General Debate 15 June 2019

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Lee C

Is the current administration basically on life-support?
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June 15, 2019 8:15am
- Tony Stuart
  
  You may very well think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.
  
  I do note however that the youngest member of the coalition features extensively in Granny Herald this morning.
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:30am
  - JB.49
    
    Nothing new there then!
    
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    June 15, 2019 8:53am
    - sooty
      
      All bullshit and bluster!
      Was it behind the paywall?
      I clad you took one for the team!
      
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      June 15, 2019 10:30am
  - Tall Man
    
    We do not have a first family in New Zealand.
    
    We also have the propaganda wing of the coalition pushing the “posidividdy” regardless if it true or not.
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:41am
    - Tall Man
      
      Nice to see my honest assessment of the members of the media anointed “first family” deleted by the mods.
      
      I have still to receive a comment from the mods as to the reason that we are having this moderation and editing of comments referring to either the fisherman or ardern’s lack of honesty.
      
      Have we already succumbed to the accepted “new speech” as proscribed by the left?
      
      [Mod: Your persistent overuse of accusations of lying get yourself into trouble. Remember that DPF ends up legally responsible as it is his blog]
      
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      June 15, 2019 11:17am
      - Tall Man
        
        Hang on a minute.
        
        Are you saying that despite a week of lying by ardern, robertson and “what’s in it for wynston” that ardern is not to called a liar?
        
        Aren’t you being a little bit precious?
        
        The reference to the fisherman is accurate and has been used by many on this blog and elsewhere. While I may have been derogatory about him I feel that is not a misrepresentation of him and does not the “first family” title warrant strong criticism?
        
        I understand David is legally responsible but calling into question someone’s honesty when it has been clearly exposed on nummerous occasions as lacking cannot be libelous in any way.
        
        [Mod: just doing what DPF told us to do]
        
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        June 15, 2019 12:07pm
      - sooty
        
        Be careful, wasn’t that the excuess the nazi used?
        
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        June 15, 2019 8:32pm
  - Alien
    
    And the refugee mp had an article against her actions the other day
    
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/john-armstrongs-opinion-just-greens-start-shed-loony-left-rep-golriz-ghahraman-sets-them-back
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:44am
    - Tall Man
      
      I still think they are fruitloops.. but not the tasty kind.
      
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      June 15, 2019 11:09am
- Alien
  
  No because the media do not care
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:44am
- kowtow
  
  No , because they are being supported by the lifeless.
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:58am
- BrownSnake
  
  They got in Because National are USELESS
  
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  June 16, 2019 12:02am
kevn

NZ Herald has a ‘baby’ story this morning. Must be (more) bad news around the corner.
JA fakebook feeds on overtime recently…
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June 15, 2019 8:38am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  So what was the Friday 4.00PM dump then because that won’t be in the Auckland chip wrapper
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:50am
- JB.49
  
  Can hardly wait for the wedding coverage, not
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:54am
  - yossarian
    
    I’m still thinking about what I’m going to wear?
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:25am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      A hair shirt?
      
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      June 15, 2019 2:57pm
- GazzaW
  
  There’s no doubt that the country’s finances are heading into turbulent times. Pattrick Smellie joined the growing list of reputable analysts last night on NewstalkZB with a less than glowing report on our financial state. Robertson is repeatedly using the old answer of “I reject the premise of that question” to avoid straight answers to Amy Adams questioning in the House.
  
  The wheels are coming off.
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:01am
  - Tall Man
    
    Never had wheels, they had skids and the media have been holding them back from the inevitable downward slide.
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:43am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The wheels ~~are coming~~ have come off.
    Grant would be comic if he could do straight face.
    Like Winston he pretends jocularity is the essence of Parliament.
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:31am
  - projectman
    
    “I reject the premise of that question” is equivalent to the oft-used statement in court or formal interview of “no comment”. Make of that what you will.
    
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    June 15, 2019 3:15pm
- RightFirstTime
  
  Why are we not having a public holiday to celebrate the First Baby’s first birthday?
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:35am
  - Overworked
    
    She’s becoming desperate enough that the FB’s face is now available to be photographed, promises of not using the kid as publicity fodder have gone by the wayside it seems.
    
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    June 15, 2019 8:52pm
- Scooter
  
  I laugh at her FB posts, at least from the people that comment, she must be very popular in India and the rest of the Muslim world.
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:49pm
tf78

So we will have a week of ‘nearly’ first birthday celebrations – yay.
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June 15, 2019 8:43am
- Tall Man
  
  ardern’s priority is “media exposure” centred on her.
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:45am
Maggie Pie

My partners mum emails =
Following his recent appearance on TV News wearing a silly hat with his name embroided on the peak, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones has announced the provision of a new fund for Northland. The PGF will provide a further one million dollars in an effort to get the nefs asses off the couch. The new ministry will be known as: ‘Utukore ruruwai potae ma te koroke’
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June 15, 2019 8:44am
- sooty
  
  Which means what?
  Bla Bla Potato Ma Karoake?
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:34am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Can we take it you don’t enjoy watching Maori Television either then, soots?
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:50am
    - sooty
      
      Haven’t seen maori tv since it started!
      
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      June 15, 2019 8:34pm
- Rocky Jnr
  
  Another great example of the COL’s “we know best and we will do it our way” from Jones. This is about the sealing of 10k’s of gravel road leading to Lake Waikaremoana. He is now calling the locals hillbillies for resisting it. SH 38 either side of Waikaremoana has long stretches of unsealed road, mostly between Waikaremoana and Murupara. Like the residents in and around Waikaremoana, the residents of Ruatahuna have long resisted the sealing of gravel stretches of road. Why?
  When I lived in Wairoa in the early 80’s the idea of sealing was bandied about. This would turn SH38 into a easy drive between Rotorua and Wairoa. As it is now in gravel, only the really keen tourists, hunters and fishermen go there. Sealing the road will increase traffic, accidents, rubbish and resentment of the population who want things to stay as they are. The camping grounds along the way will become hangouts for the disruptive and unruly.
  The population made it quite clear back then that any attempt to lay seal would be thwarted. Everyone knew what that meant! Leave the place alone Shane!..it is beautifully isolated and the population and visitors want it to stay that way, not put up with you arrogant meddling.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:47am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    The biggest traffic hazard in Ruatahuna is horses on the main road. NZ the way it was.
    SH38 is a wonderful drive for those who know what to expect.
    
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    June 15, 2019 2:43pm
    - Rocky Jnr
      
      And that is why I love the place and have been going their for 45 years. I first when there in 1975 as a 21 year old who had hardly ever been out of Auckland. It was a life changing experience.
      
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      June 15, 2019 5:22pm
      - sooty
        
        A step back in time to 1923?
        
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        June 15, 2019 8:36pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I like Jo Brand’s comedy, but she got it wrong with her battery-acid “joke”.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jun/14/jo-brand-apologises-for-crass-and-ill-judged-battery-acid-joke
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June 15, 2019 8:49am
- Inandout
  
  Has she not seen pictures of acid victims?
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:54am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  not even slightly funny. When some deranged antifa child does this, then what?
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:54am
  - Komata
    
    TDf ..@0854
    
    She will, of course, deny any involvement or responsibility, with her no-doubt well-rehearsed response being ‘Oh, I didn’t think my comments would gave THAT sort of result’.
    
    If anyone believes that, then I’ve got a bridge for sale at a bargain price.
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:13am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She has apologised for her “crass and ill-judged joke”.
      https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48640411
      
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      June 15, 2019 10:36am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        they always do, that makes whatever happens next deniable.
        
