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Souvlaki

Can someone lucidly explain to me please, why we should “scrap and overhaul the justice system” ,essentially because Maori commit more drug inspired/ violent/ family crime than any other ethnic group??
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June 10, 2019 8:08am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The desire to produce equality of outcomes.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:32am
  - Ruawai
    
    Then Maori should only commit around 10% of all crimes if they want equality of outcomes.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:37am
    - Tall Man
      
      You obviously come from the North as do I. The incentive to commit crime is stronger within many of thoe communities than to not commit crime.
      
      simpleton shane is not changing those outcomes a jot as he is merely lining the pockets of the elite and himself with very little trickle down.
      
      Something has to change before the locals see things differently.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:17am
      - sooty
        
        Easy to fix! The police let 2/3rds off their crimes!
        
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        June 10, 2019 12:17pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Possibly Sooty but that still leaves the 1/3rd which is still large enough to provide “talking points”about our “racist” legal system…..
        
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        June 10, 2019 1:33pm
- Brian McDonald
  
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  Read the report.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:35am
- Paginus
  
  200 years ago fighting and raping would get a man more Mana.
  Forcing Maori to live under European law was a mistake from the beginning. We should of gave them a small bit of land to form their own nation, so they could continue their barbaric culture away from us.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:57am
  - Tall Man
    
    What rubbish.
    
    Reservations have done the North American Indians and even the Australian Aboriginals little good.
    
    The first point that needs to be rammed home is that we do not have separate identities and citizenship. We are all New Zealanders and should be equal in opportunities and the outcomes will take care of themselves.
    
    Continually harping on about our differences is divisive and ultimately doomed to fail one side of that “card”. Too many maori are pushing a line of separation. That needs to be depowered and deleted from our conscious as it will fail to unite us or lift anyine out of the crap they currently find themselves in.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:19am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Absolutely!!!!!
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:22am
    - Micky
      
      Both Labour and the Green Tea party have the Treaty of Waitangi enshrined in their constitutions.
      
      I wonder how many hard working Labour supporters actually know they are supporting apartheid?
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:07am
    - John Warren
      
      Well put, Tall Man.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:25am
    - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
      
      Tallman -“We are all New Zealanders and should be equal in opportunities and the outcomes will take care of themselves.” A wonderful sentiment that Jordan Petersen also promotes, but I suspect that this current COL is unlikely to agree with you on this.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:35am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Yes, too many maori votes to lose if the CoL pull the plug on separate maori seats the maori money train.
        
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        June 10, 2019 2:38pm
    - MickMac
      
      The successful Maori light up the lies.
      The outcomes come about by wrong thinking.
      
      We have grievances therefore we are victims.
      We are victims therefore the white man’s laws don’t apply to us.
      As victims other people must pay for our lifestyles.
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      As victims it’s not our fault.
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      We can’t be held to the same standards as others who aren’t victims.
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      The Whitey’s stole our land, they deserve what we do to them!
      
      In my Iwi they refer to white and black Maoris, I didn’t understand until someone explained the above viewpoints.
      You’re a worker or you’re not is what they say….
      
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      June 10, 2019 1:43pm
      - MickMac
        
        Ohh and our claim is legit of the Crown or at least the mother working on behalf of the Crown.
        
        If I could go back in time and do him, I would, entitled prick he was.
        
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        June 10, 2019 1:46pm
      - Brian McDonald
        
        So many experts on a report they haven’t read. Maybe we don’t need reports and should just rely on mostly anonymous message board experts. Maori bashing now about crime rates and last night wailing about National having no mates since the Maori Party, who put National into Government 3 times, were rejected by their own electorate. The world is changing folks try to keep up. Bill English was enlightened on this subject but there seems to be no one left with his capability. Then someone wise decided that Simon and Paula would attract the Maori vote which doesn’t appear to be happening yet. Middle NZ want better outcome for Maori, the majority of middle NZ didn’t like the budget being leaked and published, 52% of National voters thought it was fine – there’s the road block to the treasury benches.
        
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        June 10, 2019 3:44pm
    - Brian McDonald
      
      You’re dreaming if you think Maori does not have its own identity, you’re racist and don’t even know it.
      
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      June 11, 2019 7:47am
  - Alien
    
    Thankfully this country is moving away from the racist attitudes like yours.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:50am
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      Sadly you’re lacking any desire to be acquainted with facts.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:54am
      - Alien
        
        No really, the racism today is nowhere near as bad as it was when I was growing up.
        
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        June 10, 2019 12:18pm
  - Brian McDonald
    
    Give them a small bit of their own land? Tuhoe is it’s own nation. I think Ngapuhi might say the same.
    
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    June 11, 2019 7:49am
- kowtow
  
  Captain Cook dunnit.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:58am
- Prince
  
  For the same reason as we scrap measuring Health outcomes, because they don’t paint a good picture and therefore ‘distract everyone’.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:16am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    If you cant/wont measure it then you cant manage it.
    
    The story of the COL. Just dont measure it and you can lie that you have fixed it by throwing Billions of dollars of other peoples money at it without showing any proof.
    
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    June 10, 2019 12:34pm
- BrownSnake
  
  Not sure, but sometime I will have to ask some of my Maori Friends, but hey it might be a long wait, they are busy managing staff, running businesses, managing projects, raising and educating families, buying beach houses and having successful professional careers both in NZ and Aus.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:24am
  - Tall Man
    
    Correct. Leave out the “saparation shit” and we’ll all do well in the end.
    
    Handouts dehumanise people and build resentment.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:23am
    - Tall Man
      
      Separation not the other thing… I think that’s how you end up with a “steffy” in your blog…..
      
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      June 10, 2019 1:35pm
  - The King
    
    Ah living life by the exceptions and not the general rule. Just because you build a house in a flood zone it does not help you that the house is not always flooded.
    
    You are the meme “some of my best friends are black”
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:30am
  - Micky
    
    Maori make up the majority of the highest ranking representation in parliament:
    
    Winston Peters – Deputy Prime Minister
    Simon Bridges – Leader of the Opposition
    Kelvin Davis – Deputy Leader of Labour
    Paula Bennett – Deputy Leader of the opposition
    Marama Davidson – Co Leader of the Green Party
    Shane Jones – Deputy Leader of NZ First (practically)
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:19am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Micky, you forgot David Seymour – Leader of ACT
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:35am
      - Micky
        
        Thanks! I had no idea, but there you go…
        
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        June 10, 2019 12:48pm
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      That sounds like being ‘Maori’ as defined under the old South African apartheid rules…
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:56am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Does depend on what basis you define “Maori”. I think all of those people are at least 50% anglo-european, and some considerably more.
      
      And on what basis would you discriminate on blood percentage, is this some sort of apartheid system ?
      
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      June 10, 2019 1:57pm
      - Micky
        
        This is about equalism (non-discrimination)
        
        We actually have racism and sexism written into our legislation because perhaps sometimes it is necessary to define a persons characteristics for practical reasons such as ‘male suicide’. It is when the funding and power of a minority group becomes dis-proportionally large in favour of themselves – that we have true apartheid.
        
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        June 10, 2019 2:47pm
  - lilman
    
    Yep ,it makes my skin crawl to hear people say”Maori this…..Maori that”.
    
    They are taxpayers,the vast majority, as well,working hard EVERY day and trying the best for their children and hoping for a better life.
    
    Yes there is shit on all sides,very common,very entrenched.
    
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    June 10, 2019 12:00pm
- AgainstTheFlow
  
  The report just goes to show the eternal truth of public evaluations and reports:
  
  You go asking people to tell you what’s wrong, you’ll get 10,000 complaints and a false picture of systemic crisis.
  The content and happy don’t contribute, only the people with a grudge.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:50am
- backster
  
  Well it would produce more wellbeing except for the victims…Actually the ovehaul should not take long. Moses outlaid the perfect system in only ten clauses.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:59am
  - MickMac
    
    Yeah backster,
    but will they obey them……
    
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    June 10, 2019 1:39pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Morning Report explained why: colonialism. Expecting people to function well in a different culture and language is unfair and leads to inter-generational deprivation.
  
  For a moment that made sense. Then I thought of all the brilliant Chinese and Korean kids I know who come here with very little English and soon are getting top marks in every subject. Through intelligence, hard work and huge amounts of parental supervision and support. Including parents deciding to have no more than 2 kids usually, so that they can give them a lot of attention.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:00am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    Classical Liberal
    ‘A’ is for ‘attitude’
    Too many people have shit attitudes, which is reflected in their outcomes.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:22am
  - alloytoo
    
    Deprivation perhaps by Western standards, immensely wealthy by pre-colonial standards.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:28am
  - Lance
    
    Mostly hard work and parental encouragement. Anyone who puts in enough effort will succeed at one thing or another.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:28am
  - The King
    
    So colonialism is bad, yet being colonized by Chinese and Koreans is good?
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:31am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Not my point, King, and you know it.
      
      Immigration needs to be very limited for infrastructure alone, without going into ‘colonialism’ issues.
      
      But when it comes to attitude and achievement, indeed many Kiwis of various ethnic groups and cultures could benefit from the incredibly hardworking, family oriented attitude of the Asian families I meet. Interestingly, *they* are doing more to promote good aspects of European culture (e.g. medicine, science, music) than many other Kiwi kids are encouraged to do these days.
      
      Many Asian families in NZ seem to be great at choosing the beneficial factors of a culture and running with it, brilliantly. Good on them.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:59am
      - Paginus
        
        The difference between Asians and Maori is that Asians chose to join European culture. Maori were forced.
        Asians can always go home if they want to eat dog, Maori can never go back to eating long pork.
        
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        June 10, 2019 2:30pm
  - MickMac
    
    The Tangata Whenua are those born here to my mind.
    No matter how their forebears got here.
    
    Mine were born elsewhere but schooled here, so only citizens.
    But their mates, Chinese, Indian, NZer’s, French, USA stock all Kiwis together, but they are Tangata Whenua as they were born here.
    
    We are totally against this First Nations rubbish.
    We are all equal, the Maori are NOT 1st class against the rest of us…..
    This must END.
    
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    June 10, 2019 1:50pm
    - Micky
      
      Born here or would fight to protect New Zealand from armed invasion.
      
      The true test being an invasion by their country of birth.
      
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      June 10, 2019 2:29pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Maori deprived themselves by not having a written language. They had to take on the newcomers lingo to survive the changes from pa to modernity. Transliteration adds nothing to an extant society.
    
    Brilliant Chinese & Korean? By comparison there is an average 20pts IQ difference between them and our Maori society. There’s the schooling attainment problem. On average they attain “not achieved” grade. Culturally many are even denied their innate ability as not having the required social standing to be seen to be more able.
    
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    June 10, 2019 7:37pm
- fisho
  
  They could’ve done with a copy of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in their pre-read list.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:02am
- freethinker
  
  The Justice & Legal system are both unfit for purpose, judges whose judgment is so out of kilter with public opinion, the delay in offenses being tried, eg The Labour sex scandal being heard in the Auckland District court on 2/9 18 months after the alleged offending. Decisions by Auckland district lawless society on complaints of Lawyers misconduct, normally – no further action often despite clear evidence of misconduct in the eyes of most people. And Politicians and Lawyers why they are continually at the bottom of the pile of trusted people!!!
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:35am
  - Micky
    
    Ironically they are currently immune from justice.
    
    A proper misconduct and complaints process for Judges and lawyers would ultimately involve a jury for serious offending, along with penalties such as fines, compensation or dismissal.
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:46am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Umm, the Auckland District Law Society (Inc) is not involved with professional discipline and hasn’t been since 2008.
    Under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 that role was transferred to the New Zealand Law Society on 1 August 2008.
    
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    June 10, 2019 1:16pm
- Notsofast
  
  The report tells it clearly.
  Vote education must be funded to teach all New Zealanders to drive to full licence standard before age 16, and teach them to read English fluently using the phonetic method before age 5. The prisons would be empty.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:41am
Martin Williams

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While the overall poll results for the National Party weren’t great the results from the specific question on the Budget hack is terrible news for them.

Was National right to seek out and release Budget details before Budget Day?

While 32.6 percent said yes, 55.4 percent of respondents said no – they thought it was wrong. The rest didn’t know.

This confirms what I’ve been hearing and explains why National are so very, very desperate to shift the narrative away from the hack itself and onto the response by Treasury and Robertson, and now even Andrew Little.

The Nats are hitting out in the dark because they realise getting a pound of flesh is crucial in the face of current opposition by a clear majority of Kiwis.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/06/poll-most-new-zealanders-think-national-was-wrong-to-leak-treasury-budget-details.html
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June 10, 2019 8:08am
- Andrei
  
  If you believe what newshub is saying then I have a bridge for sale
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:19am
- alloytoo
  
  Now if only the poll had asked the alternative leading question:
  
  Was it OK for senior government ministers to characterise the breach as a criminal hack AFTER being advised by our Cyber spy agency that it wasn’t?
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:22am
  - Brian McDonald
    
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    The problem is that is not in the order of events.
    
