General Debate 25 August 2019

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Happychappy

What is happening in NZ under this Labour led Coalition with serious assaults leading to death weekly with murder on the rise also. When National were on power it was we didn’t have enough Police aggravated Robberies were happening daily but that has not been as prominent as more serious crime has taken over, with Labour wanting to cull our prison numbers and let the greater portion of our prison population back on the streets.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12261630
They can’t put a stop to this happening now so how the hell can they justify releasing some of our major criminals when Little decides to make it law.
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August 25, 2019 8:12am
- Wayne
  
  Poverty, loss of hope, gangs, and increased numbers of firearms in the community.
  
  I also believe that 2019 suicide stats will be really bad.
  
  It is hard for govt to fix these problems but they like to tell you that they have the solution.
  
  My concern is how bad it is despite the economy doing well for around 8 years. How bad is it going to get when we have the next recession??
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:05am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Allowing people to make excuses and shift blame for their failures doesn’t improve their behaviour or happiness – in fact quite the opposite. People who don’t work to take control of their lives are mostly miserable and frequently antisocial
    
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    August 25, 2019 1:12pm
    - Wayne
      
      Explanation is not justification.
      
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      August 25, 2019 1:59pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        In theory true, in practice false. Humans are not rational, they are rationalising
        
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        August 25, 2019 3:52pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Pfffft. Next Labour-Green government will fix it bro.
    
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    August 25, 2019 3:53pm
Paulus Gnome

Am I first today?

I always have something to say!

oh, moderation . . . .
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August 25, 2019 8:23am
- MCos
  
  Are you the first today?
  
  I don’t know, but there was a lot of rhythmic bumping and grinding accompanied by oohs & aahs going on just after midnight from two dogs out on the street in front of our place last night . . . .
  
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  August 25, 2019 2:37pm
Lee C

Did Jacinda Ardern stimulate anger in quiet voters by reappearing in a hijab and getting loud cheers for the idea of setting up a muslim women’s political boot camp?

What female in her right mind would want to go to a camp set up by The Labour Party?
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August 25, 2019 8:30am
- chaos
  
  Virgins wanting to lose their virginity?
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:21am
- Gravelroad
  
  I suggest that women who belong to other faith- based groups should now contact the Prime Minister to ask that similar leadership training opportunities be made available for them.
  And funded by the Government as some sort of pay for votes scheme, presumably.
  For example:
  The NZ Catholic Women’s League
  The NZ Association of Anglican Women
  The Presbyterian Women of Aotearoa/NZ
  Etc, etc.
  We are an equal-opportunity country, are we not?
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:20am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Ardern in her hijab is insulting Christians in NZ.
  The PI population votes will be quickly lost as those people vote as their Pastors suggest.
  
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  August 25, 2019 12:43pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I consider it insulting to every woman who values equal rights and to every man who respects women without needing them to be hidden away.
    
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    August 25, 2019 2:16pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    PI population will always vote for Labour like Maori. Pray for something that God can bless you with. Don’t ask for something even God cannot change.
    
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    August 25, 2019 3:54pm
  - GoVege
    
    Maybe her wearing the hijab to address Muslims after the Christchurch massacre might have been understandable.
    But waltzing up to a Muslim girls’ school in one is unnecessary and probably counterproductive.
    Even Muslim dads have complained about how sexist this school is (in the Manukau Courier).
    Last time I drove near it, I saw some twit in a burqa.
    Surely the PM can connect with Muslim females without donning symbols of their oppression?
    
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    August 25, 2019 4:06pm
Yvette

‘Bootcamp’ for Muslim women interested in politics?
After being asked about pathways for the Muslim community to be involved in leadership roles, Ms Ardern said she wanted to create what she called a “politics bootcamp”.
“I would love for us to create a forum where we can spend some time together as… politicians and women with those who are interested in taking on leadership roles.”
Ms Ardern said she wanted to come back to Auckland to have that discussion.

A Cabinet Paper reveals Shane Jones is dependent on commercial forestry to plant 770 million trees before 2028 so he will only ever have to hopefully plant 230 million of them, less than a quarter of the billion Labour has promised to help allay global warming, or weather change.

In the same time, though, commercial forestry has a 95% cutting rate, which one assumes means elsewhere in their holdings, they will fell 731.5 million trees, leaving Shane a balance of only 38.5 million to add to his 230 million, giving just over a quarter (268.5m) of the promised billion total.

This of course is an utter betrayal of all the school aged protesters who are about to again strike and march try to persuade the Government to act on climate change.

But meanwhile a very unpopular report says that such carbon sequestration as provided in forest “carbon sinks” is only temporary and just “kicks the can down the road”.

Ardern’s statement that weather change is this generations “nuclear moment” is one slogan that is correct in this respect – carbon sequestration in forestry is akin to the problem of dealing with nuclear waste – a future worry for someone else, such as today’s children.

So Shane’s ineptitude in getting the nephews off their couches to plant his forests is actually a blessing.
Mostly just bloody words (mangled pretentious so-called oratory in his case) or yet another empty conversation in Ardern’s terms.

Which one also hopes will be the case with Ardern’s talk of a ‘bootcamp’ for Muslim women interested in politics.

When the most hope you can have in a Government, is that they will just have endless “conversations” about stuff and actually do stuff all, it is a good indication voters should be looking elsewhere than at anything Winston can cobble together.
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August 25, 2019 8:38am
- Jules99
  
  “I would love for us to create a forum where we can spend some time together ”
  
  In other words, have conversations and achieve nothing. Phew – that’s a relief.
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:57am
- srylands
  
  That “nuclear moment” wrecked New Zealand’s security relationships for decades and deprived the country of an important energy source.
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:25am
- srylands
  
  I might start a boot camp for aspiring Jewish politicians. Not sure there would be any takers. They are too busy being productive citizens.
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:34am
- calendar girl
  
  “After being asked about pathways for the Muslim community to be involved in leadership roles, Ms Ardern said she wanted to create what she called a “politics bootcamp”.
  
  Trust our PM Ardern to believe or imply that real “leadership” occurs, or is practised, only in politics. All part of her very narrow perspective of the world in which most of us tend to live – including Muslims.
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:10am
  - calendar girl
    
    Now in moderation for over an hour. ‘Conversation’ doesn’t have any real chance under these circumstances.
    
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    August 25, 2019 11:13am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Only an hour?!
      
      Luxury!
      
      Four hours plus so far today for the initial comments posted today.
      
      Try: https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/
      
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      August 25, 2019 1:56pm
- burt
  
  So have a I got this clear, while wearing a symbol of female subjugation our PM thinks it’s appropriate to talk about female empowerment?
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:10am
  - sooty
    
    She could asked for a show of hands for FMG.
    
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    August 25, 2019 11:33am
  - Scooter
    
    Well she did say in the BBC interview that she was a feminist, while expecting her boyfriend to propose. All words no thought.
    
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    August 25, 2019 5:45pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Medical research fraud
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018710276/dr-andrew-klein-catching-the-fraudsters-in-medical-research
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August 25, 2019 8:40am
igm

Lee C: “What female in her right mind would want to go to a camp set up by The Labour Party”?
Only one with low moral standards and no sense of decency.
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August 25, 2019 8:41am
- dubya
  
  On the plus side, it’s very hard for a pervert to put his hands down a burqa.
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:56am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think that is unfair on many youngsters who are eager, enthusiastic and naive.
  They are not to know that a bunch of predators are lying in wait for their young flesh.
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:57am
  - stephieboy
    
    MW, as if Joe and Jane voting public actually care about your wowser moralising!
    
