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artemisia

State house waiting list up to 10,712, up 73.3% on December 2017, half being single adults no children. Apart from capital costs (yuge), there are other costs to the taxpayer, also yuge. Including taxpayer subsidised rent to the tune of nearly $300 per week each state house, additional staff in Housing New Zealand and also in other agencies to provide support for high needs tenants, as planned for the new Greys Ave development in Auckland. And plenty of other high needs state tenants generating complaints from neighbours.

Where is the analysis of costs flowing from this massive increase, and this analysis should be including reduced tax from landlords who are selling up bigly. Might conceivably be some correlation with the waiting list.
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February 20, 2019 8:02am
- kowtow
  
  And while the media and other luvvies talk up the housing crisis the same people want to bring in even more refugees !
  
  If there is a crisis then we don’t have room for them.
  
  Makes no sense at all.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:17am
  - EAD_THREE
    
    want to bring in even more refugees !
    
    If there is a crisis then we don’t have room for them.
    
    Makes no sense at all
    
    But Kowtow it makes perfect sense if you understand what the true raison d’etre of these folk is….
    
    The truth is that the various factions of leftism are shot through with logical and moral inconsistencies. The only thing they’re consistent about is their anti-white agenda.
    
    I suppose you could say they’ve traded moral and logical consistency for a higher sort of consistency, namely that of being consistently anti-white (whatever Mikenmild would have you believe) That’s promotion of feminism, abortion, mass migration, and the globo-homo project in general can all be viewed as alibis for anti-White-ism.
    
    No longer do we need to scratch our heads over why the eco-warriors – who profess to wanting to save some rare species of butterfly, moth or mollusc – advocate for policies which undermine the one race which does more than any other to try and conserve these species – the white race. If you wanted to be logically and morally consistent, and possessed a genuine interest in saving the planet, the first thing you would be working night and day to do is to save the white race. And if you genuinely wanted to lower the world’s carbon footprint, the last thing you want to do is turn millions of Third World polluters into the First World polluters (I believe the carbon footprint of the average person in the First World is some 10-12 times that of the average person in the Third World) by housing them in the countries our Ancestors built.
    
    But moral and logical consistency are not the goals here. If logical and moral consistency gets in the way of their anti-White policies, then it’s “logic and moral consistency be damned.”
    
    When you peel back all the superficial layers of guff which they use as alibis for their agenda, all you have left is pure Cain-like, hatred and envy for the white man. A hatred of being reminded of their own inadequacy and a consequent determination to see whites dragged low and finally swept from the stage of existence.
    
    See the Occidental Observer for a more detailed analysis of the so called Left grouping of European people and their ridiculous inconsistencies:
    
    https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/01/17/on-yellow-vests-and-monsters/
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:25am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      If the Left hate the White man, how will they feel about the Yellow man?
      
      All the Yellow men I know have read their history and are well aware of the leftist dystopias that emerged in China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and other nations of the East.
      
      Yellow and White basically want the same thing. This can make us natural allies or competitors. It depends on how smart we are.
      
      “First they came for the White man …”
      (Apologies to Martin Niemöller (1892–1984))
      
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      February 20, 2019 11:15am
      - EAD_THREE
        
        Odakyu,
        
        Do the so called “Left” in East Asian countries have such a hatred for their kith and kin and their history and want to replace them via and endless tsunami of 2nd and 3rd world migration?
        
        How is that only the European “left” carry on with such suicidal lemming like behaviour?
        
        How did they get these bizarre ideas and how has it come to pass that the entire global-homo MSM Politico circus (both left and right) is geared up to act this way and any opposition is “off the pale”?
        
        It is like an alien life force has descended from outer space and taken over the vital organs of government & society.
        
        The alien life force has the ability to mimic us and to deceive us into thinking that they represent us, but they are intent solely upon our destruction.
        
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        February 20, 2019 12:17pm
      - Jack5
        
        Leave the Left-Right politics aside for a moment, EAD, and consider how current migration policy is bound to lower New Zealand living standards.
        
        New Zealand is in its second biggest population growth spurt (ignoring that of the arrival of the first Maori canoes), and the growth is coming from immigration.
        
        High immigration is increasing demand for goods and services. We get the vicious circle: more labour is then needed, which boosts, demand, which needs we need still more labour, and thus still more migrants.
        
        This causes population growth to outpace economic growth, as was shown in the last reporting quarter, when GDP per capita was marginally under zero.
        
        The growing population lifts demand for imports without any commensurate increase in exports. This, when we are already failing to earn enough from exports to pay our way in the world. The current account balance of the last 40 years must worsen. Our flourishing tourist industry is unable to balance our “books” with the rest of the world.
        
        New population disproportionately goes into internal service industries such as real estate, lending, retailing, restaurants. Worse, many newcomers go into low-wage, high labour-content activities such as fruit picking. This is causing NZ’s poor performance in productivity, a key to economic growth.
        
        So the picture is: soaring population, near-stagnant productivity, an export-import gap, and the problem inevitably worsening unless population is stabilised.
        
        A small, insufficient safety valve, visa-free movement into Australia, is likely to close as NZ politically (and especially on immigration) veers from a parallel course with Australia.
        
        We are on a developed country’s path into the Third World.
        
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        February 20, 2019 1:14pm
      - alloytoo
        
        @Jack5 “New population disproportionately goes into internal service industries such as real estate, lending, retailing, restaurants. Worse, many newcomers go into low-wage, high labour-content activities such as fruit picking. ”
        
        The current immigration system is weighted to high value immigrants, qualified, highly skilled individuals.
        
        Indeed the last 5 to 10 immigrants I’ve met have all be engineers, experienced project managers, teachers.
        
        None of whom were planning to pick fruit. (mind you, neither are Shane’s cuzzies)
        
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        February 20, 2019 4:00pm
      - Jack5
        
        Alloytoo, that’s bullshit. Taxi drivers, courier drivers, power company door knockers, fast-food outlet workers, petrol pumpers, dairy owners … unskilled and semi-skilled newcomers are everywhere.
        
        Courses at visa-scam colleges offering IT courses find that up to 90 per cent of their students have no plans to work in IT in New Zealand.
        
        Fruit pickers are being brought to NZ by the thousand for seasonal work, Chinese meat workers are replacing locals at Southland freezing works … The employer motive is cheaper wages.
        
        NZ’s immigration addiction is sending the country further down the measures of comparative wealth. watch our GDP per capita go into a real slide.
        
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        February 20, 2019 8:29pm
      - Jack5
        
        According to a report from Stuff 17 months ago:
        
        “New Zealand does have the fastest rate of population growth amongst the OECD countries we generally measure ourselves against. Only Ireland (2.04 per cent) comes close.
        
        Housing shortage, pressure on the health system, water supplies, local bodies being squeezed to cope, and the current account deficit goes on, and on …
        
        But the causes are everything but population pressure.
        
        Some day we will be looking for the loons who said NZ just needed more population and the economy would fly.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/97684647/fact-check-new-zealand-has-the-fastest-growing-population-in-oecd
        
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        February 20, 2019 8:47pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      EAD_THREE,
      
      Prime Minister Abe of Japan is making we-need-more-workers-from-overseas noises, and not everyone is too happy about this.
      
      So, it begins in Japan, too…
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju5FGMwUlz0
      
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      February 20, 2019 3:54pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The old state house duplex (2-bedrooms each) next door to me in Orakei (and sitting on some 1,100 square meters of land) must be worth millions.
  There’s an old pest on the far unit (who seems to have a stream of “boarders”) and a model tenant in the unit next to me (who couldn’t be a nicer, hard-working fellow).
  Talk about a mis-use of state resources. There should be a refugee family in each unit (raising havoc in the neighborhood), but there isn’t.
  I don’t have any complaints. Let sleeping dogs lie.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:41am
- fluffykiwi
  
  Tell people they are “homeless” unless they own a house and the government will provide and up goes the hand and there is your increase in people on the waiting list.
  Where is the incentive for people to save and get their own house.
  We are becoming a country of no-hopers, no get up and do, cradle to grave expectation.
  Envy of those who have “made it” in life. Forget the sacrifices they may have made.
  The education system is abetting this in your people.
  They do not see that those in positions of power in the government are taking over total control of their lives. There is a laziness and acceptance and living for today which will come back and haunt them – but then too late. the time to get ahead and do the hard yards is when you are young and have the energy.
  They need to stop and really think, do I want the government to tell me what to do every minute and hour of my day because that is the end result, then their so called “free time” will be strictly controlled as to what they can and can’t do, far more than the basic laws we have now.
  10 minutes in the sun because you will get skin cancer.
  You must ride a bike.
  You must catch a bus.
  1 car for you but only if essential and they will be the judge of that.
  what books you read
  what TV you watch.
  Control of the internet content.
  I could go on, but I am painting a picture of a life I don’t want for me, my children or my grandchildren.
  Are there enough “like minded people” to instil in their children, grandchildren what it appears some of them can’t see.
  The blind acceptance by so many is worrying.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:42am
  - DigNap15
    
    I agree, can how can we get the message out that people should be providing for themselves and their families.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:50am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It shouldn’t be a difficult message to sell.
      The lefties are all for letting the Tangata Whenua do things their old way; and they encourage the new immigrants to band together where they can do things their own way.
      
      You just have to come up with some angle that we Kiwi folk are do-it-yourselfers, Man Alone-types, who are into self-reliance, hard-work, and a loathing for big sisterhood.
      
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      February 20, 2019 9:16am
      - fluffykiwi
        
        Fair comment, except the CGT will sort out anyone who dares to lift their head above the median line.
        
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        February 20, 2019 9:20am
      - peterwn
        
        “The lefties are all for letting the Tangata Whenua do things their old way.”
        When the replica ‘Endeavour’ ship was built, they had to provide alternative (20th Century) accommodation below because the traditional accommodation for most of the crew would have been too rough. Similarly auxiliary diesel engines were fitted – no one wants to be caught in the Doldrums for weeks.
        So Tangata Whenua would only do things the old way when it suits.
        
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        February 20, 2019 11:03am
    - GoVege
      
      Stop paying them to push out 12 kids?
      Give them a $500 grocery voucher each time they get the injection?
      Or $10,000 to get the snip?
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:19am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    When the authorities start monitoring the internet for “wrongthink” and then start acting on this, then you know we are in trouble.
    
    If you think I’m scaremongering, it’s already happening in the UK.
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:16am
  - artemisia
    
    If only ‘free time’ was more strictly controlled so that people don’t have babies until they and not the state can feed and house them.
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:16am
- ex-golfer
  
  Unintended consequences:
  
  1. Remove restriction on tenure and your available supply will drop as people continue to treat a state house as a home for life.
  
  2. Promise someone something for free (or heavily subsidised) then a lot of people will demand it.
  
  Quelle surprise
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:25am
rangitoto

Labour has failed.

Again.
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February 20, 2019 8:03am
- secondcumming
  
  And it’s starting to show on their faces…….
  
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dzw4SS2U8AA_WeZ.jpg
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:20am
  - PhilP
    
    To be fair that photo was just the start of it while Winston was in the process of annointing Dear Leader.
    
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    February 20, 2019 5:02pm
artemisia

A very cool Kiwibuild written question from Ms Collins –

Q6339 Of the 10,355 KiwiBuild houses listed on the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development website as “Contracted and committed to build”, how many are expected to be built by July 1st 2038?
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February 20, 2019 8:03am
- G152
  
  April the first would be a more appropriate date
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:23am
Paulus Gnome

I read something by Rachel Stewart.

I can feel your disapproval as I type.

She has written about Jordan Peterson which is why I bothered, the subject being the only reason I would read anything penned by this odious woman.

She is still a deranged rabid feminazi, said nothing that had not already been said about the Plunkett interview with the amoeba from Auckland Peace Action but, it was about Jordan Peterson.

The new messiah for sanity and saying what we should be thinking and saying out loud for ourselves is always worth a read or listen. When referring to the messiah, I am not referring to the odious troglodyte woman.

Judge for yourself; https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12205281
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February 20, 2019 8:04am
- harvey wilson
  
  I know she is rabid but she has her own opinions that don’t always gel with the npc crowd and isn’t afraid to voice them and defend them .
  Good on her , in today’s climate and the circles she moved in that is not an easy thing to do.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:25am
- Albert_Ross
  
  I’m not usually in agreement with Rachel Stewart but thought this a good piece.
  So much so that I was a bit concerned that it might actually persuade lefty idiots to stop gleefully revealing themselves to be enemies of free speech and reasoned debate.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:25am
- MCos
  
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  The sooner that bloke buggers off the better.
  Not because of anything he says, but all these intransigent, repetitive, partisan comments by various other people about the the guy, both pro and con, are really tiresome.
  Having said that he doesn’t seem to have stirred up the passion that that the other two Canadians did.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:31am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Perhaps the left learned a lesson about adverse effects.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:43am
- alex Masterley
  
  There are days when I read Rachael Stewart and think never again as some of her views are utterly divergent from my own.
  In this piece, however, she absolutely nails it.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:51am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Bob Jones’ columns were like that…I loathed all of them, except when he turned his thoughts to Education…always spot on.
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:20am
- slightlyrighty
  
  I thought that was well reasoned. I would expect that I could have a robust and intelligent discussion with that woman and not feel the need to refer to her as a lesser primate.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:20am
  - harvey wilson
    
    She made some good points about trans “ women “ in another column . Earned her the usual hate from people who don’t matter on twitter and her being labeled a terfer .
    
