About
Contact
Advertise

Facebook
Twitter

September 26, 2019 8:00am by Kokila Patel

General Debate 26 September 2019

Email
Facebook
Twitter
Comment336

Uncategorized
General Debate

Comments (336)

Login to comment or vote

DILLIGAF

So, about those transcripts….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8A6RV-szg&list=UU0rZoXAD5lxgBHMsjrGwWWQ&index=5&t=0s
39 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:02am
- DILLIGAF
  
  Well, well, well….
  It’s a big nothing burger.
  
  What sayth thou, DPF?
  
  55 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:16am
  - Stephen Russell
    
    As soon as Zelensky mentions military co-operation (Trump having just suspended US$400m worth of military aid), Trump asks for “a favour” – investigation of alleged corruption, and swiftly raises his allegations against Biden.
    
    1 26
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:14am
    - freethinker
      
      So do you support not asking for suspected corruption to be investigated or is it only when the asker is someone you do not support rather than having alleged corruption investigated irrespective of the suspected party.
      
      18 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 11:50am
    - Ian Hawthorn
      
      The favour Trump asks is nothing to do with Biden. He asks for help to investigate the origin of the Russian collusion allegations particularly as relates to the involvement of Crowdstrike. Interesting. Is Trump planning to go after someone for libel?
      
      Zelensky responds that he will be talking to Giuliani who is apparently investigating the origin of the Russia collusion hoax for the president (as his lawyer), and promises the investigation will be open and fair.
      
      The mention of fair investigations prompts Trump to mention the previous fired prosecutor . He talks about the “bad people” involved in getting the prosecutor fired including the now disgraced former Ukrainian ambassador, and that is when he mentions that Biden bragged about getting the prosecutor fired and asks him to look into it.
      
      I can see the shadow of your argument here, but it all looks very conspiracy theory to me. Most of it is written between the lines of what was actually said. I don’t see evidence that Trump threatened a foreign power to help him kneecap a political opponent in an election. For one thing Biden is unlikely to be the nominee. There is no mention of withholding military and no clear quid pro quo.
      
      There are also some potentially fatal timing problems with your narrative. The military aid was held up pending the result of the election; reasonable if you want to know what kind of regime you are militarily supporting. But from what I have heard the Ukrainians were not told and didn’t even find out about this until well after the phone call in question. If this is true it pretty much eliminates the narrative that withholding military aid was an unspoken threat in this conversation.
      
      Whatever this is, it certainly isn’t evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors”, which is supposedly the standard required for impeachment.
      
      20 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:28pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        I’m even coming around to the possibility that this was a setup. Trump and his team scripted the call and arranged for the info to be “leaked” to the supposed whistleblower along with some salicious other details.
        
        When the Democrats go after the squirrel, the transcripts are released and the whole narrative starts to collapse – and everyone is talking about Joe’s problems.
        
        The Alinsky rule is to accuse your opponents of doing what you are actually doing. The Trump rule seems to be to spoof doing what your opponents got away with doing, and when the media bite – show that there’s no “there there” and highlight the hypocrisy.
        
        I do think that those who love to deride Trump as stupid, dumb, can’t or won’t read, and all that, really need to reevaluate their conclusions. He’s either a damn sight cleverer than they are prepared to admit, or he’s by a huge amount the luckiest SOB around.
        
        14 1
        Report
        September 26, 2019 12:39pm
  - coge
    
    DPF sure knows how to start a conversation.
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:33pm
- Scott
  
  Yes, regarding Trump /Ukraine which is the latest scam to undo the 2016 election by the democrats and their media accomplices. Note that it replaces Trump /Russia and Trump /racist which were the previous manufactured scandals.
  
  The transcript has been released of the presidents call. He asks one time to investigate Hunter Biden in the context of corruption and some concern about ambassadors. Now if that’s grounds for impeachment then the democrat senators that asked Ukraine for dirt on Trump also need to be unseated.
  
  Otherwise it’s a perfectly normal conversation about I’ve stayed in Trump tower and I have many wonderful Ukrainian friends. Read the transcript on the Fox news website.
  
  A perfectly normal conversation and in my opinion much ado about nothing.
  
  56 6
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:27am
  - Tall Man
    
    And here.
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/09/donald-trump-volodymyr-zelensky-call-transcript-in-full.html
    
    25 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:02am
  - lilman
    
    Really Mr DPF, what a joke, apologies will be accepted.
    
    35 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:22am
  - Batman
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    “I only did the crime one time! How can you possibly make a big deal out of me doing a crime once!”
    
    Pull the other one, Scott.
    
    3 42
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:27am
    - Billy Collins
      
      The crime of what exactly?
      
      “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. So whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…It sounds horrible to me.”
      
      29 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 10:38am
    - Scott
      
      Batman – no, what Trump did was to ask Ukraine to investigate issues surrounding possible Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election. These were issues around crowd strike and around Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and shutting down a Ukrainian investigation.
      Everyone agrees that Trump should investigate overseas interference in the 2016 election to make sure that it doesn’t happen again in 2020.
      
      So there is nothing there. It’s very important that everyone understand that the Democrats and their media accomplices have never accepted the 2016 election and are doing everything they can to undermine the duly elected president.
      
      Everyone should also understand that if they want to get rid of Pres Trump then they should defeat him at the 2020 election through the normal democratic process. It’s called democracy.
      
      27 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 10:51am
      - Batman
        
        Allegations which have been proven to be false. Trump is asking Ukraine to fabricate a story.
        
        Trump himself doesn’t think he needs to investigate election interference, not if it’s assisting him anyway. There is a bribery crime here. He withheld military aid as leverage to get a politically motivated investigation started.
        
        I’m sure people do acknowledge that Trump was duly elected (I certainly do, to be clear), but the fact he has committed multiple crimes whilst in office means that investigations are now underway on multiple fronts.
        
        So, your position is that no President should ever be impeached and that clause should be removed from the Constitution because elections happen every four years? And your position is also that no oversight of a President should be possible, and they should have unlimited authority to do whatever they want?
        
        I look forward to to you advocating for this approach under the next Democratic President, or indeed our own Labour Government!
        
        1 26
        Report
        September 26, 2019 11:58am
      - Ed Snack
        
        There you go again Batman, flat out lying. The allegations have not been proven false. It is a matter of record now that Alexandra Chalupa was paid large sums of money by the DNC to collude/conspire with the Ukrainian government to get dirt on Trump and his campaign in the 2016 elections. Asking for assistance to investigate crimes over that and other crimes committed – are you suggesting that because those crimes were committed by Democrats that they should never be investigated ? Hogwash.
        
        The military aid was withheld for the Ukrainian election to be completed – perfectly reasonable as you should want to know just who you are supporting with military aid.
        
        Read the transcript, no quid pro quo mentioned, and the Ukrainians agree, interference by previous administrations in US elections is wrong and should be investigated. There’s also no call for Ukraine to fabricate anything, that’s your projection talking because that’s what happened in 2016 – by Democrats.
        
        So what specific crimes has Trump committed in office – try to keep away from the false Democrat narrative and tell us what those crimes are.
        
        There’s none so blind….
        
        17 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 12:47pm
    - Vory v zakone
      
      Hilarious. So go on, impeach the motherf*cker then batty. Last update was the Socialist Democrats only had 179 votes and the need 218.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 11:50am
    - freethinker
      
      When was it a crime to ask for suspected corruption to be investigated?
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 11:51am
      - DILLIGAF
        
        And I thought application of pressure though various ruses such as “reevaluating aid commitments”* was considered a standard diplomatic tactic???
        
        *being a generic description.
        