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    August 25, 2019 9:13am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @stephieboy,
      Thanks for letting me know that Joe and Jane Public don’t give a stuff about my wowser views on life.
      
      I must admit they are not my audience..
      
      I’m quite happy placing my opinions out here for KB readers, who, in the main, do seem to care about youngsters being sexually abused/mauled/silenced by powerful or well-connected political folk.
      
      I know it must be fucking irritating to you that an old married (40+ years to the same man), non-smoking, teetotal, pacifist atheist has morals!!!!!
      
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      August 25, 2019 2:29pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Stuffy considers objecting to pedophilia ‘wowser moralising’. Good to know…
    
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    August 25, 2019 3:05pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Religion-based, politically motivated indoctrination camps for selected women to become “leaders”.
  Nice one.
  Can’t wait.
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:01am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I know, let’s all dress up in brown and get a natty little Hindu symbol for peace for armbands, get a song going, a recognition salute, I mean, what could go wrong?
    
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    August 25, 2019 9:24am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Reposted from the 7.00 Simon Bridges post:
      
      Your comment is awaiting moderation.
      
      Four hours? You guys are taking the piss.
      
      It appears to me to be some form of quasi censorship dressed up as moderation.
      
      You know that it is possible to meet someone, have an introductory drink and then sex, keeping ones socks on as is the English way, in less time than it takes to get comments through here.
      
      I expect that, given the explanation provided yesterday regarding the moderation process where the most recent comment is moderated first (how wierd is that?) that this will appear, if at all, before the original posted at 9.35, or, am I on the ‘naughty, moan at the moderator a lot, step?’
      
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      August 25, 2019 12:48pm
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        I hate this moderation business set up by uncle Farrar. I post my comments and never come back to see whether they appear as it is a waste of time.
        
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        August 25, 2019 3:57pm
  - Komata
    
    Gravelriad@2101
    
    Don’t forget too that this is just another foot in the door for islam; a takeover by stealth, and Adern is too dim to see it.
    
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    August 25, 2019 10:30am
  - David Garrett
    
    Gravel: Exactly…and leaders for only one party of course…or perhaps two, with the Greens. Not sure how dreadlocks and dope smoking goes with the Koran though…
    
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    August 25, 2019 11:00am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      and the drunkenness at these events?
      How might that sit with the Koran?
      
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      August 25, 2019 11:32am
      - david
        
        Don’t know RWC, but judging by the religion of Britain’s grooming gangs, there is a high probability of abuse in the mosques.
        
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        August 25, 2019 1:29pm
- stephieboy
  
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  igm, I take it we can be assured that you are a paragon of virtue and morality?
  
  Proof?
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:11am
  - BassilFawlty
    
    Aren’t you the St Lukes mall pervert?
    
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    August 25, 2019 9:22am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Fuck off with your ‘proofs’ stephie
    
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    August 25, 2019 9:25am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      And again . . .
      
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      August 25, 2019 12:49pm
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Now we are all to prove our morality.
    Maggy is merely saying what most think, you do not put young vunerable people in harms way.
    The Labour party obviously have a real problem dealing with the fallout of depraved incidents that appear to occur on a regular basis, that could include the highest office in the land.
    Maybe you should be directing your question to the Prime Minister and all her office and minders.
    I would think Maggy has more morality in her little finger than the blockers of justice.
    You would have to be a real dip stick to think any sane person would send a young person to any Labour function, without a chapperone.
    Sad, but the truth.
    https://scholarsandrogues.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/sgt-shultz-i-see-nothing.jpg?w=639
    
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    August 25, 2019 9:28am
    - marcw
      
      I would also strongly recommend that any Labour Camp or function avoid at all costs the St Albans Anglican church venue. We know who will be covertly checking out the talent.
      
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      August 25, 2019 9:49am
    - calendar girl
      
      I think the Auckland trial commences in 8 days’ time of the person accused of sexually assaulting teenagers at a Labour Youth Camp in the Bay of Plenty (first half of 2018?).
      
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      August 25, 2019 10:19am
      - gravedodger
        
        February 9/10/11/12 2018, Labour Summer camp at Karangahake Gorge near Waihi
        
        Opening 09 02 18 attended by PTPM.
        
        Alleged assaults on day “2”
        
        Alleged drinking session day “2”, including MP Liz Craig allegedly involved. Also underaged youth being supplied hard liquor, booze apparently plentiful
        
        Camp “supervisor”, senior Labour Party secretary Tess McIntyre retired at 2100 hrs evening of day “2”.
        On Day “3” first leaks of the questionable actions appear with Andrew Kirton seemingly the one realising the potential political problems.
        
        Also day “3” alleged perpetrator sent home from camp.
        
        Three weeks later an alleged victim approaches Megan Woods seeking assistance via Face Book.
        
        Labour head Office made some rather disturbing decisions, no police involvement, no information to parents of “children” attending and allegedly assaulted some only 15 years old??? and little effort for provision of professional help for victims.
        
        Professional help for alleged victims offered one month after alleged offending.
        
        Police receive a first complaint over a month after event mean while NZLP involving President Nigel Harworth, General secretary Kirton and senior VP Houston, all tried to minimise exposure!!!
        
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        August 25, 2019 3:16pm
      - calendar girl
        
        That sounds like a very well-informed account, gravedodger @ 3:16pm.
        
        Do you regard your source as reliable? And is that source likely to be called as a witness at the trial starting in a week’s time?
        
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        August 25, 2019 5:51pm
    - calendar girl
      
      Sorry Michael, I hadn’t seen your earlier comment below about the Labour Youth Camp.
      
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      August 25, 2019 10:26am
    - igm
      
      As many have said before me, Labour is for leeches, envious lazy losers, and perverts.
      
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      August 25, 2019 10:41am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    stephie.
    Do you realise how pathetic you sound?
    Do you actually read the tripe you write before posting?
    
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    August 25, 2019 9:29am
    - kevn
      
      @Captn… Their (stephie) mothers would be ashamed of the rubbish ‘they’ post on KB.
      
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      August 25, 2019 9:46am
    - Tall Man
      
      You have just provided all the “stimulation” steffy girl needs.
      
      Her irrational posts are nothing more than a cry for attention.
      
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      August 25, 2019 10:11am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        He get’s off on giving and receiving abuse, particularly to women.
        
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        August 25, 2019 1:16pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Fuck you are stupid. Talk about leading with your chin and your hands behind your back. I won’t go into the specifics but there are reasons that you are referred to as the blog’s resident perv…
    
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    August 25, 2019 9:58am
    - calendar girl
      
      What’s the betting that the ‘Labour Yoof Groper’s’ name will be suppressed when his Auckland trial commences on 2 September?
      
      And would any such name suppression be to “protect the innocent”, or to conceal the identities of the accused person’s family members or associates?
      
      In relation to the same Labour Youth Camp held at Waihi in March 2018:
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/105003464/labour-youth-camp-arrest
      
      has any Police prosecution been initiated of the Labour Party, or of its individuals who organised the event that media reports have suggested supplied free alcohol to attendees under the ‘legal drinking age’?
      
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      August 25, 2019 3:03pm
Michael

Lee C
You make a good point.
The Labour party is 0-2 with regard to sexual assaults against minors and women this past year that we know of.
Considering their propensity to cover up crimes by it’s members rather than be the most transparent government ever.

Maybe the NZ Police should investigate the Labour party leadership.
Ohh and especially for Liquor licensing law infringements, IE supplying alcohol to minors.

Although maybe that won’t work, as for some people I can understand that the NZ Police isn’t a fair and impartial organisation.