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    June 10, 2019 8:39am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      The problem is that is, in the order of events.
      There, fixed it for ya.
      Just 3 letters too many.
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:28am
      - Brian McDonald
        
        Now fix the public sentiment.
        
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        June 10, 2019 9:44am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        OK Brian…..I’ll fix it
        PEOPLE LIKE YOU, STOP LYING and the sentiment changes.
        
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        June 10, 2019 10:24am
      - Brian McDonald
        
        I’m not lying about anything the public record is clear, leaked material went into National’s hands and they released it. If you want to accuse people of lying have the decency to use your own name.
        
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        June 10, 2019 3:17pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Brian
        ” leaked material went into National’s hands and they released it. If you want to accuse people of lying have the decency to use your own name.”
        1. It was NOT “leaked”, it was openly put on a web site.
        2. National only reproduced what was PUBLICLY available.
        3. As for lying, people who tell lies, should be expected to be called LIARS. Your statement of the chronology of how this played out, is incorrect, I may have called it a mistake on your part, but when corrected by the FACTS, you kept repeating the lies told by Robertson etc.
        
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        June 10, 2019 5:13pm
    - alloytoo
      
      That’s precisely the order of events. Which is the problem.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:29am
- hullkiwi
  
  Let’s regurgitate Tova O’Briens biased questioning.
  
  And to you is it ok and ethical only when Labour leak confidential information?
  
  Ahhhhhh, but wait it wasn’t a leak. National could have instead plastered the web url addresses in news releases and embarrassed Robbo even further as the head of a dysfunctional shambles.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:27am
  - Kabull
    
    What seems to be constantly overlooked is the National only revealed what might be best described as ‘insensitive’ material. They acted responsibly by not releasing anything that would adversely impact the markets.
    And those who believe that Labour would not have done exactly the same thing – or worse – need to clear their biases.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:11am
    - John Warren
      
      You mean non-sensitive?
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:31am
      - Kabull
        
        Whoops!
        
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        June 10, 2019 12:09pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        It was insensitive to Labour and other incompetents, to release this non sensitive info.
        Translation:
        The snowflakes had their feelings hurt when their incompetence was pointed out.
        
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        June 10, 2019 5:55pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Wasn’t the question Polled before it came out it wasn’t a ‘hack’ and before it was clear that false allegations had been made against National?
  Labour and their Dirty Politics huh.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:31am
- Maxx
  
  This would have been asked under the assumption that there was some underhanded behavior to announcing of budget details, and answered by those polled when they were under the assumption that what they had done was illegal.
  
  To me this is the standout between the two polls and helps to explain the difference. If a significant number of the polling results were from the immediate 36-48 hours from when the poll started, it was in the media that Treasury was hacked and in the very best light, National were beneficiaries of illegal behavior, and at worst those committing the illegal behavior.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:34am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The COL should be whacked for such a leak being possible. How can the govern when their servants can’t or wont keep secrets.
  
  Now that the MSM are turning against the COL why shouldn’t we expect the Public Servants to be equally riled against the incompetence they are expected to bear and promote?
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:47am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  You’re not popular here are you Martin Williams?
  I wonder why.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:55am
Scott

Very interesting article in powerline about the Muslim “war on the cross”. It appears that Muslims are so enraged by the site of a cross, whether worn around the neck, or on a church, that they will commit violence up to and including homicide!

Examples include a Muslim immigrant in Rome who stabbed a Christian man for wearing a crucifix around his neck. A Turkish boy spat on and beaten by his fellow pupils and his teacher for wearing a silver cross around his neck. And a Christian cemetery in Malaysia desecrated and the crosses broken.

All this of course is following the founders of their religion Mohammed who believed that one day the crosses will all be broken. This is perfectly rational behaviour for a Muslim who takes his faith seriously.

Once again I would warn New Zealanders against naïvely accepting the claim that Muslim immigrants to New Zealand will be “us”.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/06/the-war-on-the-cross.php
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June 10, 2019 8:19am
- David Garrett
  
  Scott: You have nailed it when you say: “this is perfectly rational behaviour for a Muslim who takes his faith seriously”
  
  So too is the seemingly otherwise inexplicable sight of Muslim mothers not only being unconcerned when their children become suicide bombers, but being actually ecstatically happy about it. The Koran teaches that no Muslim, no matter how observant, is guaranteed to go Paradise – except those who have died in jihad or as martyrs.
  
  With that understanding, the seemingly inexplicable reaction of these mothers is totally understandable: what mother wouldn’t want their kid to have a guaranteed place in heaven?
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:34am
  - stephieboy
    
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    David Garrett and Scott , plenty of examples of this irrrational behaveiour among our 50,000 Mulsims?
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:51am
    - Greg Ettridge
      
      Here are a few things I find irrational
      Woman segregated to pray separately.
      Male polygamy acceptable, not for female.
      FGM, butchering women.
      Supporting terrorists morally and financially.
      No choice in life partner
      Instructed to mimic a postbox
      Zero forgiveness for non believers.
      Refusing to stand for judge.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:41am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        women only swimming… child brides imported…. compulsory halal meat killing…. chain immigration ….
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:12am
    - The King
      
      Of course not Stephieboy, raping women in taxis, training Al-Qaeda, posting islamic conquest videos on their mosque facebook page, inviting imams to incite violence, child marriage, its all completely rational.
      
      Part and parcel mate.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:06am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    “They blow up so quickly” as the Muslim Pali moms say… sadly, this is not funny.
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:58am
- BrownSnake
  
  I mean how dare you discuss this openly calmly
  rationally. Do you want a visit from the police
  oops I mean Stazi. What would you like
  3 or 14 years in the slammer for hate speech?
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:06am
rjay

Any chance that the poll of polls can be updated.? Hasn’t been for 12 months.
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June 10, 2019 8:24am
Jules99

“Was National right to seek out”
That’s a strangely worded question. I was not aware that National actively sought out the information. If they did, fair enough, but if they didn’t, it’s a misleading question designed to sway the answer. Makes me wonder how other questions were worded. This makes National sound sneaky.
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June 10, 2019 8:25am
- Martin Williams
  
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  Of course they sought out the information.
  
  The staffers out of Chris Bishop’s office copied and pasted fragments of information from the treasury website in order to build the jigsaw of what was then released.
  
  They’d plug in a few words and a short snippet would be displayed. Then they’d copy that snippet, plug that in, and another snippet would be displayed.
  
  They did this 2000 times in 24 hours.
  
  That seems like actively seeking out, doesn’t it?
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:09am
  - Hacked-Off
    
    In other words; doing their job in preparatory research for the Budget, like any Opposition is expected to do.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:14am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    If I was Chris Bishop, I’d be asking the Parliamentary Service to give these guys a payrise, for going above and beyond the call of duty.
    
    Oddly though Martin, you and your ilk cheer loudly when someone like Nicky Hager writes a book based on information that was certainly hacked, and about which the hacker has made numerous boasts.
    
    Hypocrisy much?
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:21am
  - Prince
    
    That is not correct.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:21am
    - Martin Williams
      
      Apologies. It was 48 hours.
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:48am
      - Tall Man
        
        Wrong again. “Someone” did this over 48 hours becomes “many” tried over 48 hours.
        
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        June 10, 2019 10:29am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Jules ‘Was National right to seek out’ – quite, a biased question along the lines of ‘do you still beat your wife?’
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:11am
- Sacha
  
  And there is MY problem with polls – we don’t know what is asked. Or how.
  Are they leading questions?
  I had a bit of fun with a ‘survey’ which purported to be run by some dairy farmers group. But most of the questions seemed to be slanted towards dirty water ways, and what farmers should be doing to fix them – and then asked what I thought would be the appropriate fix! As if I had any expertise in the matter!
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:58am
Maggy Wassilieff

Looks like the MSM journalists may not be getting their promised goodies from Labour after all.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018698562/public-media-funding-policy-back-to-square-one
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June 10, 2019 8:26am
- cmm
  
  Ouch!
  
  So the $38M for RadioNZ was a lie? Off come the kid gloves then.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:32am
  - srylands
    
    RNZ is a mixture of communism, smugness, and irrelevance. Unplug it.
    
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    June 10, 2019 8:38am
    - artemisia
      
      RNZ does make attempts to be balanced. Token attempts though.
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:18am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        They have to, it’s difficult on the head of a pin.
        The thing is, that pin, is firm;y stuck in the LABOUR cushion.
        
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        June 10, 2019 9:32am
      - srylands
        
        Putting aside the “balance” issue, let’s focus on “irrelevance”.
        
        Many of the programmes on RNZ predate modern media and information channels.
        
        Let’s take simple examples:
        
        1. Music – RNZ has a few programmes specialising in New Zealand music. With Spotify and specialist websites e.g. https://www.muzic.net.nz/ why do we need RNZ to be all hip about NZ music? There is simply no market failure that justifies public spending to disseminate information on New Zealand music.
        
        2. Rural affairs and farming – they act like nothing has changed since the 1970s when mum and dad farmer sat around relying on RNZ for the weather and stock prices. There are now rich forums and information sources online for farmers, e.g. http://farmnews.co.nz/. And farmers use these intensively. There are also online forums where they can network.
        
        3. Weather forecasts. All RNZ does is read out the weather forecasts and weather warnings from the metservice website.
        
        Of course quite apart from its irrelevance, RNZ is a repository for socialist activists who promote their own agendas. If it were unplugged there would be screaming and tantrums, but after a few weeks it would be forgotten. The socialist activists would need to pay for their own platforms. And trampers would get the mountain weather forecasts from the metservice.
        
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        June 10, 2019 10:12am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Artemisia, I listen to more Morning Report than I wish I needed to (but want to know where they are trying to lead the country), and really hear no attempt to be balanced.
        
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        June 10, 2019 10:15am
    - Happychappy
      
      Journalism is really a sport and a race to see how quick you can remove them. This started in 2008 for Labour and ended in 2017 after Andrew Little vacated the Leadership to install the media’s Princess who would go on to be installed as Prime Minister by Winston Peter’s. Now it is Nationals turn and some Scribes or wannabe Journalist have tried for eighteen months to get rid of the National Leader Simon Bridges without success and have turned even to dirty politics to achieve there goal. So the poll reads five Leaders gone from Labour one only for National but that could change if Tova O’Brien gets her way.
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:23am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      I might miss Matinee Idle.
      
      The rest, meh!
      
      There is only so much school common room level “concern-tutting’ ™ at the world that I can take.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:13am
    - Nukuleka
      
      Even on RNZ Concert we now have presenters, not content with simply introducing the music they play, but pushing their propagandist, progressive and often alarmist views. References to ‘border walls’ ‘climate emergency’ ‘public arts funding in the USA’ and so on are all issues that have been referenced recently by RNZ Concert presenters.
      
      I love the fact that they have given listeners the ability to text opinions via 8824. It’s fun giving them a bit of forthright feedback! Generally I take the line ‘Play the music and cut the progressive talk-fest’.
      
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      June 10, 2019 12:05pm
    - John Warren
      
      Why can’t it be just the “Local Reporting Service?” What’s with the “Democracy” shit?
      
      I fear you’re all correct about RNZ. I’ve always preferred public broadcasting above the shouting and self-promotion and dick jockeys of commercial radio, but I find myself getting angrier and angrier at programs like Morning Report and The Panel these days.
      
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      June 10, 2019 12:14pm
      - srylands
        
        Yes commercial radio shits me because of .. well the commercials. I just don’t see much relevance for broadcast radio as a music source or an information source. Concert Radio is an anachronism. Use spotify.
        
        Maybe RNZ would be helpful in a national emergency. So if we can’t get rid of it, cut its budget by 60 percent. Turn it into a basic news service. It can rebroadcast international news for 16 hours each day. It does not need to read the f****** weather forecast each day. We have the metservice for that. Neither does it need to announce the share prices of random stocks or the exchange rate. Total duplication.
        
        Sadly the last government could have taken on RNZ. But it did not. Now it is just going to double down on the madness, at even greater financial cost.
        
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        June 10, 2019 1:49pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  The media will get their rewards when they show their loyalty. At present they are rightfully wavering.
  
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  June 10, 2019 8:50am
  - sooty
    
    You are wrong. They are all over the otherside!
    
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    June 10, 2019 12:24pm
  - Tall Man
    
    A few articles does not a “widespread waver” make.
    
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    June 10, 2019 1:57pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Its catching-there’s a noticeable increase of dissent from former ardent supporters.
      