        6 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 12:33pm
  - RoboRob
    
    The standard for any reading news reports should be, wait at least 24hrs after any news story for the ‘real’ story to actually come out. The rush to print news and that lack of resources means that the amount of false / incomplete stories continues to rise.
    
    Case in point the SBW instagram photo scandal that everyone assumed was religious intollerance turned out to simply be a case of a dispute around the copyright of the photo involved. Wait 24hrs for the full story.
    
    21 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 10:28am
- Scott
  
  Also a note to DPF and anyone else with a bad case of TDS. Please take as your default position that all these manufactured scandals about Trump are bullshit. That should be your default position at the outset. Because they are all bull. Trump /Russia? Nothing there. Trump /Racist? Lasted a few weeks, now completely faded away. Trump / Ukraine? Nothing there. Look into Biden. How’s your mother? I love all Ukrainians.
  There is never anything there! It’s all bull.
  
  59 7
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:32am
  - Batman
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Sure Scott, that can be arranged if you also take as your default position that all these manufactured scandals about Biden and Democrats are bullshit.
    
    7 45
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:32am
    - Scott
      
      Batman – I must say you are the Crown Prince of wrongness today! Here are the facts. Hunter Biden was placed on the board of a Ukrainian energy company and paid something like $50,000 per month. As far as anyone can deduce Hunter Biden has no expertise in energy or Ukraine.
      
      Hunter Biden also has an investment company that received $1 billion of investment from Ukraine.
      
      Joe Biden at that time was the vice president of the United States and was intimately involved in decisions about huge amounts of aid to be paid by the United States to Ukraine.
      
      Is it just coincidence that Hunter Biden received such largess from Ukraine at the very time that his father was involved in granting huge amounts of aid to the Ukraine from the United States? Would you say Batman that is all coincidence? Move on, nothing to see here??
      
      39 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 10:55am
      - cmm
        
        Not quite Clinton level, but then Joe didn’t get much to work with.
        
        13 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 1:00pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Batman re default positions: so you assume that the Hunter Biden investigations were ‘bullshit’. With Joe Biden bragging about getting rid of the prosecutor involved. Hmm.
      
      Why should a drug addict be considered suitable for running such a huge company anyway?
      
      Whatever the outcome, there is no reason why someone like Hunter Biden getting such a position should not be properly investigated.
      
      21 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 11:19am
      - Batman
        
        Both Scott and CL, all I see from you two is a lot of insinuations and assumptions.
        
        You’re both repeating whatabout talking points which aren’t backed up at all.
        
        To top it all off you throw in some drug addict claims as some sort of winning argument. It’s the same weak argument as the one about Greta Thunberg.
        
        But that’s to be expected when you’ve discarded your credibility and now cravenly believe anything you need to in order to justify corruption by the POTUS.
        
        1 24
        Report
        September 26, 2019 12:06pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Here you go, Batty: Hunter Biden talking about his additiction: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/07/01/hunter-biden-talks-his-addiction-i-darkness/1615964001/
        
        16 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 12:23pm
      - Vory v zakone
        
        Well Mr Batperson tell us more about YOUR confirmation bias you display relentlessly.
        
        10 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 1:32pm
      - Batman
        
        Yes I do admit I am very biased towards to the rule of law and democracy.
        
        0 13
        Report
        September 26, 2019 1:35pm
      - Vory v zakone
        
        There you go again. Proving your confirmation bias is against #OrangeManBad. You wilfully ignore all the egregious acts the Democrats have made since 2016, the consequences of which are to be brought to the American public’s attention shortly. Then you wilfully ignore or try to belittle the valid explanations given above about the Trump administration’s investigations into the Ukranian interference of the 2016 Presidential election.
        In the USA there is supposed to be a dual system of justice. However you have aligned yourself with one side, the projecting Socialist Democrats, no matter what the circumstances provide.
        Beware because what is coming will be shock to the American nation’s conscience.
        
        2 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 3:12pm
    - freethinker
      
      Biden admitted the substance of this on TV.
      
      17 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 11:53am
      - toby1845
        
        “admitted the substance….”
        
        I saw what you did there!
        
        9 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 1:11pm
  - Jules99
    
    Scott Adams has a policy of waiting 48 hours to see if something is true. Not wise to jump on wild claims without seeing the evidence first.
    
    24 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:47am
  - wreck1080
    
    My goodness, if you can’t see the potential issue then you really are the ostrich with it’s head in the sand!
    
    At worst, Trump is using the might of the US government to blackmail the Ukraine government into investigating his personal political rivals.
    
    At best, Trump is stupid and naive.
    
    1 15
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 12:49pm
    - surfing
      
      Looks like there are 11 other stupid and naive folk here.
      
      0 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 3:56pm
chaos

How embarrassing. My advice, before you run to the media check your research, then check it again.

* A University of Canterbury study that found there was often less omega 3s in most bottles of fish oil supplements than stated on the label has been retracted due to a miscalculation. *

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life-style-top-stories/115949634/study-shows-most-fish-oil-supplements-dont-measure-up
39 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:04am
- kowtow
  
  No doubt the “science was settled” //
  
  37 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:10am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Shame…the next thing would be to link opening a bottle of fish oil tablets to climate change.
    Maybe by:
    Fish oil tablets contain fish oil
    Fish oil is processed from fish
    Fish are caught to supply the industry
    Depleting stocks
    Taking predators out of the food chain
    Causing plankton levels to rise
    Reducing Phytoplankton populations
    Reducing the photosynthesis in the oceans
    Leading to catastrophic rise in CO2
    Hence global warming
    Leading to the demise of the human race
    
    32 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 8:56am
    - sooty
      
      You forgot the diesel that powers the trucks and the boats!
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 9:41am
  - 453mm
    
    Anyone who thinks that science is ever settled, does not understand science.
    
    11 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:48am
Brian Marshall

Question for the day. Is Donald Trump the US President really playing 4D chess with the media?
51 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:04am
- Tall Man
  
  Don’t know, don’t care.
  
  I suggest that those with severe TDS concentrate on the liars that we have in our own backyard who are actively altering New Zealand for the worse and leave the Americans to worry about their problems.
  
  We have probably the worse grouping of misfits ever assembled calling themselves a government and half the country is obsessed with leaders in other countries.
  
  The only thing that will possibly save our country is the incredible incompetence of the morons so they may actually achieve little.
  
  Here’s hoping!
  
  55 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:21am
  - MCos
    
    Exactly!
    Why obsess about offshore leaders when there’s plenty here to obsess about?
    
    15 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:41am
  - alloytoo
    
    I fear you hope in vain, Trump is a deluxe model squirrel, far superior to JLR and easier to “Trump up” than ponytail gate.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:52am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Why bother, the press can’t play 2D chess.
  In fact I’d suggest the media/Dems are playing checkers (to use the American name) while President Trump is playing chess.
  
  21 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:59am
  - Brian Marshall
    
    I like that analogy much better. I think I might have to use that one in future.
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:50am
- freethinker
  
  I think MSM are still learning tiddlywinks – slowly.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:54am
Tauhei Notts

Who turned the tap off?
My mate who is in the building trusses game tells me that August 2019 sales was the worst month since July 2009. That is including the short months like December and January when there are holidays.
55 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:05am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Who turned the tap off?
  
  Winston Peters and his sense of utu.
  
  Remind all those confused and believe that NZF with shanky wanky Jones at the helm after his magnificence takes a title, dies and lies in state for three days before a stake is driven through his heart, that NZF are really in this ‘game’ for themselves first at your expense.
  