After all they pursue clubs and bars almost religiously with the Liquor Laws.
But appear to have done nothing in the Year since the Labour Party allegedly supplied alcohol to minors at a Labour Party Youth camp>
The Camp in June last year where some youths were sexually assaulted (allegedly) by a Labour party functionaries family member.
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August 25, 2019 8:54am
- toby1845
  
  From memory the Labour Yoof Groper’s camp was in March, although of course that doesn’t make your points invalid.
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:26am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  The two nil scoreline does not take into account any more ‘indiscretions’ yet to be ‘discovered’ in the party of crim hugger hypocrites
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:28am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    And again again . . .
    
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    August 25, 2019 12:49pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  I believe the court case starts on 2 Sept.
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:30am
Happychappy

Could you believe that the Minister of Housing let two identities bid for the same land, well Housing NZ and Kiwibiuld did just that, but what you won’t believe is that he let it happen three times.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115120445/kiwibuild-and-hnz-competed-over-same-land-and-homes
Now with incompetence like this you have to wonder what other mistakes with taxpayers money is happening after all he is Transport Minister also.
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August 25, 2019 8:55am
- chaos
  
  Do you expect kiwi build and housing nz to know that this has happened when hijab Cindy doesn’t even know of sexual assaults and complaints in her very own office?
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:25am
GT Build

This article in Breitbart today is a great success story that the lefty educators here as well as Britain will not want to see repeated well worth the read https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/24/britains-strictest-headmistress-rules-ok/
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August 25, 2019 8:58am
- David Garrett
  
  GT: Thanks for that…a great read. It’s nowhere near the same, but our local school, under an old fashioned headmaster now sadly retired, turned out highly literate and numerate kids who achieved above their age level. At 12, my daughter was able to proof read my stuff, and pick out the odd typo…I’m prepared to bet most of her peers could so the same…so long as they had been through Kaukapakapa School…
  
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  August 25, 2019 11:08am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Watch this interview with the headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh, even just the first minutes.
  
  She started out as a teacher believing there was ‘loads of institutionalised racism in schools’ but found that lack of success was due to kids being told they were victims of an unfair establishment. She calls it undermining the child by indulging a sense of victimhood.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpPEjpXstsg
  
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  August 25, 2019 4:34pm
Humble Capitalist

Kiwis are being FLEECED by cafes through the entirety of NZ. With bugger tax content the gross margins are huge. How dare they add a margin to cover costs and pay themselves.
According to the ‘PM’ Kiwis are being fleeced by petrol companies in NZ. The ‘PM’ is so concerned and angered by it that she has added further taxes to the price. Who is the main fleecer and is she going to look into all companies that she considers to have an unacceptable gross profit margin? Does she understand that companies pull out of investing when returns arent there? NO.
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August 25, 2019 9:02am
- dubya
  
  As a gay man who spends a lot of money at cafes, this bugger tax you speak of has got me concerned. My pink dollar can only go so far.
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:34am
- sooty
  
  But cafe is not paying 50/60% of the cost of the coffee to govt as tax!
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:35am
  - sooty
    
    Written at 9.35, now 12.30 and out of mod yet!
    Are all the mods in church?
    
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    August 25, 2019 12:27pm
    - sooty
      
      Mod, were you lurking.
      
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      August 25, 2019 2:49pm
    - dave_c_
      
      You need to remember that moderation is a form of censorship – no matter how you look at it.
      
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      August 25, 2019 2:55pm
- burt
  
  We’re discussing petrol tax the wrong way, we keep talking about how the price is ~50% tax, which it is. However what that means is the product is taxed at ~100%.
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:17am
  - chaos
    
    An interesting article on the price of fuel going up when shell was brought
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/115211399/trickle-up-approach-to-cutting-petrol-profits-likely-to-disappoint
    
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    August 25, 2019 10:43am
    - burt
      
      It could go down by 50% and the only difference to Shell would be increased demand. But tell us again how it’s the fuel companies ripping us off.
      
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      August 25, 2019 4:26pm
- rockape
  
  Its only time before petrol stations become fewer and far between. Easy way for petrol stations to maintain profit is do what the banks did and cut unprofitable outlets. They know customers will still need petrol.
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:22am
  - gravedodger
    
    Struggling to rationalise that with McKeowns setting up unmanned outlets across the SI where big Oil abandons, priced at one retail price via their inhouse card??
    NPD (Nelson) setting up new manned and unmanned also widespread at new locations buying fuel from Exxon Mobil.
    NPD set up in Akaroa at end of Hway 75 when “Z” not only ceased to supply The Auto Center but ripped out “their ” tanks leaving NPD to set up from virtually scratch
    
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    August 25, 2019 3:24pm
stephieboy

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Joe Walsh says GOP primary voters tired of Trump’s ‘daily bullshit’

Joe Walsh, a contentious former congressman turned conservative radio show host, believes his combative style is the GOP’s best chance at wresting control of the Republican Party from President Trump.

Walsh, 57, is expected to announce he’ll challenge Trump for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination as early as this weekend, joining former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld’s efforts in bloodying up the president ahead of the general election.
“If I do do this, I’m going to punch him in the face every single day,” Walsh told the Washington Examiner. “I’m going to call him out because I think he’s an absolute con man who is a danger to the party and the country.”

Walsh’s anti-Trump rhetoric is a shift in stance from 2016 when the Tea Party darling voted for the president. The turning point came after Trump’s joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin last year in Helsinki when the president said he hadn’t seen any compelling evidence why the Kremlin would have interfered in his election against Hillary Clinton….”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-walsh-says-gop-primary-voters-tired-of-trumps-daily-bullshit

Walsh is as mad as they come from the GOP production line who built notoriety with his strong Tea Party advocacy, amongst many things, trumpeting absurd Obama conspiracy theories. His only chance is if the incumbent is impeached and stood down the grounds of mental ill-health given his increasingly erratic and bizarre behaviour.
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August 25, 2019 9:09am
- Paginus
  
  So you would rather have a neoclown who wants to get into endless wars, instead of Trump?
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:32am
- Frank Thomas
  
  I preferred him when he played with The Eagles…..
  
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  August 25, 2019 9:48am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    I have a mansion but forget the price
    Aint never been there, they tell me its nice
    I live in hotels, tear down the walls
    I have accountants, pay for it all
    
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    August 25, 2019 10:03am
  - 3-coil
    
    Or the James Gang!
    
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    August 25, 2019 10:25am
Inandout

The China/US trade spat is interesting in that Trump is doing what past Presidents have failed to do. This time he has cross Party support and though the Dow will rock back and forth for a while, China’s economy is built on a shaky base, nowhere near as solid as the American one. With the advances in manufacturing it is not vital for goods to be made in China, and the tariffs being thrown about are merely posturing by both sides.
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August 25, 2019 9:24am
Wired-one

Thinking about the next election, what major policies would you like National to take into it. Me personally this is what I would like…

Reinstate oil and gas, make the announcement in Taranaki, but commit all royalties to subsidize electric vehicles for kiwis.

Main tax policy of adjusting the tax bracket creep every year, I believe they have already announced this, but make sure kiwis completely get it, by selling it hard.

A massive infrastructure project, with a four lane highway stretching the length of NZ. Alongside a railway line that does the same.

A massive increase in Pharmacs budget, alongside their cancer agency plan

An overhaul of local body governance, tie rate increases to inflation to begin with, Big selling point in the regions especially.

Consolidate DHBs, into 6 or 7 DHBs instead of 20

Overhaul of RMA to get this country building, untie kiwis hands

Massive increase in the conservation budget

Remove student bribe, remove working for families, set up spending card scheme for beneficiaries, bill’s and food paid for before pokies.

