General Debate 20 September 2019

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LTA1955

Its official, the SLG with now remain the SLG. There is no way back for her or Labour going into 2020. Her tenure is coming to an end
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September 20, 2019 8:06am
- The King
  
  You will see a dramatic push from Labour in the coming 2 months to increase immigration. If they can’t get the votes here they will just bring them in.
  
  Oh look its already begun…
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/national-s-restriction-on-low-paid-migrants-bringing-their-families-to-new-zealand-reversed.html
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:42am
  - rockape
    
    Relax they dont have a vote on a working visa!
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:06am
    - The King
      
      Seems you never read the article….
      
      Work to Residence – Talent (Accredited Employer)
      Work to Residence – Long Term Skills Shortage List Occupations
      
      You ever heard of ‘permanent residence visa” ?
      
      Please tell me you don’t think this system is set up so someone comes from Somalia does a job and flies back to Somalia.
      
      This way you get to evade immigration and refugee statistics so the local population doesn’t get upset, do even know how to politics?
      
      You’re part of the problem.
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:39am
    - Steve Todd
      
      Exactly. He didn’t read beyond the headline.
      
      And, The King can further relax, comfortable in the knowledge that there are still tens of thousands of eventual National-voting actual migrants – with Permanent Residency visas – flooding into the country from places like South Africa, the UK and China, to greatly offset the effect that those migrants that *he* disapproves of might have on the outcome of future elections.
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:50am
      - Jack5
        
        Steve, presumably you include National’s Jian Yang, former employee of Chinese military intelligence.
        
        I would welcome business people from Taiwan into a New Zealand centre-right party, but would be suspicious of the “entrepreneurs” from the People’s Republic of China.
        
        Keith Holyoake and Rob Muldoon would spin in their coffins if they knew former members of the Chinese Communist Party now had influence in the Auckland National Party.
        
        Many of the successful business people in China, and nearly all of China’s billionaires, are members of “the party”.
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:57pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        “Steve, presumably you include National’s Jian Yang, former employee of Chinese military intelligence.”
        
        @Jack5 @ 1:57PM
        
        I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at there, Jack, but to answer your question, unfortunately, I do. After all, I have no choice, do I?
        
        It is a disgrace, not to mention very worrying, that Jian Yang sits in our parliament (and refuses to be interviewed by non-Chinese media). No doubt you have read this: https://croakingcassandra.com/2019/09/16/recalling-jian-yangs-past-questions-for-him-and-his-leader/.
        
        In case you missed it, I also draw your attention to my 3:54PM response to Jigsaw, last Sunday, here: https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/09/hawkesbys_tale_of_two_leaders.html#comments. It includes a link to Michael Reddell’s opinion of the infamous Bridges interview. (Scroll down to near the bottom of your screen.)
        
        I agree with the rest of your response.
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:03pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Just to be clear, my original response was to rockape, not to The King.
        
        It is indeed The King who did not read the article (at least carefully). The two ‘Work to Residence’ restrictions he refers to, in response to rockape, are two of the six restrictions that the new ‘Temporary Work Visas’ are replacing.
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:21pm
    - JB.49
      
      “Relax they dont have a vote on a working visa!”
      
      That’s stage 2
      
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      September 20, 2019 12:31pm
    - MCos
      
      Relax.
      My wife has PR, but she’s not going to vote until she sees the colour of the money
      
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      September 20, 2019 1:32pm
    - igm
      
      rockape: “Yet!”
      
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      September 20, 2019 3:45pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    and don’t forget to lower the voting age
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018714103/young-seek-lowering-of-voting-age
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:24am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      shouldn’t be voting until you have had a year or two away from the indoctrinating influences of school or university.
      
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      September 20, 2019 11:22am
      - JeffW
        
        Shouldn’t have aaa vote unless one is a net taxpayer. No representation without taxation.
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:12pm
    - Crisplion
      
      Yes, the push to lower the voting age is as dangerous as it is specious. It’s also a fairly blatant attempt to move the voting distribution to the left. However, while I personally don’t want to see that happen, it doesn’t constitute a principled argument against the idea.
      
      The correct argument is that everyone is an idiot when they’re 16. I sure was. It wasn’t my fault any more than it’s the fault of those who are presently 16. It just comes with the territory of being 16. Giving 16-year-olds the vote is equivalent in wisdom to giving Bowie knives to toddlers. I’d prefer to raise the voting age to about 28.
      
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      September 20, 2019 11:30am
      - John Warren
        
        I love my 16 year old son dearly, but he’s a fuckwit. He’s in no condition to vote for the colour of his underpants, let alone the government.
        
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        September 20, 2019 11:55am
    - tranquil
      
      If anything, it should be **raised.**
      20 would do.
      Exception – those who serve in the Armed Forces. They tend to be more sensible types anyway so I’m not worried about them.
      
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      September 20, 2019 2:30pm
      - Rob2
        
        Nope, just indoctrinated with different politics.
        
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        September 20, 2019 8:20pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Real simple approach would be to give everyone the vote, with each person’s vote being weighted in proportion to how much income tax they pay (IRD has records). Ideally include businesses and corporates. If you try to shift the tax burden on to others then you lose power.
      
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      September 20, 2019 5:03pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Hey the 19th century was a great time! Back before there was any stupid ideas about women voting too …
        
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        September 20, 2019 7:14pm
  - barnacle bill
    
    If that happens, then they will only be following the last Administration in doing so.
    
    NZ was flooded by new immigrants over that time.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:50am
    - igm
      
      bb: National did not allow unemployable leeching taxpayer-funded losers in.
      
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      September 20, 2019 3:46pm
      - Rob2
        
        You think?
        
        They did.
        
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        September 20, 2019 8:21pm
- calendar girl
  
  Here’s a video link to her China / Japan gaffe: https://play.stuff.co.nz/details/_6087645097001 .
  
  At least it didn’t seem to distress her in any way.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:55am
  - chaos
    
    My first thought when I saw it was it was intentional, shifts the news back home away from the sexual assaults.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:23am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She wouldn’t have the wit to think up such a cunning plan.
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:59am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Worthy of Black Adder.
        A plan so cunning, if it had a tail, it would be a weasel….OOHH…she already is.
        
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        September 20, 2019 10:42am
    - James Stephenson
      
      My first thought was “bet this doesn’t get half the replays of Key’s three-way handshake.”
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:09am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      YUP – I’m with chaos. Word of the allbirds is that Richie txt Clarke and suggested it.
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:28am
- cmm
  
  As I have said before competence is not her super power. She is the Bridget Jones politician – tries, but everything turns to shit.
  
  And yet, somehow, they made three Bridget Jones movies and they all did well with their core audience.
  
  Incompetence is not a problem if it can be cast as a quirky charm.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:23am
- WaveyDavey
  
  Going to have to disagree. They have 2020 in the bag, the only question is whether they’ll need a partner.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:45am
  - DigNap15
    
    Who do you mean?
    Labour or National
    Due to the moderation its not clear which pardy you are referring to
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:45am
    - Steve Todd
      
      WaveyDavey is responding to the first comment of the day, from LTA1955. He is referring to Labour. (See also, WD’s comment at GD yesterday, at 10:01AM.)
      
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      September 20, 2019 1:01pm
- coge
  
  At least she didn’t do blackface. That’s gotta be good reason to vote for her.
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:09am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    But she did wear a ‘T’ towel.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:20am
  - Lizziep
    
    coge R U Sure? Maybe one could still show up. Years and your past are seemingly nothing in politics.
    
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    September 20, 2019 1:33pm
The King

Climate cult prophet known as “the next Jesus” to her followers Greta Thunberg apologizes for photo of her wearing an Antifa T-shirt.

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1154734497662943232?s=19

Also Verity Johnson of Stuff complains why people on the right don’t like her, calls her an ‘apostle’ and compares her to Che Guevara..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/115925084/why-do-people-hate-greta-thunberg-she-makes-them-feel-obsolete

Clown world.
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September 20, 2019 8:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Another silly little girl who thinks her opinion is important
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:42am
  - The King
    
    It’s not the little girl that scares anyone, its the propaganda machine behind her.
    
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    September 20, 2019 8:47am
    - Simon
      
      And behind the propaganda machine is the asset confiscations, arbitrary arrests, food shortages and secret police.
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:01am
- Swifty
  
  If that reflects the general calibre of Verity Johnson’s ‘columns’ then yeah, nah I’ll skip them from now on.
  
  The only further interest I now have is what Verity will think of this column in 25-30 years time (struggling under the daily grind, with her and her partner still paying off their mortgage, perhaps kids still at home, taxation north of 50-60%, realising how much there is still to do to get ready for retirement etc etc etc) and being assailed daily by young knowitalls who think they, alone, have all the answers to all the world’s problems (and which I guarantee will involve more govt spending and more taxation) and saying that Verity should be ashamed of the state she and her generation have left the world in.
  
  Perhaps it might then occur to Verity how vacuous, threadbare and ill-lettered her column today is.
  
  Silly little girl.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:00am
  - The Feed
    
    She doesn’t appear to realise that every generation has their “talk truth to adults” 15-minute fame-r – does Verity know who Severn Cullis-Suzuki is?
    
    16 year olds, of course, know everything. To know that one knows very, very little, one has to first grow up. Gain humility.
    
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    September 20, 2019 12:39pm
- Simon
  
  Clown world = ghoul world. To actually tell children that the world will end in 10 years. Disgusting. Ardern like levels of sickness.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:02am
  - Ian Hawthorn
    
    The left loves the way that children are so easy to indoctrinate. The Hitler youth of the modern left.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:06am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      https://www.jhc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2-Youth-Serves-the-Leader-All-10-Year-Olds-in-the-Hitler-Youth-Girl-Version.jpg
      
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      September 20, 2019 11:18am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
        
        Vladimir Lenin
        
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        September 20, 2019 11:21am
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, utterly disgusting and nauseating!
        
        A new low from you and others on the climate denial bandwagon!
        
        Nasty innuendos
        
        What next with the rabid right? Greta Thunberg should have ECT because of her ASD?
        
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        September 20, 2019 12:44pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        A new low from you
        
        You forfeited your right to cast moral aspersions on other Kiwiblog readers, such as Maggy, a long time ago. A recent example (one of many) is when you described it as a “consolation” that Teresa Cormack (a 6-year-old girl) was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a European and not by a Maori. As Maggy said at the time: “Do you realise how FUCKED in the HEAD you are?”
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:51pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Ever heard of child abuse by adults, stephieboy?
        https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/this-greta-thunberg-thing-is-child-abuse
        
        https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/im-not-sexist-or-sorry-for-opposing-the-media-exploitation-of-greta-thunberg
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:13pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, you and others are indulging in none other than personal Ad hominem attacks of a vindictive kind!
        
        Patronising and condescending codswallop from the Washington Examiner etc
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:33pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      So many similarities in the early days…
      
      Hitler youth was sold as a way to get the youth motivated, but ended up creating a large group of military zealots that would carry out his wishes…
      
      Hitler also grabbed lots of opportunities for photos with children, families and animals to create the perception he had cared and had empathy…
      
      Hitler also started a factory to make affordable cars… (houses)
      
      Hitler also banned smoking in as many places as he could, including private businesses, which showed he “cared” about peoples health. Solders in uniform could rape, beat and murder Jews, but smoking in uniform was not permitted…
      
      Hitler banned the ownership of guns… So when the SS and SA took over, the public had no weapons to stop the violence and defend themselves…
      
      There are differences between Socialism and Fascism, however all end up in state control.
      
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      September 20, 2019 12:37pm
      - stephieboy
        
        JackRabbit, so a minority Jews armed with AR15s versus Hitler and the German populace would have stopped the Holocaust
        
        Utter rubbish!
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:36pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        >>> stephieboy
        
        No stephieboy, the uprising that would have challenged Hitler would have predominantly come from within the 99% Germans, as well as the 1% Jews. Most people, including the armed forces did not agree with what Hitler was doing, however in absence of the ability to arm and defend, it was do what you are told or get a bullet in the head for being a Jew sympathizer.
        
        Disarming the public by confiscating licenced guns, enables criminals who do not care about gun licences, and can get guns. Whether those criminals be common garden variety thugs, or political thugs ruling a country.
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:12pm
  - Sacha
    
    Where are the kids parents? All they have to do is say ” oh they used to say that when I was your age, and we are still here. I think they are talking rubbish. Do not join in with that conversation!”
    I expect a lot of them do –
    
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    September 20, 2019 6:40pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  “She’s also an outspoken young woman, which still attracts the ire of many who simply don’t think women, especially young women, can be or should be that smart and provocative. “
  
  Trouble is most of us are smart enough to know 16yr olds are susceptible to ideological claptrap, and to recognise that this one has sure taken the bait.
  Nothing to do gender.
  Plenty to do with maturity.
  
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  September 20, 2019 4:26pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    A statesman thinks about the next generation, a politician thinks about the next election. Ideas about reducing the voting age, putting election booths in K-Mart and prisons, and increasing handouts is all about buying votes for the next election.
    