  44 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:19am
- Colville
  
  I have been trying to get some specs built. Most builders I talked to have 2 years work ahead of them so I dunno what is up with your mate.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:31am
  - Tall Man
    
    Different areas?
    
    A number of builders in may area are struggling to get employees with many now demanding $60 per hour and getting it.
    
    19 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:09am
    - Jack5
      
      No-one wants to be builders? Wonder why?
      
      Young folk can have a piss-up year at university on taxpayers, with two following choices:
      
      1. Stay on for a social-sciences or Maori studies degree that will be bugger all use in getting a job with a liveable income, let alone reasonably pay off the mountain of student debt from completing the course.
      
      2. Drop out without any qualifications but a sense of entitlement and a disdain for jobs that require apprenticeships, or apprenticeship-style training.
      
      Why has NZ become so lousy at industry-led work training?
      
      The great model is there – Germany, with hundreds of apprenticeship categories including even travel agents. (In NZ our taxpayer funded universities and quasi-universities instead offer degrees that are equivalent tourism training but leave the young folk saddled with huge student debt). And Germany is famous for high standards of production and output.
      
      One polytechnic – the locally subsidised one headquartered in Southland – tried to break the mould by setting up very hands-on, job related training for industry in several towns, but now it is being hammered down – the nail that stood up being flattened.
      
      21 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 10:11am
- cmm
  
  Aah yes, but those are evil polluting steel trusses.
  
  I’m sure the bamboo trusses are selling much better….
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:40am
carl wiekart

How’s that impeachment going?
49 2
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:06am
- Tall Man
  
  Like most things the democrats start…. badly.
  
  It seems to be a problem with those of the left. Rather than knuckle down, accept defeat and start planning a “comeback”, they focus on “destroying” the “other side” and doing fuckall else for their money. Much like those 9 “long years” in opposition where labour did nothing.
  
  46 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:24am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Trump leads the Dems to the edge of the cliff, and they jump. They just can’t help it. Trump just ensured he would be running against Pocahontas
  
  31 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:26am
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
UNITED STATES … BIG LIFT IN NEW RESIDENTIAL SALES … AND WHITE HOUSE LEADERSHIP RESTORING HOUSING AFFORDABILITY …

MONTHLY NEW RESIDENTIAL SALES, AUGUST 2019 … US CENSUS

https://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/pdf/newressales.pdf

New Home Sales

Sales of new single‐family houses in August 2019 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 713,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This is 7.1 percent (±20.3 percent)* above the revised July rate of 666,000 and is 18.0 percent (±19.9 percent)* above the August 2018 estimate of 604,000.

Sales Price

The median sales price of new houses sold in August 2019 was $328,400. The average sales price was $404,200.
.
.
The State of Homelessness in America … The Council Of Economic Advisers … The White House

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf

Extract from p 11

… For example, as stated in President Trump’s Executive Order Establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing, such regulations include: “overly restrictive zoning and growth management controls; rent controls; cumbersome building and rehabilitation codes; excessive energy and water efficiency mandates; unreasonable maximum-density allowances; historic preservation requirements; overly burdensome wetland or environmental regulations; outdated manufactured-housing regulations and restrictions; undue parking requirements; cumbersome and time-consuming permitting and review procedures; tax policies that discourage investment or reinvestment; overly complex labor requirements; and inordinate impact or developer fees.” These regulations reduce the supply of housing and as a result drive up home prices (e.g., Quigley and Raphael 2005; Quigley and Rosenthal 2005; Glaeser and Ward 2009; Saiz 2010; Gyourko and Molloy 2015).
7 48
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:10am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  … UNITED STATES …
  
  US housing starts race to 12-year high in August … Reuters / CNBC
  
  https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/18/us-housing-starts-total-1point364-million-in-august-vs-1point250-million-expected.html
  .
  .
  4 out of 5 Americans say there is a housing affordability crisis (NAHB Survey) … Mortgage Professionals of America Magazine
  
  https://www.mpamag.com/market-update/4-out-of-5-americans-say-there-is-a-housing-affordability-crisis-177571.aspx
  
  5 37
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:30am
Right of way is Way of Right

I have long been a proponent of the adage that if you choose not to vote, then you cannot complain about the result.
That ended for me yesterday.
I received my voting pack for the Auckland Mayoral and Local Body Elections, and spent a significant amount of time looking through the information provided to see which candidate should receive my vote.
I came to the sad conclusion that amongst the has beens and never was’s, the lunatic fringe, the right wing nutters, and communists and the numpties who wouldn’t even get published in the local paper letters to the editors, there was no candidate to whom I would feel happy to give my vote to.
Not one.
45 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:12am
- AlastairMunro
  
  I want to vote for Tamihere just to see if he can unseat Goff, but deep down I know I would regret that decision as he blows the council’s finances out inevitably even more than Goff would have.
  
  Haven’t made my mind up.
  
  30 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:47am
  - tf78
    
    I voted for Craig Lord – mainly because he’s not a show pony and he doesn’t believe in the climate change bs. I couldn’t believe what a poor selection of people to choose from. I stuck to the independents that seemed comparatively sane, plus a couple of the old guard who aren’t too left.
    
    23 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:26am
    - Local Miller
      
      I’ve been doing a bit of reading on Craig, and he seems to have promise. One concern is he doesn’t appeal to the left leaning voter, so his chances are slim.
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 1:32pm
    - chwaga
      
      Have to agree. After much soul searching I have come to the conclusion that Craig Lord is the best of what I consider to be a group of low qualities candidates.
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 5:52pm
  - KiWombat
    
    Vote for the one who promises to freeze rates, after all the rampant pillaging over the last few years.
    
    Unfortunately though, promises are made to be broken !
    
    19 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:31am
  - septic skeptic
    
    That is the problem. When the alternative to an ex Labour MP is another ex Labour MP. Our cities are stuffed if we can’t even get decent talent on the ballot paper.
    Like you, I might vote Tamihere just as a FU gesture to AT.
    
    19 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:33am
    - softail 1450
      
      S S ,vote for JT for everything Maori,you’ve been warned…
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 10:16am
    - alloytoo
      
      I did, it was a protest vote nothing more.
      
      3 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 10:36am
      - Steve Todd
        
        Perfectly understandable. This is what FPP often reduces voters to – to casting a protest vote. Surely it is time for Aucklanders to demand STV.
        
        With STV, the protest vote is eliminated. People vote, with their first-preference, for the candidate they really want to see elected, given the candidates on offer. Second- and subsequent preferences are contingency choices, whereby voters indicate who they want their vote to transfer to, if necessary. It is a far superior way of choosing elected representatives.
        
        4 1
        Report
        September 26, 2019 1:55pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Voted for JT just to piss the PC bunch off.
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 10:34am
  - GJM
    
    I don’t trust Tamahere, and although he is not Goff, that isn’t enough. I am voting for Craig Lord. He hasn’t got a chance, but at least I can complain about the winner if I voted.
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 5:18pm
- cmm
  
  Yup, I found the same here in Christchurch. Only a few worth selecting.
  
  Instead I used a defensive strategy. Eliminated the absolute worst (Dalziel, the bloke who wants to ban radio waves etc, …) then vote for what’s left.
  
  31 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:49am
  - Prince
    
    I guess we’re lucky in Wellington. We don’t know who to vote in, but we sure as hell know who to vote out.
    