    How she keeps her job at a cage liner like the herald is anyone’s guess
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:46am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      The one that is now referring to itself as ‘Your devil’s advocate’, I know the usual meaning of that, but surely it can be taken in more than one way?
      
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      February 20, 2019 11:58am
secondcumming

BREAKING

Top decision out of the UK……and a bloody good job too !!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzySo2XW0AAiIKP.jpg
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February 20, 2019 8:05am
- holysheet
  
  Shamima Begum’s father is still absolutely irate that his daughter absconded for 4 years, from age 15 to 18.
  
  He fumed, “All that time I could have been collecting her Child Credits !”
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:12am
  - kowtow
    
    The UK is so fucked he probably was collecting and the payment authorities would have been complicit.
    
    Brexit won’t solve their problems , cos most of their problems are home generated.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:21am
- Inandout
  
  second, the UK dodged this ISIS breeder, but still invited these animals in.
  
  ‘A six-year-old boy was reportedly beheaded in front of his mother at a Saudi Arabian mosque for belonging to the wrong branch of Islam.
  
  Zakaria Al-Jaber’s mother reportedly watched her son being stabbed in the neck with a piece of glass until he was beheaded.
  
  Zakaria and his mother were approached while visiting a shrine to the Prophet Muhammad in Medina and asked if they were Shia Muslims, The Mirror reports.
  
  The mother allegedly said yes, and shortly after a car pulled up beside them, an occupant from the car snatched Zakaria away from her and stabbed him repeatedly.
  
  Saudi Arabia’s prominent branch of Islam is Sunni, accounting for almost three-quarters of the population.
  
  A social media campaign has since emerged online called #JusticeforZakaria. The hashtag has already spread widely, with people sharing heartfelt tributes to the young boy’.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:26am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    To better respond to social tension created by Muslims, it is important to know which sect of Islam they adhere to, as well as the interactions between different “flavors” of this spicy religion. Some sects are “hotter” than others.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:45am
  - kowtow
    
    How very queer.
    
    The MSM go on and on and on about the Saudis knocking off Kashogi , but not about this .
    
    OK to slag off a state sponsored assassination but not a sectarian Islamic one.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:52am
- Nermal
  
  Now she’s a Bangladeshi again she can enter Britain as a refugee, and be entitled to a council flat
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:34pm
Monique Watson

Sun is shining. About to do some container gardening. Feeling posidiv. Not so optimistic about the fortunes of my birthplace Taranaki:

30B loss to economy by 2050

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12205320
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February 20, 2019 8:08am
- Bill felt
  
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  $30B for what?
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:10am
  - rangitoto
    
    Gas to be imported from Australia.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:12am
    - hullkiwi
      
      ….and coal from Indonesia.
      
      Yet according to Greenpeace, this is fake news!
      
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      February 20, 2019 8:17am
      - stigie
        
        This government is a bunch of arseholes and so is Peters !~
        
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        February 20, 2019 8:45am
      - Paulus
        
        I saw this morning the Coal Trucks at the Port of Tauranga and the coal unshippping facilities people tidying up ready for the first new shipment for years.
        Wussell – that is not fake news, twerp
        
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        February 20, 2019 9:43am
  - waikatogirl
    
    $30B hole left in the Taranaki economy resulting from the ‘captains call’ by Cindy to cancel the oil and gas industry. What will the CoL replace it with?
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:12am
    - niggly
      
      The NZ Labour Party have forming in fucking over the economy of the SI West Coast for the last couple of decades by curtailing mining and forestry etc, so it stands to reason they don’t have any qualms doing the same with the Taranaki province.
      
      What will they replace it with? So far the COL has handed out millions for a church revamp and some walking tracks for Taranaki, I guess we plebs must be “grateful” for these token beads and blankets level of “compensation”???
      
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      February 20, 2019 8:42am
    - Monique Watson
      
      Unemployment and misery. That Wellington Town Hall slush fund is a the hallmark for the Jones slush fund. Take money from hard working families, throw it into the poverdy void and make everyone poorer.
      
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      February 20, 2019 8:48am
      - KiWombat
        
        Shame Jones wouldn’t be able to sneak that one through – Wellington is not considered “regional” enough !
        
        Now maybe if they moved it up into the Wairarapa – after all it’s only a train ride away and he could be credited with killing 2 birds with the same stone !
        
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        February 20, 2019 9:24am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      CGT?
      
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      February 20, 2019 8:52am
  - alloytoo
    
    No discernable drop in global emissions.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:18am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Remember those Taranaki folk are the offspring of men who rose at 3 in the morning to chop down forests, milk the cows, eat a hearty breakfast, run up Mt Taranaki and be back down in time to do the afternoon milking and still have time to get to the boozer before 6 o’clock closing.
  
  Taranaki will survive, but it won’t be voting red or green any time soon.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:14am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Sad that Taranaki will survive when it could prosper.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:11am
  - backster
    
    But their kids will have to leave home to find work or stay home on the dole (no questions asked)
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:30am
- DigNap15
  
  This was or is a disgusting decision.
  Ardern and her “captains call”
  You cannot just do that sort of thing in a democracy.
  We need oil and gas to power a modern economy
  And we need those high paying jobs.
  We all need to lobby our MPs
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:18am
  - sooty
    
    Just thing of all the coal/wood fired BBQs now.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:26am
  - BeaB
    
    You cannot just do that sort of thing in a democracy.
    
    Sorry, Cindy proved you just can.
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:10am
    - backster
      
      But is her long game a democracy?
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:32am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Bill Gates on PV/Wind as an energy solution for modern grid (TLDW; it’s not!)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xe3BWPsBTU
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:26am
  - KevOB
    
    When are we going to have impeachment provisions to deal with politicians who put themselves above sense and a duty to govern not just feel?
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:59am
- Inandout
  
  Voters obviously still love them.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:28am
- waikatogirl
  
  Sun shining here too Monique. Hoping we get some rain this afternoon.
  Keep up the “posidiv” work on yourself. ?
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:33am
  - Monique Watson
    
    Thanks WG. Have got everything I need. Food, shelter, sunshine, plants animals, friends and family.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:43am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And Kiwiblog. 🙂
      
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      February 20, 2019 8:54am
      - Monique Watson
        
        Absoludly 🙂
        
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        February 20, 2019 9:59am
- MickMac
  
  Bloody Winston……
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:19am
- Tricati
  
  And its a bit rich for Greenpeace to be calling the study/report ‘fake’ news when their unsubstantiated petition of supposedly 40,000 respondents (Less that 1% of the population) led to the canning of a whole industry in NZ. What arseholes.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:07am
holysheet

Caster Semenya fears her days as a world class athlete are over because she’s two knackered.
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February 20, 2019 8:10am
- Longknives
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:14am
- Keeping Stock
  
  What a balls-up!
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:15am
- G152
  
  But shes having a ball or two to come across
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:27am
- Wangas Feral
  
  Did you know her name is an anagram for Yes, A Secret Man.
  
  Actually she is one I do feel sorry for. She is actually a hermaphrodite. She has women’s genitalia and internal testes. She is not a tranny.
  
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  February 20, 2019 12:48pm
Yvette

Whale Oil Beef Hooked – Yes, And Gas Is Fooked As Well …

‘Time for a rethink’: Ban on new oil, gas exploration could cost New Zealand $30 billion – report – Newshub headline, this morning

“I am proud of this Government facing up to the inevitable and for planning for it – we owe that to future generations” – Jacinda Ardern

“Today we are providing certainty for industry and communities so they can plan for the future. We are making careful and considered changes over time and supporting communities with a managed transition.” – Ardern, announcing the Government will not grant any more offshore oil and gas exploration permits – https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/planning-future-no-new-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-permits

Ardern and the ministers are expected to outline plans for their version of a managed transition towards a carbon-neutral economy by 2050 and a goal of achieving 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2035. – https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12030723

I would have thought if there were a Plan, the Opposition and media would have made OIA requests for copies of it, since Winston and Ardern have not volunteered it.

However –
“That’s exactly why we’re starting the planning now. This is a long-term, managed transition happening over the next 30 years,” Woods said. – https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12205320

So, there is no fooking plan, is there? Not yet.
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February 20, 2019 8:14am
- alloytoo
  
  We expect the planning to be completed by 2050.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:17am
  - fluffykiwi
    
    This will be labour’s election strategy – “vote for us we have all this planning in place through to 2050 all our working groups have or are reporting, and then we have to have a working group investigate their findings, this all takes time, keep us in power so we can finish what we have started, it all takes time, Rome wasn’t built in a day”
    Or words to that effect to prove that they haven’t done anything positive for the country, but plenty of destruction.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:48am
  - greybeard
    
    Yep, punctuation is everything.
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:31pm
    - stigie
      
      …..eh….?
      
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      February 20, 2019 1:24pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Whatever plan they come up with, it will cost a pile.
  
  Expect your electricity bills to double and your capacity to travel distances to halve.
  https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/eu-commission-study-reveals-international-competitive-disadvantage-of-climate-policies/
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:18am
  - srylands
    
    Well the good news is that Australia’s gas exports are forecast to double in the next 3 years to $44 billion. So expect to see those big LNG tankers crossing the Tasman.
    
    https://tinyurl.com/yyk28ak4
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:36am
    - insider
      
      Unfortunately NZ demand is too small for LNG to be economic. Our gas prices will go up significantly because LNG shipping and pricing is configured around sending very big ships to high volume markets like Japan and China. If you are smaller you will pay more for import infrastructure and shipping. You’ll also likely need to duplicate import or storage facilities for security of supply reasons.
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:09am
      - Jack5
        
        It sounds as though progress is being made with small LNG terminals, Insider.
        
        A bigger problem for NZ would be the lack of interest from the financial markets and (Leftist) Government hostility.
        
        A successful NZ expatriate minerals entrepreneur tried and failed to get the sharemarket interested in his plans to tap into NZ’s coal seam gas, with the object of using it direct, or liquefied at a mini-plant, for truck fuel.
        
        https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Big-Break-Through-For-Small-Scale-LNG.html
        
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        February 20, 2019 1:29pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Let us not forget that at the moment 15% of NZs electricity comes from generation using carbon based fuels.
  
  If we are all to run electric cars plus maintain current levels of electricity consumption where are all these sources of renewable electricity coming from then Ardern, Peters, Woods and Shaw?
  
  The four of you don’t have a clue do you?
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:25am
  - sooty
    
    Why do you think they have 200 talkfeast for?
    It ain’t because the spent 9 long yrs in oppersition planning for the day they take power!
    No it’s because they all got shiney bums and ate all the pies. You wood’n read about it!
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:29am
    - stigie
      
      “Why do you think they have 200 talkfeast for?”
      
      They are more like wankfests sooty paid for by the taxpayer !~
      
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      February 20, 2019 8:52am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Circle jerk?
        
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        February 20, 2019 8:58am
      - stigie
        
        “Off”
        
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        February 20, 2019 9:03am
  - Yvette
    
    Ardern, Peters, Woods and Shaw?
    The four of you don’t have a clue do you?
    
    The Government’s decision to ban new oil and gas exploration permits was made by the three coalition parties, not the whole of Cabinet, documents released on Tuesday show.
    
    The documents include emails between Energy Minister Megan Woods’ office and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), as well as briefing documents and a Cabinet minute.
    
    The Cabinet minute acknowledges the Government’s senior Ministers and the Prime Minister made preliminary decisions on the announcement, but no Cabinet papers have been filed on the subject. – Newshub, 05/06/2018
    
    In a Cabinet minute on April 9, ministers were told Energy Minister Megan Woods “intends to submit a paper to Cabinet in the near future”.
    Three days later, the policy was announced.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:34am
    - hullkiwi
      
      But where’s the paper and the plan? Did Megan wrap her pies in them?
      
      This mob make decisions without a strategic clue of what comes next.
      
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      February 20, 2019 9:11am
- Woz
  
  Every statement a complete load of excrement.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:35am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  A few problems:
  -More than half our liquid fuel use is for aviation.
  -Tractors and earthmovers can’t be economically electrified.
  -Ships and smaller boats can’t be economically electrified.
  -NZ Milk powder production alone requires average of about 0.5GW of heat power year-round to produce from milk. (about 10% of current grid)
  -Electrified cars and trucks would need up to 50% increase in grid required.
  -Annual storage of energy to get through winter is totally unaffordable. No technology can store that much energy cheaply (no, not pumped storage either). Wind and PV output are hugely smaller in high demand Winter months than Summer
  -Using hydrogen as an energy store for aviation/ships/tractors is woefully inefficient – only about 30% of electricity put in comes out other end. Hydrogen is also extremely dangerous.
  
  If they are serious about this (and not just mouthing the words knowing they will never be in power long enough to actually have to answer for them) then the only feasible solution is Nuclear. But that is a rat they will not be able to swallow.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:43am
  - SGA
    
    @UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    -More than half our liquid fuel use is for aviation.
    -Tractors and earthmovers can’t be economically electrified.
    -Ships and smaller boats can’t be economically electrified.
    