    The plastic bag ban was decided by her whipping up support in vulnerable children and getting them to sign a petition. 2 use plastic bags have their place, and NZ does not actually have a problem with plastic bags. India and China do, so saying that NZ is the problem by banning plastic bags here, could be compared with blaming blacks or Jews for crimes committed by white people.
    
    The real problem with pollution and converting land to dairying etc is caused by population growth.
    
    Jacinda is all about sustainability, and I must have missed the news article where she said she wanted to set an example on sustainability and over population by having her tubes tied and/or Clarke having his boys snipped, so that they don’t have another million dollar baby courtesy of the taxpayer.
    
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    September 20, 2019 5:21pm
harvey wilson

Hi see Trudeau has been hoist by his own retard with an election a month out.
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September 20, 2019 8:09am
- pdm
  
  So what if the idiot went to a party in fancy dress.
  
  Who cares – I don’t.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:43am
  - Random T Person
    
    Agree, PDM, but the amusing thing is that this is exactly what the Trudeau sorts stand VERY firmly against.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:00am
    - Tarquin North
      
      Looks like his woke street cred just went up in a puff of black smoke. Hahaha.
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:21am
      - sooty
        
        Cindy went to Christchurch in dressup!
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:29pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    media is governed by <1% far left screaming head nut-jobs, even though population as a whole is by definition centrist on average.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:25am
    - JeffW
      
      Personally I consider National to be centre-left, so centrist must be a relative term. On this basis, Bolshevism can be centrist.
      
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      September 20, 2019 5:20pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  And things could get a lot worse. Is that a teacher… or a non-consenting teenage student being groped by Trudeau?
  
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEyiuZNXsAAwOif?format=jpg&name=large
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:45am
  - Ruawai
    
    Not just black face, black hands as well.
    
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    September 20, 2019 8:58am
    - plc
      
      It’s okay when the Left do it.
      
      Justin was just raising awareness of black people under the yoke of colonialism and slavery
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:52am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    How the heck has playing an obviously very successful Aladdin got anything to do with slavery in America? Or was Aladdin an *investor*??
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:12am
    - MH
      
      truedough = A lad in sheep’s clothing.
      Baa baa black sheep have you any truedough
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:55am
- ldypen
  
  What will Mrs Trudeau say, no doubt she needs to comment about this even though she is in China at the moment!?
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:06am
  - calendar girl
    
    So is she there in China to catch up with our PM Jacinda?
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:46am
- Nickc2
  
  What, Cindy’s BFF has shot himself in both feet? Must be catchy.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:14am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Fidel must be spinning in his grave seeing that kind of thing from his own son .
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:00am
- Martin Williams
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I had a bet with myself how long it would be until a post on Trudeau’s black-face appeared on this blog.
  
  I’m sure it’s coming because Trudeau triggers the hell out of everyone here and you have pushed the boat out.
  
  Your world would be complete if there was also a sniff of a sex scandal.
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:05am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    What else do you do with yourself for a sniff of a sex scandal, Marty? 🙂
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:33am
  - alloytoo
    
    I think you missed the point.
    
    Not surprized.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:02am
  - coge
    
    One can only imagine the histrionics and precious sanctimony had President Trump done black/brownface in the past.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:12am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Trudeau just exemplifies the shallow mindless virtue signalling left – driven by lazy emotive reponses and sound bites and lacking understanding or discipline to make mature, balanced or economically pragmatic choices. Ie he’s Cindy with a dick.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:29am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Hmm, “had a bet with himself”, I suppose it’s abit like other things he has “with himself”…. As for the sex scandal, how about who his father is and why his mother was photographed knickerless?…
    
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    September 20, 2019 12:02pm
    - softail 1450
      
      ROL,If you are talking about Justin’s mama you could ask the Stones who apparently passed her around like a Joint for 3 days as she toured with them 45 years ago,and from more than one source she was a damn good R—-T..
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:29pm
- Nermal
  
  He never could resist fancy dress
  
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  September 20, 2019 1:26pm
slightlyrighty

So the poster boy for the woke in Canada has been done for Blackface.

Obama would never have done that!
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September 20, 2019 8:11am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Third time?
  Fourth time?
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49763805
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:40am
- Kiwi Dave
  
  Despite feeling a degree of schadenfreude at Trudeau’s situation, I think:
  
  1) be charitable when judging the past by the standards of the present;
  2) young people do dumb things – I did;
  3) dress-up parties are for pretending to be something you are not;
  4) no one was harmed by his blackface.
  
  But being pale, stale and male, I must be wrong.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:04am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    It’s a rich vein of irony, considering Turdeau’s (oops, spelling), criticism of PRESIDENT Trump.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:14am
    - Martin Williams
      
      Trump stops at Orange-face.
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:06am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Ah, but not so orange in real life according to our PM.
        
        The friend – comedian Tom Sainsbury – revealed in a radio interview that Ardern had told her Trump was “not as orange in real life” and that he had been confused about her identity.
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/20/donald-trump-new-zealand-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-justin-trudeaus-wife-orange
        
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        September 20, 2019 10:45am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Was that before or after she called President Trump an arsehole?
        
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        September 20, 2019 11:12am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It was after…
        
        She called Trump a professional arsehole while still an MP, sometime around May-June 2017
        
        To a question about why voters should go for professional politicians like her who’d lived off the public purse – and what she made of the anti-politicians like Trump – she was refreshingly undiplomatic: “What – so you elect a professional arsehole, instead?”
        
        https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/08/01/40749/jacinda-vs-the-media-a-tale-in-two-acts
        
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        September 20, 2019 11:27am
  - kowtow
    
    The really funny thing is that that’s news .
    
    Meanwhile a very highly placed spook was selling secrets.
    
    ‘Global News Canada reports that Mr Ortis is a director general of an intelligence unit within the RCMP. According to CBC News, he has expertise in East Asian affairs.’
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49691465
    
    As to the Media Party blackface beat ups , ho hum , no offence intended , a bit of fun , who cares ?
    
    The Woke AF, care and should be told “fuck off” .
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:19am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I think we all feel the schadenfreude only because Turdeau and his ilk are constantly telling white people they are automatically guilty because of their *skin colour*. They have been the racist morons all along.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:20am
  - MH
    
    5) visit a Commonwealth Labour Camp for re indoctrination
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:09am
  - Ed Snack
    
    In the Aladdin photo he’s not “young” as such, he’s 29 and a teacher at a private school.
    
    Personally I don’t care about this, but I didn’t make the rules, they did. And any “conservative” politician who did this at any age would be crucified for it, the rules should not be different depending on one’s political leanings. So my complaint is primarily over the rampant hypocrisy.
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:12am
    - coge
      
      It’s important to hold the left to the same standards they seek to impose on others.
      
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      September 20, 2019 11:14am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        It’s important to ~~hold~~ tell the left to ~~the same standards they seek to impose on others.~~ go fuck themselves for being tedious posturing twats.
        
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        September 20, 2019 11:34am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    well.
    
    On mature reflection. No.
    
    The left want to live by these rules, where they dredge around in people’s pasts and then try to destroy them with angry outrage mobs.
    
    Well, fuck them. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Let them live up to their own bullshit standards.
    
    Trudeau is a piece of shit, but its deeply ironic that he be nailed for this trivia.
    
    Ardern loved swanning around the world being the Peoples Wetoo ™ Princess. So let her twist in the wind for hiding rapists in the party.
    
    We also know, he will get a free pass from the Media, just as Arderns stupid gaffe in Japan was “understandable” – did an actual journalist write that.
    
    Just as Ardern will manage to be very very unhappy (possibly even disappointed) that other people over there (a long way over there, in something called the Leaders Office, that she has heard of but doesn’t work closely with, because that is a party matter) have let her down, but she forgives them, as long as they promise not to get caught next time.
    
    Just watch.
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:46am
- Bobba Fret
  
  If a black person paints their face white and goes to a party as say, Beetlejuice, is that considered as offensive?
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:31am
  - Ed Snack
    
    No, by today’s definitions they cannot be racist under any circumstances. So they are allowed to do that.
    
    Whether you can do this does depend on your victim points status though and that is a debatable area. Could an almost white Islamist do “blackface” ? It might depend on their politics, if they were a “conservative” or perceived a such, almost certainly not; if a card carrying lefty anti-Semite, probably yes.
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:16am
Yvette

Ihuāmatao
Kate Sheppard’s former Christchurch home ‘a huge taonga for us as a country’ – Megan Woods
“This is the house where Kate Sheppard and all the women worked so tirelessly for that right to vote, planned and organised that campaign,” Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods said in Christchurch today. “It was where the petition was pasted together in the kitchen, so it’s a huge taonga for us as a country.”
The $4.5 million commercial property negotiation took several attempts, but the Category One Heritage listing will now be a base for teaching and research through a partnership with the University of Canterbury.

• Is Megan Woods being purposely provocative to use the word ‘taonga’ in this case,
where it seems Ihuāmatao should be examined to see if it has similar worth to the nation?

• Fletchers purchased Ihuāmatao for $19 million (property records).
Various commentators are discussing should the Government need to buy it for $40 million?
“We won’t be spending 40-million on buying that land.” – Phil Goff [1]

If it is purchased as heritage land, Fletchers should add a reasonable margin to recover their expenses so far, but surely the potential to build houses on it, is what determines the Auckland Council land value at $35.7 million.

Is this comment for or against Government purchasing Ihuāmatao?
Neither.
It just questions if Kate Sheppard’s home means more to Ardern, Woods and Labour, and the UN.
It just hopes, if purchased, the argument doesn’t obscure what the land is actually worth.
And if Fletchers can’t build houses on it, should anyone else do the same?

Notably: the Maori King, Tūheitia Pōtatau, said: “Mana whenua agree they want their land returned, so they can make decisions about its future.[2]
“So they can decide …” is a Treaty Settlement in principle, and they may build houses on it, rather than it be a specific historic park or working archelogical farm or reserve of interest to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, as is Otuataua Stonefields, which already is reserved.

So any Ministry for Culture and Heritage consideration of purchase needs to establish the proposed use of the land, its national importance and also establish if the land’s previous status has been taken into account in any Treaty Settlement and already compensated for.

[1] https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/399151/ihumatao-they-owe-mana-whenua-something
[2] https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/115516804/ihumato-mori-king-says-mana-whenua-want-land-back
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September 20, 2019 8:12am
- The King
  
  Somebody buy the land and erect a 400ft tall statue of Captain Cook.
  
  For the memes.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:51am
  - MH
    
    or bulldoze off the rocks and plant pines and also transfer up half of Sheppard’s home.
    Gov grey issued a warning to local belligerent natives to either join the crown and be peaceful or clear off over the Waikato River and side with the rebels. Most of the tribe remained but a significant number cleared off. That’s why their lands were confiscated. So now as in these virtual settlements some nebulous entity called the Crown so as to avoid directly blaming my ancestors and to make it even more impersonal have to make an apology on their behalf. Bugger that, we, Euros are just another tribe who came here in a bigger canoe with superior killing ability and took the land by conquest just as maori had done and there’s the rub-our faces are not brown and therefore unacceptable to some Maori, we are distinguished and discriminated by inverted racial prejudice. Not saying we are morally superior but Gt Britain where most of us had come from had been thru all these up and downs incl internal wars and had somehow evolved to try and make Van Diemen’s land a better place to live and that eventually made Maori more passive. They owe my ancestors a thankyou very much and pass me a macron.
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:06am
    - sooty
      
      4.5 million for that house?
      Did someone see Labour and the greens coming?
      Who signed on the dotted line?
      
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      September 20, 2019 4:35pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Will they add this acquisition to the Kiwibuild total?
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:00am
- artemisia
  
  Fletchers has broken their silence – and not happy at all.
  
  “Six weeks ago the Prime Minister requested that Fletcher Building put a hold on our housing development to allow time for discussions between government and iwi to take place,” the company says in short written statement that it says will be its only comment on the issue. “We have not been a party to those discussions and we are disappointed to see they have not produced a resolution.
  
  “We will now seek urgent discussions with all parties to inform our position.”
  
  http://www.sharechat.co.nz/article/3356fd0b/fletcher-seeks-urgent-talks-on-ihumatao-stalemate.html
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:19am
  - GoVege
    
    You’re dealing with iwi, Fletchers, did you really expect to be included?
    Even government officials were excluded.
    Democracy is not the iwi way.
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:55am
    - artemisia
      
      The way I saw the Fletcher statement – no prob for the king etc to work on a solution, but we expected a better ‘solution’ than –
      
      We want it, we all agree, now it’s someone else’s problem to figure out how to make that happen and pay for it. Bye now, our job is done.
      
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      September 20, 2019 11:24am
Michael

I hope Jacinda doesn’t jinx the AB’s by going to Japan.
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September 20, 2019 8:13am
- chaos
  
  Dont be silly. She jinxed them when she said they would win the World Cup.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:45am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  No worries – she thinks she is in China
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:45am
  - chaos
    
    Be fair, she uses the rt news map, she’d just come from japan
    
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    September 20, 2019 8:53am
  - Biscuit
    
    Yokohama tomorrow night.
    
