General Debate 19 May 2019

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Happychappy

It looks like Winston and Shane’s Rail plan is about be put into action to help get the public on there side in the Northland Seat in which Shane Jones is the candidate for NZ.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/05/northland-rail-plan-national-demands-more-details.html.
Surely the people of Northland are not this stupid.
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May 19, 2019 8:11am
- Manolo
  
  You bet they are
  
  Am I allowed to make a comeback to my beloved KB? 😀
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:58am
  - Manolo
    
    Thirty five (35) minutes later my benign comment is still “awaiting moderation”.
    
    Is this the norm in today’s Kiwiblog? Really?
    
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    May 19, 2019 10:30am
    - Dave Mann
      
      I don’t comment on KB any more and I only occasionally visit here now but I logged in solely to say that I understand your frustration.
      
      I mourn the death of this once fine forum which used to foment happy mischief, but now just limply parrots the soggy inoffensive pap which has supplanted vigorous comment and opinion.
      
      p.s. This comment probably won’t get through the moderator(s). Well… whoop-de-doo….!
      
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      May 19, 2019 11:54am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Totally agree Dave. I visit most days, but rarely comment. If you want to engage with a current comment, any ‘discussion’ is voided.
        Oh – give us back the good old Kiwiblog.
        
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        May 19, 2019 3:45pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      If you want your comments to appear immediately Barry, you could always try logging in using both your Christian and Surname like Dave has.
      
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      May 19, 2019 1:40pm
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        I tried that Maggie, but for some reason it won’t accept my name change. Ah well………….
        
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        May 19, 2019 3:46pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I miss your insightful comments.
    
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    May 19, 2019 1:19pm
    - Dave Mann
      
      Thank you Maggy ?
      
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      May 19, 2019 1:42pm
    - Manolo
      
      The sentiment is reciprocated, cara Maggy.
      
      I thought things had improved, but I was wrong. I can tell KB’s screening/censorship policy is still in full force. Ciao a tutti!
      
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      May 19, 2019 2:00pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Do the people of Auckland want to lose their port to have goods railed down to them?
  
  Is there a single economic minded person in the COL?
  What a way to buy a seat.
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:43am
  - sooty
    
    Then trucked to the delivery point!
    
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    May 19, 2019 12:23pm
G152

The Aussies ignored the fake news and politically motivated polls evidently….
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May 19, 2019 8:15am
- Scott
  
  Scott Morrison wins it on this platform – Coalition promises to cut immigration, slash power bills, and balance budget
  It will also cut taxes, boost hospitals, and help domestic violence victims
  
  The Labour opposition promised to raise taxes, spend heaps of money on things such as fighting climate change.
  
  Who knew that cutting taxes and cutting immigration could be so popular? ?
  
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  May 19, 2019 8:32am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Maybe Bridges will do a U turn if he wants to win next year? The writing is on the wall
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:30am
    - All_on_Red
      
      National needs to get Lynton Crosby for their Campaign
      
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      May 19, 2019 9:34am
      - Ross12
        
        Don’t forget Lynton Crosby were also involved in May’s disastrous, unnecessary election.
        
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        May 19, 2019 9:47am
      - Rob2
        
        National need a real leader not a lawyer.
        
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        May 19, 2019 9:54am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Not with NZ’s Ocasio-Cortez fronting for the COL.
        Did she help cause the shift in Australia? It’s not hard to confuse the two activists.
        
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        May 19, 2019 10:47am
    - kowtow
      
      Daniel 5 .25
      
      You can get sacked for quoting the Good Book !
      
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      May 19, 2019 9:40am
- Liberty
  
  Aus is still the lucky country.
  
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  May 19, 2019 8:52am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Labor have lost in Oz. Wonder if Jacinda knows what is coming for NZ Labour?
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May 19, 2019 8:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Goodness, hard to believe that folks don’t want more taxes and that they aren’t convinced that Australia is in a “climate emergency”.
  
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  May 19, 2019 8:26am
- Rich Prick
  
  If only they had a Winston to install the correct PM. I’m pleased to see that the “quiet Australians” prevailed over the shouty minority the media usually takes notice of.
  
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  May 19, 2019 8:42am
  - artemisia
    
    We have several shouty minorities here. And a lot of quiet New Zealanders.
    
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    May 19, 2019 10:13am
- BrownSnake
  
  Oh Jesus the Possible Scenarios if Labour had won
  imho she is in France as to not upstage anything in the OZ Election (it is cynical creepy politics). Her Grand Congratulatory next visit to OZ if Labour had won would have been Vomit Galore.
  
  It would already be planned now she has to cancel.
  Fantastic.
  
  Now she gets to talk to Peter Dutton and he is going to say something like excuse me lady – Take your Scum bags back they are about as bad as the Terrorists.
  Which they are.
  Also please do not lecture us on Counter Terrorism, unlike France our preventative measures work. We are happy to discuss them but
  your countries criminals …. you faulty export goods are being returned either way.
  (they cost more and I would wage kill nearly as many people)
  
  The Liberals have done a pretty Bloody good job
  Abbot and Turnbull did bloody good work in this
  area (they have in fact saved so many lives) things can be improved but hey. Altering what is said or what goes up on the Net will not.
  And France is a crap hole on the verge of collapse.
  
  Australia now has one last opportunity to prevent
  Australia going down the toilet once and for all.
  
  1 more term of Labour in OZ and the place was finished and I mean for good forever.
  
  Australians were not fooled by her contribution to the Labour Campaign which was an Interview with
  poster boy Waheed Aly.
  
  Nothing wrong with that but how about some
  official business?
  
  If Labour was genuine – if she was genuine she would have already booked cross party talks either now or post election on counter terrorism.
  
  That is the right, moral, logical and professional approach to this very serious issue.
  
  She has done neither and they will now have to be initiated by Australia.
  
  She is in France Talking Face book to a country
  that attacked New Zealand.
  
  It is a sick and Pathetic joke it is an insult
  to everyone living in the region moslem or otherwise.
  
  She has gone to France with 3 pages of poorly written drivel that can be interpreted 3000 different ways.
  
  The Liberals Approach to Counter Terrorism was right Deport the Criminal Kiwis draining resources
  so more can be assigned in that area.
  
  Hard reading eh Kiwis.
  They will never tell you officially
  
  But it is the Truth.
  
  Australia can no longer tolerate Kiwi BS.
  
  Oh and Winston Australia will not be changing the flag for you…….. MATE
  
  NZ prepare for incoming.
  
  Return to Sender
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:01am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Aussie bitching about kiwi criminals after an Aussie shot up my country.
    
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    May 19, 2019 12:39pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Ardern is bringing it: a facsimile Ocasio-Cortez, home grown.
  Just think how much mayhem she could cause on the world stage–Taranaki and censorship are just beginnings.
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:49am
Nukuleka

Some commentators such as The Wall Street Journal are describing the Australian elections as the first centred on climate change. Take note, Simon and the National Party. Overall people who fear job loss and rising prices, as in Queensland, voted for the more realistic approach- care for the environment and a cautious approach to climate change- they voted for the Coalition. They didn’t opt for Labour’s Green-influenced extremist, costly and complex policies.