    28 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:02am
  - kevn
    
    @cmm… You are lucky in ChCh to have at least one ratepayer who actually gets up at council meetings and tries to tell ‘them’ that constant big rates increases just isn’t on.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 10:28am
  - Raphael
    
    A couple of elections ago the choice in Thames was between the incumbant and a bloke whose campaign was all about getting us back in touch with the spiritual aspects of water.
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 12:03pm
- Paulus
  
  Same with me in Tauranga.
  Eliminated those who I did not like, and found none left to vote for.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:44am
  - Steve Todd
    
    Come on, Paulus, you have ten candidates to choose from. Are you really saying you can’t rank-order at least two, maybe three, of them, 1, 2, 3, starting with the least-worst?
    
    Someone *is* going to be elected the Mayor of Tauranga next month. Get in there and have your say as to who that person should be.
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:33pm
- Steve Todd
  
  @RWR @ 8:12AM
  
  “[…], there was no candidate to whom I would feel happy to give my vote to.”
  
  Okay, fair enough. But, someone *is* going to be elected Mayor of Auckland next month; that is guaranteed. Therefore, why not vote for the candidate who represents, for you, the least-worst option?
  
  3 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:19pm
Yvette

When the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Attack on Christchurch Mosques returns it findings, there is likely to be a reasonable amount of comment urging voluntary reporting of information – unusual activities, likely even just suspicions – to the Police.

So, how is Labour going to turn around their seeming present culture of not involving Police, to a culture of approachability, an attitude of confidence in expecting empathetic, fair and reliable hearing.

Aspects of the “Christchurch Call” – prevention of live streaming “weaponising videos” and distribution of manifestos – do presume further attacks.
Surely as much effort and public relations should go into measures – community awareness and reporting when needed – to actually prevent such atrocities.

Labour’s current attitude to Police (internal Party inquiries rather than supporting Police investigations) is at the moment not heading in that direction.

But – Communities have a key role in helping ensure Aotearoa is safe. And you have a key role in ensuring that the Government and Government agencies do their job. I encourage you to keep engaging with Government agencies, and leverage your connections to continue advocating for your communities. [1]

At the moment this Government does not seem to be preparing anyone for that – a coming scandal likely to arise from the inappropriate Labour handling of its own present scandals.

“March 15” notably dominated Jacinda Ardern’s UN address and she promoted again the so-called “Christchurch” call, but she has also claimed to be ‘Incredibly frustrated, deeply disappointed’ [2] at the investigation into a Labour staffer. “We have a duty of care, and we failed in it,” [3] but deriding one internal inquiry she has set up another two, instead of referring matters to the Police.

Ardern by her own hand is turning several of her recent remarks, both here in New Zealand and at the United Nations, to hypocritical crap.
She should do the right thing, refer appropriate matters the Police.

In Ardern’s own emotional slogans :
“Will I be safe now?” should become “Will we be safe now?”

[1] https://christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/assets/683e233181/Speech-notes-for-Jacqui-for-IWCNZ-Conference-25-Aug-2019.pdf – Jacqui Caine, Member, Royal Commission to the Annual Conference of the Islamic Women’s Council
[2] https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-09-2019/incredibly-frustrated-and-deeply-disappointed-ardern-speaks-on-labour-inquiry/
[3] https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/17-09-2019/jacinda-ardern-we-have-a-duty-of-care-and-we-failed-in-it/
35 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:23am
Maggie Pie

We were watching 1Ewes last night when they crossed live to New York for an update on the PM’s address to the UN. She was telling the heart warming story of visiting Christchurch to meet with the bereaved families immediately following the dreadful mosque massacre. While she was addressing the grieving relatives, out the corner of her eye, she caught sight of a little Muslim boy running toward her. As she bent down to greet him, he whispered in her ear, “Am I safe now?”

I must admit to being somewhat moved myself. Then suddenly, my partner jumps out of the Lazy-Boy, spilling his wine in the process, and blurts out, “What a load of crap! Honestly, she makes up half this shit as she goes along”
🙁
71 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:24am
- Brian Marshall
  
  Yes. My bullshit meter went off the charts when I heard that story. Seems that we’re not alone.
  https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-muslim-boy-in-kilbirnie-does-rufus.html?m=1
  
  Now, where is our media?
  
  63 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:51am
  - Tall Man
    
    ardern is a liar. This is just another example of it.
    
    Will it get a free pass by the media… Yep.
    
    54 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:07am
  - Martin Williams
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Poor old Kate. That is some pathetic stalking.
    
    3 65
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:13am
    - plc
      
      Why is it “pathetic stalking”?
      
      It would seem to be a clear example of using information to suggest that the PM’s story was at best embellished.
      
      And if true, asks the question that if she would lie about this, why? And what else would she lie about? And is there a pattern of behaviour.
      
      The “pathetic stalking” comment appears to be motivated by tribalism rather than an assessment of the evidence.
      
      30 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 10:36am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        It was sufficiently far in the past and inconsequential that Ardern thought no one could or would catch her out on it – very unsurprising that she would make up a sympathetic sounding story like that feelz is her metier and bullshitting is like breathing to her (and Peters, and Trump).
        
        12 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 12:05pm
  - KiWombat
    
    I’m sure the MSM caught this touching event, if it ever even happened.
    
    27 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:33am
- RW Capitalist
  
  It’s Labour
  Remember…Rufus Painter?…David Shearer
  He never existed.
  
  44 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:05am
  - kowtow
    
    A bit like Killary dodging sniper fire in Former Yugoslavia……never happened.
    
    35 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:29am
    - softail 1450
      
      kowtow ,sniper fire LOL, you could have emptied a 10 shot riot gun filled with bird shot at her audience and not hit anyone ,you may have woken up her staff members who have heard this same B/S so many times it’s sleep inducing….
      And that pathetic face FFS, barf material …..
      
      15 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 10:31am
- G152
  
  Any-one else see the quick scan of her audience or rather the lack of filled seats?
  Very sparse
  Empty speech from an empty head to an empty auditorium
  
  59 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:29am
  - David Garrett
    
    G152: “Empty speech from an empty head to an empty auditorium”
    
    Oh I do like that one Sir…very good.
    
    39 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 10:16am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I see about 1 in 5 seats filled approx. so about 50-60 “leaders”..
    Trump?
    Ping?
    Macron?
    Bojo?
    So none of any consequence then.
    
    20 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 10:32am
- Biscuit
  
  Maggie, what that story doesn’t tell you is that Jass answered the little boy’s question with ‘Yes, but just to be sure don’t go to any Labour-run youth camps, okay?’
  
  56 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:32am
- Yvette
  
  Maggie Pie
  If you Google Ardern “Am I safe now?”, the only applicable reference that comes up, of about three, seems to be your remark here this morning.
  But this is such a good emotive comment why does it appear nowhere else?
  
  25 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:59am
- softail 1450
  
  M P ,lets see the footage of that moment ,its gotta be available OR NOT.
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:40am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  “I remember landing under sniper fire.”
  
  Hillary R Clinton, Bosnia
  
  26 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:45am
All_on_Red

Lol
That is all.
37 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:25am
- Tall Man
  
  Probably the most eloquent comment of the day. Certainly the most accurate.
  
  22 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:27am
- All_on_Red
  
  https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-make-resolution-to-impeach-trump-with-reasons-to-be-filled-in-later
  
  22 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:14am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    All on Red, correct me if I’m wrong but did you not post the same yesterday?
    
    1 36
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:02am
    - freethinker
      
      Good factual stuff is always worth repeating.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:04pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Happy to correct you when you’re wrong Stephie.
      It’s no problem.
      It’s usually easy to do and occurs a lot.
      You’re wrong-I didn’t post that yesterday.
      There you go.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:57pm
    - Nermal
      
      Stephie, I see you posting the same thing day after day:
      
      “Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.”
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 4:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

How long before the left throw Greta under the bus? It’s going to happen, we all know it
58 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:25am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  No, unlike most politicians she is genuine – misinformed, with childishly unleavened manichean worldview and managed by a pack of spin doctors and speech writers (like all politicians), but genuine.
  