    Jass: Oh that was a brilliant try, wasn’t it?, Clarke?
    Clarke: Sit down you dopey bint and put your concerned face on. Our team is the one in black.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:27am
- Maggie Pie
  
  The Japanese Call
  
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEyMoYpUcAALE4d?format=jpg&name=small
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:53am
  - chaos
    
    That’s how she got a netting with trump, he thought it was a delegation from North Korea
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:35am
softail 1450

Just watching Justin Trudeau doing an interview on Canadian TV and it suddenly occurred to me where the Netflix show Trailer park boys came up with “Ricki” the dumb as fuck, alcoholic, drug addled cretin that lives in his car at a trailer park.
Thankfully even Ricki doesn’t wear pink socks and dress up in Black Face ……….LOL.
And this guy is one of Septicboys hero’s…
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September 20, 2019 8:14am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Wakey wakey, it’s 8.18am
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September 20, 2019 8:17am
All_on_Red

Not really a fan of RCP. I reckon the way they aggregate several Polls means they include Polls which tend to mark the GOP down.
So this is notable.
‘Trump’s approval rating on Wednesday was 44.3 percent, according to a Real Clear Politics average of more than a half-dozen major polls. That is higher than Obama’s average approval rating of 43.9 percent on September 18, 2011, by the same measure.’
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-rating-higher-obama-1460076

Apparently Trumps Campaign has said they will be targeting 18 Dem States. This article explores which ones ad why.
‘How can a nontraditional GOP candidate beat a well-known Democrat who seemed to have most of her electoral ducks in a row — that’s the question we asked three years ago during the previous Wargaming the Electoral College series. As it turned out, the first winning scenario I explored for Trump, called “the northern route,” turned out to be the one that won him the election.’
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/wargaming-the-electoral-college-trumps-2020-game-plan-preview/

Ive seen Polling in Texas which shows his support from Hispanics is up by over 10%. That translates into an extra 1 million votes in Texas alone.
Extrapolate that across other States and its no wonder they think some Dem States could come into play.
Will Blacks and Hispanics vote for Warren?
She’ll get the traditional support from Millenials and the urban crowd, but anyone else?
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September 20, 2019 8:20am
- atomic drop
  
  That’s interesting and I would prefer Trump to win again as the lesser of two evils.
  
  But my sources keep reporting a collapse in Trump approval in states where he should be flying high and in voter preferences losing against Biden, Warren, Bernie.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Your sources? CNN, MSNBC? NYT?
    
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    September 20, 2019 8:48am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Entrails?
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:03am
    - Stephen Russell
      
      Fox polls also have Trump trailing.
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:45am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        in 2016 too, look what happened then.
        Personally, I’m picking he will increase his vote.
        
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        September 20, 2019 10:30am
    - atomic drop
      
      My sources are same ones who argued Trump had a fighting chance in 2016 and they were able to give very detailed reasons as to why. This was mainly due to feedback from grassroots level in the “Blue Wall” states that indicated a massive swing to Trump that was not being picked up in polls or media.
      
      In the election aftermath the autopsy revealed local “door knocker” Democrat campaigners tried desperately to get the message to Hillary Clinton about this trend but were blocked by party apparatchiks.
      
      So I’m just letting you know aye, no need to get your titties in a twist.
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:54am
- Scott
  
  All on red – some very good points. The Elizabeth Warren candidacy is problematic in that she, as you correctly allude to, is not very popular amongst black voters. She of course has claimed Indian status but was found to have about 1000th of a percent of Native American genetics!
  
  Presumably women will vote for her? I can’t see how anyone would as she comes across to me as the hectoring aunt that you try and avoid at family gatherings. But maybe that’s just me and well educated white women find her irresistible?
  
  Whether she gets millennial’s or not is also a question? You would not know it through the mainstream media but Donald J Trump is very popular among some young people. You just have to go on Instagram and look for “students for Trump” and there are a lot of young smiling faces!
  
  Trump is continuing to pack out stadiums with a big overflow of people who can’t get in. The claims of Elizabeth Warren attracting 20,000 people appear to be way overblown. Unfortunately we can’t get a total handle on this because the mainstream media accept the figures given to them by the Warren campaign. I have seen drone shots of the campaign in New York where she was supposed to have had a crowd of 20,000 in a park that only holds 10,000 and which was not even full.
  
  But Elizabeth Warren is a serious contender to get the primary vote. The other thing to take into account is that the United States has never elected a woman for Pres. One can only hope they won’t make an exception in Elizabeth Warren’s particular case.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:31am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Thanks Scott
    I think the US is ready to elect a women President.
    I’m just not sure that woman is Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris or Beto O’Rourke.
    
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    September 20, 2019 8:51am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      and none of these have the advantages Hillary had.
      Clinton Foundation money
      super pac corrupt backing
      Dem party hamstringing Burney
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:38am
    - softail 1450
      
      A O R, Warren has a definite advantage in that not only would she be the first female POTUS she would also be the first Cherokee to be in that office.
      And I have no doubt the Francis O’Rourke could be any gender of the alphabet if it would elevate his poll numbers above zero…
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:54am
  - John Warren
    
    Pocahontas is mad. Just listen to her.
    
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    September 20, 2019 12:04pm
  - coge
    
    Elizabeth Warren’s campaign rallies consist of the following. A low turnout (concealed), her waving to a singled out non existent person in the “crowd”. And her back to back nonsensical focus group talking points.
    
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    September 20, 2019 6:02pm
Maggie Pie

We heard Robin Malcolm on ZB last night saying, “she would like Gandalf to be a woman”

My partner reckons that would be nothing more than Tolkienism..
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September 20, 2019 8:21am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I see what you did there; very clever 😀
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:35am
  - pejhay
    
    I saw on Graham Norton that for the movie Black Panther, Andy Serkis and Martin Freeman were referred to as the Tolkien White Guys…
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:16am
- Rich Prick
  
  Typical Greenie, taking gender assignment to a whole new level. Perhaps Gandalf should be left alone to decide.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:46am
- chaos
  
  I’d like Robyn Malcolm to be a woman, but alas, never going to happen.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:46am
- softail 1450
  
  Malcolm is angling for a job ,Lets hope the money men for this LOTR’s series knows about her stirring up the actors on the original movies made here,
  Makes you wonder how much she was expecting to be paid for her 10 seconds on the 1st movies..
  I used to like Malcolm until it became clear that the strings were being pulled behind the scenes about 20 years ago to pronounce her NZ’s most beautiful woman 3 years in a row FFS….
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:54am
- Inandout
  
  Wow Maggie, your partner sounds like an aspiring Lee Mack. I love the use of puns and once started in conversation can last for hours; but the lousy left have almost killed them off.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:06am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  How DARE Robyn Malcolm assume Gandalf’s sexuality!
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:06am
  - alloytoo
    
    I think you mean gender and or species.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:08am
- Rich Prick
  
  Sean Plunket thinks Malcolm has a point. He argues for a young, hot and naked Gandalf. Probably not where Malcolm was going with this, but maybe we should run with it.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:18am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “young, hot” – so definitely not the solid-looking, middle-aged Malcolm.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:30am
  - MH
    
    does have a certain ring to it…..one to rule…
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:41am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  If they can grow a beard, why not?
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:20am
  - chaos
    
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=bUATYeONFRo
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:27am
  - Rich Prick
    
    That leaves all of the Green Party’s women in the running. Their men, not so much.
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:59am
- Biscuit
  
  Brilliant, Maggie!
  
  Even your stalker stephieboy would chuckle at THAT one!
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:28am
- stephen2d
  
  She is just fishing for that role to be given to her, that’s all it is.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:32am
  - softail 1450
    
    stephen2d ,of course she is, I guess there ain’t a lot of work around NZ for NZs most beautiful woman 20 years after she was named that (3 times)LOL.
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:47am
- rjay
  
  Sean plunket had her on yesterday. Decided that a female Gandalf would be great…As long as she was not and dressed sexily. Probably not Robyn.
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:26am
- John Warren
  
  I would hope that bigmouth Robyn Malcolm doesn’t get to work in this town again, after she nearly torpedoed her own industry.
  
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  September 20, 2019 12:06pm
Swifty

A very good talk with Douglas Murray on current events for when you have an hour free.

He makes some very good points on the current diseases affecting us – chiefly among them being leftism.

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

Thoroughly recommended. Honestly, if you’re going to watch anything over the next few days, let it be this.
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September 20, 2019 8:21am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Thanks Swifty. Murray talks about an “effort to embed a new religion into our societies… intersectionalism, identity politics”
  
  As Julia Hartley-Brewer says: the aim used to be to *see people as individuals*.
  
  Now Leftism wants us to judge people by their race/gender/LGBT groups again.
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:17am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Douglas Murray: “History was hell for everyone and we cannot do an audit sheet. We cannot work out the balance of this.”
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:05am
  - Swifty
    
    Glad that you’re getting something out of it.
    
    I really rate the bloke.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:43am
tknorriss

I am writing this post from Europe. My third time here. So I have had my share of long haul flights. All considerably longer than a flight to Japan.

But I have always known exactly which country I have landed in. Unlike our PM who has provided conclusive evidence that she is an airhead.
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September 20, 2019 8:22am
- Tony Stuart
  
  On my 60th birthday, I flew overnight from New York to Zurich, then to Heathrow, then to Edinburgh. Like you, I always knew which country I was in, despite the changes in time zones, and airline hospitality.
  
  PS – the Novotel Edinburgh Airport hotel, on hearing from my beloved that I was celebrating a milestone, gave me a free dessert, and my choice of a post-dinner single malt. Who said the Scots were tight?
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:40am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Similar, flew to London to help the Mrs with funeral arrangements after inlaws both die within weeks.
    Wellington – Auckland
    2hr layover
    Auckland – LA
    6hr layover change airline to Lufthanza.
    LA – Frankfurt
    3hr layover
    Frankfurt to London
    35 hrs approx
    Never once forgot which country I was in.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:04am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  ah, but were you in a first-class sleeper with attendants on hand?
  
  Nothing more bracing than being squashed like a pea in the back row next to a stinking dunny…
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:45am
  - WaveyDavey
    
    AirNZ doesn’t have First class. It just prices its Business class at that level.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:51am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Tokyo is 3 hours behind NZ. You do not get jet lag. Same as going to Honolulu (2 hours ahead yesterday)
  Another Jacinda lie, to avoid being exposed for her blatant stupidity
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:57am
  - Ruawai
    
    Maybe JA just thinks all Asians look the same?
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:03am
    - Nickc2
      
      should have had her Grandfather (Winston) there to hold her hand.
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:29am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      That ‘racism!!’ is what any centre-right politician would have been accused of by all MSM worldwide!
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:33am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Yep, it’s no worse than going to the Gold Coast during daylight saving time.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:09am
    - Colville
      
      its way better, at least you don’t have to talk to Aussies!
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:26am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    If Jacinda gets jetlag flying from Auckland to Adelaide (2.5 hours behind Auckland), then she might get jatlag flying from Auckland to Tokyo.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:13am
    - Biscuit
      
      Odakyu-sen, I honestly believe Jacinda would get jetlag taking the lift from the Beehive’s 9th Floor down to the basement carpark…
      
      ‘Ooh, are we on the ground yet? My head’s spinning!’
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:31am
      - noskire
        
        Biscuit, you win the Internet today. That is brilliant.
        
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        September 20, 2019 10:52am
  - kevn
    
    @Steve… Experienced air travellers with time and a few more dollars, go to the UK via Tokyo to avoid jet lag.
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:17am
    - Colville
      
      kevn.
      Pray tell….what is the advantage?
      Last time I went over there I went via stopover in Dubai.
      Early plane out of Dubai to land early arvo very fresh.
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:28am
      - kevn
        
        @Colville… As I am told. Straight up to Japan, time zone works out, then across to UK.
        
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        September 20, 2019 12:01pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Never been to the UK, never will. The last frontier is where I go – Alaska via Hawaii.
      10 years ago, yes, but Europe can shove it, and you know why
      
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      September 20, 2019 5:59pm
- Akarak
  
  It’s all due to her continuous lying.
  Sorry, I meant to type flying!
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:28am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Never, ever be scared of calling the PTPM a liar. She is a liar. Even the Mods here can not stop you from calling out a proven liar
    
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    September 20, 2019 6:01pm
- stephen2d
  
  Could you just imagine the howls of ridicule and laughter in the media if that gaffe was made by Trump, John Key or anyone else that is not a leftie???
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:34am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Personally am waiting, since she is out of the country so often, for her to mistake NZ for Australia.
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:35am
Yvette

Operation Burnham – note: some repetitive material
The hearings were suspended after a register of classified documents was presented to the inquiry team.
After a Native Affairs documentary in 2014, the bundle was found in the safe. Then-Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman was furious and contacted former defence chief Tim Keating.
Dr Coleman corrected the public record but Tim Keating did not.
The report, from the International Security Assistance Force, said civilian casualties may have occurred, contradicting public statements by the Defence Force that deaths were unlikely. [1]

On Wednesday morning a post here on kiwiblog asked –
Should the first absolute fact not be the establishment of who exactly was killed?
– and pointed out from the Speech notes for Press Conference on Operation Burnham, the then-Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant General Tim Keating said –
“Let me turn now to the ISAF-Afghan Government inquiry. 
Some days after the operation, the Provincial Governor of Baghlan Province, Governor Mojid, received a delegation of villagers who claimed that “a very big operation had occurred with helicopters…that some landed and the operation was firing at civilians and left. The locals claimed that six civilians were killed, 4 adult males, 1 adult female and one child aged six. Additionally there were two adult females being treated in a local hospital for wounds” [2]
That is 4 adult males, 1 adult female and one child aged six

– opposed to “Hit& Run” book Jon Stephenson and Nicky Hager assertion –
5 adult males and one girl child aged three, named ‘Fatima’ [3]

As can be seen above, unless there is a mistake, it appears Lieutenant General Tim Keating is quoting from the Report from the International Security Assistance Force, Monday, 27 March 2017
The report, or its crucial portion, which supposedly has just halted the Operation Burnham Inquiry, has been publicly available for about two and a half years.