National should not be afraid of putting jobs and the economy before the vague ideologically-driven extremism of the our own Labour/ Green’s climate change scaremongering.
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May 19, 2019 8:21am
- kowtow
  
  The media party really did seem to want to make it about the weather , and that didn’t work.
  
  As you say , professional pollies, take note , forget the activist media and get back to representing the people.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:05am
- KevO'Brien
  
  National should ask where’s the climate change over the last 2o years? Also what about the UN’s explicit denial in its Third Assessment Report.
  
  In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.
  
  Maths trumps politics.
  The cost of global political control has gotten too expensive. The game is up.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:17am
- Classic Liberal
  
  “National should not be afraid of putting jobs and the economy before the vague ideologically-driven extremism of the our own Labour/ Green’s climate change scaremongering.”
  
  As long as they combine it with limited immigration. The best thing we can do for NZ environment and people is to keep our population small and smart.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:36am
- Notsofast
  
  You should hope you are right. Here is the antidote to dicing with climate change, a well presented theory of man alone.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqEmYU8Y_rI
  
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  May 19, 2019 11:01am
Urban Redneck

Labor really over-egged the “climate change” bullshit. Most people know its bullshit. Most people know that the politicians know its bullshit.
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May 19, 2019 8:25am
- Toko
  
  Even if climate change is real, why would little old NZ want to be an early adopter of extreme policies that would kill our export based economy overnight? Why do the innumerate Left insist on trying to implement dark green socialist policies. How would we be sustainable if there are no businesses left? I think the Greens are dangerous idiots, and National should make sure it opposes every stupid idea they come up with.
  
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  May 19, 2019 8:49am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    ‘why would little old NZ want to be an early adopter of extreme policies that would kill our export based economy’
    
    Because, feelz.
    
    No further explanation is required, nor will any further explanation be forthcoming.
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:19am
  - yossarian
    
    Simply because little old New Zealand was the first to stick it to the yanks and go nuclear free. And from that we had all these other countries following our righteous lead… didn’t they? Surely they did?
    
    So Labour has been in the virtual signalling business for 35 years?
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:28am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “why would little old NZ want to be an early adopter of extreme policies that would kill our export based economy overnight?”
    
    ‘Cos – feeelz! I saw an acquaintance recently who was just about hysterically upset about ‘all the plastic in the oceans and all the insects dying and climate change destroying the planet’. Would vote dark green in a heartbeat and is almost retired so doesn’t care about the consequences to business. After a lifetime of making money out of businesses…
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:40am
  - kowtow
    
    Worse than that . The climate rort is now turning productive farmland into carbon credit farms , all based not on a real market for food that people need , but on a false market for a false product . Lunacy.
    
    And they’re not interested in the trees as a commodity , they want the carbon credits.
    
    I see this ending in tears all round.
    
    ‘Impact of selling farmland for forestry could be ‘catastrophic”
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/rural-life-other/impact-selling-farmland-forestry-could-be-catastrophic
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:46am
  - David Garrett
    
    Toko: Well said. Our greenhouse gas emissions are so insignificant as to make them totally irrelevant.
    
    When I was selected for ACT in 2008 I was given a crash course in various issues I would have to have a position on. Climate change was one. I spent half a day with a scientist who knew about the issue. I will never forget her analogy: if the worlds greenhouse gas emissions in one year was a two litre jug of milk, our contribution to that jug was one half of one drop.
    
    We could go back to the stone age tomorrow, and it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference. We should only contribute to the climate change circus to the extent that we absolutely have to.
    
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    May 19, 2019 10:16am
    - Durden
      
      David, It seems it was excellent advice. What is ACT Party’s position on Climate Change now ? Nothing on their website.
      
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      May 19, 2019 12:18pm
  - G152
    
    We have the population of a large European/American city spread throughout NZ.
    Anything we do will have no effect outside a few egos.
    Get China to stop building coal fired power stations, all that population doesn’t need electricity, notice how our greens are entirely off grid.
    Just send them over to show how its done…
    then shut the gate and we’ll get on with life
    
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    May 19, 2019 10:33am
  - Micky
    
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    They are over zealous with little thought to practicality, however I wouldn’t say ‘every’ idea the Greens come up with is stupid. Credit to them for minimizing single use plastic bags. Eugenie Sage and Shane Jones are investing in innovation research for 1080 free pest traps.
    
    Certainly the Greens social policies are very bigoted which tends to be their undoing.
    
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    May 19, 2019 10:39am
    - David Garrett
      
      “1080 free pest traps”?? That is an oxymoron…1080 is a poison – a poison a former parliamentary commissioner for the environment said we should be using much more of – traps are…traps. ALL traps are “1080 free”
      
      Or do you mean research is going on for improved and better traps than the ones we have now?
      
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      May 19, 2019 10:48am
      - Micky
        
        a chocolate flavored poison laced bait is a “trap”
        Trap
        2. trick or deceive (someone) into doing something contrary to their interests or intentions.
        
        and yes there is an open innovation project on at the moment
        
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        May 19, 2019 11:01am
      - David Garrett
        
        Micky: Do I need to explain the difference between a noun and a verb??
        
        a chocolate flavoured bait is…a bait.
        
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        May 19, 2019 11:53am
      - Micky
        
        David: please do – I would imagine after the bait is eaten it becomes a trap? Or is the bait double use (reusable)?
        
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        May 19, 2019 12:11pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        It’s as David says, it’s a bait. Not a trap. You can put a bait on a trap.
        Why chocolate flavoured is my question when rodents much prefer nuts and seeds? A taste of ‘pic’s’ crunchy peanut butter would attract them every time over chocolate.
        
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        May 19, 2019 1:37pm
      - Micky
        
        The chocolate is the bait – the poison is the trap.
        
        Combined together they form a pellet which is both bait and trap.
        
        Thus ends your lesson for today. Enjoy!
        
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        May 19, 2019 2:25pm
      - Rob2
        
        WG
        What is chocolate made from?
        A chocolate bean perhaps.
        What is a bean. Well usually its a seed from a pod full of seeds.
        What are seeds?
        Food for birds and possums.
        
        https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=y-fgXN_xCZWv9QPi_KigAQ&q=chocolate+beans&oq=chocolate+beams&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i10l10.1900.8593..11688…2.0..0.224.2786.0j15j1……0….1..gws-wiz…..0..35i39j0i131j0.tmXdYRmyGAs
        
        You’re Welcome. 😆
        
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        May 19, 2019 5:22pm
    - The Feed
      
      They aren’t single use. They were always double use, namely rubbish. All that’s changed is I now buy plastic rubbish bags and have a growing stack of “reusables” that are often forgotten . Brilliant.
      
