General Debate 3 August 2019

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Happychappy

Will Boris survive this or is
this the start of the downfall of another gifted and well thought of Politician.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12255252
Politics seems to be a brutal career for some in Britain.
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August 3, 2019 8:36am
- freethinker
  
  A General Election will shatter Labour and Lib Dems and let The Brexit party hold the balance of power which would make a no deal or one that is favourable to the UK a certaint. The Brussels Kommissars will be shitting themselves with Germany in recession, Deutsche Bank on the verge of Bankruptcy, France in turmoil and Italy kicking over the EU financial traces. This is not going to end well.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:00am
  - Thought Criminal
    
    If UK labour were smart they’d follow the NZ model and put lipstick on the same old wasteful socialist pig.
    
    Sadly, voters are easily fooled.
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:50am
    - Tall Man
      
      The next election will see muslim voters flex their muscle.
      
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      August 3, 2019 10:56am
      - igm
        
        Labour will have muslims in senior immigration senior . . . we are stuffed if we don’t stand up and be counted.
        
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        August 3, 2019 5:44pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  More to the point will Britain survive its collective stupidity. They got themselves yoked to their traditional enemies and expect to be loved when they now seek to flee from foreign bureaucrats control.
  
  The two worlds are vastly different: the Brits developed the Magna Carta enshrining freedom as a right. Europe had Roman law as its base–rule bound. Irreconcilable value systems.
  
  The break won’t be easy but the Brits have to accept that they cannot live in their current state of tizz. The quicker they break the bonds the easier it will be. Europe has need for commerce too so will soon seek to re-establish practical relations.
  
  I wish them all well in a successful transition. Boris has got his work cut out managing a majority but he’s more able than most.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:03am
- kowtow
  
  Will Britain survive Boris .
  
  Just another warmist.
  
  ‘Boris Johnson pledged to place tackling climate change at the “absolute core” of the Government’s actions during his first appearance in the House of Commons as Prime Minister.’
  
  https://www.edie.net/news/11/Boris-insists-climate-change-at-the–absolute-core–of-Government/
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:05am
- Ross12
  
  HC
  I think given the issues within the Conservative Party MPs (ie the divide over Brexit) I do not think the situation for Boris has changed much. A one seat majority or a two seat one —the situation is still much the same.
  There appears to be a little “bad blood” between Boris and Farage for some reason. Boris is going to have to get over it really quickly if he wants to get out of the mess and still remain PM.
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:27am
- Deane Jessep
  
  I think Boris will ultimately be fine. Even with lack of immediate Brexit causing a snap election. Right now he cannot cosy up to Nigel Farage as it creates too much leadership threat for him personally in a potential coalition. But when push comes to shove an electorally successful Brexit party has to deliver Brexit even more than the Torys.
  So ultimately Farage would take the Brexit Minister role under Boris and the Conservative-Brexit coalition government will easily push through an outcome. As it would essentially be a single issue ‘party’ once that issue is resolved it will pave the way for the Brexit Party to fold under the conservatives. Boris will have the option of disbanding the Brexit Minister position and then he needs to decide what senior cabinet posts to give to some Brexit party leaders and bam the outcome is the strongest Nationalist Conservatives in the history of the party.
  
  The majority voted for Brexit, and a big chunk of the minority who didn’t now support Brexit due to a belief in democracy. I cannot see any of the Party’s who are supporting another Brexit referendum with Remain as their preference not being heavily punished.
  Boris and the current government have sole choice on running a new election with no Brexit referendum in parallel. And he has stronger chance of partially swaying Remainer London than any previous sitting PM.
  
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  August 3, 2019 1:54pm
Yvette

Shelly Bay, or shall they not …

Taranaki-Whānau iwi member Hirini Mepham is fighting a major development planned for Shelly Bay, which is backed by an iwi authority, Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust.
Very, very interested [in Ihumātao] because I think it is far reaching and it is going to have significance not only for us, but in the wider Māori context,” he said. [1]

Instinct v advice: PM Jacinda Ardern reveals decision-making process
“When you’re in a situation where things are happening moment-by-moment and you just have to make decisions quite quickly, as you’d imagine, a lot of that does come down to just your individual instincts,” Ardern said. [2]

Ardern could make a quite large and rather costly mistake with her knee-jerk off-the-cuff approach to some issues – water tax, gas and oil exploration [3], capital gains tax, and gun laws, for example.

To favour the Ihumātao protestors / protectors, after paying Fletchers back their $19 million plus costs, would Ardern still also owe Ihumātao elders 40 houses – and all New Zealand knows how hard they are to knock out?

[1] https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/395808/all-eyes-on-ihumatao-as-land-occupation-plays-out
[2] https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/07/instinct-v-advice-pm-jacinda-ardern-reveals-decision-making-process.html
[3] the gas ban must have admittedly been a slightly slower knee-jerk because Labour had taken the time to prepare all those enormous themed placards and T-shirts, petition in a red Labour box, not a Greenpeace sign in sight, but not properly programmed Ardern’s appearance at the luncheon for Indonesian President Joko Widodo, since she insisted on accepting the “petition” herself.
photo and article – https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/102394885/ardern-says-government-actively-considering-call-to-end-oil-exploration
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August 3, 2019 8:38am
- srylands
  
  Personally I think the decision to end gas exploration is the worst public policy decision in New Zealand of the last 30 years.
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:56am
  - septic skeptic
    
    In the main I agree with you, but there have been a hell of a lot of dry holes drilled over the last few decades. IMHO, it just ain’t there in any meaningful quantity.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:02am
    - srylands
      
      That may be so. But exploration companies risking their own money are going to make the risk reward assessments better than you or me.
      
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      August 3, 2019 9:13am
    - kevn
      
      @ss… Talk to someone at the business end of the oil industry in NZ.
      You are so wrong. The known (only to some) reserves are HuGe.
      
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      August 3, 2019 9:28am
      - lilman
        
        Yes can confirm ,their are large-huge reserves of Gas in particular which have been identified and were banked as future prospective developments.
        
        One friend told me personally that their Trucking business has released 40 drivers going forward on work not being contracted because of Arderns captains call.
        
        In short we have low gas supply at present and have thrown all development out of known future supply.
        
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        August 3, 2019 10:16am
    - kowtow
      
      It’s not just the message to that industry.
      
      It’s the message to every one .
      
      This is a coalition that acts on whim , ignores due process and is composed of far left swivel eyed loons who have no contact with the real world ……you know , jobs , income , the economy , democracy , how adults behave etc
      
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      August 3, 2019 10:10am
      - Monique Watson
        
        Oh that was a fucking brilliant sledge. I snorted my soy latte (not, I mean my full cream latte) and it’s ended any prospects of NZ benefiting or improving Kiwi/US trade prospects. Sent a message to the world that we are still anti-nuclear hippies in the boondocks.
        
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        August 3, 2019 4:13pm
  - Swifty
    
    Agreed – and one made in an utterly appalling way (no analysis, no consultation, no public debate, no transparency and no notice etc)
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:07am
    - Thought Criminal
      
      It was a captain’s call.
      
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      August 3, 2019 10:52am
      - sooty
        
        By the captain thats more interested in lying in the sun on tropical islands or jetting the world so she can go shopping in the posh shops!
        
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        August 3, 2019 11:39am
      - projectman
        
        So many failed captain’s calls. Do they have another option for a replacement captain?
        
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        August 3, 2019 8:33pm
  - Yvette
    
    So, definitely, do I.
    
    But it was backed by Winston, who insisted the Coalition Agreement include record a Cabinet minute regarding the lack of process followed in the National-led government’s sponsorship of UN Security Council Resolution 2334, because it – like the initial gas ban – was not passed through Cabinet.
    
    And that the rush involved in the decision was partly to virtual signal to Marcon of France, a country which has to import 95% of its natural gas and would probably desperately like to have its own resources and likely found her stupidity highly insulting, mais ils étaient trop polis pour le dire.
    
    And now they are trying to resurrect the Taranaki energy industry by investigating hydrogen production from water, using electricity, while the rest of the world makes it from natural gas, which in Taranaki may be just under their feet, or a few km out to sea.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:21am
    - srylands
      
      “And now they are trying to resurrect the Taranaki energy industry by investigating hydrogen production from water”
      
      Fucking mental.
      
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      August 3, 2019 9:58am
      - Yvette
        
        Well, yes, Srylands: “Fucking mental” …
        To produce hydrogen from water using electricity, which Winston in particular seems to support, when it appears that if 10% of New Zealand’s cars convert to electric, new generation will be required equivalent to 3.25 Benmore Dams.
        