Perhaps now someone will yet notice the discrepancy between that report and the Stephenson/Hager book regarding who was actually killed.

[1] https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/operation-burnham-inquiry-hearing-suspended-witnesses-may-recalled?auto=6087278181001
[2] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1703/S00340/press-conference-on-operation-burnham.htm Under the heading “The ISAF Inquiry”
[3] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/90798790/afghan-villagers-engage-nz-lawyer-over-hit-and-run-sas-raid
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September 20, 2019 8:40am
- RW Capitalist
  
  That’s what happens when you use a work of fiction (of which Hagar the horrible, has a track record of writing) as evidence, in an inquiry.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:09am
- Yvette
  
  Compensation would surely be the end point of any investigation into casualty deaths.
  And moronic as it may sound, it would be best to compensate the right people.
  Apart from other moral considerations, it would be important to compensate actual family members dependent on those who died, or condolence payments for loss of quality of life – loosing a child.
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In March 2014, the U.S. military paid an Afghan man just over $1,000 to compensate for killing his civilian son in an operation near the border with Iran, according to U.S. military records released to Reuters. Six months later, another Afghan father was given $10,000 by the U.S. military after his child, also a civilian, was killed in an American-led military operation in the same province. [1]
  
  A point may be that, if the casualties could be truly identified and those appropriate to compensation properly determined, it could be morally more correct to actually compensate those entitled, than hold the Inquiry –
  Cost of Operation Burnham inquiry blows out to $7m after first day of public hearings [2]
  
  Of course the irony is that paying 6 victims families perhaps even twice the US value of compensation
  [US$120,000 total, NZ$188775.00] would have left the Inquiry NZ$ 6.81 million (about 36 times the compensation) to try and work out who to pay the compensation to.
  
  But – Afghan villagers pull out of Operation Burnham inquiry.
  The Afghan villagers involved with the inquiry into Operation Burnham say they have lost faith in the process and will no longer take part.
  The statement pointed out that the withdrawal came shortly after the inquiry proposed a process to travel to Afghanistan and hear evidence directly from the villagers. [3]
  
  So, if the villagers are not longer part of the investigation, can if ever be successfully concluded?
  
  [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-civilians/how-much-is-an-afghan-life-worth-that-depends-idUSKBN16R0A5
  [2] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111777423/night-raids-effective-and-civilian-casualties-happened-despite-precaution-and-training-says-former-australian-defence-chief
  [3] https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/392295/afghan-villagers-pull-out-of-operation-burnham-inquiry
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:39am
- G152
  
  The left agenda is showing.
  Anything our troops do = bad
  Anything terrorists do = good
  We should migrate the ingrates to those areas owned by the terrorists and disown them…
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:15am
Happychappy

Two years on from becoming the Government the incompetence of Phil Twyford is there for all to see, but this idiot that fucked the housing portfolio with promises that were 9503 short he is still bleating the same message it’s National’s fault. Now he has all but one sacked the NZTA Board and it’s all National’s fault again
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12269245
What sort of shit has he got on Jacinda for her to keep backing him as most idiots of Twyfords ability would have been sack in their first few months.
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September 20, 2019 8:48am
- softail 1450
  
  HappyChappy,The reason Twitford is still a minister is very simple Happy, just look at the list of morons below him ,seriously most of them couldn’t get pissed without written instructions and a sexual abuse monitor for when they did …
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:03am
- Nickc2
  
  It shows the size the Labour Party’s talent pool/puddle.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:37am
- kris
  
  Note that among the other replacements, Twyford has appointed long time car hater Patrick Reynolds, editor of the lefty car hating site TransportBlog (now “GreaterAuckland”, yeah right).
  
  According to his linkedin page, he has no previous board experience, nor any actual qualifications or work experience relating to transport (other than lobbying local govt to spend more ratepayers money on public transport). He is a photographer by trade ffs.
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:51pm
RW Capitalist

Willy Jackson on AM Show
After being confronted with the economic growth figures, the fact that poverty and homelessness was up.
Said
“The numbers are heading in the right direct”
are Labour wanting us to be a 3rd world country?
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September 20, 2019 8:51am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Not 3rd world, just Venezuela utopia.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:00am
- septic skeptic
  
  Obviously. It is a party that depends on the economically challenged to vote for them. Ergo, they need plenty of people in poverdy to keep them in office.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:12am
- niggly
  
  Willie Jackson says some dumb things at times, but today he takes dumb to a new level of stupidity.
  
  I heard him say on the news that GDP isn’t important but building “more” houses and spending “more” on health is way more important or words to that effect!
  
  (Sure but without a healthy economy where does the funding come from – Wussel’s imaginary money printing press perhaps)??
  
  Willie should do a Jacinda and try not to talk about the economy too much and leave that for Robbo.
  
  At least Robbo knows what “cut-and-paste” statements to use when discussing such important matters (and just needs to say he “refutes” any dissenting viewpoints in order to claim he was right – take heed from a true puppet master there, Willie)!
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:22am
RW Capitalist

AM Show
The guy that coined the phrase, “Rock star economy”
Didn’t blame CoL, but talked about the time line of when the fall started and it so happens to be, the later end of 2017, remind me, when these clowns were elected?
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September 20, 2019 8:53am
Gandolfo

From the Japan Times yesterday:
“Japan and New Zealand were among the first six nations that ratified TPP, paving the way for its entry into force in December following the abrupt pullout of the United States from the original version in 2017.

Abe and Ardern confirmed at their summit in Tokyo that they hope to wrap up by the year’s end negotiations to create what would be the world’s largest free trade zone, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which would cover more than 3.5 billion people.

RCEP brings together Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand, as well as the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations.”

We might just become the biggest Chinese Takeaway yet.
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September 20, 2019 8:55am
Belinda

This bus driver deserves a medal for asking for more ID from the 35 year old using supergold card. How pathetic that management didnt appear to support him.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115932005/bus-driver-refuses-to-back-down-to-35-year-old-claiming-to-be-supergold-card-holder
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September 20, 2019 9:10am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Anyone who has a joint benefit with another Super Gold holder is automatically issued one too. My wife’s been in that situation for years. I’m sure she looks her 28 years younger than me.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:20am
- Andrei
  
  I loved this bit at the bottom of that story
  
  NZ Bus operations general manager Claire Neville said all drivers received training on how to deal with difficult customers, and the company did not condone fraud.
  
  The driver said he had not received specific training on dealing with people claiming to be SuperGold Card holders.
  
  Neville said she would not look into the incident because she was too busy.
  
  Forty fare paying customers who wasted twenty minutes of their life on a stationary bus watching the driver argue with a freeloader and the response – a managementmental shrug of the shoulders
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:23am
  - MCos
    
    Chap is not necessarily a freeloader; he may be entitled to the card.
    Doesn’t mean he wasn’t being unreasonable, either way (that is, if the narrative is correct)
    
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    September 20, 2019 9:59am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Unlikely at 35, he could have a partner entitled or be receiving a veterans pension, but in that case he should have no trouble producing photo ID – he’d be used to doing so if legit.
      
      Only way to stop petty fraud is not to condone it. I’m sure I would have been rather peeved if I’d been in the bus, but I support the driver in this.
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:23am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  But if the 35-year-old believes and feels that he is 65 years old, then who are we to judge?
  
  If a man can identify as a woman, and must be treated as such, then what is stopping a 35-year-old from claiming that they are in fact a senior citizen?
  
  Pandora’s Box, anyone?
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:47am
  - Grant
    
    “Pandora’s Box, anyone?”
    Odakyu-sen, you have a wonderful way with words!
    G
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:30am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Already done last year; dutch 69year old was trying to get his age changed to 49
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:55am
- peterwn
  
  Because Management has to second guess how the left wingers at WRC would view it.
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:00am
- marcw
  
  If the driver just called the police to meet him at a stop further along the route, then everyone would have been happy. Passengers get their ride, alleged perp is dealt with, and bus driver does his job. Why is (alleged) fraud so hard to deal with?
  
  Mind you, I suppose the police would use the same excuse as Ms Neville – too busy!
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:16am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  How very dare that bus driver assume the man’s age!
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:24am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  However….
  If you are on a veterans pension following a service related injury, you are entitled, and wouldn’t you get a bit sick of continually having to justify possession of something that might be yours by right, and earned under circumstances that you may not wish to revisit.
  The veterans card is slightly different to a normal gold card.
  Was it established if the man actually had an entitlement?
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:29am
softail 1450

If KB people want a laugh take a look at what new “job names” the new EU president Ursula von der leyen has come up with ,FFS talk about the “Ministry of silly walks”.
This creature Ursula Leyen has landed this plum job after being Germany’s minister of defense and widely known to have fucked that job up monumentally ….
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September 20, 2019 9:14am
- peterwn
  
  Perhaps the Germans think she can do less harm heading up the EU than being the German Defence Minister.
  Just like Simon Bridges could support a top UN job for SLG just to get her out of the country as John Key did with Helen.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:59am
KevO'Brien

The numbers are heading down. There’s only 5 years data shown but being able to fit a straight line across the 4 peaks suggest very strongly that this decline will continue. A declining GDP seems baked in.

Have we exceeded our capacity to grow? I don’t believe it is directly political–the present incompetents could change nothing anyway and this predates them. I’m not attributing fault. Whats is going on? Any ideas?

I have done a lot of this type of analytical work so have good reason to be concerned.
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September 20, 2019 9:16am
- noskire
  
  The Christchurch and Kaikoura re-builds are essentially complete, and no new major capital works on the horizon – I think that’s the major driver.
  I would also be interested to see what effect airbnb has had on yield for the hotel/motel industry.
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:03am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Businesses not investing due to lack of faith in Labour and many increases in govt imposed costs being laid upon them.
  Oil and gas and farming being targeted by govt for downsizing.
  Infrastructure work not being started due to govt drifting/indecision and Green stupidity.
  
  Govt is creating vast waste in useless over-regulation and other non-productive requirements in service to monomaniac ‘think-of-the-children’ special interests without consideration of negative economic impacts. That all impacts productivity and growth.
  
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  September 20, 2019 12:01pm
Andrei

Stuff: Climate Explained: Why are climate change sceptics often right-wing conservatives?

Prossibly because “right-wing conservatives” are more intellegent and more inclined to use their well developed analytical skills than left wing wokes would be my guess Stuff
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September 20, 2019 9:17am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  There’s nothing particularly intelligent about thinking you know more about science than scientists do.
  
  When it comes to GM, it is the green left who are anti-science. In both cases right prefer less regulation and tax and the left prefer more. That’s what the real difference is.
  
  It’s about time conservatives stopped wasting their time disagreeing about the science and just focused on pointing out the proposed ‘solutions’ are incredibly costly and will make little difference.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:28am
  - Andrei
    
    I am fairly sure I know a lot more about science than any current member of the Green Caucus
    
    And I am certain I know a great deal more about science than the school kids who will be striking next week.
    
    The article which has a video of school kids, not scientists, leading it very carefully defines the people who we should be listening to as “actively publishing climate scientists” which would actually exclude most metrologists, atmospheric physists, oceanographers, geologists, palentologists among others.
    
    We often hear that Geologists and others of a skeptical nature are in the pocket of “BIG OIL” but never hear that the proponants of this theory are in the pocket of BIG GOVERNMENT and their funding relies upon their vocal support of this theory
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:00am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Science is never about consensus and relies on scepticism all the time. Einstein queried Newton and developed the theory of relativity. If Einstein had been alive today, with the attitudes of Climate Change Zealots, he would have been shouted down as the consensus was Newton was right
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:07am
- chaos
  
  I have friend on all sides, one of them support the global warming myth.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:33am
  - stephieboy
    
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    chaos , it is not a myth!
    
    TS Elliot” ‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality’.
    
    Especially relevant to climate deniers like you!
    
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    September 20, 2019 10:51am
    - Andrei
      
      Lol Stephieboy – it may well be so that ‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality’ but thee be out of touch with it.
      
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      September 20, 2019 11:51am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      What reality is there in substituting Greta Thunberg for Judith Curry?
      