      Empty, virtue signalling nonsense. We don’t have a “plastic bag problem”, sealife is mostly killed by people catching and eating fish.
      
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      May 19, 2019 11:07am
      - Micky
        
        Try eating one and if it doesn’t cause you any bother – I’ll retract my statement.
        
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        May 19, 2019 11:39am
      - Fletch
        
        I also have a huge stack of those white “reusable” bags growing in the garage. Getting rid of the other, thinner bags was plain dumb.
        
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        May 19, 2019 11:45am
      - The Feed
        
        Why would I try eating one?
        
        If you’re worried about killing fish, don’t eat them. Dolphins are often killed by lost nets, and many other fish are killed by….people eating fish.
        
        What problem was banning double plastic rubbish bags supposed to solve, again?
        
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        May 19, 2019 1:33pm
      - Micky
        
        The Feed – because you guys believe plastic is easily and harmlessly digested. Newsflash – it’s not!!!
        
        I’m a vegetarian so am not willingly part of the food chain which kills dolphins or sea turtles.
        
        It is a step towards reducing the amount of bags which end up in the ocean only to be mistaken as food by sea life (in case you haven’t seen the whales with plastic bags in their stomach???).
        
        When you eat fish, you eat traces of the plastic they ate.
        
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        May 19, 2019 2:46pm
      - The Feed
        
        Where is the evidence, measurement and cost/benefit analysis?
        
        For example, what is the number of wildlife killed by plastic bags from New Zealand supermarkets, how are you measuring the improvement, and contrast this with the environmental cost of the substitution?
        
        A few questions, amongst many.
        
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        May 19, 2019 7:29pm
      - artemisia
        
        Some carefully selected stats and fluff in the plastic bag consultation document. I especially liked the one that an organic cotton bag would need to be used 20,000 times to equal the environmental impact of one of those evil supermarket bags.
        
        http://www.mfe.govt.nz/sites/default/files/media/Waste/plastic-bags-consultation-doc.pdf
        
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        May 20, 2019 5:59am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Traps are great for urban remnants, but are completely impractical for most of our forest and scrublands which are distant from a large population base (with willing trap minders) and situated on steep, rough country.
      
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      May 19, 2019 11:23am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        I am sure there are few possums around dope crops, lots of experience already out there.
        
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        May 19, 2019 12:05pm
      - David Garrett
        
        Maggy: Quite so…imagine trying to control possums and rats by traps in the Waioeka gorge…and I am prepared to bet dollars to donuts that the vast majority of the greenie trap enthusiasts have never ever run a trap line in their silly cosseted lives…
        
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        May 19, 2019 12:19pm
    - Rob2
      
      National got into it with carbon trading etc. costs us a shit load for no gain.
      They are not to be believed. Certainly not with the likes of Smith still there.
      
      As for bags, I curse the bloody inconvenience of not having them every time I shop.
      Stupid bloody virtue seeking idiots.
      
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      May 19, 2019 5:17pm
  - Rob2
    
    National got into it with carbon trading etc. costs us a shit load for no gain.
    They are not to be believed. Certainly not with the likes of Smith still there.
    
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    May 19, 2019 5:15pm
- Ultima
  
  Mate, keep up with the fake news. Its called climate emergency now.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:21am
- jcuk
  
  I do not think it is “BS’ as things have changed in my lifeime BUT it is ‘over-egged’
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:26am
  - tf78
    
    jcuk – how old are you 20?
    
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    May 19, 2019 12:18pm
    - jcuk
      
      Sorry NO … I am in my 87th year 🙂
      
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      May 19, 2019 4:39pm
kevn

As one astute person in Aussie commented ‘ labor used to be the workers party, now it is the party for people who don’t work’.
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May 19, 2019 8:34am
- sooty
  
  Same here!
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:12am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Same here.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:18am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  As is Labour here in NZ.
  
  Time for National to promote itself as the party that cares for wage-earners and their families’ future.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:27am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I can see it:
    
    “National, the party of the workers.”
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:47am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      ‘workers and small businesses’. That will attract everyone who works and has ambitions towards running their own business some day. A lot of young people would be interested in that message.
      
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      May 19, 2019 11:01am
  - Rob2
    
    “Labor used to be party for the workers, now it’s a party for people who don’t work,” one said.
    
    Voters are catching on.
    even in Australia for gods sake.
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:56am
    - Ruahine
      
      Labour is the criminals and bludgers Party.
      
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      May 19, 2019 4:11pm
  - 3-coil
    
    Maggie (9:27am) – absolutely! The lefties have based their game plan on “identity politics”. This is the perfect platform for the Right to launch from.
    
    If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
    
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    May 19, 2019 11:54am
  - Rob2
    
    That of course would be a lie. Wouldn’t it now.
    
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    May 19, 2019 5:26pm
- kowtow
  
  It also looks to be the party for the inner city “progessive” woke types. Very odd as they work , pay taxes and have power bills . I imagine they’re younger and think it’s “hip” to be “edgy”, to be a bit of a lefty and concerned about the things the tele and David Attenborough tells you to be concerned about…….
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:51am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  We should all spare a thought for the ABC’s poor Michelle Grattan – she will be utterly inconsolable at the moment…
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:20pm
The Proper Ghandi

I feel proud of our sensible Aussie cousins today. Have an XXXX or VB for me, fellas.
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May 19, 2019 8:40am
All_on_Red

You Gov Poll EU Parliament voting intention.
Brexit Party – 35%
Lib Dem – 16%
Lab – 15%
Green – 10%
Con – 9%
Change UK – 5%
UKIP – 3%
Other – 7%
(Fieldwork 12-16 May)
yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…
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May 19, 2019 8:43am
- kowtow
  
  EU elections are a strange creature. There’s a very low turn out. Just sayin’.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:07am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Usually they are but I’m not so sure about this one.
    What’s remarkable is the rise of the Brexit Party in a few weeks.
    They’re Polling around 24% in the Westminster Election too.
    I’m not sure the Conservatives are taking the movement seriously either.
    Their sense of entitlement seems to be blinding them
    
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    May 19, 2019 12:42pm
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Red , the rise of Brexit partyseems to have so much in common with the rise of this party and its leader,
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Union_of_Fascists
      
      Thoughts ?
      
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      May 19, 2019 2:35pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        How are they similar Stephie?
        Is this another moronic,pointless and ignorant argument from you?
        There seem to be so many
        
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        May 19, 2019 2:55pm
rightoverlabour

So has Aussie labour lost an election that everyone said was a shoe in a few months ago….. Lol
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May 19, 2019 8:49am
- sooty
  
  Only the media and pollsters. But then again they are one and the same!
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:13am
- KevO'Brien
  
  With socialist ambassadors like Ardern roaming the world expect more expect more right–>left swings.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:21am
- Martin Williams
  
  NZ National did the same 18 months ago.
  
  Hilarious, in’t it?
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:36am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Uhh no they didn’t lose the election but some traitor picked a side….
    
