General Debate 19 July 2019

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Steve Otto(North Shore)

Send her back.
As usual TV1 only reporting one side, and not reporting the whole truth.
I know, it’s TV1, but the speaker of the house insists on watching it
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July 19, 2019 8:06am
- John Warren
  
  The TV1 report was horribly biased.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:09am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Must have been a day ending in d-a-y 😀
    
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    July 19, 2019 8:28am
- John Warren
  
  The Spectator has a good rundown on Omar’s curious domestic arrangements:
  
  https://spectator.us/ilhan-omar-lawyer-marriages/
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:15am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Such diversity. “Who’s your Daddy?” “My mother’s brother”.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:01am
  - Inandout
    
    Not unknown for followers of that religion to marry within families. Lots of mental problems among offspring in the UK apparently.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:17am
    - Tall Man
      
      That explains mikey I suppose…….
      
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      July 19, 2019 2:16pm
    - Twinkletoes
      
      Not to mention the physical disabilities which cost the taxpayer a fortune.
      
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      July 19, 2019 5:02pm
    - MickMac
      
      InandOUT
      It’s not just UK!
      
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      July 19, 2019 5:14pm
  - Jack5
    
    And yet … I thought I heard on ?TVNZ 6 o’clock news last night announcer Simon Dallow assert, disapprovingly but very confidently, that allegations Omar was married to her brother were “untrue”.
    
    As if anything President Trump said could be true.
    
    It was on our State TV, so it must be true!
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:14am
    - freethinker
      
      TVNZ only report what suits their agenda, no need to check facts as it may spoil their story.
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:26am
    - andrew davies
      
      Dallow also said that Trump said Omar had married her brother. This is an outright lie. What Trump actually said was that he had heard that she had but he did not know anything about it.
      They then went and tried to smear Trump with his past association with that reptile Epstein. No mention that Trump ejected him from Mar a Largo for bad behaviour. Also no mention of Bill Clintons much closer association with Epstein.
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:42am
      - SGA
        
        What Trump actually said was that he had heard that she had but he did not know anything about it.
        
        meh – that’s just game playing though. Imagine if I wrote here – “I’ve heard that Andrew Davies is a paedophile, but I don’t know anything about it “. It’s just a cheap, indirect way to make an accusation, but, sure, it appeals to his audience.
        
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        July 19, 2019 11:54am
      - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
        
        SGA,
        Except the reporter specifically asked him about Omar and her brother.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSQT6n_qywI
        
        It’s not like he just dropped it out of nowhere, like your example.
        
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        July 19, 2019 12:53pm
      - kloyd0306
        
        Critical thinking is not SGA’s strong point, but TDS is.
        
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        July 19, 2019 1:41pm
      - andrew davies
        
        SGA my point was that Simon Dallow lied. Your silly little distraction does not change that.
        
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        July 19, 2019 1:46pm
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      TV1 is now official broadcaster of the Labour party.
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:42am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Always was
        
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        July 19, 2019 11:32am
      - niggly
        
        In this clown world day and age they should be proud of their “left-leaning globalist socialist allegiances” and rebrand themselves TVNZLP!
        
        I mean even CNN were proud to be known as the Clinton News Network, c’mon TVNZLP you are letting the “team” down!
        
        (Even Jacinda would quietly beam her approval)!
        
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        July 19, 2019 11:39am
      - igm
        
        Along with Fairfax and APN. Makes me sick to see sompanies still advertising in their disreputable products, supposedly newspapers.
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:37pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      I think I’ll believe the Marriage Certificate over Dallow’s wishful thinking.
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:58am
    - Jules99
      
      I seem to recall it was a tax fraud, so no doubt it will come out in the courts soon. Wonder what Simon will claim then – whatever CNN says I imagine.
      
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      July 19, 2019 11:03am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Politicians, particularly Democratic senators (Clinton) and congresswomen (Omar) are not prosecuted in USA. Laws are for the little people.
        
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        July 19, 2019 11:24am
    - Scott
      
      I actually think that reporters nowadays, including NZ reporters, don’t actually care about the truth. What they care about is advancing their left wing agenda and staying woke.
      
      There is abundant evidence that Omar filed joint tax returns with a man she was not married to, while being married to another man. She appears to have married her brother in an immigration scam. Meanwhile she was actually married to another man.
      
      So there appears to be the longest list of criminal behaviour by any member of Congress in living memory. The list includes tax fraud, immigration fraud and bigamy.
      
      Omar is getting the attention she deserves and Simon Dallow does the public of NZ a disservice with his shoddy reporting.
      
      https://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/ilhan-omar-happened-because-media-chose-to-lie-to-you/
      
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      July 19, 2019 12:45pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        An astonishing read. She’s as corrupt as they come. The money paras for me were:
        
        I am posting this along with my new evidence on Powerline today in hopes that the Ilhan Omar era will not be chronicled as that of a corrupt and bigoted politician. Those come and go. The historical record, written objectively, should focus on the three years of apparently deliberate unethical choices made by legacy news media.
        
        Charmed with credentials, political belief, and cultural approval above fact-finding, it seems they chose to fawn over a seemingly corrupt anti-Semite because her identity felt like a heaven-sent club to wield against Donald Trump.
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:42pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Simon begat alison……. nuff said.
      
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      July 19, 2019 2:17pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      There’s more to it, and you can find the details on line. She’s from a prominent family in Somalia but not the family she claimed to be a member of to gain her original asylum. She does appear to have contracted a marriage with her actual full brother in order to allow him into the USA. He couldn’t get in as her brother because she was claiming to be a member of a different family in order to get in with that family which already had asylum granted.
      
      It’s tangled, but along the way she’s committed a number of crimes and perjured herself in a number of statutory declarations.
      
      If investigated she *could* serve a lengthy term but is unlikely to be charged as she has the get out of jail free card of being a prominent Democrat and hence is unlikely even under Trump to be investigated. The Minnesota AG is (being a Democrat) not going to investigate even if presented with verifiable facts. One law for the peons and another for their masters – that’s the Democrat way…
      
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      July 19, 2019 4:26pm
      - MickMac
        
        Ed Snack
        and Simon Dallow is ok with that?
        I thought he was a professional reporter/newsman?
        
        I read his ex-wife often but she waxes and wanes on matters, but I thought he was a straight as a die.
        
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        July 19, 2019 5:18pm
- jcuk
  
  What is the whole truth tell us so we know what was wrong,
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Trump is racist but these following four are not.
    Nice to have some news and facts from the right wing instead of the usual leftist dribble.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/16/list-of-racist-statements-by-members-of-the-squad-so-far/?fbclid=IwAR378POKZkhS_nug5iXGoGrQkX2m-JajMAp-TfjltJOSQ31tDizXejOBzHo
    
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    July 19, 2019 8:38am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Breitbart the master of fake news!
      
      https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article143969239.html
      
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      July 19, 2019 11:10am
      - Brian Marshall
        
        If you can provide examples, go for it Stephie. If not, I’ll carry on reading the one site that balances all the leftist propaganda.
        
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        July 19, 2019 11:17am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Leftist rag from California.
        Is that all you can come up with? A collection of opinions?
        Note to self, don’t feed the troll
        
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        July 19, 2019 11:42am
      - sooty
        
        But it’s fun feeding the troll!
        It’s even better whent heir heads explode!
        
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        July 19, 2019 12:04pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Even the American Conservative agrees that Breitbart is a purveyor of fake news,
        
        https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/breitbart-fake-news-alex-marlow/
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:18pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        The thing is, my little friend, is that your writer in the American Conservative is claiming Breitbart by covering for Moore is doing it to protect Trump.
        Yet Trump has disavowed Moore and doesn’t want him to stand.
        
        Soooooo, YOUR source is the fake news
        But youbfall for it of course. I think that’s called ‘confirmation bias’
        LOL
        
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        July 19, 2019 7:02pm
    - MickMac
      
      Steve
      here are some good cartoons on the fours sisters!
      https://comicallyincorrect.com
      
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      July 19, 2019 5:21pm
gravedodger

Sydney Morning Herald reports New Zealand Prime Minister declined to take questions from Aus MSM at a press conference following her lecture on good Governance in Melbourne.
Now why might that be, not on the leash as her own cowed adoring MSM wannabees are perhaps?
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July 19, 2019 8:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What is it with the personal microphone and earpiece? Someone pulling the strings??
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:40am
  - rouppe
    
    Maybe Clint was there
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:42am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Maybe a direct connection to H1?
      
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      July 19, 2019 9:57am
      - Tall Man
        
        From past experiences it looks like h1 is the driver and h2 the navigator.
        
        Check h1’s travel calendar.
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:20pm
    - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
      
      Or Winston
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:28am
      - sooty
        
        Nah. Jethro was out the back and feeding her lines!
        
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        July 19, 2019 12:05pm
  - cmm
    
    While she might be getting some input, I think most of it is to look all TED-talky which is the modern rage.
    
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    July 19, 2019 11:04am
- calendar girl
  
  Has she given an explanation? Unless there was a compelling reason (other than her personal preference) her refusal sounds inexplicably arrogant.
  
  She represents our country abroad as its Prime Minister, and one would expect her to leap at any opportunity to achieve favourable coverage for New Zealand in the Australian media. I don’t get it.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:40am
  - sooty
    
    Better to be thought stupid, than open your gob and prve it.
    Al the ohs, arrs and ums, might not go down well with the journakist and they would have asked hard questions.
    Imagine a room full of Mike Hoskings. They would run rings around her.
    Unlike our ones, who only want to push the pram.
    
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    July 19, 2019 8:51am
  - alloytoo
    
    @ Calender Girl: Sorry, reported your post by mistake. (mods please ignore)
    
    The PM avoids questions because she can’t “Think on her feet” if it’s not pre-prepared she’s hopeless.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:02am
    - stephieboy
      
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      allytoo, the PM avoids what questions?
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:03am
      - herb1
        
        the ones shed get if she fronted for an unprepared interview.
        The woman so lightweight I’m surprised you don’t see her floating around on the wind currents with you Stephie
        
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        July 19, 2019 12:10pm
      - stephieboy
        
        herb1 , please be more specific!
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:18pm
      - Tall Man
        
        It was me… I was number 31.
        
        Too wet so far for man work this afternoon…….
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:21pm
      - alloytoo
        
        allOytoo, the PM avoids what questions?
        
        The PM avoid/evades questions for which she is not prepared.
        
        When she gets asked any question she merely replies that she didn’t know that was going to be asked, and cannot answer it.
        
        It’s very obvious on Hosking.
        
        This is despite Hosking saying “We’ll ask the PM on Tuesday” throughout the week.
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:53pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Stephie you are going to have to stop watching TV and listen to Hosking and RNZ on Tuesday.
        