      How do you explain the UNIPPC TAR where they explicitly denied they can predict the future climate because it was a close coupled chaotic system? (Doesn’t that remind you of the Labour/Green/Winstons Party?)
      
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      September 20, 2019 12:27pm
    - alloytoo
      
      Hypothesis, theory, test.
      
      Falsify, try again.
      
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      September 20, 2019 1:08pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Hey Sthepieboy, what’s the difference between a Climate Scientist and a Fortune Teller? Answer: The Fortune Teller is usually right.
      
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      September 20, 2019 7:49pm
  - MH
    
    one’s hot and ones not
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:11am
  - chaos
    
    That should be none of them support the global warming myth
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:30am
- peterwn
  
  This says more about Stuff journos than alleged ‘right wing conservatives’.
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:56am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  because they have intellectual depth, have read some history, have a clue as to how politics and academia function and interact, and have in many cases done research themselves and don’t copy all their opinions from woke twitter wankers.
  
  The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
  
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  September 20, 2019 12:05pm
softail 1450

K O B, I believe its cyclical ,NZ went into a downturn in 2007 a full year before the 08 crash and we had a labour govt at the time ,lets hope we aren’t the harbinger of a similar downturn in 2020.
Luckily for NZ Robinson has “prepared” for such an eventuality ,and if you believe that I have a Totally sex free young labour party gathering to sell you…
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September 20, 2019 9:32am
- RW Capitalist
  
  I believe it is Cullen’s “Technical recession” (that lasted right up to and was compounded by the GFC), to which you are speaking.
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:23am
Thought Criminal

Rugby World Cup – Ticket

If anyone is interested, a friend of mine bought a ticket for the World Cup Rugby in Japan without realizing that the date for the All Blacks vs South Africa match coincided with his own wedding date!

Please, if you know anyone who is free and wants to go in his place, the wedding is at the Anglican Church in Mt Albert on 21 September 2019 and the bride’s name is Sharon.
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September 20, 2019 9:32am
- rightoverlabour
  
  He needs to get his priorities sorted. It’s not as if his fiance is going to bugger off, but …..
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:09am
- Maggie Pie
  
  @ Thoughtie
  
  When i showed my partner this he Tweeted it straight away. Hes already had 43 likes and 2 new followers. LOL!!!!
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:45am
  - Thought Criminal
    
    I stole it too. Share the laughs I say!
    
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    September 20, 2019 7:28pm
calendar girl

Thanks, Thought C – made my day!
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September 20, 2019 10:02am
Right of way is Way of Right

From Hansard yesterday.

Hon KELVIN DAVIS: I reject the premise of his assertion that I’m creating high expectations.

Never a truer word spoken in parliament.
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September 20, 2019 10:06am
Martin Williams

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Great news about Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series being filmed in Auckland over the next 5 years.

Congrats to Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Jacinda Ardern, for getting this done.
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September 20, 2019 10:08am
- rangitoto
  
  Wasn’t Ardern one of the Hobbit haters protesting about corporate welfare for the Movie Studios ? Another flip flop like her stance on the TPP trade deal.
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:17am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No mention of the tax credit that enables this to happen and which the current mob bitterly opposed when Key negotiated it.
  What say you Martin?
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:18am
  - Martin Williams
    
    Labour have never been opposed to the incentive scheme.
    
    David Parker always prefaces talking about it by saying that is is not universally popular but necessary.
    
    Seymour is the only one openly hostile to bringing in billions of export dollars to the NZ economy directly and indirectly through the film industry.
    
    Weird, eh?
    
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    September 20, 2019 1:06pm
- secondcumming
  
  Great news for Bezos, that’s for sure!
  Another $250m into his account…..courtesy of the NZ taxpayer 😎
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:25am
  - Martin Williams
    
    Er, but he is spending $1B+ here. You can multiply that several times in wider benefits from tourism and increased activity in satellite industries.
    
    Amazon will also attract other streaming giants to base themselves here. There’s some talk of permanent studio facilities being built by Netflix (although I imagine Netflix will be swallowed fairly shortly).
    
    Watch out for Disney Plus. They will shoot here too.
    
    All this because of the skills of our PM.
    
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    September 20, 2019 1:12pm
    - Batman
      
      No, Martin. All of this is because the National government kept the film sector from collapsing thanks to the tactics of the Aussie film union.
      
      You can thank John Key, though I expect you wouldn’t ever
      
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      September 20, 2019 1:14pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Now how do you know this… you’re thick and she’s a liar so between you there’s little chance of any credibility.
      
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      September 20, 2019 2:34pm
- herb1
  
  Great news on Jacinda Ardern ongoing ability to do complete 360s of her previous principles.
  
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  September 20, 2019 12:26pm
- Tall Man
  
  She’ll probably change her mind when she sees on the telly that all the Orc roles have been filled. There is a donkey scene still up for grabs and I reckon she’d be a shoe in as the saving on make up would be awesome.
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:33pm
MH

i do hope when the Barque replica of Cook’s Endeavour arrives in NZ Police are there to prevent any silly acts of post colonial futile spoilt immmmmmmmature aggression on the law abiding participants. Why not each main separate tribe be more constructive and desecrate the landing places of the opposition tribes from the mythical wakas that eventually erupted into internecine warfare without parallel circa 1800 – 1840?
I remember seeing a reenactment of Abel Tasman’s arrival 375yrs=2017 when some gutless wonder dressed as a brave Maori warrior struck quite hard without warning a dutch mariner dressed in uniform. So much for not repeating the past’s mistakes.
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September 20, 2019 10:30am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Americas Cup was attacked by whom?
  
  One Tree Hill became No Tree Hill because?
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:30am
kevn

@ROW… Special K at work. Mis-speaking in such a clever way.
He even mis-speaks when using maori language deflection.
Not special really.
Just a token member.
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September 20, 2019 10:34am
Maggy Wassilieff

Good old Kelvin, stalwart of Labour’s intelligentsia.
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September 20, 2019 10:40am
- stephieboy
  
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  MW was it Anthony Watts who said , “When I hear the word intelligentsia I reach for my pop gun” ?
  
  Or was it Christopher Monckton?
  
  LOL!
  
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  September 20, 2019 10:58am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Back to your stalking and harassment, stephieboy.?
    
    You do realise your obsession was noticed here nearly 3 years ago.
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/03/general_debate_18_march_2017.html/comment-page-1#comment-1893134
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:36am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    It sure wasn’t fraudulent Michael Mann. His data is a fraud, he is a fraud.
    
    https://johnosullivan.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/michael-mann-retracts-false-nobel-prize-claims-in-humiliating-climbdown/
    
    His Hockey Stick is scientific nonsense based on data he wont release. I wonder why?
    
    https://principia-scientific.org/breaking-fatal-courtroom-act-ruins-michael-hockey-stick-mann/
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:43am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Some of us reach for a deep sputum receptacle when in the presence of Ardern’s or other political green or Winnowed clowns .
    
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    September 20, 2019 12:33pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Following aborted KiwiBuild fiasco … government still has not learnt what peoples real need housing preferences are …

In the trenches of our housing crisis (playing silly buggers with taxpayers money) … Marc Daalder … Newsroom / Stuff

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/115946068/in-the-trenches-of-our-housing-crisis

Housing New Zealand wants to build 37 state houses on a plot of Whangarei land that angry neighbours say is a park. The intensity of the clash shows how difficult it will be to solve growing homelessness where the haves don’t want to live next to the have nots. Marc Daalder reports. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Survey finds Kiwis’ backyard dream still alive and well (Westpac Bank) … Scoop New Zealand

http://business.scoop.co.nz/2019/05/28/survey-finds-kiwis-backyard-dream-still-alive-and-well/

The vast majority of New Zealanders still dream of owning a home with a backyard, according to new research into Kiwis housing preferences commissioned by Westpac NZ.The vast majority of New Zealanders still dream of owning a home with a backyard, according to new research into Kiwi’s housing preferences commissioned by Westpac NZ.

The online survey of more than 1,000 people found that despite the rise of apartment living, 49% consider a backyard “essential” when buying a home, while a further 42% think it would be “nice to have”.

“It’s interesting to see that people consider having a backyard much more important than living close to work, public transport, parks or schools,” says Westpac NZ Hous-ing Lead, Robert Hill.

“Owning a home with a nice backyard has traditionally been central to the Kiwi dream, and the recent rise in house prices and increase in apartments doesn’t seem to have dented that.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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When are politicians and public servants at central and local level going to start learning that public preferences will ALWAYS trump policy.

Didn’t politicians and public servants learn anything from the recent (effectively) aborted KiwiBuild fiasco ?

In contrast … market providers respect public preferences and do whatever it takes to meet the public’s needs. They must do this to survive financially … in contrast to politicians and public servants recklessly playing with taxpayer money … not their own.

Just ALLOW responsible builders to provide real need affordable new housing on rural priced land out from the urban fringes.
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September 20, 2019 10:44am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  … Just more pathetic political eyewash … ( no wonder the cruise industry is booming … with 28% more Kiwis booking yoy ! ) …
  
  Housing affordability crisis deepens in Queenstown Lakes … Tim Brown … Radio New Zealand
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/399191/housing-affordability-crisis-deepens-in-queenstown-lakes
  
  Queenstown’s housing affordability crisis is deepening, despite the best efforts of the local council.
  
  Two years ago the Queenstown Lakes District Council launched ambitious plans to address housing affordability.
  
  Property values have levelled off but the crisis is still growing with high rental costs, low-wage workers resorting to sharing beds and issues for neighbouring Central Otago. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  September 20, 2019 12:25pm
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Opinion – The poet T.S. Eliot once said that ‘humankind cannot bear very much reality’. The truth of these words is about to be tested as humanity increasingly wakes up to the reality of climate change.

In the past, some experts have been concerned that if people are presented with the brutal reality of what may be the consequences of climate change, it may overwhelm them. There may be reactions of panic, denial, despair or a head-in-the-sand approach. However another school of thought, lead by ex-NASA climate scientist Dr Jim Hansen, is that scientists should actually be ‘less reticent’ when talking to the public….”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/399190/climate-change-are-we-getting-into-emergency-mode

Certainly there are those who post on KB who cannot bare much reality in more ways than one including climate change,

for example ,

Urgent action called for on Ocean Acidification

Forest and Bird have raised some grave prospects for the ocean due to carbon emissions in their report Ocean Acidification – Implications for New Zealand.

The report points to a troubling future for sealife as oceans become more acidic and warmer says Forest and Bird chief conservation adviser Kevin Hackwell.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018713994/urgent-action-called-for-on-ocean-acidification
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September 20, 2019 10:48am
- rangitoto
  
  “Opinion – The poet T.S. Eliot once said that ‘humankind cannot bear very much reality’. ”
  
  Good quote. Explains why so many lefties are drawn to the climate change cult.
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:27am
- herb1
  
  Stephieboy, the ramblings of a failed Green Party list MP aren’t science.
  You belong the group of science deniers who are the modern equivalents of the witch burners and inquisitors of old.
  Try reading some science for a change . It’s not the same as I’ll informed political opinion
  
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  September 20, 2019 12:23pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  When you believe your own rhetoric your sunk.
  I’m not going to waste my time giving your the full riposte. You may like to refresh yourself what a real scientist is like:
  https://www.city-journal.org/global-warming
  
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  September 20, 2019 12:39pm
- alloytoo
  
  I watched a report on telly about this.
  
  One expert was telling us that the oceans were acidifying from absorbing CO2 (Carbolic acid), another was telling us that warm oceans release more CO2 (less Carbolic Acid?)
  
  Sodastream tells us we will get better results from trying to carbonate cold water.
  
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  September 20, 2019 1:25pm
- Tall Man
  
  You’re welcome…. I was number 30. FFS the idiot’s comment has been up since 10:48.
  
  You guys need to get this down ticking working better 😉
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:26pm
- Nickc2
  
  Stephieboy, TS Eliot was a Poet and a Playwright. Are you seriously trying to tell us that a person with these credentials is qualified to espouse scientific opinion on planet Earth’s climate cycles?
  I strongly suggest you change hands.
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:06pm
greybeard

Stuff: “Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced the refresh of New Zealand’s national curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa on Friday morning which he said would keep studies agile and to have a stronger focus on wellbeing, identity, language and culture.”.

I would prefer a stronger focus on passing exams, becoming professional, learning various technical subjects, learning useful languages, mathematics & sciences etc.

Not this proposed lefty garbage.
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September 20, 2019 10:52am
- RW Capitalist
  
  https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/education/145043-the-purpose-of-mass-education
  Doesn’t quite nail it for me.
  The purpose of education is to advance society (that’s why we pay for it).
  The method should be to teach the younger in society HOW to think and to ask questions and challenge norms.
  NOT teach then WHAT to think and accept dogma.
  Lefties are busy “teaching” kids to accept their dogma and that (directly or indirectly) Marx is the only view of the world, not just a failed 19th century economic theory.
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:36am
  - stephieboy
    
    “Lefties are busy “teaching” kids to accept their dogma and that (directly or indirectly) Marx is the only view of the world, not just a failed 19th century economic theory”
    
    Utter piffle!
    
    Adam Smith was oh so 18th Century
    
    Your point ?
    