Do away with the provincial growth fund

Increase research and development

Reduce company tax rate

Compulsory kiwisaver and increase employer contribution to 5%

I know many wont agree with some or all of that, but that’s my opinion. Please share your own.
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August 25, 2019 9:29am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Paid for how? Rail is waste of money, can never be economically competitive with trucks and ships
  
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  August 25, 2019 3:58pm
  - Wired-one
    
    Public private partnerships, kiwisaver employer increase offset by lower company tax rate. No provincial growth fund or tertiary education bribe, plus cut the fat off government and use that money for pharmac and conservation. Oil and gas royalties pay for the electric vehicle subsidy. There’s heaps of many to do all of that, it simply comes down to priorities. I believe kiwis would buy into a large infrastructure spend, as long as they can see the benefit of it.
    
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    August 25, 2019 5:02pm
- Ian Boag
  
  Fair enough – but the sums are a bit of a problem – just to pick on a couple of them.
  
  A massive infrastructure project, with a four lane highway stretching the length of NZ.
  
  Using Transmission Gully and the Kapiti Expressway as benchmarks – 4-lane highway costs about 30million/k. N Cape to Bluff with branches to BoP and Taranaki etc would be something like 3000 km of 4-lane road = $90 billion. A bit inspirational perhaps …. ?
  
  remove working for families
  
  WFF costs about $2-3bn. Doubtless there would be tax cuts to soften the blow so the net gain might be maybe half that. A good chunk of these tax cuts would end up in the back pocket of high income earners who by and large are already Nat voters. You have to ask yourself why the previous Nat govt – no fan of WFF – did not touch it.
  
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  August 25, 2019 6:25pm
srylands

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/115253220/steven-joyce-heres-why-the-government-needs-to-spend-more-now

An excellent article by Joyce. I didn’t realise how dire things were.

“The amount for new State Highway projects is being cut from 40 per cent of the money collected from fuel taxes to just 13 per cent. That’s a $3.5 billion decline over just six years. And its due to fall further. The Government is forecasting to spend one billion dollars a year less on upgrading our highways.”
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August 25, 2019 9:29am
Greg Ettridge

Is Joe Rooted?
In the fight of his life to be named Captain in the next test.
Started to bat his way out overnight, still two days for him and the team to level series.
I would think listening to the English commentary, you are about to see some significant changes, coach, captain, and many players.
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August 25, 2019 9:36am
- srylands
  
  Should be a fascinating 4th day. 200 runs with 7 wickets in hand is quite achievable.
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:07am
- hookerphil
  
  4 team scores under 100 in the last couple of years – some significant changes would seem in order. Perhaps Ashley Giles may be the answer, according to my English neighbour.
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:32am
Hugh Pavletich

Kiwibloggers … this should have been popped up on todays GD … hugely important ! …

NEW ZEALAND: Another major reason why the current government needs to be thrown out … the transport debacle…

… Former senior National Party politician Steven Joyce explains …

Steven Joyce: Here’s why the Government needs to spend more now (infrastructure) … Opinion … Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/115253220/steven-joyce-heres-why-the-government-needs-to-spend-more-now

OPINION: It makes sense in a slowing economy to bring forward infrastructure investment to boost economic activity and protect jobs. You get the economic boost from the extra spend, plus something to show for it. If you build the right infrastructure it can in turn boost economic growth in the future. …

… concluding …

… Everyone knows the Green Party is anti-road and anti-development. The surprise for most people is just how much the Greens are now controlling New Zealand’s roading policy, and how radical that policy has become. Highway funding has been halted purely to satisfy the ideology of one of Parliament’s smallest parties.

The construction workers will be okay. There is tons of work coming up for them, although they will need to live in Australia. Melbourne and Sydney in particular are crying out for skilled road builders as Australia ramps up its infrastructure investment.

Our economy however won’t do so well. Rather than a needed infrastructure boost, we are about to have an infrastructure bust. Another politically-induced headwind we simply don’t need.

Steven Joyce – Wikipedia

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

Related earlier GD posts …

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/08/general_debate_23_august_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2544805

NEW ZEALAND’S HORROR HOUSING WEEK: From Nationals Housing Crisis To Labours Housing Disaster …

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/08/general_debate_21_august_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2543708

NEW ZEALAND HOUSE BUILDING: What lessons are being learned from top performing Councils such as Waimakariri and Selwyn ? …
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August 25, 2019 9:38am
- Swifty
  
  Reported for reposting your own shit.
  
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  August 25, 2019 2:02pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    The $3.5 billion ‘brake’ on the economy | Thomas Coughlan | Stuff.co.nz
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115195602/the-35-billion-brake-on-the-economy
    
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    August 25, 2019 3:52pm
chaos

“A retired former senior diplomat has accused Helen Clark of showing little interest in the case of an alleged war criminal who once worked for the United Nations.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115240334/helen-clark-wasnt-interested-in-un-rwanda-genocide-claims
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August 25, 2019 9:40am
Yvette

Harassment
Earlier this year Parliament made a start in addressing its ingrained culture of harassment thanks to the results of the Debbie Francis report, which revealed a systemically abusive culture.

Since then, the Speaker has accused a man of being a rapist, while another alleged rapist has not even been stood down pending an inquiry, supposedly because he is ‘too important’.

“Too important” to whom or for what?

And criticism of Alison Mau, the country’s most prominent #metoo campaigner –

There is one thing that she studiously ignores though. In referring to the latest victims of Labour’s sexual harassment culture, she has omitted to mention that the alleged perpetrator works in the prime minister’s office. By omitting that, she is careful not to implicate Jacinda directly in any way, referring to it more as a Labour ‘culture’ issue. If it is true that the accused works in Jacinda’s office, then it is glaringly obvious that this problem goes right to the top.

But, it is understood, the Prime Minister can and has stated that so far she is yet to have an official complaint or that such a complaint has not been made to the Police.

Not that the Police have never acted without a complaint.

Footnote –
And I for one will never celebrate the gains we have made for women domestically, while internationally other women and girls experience a lack of the most basic of opportunity and dignity.
Me Too must become We Too. – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York
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August 25, 2019 9:46am
- Gravelroad
  
  i am afraid that Ms Ardern is a socialist politician first and foremost.
  All the rhetoric about “kindness” and poverty and equality and so on, is just window dressing.
  She is a very calculating woman for whom personal political survival is paramount.
  She will do what needs to be done (or not done) to protect the hive.
  Luckily for her there are still enough “celebrities”, journalists and hopeful liberals out there to protect her – for now.
  
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  August 25, 2019 5:03pm
rightoverlabour

I see that people are outraged ( as they should be ) by the murder of that 5 month old. Now if only the parents had murdered their baby 10 months ago…
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August 25, 2019 10:01am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Abortion would normally happen within the first 3 months. And yes, if people are going to be such bad parents, abortion is preferable.
  
  The world is totally overpopulated. Anyone who can’t financially and emotionally support a child simply should not have one.
  