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        June 15, 2019 3:35pm
    - Rocky Jnr
      
      Useless fat cow, a dose of battery acid is what she needs.
      
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      June 15, 2019 11:47am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Not a good comment chap
        
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        June 15, 2019 12:30pm
  - rangitoto
    
    I can sort of understand it. She would never spill a single drop of her milkshake from the look of her.
    
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    June 15, 2019 1:38pm
  - Billy Collins
    
    It’s a joke.
    
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    June 15, 2019 4:51pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  At her best in this:
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468773/
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:56am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Who wouldn’t enjoy a comedy set in a geriatric ward? One of the main gag lines is the doctor’s research documenting ageing female genitalia.
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:41am
  - Tall Man
    
    Why the down ticks?
    
    It’s not vintage smarmy mikey so why downtick a reasonable comment?
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:49am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Brilliant…
    but has it been shown on NZ TV?
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:54am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I can’t remember if I saw it on-demand or on Netflix.
      
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      June 15, 2019 10:29am
- JB.49
  
  Interesting that the BBC backed her up
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:56am
  - Inandout
    
    The BBC has huge debts and is dispensing with free TV licenses for pensioners. Take away those fees and the whole organisation would crumble.
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:11am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      The BBC will always be there as the propaganda arm of the UK Govt, manufacturer of news and presenter of David Attenborough to the climate unwashed.
      
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      June 15, 2019 10:37am
    - stephieboy
      
      The BBC has huge debts?
      
      Your don’t say!
      
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      June 15, 2019 10:38am
      - Inandout
        
        If the over 75s win their case to continue free TV the BBC will have to find another $500,000,000. Yes, big problems I suspect.
        
        ‘The BBC is “a publicly-funded urban organisation with an abnormally large proportion of younger people, of people in ethnic minorities and almost certainly of gay people, compared with the population at large”.
        
        All this, he said, “creates an innate liberal bias inside the BBC”.
        
        –Andrew Marr
        
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        June 15, 2019 1:31pm
- Andrei
  
  Humour is just about dead in the 21st century – people take taking the piss seriously.
  
  Maybe the anti vaxers are right and we have developed a collective case of societal aspergers
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:58am
  - freethinker
    
    To lighten things up a bit I will share a joke from the Guido Fawkes website –
    Picture of smart young mother pointing finger at petulent 10 year girl with her arms crossed and lips tight, saying if you dont stop lying you’ll end up as a BBC reporter, the NZ versions would be Tova o Liar or ardern.
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:16am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Lugenpresse.
      
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      June 15, 2019 9:54am
- Gravelroad
  
  In today’s world, if a “celebrity” says something, it must be worthwhile and we should all take note of it and allow ourselves to be influenced accordingly.
  So called entertainers are now the arbiters of social and political standards.
  Are we now so feeble that we have to be guided by these people?
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:06am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Next thing we know they’ll be electing reality TV stars to high political office.
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:13am
    - Sacha
      
      Done that.
      
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      June 15, 2019 9:44am
    - Tall Man
      
      To be fair, was he a businessman before he became a reality TV person?
      
      I never really thought he was a star mikey but good to see he’s a star in your mind…….
      
      You’d think with all his TV exposure ardern would be more of a fan……… or is she just lying about thinking he’s “a professional arsehole”.
      
      Imagine the outcry if Trump called ardern a “professional liar”.
      
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      June 15, 2019 9:54am
    - SGA
      
      Celebrities to high policial offices? Don’t know about that.
      Hollywood B actor -> Body builder/action movie star -> Professional Wrestler -> Reality TV star.
      Seems a fairly logical progression to me.
      
      Actually, given his recent marriage, Chris Pratt might be a good bet for at least a seat in the US Senate?
      
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      June 15, 2019 9:57am
  - stephieboy
    
    I believe using today standards the US President could be classed as an entertainer / ” reality” star
    
    Right ?
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:14am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  But it’s ok because the twitter mob says that Farage is a ~~witch~~ Nazi
  
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  June 16, 2019 10:36am
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

Yup, its a baybeee!!!!

Someone else must have screwed the pooch bigtime.

So, will it be more revelations about the “caring side of OT?

More stupidity from the Royal Commission on harm in Care, revictimising people (newsroom has slayed this story)?

Someone got the decimal point in the wrong place in Robbo’s budget and we are already in deficit by mistake?

Winston Peters accidentally tells the truth?

We notice that the Chinese have decided to punish us for disrespecting supreme leader Xi?

JAG has an epipheny and realises rail is a really stupid mode of transport?

the Government realises that “maintaining the trust and confidence of the sporting shooting community” is inconsistent with stealing their property?

A Labour Minister takes responsibility for something?

Bwuhahahaha!
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June 15, 2019 8:53am
mikenmildagain

Happy Global Wind Day!
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June 15, 2019 8:58am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Had my own event first thing this morning in bed.
  
  Had to get up then ’cause . . .
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:07am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I’m celebrating with a special breakfast of eggs, beans and cheese.
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:15am
- Alien
  
  Well you are certainly full of it
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:45am
- Tall Man
  
  I take it you are referring to what comes out of ardern’s mouth… wind but nothing of substance.
  
  Perhaps the lack of substance is an indicator that there actually is nothing of substance in her brain….
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:56am
Nukuleka

Can someone enlighten me as to what ‘Nazi music’ is?
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June 15, 2019 9:20am
- Jack5
  
  Have a look at yesterday’s general debate thread, Nukeleka – discussed there.
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:26am
- Charmaine Hawke
  
  Wagner apparently
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:29am
- Tarquin North
  
  I was about to ask the same question – probably anything D.J Cindy doesn’t like.
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:40am
- Jules99
  
  “New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman was ridiculed Thursday after appearing to suggest that the White House had signaled to white supremacy by playing the song “Edelweiss” from iconic 1965 musical “The Sound of Music.”
  
  “Edelweiss” (German for “noble white”) is, in fact, about a pretty white flower found in the Alps, not Arians.
  
  Story from April, but the recent case could be anything from Wagner who I believe was a favourite of Hitler’s.
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:42am
  - Jack5
    
    While we’re on matters peripheral to the trial of Brenton Harrison Tarrant, there’s an interesting overseas look at New Zealand media’s ~~collusion~~ agreement on how they will cover the hearings.
    
    It’s at the web site, Nieman Lab, an offshoot of the Nieman Journalism Foundation at Harvard.
    
    The article notes how NZ media are already downplaying the case. It describes the agreement of the big media players as noteworthy, “because it takes the relationship between media coverage and a copycat effect — and a lack of desire to glorify a shooter — as a starting point.”
    
    Paul Thompson, Radio NZ chief executive, is reported as stressing that each of the main media outlets will be doing its own coverage, but that they’ll be able to communicate with each other throughout on how things are going.
    
    The Link (apologies for its length):
    
    https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/as-the-christchurch-massacre-trial-begins-new-zealand-news-orgs-vow-to-keep-white-supremacist-ideology-out-of-their-coverage/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=4e45c372ff-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-4e45c372ff-395863621
    
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    June 15, 2019 12:39pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Horst Wessel Song?
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:43am
- Alien
  
  Justin Bieber music, ban it.
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:46am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  “Carmina Burana”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:51am
- Tall Man
  
  [deleted: off topic and unnecessary slur]
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:00am
  - Tall Man
    
    And again, “off topic”?
    
    Really?
    