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    September 20, 2019 12:20pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Difference
      Adam Smith was PROVED right and Marx was proved wrong by history and actual events.
      Every “socialist” economic society has FAILED.
      and the father of what is now known as GDP, has shown to be right as the countries applying at least some of his philosophies have succeeded.
      
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      September 20, 2019 1:27pm
      - stephieboy
        
        “Every “socialist” economic society has FAILED.”
        
        Like Sweden’s?
        
        Name one economy where the ” invisible hand” is given a free rein?
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:40pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Stephie
        Sweden’s metrics have all been heading south over the past few years, just like ours
        Name one economy where the ” invisible hand” is given a free rein?
        Singapore..
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:06pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  He also should have said he has reduced the pupil teacher funding ratio for primary schools. Obviously nothing on Pravda Stuff but was on the radio this morning. Twat
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:39am
GoVege

You’re dealing with iwi, Fletchers, did you really expect to be included?
Even government officials were excluded.
Democracy is not the iwi way.
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September 20, 2019 10:59am
MCos

Something to read in your spare time
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n18/eliot-weinberger/one-summer-in-america
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September 20, 2019 10:59am
Yvette

Newshub runs a poll –
Do you have confidence in the New Zealand Police?
“Yes” is currently 31%, while “No” is 69%

Newshub backgrounds possibilities –
In the space of two weeks NZ police have had two incidents where officers have made mistakes which have seen offenders escape.
Police have admitted they did not follow best practice after three inmates overpowered a guard and escaped from Levin court. Police say only two officers were guarding four inmates, which is not enough. The offenders are still on the run
There was another incident which saw a long hunt for an offender who rammed a police car before stealing a patrol car and two guns.

Why does Newshub not add – Is your opinion influenced at all by the fact that Labour is now running three self-appointed self-reporting inquiries instead of referring an alleged case of serious sexual abuse to the Police?
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September 20, 2019 11:03am
Maggy Wassilieff

Nikki Kaye on Jacinda Ardern’s handling of Labour’s sex abuse mess:
(from 6.50)

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/jacinda-ardern-either-untrustworthy-or-weak-on-labour-party-sexual-allegations-scandal-nikki-kaye.html
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September 20, 2019 11:05am
- stephieboy
  
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  MW,. it would have been helpful if you added a rider ( or caution) for balance,
  
  Nikki Kaye National Party MP
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:10am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Is this the same Nikki Kay who caned Jacinda’s arse twice in the formerly safe Labour seat of Auckland Central?
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:24am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      It is!
      
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      September 20, 2019 11:32am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Whatever!
        
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        September 20, 2019 12:07pm
    - Martin Williams
      
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      Rode on the coat-tails of one Jong Kee.
      
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      September 20, 2019 1:02pm
      - Swifty
        
        Yeah, that’s right – it was nothing to do with the massive effort she put into that electorate for years.
        
        What a creepish thing to say.
        
        And so different to Jacinda, who was gifted Mt Albert.
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:39pm
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Actually, no Martin. Nikki Kaye actually increased her majority from 600 in 2014 to almost 1600 in 2017, after John Key had retired from politics.
        
        When we had our Auckland business she was our MP, and was very well thought of. She works like a Trojan on behalf of her constituents.
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:05pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Ahh raising the tone of the debate, can’t win an argument using logic and intelligence so stoop to name-calling and vilification…
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:07pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Would you say that the liar rode into the house upon the coat tails of “what’s in it for wynston” or was there more to the deal?
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:18pm
      - Tall Man
        
        “jong kee”……
        
        How old are FFS, 12?
        
        At least the bulk of Nikki Kaye’s supporter know her as a trustworthy and hard working MP where as your little rooster is just a lazy liar who is generally unaware of where she is. Is that a mental disorder or a medicinal one I wonder.
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:22pm
  - chaos
    
    I agree matty, you should of added, caution goat boy will stalk the person that posts this message
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:36am
    - chaos
      
      That should be maggy, bugger this iPad is autocorrecting everything wrong,
      
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      September 20, 2019 11:43am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Stephieboy only obsesses on women. Part of his weird/creepy pathology.
      
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      September 20, 2019 3:49pm
  - Swifty
    
    ‘it would have been helpful if you added a rider ( or caution) for balance’
    
    Why should she? You never do.
    
    Is this more stalking?
    
    Are you sick? Suffering from some sort of compulsion that you can’t resist?
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:48am
    - stephieboy
      
      Swifty,
      
      Are you sick? Suffering from some sort of compulsion that you can’t resist?
      
      Nope!
      
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      September 20, 2019 12:12pm
      - Swifty
        
        Almost everyone on KB will disagree with you.
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:17pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Swifty, who beyond KB actually cares?
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:42pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Netsafe cares…
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:37pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    We all know who Nikki Kaye is. The Labour Party rapist’s identity remains a mystery though.
    
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    September 20, 2019 11:52am
    - chaos
      
      Which one, there are a few Labour Party rapists, at least we know one of them, the one that went to London. Then you have two youth camps, and the parliaments office rapsit, but I do have to add a rider. These are just the labour cases we know of, there are more the public don’t know of yet, yet is the main word there
      
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      September 20, 2019 12:10pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Indeed, word on the street is that there is another one who has been on the prowl. So yes, exact numbers are elusive.
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:28pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Rich Prick and we know who Jacinda Adern is, don’t we!
      
      Your point !
      
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      September 20, 2019 12:14pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Who…not so much…..she is busy trying to sell herself as the worlds solution to all problems (and failing).
        What she is ………an asshole.
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:31pm
      - alloytoo
        
        ah but where is she?
        
        Even she appears confused about it.
        
        MIA?
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:31pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Woooosh.
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:38pm
      - Swifty
        
        He can’t even spell her name right.
        
        Snigger…..
        
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        September 20, 2019 1:47pm
- rangitoto
  
  I disagree with Nikki. Untrustworthy and weak aren’t mutually exclusive.
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:10am
Maggie Pie

It’s 11:25am – i see a few downticks appearing.
Stephie must have finally got his sad arse out of bed. LOL!!!!
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September 20, 2019 11:30am
- chaos
  
  Spare a thought for the goat, that’s whose got the sad arse
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:37am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and alas Maggie Pie, he seems to be sticking with harassing me… your offer to take my place has not been accepted, it seems.
  
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  September 20, 2019 11:40am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    with stephie being a practising Muslim I cant help but wonder if he’s got something against woman who wear G-String panties?
    
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    September 20, 2019 12:02pm
    - chaos
      
      Only practising? Another thing he failed at then
      
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      September 20, 2019 12:16pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Is Steph really a birk?
      
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      September 20, 2019 12:43pm
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      G-String panties?
      There is only one part of your body you should floss and that is your teeth.
      
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      September 20, 2019 2:01pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I don’t think steffy girl will ever manage to get something against a woman wearing a G string… That’s why she’s so frustrated.
      
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      September 20, 2019 2:16pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Maggie Pie, this is germane to you,
      
      “I’m childish and silly. Most people tease me because I’m a bit daft. ”
      
      Harriet Walter
      
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      September 20, 2019 2:47pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Sorry steph, but you’re quite wrong there – it is in fact perfect English to me.
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:04pm
  - stephieboy
    
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    MW, it is not harassment As I suggested previously read the Act!
    
    Then get a life and be informed for a change!
    
    Here again,
    
    https://www.govt.nz/browse/law-crime-and-justice/abuse-harassment-domestic-violence/stalking-and-harassment/
    
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    September 20, 2019 12:16pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      You’re reading the wrong Act
      Try the Harmful Digital Communications Act (2015)
      A lot of your comments to Maggy (and others) breach this.
      She should complain. Set those Govt paid lawyers onto you.
      Be funny to see you go broke from legal fees.
      As they say. The process is the punishment.
      
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      September 20, 2019 1:35pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red , by which you act as Prosecutor, Judge and Jury!
        
        What a joke!
        
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        September 20, 2019 2:44pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        No,not me.
        The Investigating Solicitors at Netsafe.
        Never know Steph. You might get a knock on the door from them.
        Lol
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:35pm
chaos

So this govt want to take away parks and build there cheap shit on them. Well done to the residents for standing up to this, we need our local parks

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/115946068/in-the-trenches-of-our-housing-crisis
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September 20, 2019 11:50am
- Nermal
  
  It is not a park, it’s only next to one. Just a case of NIMBY
  
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  September 20, 2019 1:51pm
- MCos
  
  It’s not a park
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:05pm
DigNap15

Re young people voting
No way!
They do not have enough life experience
Its not discrimination, beacsue one day they will be old enough to vote.
Just as one day they will be old enough to get super.
Not only that but most of them will have been taught(indoctrinated) that Labour and the Greens are the best for NZ
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September 20, 2019 11:57am
DigNap15

I think it was Kerre this morning who said that in Bosnia Herzegovina you have to have a job before you can vote!
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September 20, 2019 11:57am
- MCos
  
  Wrong.
  
  Citizens over the age of 18 on election day are eligible to vote, except those deprived of legal capacity or disenfranchised as part of a serious criminal conviction, including for war crimes
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:25pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Dear Moderators &/or DPF

Once again stephieboy is trying to align me with Naziism and violence on this blog.

his little smear above about intelligentsia and pop-guns is just a nod to the original:

“Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meine Browning!”
from the Nazi play Schlageterwritten by Hanns Johst .

Hanns Johst, the Nazi playwright, wrote Schlageter (1933), a biographical drama.[12] It was dedicated to Hitler, and was performed on his first birthday in power as a theatrical manifesto of Nazism. The line “when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”, often misattributed to Nazi leaders, derives from this play. The original line is slightly different: “Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning,” “Whenever I hear of culture… I release the safety-catch of my Browning!” (Act 1, Scene 1).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Leo_Schlageter

How much longer do I have to put up with stephieboy’s abusive shit ?
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September 20, 2019 12:04pm
- stephieboy
  
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  MW, whatever!
  
  But IMO Anthony Watts and Christopher Monckton are of the clownish kind in Climate denial advocacy!
  
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  September 20, 2019 12:11pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Wrong again.
    Anthony Watts is quite serious. He will show you data collection of temperature in the presence of close jet engines. UN models are suspicious for many reasons.
    
    Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley is erudite and shows it. He can take the borax from those who do not sizzle. He is as good with words as he is with maths and always a pleasure to read.
    
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    September 20, 2019 6:56pm
- Batman
  
  We’re watching for such things. As you know, if we banned Stephie we’d probably also have to ban a few other people on the other side of the fence.
  
  Not really a road we want to go down.
  
  But yes we are watching and will take action if Stephie goes too far.
  
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  September 20, 2019 1:43pm
  - Komata
    
    Batman
    
    Re: ‘But yes we are watching and will take action if Stephie goes too far’.
    
    Sorry, but he / they already has – three years of stalking and vilifying Maggie W as well as others!!
    
    If that and his/ their ‘porn’ fixations etc. doesn’t require you to ‘take action’ then what WILL it take?? A ‘Death threat’?
    
    Pull Finger and actually get rid of him / it – permanently!
    
    Thank you.
    
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    September 20, 2019 2:25pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Komata:
      
      Stephieboy hasn’t issued a death threat (yet) but last year he gave Sooty detailed instructions on how to use a paper bag to kill himself. DPF deleted the comment, and Stephieboy (as the snivelling coward we’ve come to know) denied making the comment. But Maggy and others, including Sooty himself, saw it.
      
      Stephieboy has a long history of making poor-taste comments. If DPF/moderators delete a comment, he denies making the comment. If DPF/moderators don’t delete a comment, he claims that it’s been taken out of context. He also repeatedly plays the victim card and says everyone is really mean to him.
      
      I don’t know what more evidence the Kiwiblog moderation team thinks it needs. I’m happy to assist Maggy, and I suspect others are too, to use real-life options to make Stephieboy accountable for his online behaviour.
      
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      September 20, 2019 3:32pm
      - Batman
        
        Komata – point taken, though people gleefully make jokes about Stephie being into underage girls and goats, so we should probably ban people for that too given it is insinuating paedophilia and bestiality.
        
        Nevertheless, I will pay more attention to Stephies replies to Maggie and will raise with the group if I am uncomfortable.
        
        Nostra – I understand your point but if poor taste is the bar then we’d basically have to ban half the commenters here. Again, we watch stephy and will take action if we decide it is necessary.
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:00pm
      - chaos
        
        And why does that happen Batman, because we are all sick of nothing being done about him. What is worse is if his posts like many of ours are being moderated is that many of his posts shouldn’t even make it through moderation.
        
        I’ve no problem if you ban me for making goat jokes about him, I’ve cut back on coming here anyway because nothing is done about him. How many people will it take to say enough about this person before you actually act. It’s just a joke and he knows he can do what ever he likes
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:09pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Stephie being into underage girls ‘
        They are referring to Stephieboys own comments about ‘young nubile girls’ with ‘ample breasts’ he saw at St Luke’s. Amongst other comments.
        Before your time here as it was a few years ago.
        I have to go but Nostradamus can probably provide the details.
        Have you had a look and seen what he received his SIX Strikes for?
        He should have been culled out ages ago.
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:32pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Batman,
        I do not abuse stephieboy.
        Why try and link me to the abuse he attracts from other folk on this blog?
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:55pm
      - calendar girl
        
        Batman above at 4:00pm. I hit the button below your comment, and fear that it was a “Report” one as there is no “Reply” button (which was what I had intended to use). My apologies.
        