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  August 25, 2019 3:25pm
kevn

That JAG (say it slowly like Clarkson) is a loose canon. Wanting to ban new petrol powered cars by 2035. If battery power is so great, take-up will become an automatic choice upgrade option. For new car buyers. Intervention/ban not needed.
Ban the greens would be a better solution.
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August 25, 2019 10:02am
chaos

One of my favourite clips, the 2001 National Press Club Event

“On Wednesday, May 9th, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. The weight of this first-hand testimony, along with supporting government documentation and other evidence, will establish without any doubt the reality of these phenomena. ”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DrcG7VGgQU
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August 25, 2019 10:06am
- stephieboy
  
  chaos, this kind of thing make me skeptical,
  
  The Pentagon’s UFOs
  
  How a Multimedia Entertainment Company created a UFO news story
  BY ROBERT SHEAFFER
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  n December 16, 2017, the New York Times published “Glowing Auras and Black Money—The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program,” a now-famous article about the previously unknown Pentagon UFO study program, as reported by To The Stars Academy (TTSA). It was founded by a rock musician named Tom DeLonge, formerly of the band Blink-182, who describes TTSA as an “independent multimedia entertainment company.” This set off a media UFO frenzy that still continues.
  To show how little TTSA’s people understand about what they are doing, the so-called “glowing auras” surrounding the objects in the widely circulated video shot by a military jet represent nothing more than a processing artifact of the infrared image. But TTSA’s “experts,” as well as those who look up to them, don’t realize that obvious fact and think instead that it represents something deeply mysterious.,,
  
  https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/pentagon-ufos-to-the-stars-academy-ttsa-ufo-media-frenzy/
  
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  August 25, 2019 6:17pm
  - chaos
    
    Dr Greer has nothing to do with to the stars and neither do any of the hundreds of military personal, pilots, etc that he deals with.
    
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    August 25, 2019 8:05pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Chaos , try this
      
      2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UFO FLIR footage (FLIR1)
      
      Note how carefully Mick West logically analyses the Tic Tac footage and concludes that Navy Pilot Fravour and others misconstrued what they saw,
      
      https://www.metabunk.org/2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-flir-footage-flir1.t9190/
      
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      August 25, 2019 9:00pm
Nukuleka

Walked out of mass this morning when the visiting priest devoted his sermon to the coming ‘climate change apocalypse’, the joy of banning plastic shopping bags and the need for us to reduce our carbon footprints. I don’t go to church to hear political speeches on behalf of the Green Party. The only time I have ever walked out before was when the priest lectured us on the virtues of socialism and the evils of capitalism. Not happy that I made a very obvious statement this morning by walking out in a very public and obvious manner but sometimes a guy has just gotta do what a guy’s gotta do.
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August 25, 2019 10:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What are your priests to do?
  The Pope has declared a “Climate emergency”
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/14/pope-francis-declares-climate-emergency-and-urges-action
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:33pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Twat. Church has a massive issue around abortion and they bang on about climate emergencies…
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:43pm
  - MCos
    
    Anti abortion in the Catholic Church I can understand; it’s the anti contraception policy that needs a big shake up.
    
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    August 25, 2019 2:11pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Agree completely. The reality is most Catholics practice contraception, but very few are pro-abortion.
      
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      August 25, 2019 5:59pm
burt

I think our PM has badly misread the tea leaves on Islam. She seems to think the religion want’s to empower it’s woman to be strong and lead. Umm, excuse me lovey, why do you think they do what they are told and cover themselves in public?
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August 25, 2019 10:23am
- Justitia
  
  Ardern is using Islam and the Christchurch tragedy as a prop. She obviously thinks her displays of faux religiosity for the media will give her another boost in the polls. But the air has gone out of that balloon as people become increasingly concerned about the economy.
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:46am
- simpleton1
  
  Who can deny what Mohammad said?
  
  Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri:
  
  Once Allah’s Messenger went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) of `Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer.
  Then he passed by the women and said, “O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women).”
  They asked, “Why is it so, O Allah’s Messenger ?”
  He replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands.
  I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you.
  A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.”
  The women asked, “O Allah’s Messenger ! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?”
  He said, “Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?”
  They replied in the affirmative.
  He said, “This is the deficiency in her intelligence.
  Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?”
  The women replied in the affirmative.
  He said, “This is the deficiency in her religion.”
  https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-1/Book-6/Hadith-301/
  
  A glimmer of intelligence, as good followers of Mohammad, as the muslim woman agreed with their great prophet. in understanding allah 🙂
  Who can deny Mohammad?
  
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  August 25, 2019 10:54am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I can.
    
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    August 25, 2019 8:31pm
  - stephieboy
    
    simpleton1,
    
    The Biblical view of women
    The God of the Bible decrees that woman must submit to the dominance of man.
    “The social and legal position of an Israelite wife was inferior to the position a wife occupied in the great countries round about… all the texts show that Israelites wanted mainly sons to perpetuate the family line and fortune, and to preserve the ancestral inheritance… A husband could divorce his wife; women on the other hand could not ask for divorce… the wife called her husband Ba’al or master; she also called him adon or lord; she addressed him, in fact, as a slave addressed his master or subject, his king. The Decalogue includes a man’s wife among his possessions… all her life she remains a minor. The wife does not inherit from her husband, nor daughters from their father, except when there is no male heir. A vow made by a girl or married woman needs, to be valid, the consent of the father or husband and if this consent is withheld, the vow is null and void. A man had a right to sell his daughter. Women were excluded from the succession.”
    
    -Roland de Vaux, archaeologist and priest
    
    Burn The Daughter!
    
    “And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.” (Leviticus 21:9)
    
    Comment
    
    A priest’s daughter, if found to have lost her virginity without marriage, can receive the death penalty, but in the form of incineration.
    How many fundamentalist priests who so easily condemn others would carry out the burning of their daughters if they found them “whoring”?
    (See also Genesis 38:24)
    
    Female Births Get Penalty
    “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.” (Leviticus 12:2)
    
    “But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.” (Leviticus 12:5)
    
    Comment
    
    A woman who gives birth to a child must undergo a purification ritual lest her “uncleanness” contaminate others. This not only entails her isolation, but also payments to priests for the ritual acts. Thus the male dominators had even made birth dirty.
    Notice here that if a woman bears a female child, her isolation must last twice as long as that if she gives birth to a male child!
    (See also Psalms 51:3-5)
    “The Bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of woman’s emancipation.”
    –Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    
    etc, etc, etc
    
    https://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible7.htm
    
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    August 25, 2019 9:09pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Indeed! It is the Labour way. Stick a bag on your head and sit at the back!
  
  Do as you are told, and don’t speak out of turn or you will be beaten!
  
  If you talk to anyone outside the family, or want to wear makeup, I reserve the right to throw acid on you or strangle you for bringing shame on me.
  
  There you go, feeling empowered enough yet?
  
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  August 25, 2019 11:02am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Why do so many contributors on this site think that every word ending in ‘s’ needs an apostrophe?
  
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  August 25, 2019 11:04am
  - sooty
    
    Some times it’s short for, it is!
    
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    August 25, 2019 11:08am
  - David Garrett
    
    Captain: Quite so! I’m pretty sure that’s the first time I’ve seen “wants” with an apostrophe though…
    
    Note to Burt: those three apostrophe’s in the above sentence are there because they each stand in for a letter that’s missing…the first apostrophe in this sentence is a rogue, and stands for nothing…I hope that helps
    
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    August 25, 2019 11:12am
    - burt
      
      DG
      
      the first apostrophe in this sentence is a rogue, and stands for nothing.
      
      There is no apostrophe in that sentence, are you possibly confusing ‘this’ with ‘that’?
      
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      August 25, 2019 11:17am
  - raven
    
    It would be easier if there was an automated grammar check on here, but there isn’t. Some of the most intelligent people I know have average grammar, but I value their opinions more than those with perfect grammar but no substance.
    
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    August 25, 2019 11:14am
  - chaos
    
    Spell check changes it.
    
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    August 25, 2019 12:01pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Remember the fuss when Don Brash tried to engage with a religious group – The Exclusive Brethren.
  