        She avoids any specific financial or economic question;
        She will not answer questions about any matter that a NZ First minister been involved in.
        She will not answer matters about trade.
        
        Usually she is prepared for broad topics, but if there is breaking news she should know about, but doesn’t she always gives evasive answers or will not answer.
        
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        July 19, 2019 6:06pm
- gorse
  
  Probably afraid to in case they um, arh, um, – discover how bright she really is.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:02am
- alex Masterley
  
  That’s interesting.
  The whole point of press conferences is that the press ask questions.
  The Aussie media wont like that.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:05am
- KevO'Brien
  
  No going off script into the fishnchipper.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:30am
- stephieboy
  
  gravedodger,
  
  “Sydney Morning Herald reports New Zealand Prime Minister declined to take questions from Aus MSM at a press conference…”
  
  ???
  
  https://www.smh.com.au/topic/new-zealand-djw
  
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  July 19, 2019 11:13am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Where is it? Can you prove it bro?
  
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  July 19, 2019 11:50am
RW Capitalist

HAHAHA
I see, on the AM show, that our PM is going to talk to the Aussie PM about “economic growth”
Isn’t that like a 3 year old trying to talk to their parents about whether to change mortgage lenders?
She only talks about “well being” so as to avoid the facts about the CoL wrecking our economy.
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July 19, 2019 8:09am
- srylands
  
  Australia has had 26 years of unbroken growth. I don’t think they have anything to learn from New Zealand. Scomo might bring a lump of coal to the meeting and quietly put it on the table. ?
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:24am
  - sooty
    
    That’ll have her running screaming for the hills!
    
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    July 19, 2019 12:13pm
    - Jack5
      
      Australia around now is expected to pass Qatar as the world’s leading exporter of natural gas.
      
      Thanks to Jacinderella’s phobia, NZ will be importing Australian gas so that we can meet electricity demand 24 hours a day.
      
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      July 19, 2019 4:04pm
- kowtow
  
  NZME running a story ” ardern implores oz to invest in NZ ”
  
  Why would you , when this socialist regime can shut you down by decree .
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:30am
  - stephieboy
    
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    kowtow,
    
    “this socialist regime”
    
    ???
    
    Fantasy games!
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:05am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  Originally there was no Scomo meeting planned, he instigated it.
  Intrigued to know how many business leaders travelled with her to promote NZ investment.
  John Key always had many accompany him.
  I wonder if I would get an answer if I asked, or is Jacinda now in such a bubble, there are no answers.
  If she goes on about illegals and deporting crim’s she may as well go home, Scomo won’t be changing for her or anyone.
  Here are his answers
  illegals are free to walk away at anytime.
  We don’t want to open floodgates again.
  Sending them to NZ is sending them to Australia.
  Don’t commit crimes in your host country.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:36am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Now Albo has come out and supported Scomo re illegals and deporting criminals.
    She is flogging a dead horse if she can’t get Australian Labor to dance to her tune.
    Maybe go home and sort out child poverty which took up much of last nights speech, turn words into reality. Don’t talk about it, actually fix it.
    One thing to talk ideals, another to implement them. Old saying comes to mind
    “All piss and wind”
    
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    July 19, 2019 12:38pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I would listen to a three years old mortgage advice over anything the CoL has to offer
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:48am
srylands

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/114325450/why-a-family-was-arrested-and-put-in-custody-for-refusing-to-leave-their-land

What a mess. You would think the whanau could sort this through mediation. No. Many Maori seem to be highly combative and litigious. They also never let things go. If it takes 50 years it takes 50 years.
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July 19, 2019 8:10am
- KevO'Brien
  
  In an oral language society land ownership is described in knowledge trusted to special elders and is shown in carvings etc. Possession by battle gave title to a tribe. The individual rights were very nebulous. Hence our Maori Land Court.
  
  NZ has for non-Maori land a registry system where the title is the actual entry in the Register. Elsewhere in the Pacific special Courts deal with titles affirmed in oral genealogies. Reciting such genealogies publicly can be a crime.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:41am
- BassilFawlty
  
  I think you’re missing a zero, surely you meant 500 years?
  
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  July 19, 2019 4:24pm
- MickMac
  
  Jail.
  Jail.
  Jail.
  
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  July 19, 2019 5:24pm
hullkiwi

Trump has provided a master class in how to bring down Jacinda ans the CoL next year.

Trump through his Tweet forced Pelosi and the Democratic NC to back the squad, even though they had been trying to distance themselves from the train wreck that is the squad.

National, over the next 12 months must do the same. Attack each CoL minister (Labour or otherwise) for the failures in their portfolio areas. National must make a lot of noise. Make PriNZess have to defend each and every CoL screw up and failure. Make it guilt by association!
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July 19, 2019 8:14am
- sooty
  
  Can you see National and their present leader doing that?
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:00am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It has already been happening. We didn’t need Trump’s example.
    
    Let’s keep the heat up on the individual COL members and their out-of-their-depth failures.
    If the media won’t report it, we must.
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    July 19, 2019 9:47am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    ‘Can you see National and their present leader doing that?’
    
    Yes I can.
    
    Did they?
    
    Yes they do.
    
    Does the media report almost anything National say?
    
    No they don’t.
    
    The issue is not that National are sitting around saying nothing, quite the opposite. The issue is the complaint labour led media don’t report it. Baby story everytime.
    
    Nothing on the climbing number ‘job ready’ people as highlighted on a TV station last night on the chip wrapper web page at the moment.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:56am
    - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
      
      Trump has show how to circumvent and even use an adversarial media to his advantage. Take note parties of the right.
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:20am
    - BananaLlama
      
      They need to cause outrage like Seymour did when he stood up for freedom of speech and opposed property confiscation.
      The MSM relies on conformity of opinion so that who ever owns them can continue pushing their agenda as being popular. If you break that conformity then they will attack like Pavlovs dog hearing a bell ring.
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:31am
  - Komata
    
    Sooty@0900
    
    Re: ‘Can you see National and their present leader doing that?’
    
    Sadly, no; Mr Bridges is, unfortunately, no President Trump; if only he was.
    
    On that basis therefore, expect no change from the current ‘mild mannered’ approach.
    
    It’s not exactly the way to win elections…
    
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    July 19, 2019 11:02am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      What National needs is a female version of Muldoon (in communication style, not policies).
      The person already exists. The name is Collins.
      
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      July 19, 2019 11:54am
      - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
        
        No thanks. She sold out the gun owners.
        
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        July 19, 2019 12:00pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Muldoon had to be forceful. His Goverment had to contend with a wage price spiral, unions and the Arbitration Court. The NZD was fixed too and he was legitimately concerned that food imports were jeopardised.
        
        Muldoon got NZ through one of the hairiest economic crises in our history. If you don’t succeed with a wage price spiral you get Venezuela. If you want to create a wage price spiral select an amateur socialist government.
        
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        July 19, 2019 1:05pm
      - Batman
        
        Muldoon presided over the final decaying days of fortress New Zealand.
        
        He contributed to that decay and actively tried to prevent the new government acting quickly to save to country in 1984.
        
        He rightly goes down in history as one of our worst PMs.
        
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        July 19, 2019 1:36pm
      - MickMac
        
        No thanks she, (Collins) sold out our freedoms in attacking Seymour with the Greenie Harpies.
        
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        July 19, 2019 5:26pm
- White Anglo Saxon Protestant
  
  I really, really want this, but can nice guy Simon deliver?
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:01am
- cmm
  
  Simon, “I’ve got a baby too”, Bridges hasn’t got the right stuff to turn up the heat.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:43am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Guys, it is not just Simon that has to turn up the heat. It is every member of the Shadow cabinet on their opposite. They have to present Jacinda with a case of having to defend a minister each different day.
    
    It will not only confuse Jacinda, but also the media and make the whole lot look like the confusion they are.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:51am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Confronting TaxCinda & COL is a job for all of the opposition benches. Anyone of them has 10x the ability of the whole of the govt. Keep digging and sending the dirt on the shovel flying.
      ☑️ ☑️
      
      Rout 2020.
      
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      July 19, 2019 1:10pm
- kloyd0306
  
  That is expecting a lot from a party that is rapidly becoming squishy moderates.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:52am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Not ‘becoming’. They’ve always been squishy moderates. Actually ‘moderates’ is too much of a compliment because it implies they have principles at all.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:47am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      NZ always sits in the middle which is a bit to the left. That has given us a flourishing, capable, generous, caring society.
      Being in the middle means keeping taxes down, a not too generous welfare system, efficiency in administration and freedom. Private enterprise can do most everything but on general required social needs they add an expensive layer of costs. We do better with Pharmac etc.
      
      The COL are too radical, ignorant, amateur and incompetent to have any executive role. They belong at street parties.
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      July 19, 2019 1:25pm
- Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
  
  Guilt by association, more like accountability & transparency !
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:59am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Oh which the CoL have none.
    
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    July 19, 2019 11:14am
Happychappy

How can people like Hugh Pavlovich keep praising Labour and Phil Twyford for their dismal display in Housing when there arguement at the last Election was we need 100,000 houses right now and this is the problem National have left us.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12250724
After using housing as a platform to become the Government the 100,000 needed then is now 130,000 and rising after Labour pathetic attempt with Kiwibuild numbers around about 350 with some that were added coming from stock that housing developers could not sell.
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July 19, 2019 8:16am
- The Real Tony
  
  And also properties that HNZC (through it’s wholly owned subsidiary HLC (although I think the gov’t may have sliced it off now)) had already started building or committed to building.
  
  I was working for HNZC when the change of gov’t happened and the way we had to contort ourselves to make Kiwibuild seem possible was embarrassing.
  
  Suffice to say that I pulled the ejection handle after a couple of months. Happier now as a small business owner (well as happy as one can be being a business owner under a Labour govt).
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:33am
- Inandout
  
  And it is not behind the praywall?
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:29am
- KevO'Brien
  
  If they don’t stop playing with their faux housing counters we will be seeing reports of 200,000 short by Christmas and a quarter of million by election time.
  Doesn’t that indicate a PR campaign underway?
  Nip it in the bud.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:51am
G152

I consider TV1 and 3 as Flake News as their leftist propaganda wafflings have moved them beyond what we could consider as Fake News.
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July 19, 2019 8:16am
- Littletramp
  
  We may as well just read the Washington Post and cut out the middle men.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:04am
- stephieboy
  
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  G152, give us examples of non-fake news?
  
  Here?
  
  https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/03/11/breitbart-posts-fake-krugman-article
  
  LOL!
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:08am
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It’s the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution today.
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July 19, 2019 8:19am
KevO'Brien

NZ in Doha too?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trouble-nzs-role-biggest-us-bombing-base-middle-east/5683907

It’s getting a bit crowded in Qatar. The US have CENTCOM based there and the Turkey also has a base. Qatar shares a large gas field with Iran so is not liked by the Saudi etc.
Further up the Gulf the USA have a naval base in Bahrain.

