
      
      All going good so far thanks nasska.
      
      I’m on light duties still – but am now over the two week mark so can now drive myself again.
      
      Feeling pretty good and no re-occurrence of the chest and arm pains. Big checkups scheduled for mid-Jan and again late-Jan so fingers crossed for those.
      
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      January 4, 2019 6:06pm
Steve (North Shore)

I think I know someone in NZ with a degree in communications who spouts this sort of nonsense. Cortez (degree in economics) explains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zptmc2GoqxI
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January 4, 2019 4:27pm
Steve (North Shore)

$50K cash – cash me ouside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wXTXogQvQY
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January 4, 2019 4:30pm
dcrown

Mike Pence: ‘No Wall, No Deal’
Good, now the rest of the Republican party needs to get behind the president and remind the Dems that they will not negotiate with terrorists!

https://www.mediaite.com/online/mike-pence-tells-tucker-carlson-no-wall-no-deal/
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January 4, 2019 5:01pm
stephieboy

Isn’t this the time of the witching hour when nasska, Johnboy , Nostradamus and friends come a lurking ??
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January 4, 2019 5:23pm
- stephieboy
  
  https://newspunch.com/russian-fisherman-creatures-deep-sea/
  
  Or,
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Street-Peeping-Grindhouse-Triple-Feature/dp/B06X915MH6
  
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  January 4, 2019 5:26pm
  - Longknives
    
    Were there plenty of ‘Young Honeypots’ in that Grindhouse Peeping Tom movie Stephie?
    
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    January 4, 2019 5:58pm
- Johnboy
  
  Quite so old chap. I’m warming up the castration irons in the fire already so you won’t have to wait too long. 🙂
  
  I’ve just given you a very rare tick so you will be encouraged to pop along! 🙂
  
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  January 4, 2019 5:33pm
  - nasska
    
    No need for the fire JB. A small set of Burdizzos would do the trick. 🙂
    
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    January 4, 2019 5:40pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Stephieboy:
  
  Isn’t this the time of the witching hour when nasska, Johnboy , Nostradamus and friends come a lurking ??
  
  The only person who “lurks” here is you. Where did you go for a perve today? St Lukes? The Yoga Pantry? Hopefully you can learn to control those “urges” when you go out for a “coffee”.
  
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  January 4, 2019 7:54pm
MCos

The road toll for ten day in NZ from Dec 24 was 9 deaths.
The road toll in Thailand for seven days from Dec 27 was 463 deaths.
Thailand has about fifteen times the population of NZ so extrapolated to seven days our toll would equate to not much more than 20% of the rate over there.
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January 4, 2019 5:42pm
- Longknives
  
  Praise Be the Lord- Our Road Toll isn’t as bad as Thailands!
  It’s certainly a Christmas Miracle- Saint Jacinda has done it again…
  *With a little help from JAG obviously- Her virtuously riding her bike for 200m while hubby and film crew travelled in a car behind her (carrying the bags etc) certainly inspired me to ditch my petrol guzzler…
  
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  January 4, 2019 5:48pm
  - MCos
    
    What I didn’t tell you was that Thailand has the worst road toll in the world; about the equivalent to NZ in the 70s
    
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    January 4, 2019 5:58pm
    - Longknives
      
      Aaah the 70s! When you could load the entire family into the Kingswood after a drunken night at the Footy Club and not have to worry about seat belts….
      
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      January 4, 2019 6:00pm
      - Johnboy
        
        We still do that in Wainui but we use old L300’s and tell the sprogs to lie on the floor. 🙂
        
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        January 4, 2019 6:09pm
- Swifty
  
  Thanks MCos.
  
  5 times the rate? Bloody hell.
  
  Going back a few decades, I had lots of fun in Thailand – particularly in the North-East. We’d drive in all sorts of states (not pissed) but fitted right in with the driving skills on display over there.
  
  I thought they might have tidied things up a bit by now.
  