    Not disagreeing with you, just out of curiosity – What are the limits on the current technologies? I imagine (perhaps wrongly) that there is size beyond which trucks, tractors, buses (?), say, are not feasible as electric vehicles – any engineering types know what they are? Any improvements on the horizon?
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:58am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      On-road stuff can basically all be electrified. Particularly if use battery swapping (the logical solution to give unlimited range, fast ‘charge’ and lower capital cost). The distributed fixed charging/battery swap tech is economic when spread over all road users.
      
      Near future batteries tech is about 250kWh and $35000 per tonne, and delivers the same energy as 60L of diesel. Big earthmovers, tractors, harvesters etc can spend months unused then work 24/7 for a couple of weeks on a job without access to nearby charging infrastructure. Big farm machines now use up to 4-500kW and often several will be working on same farm at one time requiring many MW in charging capacity. The extra capital and lost productivity costs of shifting them to batteries would be astronomical – millions per farm. For earthmovers and forestry it is even worse.
      
      A big freight ship would need about 250tonnes or $10million of batteries per hour of cruise, and needs at least 2-300 hours of such power – Putting batteries prices at the $2-3Billion and battery weight at close to 100000tonnes. They would also need chargers capable of up to about 1GW of power. Not remotely economically realistic. Smaller fishing boats etc have similar issues.
      
      Only realistic economic zero carbon option for all these use cases is synthetic hydrocarbon fuels or hydrogen made using nuclear power (can use high temperature heat directly).
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:43am
      - SGA
        
        Thanks. Much appreciated.
        
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        February 20, 2019 2:32pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Bill Gates on unreliable wind & Solar.
    https://stopthesethings.com/2019/02/18/bill-gates-slams-unreliable-wind-solar-lets-quit-jerking-around-with-renewables-batteries/
    
    His Stanford interview here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1EB1zsxW0k&feature=youtu.be
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:04am
waikatogirl

Poll: 54% of NZ’ers are against a CGT.
46% of labour voters are against a CGT.
Grant and Cindy want to implement a CGT.
Winston has the box seat again – will he or won’t he stop CGT.
We’re doomed.
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February 20, 2019 8:17am
- holysheet
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxqvwkmTNy8
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:26am
- DigNap15
  
  We’re not doomed on those figures.
  The question is how can those of us who don’t want a CGT convince those who think it will be fairer to change their minds?
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:27am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Tell them it is more than likely the CGT will include an inheritance tax. My elderly parents were horrified when I told him of the likelihood. The elderly don’t want to have less of their hard earned money to hand down to their loved ones and those on the receiving end of inheritance won’t want to receive 1/3 less in their pocket. Their Kiwisaver accounts may also decrease if the CoL gets their sticky fingers in their “piggy bank”.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:43am
    - Paulus
      
      We are very elderly folk who have worked hard for what we have.
      We have decided that should the Death Duty Tax as part of the CGT come in we will sell our lovely home before that comes in and rent with the investment proceeds from the bank paying a top rent.
      Our children will not be saddled with this inheritance tax
      
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      February 20, 2019 9:49am
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        February 20, 2019 10:02am
      - KevOB
        
        Money in a bank or investments is likely to fall into any inheritance tax implementation. We had that previously.
        
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        February 20, 2019 11:24am
      - Tall Man
        
        Sell the house to one of your children who can then sell it when you die.
        
        Inflate the price to a level around where it would be in 10 years for example and that should take care of any capital gain.
        
        However, if these tit heads get back in 2020 the outpouring of capital will be incredible before such a tax can be implemented.
        
        Those who have access to another passport will be leading the way.
        
        If you have children living in Australia look into the “self administered” super options. They do lock the money away but that is not always a bad thing.
        
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        February 20, 2019 2:24pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  Hopefully the CGT will sink the COL for good. Im hoping it will do to them what Corbyn has done to the UK Labour Party make them unelectable for a generation.
  
  Im hoping the CGT is draconian in the extreme the worst the better. There will be citizens who might not be effected directly but will see the inequitable premise that those who work hard buy a bach for their family start up a small business for their retirement will now have both taxed at 33% whilst the slothful and lazy will be the beneficiaries of that CGT.
  
  This is the message KBers has to send out. The lazy and slothful will inherit the hard work of the diligent and the resourceful and all a bribe for the Labour/Greens to keep sucking on the taxpayers teat.
  
  Get the word out.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:29am
  - sooty
    
    Dead Granny Tax.
    Do they want the goverment to take a third of any gifting?
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:31am
- fluffykiwi
  
  And if he stops it people will vote for him yet again. Not me.
  National would repeal a CGT they say why would I worry for the next year, it will take time to implement.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:49am
  - Tall Man
    
    You’re onto it.
    
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    February 20, 2019 2:25pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  So they polled asking political persuasion?
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:00am
- Ross12
  
  Peters said something yesterday –basically a CGT is coming. So he is not going to go against it.
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:02am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Will he or won’t he? It all depends how many votes he can manipulate out of saving us all from the dreaded CGT. Kingmaker again.
    The Phoenix will rise again for 2020.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:05am
    - Tall Man
      
      Not at all. The calculation will be how much can he wangle out of it now.
      
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      February 20, 2019 2:26pm
- lifesgood
  
  He’ll go with it…you can be sure there are baubles attached, arise sir winston.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:10am
- freethinker
  
  Lets hope Winston is true to form and reneges on pre election promises (lies) and backs CGT – please do this Winston – and ensure NZF and Labour are obliterated at next election.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:12am
- Paulus
  
  He has agreed in order to get what he wants and Baubles will support anything Jacinta wants.
  She has him now by the balls he no longer has.
  
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  February 20, 2019 1:10pm
alloytoo

My motto for 2019 is:

“Park your snowflake”

You may be offended, but I don’t have to give a shit.
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February 20, 2019 8:19am
- EAD_THREE
  
  Good,
  
  I guess that means you won’t go all snowflake on me when I critique the so called “chosen ones” behaviour – even the likes of Jussie Smullet and his sinister anti-white hoax?
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:33am
  - alloytoo
    
    Don’t confuse irritation for outrage.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:54am
  - Tall Man
    
    Gosh, are you anti semitic?
    
    Who would have guessed……
    
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    February 20, 2019 2:27pm
Paulus

Tauranga is in a state of Rental apoplexy.
The Council a few years ago gave a car park in the middle of the CBD a 30 year lease so that Waikato University can build a Campus.
This is now as good as completed and will have 2500 students shortly.
A few car parks for the special people running the place.
Some accommodation is going to be provided at cost to the few who can get it.
Two other places are going to be available for 45+ students when started a bus or two away.
Parking is not readily available anywhere -even if you could afford it.
Tauranga CBD is dead as shops stay empty – no parking available that has not been pre paid by organisations – Council most of it.
So once again what idiot determined in a City abounded by plenty of land builds a student facility for some 2500 students. Buses yes -same as Wellington Company – chaos at present.
I forgot new Council Offices to replace the old one pulled down – where in CBD on the old site.
Barmy and getting worse.
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February 20, 2019 8:21am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes I never go down town as there are no parks.
  It was madness to allow polytech / uni to build more buildings dontown.
  They should have gone to Windermere.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:23am
- Awww C-mon
  
  The poly tech building in town, Bongard, will close and become student accommodation.
  All Te Ohomai students will move to Windermere.
  The council don’t want cars in town, they want to force you into their buses. It is a strategy to remove the parking.
  It is hoped the students will revitalise the cbd ?
  
  Fucking muppets
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:17am
Prince

Looks like the much-vaunted Pike River entry will be a flop now the Police have withdrawn.
Government’s media arms are pushing conspiracy theories to draw attention away, and compensate for the missing sense of outrage when they walk in 10 metres and withdraw.
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February 20, 2019 8:21am
- KiWombat
  
  That’s more than 3 million dollars per metre !
  
  We should have engaged NASA to arrange the re-entry – after all it cost less than that to walk on the moon !
  
  But to be fair I think they’ll go just a wee bit further than 10 metres, I read somewhere it was more like 170 metres, still a couple of km’s short of seeing any sort of human remains !
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:32am
Fletch

There was an expert on the radio news this morning saying that the govt’s ban on oil and gas exploration will cost the country $30 billion by 2050. Then of course they had a woman from the Greens on “yeh, but, climate change….” *sigh*

New figures show the Government’s decision to ban oil and gas exploration could cost the economy up to $30 billion by 2050.

An oil lobby groups says this means the policy needed to be reassessed, but the Government has questioned the validity of the figures.

The data comes from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) and paints a grim picture of the Government’s decision.

As well as costing the economy $28 billion over the next 30 years, NZIER said the policy’s overall contribution to the global reductions of emissions was undetectable.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/business/government-oil-and-gas-ban-could-cost-economy-30b-report-says/
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February 20, 2019 8:24am
- Fletch
  
  MIke Hosking calling it “economic sabotage”…
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/video/mike-hosking-governments-economic-sabotage-costs-us-28b/
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:34am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    “Decimating a region for ideological reasons – while spouting hot air about the solutions to the hole you’ve just dug – is dishonest, deceptive, and economically ruinous.”
    
    Correction Mike – “Decimating a country…”
    
    Ardern is intellectually bereft, incapable, dishonest and the worst Prime Minister in our nations history. She should resign.
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:05am
    - Longknives
      
      And then the pricks do a PR stunt standing smirking round a fucking Gas BBQ at Waitangi Day!!
      
      Hypocritical Wankers.
      I detest Labour and the Greens.
      
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      February 20, 2019 9:23am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Imported gas I trust? That is better for the environment after all…
        
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        February 20, 2019 9:52am
- DigNap15
  
  What was that song by Robert Palmer?
  “Simply Undetectable”
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Then of course they had a woman from the Greens on “yeh, but, climate change….” *sigh
  
  Yep, Amanda Larsson…..professional eco-campaigner (Greenpeace NZ, Campaign 350, WWF-UK).
  https://twitter.com/ecomanda/status/1052335888347291649
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:32am
  - alloytoo
    
    Assuming climate change predictions prove accurate (and they haven’t yet), we would be better off spending money on coping with change as it happens than farting against thunder.
    
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    February 20, 2019 11:01am
DigNap15

Here is a reply I got from Melissa Lee about the newsmedia bias in NZ and the sale of Stuff
Sorry its a bit long.

Dear Mr xxx
I am writing to thank you for your email dated 16 February 2019 regarding the state of news media, journalism and broadcasting here in New Zealand and your kind words to me personally. You have raised three questions for me to address:
1. Does National have any plans to maybe sell off TVNZ to a private Company
2. Would National direct TVNZ to be completely impartial
3. What is my reaction to the possible sale of Stuff to TVNZ
In regards to the first question, I can say that National has not yet formed an opinion as to whether we would look at a partial or full privatisation of WNZ. I do note that with changing market trends in the broadcasting community there may be scope for consideration as to the future of NNZ as a Crown entity, particularly concerning what the Government is intending to do in the Public Media space before the next election.
TVNZ is Crown-owned but operates independently, I do not believe the shareholding Ministers should intervene in what are operational matters such as content as that in of itself is a bias that we should not have in publicly owned media institutions.
In regards to your third question, you may be aware I questioned TVNZ’s CEO and Board Chair extensively at last week’s Economic Development, Science and Innovation Select Committee hearings on this topic. The answers that they gave in regards to their openness on acquiring Stuff NZ assets were interesting and I will be looking to seek further information on this important issue soon by way of Parliamentary Written Questions.
At present our media institutions are facing significant restrains in their future operating options in part due to a recent Commerce Commission decision effectively barring large media entities from merging into a new organisation. It is reasonable to believe these decisions need to be reviewed if private or public media institutions are able to survive in the New Zealand market looking to the future of kiwi broadcasting.
I hope these answers are helpful to you and please note my best wishes for the year ahead
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February 20, 2019 8:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Heck, that’s a timely reply.
  
  Obviously not a Labour Minister.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:03am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes I send a question to Carmel Sepuloni and I’m still waiting
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:11am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Looking for someone to read it to her
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:37am
      - Paulus
        
        Probably her convicted of Welfare fraud – mother !
        
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        February 20, 2019 1:13pm
    - freethinker
      
      Did you write in Te Reo?
      
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      February 20, 2019 11:18am
      - DigNap15
        
        No, there is no written Te Reo language!
        And they did not invent macrons either!
        
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        February 20, 2019 3:48pm
- Dairy Flat
  
  Melissa Lee is without doubt a very capable and impressive member of parliament. Possibly more smarts than all of the COL herd put together.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:56am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes, I’d like to see her promoted given a more important shadow portfolio.
    She will run rings round any COL MP
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:12am
Happychappy

How will Teachers handle this.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/02/19/451225/pay-equity-bill-puts-teachers-equal-pay-case-at-risk-ppta
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February 20, 2019 8:39am
MCos

Malcolm Rewa, another old sex offender staggering around with a walking stick.
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February 20, 2019 8:50am
- lemuzz
  
  Yes he was kicked in the testicles by some woman he tried to rape
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:32am
- Rachael Membery
  
  And?
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:05am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    And, why only the once.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:39am
Scott

This from powerline about President Trump’s foreign policy. People in New Zealand mainly seem to think that President Trump is horrible and former President Obama was marvellous. Maybe it is a matter of style preference?