Isn’t it neat getting all the war parties together.
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July 19, 2019 8:21am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Americans don’t dislike the squad of 4 because they are ‘women of colour’, they dislike them because they are disrespectful, hateful, anti semitic, and anti American.
And that makes Trump racist?
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July 19, 2019 8:22am
- alloytoo
  
  The Genius move of Trump was that he didn’t have to name them, they self identified the moment Trump described them.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:33am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    When they play the race card, it means they have run out of other cards to play. D Trump.
    
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    July 19, 2019 8:47am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Anti-americanism is conveniently impossible to define, but I should think claims that America is no longer great would fit the bill pretty well.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:36am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Triggered.
    
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    July 19, 2019 8:48am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Greater than it was 2 years ago Mike, and you know it. Unemployment down, stock market all time high, taxes down, military stronger and larger. Shall I go on?
    
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    July 19, 2019 8:50am
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      Please do.
      
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      July 19, 2019 9:19am
  - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
    
    Anti-americanism is conveniently impossible to define
    
    Not really… it’s actions and policies detrimental to the security and character (or, founding principals) of their nation, like advocating to make it a socialist state with no borders.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:15am
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      “.. like advocating to make it a socialist state with no borders.”
      
      Whose advocating that?
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:17am
      - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
        
        They were hypothetical examples only Stephie.
        
        but;
        All Democrats at main debate agree Illegal Immigrants should get health care coverage
        
        AoC Open Boarders Amendment
        
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        July 19, 2019 10:51am
      - stephieboy
        
        WASP,
        Few Americans Want Open Borders— Democrats Included
        
        Trump and his supporters often label his critics as believers in “open borders.” Most aren’t.
        
        https://medium.com/s/story/few-americans-want-open-borders-democrats-included-dba12884c133
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:25pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        That’s right Stephie
        Few Americans want open borders.
        But all the senior Dem Presidential candidates do
        
        ‘On the second night of the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, NBC moderators asked candidates whether they would support decriminalizing the act of illegally crossing the border into the United States — that is, reducing the seriousness and consequences of illegal entry to the level of a parking ticket.
        “Raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense, rather than a crime, to cross the border without documentation,” said NBC’s José Díaz-Balart.
        All 10 candidates — Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg, Harris, Gillibrand, Bennet, Swalwell, Hickenlooper, Yang, Williamson — raised their hands in approval. That moment was perhaps the Democratic Party’s most significant step yet toward embracing a policy of open borders.’
        https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-in-debates-democrats-move-toward-open-borders
        
        I’m sure the GOP will be using the video of it in their Ads
        
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        July 19, 2019 3:14pm
      - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
        
        Few Americans Want Open Borders— Democrats Included
        So?
        How many people hold the position is not the point.
        
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        July 19, 2019 3:17pm
      - MickMac
        
        The whole Democratic Party, StephieBoy
        Go do your homework, lazy bones.
        
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        July 19, 2019 5:30pm
  - mark15
    
    Why is America no longer great mnm?
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:26am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Wasn’t there was a whole presidential campaign about that point just three years ago, with some guy claiming that America was no longer great, and needed to be made so again? You could Google the details, I guess.
      
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      July 19, 2019 3:37pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Just for you Mike.
    Alexa.
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392839037485441
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:50am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Perhaps also the claim that America never was great and that it is a hateful racist “shithole” with “concentration camps” for illegal immigrants would be another pointer.
    
    Support for America’s enemies like ISIS and Al Qaeda also probably qualifies.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:00am
  - Alex13
    
    Impossible to define? – No, it’s not. It’s when you come from a country with different cultural and moral roots and whine about the main population not following the traditions you are accustomed to. America’s cultural, philosophical and moral way of life is based on Judaeo-Christian traditions, and the Islamic squad doesn’t like it – well, send them back then.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:40am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Islamists cannot tolerate many societies–their religion compels them to change them.
      
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      July 19, 2019 1:29pm
      - MickMac
        
        Kev
        Overcome not Change!
        Islam is a Monoculture and brooks no others.
        Even to the level of destroying older monuments and buildings
        
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        July 19, 2019 5:32pm
- mikenmildagain
  
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  And now that it is definitely established that telling people to go back to where they came from is not racist, we can look forward to Trump using it against ‘white’ critics like Amash.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:47am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Triggered.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:19am
  - Inandout
    
    Oh m&m, Trump is becoming increasingly popular and it must give you gastroenteritis. The Dems suffer from this complaint whenever Trump speaks; also known as ‘Dem’s diarrhea’.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:36am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Twitter is Trump’s laser pointer; the Dems are the cat
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:10am
  - Ed Snack
    
    But he didn’t just do that, did he. Selective quoting can make it seem so, but context matters.
    
    And perhaps the suggestions are good sense – if AOC really thinks she has answers, surely applying those “answers” to Puerto Rico and showing in that environment that they work, would be a powerful and persuasive argument for her policies, no ? PR certainly needs some help given the bunch of corrupt crooks that have run the place into the ground. I don’t think power is fully restored yet to PR after the hurricane 2 years ago – because the system was so underfunded and rundown by years of neglect it isn’t a case of rebuilding but almost starting out new. All the money was diverted to various political slush funds.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:05am
  - freethinker
    
    TVNZ only report what suits their agenda, no need to check facts as it may spoil their story.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:38am
  - Alex13
    
    It has nothing to do with the skin colour. It’s what’s between the ears that matters…
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:41am
- stephieboy
  
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  Steve Otto(North Shore).
  
  Send her back!
  
  Send her back!
  
  Send her back!
  
  https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/18/20699598/trump-send-her-back-chants-ilhan-omar-gaslighting
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Send you back – to the asylum.
    
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    July 19, 2019 11:53am
Maggie Pie

~BREAKING ~
I only just get home in time this morning to hear Kate Hawkesby say she intends running for Mayor of Auckland!

You GO gurl – “IT’S ALL THE WAY WITH KTK”
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July 19, 2019 8:32am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Novelty candidates help the incumbents, generally.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:52am
alloytoo

Saw PM criticising Trump’s isolationist policies.

She’s either very dumb, or very dishonest.

Those are her government’s policies too.
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July 19, 2019 8:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Both, but that’s OK. She does not have the mental capacity to understand
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:52am
- stephieboy
  
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  alloytoo,
  
  “Those are her government’s policies too”
  
  Trade wars?
  
  With whom?
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:25am
  - alloytoo
    
    What part of “Isolationist” don’t you understand?
    
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    July 19, 2019 3:00pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  Didn’t see the item. Which Trump policies exactly, that are also Ardern Government policies, did she criticize?
  
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  July 19, 2019 11:51am
Tony Stuart

Great stuff from Ryan Fox overnight with a 29 on the second nine at Royal Portrush; the lowest nine hole score in Open Championship history.

Fox starts his second round tonight in a tie for fourth, two shots out of the lead. Royal Portrush brought some of the best golfers in the world to their knees last night; if you miss the fairway, the rough is brutal. Fox tees off at 6.30pm New Zealand time, and Sky Sport has full coverage of the day’s play from 5.30pm; it’s fantastic viewing, and the move to take the Open Championship back to Northern Ireland for the first time in 68 years has been a huge success. All tickets for the Open sold out, and 190,000 people will watch over the four days.
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July 19, 2019 8:37am
- alex Masterley
  
  What astonished me was McElroy’s position in the field. Started with a quadruple bogey and didn’t get much better after that.
  I hope that Ryan Fox can keep the ball on the fairway tonight as if he does then he should make the weekend.
  My evening viewing is definitely sown up!
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:59am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    If I started with a quadruple bogey I would be inclined to use intemperate language, and I’m a real bunny on a “27”.
    
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    July 19, 2019 12:20pm
- Poppa
  
  Totally agree Tony, fantastic course.
  
  I have been to The Open in Scotland & it is an experience I can recommend to all fans
  
  I am actually a Tommy Fleetwood fan so will be following him after a solid start
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:21am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    My wife and I went to the first round of the 2015 Open Championship at St Andrews; the day after my 60th birthday. As well as being a bucket list item ticked off, I got to see my favourite golfer ever, Tom Watson, play in his final Open. It was a day I will never forget.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:58am
    - alex Masterley
      
      I envy you Tony.
      Last years plan was to be in Northern Ireland introducing my lads to my mothers side of the family (or at least my wife would have been doing that) and wandering around the splendid course that is Royal Portrush watching the open and visit Bushmills again.
      Sadly the need to completely replace our roof put paid to that idea.
      
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      July 19, 2019 11:13am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        To walk the hallowed turf of St Andrew’s was a real thrill. But my goodness, it was cold. Thank the Lord for whisky!
        
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        July 19, 2019 1:12pm
- Twinkletoes
  
  Used to sneak off to the beach just over the dunes when caddying there for my father – one of Ulster’s most glorious strands where we walked the dogs for
  miles along the Whiterocks beach. Portrush was the party place in N.I. for the young in ‘summer’. Know the course off by heart so will be watching closely – not only for the golf!
  
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  July 19, 2019 5:56pm
Scooter

I watched JA’s update from Australia video on Facebook (it was short under 3 mins so thought relatively safe to watch) in the video I counted over 60 umms and aarrs. That’s 1 every 3 secs, now that’s incredible!
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July 19, 2019 8:37am
- igm
  
  She is what one would define as a total and complete disgrace to the position she was “Selected” to, not “Elected” to!
  Thanks Winston, you really hate Kiwis paying the bills.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:58am
  - sooty
    
    But you have to admit, it’s a great way to fill in the space between words!
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:05am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Except she uses words to punctuate the pauses
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:04am
    - Hard Cheese
      
      If only she could find something for the space between her ears
      
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      July 19, 2019 12:51pm
- White Anglo Saxon Protestant
  
  I guess public speaking is not part of a Bcomns?
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:07am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I suspect it maybe and given the competence that the prime minister displays with her educational achievement, I suspect she was away that day or got a credit for that part of the course as she thought she could successfully put two words together in a um ah sentence, you ah know um feelz.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:08am
    - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
      
      After a particularly disastrous attempt at debating during my college years, public speaking was something I chose to avoid at all costs.
      
      Until a few years back, when my then manager sent me on a 12 hr course that the company provided to ensure internal and client facing presentations were effective and added value. Now presenting on my area of expertise and public speaking is something I quite look forward to.
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:28am
- MickMac
  
  Clearly Jacinda hasn’t had any media training.
  ot it’s an old by hokem act she does…
  
  She should go to Toastmasters, they deal to that inside the first 10 speeches.
  Table Topics would possibly help her impromptu speaking.
  
  err maybe not..
  