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  January 4, 2019 6:00pm
Hugh Pavletich

Property Markets From Hong Kong to Sydney Join Global Downturn – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-03/property-markets-from-hong-kong-to-sydney-join-global-downturn
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January 4, 2019 6:20pm
- Longknives
  
  At half past six on a Friday night.
  You certainly know how to ‘Rock the Party’ Hugh…
  
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  January 4, 2019 6:26pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    … China is in trouble …
    
    Chinese Consumers’ Confidence Sags, Casting a Pall Over the Global Economy – The New York Times
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/business/china-consumer-economy-apple-iphone.html
    
    Apple in China: Problems sound alarm on China economy – CNN
    
    https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/03/perspectives/apple-china-warning/index.html
    
    China warnings signal Trump’s trade war finally hitting home | Reuters
    
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-china/china-warnings-signal-trumps-trade-war-finally-hitting-home-idUSKCN1OX1XA
    
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    January 4, 2019 7:13pm
rangitoto

This chap succeeded where Taxinda has failed:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109739683/mp-talks-man-down-from-ledge-on-new-years-day
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January 4, 2019 6:26pm
- nasska
  
  There are those MPs who talk people down from ledges & then we have Jacinda who by the power of her voice & her inanities puts them there.
  
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  January 4, 2019 6:31pm
  - Longknives
    
    I won’t comment.
    Me saying that Jacinda won’t be remembered kindly and that I myself don’t care much for New Zealand’s ‘Royal Family’ seemingly sparked WW3 the other day…
    Pete George of all people wrote an entire post on my ‘Hate Speech’!
    
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    January 4, 2019 6:41pm
    - Awww C-mon
      
      We may have had a supporting role Longknives but we did manage to be discussed on YourNZ and the Standard ???
      
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      January 4, 2019 6:44pm
      - Longknives
        
        They love me over at The Standard…
        
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        January 4, 2019 6:47pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Don’t take it personally, they love everyone else and hate themselves. Its the weirdest thing I’ve ever witnessed.
        
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        January 4, 2019 6:49pm
      - Longknives
        
        I posted there once.
        Something about Labour not being the Party that me,my Dad and my Grandfather all voted for (many years ago)….And that they had been sadly hijacked by Femnazis,Communists and all-round weirdos…
        They haven’t invited me back.
        
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        January 4, 2019 6:54pm
      - stephieboy
        
        “They love me over at The Standard…”
        
        Whippy ado!
        
        Who cares!
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:40pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Since you’re here Stephie, there are some interesting questions I’m hoping you would answer…
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:50pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      And Griff put in an appearance … complaining that KB is becoming an Echochamber and the comments are just full of personal attacks on the left.
      https://yournz.org/2019/01/03/farrar-acts-on-ongoing-attacks-on-ardern/
      
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      January 4, 2019 6:53pm
      - Longknives
        
        I think that Pete George is just upset that the twenty-odd upticks I received is about twice as many votes as he got that time he ran for Parliament…
        
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        January 4, 2019 6:56pm
      - nasska
        
        It’s interesting to note that many who criticise KB vehemently are those who can’t hack it. They want their say but are incapable of rational back-up of their position & run off to the headmaster at the slightest provocation.
        
        If they want to really experience abuse & downticking they should try calling out this blog’s conservo/Godnutter, control freaks who want to run our lives. Then they’ll know what group opprobrium is! 🙂
        
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        January 4, 2019 7:09pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, your contribution to the debate is interesting,
        
        “Well, anyway…. Here I am a few years later, still being harassed and abused by one odd chap on Kiwiblog, who seems to have a fascination with my underwear.”
        
        “Harrassed and abused”? Surely not?” Victorian undergarments”? ”
        
        You’ve got to be kidding!?
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:25pm
      - secondcumming
        
        *RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*
        
        Is the person on YawnNZ calling themselves ‘Kitty Catlin’,
        actually Pete Georges alter-ego?
        