    The topic was “Nazi music” referring to the complaint made by a muslim about someone playing Nazi music outside the court yesterday
    
    My comment pointed out that Nazi music, if there is such a thing, could not be deemed offensive as the Nazis had a mutual understanding pact during the second world war so therefore “Nazi” music would have been played in the middle east during that time. I even posted the wiki page showing the details of that pact.
    
    My comment that someone from that area not knowing there own history was an idiot may be a tad harsh but is not a slur as it is factually correct.
    
    I have no issue with being “called out” when wrong, but my comment was on topic and factually correct.
    
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    June 15, 2019 12:16pm
- Souvlaki
  
  Wagner perhaps? 😉 🙂
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:09am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Puketifinau.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:40am
- Swifty
  
  I played this driving to the supermarket the other day.
  
  My car turned into a panzer.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:51am
  - Swifty
    
    Oops:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_6AQA4uzD0
    
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    June 15, 2019 11:05am
    - Jack5
      
      C’mon Swifty, Adolf Hitler wasn’t a Prussian – he was born in a town in what was the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now in Austria. In World War 1, Hitler served in the Bavarian Army. His early rise to power was in the beer halls and brawls of Bavaria.
      
      I see, in the Youtube comments to the performance of the march Preussens Gloria (Prussian Glory) that you link to, this comment from a person with a Flemish name:
      
      ” Played this in Paris few days ago.
      
      The Notre-Dame got on fire.”
      
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      June 15, 2019 12:53pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Very martial.
      
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      June 15, 2019 1:46pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I wondered who had run into our local French Cafè
    
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    June 15, 2019 12:34pm
- The King
  
  He was playing Mr Bond “holding out for a Tarrant”
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:26am
Jack5

The elite have bestowed their approval on Christchurch’s $100 million, new multi-storey library, which, in addition to being a multi-storey book barn, is a free entertainment centre with jigsaw puzzles, computer walls, and board games, and for the more industrious, sewing machines and overlockers.

Here’s what the Property Council says of the library, bestowed a Maori name, Turanga, and recipient of the council’s supreme award for the year:

”Turanga “speaks of whakapapa across generations, connections to the north and out to Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa and the wider Pacific”.

AND …

””Turanga encompasses a wide range of facilities for the community including a heritage collection, an innovation zone, music and video studios, 200-seat arena, cafe and outdoor roof terraces. There is a high level of community pride and ownership which will ensure it remains relevant to the city and community for decades to come.”

Many Christchurch citizens, being put through the rates wringer, will disagree with the Property Council, which represents commercial property owners and, it says, more than 10,000 “property professionals”. To home ratepayers, the award will more likely suggest that commercial property investors, at least in Christchurch, should pay a bigger, fairer share of the city’s rates.
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June 15, 2019 9:27am
- Rodney Randall
  
  Dedicated media computer labs at Turanga are unusable due to ‘itinerant’ folk who swear loudly, play videos and/or gambling games on full volume without headphones and stink of piss and shit. Turanga fast becoming the former ‘Peterborough Street’ of libraries.
  
  Peteborough had a permament stench of piss and shit and a regular attendance of abusive drunk /drugged ‘itinerant’ earthlings.
  
  Spoke to a security guard at Turanga who said when it first opened the ‘itinerant’ folk setup camp on the top floor using outdoor library furniture they relocated inside:)
  
  The full time C.C.C. homeless liaison officer couldn’t deal with the ‘Itinerant’ folk (no surprises that feelz don’t work) and security was beefed up.
  
  Mention any of these problems to librarians onsite and you will be met with a blank stare.
  The same applies to the Turanga security guards who don’t give a f$%k.
  
  These problems are to be encouraged according to LIANZA
  It is part of the manifiesto for libraries of the future! see L.I.A.N.Z.A.
  
  I won’t be back to Turanga. It is a glorified half way house/ drop in centre for the piss addled/ homeless.
  
  The majority of resource material is still in “Stores!”
  
  A pathetic, overpriced abomination/excuse for the former central library
  
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  June 15, 2019 12:38pm
  - kowtow
    
    I love how so many “public” facilities require privately hired security guards these days . If that article , which lied ” There is a high level of community pride and ownership ……,” were true then there’d be no need for security guards.
    
    Some time back I was dropping off a cheque at an IRD office , and in the outer office was a security guard . Lounging in a chair, on duty. Charming I thinks to myself , when the public service have a problem they hire private security , on the back of the ever stressed tax payer of course.
    
    If I have a problem , I have to phone Plod , if you can get him .
    
    Some animals are more equal than others.
    
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    June 15, 2019 1:56pm
Andrei

Talking of humour has anyone else watched ‘Fleabag”?

I should be offended but I laughed out loud.

It has a guineapig called Hillary and in one scene the main character is masturbating to a Barack Obama speech…
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June 15, 2019 9:34am
Paginus

Killing babies makes the economy stronger.
I guess killing your future customers makes economic sense…..
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/10/top-execs-of-180-companies-abortion-necessary-to-be-successful-in-business/
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June 15, 2019 9:41am
- KevO'Brien
  
  For the horror story of anti-life read this:
  https://www.wnd.com/2019/06/the-new-barbarians/
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:45am
- kowtow
  
  Those “CEO’s” should consider where they’d be, had they been subject to their own stupid musings……
  
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  June 15, 2019 1:47pm
Alien

Just a heads up, if you own a Samsung phone and have noticed the monthly security updates are no longer monthly, check your phone to see when it got the last updates, then check another country. Found out that my phone had received one security update this year while overseas it had continued to received monthly updates. Samsung nz and Australia are refusing to release updates to critical issues in nz that are being released overseas
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June 15, 2019 9:48am
- Andrei
  
  The frequency of security updates depends on the model (and age) of phone.
  
  Its monthly for newer phones and quarterly for older phones that still receive updates while still older phones cease to be updated
  
  A phone has at most a four year lifecycle
  
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  June 15, 2019 12:18pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Depending on which pocket you put it in…..
    
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    June 15, 2019 12:45pm
  - Alien
    
    yeah which makes their failure to release the updates in NZ that are being released overseas puzzling. As I said Samsung NZ and Australia are refusing to release updates in NZ that are being released overseas. 6 updates released so far for the same phone overseas, 1 update released in NZ with samsung NZ claiming that it was the providers delaying the updates, the providers denied this so samsung then claimed the updates are released only when needed, seems the phone needed them every month overseas, just not in NZ and Australia.
    
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    June 15, 2019 1:37pm
Hugh Pavletich

… NEW ZEALAND HOUSING … Getting focused on real solutions that work …

From Kiwibuild to Kiwis Building … Dr Eric Crampton … The New Zealand Initiative

https://nzinitiative.outreach.co.nz/?Ns=&Na=view-msg-public&SMESG-oid=22150&Scontact=2149250d

At its heart, Kiwibuild was a promise to end the housing crisis. The set of reforms Minister Twyford is overseeing can fulfil that promise, if he has the chance to see them through.

The housing crisis has nothing to do with government failing to build enough homes. It stems instead from a nasty mess of perverse incentives facing growing councils, debt limits, infrastructure financing problems, and difficulty in revising district plans under RMA processes – as a starting point.

If the prior National government understood any of it, there was scant evidence of that understanding in policy. While Kiwibuild also missed the point, the policy is only a minor part of the government’s housing supply agenda – despite the disproportionate attention it draws. Focusing on the notable failure of one part of the package makes for great political sport but does nothing to advance housing reform more generally.

Last February, I warned in this newsletter that Kiwibuild could never solve the housing crisis. The targets set were utterly unrealistic and the fundamental blockages lay elsewhere. In response, the Initiative produced a report sharply critical of the programme.