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    May 19, 2019 11:48am
    - stephieboy
      
      When has Winston Peters ever owed anything to a party which he left?
      
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      May 19, 2019 2:41pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Umm no, but most of his supporters expected him to go with Nats…
        
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        May 19, 2019 5:43pm
      - Martin Williams
        
        Including you, I take it?
        
        Lol indeed.
        
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        May 19, 2019 8:48pm
- Tall Man
  
  I have been in Oz for a few weeks now and not a single person I have spoken to was supporting labor.
  
  Now admittedly I don’t spend a lot of time talking with idiots but it was clear to me that the Nat/libs were going to win and they did.
  
  Australian labor went into the election with clear policies that would decrease the income for many. They should have learned from ardern and just told a bunch of lies which managed to fool 37% of the voters in NZ.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:52pm
The Feed

Ditch the climate change bullshit, National. How many warnings do you need? Trump, now Aus, and the Green Party here on the verge of oblivion.

Focus on jobs, the economy and *conservation*. New Zealanders do care about conservation. Change the terms of reference from environmentalism to conservation, namely we do what we can but let’s not get silly.

The number of people who would actually self sacrifice for this hysterical left wing AGW nonsense is very low.
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May 19, 2019 8:54am
KevO'Brien

The Guardian prefers alarmism to journalism–modifies style guide to facilitate public mental health.
17 May 19
New useage

Climate change–> climate emergency, crisis or breakdown;
Global warming–>global heating;
Biodiversity–>wildlife;
Fish stocks–>fish populations;
Climate sceptic–>climate science denier or climate denier.

Even Ardern/Robertson couldn’t have done better by defining the Budget as as welfare review.
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May 19, 2019 9:01am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I wonder how folks are going to react when our Local Bodies declare a real weather emergency?
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/112666659/climate-emergency-vote-one-of-environment-canterburys-biggest-moments
  
  This muddling of terms … using emergency for a possible scenario years distant instead of for a real, imminent threat is dangerous and irresponsible.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:15am
  - Alien
    
    i think one of the biggest moments was ECAN declaring a climate emergency then putting rates up 10.5%. climate emergency, na attempt to hide their rate increase.
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:34am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    For a real emergency consider the eruption of the largest of the 93 volcanoes under Antartica.
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:45am
  - Prince
    
    Good point. I guess the new Labour Govt solution will be rolled out.
    1) Form a study group to review the emergency and report back.
    2) Provide mock-up sketches of a solution in place in 30 years time.
    3) Talk about World Peace, the Internet, Religious Extremism.
    
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    May 19, 2019 10:56am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Don’t forget white supremacist. I know it is a term meant to beat white folk down, usually by other white folk, go figure. Counter productive narrative in my opinion, I don’t like people dragging someone else down just to make themselves feel better.
      
      I am not apologising for being white, every other race is allowed to highlight their attributes, if they have any, but I have to apologise for mine?
      
      Not in this lifetime.
      
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      May 19, 2019 12:15pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        The term “white supremacist” will mean different things to different people.
        Has anyone here actually evet met a “white supremacist”?
        How did you know?
        
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        May 19, 2019 1:10pm
- kowtow
  
  There is precedence.
  
  Rape > sexual emergency.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:52am
Alien

laughing, just had a survey from DOC, that then went on to ask about how i feel about tourism, do we have too much, then went on to asking about wellbeing. Essentially just putting the word wellbeing in front of everything. Financial wellbeing, health wellbeing, etc etc. Guess we know what wellbeing means to the government, just chucking the word in front of everything.
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May 19, 2019 9:10am
Happychappy

Tova O’Brien’s head will only get get bigger and mouth will spew even more hate.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2019/05/newshub-s-tova-o-brien-named-nz-s-best-political-journalist-at-voyager-media-awards.amp.html
It must have been Jamies sex life and fantasy that clinched this award.
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May 19, 2019 9:15am
Inandout

An absolute must watch video by Mark Levin if you want to know how many US Presidents have closed down newspapers. Trump by comparison has not touched a single one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1CGxe6Sd_k

The Guardian of course rubbishes it.
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May 19, 2019 9:22am
lastmanstanding

Some random observations on the Australian Election.

1. It was the hip pocket issues that sank Labor. Attacking over 65s with the franking credits and changes to superannuation. When citizens get into the voting booth and have the pen poised over the ballot paper the question for them is. Which of these Bastards are going to punish me the least.

2. Where were the Pollsters. How did they get it so wrong. Same with Trump. Can the citizens believe any polls now ans should polling be banned in the period before an election lest it influence voters who want to vote for the winning side.

3. Thank goodness for the Aussies they are condemned to a Luddite Labor Government run by the Unions and determined to wreck the economy.

4. Hopefully the NZ citizens will take note next year.
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May 19, 2019 9:22am
- Ultima
  
  Good points. I wonder if people are now deliberately giving wrong answers when polled knowing its from a MSM polling?
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:31am
- Classic Liberal
  
  “Where were the Pollsters. How did they get it so wrong. ”
  
  That’s the one advantage of the MSM being almost totally left wing. They just see what they want to see and are oblivious to reality.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:45am
- The Feed
  
  The self-absorbed left-wing media has long been out of touch with the people. Ironic, really. It’s always a giggle when the truth smacks them full force in the face.
  
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  May 19, 2019 11:25am
Paulus Gnome

‘dangerous and irresponsible’

Who would have thought to put those two words into a sentence describing a local council?

Colour me surprised!
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May 19, 2019 9:23am
Graham Sharpe

Re the Aussie Election. Kim Beasley’s father, a Minister in the Hawke Government, said as he retired from politics, “When I joined the Labor Party it was run by the cream of the working class. Now as I leave, the Labor Party it is run by the dregs of the middle class.”
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May 19, 2019 9:25am
Stephen James

News reports
“Rugby Australia boss sacked Israel Folau after parental pleas” +”Parents with children struggling with their sexuality looked up to Israel Folau”
So they expect us to believe all those LGBTQXYZFAGS were into rugby?
More lies from the left.
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May 19, 2019 9:27am
- Alien
  
  oh right must be a lie because how could gay people like rugby.
  
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  May 19, 2019 11:00am
Happychappy

Get sick buckets out the First mans Story of him, Jacinda and celebrity status since 2014.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/112670359/clarke-gayford-from-tv-celeb-to-new-zealands-mostfamous-stayathome-dad.
There must be bad news on the Horizon as Jacinda has one also about how she told Andrew Little four time that she did not want to be the Leader of Labour and how she felt that she betrayed the voter in the seat of Auckland Central.
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May 19, 2019 9:41am
- Happychappy
  
  Here is Jacinda’s story.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12232251
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:46am
  - sooty
    
    I never new she had an ugly sister!
    
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    May 19, 2019 12:32pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Didn’t know, didn’t care and still don’t.
      