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      June 10, 2019 8:13pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, mis information . As must know it is not an attempt to push the government’s agenda but a way of reviving local and regional news content .
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:55am
  - srylands
    
    It is not the Government’s role to “revive” news.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:39am
  - Alien
    
    You obviously don’t live in a region, because our news doesn’t need reviving, it is already doing quite well. More myths from Stephanie.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:53am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    MW, mis information
    
    Do you have a comprehension problem?
    Read the article I linked to..
    Here’s the first sentence:
    Labour came to power promising big boosts to public broadcasting but last week’s Budget offered only stop-gap increases “pending major policy decisions.
    
    So the big boosts Clare Curran and her mates in the Media were trying to push through haven’t eventuated… and it looks like Kris Faafoi is going to be a bit more circumspect about implementing change.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:57am
    - cmm
      
      The regions tend to be National voters clearly because they lack the appropriate “information” and that needs to be “corrected”.
      
      PriNZess lives in such a bubble that she cannot conceive of any person thinking differently to her.
      
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      June 10, 2019 12:14pm
Maggie Pie

I was somewhat skeptical to read a tweet from ‘Hanna Tamaki’ where she maintained that ‘Sir Robert Jones’ had offered to pay Bishop Brian’s legal fees, should he wish to sue the Dominion Post over a cartoon they’d published

Sure enough, i found this post from Sir Robert, which reads in part: “….A month ago the Dom Post published a grossly offensive cartoon asserting the Bishop’s real God was money. There’s no evidence of that and Tamaki could take them to the cleaners should he sue.
I wish he would and I would happily fund it”

Sir Robert goes on to say: “….A large part of the animosity seems to stem from Tamaki refusing to go along with the recent vogue of treating blokes who like to put their cocks in other blokes bums as pursuing some form of higher art form. It’s not.”

You can read the entire post here –
https://nopunchespulled.com/2019/05/27/the-destiny-church/

[Funnily enough, my partners mum was telling us she knew Sir Robert in the early 70’s when she was a student at Vic. She had been surprised as anyone when he received a Knighthood. Back in the early days all the girls she flatted with just used to call him ‘BJ’. ]
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June 10, 2019 8:30am
- michael_s2
  
  Your partner’s mum is 10 years out. Sir Robert was at VUC in the early 60s
  
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  June 10, 2019 3:53pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You would see him about VUW in the 1970s… attending performances in the Memorial Theatre.
    
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    June 10, 2019 5:34pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    @michael
    
    He wasn’t there when she was there, silly – they used to come across BJ when they were out on the town and he used to let them buy him drinks
    
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    June 10, 2019 6:41pm
Happychappy

Time for National to kick TV Three to touch and take interviews from the others , Tova O’Brien needs to find her own news from people like Winston , JLR and others bypassing Three can’t get any worse than what they are getting now with the trend of Journalists like Paddy, Tova and others will just continue.
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June 10, 2019 8:34am
- Tall Man
  
  I agree.
  
  He needs to engage the “Pitbull” in him and do a Trump.
  
  Ignore the biased journos and refuse them admittance to his circle.
  
  Just deal with those that show an even handed approach and treat “news” as news, not a chance to write another self indulgent “opinion” piece.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:35am
Lee C

Ha ha! ‘Let’s Do This’

should have been

“Let’s Do You!”
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June 10, 2019 8:40am
Simon

Hillary Clinton is so far ahead of Donald Trump in the race for the presidency that she no longer even feels the need to pay attention to the Republican nominee.

Buoyed by a double digit lead in some national polls, Mrs Clinton has said she is now looking past Mr Trump entirely, and will no longer counter allegations made by her rival.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/23/hillary-clinton-so-far-ahead-in-polls-that-doesnt-even-think-abo/
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June 10, 2019 8:41am
- Kabull
  
  But that is a 2016 article! Her poling was accurate? Not!
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:14am
  - Tall Man
    
    I think that was the point maybe?
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:36am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Ah, MSM, the media you trust most often.
  
  If they said it was raining, i’d still step outside and look for myself.
  
  And now they need to be subsidised to do the news stories, they fit in among the campaigns, and women’s interest articles (is summer a patriarchal plot? have the Kardashians done something exhibitionist? Does the Royal Baybeee shit? )
  
  Yet these are the same people who are spruiking a “climate emergency”
  
  bwuhahahaa!
  
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  June 10, 2019 11:18am
  - Doctor Who
    
    Global warming due to human activity is as much a “fact” as evolution and plate tectonics.
    
    The signal is clear, the warming trend is over and above natural variation. Until the Industrial Revolution Earth was slowly cooling (0.2C per 1000 years), now it’s warming 1C and more per 100 years.
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:53am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Hi Dennis
      How’s the flying going these days?
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      June 10, 2019 12:11pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Who is Dennis?
        
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        June 10, 2019 12:34pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        The Menace.
        
        At least you have some lucid moments; Dennis, not so much
        
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        June 10, 2019 1:04pm
    - Scott
      
      Dr Who – you lost me when you said global warming was as much a fact as evolution.
      Actually, come to think of it, they are very similar!
      They both try and explain everything. They both lack facts. And they are both held as strongly as religious faith by their adherents!
      
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      June 10, 2019 1:07pm
Yvette

Regardless of what people think of Charles Colson – one of the Watergate Seven and jailed for obstruction of justice, where he first-hand witnessed the plight of many African Americans – he may have been right when he said “in effect” that America enslaved the Africans Americans twice: once until the Civil War freed them and then by telling them how badly off they were in every respect of social standing, enslaved them a second time.
That statement was in a discussion with New Zealand legendary interviewer Brian Edwards – sorry, no link – and years ago, but could still suggest that a similar statement may apply to Maori – effectively “colonised” once, until the Treaty, then in effect colonised again with the endless statements of their occupying the lowest social statistics.

  Or – In over five decades of following politics, I have watched politicians condemn the Maori, Pacific Island and low class White communities to a life of prison, poor help and low living standards. – Lastmanstanding, kiwiblog [1] 
How long do politicians need to chant this fundamental hate speech until mere repetition gives it some credence? 

Example 1
No mana for Māori – Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party
“After nine years of this National Government, propped up by the Māori party, there’s not a lot to brag about. Māori are more likely to be overweight, depressed, homeless, incarcerated and uneducated according to these disturbing statistics produced under National’s watch. … “There’s no mana for Māori who support a waka that’s shackled to the National Party. [2] 
Repeating the mantra of Maori failure in all social statistics for cheap political gain?

Example 2 
Criminal Justice Summit: Plenary discussion on over-representation of Māori in the system. ‘It’s our fault he spent nearly half a century in a gang’ – the story of reformed prisoner.
 Sam [now 60] was just 10 years-old when strangers arrived at his house in Mangere and took him away. His only crime was that he was born into a whānau of 16 children. They took him away from his home, away from his family, and put him on a train to a boys’ home in Levin. He had never known abuse or violence in his life until he walked through their doors. Four years later – and Sam was put on another train and sent back to Auckland. Within two weeks he had joined a gang – a new home, a new family he would remain with for the next 48 years … 
There had to be dozens of points in Sam’s life when someone could have stepped in … There are 5000 Sams in our prisons. And they include his children, and his grandchildren. 
… We need to do something together to create a different future for Māori and for their whanau. We need to break the cycle, connect them to their people, help them, and have hope for them.
 … I’ll probably never know why Sam trusted me with his story. I was a stranger to him. 
… What are we going to do to deserve Sam’s forgiveness? [3]

Example 3
… the disproportion of Māori prisoners was only one issue.
“There’s a definite racist skew, and not just the over-representation. Studies have found that Māori are more likely to be investigated, more likely to be apprehended, more likely to be prosecuted rather than warned, more likely to get a prison sentence rather than a community-based sentence, and that sentence is more likely to be longer.
“This sort of mantra about one law for all, well, Māori are saying, ‘Great, give us some of that’. Because at the moment it isn’t one law for all. And we can’t turn a blind eye to that.” [4]

Example 1 and 2 are both Kelvin Davis, MP for Te Tai Tokerau – Minister for Māori Development, Corrections – to show perhaps how subtle, unintentional, and institutional the “racism” is.

And example 3 is in the report A Vessel of Tears, which was released yesterday morning by the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group, chaired by former National Party Minister Chester Borrows
– still doing yet again what Charles Colson’ comment seems to suggest is a problem.

And the Borrows’ quote – “Māori are more likely to be investigated … apprehended … prosecuted … [deja vu]” came just after a statement that –
“What Māori are saying is that they’re ready through their communities and organisations to step up and provide solutions. We’ve got to make sure the system accommodates the solutions.” [4]

Could go anything go wrong?
Perhaps it just did. Again.

[1] https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/05/general_debate_18_may_2019.html/comment-page-1
[2] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1702/S00255/no-mana-for-maori.htm
[3] https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/criminal-justice-summit-plenary-discussion-over-representation-māori-system
[4] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12238763
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June 10, 2019 8:41am
- MickMac
  
  and more payouts…..
  
  What is wrong with not doing crime?
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:05am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    shhh! someone may hear your cis-normative patriarchal anti-social behaviour, comrade!
    
    Everybody knows that low IQ people with unstable families because of dead-beat parents, are unable to take responsiblity for their actions.
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:21am
    - sooty
      
      Untill the tribal elders do something, nothing will change!
      
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      June 10, 2019 3:04pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  How can one assume the neutrality of a report that refuses to use the English word “Maori” and instead relaces it with a word from another language, “Māori”?
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:10am
  - SGA
    
    meh – it wouldn’t bother me if someone used déjà vu instead of deja vu in an English report either. Sorry, this seems a very trivial issue to be getting upset about.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:33am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      It’s the principle.
      
      (Resisting urge to quote Groucho Marx…)
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:39am
      - SGA
        
        What principle is that? The more formal the English writing style, the more you are expected to treat borrowed words with more care – e.g., prêt-à-porter, apéritifs, déjà vu, à la carte.
        It’s nothing that should cause you angst. There are much bigger fish to fry.
        
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        June 10, 2019 9:50am
- mikenmildagain
  
  colonised again with the endless statements of their occupying the lowest social statistics
  
  You’d prefer people to shut up about Maori social statistics?
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:43am
  - Tall Man
    
    “You’d prefer people to shut up about Maori social statistics?”
    
    Two points mikey…. why does the coalition only want to collect stats that support a predetermined narrative?
    
    Why do commentators continually look backwards to an event that had no direct impact on anyone alive today and claim it as the reason for a modern day problem?
    
    Virtually every country in the world has citizens that frequent the lower socio economic sector and also feature highly in the crime stats. Were all these countries impacted by “colonialisation”? Did Captaim Cook cover the entire globe with his colonalisation disease?
    
    Do muslims that feature highly in the crime stats in Sweden also have the “colonalisation” excuse to fall back on?
    
    We are all aware that dependancy on welfare is the primary causation of this problem and until we couple welfare with a methodology to change the education level of those on welfare the problem will remain.
    
    It is not an issue of “poverdee” but “educachun” and until ardern and her band of numbnuts accept that and look to the “welfare system” that Sir William English was implementing we are destined to continue down this slow and sorry path.
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:22am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    No, we should be very clear about what is going on.
    
    Poor children are being born into incapable maladjusted “families” who have realised that 3 kids gets you a state house and a benefit for life.
    
    Bit shit for the kids, and real shit for the rest of us, who have to pay for all of this, and the consequences of broken ferals released into society with nothing but an angry chip on their shoulder and low impulse control…
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:24am
- The King
  
  How dare the racists don’t let us beat,rape and rob them with no repercussions.
  
  woe,woe is me.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:41am
calendar girl

Mike Hosking has had the courage to call out our ‘insulting’ and ‘naive’ Prime Minister for declining to attend the D-Day commemorations: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12238853
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June 10, 2019 8:42am
- srylands
  
  I thought it was odd that the governor general attended. She is the representative of the Queen of New Zealand. But the Queen of New Zealand was in attendance.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:05am
  - SPC
    
    It was either the GG, or the deputy PM (Minister of Foreign Affairs), if the PM was not there. Maybe also the Defence Minister.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:21am
    - calendar girl
      
      There was (and would be) no issue with either of those possible substitutes if our PM was unable to represent NZ at such an important commemoration.
      
      However, we’ve never heard any explanation of why the PM chose not to attend. So we can assume that she simply didn’t want to do so – and risk being ‘upstaged’ alongside more important Leaders from our WWll Allies. In my view, it was her personal duty to represent New Zealand on such an important and sensitive occasion, unless there was a justifiable reason for her absence.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:11am
    - Alien
      
      Deputy pm was busy in the islands giving more money away to try keep China out
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:00am
    - Tall Man
      
      “what’s in it for wynston” was happily on the piss with his crew in Vanuatu.
      