But my Insights column also said that the government should be given a pass on its likely-to-be inevitable failure to hit its building targets, but only if it made sufficient progress on the rest of the supply agenda.

That more fundamental reform is coming. It has been slower coming than we would like, in part because Kiwibuild has proved to be a distracting millstone. But, done properly, the coming changes to infrastructure finance will be transformational.

Infrastructure supporting new development will be financed by bonds backed by levies on the properties benefitting from the infrastructure rather than depending on overstretched Council balance sheets. It will enable leapfrogging of existing landbanks and help unlock housing affordability.

No Member of Parliament understands New Zealand’s housing policy problems as well as Minister Twyford. Shuffling him from the Housing portfolio might bestow a political win on National, but it will come at substantial cost to everyone harmed by broken housing policies.

New Zealand has to build its way out of the housing crisis. Enabling that building is the most important task. And Minister Twyford’s broader agenda is our best hope of getting there. Focus less on how many houses the government builds, and more on the development enabled by the coming reforms.
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… Housing & Urban development Minister Phil Twyford knows exactly what needs to be done … as he explained late March …

New Zealaned Housing Minister Phil Twyfords speech to the New Zealand Initiative Members Retreat … New Zealand Government / Beehive

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speech-nz-initiative-members%E2%80%99-retreat
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Access extensive background information …

Performance Urban Planning

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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June 15, 2019 9:51am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Was that an apology for Twyford? Hugh, is your judgment troubled?
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:47am
- Happychappy
  
  Same shit as yesterday Hugh, talk is easy but getting it done is harder. Twyford is all piss and wind with no substance but dont let your hate for National get in the road of your thinking, seek help as it looks like you need it.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:55am
- tf78
  
  It’s State housing that is needed, not Kiwibuild. Maybe Phil is doing that by default as no one seems to want the Kiwibuilds – they will then be passed over to Housing NZ for their tenants.
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:09am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Fellow Tory Comrades … please note the short post I provided Happychappy yesterday …
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/06/general_debate_14_june_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2509001
    
    Happychappy … It was housing failure that finished off the National – led government in 2017 … check the GONE GONE GOING section of Performance Urban Planning …
    
    http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/National%20News.html
    
    … and I predicted John Keys downfall way earlier mid – 2016 … which you should remember …
    
    Housing campaigner predicts spiralling house prices will be Key’s ‘Waterloo’ … Rob Stock … Stuff
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/83627043/housing-campaigner-predicts-spiralling-house-prices-will-be-keys-waterloo
    
    As a Tory myself, I was enormously hurt, humbled and embarrassed with the pathetic performance of the last National – led government.
    
    Remember John Key back in 2007 on housing reform ? …
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
    
    We really do need a branch of Maggie Thatcher’s store in this country for our timid, tiresome and tedious Tory politicians … ‘Rent A Spine’.
    
    If the National Party can’t do housing properly, it may as well shut up shop. It is still an enormous embarrassment, having learned nothing yet in Opposition !
    
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    June 15, 2019 5:54pm
Sacha

I’ve been listening to Magic Radio mornings, and recently in the afternoons too.
I was discomfited by Sean Plunket yesterday afternoon when he hectored, bullied even, a caller who had a baby, and wanted help from some social service or other.
Plunket used the call to berate him for ‘breeding a child that he couldn’t support’. I realise he was making a point about people who depend on the state as a right, but his treatment of this young man was cruel and showed up an ugly side of his own nature.
Apparently there was considerable feedback from other listeners, which resulted in a lot of loud self-justification from Plunket, none of which showed him in a better light.
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June 15, 2019 9:52am
- BassilFawlty
  
  If you had listened a little longer you may have a different opinion. Sean did a good job of walking a fine line as far as I am concerned.
  
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  June 15, 2019 1:02pm
  - Sacha
    
    @ BassilFawlty: I did listen – right to the end. The fine line would have been even “finer” if he had expressed himself in a less braggardly manner.
    It was a let down after the very entertaining afternoon before, when he sought listener contributions to the Emergencies in Auckland, Nelson and Christchurch and genuine kindliness and good humour reigned.
    
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    June 15, 2019 3:52pm
brett68

Huge drop in the dollar over night

https://www.dailyfx.com/nzd-usd

Caused by dismal PMI numbers

https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/manufacturing-pmi
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June 15, 2019 9:53am
- Tall Man
  
  I guess the “wellness” budget has made our currency sick.
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:05am
Happychappy

Who in their right mind would trust the Messiah to be impartial and share properly between the codes especially when the horse racing codes are his passion.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@politics/2019/06/15/635877/sports-fears-over-racing-industry-cash-grab-remain-1
Winston is not the most trusting Politician remember the Owen Glenn Donation, can anyone remember where that went.
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June 15, 2019 10:03am
Maggie Pie

So, just overheard that Jack Tame on ZB saying “…its time we relaxed the restrictions on allowing migrants from darkest Africa into the country.” According to him, they must have ‘close relatives’ already living here before they will be considered for residency.
No wonder my partner swung the dial to Magic 🙁
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June 15, 2019 10:03am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The eboliant Jack Tame promotes risk free immigration.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:49am
Maggy Wassilieff

Manawatū penectomy
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113479422/tararua-man-cuts-phallus-from-carving-representing-rangitne-whakapapa
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June 15, 2019 10:09am
- srylands
  
  “”I never dreamt the Māori would be so offended..”
  
  Seriously?
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:12am
  - stephieboy
    
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    srylands,
    
    From the link,
    
    “But Milton Wainwright, who considers himself a devoted Christian, deemed the statue’s penis to be obscene and immoral, so he tried to cut it off with a hand saw in mid-April. It proved difficult, so he returned the next morning with a mini chainsaw and reduced the phallus to sawdust.”
    
    Maybe he should of couried it to you intact?
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:42am
    - Alien
      
      Stop being a dick stephanie
      
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      June 15, 2019 10:54am
    - Tall Man
      
      Grow up FFS.
      
      And it’s should have, not should of.
      
      Obviously we have dumb steffy today.
      
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      June 15, 2019 11:01am
      - chuk
        
        It can’t spell “couriered” either.
        
        Or maybe it meant “curried”?
        
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        June 15, 2019 1:22pm
      - kowtow
        
        Curried dick ?
        
        Each to their own I suppose.
        
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        June 15, 2019 1:41pm
      - Tall Man
        
        *chuk”
        
        It also can’t be “intact” if it had been cut off.
        
        Curried, now that’s just too sick… even for steffy… well, maybe not.
        
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        June 15, 2019 1:48pm
- toby1845
  
  “Wainwright, who owns the Woodville ORGAN Museum……..”
  
  Bwahahahahahaaaaa…….
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:28am
- Tall Man
  
  Tit for tat I suppose.
  
  Who cut down the tree on One Tree Hill.
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:00am
Maggy Wassilieff

Pete George stepping back from daily blogging.
https://yournz.org/2019/06/15/announcement-a-major-change/
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June 15, 2019 10:17am
- Tall Man
  
  How sad, never mind, too bad.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:34am
- srylands
  
  He is probably a nice enough guy but I could never understand what he stood for. Occasionally I would read a post and give up half way, bored with eyes glazed.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:36am
  - Jack5
    
    Pete was a candidate for the Dunedin mayoralty.
    
    I hope he stands again. Couldn’t but be better than Dunedin’s present mayor.
    