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        August 3, 2019 10:20am
      - srylands
        
        People will flock to electric cars when the value proposition is there. MBIE is predicting about half of cars will be electric by 2040. Not sure if that is sales or the fleet. The former is totally plausible. Not sure about the latter.
        
        I am sure I have missed it but I don’t recall a good analysis of the generation capacity we will need for a mostly electric car fleet. Folk in the industry must know. But when the Greens promote electric vehicles they never talk about generation. If current cars consume x petajoules of energy from petroleum future cars will require the same number of petajoules from electricity. Basic physics. Petroleum is a miracle fuel. Lots of petajoules to generate with wind and solar. Get it wrong and the lights go out.
        
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        August 3, 2019 11:44am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Ardern has yet to learn that instincts have to be applied according to law unless she becomes the law. Other rulers have lost their heads over that.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:10am
rightoverlabour

This Mandela exhibition. I have some photos for them they may have missed

https://www.google.com/search?q=Mandela+South+Africa+bombing&safe=off&rlz=1C1GCEV_enNZ824NZ824&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPzLTW_OTjAhXEWisKHXBIBUMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1536&bih=754#imgrc=jo5tl-aSnreaPM:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Mandela+South+Africa+bombing&safe=off&rlz=1C1GCEV_enNZ824NZ824&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPzLTW_OTjAhXEWisKHXBIBUMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1536&bih=754#imgrc=zVFIraxXiJ6gNM:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Mandela+South+Africa+bombing&safe=off&rlz=1C1GCEV_enNZ824NZ824&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPzLTW_OTjAhXEWisKHXBIBUMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1536&bih=754#imgrc=3mhVH-kYj-zsgM:

Now he did turn out an incredible statesman at the end of this, but this should not be conveniently swept under the carpet.
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August 3, 2019 8:38am
- igm
  
  Then of course, there was his lovely law-abiding wife Winnie . . . she would have fitted in well with the CoL here.
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:48am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    One of the first things he did was ditch the bitch. Fortunately no one in the COL has anything on Winnie “Necklace” Mandela.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:05am
- The King
  
  One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
  
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  August 3, 2019 5:30pm
The Proper Ghandi

Green Party conference in Dunedin today. I hear on the radio this morning that all attendees must have pre-approval to speak to the media. Sounds suspicious, but unsurprising. Good ideas should not require a media embargo. Therefore, we can infer there will be no good ideas being bandied about.
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August 3, 2019 8:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Ah…
  The Party that once espoused open and transparent democracy:
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/395876/transparency-falters-at-greens-annual-conference
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:46am
- Paulus
  
  At the Green Party Conference will James Shaw discuss with any of his reliable Colleagues and Party Leaders the approach and discussions he has had with Shane Jones re their possible strategies for the election ?
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:48am
  - peterwn
    
    The over-arching issue that the Green Party needs to consider is what dealings it should have (if any) with National. Current policy is zilch dealings. This is a decision that would have to be taken at its conference and if on the table one that could split the party. This is possibly why there is a high level of sensitivity on the part of the party.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:05am
    - sooty
      
      I thought Jimmy was overseas on some junket?
      
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      August 3, 2019 11:42am
    - Ross12
      
      Shaw has answered the question for Peter
      
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/greens-will-never-do-a-deal-with-national-while-simon-bridges-is-leader-james-shaw.html
      
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      August 3, 2019 3:06pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I understand they have the very best mung bean rolls too, you’d have to be pretty committed to Mars to be there. Fruit loops, the lot of them.
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:49am
- peterwn
  
  So the Greens will not tolerate the sort of behaviour at their conference which they inflicted on a National Party conference some years back.
  A few Green Party people ‘gatecrashed’ the conference (security was rather laid back) and asked MP’s questions with voice recorders running including asking Bill English about the future of Kiwibank. One also asked Nick Smith an environmental question but Nick smelt a rat and clammed up.
  The irony just reeks.
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:56am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    A chap by the name of Kees Keizer, who had close links to the Green Party…
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/11/what_a_coincidence.html
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:01am
  - Nookin
    
    Perhaps “hypocrisy “ is more apt than “irony”. In more blunt terms, it is intellectual dishonesty and demonstrates that they cannot be trusted.
    
    To demonstrate further:
    It is easy to say that the kermadecs must become a marine sanctuary when in opposition but …..
    And, it is easy to say that the waka jumping legislation would be a blight on democracy when in opposition, but….
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:18am
- Biscuit
  
  Green Party Conference in Dunedin?
  
  Guest Star one Metiria Turei?
  
  If so, one trusts Catering have been given plenty of notice…
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:58am
  - The Feed
    
    I recall seeing a high-ranked green in the Koru lounge once. My, my, the plate was piled high. And seconds were had.
    
    I thought to myself about environmental impacts. Rolled my eyes, just a little.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:09am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I’m sure benefit fraud will have the catering covered.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:11am
  - Thought Criminal
    
    Has she paid back the money she stole yet?
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:55am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Sounds like the Greens are in meltdown. Shaw pulling in one direction, Davidson the other. I wonder if they’ll implode before the election.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:10am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    We will all encourage a green implosion.
    Any takers for the Magenta Party?
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:15am
  - Paulus
    
    Shaw and possibly another may well join with NZ First under Shane Jones.
    
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    August 3, 2019 1:22pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Can’t see that happening.
      
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      August 3, 2019 3:28pm
- kowtow
  
  No doubt their parliamentarians and most other delegates flew in .
  
  Nice to see Mothernature has turned up for their flap fest.
  
  ‘Dunedin stays above 0degC, just, with predicted overnight weekend temperatures of 3C and 2C.’
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/otago-set-shiver-wintry-blast-hits
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:26am
- Close Hen Counters
  
  Must be tight for space in the parking lot outside with all the horses tied up and e bikes parked up … hope they are eating lettuce for all meals served and not one serve of meat, dairy or other protein … oh that’s right, it’s hypocrisy central at the Green Party conference
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:54am
Swifty

Blatant misleading headline on Stuff.

‘Killer in alleged napalm attack’ is the headline on the front page.

Then you click on headline and you get this:

‘Coral-Ellen Burrows’ killer in alleged ‘prison napalm’ attack’.

Then you read the story and you see ‘The combination of boiling water and sugar is known as “prison napalm” because the sugar makes the water stick to the skin for longer, maximising burn time.’

I guess a headline of ‘Killer in alleged sugar syrup attack’ just doesn’t have the same cachet these days.
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August 3, 2019 8:45am
- Tony Stuart
  
  It’s the old story; the media’s catchphrase is “If it bleeds, it leads”. Nothing like a bit of sensationalism to generate clicks.
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:49am
- Rich Prick
  
  Or, “unset toffee goes slightly mad with the bad”. Our media is truly pathetic.
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:53am
  - Swifty
    
    Heh.
    
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    August 3, 2019 8:58am
Rich Prick

Has Cindy set foot in NZ? I heard she may have, couldn’t give a flying fuck myself, I’m just asking for a Canadian friend who is a bit weird.
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August 3, 2019 8:46am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  Rich Prick
  Ardern seemingly spends so much time out of the country, it’s a surprise that she is not treated as a visiting dignitary whenever she actually graces our shores.
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:49am
  - niggly
    
    Hmm the news headlines the other day were “Prime Minister Jacinda Adern to visit New Zealand”, but it now has been two days since she was meant to have arrived ….
    
    Will the next news headlines be saying:
    
    “Prime Minister Jacinda Adern on secret visit to New Zealand as her whereabouts are unknown”?
    
    (Oops mean to be reply to RP, can’t delete & re-post)!
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:38am
  - Scooter
    
    Maybe she’ll get a powhiri when she finally turns up at Ihumatao
    
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    August 3, 2019 4:53pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I haven’t seen or heard anything about her arrival back…
  
  should we send out a search helicopter?
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:50am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I’m worried about The First FB, did he lose his snapper to bio-security?
    
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    August 3, 2019 8:56am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Apparently the part-time PM arrived back for a visit to NZ on Thursday afternoon.
      Did she do any work on Friday?
      If so, we haven’t heard about it.
      Why doesn’t she just admit that it’s too hard to try and run a country while bringing up a child with a partner who’s always out fishing?
      Worst Government ever.
      Two ticks blue.
      
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      August 3, 2019 9:05am
      - Gravelroad
        
        I have never been impressed by/with Ms Ardern Captain, , but seriously, who would replace her from the CoL if she did throw in the towel?
        Do we really want Peters or Kelvin Davies or Megan Woods as NZ Prime Minister?
        Then we really would a laughing stock around the world and maybe at home.
        