  If ideas are solid it doesn’t matter who presents them, and that tells you all you need to know about the feting of St Greta.
  
  17 8
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:38am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Q:
    Regarding 16 year olds
    What would they say and do to;
    Be fated around the world
    Be famous
    Be on TV
    Have paid flights to visit many locations around the world
    Get to stay in flash hotels
    Eat expensive food
    Do all the touristy things for free
    This is a “reality TV stunt”
    
    36 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:08am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    She is genuine – because she has been indoctrinated (programmed) But the novelty will wear off, and she will be dropped like a hot potato
    
    29 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:13am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      No, too much left wing media investment in her as a posterchild/wunderkind. They will continue to promote the shit out of her for years to come, wheeling her out every few months at climate conference/event to scold and cry. The world will get bored of it soon, but will remain a favorite for the zealots.
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 9:47am
    - tf78
      
      Greta and the Princess seem to be on message with the same earnestly presented b…s..t. I can’t bear listening or watching either of them. The trouble Jacinda will find is that our NZ children will believe her as well and it won’t bode well for her reelection.
      
      19 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 9:48am
- Rich Prick
  
  It’s bound to happen. Put an emotional 16 year old with obvious “issues” on the stage to piss most of the world off, and having it back-fire, she’s toast. Thankfully. I couldn’t take another outburst from her.
  
  45 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:48am
  - srylands
    
    When she says “How dare you” it creeps me out I am sure I am not alone.
    
    There is no need to wait for governments to “do something”. Al the young “strikers” can insist their parents buy EVs. They can all walk and reject all plastic. But at least in Wellington and Christchurch 90% of them today will still be driven to work by their parents in large petrol powered cars. That is why I can’t take them seriously.
    
    52 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:13am
  - Notsofast
    
    Don’t let science annoy, just read
    
    https://phys.org/news/2019-09-humankind-high-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere.html
    
    There is severe intellectual impairment driving kiwiblog.
    
    1 9
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:37pm
  - Michael
    
    Oh I could, the first reminded me what a loads of codswallop the whole CC Bullshit is.
    IF the science stacked up and the evidence was there, they wouldn’t need Little crying Gretta.
    
    Everytime she comes out It will remind me they are liars and it’s all bullshit and models and lots and lots of OUR money.
    
    Like with Jacinda, every time I see her now, I think of ” the raped Sarah” and the other 11 Complainants.
    I think of all Jacindas Lies and pouty face etc etc.
    
    Thank you Tall Man for being right and true and honest.
    
    1 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 5:33pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Steve, they will throw her under the bus if she ever starts loudly proclaiming what a genuine Greenie wanting to reduce human impact on the world needs to be saying:
  
  “We need to reduce human population size by 95%”.
  
  The left can’t handle that message.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:33am
Chuck Bird

The allegations against the President were trunped up.
48 3
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:25am
- freethinker
  
  Just another Brain Fart from Pelosi.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:59pm
oldpark

Perception is everything. Take the gossip and scandal aroung Wellingtons’City Council Mayor.
Yes the hapless Justin Lester. It appears when Wellingtons desperately needed Traffic gridlock was seeking a solution. He was visited by a couple of Peters selected MPs from Liebour/Green Party.
Instead of helping fund a long overdue committment to fund the Traffic problem, Lester accepted a much lower amount. He was told by the Politicians Named Twyford and Genter take it or leave it the smaller amount if you dont we will resign and bring down the Peters selected Coalition
Now Lester who favours a historic Partisanship with that ilk agreed to not frighten the horses.
To paraphrase the threat by Genter and co as Lester figured. It was much better to keep his chosen friends in power,than serve theratepayers of Wellington. Yes the same people who pay his wage.
The ratepaying voters of Wellington deserve much better. Lesters message seems to be get stuffed.
A vote for him and his running mate deputy Jill Day would keep that lot in power for another three years. Think the past three years,and massive costs spending by the Liebour/Green Partisan Mayor Lester/Day saddling fixed income ratepayers with massive increases is bad you have not seen nothing yet.

[Mod: You might not have noticed, but DPF has already devoted a thread to that subject this morning]
35 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:30am
- tf78
  
  Don’t forget that JAG’s partner is now employed by the WCC and his specialty is cycle and walkways – wow what a coincidence.
  
  27 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:51am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    So she threatens to bring down the govt in order to make more work in her city of residence for her husband. #NotCorruptAtAll
    
    15 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 12:11pm
alex Masterley

Greta has historical antecedents. One of whom was Joan of Arc. She was young, led an uprising against the English with some sucess but ultimatley ended up being barbequed.
Will that happen here as she treads on toes.
36 2
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:33am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  It is not honorable to use a child to shield yourself from your opposition.
  
  Ref: http://i.imgur.com/Ul2CWsW.jpg
  
  38 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:56am
- Tall Man
  
  Perhaps not such a “hot” end but an end nevertheless.
  
  13 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:57am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Joan of Arc? Noah’s Ark’s wife.
  Sorry, I’ll get my coat
  
  29 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:15am
Wangas Feral

I believe that the left would be ecstatic if that Greta girl, in a fit of despair and depression, offed herself. They would have the child martyr they so want.

I suggest that people who think this girl is some sort of prophet perhaps read The Crucible. Especially the bits where the girls could ‘see’ devils. Just like Greta can ‘see’ CO2.
36 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:44am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Not a nice thought, but the left have no moral compass
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:17am
- cmm
  
  https://ananova.news/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-can-see-invisible-co2/
  
  How the hell is anyone meant to take this Greta girl seriously?
  
  Even the most stable teen girl is a bag of hormone soup around this age, but Greta is nowhere near stable.
  
  She’s OCD, autistic and has eating disorders. She claims to be psychic and able to see CO2. She has no scientific understanding of the world. Basically a nut-job.
  
  She’s being enabled by her parents who, it seems, are using her to their own ends.
  
  Shameful.
  
  60 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:25am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Basically a nut-job.’
    
    And world “leaders” are falling over themselves to be photographed with her .
    
    At least the girl has an excuse for her behaviour , she’s unwell , but what excuse do these pollies have ?
    
    I despair.
    
    39 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:33am
    - cmm
      
      She has the feelz… and people prefer to deal with feelz because thinking is very hard work.
      
      12 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:12pm
    - cmm
      
      She is a far more compelling speaker than Our PriNZess.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:35pm
      - Tall Man
        
        My neighbour’s cat is far more compelling than ardern.
        
        6 1
        Report
        September 26, 2019 2:45pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    And she will pocket $10’s of millions and have a high profile career for years, at least if not decades. For someone as beset by social development issues as she is that is a fantastic result. She’s set up for life. Well done to her folks.
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:51am
  - Sideoiler
    
    How the hell is anyone meant to take this Greta girl seriously?
    
    https://ysb.co.nz/the-official-escort-for-16-year-old-global-warming-expert-greta-thunberg-is-a-leftist-hack-funded-by-george-soros-org/#comments.
    
    She is just the face of the whole rort, a useful idiot both figuratively and literally.
    
    16 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:56am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Greta has a bright future as a Swedish Green politician or spokeswoman, provided that she doesn’t criticise her supporters. (Which might be tricky if she sees things in black-and-white and can’t understand the concept of rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me.)
    
    15 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:57am
  - Lizziep
    
    She is a great money maker for them though. I think that’s the reason they are pushing her so hard. Her parents are despicable people for using her like this. The thing I cannot understand is why people are taking notice of a 16 year old who has not even left school, has no qualifications. WTF is going on with these people?
    