      Why would he want to give that up to attend an event where 90% of the attendees would neither know or care who he was.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:24am
- MickMac
  
  It’s just not important to her.
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  She would have been over shadowed by all the big wigs and a very very small mention of New Zealand.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:06am
  - David Garrett
    
    Mick: I think Hosking has nailed it: she is surrounded by millenials who have either never heard of D Day, or don’t think it matters…It bloody matters! That one event largely shaped the post war borders of Europe, arguably still; certainly until the collapse of communism from 1989.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:47am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Do you think it mattered to New Zealand more than the Canberra Pact?
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:48am
      - Tall Man
        
        A typical mikey comment… smarmy and witless.
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:25am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        er., Ja Mein Herr.
        
        As well as defeating Germany, we also got the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and a series of (deeply imperfect) institutions that enable us to trade, to fly, and to de-escalate disputes.
        
        NZ managed to be at the table for the formation of the UN and all the other Breton Woods institutions.
        
        But not to commemorate those who died so that our world could be born.
        
        Hmmm. Cindy managed to get to Paris for a photo-op.
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:27am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  D-Day aaniveraries are not a significant commemoration for New Zealand. The major military commemoration this year was Cassino, which passed unremarked on Kiwiblog.
  The government’s commemorations programme, set years ago, identified two major anniversaries for 2019 – 100 years since Versailles and Tuia Encounters 250.
  So, if the G-G isn’t important enough to go to D-Day, when does she get to do her share of head-of-state stuff? The Queen of New Zealand doesn’t represent us anywhere.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:41am
  - srylands
    
    That is interesting. I did not know that so thanks for the information.
    
    I see that https://mch.govt.nz/tuia250 is code for the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s landing in New Zealand.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:29am
  - kevn
    
    @mma… NZ was invited. Along with the other 15 countries. Do you wonder why? Only NZ sent a representative.
    Of course we are invested in the whole.
    JA never bothered with Cassino either, even though she was only a couple of hours away finishing a 5 day meaningless social media talkfest.
    Socialism at work.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:46am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Why do you hate the governor-general?
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:58am
      - Tall Man
        
        Do you miss ztev that much that you have to descend to his level?
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:27am
      - sooty
        
        Is he ztev?
        
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        June 10, 2019 2:59pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      You guys. If the PM went to Portsmouth, you would be criticising her for going on another junket, or for neglecting her baby, or whatever.
      No one really gives a rats arse either way.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:03am
      - Tall Man
        
        Obviously many do, no matter how hard you try to convince us otherwise.
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:26am
      - Garbageman
        
        Considering no one really gives a rats you sure are throwing out enough pathetic excuses Stephie, squirrel squirrel “no one cares anyway” more squirrels rinse & repeat & you had the audacity to call someone else KBs dumbest commentator
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:49am
  - alloytoo
    
    It’s got nothing to do with the GG’s importance, it’s to do with the GG’s appropriateness.
    
    The GG represents the Queen, the Queen was already there with most of her Prime Ministers, save one.
    
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    June 10, 2019 12:10pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      That’s interesting. In that case, you are arguing that the governor-general should never leave New Zealand.
      
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      June 10, 2019 12:42pm
      - alloytoo
        
        I would argue that the GG representing the Queen outside New Zealand would be at the Queen’s discretion.
        
        The PM shouldn’t just send the GG off to DD commemorations because she’s to lazy to attend, she has a deputy for that.
        
        The GG is not the Prime Minister’s lacky.
        
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        June 10, 2019 1:05pm
      - SPC
        
        It would appear that Mike Hosking did not care that John Key did not attend for the 70th but sent the then GG instead. The current PM is just following that precedent.
        
        Part of the reason is probably that we were not heavily involved in this operation.
        
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        June 10, 2019 6:21pm
- The King
  
  Marxists don’t attend things like that, their number one goal is erase pride of history. Sever the roots and make new religions etc under the banner of “workers of the world unite”
  
  Comrade.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:44am
- Komata
  
  calendar girl @0842
  
  The acting ‘PM’ obviously didn’t see any advantage in attending a commemoration that would be without photo opportunities for herself and /or the fisherman and/ or the baby and where she would only be a very small fish in a very large sea.
  
  If there was nothing in it for her, why attend?
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:57am
- John Warren
  
  The only warning I’d make here is that we are careful to not condemn her when she doesn’t go to these things, but condemn her jet-setting and carbon footprint if she does.
  
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  June 10, 2019 12:20pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Did that statement make sense to you?
    
    Didn’t to me……
    
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    June 10, 2019 2:04pm
    - John Warren
      
      Sorry Tall Man, it doesn’t read well and I missed the edit window. I mean that we are quick to criticise the toothsome one when she fails to attend an overseas event like this. But we are equally quick to criticise her flitting about on overseas junkets and pumping the atmosphere full of carbon dioxide.
      
      Not defending the awful woman, but just suggesting we be careful to avoid looking hypocritical and needlessly giving the “opposition” ammo.
      
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      June 10, 2019 2:42pm
      - calendar girl
        
        Sorry, JW, but I’m personally unable to accept your overly-glib comparison between:
        (a) JA (not) attending an important commemoration of an historic event (D-Day), when our very freedom had been at stake; and
        (b) her “flitting about on overseas junkets” (your words) such as her Paris talk-fest with Macron & co.
        
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        June 10, 2019 4:00pm
      - John Warren
        
        You’ve probably clarified my point, calendar girl, I’ve fucked it up completely. Mea culpa: not enough coffee, and too many distractions today. Not necessarily on KB, but all over, I’m seeing people both criticise Toothy for not going to events, and for going to them, without making a distinction between whether it’s “an important commemoration of an historic event” (your words), or “flitting about on overseas junkets” (mine). I just don’t want KB being subject to accusations of hypocrisy. The left love will use anything they can in evidence against us.
        
        Anyway, I’ll just get my coat.
        
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        June 10, 2019 4:38pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Got it.
        
        I think her priorities do not extend to the wellbeing and long term concerns of New Zealand where they conflict with her own fatuous ambitions.
        
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        June 10, 2019 7:27pm
tf78

If the TV1 poll ran from 4 June until yesterday – how long did the NRR poll run for, does anyone know and what difference could it have made.
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June 10, 2019 8:44am
- SPC
  
  May 29/30 to June 7.
  
  The Newshub includes the period immediately around the budget day and subsequent coverage. The TVNZ one began the following week (less budget bounce).
  
  A factor but not enough to explain the extent of the difference.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:00am
All_on_Red

Is it about time Bridges and National starting counter punching ala Trump, certain Journalists whose bias is now so obvious?

“I know it is not at all “Presidential” to hit back at the Corrupt Media, or people who work for the Corrupt Media, when they make false statements about me or the Trump Administration. Problem is, if you don’t hit back, people believe the Fake News is true. So we’ll hit back!”
@realDonaldTrump
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June 10, 2019 8:49am
- Gravelroad
  
  There is a long anti Trump rant on Stuff this morning written by someone called Phil Quin.
  Not sure what the point of it is. Sure, we get it, Phil Quin: you don’t like Trump.
  How about telling us something we don’t know?
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:06am
  - SPC
    
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    And if he writes criticism of one of the Green MP’s, many on the right will get down on their knees and quote the column like it is truth incarnated.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:25am
    - Jules99
      
      Very rare to see a Green or Labour MP criticised in the media these days. But yes, quoted because people agree that most of them are incompetent fools.
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:40am
    - Brian Marshall
      
      Only if it’s true SPC. only if it’s true.
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:53am
    - Prince
      
      Such an article would never make it to the paper.
      ‘Hate Speech’.
      
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      June 10, 2019 12:21pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Gravelroad: Actually, I disagree. Presuming the claims he makes about Trump and his beliefs are accurate – such as that Trump believes stealth fighters are actually invisible, and that excercise is bad for you because it depletes a finite amount of energy we all have – then the piece is very informative about this most unusual politician.
    
    Whatever you think about the Trump phenomenon – and I am somewhat divided about it – there isn’t much doubt that in many respects the man is very ignorant – of history, of how geo-politics works, of how tariffs and other fetters on trade work.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:55am
    - Kabull
      
      David, don’t forget that Trump is not a politician. He did not come to the Presidency via the usual route and has never been exposed to the Washington machinery. While he has many unusual traits, some of which are good and some of which are less so, he is by and large a breath of fresh air. Does anyone seriously think the US would be in a better position if Hilary was President?
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:22am
      - Gravelroad
        
        If Trump was a Democrat, would that be OK?
        
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        June 10, 2019 12:03pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      ‘the man is very ignorant – of history, of how geo-politics works, of how tariffs and other fetters on trade work’
      
      Oh rubbish
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:05am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      erm, I don’t think so. Mexico just caved.
      
      Trump is a very astute student of human behaviour. If you listen to the noise, you are simply watching the misdirection. Look at what he has done, not what he is supposed to be doing.
      
      Personally, I struggle to see how he finds the time, what with the murdering innocent immigrants, pandering to big business, oppressing black people, gay people, and confused people, and colluding with Russia!
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:31am
  - The King
    
    The point is… orange man bad.
    
    That’s it.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:45am
- Rich Prick
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:30am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  George Conway had the best riposte:
  
  You’re not “presidential” at all, period. You’re mentally unwell. You engage in bizarre, irrational, self-defeating behavior, which prompts criticism of you, which triggers more bizarre, irrational, self-defeating behavior. You would have been fired from any other job by now.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:36am
  - All_on_Red
    
    George has got quite the self projection going on.
    He’s getting more unhinged.
    The missus is probably holding out on him- which won’t help.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:57am
  - Komata
    
    MM@0936
    
    If this ‘George Conway’ is the same one who is currently married to Kelly-Anne, I would suggest that he has a certain interest in making such comments…
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:00am
  - stigie
    
    Crikey, you could say that about our media ? Funny that !~
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:11am
    - Tall Man
      
      And the bulk of our current cabinet but mikey likes to forget that.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:38am
  - John Warren
    
    And who the hell is George Conway when he’s at home? There’s a bunch of G. Conways in the phone book here. I bet they’ve all got an opinion on Donald Trump.
    
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    June 10, 2019 12:23pm
    - Tall Man
      
      And all based on close personal knowledge…. Hang on……
      
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      June 10, 2019 1:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  All on Red, whats it like to be a White House wannabe Media spokesperson?
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:59am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Hey Stephie
    How did your little get together of Creationists go over the weekend?
    Did you all agree that since maps are flat that the Earth is flat- again?
    #ScienceDenier
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:56am
Hugh Pavletich

Government punished for failing to deal effectively with cost of living and cost of housing issues …

National back in front while Labour takes a dive in latest 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton Poll | 1 NEWS NOW | TVNZ
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/national-back-in-front-while-labour-takes-dive-latest-1-news-colmar-brunton-poll
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NEW ZEALAND GOVT BUDGET … Inadvertently highlights ‘flight to affordability’ … to Australia ! …

Face of Budget 2019 has given up on NZ, moved to Australia … N Z Herald / NewstalkZB
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/the-face-of-todays-budget-has-given-up-on-new-zealand-and-moved-to-australia/
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Read more … ‘flight to affordability’ …

2019 & February Update Sections
… Performance Urban Planning …
http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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June 10, 2019 9:01am
srylands

So two thirds of the way into his term we still have New Zealand media running articles saying Trump is a terrible person. That’s it. Oh and he is stupid.

I presume his head will explode if Trump gets a second term.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/113307000/im-not-the-queen-so-i-dont-have-to-be-polite-to-donald-trump
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June 10, 2019 9:03am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The Narrative must not be questioned.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:25am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Of course he’s a horrible human being. So was Bill Clinton. Both reasonably effective though. Compared to Bush and Obama who are decent people but did a poor job as President. There’s no particular reason that character and effectiveness should go together.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:33am
  - Jules99
    
    Trump only became a ‘horrible human being’ when he decided to run for office. Up to that point he was feted in the media like most successful business people. In fact, Oprah actually suggested he should run. Look at the many interviews he has given in the past – he seems to really care about America and Americans. I always judge people by their words and actions, not the media’s claims about his personality.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:09am
    - Batman
      
      So, focusing on his known words and actions, the inescapable conclusion is that he is a bit of a buffoon.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:32am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I wouldn’t trust him to get my covfefe order right.
        
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        June 10, 2019 10:43am
      - Tall Man
        
        After you meet him let me know.
        
        Until that point you are merely basing your opinion on media rhetoeric, the bulk of which is extremely skewed.
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:40am
      - Tall Man
        
        I very much doubt he is as childish as you seem to be mikey.
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:40am
  - David Garrett
    
    Nigel: Well put. Obama was apparently a very nice man who achieved very little. History is replete with examples proving the old American adage “Nice guys finish last”.
    