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        August 3, 2019 9:31am
      - sooty
        
        Whinestone would take over!
        Kelvin is in whitless protection!
        
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        August 3, 2019 11:47am
- GazzaW
  
  There have been strong rumours that she is visiting NZ next week. Not too sure about the Deputy PM but surely they won’t risk Kelvin holding the tiller for another week.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:00am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Kelvin who?
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:20am
    - kevn
      
      @RP… You know the one, ‘Special K’.
      
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      August 3, 2019 9:33am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Kelvinator, AKA ‘The Ice Man’.
        
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        August 3, 2019 9:52am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Isn’t she making a side trip to visit some distressed penguins on Raoul Island or has she gotten entrenched in the Kermadecs?
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:19am
  - GazzaW
    
    Are there any kindergartens there for her to visit?
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:37am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Missing Person Notice has been issued
  https://ysb.co.nz/missing-in-in-action/
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:26am
  - sooty
    
    YSB, was very kind with that photo.
    Hasn’t looked like that since she came to power!
    
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    August 3, 2019 11:50am
Shut the hell up you Fascist!

There are two HUGE political problems with respect to the Peter Ellis case.

1) It mocks the Judiciary.
2) It mocks the SISTERHOOD.

Really and truly! These “Great Minds” in a MODERN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY could STILL believe in FAIRY STORIES made up by fucken CHILDREN!!!

Well, babies more like it. After all, there were apparently nappy-changing dramas!

It makes the Chief Justice of New Zealand look like an utter twat!!!
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August 3, 2019 8:48am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It makes most NZers look like utter twats.
  
  (Remember very few people spoke out against the way this case advanced until Lynley Hood’s book appeared)
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:00am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    I only arrived after the event. So I can say not guilty, but quite a few New Zealanders do have a bit of soul searching to do having allowed this travesty of justice to fester for so long. (especially those involved in the trial). And although I technically support the Death Sentence, it is this that gives me pause….
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:10am
  - Jack5
    
    Maggy is right, we all – or nearly all apart from Ellis’s stoic Mum, his fellow workers, and the small band of supporters – were taken in.
    
    Martin van Beynen apparently reported through the case and became a leading sceptic on it, but does anyone recall details of tunnels, kids in cages, Freemasons being reported in early days of the trial? Or did we ignore them, having jumped to judgement on the headlines about the first day of the case?
    
    However, none of us were suckered in so completely as the police and the judicial system.
    
    A lesson is that we are wrong to be uncritical and inflexible when it comes to views of experts – in the Ellis case a psychiatrist, and, or psychologists.
    
    We need to be as open-minded and questioning about strident views on global warming.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:31am
- KevO'Brien
  
  When the feelingz group promote their causa du jour justice is to their measure.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:22am
- kowtow
  
  Britain’s just had its Carl Beech saga.
  And the media have a huge part to play in these modern versions of witch craft trial hysteria.
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/26/carl-beech-delusional-liar-tom-watson-should-apologise-supporting/
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:36am
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Now that Uncle Boris has gone off the radar with the rah, rah, rah ballyhoo by KBs far righters let’s find out what he has been up to . His recent” regal “visits to Scotland and Northern Ireland has led to the real prospects of the United Kingdom imploding and becoming balkanised.

To cut to the chase both are strongly anti Brexiters and vehemently oppose Uncle Boris’s militant pro position on this ,

More here,

Boris Johnson booed in Scotland as he arrives for Nicola Sturgeon meeting,

Boris Johnson was given a frosty reception as he arrived to meet Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, at Bute House in Edinburgh. After boos as he and his entourage entered the building, he left via a back door

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/jul/29/boris-johnson-booed-as-he-visits-scotland-video
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August 3, 2019 8:53am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Is he your uncle stephie? Looks like the boorishness passed through to you, but somehow the incredibly sharp wit and intellect passed you by 😀
  
  BTW – I’ve just finished reading Johnson’s biography of Winston Churchill, and it is a superbly written read.
  
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  August 3, 2019 8:57am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Tony Stuart , I was posting about Boris Johnson not his biography about Winnie. Stay on topic.
    
    BTW did Boris objectively cover his Gallipoli and soft underbelly military debacles?
    
    Or was it merely Pomp and circumstance rah, rah?
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:03am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      It’s a General Debate stephie. And yes, Johnson devoted a whole chapter to Churchill’s debacles, of which there were many. It’s a warts-and-all biography.
      
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      August 3, 2019 9:08am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Hahaha
      
      Have you forgotten that just a week ago you were referencing Churchill and Boris Johnson together, but you had no clue as to why the 2 were linked.
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/07/general_debate_24_july_2019.html#comment-2526541
      
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      August 3, 2019 9:51am
- Rich Prick
  
  Trump and Boris living rent free in your attic, it must be getting pretty crowded in there.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:00am
  - Swifty
    
    Especially with everyone fighting for space in amongst all those boxes and boxes of womens undergarments.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:16am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      and files on Kiwiblog’s relatives and friends.
      
      Now there’s got to be anti-vegan posters on KB who either know this crazy elderly lass or are related to her?
      
      Please own up!
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/08/general_debate_2_august_2019.html#comment-2531384
      
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      August 3, 2019 10:01am
      - stephieboy
        
        A question I raised that you’re more than capable of answering!
        
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        August 3, 2019 10:51am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        you’re more than capable
        
        You’re damn right I am, thanks.
        
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        August 3, 2019 11:16am
      - sooty
        
        Yep, she runs rings around you!
        Just standby, AOR will be along shortly as well!
        
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        August 3, 2019 11:54am
      - JibberJabber
        
        Jeez Steffie, you`re a sucker for punishment.
        
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        August 3, 2019 1:32pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Don’t worry RP
    I suspect there’s plenty of empty space between poor hapless Stephies ears.
    Odd looking fellow by all accounts too.
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:38am
- srylands
  
  So your comment basically says ‘Boris booed in Scotland.’ OK.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:01am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Yes, and Neve successfully filled her nappy. You heard it first here!
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:06am
  - stephieboy
    
    srylands, much. much more than that if you care to read my link.
    
    Another in respect of NorthernIreland,
    
    https://www.politico.eu/article/northern-irelands-battle-for-brexit-attention-boris-johnson/
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:57am
- Swifty
  
  Seems all made up to me.
  
  You’ve been reading too much Guardian, Huff post and CNN – it’s rotting your brain.
  
  And who outside your ctrl-leftie Dominion Road bubble actually cares??????
  
  Duh!
  
  Lol!
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:04am
  - stephieboy
    
    Swifty , now tell us about your” newspeak “fodder?
    
    Breitbart, Fox ,Gateway Pundit , the Sun etc ??
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:59am
    - Swifty
      
      Wrong again Stiffy.
      
      I’d hazard the guess that you will have visited those sites more than I have. In fact I’d be certain of it.
      
      99.9% of my internet time is spent on YouTube (history docos, hunting, cooking and veg gardening channels mostly), KB, Stuff, NZH and a bit on LinkedIn.
      
      What about you Stiffy? To what dark places of the internet do your longings lead you?
      
      Come on, we’re all friends here, you can tell us.
      
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      August 3, 2019 12:34pm
    - The Proper Ghandi
      
      stephieboy
      Andrew Breitbart was a visionary and extremely insightful individual. He was a danger to the Liberal Elite because he exposed them for the frauds they are. These are a couple of excellent interviews:
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mTxpFIw-3g
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8CpON8VrRU
      
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      August 3, 2019 1:43pm
- freethinker
  
  Stoopidboy – Nicola Splurgeon is reviled by many Scots, at least those that have a brain instead of a Haggis between their ears which would be an improvement for Nicola.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:11am
  - stephieboy
    
    freethinker , which Scots precisely?
    
    Trump fans?
    
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    August 3, 2019 11:00am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Downtick, and scroll on…. Don’t feed the twat.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:12am
  - Tall Man
    
    Good advice.
    