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      May 19, 2019 9:42pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    But why is that Cindy puff-piece news today? There must be some very bad news coming for the CoL.
    
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    May 19, 2019 2:57pm
    - Alien
      
      to cover the huge embarrassment of the labor loss in australia.
      
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      May 19, 2019 3:19pm
Maggie Pie

This week, 25 silly old white farts in their shiny arse suits, voted to BAN ABORTION in the State of Alabama – EVEN IN THE CASE OF INCEST AND RAPE!
An Instagram follower of mine has mounted her own unique protest, which has attracted a lot of worldwide attention, even from the likes of Piers Morgan. I am seriously thinking of joining Emily in her protest, although i may perhaps chose a different flower to symbolize my disgust – perhaps a Venus Flytrap.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12232146

OUR BODIES, OUR CHOICE.
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May 19, 2019 9:49am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I wonder if the prospect of forcing women to carry their rapists’ babies will motivate any voters in Alabama.
  
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  May 19, 2019 11:24am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Thats a very good question Mike. One of the few things they have got right in Alabama, is that they still maintain the Death Penalty.
    
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    May 19, 2019 12:18pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      How hard is it just to drive over to the next state?
      
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      May 19, 2019 12:39pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        That would be a good question to put to the 190 inmates currently sitting there on Death Row – maybe they didn’t have a drivers licence?
        
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        May 19, 2019 12:48pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I believe the Georgia law, not sure about other states, will also criminalise women who leave the jurisdiction for abortions.
        But I shouldn’t expect the new wave of draconian abortion laws would trouble the rich, who have always been able to travel for the right medical care.
        
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        May 19, 2019 1:16pm
      - Rob2
        
        MM plenty of poor have done the same forever.
        
        these things are not just for those that can afford it and in the past there were plenty of women who died from abortions done cheap.
        I am ambivalent about it although in most cases I am of the opinion that it’s better not done. But not my choice.
        
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        May 19, 2019 5:34pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Maggie Pie, including the Penalties for abortion?
      
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      May 19, 2019 1:01pm
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    mikenmildagain
    How many women become pregnant to ‘rapists’? I would expect that the number would be miniscule, but link me to your stats cos you seem to have your finger on the pulse.
    
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    May 19, 2019 12:43pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yes, maybe there is only a ‘minuscule’ number of women who would be forced to give birth to their rapists’ babies. So?
      
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      May 19, 2019 1:18pm
      - The Proper Ghandi
        
        mikenmildagain
        “Yes, maybe there is only a ‘minuscule’ number of women who would be forced to give birth to their rapists’ babies. So?”
        So….this excuse is constantly trotted out by people who seek to justify the antidote to their own bad decisions (e.g. having a drunken shag that ends in pregnancy). If you are irresponsible and get pregnant, then “suck it up lady” – that was your choice. Live with the consequences instead of conveniently killing the life you helped create. Using ‘rape’ to justify dumb choices and make yourself feel better doesn’t change the reality of your poor choices.
        
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        May 19, 2019 2:17pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh, now I understand: you are a rape denier.
        
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        May 19, 2019 3:25pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Ghandi: Much as it pains me to support the Milky one (who doesn’t even seem to know the evidence himself)….for some crazy biological reason acts of rape sex are more likely to lead to conception than “regular” sex…As is well known, as WW II was winding up, the Russian army raped their way across Germany…any women from 15 to 55 got raped at least once if they came across Russian soldiers…so many pregnancies resulted that they had to set up “orphanages” for babies whose mothers were still alive, but could not bear to look after them (abortions were probably pretty hard to come by in Berlin in 1945)…so…I imagine pregnancies from rape are not at all insignificant.
      
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      May 19, 2019 2:47pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        for some crazy biological reason acts of rape sex are more likely to lead to conception than “regular” sex
        
        Rapists (especially in war zones) target young fertile females.
        
        Consensual sex is not limited to the young (or so I have heard).
        
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        May 19, 2019 3:39pm
    - Alien
      
      one woman having to go through the pain and abuse of having to bring their rapists child into this world is one too many.
      
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      May 19, 2019 3:18pm
- Micky
  
  I think you mean a ‘Venus Flybait’ (according to Garrett).
  
  The real question is: At what stage of the pregnancy does an abortion become murder? 8 weeks?
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:41pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think you mean a ‘Venus Flybait’ (according to Garrett).
    
    You really didn’t get it when he referenced your defining of a verb instead of a noun, did you?
    
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    May 19, 2019 1:14pm
    - Micky
      
      No, I missed that episode of sesame street.
      
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      May 19, 2019 2:31pm
    - Micky
      
      FYI that reference is listed twice in the dictionary – under both verb and noun. Google it before you open your condescending trap.
      
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      May 19, 2019 10:58pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Micky: Wow, you really are very ignorant of the nuances of the English language! A “Venus fly trap” is correctly named because it TRAPS its victims when the leaves close suddenly upon them…but said victims get into the position of being able to be trapped because – apparently – the said plants give off the odour of decomposition…I guess you could say that is the bait that lures said flies into the trap…I do hope that helps…
    
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    May 19, 2019 2:55pm
    - Micky
      
      David: ‘TRAP’ has a number of different nuances. Maybe check a dictionary in future before you attempt to set yourself up as some type of all knowing intellectual.
      
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      May 19, 2019 4:21pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      DG: do you think i might be better to go with something like a Rose then?
      
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      May 19, 2019 4:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Don’t use the flower of Asian pigeonwings/ Darwin Pea.
        
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        May 19, 2019 5:23pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Actually it was sponsored by a woman and the States female Governor signed it off.
  SCOTUS will overturn it of course.
  This is really a result of the Democrats in the House not passing the Law limiting abortion to 22 weeks and after that by exception.
  If they had, then this probably wouldn’t happen as some are concerned it will lead to late term abortions being done.
  Hence the reaction.
  Personally I wonder when people in the US will discover what contraceptives are. ?‍♂️
  Awkward factoid- since 1974 over 60 million abortions have been performed. The majority being black babies.
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:51pm
  - stephieboy
    
    All on Red, the Demcrats blame game continues.
    
    Nothing to do with 25 male wRepblicans? who adnaced and passed the bill ?
    
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/15/typical-male-answer-only-women-had-voice-alabama-senate-men-passed-abortion-ban/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8c4eeaaf434f
    
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    May 19, 2019 1:08pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      I was talking about the Democrats in Congress not in Alabama
      Do try to keep up dummy
      
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      May 19, 2019 2:48pm
      - stephieboy
        
        You agree then that Alabama’s draconian abortion law has a lot to do with 25 male Republicans, eh?
        
        “Awkward factoid- since 1974 over 60 million abortions have been performed. The majority being black babies”
        
        Source ?
        
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        May 19, 2019 2:52pm
      - David Garrett
        
        All on: You are asking the impossible mate…old Milky is neither very well read nor very intelligent…he seems unable to realize that he condemns himself pretty much every time he takes to the keyboard…
        
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        May 19, 2019 3:21pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        But it was a nice try – justifying the most punitive measures against women because the Democrats would not agree to something a little less draconian.
        