    Take Winston Churchill: in my view indisputably the greatest statesman of the 20th century. He was a pisshead – almost certainly an alcoholic – a racist, something of a misogynist, and on occasion ruthlessly chucked subordinates under the bus for decisions he had signed off on. Not in many respects, a particularly nice guy, but a hugely effective one.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:16am
    - John Warren
      
      David, when you call Winston Churchill a racist, are you reaching this conclusion by viewing him through modern spectacles?
      
      To read Seven Pillars Of Wisdom through those same spectacles would be to condemn T.E. Lawrence as a bigoted racist too, yet the man fought heart and soul for the interests of the Arabs.
      
      Different times, different attitudes.
      
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      June 10, 2019 12:27pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Thank goodness mental heath funding has received a boost. Trump is turning many in the media insane. It’s quite fun to watch, but some one really ought to lock their crayons away.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:34am
  - David Garrett
    
    RP: Yes indeed….perhaps the worst example in New Zealand is Listener “journalist” Paul Thomas – his expertise is in sports reporting – whose diatribes about Trump seem to appear in the Listener every second week. He quite clearly suffers badly from TDS…the problem is there really is no New Zealand equivalent magazine…North & South only comes out monthly, costs more than twice as much, and contains a lot of stuff that is of no interest to me. And I only rarely manage to get the Listener cross word out.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:21am
    - Rich Prick
      
      The weird thing is that the better things get in the US, the louder our media’s Tourettes gets. I don’t think any of them have reported objectively on Trump’s successes. And yes having spent a reasonable amount of time in middle America, I really do think he will get a second term.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:35am
      - marcw
        
        DTT — love it. Gives a better impression of how unhinged the sufferers appear, but sad that it compares on those in the community who exhibit these symptoms through no fault of their own.
        
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        June 10, 2019 5:38pm
    - MH
      
      A diatribe is a verbal thingy not a written thingy
      
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      June 10, 2019 2:55pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Not necessarily:
        https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/diatribe
        
        https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/diatribe
        
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        June 10, 2019 5:19pm
- Jules99
  
  I reckon he will win the popular vote as well as the real one.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:41am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Particularly if he actually stops illegal immigrants from Voting (or in Chicago dead people). Seems a fair bit of evidence that the last three elections may have been tainted by the Democratic voting machine.
    
    Why is it that no ID is required to vote? Why is requiring ID racist?
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:35am
- The King
  
  This will surly be the end of ronald blumorf, this unique article will do it this time.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:47am
hullkiwi

A sure bet for tomorrow. Jacinda and Winston will not be in the Chamber to answer Prime Minister’s questions. It seems National are going to be asking questions tomorrow about what government ministers and the PM knew when and what they did. Plus they are putting out veiled references to Mallard not to run protection for them.

Looks like tomorrow could be fun viewing!
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June 10, 2019 9:04am
- Prince
  
  They won’t be concerned. Their answer, supported by Mallard, will be ‘my approval rating is in the double figures’.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:38am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They won’t be concerned.
    
    Jacinda Ardern did not look too happy when interviewed by TV One last night about Labour’s fall in their poll.
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/despite-collins-polling-higher-preferred-pm-bridges-safe-national-leader-now-jessica-mutch-mckay?auto=6046278942001
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:35am
lastmanstanding

The Polls demonstrate that whilst 45% (Nats/ACT) want to wipe their own arses 55% expect the Government to wipe it for them.
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June 10, 2019 9:05am
Maggie Pie

KDC ‘sounds’ a bit sad this morning – yet he ‘looks’ happy. How odd.

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1137791361157980161
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June 10, 2019 9:06am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Last Chance Saloon for Dotcom. With any luck, he’ll soon by boarding a Con Air flight to Virginia, dressed in an orange jumpsuit.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:25am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Can’t see he’d be very happy about that. Don’t they do them in black?
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:33am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Orange is the new black 😀
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:42am
  - Andrei
    
    Why? he should only be tried for crimes committed under the law of the juristiction where they occured by that juristiction
    
    The idea that American courts can try non Americans under American law for things done in countries where American law does not apply should be an anaethema to you.
    
    But this is not about truth, justice and the American way – it is about large US corperations using Government muscle to protect their own commercial advantage
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:46am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Andrei, Dotcom has repeatedly said he wants his day in court in the US so that he can be cleared of the charges against him.
      
      On the other hand, of course, he has resisted extradition at ever step. As for the crimes not being committed within American jurisdiction, you are wrong. Megaupload’s servers were located in the US, hence the charges being laid in that jurisdiction.
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:56am
      - Andrei
        
        Love him or loath him, Tony, Kim Dotcom was a pioneer in cloud computing something that large US corporations, like Alphabet and Microsoft were well behind on.
        
        All this nonsense has allowed them to catch up and potentially put him out of business.
        
        Right now the US Government is trying to knock Huawei out of the mobile communications market using the US legal system and extraditions as well as pressuring foreign Governments such as our own not to deal with them.
        
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        June 10, 2019 10:14am
      - Batman
        
        He ran what was basically a looser and open version of Dropbox which allowed users to search each others’ files.
        
        It was basically a different version of pirate bay ??
        
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        June 10, 2019 10:22am
      - freemark
        
        “He ran what was basically a looser and open version of Dropbox which allowed users to search each others’ files.
        
        It was basically a different version of pirate bay ??”
        
        Incorrect. He paid people quite well to sell Mega material copyrighted by others, then he charged other people (in some form) to access this material. He thought he was being a smartass, and got caught.
        
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        June 10, 2019 10:50am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Quite correct freemark. He paid people to get fresh content, then he charged people for access to Megaupload where people could access the content, and the content creator would not get paid. That’s neither legal not ethical.
        
        I refer to the case of the New Zealand software developer, who is mentioned in the brief of evidence. He created a sound editing software package, which initially sold well, but suddenly the sales dropped. He then discovered a link to his software for free at Megaupload. He contacted them, and asked that the link be taken down. It was, then sales picked up again, then dropped off, and again and again, he found links on Megaupload. He contemplated legal action against Megaupload, but realised that it would break him financially, fighting the might of Dotcom and his rich mates.
        
        My personal belief is that Dotcom is a snake oil salesman, who is happy to profit from the work of others, and has no regard whatsoever for others’ property rights. I would be very surprised if the Supreme Court rules in his favour, and won’t lose any sleep if he is extradited to the US to face the charges on which he was originally arrested.
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:19am
    - peterwn
      
      He did the things in USA by choice even though he was not physically in USA.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:59am
SPC

Everyone knows the issue of partisanship of different tribes on different social media sites, and in some countries there are media that cater to either left, or right, wing slant of the news.

So what does make of the rival Jessica (TVNZ) and Tova (TV3/Newshub) shows on Sunday night – totally different takes on the current state of popular opinion on the political parties?

Do they seek out those polls that comfort their target demographics (old people who own property who watch TV1 and that younger demographic that does not watching TV3)? Or is this just a happy coincidence?

Of course, if they were to do a follow up today using the poll done by the other, they would end up becoming a parody of the commentators on the muppets.
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June 10, 2019 9:13am
Fletch

I had to laugh. The first question on this morning’s Stuff Daily Quiz has a photo of Hillary Clinton with the question, “Who is this U.S Politician?”. I wonder how many people got it right?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes/113344695/quiz-morning-trivia-challenge-june-10
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June 10, 2019 9:41am
- Alien
  
  Hmmm, “the female that laughed when she got a pedophile A reduced sentence for raping a 12 year old ” isn’t a listed answer so I don’t know what to put
  
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  June 10, 2019 11:09am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    And a completely unfair answer.
    
    There’s plenty of stuff for which she should be strongly criticised, but it is quite clear from the full audio that she’s laughing at the incompetence of the prosecution. As a lawyer, she was required to give her client the best possible defence, which she did.
    
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    June 10, 2019 1:32pm
    - Alien
      
      Thanks for proving my point she laughed at getting him a reduced sentence, any human being including lawyers would not laugh at such things but this is the person who laughed and attacked the woman that her husband raped as well.
      
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      June 10, 2019 2:08pm
Poppa

I don’t have much faith in poll results for two reasons

1. People tell lies to the polling companies

2. Because they are done on behalf of the media
outlets they could be massaged prior to release
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June 10, 2019 9:43am
Maggie Pie

My partners mum txts from the village:
“Its an awkward moment when you realise your Wheelie Bin goes out more than you do”
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June 10, 2019 9:46am
- Alien
  
  Tell her to hop in the wheelie bin then and go for outings with it
  
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  June 10, 2019 11:10am
KiWombat

I see that Budget 2019/20 allocated yet a further $12 million to the Pike River Mine recovery agency.

That will bring the total allocated to more than $50 million.

Meanwhile, down the road in Greymouth, there is a new hospital just waiting to be opened, but they cannot afford to put any beds or equipment into it. They are presently repainting the new hospital grey, regular maintenance no doubt on what is now a non productive asset !
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June 10, 2019 9:52am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Dr David Clark should be the first Minister to be reshuffled by the PM. His handling of the health portfolio has been a nightmare.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:57am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Tony Stuart, how has his ” mishandling” personally impacted on your health and well being?
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:04am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Reduction (by half of diabetes podiatry services)
      My wife given 6 months/1 yr/2yrs to live due to a heart condition, all tests not done or reported on since February, she’s getting worse.
      We call, and can’t get a response from the nurses involved, have to leave messages and wait.
      She needs replacement nose tube for the Oxygen machine….who to contact?
      CONTRAST
      Under National when she NEEDED a back operation, after being told for 5 years, she would have to wait. Less than one year after Tony Ryall became health minister, it was being arranged, the 2 CHCH earthquakes delayed it, but it was done straight after that.
      I take this opportunity to THANK National but more specifically Tony, for having the competence, drive and work ethic that lead to the good out comes then, for my wife.
      I spit on Helen Clark and Annette King for their borderline corruption and incompetence, that caused my wife so much pain (Morphine every day).
      And I am back to the same attitude from yet another useless and lazy Labour Govt., that is causing her suffering AGAIN!!@!@!!
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:38am
      - Alien
        
        Yeah, Clark government left the health sector in one heck of a mess, and it is heading that way again.
        
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        June 10, 2019 11:12am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Sorry to hear this RWC. I hope she can access the care she needs, despite this useless government.
        
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        June 10, 2019 1:33pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      You are beyond the pale Stuffy! Of course most people here care that our tax dollars are spent sensibly on hospitals, even if we don’t have a personal need. It should be the equivalent of health insurance.
      
      Yes, I would prefer Greymouth hospital to be functional to more millions to being wasted on the collapsed mine.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:39am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      It hasn’t personally impacted on me – yet. However I believe that Clark is simply not up to the job, and whilst he was a lion in opposition, he has been a lamb as Minister. He is simply not up to the job, but he’s not alone in that.
      
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      June 10, 2019 11:21am
    - Tall Man
      
      “Smack” for steffy.
      
      Please explain how this coalition of corrupt politicians has enhanced you life steffy girl?
      
      If you can’t, please refrain from commenting further……. abide by your own warped rules.
      
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      June 10, 2019 12:16pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        4 hours gone by…and as usual, no reply from stephieboy when he is asked a curly question.
        
        People take the time to reply courteously to stephieboy… but he’s nowhere to be seen.
        
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        June 10, 2019 4:19pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I get the feeling a lot of his posts don’t make it through the Mods…
        He’s not nearly as prolific- thankfully
        
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        June 10, 2019 4:30pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  How many Hector Dolphins are there at Pike River?
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:49am
  - sooty
    
    None, they all got concreted in!
    
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    June 10, 2019 2:52pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  ” non productive asset !”
  Contradiction in terms.
  
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  June 10, 2019 11:20am
  - KiWombat
    
    Well we own it, so it is one of our assets, but it is not yet able to operate as a hospital as they have not put any beds or equipment into it.
    
    I suppose it is productive in supplying a few jobs to painters and gardeners though, but not for the purpose for which it was originally constructed !
    
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    June 10, 2019 12:45pm
Ross12

Interesting headline in the UK Telegraph

“Macron warns Boris UK economy will be plunged into turmoil if he withholds £39bn divorce payment”

It appears Macron does not really understand economics like some else we know. Alternatively or maybe both, he is just attempting blackmail (cannot be bullying from from a short ar..e like him).
The article is behind a paywall but this is the start

“Emmanuel Macron has warned Boris Johnson that Britain’s economy will be downgraded and plunged into turmoil if the UK withholds the £39billion Brexit divorce payment from Brussels.

Mr Johnson used his first interview of the Tory leadership campaign to warn that he would “retain” the divorce bill until he got a better deal with the EU.