        Asking for a friend.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:29pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Hey Stephieboy:
        
        Instead of harrassing Maggy about her underwear yet again, why don’t you tell us about your “skeletons in the closet” and how you turned your “sick life” around, as Nostalgia-NZ said in a blog post about you?
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:30pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Sorry old cock. it does not meet the dictionary definition of harassment ( aggressive pressure or intimidation:) nor I believe the legal definition!
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:35pm
      - Swifty
        
        What criminal convictions do you have Stiffy?
        
        Go on, you can tell us.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:36pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Swifty, none!
        
        Now your turn?
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:37pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ stephieboy
        Your questions on KB to me were:
        1. What size underwear do I wear?
        and 2.
        Do I wash or dryclean my dirty underwear?
        
        What interest is it of yours to know about my underwear?
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:00pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW,
        
        “If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. ”
        
        Georg C. Lichtenberg
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:06pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        You can dismiss your abuse and harassment of me as a Jest, but let me assure you that I do not find it funny. It is seriously creepy.
        
        I do not know you. I have no idea who you are or what your motives are.
        
        I will remind you that you have made serious claims in public against me: that I am racist, that I am an alt-righter, that I am mad, deranged etc.
        
        Why do you imagine I would be interested in a Jest from you?
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:16pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        [None of my perverted comments towards Maggy] meet[s] the dictionary definition of harassment ( aggressive pressure or intimidation:) nor I believe the legal definition!
        
        I have two responses to that.
        
        First, this is your “apology” to Maggy on 30 January 2018:
        
        Maggy W,
        
        I see I’ve caused something of a firestorm with you over comments I have apparently have made towards you that you have found hurtful or offensive .
        
        Even though I find it difficultly to comprehend their nature and substance I take it upon myself to unreservedly apologise to you for any hurt or offensiveness I may have caused you .
        
        I will leave it that and be much more circumspect and tactful, when in future , I respond to any opinions your may post on Kiwiblog
        
        PS How did you get on with those kittens ? Find a good home for them ?
        
        I’d say your apology was half-hearted and, in any event, your subsequent commenting behaviour towards Maggy hasn’t changed – I’d say it’s become worse.
        
        Second, if you really think your commenting behaviour is acceptable (and many Kiwiblog commenters have told you it’s unacceptable), would you have any objection if someone were to print off your comments and ask your St Albans friends to judge whether you’re a Christian or a charlatan?
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:18pm
      - Swifty
        
        Too many to list here Stiffyboy. 🙂
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:25pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Swifty, now your turn. How many felonies have you been convicted of?
        
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        January 4, 2019 10:15pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, breaching your rest home curfew?
        
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        January 4, 2019 10:17pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Best lay off the cody’s and the blogging stephie-perv. You may yet say something we will both regret.
        
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        January 4, 2019 10:32pm
- Tall Man
  
  I think ardern the liar would drive anyone to consider jumping of a dam.
  
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  January 4, 2019 6:31pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Toy boy, Adern is much less a liar than you, Demonstrate otherwise
    
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    January 4, 2019 8:27pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Off you go steffy girl. Is that an admission that your adored leader, ardern the liar is in fact………a liar…from your own puffy lips…
      
      Well I never.
      
      From now on
      
      ardern is a liar
      
      steffy called ardern a liar…
      
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      January 4, 2019 10:07pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Toyboy, no! Demonstrate how she is more of a liar than you?
        
        Simple! I’ve made things easy for you.
        
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        January 4, 2019 10:12pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  That lad does deserve a DB, but how did we end up with so many MPs who look so young?? What did billy the kid do to earn his place in our parliament?
  
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  January 4, 2019 6:38pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”how did we end up with so many MPs who look so young?”……
    
    We grew old? 🙂
    
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    January 4, 2019 7:14pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Remember when Winston looked like a ~~Greek~~ Italian God?
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/97547465/a-brief-history-of-winston-raymond-peters
      
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      January 4, 2019 7:25pm
      - nasska
        
        I happened to be in Carterton one morning in the lead up to an election a few years back Maggy. This big black bus swings in & parks under the town’s clock.
        