        The point is that stephieboy has been harassing Maggy W. on Kiwiblog for a very long time. He’s been banned for periods, etc, but still never lets go of Maggy as his quarry. His relevant behaviour needs to be reined in – it’s often much worse than comments that result in actual moderation.
        
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        September 20, 2019 4:57pm
      - Batman
        
        No worries re the report.
        
        Point taken. We’re discussing it.
        
        So everyone knows, Stephie’s next strike will result in a three month ban. Doing that is really DPFs territory so if you see something that’s got through moderators and you don’t like it, let us know or send to DPF privately.
        
        Sometimes it can be hard to see the context of a comment in the approval queue.
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:02pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        As requested by All On Red, here’s Stephieboy’s strike history:
        
        Shawn Herles , and no doubt your Minister wife and yourself conducted prayers of intercession yesterday for the Lord on high to bring down a pestilence of the book of Exodus proportions striking down all Muslims ?
        [DPF: Leave family members alone. That’s Strike 1]
        
        All on Wed , a bit of a blubber boy like you ? Like the one just on the left of Adolf ? [Link to Nazi photo]
        [DPF: Unacceptable. Strike 2]
        
        V2 , have a good perv, [link to photoshopped porn image of Ivanka Trump]
        [DPF: That is Strike 3]
        
        Unity Books ripe for book burning or torching, eh ?
        [DPF: Implicit nazi name calling is a strike offence. Strike 4]
        
        There’s no link to the comment that attracted Strike 5 – I can’t recall what it was about.
        
        I thought it was Victorian Undergarments? When was the last time you changed yours?
        [DPF: And that is Strike 6]
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:10pm
      - sooty
        
        I agree that stephie should have a permanent ban. I just about went to Auckland and worry his sorry arse in person in his church. I would have been arrested and he would have had his name and photo in the media!
        But then that would have been the object, he could not hide then. The internet never forgets!
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:11pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Batman:
        
        [I]f you see something that’s got through moderators and you don’t like it, let us know or send to DPF privately.
        
        I generally don’t bother, but after reading this Stephieboy comment, I emailed the Kiwiblog moderation team (no reply to my email and the comment is still there):
        
        One consolation is that Julius Mikus was of Hungarian descent and not Tangata Whenua ( Murri) !
        
        That was Stephieboy’s first and only contribution to the “Bye bye” thread. Stephieboy described it as a “consolation” – ie a good thing – that Teresa Cormack (a 6-year-old girl) was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a European and not by a Maori.
        
        I rate this comment as one of the worst that I’ve seen on Kiwiblog since 2005 – and yes there have been a few.
        
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        September 20, 2019 5:20pm
      - Swifty
        
        I can attest to the paper bag comment. I saw it.
        
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        September 20, 2019 7:01pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It was a plastic bag that stephieboy requested a KB poster place his head in.
        Stephieboy then requested the poster carry out a couple of actions that would have resulted in suffocation.
        
        The post was removed from KB.
        It was put up in the 1st week of July 2018.
        
        I made a comment about it as it is illegal to incite someone to kill themselves (as well as being contrary to CoL policy)
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/07/general_debate_7_july_2018.html#comment-2250050
        
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        September 20, 2019 7:23pm
      - Swifty
        
        Sorry, yes plastic, not paper.
        
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        September 20, 2019 7:49pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Strike 5 must have been linking to nude photos of Melania Trump
        He’d done that and it’s missing off your list.
        
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        September 20, 2019 8:02pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        No,
        here is his strike 5
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/06/general_debate_13_june_2017.html#comment-1949572
        
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        September 20, 2019 8:15pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Oh yes
        The ‘cottaging’ remark
        Classy.
        
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        September 20, 2019 8:53pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      I agree.
      
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      September 20, 2019 8:40pm
- Tall Man
  
  I have stopped responding to her in any way at all and I strongly suggest the rest do the same.
  
  steffy girl is just an aberration and generally I feel better when a shit for brains has a crack at me. It proves I’m doing something right.
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:14pm
  - Jules99
    
    Agree – My time is too precious to waste even reading her posts.
    
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    September 20, 2019 4:37pm
Maggie Pie

People often ask me what i think about vitamin supplements. I generally tell them they’re not worth a tin of shit and just a total rip-off. Fish Oil capsules being the latest example….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12269238

Funnily enuff, when i first met my partner, he was taking that Silverhorn Deer Velvet.
The only thing i noticed was that about March and April each year, he used to wee all round the house 🙁
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September 20, 2019 12:41pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, when I was young there was Cod Liver oil. A big bottle and you knew what you were getting.
  I laughed at these fish oil tablets.
  You don’t know what you are getting!
  If you want fish oil or mega three eat salmon or tuna!
  
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  September 20, 2019 1:17pm
  - tf78
    
    I used to give our old dog who was quite arthritic Blackmores Glucosamine and Fishoil – it actually worked as I tested her with and without – without she was stiff as a post.
    
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    September 20, 2019 7:32pm
- Swifty
  
  The real test is when you got dressed up to go out on a Saturday night, did he give you the flehmen response?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAFWCUGD7c8
  
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  September 20, 2019 1:27pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!!
    
    [I must say those DV capsules were actually quite effective. I’d often come home from work and find him hiding behind a tree.]
    
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    September 20, 2019 2:26pm
    - sooty
      
      Does a deer shit in the forest!
      
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      September 20, 2019 5:12pm
- chaos
  
  I take a few supplements that have helped a lot. There is an americans pots supplement I need to try.
  
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  September 20, 2019 3:47pm
DigNap15

Great now we have a new school curriculum that features culture and wellness.
English and maths will be optional or just taught at home
Hipkins you are a disgrace!
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September 20, 2019 12:41pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Oh, the classics then. Demi-romantic antiheteronormative greysexual gender questioning for 8 year olds. And for those who identify as girls, the intersectionality of Islam and non cis normative follicly advantaged women against climate change, period poverty and the glass ceiling construct. Should be fun.
  
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  September 20, 2019 1:23pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    When are they going to teach Hamiltonians? They’ll need those for reporting on EVO’s (exotic vacuum objects).
    
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    September 20, 2019 6:07pm
MH

oh dear oh dear. Musk we know more. I’ll be rutting to the Dept of Conservation about this. Get in behind. Doe as I say.
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September 20, 2019 1:28pm
Batman

Well, it seems Mr Trump may have got himself in actual trouble over this whistleblower and the Ukraine situation.

Using military aid money as a blackmail tool to have a foreign country open an investigation into your political opponent? Not a great idea.
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September 20, 2019 1:45pm
- Tall Man
  
  Of course you got the information from a reliable source eh?
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:07pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Oh yes. From ‘two unnamed sources familiar with the matter’!
    Lol
    Actually I hope Trump was putting pressure on Ukraine to reveal information about VICE PRESIDENT Joe Biden threatening to withhold aid unless Ukraine sacked a Prosecutor who was investigating his son Hunters involvement with an Energy company who paid Hunter $3 million over 14 months and that coy was under investigation for corruption by that Prosecutor.
    Don’t believe it? Joe is on video telling the story about kiw he threatened them.
    Of course you didn’t know that huh.
    You also know the Ukrainian govt had tried to bring information forward about Hillary Clinton and her association with corrupt Ukrainian/Russian oligarchs. We’ll see more of that when the chain of how the Steele Dossier was created is revealed.
    But nothing to see there eh guys.
    Let’s just focus on some mysterious phone call which Trump might have made to some maybe Ukrainian official cause that gives us a chance to call him dumb and a moron.
    //
    Say, you don’t think this could be a feint to bring the Biden scandal out further huh.
    That would be funny.
    God, I love seeing the shit you guys lap up. You fall for this ‘sources familiar with the matter’ stuff all the time.
    
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    September 20, 2019 4:22pm
  - Batman
    
    I think there are enough outlets of differing stripes covering the matter to say that it is quite serious, yes.
    
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    September 20, 2019 4:42pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      And these outlets are all quoting the same story which originates from ‘two unnamed sources familiar with the matter’
      
      No? Prove me wrong and name the source. Go on.
      
      When are you guys going to smarten up to how one Paper releases the story ‘ according to sources etc’ and the others all join in.
      Are you so dumb that you fall for this every time.
      Oh yes you are. Every.time.
      Just look at the latest NYT story about Kavanaugh. The NYT omitted the fact the the alleged victim didn’t recall the incident.
      So, just like this ‘story’ you’re touting, eventually it’s shown to be bs.
      You lack of comment about Biden is telling too.
      That’s real actual corruption. But no, you’re gloating about a f*****g phone call where Trump is alleged to have blah blah blah.
      Sorry, but you are quite pathetic.
      
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      September 20, 2019 7:53pm
      - Batman
        
        Oh fuck off mate, I worked with media so I know exactly how it works. Probably a hell of a lot better than you do with your little red maga hat.
        
        Name the source? Ridiculous, how am I meant to do that? Why don’t you if you’re so clever?
        
        I think your problem is that deep, deep, down, you know that all this is not good for Trump but you’re far too invested to pull out now. Much like the Republican Party are at this point.
        
        I don’t need to talk about Biden because it isn’t relevant to what may have happened with Trump. Using the Presidency to pressure a foreign country into investigating a political opponent and using military aid to do so is arguable more impeachable than the obstruction of justice.
        
        Your very angry reaction tells me that you’re very sensitive about it. Now that’s pathetic…. And insecure!
        
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        September 20, 2019 10:38pm
- waripori
  
  Surely this can’t be true. Trump himself has said he would not be so stupid as to say something stupid on a phone call when he knew there would be a number of other people on both ends listening. Maybe will we will find out how stupid he is. Even his friends such as Rex Tillerson and Rupert Murdoch have said he is a moron.
  
  Something must have been said to make the inspector general of intelligence say the matters raised by the whistleblower are urgent.
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:27pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    It’s like playing whack a moron with you guys.
    There’s no evidence Tillerson said that. Produce a video and prove me wrong. I’ll wait.
    As for Murdochs comment, it’s alleged to have been made by Michael Woolf in his book. Woolfs been so thoroughly discredited that even Mika threw him off her show.
    Does it give you guys a thrill to believe this nonsense?
    It’s quite sad really.
    
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    September 20, 2019 4:05pm
- stephieboy
  
  Interesting and serious matters ,
  
  Whisteblower complaint about Trump involves Ukraine, report says
  
  The complaint made by an unnamed intelligence official about the president centers on Ukraine, the Washington post reported.A whistleblower complaint by an intelligence official about a promise made by President Donald Trump to a foreign leader involves Ukraine, The Washington Post reported Thursday evening.
  
  The newspaper cited two people familiar with the matter whom it did not name. The Trump administration has withheld the details of the report from Congress; though it was known that the complaint involved a foreign leader, the Post was the first to report the country involved.
  
  NBC News has not confirmed that Ukraine is at the center of the issue. A request for comment from the White House was not immediately returned.
  
  The newspaper first reported this week that the complaint was by an intelligence officer troubled by a promise Trump had made during communication and interaction with a foreign leader.
  
  A former U.S. intelligence official familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News Wednesday night that the whistleblower complaint involves a phone conversation that Trump had…..”
  
  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/whisteblower-complaint-about-trump-involves-ukraine-report-says-n1056751
  
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  September 20, 2019 2:55pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    What a convoluted piece about nothing.
    No wonder the Nats get the best.
    
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    September 20, 2019 5:54pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘Serious matters’
    Uhuh
    And the sources are;
    ‘unnamed intelligence official ‘
    ‘ two people familiar with the matter whom it did not name. ‘
    ‘NBC News has not confirmed that Ukraine is at the center of the issue. ‘
    
    This one looks interesting
    ‘ former U.S. intelligence official familiar with the matter ‘
    You realise a number of these guys are about to be indicted?
    
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    September 20, 2019 8:12pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  What’s Ardern going to announce tomorrow that we have this trollish screen put up?
  
  Is she going to announce the Police have been authorised to inquire into the sexual allegations against her staffer?
  
  Are the troops to evict the unlawful occupiers at Ihumatau?
  
  Is Winston going to retire before he blows a fufu valve?
  
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  September 20, 2019 5:59pm
Swifty

UK rapper holds up Boris’ severed head, in effigy, live on BBC, yelling ‘F*ck Boris!’:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7483855/Fury-rapper-Slowthai-holds-Boris-Johnsons-SEVERED-HEAD.html#comments

Classy.

Wonder if he got the idea off the Internet Party lefties here.
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September 20, 2019 2:15pm
- burt
  
  The woke left will cheer for this then in their next breath demand Boris resign for his ‘letterbox’ comment.
  
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  September 20, 2019 3:46pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I suppose that’s what you do when you don’t have a coherent argument. What is it with lefties and their fetish for severed heads? Sick bastards.
  