    A link to Pete’s blog reproducing an Otago Daily Times interview with Pete laying out his goals:
    
    https://yournz.org/2013/09/21/dunedin-mayoral-profile-pete-george/
    
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    June 15, 2019 1:10pm
- sooty
  
  Not enough visiters?
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:37am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Could become a regular here maybe? Like a ‘stephieboy-mk11’
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Can’t wait for Kitty Catkin to put in an appearance over here…. she’ll clean up our grammar.
    
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    June 15, 2019 11:30am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      That was PG’s alter-ego 🙂
      
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      June 15, 2019 11:34am
- Tony Stuart
  
  It’s easy to let blogging consume you. It’s addictive, if you have that kind of personality, and I can identify only too easily with Pete’s comment “It’s going to be a big change to get up in the morning and instead of my primary thoughts being ‘what will I post on today’, I can think ‘what will I do today’.”
  
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  June 15, 2019 1:52pm
Lee C

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12235918

I’m sorry, but …

Really!?!
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June 15, 2019 10:21am
- stephieboy
  
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  Lee C , it continues,
  
  “She’s the busiest 1-year-old in the country. Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford celebrates her first birthday next Friday and has already mixed with Hollywood movie stars, visited the United Nations headquarters in New York and taken up countless column inches.
  
  The Herald looks at a year in the life of the First Baby.
  
  June, 2018:
  
  She was “welcomed to the village” by her mother and father at Auckland City Hospital and days later faced her first media scrum at a press conference in the foyer. The click of the cameras wasn’t enough to disturb her and she slept right through it…”.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:28am
  - Tall Man
    
    “The click of the cameras wasn’t enough to disturb her and she slept right through it…””
    
    Sounds a lot like “what’s in it for wynston”…
    
    Ooo steffy, did it make go all gooey and maternal?
    
    Makes the bulk of the country sick seeing the shameless promotion of a child
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:36am
  - emmess
    
    stephieboy, I was about to give you a thumbs up because I thought your comment was a parody, but then I saw your name and realised it was actually what passes for ‘news’ in the Herald.
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:53am
  - tf78
    
    She sounds just like her mother.(the sleeping through things I mean)
    
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    June 15, 2019 11:13am
  - Stephen James
    
    Who gives a shit?
    
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    June 15, 2019 11:48am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I questioned a newspaper editor (ok, only 7000 circulation) and was told that the sort of dross shown in the article referred to by Lee C is what draws the advertisers, and as the said paper is a free community paper, that is what counts.
  I find that a sad indictment upon New Zealand’s society.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:36am
- Alien
  
  Is neve the most politically whored child in history
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:41am
- The Feed
  
  I clicked the link. I scanned the article.
  
  It just left me feeling very, very sad.
  
  This is the intellectual level of the MSM and, presumably, those who still have faith in it. Are mainstream New Zealand really this moronic?
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:52am
- Rich Prick
  
  ???
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:35am
stephieboy

The fascinating world of Botany : The first instalment

The Rangiora Tree,

Brachyglottis repanda (rangiora or bushman’s friend) is a small, bushy tree or tall shrub endemic to New Zealand. It grows to a height of 5 to 7 metres. The large leaves with a soft furry underside have been referred to as “bushman’s toilet paper”.

Family:Asteraceae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachyglottis_repanda

Still comes in handy for Trampers today as DPF may testify!
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June 15, 2019 10:26am
- Tall Man
  
  Please don’t bother.
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:38am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and to think that only 3 weeks ago, you thought that botany was boring.
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/05/general_debate_28_may_2019.html#comment-2498468
  
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  June 15, 2019 10:47am
  - stephieboy
    
    MW . do have a specimen of Brachyglottis repanda growing and in case of emergencies ?
    
    The man makes Botony interesting though,
    
    David Attenborough Plants
    
    BBC announces Planet Earth for plants and new global series fronted by David Attenborough. … “Plants are the stars of this series but there will also be box-office animals – plants are the arch-manipulators of the natural world. They bend the actions and lives of animals, including ourselves, to their own ends.”
    
    Green Planet sees BBC examining the dramas of the plant world …
    
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    June 15, 2019 10:51am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      in case of emergencies ?
      
      I don’t think I’d require a rangiora masticatory in an emergency.
      
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      June 15, 2019 11:23am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    At least he now knows an aster from a nigella sativa.
    
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    June 15, 2019 11:03am
mikenmildagain

I don’t usually read the DomPost any more, but I must say today’s edition is an excellent read.
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June 15, 2019 10:40am
- atomic drop
  
  Let me guess – The Dom Post has started printing nostalgic excerpts from Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book?
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:36am
  - Tall Man
    
    Damn sparrows…..
    
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    June 15, 2019 12:43pm
- Inandout
  
  The cartoon of Mark from Garner breakfast says a lot. The affront of the man thinking he may stand for National.
  
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  June 15, 2019 2:39pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Sarc needs to be clearly stated these days.
    
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    June 15, 2019 6:12pm
Hugh Pavletich

… CHINA …

China’s Economy Shows Fresh Signs of Weakness – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-economy-shows-fresh-signs-of-weakness-11560512903
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China economy slump goes on in May, with industrial growth lowest in 17 years amid US trade war escalation | South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3014521/china-economy-slump-goes-may-industrial-growth-lowest-17
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“China forever” international student and tourism boom turns bust – Macrobusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/06/china-forever-international-student-tourism-boom-turns-bust/
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June 15, 2019 10:57am
- atomic drop
  
  Yes, China has been completely dependent on running massive export income surpluses with the West, especially the USA.
  
  It’s game over now for China – watch as it becomes another zombie economy in the Globalist Horror Picture Show.
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:32am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Atomic Drop … Don’t forget China’s obscene property ponzi …
    
    China’s debt disease is infecting its housing market — Gwynn Guilford – Quartz
    h/t MicroMaker
    MacroBusiness Australia Links 12 June 2019
    
    https://qz.com/1615596/chinas-debt-disease-is-infecting-its-housing-market/
    
    Chinese urban home purchases
    From bottom … primary … secondary … third / more
    
    https://www.theatlas.com/charts/r1V-7zmn4
    
    For decades, the burgeoning power of China’s middle-class has been promised as a cure-all for many of the global economy’s troubles (not to mention its own). Enriched by three decades of rapidly rising wages, Chinese consumers should have long ago begun turbo-charging sluggish economies everywhere.
    
    That hasn’t happened. … read more via hyperlink above …
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    … Recent Australian Broadcasting Corporation article …
    
    China’s empty homes may prove a bigger threat than Donald Trump’s tariffs … Michael Janda … ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-14/china-vacant-property-empty-homes-donald-trump-tariffs/11082900
    
    … extract …
    
    … Build it and they will come. That is the philosophy underpinning modern China’s urban fields of dreams. …
    
    In some senses they have, and do, come. But they are not residents or businesses in many of China’s gleaming new towers. They are investors — speculators betting that property values only go up as China’s population moves indefinitely in just one direction, from country to city. …
    
    … To give you a better sense of the scale of China’s overbuilding, assuming a reasonably generous average of 80sqm of floorspace per new dwelling, that is 80 million units that are currently sitting empty. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
    Chinese property is extremely unaffordable
    
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-14/chinese-property-is-extremely-unaffordable/11113024
    
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    June 15, 2019 11:50am
    - atomic drop
      
      Yes, the Ghost Cities subject has been around for 7 years or more. “Don’t worry they will fill up” – hasn’t happened in most cases.
      
      Chinese population has stalled out and entering a swan dive. Rapidly aging and shrinking working population. Massive injection of conjured up debt to try plug the gap.
      
      The Japanification of their economy now taking place?
      
