General Debate 6 April 2019

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Wayne

US Stock market up 13% this year. FTSE up 400 points despite Brexit. Trump sees the stockmarket as a barometer of his ability as a pres. Tax cuts and fed rates cuts distorting things further. US debt at all time highs and rising. Fed holding off on increasing interest rates. Etc etc.

Reminds me of the 1920’s. Who is betting on a depression?
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April 6, 2019 8:14am
- pdm
  
  A depression in New Zealand is likely but not a world wide one.
  
  Labour led governments have form on taking the country into depression and the current lot are economically illiterate.
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:53am
  - sooty
    
    Worse than the previouse Labour governmemt!
    That was with the famouse call me “SIR” Cullen,
    at the helm of finance. Who bought a clapped out useless train set. Why national gave him the Post Ofice to run and not the railway on the promise of no wages till it’s profitable again, is beyond me!
    
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    April 6, 2019 11:16am
  - freethinker
    
    A majority of the country are probably suffering the first signs of mental depression – thanks Taxinda, Peters, Sleeze & Twit, the financial depression will follow.
    
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    April 6, 2019 12:05pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    In the last serious recession in NZ in 1987, you would not have felt it unless you were a working, mortgage-payer in your mid-20s or older, i.e, someone born in 1962 or earlier.
    Mainland Chinese born before about the same era would have no recollection of the bad old days, but would only recall the 1980s and thereafter, when the economy grew year by year.
    No one younger than 57 or so has any idea what a serious recession can be like (8%+ unemployment, FOR SALE signs everywhere, real estate offices decimated).
    
    New Zealanders younger than their late 50s really would have no first-hand experience of what a serious economic downturn is like.
    They are in for a nasty shock.
    In my experience, deterioration is exponential: slow at first, but then very rapid. So, you won’t really know that you are going over the waterfall until it is too late to swim against the flow.
    
    In the aftermath, people will look at each other and say in amazement, “How could we have been so stupid.”
    
    Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
    
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    April 6, 2019 12:11pm
    - Kiwi Investor
      
      I agree with your sentiments. I think the early 1990s was the real hard times economically. Add Australia to your list, no recession in over 26 years!
      Can’t see New Zealand having a Depression, nor a recession in the immediate future. Agree with sentiment toward Labour Governments, luckily, and within policy limits, economies are more resilient than who is in power by and large. As you say, these things build overtime and poor Government policy can contribute, yet external factors are usually the trigger e.g. higher interest rates, Asian crisis, US recession.
      Although domestic economic growth has slowed, it is likely to pick up later in the year on low interest rates and a massive pickup in Government spending. Likewise, Chinese and global economic activity will pick up over the second half of this year. A deterioration in the global environment is probably needed to tip us into recession, can’t see that happening this year.
      
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      April 6, 2019 1:36pm
- Kiwi Investor
  
  Not me. The US sharemarket fell 13% over the last three months of 2018, and was down 19% at one stage. Albeit it is near record highs now. US economy to reach it longest period of economic expansion in July of this year without incurring a recession. The economy is in good shape, consumer is healthy, business investment is picking up, and the Government to increase spending, there are no material excesses, inflation is muted. More likely scenario is a recession sometime 2021/22, will be mild in nature and triggered by the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates in 2020/21.
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:57am
  - Wayne
    
    I believe we are in a global debt fuelled bubble bubble. In addition, there is a tech bubble similar to the dot com bubble occurring (see Tesla and Lyft).
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:15am
    - Kiwi Investor
      
      I can’t comment on individual companies. With respect to sector valuations, the tech sector valuation is not as extreme as prior to dot-com implosion, neither is sentiment as extreme as back then (at a sector level). Overall, global equities are slightly expensive, the US and NZ being most extreme, but are far from being in bubble territory.
      The global economy is also far from being in bubble, global Central Banks are more worried about deflation than inflation, and world economic growth will be around 3.25-3.5% this year, hardly excessive!
      Global debt is high, but again not extreme, even in China, with current economic growth and low interest rate environment not a major global risk currently. Albeit this risk will rise over time.
      The hurdle for a “bubble” is high, and the word is over used.
      
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      April 6, 2019 12:36pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  When heads of state/govt don’t understand economics watch out. Too much money as been created and lent out now it has to be paid back. Savers are also being robbed. This caannot continue forever.
  
  GR take notice.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:03am
- Steve Todd
  
  “Reminds me of the 1920’s.”
  
  Wow! What’s your secret, Wayne?
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:44pm
- Aunty
  
  I think you should stick to knitting, luv. Or maybe baking? The all time high on the Dow Jones Industrial average was on January 26th, 2018 when it reached 26,616.
  
  At yesterday’s close it was at 26,425 which is still down approx 1% since its record close 15 months ago. In other words, over the last 12 months or so the market has basically gone sideways.
  
  Now while the US market may well be up 13% so far this year, fat lot of good that is to you if you brought your shares 12 months or so ago, as you’d still be done about 1%.
  
  Of course the market has gone up 13% so far this year because well last year it tanked, down almost 20% from its high in January to 21792 on 24 December 2018.
  
  Now, if anything was going to cause a depression, wouldn’t you think that that would be it? So where is it?
  
  You see the point I’m trying to make here is that you can’t just pick and choose very small periods of time in the market’s history in isolation ignoring what went before as some sort of oracle like predictor of what he future holds, economically speaking. Some people think they can do that, but they are wrong. The error in their thinking is the belief that markets are efficient and always price stocks correctly and therefore have some degree of being both predictable and predictors of the future. But they are not. In the short term markets are erratic, emotion driven, error prone, over reactive and often just plain wrong to both the downside and the upside. It is in the long term that their trends become more informative.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:46pm
Yvette

“The law change must happen without delay. Give no time to those who seek to defend the indefensible. The ban will save lives.” – Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel

Is not “give them no time” in fact a denial of democracy?

According to international media, the Christchurch terrorist in his “manifesto” anticipated the removal of rights to own certain weapons, that such a loss is inevitable and predicted his actions may just accelerate the process – and hoping to cause conflict over the American 2nd Amendment issue: bearing arms.

But, if that is true, even the terrorist might himself be surprised at the remarkable haste and possible denial of simple democracy in the process.

But people would know this if an officially vetted version of the terrorist’s explanation was available to assist understanding what has been wrought on New Zealand by one man, or even thwart some reactions that he has apparently himself anticipated.

The media has a dispensation, under the Censor’s ruling, to ethically inform us of some “manifesto” matters, but the media appears to not be doing that – second-hand and by their selection as such comments would be.

And should interpreting one source of information – the “manifesto”, why the Christchurch massacres occurred – be left in the hands of those who report the Prime Minister’s generosity in paying for someone’s supermarket groceries but don’t give any perspective by naming the amount involved – utterly trite perhaps, but part of a bigger picture they construct – or reporting endless fatal car crashes, always it seems followed a couple of days later by what brilliant community members the dead were, or could have been, but never the slightest iota of reason as to why their vehicles killed them?

If misleading internet memes and trolling are eliminated and justifications for killing children are redacted, is there in fact nothing of substance left of the terrorist’s “manifesto”?

Even if, as international media report, the fact that this “manifesto” claims there was an earlier 240 page version, is it sufficient to confirm the entire event was indeed plainly planned and premeditated enough to qualify for the harshest penalty available?
Or, again would journalists, the censor and officials rather that we just be ignorant of that?
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April 6, 2019 8:15am
- KevO'Brien
  
  In my view the Manifesto shows a deranged personality. It should be freely available–it must now be one of the world’s historic documents. That and the livestream video, another first, are surely sufficient for a conviction.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:08am
- kowtow
  
  With a couple of exceptions the individual members of what passes for our MSM would not know or care about the meaning of “ethics”.
  
  They are a bunch of deplorables.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:09am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Must be worried about the citizenry wanting to carry arms in the event of a retaliatory terror strike. If ever we needed guns at hand is surely now.
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:45am
- freethinker
  
  Do you know who the Minister of Propaganda is in NZ, asking for a friend?
  
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  April 6, 2019 12:09pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Chris Hopkins is Minister for open government aka propoganda.
    
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    April 6, 2019 2:42pm
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    It’s more like a collective. All parties and ministers participate, except maybe ACT.
    
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    April 7, 2019 7:59am
waikatogirl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoG9zBvvLQ

Jordan Peterson – Postmodernism and Cultural Marxism.

Worth a listen.
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April 6, 2019 8:17am
- Wayne
  
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  Peterson has the ability to speak confidently and eloquently on a range of topics. This gives a naive listener the sense that he knows what he is talking about when he likely doesn’t.
  
  Of course, I don’t have deep knowledge of all the topics that he talks about and so I can’t claim that he is wrong in all cases. However, I do have deep knowledge in two areas that he is prone to speaking on (IQ and domestic violence) and I can tell you with 100% certainty that he is ignorant of the facts/research in these areas. As a cautious listener this leads me to ask the question: if Peterson is certainly wrong on the facts that I am familiar with, is he likely to be wrong on the facts that I am unfamiliar with.
  
  I think the there is a high probability that the answer is yes.
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:41am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    He is a classic case of an expert in narrow fields presuming that his expertise gives him an authoritative voice in completely unrelated areas.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:07am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Is he a postprandial socialist?
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:32am
    - burt
      
      I agree, Wayne taking two topics he has some knowledge of to assess the raft of issues Jordon Peterson discusses is a classic case.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:34am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        It is a fairly standard practice for many to make broad judgements about someone’s wider credibility based on whether or not that person can talk sense in respect of the listener’s or reader’s own area of expertise.
        Many people, for example, will have read or heard media discussion of a technical topic and recognised gross oversimplifications.
        