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    August 3, 2019 11:04am
- MrTips
  
  Are you in DNE at the ~~Antifa~~ Greens conference stephie? I heard you were lined up to give a keynote on unmotivated motivational speaking.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:12am
- KevO'Brien
  
  For you, is Boris too lacking in the delicacy of mind control entrusted to the left?
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:28am
Tauhei Notts

Friday night drinks with very conservative cockies etc had one surprising bit come out of it. A tory, who is as mean as a pinch of cat’s excrement, wanted to put $200 on Simon Bridges at the next election. Having closely watched Jacinda’s cabinet fearlessly campaigning for Bridges over the past few weeks, I decided to decline the bet. I say campaigning for Bridges because by their collective idiocy they are doing Bridges more good than an expensive advertising effort ever could. I have detected a big swing in optimism amongst my tory mates, over the past two weeks.
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August 3, 2019 9:08am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Cindy’s popularity peaked as a result of her admittedly competent handling of the Chch massacre but it’s on the downhill slide now and this will continue until the election. She can’t hold the ship of fools up on her own forever.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:59am
  - Scott
    
    Captain Mainwaring – well I happened to be on a ship the other day and the Australian comedian began his show with an unhinged diatribe about Australian PM Scott Morrison. Then he began a glowing tribute about “your” prime Minister Jacinda Adern and how he wished he could have her as their PM.
    Someone in the crowd to great applause piped up- “YOU CAN HAVE HER!” ?
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:09am
    - John Warren
      
      I wouldn’t have thought that a plonker lefty “comedian” would have much of an audience on board a cruise ship.
      
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      August 3, 2019 11:07am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Captain, thats good – “Peak Popularity”. I reckon her peak popularity was around birth of bayee-bee. Or “look at moi boiboi”. She then had a lesser “peak” just when the media appeared on to her and were starting to bag her – she then Kardashianed it, and announced engagement.
    Each peak is quite a bit lower than the last. And the media (and I know its surprising) are starting to bite at her again now. So what Kardashian play is next?
    
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    August 3, 2019 1:01pm
    - freethinker
      
      If she follows the Krapdashians it will be look how big my arse is and that will be yet another failure.
      
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      August 3, 2019 2:13pm
  - The King
    
    “Competent handling” yes everyone just ignore the fact that under her watch produced the worst massacre NZ has ever seen.
    
    >Communism
    >Massacres
    
    It’s like bread to butter.
    
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    August 3, 2019 5:36pm
fernglas

Trump has shown many hidden qualities, but is his description of Kim having “a great and beautiful vision for his country” really what we should expect from the leader of the free world? Is it abasement or appeasement?
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August 3, 2019 9:19am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “a great and beautiful vision for his country”
  That’s what Trump said. It would be the proper thing to say to the leader of a Far Eastern dictatorship.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:38am
- gravedodger
  
  Four dimensional Chess, he is a Grand Master.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:42am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Trump says that Kim has “a great and beautiful vision for his country.”
    
    Kim hears and understands: “…a great and beautiful vision for your country. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.”
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:30am
- rangitoto
  
  Trump was tweeting directly to Kim. Read the whole thing. It was a warning.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:53am
  - fernglas
    
    I read the whole thing. I thought he was kissing the arse of a homicidal megalomaniac. Was I wrong?
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:16am
- John Warren
  
  Trump is playing the game. Buttering Kim up publicly makes the little fat fella feel special and warm and fuzzy – much less likely to press his big red button. Nobel Peace Prize for the Donald, please.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:11am
- freethinker
  
  More likely Sarcasm.
  
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  August 3, 2019 2:14pm
lastmanstanding

A group of A listers including Prince Harry and Graeme Hart have gathered on Sicily this weekend to discuss Climate Change.

They arrived on 114 private jets and dozens of super yachts including Harts.

Of course the supreme irony will be lost on these bozos and morons.

When they get their carbon foot prints down to something even approaching my tiny carbon foot print I might start listening to what they have to say.

Until then I will treat them with the utter contempt they so richly deserve.

In short they can FOXTROT OSCAR
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August 3, 2019 9:20am
- Shut the hell up you Fascist!
  
  Take them very seriously.
  
  These folk are the new Priests and Priestess of the global cult of Planet Earth Inc.
  
  Bread and circuses guaranteed!
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:41am
  - The King
    
    Underrated post, anyday now and we can expect a climate change cult massacre. These people are truly the most unhinged you can come across.
    
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    August 3, 2019 5:42pm
- JibberJabber
  
  I have been reliably informed by a poster on YSB that Sicily is just a curtain raiser for the main event at Davos, where 1500 Private Jets are expected.
  
  https://freedomoutpost.com/climate-change-hypocrisy-davos-summit-to-receive-nearly-1500-jets/
  
  Air travel comes with a hefty carbon footprint, generating greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Davos attendees will have an opportunity to discuss that issue in depth, with “Safeguarding Our Planet”
  
  Apparently, none of these people can do the equivalent of carpooling on jets for some reason. Perhaps, it’s because they have too much of an elitist mentality.
  
  Oh my, the Climate Hysterics don`t appear to notice that the Koolaid tastes like hypocrisy.
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:00am
Swifty

Train carrying Limestone derails in the Czech Republic. Quite cool footage:

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=sAA4x_1564641996
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August 3, 2019 9:32am
- Tarquin North
  
  That was awesome! I hear something similar is coming to Dominion Road one day.
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:49am
Yvette

New Zealand, as it is reported to the world – from the Guardian, UK, website

Māori land rights leader calls on Jacinda Ardern to recognise Indigenous ‘crisis’
The leader of a major Indigenous land dispute in New Zealand has criticised Jacinda Ardern’s government for its lack of action on confronting systemic Māori disadvantage, and says the Māori nation is in “a state of emergency” and “crisis” …

Pania Newton, 29, co-leader of activist group SOUL [Save Our Unique Landscape], says Māori are fed up with the crown’s lack of action on improving the lives of the country’s Indigenous people, including the forced removal of Māori infants into state care, over-representation of Māori in mental health and suicide statistics, and numerous land disputes nationwide …

“The Māori nation is in a crisis. It is a state of emergency for the Māori nation,” said Newton, who traces her ancestral ties to Ihumātao back to the very first Polynesian settlers of New Zealand, who set up market gardens on the fertile land, just 5km from what is now the country’s largest airport.
“We’re not taken seriously within these colonial and capitalist structures. And patriarchy comes into that as well.” [1]

An ‘international’ perspective from the Guardian
Yes, an ‘international’ writer, from the UK point of view –
Eleanor Ainge Roy
… from Dunedin
like Ben Affleck

Eleanor Ainge Roy seems a little carried away.
She reminds me perhaps of the reputed over-population talk given to a large gathering, and the speaker said “Somewhere in the world, every second, a woman gives birth to five babies. What do you think of that?”
And a elderly lady from up the back yelled out, “I think we should find her and stop her.”

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/02/maori-land-rights-leader-calls-on-jacinda-ardern-to-recognise-indigenous-crisis
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August 3, 2019 9:33am
- John Warren
  
  When are Maoris going to stop sitting on their arses waiting for everybody else to fix everything for them?
  
  Of course when it comes to the Maori grievance industry, “we” are our own worst enemies. By pandering to it we perpetuate it.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:15am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.”
    – Confucius, Chinese philosopher
    
    The Japanese nation has learned much from the Chinese philosophers.
    
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    August 3, 2019 12:25pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Interestingly JW @ 11.15 am it was the only thing Lange ever got right when he predicted the enormity of the grievance industry being created. Lol
    
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    August 3, 2019 1:51pm
    - John Warren
      
      Wow! I remember that now. Thank you for jogging my memory.
      
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      August 3, 2019 2:26pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  There is no Maori Nation in NZ. There are individuals affiliated to 7 separate tribes. Those tribes came independently from each other and from different homelands.
  They conquered, annihilated or enslaved each other not coalesced into a warm fuzzy.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:37am
  - freethinker
    
    There is more factual information in a Superman Magazine than The Guardian.
    
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    August 3, 2019 2:26pm
lastmanstanding

Ive just read the Peter Ellis post from yesterday. Sadly we will continue to see such cases that is where those involved lack any kind of common sense.

I have little faith in what passes for a justice system in this country.

It is populated by people to whom common sense is but a distant stranger.

They lack any kind of attachment with reality. They are from another planet.

Until this changes and we get people with plain common sense nothing will change. Mark my words.
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August 3, 2019 9:37am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  -I have cut-and-pasted this, but it is a great read (if you don’t know it already).
  
  “Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
  
  – Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
  – Why the early bird gets the worm;
  – Life isn’t always fair;
  – And maybe it was my fault.
  
  Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
  
  His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
  
  Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
  
  It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
  
  Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
  
  Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
  
  Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
  
  Common Sense was preceded in death,
  
  -by his parents, Truth and Trust,
  -by his wife, Discretion,
  -by his daughter, Responsibility,
  -and by his son, Reason.
  