    17 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:31am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      She’s reported gathered in $46,000,000 so far.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 11:56am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        And her parents are savvy smart enough to ensure that at least some of it is squirreled away to provide for her future
        
        8 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 12:13pm
      - sooty
        
        Their future, hers not so much!
        
        11 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 12:56pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      But, but, but… the feeeeelz!
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:03pm
AlastairMunro

Innocent until proven guilty doesn’t hold much weight around here if the subject is the bad orange man!
39 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:45am
Fletch

This is a MUST LISTEN podcast by Mark Levin (dated 9/24/19). He points out that nothing has changed after Pelosi’s announcement. It’s the same now as before she said anything. To initiate a real impeachment, a vote must be taken of the floor of the House and this hasn’t happened.

“This is not a formal impeachment inquiry, inasmuch as the full House of Representatives has not been asked to vote on it; a rolecall vote; a head count, where each one is to be noted. Impeachment is serious business. It’s not left to committee chairmen. It’s not left to the Speaker of the House. It’s not left to the Judiciary Committee. [Impeachment] requires a body politic, not committee chairmen and the Speaker of the House to launch it. And she wouldn’t take a vote on the House floor. She did not allow a vote on the House floor, because she is still trying to protect her, 30, 40, 50 members. So she makes this pronouncement, like she’s some kind of a fascist dictator. That she has determined, one person from San Francisco; one House district; that she has determined to launch a formal impeachment inquiry. That’s not what the Constitution calls for. There’s been no change except the labeling and the nomenclature. That’s it.

He goes on to point of that there’s never been a thing like this less than 14 months before an election. The people (the greatest jury) can decide if they want Trump out. It’s up to them. This is an election campaign effort. A political PR effort.

Pelosi is asked, well what if the phone records show that what Trump told the Ukrainian leader was benign, she says it doesn’t matter and it will go ahead anyway.

The Podcast – play the one dated 9/24/19.
http://www.westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/the-mark-levin-podcast/
38 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:48am
Swifty

You’ve got to be one real sick bastard to be still doing this at 62 years old.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/116103775/sex-attacker-search-continues-for-extremely-dangerous-murray-robertson

And to talk someone else into doing it with you!
34 2
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:49am
- Tall Man
  
  Sounds like a “labour” cv.
  
  24 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:03am
  - Swifty
    
    It’s our local New World and my eldest daughter is 17 in two weeks. We’ve been in that supermarket and carpark hundreds of times.
    
    Makes you wonder.
    
    15 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:32am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Makes you ~~wonder~~ homicidally angry.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 9:53am
      - Swifty
        
        Yes, fair point.
        
        7 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 10:54am
- kowtow
  
  So what’s the Crown doing about keeping women safe ?
  
  Social contract well and truly torn up and thrown into the bin of hug a crim and human rights.
  
  What of the rights of people to go about the Queens’ highways and bye ways without fear ?
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:15am
- Swifty
  
  Got him.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115923227/arrest-over-sexual-assault-on-teenager
  
  15 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:39am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Good on the NZ Police – they have locked this miscreant up:
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12271116
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:41am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Yeah, they locked up eleven firearms in Palmerston North, mislaid three prisoners in custody when transferring from the Levin court and, announced that they were not investigating the first fisherman so, ‘on the right track’
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:03am
- Paulus
  
  Caught in Tauranga this morning.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:51am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Well, he’s been named and his picture is in all the papers, and he’s not even been arrested yet.
  
  So obviously….he hasn’t paid his party dues to Labour.
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:13pm
  - Nermal
    
    He can’t have Jacinda on speed dial
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 4:54pm
Rich Prick

Any news on the Labour Party rapist today? After the media’s effort with ponygate I feel very short changed.
56 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 8:58am
- Prince
  
  Which one ?
  
  42 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:06am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Rich Prick, feel short-changed. Wasnt the Ponytail fondler and stroker a former Prime Minister?
  
  0 53
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:15am
  - plc
    
    WOULD YOU RATHER
    
    1. Have your ponytail pulled/fondled by the PM; or
    
    2. Be digitally raped for 15 minutes by an advisor to the PM.
    
    Equivalence much?
    
    34 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 10:41am
    - cmm
      
      A pony tail puller who made immediate unreserved apologies vs an organisation which is running around victim blaming and is, apparently, trying to subvert justice and treat a criminal matter as a Pardy matter.
      
      No, no difference at all.
      
      24 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:08pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    A knight of the realm actually, something WRP aspires to, unlike the labour camp sex perp who future lies perhaps in sweeping up in the wood industry.
    
    16 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:07am
    - Nermal
      
      Don’t you believe it, they’ll find him a trough here or with their socialist brotherhood overseas
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 4:56pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    Tent your raincoat at St Luke’s. Freak.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 10:09pm
Yvette

Ihumātao
Demonstrators will meet outside the Auckland Town Hall to call for a resolution at the housing development site.

“Perhaps they could offer us a land swap? Or they could reach into their heritage fund, or fund for recreation and parks, to help with the purchase of Ihumātao? … They are the ones who made the mistake in the first place” protest leader Pania Newton says.

Auckland Council designated part of the land a special housing area in 2014, and its sale to construction firm Fletcher in 2016 sparked the long-running protest.

It appears Fletcher purchased the land for $19 million after the 2014 Auckland Council designation for housing.
Since there is no infrastructure or houses actually built yet how has the value of the $19 million land now near doubled to $35.7 million?

Auckland Council values Fletcher’s site at 545 Oruarangi Rd at $36m, being $35.7m in land alone.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12202548
19 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 9:21am
- sooty
  
  Because it has resourse consent, plans are drawn up and fletchers have paid a shit load of money in getting the project of the ground and were starting to break ground.
  I have said before if you want to buy Fletchers out it would cost at least three times what they paid!
  
  23 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:00am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Any payment to Fletchers must include Fletchers potential loss of profits and a premium for all the nuisance as well as full market price.
    This is a commercial situation being usurped. Join Ardern as a liable party too.
    
    Without the rule of law, not Law Lords, we will become like the UK.
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:51am
- Swifty
  
  Sorry, do you know what supposed Council mistake Newton is referring to?
  
  What has this got to do with the Council?
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:39am
RW Capitalist

Cat meet pigeons, re climate change.
Ever thought that it is just our time?
The extinction of the human race?
We have evolved faster than any other species, maybe it’s time for us to exit the planet as have many other species.
11 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 9:27am
- cmm
  
  Human deaths will come from the further interference with factory farming required to maintain the food supply.
  
  If Greta hates brown people that much perhaps she can sail down to sub-Saharan Africa to help choose the 80% or more of Africans that will die.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:25pm
JB.49

I found this video on climate change quite interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nmhTZuFGGE
7 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:00am
MCos

Occasionally I watch questions in parliament if I think it might be interesting as I did a couple of days ago.
Last night I watched the UK parliament for awhile.
What a contrast. Their MPs were far more raucous and articulate. (but probably no more capable) Must be those Eton educations.

Anyone who thinks our Labour Party is left wing gone mad should take note of the their comrades in the UK. No wonder they don’t want an election. They’ll never win under their current leader.
26 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:01am
Swifty

‘I’m a Muslim, ask me anything!’

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/116057823/wellingtonians-urged-to-ask–muslims-anything–even-if-it-seems-offensive

Ok, I’ll start….

1. If Islam is the answer to all the world’s problems, why are Islamic countries so heavily over-represented at the bottom of human welfare and human rights indices?