        After a few minutes the door opens & out steps an immaculately dressed dwarf. He stands on some sort of box provided by a flunky & addresses an assembled crowd of mostly old ladies.
        
        It was worth watching. He had them eating out of his hands. I fully expected the old dears to rip their bloomers off & throw them to him but decorum won out & he re-alighted the bus & took off.
        
        Faults he has galore but lack of personal charisma is not one of them.
        
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        January 4, 2019 7:41pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yonks back I was down at the Lambton St/Whitmore St corner just about to press the pedestrian cross button when a familiar head appeared alongside my outstretched arm.
        First time I had seen how short Muldoon was in the flesh.
        
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        January 4, 2019 7:57pm
      - nasska
        
        Wyatt Creech was another one. He was an all round good bugger who’d call into a pub & get along with everyone.
        
        But shit! Was he short! 🙂
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:04pm
      - Swifty
        
        I’ll tell you a funny story nasska.
        
        A couple of mates and I were called in to track a bloke (presumed dead) who had murdered another bloke on Wyatt’s place in Martinborough and, I was told, with Wyatt’s shotgun – through a toilet door. Some sort of gay love triangle gone wrong, we were told.
        
        Got to have a good look round the Riddiford block.
        
        Found his getaway stepthrough. At that point we were called off as it was clear he hadn’t topped himself as thought but had doubled back into town and was later found there.
        
        The cop accompanying us gave us the shits – walked behind us constantly working the bolt of his .222 – until my mate suggested that he desist.
        
        Summer 1990/91. True story. Came across quite a bit of pot too.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:32pm
      - nasska
        
        That wasn’t the case when some Martinborough perv shot a teenage boy he’d been fucking was it Swifty. The kid was a foster of a South Wairarapa mechanic who tried to protect him.
        
        He rolled under a house to try to get some cover but the piece of crap shot him at pretty much point blank range. Afterwards he was crippled with a fucked arm.
        
        He started a computer business but I’ve got no idea what he’s doing now.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:44pm
      - Swifty
        
        Yeah, that sounds like it – but we were told that it was through a door. I thought the kid (or someone) died.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:50pm
      - Swifty
        
        This is the prick.
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11164526
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=10953637
        
        Got my years wrong. Summer 1989.
        
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        January 4, 2019 8:58pm
      - nasska
        
        You’re right & I phrased it badly. The kid died & his foster father was badly injured. I lived well north of Martinborough but by coincidence I bought a computer off the father & heard most of the story then.
        
        His surname was Hayes but I can’t for the life of me remember his christian name.
        
        Edit: Read your 8.58pm That’s the one.
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:04pm
      - Swifty
        
        ….and this is the guy that was shot but lived:
        
        https://twitter.com/noel_hayes
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:07pm
      - Swifty
        
        “Police undertook the biggest manhunt of the time, looking for the murderer after he left the scene on his motorbike.
        
        Two days later Busch handed himself in.”
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11164526
        
        I found his bike, a shitty little stepthrough resting up against an old willow on the Riddiford place – whereupon after it was identified as his we tracked him back in to town.
        
        Clearly not happy with being identified as a friend of Dorothy.
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:15pm
      - Swifty
        
        Where were you in the Wairarapa back then nasska?
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:21pm
      - nasska
        
        About 20 minutes east of Eketahuna Swifty.
        
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        January 4, 2019 9:33pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Put the bottle down…..
        
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        January 4, 2019 10:02pm
Jack5

Aussies used to talk of people going “troppo” in the hotter parts of their continent.

New Yorkers apparently have gone “veggo” in a mass New Year guilt trip.

Salad bars have queues as much as a hundred people long, according to the New York Post.

https://nypost.com/2019/01/03/lines-for-salads-out-of-control-after-eat-healthy-resolutions/
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January 4, 2019 6:43pm
secondcumming

All good things come to an end….. the missus is busy cleaning up and getting things packed for the trip back to the Big-Smoke tomorrow. Would have to say that weather-wise, this has been the best 10 days we’ve had at the beach for a long time.