  He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers;
  
  – I Know My Rights
  – I Want It Now
  – Someone Else Is To Blame
  – I’m A Victim
  – Pay me for Doing Nothing
  
  Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
  
  If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
  
  Amen!
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:06am
Happychappy

You would think Stephieboy would have more concern over the rhetoric of Shane Jones with his threats against ANZ Bank in Australia and wonder whether that is the problem ANZ banks being closed in the far north because of apparent threats against staff members. Let’s hope it’s not one of his couch loving nephews.
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August 3, 2019 9:46am
- kowtow
  
  Banks , of all hues , every where are using any excuse they can to close.
  
  Kiwibank is a huge offender here.
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/four-dunedin-post-shops-closing-one-replacement-confirmed
  
  There’s a big push to “virtual” everything.
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:20am
- marcw
  
  Ever since MBIE charged WINZ for allowing it’s staff to be shot by a deranged retard, the writing has been on the wall for all bank branches. There is no hiding from the clipboard wielding H&S czars, and the costs of providing full time security checking facilities now preclude suburban bank branches. Imagine, you are a bank manager and going about your legal business providing a local facility to your customers, when a lunatic with an irrational grievance steps in, shoots a few staff and customers, then YOU are charged with an offence. H&S rules demand you are accountable.
  
  Even without all the other pressures on providing physical premises, this has been the coup de grace for local services.
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:47am
Swifty

That’s it for me this morning folks – I’m off to get my seed spuds in the ground.

20 kgs each of Cliff’s Kidneys and Jersey Bennes and a few Pink Fir Apple fingerling potatoes to see if the reports of their awesomeness are correct.

(Please don’t let Stiffy off the hook for anything while I’m gone. Give it to him good and hard.)

Tally Ho!
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August 3, 2019 9:50am
Maggy Wassilieff

Muriel Newman gives a clear account of why Private Property has not been used in Treaty Settlements.

It’s section 6 of the 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act that specifically excludes the use of private land to settle Treaty claims. The Hansard of Parliamentary debates explains that ‘private land is sacrosanct’: “Private citizens hold their tenure from the Crown, and they are entitled to look to the Crown to protect that right and that tenure. That right will now be enshrined in legislation for the protection of all private landowners in New Zealand…

“To put it simply, the Waitangi Tribunal will not have the jurisdiction to recommend that particular areas of privately owned land be acquired by the Crown for return to Maori claimants under the treaty settlement process.”

https://www.nzcpr.com/private-property-rights-under-threat/

Ihumātao will be Jacinda Ardern’s toughest testing ground.

Who believes she will safeguard NZers’ private property rights?
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August 3, 2019 10:19am
- Yvette
  
  But, Maggy Wassilieff, Fletchers, in a unique situation, offer a quarter portion of the land they privately own, back to the iwi of Ihumatao –
  
  Ihumatao Is a Watershed Agreement: Legal Owners of the Land Are Returning 1/4 of That Land to Maori [1] 
  
  In dollar terms, the site has been valued by Auckland Council at $35.7 million for the land, and $36 million all up. As Fletchers CEO Steve Evans said in February [2]
  
  Reputedly, Fletchers paid around $19 million for the land [3]
  
  Deed of Settlement BETWEEN THE CROWN AND TE KAWERAU A MAKI
  Questions and answers – What is the total cost to the Crown?
  The total cost to the Crown of the settlement redress outlined in the deed is $6.5 million plus interest, $300,000 as a contribution by the Crown to costs associated with establishing a marae at Te Onekiritea Point (Hobsonville), and the value of the cultural redress properties to be vested in Te Kawerau a Maki.
  Is there any private land involved? No. [4]
  
  So the Te Kawerau A Maki Treaty Settlement was for $6.8 million
  Fletchers offers them perhaps $4.75 million and options on 40 houses
  Or about $9 million using the Auckland Council valuation of February
  
  [1] https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/ihumatao-is-a-watershed-agreement-legal-owners-of-the-land-are-returning-1-4-of-that-land-to-maori/
  [2] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1907/S00139/gordon-campbell-on-the-ihumatao-dispute.htm
  [3] https://www.noted.co.nz/planet/ihumatao-and-the-otuataua-stonefields-a-very-special-area/
  [4] https://www.govt.nz/treaty-settlement-documents/te-kawerau-a-maki/te-kawerau-a-maki-deed-of-settlement-summary-22-feb-2014/
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:31am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The rule of law is in force unless otherwise leftishly repealed.
    No quarter should be given an abusers.
    
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    August 3, 2019 11:42am
- stephieboy
  
  MW, safeguard private property rights? So far so good.
  
  No private property has been taken without compensation either under Public works Act etc or TOW settlements
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:04am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Do you have a comprehension problem?
    
    We are talking about Jacinda Ardern agreeing to find a solution to a hapu claim over privately owned land.
    
    That’s a NEWBIE and is not within the framework of NZ legislation.
    
    We are also talking about Jacinda Ardern and her Ministers agreeing to negotiate with a subset of an Iwi that is in conflict with its elders….
    and that to me is a beauty.
    
    Young, educated Maori women are telling us that they don’t like the deals some of the older Maori chaps have negotiated with various Governments.
    
    And that’s the trouble when Governments negotiate with Tribal elites…..some poor buggas miss out on the trickle-down.
    
    Jacinda now has to appease:
    1.private landowners,
    2. the upholders of Maori tikanga, and
    3. young, educated Maori.
    
    Let’s see her work her fairy dust on this issue.
    
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    August 3, 2019 2:20pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    On ya Steph, NZs first recipient of a Participation PhD.
    #battlewitsunarmed.
    
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    August 3, 2019 2:33pm
- kowtow
  
  Who’s funding the protest.
  Sean Plunket’s been saying some mob called Action Station or some such , who are they and who funds them ?
  
  If true , there’s a story there not being told.
  
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  August 3, 2019 12:05pm
  - secondcumming
    
    According to Shaun it may be linked to George Soros.
    
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    August 3, 2019 12:28pm
    - stephieboy
      
      secondcumming, throw in a bit of anti semitism for good measure?
      
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      August 3, 2019 1:14pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    ActionStation has very close links to the Green Party, so take everything they say with that filter.
    
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    August 3, 2019 12:29pm
    - stephieboy
      
      George Soros funding the Green Party?
      
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      August 3, 2019 1:15pm
- Straight arrow
  
  Muriel Newman is correct when stating that the Tribunal cannot legally recommend using private land in Treaty settlements. There is nothing in law (as far as I know) that a government can compel a private land owner to sell, for treaty settlements as a reason. However, there is no law stopping a government from negotiating with a private owner to buy their land, and using it for settlements. It has been Convention (capital C) that this has not (usually) been done.
  Significantly, there is only one case I am aware of: the government bought private property for future settlements. And it happened in 2018. It should not be repeated.
  ….
  Andrew Little said the Government has secured land that’s been the focus of Ngapuhi concerns about the health and well-being of Poroti Springs.
  
  “The Crown has purchased nearly four hectares of land near Poroti Springs which will be landbanked for a future Treaty settlement.
  
  “The Crown property purchase includes a resource consent to extract water from the Whatitiri aquifer which feeds the Poroti Springs,” Little said.
  
  “The Crown has been negotiating for some time to acquire this piece of land because of the cultural significance of Poroti Springs to the local hapu and Ngapuhi.
  
  “To secure ownership of the property the Crown entered a commercial negotiation and paid $7.5m. Ngapuhi is currently engaged in discussions around their Treaty of Waitangi negotiations.
  
  “This purchase is about addressing the potential for this site to become an asset to the beneficiaries of a future settlement.”
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12029780
  
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  August 3, 2019 1:02pm
Monique Watson

It’s screwy that ideology takes precedence over lives.
Pharmac not funding breast cancer drugs. I can access thedrugs here, and a number of my friends have had cancer and accessed these drugs. But if someone my age gets metastatic breast cancer in New Zealand they’re Screwed!

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/cancer-drugs-petition-rejected.html
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August 3, 2019 10:32am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Not so Monique. There are always people distressed about their health state. Their belief that a new wonder drug would fix them does not hold.
  We get extremely good public health care in NZ. Pharmac may get pilloried but they have a competent panel constantly reviewing new offerings. They do insist that drugs be first proven to work to a reasonable degree. Otherwise Big Pharma would just target them.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:53am
Maggie Pie

The NZH reports:
‘Balclutha man, Jacob Selwyn Jones, 41, threatened his pregnant partner with a hammer, calling her a n****** ‘

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1157413332791562240

As my own partner said, “Pot, Kettle”
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August 3, 2019 10:33am
- Swifty
  
  A real tough guy.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:06am
  - Tall Man
    
    With women and kids.
    