2. If Islam is the answer to all the world’s problems, why are Muslims flocking to the West in such great numbers?

3. Islam is based on the absolutely extraordinary claim that a god sent to the earth an angel who whispered his revelation to an illiterate Arab merchant who was then able to recite this back word for word perfect for others to write down.

(By the way, this ‘revelation’ includes large chunks (somewhere between one third and one half) clearly plagarised from ancient Jewish texts and which we now know to be merely fables and legends; not historical facts.)

What evidence can you show that supports this extraordinary claim?

4. What physical evidence can you show which demonstrates the existence of both a heaven and the hellfire?

5. What evidence can you show which supports the claim that Mohammed got about on a winged-horse or split the moon in two?
33 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:06am
- MCos
  
  I’ve got one for you.
  Why are you putting your questions on Kiwibloggers?
  The bloke’s going to be at Abel Smith St on Saturday.
  You might get some answers here, but they won’t be from a Muslim point of view, I suspect.
  
  1 24
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:46am
  - Swifty
    
    Please don’t misunderstand me MCos. I am not seeking answers. I seek other questions that Muslims have great difficulty answering.
    
    I have put these questions, and others, to Muslims on numerous occasions.
    
    I know their (threadbare attempts at) answers already.
    
    25 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:01am
- Classic Liberal
  
  To what extent should NZ muslims apply sura 4:34, which instructs men to *beat* their wives if they ‘fear disobedience’?
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:09pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Do you approve of the marriage of 6 year olds to 50 year old men and men in their 50’s fucking 9 year olds? If yes would you permit you own daughter to be used thusly?
  
  15 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:19pm
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
The mention of Greta Thurnbeg brings out a certain kind of grumpiness and whining amongst a demographic. here on KB and elsewhere. This is discussed in depth below,

Liam Dann: Why old men are triggered by Greta Thunberg

“The angry old man lives inside me. He’s reactionary and defensive.

He doesn’t like change and I hear him getting louder as the years roll by.

He’s technically right about a lot of things, but he’s almost always on the wrong side of history.

I don’t like him much….

Critical thinking is crucial to human success. We need to apply it rigorously.

But if we keep our focus narrow enough it can become a useful tool to avoid seeing a much bigger picture.

Keeping our focus narrow makes conservatism easier. It allows us to push back against change.

For some reason we get better and better at that as we age.

You’d think with so much less time left on the planet we’d be getting more care free.

We’ve done the hard yards, we’re financially secure. The stakes should be getting lower.

Instead, we focus on all we have invested in the world. We want to hold on to it.

Conservatism can be synonymous with wisdom. It can stop us making mistakes and sometimes it is good to share.

But it should be shared without anger.

And when the evidence is clearly in favour of the need for change – as it is with climate change – it can become a problem.

Thunberg’s passion for change seems deeply triggering for many older men.

It has prompted an aggressive backlash on social media and from some conservative commentators.

That depth of feeling about Thunberg isn’t surprising to me – but it is a little embarrassing.

I recognise the appeal of conservatism. It is like a warm blanket. It provides an almost religious comfort for those who enjoy the status quo.

Its arguments encourage us to relax, stop worrying, shed any burden of guilt.

I am middle-aged and privileged enough to be lazy about social change.

But on balance I’m glad that young people are getting politically fired up…”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12270771

[Mod – I’ve put Dann’s article in blockquotes stephie, just in case people think you wrote it!]
0 49
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:12am
- Swifty
  
  ‘…just in case people think you wrote it!’
  
  Hahahahahahahaha!
  
  29 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:53am
- Jack5
  
  A Stephieboy post about the mad Swedish girl child. That’s a bit creepy.
  
  It’s creepy because of the confessions of one of the younger members of the Stephieboy troll syndicate. He boasted of spending time at the local shopping mall leering at very young females.
  
  Some other posters kept copies of that post, which was directed at the time at me. I forget the context. It is reposted on Kiwiblog from time to time.
  
  24 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:08am
  - Inandout
    
    Jack, if Greta were to don a scarf then stephie would be in his heaven.
    
    15 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:18am
  - srylands
    
    Was that the “small but ample” observation?
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:19am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Sorry about oversight but thanks for the correction.
  
  Yet it remains true that critics of Greta on KB do appear to come from an olde,r backwards, stodgy thinking and largely male demographic.
  
  1 37
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:09am
  - BeaB
    
    Sorry but there are plenty of women, old and young, who think she is being exploited and should be home at school. Her face when Trump arrived reminded me of a child desperately trying to hold back tears.
    No child should be undergoing this kind of stress, pressure and public exposure.
    
    20 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:57am
    - JackRabbit
      
      [deleted by Mod. Warning issued.]
      
      2 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 1:28pm
  - cmm
    
    It’s got nothing to do with her just being a young female.
    
    It is far more to do with Greta being all emotion and no substance.
    
    This seems to be all the lefties are pushing. Feelz trumps facts.
    
    How can you take her seriously when she can “see” CO2? I’ll bet a servo pie she doesn’t even understand basic chemistry.
    
    17 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 12:03pm
    - srylands
      
      No she will not understand basic science. It is a common problem with green activists.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:12pm
    - cmm
      
      But I bet she can say “frustrated” better than PriNZess.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 12:51pm
  - rangitoto
    
    My 19 year old niece thinks Greta is a nutcase.
    
    17 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 12:55pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    @stephieboy
    
    >>>Yet it remains true that critics of Greta on KB do appear to come from an olde,r backwards, stodgy thinking and largely male demographic
    
    You can’t win on logic, so you sink to random name calling. If the group you describe is correct then they are not stodgy thinking. Many will have IQ’s 120- 160, be successful and not easily brainwashed. Young impressionable minds are more easily [deleted] indoctrinated. Older more wise minds are not.
    
    Were you a member of the SS, SA, or Hitler youth in a previous life?
    
    [Mod: please don’t use that reference regarding children. Also, your Hitler Youth comment is uncalled for.]
    
    5 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:23pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    There are limited choices when Greta is only 16 years in the production.
    There are not many 12 year olds on KB to give the balance you may strive for.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 4:06pm
- JackRabbit
  
  Greta is being used to [Mod edit] the minds by preying upon the impressionable minds of children and immature adults that do not have fully functioning rational reasoning skills.
  
  By repeating and propagating this bullshit, you are party to mass indoctrination and [Mod edit] of minds.
  
  [Mod: minor edit]
  
  5 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:12pm
Swifty

Mainzeal’s Yan tells NZ to get f*cked:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12271022

My understanding is that Yan looted Mainzeal to fund his Chinese operations, thereby breaching his duties as a Mainzeal Director, and has gotten away scot free.

This’ll go down well with the Mum and Dad Mainzeal creditors and subbies.
18 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:18am
- Jack5
  
  The Yan saga is a great story. Yan was able to come to New Zealand as a high-school student in Maoist days when the Reds let hardly any one out of the country.
  
  His father had been head of Rotary in China in pre-communist days, and the belief is that Maoist China’s Foreign Minister, Zhou Enlai, also from the old Chinese aristocracy, enabled young Yan to leave for NZ.
  
  Rotarians in Auckland hosted him as he completed his education, and then Rotarians in the United States hosted Yan while he did further university studies.
  
  Yan then tapped these folk as investors and there was a sharemarket takeover of NZ’s Mair Astley, a company dominant in our leather, skins, and wool businesses. Then construction firm Mainzeal was added to the haul. NZ sharemarket takeover rules were loose in those days.
  
  The resultant firm, Richina, switched its focus to China, and initially aimed to dominate tanning in Shanghai, the world’s centre of shoe manufacturing.
  