He said in an interview with The Sunday Times that the money would be a “great lubricant” to persuade European nations to reopen talks on the Irish backstop and the terms of a future trade deal.

However a source close to Mr Macron, the French President, said the failure to pay the divorce bill would represent the equivalent of a “sovereign debt default”, such as..

Johnson should give up and just walkout, assuming he gets to be PM. The EU has no intention of changing the Berlin Agreement (as some in the UK call it).
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June 10, 2019 9:53am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Boris should just say, what I believe Teresa should have said.
  We are not negotiating!!!
  We are leaving!!!
  We will be worse off for a while, BUT it WILL be worse for you!!!
  Make us an offer.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:42am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Having thought for a minute.
    I would probably add.
    We are negotiating replacement deals with the Commonwealth and the USA.
    Dare you to try to do something about it, but would suggest you do the same.
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:51am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      RWC, would you *ever* trust the UK again with our trade 🙁 ?
      
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      June 10, 2019 1:58pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        CL, the answer is always, no. However, it was as though we didn’t have warnings throughout the 1960s.
        
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        June 10, 2019 4:10pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        YES, but NEVER Labour.
        I was in London in the ’80’s, when MASSIVE chillers to keep the mountains of Butter from Europe were stored in Vauxhall.
        They still insisted on buying our butter against the demands of the Common market.
        BUT
        As soon as Blair/Brown got in, they sent them whole heartedly into the EU, that’s when it started to go wrong for us (and them too).
        
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        June 10, 2019 5:45pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    RWC, it is a case of Macron speaking out yet again, trying to threaten the UK, when there is not a ratified agreement.
    
    Equally, as the HoL has determined, there is no legal basis for the divorce payment. So, Macron would be well advised not to antagonise the UK, else he encourages the UK to ignore him and they talk to the organ grinder (Germany) rather than the monkeys.
    
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    June 10, 2019 4:16pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The mental health crisis that won’t be fixed by the well-being budget.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/113155176/she-just-gets-written-off-mother-tries-to-get-compulsory-care-for-daughter
addiction + mental illness seems an intractable problem to me
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June 10, 2019 9:57am
UrbanNeocolonialist

“the denial of basic reality enforced by threatening to make anyone unemployable if they use their eyes and their brains is making the loony right attractive. And for what??? These lies don’t bear a minute’s scrutiny. They just make our institutional Left look insane.”

Eric Weinstein (an intellectual titan of the moderate left) on how the left is driving people to the right.
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June 10, 2019 9:57am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Society needs a moderate left.
  In the same way that a ruling party needs a competent opposition to call them out and to act as a counterweight to achieve balance.
  Yin and Yang, and the concept of dualism (and all that.)
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:10am
Ford Prefect

If the Crusaders are made to change their name because of the hurty feelings some people might have, should the London Saracens also have to change their names?

Also,
Highlanders – Also scary
Reds – too communist
Blues – too sad and suicidal
Stormers, Hurricanes – Too climate change
Bulls, Sharks, Jaguars, Cheetahs – Too scary
Warratahs – Nice. All teams should be named after flowers

Dont get me started about the Warriors or All Blacks
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June 10, 2019 10:04am
- Jules99
  
  Can’t make up my mind whether All Whites is more racist than All Blacks. Perhaps an SJW can help me out here.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:10am
  - Tall Man
    
    Neither… don’t care.
    
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    June 10, 2019 2:09pm
- Inandout
  
  FP, the haka must make the snowflakes poo their pants:
  
  ‘The haka is a type of ancient Māori war dance traditionally used on the battlefield, as well as when groups came together in peace. Haka are a fierce display of a tribe’s pride, strength and unity. Actions include violent foot-stamping, tongue protrusions and rhythmic body slapping to accompany a loud chant’.
  
  All that shouting must make them run for safety, just like people clapping hands frightens them.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:13am
- BrownSnake
  
  How about “The Mongols” make it multi Cultural
  
  I like Mongolian Culture by the way
  Start the match with a bit of throat singing
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_5yt5IX38I
  
  In Praise of Genghis Khan
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_xxUolQvaI
  
  They view him (Genghis ) as a Hero and he is misunderstood he was really a sensitive new age guy.
  
  He was read up on him
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnwU4nDim6Q
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:18am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Must watch: “The Hu” Mongolian rock/metal, throat singing and traditional instruments and some great scenery.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:25am
    - BrownSnake
      
      Thank you – Thank you – Thank you
      
      That is fantastic I always wanted to put a hum bucking pick up on a Tenor Banjo and crank out some tunes but – they have beat me to it
      
      That is Awesome
      
      I mean go for MONGOLS
      
      Awesome Culture – Great History
      
      You can’t help but Admire Genghis
      he is mis understood – imho he is or was a
      Sensitive New Age Guy
      
      I mean certain people murdered his father
      left his family to die on the steppes, stole his first favourite wife (who was actually christian) he got her back and raised the son conceived in absence as his own. Then after unifying the mongols he
      want to set up peaceful trade, seriously they stole his property he attempted negotiation one last time and they insulted/assaulted his negotiators
      
      What else is a Mongol meant to do?
      Seriously. How much can a good mongol
      stand or tolerate ? Honestly enough was enough
      as far as he was concerned?
      
      Got a bit ugly after that but no one can say
      he didn’t at least try and give peace a chance.
      
      “I am the punishment of God…If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
      ― Genghis Khan
      
      Did you know the communists attempted to suppress the history of the mongol people
      
      Genghis had red hair for all you Gingerphobes
      
      You can say what you like he is one of the only
      Undefeated Generals in History
      
      Like ole Vlad it was his interaction with certain
      people that made him that way
      
      Sad but True
      
      Gingas
      
      He was a Shamanist
      
      In touch with Nature
      
      If you are into that culture the Horse Boy is a good read he travelled by horse back into Mongolia
      to greatly improve the condition of his Autistic Son
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse_Boy
      
      <
      https://lyricstranslate.com/en/untitled-praise-genghis-khan.html
      
      Blessed by the eternal sky,
      Born of the steppe,
      Everywhere in blue-skied Mongolia,
      His name resounds in the world,
      
      Like Alexander the Great worth Studying.
      
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      June 10, 2019 1:37pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Mongols were just last iteration of nomadic horse warriors that have driven civilisational/military development and technology transfer in Europe and Asia in waves for last 4-5000 years, upsetting local stability with external pressure. Huns, Scythians and Kurgan came before them.
        
        They were great at war and crap at administration, their huge empire fell apart within 50 years.
        
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        June 10, 2019 5:02pm
  - Sacha
    
    I like the throat-singing video. Wonderful country, visually pleasant, and soothing to the ear.
    Thanks for the link.
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:36am
  - MH
    
    the elephants remember him….but then again they would
    
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    June 10, 2019 3:07pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Misses the point. Crusaders is not ok. Warriors or even Vikings is fine. The difference is the skin colour of the attacker vs the victim. Only bad things done to brown people by white people are a big deal.
  
  That’s why we stopped playing sport against South Africa but not against China, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan etc.
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:29am
  - BrownSnake
    
    Mongols it is then
    
    Look here is a Translation of a Song
    
    Just for you to view I think this is really PC
    
    This could work them singing it as they come on
    and off the field.
    
    https://lyricstranslate.com/en/untitled-praise-genghis-khan.html
    
    Blessed by the eternal sky,
    Born of the steppe,
    Everywhere in blue-skied Mongolia,
    His name resounds in the world,
    
    The courageous Mongol Genghis,
    The sublime lord Genghis.
    
    Even in burning wounds,
    A mind strong as steel,
    Like temporal swords,
    As powerful as a planetary bird,
    
    The courageous Mongol Genghis,
    The sublime lord Genghis.
    
    Blessed by the sky above,
    Possessed half the world,
    Engrained is his spirit,
    In the majestic and mighty world.
    
    The courageous Mongol Genghis,
    The sublime lord Genghis.
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:35am
    - BrownSnake
      
      What’s the problem with celebrating mongol culture are you all racists or something?
      I thought NZ was multicultural Now – get with the program will you – what’s your fricken problem are you trump supporters or something?
      
      You all need to be interviewed.
      
      Can’t handle a little bit of Heavy Metal throat singing – you should all be ashamed of yourselves
      
      Seriously
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:47pm
  - MH
    
    Fiji
    
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    June 10, 2019 3:07pm
- Rocky Jnr
  
  Very good!
  
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  June 10, 2019 10:29am
Yvette

The accuracy of current polls does little to inspire confidence that a referendum on cannabis will actually give the country any helpful answer.
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June 10, 2019 10:07am
artemisia

Kiwibuild homes could become more affordable when large buildings full of shoeboxes come on stream. Provided there are buyers for them of course.

Given there are already a lot of shoeboxes on the market in cities, and not with a lot of social housing neighbours.

The shoeboxes will be 1 bedroom or even studios. Noted that over half of those on the state housing list do not have children, and most are single people, it is pretty obvious where supply and demand might match up.

Soz Kiwibuild buyers.
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June 10, 2019 10:15am
- All_on_Red
  
  Where are these large apartment buildings Artemisia?
  
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  June 10, 2019 11:11am
  - Tall Man
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/category/tag/auckland-apartment-prices
    
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    June 10, 2019 12:22pm
    - artemisia
      
      Part (maybe a big part) of the reduced demand for apartments in Auckland will be that the traditional market – landlords – are buying much fewer these days. Reserve Bank lending to residential landlords well down on a couple of years back – close to 65% down now from mid 2016. Talking around $1.5billion down a month – that is a truckload of rentals not bought.
      
      Kiwibuild developers with big contracts in their pocketes (10,000+ contracted to build)laughing all the way to the bank.
      
      Soz taxpayers.
      
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      June 10, 2019 4:28pm
  - artemisia
    
    We only know about a selection of specifics so far.
    
    Go to the official site and click on Available Homes at the foot.
    
    Nothing yet about the huge Unitec development for example, with thousands of homes planned including apartment buildings. (Probably, that was the plan but there has been a recalibration since.)
    
    http://www.kiwibuild.govt.nz
    
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    June 10, 2019 1:41pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Thanks for the KB link
      They’re doing more than I thought.
      I was more interested in where are all these new apartment buildings full of shoeboxes and when are they coming on stream.
      I was thinking inner city but you’re referring to Mt Albert?
      
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      June 10, 2019 2:42pm
      - artemisia
        
        Kiwibuild at 340 Onehunga has studio apartments that originally were under the bank minimum for lending of 40 sqm, but were quickly redesigned to bring them to the 40sqm size when the media took an interest. Shoebox. One beddies will be bigger but prob not much. I think that info is only available from the developers.
        
        If interested, check out the filter for studio and 1 bedroom apartments at the Homes Available link.
        
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        June 10, 2019 3:38pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Seriously
        They tried to promote product a Bank wouldn’t finance…
        Pretty amateur eh
        
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        June 10, 2019 3:51pm
backster

Ho hum Tenth coldest May on record for the United States and 2nd wettest.
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June 10, 2019 10:22am
The King

Now Golriz is to scared to leave her house, if she cant leave her house how will she find her diversity for her strength?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12237817
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June 10, 2019 10:52am
- Alien
  
  I would bet if you follow some of the threats they come from her partner, guy Williams, as a plan of the two to get her media attention and for her to carry her fake drama of being abused and threatened. Dont trust or believe her for a minute
  
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  June 10, 2019 11:15am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Even less @$2.50/week.
    
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    June 10, 2019 11:53am
- Tall Man
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wspxT2MmACM
  
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  June 10, 2019 12:24pm
Jack5

The move towards Maori separatism continues, as the Government announces more than $40 million for the “Te Hurihanganu” initiative.

Kelvin Davis, Associate Minister of Education, says the project money is “towards addressing racism and bias in education systems and better support Maori learning.”

Is Davis saying you run education on racial lines to combat racism?

This is from the Stuff report about the grant:

Two “critical factors” were identified that support Maori learners, high quality teaching that reflects Maori culture and identity, and strong engagement from whanau and the wider community.

New Zealand is pushing hard towards more parallel systems based on race: in education, in justice most noticeably.

If that’s what the country wants, fair enough. But is describing a race-based strategy as anti-racism hypocrisy?

My two-volume, 1973 Shorter Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t even include the word “racism”. The word has has been created since then, likely by political activists.

An online dictionary called “English Oxford Living Dictionary” (with “Living” in italics) gives the word “racism” two meanings:

1: “Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.”

2: “The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.”

The fund Davis has announced support for seems to fit the second definition, particularly if you drop the second clause, which says “especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races”.

He would have to agree if he wants NZ separatism to be differentiated from South African apartheid.