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        April 6, 2019 9:48am
      - Wayne
        
        Fair enough Burt, but surely this is preferable your case. i.e You have no expertise in any of the matters that he discusses but assume his arguments to be fact based.
        
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        April 6, 2019 9:50am
      - burt
        
        Wayne
        
        You should probably stop both claiming your knowledge on 2 specific areas qualifies you to claim a professor knows jack shit and while you doing that perhaps stop attributing your own ignorance to other random people who point out you’re over reaching on your own worth to the debate.
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:25am
      - burt
        
        And while we’re here Wayne, since you know so much about IQ and family violence do you concur with Jordan Peterson that lower IQ is likely to be correlated with more family violence?
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:28am
      - Wayne
        
        Hi Burt, re IQ and family violence, it is not correct to say that low IQ is correlated with more family violence (this is not how correlations work), however it is probably true that there is a negative correlation between IQ and family violence.
        
        I wouldnt expect this to indicate anything causal however IQ is probably a reasonable proxy measure of general cognitive control/emotional regulation capacity and we know that diminished emotional regulation capacity in combination with attitudes and beliefs that condone family violence are among the main psychological factors that contribute to FV.
        
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        April 6, 2019 12:23pm
      - burt
        
        Can you please pick one of your three answers and let me know which one is answering my question.
        
        1. IQ is not correlated with family violence.
        
        2. IQ is negatively correlated with family violence.
        
        3. Low IQ is a proxy for other behavioural factors that contribute to family violence.
        
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        April 6, 2019 1:58pm
      - Wayne
        
        Burt, your questions indicate that you aren’t understanding what I am saying. Your questions also indicate that you don’t know what a correlation is or what it means for things to be correlated.
        
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        April 6, 2019 4:23pm
      - burt
        
        I understand correlation, I’ll give you an example. The more I question your knowledge of the relationship and connection between IQ and family violence the more you deflect and denigrate me rather than answer.
        
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        April 7, 2019 8:39am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      lol sounds like how I would describe you. Oh how others see us.
      
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      April 6, 2019 11:46am
    - BassilFawlty
      
      Like Michael Cullen and tax?
      
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      April 6, 2019 11:47am
  - Jules99
    
    Nonsense. Both those issues you highlight are hotly debated by experts so to dismiss everything he says because he doesn’t agree with you on two points is short sighted. I have expert knowledge on several key area and he is on the money. He carefully analyses and studies topics to ensure he is intellectually rigorous. His academic prowess is supported by clinical experience with real people. In fact his theories are underpinned by both theory and experience. He challenges many people’s cherished beliefs and dogma, which is why he is so frequently challenged. But he acquits himself exceptionally well in debate. Don’t read any of his work if you don’t want your beliefs challenged.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:18am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      He only eats beef and encourages us to copy the victorious lobster – both ideas based on his academic prowess.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:30am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        mikenmildagain,
        
        So you’re saying that we should eat like lobsters?
        
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        April 6, 2019 9:38am
      - mikenmildagain
        
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        That’s Peterson’s field of assumed expertise – using pseudo-scientific metaphors to advance his convictions about human behaviour.
        
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        April 6, 2019 9:49am
      - tf78
        
        He only eats beef because his daughter has some disease and can only eat beef, he is doing it for her.
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:06am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @MMA
        
        So bad when Peterson uses pseudo-scientific metaphor
        but good when the WCC uses non-scientific metaphor.
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/04/lets_blame_poseidon_also.html#comment-2469488
        
        Must be difficult for you to keep a consistent thought in your head.
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:44am
      - waikatogirl
        
        He only eats beef because his daughter has some disease and can only eat beef, he is doing it for her.
        
        Peterson’s daughter has had childhood rheumatoid arthritis since the age of 2. It is extraordinarily painful and has resulted in numerous joint replacements. RA is an inflammatory disease that is now believed to be in a group of inflammatory diseases affected by food due to poor gut processing and leaking nutrients through the gut lining. Various foods affect different sufferers, in Peterson and his daughter’s case they have removed all food from their diet except beef and water and have felt the benefits. Other patients report their inflammation is affected by different foods.
        
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        April 6, 2019 11:42am
    - Wayne
      
      Jukes, no they’re not. I’m happy to debate you on here if you like.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:51am
      - Tall Man
        
        Whose “jukes”…. was that meant to be derogatory… because if it was, you need more practice.
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:18am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        I think Wayne is trying to make a feeble, humorous aside to the Jukes and Kallikak families.
        
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        April 6, 2019 11:29am
      - Wayne
        
        Jules. Sorry
        
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        April 6, 2019 12:16pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Well, thanks for your opinion on Dr Peterson Wayne and Mike, but I’ll take his 35 years of expertise and wisdom over yours.
    
    Perhaps if you listened to what Dr Peterson says instead of assuming you know then you would both be a bit better informed.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:45am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      Well, we know you are a disciple, of course. Aren’t you the Kiwiblogger who dubbed him the ‘great professor’?
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:50am
      - waikatogirl
        
        At least I have an open mind mm. ?
        
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        April 6, 2019 11:46am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Is that in your ‘file’?
        
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        April 6, 2019 11:48am
      - Maria
        
        It is clear the Jordan Peterson is a ‘great professor’.
        
        Firstly, it is true Peterson is a professor.
        
        Secondly, he is ‘great’ because synonyms for great are prominent, celebrated, prominent, famous etc etc. All of which are easily demonstrated in Peterson’s case.
        
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        April 6, 2019 1:46pm
    - Tall Man
      
      “listen” What a novel idea for them.
      
      Nah, they don’t need to listen, social media has told them all they need to know…or the telly.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:55am
    - Wayne
      
      My point is that I have listened to him. On the issues that I have expertise in, he is not credible. He doesn’t seem to understand very basic concepts (e.g. He conflates heritability with inherited when discussing IQ).
      
      This is the problem with public intellectuals. It is actually impossible to have the required depth of knowledge across such a number of broad fields. This is why academia and research is fundamentally characterised by the principle of specialisation. It is not possible to be an academically credible generalist.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:57am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Heard of Da Vinci?
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:22am
      - redeye
        
        How about sharing your own credentials so the rest of us can asses your worth?
        
        Mike needn’t bother. Troll is not a credential.
        
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        April 6, 2019 11:35am
      - waikatogirl
        
        What is your expertise Wayne? Do you have 35 years of research behind your claims?
        
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        April 6, 2019 11:48am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        redeye
        You call me a troll as if that’s a bad thing.
        
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        April 6, 2019 1:20pm
      - Wayne
        
        Waikato girl, I have a doctorate in clinical psychology. Both my doctoral thesis and honours dissertation were within the broader field of neuropsychology.
        
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        April 6, 2019 2:26pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Ah Wayne, congratulations on your psych credentials. I would have thought you would be able to appreciate the obvious abilities of such a world-famous fellow clinical psychologist. ?
        
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        April 6, 2019 5:04pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Jeez wayne…let it go.
        
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        April 6, 2019 9:53pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Who cares…
    
    You don’t like him, others do.
    
    Thanks for sharing.
    
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    April 6, 2019 10:20am
  - Maria
    
    With respect, knowledge drawn from research on a topic such as the relationship of IQ and domestic violence (among many other issues of research) is attained by inductive reasoning. That is broader generalisations are made from specific observations. Therefore, even if all the premises are agreed on the conclusions may vary.
    
    So, in short, perhaps Peterson just has a different conclusion to yourself?
    
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    April 6, 2019 1:37pm
    - Wayne
      
      I didn’t make a specific claim on any relationship between IQ and FV until prompted by Burt. I simply stated that I have some knowledge and expertise in these (separate) areas and on this basis, I can tell you that Petersons comments/opinions in these areas do not reflect the current state of knowledge.
      
      From this point I then assert that it is probable that Peterson also misrepresents research/knowledge in areas that I am not familiar. This would likely include his critique of post modernism which was linked above.
      
      Peterson is a lot like Krauss, Dawkins, Tyson, and Harris. I. E. A well spoken, authoritive intellectual who appears to know what he is talking about despite not knowing what he is taking about.
      
      One caveat to this is that all these public intellectuals (including Peterson but excluding Harris) are able to speak well within their given fields (this is why Peterson is good with the self help stuff).
      
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      April 6, 2019 6:10pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Difficult for Wayne to agree on conclusions when Professor Dr Jordan Peterson is unusually, for a pyschologist, on the right side of the political spectrum while Wayne is probably further to the left.
      I’m sure Peterson would be happy to discuss their academic differences of opinion. ?
      
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      April 6, 2019 6:43pm
NZpatriot

I hope the firearms Select Committee is up already and carefully considering the thousands of submissions it received while the Arms Bill was open for 48 hours of submissions…

A rushed policy process is never a recipe for success. And the moratorium on sales of semi automatic weapons through the Order in Council a few weeks ago means there is no phenomenonal urgency required. I’m not saying to take years, but to take a few months would be much more reasonable.

The firearms Bill is just like the ban on new oil and gas exploration – poorly conceived and desperately rushed.
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April 6, 2019 8:17am
- kowtow
  
  The order in council was not just a moratorium on sales , it was a prohibition to possess and required their surrender.
  A legal requiremnet the the police and govt were not ready to process.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:13am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    And likey to be ignored…
    
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    April 6, 2019 10:23am
    - ducklin71
      
      “likely to be ignored”
      
      That would do some justice to this completely unnecessary legislation. The cops have no idea how many MSSA’s are out there. It should stay that way.
      
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      April 6, 2019 1:30pm
- freethinker
  
  Both craptains calls by Jacinda, 3rd strike and you are out.
  