But the truth is in matters of substance Trump is miles ahead of Obama. Take the area of foreign policy. Former President Obama was wrong in every facet of foreign policy that he touched. President Trump on the other hand has done a great job of bringing his allies back on board e.g. Israel and dealing with his enemies e.g. Iran and North Korea.

“President Trump has rejected the status quo ante in American foreign policy. He has rededicated the United States to the support of Israel. He has withdrawn the United States from the disgraceful deal with Iran. He has tightened the sanctions regime with the intent of disabling the mullahs. He has shaken up matters with the North Korean regime in the interest of putting their nuclear weapons program on the path of termination. He has now come out for the removal of the socialist dictator of Venezuela. I could multiply the examples, but you can fill in the blanks. In each of these cases, Trump is right and Obama was wrong.

Yesterday President Trump went to Florida International University in Miami to give a speech on Venezuela before a friendly and raucous audience. I am unable to find either the text or the video on the White House site. I have posted a news video of the speech in its entirety below. It is a gloriously Reaganite speech; it is a great speech. In it Trump stands for freedom against the forces of socialism, tyranny and immiseration.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/trump-the-twilight-hour-of-socialism.php
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February 20, 2019 8:54am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes I love Trump.
  the sad thing in that NZ is heading for socialism under Ardern.
  Free money and free houses for everyone, just supply your own couch.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:02am
  - fluffykiwi
    
    What, not even a free couch?
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:14am
    - KiWombat
      
      Surely those $5,000 Harvey Norman vouchers will buy a pretty reasonable couch !
      
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      February 20, 2019 9:38am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Bernie Sanders, 76 and rabid socialist is lining up to stand again in the USA presidential elections.
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:18am
    - ldypen
      
      Good.. four more years for Trump then.
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:10am
      - Steve Todd
        
        That statement assumes he will be the Democratic nominee for president.
        
        He won’t be.
        
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        February 20, 2019 4:24pm
  - rangitoto
    
    To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher (The Great). It always ends in tears when the socialists run out of other peoples money.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:45am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Some of those are true. But the North Korean thing is a pointless excuse for a photo-op and will achieve exactly nothing. Which is what you would be saying if Obama had done it.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:34am
  - Scott
    
    Nigel – Trump is trying to steer a middle course between total surrender and total war. The United States cannot accept North Korea being a nuclear power. So the president is attempting to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear missiles using very strong sanctions and the promise of partnership and goodwill with the United States.
    
    It is difficult to understand what Trump could have done differently? Remember when he came into office there was the threat of nuclear war from North Korea. Now there is at least diplomacy.
    
    Obviously the other course of action would be for the President of the United States to ring the President of South Korea and advise him to immediately evacuate Seoul. United States will start to bomb North Korea in 24 hours. I don’t think anyone wants that?
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:45am
    - MCos
      
      The chances of North Korea giving up it’s nuclear weapons is zero.
      That Venezuela bloke is probably trying to get Kim to slip a couple over to him.
      
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      February 20, 2019 9:54am
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘will achieve exactly nothing’
    
    They’ve stopped firing missiles… I reckon the people of Japan are happy about that. So what if it takes awhile. Jaw jaw is better than War War
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:07am
  - DigNap15
    
    At least the missile tests have stopped.
    And the sanctions are being ramped up.
    If the sanctions were fully implement NK would collapse in a few months.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:13am
- All_on_Red
  
  There’s a lot of Venezuelans in Florida. Trump needs their support (and other Hispanic groups) if he’s going to win Florida again.
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:10am
Swifty

Superstitious mumbo-jumbo alive and well in NZ and still preying on the gullible in their darkest moments:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=12205277
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February 20, 2019 8:57am
- ldypen
  
  The necklace… need I say more?
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:12am
- Inandout
  
  Crookshank, say no more.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:28am
Maggie Pie

This years Supremarket Hot X Bun debate 🙂
My partner rates them as follows:

‘New World’ – LGAS (look good – ain’t shit)
Lacking both sweetness & spice. Tasteless. Avoid.

‘Countdown’ – excellent balance of fruit, sugar & spice.
Real value at $7 a doz. Hands down winner.
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February 20, 2019 9:01am
- Longknives
  
  Yes but do they support the ‘Rainbow’ Community??
  
  *Bearing in mind the horrific ‘Hate Crime’ perpetuated on LGBTQWERTY people by Whittaker’s chocolate this week…
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:18am
  - secondcumming
    
    At least they still have the good sense to encase their cucumbers in single use plastic 😎
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:31am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And bananas ffs.
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:13am
  - hullkiwi
    
    A true story for you on this…
    
    A few weeks ago at a staff presentation of the company that merchandises Whittaker’ products, one of the regional area managers (who I know is not PC inclined), asked what is the company’s plan for the inevitable backlash from the gay community? The response was they hadn’t thought about it and would go ahead as planned….
    
    It is time to tell these snowflakes to go and park it!
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:54am
    - Wangas Feral
      
      I missed the controversy. What was it?
      
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      February 20, 2019 12:54pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        In support of Plunket, Whittakers have produced a new Coconut Ice chocolate bar. The bars of chocolate play on this new fashion of the pregnancy reveal party. So, the chocolate bar you purchase is either coloured blue or pink. You do not know until you unwrap the bar of chocolate.
        
        Anyhow, the snowflake leader of Rainbow Youth complained to the media that it was all very discriminatory against the Alphabet soup crowd. As far as I’m concerned she has had her 5 minutes of attention and should be told to go and park it.
        
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        February 20, 2019 1:52pm
- ldypen
  
  The hot cross bun should be banned, or at the very least the cross should be removed ASAP and replaced with a nice crescent shape!
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:14am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    They certainly shouldn’t be being marketed straight after xmas!!!
    
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    February 20, 2019 1:57pm
- Jack5
  
  Thanks, Maggy Pie. Tried some from Countdown, and they’re okay.
  
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  February 20, 2019 1:31pm
hullkiwi

Funny interview on Moaning Report this morning with the Mayor of Thames/Coromandel District Council over her refusal to sign the LGA’s climate change protocol.

The good lady is refusing to sign for two reasons, these being:
1. The protocol has some specific spending commitments that are open ended, that she does not want to commit Thames/Coromandel ratepayers to an open ended blank cheque; and
2. The whole issue in her words “is politically charged”.

So, she refuses to sign.

The comedy was in the rest of the interview, with the interviewer trying to get the mayor to admit that she is a climate change denier. Which she refused to do.

After the interview, it was a knowledge by the interviewer that West Coast District has also refused to commit to climate change requirements from central government.
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February 20, 2019 9:02am
- BeaB
  
  Sandra Goudie clearly said her beliefs are not relevant and she wasn’t going to answer.
  It seems to be the trend for our mediocre reporters to find one question and keep asking it even when the interviewee repeatedly says they are not going to answer it.
  If it is a matter of national importance then keep on asking.
  If it is just being smartarse , move on and stop wasting our time.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:15am
- Poppa
  
  Good on Sandra I say. I am a rate payer to them & support her doing this.
  
  The whole thing is a scam of nuclear proportions & used by politicians as a religion to control people.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:22am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    23 Councils haven’t signed…55 have.
    https://yournz.org/2019/02/20/55-councils-for-23-against-local-government-leaders-climate-change-declaration/
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:36am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Maggy thanks.
      
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      February 20, 2019 9:45am
    - lifesgood
      
      You’re great, Maggy, you always come up with the goods. Thank you!
      
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      February 20, 2019 11:16am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Fiat (is that that right word?) by majority? Like the UN?
      
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      February 20, 2019 12:18pm
- DigNap15
  
  Good on her, she should be knighted!
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:25am
  - PhilP
    
    Not under this Govt she won’t.
    
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    February 20, 2019 5:48pm
- Huevon
  
  That interview was hilarious. More like her please
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:28am
- Swifty
  
  Just when does hectoring turn into bullying by state media representatives?
  
  Well done Sandra Goudie.
  
  “I’m not going to sign ratepayers up to commitments which are not defined or open-ended.”
  
  Excellent.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:53am
  - MCos
    
    She’s been on the political landscape a long time as an MP and now mayor.
    She should be quite capable of answering the question and defending her position.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:07am
    - Swifty
      
      And she did, admirably.
      
      The question still stands – when does hectoring turn into bullying, and by state media reps?
      
      It was clear to listeners just what was going on here.
      
      Goudie was concerned with good governance, and so she should be.
      
      Gudsell was determined to badger and shame if Goudie revealed her personal position was counter to the prevailing orthodoxy.
      
      Oh, and what’s this? Gudsell’s twitter account replete with retweets of Lab and Green MP statements:
      
      https://twitter.com/kategudsell
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:32am
Manolo

The animal is stateless:
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/isis-bride-shamima-begum-has-british-citizenship-revoked/ar-BBTOTLZ
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February 20, 2019 9:16am
- Longknives
  
  Fantastic decision!
  Enjoy Bangladesh you evil little bitch…
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:20am
- waikatogirl
  
  Where is her Jihadi husband? He is clearly around as she says her husband wanted the new baby boy named after the previous son who died from malnutrition.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:27am
  - Manolo
    
    It is likely the jihadist found a goat more attractive.
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:31am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    That could have been at anytime during the pregnancy, I haven’t read anything to say that he was to go too, definitely an emphatic no if he was.
    
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    February 20, 2019 2:27pm
  - Twinkletoes
    
    Gone, I expect, now he has realised he can’t get into Britain on her back.
    
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    February 20, 2019 2:53pm
- MickMac
  
  Good.
  She believes in “some British values”
  
  Now is the time for ALL countries to list their values.
  
  1. so people trying to get in to them can sign agreements and those who don’t qualify don’t bother coming.
  2. so the shitholes in the world can be openly discussed.
  
  Western Liberal democracy is predicated on 7 things,
  1. the rule of law,
  2. a free and independent Judiciary,
  3. Habeas Corpus,
  4. Free and fair elections and parliament thereof,
  5. Free Speech and Association,
  6. a free and fair media.
  7. citizens obeying the law of the land.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:36am
  - freethinker
    
    8) The protection of private property.
    
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    February 20, 2019 11:28am
  - KevOB
    
    British maybe but not present day USA. Law has been subverted for will and applies globally and will be enforced if economic opportunities are at stake.
    
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    February 20, 2019 11:59am
- Rachael Membery
  
  At least they know what they would be getting with her, and she has some claim to Britain, unlike refugees from the same camp of the same persuasion. they shouldn’t admit them either on the back of this decision, including reuniting families.
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:17am
- alex Masterley
  
  Good.
  She wanted to go to the sandpit. She can stay there.
  
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  February 20, 2019 2:34pm
Lee C

Great poster slogans for next election though”
Pic of Brandcinda with

“Hold my beer” and

“I’m making a Captains Call”

next to it.
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February 20, 2019 9:20am
- Rachael Membery
  
  A Tui?
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:18am
Ross12

Winston Peters is a nasty , bitter and twisted old git.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12205347
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February 20, 2019 9:31am
- secondcumming
  
  Is it just me…..or does *Dame Jenny* look to be turning Chinese?
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:34am
ex-golfer

I see Jacinda is visiting Taranaki to seek opinions on the regions future.
Shes asking……..students!

https://www.facebook.com/pg/taranaki2050/posts/
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February 20, 2019 9:34am
- Longknives
  
  How creepy are her fucking hands in that video??
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:39am
  - Longknives
    
    I knew she reminded me of someone- Brother Lee Love!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYPHr1kvTQ
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:42am
  - lifesgood
    
    Agreed but the teeth are beyond the pail!
    
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    February 20, 2019 11:19am
    - Inandout
      
      lifesgood, those teeth were made for things other than eating.
      
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      February 20, 2019 11:24am
Jack5

More British security leaks on Huawei … this time reported behind the paywall on the Telegraph.

Here’s the kernel of it:

Although recent talk has centred around Huawei and alleged spying activity, which the Chinese company has always denied, sources close to GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have stressed time and again that any concerns the UK had about Huawei stemmed from technical deficiencies related to the equipment, not any evidence of espionage.

Beyond allegations from US politicians and spy chiefs, who want to see Huawei and China’s influence over 5G limited, there is a less-discussed issue, and it centres around 5G itself – that all equipment vendors may struggle to make networks secure, and they’re running out of time to do so.

AND

“The size and sophistication of distributed denial-of-service attacks have risen at an ever-accelerating pace,” a report by cybersecurity company A10 Networks read last year. “As new 5G networks become operational, we expect the size of attacks will dwarf these records.”
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February 20, 2019 9:37am
- Jack5
  
  Meanwhile, some not quite great news from Spark, which has been the chief NZ cheerleader for Huawei on 5G network equipment.
  
  Profit for the latest half-year (to December 31) net after-tax profit is down 10 per cent.
  
  https://www.nzx.com/announcements/330789
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:38am
- Universal Smith
  
  So what do you think we should do about countries that build spyware into their systems?
  
  Keep good relations with them, or actively oppose them?
  
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  February 20, 2019 12:29pm
  - Jack5
    
    There are similarities between China’s friends and the Soviet Union’s “useful idiots” in the West during the 1920s and 1930s.
    
    Take the writer H.G.Wells, on his meeting with Stalin:
    
    I have never met a man more candid, fair and honest, and to these qualities it is, and to nothing occult and sinister, that he owes his tremendous undisputed ascendency in Russia.
    