If he doesn’t support this definition, surely he must accept Maori school pupils are not different from others in “characteristics and abilities”. In that case, why a race-based grant?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/politics/113354258/government-announces-new-initiative-for-mori-learners
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June 10, 2019 11:00am
- Alien
  
  It is time we understand that with education, one side does not fit all. This was where charter schools we being successful. It is a shame that we have a prime minister who prefers to be guided by what the unions want than the hugely positive results the charter schools were having. It shows she does not care for poverty, she does not care for lifting kids out of the cycle of failure that is the state education system for those that struggle with it. She just cares about trying to be popular and do what the puppet masters tell her
  
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  June 10, 2019 11:18am
- Yvette
  
  The Wellbeing Budget allocated $42 million over three years to the programme, which builds on the Te Kotahitanga programme. The Ministry of Education stopped funding Te Kotahitanga at the end of 2013 after spending more than $40 million on it over 12 years.
  
  This will possibly thwart the Waitangi Tribunal consideration of Labour destroying partnership schools.
  
  But how much were partnership schools costing in their operation?
  It appears to be a never revealed detail.
  Would it have been more or less than $42 million?
  
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  June 10, 2019 12:00pm
- Jack5
  
  For another view of Maoridom, Alan Duff, a doer with his books-in-homes work rather just a talker, has a good article in Stuff.
  
  Duff describes Maori, with their high level of political representation, as the most well-adjusted, self-asserted indigenous race in human history.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111643496/once-were-warriors-25-years-on-violence-addiction-sexual-abuse–what-has-new-zealand-learned
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111643496/once-were-warriors-25-years-on-violence-addiction-sexual-abuse–what-has-new-zealand-learned
  
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  June 10, 2019 1:51pm
  - Tall Man
    
    He is an unwanted voice within maoridom. Unwanted by the extremists that is.
    
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    June 10, 2019 2:48pm
Swifty

Following on from the Alwyn Poole/John Campbell housing piece the other day:

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/john-campbell-issued-trespass-notice-while-investigating-caravan-park-declared-unfit-children

I ask you to view this piece – ‘Bushman’ produced by the National Film Unit in 1952, showing life in Oraukura, particularly from 3.30 mins onwards.:

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/bushman-1952/overview

A genuine question – why is what would have been taken for granted as quite normal in our past now totally unacceptable today?

Is the poverty being discussed today really a poverty of infrastructure, in this case housing, or is it poverty of spirit, of ambition, of responsibility?

My parents both had outside longdrops growing up, washing was done in a copper with a machine and wringer subsequently, small bedrooms with multiple kids etc etc – but they turned out alright.

I’d be interested in any thoughts.
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June 10, 2019 11:32am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Clearly, because your parents lived in what we would consider today to be sub-standard conditions, it would be okay if other people still lived in those conditions.
  Poverty is always relative to what other people have.
  
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  June 10, 2019 12:29pm
- Tall Man
  
  “A genuine question – why is what would have been taken for granted as quite normal in our past now totally unacceptable today?”
  
  No snowflakes or social media for them to whine on.
  
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  June 10, 2019 12:31pm
- mandk
  
  House? They were lucky.
  
  I used to dream of living in a house.
  
  (Sorry. Couldn’t resist that one)
  
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  June 10, 2019 12:38pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    But you try and tell the young people today that… and they won’t believe ya
    
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    June 10, 2019 1:31pm
  - MH
    
    back to shoeboxes in middle of road
    
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    June 10, 2019 3:13pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Child poverty is always relative by the way the government assesses it. Which is why it can never be eliminated!
  
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  June 10, 2019 2:04pm
  - Tall Man
    
    And allowing the groups that benefit financially from “eliminating” it to control the narrative is just bloody ignorant.
    
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    June 10, 2019 2:46pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It is frequently defined as living in a family on <60% of average income. Which is a rather obvious marxist agenda on display by the promoters.
    
    Some questions from poverty surveys:
    
    -suitable clothes for important or special
    occasions?
    -have a holiday overseas at least every
    three years?
    -go without fresh fruit or vegetables?
    -buy cheaper cuts of meat or buy less
    meat than you would like?
    -continue wearing clothing that was worn
    out?
    -postpone or put off visits to the doctor?
    -postpone or put off visits to the dentist?
    -spend less on hobbies or other special interests than you would like?
    -put up with feeling cold?
    -delay replacing or repairing broken or damaged appliances?
    -delay replacing or repairing broken or worn-out furniture?
    
    I fail on all of these at times, but like fuck do I live in poverty. I just prioritise savings over spending.
    
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    June 10, 2019 4:02pm
- calendar girl
  
  For those of us who saw any of the late 1950s / 1960s, Swifty, your penultimate paragraph says it all. That level of grinding, material poverty for ‘working class’ people is thankfully today a thing of the past for most of our population; and today’s ‘welfare state’ provides an ongoing protective shield against the worst ravages of such poverty.
  
  Your question about a “poverty of spirit, of ambition, of responsibility” may be mixing metaphors a little confusingly, but I think that it comes close to identifying some of the issues. Two other aspects, however, are:
  a) many ordinary people once assisted and supported their neighbours to a greater degree than today when the the latter were in obvious need or hardship; and
  b) earlier generations may have had a greater personal discipline and / or incentive in their quest to escape lasting poverty, i.e. before the arrival of the ‘welfare state’.
  
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  June 10, 2019 5:24pm
  - Tall Man
    
    And also they had self respect.
    
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    June 10, 2019 7:22pm
Maggie Pie

When this just popped up on my twitter feed i must admit i thort of ‘Johnboy’ 🙂
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8pjZcqX4Ac91Yh?format=jpg&name=small
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June 10, 2019 11:37am
Andrei

Tony Stuart @ JUNE 10, 2019 11:19AM

My personal belief is that Dotcom is a snake oil salesman, who is happy to profit from the work of others, and has no regard whatsoever for others’ property rights.

No he didn’t sell snake oil, he came up with business model based on cloud computing which provided, among other things, a mechanism for people to distribute intellectual property to which they held no rights.

Whether or not the primary aim of his enterprise was the violation of property rights is up for debate.

In reality new technologies present new challenges to the distribution of materials subject to intellectual property rights.

CD ripping was a problem for music distributors in the 1990s – a lot of music on people’s iPODs was not paid for and that is a fact.

Now we have streaming services for music and given the subscription price and the available on them content ripping music is now no longer common or worthwhile

Same thing is happening with movies and streaming services.

New technologies, new business models that is the answer

Most people are not going to illegally download content if they can get it on netflix or rent or buy it from iTunes for a reasonable price
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June 10, 2019 11:54am
- Alien
  
  His people used to go into warez forums and offer free accounts
  
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  June 10, 2019 12:06pm
Tony Stuart

No he didn’t sell snake oil, he came up with business model based on cloud computing which provided, among other things, a mechanism for people to distribute intellectual property to which they held no rights.

I agree with your comments about the business model Andrei; it was genius. You pay a small number of people to accumulate content, which you then charge a vast number of people a subscription to access.

Unfortunately, it was also illegal. Dotcom was patently depriving those who created the content the opportunity to make an income from it. You can’t compare Megaupload to Netflix or Spotify, because they pay the content creators for the rights to use it. Dotcom was cutting out the middle man.
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June 10, 2019 12:10pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Yep, hosting pirated content is illegal, or should be if the illegality can be disputed (much like exploiting people’s security mistakes to access their data). However, the content owners (not creators, those are very different groups) were as much at fault in this as Dotcom was.
  
  If you set up business models in which most people can’t access your content except at great expense (eg, you sell exclusive rights to the content to a local provider, as though the Internet had geography or something), people are going to say “Fuck that” and access the content some other way.
  
  Illegal or not, Dotcom was just meeting a popular demand created by the very content owners accusing him of theft. If people perceive laws to have no ethical mandate, they don’t obey them (eg, witness the general flouting of rules against recreational drug use).
  
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  June 10, 2019 1:50pm
  - Tall Man
    
    “There are too many cannabis consumers to arrest: over half a million Kiwis regularly break the law on cannabis, including 70,000 on a daily basis!”
    
    A half a million does not become “general flouting” unless perhaps you are stoned when you are making that comment which is probably likely based on the stupidity many of your posts demonstrate.
    
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    June 10, 2019 2:19pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Sure, half a million current regular users, and on top of that all the people like me who have at least tried it. The number of people in NZ who’ve never tried cannabis would be very small – for the under-60 population, at least.
      
      Also: even if we take your number at face value, half a million people regularly flouting a law they see no ethical mandate for is pretty solid evidence for my point.
      
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      June 10, 2019 2:49pm
      - Tall Man
        
        And almost 400,000 speed camera tickets in 2018 so let’s drop speeding as an offense as well?
        
        You really strive hard to make an idiot of yourself.
        
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        June 10, 2019 6:59pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        You’re proving my point again, which is: if people perceive a law to have no ethical mandate, they won’t obey it.
        
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        June 10, 2019 8:10pm
    - MickMac
      
      That same argument can and has been made for Paedophilia..
      
      Just because loads of people are doing it, doesn’t make it right or OK.
      
      Cannabis or Paedos
      
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      June 10, 2019 2:59pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Well, yes, exactly. People who choose to disobey a law they see no ethical mandate for aren’t necessarily good people. They may be paedophiles, rapists, domestic abuse enthusiasts, you name it. Fortunately for us, the number of people with such fucked-up ethics is small.
        
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        June 10, 2019 3:34pm
Lee C

The same people who laud Kim “i’ve got a signed copy of Meine Kampf’ Dot Com for pirating other people’s stuff, and claim he was some kind of hero for un-limiting access to the ‘common man’ are now calling for facebook to limit what the ‘common man’ might or might be allowed to be exposed to.

But ‘cool’ with their hero owing a signed copy of Meine Kampf – as that represents his ‘freedom’ of speech.

Can it be they are only supporting KDC because he tried to bankroll a political party that might have led to the election of a Labour/Green administration? and famously incited crowds to chant ‘Fuck John Key!”?

Surely not, I mean that would be hypocrisy and double-standards of the highest order, wouldn’t it?
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June 10, 2019 1:33pm
- BrownSnake
  
  You can down load Mein Kampf as a pdf in 2 minutes.
  
  If some one has a copy or has read it does not prove or dis prove anything pdf signed or otherwise.
  
  My Grand Father Fought Against A Hitler and the List Division in July 1916 they sung “Deutschland uber alless” at night as they counter attacked it was a regimental patriotic song later to become a Significant National anthem.
  
  I know for a fact they were within 50-100m of each other?
  
  It did not start with A Hitler and it will not finish with him.
  
  My reasons for studying him and them are up close and personal if people study it and him for
  other reasons I do not have a problem with that, German or otherwise.
  
  I find it disgusting that you try and make a big deal about .. Main Kampf?
  
  Go and Read Germany Must Perish?
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Must_Perish!
  
  You can download that as a pdf
  
  You will understand why Germans basically nearly fought until the last round.
  
  His (AH) Fellow dispatch runner wrote his memoirs his recollection of the Day he faced off against my Grand father & Co is accurate more accurate than the other records of that day that are basically a fabrication.
  
  You can read that as well it does not make
  you a National Socialist if you are German or Not?
  
  The List Division also treated the dead and wounded with more respect than the British and Australian Commanders.
  
  They were the prototype.
  
  I am convinced that if one of my grandfathers grenades had got AH and they were within grenade range, nothing would have changed
  at all.
  
  People like you ensure a repetition of one sort or another.
  
  And so it goes on but leave me out of the Next one.
  
  And the Next Big one is the Pacific…..
  again.
  
  If you read a bit more you would know when it is coming.
  
  It was predicted WW2 and then WW3 in the Pacific in 1923.
  
  Did you know Australian Trees were planted all through the middle east before WW1?
  
  Americans of German descent were mostly sent
  to the Pacific to fight? why was that?
  
  Hey that means some of them helped save that joke of a country called NZ
  
  But hey a 3 page pdf from NZ
  and suppressing everything else
  is going to change the course of world history.
  
  So I apologise.
  
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  June 10, 2019 5:14pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Long winded but a good point.. or points.
    
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    June 10, 2019 6:48pm
    - Jack5
      
      Brownsnake, re your “Americans of German descent were mostly sent to the Pacific to fight …”
      
      You mean like the Allied commander, General Eisenhower and General Carl Spaatz, commander of the American portion of strategic bombing of Germany?
      
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      June 10, 2019 9:11pm
- sooty
  
  May he get a free trip some time soon, as a reward for trying to screw our political system!
  
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  June 10, 2019 5:25pm
  - BrownSnake
    
    I thought the raid on his West Auckland property was the best bit of NZ Comedy I have ever seen.
    
    I thought they would have confiscated his copy of Mein Kampf at least.
    
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    June 10, 2019 6:06pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Borrowed his dope though I heard….
      