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  April 6, 2019 12:14pm
- MickMac
  
  Yes
  we need to get rid of the COL for the good of the people and country asap.
  
  Captains call my arse!
  Unprofessional.
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:25pm
thetiedarch

Disappointing to see Stuff acting as the governments attack dog and “Fact Checking” NZ Business’ claim that CGT will cost the country $5bn.

I guess it’d be ok, if stuff were fact checking the government as well….
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April 6, 2019 8:23am
- JibberJabber
  
  Indeed, the “we`re here to keep the Govt honest” line no longer applies now they`ve got the govt they wanted.
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:30am
- Doubledimp
  
  Yes those homelessness figures updates are coming fast and furious now, aren’t they? /sarc
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:35am
- RW Capitalist
  
  They said $5b….I think they may be a tad short on the amount.
  When you take into account the cost of compliance ,
  accountants to do the books, when the wife could do it before…..etc etc
  2nd ary costs after staff have to be laid off due to the extra compliance, ie higher taxes to cover for the extra unemployment.
  
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  April 6, 2019 12:40pm
Happychappy

The Herald is not happy about the press they gave Jacinda over the ChristChurch shootings so now they are revisiting it with a article of inside the first 72 hour of Jacinda’s team dealing with the shooting.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12219516
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April 6, 2019 8:24am
- krazykiwi
  
  I groaned on seeing this headline. Didn’t bother to read, knowing the article would be a fawning adoration of a tight-knit team, working together under incredible pressure so save the nation, or indeed the world.
  
  We can no doubt soon expect the book, the movie, the t-shirt, the cameo in Fortnite.
  
  The banal-o-meter is redlining.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:02am
- DigNap15
  
  Stuff is still running the Full Story of Christchurch Mosque Attacks at the bottom of their home page.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:19am
- namron
  
  Back for Christmas 1953, I received the book “Enid Blyton’s 2nd Holiday Book.” Each story was the model for one of those old morals.
  Now 66 years later, all I remember is one moral – from the book the story “Pride comes before a fall.”
  It came to mind as I turned PAST Pages 14 and 15 in this morning’s Herald – “72 Hours. Inside the PM’Ms team after mosque attacks.”
  Haven’t we been immersed in every detail repeatedly over the past 20 days?
  Now I’m sitting back and waiting to see if “pride does come before a fall” as there is quite a drop to hit the BOTTOM.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:34am
- Tall Man
  
  “The Herald is not happy about the press they gave Jacinda”
  
  No…ardern is not happy…..
  
  Needs more exposure for her adoring fans and just think…more “likes”…Isn’t it just “awesome”.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:57am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Wonder if the victim’s families are happy to be used as a “Squirrel” so that her screw ups can be masked?
    
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    April 6, 2019 12:43pm
- niggly
  
  “By the time they got to the police station, she’d told Little to fill in for her at a civic reception, and at the Womad festival after that.”
  
  Bet Andy was really miffed about that, fancy having to cover for Jacinda by inheriting her appearances in which polite conversation, tea and scones, and singing had been scheduled, whist the PM got to hang out with the “big-boys and girls” and all the associated dramatics involved in running the Police’s counter terrorism operation!
  
  Pipped again dang it!
  
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  April 6, 2019 10:17am
  - sooty
    
    Dosn’t Little Andy have an important job in the government, other than Pike River minister?
    Should he have been in Wellington as well?
    Any trained monkey could have opened womad!
    
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    April 6, 2019 11:26am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Ever thought, that he was that monkey?
      
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      April 6, 2019 12:44pm
    - niggly
      
      “Dosn’t Little Andy have an important job in the government, other than Pike River minister?
      Should he have been in Wellington as well?”
      
      Heh, with Little conveniently stuck in the regions for those critical hours, Robo gets his “secret” wish and assumes full control in Wellington (and Jacinda is more than happy about that)! 😉
      
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      April 6, 2019 4:06pm
Paulus Gnome

First! (Assuming I ever get out of moderation that is!)
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April 6, 2019 8:25am
- Andrei
  
  It is another of example of Brenton Tarrant’s little victories – manipulating David Farrar into changing the way his long standing blog has operated for, what is it 15 years?
  
  Whatever happened to the slogan “Forementing happy mischief” that used to grace the blog header?
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:40am
  - SGA
    
    If that was the slogan, then I imagine the spelling police got it? 🙂
    
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    April 6, 2019 8:58am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    A good little boy only forements happy mischief while his mother smiles.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:04am
  - alien
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    I’d say mor it’s a sign of a blog owner tidying up the mess that existed on his blog. Before this ban people were calling a now banned member a kiddy feeler, and other pathetic comments because they didn’t like the side of the politics they were on. People want to blame Christchurch for the moderation but I’d look at yourself first and some of what people were saying here that lead to it. Not that moderation has improved much, still comments getting through that I see latter disappear.. wonder how the warning ps work when a moderate pr has approved a comment then is latter removed.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:08am
    - Happychappy
      
      alien : Are you sure you have a big enough spoon .
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:32am
      - Tall Man
        
        “Shovel”….
        
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        April 6, 2019 9:59am
      - sooty
        
        Arh, but it was fun!
        
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        April 6, 2019 11:27am
    - Nukuleka
      
      Still comments getting through, alien, which indicate some writers have an unsure grasp of grammar, syntax and logic.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:33am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Some are un-moderated, not me, anyway Tall Man I don’t think a shovel is big enough to stir with, surely he must be using his dick?
        
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        April 6, 2019 12:06pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Hate speech is speech you don’t agree with huh?
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:48am
      - Tall Man
        
        Now you’re getting it…. 😉
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:00am
      - ducklin71
        
        Hate speech is free speech. Threats to others are a different thing altogether. Words cannot hurt people. We were taught that in Kindergarten.
        
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        April 6, 2019 1:37pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    I’ve commented here since 2003, and I know DPF from prior to that. He has tried various methods to lessen the moderation load over the years . However light the touch, it’s still a big job when commenting volumes peak at various times.
    
    My view is the ‘report abuse’ and demerits systems worked pretty well, allowing for predominately civil and fee debate. I believe the current regime isn’t of DPFs choosing, and that he’s been subjected to subtle pressure or indeed legal threats.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:34am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Kiwiblog (or similar) needs to be domiciled offshore and operated anonymously where it wouldn’t be subject to regressive political forces.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:51am
      - Tall Man
        
        Like the labour party… fronting for the UN and greenpeace….
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:01am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Bloody good idea.
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:26am
      - krazykiwi
        
        It would be a good idea, right up until the Marxist government-of-the-day instructed the Chief Censor to declare the site ‘hateful’ and instructed our ISPs to block it.
        
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        April 6, 2019 11:32am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Why? I don’t find Kiwiblog particularly out there, you are suggesting that it should have to take even more precautionary measures to protect itself so that we can all say what we really think. I think that we do, or at least I do, I can’t speak for others.
        
        The most out there things are the trolls and my experience is once a troll always a troll so it isn’t as if anyone is trying to persuade them about how wrong they are, or really think of them as human lol or do we have to think of Trolls humanity now too?
        
        So much to learn, so little time.
        
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        April 6, 2019 12:11pm
      - ducklin71
        
        21st Century Radio Hauraki? I like it! How about 100% NO censorship?
        
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        April 6, 2019 1:38pm
  - Fletch
    
    That’s “fomenting”…. (grammar police)
    
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    April 6, 2019 11:13am
Nukuleka

The more the MSM feed into the European bashing extremism of the likes of Marama Davidson and Golriz Ghahraman and beat ordinary kiwis over the head with taunts of white supremacy the greater will be the resentment and division in our society. I haven’t read the manifesto but I believe that this type of backlash and increased strife is precisely what Brenton Tarrant is hoping will occur. The narrative has now been established by the left wing and its complicit MSM that if I oppose the name change for the Crusaders or the inclusion of Muslim prayers at ANZAC services or the wearing of headscarves by women in support of Muslim women then I by definition am a white supremacist.

I am feeling more and more resentful and like an outsider in my own country.
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April 6, 2019 8:31am
- DigNap15
  
  Well said.
  I wonder how the average white kiwi guy feels about this constant attack on our heritage and culture.
  What percentage agree that we should give in and rollover, and how many think that we should stand up tall and push back.
  (Without being white supremacists)
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:41am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    I agree. On March 14 I was an upright citizen in good standing, paid my taxes, raising my family, paying my mortgage, looking after my people.
    
    Now I am a criminal, in possession of prohibited weapons and regarded by the media, and it seems the entire Parliament of New Zealand, as a probable serial killer.
    
    I am told again and again that Islam is a religion of peace, despite all of the extensive evidence that islamic doctrine is an aggressive expansionist religion, and that when the muslim population reaches about 6% extreme social conflict starts.
    
    There are grenade attacks going on in peaceful Swedish towns (grenades for God’s sake!).
    
    Somali street gangs are killing passers by in Melbourne (sorry, “youths of African appearance!”).
    
    We have a New Zealand Parliamentarian, who would be executed in her own country if she showed the same level of disrespect, accusing those who took in her family and made them welcome, of being behind everything bad in this country.
    
    We have a secular government that abandoned christian prayer in our Parliament, but saw fit to have an islamic cleric proclaim that there is no god but allah.
    
    What the hell is going on out there? Will I wake up soon and realise this is just a nightmare? Where are the grown-ups?
    
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    April 6, 2019 10:00am
    - JibberJabber
      
      No worries Amnesty are on the case,
      
      https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/nordic-countries-have-disturbingly-high-levels-of-rape-says-amnesty/
      
      Really, Wow just wow.
      It would be interesting to compare the stats from 50-20 years ago to todays` stats and ponder what changed…
      
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      April 6, 2019 11:10am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        influx of methodists?
        