    Take the then famous playwright, George Bernard Shaw, who wrote:
    
    We the undersigned are recent visitors to the USSR. Some of us travelled throughout the greater part of its civilized territory. We desire to record that we saw nowhere evidence of such economic slavery, privation, unemployment and cynical despair of betterment as are accepted as inevitable and ignored by the press as having ‘no news value’ in our own countries. Everywhere we saw hopeful and enthusiastic working-class, self-respecting free up to the limits imposed on them by nature and a terrible inheritance from tyranny and incompetence of their former rulers, developing public works, increasing health services, extending education, achieving the economics independence of woman and the security of the child and in spite of many grievous difficulties and mistakes which or social experiments involve a first (and which they have never concealed nor denied) setting an example of industry and conduct which would greatly enrich us if our systems supplied our workers with any incentive to follow it.
    
    We would regard it as a calamity if the present lie campaign were to be allowed to make headway without contradiction and to damage the relationship between our country and the USSR.
    
    Walter Duranty, New York Times bureau chief in Moscow and 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner denied existence of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.
    
    Duranty wrote:
    
    “… any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda”, and that “there is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation, but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:49pm
hullkiwi

The political silly season is kicking off in the US with Bernie Sanders announcing his bid to seek the Democratic Party nomination.

It looks like it could be a good comedy show with Sanders on the extreme left at age 77, former VP Joe Biden at age 78 and up to 18 other people in the race.

People like Warren and others, so it should be fun watching who makes it through go the end of May next year.
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February 20, 2019 9:41am
- softail 1450
  
  hullkiwi,its going to be the greatest show on Earth watching the left devour each other…If you havn’t already seen it go to Saturday night live and watch the 2016 Sanders debates Trump skit,it will have you laughing like a drain.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:56am
- softail 1450
  
  hullkiwi, sorry my mrs thinks it may have been comedy central ,but worth a look.
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:20am
- freethinker
  
  Hope Hilary runs so we see more videos of her stumbling, falling over and shiting herself – hint don’t wear light coloured Skirts/dresses or trousers as they stain.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:35am
Morrissey

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Pussy John Bolton and His Codpiece Mustache: Examining the Freak Show
by FRED REED, Feb. 18, 2019 Information Clearing House

American government has become a collection of sordid and dangerous clowns. It was not always thus. Until Bush II, those governing were never lunatics. Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Obama, Clinton had their defects, were sometimes corrupt, and could be disagreed with on many grounds. They weren’t crazy. Today’s administration would seem unwholesome in a New York bus station at three in the morning. They are not normal American politicians.

In particular they seem to be pushing for war with Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela. And–this is important–their behavior is not a matter of liberals catfighting with conservatives. All former presidents carefully avoided war with the Soviet Union, which carefully avoided war with America. It was Reagan, a conservative and responsible president, who negotiated the INF treaty, to eliminate short-fuse nuclear weapons from Europe. By contrast, Trump is scrapping it. Pat Buchanan, the most conservative man I have met, strongly opposes aggression against Russia. The problem with the current occupants of the White House is not that they are conservatives, if they are. It is that they are nuts.

Start with the head cheese, Donald Trump, profoundly ignorant, narcissistic, a real-estate con man who danced just out of reach of the law. His supporters will explode in fury at this. All politics being herd politics, the population has coalesced into herds fanatically pro-Trump and fanatically anti-Trump. Yet Trump’s past is not a secret. Well-documented biographies describe his behavior in detail, but his supporters don’t read them. …..

READ MORE….
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51127.htm
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February 20, 2019 9:57am
- Scott
  
  Morrisey – I think you have to win the prize for the most hard left commentator on this whole blog. And that’s saying something because there is some pretty stiff competition.
  
  I would have to say that the article that you have posted is almost deranged in its wrongness. President Trump rather than continuing the previous administrations, going back to the Vietnam days, of endless unwinnable wars, has done exactly the opposite. He demanded that his generals win against Isis. The result was that they dramatically stepped up bombing and intensity and Isis has now lost all of its caliphate. Now having won, Trump is saying let us get out as soon as possible. Let’s not stay there for the next 20 years but let’s pull out as soon as possible.
  
  In Afghanistan after 18 years Trump is saying let’s get out of there. If we can’t win then let’s withdraw and bring the boys home.
  
  Trump campaigned on ending pointless foreign wars. He is making good on his promise.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:12am
  - Morrissey
    
    Morrisey – I think you have to win the prize for the most hard left commentator on this whole blog.
    
    I believe in the rule of law, and in free speech. I believe our environment should not be left to the mercy of destructive and irresponsible farming practices. I think we need to protect, not pollute, our water supplies. I support—but not uncritically—the status quo. I don’t support violent regimes, anywhere. That’s not left wing, it’s solidly middle of the road.
    
    He demanded that his generals win against Isis.
    
    If he in fact did demand that, then he is even more ignorant than we thought he was. You do know, I presume, that ISIS, and Al Nusra, were and are armed and supported by the U.S., the U.K. and France?
    
    But bring that prize round to Chez Breen, bro. I’ll take it, even though it makes as much sense as Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
    
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    February 20, 2019 11:38am
    - sooty
      
      Just as well ztev come back, or you would be the stupidist, now that the idiot left!
      
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      February 20, 2019 12:01pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Please explain. I’m intrigued….
        
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        February 20, 2019 12:12pm
      - Cobolt24
        
        Stephies gone? Nooooo!!!! Surely he’s just taking the day (or a couple) off.
        
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        February 20, 2019 8:50pm
    - graham
      
      There is a difference, Morrissey, between free speech and just plain being a bloody obnoxious bully.
      
      You are the latter.
      
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      February 20, 2019 9:41pm
- Universal Smith
  
  Obama was far worse and international relations reached an all time low. Trump has done a great job of restoring the USA in a very short time.
  
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  February 20, 2019 12:26pm
secondcumming

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION….

Is *The Donald* preparing to invade Venezuela?
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February 20, 2019 10:14am
- DigNap15
  
  I very much doubt it.
  Venezuela is no threat to the USA or the west.
  Just to its own people.
  They will rise up soon.
  It just needs the army and the police to change sides.
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:16am
  - Paulus
    
    Remember it is China who want all Venezuela’s Oil if they can get it very cheap – that is why they and Putin -who just plays destabilisation anywhere, are supporting Maduro.
    
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    February 20, 2019 1:19pm
Captain Mainwaring

Managed to get into Kiwiblog just after 10 after the site seemed to be down for about an hour.
Anyone else have this problem?
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February 20, 2019 10:16am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Nope…All running as usual, here.
  
  Do you think your Nemesis has hacked you?
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:20am
- Swifty
  
  It’ll be Stiffyghost!
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:41am
  - stigie
    
    Hanging around like a bad goat smell !~
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:49am
    - Swifty
      
      Indeed:
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ8IethsyIQ
      
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      February 20, 2019 11:40am
      - Morrissey
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWy2KLYbESE
        
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        February 20, 2019 11:49am
      - Swifty
        
        Before I click on it – is that more of that sex stuff you love to post?
        
        Are you being sleazy again?
        
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        February 20, 2019 12:21pm
      - Swifty
        
        Oh, it was.
        
        Why is it always sex with you?
        
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        February 20, 2019 4:50pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Sorry Swifters. It was… goats. And a thread about Stephieboy. I couldn’t resist.
        
        I’ll do better the next time.
        
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        February 20, 2019 8:36pm
Hugh Pavletich

… NEW ZEALAND HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT MINISTER PHIL TWYFORD IN PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY (TUESDAY) … URBAN BOUNDARIES ABOLITION AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEBT FINANCING …

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20190219_052050000/7-question-no-7-housing-and-urban-development

Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers
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… It is taking a long time … May 2016 …

Labour, National both tell council Auckland city growth limits should be abolished … Sam Sachdeva … Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80113578/labour-auckland-city-growth-limits-should-be-abolished?rm=m
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Just updated … Performance Urban Planning (reload) http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org … in particular …

1. February 2019 Comment Update Section

2. 2019 15th Edition Demographia International Housing Affordability Section … with highlighted important media reports …

http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org … hit ‘refresh / reload’ if necessary.
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February 20, 2019 10:17am
DigNap15

Annother unwanted feral baby ATM dead?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12205272

Time to stop the dpb.
And deny the mother and partner/boyfirend/husband any benefits for life.
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February 20, 2019 10:25am
- secondcumming
  
  You know things are bad in a place like Owhata……the general store sells
  *Father’s Day Cards* in packs of 5.
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:38am
  - cmm
    
    Super saving tip:
    If you cut the cards in half you have ten cards to hand out. Better chance of your real dad getting one than if you only hand out 5 cards to random strangers!
    
    #MustIthinkofeverything?
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:51am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    A slur on women. Sexist pig.
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:58pm
- Longknives
  
  All because of ‘Colonialism’ according to Leftie apologists DigNap.
  *Seemingly willing to overlook the fact that Pre-Colonial Maori ate their enemie’s children as meals…
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:57am
  - GoVege
    
    I wonder what was the status of children born to “slave wives”?
    Were they treated like children of regular wives?
    Or were they thrown in the hangi too.
    Btw…I’m surprised at these calls for more history of pre-colonial Maori in schools.
    Surely it would be counterproductive to tell the truth about Maori history.
    Or would we get the sanitized version?
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:58pm
- Universal Smith
  
  The dpb is the single biggest cause of child abuse and poverty in NZ.
  
  It only exists due to heartless and cynical vote buying by politicians.
  
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  February 20, 2019 12:24pm
  - GoVege
    
    It was brought in to help deserted and abused wives.
    Now it is used to find a cushy lifestyle for hundreds of useless parents and their latest squeeze.
    
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    February 20, 2019 1:17pm
    - GoVege
      
      Couples who have made a lifetime commitment to each other can’t afford to start a family…while illiterate beneficiaries can drag up a bakers dozen on the limitless resources of the state.
      
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      February 20, 2019 1:34pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        GoVege,
        
        Please dont take this as a swipe at all women, but it was Bert Walker (MP for Papanui) when he was Min of Social Welfare 1975 – 78, who said:
        “We now live in an age where women can receive cradle to grave welfare”.
        
        He went on to explain:
        1. There was Child benefit from 0 to 18;
        2. Unemployment benefit when they left school and didn’t have work;
        3. They could get the DPB + other benefits when they popped a child every year to 18 months;
        4. When she couldn’t produce she could on back on the dole; and
        5. Once she reached 60 (as it was in the 1970s/80s) she could get super.
        
        Achieving the the feat of never having had to work in her life.
        
        The problem is, nothing has changed 40 years on.
        
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        February 20, 2019 4:46pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Well you wouldn’t be allowed to own a dog again.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:38pm
cmm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12205464

PriNZess tells us capitalism has failed.

Yup, failed so badly that the silly polsci students are now asking the capitalists to help them run their flagship policy!
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February 20, 2019 10:46am
UrbanNeocolonialist

Isn’t it lovely not having the pervy goat-worrier about. Lets hope he finds another bridge to live under permanently.
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February 20, 2019 10:50am
- cmm
  
  Did he have his crayons taken away?
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:42am
  - Swifty
    
    Yesterday.
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:02pm
  - Swifty
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/02/general_debate_18_february_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2431639
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:03pm
    - cmm
      
      What a plonker.
      
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      February 20, 2019 1:32pm
      - Morrissey
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwk_29UexJI
        
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        February 20, 2019 2:01pm
stinkypete

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/103420768/david-bain-groomsman-paul-russell-wilsons-second-almost-identical-brutal-murder-in-24-years

for F**ks sake
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February 20, 2019 10:57am
- Longknives
  
  “Police had the previous evening stopped him at a drink-drive checkpoint and confiscated two knives”
  
  What the fuck? This guy must have been a lifetime Parolee!
  Did they not think to charge and oppose bail??
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:01am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  And father of his first victim has suicided as a result of his doing it again. Another addition to the Justice System’s body-count.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:04am
  - GoVege
    
    After years of suffering no doubt, poor guy.
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:33pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    what’s the bet he blamed himself for not hunting him down and killing him?
    
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    February 20, 2019 2:27pm
  - howitis
    
    Wilson aka Tainui.
    Double rapist and murderer.
    Just catching up with his mate Davey, or now Will?
    These critters do like to change their name.
    Does not change who they are.
    
    So we have the lying bitch Ardern talking crap about making suicides nil while at the same time saying we will have less people in prison.
    That bitch could not lie straight in bed.
    
    Since the bitch became PM (in name, anyway) there are two suicides that come to mind – and probably lot more.
    This one (Gary Schroder RIP.) plus … 16 yo Amber-Rose Rush was murdered at her own home in Dunedin on 3 Feb 2018 by -allegedly- the Indian doctor bastard Venod Skantha.
    Soon after, Amber-Rose’s mother took her own life.
    Did the arch-cynic, Marxist, Ardern send the family a wee handwritten note?
    
    Similar M.O. in the (alleged) Skantha murder to the one by Wilson/Tainui:-
    Obsessed stalker who can’t have the girl, murders her in her own home.
    
    Tainui, Skantha, plus Rohit Deepak Singh (stalked and murdered Arishma Chand in her own home) and Akshay Anand Chand (Stalked and murdered Christie Marceau in her own home) but us White males are bad!
    