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      June 15, 2019 12:07pm
      - Inandout
        
        a d, you mean going back to ‘one baby’, like our princess?
        
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        June 15, 2019 2:41pm
- BrownSnake
  
  We all know what follows economic War
  and it was no Coincidence that the …
  
  One Child Policy was changed when
  
  Check the Date
  extract from that 20 years ahead approx and you have your approximate …
  Kick off Time
  
  Actually matches the Completion of BeiDou2
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou
  
  Picture says 1000 words
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou#/media/File:Beidou_Navigation_Satellite_System_2012.png
  
  That is Treasure Island
  
  If you people are so Pro China also Check
  
  http://www.globaltimes.cn/china/military/
  
  From time to time
  
  They Mean Business
  
  http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1153200.shtml
  
  But maybe not the business you are thinking
  
  I will have several secret based around the Globe by Kick off time
  
  Good Luck
  
  All the Best
  
  Sayonara Suckers
  
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  June 15, 2019 12:45pm
kowtow

What’s up with our media ?
They regularly report on judicial executions , in negative terms of course , in the USA. Very often throwing in the divisive racial aspect of the issue.

Then I see this in the Germany , only reported cos their foreign minister was there…….

“A reporter from German tabloid Bild asked: “Why are homosexuals executed in Iran because of their sexual orientation?”

He responded: “Our society has moral principles. And we live according to these principles. These are moral principles concerning the behavior of people in general. And that means that the law is respected and the law is obeyed,” after railing against human rights violations by the US and Israel…….
…….Several thousand people have been executed for homosexuality since the 1979 Islamic revolution, according to some rights activists.”

Do we have diplomatic relations with this country ?

Where’s the outrage , where’s the daily anti ayatollah rant , our media manage it for Trump , why not for this lot ?

https://www.dw.com/en/iran-defends-execution-of-gay-people/a-49144899
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June 15, 2019 11:04am
- tf78
  
  I see immigration NZ has erased Israel off the map and replaced it with the State of Palestine, whose designated capital is apparently East Jerusalem.
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:20am
  - The King
    
    And? Israel doen’t even have an immigration policy, they just deported 100 Filipinas with their Israeli born children, and 50,000 blacks a few months ago.
    
    Where’s the outrage?
    
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-to-deport-100-filipinas-with-their-israeli-born-children-this-summer-1.7363466
    
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    June 15, 2019 12:25pm
    - BrownSnake
      
      Look Israel, Saudi Arabia and Communist China
      are all going to adopt Multi-Culturalism after you have proved the benefits of it.
      
      So Shut up – Get with the program
      and work a bit Harder on it.
      
      Just because Saudi Arabia I think funded the building of 400 religious institutions in another county and I think
      did not take “one” Syrian Refugee
      
      Does not amount to Hypocrisy either?
      
      China is going to let you Buy real estate in time.
      
      Come on Mate do you want to do time for Hate Speech – tone it down will you
      
      The internet is monitored
      
      Have Faith in your Government
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJMtn6IJeE
      
      Kumbaya
      
      Just work on the next catch phrase or meaningless platitude
      
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      June 15, 2019 4:12pm
BrownSnake

For Reference

Terrorist Trial 1 of 3 that happened in Australia
while the NZ GVT was in France?

Trial 1 of 3 Links and related articles

‘Tinnie terrorists’ ringleader jailed for seven years

https://www.smh.com.au/national/tinnie-terrorists-ringleader-jailed-for-seven-years-20190503-p51jxu.html

Musa Cerantonio, the third most ‘liked’ person by western jihadists in Syria, called for assassination of US politicians

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/17/facebook-removes-page-radical-preacher-jihadists

Australian preacher Musa Cerantonio arrested in the Philippines over support for Islamist militants

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-11/preacher-musa-cerantonio-arrested-in-the-philippines/5591394

PH gov’t to look into report that AusAID money went to Maute terrorist

https://www.rappler.com/nation/190161-ph-govt-probe-report-ausaid-maute-terrorist

20 killed, dozens wounded in Philippines church bombings
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/27/asia/philippines-church-explosion/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marawi

thousands dead about a Million people displaced
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June 15, 2019 11:23am
- BrownSnake
  
  Would just like to add the Philippines was the first place in the Pacific Attacked by the Japanese after Pearl harbour.
  
  That the Philippines was chosen recently to create/start a Syria like front is not a coincidence.
  
  First Battle of the New Pacific War
  The Philippines won
  no one noticed or cared much in NZ.
  
  Where as in WW2 the Liberation of the Philippines was planned from Melbourne Pacific HQ WW2
  
  Now the enslavement of the Philippines is planned
  and funded in part from the Same City? Melbourne.
  
  Quite Ironic
  
  Do not let REALITY get in the Way NZ
  
  Go talk to France
  
  The people of Peace in the Pacific
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:49am
  - stephieboy
    
    “Now the enslavement of the Philippines is planned
    and funded in part from the Same City? Melbourne.”
    
    ???
    
    What manner of paranoia is this?
    
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    June 15, 2019 7:00pm
- BrownSnake
  
  Don’t worry Down Tickers
  
  Number 2
  and
  Number 3
  are coming
  
  IN EXPLICIT DETAIL
  
  STAND BY FOR A REALITY CHECK
  
  They are
  Quite interesting
  Quite Revealing
  Quite Fascinating
  
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  June 15, 2019 1:32pm
Ross12

It looks like the bureaucrats had a game of darts to come up with 39 billion Brexit payment.
If the EU is so sure about it why don’t they itemise it out for the UK public to see. Should be quite simple –2 columns showing what is supposedly owed by both sides. Then the balance.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/14/eurocrat-admits-theres-not-really-a-court-force-uk-pay-39bn-divorce-bill/
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June 15, 2019 11:28am
Maggie Pie

If you do nothing else today, check this out!
Hard to believe its not behind Herald’s premium paywall –

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12240696
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June 15, 2019 11:30am
- Alien
  
  wow, anyone would of thought they just told him “you need a prostrate exam on tv”
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:58am
  - Tall Man
    
    My doctor always makes me lie down as well…… 😉
    
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    June 15, 2019 12:42pm
    - Alien
      
      are you sure it was the doctor and not a moderator? seems you’re being heavily moderated today
      
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      June 15, 2019 1:39pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I’ve been a bad bad boy.
        
        I just get a little frustrated when we have a week of dishonesty from ardern and the coalition and the media just ignore it but post a “glowing report” and another “babee” story and then refer to her and it as the” first family”.
        
        It makes me a little cranky and so far no mod has actually said what they are trying to avoid by all this censoring of ardern comments and moderating of non PC comments.
        
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        June 15, 2019 2:13pm
      - Alien
        
        you’d prolly have to ask David, they can only follow the rules set out for them by him but i do think at some point the media will wake up to the fact the public is turning away from them like never before.
        
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        June 15, 2019 3:27pm
    - Inandout
      
      I trust your doctor wore gloves.
      
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      June 15, 2019 2:42pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Now let’s see.. I think he did, he put his right hand on my shoulder and then.. no wait, he put his left hand on my shoulder and then he.., no wait, he put both hands on my shouders and then he… what the fuck!!!!!!!
        
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        June 15, 2019 6:05pm
Fletch

If anyone hasn’t seen it – this is a fan-made re-imagining of the fight between Darth Vader and Ben Kenobi in the original Star Wars. It’s a lot more frenetic and vicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2SMng4u1k

Amazing stuff, really.
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June 15, 2019 1:04pm
Maggie Pie

Is Martin Devlin nuts – or has he always carried on like that?