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        April 6, 2019 12:41pm
    - Maria
      
      Cardinal Sarah is fighting back against the loss of the Western spiritual inheritance. Sarah is from Guinea. I guess his concern makes him a ‘white supremacist’.
      
      Sarah says, “Western people are convinced that receiving is contrary to the dignity of human persons. But civilized man is fundamentally an heir, he receives a history, a culture, a language, a name, a family. This is what distinguishes him from the barbarian.”
      
      https://catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2019/04/05/as-a-bishop-it-is-my-duty-to-warn-the-west-an-interview-with-cardinal-sarah/
      
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      April 6, 2019 1:59pm
    - Maria
      
      My favourite Cardinal Sarah from Guinea in Africa says this ‘mass migration is a new form of slavery’. He opposes it. Does this make him a ‘white supremacist’?
      
      He is purported to have said,
      
      “The Church can not cooperate with this new form of slavery that has become mass migration. If the West continues in this fatal way, there is a great risk that, due to a lack of birth, it will disappear, invaded by foreigners, just as Rome has been invaded by barbarians.”
      
      Sarah added: “My country is predominantly Muslim. I think I know what reality I’m talking about.”
      
      Cardinal Sarah is taking an opposite stand on this to Pope Francis. I’m with Sarah.
      
      https://www.foxnews.com/world/catholic-cardinal-calls-mass-migration-a-new-form-of-slavery-says-bible-shouldnt-be-used-to-justify-it
      
      It is good to find new voices concerned with all this that can’t be labelled as ‘white supremacists’.
      
      Sarah, for the record, is known to be sidelined by Pope Francis, but recognised as a holy and faithful Cardinal by many.
      
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      April 6, 2019 2:04pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    What is the opposite of a “White Supremacist”? Is the problem with the word “White” or “Supremacist”? Let’s look at the All Blacks? Could they justifiably be called “Rugby Supremacists?” So neither term in its self is a problem, only when combined. From this link it seems that there very few groups races, cultures, religions or sexes that have not been deemed “supremacist”. I don’t believe I am a “White Supremacist” as generally defined, but I am White. Do I need to be deliberately curtailing anything I am good at to not appear as “Supremacist?. There are many that seem to think so, especially in the Green party.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacism
    
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    April 6, 2019 10:38am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Does the term “supremacist” imply a desire to subdue others or can it mean a desire to left alone?
      
      If I prefer my own food, does that make me a “rice supremacist”?
      
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      April 6, 2019 12:23pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        OMG!
        You are responsible for the rising seas, the disappearing glaciers, the baking climate and the acid oceans.
        https://phys.org/news/2018-09-nitrous-oxide-emissions-rice-farms.html
        
        Convert to spuds.
        
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        April 6, 2019 2:17pm
    - tranquil
      
      Since we’re on the topic of “supremacism”, here are a few great links about **Islamic** supremacism. It is **definitely** a supremacist ideology.
      I recommend that you bookmark these pages and tell your family and friends about them –
      
      Robert Spencer warns of Islamic supremacism –
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7thzMV4WoIQ
      
      What Islamic supremacism really is –
      https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2013/06/03/what-islamic-supremacism-really-is/
      
      Muhammad and the birth of Islamic supremacism – the War with the Jews –
      https://www.amazon.com/Muhammad-Birth-Islamic-Supremacism-D/dp/1937668975
      
      Why can’t we talk about Muslim supremacism? –
      https://dailycaller.com/2017/09/27/why-cant-we-talk-about-muslim-supremacy/
      
      Islamic supremacism – the true source of Muslim “grievances” –
      https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/257003/islamic-supremacism-true-source-muslim-grievances-raymond-ibrahim
      
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      April 6, 2019 4:36pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The narrative has now been established by the left wing and its complicit MSM
  
  Then it is time to start mocking the fools that try to blame Brenton Tarrant’s actions on anything other than his twisted view of the World and its inhabitants.
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:49am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Tarrant takes full responsibility for his own actions in his Manifesto. He would run the world. He doesn’t have the ability but he does have the vision. I regard him as extremely dangerous and in the Hitler category.
    Tarrant also show his responsibility by publishing his Manifesto within minutes of his attack and further by publishing his attack on-line live glorying in the event. A rare deranged dangerous personality. It’s all now being hidden from us while the Police propose to bring 89 charges against him and have to severally prove them. That could take months in Court the way trial proceed these days. What about the victims and the rest of NZ–should they and us have peace too. A delayed justice is not fair.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:42am
    - The King
      
      Dangerous because he was right or dangerous because he was wrong? Put it this way if he was so wrong why would they hide the manifesto? Shouldn’t it be easy to debunk to the masses?
      
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      April 6, 2019 11:29am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        He is still going to be locked up during the trial so really his sentence has already begun, it is not as if he is out and about.
        
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        April 6, 2019 12:16pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        He’s dangerous because of his peculiar self belief which has already taken him to the boundaries. He would go further and take others with him.
        
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        April 6, 2019 2:01pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes, Nukukeka,Davidson, Golriz and the rest of their ilk are extremist activists who are trying to manipulate society to achieve a totalitarian agenda.
  But not everyone has even heard of them – let alone buy into their warped demands.
  Most people I know are just trying to live their lives in peace as best they can – it is only the media that is providing a platform for and enabling their hate speech.
  We don’t see many ordinary people from the provinces being invited to contribute “opinion columns” in city papers, magazines or on Stuff. If we did, you might get a different perspective on life in NZ.
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:51am
  - harvey wilson
    
    I hope they do bring in hate speech laws , then we can weaponise them and use them against the left . It wouldn’t be difficult to organise a barrage of complaints every time the likes of Davidson ranted on twitter or in public in their racially divisive manner .
    Obviously not every complaint would be actionable but I bet enough would to make the whole thing backfire on them and that would make me very very happy
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:08am
    - krazykiwi
      
      I hope they do bring in hate speech laws
      
      You rate your chances against a leftist media stuffed to the gunnels with activists, and a neo-Marxist government hell-bent on dismantling ‘failed’ capitalism, and a PM who aspires promotion to the UN, basically a club of despots and dictators?
      
      I suggest any weaponising will be well targeted at you and I only. History has shown this to be the case.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:40am
      - Ian Hawthorn
        
        New Zealand recently signed the UN migration pact which defines any criticism of migration as hate speech and obliges signatories to pass laws to make it illegal. If you look at the government’s stated intention to pass hate speech legislation in the light of this, it is quite chilling.
        
        We face a future in which ordinary New Zealanders may be dragged out of bed at 4 o’clock in the morning and arrested for stating a political opinion on the internet. If you think it can’t happen just look at the UK. Jacinda; you seem to believe that the Christchurch massacre gives you a mandate to destroy democratic freedom and impose a socialist dictatorship. It does not. Please think again.
        
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        April 6, 2019 3:42pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      The problem with the weaponisation of hate speech is that the offense is in the mind of the recipient. Everything can be so weaponised destroying civil society. There are some who bother me every time they appear or open their mouths but without hate speech I am better armed to criticise. Tolerance facilitates.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:51am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘then we can weaponise them and use them against the left .’
      
      It won’t work like that. The state will be the arbiters and conservatives the victims . Just look at the UK , Oz and Canada for where this tyranny leads.
      
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      April 6, 2019 10:44am
  - Jules99
    
    Good point. I get riled up and then go talk to my parents and they barely know who these people are. Which is a shame because if they read what they said they would never vote Green again.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:21am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Accumulate some quotes and send them to your parents a couple of months from polling day. Tell them that voting Green isn’t saving the planet, but rather reviving communism.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:53am
      - ducklin71
        
        krazykiwi’s “tell them that voting green isn’t saving the planet, but reviving communism”. You get the cigar today. Bulls eye mate.
        
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        April 6, 2019 2:22pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Can’t you show them? If ever there was a time for people to come out of the shadows it is now, how can the anonymous expect to be counted as being in disagreement.
      
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      April 6, 2019 12:32pm
  - Sacha
    
    @ gravel road: I think you are right about the provinces. Even those who keep themselves informed know, but don’t seem to give any great attention to the government. The rift between town and country is deep.
    Farmers are too busy wondering if it’s going to rain, will they get some grass growth, will the dams get filled, and will they get time to do the fencing along the river before winter, and where is m. bovis this week?
    That sort of stuff.
    The government lives in Wellington, and townies live in Auckland, and have little relevance to day-to-day rural living.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:36am
    - freethinker
      
      But they will discover the relevance of rural activities when the supermarket increases prices of the commodities the rural economy provides. Hard to provide food from your 600 sq m Akld\Wellington section.
      
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      April 6, 2019 12:38pm
    - KiWombat
      
      Very true Sacha.
      
      On the Coast we don’t have to worry about rain, however, only that we get too much of it at times.
      
      At least the last downpour seemed to spur some government action, with the member for West Coast visiting for the first time in living memory. Of course he was choppered in so that he didn’t get to experience the condition of SH6.
      
      But when something goes wrong on the coast, we just fix it. There isn’t time for us to wait months for government assistance – we just do it ourselves.
      
      Our local member is the Minister for M.Bovis, and I’ll bet he has absolutely no idea how we are handling that right here in his own electorate !
      
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      April 6, 2019 2:02pm
- MickMac
  
  Nuk
  You’re on to it in one!
  
  (DPF If this section falls under the banning pls delete.)
  Nuk
  I did read the manifesto on the Friday night, sent by a friend (82 pages) and deleted it when it was banned.
  It was a mishmash and low brow.
  