  I wonder if Jacinda Ardern will look into running political workshops with Jewish Women, Hindu women, Ringatu Women.
  
  What the heck is preventing Muslim women from fully engaging in NZ politics?
  If they are NZ citizens they have the same rights as any other NZ woman.
  
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  August 25, 2019 11:59am
  - chaos
    
    None of those groups will get her into the un
    
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    August 25, 2019 12:02pm
  - MCos
    
    It’s interesting you should say that.
    Yesterday I read on Twitter about a Muslim woman standing in local body elections somewhere in NZ whose campaign hoardings were defaced with swastikas.
    So, sure anyone can fully engage, but it can be a rocky road & it’s good to see our PM and Leader of the Opposition try their best to normalise minorities.
    https://twitter.com/suzyiam/status/1165194215908761600?s=21
    
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    August 25, 2019 2:28pm
- stephieboy
  
  burt,”.. why do you think they do what they are told and cover themselves in public?”
  
  Not all do as my Iranian neighbour’s daughters and their families testify.
  
  Furthermore, it is becoming more of a fashion statement than a religious ritual as .many many Muslims becoming more secularised and westernised in outlook!
  
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  August 25, 2019 12:37pm
  - burt
    
    Ask your neighbours if they would be so bold in their own country?
    
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    August 25, 2019 1:53pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Burt, the left Iran 1981 like many many others as the large ex-pat community in California demonstrates.
      
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      August 25, 2019 8:37pm
      - burt
        
        So they are Iranian when you are making shit up but when called on it they aren’t really Iranian after all.
        
        You’re a parody account right?
        
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        August 26, 2019 8:02am
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    A fashion statement…. of course it is. Every woman wants to show the world they dress as men tell them too.
    
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    August 25, 2019 1:55pm
srylands

Th language of New Zealanders being “fleeced” on petrol prices is invalid for two reasons.

Firstly, if, and it is a big if, you can get more competition into the wholesale market, you might reduce prices by 10 cents per litre. That is about 4 percent of current retail prices. That is not “fleeced”.

Secondly, if petrol prices fall, emissions go up. So the government would need to take more action to meet the Paris targets. So consumers would just pay some other way, eg a more stringent ETS. Logically, a government would only welcome lower petroleum prices if it had no policy of reducing greenhouse emissions. Because, other things being equal, every market driven fall in prices must be offset by an equivalent tax increase.

The elephant in the room for motorists is that the petrol tax is being diverted. As Steven Joyce points out in an opinion piece today, in the current forecast period, only 11 percent of petrol tax will be spent on new State Highway construction. And it is forecast to fall further. Now that is being fleeced.
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August 25, 2019 10:28am
chaos

Whoops, maybe it’s not over.

“A church group is wading into the debate about Ihumātao, demanding the land be returned to Māori.

The Justice and Peace Commission of Catholic Diocese of Auckland is begging for some intervention. ”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/ihum-tao-dispute-church-demands-govt-buy-the-land.html
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August 25, 2019 10:30am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Fuck, this should be fun. Not all Catholics are Lefty twats.
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:45pm
wreck1080

Would be nice to seem some less hysterical reporting on the brazilian rainforest fires.

I did a quick check, and as at 2018, the brazilian rainforest is at 80% of the 1970 level.

I imagine it could drop a percentage or so due to this years fires.

The rainforests are incredible places , would be sad to see them replaced by desert. Brazil is a fairly lawless country, hard to see how they can solve this.
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August 25, 2019 10:31am
tranquil

Hi all –

**Great** video here of Ted Cruz here **roasting** the “PC culture”!

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

I knew almost nothing about him before I saw this clip! Looks like he’s a *great* guy!
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August 25, 2019 10:42am
Happychappy

Another weekend goes by with more deaths on the road and it seems Twyford and Genters road safety plan or plans doesn’t seem to be working. Well it been nearly two years now and our road toll keeps increasing even after spouting about how we would get a zero road toll under the Greens, so the same old story pushing the same shit on how they will fix this major problem.
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August 25, 2019 10:45am
- Psycho Milt
  
  If you convince yourself that Genter was “spouting about how we would get a zero road toll under the Greens,” no doubt it is politically comforting to see that people are still being killed on the roads. Delusions often are comforting, but they make you look foolish if you publicise them.
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:54pm
  - burt
    
    Who knows what Genter was spouting about, she won’t release the details even when it’s on ministerial letterhead.
    
    Most transparent government ever.
    
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    August 25, 2019 4:24pm
kevn

@Burt… huggz and feelz does it.
NZ issues? Wozzat?
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August 25, 2019 10:57am
Suze Wainwright

How can the Greens blame the National Party for being unfair to them about their policies, ideas and performance in Govt.
Surely they must realise that the Green sisters are doing it for themselves…
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August 25, 2019 11:05am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Has mikenmild been sacked?
  
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  August 25, 2019 11:08am
  - sooty
    
    Recalled to Frazer House for training!
    
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    August 25, 2019 2:58pm
  - burt
    
    Maybe he’s the protected sexual predator? Perhaps he’s been busy babysitting Neve.
    
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    August 25, 2019 4:21pm
Happychappy

A serious digital privacy security breach has occurred at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. The breach relates to information about people who had applied to be part of the Tuia 250 sailing around the NZ Coast- part of the commemorations marking the 250th anniversary of the first onshore meeting between Maori and Europeans. You would have wonder whether Jacinda, Grant and W Winston will blame Simon Bridges and National for thi as they desperately need some positive news.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/115260180/serious-digital-privacy-breach-at-ministry-understood-to-relate-to-tuia-250-applicants
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August 25, 2019 11:16am
- chaos
  
  Jacinda Ardern is their minister.
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:32pm
Inandout

Two hours and my comments are still in moderation.
It must be Sunday.
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August 25, 2019 11:23am
sooty

Guy Williams says in that newspaper that socialm edia is cucifying,
Sorry mate, it is self inflicked! You are tits!
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August 25, 2019 11:31am
chaos

Minister Jacinda Ardern should be stood down from this portfolio.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12261635

“Ministry for Culture and Heritage reports serious digital privacy security breach”
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August 25, 2019 12:08pm
- chaos
  
  So a simple error is now being blamed. Simple error was what leaked the budget too. Who is this person called simple error.
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:49pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Hang on – according to most commenters on this site the last time there was a significant data breach at a government agency, this type of thing isn’t a data breach and nothing untoward occurred. What happened to “Nothing to see here folks, move along?”
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:58pm
  - Nookin
    
    If you are talking about the budget, I suggest that there is a slight difference between posting, on an open website, personal information, such as drivers licence detail, passports, contact details, etc on the one hand and a budget on the other. The furore is the breach of privacy.
    Actually, it is more than a slight difference. They are fundamentally different.
    
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    August 25, 2019 8:00pm
- Dave Winefield
  
  ” Minister Jacinda Ardern should be stood down…,”
  
  No she should accept the full responsibility for her Department’s failure and resign immediately from the Cabinet. She and this Government rely far too heavily on the internet and its shaky security settings, and then deny responsibility when it is provably in error.
  
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  August 25, 2019 4:52pm
Captain Mainwaring

12.17pm and only 29 comments have so far escaped moderation.
This blog is on the downhill slide.
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August 25, 2019 12:18pm
- sooty
  
  Mine has been held up for 3hrs so far!
  
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  August 25, 2019 12:28pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  You think you are having a bad day?
  