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    February 20, 2019 2:33pm
- kowtow
  
  Bring back the noose . And while we’re at it some accountability for the parole board too. Name and shame at the very least.
  And as pointed out , wtf are the cops about not knicking someone driving round with knives , oh that’s right ,’ uman rights .
  
  And Labour , who want to empty the prisons go up in the polls !
  
  World’s gone fucking mad.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:14am
  - cmm
    
    “’ uman rights”
    
    Somehow only available to the least human among us.
    
    Karam seems to be lacking sense. By going in to bat for this bloke he is exposing his terrible judgement. It raises the question: If Karam thinks this bloke is so great then why should we believe all Karam said about Bain being a nice guy?
    
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    February 20, 2019 11:32am
    - Swifty
      
      Exactly.
      
      Just when you think you know someone, eh Joe?
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12205501
      
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      February 20, 2019 11:37am
    - GoVege
      
      Don’t criticize Karam!
      You’re liable to be sued for upsetting him and his family’s feelings.
      I wonder how upset they were when they found out that a member of the wedding party was a rapist and murderer?
      
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      February 20, 2019 12:25pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        He had already been convicted of being one at the time, no surprises there.
        
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        February 20, 2019 1:20pm
  - GoVege
    
    Some crimes are so evil that death is the appropriate sentence.
    Unfortunately we can’t guarantee innocent people won’t be executed by mistake, so we can’t do that, but full life sentences should be handed out to predators like this.
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:39pm
- insider
  
  That’s one for the Unsurprising Headline of the Day file. Bad apples don’t fall far from rotten trees, and sick birds of a feather and all that.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:33am
- cmm
  
  Now, apparently, Bain is saying he is shocked to the core his prison BFF has a second murder up his sleave?
  
  Why?
  
  A person who will do one murder is surely more likely to do a second murder than joe average.
  
  Bain should know what murderers are like. He says his dad murdered a whole family!
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:19pm
RRM

Sausage sizzle 2 is now out:

https://www.facebook.com/183355881680015/posts/2671283936220518/?sfnsn=mo
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February 20, 2019 10:59am
- Rich Prick
  
  I do like that woman playing the part of a potted plant Labour/Greens voter.
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:12am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes, I would show her my sausage!
    
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    February 20, 2019 1:55pm
    - cmm
      
      Only my tofu sausage.
      
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      February 20, 2019 3:20pm
- DigNap15
  
  I liked the first one.
  This is using all old stuff. (tax cuts etc)
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:25am
  - freethinker
    
    Still valid and will remain so.
    
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    February 20, 2019 11:41am
MrTips

A prime example of how to get your agenda advanced in a university. The Dean of University of Otago, Christchurch and his wife (a public health physician which is a pertinent fact) decide with a colleague on a plane flight that a rainbow flag installation is a great idea. No pressing need, no great demands from an LGBT+group….just an idea that seems “good” and the power to make it happen.

I await the installation of the Muslim crescent beside it…………
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February 20, 2019 11:15am
- Longknives
  
  Just why Otago University??
  I’d expect this from Massey but…
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:37am
  - MrTips
    
    I suggested the Muslim crescent for a reason; Otago makes considerable sums and has contracts with many Muslim countries, notably Saudi Arabia, to train med students.
    
    I wonder how all this gayness shall be perceived by them?
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:51pm
    - kowtow
      
      They’re more aligned than you might think at first glance.Uni hangs gay rainbow from balcony while Muslims hang gays from balconies ……..
      
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      February 20, 2019 2:42pm
Captain Mainwaring

Munro out for 8.
Sorry Colin, you won’t be required for the World Cup.
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February 20, 2019 11:20am
secondcumming

“Models should join Nunnerys if the don’t want to be sexually assaulted”

[Karl Largerfeld 1934 – 2019]

Died yesterday of cancer. Will be sadly missed by the fashion world.
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February 20, 2019 11:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yeah,…. no sexual abuse in nunneries
  
  Nah..
  https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/the-irish-times-view-on-sexual-abuse-of-nuns-church-must-address-reality-1.3797034
  
  https://www.dw.com/en/nuns-fight-sexual-abuse-in-indias-catholic-church/a-47582362
  
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  February 20, 2019 11:38am
  - GoVege
    
    Just proves it doesn’t matter what you wear….surely an argument against the burqa?
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:45pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Careful, Maggy, that old pervert Cap’n Mainwaring’s out and about today.
    
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    February 20, 2019 1:02pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I suggest you think long and hard about trying to imply Captain Mainwaring is in anyway involved with sexually abusive and perverted comments I have been subjected to here on KB.
      
      Best not to piddle in the putrid pool of personal abuse.
      
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      February 20, 2019 1:26pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Maggy, It would seem that the fact that I occasionally get under Mad Morris’s skin makes me an old pervert.
        Funny how some brains are wired.
        
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        February 20, 2019 4:25pm
- Universal Smith
  
  It is like telling small boys to join a choir to avoid being raped.
  
  There is less non-consensual sex in a typical gang pad than in the institutions of the church.
  
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  February 20, 2019 12:38pm
  - Morrissey
    
    What if it’s a gang of clerics?
    
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    February 20, 2019 1:58pm
  - softail 1450
    
    U S, you’ve probably heard the one about the little boy sitting outside a hospital crying his heart out when a passerby asked what was wrong,
    he said my “mum has just died inside this hospital”,
    The passerby replied “good god do you want me to get a priest”? to which the little boy replied “no thanks i don’t feel like sex at the moment”
    
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    February 20, 2019 2:43pm
Universal Smith

David Bain’s rotten luck continues, with his best mate and character witness getting busted for murder yet again.

Poor David, seems everyone around him is a murderer and psycho. Like I said, what rotten rotten luck.
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February 20, 2019 12:21pm
- Universal Smith
  
  Speaking of Dunedin, I wonder how the police are going with locating the sicko who stabbed the miniature horse to death?
  
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  February 20, 2019 12:34pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partmer reckons police are scouring the guest-list to see if there were any dwarf jockeys at davids wedding.
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:51pm
  - Longknives
    
    Shitloads of freaks and weirdos in Dunedin- That’s why it’s a Labour stronghold!
    Any comment Sheriff Pete George?
    
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    February 20, 2019 12:59pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Andrew Hore?
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10337915
    
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    February 20, 2019 1:06pm
    - Longknives
      
      I’m not sure Andrew Hore is from Dunedin Morrissey?
      But I will agree with you- The guy is an absolute dickhead…
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_VEgZxaGg
      
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      February 20, 2019 1:20pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Thanks for that, Herr Messer.
        
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        February 20, 2019 1:57pm
    - alex Masterley
      
      He’s from the Maniatoto which isn’t Dunedin.
      
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      February 20, 2019 1:30pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Of course. I forgot.
        
        Janet Frame wrote a novel about the Maniatoto.
        
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        February 20, 2019 1:57pm
- rangitoto
  
  Justice Minister Andrew little will no doubt visit the victim’s family and explain that it isn’t really a problem. Just collateral damage.
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:40pm
Inandout

The Wanking Group Tax report is out tomorrow.
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February 20, 2019 1:07pm
- Longknives
  
  *Spoiler Alert-
  They are going to recommend Taxing the living shit out of ‘Rich Pricks’! (Meaning anyone who has a job and owns their own house etc etc)
  I hope this hasn’t ruined the suspense for you…
  
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  February 20, 2019 1:17pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Not Friday arvo to hide the stench as usual?
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:14pm
Michael

I wonder how David Bain’s wife feels?
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February 20, 2019 1:35pm
- stinkypete
  
  she’ll stop him doing his paper round now thats for sure
  
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  February 20, 2019 1:51pm
- Longknives
  
  Look I think it’s fair to assume she is a complete fucking fruitloop!
  She will most likely think Wilson has been ‘Framed’ by Police…
  
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  February 20, 2019 1:58pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I can’t stand listening to Jesse Mulligan on Nat. Radio…but he’s on message with this exposé of Ngai Tahu’s complete indifference to the presence of an endangered beetle on its land.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/02/jesse-mulligan-we-just-lost-another-species-to-extinction-it-must-be-the-last.html
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February 20, 2019 1:45pm
- Morrissey
  
  Jesse Mulligan? Hand me the flyspray.
  
  https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/11/jesse-mulligan-approvingly-quoted-one.html
  
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  February 20, 2019 2:08pm
- Jack5
  
  And Ngai Tahu is getting two guaranteed, unelected seats on the Canterbury Regional Council when it is returned to voters. Why?
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:11pm
chiz

Young american muslims are becoming more liberal:

[…]
When you examine the internal discussions among conservative Muslim leaders or pundits in America today, they don’t come across as concocting some “Protocols of the Elders of Mecca.” Instead of cheering for any creeping Shariah, they seem worried about a creeping liberalism within American Islam.

[…]

Perhaps nothing marks this liberal trend more than the skyrocketing acceptance of gay marriage, which, as a 2017 poll showed, is now stronger among American Muslims than among white evangelical Christians.

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February 20, 2019 1:55pm
Longknives

Okay my comment ended up in the wrong place and now (as delete function doesn’t work) I feel I have to say something profound-

Who is the greatest Heavyweight Boxing Champion of all time?

I’ll throw Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano in for starters…
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February 20, 2019 1:57pm
BananaLlama

The problem with MMP in NZ is that our politicians are stupid and greedy.
They don’t have to form a coalition. They can stay in opposition and grow the size of their base while allowing the largest party to form a minority government.
But then they wouldn’t get the ministerial portfolio and a snout in the trough. They actually have to do hard work. Easier to stick the snout in the trough and hoover up as much tax payer money as you can before the public turf you out.
Every minor party that goes into coalition is weakened by their much larger counterparts instead of staying in opposition and growing their vote until they have a much larger base to negotiate from. I use to think the tail wagged the dog but have started to realise the dog just bribes the tail and then watches it fall off.
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February 20, 2019 2:27pm
- sooty
  
  It’s the list seat that distort it!
  Laced with idiots that can’t string a sentance.
  But know how to suckup!
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  These pricks should ony get their wages while working. No gold plated super scheme for them!
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:38pm
softail 1450

fricking hell is that grub Peters sick ?he looks like an obese Buddha sitting in the house today , jowls hanging down to his tie.
Anybody suggesting he is off the whiskey must be joking,at one point he nearly went to sleep when horseface was speaking ….
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February 20, 2019 2:31pm
- alex Masterley
  
  Random questions.
  Winston falls off the twigg before the next election.
  Who is the next of the line on the NZF list? and who gets the gig as leader?
  One of the Rotorua mafia?
  Answers on the back of a postage stamp.
  
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  February 20, 2019 2:39pm
  - softail 1450
    
    A M, you could list the qualified ones on a grain of rice with a big black marker pen.
    
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    February 20, 2019 2:48pm
    - sooty
      
      Softail, he knows she’s going fluff around and say bugger all!
      So might as well do something productive, like go to sleep!
      
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      February 20, 2019 4:35pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Derek Hatton was expelled from UK Labour for being a militant Trotskyist….but now that he is Capitalist Rich Prick… he’s back in the fold

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/19/the-return-of-king-rat-derek-hatton-marks-a-new-low-for-labour?CMP=share_btn_tw

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/19/liverpool-reacts-return-of-derek-hatton-labour
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February 20, 2019 2:45pm
- mandk
  
  Hatton was a rich prick when he was in Militant Tendency.
  He was, and I suspect he still is, the very epitome of a champagne socialist.
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:51pm
Happychappy

Judith Collins on the warpath with Housing NZ and Phil Twyford about deals they are doing when buying houses
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110730341/judith-collins-accuses-housing-new-zealand-of-crowding-out-home-buyers market.
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February 20, 2019 3:04pm
- Inandout
  
  Happy, looking at the Stuff comments I now know where the pollsters glean their information from. Those wordsmiths must be on the CoL payroll the way they viciously attack Collins and the previous government, and I suspect they are stay at home benes.
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:29pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Is it legal that they get a choice of buying it before it goes on the market.
    
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    February 20, 2019 4:05pm
    - sooty
      
      Stuffed have closed the comments!
      Must be all bad!
      Theis government is shit!
      
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      February 20, 2019 4:31pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I hope they declare any income then.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:32pm
- KevOB
  
  Minister Twyford has no understanding of markets. The COL becoming an underwriter of new spec builds and now also an active buyer of existing homes to replace govt housing stock must deny others the chance of buying with price consequences.
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:51pm
  - Happychappy
    
    What I want to know is what they class these houses after they have renovated them or do they add them as new builds after spending anything around $700,000 for them.
    
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    February 20, 2019 3:57pm
mustlovedogs

Any idea why Nick Smith was kicked out of the house today? Mallard looked fuming. The incident happened as Cindy was trying to enunciate the word Äbsolutely” and was doing her best to get the T right
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February 20, 2019 3:04pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  She nearly managed the T in Otaga but fluffed the O at the end, then bastardised the T in Universiddy – twice.
  Woi wasn’t Winston on his feet?
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:11pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The PM lied when she said the Previous Government didn’t build any houses.
  Nick Smith put her right.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110738498/nick-smith-says-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-is-lying
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:19pm
  - mustlovedogs
    
    Thanks Maggy… I thought initially it was because he had been mocking her attempt to speak English!
    
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    February 20, 2019 3:25pm
    - alex Masterley
      
      She speaks english?
      Surely you jest?
      