  The main point I got was he wasn’t particularly anything or it was possibly written by more than one person.
  The way Muslims were invading Europe and their behaviour seemed to be what set him off on his plan of revenge.
  
  Maybe that is why it was banned as they didn’t want people to have a discussion about that.?
  Some are.
  They are wondering what led him to come here and attack people at peace.
  
  Just because it was banned won’t stop that. I know it is too soon to have decent conversations about this, in time it will be. I hope..
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:37pm
- ducklin71
  
  Nukuleka we are the reason the term “social justice warrior” exists. I consider their hatred toward Whitey a badge of honour. Marama and what’s-her-name are the extremists and dividers. (and sickle and hammer lovers)
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:46pm
JibberJabber

From the, more things change the more they stay the same File,
https://taskandpurpose.com/penis-drawing-hadrians-wall
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April 6, 2019 8:32am
Hugh Pavletich

h/t Cobolt24 at Kiwiblog …

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/04/general_debate_5_april_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2469171

What Housing Crisis? In Japan, Home Prices Stay Flat … Wall Street Journal (behind paywall)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-housing-crisis-in-japan-home-prices-stay-flat-11554210002

extract….

What Housing Crisis? In Japan, Home Prices Stay Flat
Supply keeps up with demand in Tokyo thanks to few restrictions on development

In the past two decades, home prices in some leading North American and European cities have skyrocketed. In Tokyo, however, they’ve flatlined.

So why no affordable-housing crisis in Japan? A big factor, experts say, is the country’s relatively deregulated housing policies, which have allowed housing supply to keep up with demand in the 21st century.
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April 6, 2019 8:43am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Hugh,
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w
  
  Lack of regulation is a big factor.
  I cannot understand why NZ regulations make it so hard for young people to find nests. It’s as if our leaders don’t want the middle classes to have children.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:09am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    IRELAND: The realities of renting: ‘We are watching our lives unravel’ … Fiona Cassim … The Irish Times
    
    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-realities-of-renting-we-are-watching-our-lives-unravel-1.3849626
    
    ‘We are packing to move back to our parents, both in different counties’ … read more via hyperlink above …
    .
    .
    … New Zealand Housing Minister Phil Twyford’s recent speech effectively dealing with new housing supply …
    
    New Zealaned Housing Minister Phil Twyfords speech to the New Zealand Initiative Members Retreat … New Zealand Government / Beehive
    
    https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speech-nz-initiative-members%E2%80%99-retreat
    
    … check February Update and new 2019 sections at …
    
    http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
    
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    April 6, 2019 10:00am
    - ducklin71
      
      I would eat broken glass before i did a deal with Phil Twitford. Poster boy for first in line in this stupid Govt to be FIRED for incompetence. As far as renting a house in Ireland, WTF is that to do with New Zealand? Keeping a roof over your head costs money wherever you are. Times are tougher and more competitive these days. Toughen up with it or get out of the way. Go have a cry-in somewhere.
      
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      April 6, 2019 5:55pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Ducklin71 … Are you still missing Nick Smith ?
        
        Check out the Gone Gone Going section at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
        
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        April 7, 2019 1:29am
    - Cobolt24
      
      House price growth continues to cool | MSN News
      .
      https://www.msn.com/en-nz/money/finance/house-price-growth-continues-to-cool/ar-BBVxFhe
      
      extract…
      .
      Growth in New Zealand’s property prices continues to cool, as prices fall in Auckland and rise at a slower rate in the regions.
      “Affordability constraints are a key factor behind this slowdown.”
      
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      April 6, 2019 6:39pm
    - ducklin71
      
      Always liked the dude. What i don’t like is hair-brained bureaucrats pissing down my back and telling me it’s raining. They cannot build houses. Only carpenters can do that. Many voters at the election truly believed Phil had a magic wand which would get everyone into a cheap house. Pass the popcorn.
      
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      April 7, 2019 10:50am
Albert_Ross

Amusing to watch Jacinda’s friends in the media getting themselves into knots trying to sort out whether it was or wasn’t ok for her to wear a hijab, now that some actual Muslim women have pointed out how unhelpful it was for those who still struggle for the right not to.

Apparently it’s still ok, because she didn’t intend any offence. Regardless that “I meant no offence” is not available as mitigation for any case in which it’s any of their friends who takes offence.
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April 6, 2019 8:45am
- Tony Stuart
  
  So will “I meant no offence” be a legitimate defence against hate speech charges?
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:58am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    I think Jacinda’s comments about Brunei’s new laws should be reported as hate speech. Certainly won’t succeed, at least I would hope not, but the reasoning should provide a helpful precedent as to the line between legitimate opinion and hate speech
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:02am
    - kowtow
      
      It was reported in the media that Ardern when asked by Trump what could he do to help , replied along the lines of “sympathy and love for Muslim communities”
      Now the Sultan of Brunei and his govt represent a distinct and legitimate Muslim community , where’s the sympathy and lurve for him?
      
      Can you have your cake and eat it ?
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:24am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Cindy Cupcake can and does with the lack of reporting of the MSM.
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:00am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Since “hate speech” is so subjective, if you speak to a random crowd, the chances are that someone will consider what you say to be “hateful.”
    
    In a culturally homogenous society, you know what to say and what not to say. But in a “diverse” society, you had better keep your mouth shut.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:11am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      I regard Julie Anne Genter’s repeated attacks on white middle-aged men, when she calls for them to be dumped from boards and replaced by women, as a form of hate speech. Wouldn’t it be a shame if the Greens ended up being hoist by their own petard?
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:26am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        The counter to JAG is to point out her own inexperience and her accidental achievement of becoming a Minister without Competency.
        
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        April 6, 2019 9:53am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        HRC refused to prosecute as it was the right kind of hate speech. Just as for “white motherfuckers” Hone Harawira. Prosecuting bodies are exclusively staffed by identity politics true believers like Marama Davidson (ex HRC). Very dangerous times.
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:19am
      - niggly
        
        What about the increasing amounts of taxpayer funding that goes to a certain green transport planning group?
        
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        April 6, 2019 10:26am
      - Nermal
        
        The best way to measure speech of this kind is to insert another ethnic, religious, gender or racial group, and check if the left still find it acceptable
        
        i.e. We should dump young Maori women from boards….
        
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        April 6, 2019 12:05pm
    - kowtow
      
      Diverse society.
      
      Here’s a clip from the UK Daily Telegraph showing a protest by LGBT etc at the Sultan’s London HQ.
      
      The cops are clearly shown joining in , oh dear.
      
      Also the Labourite organiser complains about a demo at a UK school where the parents were anti LGBT etc.
      
      Labour and others spouting multiculti etc need to make up their minds about what “diversity” actually is .
      
      “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!”
      
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/05/scotland-yard-examining-footage-brunei-demo-three-duty-police/?playlist=structure%3Anews
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:39am
  - freethinker
    
    Good enough for the PM good enough for me, any way why should I be responsible for what offends other people.
    
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    April 6, 2019 12:42pm
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    You and we already know the answer to that 🙂
    
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    April 7, 2019 8:04am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Oh, those pesky little unintended consequences
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:35am
Captain Mainwaring

Gayford was on The Project last night offering his self-confessed expertise. Is Government now a family affair?
Can’t recall ever seeing Bronagh Key or Mary English fronting the media.
Or for that matter, Peter Davis.
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April 6, 2019 8:48am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Ratings for his fishing show must be slipping…
  
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  April 6, 2019 8:59am
  - Nermal
    
    I wonder why he hasn’t thought of starting a gardening show so he can get advertising revenue recommending lawnmowers
    
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    April 6, 2019 12:07pm
- alien
  
  Difference was Key, English and Clark were strong leaders and didn’t need their partner to front for them. Plus I think strangely labour are buying into the American system of a first family. Either way, election next year, time to either get preggy or engaged for them to try get good publicity while the economy is tanking, old folks walking around in pain from the cut in hip and knee replacements. A stupid winter energy payment system that doesn’t allow pensioners to buy their firewood at the start of winter
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:16am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The pre-pay firewood problem might be dealt with by WINZ making making an advance and recovering it over the season. They do have a lot of flexibility to assist with hardship issues.
    
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    April 6, 2019 9:59am
  - kevn
    
    @alien… Not forgetting the tax break that was promised to superannuitants…
    
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    April 6, 2019 10:36am
  - Nermal
    
    Not carbon neutral
    
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    April 6, 2019 12:08pm
- Ruahine
  
  You are talking about people with some dignity.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:28am
- John Warren
  
  Are guest Panelists paid for their appearances?
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:57am
- RF
  
  Serious question folks.
  
  What is Gayfords official position in our Govt and security clearance level ?
  
  You regularly see him poking his nose into official functions and the casual observer would easily gain the impression that he is an official member of the parliamentary party with some status.
  
  A good example was the recent trip to China and there he was up front in the meet & greet party.
  
  Basically is he a freeloading handbag carrier or a dignitary with a high security clearance ?
  
  Asking for a friend.
  
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  April 6, 2019 10:06am
  - alien
    
    It’s typical for the partner to go. The partners of the leaders typically have their own little meet and greet with each other.
    
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    April 6, 2019 11:57am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Quite, so was a reporter breathlessly saying that the Chinese and us peasants should appreciate the importance that Jacinda placed n the meeting because Gayford had gone too.
      
      So funny if it wasn’t so embarrassing
      
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      April 6, 2019 1:35pm
    - calendar girl
      
      One expects that for a PM’s wife or husband. But I’m not aware personally of previous ‘partners’ (unmarried) who accompanied PMs on overseas trips.
      