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  July 19, 2019 5:36pm
Gravelroad

Stuff is reporting an incident on a British plane during which a drunk and deranged woman allegedly tried to open a plane door. The aircraft returned to Stansted with a jet fighter escort.
Maybe time to stop serving alcohol on flights?
Is it worth the risk?
Surely people can sit on an aircraft for a few hours without having to skull booze?
If they are addicted to alcohol, maybe they shouldn’t be flying at all.
Yep, I’m a wowser – but a wowser who wants to stay safe!
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July 19, 2019 8:43am
- sooty
  
  What’s the jet going to do?
  Shoot her up as she’s falling!
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:06am
  - alloytoo
    
    The flyboys were just looking for an excuse to get airborne.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:14am
  - SGA
    
    Risk assessment, probably. Especially if there is a chance that a worse case scenario would see the plane endangering a heavily populated area.
    
    Some may remember the sad odyssey of Payne Stewart’s (US golfer) private jet across the USA trailed by jet fighters.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_crash
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:16am
  - mark15
    
    No,shoot it down if it the pilot aims it at a strategic location.
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:28am
- SGA
  
  I wonder what the unintended consequences of that might be? Drinking your duty free in the toilets, “preloading” before the flight?
  
  I can’t say that I have seen that many people drunk on flights in and out of NZ. Years ago, though, I did hit the bar a bit too hard with a US Marine on leave, and I had the worst hangover ever. Never again.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:12am
  - Tall Man
    
    On a recent flight I asked for a whisky with a splash of water.
    
    The young Chinese stewardess looked a little confused so I explained about whisky but only a dash of water.
    
    She returned with a full glass and my wife laughed as did I as we assumed the message hadn’t quite gotten through and I was holding a glass of water with a slug of whisky.
    
    Wrong, it was a full 8 ounce glass of whisky with a dash.
    
    I managed one drink on the whole flight and still felt slightly pissed when I arrived.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:06am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Can agree about the hangover part, drinking in the dry atmosphere at a simulated 6-8,000 ft altitude apparently gives each drink the equivalent of 2 at sea level. It was a long time ago but had a horrific second leg of a flight after a session with a couple of friends on one trip.
    
    Also agree that I’ve very rarely seen conspicuously drunk passengers, though I’ve certainly heard of it happening.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:10am
- cmm
  
  The real problem comes from all the “rights” these drunk and deranged passengers have.
  
  One roll of duct tape could have solved the problem.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:48am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    And two pair of handcuffs. But nope, collective punishment – ban alcohol instead of banning arseholes
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:52am
- Tall Man
  
  There is a difference between having a drink or three and “skulling booze”.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:01am
- hullkiwi
  
  Gravelroad, the key words were “returned to Stansted”. Anyone who knows the UK, knows that those who fly from Sransted and a few other UK airports are feral and you associate with them at your peril.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:05am
- MCos
  
  I’ve been on a lot of planes over the years, but never seen behaviour that would give consideration to an alcohol ban.
  More annoying are people who leave their s,eats fully reclined during meal breaks or take about 50kg of shit onto the plane and fill up all the overhead space . . . . .
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:59am
  - MickMac
    
    Yeah that pisses me off too. I wish they’d enforce the 7kg cabin limit.
    
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    July 19, 2019 5:39pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    MCos you need to go to the UK and fly through the likes of Stansted, Luton, Liverpool, Leeds/Bradford and Newcastle.
    
    There you will encounter British holiday tourists by the 1000s who are akin to the Gypsys who visited New Zealand in January. These people are feral, the likes of which you have never encountered other than on a Jerry Springer show. As I say avoid at all costs, and never sit near them on a low budget flight.
    
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    July 19, 2019 6:24pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Any Green serious about threat of climate change should be backing this project – shipborne thorium molten salt reactors built in shipyards to produce electricity at lower cost than coal or gas:
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/07/indonesia-and-thorcon-will-build-a-mass-production-next-generation-molten-salt-reactor.html
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July 19, 2019 8:57am
- alloytoo
  
  Brilliant.
  
  I wouldn’t mind at all if all the world’s ETS scam taxes were fed into this project.
  
  The provision of cheap reliable power almost anywhere in the world will build wealth, wealthy people have choices, as well as longer and better lives.
  
  The Greens will of course mobilize to fight this initiative.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:13am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    But that’s exactly what a properly functioning ETS does – it channels money from carbon-intensive activity to low-carbon activity, thus discouraging the former and encouraging the latter.
    
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    July 19, 2019 11:54am
- cmm
  
  The only reason for shipborne reactors is that this gives a way to rapidly build something in one part of the globe and actually deploy it elsewhere.
  
  It is far better to actually build the things on the ground. Far less engineering compromises means a better result and lower costs.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:46am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    I disagree, there are many fundamental reasons why this is the best solution:
    -Can mass produce quickly in a specialised factory in a year or two for minimum costs, with little money wasted on interest payments over decade long construction.
    -Don’t have to move highly skilled workforce to shitty locations for many-years long construction projects, that’s unaffordable in era of 2-income families.
    -Side steps Nimbyism – out of sight off coast.
    -Decommissioning and major refurbishment or maintenance can be done cheaply at specialist shipyards.
    -No possibility of melt-downs, ever, given surrounded by seawater.
    -In worst case scenario vast volume of ocean rapidly dilutes any radioactive release to near-undetectable levels, never any danger of long-term radioactive contamination of land or sea.
    -Highly flexible, and allows for cheap redundancy and fast growth or replacement of other generation.
    -Cheap enough to do large scale water desalinisation and hydrocarbon (fuel, plastic) synthesis.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:19am
    - cmm
      
      While all the points you raise are valid in many contexts, I don’t think they are as valid for NZ.
      
      When you are dealing with trying to build infrastructure in shitholistans mired in corruption then being able to build and bring helps. These are not really issues in NZ which has the skills to build stuff.
      
      Shipborne generation is also good for bringing up power quickly after a tsunami etc. and nobody can argue that they give huge flexibility. But when you’re designing for base load there is not much need for flexibility – the need will still be there in 10, 20 or 30 years.
      
      Building a ship makes for massive limits in the arrangement of the plant because the ship is only so wide. That limits the size of power ships. My understanding is that the biggest power ships out there are less than 200MW. Tiny. Meanwhile single large generators are routinely build over 1000MW and 3-5GW total for a multi-generator plant. That makes power ships very expensive to build.
      
      Next: lifetime. A concrete power station is built to last 60+ years with a refurbishment cycle. Power ships last far less than that and maintenance costs are high.
      
      Worst case scenarios are not much different for power ships anchored in a harbour vs one on the shore. It is way easier to engineer in containment ponds etc on the shore than in a ship.
      
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      July 19, 2019 11:24am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Great. Thorium molten salt is far safer than the present nuclear plants.
  
  Standby though, we may have our own household power plants within 10 years–grid free. The Grrreeennsss want to shut the earth down but take over its control to do a global Bolshevik job. Others are furiously working on new cheap, plentiful sources of safe energy. “Global warming” has released a massive counter thrust to find new energy sources other then bird killers.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:10am
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    Trouble is that there aren’t (yet) any commercial scale molten salt Thorium reactors though there are a number of projects underway. The US had a working test plant in the 60’s and 70’s I think but closed it down. It worked fine but wasn’t a significant power producer – I don’t think it was hooked up to a steam or working fluid power generating plant at all.
    
    I’m all in favour of the idea, but it does need the construction of several test reactors to make sure all the bugs are ironed out before any large scale production begins.
    
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    July 19, 2019 4:59pm
- stephieboy
  
  “Thorcon will need to raise $1.2 billion to build the reactor”
  
  For a happy intrepid investor like you UN?
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:29am
Maggie Pie

Frm my twitter – looks like poor old JEFFREY EPSTEIN has aged about 20 years in the last 6 months 🙂

https://twitter.com/NYTMetro/status/1151878323053694977
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July 19, 2019 8:59am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Surprised he is still alive. He wants a deal if he spits out some names. Suicide soon
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:30am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Death by “arkanside” shortly ?
    
    Vanity Fair is reporting that the list of names involved is extensive and contains a large number of publicly identifiable figures.
    
    And all the NZ “newspapers” can report is the lame hit piece about Trump being photographed at a party with Epstein in 1992 at which a number of supposed “cheerleaders” are present. No suggestion that any under age women were there. Conspicuous silence about other notable figures with far more exposure like Bill Clinton.
    
    Still a mystery how he made his money and how he maintained his expensive lifestyle on his declared net worth ($650M). Running 5 or more expensive residences plus two or 3 jets isn’t cheap.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:15am
    - secondcumming
      
      They were speculating on *Aljaz* a couple of nights ago, that he may well have been engaging in blackmail of many high-profile rich ‘friends’ by having photos and videos of them in compromising situations.
      
      Shit…. meet pants 😎
      
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      July 19, 2019 10:58am
      - Ed Snack
        
        I saw that, could be true, but I suspect that there may be more to it than that.
        
        Secretary Acosta markedly didn’t say at his pre-resignation press conference that Epstein was associated with “intelligence”, but did appear to go out of his way not to deny it.
        
        He certainly has had access to very large sums and without any real explanation of how he made that money. Another suggestion is that he is a very large scale money launderer and takes a percentage.
        
        At this stage, it’s guessing.
        
        For what it’s worth I doubt it affects Trump significantly or this wouldn’t be out in public.
        
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        July 19, 2019 5:05pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Thoughts and prayers for his buddies?
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:40am
  - Tall Man
    
    He should become a labour supporter, they’ll cover his tracks for him won’t they or is it only drug dealers they protect… No wait, they do have a line on “protection of molesters” don’t they ………
    
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    July 19, 2019 2:44pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Keith Richards tried it and was pleased to see no change!
  Apparently there is a wrinkle limit on the app.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:14am
lastmanstanding

Ive been thinking. The retirement village operators have all had flat sales over the past year or so. IMHO this is because BBs are deciding to stay in their own homes rather than take a 30% plus haircut when they vacate(die) and also not participate in any property value increases.

Now most of the operators have large developments on process plus a large land bank.

Question, Would a future Labour/Green government require the operators to seel or lease their surplus units to Housing New Zealand.

Afterall most of the village inhabitants will be Nat voters and the Government can sell the idea as a social requirement housing the homeless and also introducing “Diversity” into the retirement villages.
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July 19, 2019 9:16am
- kowtow
  
  The danger is a future Green/ Labour regime forcing the elderly to sell their homes , for the greater good you see.
  
  Private property is seen as a resource to exploit by leftists , and there’s far too many “rightists” who go along with that notion.
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:37am
- tf78
  
  I am beginning to think there will not be a Labour/Green government for very much longer.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:35am
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Kiwibank economists say despite the residential construction boom the country is still falling short of what it needs to build; further short term weakness seen in Auckland house prices, however … David Hargreaves … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/100767/kiwibank-economists-says-despite-residential-construction-boom-country-still-falling

Kiwibank economists say the shortage of houses in New Zealand may reach as much as 150,000 by this time next year despite the residential house building boom going on.