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        May 19, 2019 3:27pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Stop telling lies Mikey
        I’m not justifying anything just sharing the history to show context.
        
        Stephie, stupid question and clearly trolling. Do your own research.
        
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        May 19, 2019 4:06pm
- Fletch
  
  Better buckle up. There’s a sea change coming. It’s not just Alabama. Georgia and Missouri are passing similar bills (such as the “heartbeat bill”), as are Ohio, and Kentucky. If it does go to the Supreme Court, then Roe could well be overturned and the issue will become a States issue.
  
  Truly, I can see abortion going the way of slavery. In the future people will wonder in horror at how we killed our own babies. With advances in technology, 3D scans inside the womb and all, there’s no pretending that what you’re killing isn’t a baby.
  
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  May 19, 2019 2:36pm
Kevin Herlihy

Increasingly the MSM narrative has become a poisoned chalice for contenders. Think Trump and now the Aussie elections.
The media and it’s preferred pollsters should reflect on those results and ask themselves how they could get it so embarrassingly wrong.
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May 19, 2019 9:50am
- kowtow
  
  That would require some sense of decency and introspection , ain’t goin’ to happen.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:55am
- lastmanstanding
  
  They wont. A far as they are concerned it was the voters who got it wrong. You know those ignorant peasants that didnt listen to their betters.
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:09am
- brett68
  
  They didn’t get anything wrong.
  The misinformation is intentional, the problem is that no one was swayed by the socialist narrative the MSM was pushing.
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:16am
Yvette

Prediction on the Wellbeing Budget to be “delivered” this coming week …

See if the Budget mentions –
Te Ao Māori perspectives on wellbeing and living standards
and four tikanga principles: manaakitanga (care and respect); kaitiakitanga (stewardship/guardianship); whanaungatanga (the relationships/connections between us); and ōhanga/whairama (prosperity)

You have been warned – this is a cultural misappropriation alert

(Which for some un-explainable reason seems to have a similar relevance to reality as the street artist Loretta Lizzio painted image of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern embracing a Muslim woman, about-to-be-revealed adorning Tinning Street 23-metre high silos in the suburb of Brunswick silos, in Brunswick, north Melbourne, Australia)
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May 19, 2019 9:51am
- waikatogirl
  
  Will the painted 23m image “image of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern embracing a Muslim woman” be called ‘Dear Leader’? //
  
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  May 19, 2019 3:25pm
- Rob2
  
  Silo’s owned by a Muslim Man.
  
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  May 19, 2019 5:40pm
thetiedarch

I can’t help but notice that Stuff are acting like the Australian election is old news. The day after a stunning win by the Liberals, and all Stuff has on their front page is a small article surrounded by some dribble about The Fisherman and some murders.

I’d bet my left foot that if Shorten had won, there’d be articles for days about how he was going to transform Australia, and that he and Ardern were going to save the world.

I haven’t looked at Herald. Deleted it when they started paywalling everything.
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May 19, 2019 9:51am
- Alien
  
  embarrassment that they all called the election won for labor then had to delete articles.
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:58am
  - Happychappy
    
    Yes and the top story of the day ended up being Jacinda and how she felt over Andrew Little wanting her to Lead Labour into the 2017 Election and how she felt about betraying Auckland Central for the seat of Mt Albert with this column not in the paywall.
    
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    May 19, 2019 11:22am
    - Alien
      
      stuff and herald are running damage control. with fluff pieces.
      
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      May 19, 2019 11:34am
      - greybeard
        
        Yep: on Jacinda, Gayford and Helen Clark.
        what tossers.
        
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        May 19, 2019 4:31pm
calendar girl

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May 19, 2019 9:57am
Rob2

Not accountable so no they won’t. Its all about click bait and you ain’t going to change that until the response changes.
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May 19, 2019 9:59am
Richard

How did the pollsters and media get it wrong?
Wishful thinking of course….
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May 19, 2019 9:59am
- ex-golfer
  
  They spend too much time on Twitter
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:04pm
calendar girl

Delete function still not working.
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May 19, 2019 10:01am
slightlyrighty

Some have said that the death of Bob Hawke was a rallying cry for the left leaning voter.

I would suggest that the decision against Israel Folau might have done just as much, if not more, for the right leaning voter.
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May 19, 2019 10:14am
ex-golfer

As they do here in NZ, the Australian rabbid left are tying themselves in knots trying to blame everyone but themselves for the Aussie election result.
One has even bought forward the world ending to “in three years” – and that “people will die”.
These idiots simply don’t get it – the silent majority are sick of being told what they must think, how they must act, and how they can speak.
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May 19, 2019 10:21am
- The Feed
  
  I loved this quote:
  
  Several Labor figures said the party would need to conduct a significant review of the election result because, as one put it, “at the moment we haven’t got a fucking clue”.
  
  They genuinely don’t know. Heh.
  
  The answer is obvious, Labor, but what is the point in spelling it out? Listening not a strong point, I feel.
  
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  May 19, 2019 3:31pm
Classic Liberal

Good morning moderators, but what have I done wrong? I see other anonymous posters getting through while I’m in the sump. (No need to post this one if you don’t want to 🙂 ).
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May 19, 2019 10:24am
- Morrissey
  
  Welcome to my world, my friend!
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:54am
jcuk

I am puzzled by the word ‘woke’ I see here etc … to me it is a ‘past tense’ of wake “he woke up from a deep sleep”
What is its meaning?
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May 19, 2019 10:34am
- kowtow
  
  ‘Woke means being conscious of racial discrimination in society and other forms of oppression and injustice. In mainstream use, woke can also more generally describe someone or something as being “with it.”‘
  
  From an online dictionary.
  
  Originally from black american vernacular , but been appropriated by the ‘right” . hahaha
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:51am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Appropriate in a sarcastic way, one might add. So used to make fun of lefties who *think* they are with it.
    
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    May 19, 2019 11:13am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Appropriated in a sarcastic way, one might add. So used to make fun of lefties who *think* they are with it.
    
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    May 19, 2019 11:14am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Exactly that, the blind can now see apparently.
  
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  May 19, 2019 3:09pm
MCos

One of the major reasons Labor lost was Bill Shorten.
The Nats will be taken notice.
A party with a dull or unpopular leader who doesn’t appeal to the voters ain’t going to win elections.
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May 19, 2019 10:44am
- brett68
  
  Yep, Bridges doesn’t have the skill and ability to sell National to the voters in 2020.
  
  Ardern is going to be all about tugging on the heartstrings, “think of your children !!!!, vote kindness and love!!!
  
  Bridges will be umm and arrs and waffle.
  
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  May 19, 2019 10:57am
- Happychappy
  
  A bit like your Messiah MCos all mouth with no substance and very dull.
  