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  August 25, 2019 12:50pm
- MCos
  
  Stop your complaining and start your own wretched blog
  
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  August 25, 2019 3:03pm
srylands

This is getting ridiculous.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/115230184/climate-change-is-genocide

“… kids of today are crushed under climate-change-induced clinical depression.”
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August 25, 2019 12:28pm
- Tempist
  
  Is it another irony of global warming induced climate change that snowflakes are becoming more prevalent…?
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:06pm
- SGA
  
  And fifty years ago or so it was the threat of a MAD nuclear holocaust, and before that my father spent his teenage years waiting to see if WW2 was going to end before he was old enough to join it (and waiting to hear of the fate of friends and family serving overseas).
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:09pm
- Rich Prick
  
  They aren’t “crushed under climate-change”, rather they’re crushed by the over-the-top hyperbole employed by the usual suspects. If the promoters would dial it back a bit the kids will be fine.
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:59pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  It’s little known, but cases of haemorrhoids have increased markedly because of climate change.
  
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  August 25, 2019 4:07pm
Happychappy

Could the mods explain why my post are still in moderation after 2 hours 10 minutes and others are not.
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August 25, 2019 12:58pm
- SGA
  
  They don’t like you 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:10pm
  - Happychappy
    
    I was wondering whether milkymild actually got a job to moderate as the moderation has got worse since he hasn’t been posting.
    
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    August 25, 2019 1:38pm
- chaos
  
  I guess the simple answer is the mods have lives. Guess they need more mods
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:13pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Because the mods are doing other things with their lives. Post with your real name and put your hand up for moderation if you would like comments to move faster.
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:33pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Of course, post with your real name so the “nasties” can come after you.
    
    Posting under your real name just shows you have nothing to lose.
    
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    August 25, 2019 1:58pm
    - BananaLlama
      
      I’m not going to do it hence i don’t complain about moderation.
      
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      August 25, 2019 3:41pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Moderation that can be measured in hours…. is not moderation. It is thread destruction.
        
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        August 25, 2019 5:32pm
    - chaos
      
      Agree, the stalking I experienced from Maria Sherwood when she found out my real name is enough that I make sure I never let my name be known
      
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      August 25, 2019 3:56pm
Happychappy

44 people have had their post moderated and viewed on Its time to impeach and I am still waiting for my post on General debate that was posted at 10 45 am to be released. I think someone is playing games.
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August 25, 2019 1:12pm
- Tall Man
  
  It’s even worse on “labour rattled by Bridges”.
  
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  August 25, 2019 1:56pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Try getting a word that rhymes with stunt through. 😉
  
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  August 25, 2019 3:38pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Your got that sense of humour back Monique.?
    
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    August 25, 2019 5:26pm
chaos

This pumice is impressive

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/08/tongan-undersea-eruption-sends-enormous-pumice-raft-towards-great-barrier-reef.html

“A pumice raft bigger than the island of Manhattan is floating towards Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

The huge mass was created by an undersea volcanic eruption near Tonga earlier this month. ”
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August 25, 2019 2:48pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How many more South Aucklanders need to be murdered before our Government admits that it doesn’t have a clue as to how to contain Gangs and Turf warfare?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397430/man-dies-after-being-assaulted-in-auckland
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August 25, 2019 3:29pm
- chaos
  
  Isn’t this the labour plan, let gangs lose to kill each other?
  
  Personally I believe gangs should be considered terrorists. Let the SAS take care of them
  
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  August 25, 2019 3:35pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, were National able to do so even with supporting ACTS three strikes law?
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:32pm
Monique Watson

Under the headline, Who gives a shit:

In the meanwhile no hustle on the Labour Pervs:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115260180/serious-digital-privacy-breach-at-ministry-understood-to-relate-to-tuia-250-applicants
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August 25, 2019 3:37pm
Maggy Wassilieff

This morning stephieboy launched another personal and abusive attack on me with respect to my “wowser moralising”.

I must admit that I find it amusing over the last 5 years the anonymous abuse of me on this blog has changed from trying to paint me as a gin-swilling sexually jealous nymphomaniac to that of a wowser Patricia Bartlett-type.

Perhaps the truth is in the middle, or perhaps it’s no fucking business of any anonymous commenter on KB what I do/ or did in my private life.

And perhaps after 5+ years I could ask that personal abuse by anonymous commenters cease.
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August 25, 2019 3:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW as if your alone in this!
  
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  August 25, 2019 3:42pm
  - chaos
    
    Why don’t yo take the hint, she doesn’t appreciate you and you make people her uncomfortable and cringe. Stop stalking everything she posts as you come off as abusive and sick. Learn what no means, seems no one else in labour understand it. Learn that when people ask you to leave them along what that means.
    
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    August 25, 2019 3:53pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I don’t abuse you stephieboy.
    I don’t publish lies on this blog about you.
    I do not make requests to you about your personal life or clothing.
    
    You have been a party to foul anonymous abuse to me for over 4 years. I am not mad, deranged, an anti-vaxxer, a racist, an Alt-righter, a moraliser or any other nasty epithet you come up with.
    
    I have no wish to harm or hurt you.
    
    But I will continue to highlight your obsessive harassment every time you post an abusive comment to me or about me.
    
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    August 25, 2019 4:53pm
    - sooty
      
      You are gentle person Maggy!
      After stupidboy told me to stick a plastic back on my head, I just about did a trip to St Albans on a sunday to meet him half way thru the service and carrying a big stick! The only way to fix him is in public where he can not hide!
      
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      August 25, 2019 5:53pm
      - sooty
        
        It is strange that DPF has not banned him.
        Maggy has asked for DPF to investigate this pervert.
        It’s almost as though DPF is connected to the Labour party.
        
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        August 25, 2019 6:04pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, I do not personally abuse you. I merely express a contrary view with respect to many topics including climate change. If I may believe they are cranky then you seem to take it personally.
      
      Sad!
      
      [Mod: your roll as head troll sometimes goes beyond what is tolerable. You might be anonymous but please respect other users]
      
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      August 25, 2019 8:26pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Calling me mad is abuse.
        Labelling me as Alt-Right is abusive and defamatory.
        Your abuse is usually directed to me personally, or by use of my initials MW, or directly under my posts.
        
        I am sick of you lying about your behaviour.. It is all recorded on KB.
        
        But if I do not respond to each of your slurs/lies/abuses, they remain here published as possible truths.
        
        Your behaviour is creepy, nasty , vindictive and probably illegal.
        
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        August 25, 2019 8:39pm
      - Tall Man
        
        In this world, no one is anonymous.
        
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        August 25, 2019 9:01pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        Do you remember this attempt to try and ink me with anti-vaxx
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/03/general_debate_10_march_2017.html#comment-1887500
        My reply
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/03/general_debate_10_march_2017.html#comment-1887570
        Do you remember how you worked in concert with another anonymous abuser of me?
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/03/general_debate_10_march_2017.html#comment-1887587
        
        And that’s how it rolled for a couple of years, didn’t it stephieboy?
        
        (I can produce much more)
        
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        August 25, 2019 9:19pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        He’s weird Maggie. Best ignored. Yes, he has an interest in your underwear, I’ll grant you that, but he’s more fond of pubescent Islamic girls. Apparently. Freak.
        
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        August 25, 2019 10:00pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Best ignored.
        
        I basically ignored the filthy abuse I got here (near daily) for 4 years… but it never stopped..and it became serious when stephieboy named me as an Alt-Righter.
        
        It wasn’t me that expressed Alt-Right hatred on this blog, but looks like I was the sucker that picked up the tab.
        
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        August 25, 2019 10:11pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I’ll try again mods..
      
      Steffy needs a clip around the ears, something her mother should have done a wee bit more.
      
      Now before you delete this, ask yourself why.
      