Despite the shortage, however, they see further short term weakness (prices down another 3-5% into next year) in Auckland house prices, with the regions continuing to show short-term strength before slowing too.

In a Property Insights publication Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr and senior economist Jeremy Couchman said their estimates showed that at this time last year there was a shortage of 100,000 homes across New Zealand.

As of right now, they now estimate the shortage has grown to 130,000. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… We are awaiting the New Zealand governments major housing and urban land use announcements. Note Urban Development Minister Phil Twyfords late March speech …

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

… extract …

… In our view there are three big challenges that have to be addressed:

1. A broken system for financing infrastructure

2. A planning system based on urban containment

3. The failure of governments until now, both local and central, to actively work with the private sector to enable urban growth and expansion. … read more via hyperlink above …
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THE ‘NEW ZEALAND DREAM’ IS STILL ALIVE … WENDELL COX … NEW GEOGRAPHY

http://www.newgeography.com/content/006327-the-new-zealand-dream-still-alive

… exract …

… The Westpac NZ Housing Preferences Survey …

… Among the respondents, nearly one-half (49 percent) considered a back yard “essential,” while another 42 percent rated the back yard as “nice to have.” Only nine percent considered a back yard to be “not important.” Among first home buyers, there was an even greater larger 55 percent considered a back yard as “essential.”

A house with a yard is even more important that one close to work. Only 18 percent of respondents considered proximity to work to be “essential,” well below the 49 percent wanting a backyard. While nine percent of respondents considered a backyard to be “not important,” nearly four times as many said that proximity to work was “not important” (33 percent).

House location also scored much lower in proximity to schools or child care, which was considered “essential” by 22 percent of respondents and parks/recreational facilities, “essential” to 21 percent. Only 11 percent considered living in social hubs (with “eateries and bars”) to be “essential. … read more via hyperlink above …
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July 19, 2019 9:19am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Note Urban Development Minister Phil Twyfords late March speech …
  
  You remind us of this speech every day Hugh. However Twyford’s only achievements as a Minister are getting sacked from the Civil Aviation portfolio for sending a text on a plane, and getting sacked as Kiwibuild Minister for not building any Kiwibuild homes.
  
  It may have been a reasonable speech, but that’s all Twyford is; words, and no actions. Why you keep shilling for him is one of life’s mysteries when he, and by extension yourself, are so thoroughly discredited.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:03am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
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    HOUSE BUILDING … ARE NEW ZEALAND VOLUMES NOW BEATING AUSTRALIA ? …
    
    Tony Stuart … You are being most unkind and indeed wrong.
    
    The reality is that we are seeing residential construction progress thanks to a more pro – development residential building culture under the Labour – led government …
    
    Survey shows building confidence up … are dwelling approvals on a population basis moving ahead of Australia ? …
    
    Confidence among construction companies rebounds from a year ago, a new survey says | Marta Steeman | Stuff.co.nz
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/114099422/confidence-among-construction-companies-rebounds-from-a-year-ago-a-new-survey-says
    
    The mood and confidence of the building and infrastructure sectors has lifted since a year ago says engineering firm Aecom.
    
    Aecom puts that down in part to more familiarity with the new coalition Government and its approaches to issues that affect the sectors, it said in its Sentiment: Infrastructure And Building Construction Survey, New Zealand 2019.
    
    It contrasts with the overall fall in general business confidence revealed in The Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion (QSBO) for the June quarter. … read more via hyperlink above …
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    Residential construction shows no sign of slowing down as new consents hit a forty five year high, pushed up by a strong rise in consents for townhouses in Auckland | interest.co.nz
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/property/100502/residential-construction-shows-no-sign-slowing-down-new-consents-hit-forty-five-year
    
    Dwelling approvals stabilised in May … Leith van Onselen … MacroBusiness Australia
    … behind paywall …
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/07/dwelling-approvals-stabilised-may/
    
    For May New Zealand dwelling approvals were 3,687 … while in Australia 14,436 were issued for the month.
    
    In calculating the ‘dwelling approval rate per 1000 population per annum’ (standard industry measure), expressing the May figures on an annual basis ( x 12 ) …New Zealand 44,244 … Australia 173,232
    
    New Zealand’s population is now near 5 million … Australia’s 25.4 million.
    
    Therefore for the month of May, New Zealand’s dwelling consent / approval rate per annum was 8.85 … Australia 6.82.
    
    In rounded figures New Zealand for the month of May was about 9/1000 pop pa … Australia 7/1000 pop pa.
    
    Directly from the government statistics agencies data, the ‘dwelling approval rate per 1000 population per annum’ should be calculated for specific regions / States and local territorial authority areas.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:51am
    - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
      
      The reality is that we are seeing residential construction progress thanks to a more pro – development residential building culture under the Labour – led government …
      
      State your evidence for this. Exactly what changes has this government made to support your claim, and what evidence do you have that these changes are motivation for new builds?
      
      Or, just go away.
      
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      July 19, 2019 11:50am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        WASP … The numbers above speak for themselves.
        
        To illustrate further … it is also interesting that Canterbury residential building consents since the 2017 election on a monthly basis have moved from around 380 to 440.
        
        Thanks to the smaller and therefore functional Councils of Waimak and Selwyn leading the way, Greater Christchurch is really moving ahead as it is becoming increasingly affordable … both for residential and commercial (refer recent JLL report).
        
        Greater Christchurch will become even more attractive and affordable as the Northern and Southern motorways open early 2020.
        
        No wonder the Greater Christchurch restaurant sector leaves overly expensive Auckland’s in the dust.
        
        Get those property costs on the road back to normality / affordability so that everyone wins !
        
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        July 19, 2019 1:38pm
      - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
        
        Seriously?
        The fact that a bunch of housing stock got decimated 8 years ago and new construction finally catching up with demand got nothing to do with it?
        Cheap land at Rolleston distorting the affordability figures a bit?
        
        My mistake, just down tick and move on fellas.
        
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        July 19, 2019 3:08pm
      - Albert_Ross
        
        “The numbers above speak for themselves” – No, they don’t. You have not shown the chain of causation that demonstrates how those numbers result from any action by the Labour government.
        
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        July 19, 2019 3:19pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      After years of underinvestment is fiscal stimulus the solution to New Zealand’s infrastructure deficit? … Stephen Forbes … Interest Co NZ
      
      https://www.interest.co.nz/news/100751/after-years-underinvestment-fiscal-stimulus-solution-new-zealands-infrastructure-deficit
      
      New Zealand’s infrastructure deficit continues to make the headlines and with calls by some economic commentators for the Government to do more to stimulate the economy through fiscal policy, are such ideas gaining more currency? … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      July 19, 2019 11:59am
      - White Anglo Saxon Protestant
        
        So, no. You cannot produce an example of an enacted policy change that has encouraged people in the market to build new, rather than buy existing.
        #Squirrel!
        
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        July 19, 2019 1:07pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        WASP … Property speculators are fleeing to the hills in droves (and have been for quite some time now)… for the very simple reason they know the days of artificial political / planning property inflation are well and truly over.
        
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        July 19, 2019 1:47pm
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Oh Tony – now look what you’ve done.
    
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    July 19, 2019 11:56am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      May I suggest you all spend an ‘illuminating weekend’ calculating from the below, where we are heading for specific New Zealand cities going forward …
      
      2019 15th Annual Demographia International Gousing Affordability Survey
      
      http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
      
      Definition of an Affordable Housing Market
      
      http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/affordability.html
      
      Why are New Zealand homes so pricey? It has nothing to do with avocados … Charlie Gates … Stuff NZ
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/106789344/why-are-nz-homes-so-pricey-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-avocados
      
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      July 19, 2019 5:10pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        We know already Hugh, we know already.
        Try writing to your MP instead of constantly spamming us and link whoring.
        
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        July 19, 2019 5:50pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … Comment from MacroBusiness Australia …
        
        So much for Liar Adern “Backing the Kiwi Dream” – MacroBusiness (behind paywall)
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/07/so-much-for-liar-adern-backing-the-kiwi-dream/
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/
        
        In the September 2017 general election, the New Zealand Labour Party launched a plan to reduce immigration by 20,000 to 30,000 in a bid to relieve chronic housing and infrastructure pressures (especially around Auckland): …
        
        … Labour also promised to “build 100,000 affordable homes across the country” via its Kiwibuild policy: …
        
        … Against this backdrop, Kiwibank economists have released research showing that “New Zealand’s housing shortage is getting worse” and could top 150,000 next year: …
        
        … concluding … So much for Jacinda Adern “Backing the Kiwi Dream”.
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        Pavletich comment on thread …
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/07/so-much-for-liar-adern-backing-the-kiwi-dream/#comment-3394396
        
        We are awaiting major housing / urban land use / infrastructure financing announcements from the NZ Government in the next few days.
        
        It was ‘full on’ following the release of this years 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey 21 January … outlined within the Feb Update and 2019 sections of my archival website Performance Urban Planning http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
        
        The idiotic KiwiBuild got a caning from me … then The Guardian, The New York Times with the ‘finishing punch’ a stinging The Listener Editorial mid February.
        
        This barrage from left of centre media would have stung the government … likely prompting then Housing Minister (nowe Urban Development Minister) Phil Twyfords superb NZ Initiative speech late March ( check 2019 Section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org ).
        
        Will this government restore confidence and credibility with these issues in the next few days ?
        
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        July 19, 2019 6:11pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Will this government restore confidence and credibility with these issues in the next few days ?’
        
        Probably not. It is the weekend.
        Lol
        Why don’t you grow up Hugh. You’re just making a laughing stock of yourself.
        All my mates in Property up here think you’re a nutter.
        
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        July 19, 2019 6:44pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The very important Westpac Housing Preference Survey of late May should really have got a much better public airing …
        
        Survey finds Kiwis’ backyard dream still alive and well … May 28 2019 … Scoop NZ
        
        http://business.scoop.co.nz/2019/05/28/survey-finds-kiwis-backyard-dream-still-alive-and-well/
        
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        July 19, 2019 7:22pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Arf arf arf goes Pavelunatich like a trained seal
        (Sits back and waits for Hugh to post more rubbish)
        So funny.
        
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        July 19, 2019 7:28pm
Maggie Pie

For some reason best known to himself, my partner is suddenly keen to see what i might look like at 60.
I told him to be very careful what he does with the pic he just took of me in the shower… 🙁

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_vsn0kW4AAzlBQ?format=jpg&name=900×900
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July 19, 2019 9:39am
hullkiwi

To ACT party members out there. You need a new deputy leader. Beth Holbrouke is a disaster for your cause. As Chair of the Rodney Local Board she is out of her depth and is being led by the interests oh the deputy on her local board ticket (who wants to be the Local Ward Councillor).