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      February 20, 2019 3:29pm
      - mustlovedogs
        
        Again, As I have said, It is Wunnerful to stand here today on this side of the house, Absoludely Posidive that Sumthink is gonna be Recalibrated and Conflated to make me look like I’m not a Stinkink Liar
        
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        February 20, 2019 3:35pm
      - alex Masterley
        
        mustlovedogs,
        my google translator thingy just died.
        
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        February 20, 2019 3:52pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        “Mr Speaker, as we’ve reiderated….”
        Seems to be a favoured line by Cindy the liar.
        
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        February 20, 2019 4:16pm
      - sooty
        
        I bet that the lips would have been shuddering trying to get the word to sound right!
        What’s the word for a horse flapping his gums?
        
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        February 20, 2019 4:27pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Smith should lodge a privileges complaint to the Speaker if he can prove that the PM misled Parliament.
    
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    February 20, 2019 3:45pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Good on Nick. If Nick telling the truth gets the media reporting National’s point then so be it. Cindy was lying. There have been too many instances when she has been allowed to get away with not telling the truth. No wonder the voters are still enamoured with the lazy liar.
    
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    February 20, 2019 3:59pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Just to remove any doubt….
    
    I am not Nick Smith.
    
    We are, however, both aware that
    
    ardern is a liar.
    
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    February 20, 2019 5:09pm
- KevOB
  
  Smith was told off by Mallard yesterday over an issue which Mallard was fuming about that the most senior member of he House should have known better.
  
  Is Mr Speaker getting a little tetchy awarding points and acting like a like a high school master? The COL have been fined too by Mr Speaker by the Opposition being awarded extra supplementary questions each day until the backlog of written questions is dealt with.
  
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  February 20, 2019 3:44pm
Shaun the Sheep

https://www.parliament.nz/en/WatchParliament/PlayVideo/OnDemand/205063

PM getting a bit tetchy when asked about housing.
Plenty of HNZ homes being chucked up around the country, but planned and consented by the last govt.
When they’re all complete the plan is … crickets.
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February 20, 2019 3:07pm
- sooty
  
  No problem!
  Phail Twitford will whack them up between the Fail Build houses.
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:21pm
DigNap15

I just saw that Kath and Kim girl look a like – Megan Woods saying that renewebale energy such as solar and wind will soon be cheaper than our present supply.
She is dreaming
She also said that they are investing in Hydrogen power, why are we doing this, surely that should be left to countries with big automtive and technicial expertise and R&D.
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February 20, 2019 3:57pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh dear, oh dear..
  
  her qualifications and background in Energy supply and Power generation appear to be zilch.
  
  Who the dickens is advising this woman?
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:15pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Last year during question time in parliament she repeatedly demonstrated that she did not even know the difference between energy and power. Which she should have if she did compulsory science in 3rd form like everyone else.
    
    our Minister of Energy no less.
    
    And yes, the ideas she has presented regarding energy storage for a fully renewable powered NZ are risible.
    
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    February 20, 2019 4:38pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Now by “risible” do you mean that they can go up so then that means that they will then be able to store more “power” than before as they went up……
      
      Asking for an mp……
      
      I think she is worried that her pies will be getting cold and she would be offended knowing that her concern for that is certainly risible.
      
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      February 20, 2019 5:19pm
- rangitoto
  
  The only economic way of making hydrogen is from natural gas or coal (via gasification and steam reforming) and given hydrogen is difficult to store and transport, it is an idiotic idea to use it for fuel except for a few special cases.
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:18pm
- waikatogirl
  
  “She is dreaming”
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQf1DUkf6e8
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:19pm
- Longknives
  
  Ha Ha Megan Woods will change her fucking tune when there is no more power to heat the Pie Warmer!
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:22pm
  - sooty
    
    Not in Bellamys. You can bet there will be a bloody great generator out the back to warm her pies!
    
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    February 20, 2019 5:31pm
- oob
  
  I think the difference is scale: using renewables for small installations is definitely cost effective, it seems to me complications occur at city-scale.
  
  My experience is anecdotal so take it for what it’s worth. Several years ago we put in a Solar solution at the bach for $12K, comprising six panels (for a total of ~1900 kW,) eight Lead-Carbon batteries (total 14.4 kVA,) Inverter and sundries. We’re completely off-grid.
  
  We’re anticipating about 20 years from the system which works out at about $600 per annum in electricity costs. Not bad.
  
  We’re not using solar for water heating but we should be, because most mornings the batteries are fully recharged by about 10:30 and we’re dumping the rest of the daylight hours the panels harvest.
  
  We’re using gas for hot water currently but it makes sense to add a hot water cylinder to capture all that unharvested daytime solar energy instead. If the solar system can’t keep up who cares? Easy enough to add a couple more panels as they’re cheap as shit.
  
  One of the problems with solar is the headache of energy management, it’s not “plug and play” like grid-tie electricity. But I must say this is not a hassle: aside from only using the vacuum cleaner during the day consumption management is something we seldom if ever need to think about.
  
  In synopsis, solar has definitely reached the price/performance point in my opinion where it should be the first option when considering your home electricity supply.
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:26pm
  - bouden
    
    Why, please tell, are solar panels NOT built into Kiwibuild design?
    
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    February 20, 2019 4:45pm
    - Tall Man
      
      It would add another $20k probably so not economic.
      
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      February 20, 2019 5:21pm
      - oob
        
        Not so chap. You see the largest proportion of the cost of a solar implementation is battery storage. With a grid-tied house you don’t need storage as you simply feed back to the grid.
        
        Cost would be about $3K, comprising panels (~$300 each) and Inverter (~$1k.)
        
        Electricity suppliers pay out a lot less to their customers for feeding to the grid than they charge them for taking from the grid however, to discourage consumers from doing this.
        
        Other countries have solved through legislating energy company buy/sell pricing. It’s not fair on the electricity suppliers for it to be 1:1 however, as solar-producing households are feeding the grid during low-consumption periods of the day.
        
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        February 20, 2019 5:30pm
      - bouden
        
        Yes, that is the immediate answer. But is the Government not ‘planning for the future’. In the big picture of the 50 year life of the Kiwibuild house (let’s be generous) and its electric car surely the economic return from electricity savings would be more than economic.
        
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        February 20, 2019 5:32pm
      - nasska
        
        In the case of a bach where home heating is a very small part of energy consumption I can see it working. Yet your slowly reducing capacity of 14.4 Kva only gives a usable storage of 3 Kva.
        
        In the depths of winter you couldn’t run a decent sized heat pump for an hour of evenings to raise the temperature in your townhouse that the clean air maniacs won’t allow to be heated by wood or fossil fuels.
        
        You’ll end up warming yourself over the heat of a melting ice cube…….but you’ll be Green!
        
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        February 20, 2019 5:47pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        In the depths of winter you couldn’t run a decent sized heat pump for an hour of evenings to raise the temperature in your townhouse
        
        Johnboy will be along shortly to assure us that he has a decent sized heat pump, and that it works for well over an hour at evenings, particularly under the covers. He may even bring along a character witness to confirm that he singlehandedly (if you’ll excuse the pun) raised the temperature in his townhouse!
        
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        February 20, 2019 5:54pm
      - Swifty
        
        Please don’t share this too widely, but I came across this footage of Johnboy’s jacuzzi, at 3.50 minutes:
        
        https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/wayleggo-1965
        
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        February 20, 2019 6:01pm
      - oob
        
        14.4 Kva only gives a usable storage of 3 Kva
        
        4.4 kVA nasska, as Lead-Carbon can be depleted further than Lead-Acid and we’re being conservative, aiming to keep the batteries above 70% to achieve that 20-year lifespan.
        
        In the depths of winter you couldn’t run a decent sized heat pump for an hour of evenings to raise the temperature in your townhouse that the clean air maniacs won’t allow to be heated by wood or fossil fuels.
        
        True, we use a woodburner for heat because we’re completely off-grid. In a townhouse it would make sense to be grid-tied.
        
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        February 20, 2019 6:02pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Johnboy doesn’t need heatpumps when he has dearly departed Flossie’s fleece to snuggle up in.
        https://www.123rf.com/photo_87847725_portrait-of-adult-man-with-long-hair-and-a-beard-in-a-sheepskin-coat-with-an-ax-in-the-winter-forest.html
        
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        February 20, 2019 6:08pm
    - KevOB
      
      Have a look at South Australia to see the havoc solar panel feed to the grid causes. The generated supply has to be adjusted for that.
      
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      February 20, 2019 7:43pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Off grid batteries still about $800 per kWh. Should come down to a third of that in a few years (near $150 cost to Tesla now)
    
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    February 20, 2019 7:28pm
- Swifty
  
  Will she be running the census this year?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MzUM6QNcKc
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:57pm
- Tall Man
  
  When they say “investing”…you should probably understand that in lying labour speak that means, form a commiittee of some labour hacks ex mps and those that suck at the teat well, have a few really nice catered seminars, again with only lying labour attendees, then they will form a report that a report needs to be written and they will look into that when the second review of the report requesting the report has been completed.
  
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  February 20, 2019 5:13pm
- KevOB
  
  Minister Woods has no understanding of the electricity supply management. Electricity has to be supplied at 50Hz not 51Hz. That requires massive control by the minute of the whole national generation/supply and distribution system.
  
  Hydro power is almost available on demand but add solar panels feeding the grid they have to adjusted for too. Bird Killers only work when the wind obliges to specs and coal is unwelcome.
  
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  February 20, 2019 7:55pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Not much hope regarding the Lines Company then, I believe people have asked her to look into it.
    
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    February 20, 2019 11:14pm
bouden

The Electricity Review recommends, among other measures, that prompt payment discounts for paying power bills be prohibited. Can someone please explain to me how making my electricity bill more expensive (by outlawing the discount I receive) will make it easier for ‘low income households’ to afford and/or pay theirs.
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February 20, 2019 4:35pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Bouden:
  
  I recall that Meridian Energy’s CEO discussed this issue last year. Here’s a media release:
  
  Meridian Energy will replace prompt payment discounts with a monthly guaranteed discount of equal value to all customers from 1 October.
  
  Meridian’s Chief Executive Neal Barclay says prompt payment discounts are unfair to customers who struggle to pay their energy bills, so Meridian will change the way it does business so all customers do better. “We don’t want our customers to miss out on savings if they pay a few days late, which is what has been happening to a high number of our customers. The new way will mean everyone gets the same great savings, but without being hurt if they’re late on their payment date.”
  
  So a “monthly guaranteed discount of equal value” for everyone. Sounds too good to be true, right?
  
  Meridian is the first major energy retailer to announce the end of prompt payment discounts. Neal Barclay says the decision is about making Meridian’s pricing fairer. The move is expected to cost the retailer $5 million, which it says will not be recovered from elsewhere in customers’ bills.
  
  So everyone pays. Actually, to be more precise, if the company doesn’t recover the money from “elsewhere in customers’ bills”, then Meridian Energy shareholders will ultimately pay.
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:56pm
  - bouden
    
    Nostrodamus, if I read it correctly, Meridian Energy will not be able to implement this. Discounts are to be prohibited. Anyway I am with Genesis, have been for more than 30 years, and always paid my bill on time (auto payment). This is going to effectively add about $35 to my monthly bill. What I suspect is another socialist scheme to force me to pay more for my power to subsidise some other household – no or minimal penalty for late payment, or access to an industry funded scheme where they can apply for relief. Am I wrong?
    
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    February 20, 2019 5:13pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Bouden:
      
      I’ve just scanned the Electricity Price Review options paper (published today). The section of interest to you is B7: Prohibit prompt payment discounts but allow reasonable late payment fees (pages 10 and 11):
      
      Retailers (and where applicable any distributor) would be allowed to charge late payment fees (capped to reflect genuine debt recovery costs) but prompt payment discounts would be prohibited. Other conditional discounts (such as for paperless billing, direct debit or bundled offers) would be allowed but would be capped to reflect genuine savings to the retailer.
      …
      We commend Meridian for replacing its prompt payment discount in October 2018 with a guaranteed discount for all customers even if they pay late. Meridian estimates its change will amount to an immediate saving of $5 million a year for its customers. It says that, in the first two months following the change, it “observed no discernible impact on or deterioration in … customers paying their bills late, levels of customer debt, or disconnections”. If other retailers followed, our analysis suggests a total saving of about $45 million a year for all consumers.
      
      Individual retailers that did so voluntarily, without waiting for regulations, would give their customers a greatly appreciated pre-winter boost.
      
      The writing style is socialist: supposedly everyone benefits and no one is worse off. Well, as I said above, someone has to pay – and it’s the shareholders.
      
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      February 20, 2019 5:41pm
DigNap15

Ardern does not know how to pronounce words correctly.
Its Odago universidy
And its
Recalibraded
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February 20, 2019 4:36pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  At her post-Cabinet presser on Monday, she made mention of some faraway country called Idaly 😀
  
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  February 20, 2019 4:48pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Keeping Stock:
    
    You must be mistaken. Jacinda speaks very well in this video. For some reason, seeing her in some weird leotard outfit, and her repeated “comrades” greeting, and her numerous bleatings about “neoliberal” and “poverty”, remind me of David Cunliffe’s speech at the Avondale Market in a fake bro accent!
    