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      June 10, 2019 6:52pm
Happychappy

I don’t think Cloe or the Green Party will be particularly happy with this if the pollsters have got this right.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12239012
But you couldn’t guarantee that Andrew Little won’t change the rules when the next Election gets closer.
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June 10, 2019 2:32pm
- alloytoo
  
  Somewhere in the past two years the conversation turned from medicinal cannabis to recreational cannabis.
  
  Some people are just now beginning to notice the bait and switch.
  
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  June 10, 2019 3:40pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Yep, looks like we need lots of elderly National voters to die off before this has a chance – as per most other social progress of the last 60 years.
  
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  June 10, 2019 3:48pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Many (or most?) people up to probably 80 or so have used at some point in their life – I know my elderly parents have before I was born. They probably just see the damage it does and quite reasonably don’t want it to be any more available than it is – status quo preferred. I disagree with them, but hard to argue that drugs aren’t fucking up lives of poor and dumb in our country, turning marginally employable into no-hopers. Though not a problem for majority of NZers possessed of self control.
    
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    June 10, 2019 4:46pm
    - sooty
      
      And we thought that you had been dropped on your head as a baby, now we know the truth!
      
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      June 10, 2019 5:22pm
    - Tall Man
      
      “fucking up lives of poor and dumb in our country”
      
      psycho certainly proves that point.
      
      Must be upping his dope dosage as he has been getting a bit nasty lately.
      
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      June 10, 2019 6:07pm
  - Tall Man
    
    And we really need some of the watermelons and labour supporters to grow up.
    
    I think that will happen sooner than you think.. or don’t think in your case psycho.
    
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    June 10, 2019 6:45pm
Happychappy

A great column by Liam Hehir today on the Governments decision to lower the speed limit, saying this will lose the Coalition the Election if they go ahead with it and doubts Jacinda could get Winston on side.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/113352365/speed-limits-could-bring-government-to-a-halt
This will not make the Greens happy if they lose out again, so let’s hope it causes all sorts of problems for th Princess.
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June 10, 2019 2:54pm
- MH
  
  does it mean cyclists can peddle faster to take up the slack or take advantage of the gaps between slower cars?
  
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  June 10, 2019 3:19pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  The government’s made a decision to lower the speed limit? Can you link to this decision? I’ve seen only a press release from NZTA saying they think it should be lowered on various roads.
  
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  June 10, 2019 3:38pm
  - Tall Man
    
    “The government’s made a decision”.. yeah I know, must be a “fucken”(sic) joke.
    
    Haven’t seen a committee report yet.
    
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    June 10, 2019 6:03pm
MickMac

Finally, they are coming to the end of th show.
The target Ex President Obama…..

Can’t wait, but will Trump pardon him?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/when_john_dean_testifies_the_real_watergate_analogy_should_be_made_clear.html
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June 10, 2019 2:56pm
MickMac

Social Media
When are they going to be split up/downsized/made fully compliant to all the territories they operate in.

Only America can do it as they all reside there, anti-Trust actions can only happen there. is Trump the man to do it?

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/a_realistic_proposal_for_taming_the_facebook_goliath.html
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June 10, 2019 3:08pm
Ross12

Barry Soper is not happy with the PM

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2019/06/barry-soper-d-day-wartime-generation-is.html

Good article and a good final line :
“Those who advised Ardern not to go should remember that.”
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June 10, 2019 3:26pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I reckon the people who approved the commemorative programme should be held to account.
  
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  June 10, 2019 3:45pm
  - Tall Man
    
    And yet earlier you didn’t care.
    
    Come to your senses eh mikey?
    
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    June 10, 2019 5:52pm
    - Alien
      
      Lefties, they swing what ever way they think will make them popular
      
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      June 10, 2019 8:02pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Soper writes:
  
  So along with Presidents Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron and Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Theresa May (days out from standing down), and even German’s Chancellor Angela Merkel where was our Prime Minister?
  
  Why wasn’t the Prime Minister of New Zealand, which had no military units involved in the battle, up there with the leaders of those countries that did have military units involved? Gee, I dunno Barry, it’s just a total fucken mystery I guess.
  
  Of course, if she had gone, Soper, Hosking, Hawkesby et al would have written sour posts about wasting taxpayers’ money on ligging with world leaders and cadging photo ops for electoral purposes, so why would she give a shit what they write?
  
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  June 10, 2019 3:45pm
  - Alien
    
    No only you would of written post attacking the for supporting her going.
    
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    June 10, 2019 4:10pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Don’t forget the other catch-22:
    If she takes her daughter with her it’s to parade the baby as a prop for the media – child abuse.
    If she leaves her daughter at home – child neglect.
    
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    June 10, 2019 4:16pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You’re the one with the narrative here mikey.
      
      I guess as a lefty you have a real problem working out what response to what and when.
      
      We, on the other hand, have no such problem.
      
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      June 10, 2019 5:54pm
  - Tall Man
    
    We, as a country, were invited to an event that had the major leaders of the world that we deal with present.
    
    Not a time to have a meal time chat with them and maybe try to secure a steel deal or a foot in the door post brexit you think?
    
    Ah, that’s right, thinking rationally is beyond your scope. Much easier to stay home and play with a favourable media and school kids.
    
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    June 10, 2019 5:57pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      After all, nothing would show more respect for our glorious dead than the PM using their memorial to try and cadge some trade crumbs off the other leaders’ table, right?
      
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      June 10, 2019 6:30pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Idiotic comment but expected from someone like you.
        
        Trump is always on for a deal… not too sure what ardern is always on for…..
        
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        June 10, 2019 6:39pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Well, yes, Trump, a narcissist and sociopath, is always on for a deal that benefits him. Hopefully NZ doesn’t have aspirational goals for a similar level of “leadership.”
        
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        June 10, 2019 8:13pm
      - Ross12
        
        BS.
        
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        June 10, 2019 8:58pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Well yes, god forbid NZ would have someone who puts their Country First.
        Thankfully with ‘photo shoot’ Ardern we don’t
        Sarc/
        
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        June 10, 2019 9:14pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Well yes, god forbid NZ would have someone who puts their Country First.
        
        So, which is it? Is the complaint that she didn’t honour our glorious dead, or that she didn’t exploit the D-Day commemoration to try and bend various world leaders’ ears about what they could do for NZ? Those are mutually exclusive complaints.
        
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        June 10, 2019 9:50pm
MH

no use crying over spilt milk as me old mate Julius Caesar said on the steps of the Forum when hearing about the rise and fall of Fonterra shares. His wife, a woman above suspension was heard to say A2,Synlait?
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June 10, 2019 3:27pm
Jack5

Michael Reddell’s series about Reserve Bank Governor Orr’s battle with the banks continues today with comment on Liam Dann’s article yesterday.

This is debate is on a Reserve Bank move that is likely to affect interest rates.

Reddell points out that the Bankers’ Association call for the Reserve Bank to re-think its doubling of reserve requirements was supported by all banks, including the small NZ owned banks.

https://croakingcassandra.com/

Those interested in the banks’ position can download their association’s submission here:

https://www.nzba.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/190517-NZBA-submission-How-much-capital-is-enough.pdf
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June 10, 2019 4:15pm
Happychappy

The Prime Minister has a problem ().

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12239067
The second half of her press conference after Ron Mark has left is trying to convince the Journalist they didn’t know till late Wednesday that it wasn’t a hack.
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June 10, 2019 4:51pm
- Tall Man
  
  So, two options…
  
  1) little didn’t tell anyone despite saying he did or
  
  2) ardern is a liar….
  
  You decide.
  
  PS: That makes psycho a liar as well…….
  
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  June 10, 2019 5:50pm
  - Alien
    
    They knew they just thought they could use it to make national look bad, pity for them national had the brains to video what they were doing
    
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    June 10, 2019 8:00pm
- MickMac
  
  J….
  I don’t know why she can’t stop?
  Is she so arrogant or does she just say what she thinks needs to be said for their narrative or result.
  
  Why does she not know that people do check…
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:51pm
BrownSnake

I think Hoskings has a Point on D-Day.

I bet Guadalcanal Kokoda Midway and a host other epic struggles that at the time could have swung either way are not even on the radar?

That the First Marine Division trained in NZ
Auckland shipped (from Wellington) out to Guadalcanal stopped the Japanese and went to Melbourne to recover is something most
New Zealanders would be unaware of.

My Mother watched the Convoy as a child.

This (and others) is Close to NZ and why the joint was not lost and at the time was as Epic as D-Day.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3vegev
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June 10, 2019 6:31pm
- Tall Man
  
  And if we, as a country, are invited to a commemoration of those events we should attend but I’ll bet “what’s in it for wynston” will claim it if it is close to home…. and a bar.
  
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  June 10, 2019 6:43pm
  - BrownSnake
    
    The only thing these expert experienced
    International “States people” and negotiators
    have done with our nearest Ally is ask them to
    …
    
    change their Flag?
    
    How many people died under the Australian Flag?
    
    Top Priority Winestoned
    
    Awesome
    
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/change-your-flag-australia-says-nz-s-acting-pm-20180725-p4ztgf.html
    
    Change your flag, Australia, says NZ’s acting PM
    
    Of Course these Clowns are going to be a
    NO SHOW at D-Day
    
    Be Grateful he/she/it/they did not turn up and embarrass the country any further
    
    Christ only knows what outfits they would wear to be centre of the international stage.
    
    Winston in a Ronald McDonal outfit?
    
    July 25, 2018
    
    They really know their History this Bunch ?
    
    July 19th is the first time Australians fought in France. By the way if no ones knows.
    
    I mean he should if he knows when they adopted their flag it is not the flag Mate it is what you do
    under it and most of what they do under ours
    is best forgotten.
    
    You would think a government so keen
    to run to france to face issues generated here
    would know some dates?
    
    Like when Australian first fought there
    seems to know the dates of everything else?
    
    So same week of an important Aussie
    Anniversary you have a Kiwi acting D head PM
    telling them to change their flag in the 100th year of something else?
    
    Well 2018 is an anniversary isn’t it.
    
    Yes no one could choose a
    Year
    Week
    and Month
    
    like that to ask Aus to change their flag
    
    The Truth is they are
    
    Mentally Challenged and
    
    Historically Illiterate
    
    They are both Cringe Worthy
    
    A disgrace and an embarrassment
    there is not much in NZ to replace them with.
    
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    June 10, 2019 8:55pm
The King

I hope Mark Daalder from the spinoff is happy his article caused a suicide…

Jesse Anderson. Jesse was a New Zealand nationalist and one of the founders of the organization NZ Sovereignty. He helped organize the anti UN Migration protest in Auckland and other cities all over New Zealand. These protests led to Mark Daalder, a journalist from the Spinoff writing a hit piece of “New Zealand’s growing far-right movement” where personally he named Jesse as one of the main leaders of the movement. This story was then used by the family courts of New Zealand to justify taking Jesse’s one and only child, his one year old son away from him in February. Last week Jesse Anderson ended his own life. Mark Daalder, the “journalist” that ruined Jesse’s life, is an outspoken anti-white Marxist, and is yet another example of journalists ruining a man’s life. R.I.P Jesse Anderson.
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June 10, 2019 8:08pm
- Jack5
  
  Suicide related to a custody dispute is very sad.
  
  I did a search at The Spinoff and found just one Mark Daalder article mentioning Jesse Anderson. It was dated 2 February.
  
  It was a pretty flaky and predictable opinion piece, for example roping in Mr Multiculturism – Paul Spoonley – and former News of the World (closed because of phone hacking) reporter Andrea Vance.
  
  But surely the Family Court would not have based a custody decision on political scribbling like Daalder’s.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:04pm
  - Alien
    
    It’s a cop out by friends and family blaming the courts etc for their failure to help him and get him help.
    
    Just another loser taking the easy way out while people who go through far more and struggle to live through each day keep waking up fighting to live.
    
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    June 10, 2019 9:09pm
    - The King
      
      Bullshit you ever had your child taken off you by the state because you don’t have the same ideology as it?
      
      I hope one day a government gets in that will take your child away.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:17pm
    - BrownSnake
      
      You are oozing empathy there mate and respect and compassion for your fellow man.
      
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      June 10, 2019 10:52pm
  - The King
    
    “In the note his family found ,it specifically mentioned “the family court”
    
    https://www.facebook.com/nzfamiliesfedupwiththefamilycourt/posts/1796761733802730
    
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    June 10, 2019 10:14pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Why was custody of Mr Anderson’s child before the Family Court? The existence of an uncomplimentary blog post about him is an unlikely reason, so there was presumably something else behind it.
  
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  June 10, 2019 9:48pm
BrownSnake

It is that time again to look for Skinheads under the Bed
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June 10, 2019 10:43pm
BrownSnake

God Bless Johnny Cash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc
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