Beth Holbrouke is so out of her depth in her role she would be at home in the CoL. Her problems began early last year when her ticket put forward as a policy that Rodney ratepayers should pay an annual target rate of $150 per household to fix Rodney Transport. This proposal was added to Auckland City’s PR exercise of the 10 year plan for Auckland. Sadly, the majority of Rodney residents believed this proposal would work and they voted in favour of it.

The trouble for Holbrouke, Phelan Pirie (her deputy) and the other Rodney First councillors, reality is a bitch. One year on and over $4m collected by the targeted rate, most of the money spent has been spent on Transport consultants advising the Local Board and 3 poorly patronized bus services frequented by SuperGold and School children passengers.

Anyhow, as a means to inform and hear from locals Holbrouke and co have set up a number of local Facebook pages with themselves as administrators. However, because people are now feeling rather aggrieved and feel cheated over what the local board did and has been doing with the rate money collected, the locals cent on the said Facebook pages. However, in order to control debate Holbrouke, Pirie and co have been known to use stooges to post pieces in support of their actions and when this doesn’t work against those objecting, the vociferous local is blocked from the Facebook page.

In summary, you have the ACT Deputy Leader denying someone free speech, because that person has accurately critiqued what Holbrouke & co have done and what they have not done.
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July 19, 2019 9:47am
- hullkiwi
  
  I might add they ban all critics from their Facebook pages.
  
  David Seymour, you might want to speak to your colleague that she is doing to the ACT cause in Rodney by her actions.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:08am
BananaLlama

The problem with identity politics is that the only thing we have in common is our phenotype.

The problem with Civic Nationalists is that the only thing we don’t have in common is our phenotype.

The problem with Homogeneous Nations is that they all have the same cultural phenotype.

Which one has greater qualifying factors overall and is there a better way?
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July 19, 2019 10:04am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  You can’t control your phenotype, but you can (through culture) promote or demote aspects of it. Culture can modify a phenotype.
  For example, a phenotype than is more agressive and impulsive can develop a mitigating culture that promotes and rewards patience and thoughtfulness.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:34am
  - cmm
    
    “You can’t control your phenotype”
    
    That is certainly true for an individual, but is not true of a society.
    
    Societal norms can influence the long-term phenotypes of the individuals.
    
    For example, consider violence. If we have a society that shuns violent people and does not provide them breeding opportunities then the phenotype gets bred out of existence. Women would rather breed with a generally good bloke with a stable job etc that can provide her with resources etc.
    
    The entrenched welfare state screws that up. The woman has less concern about where she gets resources from (the state will provide) so bugger the good bloke – rather go with the more exciting “bad boy”. If he leaves/gets locked up there are always more available.
    
    Worse still, that woman is more likely to see baby breeding for dole as a “career option”. Instead of reducing the undesirable phenotype, it has instead been increased!
    
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    July 19, 2019 12:07pm
Tall Man

It’s Friday. No ardern the (banned by mods) for me today. All politics are off the table and I’m going outside and doing “man work” … except I’ll need my wife to help me 😉

It’s time to acknowledge that we are not being served well by out government and we need a strategy to “rid the country of that damned woman” and the drunken dwarf.

That’s a job for Monday. Enjoy your weekend people and stay safe on the roads.
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July 19, 2019 10:19am
srylands

I see that the PM is going to raise yet again the export of New Zealand criminals from Australia.

Well full marks for persistence. It will never change. And presumably it will just antagonise Australia, with the risk that they will double down on the policy. Its no use saying these people are de facto Australians. They are New Zealanders. It says so on their passports.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/jacinda-ardern-not-happy-with-australias-migration-policy/news-story/bffb766815e8153487d682f67deef283

Honestly we have seen nothing yet. Keep antagonising Australia on this issue and expect pay back. The current free movement of people is of much more benefit to New Zealand than Australia. I don’t think it will last another 20 years, maybe much less. Australia will take the best and brightest New Zealanders possibly with a path to citizenship. The rest will be time limited guest workers.

Back to the deportations. I heard some twit on talk back the other day saying that New Zealand should “retaliate” by deporting Australian criminals. WTF? The Australians would say “fill your boots”. Secondly, I would be surprised if there are more than 50 convicted Australian criminals in New Zealand prisons.
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July 19, 2019 10:34am
- Alex13
  
  So, she doesn’t want the criminals from mainland Australia, and yet is happy to accept those from Australian offshore detention?
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:50am
- kevn
  
  @sry… One incarcerated Aussie springs to mind. Send him back, save a fortune.
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:54am
  - Martin Williams
    
    David Hisco is not in jail yet.
    
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    July 19, 2019 12:18pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      What an absolutely stupid comment.
      The sort of comment to be expected from Martin Williams.
      
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      July 19, 2019 12:54pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Why would he be Martin? I’m not aware that he has done or is even being investigated for anything illegal.
      
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      July 19, 2019 1:08pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Downtick and move on. These trolls are just wasting oxygen and creating co2.
        
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        July 19, 2019 2:40pm
    - kevn
      
      @marty… Bit ‘o brain fade eh?
      The ANZ guy, his unusual surname guarantees the mud will stick for the rest of his life.
      
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      July 19, 2019 1:19pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Won’t even last 9 years.
  I imagine the million kiwis who said no thanks and left NZ to get away from disasters like her quietly wish she would just fuck off. Labour is pretty entitled when you think about it. They can’t provide the same opportunities for NZers that Australia can yet they think they are entitled to lecture the aussies on how kiwis are treated.
  
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  July 19, 2019 11:43am
  - srylands
    
    And seriously, it will not end well. Expressing your view once is OK. Even twice is probably OK. But after being told “Thanks for your opinion, but no”, you don’t keep it up. There are many things the Australian Government could do if they continue to be antagonised, e.g.
    
    1. New Zealanders who entered Australia as residents before 26 February 2001 are still treated as special residents with all the same entitlements as Australians except for voting rights. Australia could scrap these privileges and treat all New Zealanders under the “new” rules.
    
    2. Australia could announced a review of the trans tasman travel arrangements. That would really escalate things.
    
    Another piece of context. Before 2001, the New Zealand Government compensated Australia for the cost of welfare benefits to New Zealanders. However Australia kept demanding more money, threatening to cut off entitlements to New Zealanders if the money was not forthcoming. The Clark government was not too concerned at the time, figuring that the priority was New Zealanders at home, not in Australia. And of course the entitlements of all the New Zealanders already in Australia were protected. It took some years for it to become a big issue, as the stock of folk in Australia were outnumbered by newcomers treated under the new rules.
    
    Finally, I simply do not buy this argument that New Zealanders in Australia since childhood are really “defacto” Australians and should not be deported. Your nationality is not who you feel you are. It is what is on your passport. It is absurd to think that you can run justice and immigration policies based on which country they “feel” they belong to, rather than based on actual citizenship. And yet the media here run this line all the time. It is bullshit.
    
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    July 19, 2019 2:24pm
- MickMac
  
  I’m going to write to Morrison and say “Good for you” we should do the same and deport all criminals over 1yr jail, not offer them residency.
  
  I’ll also suggest that they change the easy entry for NZers, make us get visas or only have 3/12 entry, and cancell the present visa.
  Only if the COL keep on keeping on about it, of course.
  
  I am sure Jacinda will Love that. Her voters don’t mind as they don’t fly anywhere or run businesses that require them too.
  
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  July 19, 2019 7:44pm
tf78

Tall Man – just before you go, to make your weekend get off to a good start I found this rather curious comment made by Ardern published by Roy Morgan, Aussie. Ardern was commenting on the state of global affairs – Ardern contends that nationalist and authoritarian movements are being spawned by a combinations of growing wealth inequality and distrust/disaffection with governments. – What on earth do you suppose she is trying to say.
P.S. Try and have a good weekend.
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July 19, 2019 10:47am
- mandk
  
  She should have also blamed craven and biased media.
  
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  July 19, 2019 12:04pm
- sooty
  
  She wouldn’t know either. If it’s on the piece of paper in front of her, she reads it!
  
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  July 19, 2019 12:32pm
- Tall Man
  
  Too wet at the moment here for man work…
  
  What Sooty said. She just produces word soup as written down for her. Notice how seldom she does followups, she is genuinely stupid.
  
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  July 19, 2019 2:37pm
Monique Watson

My hubby is not as keen on war games as me. I bore my Facebook friends to annoyance sometimes with my analysis. Its all going down as I predicted. Its Putin’s next move. The U.S. just shot down an Iranian drone to send A message. And they’re loading envoys into two bases at least in Syria to offset the Turkish push down into SDF held territory. And Saudi Arabia. Yemen’s a hot mess. Watch that space.
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July 19, 2019 10:54am
kevn

@tf78… She should have begun with ‘comrades’, then context would have been clear.
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July 19, 2019 10:56am
The Proper Ghandi

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/rnz/royal-commission-mosque-shootings-suppressions-extended

“This is to protect the accused’s fair trial rights, national security and the identity of witnesses, as the material those agencies will be supplying to the Commission is likely to contain classified and sensitive information. But the Commission has now added more than 200 government agencies, crown entities and departments to the list, regardless of whether they are providing evidence, or not.”

The justice system in a free country must be open and transparent. We all fund these agencies.

Suppression (be it of the video, Tarrant’s manifesto or evidence as noted above) is solely for the purposes of ass covering and keeping people in the dark about matters conflicting with “the narrative.” Are we living in the USSR?
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July 19, 2019 11:21am
- cmm
  
  The horse has bolted.
  
  PriNZess’ pathetic refusal to say his name and all the witchhunting since then has surely compromised any hopes of using suppression to get a “fair trial”.
  
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  July 19, 2019 11:45am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    cmm
    Tarrant’s “fair trial rights” (while a valid concern) is the least of the reasons given. That’s just a pretext. It almost leads one to infer that Tarrant may not have been the only one involved. Four people were initially arrested, according to the news reports at the time. Who were they?
    
    This is further speculation of course, but, for instance, I am fairly sure that the initial reports about the ‘hero who chased the shooter from the Linwood mosque’ involved him chasing a guy off, who then got into a vehicle containing another person(s). There was also an anti-terrorist exercise, coincidentally, occurring in Christchurch on the day. Lot’s of guys running round with automatic/semi-automatic weapons. Just as there were multiple Air Force exercises occurring on the morning of 9/11. What’s an exercise, and what is not?
    
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    July 19, 2019 11:55am
    - Batman
      
      Two of those people were released I believe. I think it turned out that they weren’t involved but we’re in a car nearby and had weed on them or something. Basically they were stoners out for a cruise and got caught up in it. I can’t find a reference for my recollection though!
      