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  May 19, 2019 11:09am
- Alien
  
  the nats needs too realise that next year will be the year of NZ’s royal wedding. She is going to have so much free media coverage, wall to wall woman’s mag. They need someone that can actually say something in the media and get traction. With as much coverage as bridges gets with appearances on radio and tv the only thing I can remember from these things right now is the slushy machines. I have more memory of Seymour standing up for things at the moment than Simon
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:02pm
  - MCos
    
    The National leader will get all the coverage they want in the run up to the election, but it won’t be much use if they’re dull and unconvincing.
    Bridges has kids, he’s been in Women’s Weekly, he’s young and good looking.
    Paula Bennett has been in magazines looking good.
    They all do it and it only counts for so much.
    Ardern may or may not get married next year. If that swings National supporters to her side it doesn’t say much for the depth of National’s appeal.
    
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    May 19, 2019 3:39pm
- Tall Man
  
  You are wrong, completely wrong.
  
  labor campaigned on more tax and more spending hitting pensioners and wage earners hard. So, what a surprise, Australians didn’t want that. labour in NZ will be watching that a lot more carefully than Simon Bridges. Still, you gave brett a chance to vent his spleen against Simon Bridges again.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:29pm
The King

Arnold Swchwarznegger gets attacked in South Africa, always brings a smile when these celebs leave their gated 100% White communities and get a real taste of diversity the common people have to live with.
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May 19, 2019 10:45am
Maggie Pie

THE QUEEN’S MESSAGE:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6wXR1fXoAALbVP?format=jpg&name=900×900
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May 19, 2019 11:04am
- Alien
  
  nothing there from freddy mercury
  
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  May 19, 2019 1:19pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    This just in:
    
    https://i.chzbgr.com/full/6625876736/h8983B547/
    
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    May 19, 2019 2:22pm
    - Alien
      
      much better, lol
      
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      May 19, 2019 3:08pm
Southern Raider

The work left in NZ is going crazy over the Aussie elections

I don’t think they have ever heard of democracy or even if they have think it should be allowed
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May 19, 2019 11:06am
- ex-golfer
  
  The Lefts view of democracy is that it only works when they win.
  
  If they don’t win they will find every excuse in the book (now I see some in Australia saying it must have been influenced by the Russians/America etc), apart from looking at their own misgivings.
  
  Then they will demand another vote – ala Brexit
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:02pm
Alien

and jacinda will remain quiet

“Shane Jones lobbied for trucking firm to be allowed to bypass hiring in NZ first

In public, Shane Jones plays the role of a populist, repeatedly railing against the use of migrant labour.

But it has emerged that in 2018, Jones privately lobbied a Cabinet colleague on behalf of an associate who was seeking accredited employer status from Immigration New Zealand.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/112819552/shane-jones-lobbied-for-trucking-firm-to-be-allowed-to-bypass-hiring-in-nz-first
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May 19, 2019 12:09pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  How many chances does one Minister get?
  
  I guess it will come as no surprise to anyone, that the company he was lobbying for was the one owned by his relative, Stan Semenoff.
  
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  May 19, 2019 2:56pm
  - Alien
    
    just shows he can do what ever he wants, Ardern has no control over anyone and she can’t touch the NZ first people or they will collapse the govt.
    
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    May 19, 2019 3:06pm
- Rob2
  
  That’s his job. Nothing new in that. The Nats do it all the time.
  
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  May 19, 2019 5:44pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Not when he regularly rails against migrant labour, and his policy campaigned on slashing immigration.
    
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    May 19, 2019 5:52pm
Maggie Pie

I was just about to post another of my ‘Consumer Reviews’ for the group, but suddenly realised i will need to confirm a couple of small details with my partner once he gets home from duck shooting (txted bagged 3 this morning).
So, keep an eye on tomorrows GD – a lot of you may well find it to be a bit of a life-changer 🙂
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May 19, 2019 12:12pm
BrownSnake

Victoria is the Australian State of Australia most
under Labour Control and influence

Has operated (almost) as an I S I S training camp
and support network for most of the Syrian Crisis

Victoria: Coalition down 4.4%

Worth Observing

Victoria: Coalition down 4.4%

Approved Euthanasia without putting
that important discussion to all Australians?
for their import? So democratic so sensitive.
So inclusive So Diverse. Nice.

Friends of Jacinda

Signed the Belt and Roads Agreement
as some would say Sold the State to China
and were not even going to release what they
signed? So Transparent So Honest.

Friends of Jacinda

Jacinda likes Belt Roads

One thing NZ could learn from VIC
as it has so many many many unchallenged
gangs now
is this
if you pretend Gangs don’t exist
they don’t OK

They don’t call the groups of 200+ criminals
they have terrorising the state (Some from good old NZ) Gangs

ok

Yes if we censor certain words like gang
they all decide to be outstanding citizens
FFS?

They do they have watch the videos
Problem solved

https://www.3aw.com.au/dont-call-them-gangs-police-make-plea-to-media/

There is more difference Culturally between
the states of Aus than many Countries.

For all intense purposes they
The States of Australia operate as different
countries have different rules on many things

Articles

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/12/victoria-bows-to-pressure-to-release-one-belt-one-road-deal-with-china

Note they only were prepared to release it
when it was demanded what they signed?

I would be asking for what Jacinda is signing
be put to public scrutiny thanks all the same.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-29/euthanasia-passes-parliament-in-victoria/9205472

The if you are for or against this (Euthanasia is irrelevant) it should have
gone to the entire Australian People for debate
it is disgusting and arrogant it did not.

Friends of Jacinda

and hey if you are a Labour Supporter
The Government is God OK

But that is how it works in a Banana Republic.

Oh if you are planning on Visiting Aus
the most Labour Influenced and controlled
part of it

Tourist flicks for you hey you might spot
some kiwis in some of them?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/victoria-police-cctv-st-kilda-brutal-brawl-unconscious/10607528

https://www.news.com.au/news/national/gang-of-teens-blamed-for-melbourne-rampage/news-story/07a35db9479638fa06fc993fa6e8d917

If you are upset about the Result Visit

Victoria the Communist Police State
a Great Place to Die

But hey I never advise anyone I care about
to travel in and out of OZ around Xmas time
for some reason ok
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May 19, 2019 12:22pm
- stephieboy
  
  Brown Snake ,
  
  “Has operated (almost) as an I S I S training camp
  and support network for most of the Syrian Crisis”
  
  Evidence with links?
  
  “Victoria the Communist Police State
  a Great Place to Die”
  
  ???
  Location of Gulags, FEMA camps and Lubyankas??
  
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  May 19, 2019 1:20pm
  - BrownSnake
    
    Just get off your lazy backside
    
    and review the last 3 major terrorist court cases
    and sentencing in australia that happened
    in the last 3 weeks clever clogs.
    