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    August 3, 2019 2:54pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://genesiustimes.com/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-that-we-only-have-18-months-to-save-their-jobs/?fbclid=IwAR3cTRC7IwbEdkfjVkX8rRIKn3UZZ-cG0uAuHXjFJg7yHUIcnzYoxA4njVE
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August 3, 2019 10:39am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So 97% of climate scientists are going to lose their jobs.
  That can only be a good thing. Why not eliminate the other 3% as well?
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:48am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    99% satire – but true
    
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    August 3, 2019 11:57am
JibberJabber

OK, todays Challenge if you dare,
Try to make it thru this clip til the end …2.19…

https://twitter.com/ChrisLoesch/status/1157386571198402562

My time 2.03, but then I`m a masochist…
A window licker imparts its wisdom…
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August 3, 2019 10:46am
- Tall Man
  
  A stunning example of what legal cannabis can do for you.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:00am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Does Stephie have a brother in the US?
    
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    August 3, 2019 1:04pm
- stephieboy
  
  JibberJabber,
  
  Chris Loesch? Just another alt right cabbage head and bore!
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:13am
  - JibberJabber
    
    Annnnd…speaking of window lickers…
    
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    August 3, 2019 12:38pm
- srylands
  
  I watched all of it. The interviewer is awesome BTW
  
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  August 3, 2019 12:09pm
  - stephieboy
    
    “I watched all of it”
    
    Some highlights?
    
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    August 3, 2019 1:16pm
Lee C

I have a theory. My theory is that Ardern is burned out. I think she is being kept under wraps as much as possible because she can’t be relied upon to make sound decisions.

My theory is that her team are running protection for her, to maintain the facade of her ‘running’ the Government.

Anyone could have gone to Tokelau recently, but Jacinda had to do it – to speak with her family, perhaps?

I understand on a previous occasion she went for treatment for stress or depression but it was itemised as ‘tonsillitis’ to the time.

I get the impression she is very ‘highly strung’, and impetuous.

Like Bowie once wrote: “When it’s good, it;’s really good, but when it’s bad, I go to pieces”…

Thoughts?
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August 3, 2019 11:03am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Lee C , Thoughts?
  Wildly speculative at best!
  
  There , fixed!
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:10am
- kowtow
  
  Your idea is simply wrong .
  
  Why ?
  
  Because it implies this bunch of idiots have a plan.
  
  They don’t .
  
  They’re making policy up as they go along.
  
  Someone quoted Seymour as saying they market virtue signalling and then deal with the consequences as they arise, that basically sums ’em up.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s a plausible theory, but I’m not buying it.
  
  If Ardern was really burned out, the circling sharks in the Labour Party would be closing in, ready to take over her position.
  
  I just think she is lazy and incompetent and its “business” as usual.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:22am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    You might be right Maggy, but I don’t think any of the crew on the ship of fools would want to take responsibility for taking the party back to 24%.
    I think Cindy will hang in until the day she has a meltdown.
    
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    August 3, 2019 11:28am
    - sooty
      
      But there is not one in the Labour party that could take over.
      They are all primadonas or just plain stupid!
      I think that Cindy is been protected and sent to the kindys as that is her level.
      Even high school kids would be a challange!
      As far as the UN goes, that’s out of the question as who would run the protection for her?
      I think she would come home a blithering mess!
      
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      August 3, 2019 12:11pm
  - Inandout
    
    Maggy, meantime she must remain as titular leader because Little won’t return to drag the party back in the polls. Next year will be crunch time I think.
    
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    August 3, 2019 11:49am
- niggly
  
  @Lee
  
  Yes I think you are right.
  
  Despite Robbo and left-wing spin about Tokelauns being NZ citizens there was absolutely no need for the PM to visit (at this particular time as clearly it wasn’t important to visit many other Islands) when other senior Cabinet Ministers could have.
  
  I mean Labour’s Deputy, Kelvin Davis, could have stepped up and done the NZ government proud.
  
  Even Deputy PM Winston could have called in before heading to his other overseas destinations.
  
  No matter what Labour spin the perception is (after a 3 week Parliamentary recess) that Jacinda wanted to avoid staying in NZ – especially just as the Ihumatao issue was reaching its (initial – more to come) peak and the pressure was on her.
  
  This Ihumatao issue, if not played well, could see brand Jacinda massively damaged in Maoridom and could lead to COL infighting.
  
  Let’s face it (not that the MSM are making a big issue … yet), the Labour Party are in serious damage control mode at the moment and I think it would be fair to say the Labour Party are shitting themselves big time as to how to get out of this mess as no matter what they do their will be major hurt (on one side or the other) and potentially far ranging ramifications.
  
  Frankly who (in Labour) wouldn’t want to take off to somewhere remote just now – Jacinda just did!
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:31am
  - sooty
    
    If the boss can go and lie in the sun.
    Why can’t the worker bees do the same!
    Mind you with 200 working parties.
    
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    August 3, 2019 12:58pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Sexual assault case in 4 and a bit weeks. Probably a “blackout” in the press.
    
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    August 3, 2019 2:51pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Add the growing poverdee
    And the growing social housing waiting list
    And the growing dhb defecits (growing monthly!)
    
    Its not looking good for Labour and the COL
    
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    August 3, 2019 3:37pm
    - sooty
      
      Has Woody booked in some holidays at that time? That’ll be interesting as to why she’s missing!
      
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      August 3, 2019 4:42pm
- brett68
  
  Kris Faafoi was only there less than a year ago.
  There was no reason for Ardern to go to Tokelau.
  
  https://www.tokelau.org.nz/Bulletin/October+2018/Ulu+o+Tokelau+to+welcome+Kris+Faafoi.html
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:32am
  - calendar girl
    
    Yes there was, brett68. Ardern and her father both had birthdays to celebrate there during the week.
    
    (My apology, brett68, for initially hitting “Report” in error rather than “Reply”.)
    
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    August 3, 2019 4:12pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Quite possible. She’s had enormous stressors. Her preference for school visiting could be a manifestation of that.
  Minders may be discretely aiding her sheltering.
  
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  August 3, 2019 11:58am
  - Tall Man
    
    “Death Stare” lady you mean…..
    
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    August 3, 2019 2:52pm
- srylands
  
  I’m not prepared to be an amateur psychologist. Also I have empathy with anyone who suffers from stress and mental illness. I am only interested in the quality of government policy and decisions.
  
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  August 3, 2019 12:05pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    As I have previously stated, I had a significant episode of depression and anxiety come to a head late in 2017. It was a year before I got back to work, and I have accepted that I will be only working part-time for the remainder of my working years.
    
    If the PM has suffered an episode of depression & anxiety, then I empathise with her. The last thing she needs right now is the pressure of being PM, and all that goes with it. I hope those close to her are putting her wellbeing, and that of Neve, ahead of any political considerations.
    
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    August 3, 2019 12:34pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      They wanted a puppet on a string to dance to their loony toons, well they got one. Now she’s flaked out.
      ~~Taxcinda~~, ~~Winfirst~~ , Kelvin, Robbo?
      
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      August 3, 2019 6:21pm
  - niggly
    
    Well said Srylands and I take back a bit/better clarify what I wrote earlier …. I’m not sure that it is a matter of the PM being under stress (and escaping) more like a typically cynical and “well played” Labour leadership move to keep her out of the media spotlight whilst Labour, its Maori caucus try and wrestle control of the narrative over the Ihumatao issue.
    
    A week ago Jacinda was appearing to “cave in” slightly to protester/media pressure just enough to defuse the Ihumatao issue (protester/media) by calling for a building halt (Fletchers).
    
    Which then caused a backlash (the whole TOW process being compromised etc), threats to sue the PM by David Rankin etc etc.
    
    Meanwhile presumably NZ First were/are not impressed (and won’t budge on this one) … can’t alienate an important COL partner.
    
    Plus ACT has found its voice again and National are sticking to the law.
    
    If that was not bad enough …. behold to middle in NZ watching with disquiet we have the Green’s merry band of designer-clothes radicals the so called “squad” bashing on the govt and taking the side of protesters, to cap that off woke TVNZ/RNZ are giving them heaps of airtime – splendid, as they say!
    
    If Jacinda were around last week Labour (and herself) would have been under immense pressure to “take a side” (and watch the COL start to implode)?!?!
    