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      August 25, 2019 8:59pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    hey Stephie Perv. Now listen here. Feel free to abuse me and all the other anonymous posters. We don’t really care, as we don’t really exist. However, people like Maggy and a few others are brave enough to post under their real names. At least have the human decency to leave them alone when asked. You complained when people mocked you as someone too close to goats. That mocking to a large extent has ceased. Your incessant stalking of Maggy verges on the criminal in terms of cyber legislation. At some point, DPF may have to act in this respect. Remember, Karma is a bitch, and you never know when you are next. Oh, and go and learn some Physics.
    
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    August 25, 2019 5:53pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  The difference, good ol’ Stuffy, is that Maggy gives her real name while you (and I) don’t.
  
  I would not trust people like you for a moment with my real details.
  
  I support Maggy’s call for an end to this personal abuse, specifically because she does give her real name and thus such abuse verges on defamation.
  
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  August 25, 2019 4:21pm
WaveyDavey

Air New Zealand.

Okay so I costed our trip to Europe and for business AirNZ want to sting us for $21k. So off to Emirates where first class feckin’ suites are only $28k. Biz is $13k.

Same with our Bali flights, mixed-class AirNZ is $11k and Emirates $4k – and you have to go via Singapore with AirNZ to get lie-flat.

Even better to find out that the same UK route 35% cheaper if you happen to be travelling ex-UK.

Seriously why is anyone flying with Air New Zealand? I’m completely baffled by it.
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August 25, 2019 3:56pm
- Tall Man
  
  Which is why China Air.. Air China and Thai have been getting our money lately…. and a little bit of Garuda. Latam as well.
  
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  August 25, 2019 5:53pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  They have been rorting their local citizens for decades and skiting about how clever they are.
  Singapore, Emirates, Korean, there are so many other ways to have a cheaper, more comfortable trip to Europe. Not Cathay Pacific at the moment though.
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:01pm
Monique Watson

Da Fuck! It is easier to comment on reddit on how there has been a major ddos on github and akami than it is to get a comment through on Kiwiblog.
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August 25, 2019 4:01pm
- Tall Man
  
  Stick ardern in your post and then see what happens.
  
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  August 25, 2019 5:58pm
Monique Watson

Maggy please don’t go away 🙂 I know you’re a scientist and I need the stimulation. #Momof5.
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August 25, 2019 4:04pm
softail 1450

Septicboy,Its good to see you have fibre down at the barnyard Septic ,you have to be careful apparently it can interfere with the sleeping habits of the goats and pigs and this could explain why you are such a nasty little man early in the mornings ….
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August 25, 2019 4:37pm
- Tall Man
  
  I’ll say it again, my money is on “steffy girl”. With mummy issues hence the need to seek approval/validation from Maggy who she’d regard as an “alpha female”.
  
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  August 25, 2019 5:56pm
Tall Man

Well, had a big day doing “man work”… which of course required my wife’s assistance but the bulk is done so an easy day tomorrow.

A big recommendation for “Paddy Whiskey” for helping a man to recover and of coure the “Tullamore Dew” for the boss 😉

Ain’t life grand, especially when there isn’t a lying pm in sight and no one with “active TDS”….. eh Batman 😉
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August 25, 2019 6:02pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Why are Kiwis tolerating obvious governance failures ? …

British migrants flee New Zealand citing expensive rentals and heavy traffic … Ripu Bhatia … Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115131791/british-migrants-flee-new-zealand-citing-expensive-rentals-and-heavy-traffic?cid=app-iPad

Migrants from the UK have blamed “terrible” public transport and unfriendly Kiwi “cliques” for leaving New Zealand.

British expats also pointed to costly rentals and heavy traffic in Auckland as reasons for fleeing the country.

The comments were made in a Facebook group where Brits in New Zealand offer each other advice and support. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… If you get the land pricing wrong … everything else is wrong …

… This year’s 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey found New Zealand housing the most unaffordable within the Anglosphere at 6.5 times gross annual household earnings ( median multiple ) … with Australia 5.6; United Kingdom 4.8; Canada 4.0 and the United States 3.5 times.
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… Throughout most of the United States, buying a house is no big deal … check out the States …

The average home price in every American state – and what you get for your money | Marissa Perino | Stuff.co.nz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/113894360/the-average-home-price-in-every-american-state–and-what-you-get-for-your-money?rm=m
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… When do the dithering New Zealand politicians at central and local level intend to learning from the United States … to start on the path of restoring normal and affordable housing markets in New Zealand …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/08/links-8-august-2019/#comment-3406463

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/08/links-5-august-2019/#comment-3404056
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August 25, 2019 7:51pm
chaos

What the hell is going on these past few weeks. Crime seems to be exploding around the country.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12261774

“Armed intruders held four Auckland flatmates at knifepoint and threatened to cut off an ear or kill them during a terrifying home invasion.

One of the tenants had his face cut with a knife by the intruders, who asked: “Who wants to die first?”

The incident capped a violent three days in Auckland, in which two people were injured in separate shootings near Karangahape Road and in Manukau, and a man died after a serious assault in Otahuhu.”
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August 25, 2019 7:53pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Ask Cindy, she seems to have the fix for everything.
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:03pm
  - chaos
    
    This is going to hit a government that wants to give prisoners the vote hard
    
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    August 25, 2019 8:18pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Hijab or a hug.. or is it hijab and a hug….
    
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    August 25, 2019 8:53pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What the hell is going on these past few weeks.
  
  1. The oppressed are breaking free from their colonial shackles?
  or
  2. The crims know they can get away with their crimes?
  or
  3. The crims don’t give a stuff – If caught, prison is going to be a place that restores their personal mana?
  or
  4. The crims are in charge?
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:04pm
- MrTips
  
  Drugs, esp. meth. I am now even more firmly of the view that anyone manufacturing, dealing or supplying meth or similar gets 15 years.
  
  On a deserted island.
  
  With all their gang wanker mates.
  
  The Navy can police it and target practice at the same time.
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:11pm
  - chaos
    
    And yet we have a govt that is weak on drugs, so sadly I think things could get far far worse
    
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    August 25, 2019 8:25pm
Scooter

Is Clark with an E worried the gravy train might run out next year? Posting crap in support of JA, might have backfired with his comment about PTPM though.
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August 25, 2019 7:56pm
- chaos
  
  There is a rumour peters is getting ready to pull the plug to try save nz first
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:11pm
- MrTips
  
  The other Clark getting all antsy on Twitter is the Helen version.
  
  Poor old dear is very touchy when anyone mentions her name. Must be hard when you thought you were so “powerful” only to be shafted by the UN and left to spend your final years looking to be relevant on Twitter.
  
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  August 25, 2019 8:16pm
  - chaos
    
    Even worse when you now have a former senior diplomat saying Clark didn’t care about Rwanda genocide claims
    
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    August 25, 2019 8:23pm
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/the-whole-table-was-laughing-at-me-teenage-waitress-racially-abused-by-auckland-viaduct-restaurant-customers.html

So, her father wanted to go back to the restaurant to do….. what. Another “exploded” interaction with one party being just so “offended”….

What happened to our world where this sort of inflated shit is news?
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August 25, 2019 8:52pm
Lee C

Maggy – you had me at ‘gin-swilling jealous nymphomaniac’ –

I’d throw myself on a grenade for you just on that basis alone.

Don’t go!
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August 26, 2019 3:55pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  gin-swilling jealous nymphomaniac’ –
  
  Alas, that was never me…I think my abuser had a distorted view as to how I behaved at university.
  
  I was a sensible young woman and I grew into a reliable old woman.
  
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