What amazes me, is just how much trash two people actually accumulate in such a short period. Unfortunately, we missed the Council Rubbish-Collection last week, and the next one isn’t till Monday. We’ve ended up with 5 of those big black Kleen Saks stuffed with bottles, thai takeaway containers, cling-film, polythene trays….you name it. I can’t leave it out on the kerb, because we won’t be back until the 25th to bring the bins in. So I’m going to chuck it in the back of the boat shortly, and head out just behind Tiri. There’s a spot there marked on the GPS showing a 40mtr drop-off. Might even have time for a fish.

Roll on Anniversary Weekend! 😎
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January 4, 2019 7:25pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You should be more energy-conscious!
  Just dump your rubbish on the beach.
  
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  January 4, 2019 7:36pm
  - secondcumming
    
    What do you think I am Maggs?
    
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    January 4, 2019 7:50pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Oh, You’re a rich slob, then…
      
      not like us good Kaiti slobs who biff our garden rubbish, sheeps’ guts, car bodies etc off our Maunga into the local kai basket.
      
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      January 4, 2019 8:05pm
Hugh Pavletich

Britain set for worst decade of housebuilding since WW2 … UK Centre for Policy Studies

https://www.cps.org.uk/press/press-releases/q/date/2019/01/01/britain-set-for-worst-decade-of-housebuilding-since-ww2/

… extract …

… Despite the Government’s recent efforts to boost construction, new-build housing completions in England between 2010 and 2019 are set to be approximately 130,000 per year – well below the 147,000 of the 2000s or 150,000 of the 1990s, and half of the level in the 1960s and 1970s.

The picture becomes even worse when you factor in population size. In the 1960s, the new-build construction rate in England was roughly the equivalent of one home for every 14 people over the decade. In the 2010s, that ratio was one to 43, more than three times higher. … read more via hyperlink above …
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This has been the worst decade for house-building since World War Two, and it’s all our fault … Robert Colville … UK Telegraph (behind paywall)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/01/has-worst-decade-house-building-since-world-war-two-fault/
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… What are the British learning from New Zealanders ? … check out the recently updated archival website PERFORMANCE URBAN PLANNING …

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/housing-crash-blame-game-erupts/#comment-3261002 …

… AUSTRALIA: Do they know what ‘affordability’ is for various dwelling types … and therefore what responsible lending should be ? …

Apple crumbles; S&P500 drops -2%; US data weak; China adds more stimulus; new Italy bank crisis; Google outed on tax; Aussie credit crunch worsens; UST 10yr 2.59%; oil lower, gold up; NZ$1 = 66.9 USc; TWI-5 = 71.3 | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/97538/apple-crumbles-sp500-drops-2-us-data-weak-china-adds-more-stimulus-new-italy-bank-crisis

… extract …

… In Australia, following the Hayne Inquiry, directors are being denied D&O insurance or events like the Hayne Inquiry are becoming exclusions. This is likely to reduce the willingness of many directors to continue in their governance roles. The flow-on impact could be very serious for Australian (and New Zealand) corporate governance standards at financial institutions.

And in a further consequence, home loan flows are slowing sharply as lenders try to work out how to stay on the right side of the Hayne Commission recommendations- and they are even released yet. This risks of getting lending standards wrong are now sky-high and so a very conservative approach is being adopted in the absence of new guidance. The result is that there is a housing credit crunch.
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… Why are they failing to be clear on what ‘affordability’ is for various dwelling types … and therefore what responsible lending should be ? …

Definition of an Affordable Housing Market & Affordability Guide – Various Dwelling Types … Performance Urban Planning

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/affordability.html
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… What was learned from the Irish ’07 experience … and following extensive research by the Central Bank of Ireland the imposition of a sensible general mortgage cap of 3.5 times annual household incomes ? …note comments on this MacroBusiness Australia thread …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/cba-aussie-house-prices-keep-falling/#comment-3227235
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