    Labour says gotta protect the “brand” peeps … hey done Tokoleau and Vogue, what’s next!
    
    (Won’t work Labour, those vocal in Maoridom are upset and look what you’ve done)!
    
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    August 3, 2019 1:00pm
- alloytoo
  
  When could she ever be relied upon to make sound decisions?
  
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  August 3, 2019 4:23pm
Maggie Pie

My partners mum tweets –

I’ve seen it all. Baby Boomers, Gen x, y, z and more. Now we’ve got ‘Generation Butthurt’, where everybody is offended, and if they aren’t, they’re about to be.
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August 3, 2019 11:08am
Straight arrow

The Occupation at Iumatao. Who benefits? (Novel take on occupation)
Cui bono: literally “to whom is it a benefit?”, is a Latin phrase about identifying crime suspects. It expresses the view that crimes are oftentimes committed to benefit their perpetrators, especially financially. Which party benefits may not be obvious, and there may be a scapegoat. [Wikipedia]. Note that benefit also means the avoidance of loss.

Let me look at the occupation from this angle.
Do the general populace gain a benefit? View of harbour still exists. Historic stonefields unimpeded. Do most general populace even go there? No. Effectively no benefit

Local Iwi: This group loses 25 percent of the development, so net loss if stopped.

Iwi that have had settlements: No benefit because claims supposedly final.

Future Iwi settlements: Maybe, but would be breaking the spirit of the 1975 Act. Possible backlash. Certainly would be hard to get land back from private owners, and I suspect courts would favour current owners.

Urban Maori: If not identified with a recognised Maori group, still nothing.

Council: Net loss as will forego rates on future residents.

So who does this leave us with? The inhabitants of Iumatao Village. Rates may go up as value of neighbouring development adds value. This has already been expressed by residents in press. Lack of rural setting within a metropolis, which is possibly why some people live there, would be impacted. Flooding of area by nearly five times the number of existing residents, so social hierarchy and structures destroyed, especially if different cultures come in. Increased traffic and impact on current resources.

Enter the scapegoats: Heritage, cultural offensive, re-opening old land confiscation wounds, archaeological site. Note that SOUL leadership carefully (in my opinion) focuses on cultural reasons, and not on normal community reasons to block development. To be fair, people in leafy suburbs use similar tactics: heritage tree, increased traffic, social fabric, etc.

But Iumatao is, and this is what SOUL is basically about, a Nimby dream scenario. Would people outside the area care for normal scapegoat reasons? SOUL has support on dubious grounds.
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August 3, 2019 11:41am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  How about:
  “The Occupation at Iumatao. Who’s on benefits?”
  
  Fixed it!
  
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  August 3, 2019 1:09pm
- The King
  
  The free sausages and coffee will run out soon.
  
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  August 3, 2019 5:57pm
srylands

Thanks to his parents, this kid is going to grow up to be a right shit.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/114599274/schoolboy-takes-auckland-grammar-to-court-over-hairlength-rule
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August 3, 2019 12:01pm
- tf78
  
  Stupid little girl he is.
  
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  August 3, 2019 1:13pm
- Tall Man
  
  Another riveting article from josephineF, a major “commenter” on stuff.
  
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  August 3, 2019 2:48pm
stigie

You know i have always loved a good meltdown Captain !~
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August 3, 2019 12:02pm
Hugh Pavletich

… See 3:37AM post …

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/08/general_debate_2_august_2019.html#comment-2531959

… CHINA TARIFFS …

China Tariffs Impacts On US Retailers … An Excellent Assessment …

Trump’s latest tariff may finally send J.C. Penney into its grave (silly title) … Yahoo Finance

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-latest-tariff-may-finally-send-jc-penney-into-the-grave-151056277.html
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August 3, 2019 12:12pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Japan has removed South Korea from its list of “white nations” (Class A trading partners). South Korea has replied by doing the same to Japan.
  Relations between the two nations are now at their lowest ebb since diplomatic relations were normalized in 1965.
  
  Why did that South Korean judge decide to have a go at Japanese corporations (like Mitsubishi) for forced wartime labor? I suspect he was acting under the orders of the politicians who indirectly appointed him in the first place. (There is a larger game afoot, here.)
  
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  August 3, 2019 12:38pm
  - kowtow
    
    Funny how little attention our lamestream media give to such a stoush ……oh wait it doesn’t involve the Evil Orange Man.
    
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    August 3, 2019 2:21pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      It will probably appear in the NZ media shortly.
      The Japanese TV programs are covering it extensively.
      A Korean government minister has said that Japan has crossed a line that should not be crossed.
      Japanese TV is showing pictures of Korean newspapers carrying the headline “It’s a Trade War.”
      This is not going away any time soon.
      
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      August 3, 2019 3:05pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear,
NIWA didn’t have a clue about Vodaphone’s proposed 5G frequency

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/niwa-apologises-for-5g-weather-confusion.html
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August 3, 2019 1:02pm
Lee C

Well Maggy I think Hipkins is beginning to circle…
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August 3, 2019 1:14pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Ah ha,
  
  That’s a dangerous predator and being Wellington-based, might be lurking in murky waters.
  
  You must be closer to the action than I am…
  
  I haven’t got the sniff of blood in the water yet or noticed the hungry seagulls… but I’ll recognise the signals when they are a bit more obvious.
  
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  August 3, 2019 1:21pm
Swifty

If this is of interest or value to anyone, here are some of my favourite YouTube channels – discovered over the last five years or so.

I favour no nonsense, limited waffle, limited or no attempts at comedy and combined with a good level of practical expertise in the subject.

Chilli Chump – a South African based in the UK, who grows chillies and makes sauces etc

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSdNragfmbW_bqzUYBKIK_A/videos

Forgotten Weapons – a very good historic and military firearms channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/ForgottenWeapons/videos

Mark and Sam After Work – an Aussie couple who specialise in forearms and long range marksmanship

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs3sYk1tuP5Er95EniC-uMw/videos

Scott Rea – an excellent UK butchery channel, old school, thoroughly recommended

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheScottReaproject/videos

Dead Farang – a crackup Aussie who videos his walks around south-east Asia

https://www.youtube.com/user/deadfarang/videos

Allotment Diary – an excellent Yorkshireman veg gardener, thoroughly recommended

https://www.youtube.com/user/allotmentdiary/videos

Rogee Productions – an excellent NZ hunting channel from Thane Young, ex army, based in Palmy, thoroughly recommended

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Ry6cKy1z6OYx2bE2b76hg/videos

Path Films – Pete Thomas, a Marlborough-based hunter, with excellent NZ wildlife and scenery footage

https://www.youtube.com/user/PATHFilmsNZ/videos

Archives NZ – for a great selection of historic NZ footage

https://www.youtube.com/user/archivesnz/videos

If anyone is interested in any more, yell out and I can dig out others.

Fill yer boots.
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August 3, 2019 1:31pm
Tony Stuart

I heard on the 1pm news (Newstalk ZB) that the organisers of the Ihumātao occupation have called for a National Day of Action on Tuesday, and are calling on people to protest at Fletchers, and at Fletcher subsidiaries, such as Placemakers.

In my mind, that is a dumb, dumb strategy, and risks SOUL losing any of the public goodwill it has gathered. Fletcher’s have done nothing illegal, and have bent over backwards to work with Te Kawerau ā Maki , including having allocated 40 new houses for the iwi. They are not the villains here, and as both Willie Jackson and Peeni Henare have noted, have a legal agreement with Te Kawerau ā Maki which should be honoured.

It will be interesting to see how Labour and Jacinda Ardern in particular deal with the escalation of this protest. I expect this to become a defining issue for the coalition government.
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August 3, 2019 1:58pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘risks SOUL losing any of the public goodwill it has gathered.’
  
  What public goodwill ? ‘sfar as I can see it’s just the usual suspects along with the lefty media.
  
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  August 3, 2019 2:20pm
- Inandout
  
  A lot of Maori guys work for Placemakers and Fletcher subsidiaries. They must get sick of this carry on.
  
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  August 3, 2019 2:32pm
- Swifty
  
  Bullies.
  
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  August 3, 2019 2:40pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  If it’s a dumb strategy Tony why are you belittling it, after all your on the other side?
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:00pm
  - Tall Man
    
    You’re…..
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:23pm
JibberJabber

First pics in from Green Party conference Dunners,
https://twitter.com/Coltheman1/status/1157419057060052992

Once again, I LoLed loudly….
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August 3, 2019 2:19pm
- niggly
  
  Remember that time when Gareth Hughes used to wear a Clown suit?
  