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  September 20, 2019 4:00pm
  - tf78
    
    RP – Think about it for a minute.
    
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    September 20, 2019 7:40pm
krazykiwi

Man undergoes surgery to alleviate erection that lasted for 36 hours: ‘They said my penis would die’.

Go on… comment … you know you want to 🙂
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September 20, 2019 3:01pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I remember encountering a ‘client’ with an involuntary erection [Priapism] as a student nurse. He was a Dutch gentleman that owned a chain of women’s hairdressing salons. We found that continually putting chilled dessert spoons on the glans-penis relieved the pain. It finally went down of its own accord after about 24 hours.
  
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  September 20, 2019 4:06pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Guy Kiwibloggers putting spoons in the freezer as you speak. How many does it take Maggie?
    Not the freezer – how many spoons?
    LOL
    
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    September 20, 2019 6:09pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Just put them in the FRIDGE silly!
      [Have you never seen what happens to a kids tongue when they try to lick spilt ice-creme off the bottom of a freezer?]
      
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      September 20, 2019 7:12pm
      - chaos
        
        They end up looking like this ?
        
        https://m.imgur.com/q7nKcJE
        
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        September 20, 2019 7:23pm
      - sooty
        
        That was on a good day!
        
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        September 20, 2019 9:39pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  I think I speak for most men when I say that they only penis that interests me is my own.
  
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  September 20, 2019 4:07pm
Jack5

Paralleling the persecution of New Zealand’s SAS soldiers, the Australian SAS is also under attack.

This also parallels the persecution of British veterans for alleged activities in Iraq, and even further back, Northern Ireland.

The Australian SAS, and presumably the NZ SAS, were active in the Timor invasion. Because that was backed, even prompted by, Leftists such as Keith Locke, SAS troopers could have cut the throats of a thousand Indonesians and there wouldn’t have been a murmur by the Left.

Meanwhile, it’s interesting to see the enthusiasm with which Stuff and Radio NZ join the hounding of our soldiers.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/sas-murder-probe-intensifies-as-federal-police-speak-to-afghan-eyewitnesses-20190816-p52hwl.html
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September 20, 2019 3:04pm
- Batman
  
  Though it was interesting the other day to hear that Jonathan Coleman hauled the brass into his office and gave them a dressing down over the denial of casualties.
  
  He specifically raised the fact that they were putting the reputation of special forces in danger by not competently handling things.
  
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  September 20, 2019 4:45pm
rouppe

I can’t work out whether this guy actually believes he is helping inclusivity and diversity or whether it is a piss take
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September 20, 2019 3:36pm
chaos

Again the justice system screws up. Hopefully immigration will deport him.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/115934805/six-months-home-detention-for-indecently-fondling-13yearold

*An Argentinian man has been sentenced to six months home detention for indecently fondling a 13-year-old girl in South Canterbury.*
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September 20, 2019 3:36pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  well this Sikh Priest gets sent back to India after he completes his 7 mo home detention for molesting 7 & 12 year old girls (in the gurdwara!)
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115947295/sikh-priest-sajan-singh-sentenced-to-home-detention-for-child-molestation
  
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  September 20, 2019 5:43pm
  - chaos
    
    Should do, at least the Timaru one has been told he will be considered for deportation .
    
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    September 20, 2019 6:21pm
- niggly
  
  WTF Judge Joanna Maze “said Lascalea will not be registered a child sex offender.
  
  “I am unable to draw the inference which the police asked me to draw as to the level of risk. I cannot find that sufficient risk is established evidentially to enable me to progress to the second stage and there will not be registration.”
  
  Again the Police’s concerns (who expend time and effort assessing the situation) are dismissed by a naive judge. This isn’t good for the victim. 🙁
  
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  September 20, 2019 8:21pm
chaos

Lol. I guess the lunatics will come for this soon, but alas, it isn’t black face, it is all black face. Reminds me when the all blacks were going to play in the USA and a few African American people were on American articles saying how offended they were by the name all blacks I commented on one article saying it’s ok we balance it out with an all whites soccer team

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rugby-world-cup-2019/2019/09/all-blacks-fans-worst-perpetrators-of-blackface-sean-plunket.html
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September 20, 2019 3:40pm
krazykiwi

The first snow that fell at Swedish ski resort Långberget made headlines in this week, with hotel owners telling Swedish media it was the earliest first snowfall in at least two decades. Last year their first snowfall came in November.

Remember, driving your SUV makes it hotter and colder, and wetter, and more dry, and more snowy and less icy all at the same time.
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September 20, 2019 3:45pm
DigNap15

The Americans just killed 50 civilians with a drone.
The local Afghan chief just said they need to be more accurate.
So leave our soldiers alone.
You may need them one day
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September 20, 2019 3:58pm
WaveyDavey

So 19 downvotes for my comment about Labour forming the government in 2020

Still waiting to hear from anyone who can explain why that won’t happen.
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September 20, 2019 5:03pm
- Happychappy
  
  Arrogance Ardern, Peter’s, Robertson , Jones , Twyford, Jackson, Clark and Davis you might think this is silly but this came from a ardent Labour Party member who I Had a discussion with this morning
  
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  September 20, 2019 5:43pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Follow the journos–how many are now critical?
  They are a good barometer. As they sense blood they can make news (copy $$) by stirring the pot a little and increasing that. I’ve seen it time and time again.
  
  By subtly downplaying Ardern and showing smart pictures of Bridges they stir up news.
  
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  September 20, 2019 5:51pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Common sense is not that common anymore
  
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  September 20, 2019 6:13pm
- tknorriss
  
  You only gave an opinion not a rationale. So what is there to respond to other than to say I disagree with that opinion.
  
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  September 20, 2019 6:15pm
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Well I’ve given my rationale plenty of times before and this was a comment to an opinion with no rationale either.
    
    But…
    
    Okay then, what issues do you think will either motivate Labour voters to switch allegiance or to mobilise non-voters to to go to the polls and vote against Labour?
    
    Nothing that gets people on this blog excited is going to make the slightest difference to the above. They don’t care about sexual shenanigans and Czech drug dealers. Hell they don’t even care about the disaster that is Kiwibuild or disappearing health and education targets. They like the money being splashed around for teachers and nurses and right now the economy is doing ok.
    
    Labour are riding high, their voters still love them at a time when the floating voters don’t find National appealing.
    
    Labour has also played a blinder with the weed-referendum, anyone that doesn’t ordinarily vote but that turns out to vote yes for that is 2 ticks red, those opposed already turn up to vote Nat so no gains to be made there.
    
    They’ve got it in the bag and the polling shows that, there’s also SFA that National can do about it, it’s absolutely Labour’s to lose.
    
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    September 20, 2019 7:03pm
    - WaveyDavey
      
      Oh and they’ll have a RWC win to make people feel good
      
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      September 20, 2019 7:24pm
    - tf78
      
      The price of petrol will kill Labour.
      
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      September 20, 2019 7:45pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        That’s about the one thing that might do it. Coupled with the knock-on effects on food prices, but it hasn’t filtered through yet.
        
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        September 20, 2019 8:13pm
      - sooty
        
        They could always give some tax back!
        That’ll work. Lets do this!
        
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        September 20, 2019 9:35pm
    - Raniera
      
      Ah, well, WaveyDavey, you can always decamp to Costa Rica, or Malta, or Slovenia, or wherever, as you have previously said you are about to do.
      
      In fact, why are you still here? Shouldn’t you have pissed off out of here by now?
      
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      September 20, 2019 10:25pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        Yawn. Jog on you tedious troll.
        
        If you’re actually interested we’re off to the Med this year to check out the options.
        
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        September 21, 2019 7:57am
- DigNap15
  
  New education curriculum – a lot of kiwis wont like that.
  Climate change hysteria – there is a push back
  Labors failed promises
  Kiwibuild
  Light Rail
  No homeless
  Ending Child Poverdee
  Declining GDP
  Falling Business confidence
  The list is endless
  Giving in to Maori land claims
  
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  September 20, 2019 6:54pm
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Curriculum – Labour voters like it
    Climate change – ditto
    Kiwibuild – polls show that they don’t care
    Light rail – seen as an Akl council issue
    Homeless – moved on, nothing in the papers so don’t exist
    Child poverty – likewise but also “they’re trying”
    GDP – “you what?” seriously they haven’t been affected yet, that’s a problem for rich business owners, Also the “wellness” indicators are up
    Confidence – see above
    Land claim – urban Labour voters want it returned
    
    Nothing there to change minds or mobilise the floaters
    
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    September 20, 2019 7:16pm
    - Tall Man
      
      FFS, 36% voted for ardern. Not 50% and with the voters deserting watermelons and “what’s in it for wynston” faster than a fart leaks out of your undies there isn’t a hope in hell the idiot and her cohorts will be back.
      
      A bunch of people wanting to give her the tick during the term is completely irrelevant come tick the ballot time.
      
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      September 20, 2019 9:36pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        Have a look at the wikipedia page for NZ polling:
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_New_Zealand_general_election
        
        National hasn’t polled anywhere near 50% since they lost the election and as ACT ain’t going to get them over the line they are screwed. You do realise that Labour voters hold National responsible for the current problems don’t you?
        
        So, 2 years in, disasters aplenty and they’re still outpolling the Nats. As long as JA is there, they’re a shoe-in for 2020.
        
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        September 21, 2019 8:01am
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Labour voter answers:
    
    Curriculum – “about time, and we’re getting NZ history”
    Kiwibuild – “at least they tried, National did nothing for 9 years”
    Light rail – “fewer cars, less pollution that’s a good thing”
    Homeless – “that was National”
    Child poverty – “they can’t undo the damage in 3 years”
    GDP – “growth isn’t everything, we need to move to a more sustainable model and I got a new iPhone”
    Business confidence – “not my problem, I got a pay rise”
    Ihumatao – “white colonists stole it so it should be given back” (nb I refer you to comments yesterday where maori elders are giving tacit approval to their young people to not accept full & final.
    
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    September 20, 2019 8:19pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/115952751/government-announces-41-million-for-new-classrooms-in-wellington-region

Nothing more than an attempt to buy votes in order to retain the appalling Justin Lester as Mayor.
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September 20, 2019 5:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  27 million for Wellywood – for 40 classrooms. And that is just to get the Labour Party up to high school level
  
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  September 20, 2019 6:15pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Grief…
another investigation for our PM (Min Culture & Heritage) to organise?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/399229/pm-faces-more-questions-following-privacy-breach
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September 20, 2019 6:41pm
- Tall Man
  
  Open and transparent…… staffed with idiots like steffy girl…. controlled by idiots like ardern and accountable to a crook like “what’s in it for wynston”.
  
  Sounds perfect.. if you have the intellect of a dead rat and the morals of a $10.00 hooker… and before you ask, I don’t know any 😉
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:27pm
- sooty
  
  Just as well she only works partime!
  She would be spining if she worked fulltime!
  Hand grenade here, bomb over there, atomic bomb in her office!
  Never mind, hi ho and off we go shopping on the world tour!
  China, Japan, New York. It’s enough to make a girls head spin!
  
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  September 20, 2019 9:32pm
Swifty

Gaelynn Lea – prepare to be moved…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6oSeODGmoQ
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September 20, 2019 6:51pm
softail 1450

OMG, Either my PC has died or nobody on KB has commented fo 3 hours…..
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September 20, 2019 9:42pm
Batman

Mod still here for anyone wanting to comment on the Japan Russia game!

Or wildly speculate about the ABs SA game…
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September 20, 2019 10:40pm
Hugh Pavletich

Crashing New Zealand Dollar …

https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/quote/NZDUSD=X?p=NZDUSD=X
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September 21, 2019 4:11am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  NZ dollar sags after avalanche of data … Jenny Ruth … BusinessDesk / Scoop News
  
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1909/S00559/nz-dollar-sags-after-avalanche-of-data.htm
  
  Going down down down – Kiwiblog
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/09/going_down_down_down.html
  
  … New Zealand’s housing market the most unaffordable within the Anglosphere … which in turn feeds through to excessive costs …
  
  2019 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
  
  http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
  
  Housing Affordability Ratings … Median Multiples … All Markets
  
  Australia 5.7
  Canada 4.0
  China (Hong Kong) 20.9
  Ireland 3.7
  New Zealand 6.5
  Singapore 4.6
  United Kingdom 4.8
  United States 3.5
  
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  September 21, 2019 4:38am
Hugh Pavletich

Thomas Cook …

Is Thomas Cook about to go bust? Your questions answered … The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/sep/20/is-thomas-cook-about-to-go-bust-your-questions-answered

se/Tour operator Thomas Cook teetering on financial collapse … CBS

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-cook-airlines-bankruptcy-fears-as-british-tour-operator-teeters-on-financial-collapse/

‘Sounds like I won’t be coming back!’: Up to 180,000 Thomas Cook holidaymakers could be stranded as British travel giant faces going bust on SUNDAY – with ministers planning biggest ever peacetime rescue mission … Daily Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7485051/Thomas-Cook-holidaymakers-await-news-178-year-old-British-travel-giant-bust-SUNDAY.html
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