    I am not going to wipe you political backside
    for you and provide you links
    
    One was a sentencing
    2 were guilty verdicts
    
    Go find them and report back
    
    preventing incidents as bad or worse than
    guess what
    
    OH and you and any one else
    do not pretend this is NEW NEWS
    
    Also get off you back side and give me
    a figure for how many left Victoria to go to Syria
    
    You can also get off you lazy backside and figure out who helped plan and fund the 5 month
    siege of Marawi or did you not know that happened?
    
    Also I did fail to mention but come back and tell us
    which city in Aus was one of the Sri Lanka Bombers radicalised in
    
    When you have done that
    
    Go Read those 3 pages
    
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    May 19, 2019 9:23pm
The Proper Ghandi

How is $320 million going to prevent losers beating up or sexually abusing their families? Answers below, please.
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May 19, 2019 12:36pm
- Alien
  
  i find it concerning they want to change the court process. I remember not long ago there was talk about changing sexual abuse trials so that the accused had to prove their innocence. The case this week in aussie is reason enough to not do that
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:46pm
- ex-golfer
  
  The same way the Anti Smacking Bill was going to prevent kids being killed by their feral parents/caregivers?
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:47pm
- kevn
  
  @Proper…. Spread over 4 years. Radio MSM forget to say that bit.
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:54pm
Ross12

Rightly or wrongly the “Polling Industry” has a major problem I think. Looking around the internet and reading about the Australian election most are rubbishing the polls –especially Joe/Jane Bloggs in blog comments.
I think the MSM have bought it on themselves with their polls. They have become so partisan or biased and openly slag people with different views that many people must just be lying to the pollsters or not willing to participate so they do not get any flack. It is probably similar with people in social situations where they avoid comment –which leads to the “bubble” mentality that is now so apparent.
So the pollsters have real challenge ahead of them.
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May 19, 2019 12:36pm
- Alien
  
  when a polling company rings up or I get a survey asking who I would or did vote for, I typically lie.
  
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  May 19, 2019 12:44pm
  - sooty
    
    Just like the census, name and addres and bullshit for the rest!
    
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    May 19, 2019 1:43pm
  - kevn
    
    @Alien… First thing I ask the survey bod is how much they are going to pay me, as in voucher or pressie-card, because in theory I am providing them the data.
    Has been fruitful sometimes.
    
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    May 19, 2019 1:45pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The first lesson I learned in market research is that respondents lie on polls. They tell you what they think you want to hear.
  
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  May 19, 2019 1:13pm
kevn

@Alien… I was called by an automated survey. Took a while to click that it was a computer voice. Push 1 for Nats, 2 for labour etc
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May 19, 2019 12:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Weather Hyperbole…

I’ve just clicked on the Newshub site to discover
New Zealand is going through freezing period
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/05/weather-cold-snap-brings-9c-temperatures-to-new-zealand.html
Oh gosh, I’d better close my wide-open French doors and change out of my T-shirt…
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May 19, 2019 1:09pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, informed Anthony Watts about this factoid of yours?
  
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  May 19, 2019 1:13pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It’s just weather-no relevance to climate.
    
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    May 19, 2019 3:13pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Answer to all Global Warming alarmists.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da0YARpkI3U
  
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  May 19, 2019 2:27pm
- Ruahine
  
  Don’t worry it is only climate change.
  
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  May 19, 2019 6:28pm
Steve Wrathall

So, after 2 days of accusations against David Seymour that he is inciting against Golriz Gharhaman (who has been the target of online death threats in case you haven’t heard), how is it acceptable for someone to threaten to “bury” an ACT board member? twitter.com/Jacky_Braid/status/1129678313352359936
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May 19, 2019 1:43pm
- The King
  
  Ah, the tolerant Diversity Supremacists at it again i see. Won’t be long before they start planning murders, if you’ve ever seen there facebook pages they already are.
  
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  May 19, 2019 2:10pm
RW Capitalist

HAHAHA
The LNP won and Labour lost an unloseable election.
Congratulations Australia, you avoided the disaster of our CoL….maybe they have been watching?
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May 19, 2019 2:24pm
- Tall Man
  
  We’ve been here in Oz for a few weeks and watched a fair bit of the electioneering. labour didn’t lose the election, The Nat/Libs won it.
  
  The Nat Libs promised more of the same and labour promised more tax and more spend, much like ardern did but as we now know she was just lying as usual and had no intention of going forward with any of her promises. labour lost in 2017 with only 37% support so they actually have no mandate to implement anything.
  
  The electorate supported the centre right policies of National with a little spice on immigration for “what’s in it for wynston”. Unfortunately, labour gave him the “moon” but that still does not give them a mandate for any “labour policies” that may come out of those pathetic “committees” she formed.
  
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  May 19, 2019 9:09pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Racism….in the Middle East

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/egypt-blackface-sketch-sudanese-spotlights-racism-region-190518104712685.html
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May 19, 2019 2:33pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, not that dissimilar to Israel,
  
  https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-fight-against-racism-in-Israel-546991
  
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  May 19, 2019 2:47pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    When I last looked Israel was in the Middle East.
    
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    May 19, 2019 4:44pm
The Feed

Looks like all these pollsters will be looking for a job as climate scientists.
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May 19, 2019 3:39pm
- Alien
  
  no, because pollsters at least understand what they are doing. Climate scientists have no idea what they are doing.
  
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  May 19, 2019 4:00pm
Alien

what a sad bunch of people some are, hacking something as pointless as a man’s golf score

https://golfweek.com/2019/05/18/president-trumps-golf-scores-hacked-on-usga-website/

President Trump is at the center of another hacking incident, but this one doesn’t involve Wikileaks.

Four scores were posted to Trump’s USGA-administered GHIN handicap system on Friday, a day on which the president returned from New York to Washington and did not actually play golf.
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May 19, 2019 3:45pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Hey, it’s all they have left.
  
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  May 19, 2019 5:06pm
Komata

Maggy@ 1433

Most odd, cos we’re being told repeatedly that it’s ONLY Europeans who are racist!

Never, ever, ever, those with dark pigmentation in their skin!

Have we been lied to?
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May 19, 2019 3:59pm
brett68

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/112834386/simon-bridges-confirms-hes-talked-with-mp-about-a-breakaway-christian-party

Bridges says it’s an “alluring idea” and he’s giving Ngaro, a former National party minister, “space” to explore the idea.

Bridges is an idiot, I despair at his stupidy.
What sort of clown uses the word alluring in this situation?

Get rid of the prick, he’s useless and he’s dragging National under.
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May 19, 2019 7:34pm
- Alien
  
  yet the other day he denied it. Cannot trust that man. wont give him a clear run, yeah you will. Just drop the lies simon and be honest and upfront. I’ve heard a lot of people say if he is leading national into the election they simply will not bother voting.
  
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  May 19, 2019 8:43pm
- Tall Man
  
  Gosh brett, I’m stunned that Simon hasn’t got you on speed dial so he can utilise your stunning political acumen.
  
  Should he use words like ardern does, incorrectly pronounced and occasionally in the wrong context.
  
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