  Somehow he’s managed to get the rest of the Green caucus to dress up like him, well done that ~~man~~ umm how sexist I mean person!
  
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  August 3, 2019 3:24pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    This one…
    https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/news-photo/greenpeace-protestor-gareth-hughes-dressed-like-ronald-news-photo/56091744?adppopup=true
    
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    August 3, 2019 3:58pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Silly Maggy, that’s Darren…..
      
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      August 3, 2019 10:22pm
Happychappy

The Greens must be in fairy land to think NZer’s will except their plan.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2019/08/03/jameddhaw.html
NZ is fucked if Shaw thinks we don’t need up to date motorways and will use public transport. They get a bit of power and it goes to their head.
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August 3, 2019 2:39pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Loony luddites, the lot of them.
  
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  August 3, 2019 3:41pm
Happychappy

My wife just showed me this from facebook.
https://m.facebook.com/NZSPEEDLIMIT/photos/a.989192024429642/2877836482231844/?type=3&source=
This is posted by two Journalists from newshub
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August 3, 2019 3:27pm
DigNap15

What a “cross government”
I’d love to “dispose of some waste”
But half of the green MP’s would not fit in my toilet.

The more publicity for this nonsense they get, they more likely they are to drop to 4% in the polls

PS I’m a cross voter
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August 3, 2019 3:30pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  And I suppose you’re a cross dresser as well.
  
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  August 3, 2019 3:59pm
- Tall Man
  
  I get a bit cross at the moment..
  
  Especially when DPF won’t let me be an honest and verbal man.
  
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  August 3, 2019 7:18pm
  - Tall Man
    
    LLB 😉
    
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    August 3, 2019 10:20pm
niggly

I thought the Greens’ mantra was to respect people and not call them names?

I heard a soundbite on newshub today and at their conference James Shaw rejected working with National because Simon Bridges “lacks personal integrity”.

Coming from the weasel James Shaw as he over inflates the value of their virtue-signalling “middle-class green” policies and minimises the real-world consequences which will be a worse (global) environment and higher costs being passed onto those in our own society that can least afford it!

Piss off James Shaw and take your so-called “integrity” and shove it up your ….!
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August 3, 2019 3:35pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Shaw won’t deal with Bridges because he “lacks personal integrity”. But he’s quite happy to give confidence and supply to Labour, who are in coalition with the man censured by Parliament in 2008 for wilfully misleading Parliament by filing a false Pecuniary Interest Return.
  
  Quite what that says about Shaw’s judgment is for others to judge!
  
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  August 3, 2019 4:22pm
  - niggly
    
    Yes excellent points, that astounding chunk of hypocrisy can’t be beaten – it’s well up there, its pretty big, nudging away many other hyp, hyp, hyp moments!
    
    (Such as has the scampi powerbase come back with a vengeance and put the kibosh on the Kermadec sanctuary? The Greens will stand up to that and not be hypocritical weasels will they … oh wait)!
    
    Frankly National should rule out working with the Greens – they are dangerous and intolerant zealots and would prefer to destroy our society the way we know it simply in order to worship some overseas inspired and driven BS agenda – talk about selling out NZ’s sovereignty!
    
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    August 3, 2019 5:21pm
  - Tall Man
    
    No father to sort him out……
    
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    August 3, 2019 7:15pm
andydownhere

I dont know if I missed the discussion on the latest Colmar Brunton poll, but the MSM headlines on it didnt give the full picture in my opinion.
The talk was the drop of Ardern by 4 pts and Christopher Luxon appearing at 1% when not even in Parliament.
But what about the political parties? Forget the leadership. I think a significant proportion of the population think they are bright if they can name the Prime Minister, naming the leader of the opposition would be too hard.
But, National were at 45%, Labour 43%, Greens 6%, NZ First 3%.
National were only up 1%, but were 7 % up on the Newshub poll a couple of weeks earlier. Then according to MSM at 38%, it was doomsday for National.
Anyhow, the Greens always poll higher in polls than election day, several commentators say this. Last election they were polling at 8%, but only got 5.3% on election nite. Follow the same trend here and both the Greens and NZ First are gone and only National and Labour survive with National in majority.
Unless the $3billion bribe kicks in and NZ First wins an electoral seat. But then Seymour and ACT will win one anyhow
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August 3, 2019 4:02pm
- Tall Man
  
  Now you’re on the right page.
  
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  August 3, 2019 7:15pm
- DigNap15
  
  “andydownhere
  I hope you are correct.
  But you cannot compare this weeks CB poll with last months Reid/Tv3 poll. They were so far apart then.
  You/we need to wait until the next Reid poll to see where National and Labour stand.
  
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  August 3, 2019 7:50pm
  - niggly
    
    Don’t forget the June Colmar Brunton poll with National on 44% leading Labour on 42% (it wasn’t quite the big news it should have been thanks to the TV3 Reid Research poll having National on 37% which was the “major” news story instead – MSM gotta take out Bridges)!
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/politics/conflicting-results-labour-and-national-new-polls
    
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    August 3, 2019 9:13pm
thetiedarch

Apologies all. I inadvertently contributed to Labour’s billion tree target today. Spent a fantastic day out on Quail Island in Diamond Harbour planting native trees. After the weather of the last few days, we couldn’t have had a more stunning day.
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August 3, 2019 5:04pm
MCos

Our Royal Family isn’t quite as blatant as their counterparts in Thailand.
https://bangkokjack.com/2019/08/03/thai-king-official-concubine/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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August 3, 2019 5:19pm
- Tall Man
  
  What would you prefer, a leader that gets up to hanky panky with his girlfriend or one who just fucks us all.
  
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  August 3, 2019 10:19pm
niggly

“I think a significant proportion of the population think they are bright if they can name the Prime Minister, naming the leader of the opposition would be too hard.”

Good points, Colmar Brunton say they don’t prompt the names of the preferred PM candidates when polling.

Alot of people don’t follow politics closely and there’s even been tv coverage of young people (working age) that don’t know even who Jacinda Ardern is (who woulda thunk it)!

So perhaps its not surprising that Simon isn’t that well known (nor many other beltway politicians like Robbo and Kelvin etc, heh perhaps it also helps explain why someone who already has name recognition like Judith Collins features well)!

So what do the people think about having a part-time Prime Minister? Could make for an interesting Polling question (imagine if CB or Newshub/Reid Research started asking that)!
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August 3, 2019 5:38pm
niggly

Bwahahaha James Shaw claims Simon Bridges lacks “personal integrity”, but check out James Shaw being caught out for not giving a clear answer as to why he hasn’t been to the Ihumātao occupation … Shaw tries to spin a story which the interviewer knows is BS!

Oh dear was James Shaw self-projecting when he claimed that Bridges lacks “personal integrity”?!!

(Clearly Shaw doesn’t want to be tarred by the watermelon’s “red” brush and tarnish his “green/environment credentials” …. what a weasel)!

From approx 5’50”!
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/james-shaw-burns-simon-bridges-in-climate-change-speech.html

Look at stunned-mullet Shaw’s shifty eyes !!!
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August 3, 2019 8:59pm
Tall Man

It’s now 9 pm and there are no comments for 3 1/2 hours…..
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August 3, 2019 9:01pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  That’s because the moderators have gone to bed.
  Sorry to say it, but DPF has over-reacted to the PC brigade.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:24pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Head over to YSB, then.
  
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  August 3, 2019 9:59pm
Hugh Pavletich

… UNITED STATES …

Even Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is missing the real problems with America’s housing market … OPINION Tobias Peter and Edward Pinto …Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/real-problems-us-housing-market-regulation-land-cost-2019-8/?r=AU&IR=T

… concluding …

… Importantly, once a metro is building more, the private sector will provide homes across all price points. The data show that Metros in the Southern growth belt have new-construction sales at the entry level of about three times the national average, which has kept homes more attainable for first-time buyers.

Undoing decades of misguided land-use regulations won’t happen overnight, but more enlightened land-use laws would go a long way in overcoming today’s housing shortage and to reconcile economic growth with affordable housing.
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2019 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
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August 4, 2019 4:45am
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… HONG KONG …

Hong Kong protests: Police fire tear gas at activists – BBC News

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Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas As Peaceful Protest Turns Chaotic … Zerohedge

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Google New Zealand Search ‘Hong Kong Protests’

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August 4, 2019 5:54am
Lee C

@niggly – I think your views on this are very plausible.
I also think Ardern was told to go away and keep stum.
Hence her confused and bizarre instruction to the press, who were expected to
read between the lines’.
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