      Anyhow, people might be interested to read the Wikipedia page. It has plenty of detail which might allay some of the concerns that everything is suppressed and it’s all a government move to control the narrative etc
      
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings
      
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      July 19, 2019 1:54pm
      - The Proper Ghandi
        
        Batman
        Lol. Avoid Wikipedia. Who do you think wrote the entry on Christchurch? Probably the GCSB or Andrew Little. Instead, look at the objective facts and think critically. Such excessive suppression is used to hide the uncomfortable reality from us. If evidence exonerated people and agencies it would all be public. If it’s suppressed it is because the powers that be don’t want the truth to be known.
        
        The Royal Commission will be a whitewash in the tradition of the Warren Commission Report. The outcome will be “everyone acted accordingly so nothing to see here.” Then we will all be expected to go about our lives safe in the knowledge that all is hunky dory.
        
        Tarrant will be painted as an aberration, acting alone and without the knowledge of any so-called intelligence agency. Further censorship of valid, reasonable and legitimate concerns about the ongoing Islamisation and Globalisation of the West will ensue. Dissenters will be labelled extremists. This is a tactic, well documented, employed in totalitarian societies. Sham trials and inquiries are hallmarks of broken political systems.
        
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        July 19, 2019 3:23pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Great analysis. What is I want to know is who is behind all of this.
        
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        July 19, 2019 4:30pm
      - Batman
        
        Ummmm, ooookaaay. Sure thing.
        
        Actually, can you detail what the truth is that they’re covering up? I’m genuinely interested in what you think it is.
        
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        July 19, 2019 4:57pm
      - The Proper Ghandi
        
        Batman
        I assume you are asking me? You fail to directly address anyone specifically which you should make a practice. Anyway….the point is this: logically, I can’t say for sure what they are hiding, because they are hiding it. But based on the mass suppression of almost any information, we can safely infer that there is SOMETHING that they DON’T want us to know.
        
        I speculate that they know many people agree that mass third world immigration is an issue and that serious consequnces will flow from it in the future. Why have they never put it to the electorate? The Government wants people to think Tarrant holds a view inconsistent with all others in NZ. That is not the case. Many reasonable people have seen what is happening in Europe and foresee the same happening here.
        
        Let’s be clear: I cannot and will not condone Tarrant’s actions, but you cannot objectively say that he didn’t have the balls to put his money where his mouth is.
        
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        July 19, 2019 5:36pm
      - Batman
        
        I replied directly to you. In a chain only involving you and I.
        
        There are suppression orders to protect intelligence and evidence. I would assume that they’re taking every care to ensure that they do get a conviction and no chances are taken.
        
        He does hold views that are inconsistent with the vast majority of kiwis. He believes that we are being ethnically replaced by an intentional immigration ploy by the Muslim world. That is insane.
        
        I understand that some want less immigration. That’s a valid view to hold. However I would venture that almost nobody holds similar views to Tarrant, and if they do I hope they seek help or emigrate out of NZ.
        
        Your apparent admiration for his ‘balls’ is somewhat sickening.
        
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        July 19, 2019 6:38pm
      - The Proper Ghandi
        
        Batman
        1. We are not the only commenters in this ‘chain.’
        
        2. I couldn’t care less if you are ‘sickened.’ You are free to be as sickened as you like. Deal with that as you see fit. Being offended or sickened is both your choice and a consequence of living in a (relatively) free country.
        
        In the abstract, I admire anyone who has strength of conviction, even conversely the Islamic terrorists who are willing to vapourise themselves for their “cause.” I perceive that you are not a very nuanced thinker, but it does not follow at all that I have to therefore praise the act itself.
        
        Most intelligent people are able to distinguish an act from a recognition and acknowledgement of the underlying motivation that initiated it. It leads to greater understanding of human nature and the world we live in, and to understand is not to condone. Give it a shot. Read again, and you will see that I explicitly don’t condone the act at all. Only the unreflective and the simple minded amongst us could not see the distinction. Get well soon!
        
        PS It is not a ploy ‘by the Muslims’. I don’t blame them for wanting a better life in the West. The Globalists want conflict between disparate groups living side by side, and it looks like they’ll get it.
        
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        July 19, 2019 7:45pm
- Fletch
  
  If old Paddy wants to investigate the so-called “far right”, why doesn’t he really do some investigative journalism and dig into Tarrant and find out all he can about him, his history, who he associated with and so on. I believe there is more there than meets the eye somehow.
  
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  July 19, 2019 2:50pm
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    Fletch
    Because it is better to place a meaningless and indeterminate label on someone than it is to actually objectively investigate and discover facts that may not be consistent with the bullshit propaganda that the MSM and idiots like Gower deal in.
    
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    July 19, 2019 3:27pm
  - MickMac
    
    Batman
    What a trollop.
    
    “He believes that we are being ethnically replaced by an intentional immigration ploy by the Muslim world. That is insane.”
    
    No, you are.
    
    1970’s UK made it a policy to let them in and diodn’t tell the populace, France did the same.
    
    The OIC guide and drive Dawa to the West.
    and fund some of it.
    
    No you are Insane.
    
    He clearly enunciated in his screed that was what “turned him” (what he saw in EU) and it is a big fear in the minds of Lefties that others will do the same.
    
    That is not what Kiwis are about.
    We all know that but the COL and the wets in National don’t. (probably Soiman)
    
    The reality is, they don’t want to have the conversation about Islamism and Dawa to the West.
    Jacinda has indicated she intends to bring much more into NZ in the coming years.
    
    When we can’t house our own people, let alone school and employ them.
    REM every refugee jumps the queue for housing, Benefits etc etc
    
    The COL builds NOTHING and only takes off of the Middle Class.
    
    The Media are compliant with this and right now everyone is keeping their heads down because of the Mosque shooting and the way Jacinda has played it.
    
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    July 19, 2019 7:53pm
    - MickMac
      
      Lets not forget FAMILY REPATRIATION…. in the 10yrs after they come here.
      All good Labour voters at least 2X
      
      You think Jacinda doesn’t think like that?
      She’s an unrepentant Communist…..
      
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      July 19, 2019 8:01pm
cmm

Big house explosion in Chch

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12250970

” A worker at a nearby motel and holiday park said the explosion shook nearby homes and sounded like a bomb had gone off.

“It was more than an earthquake, you’d think a bomb had gone off.””

Why do people always talk about bombs going off
as a way to describe stuff? Pointless since:
1) Most people have never heard a bomb going off, so saying something is like something they have never heard is pointless.
2) Chances are the person making the comparison has never heard a bomb go off either.

Why not just say it sounded like a unicorn fart?
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July 19, 2019 11:40am
- White Anglo Saxon Protestant
  
  I think I heard this, it sounded like a thunder clap.
  
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  July 19, 2019 11:53am
- wreck1080
  
  Yes, I nominate you to go and give these people a good telling off! Put them in their place!
  
  Clearly you have nothing else better to do.
  
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  July 19, 2019 12:00pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  By the look of the damage to the house that exploded, and to neighbouring properties, I’d say this was EXACTLY like a bomb going off cmm.
  
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  July 19, 2019 1:16pm
  - madamezucchininz
    
    ….absolutely sounded like a bomb going off….everything in the house rattled and it was so loud ….so loud I am still amazed the glass in our doors did not break…..we are two streets away….this was heard all over Christchurch….still amazed that the people in the house were pulled out alive….
    
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    July 19, 2019 2:52pm
  - cmm
    
    “I’d say this was EXACTLY like a bomb going off”
    
    Said by someone who has never heard a bomb going off.
    
    It might be exactly like what you think a bomb would sound like, but it is not what a bomb actually does sound like.
    
    I heard the bang today from about 2km away. I have also been within a few hundred metres of a real bomb going off (thanks Mandela). Big difference.
    
    The difference is mainly the ignition speed difference between something like gas or gunpowder etc igniting (relatively slow – a few hundred metres per second max – normally subsonic) and explosives detonating (very fast – some over 5km/sec – I once did some measurements of some explosives at 7km/sec). Thus a bomb makes more of a “crack” sound than a “boom” sound.
    
    People who have heard a high power rifle firing vs a firework going off will know what I mean.
    
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    July 19, 2019 3:11pm
    - Biscuit
      
      We really are limited, aren’t we?, when it comes to describing events.
      
      Any sports result will invariably see one ‘over the moon’ or ‘gutted, heartbroken’.
      
      Any catastrophe will be ‘I would never have thought it would happen in a quiet street like this one’.
      
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      July 19, 2019 4:32pm
Komata

cmm@1140

Re: ‘Why not just say it sounded like a unicorn fart?’

They can’t; Cindy’s collected them all (yes, every single one; and the Unicorns as well) and they’re in her office in Wellington. None have been allowed to escape; H1 is looking after them to make sure that none leave ‘without authorisation’.

(I thought you should know)
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July 19, 2019 12:07pm
mark15

Howdy
A couple of dopeheads at my work (big factory,100 odd staff) tried ACC recently.One for the first time,the other for the umpteenth.
Both got turned down.
Whatever umpteenth boy and ACC noob tried this time didn’t work.
Pattern emerging?
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July 19, 2019 12:18pm
Maggie Pie

Following the massive GAS explosion in Christchurch, Jacinda and Clarke prepare
to meet the families of those injured in the blast.

https://i.imgflip.com/154iv8.jpg
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July 19, 2019 12:34pm
Maggie Pie

Ive always considered myself to be a ‘student of human nature’. In my profession, it helps immensely. The ability to recognize trouble the moment you see it, means you are able to avoid some nasty situations that may arise, by taking the ‘appropriate action’ prior to such events occurring. A case in point:

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1151980370524549122
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July 19, 2019 1:03pm
- Poppa
  
  Yes that was absolute shit what he did. I don’t think he has a lot of brain power & could have been taking something but that is no excuse for what he did
  
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  July 19, 2019 2:29pm
kevn

@Maggie, The family tried running/driving away.
The perp is a meathead. Hurty? Offended? etc? Good.
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July 19, 2019 2:36pm
calendar girl

“In my profession, it (i.e. being a ‘student of human nature’) helps immensely.”

I’ld be interested to know the profession, Maggie.
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July 19, 2019 2:39pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Lap dancer.
  
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  July 19, 2019 3:19pm
  - calendar girl
    
    Good one, Maggie.
    
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    July 19, 2019 3:52pm
  - sooty
    
    You cheeky wee thing, you
    
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    July 19, 2019 3:55pm
Fletch

The reason Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008….. Is the same reason they want to impeach President Trump in 2019…

https://www.facebook.com/mike03car/videos/2936567186370413
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July 19, 2019 2:41pm
- krazykiwi
  
  “As President I will make sure we finally have the kids of border security we need” – Obama (applause, shouts, cheering, fawning media”
  
  “Trading is very important. The borders are very important. But security is what is the most important,” – Trump (Media outrage, “racist!”, calls for impeachment)
  
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  July 19, 2019 3:12pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Oops, the was intended to read “… the kinds of border security …”. Apologies to Obama for the misquotation 🙂
    
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    July 19, 2019 4:07pm
    - Batman
      
      As always with these supposedly clever videos, they’re conflating two different ideas that happen to be described in similar ways.
      