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      April 6, 2019 1:42pm
    - toby1845
      
      Did Ardern pay for Gayford’s travel? John Key used to pay for Bronagh’s.
      
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      April 6, 2019 6:25pm
- freethinker
  
  Bronagh and Mary had integrity and respect for their partners by simply supporting them. (Mod: balance of comment is unacceptable)
  
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  April 6, 2019 12:47pm
mikenmildagain

Happy International Day of Sport for Development and Peace to you all.
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April 6, 2019 9:09am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Where do you get all these “International Day of ______” from?
  
  (Is there a website you should be sharing with us?)
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    From the corrupt leftist United Nations.
    https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/
    
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    April 6, 2019 10:56am
    - Tall Man
      
      Our unelected masters.
      
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      April 6, 2019 1:56pm
Yvette

Islamophobia not ‘racist’ but a hatred of certain religious beliefs –

The senior member of the world’s biggest Muslim organisation has insisted that Islamophobia is not rooted in racism and that the distrust of Muslims in many countries is a result of Islamist extremism and terrorism throughout the world.

Yahya Cholil Staquf, the secretary-general of Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama [1] movement, which claims to have more than 90 million adherents … wrote that the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims was “factually incorrect” in linking the definition of the word “Islamophobia” to racism, and that it was “counter-productive” to do so.

“The truth, we recognise, is that jihadist doctrine, goals and strategy can be traced to specific tenets of orthodox, authoritative Islam and its historic practice. This includes those portions of sharia that promote Islamic supremacy, encourage enmity towards non-Muslims and require the establishment of a caliphate. It is these elements – still taught by most Sunni and Shiite institutions – that constitute a summons to perpetual conflict,” he wrote.

Staquf stated that Brenton Tarrant’s murder spree, which killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 15 March, was part of an “ancient cycle of violence” and that the killer shared a “historical framework” with many Muslims that went back almost 1,400 years. He explained the traditional Islamic teaching that “Muslims and non-Muslims are and shall remain in a state of permanent conflict, until the end of time (according to Islamists) or the disappearance of Islam (according to advocates of a ‘counter-jihad’).”

“If Muslims do not address the key tenets of Islamic tradition that encourage this violence, anyone – at any time – can harness them to defy what they claim to be illegitimate laws and butcher their fellow citizens, whether they live in the Islamic world or the West. This is what links so many current events, from Syria to the streets of London,” he added [2]

In New Zealand, international media reports cause a wariness of Islam. Simple.
The hijab and female attire generally identify Islam here and can focus some bias.
A seeming lack of denial or disassociation here of those points Yahya Cholil Staquf highlights does nothing to allay the attitude that international media reports reinforce almost daily.

So who can remedy any of it – international movements, media, ordinary New Zealanders or New Zealand muslims?
To label any discussion of it as ‘hate speech’ – unless it very obviously is utterly ignorant – is not a brilliant start.
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[1] Nahdlatul Ulama – https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-03-08/world-s-largest-islamic-group-wants-muslims-stop-saying-infidel
[2] – https://barnabasfund.org/en/news/leading-muslim-cleric-says-islamophobia-a-result-of-islamic-extremism-and-not-racism?fbclid=IwAR1OaNA
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April 6, 2019 9:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The distinction you have outlined seems to escape many folks.
  
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  April 6, 2019 10:51am
- MickMac
  
  Yvette
  You ask a great question.
  As the Sunnah of Muhammad (as the perfect Muslim) is the prerequisite for Sharia Law and the issues the Sec Gen brings up.
  It would seem that it cannot be remedied.
  
  Another Dualism of Islam?
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:45pm
Tall Man

I have sent this my local National MP.

I doubt it will have any impact but I truly believe that we need to engage with these people and remind them, they represent us. They are not elected to “rule” regardless of what the current embarrassment of a government thinks.

“As a National supporter I am very concerned at the direction the party
is taking with regard to the proposed firearms legislation.

As an owner of firearms, I am well aware of the impact a firearm can
have in a violent conflict, as I am sure you do also.

The “type” of firearm is actually irrelevant when viewed with clear
vision, vision not clouded by kneejerk reactions to dreadful event.

Blaming the weapon for the murders is as silly as determining what
length of knife blade is safe and what is not.

Would the Christchurch murders be more acceptable if Tarrant had only
used a box cutter rather than firearms. What number of people being
murdered by a weapon is acceptable before that weapon must be banned.

The issue with this event is the failure of the licensing and purchase
system currently in place as ammended by the ardern government late 2018.

Previously the acquiring of a legal MSSA required face to face
interaction, often with Police involvement. This change by the ardern
government is the primary vehicle Tarrant exploited, not the firearm he
used.

I urge you to think carefully about the civil rights this proposed
legislation removes from your society and what impact, if any, such
legislation will have on any future attack in New Zealand.

Remember that one of the most murderous terrorist attacks in recent years
involved a truck being driven into a crowd of people. Should such an
attack occur here would you consider a blanket ban on all trucks….I
think not.

Please urge your colleagues on both sides of Parliament to slow down and
await the result of the Royal Commission and ascertain what, if any,
errors occurred.”
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April 6, 2019 9:51am
- calendar girl
  
  A sensible comment and well expressed, Tall Man.
  
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  April 6, 2019 10:47am
  - Tall Man
    
    Thanks.
    
    I see we have 1 downticker (so far) who is obviously against democracy, you know, where the people get to decide what is right and what is wrong.
    
    And David wonders why some of us want to abuse you……
    
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    April 6, 2019 1:55pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  It should be CC to every Nat MP, especially Judith. I wonder what support Act will now attract as they are the only bunch that seem to be willing to follow common sense here.
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:50am
  - Tall Man
    
    Feel free to use it how you will.
    
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    April 6, 2019 1:55pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  And not in mitigation at all because any death like that is one too many but Tarrant could never have foreseen that the emergency door wouldn’t open and that targets would have been piled up in the one space.
  
  Ghastly, it would have been like shooting fish in a barrel. And the tally was subsequently higher than might have occurred otherwise. Any were too many but just pointing it out.
  
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  April 6, 2019 12:42pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    It is against Fire Regulations not having a useable Exit. Serious and in this case fatal.
    
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    April 6, 2019 1:26pm
- freethinker
  
  If someone is intent on extensive murder of innocents then the banning of firearms will not prevent such events as the perpetrators will simply adapt other means and equipment to carry out their aims which may be even more extensive in effect. Car bombs in Ireland and the Vehicles in attacks on London Bridge and Paris cannot be banned or effectively prevented from being used. The Craptains call by Ardern is typical of those with little practical experience and knowledge of the real world out side their cosy cabal of reinforce-rs of their belief, I predict the ban will not result in any reduction of such weapons being used as there was no significant use of legally held weapons before for murder outside the illegally held weapons which may now proliferate .
  
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  April 6, 2019 12:57pm
Odakyu-sen

“Hate speech” is the side-arm of the totalitarian.
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April 6, 2019 9:53am
- kowtow
  
  Some very “respected” academics want kangaroo courts . Be very afraid.
  
  “”We’ve got to learn to rethink it – it needs rethinking hundreds of years – the assumptions of what women do.”
  
  Dame Mary continued to argue for a rethink over the punishment for sexual harassment.
  
  She said the MeToo movement was destined to fail due to the court system. Instead, she called for alleged abusers to face truth and reconciliation committees.”
  
  I’m afeared of toxic femininity.
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/04/cant-paint-two-timer-picasso-hero-dame-mary-beard-tells-tate/
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:48am
lastmanstanding

I wouldnt dismiss Matthew Hootens prediction of an early election. Whilst the downside is the electorate usually punish Parties who call one events can be arranged to ensure the blame fall on another Party in this case NZF and in particular Shane Jones.

Sacking Jones from Cabinet and engineering a crisis could be a good reason to go to the polls.

NZF are dead in the water, the Greens could be gifted a safe seat (Nats ACT Epsom) and the result would be a Labour/Green Government with probably well over 50% maybe high 50s.

This would allow both to push forward with their Agendas for the next 3 years CGT introduced in 2021 as the early election would be declared a mandate plus Climate Change taxes and levies plus other taxes and levies on the Rich Pricks.
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April 6, 2019 9:53am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Labour/Green will never be high fifties. They will be lucky to stay where they are now.
  
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  April 6, 2019 10:11am
- krazykiwi
  
  Sacking Jones from Cabinet and engineering a crisis could be a good reason to go to the polls.
  
  Winston will have extracted personal guarantees from Ardern as part of his secret deal. There will be no upsetting the apple cart without Winston’s agreement.
  
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  April 6, 2019 10:23am
- MCos
  
  Hooton didn’t predict an early election. He thought it would be a good idea.
  Personally I’m not sure it would be wise at all to go to the polls for no other reason than to stab Winston in the back.
  
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  April 6, 2019 10:27am
slightlyrighty

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111787211/benefit-fraud-nets-hamilton-couple-almost-200k

The big question is, why the hell did it take 17 years for this to be detected, when a cursory look at their public facebook pages would have given all the evidence needed to show these 2 were ripping off the taxpayer for $200 a week to pay for booze.
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April 6, 2019 9:55am
- alien
  
  I’ve got a neighbour who ripped off winz of $160,000. It was a joke, the courts didn’t take any of his cars and caravans off him, just set him on home detention and repay $20 a week. He still works under the table while on a benefit, winz don’t care.
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:52am
- DigNap15
  
  Don’t WINZ do any checks?
  Also how come they only got 10 months Home Detention.
  That is no punishment, and no deterrent.
  And they have to pay it back over 100 years with our own money!
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:27pm
G152

You want to know what islam is?
May I suggest
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.htm
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April 6, 2019 9:56am
- tranquil
  
  Excellent link, G152!
  