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    February 20, 2019 5:03pm
    - Swifty
      
      Dont give you vote to the fulla in the blue suit!
      
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      February 20, 2019 5:13pm
    - Longknives
      
      ‘Dey is gonna cut yourz benefit!’
      
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      February 20, 2019 5:18pm
      - Swifty
        
        Cringe.
        
        What a total fake he was.
        
        As Kimbo often said: ‘inauthentic’.
        
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        February 20, 2019 5:21pm
    - Swifty
      
      Heh, just remembered, he was Labour’s ‘game changer.’
      
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      February 20, 2019 5:48pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Jacinda Ardern flaps

Well, technically… her speech exhibits intervocalic flapping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapping

Probably been watching too much US/Ausdralian DV
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February 20, 2019 5:12pm
- nasska
  
  From Maggy’s link:
  
  ….” is a phonological process found in many dialects of English”…..
  
  Most people gain idiosyncrasies of speech as toddlers. The residents of Gore can make one “r” last half a lifetime but Morrinsville dwellers with a dialect?
  
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  February 20, 2019 5:21pm
- KevOB
  
  You’ve spoilt my dream of flappers. I didn’t know they were noisy too.
  
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  February 20, 2019 7:37pm
Nostradamus

Forest & Bird supports School Strike 4 Climate

New Zealand’s largest independent conservation organisation is throwing its weight behind the young people striking from school on 15 March to demand action on climate change.

“They will have to deal with much worse effects of climate change than we do, and we must listen to their voices,” says Forest & Bird chief executive Kevin Hague. … “We’re proud of young people standing up for what’s right.”

Will Jacinda show leadership and tell these schoolchildren that it’s important to go to school and get a proper education? And that, if so inclined, they can “strike” on the weekend by refusing to watch TV or play sport?
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February 20, 2019 5:23pm
- Universal Smith
  
  The tired old think of the children line. A cynical appeal to emotion over reason. It does work on the ignorant and shallow.
  
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  February 20, 2019 5:32pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Hmm, While on strike I suppose they could try and explain this warming trend in the USA….
  
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/18/winter-storm-snow-ice-rain-200-million-coast-coast/2906396002/
  
  The Ice Age is coming…..
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:14pm
sooty

It’s offical now been stated in parliament!
JacinDUH Ardern is a LIAR!!
Written down in Hansard no less!
That the duck went flapping, does not enter into it!
It’s offical. She’s a liar!
What tallman has been telling us for months!
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February 20, 2019 5:26pm
- Tall Man
  
  ardern is a liar
  
  I have only been stating what is patently obvious to all with a semblence of intelligence.
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:21pm
starboard

Courtesy of Hobsons Pledge..

Maori and the Crown are not partners in any sense of the word yet an ideology of Treaty partnership has hijacked the Treaty of Waitangi, Don Brash will explain at a public lecture in Auckland on Saturday.

It is constitutionally impossible for the Crown to enter into a partnership with any of its subjects. The true position is that the Crown is sovereign but owes duties of justice and good faith to the Maori descendants of those who signed the Treaty, and indeed to all New Zealanders.

Don will speak at Sturges West Community House in Henderson at 7pm on Saturday, February 23. Space is limited to the first 200 people. Book via email to Julian@esisite.com
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February 20, 2019 5:39pm
- oob
  
  I received this e-mail too and I’m not going.
  
  I don’t do west Auckland, which starts at Albert Street. Why the fuck are they holding this out in the welfare-guzzling badlands?
  
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  February 20, 2019 6:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    Link, dickhead?
    
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    February 20, 2019 6:18pm
Universal Smith

Reading KB gives a few clues as to what has gone wrong with NZ politics. The middle ground has been excluded and there is little representation of the average person among the leading parties.

On one hand we have an intolerant and divisive left forever trying to pit us against each other on the basis of gender, race, religion, sexuality and how much money you make.

On the right we have heartless uncaring people and overt racists like Jack5 who claim all our ills are due to brown people and those filth yellow heathens of the East.

But no where in that ideological cauldron do you find the voice of the ordinary person who is busy working hard and trying to do the right thing. They are too busy getting on with life to be minding other peoples business, or to be hating the on fashionable victims defined by the left.

The modern political landscape is dominated by those seeking to force minority interests on the majority. They appeal to the sentiments of that majority in a cynical attempt to gain votes, but they car nothing for the average person.
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February 20, 2019 5:50pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Careful Kea/Realityczech – your mask is slipping!
  
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  February 20, 2019 5:52pm
  - nasska
    
    I wouldn’t go that far Nostra. A 160 word comment without reference to the evils of Zionism could indicate rehabilitation. 🙂
    
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    February 20, 2019 5:57pm
  - Swifty
    
    It has already slipped.
    
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    February 20, 2019 6:03pm
    - nasska
      
      Doesn’t matter too much. In whatever incarnation he’s quite an interesting coot when he parks up his hobby horse.
      
      But the long term outlook has strikes at frequent intervals
      
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      February 20, 2019 6:08pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        As long as he can think up enough usernames to stay ahead of his strike count, he’ll be one step ahead of DPF!
        
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        February 20, 2019 6:15pm
- KevOB
  
  Doesn’t that apply to the COL some of whom can’t even pronounce the word poverty let alone understand what it means. GDP worries them too.
  
  Numbers are useless to ideologues hence their rejection of Treasury as advisor. Now GR has taken over the Reserve Bank does he control the monetary aggregates? Is the Stats Dept being dis-organised so more palatable outputs appear?
  
  A lot of funny numbers on TV tonight about jobs created. Are these the ones which they hope might be created 5 years hence when projects actually exist, if they ever get off the ground?
  
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  February 20, 2019 7:29pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    The news item said Shane didn’t know how many jobs his regional fund had created “so they did a ring around”. Is that how govt collects statistics under the COL? ?
    
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    February 20, 2019 7:51pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I don’t think those folks kneeling down and patting the little plants are running a commercial/sustainable revegetation/forestry business…. looked more like a community plant-up.
      (1:10 )
      https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2019/02/20/growth-fund.html?auto=6004346006001&variant=tb_h
      
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      February 20, 2019 8:59pm
Universal Smith

Simon Bridges political career has passed on after a year long battle with being a smug arsehole. His career died agonizingly shortly after the latest poll results were released. Christian conservatives are preserving his corpse while discussions continue with Colin Craig and clergy who have not been caught yet.
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February 20, 2019 6:05pm
- Inandout
  
  US, you are a nasty person.
  
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  February 20, 2019 6:30pm
  - Universal Smith
    
    Stop your pathological corpse cuddling and do something viable to provide an alternative to Labour.
    
    Most National voters can’t stand him, which is why the party polls at mid-40’s and Simon at 5%
    
    Let him rest in peace.
    
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    February 20, 2019 6:41pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Idiot
      
      ardern is a liar
      
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      February 20, 2019 10:15pm
- KevOB
  
  Another intern?
  
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  February 20, 2019 7:22pm
  - sooty
    
    Did they set it up so stoopid boy could go on his summer holidays by bringing in useless smith to cover?
    
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    February 20, 2019 8:11pm
    - Universal Smith
      
      You are going to learn the hard way that I am right about this. You may want to focus your energy on the vast overwhelming majority of National faithful who do not support Simon.
      
      Seems the Christian conservative vote has been over estimated yet again. 5.5% average in the last 2 polls.
      
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      February 20, 2019 8:49pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Idiot.
        
        ardern is a liar.
        
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        February 20, 2019 10:15pm
- Tall Man
  
  Idiot
  
  ardern is a liar
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:16pm
Longknives

So bloody common these days! (Despite what the Femnazis tell you…)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/110713917/woman-who-lied-about-rape-showed-vindictiveness-i-cant-even-fathom-says-judge

Poor, poor guy….
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February 20, 2019 7:13pm
- nasska
  
  To describe her as a bitch is to do a disservice to female dogs. She should be shamed & her name published everywhere especially by women who suffer from being disbelieved when reporting genuine rape.
  
  The amazing thing was that it made the court. Usually the cops duck & dive saying prosecution is not in anyone’s interest.
  
  It is!
  
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  February 20, 2019 7:26pm
Monique Watson

Airbus turned back from
Iranian airspace because of incorrect paperwork..
Guess other countries are watching where our sympathies might lie.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12205676
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February 20, 2019 7:30pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Goodness .. what is going wrong with the paperwork at AirNZ?
  
  Perhaps they should put their Head of Government & Industry Affairs on to the matter.
  https://nz.linkedin.com/in/andrew-kirton-8b0b1648
  
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  February 20, 2019 7:35pm
- Universal Smith
  
  But the media told me the whole world loves us because of Jacinda and she even has a baby. Who doesn’t like widdle babies?
  
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  February 20, 2019 7:36pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Who doesn’t like widdle babies?
    
    I’ll start a list:
    
    1. Helen Clark ‘relieved’ Eden Park’s Million Babies charity concert abandoned
    
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    February 20, 2019 7:41pm
    - Universal Smith
      
      Helen no longer has to take on human form and is showing her true colours.
      
      Jacinda took one for the team for political gain, but don’t forget she had the charity event shut down, leaving babies of poor brown people to die.
      
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      February 20, 2019 7:45pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        2. (Tentative) Andrew Little
        
        Police have confirmed they are “considering” whether they will appeal a sentence of home detention handed down to a Waikato man who bashed his 9-month-old baby, inflicting horrendous injuries to his face and head.
        …
        Earlier today Family First wrote to the Crown Solicitor and Justice Minister Andrew Little, asking for a review of the sentence and imploring them to appeal the outcome.
        
        How did “Justice Minister” Andrew Little respond to the letter?
        
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        February 20, 2019 7:49pm
nasska

You may be a conservative if:

1) You are someone who jackhammers their fanatical religious beliefs down other people’s throats

2) You believe that the rights of the state come before the rights of the people.
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February 20, 2019 8:37pm
- Universal Smith
  
  While the left delight in roasting aborted babies over hot coals during gay orgies held in a pentagram.
  
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  February 20, 2019 8:54pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Or are just low iq dipshits like yourself.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:06pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Don’t try so hard, we know who you really bat for, even though you pretend to be ambidextrous.
    
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    February 21, 2019 8:45am
Jack5

Oh dear …

The Kentucky schoolboy depicted around the world as being racist towards an American Indian activist is suing the Washington Post for quarter of a billion dollars.

The amount sought by Nicholas Sandmann, aged 16, is the same amount the world’s richest man (or is pre-divorce settlement) Jeff Bezos paid for the newspaper.

Will he be able to go around the world, hitting newspapers? Or even just any that reprinted the original Washington Post report?

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/teen-trump-supporter-in-photo-with-native-american-sues-washington-post-20190220-p50z2s.html
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February 20, 2019 8:57pm
- Jack5
  
  Just noticed the report in The Age includes:
  
  “…. Sandmann’s Atlanta-based lawyer, Lin Wood, said additional similar lawsuits would be filed in the weeks ahead.
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:06pm
  - sooty
    
    Yah! That’ill bunch the snowflakes knickers!
    
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    February 20, 2019 9:15pm
Nostradamus

Adelaide pilot leaves ‘I’m bored’ message and graffiti on flight radar

An Adelaide pilot has taken workplace venting to new heights by etching “I’m bored” into the sky … The message was not seen by people on the ground, but was visible to aviation followers watching live flight tracking programs and websites.
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Retired Qantas A380 pilot Chris Wilson said he thought the message was “harmless”. “It’s not very common for someone to do this. It’s the first one I’ve seen,” Mr Wilson said. “I think it’s a harmless pursuit. He obviously is bored. “I’d say he was a young pilot trying to build up some hours.”

I understand we have at least 1 or 2 retired (?) pilots on Kiwiblog.

According to overseas media reports two US Marines were grounded over a stunt where they created a “sky penis” over California in October 2017.

Such originality should’ve been rewarded – perhaps by a requirement that they fly the penis route until their fuel tank was running low!

And for Stephieboy:

In one instance, a Perth cycling group traced the path of a goat onto the city’s streets.
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February 20, 2019 9:37pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Ole Stephie got another time out I see, hopefully he can put aside his crush on Maggie while on the bench. It went past disturbing sometime ago!
  
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  February 20, 2019 9:52pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I do think she she has a few issues and I’m not too sure allowing her an outlet through posting here or elsewhere is condusive to her health.
    
    Generally, the more stimulus the manic get the worse they become.
    
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    February 20, 2019 10:04pm
Inandout

The madness that is Sweden. What a bloody snowflake she is.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/swedish-student-who-tried-to-stop-mans-deportation-to-afghanistan-is-reportedly-fined
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February 20, 2019 9:56pm
- Tall Man
  
  She got her 15 minutes of fame, she’ll be back as a green candidate somewhere soon.
  
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  February 20, 2019 10:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Remember when we all thought Jazz Hands McFeels and KrissX were Kea?

They’ve not come back after their 3rd suspensions.
Wonder where they went.
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February 20, 2019 9:58pm
Nookin

(S)he is back. Current moniker is Universal Smith. Still a vile grump.
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February 20, 2019 10:03pm
noskire

Why has National been warned by Mr Speaker to stop asking questions about Karel Sroubek?
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February 20, 2019 11:05pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Have they?
  
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  February 21, 2019 9:38am
  - sooty
    
    Must be hurting Labour!
    Tha ducks running interferance again!
    
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