Asking for a friend.
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June 15, 2019 1:16pm
- Alien
  
  isn’t everyone nuts?
  
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  June 15, 2019 1:37pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I am, can’t speak for the rest of you… yes I can, you’re right…
    
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    June 15, 2019 6:02pm
- Tall Man
  
  Nuts’ I found his rant after Tony Veitch left quite revealing.
  
  But not revealing in a good way…..
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7120579/Model-Ngoc-Trinh-heavily-fined-Vietnam-offensive-dress-worn-Cannes-red-carpet.html
  
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  June 15, 2019 1:51pm
  - Inandout
    
    Wow TM, she looks as though she may have been bodily sprayed with Agent Orange.
    
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    June 15, 2019 2:45pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Now, where do I get one for the missus?
      
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      June 15, 2019 3:01pm
    - John Warren
      
      Not sure why her Government’s upset – she’s just put Vietnam on tbe map!
      
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      June 15, 2019 4:16pm
      - Tall Man
        
        She sure has, it’s not Vietnam is full of nuns either….
        
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        June 15, 2019 6:34pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Tall Man, sample of your daily staple trash tabloid fodder?
    
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    June 15, 2019 7:07pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Hate to see you feeling out of it steffy… here you go
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTGOQBDPXrM
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR5hFxeBaFY
      
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      June 15, 2019 8:23pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  It’s his radio persona – manic, loud, outspoken and opinionated. I’ve engaged with him away from radio a few times, and he’s a decent bloke.
  
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  June 15, 2019 1:55pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Yup, agree.
    
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    June 15, 2019 4:48pm
Tall Man

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturday-morning-with-jack-tame/opinion/jack-tame-nzs-refugee-policy-exposes-our-hypocrisy/

What a load of crap.

If we have to take refugees, and I actually see very few non “economic refugees”, then the family link is vital and if none then we should look towards those that are most likely to assimilate.

Refugees should be a “low impact” migrant on our country and so far that doesn’t seem to be the case.
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June 15, 2019 2:17pm
- Inandout
  
  I bet Tame hasn’t talked this over with his flatmate; all those single chaps on that boat.
  
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  June 15, 2019 2:46pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Maybe he has different appetites now 😉
    
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    June 15, 2019 3:00pm
Jack5

The Christchurch Press can’t let go on its failed drive to have the Crusaders’ name changed because of the Christchurch mosques massacre.

In the Press today, Stuff employee Grant Shimmin harps on about why the name should have been changed.

Shimmin argues that it would have been an amazing gesture of “inclusion and reconciliation” if the rugby authorities had just changed the Crusaders’ name and “dealt with the complications” afterwards.

He concludes by writing that if you want to call him a social justice warrior then “come at me”, and he will take the term as a compliment.

Sanctimonious, even egotistic, garbage, but also a signal that the Press knows better than its readers. It’s out to dictate, rather than to reflect its customers’ wishes, opinions, and wants.

The Press article (the link is to the Timaru Herald – perhaps Shimmin works there):

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/opinion/113494185/you-call-me-a-social-justice-warrior-like-its-a-bad-thing
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June 15, 2019 2:40pm
- The Feed
  
  He’s entitled to his opinion.
  
  It’s not shared by most New Zealanders, because most New Zealanders make no connection between the rugby team name “Crusaders” and a religious war in 1095. That is an interpretation never associated with the team in the past, so why impose it now? People see “crusade”, in the context of sport, as another word for “striving”. That is the most applicable interpretation rather than meaning “anti-religious”. That would be a massive stretch to the point of ridiculous, clearly never intended, and obviously political.
  
  His side lost the argument. Move on.
  
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  June 15, 2019 4:20pm
  - Tall Man
    
    https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1yN0F5BqIiu5lZ4mJqMUhDYmovJk&ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&msa=0&ll=14.604847000000039%2C63.984375&spn=91.237243%2C105.46875&z=3&source=embed
    
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/why-the-crusades-ended-and-jihad-goes-on/
    
    Interesting.
    
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    June 15, 2019 6:00pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Interesting?
      
      Why?
      
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      June 15, 2019 7:14pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Beyond you steffy just go back to sleep.
        
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        June 15, 2019 8:19pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  SJW became an insult when they pocketed their brains and substituted their self awarded pride as having the only way or they will beat you up. Labour as they would like it.
  
  Justice comes with wisdom and humility.
  
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  June 15, 2019 5:45pm
- BrownSnake
  
  We Covered this Last Week
  
  Go with Mongols
  
  it is more Multi Cultural
  
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  June 15, 2019 7:28pm
BrownSnake

French Police Training Manual
with Measures for Intelligence Gathering and Counter Terrorism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMSnfeNf8c
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June 15, 2019 3:10pm
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

Another regional newspaper soon to require a government subsidy to survive….
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June 15, 2019 3:45pm
Alien

A good interview with niki kaye

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2019/06/the-pitch-nikki-kaye-explains-why-national-didn-t-pay-teachers-more.html
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June 15, 2019 3:53pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Now I would support her as a future PM. I actually met her once, she is a genuine person, who doesn’t just talk politics, she does what she talks. And she has beaten Jacinda twice in Central Auckland!
  
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  June 15, 2019 4:47pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    All the National front bench have PM capability.
    How many does the COL have?
    
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    June 15, 2019 5:40pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      You think they will all get the chance? I’m not sure the current rotation rate for the leadership will be sustained.
      
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      June 15, 2019 6:26pm
  - Alien
    
    yeah, i’d agree she would make a good PM, would like to see her as deputy opposition leader in the mean time.
    
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    June 15, 2019 6:13pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Noooooooooooooo
      She’s such a ‘wet’
      
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      June 15, 2019 7:04pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        “Tanks, not Teachers”
        
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        June 15, 2019 7:21pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Good ole ‘Smarmy Mike’
        Isn’t it time you got a life?
        It’s pretty sad really
        
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        June 15, 2019 8:26pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’m rubber, you’re glue.
        
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        June 15, 2019 9:11pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red , while your there ( ?) how do you envisage a Tarriff war against China playing out under National?
        
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        June 15, 2019 9:22pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        “You Stupid Boy”
        
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        June 16, 2019 8:00am
Ross12

Has this “Pitch” series just started Alien ?
It is a good interview and a good idea from Newshub.
I hope National ensures they get spread around via other communication outlets.
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June 15, 2019 4:25pm
- Alien
  
  new segment with niki as the first guest. shoudl be interesting.
  
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  June 15, 2019 6:11pm
BrownSnake

Do you think

“Think Speech” laws

are going to be used to destroy political opponents
and dissent?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/world/europe/marine-le-pen-isis-tweets.html

Or are they a genuine well intentioned attempt
to stop/prevent terrorism?
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June 15, 2019 4:36pm
- Tall Man
  
  “Or are they a genuine well intentioned attempt
  to stop/prevent terrorism?”
  
  Tourism as well I think.
  
  There is no way the world is not watching various governments around the world and the reaction to the abuse from “what’s in it for wynston” and the arrogance of ardern. We now have less Chinese tourists coming.
  
  Some may think that is a good thing, I do not.
  
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  June 15, 2019 5:53pm
  - BrownSnake
    
    What did the acting like a FWIT Pm do in centenary of the End of WW1
    asked Australia to change their flag?
    
    Does it get any better when it comes to diplomacy?
    
    What an “International Statesmen: WHAT A FN SICK JOKE
    
    He is a real Diplomat that one thick as Pig Pooh
    
    The Prick is so dense he does not realise Maori served under the Australian Flag before the NZ one.
    