      Just like how “great healthcare!” under Trump actually means Republicans gutting current healthcare measures with no plan to replace it. Meanwhile, whether you agree with them or not on it, the other side have at least a couple of different policies for better healthcare.
      
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      July 19, 2019 4:56pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Sigh
        Trumps Healthcare plan is Pre existing conditions covered.
        He wants Medicare for all but to cover everything except extreme issues, which will be the preserve of Private Insurers.
        Private Insurers like that and so do companies which provide Healthcare cover.
        More detail closer to the Election.
        The Dems plan will Bankrupt the country- especially free healthcare for illegal immigrants.
        
        So, yes, there is a plan.
        
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        July 19, 2019 5:46pm
MCos

The people in Christchurch better fix up those cathedrals, send all the local Muslims to perform the Hajj, erect a giant Buddah, give Apostle Bishop Brian a Harley offering . . . . . . something to break this terrible string of thunderbolts from the gods.
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July 19, 2019 3:09pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Send money now, your thoughts and prayers can never be enough.
  
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  July 19, 2019 4:11pm
Tony Stuart

Nice work from Simon Bridges this afternoon, with his “apology” to Julie Anne Genter over her proposal to tax new vehicle sales:

Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges has today apologised to Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter for releasing false information about the Government’s car tax.

“In recent statements, National claimed Labour’s car tax would increase the cost of some of New Zealand’s most popular vehicles by up to $3000. We were basing this on information in the Government’s Clean Car Discount Scheme.

“But we’ve since had a good look at another piece of work by the Government – its Clean Car Standard Scheme – and discovered even more hidden costs.

“The truth is, the actual cost of Julie Anne Genter’s car tax on Kiwis could be more than $6000 per vehicle.

“Alongside the Government’s plan to tax higher-emissions vehicles, it is proposing a vehicle emissions target, meaning importers will be charged a penalty of between $50 and $100 per gram of CO2 on vehicles that don’t come in under the target from 2025.

“That could slap an extra $4500 onto the import cost of an average new car and an extra $2250 onto the cost of an average used car – costs that will almost certainly be passed on to buyers.

“More than 91 per cent of the vehicles being imported into the country today don’t satisfy the Minister’s emissions expectations, so this could be a massive tax grab for the Government.

“Julie Anne Genter wants to tell Kiwis what cars they can and cannot drive, and dictate to dealers what cars they can and cannot sell.

“She’s clearly spent too much time in Wellington and not enough in the regions because she hasn’t clicked that not all New Zealanders have low-emission vehicle options that fit their lifestyle.

“What, then, are car dealers in Feilding, Greymouth and Dargaville supposed to do? They can’t just start selling cars their customers don’t want.

“I’d like to say sorry to the Minister for underestimating the true cost of this tax on hard-working New Zealanders, which she thinks is just a ‘small fee’ they’ll be happy to pay.”

https://www.national.org.nz/simon_bridges_apologises_to_julie_anne_genter

Well played sir 😀
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July 19, 2019 3:12pm
- krazykiwi
  
  I note Stuff have, once again, give the last word to the left:
  
  Genter said the policy would actually save households money by reducing their fuel bill by $6800 over the lifetime of the vehicle
  
  No evidence. Just a number plucked from nowhere. She is great at this job in the same way that Sweeny Todd was a great barber.
  
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  July 19, 2019 3:20pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I tweeted earlier today that Ardern giving a speech on “good government” was akin to Hannibal Lechter giving a speech on veganism, or Kim Dotcom speaking on respecting copyright 😀
    
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    July 19, 2019 3:54pm
  - Biscuit
    
    Yep, kk.
    
    Genter has no way of knowing what the price of fuel will be next week let alone how that price will fluctuate over the lifetime of a vehicle.
    
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    July 19, 2019 4:27pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I reckon Genter is the reason why we have instructions on the shampoo bottle. (stolen from Sen J. Kennedy)
    
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    July 19, 2019 5:13pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Who’s there.. Argo…
    
    Argo who…
    
    Argo fuck yourself….
    
    Just for the coalition of thieves and liars………..
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:41pm
- MickMac
  
  JAG another Greenie foreigner who should leave.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:05pm
Maggie Pie

Night all – i’m off to save the world 🙂

Tomorrow.
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July 19, 2019 5:09pm
Happychappy

Air Jacinda breaks down in Australia leaving the PM and her Partner stranded.
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July 19, 2019 5:55pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Hahahahahahahahahaha.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:15pm
  - sooty
    
    Helen had that problem in aus as well!
    But it was a strike by Ansett that could not get the plane in the air!
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:31pm
Swifty

Having someone special around for dinner at 7pm – my first such event for a while.

A lightly curry spiced pumpkin soup amuse bouche followed by scotch fillet with red-wine pan-sauce, potato gratin and fresh garden salad and with a fresh fruit-loaded pav to finish.

Music recommendations please.
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July 19, 2019 5:56pm
- MickMac
  
  any Barry White or George Benson 🙂
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:07pm
  - Swifty
    
    Love Barry.
    
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    July 19, 2019 11:17pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Sounds wonderful. Hope it went well.
  Let us know how the after-match function went.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:19pm
Wired-one

Just ticked over 16000 beneficiaries added to the taxpayer funded gravy train since this government was formed. Is this what Ardern and her sycophantic media meant by the politics of kindness?
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July 19, 2019 6:09pm
- Tall Man
  
  The year of delivery….
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:38pm
tf78

Alas the jet broke down – how embarrassing. The ace non return stroke worked.
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July 19, 2019 6:14pm
- Batman
  
  Shows the false economies of the Clark government buying shit second hand equipment despite massive surpluses
  
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  July 19, 2019 6:31pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    And they’re about to repeat the same mistake again with old Hercules
    They should have bought the last three C17’s being manufactured
    Only $1 Billion
    But they would have lasted 40 years
    
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    July 19, 2019 6:38pm
    - tf78
      
      Red – all they need is a hot air balloon – fairly reliable by all accounts and recommended by the Greens. Win, win.
      
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      July 19, 2019 7:31pm
    - gorse
      
      Probably cheaper than a bunch of guns.
      
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      July 19, 2019 9:33pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Ask those in the senior level of the clark bunch who had more in the bank when we threw them out that before….. You may start to learn why…..
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:37pm
hullkiwi

Breaking news!
Jacinda and Jethro are having to come back on a commercial flight.

It seems Jacinda 1 has broken down.

Oh dear how sad, she’ll just have to suffer with the peasants and travel like the rest of us. Bet she will not be in cattle class though!?
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July 19, 2019 7:21pm
- Souvlaki
  
  Yes….BUT did she pay the “carbon credits” on her return flight???……ppppffffffftt
  
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  July 19, 2019 7:28pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Don’t be silly; carbon footprints are only for ordinary people.
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:08pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Say, wouldn’t good ‘governance’ mean making sure the Air Force planes actually work?
  
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  July 19, 2019 7:30pm
  - sooty
    
    You watch, she will be wanting her own Gulfstream now.
    The toadies, will have to fly commercial!
    
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    July 19, 2019 9:28pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yep, she better get the motor mechanic Sgt Ron Mark on to it!
    
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    July 19, 2019 10:05pm
- kevn
  
  @hull…. What about the entourage? Multi media hangers-on, child minders, security etc?
  Just charter another plane I guess.
  
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  July 19, 2019 8:19pm
- rangitoto
  
  How many polar bears did she kill on this junket?
  
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  July 19, 2019 9:38pm
MrLovebucket

Warning!! Green logic to follow…

The Greens are pressuring the Government to increase benefits, saying a surge in the number of people seeking grants for living costs shows benefits are too low.

Just what exactly do the Greens think will happen if the taxpayer doubles benefits overnight?
Fewer people switching to the benefit lifestyle?
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July 19, 2019 7:39pm
mikenmildagain

It’s disgraceful. Air force planes never broke down before 2017.
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July 19, 2019 8:11pm
- Tall Man
  
  Ha ha ha ha…. find me three people who give a shit….
  
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  July 19, 2019 10:34pm
tf78

Does anyone watch Peta Credlin (Sky 085) – she just ripped Jacinda’s facade to bits – it was delicious. It is so good to hear an intelligent, experienced, politico tell it exactly like it is.
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July 19, 2019 8:13pm
Steve Todd

At 2.56 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, it will be exactly 50 years since Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of the moon. Great stuff.

But, let us not forget that this afternoon, between 3.15 and about 5.00 p.m., while Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were approaching the moon, it was also 50 years since the tragic and totally unnecessary death of Mary Jo Kopechne (eight days before her 29th birthday), in Poucha Pond, Chappaquiddick Island.

More importantly, let us not forget why she died. She died that Friday night, the 18th (quite possibly that Saturday morning, the 19th) of July 1969, because a coward by the name of Edward Moore Kennedy, ran from the scene of an accident that he was the sole cause of.

She lost her life, in my opinion, by suffocation (otherwise by drowning), but either way, almost certainly not quickly (which is why I suggest a nearly two-hour timeline), while he scrambled to save his political career.

He got to carry on living his privileged life as a U.S. Senator, for a further 40 years – dying at the age of 77 – even (laughingly) getting to consider a run for the presidency (in 1980), while her life was cut short.

One can only imagine her panic, her distress, her despair, as she increasingly realised she was going to die, horribly, while her erstwhile companion of just a few minutes, a scion of a deeply flawed family that had no right to be in its elevated position in US society, thought only of saving his miserable, cowardly, skin.

An American tragedy, for sure.

At this time, when we rightly celebrate the genius of the human race, let us not forget Mary Jo Kopechne.
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July 19, 2019 8:34pm
- IndividualResponsibility
  
  Steve – well said, indeed. The Kennedy ‘super death’ curse may yet catch up.
  
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  July 20, 2019 3:02pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    Thank you, IR.
    
    Hopefully, in another generation or so, the Kennedy family, except for Joe and his sons Jack and Bobby, will just be an historical footnote.
    
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    July 20, 2019 4:02pm
Monique Watson

Simon Wilson is such a trial.
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July 19, 2019 9:07pm
Kabull

While I find it poetic justice that the 757 has broken down, can I point out to all the critics of Air Force maintenance that these aircraft were designed to operate at a high intensity in a commercial environment. In military service they operate only a fraction of the time they would have as civil airliners. And it is very, very hard to keep such aircraft performing when they are not being used. It is not so much an issue of second hand aircraft as a matter of operating tempo.
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