  It’s a pity that they don’t seem to highlight the **abrogated** verses though. Muslims will always show the good-looking “motherhood-and-apple-pie” verses to naive non-Muslims and the non-Muslims will have no idea that the verse has almost certainly been abrogated (superceded or made obsolete).
  
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  April 6, 2019 4:19pm
krazykiwi

Beaten but Not Defeated. Islamic State Plans Next Move After Loss of ‘Caliphate’

In the desert between Iraq and Syria, mostly Kurdish forces have seized the last remaining pocket of the Islamic State’s once sprawling dominion. But while the terrorists may have capitulated for now, many have gone underground to plan the next deadly phase.

Reporting from someone on the ground. (Makes a welcome change from the Labour government’s outsourced comms service, aka the NZ media)
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April 6, 2019 10:10am
- secondcumming
  
  Given recent events, there has never been a greater need in *this country* that we remain vigilant……the disarming of law-abiding citizens will prove to be a disaster.
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:07am
  - MickMac
    
    2nd
    1:52
    that would be true if we carried handguns as the norm.
    we don’t.
    most kiwis rightly have firearms for sport and hunting. not self defence.
    that is our environment.
    
    that is what makes Jacinda’s unprofessional conduct in this matter all the worse.
    
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    April 6, 2019 1:52pm
    - secondcumming
      
      A few mates of mine have *window decals* on their homes signalling to any potential intruder that they are, ‘Protected by Armorguard ‘
      
      I bought a few off ebay recently that say, ‘Insured by Mossberg’
      
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      April 6, 2019 5:17pm
      - Engelbert Humperdink
        
        I just hope the feral SJWs don’t target and doxx your home for that. I took NRA and Remington decals off my ute last year after it was keyed and a note left on the windscreen that left no doubt as to why it was done.
        
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        April 7, 2019 8:19am
krazykiwi

This is delicious irony. The EU parliament is a sham designed to offer democratic legitimacy to the un-elected rulers of Europe (Juncker et al). Despite this, it does have some power and there could be trouble brewing:

Brussels progressives are already concerned with the prospect of nationalist-patriotic parties from the EU27 making major gains in next month’s elections, fearing that “anti-European” forces could align to dismantle the globalist European Project.
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April 6, 2019 10:18am
Shaun the Sheep

I’ve been waiting for Shane Jones – saviour of all things regional- to comment on ACCs restructuring that will see office closures in the provinces and job losses around the country. He’s normally vocal in advocating for the regions – or is that only when private businesses need his advice?

I note also that ACC has been experiencing increased demand for services:
“We now deal with more than 2 million claims a year and that number has been growing sharply over the past five years.”

Are New Zealanders becoming more accident prone? Or could it be that our refugee immigrant population are immediately eligible for ACC for various physical and emotional injuries incurred during their journey from their country of origin?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/111767239/acc-may-make-up-to-300-staff-redundant
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April 6, 2019 10:18am
- alien
  
  It’s interesting because the key and English government were working on shifting more government jobs to the regions and out of wellington, the government that is meant to be in the pockets of the state sector reducing the government jobs in the regions.
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:48am
The Heat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-89Fk3sa4EI

It’s a book. It gets burned.

Why?
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April 6, 2019 10:38am
- simpleton1
  
  A burning in February 2019.
  A brave man asking questions.
  
  A bounty on the author increased in March 2016 plus another bounty in US $ 2.8 million.
  
  Deaths, injuries, violence and threats have followed any one around the world that has much to do with that book that seems to simmer on, that is for the time being
  It is deemed that all “mischief” must be removed from the land, and even the “public square”
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:49am
Maggie Pie

When i got home from work this morning, i said to my partner “Spare a thort for the team on late shift tonite, they’ve got to put in an extra hour”. Although he reckons its the dyslexics we should feel sorry for – their cocks go black.
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April 6, 2019 10:44am
- Tall Man
  
  Come on people…why the down ticks?
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:47pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Jealous of Black Cocks…
    
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    April 6, 2019 5:21pm
- MickMac
  
  🙂
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:53pm
Ross12

We have some deluded politicians in NZ but they have very long way to catch up to some in the USA

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/the-real-fascists-house-democrats-want-oversight-over-fox-news/
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April 6, 2019 10:46am
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  April 6, 2019 12:41pm
Yvette

Terrorist live-stream
Facebook eventually removed 1.5 million copies of it. Twitter got rid of 20,000 tweets – both with the video and hate speech tweets.

I am intrigued that the Australians in particular seems extremely upset at the length of time taken to remove copies of the terrorist’s live video – perhaps to the point of irrationality.

Why has no one in the media – as far as I am aware – explained how a copy is removed and how long that takes.

If a staff of one thousand could each locate and remove a copy every 30 seconds, that would eliminate 2,000 a minute, but to remove 1.5 million copies would then take 750 minutes or 12 hours and 30 minutes.

Or is that absolute rubbish?
So how would it work? And could it have been faster?

The minimum crawl of the entire internet seems to be about 4 days.
Such an examination would require programming that could detect an objectionable video sequence and then there is the question of whether that recognition would refer somewhere, or kill the content when found.
After all they can place a relevant ad at the side of a page you are viewing – so what technology enables that detection?

I am surprised no media seem to have explained what the Australians are even asking of Facebook or any other Internet agency.
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April 6, 2019 10:59am
- The King
  
  Most of it is done by AI algorithms, they seek and detect certain phrases and/or pictures and remove them automatically.
  
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  April 6, 2019 5:09pm
Andrei

Denis Lisov is a Christian Russian man who was living in Sweden with his family when his wife got sick and was hospitalized.

The Swedish authorities in their wisdom decided Denis Lisov was unable to take care of his three daughters and put them into foster care with a Muslim Family which was incompatable with his and their beliefs

So after a year Denis who had visditation rights of six hours per week decided to take them home to Russia but was stopped at the Polish border

A Polish court has decided that they can’t leave Poland for now but that he can retain custody of his daughters

The Russian Government has said they will provide financial support to the Lisov Family while they remain in Poland

Польский суд оставил с отцом Денисом Лисовым вывезенных из Швеции российских детей
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April 6, 2019 11:00am
- freethinker
  
  Just shows bureaucrats the world over are plain idiots with less brain power or common sense than an Amoeba.
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:06pm
KevO'Brien

This article is based on the USA but it explains what is is being served up in NZ too.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/word-to-the-wise-beware-the-green-new-deal/5673678
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April 6, 2019 11:03am
Maggy Wassilieff

It’s time all you blokes started feminizing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolyncenteno/2019/04/03/what-if-toxic-masculinity-is-the-reason-for-climate-change/#55030c9337e4
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April 6, 2019 11:03am
- KevO'Brien
  
  I like it. Can I as a proven Male do a dance and nudge the autumn temperature up again?
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:06am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    If I understood the article , I think you need to show us that you have feminized…by touting “an eco-friendly canvas bag” around a supermarket, or by driving an ec0-BMW.
    
    We have to see that your unconscious bias has become a conscious woke signal.
    
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    April 6, 2019 12:09pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Now please…it friggin cold here at the moment.
    
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    April 6, 2019 1:37pm
- Andrei
  
  What if toxic masculinity hadn’t discovered antibiotics, worked out sewerage systems and ways to bring clean running water into peoples houses etc
  
  Then women would still be marrying at 6 and dying in childbirth at 19 as Isabella of Valois (wife of Richard II) did or of typhus at 24 the way , tsaritsa Maria (wife of Mikhail Romanov) did
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:20am
- JibberJabber
  
  I`m helping make your winters warmer… no, no don`t thank me… it`s all part of my Patriarchal duty as a bloke.
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:21am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Farting?
    
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    April 6, 2019 2:42pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  One of the questions asked in that article is when someone did something good or bad for the environment. I burn a lot of garden waste, often and add tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. As the earth is in a near critical state of CO2 starvation, I feel really good as an Alpha Male burning shit and drinking wine.
  
  Listen to a REAL scientist explain why we need more CO2 , not less.
  
  https://youtu.be/U-9UlF8hkhs
  
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  April 6, 2019 11:57am
Fletch

Gun City calculates that the gun ban will cost more in the region of $726 million…

https://www.facebook.com/GunCityLtd/posts/2608512652554859
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April 6, 2019 11:16am
- Inandout
  
  Then there are the sudden surge in home burglaries where firearms are kept in locked drawers. Oh dear, those guns were so expensive.
  
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  April 6, 2019 2:30pm
  - sooty
    
    Of course all of them illegal guns are kept in a gun safe!
    
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    April 6, 2019 5:03pm
Fletch

Wisdom of Cardinal Sarah –

Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah warns that the “west will disappear” as a result of mass migration, adding that “Islam will invade the world” and “completely change culture, anthropology, and moral vision.”

Sarah’s new book, Evening Draws Near and the Day is Nearly Over, is causing controversy in Europe because it explicitly identifies Muslim migration as a harbinger of the continent’s collapse.

“If the West continues in this fatal way, there is a great risk that, due to a lack of birth, it will disappear, invaded by foreigners, just as Rome has been invaded by barbarians,” said Sarah, adding, “My country is predominantly Muslim. I think I know what reality I’m talking about.”

The Cardinal also blamed the European Union for its “desire to globalize the world, ridding it of nations with their distinctive characteristics,” labeling the move “sheer madness”.

“The Brussels Commission thinks only about building a free market in the service of the great financial powers,” he continued. “The European Union no longer protects the peoples within it. It protects the banks.”