    Knows his dates and Fact that Boy big on those.
    
    It is true as Maorie were not at first allowed combat roles in the NZ army some had
    the good sense to tell the NZ government where to shuv it (like any sensible person of good character would)
    and Joined the Australian Army.
    
    They are all Class, a class of their own that lot.
    
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    June 15, 2019 7:56pm
    - Jack5
      
      Not sure when Maori were denied combat roles in NZ.
      
      Many fought alongside and with the British and colonials in the Land Wars, and they were a combat unit at Gallipoli.
      
      Later in World War 1, in France, they formed a Pioneer (sappers) battalion, but units of Pakeha soldiers were also transferred into that battalion.
      
      Not all Maori wanted to fight. Waikato Maori were reluctant to fight in World War 1 because they were still smarting from the land confiscations.
      
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      June 15, 2019 10:44pm
    - BrownSnake
      
      What’s with the Down Ticks are all the Fatty Centre Right Blobs of Lard upset that a few Maories were not prepared to dig Dunny holes for you Ww1? it is the truth
      and told your corrupt useless Government
      were to stick it and went to Aus to Fight.
      
      You people might as well have sent FN
      Jock Anderson to negotiate with Aus
      recently
      
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      June 16, 2019 12:00am
MrTips

Here’s something I can’t figure out. Max Tweedie, proud new Chair of Auckland “Pride” and by all accounts imo, madder than a box of scorpions with jock itch, tweets his delight about our multicultural society…….

Specifically regarding a new Muslim school which will no doubt impress upon the students how woman are second level and the LGBTIP+ crowd are worthy of a good ol’ stake burning. .

Why the hell do the LGBTIP+ crowd not confront them the way they do the “horrible Christians”? Oh wait…..
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June 15, 2019 5:10pm
- Swifty
  
  I’ve learned to never look for logic nor consistency from the left.
  
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  June 15, 2019 5:41pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Why the hell do the LGBTIP+ crowd not confront them the way they do the “horrible Christians”?”…..
  
  I’d hazard a guess that they’d be aiming at the targets in front of them. To a gay the the current opposition from Bishop Brian & Israel Folau probably seems more real than the mumblings from a mosque.
  
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  June 15, 2019 6:01pm
nasska

An old Minister was dying. He sent a message for his Accountant & his Lawyer who were both church members to come to his home.

When they arrived they were ushered up to his bedroom. As they approached him the Minister held out his hands & motioned for them to sit on each side of the bed. Then he grasped their hands, sighed contentedly, smiled & stared at the ceiling.

For a time, no one said anything.

Both the Accountant & Lawyer were touched & flattered that the old Minister would ask them to be with him during his final moment.They were also puzzled because he had never given any indication that he particularly liked either one of them. Finally, the Lawyer asked, “Why did you ask the two of us to come?”

The old Minister mustered up some strength, then said weakly “Jesus died between two thieves & that’s how I want to go, too.
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June 15, 2019 5:51pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Got to the crux of the matter, didn’t he?
  
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  June 15, 2019 6:28pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  But, hey Nasska, one of those thieves commented to Jesus the immortal words;
  “What a hell of way to spend Easter weekend. I have so many interesting spreadsheets to attend to.”
  
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  June 15, 2019 7:40pm
- BrownSnake
  
  Nasska it is what he did in Syria
  that really pissed every one off ok
  
  and if you have not noticed they have not
  got over it
  
  Helping people Healing the sick you know that type of stuff
  
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  June 15, 2019 9:21pm
Surely Knott

Over on the Standard they are opposing Seymours Freedom to Speak bill. “Mr Seymour said while it should be a crime to incite or threaten violence, no one should be punished for insulting speech” Fair enough. But the Standard is opposing Seymours statement and the article has a picture of Seymour with an H on his head, which is designed to align him with a hologram fictional character. How is putting an H on someones forehead and call them a hologram which is dehumanising ok in progressiveland, but calling Ghahraman a threat to democracy in response to a policy is not.? Therein lies the issue with freedom of speech who decides. Meanwhile the Standard is taking full advantage of it’s freedom to insult, while telling others it should be prohibited by law.
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June 15, 2019 7:15pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Oh, lighten up, FFS. Seymour is identical to Rimmer – it’s just a happy coincidence that he seems a caricature of himself too.
  Snowflakes need a sense of humour.
  
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  June 15, 2019 8:13pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    Lol. I’m all good Mikenmildagain as I’m sure Seymour is. Just pointing out the consistency of the hypocrisy on the sub-Standard.
    
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    June 15, 2019 9:19pm
    - Jack5
      
      Seymour’s on the right track. The Leftists are out to block free speech and National’s not taking a stand.
      
      If Seymour doesn’t stuff it up, as he did his chance to get considered and reasoned, debated changes to firearms law, this could get ACT in with enough MPs to be a good coalition partner for National.
      
      Section 4 of the Summary Offences Act 1981 also includes a fine of up to $500 for anyone who “in or within hearing of any public place, uses any indecent or obscene words.”
      
      A few of those words get bandied about in demonstrations by the Left. This penalty should go, too.
      
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      June 15, 2019 10:39pm
Southern Raider

Two things I just noticed on the MSM
1) union member teachers getting payrise three months before non union. I assume Jacinda is okay with back handed bribes?
2) opinion piece in Stuff about Tiwai Point is written like an 8 year old girl having a tantrum wrote it. Apart from the tone and childish language she claims Tiwai should be closed, it wouldn’t impact Invercargill and power prices in rest of NZ would drop significantly. Obviously researching facts isn’t part of being in the MSM.
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June 15, 2019 8:28pm
- Jack5
  
  That’s the most ignorant article yet I’ve read about the Tiwai Point smelter,which in effect allows New Zealand to export electricity earning about a billion dollars a year.
  
  The writer sneers at the use of “New Zealand” in the company name. “Cutely named” is the article’s description.
  
  There must be scores of companies registered in NZ that are overseas owned and have “NZ” or “New Zealand” in their names. A joint venture between two big international companies for an NZ operation quite logically includes “New Zealand” in the name of their smelter.
  
  The writer naively encloses the description “pot line” in quotation marks, as though this is an exotic term. It’s been appearing in New Zealand newspapers for around half a century.
  
  She is ignorant of the huge cost of upgrading transmission structure to carry Manapouri electricity north and under Cook Strait. She also seems to be unaware of transmission loss – the power that would be burned in the lines carrying electricity to the north.
  
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  June 15, 2019 11:06pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

From Stuff: “Insurance Council of New Zealand chief executive Tim Grafton said according to preliminary research from NIWA, there are 125,600 buildings and $38 billion of replacement costs within 0-1m of sea level rise nationwide and there is near certainty that the sea will rise a further 0.2m to 0.3m in the next 20 years.”

Like fuck it will rise 10-15mm/year over next 20 years. It is currently rising at 1-2mm/year and and has been for 100+ years.
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June 15, 2019 10:46pm
Hugh Pavletich

… HONG KONG – EXTRADITION BILL SUSPENDED …

Posted at …
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/06/china-forever-international-student-tourism-boom-turns-bust/#comment-3369970

… HONG KONG – EXTRADITION BILL SUSPENDED …

In “Stunning Reversal”, Hong Kong Indefinitely Suspends Extradition Bill | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-15/protesters-win-hong-kong-temporarily-pulls-hated-extradition-bill
.
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Google New Zealand News Search ‘Hong Kong Extradition’

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=hong+kong+extradition&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVyZCH6OviAhXWe30KHV3ZBxIQ_AUIESgC&biw=693&bih=367
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