In a previous video interview, Sarah warned that Europe had lost its roots and was dying because of fewer European natives having children.

In recent interviews he has gone even further, noting that priests, bishops and cardinals within the Catholic Church have betrayed the teachings of Christ by pursuing political activism.

Sarah’s comments put him at odds with the Pope, who has relentlessly promoted migration from African and Middle Eastern countries into Europe.

According to the Cardinal, it is wrong to “use the word of God to promote migration,” and it is better “to help people flourish in their culture than to encourage them to come to Europe.”

Sarah slammed mass migration as a “new form of slavery” because migrants end up “without work or dignity”.

https://summit.news/2019/04/05/vatican-cardinal-warns-west-will-disappear-because-of-mass-migration/
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April 6, 2019 11:18am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Fuck, is that Hate Speech? Is that “Roman Catholic Supremacism”. After all the Pontiff is Called Supreme, oh shit, we’re fucked. Quick get out the torture racks ….. PS I am still a Catholic, and White, and Male, and god forbid, straight. Looks like it’s straight to Hell….
  
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  April 6, 2019 12:01pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Any honest assessment of anything will have to pass a “sniff” test to determine if a muslim, a greenie, a snowflake or a certain female pm who is parsimonious wth the truth could possibly be offended in any way whatsoever.
    
    Look at the behaviour of the “censor” and multiply that by hundreds and you my get glimpse of the future. I don’t like the look of it at all.
    
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    April 6, 2019 1:35pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      How many in his fleet?
      KB now has 12? censors/moderators.
      An observation not a criticism.
      
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      April 6, 2019 7:03pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    and do not collect any virgins.
    
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    April 6, 2019 2:32pm
- SGA
  
  “completely change culture, anthropology, and moral vision.”
  
  hmmm, the Cardinal is being a tad precious. He’s described the mission of the Catholic church over most of the last 1000 years 🙂 . Of course, if you are pro-Catholic then that’s seen as a good thing, but it’s the same sort o thing.
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:06pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  How about instead of wondering which bishop, cardinal or pope is telling the correct story of what your imaginary god wants, you just stop bothering about the infinite number of opinions on any matter under the sun that claim to have divine sanction?
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:32pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  A reasonable opinion from the Cardinal–and I’m not of her Church.
  
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  April 6, 2019 2:12pm
Rob2

Northland scientist finds link to ancient home of Māori

A Northland scientist has for the first time pinpointed the origin of early Māori artefacts found in New Zealand to a precise location in eastern Polynesia.

Dr Ross Ramsay’s discovery further backs up oral history that Māori arrived in New Zealand not by accident but in a deliberate voyage of exploration that began in what is now French Polynesia.

Ramsay, a retired geologist living in Kerikeri, studied three scoria blocks found in archaeological sites at the bottom of the South Island and on a dune on Stewart Island. The sites also contained early Polynesian artefacts and moa remains.

Analysis of the blocks’ chemical composition showed they were unlike any volcanic rocks found in New Zealand — but almost identical to a marae stone found on the island of Mehetia, about 100km southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia, and brought back to Otago Museum in the 1930s.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12219164

The island is in the Tahitian group. Against the flow.
Lends weight to the thoery that Easter Islanders came here.
Taurnaga has the gene pool of th easter Islanders and I am aware of teo bodies buried and uncovered last year that were burred Easter Island Fashion. i.e. standing up. Buried under the Rotoiti ash layer.
Of course all covered up.
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April 6, 2019 12:36pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  It seems unlikely that Polynesians travelled from Rapanui to here. The current consensus is that the later Polynesian migrations, to Aotearoa and Rapanui, came from eastern Polynesia.
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:41pm
- DigNap15
  
  The Maoris were such good navigators that they cannot tell us for sure where they came from.
  Hawaii
  Cook Island
  Taiwan
  Easter Island
  Hawaiki
  
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  April 6, 2019 3:16pm
  - Scientific American
    
    So please tell us all definitively where your own ancestors came from 700 or more years ago (and that possibly with the benefit of the local invention of writing).
    
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    April 6, 2019 5:09pm
  - Ross12
    
    Last year I spent some time in Sarawak ( Borneo) and some of the of the guys from a few of the many indigenous tribes would not look out of place on a Maori marae. Striking facial similarities especially for guys aged about 50+. Not so much with the women.
    We were told that the same thing can be found in parts of Indonesia.
    
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    April 6, 2019 5:55pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Read 1421.
      
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      April 6, 2019 9:49pm
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        Pseudo-history is often much more exciting than actual history.
        
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        April 7, 2019 6:10am
Lee C

The reason we see Gayford making pronouncements on television is because he’s a man.

The woke-ites who have championed feminism for so long are so blinded by their adoration of Ardern that they can’t recognise the patiarchal inference of taking on Gayford, whereas they quietly ignored wives of men for over a hundred years.

That being a man is an automatic credential for stepping in and being an expert on anything a woman does.

But of course, it’s different when the left do it.
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April 6, 2019 1:04pm
- waikatogirl
  
  “That being a man is an automatic credential for stepping in and being an expert on anything a woman does.”
  
  Obviously! ? ?
  
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  April 6, 2019 1:44pm
rightoverlabour

Everytime I get depressed about New Zealand and its Government, I go and read Facebook where I have many South African friends, and then I say, thank god for our issues…
Political Debate: https://www.facebook.com/337118586636052/videos/166448177609596/?t=61
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April 6, 2019 1:17pm
Maggie Pie

~ The Mystery Shopper ~
You will recall how last month i recommendeed ‘Countdown’s Hot X Buns’ as being the best value for cost and taste ($6 a doz – amazing when yu consider you can pay 5 bucks each elsewhere). Now i have turned my attention to ‘Toilet Paper’ – and once again Countdown wins hands down. Thier home brand (18 rolls for $6 is incredible). Its the one with a self-pattern ‘flower design’ stamped on the outside, but on the inside of the sheet, it feels just like a page of Braille. Strong and grippy, there is nothing better on the market.
You can thank me later 🙂
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April 6, 2019 1:17pm
- sooty
  
  I like that old brown wax paper we use to have.
  The shit just slid straight off and landed in your knickers. With the colour you didn’t know or not, it had happened!
  You would have thought it was the Labour partys official paper. Teflon coated it was.
  
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  April 6, 2019 4:59pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Strong and grippy”…..
  
  Thank you for testing so we don’t have to!
  
  While on the subject, I’ve always felt that Michael Laws’ description of something he wasn’t fond of as “useful as single ply toilet paper” will take a lot to beat. 🙂
  
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  April 6, 2019 5:09pm
Rachael Membery

Feminist is just a convenient title. There is no sizzle.
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April 6, 2019 2:43pm
alien

A petition worth signing and supporting this 12 year old businesses woman.

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/support-the-slime-princess

Also worth reading the article on her and her businesses and the legal fight they face

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/111821212/12yearold-slime-princess-doubles-business-worth-while-battling-viacom-over-trademark
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April 6, 2019 4:17pm
Captain Mainwaring

Criticised for saying Lydia Ko is too skinny.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12219936

Lucky she wasn’t talking about Shanshan Feng.
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April 6, 2019 5:13pm
Cobolt24

Trump’s approval rating is going up: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_apr05
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April 6, 2019 7:50pm
Monique Watson

Kylie Bax taken to court by her ex. She looks to have pulled a swifty on him. She sounds like a right bitch.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12218711
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April 6, 2019 8:04pm
Hugh Pavletich

Australian Housing Downturn Becomes Widespread: CoreLogic | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-02/australian-housing-downturn-becomes-widespread-corelogic
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April 6, 2019 8:20pm
Komata

Ummm, did we say something wrong?

It’s now 2147 and the last entry was at 1617; a gap of some size during which no-one has commented. Very strange!

As I said, did we all say something wrong (or were the comments that bad that the Mods removeed them all?)

Just asking.
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April 6, 2019 8:46pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  And I’ve been in moderation since 1713 for what is a very harmless comment.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:09pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Komata … Sadly, the constant moderation intervention is enormously disruptive.
  
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  April 6, 2019 9:31pm
tranquil

This caught my eye on the “Watts Up With That” site –
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/30/time-to-straighten-out-damage-from-the-big-lie-of-global-warming-starting-with-voltaires-admonition/

Quote –
“The AGW promoters knew from the start it was a lie. Climatologist Stephen Schneider was set the tone when he said, in Discover magazine in 1989: –
“On the one hand we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but& which means that we must include all the doubts, caveats, ifs and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists, but human beings as well. And like most people, we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we have to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This double ethical bind which we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both. ”

Just four years later Senator Timothy Wirth, said it didn’t mean both.

“We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

The creators and promoters of the big lie began by narrowing the number of variables to a few of little importance. Then, with the false assumption that an increase in CO2 would cause an increase in temperature, it told the big lie, cloaked in the mystique of a computer model projection. They were wrong because in the historical record temperature increases before CO2; therefore, it does not and cannot cause global warming or climate change.
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April 6, 2019 9:14pm
DigNap15

One thing we can thank the Christchurch attacker for, there seems to be less mindless drivel on here.
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April 6, 2019 10:07pm
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  And yet here you are?
  
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  April 7, 2019 8:23am
- Tall Man
  
  You’re obviously not doing your job… 😉
  
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  April 7, 2019 9:42am
paulops

The story about the census that David emailed to me is very very important. The census is I would say critical to the future planning of schools,roads, population growth in center’s around our country. Not to mention the age of our population so we can get an idea about what health care might be needed in the future. This debacle with the census is (I feel) not being taken seriously by the public and the government The census off any country is really important for future planning. Remember you can be taken to court if you don’t fill a census from out.
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