  The promise of an NZ based, or NZ linked company in that huge industry, was never fully realised, and there were other ventures such as building the first aquarium attraction in Beijing.
  
  Yan enlisted former Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley, as a director, something I bet she regrets.
  
  17 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:52am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Back in 1998 Time Magazine heralded him as one of the World’s rising stars:
    
    http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988175,00.html
    
    And Fortune magazine had him listed as one of top 100 business leaders in the 21st Century
    
    http://www.sharechat.co.nz/article/0e1e4b15/the-shoeshine-column-is-yan-the-man-to-save-richina-pacific.html
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:38pm
- MCos
  
  Should the other directors known what he was up to?
  I notice their liability is covered by insurance, including legal fees.
  Now I don’t understand how all this is structured, but it seems the people at the bottom of the food chain are left out of pocket while those at the top make sure that no matter how badly things went they’ve covered their bottoms.
  
  I notice Fonterra are losing a lot of money despite something like fifteen of the staff having salaries of a million or more.
  
  10 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:04am
  - sooty
    
    Pay a million and you still get monkeys!
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 11:30am
  - rangitoto
    
    Same thing with the Thomas Cook fiasco. The senior execs got plenty.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 12:57pm
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
The reality of climate change in rural America and especially states like Idaho are forcing politic aspirants ( both left and right ) to take the issue seriously and not the nonissue that it was,

“In previous elections, climate change was essentially a nonissue. A Pew Research poll released three weeks after the 2008 Iowa caucuses found that just 1% of Americans ranked the issue as the nation’s most important problem. Eight years later, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump debated three times without facing a single question about climate change.
In the early stages of the 2020 campaign, things looked much the same: many Democratic campaigns offered little more than boilerplate support for a Green New Deal or an endorsement of the Paris Agreement. But over the course of the race, climate change has emerged for the first time as a top-tier presidential campaign issue. A slew of factors have contributed to the spike in national interest, from the activists pushing for a Green New Deal to the warning for urgent action embedded in the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released last year by the U.N. to Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s climate-focused presidential campaign, which raised the bar for other candidates. But climate’s growing political clout is also due to the reality of daily life in Iowa, whose outsize importance in the presidential primaries has forced candidates to finally pay attention.…”

And the reason unprecedented levels of precipitation and flooding

https://time.com/5669023/iowa-farmers-climate-policy/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=20190923&xid=newsletter-brief
0 48
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:26am
- alloytoo
  
  Your post is politics not about the “reality” of climate change.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:11am
- KevO'Brien
  
  You need to read the actual IPCC reports–not just the summary for policy makers, written independently before the scientists get their 1000 pages.
  The issues of storms and more stronger events being attributed to climate change are all dismissed there.
  Don’t be deceived by the propaganda–you’ll live easier.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:43am
- JackRabbit
  
  Stuff has an article, also talking about climate change:
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/116100053/sea-walls-protecting-new-zealand-cities-are-losing-their-battle-with-the-ocean-un-report-warns
  
  However this is BS, as is your obsession with it.
  The coastal changes as mentioned in the stuff article are not caused by man-made climate change. They have been going on since the planet was created by God, Terra-formed by Aliens, or grown out of a single atom after the Big Banh. (take your pick)
  
  Coastal erosion caused by Coastal drift due to the influence of the sea, weather, is a change that has been going on forever. Anyone that has studied classical geography, got taught that. We had to know it to pass School Cert back in the day. Various cultures have legends and physical markers warning about building close to the coast, hell even the bible warns about not building on the sand close to the water.
  
  When people start bleating on about man-made climate change causing coastal erosion, and not coastal drift caused by the weather and the sea, it flags those people as numpties. ie. Not having understanding and a lack of ability to think rationally and objectively, being know-it-alls, and being very loudmouthed about that which they know little about. They think they are being clever the more they rant, but to rational observers that have the understanding, the numpty is viewed as one would view the naked emperor ranting on about being in clothes in the finest of cloths – a stupid idiot.
  It has long been postulated that mans impact on the world around him is tied to the collective unconscious. We are in greater danger of a societal and environmental collapse due to the stupidity of man and the weight of the collective unconscious and its impact on the physical universe than invented “man-made climate change”. It is the stupidity of propagating “the sky is falling” lies, that puts mankind into an “End is Nigh” collective panic and mind-set of futility. That is far more dangerous than coastal drift.
  If you believe in and accept the positive spiritual realm, intuition, dreams, the subconscious, and connection beyond that which occurs through the physical universe, then automatically you must accept that the spititual universe has a potential to be as equally negative as it is positive.
  Nothing happens in isolation, as the minds and souls are interconnected, even if through the collective unconscious. By pumping and enforcing negative bullshit into the minds of people, including vulnerable and impressionable children, you are committing the psychological rape of minds, and altering the precarious balance between between unconscious good and evil.
  
  Lynch mobs, unlawful vigilantes, the entire Hitler youth movement, and indeed the entire Anti-Jewish trance like state Germans fell into, were fervently whipped up. You could call this collective brainwashing. In this irrational state, people will commit all sorts of atrocities, that alone they would dare not even consider doing.
  People like Hitler, Stalin and even our Jacinda and the young Greta, are fanatically possessed by their own unconscious projections. In Christian folklore, this was considered being possessed by evil and doing Satan’s work.
  
  Jung had said that Mankind will bring itself to the brink of destruction time and time again. The only hope of salvation is individuals withdrawing their projections. In political terms it means stop trying to shape the world in your own un-inspected and unconscious images. The Labour manifesto is like living inside a collective nightmare full of contradictions and untruths.
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:15pm
  - cmm
    
    Yup, I was walking along the beach at Sumner today looking at some dunes which are being eroded. Just a few months back Momma Nature was dumping sand there building up the dune and now She wants her sand for other purposes.
    
    A few months ago the rock-that-was-shag-rock-before-the-earthquakes was fully surrounded by sand. A month ago it was all gone and now it’s all back again.
    
    The low-tide mark can vary from being in line with that rock to, sometimes, 400 metres out to sea.
    
    To try claim things are changing is preposterous – erosion is part of the system. Has been forever and will remain so.
    
    In NZ it is even more ridiculous to worry about sea level rise because seismic movement is so large.
    
    Why worry about 2 cm of hypothetical sea level rise when Kaikoura rose by 2 metres and Wellington has risen by more over the last 200 years?
    
    As for the islands demanding hand outs. Some are growing. Some are receding, but that is likely more due to them extracting too much groundwater.
    
    Yes, there are some real environmental issues to worry about, but plant food – CO2 – is stealing the limelight and detracting from real issues being addressed.
    
    12 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:49pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      @cmm
      So true. Most people don’t look at the long term changes or cycles.
      
      >>>As for the islands demanding hand outs. Some are growing. Some are receding, but that is likely more due to them extracting too much groundwater.
      
      Some climate change nut once quoted Florida as a perfect example of climate change, how the water has risen several times that of the 1.5mm per year elsewhere on the planet.
      
      We had to point out that because of gravity, sea level rises tend to flatten out across the globe, that it can’t be a local rise and without affecting the rest of the world. He maintained it could. Yet the argument he used about the Arctic and Antarctic melting was that it would flatten out and affect the rest of the planet. It can’t be rising 5mm per year in Florida and still be 1.5mm per year elsewhere. Gravity does what gravity does.
      
      At the time, it took less then 5 minutes google research on Florida to reveal what you said about excess groundwater removal causing the land to sink. Especially in those areas that 50 years ago were swamp, and where deep down it is still swamp and not solid land.
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 6:06pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I have worked with engineers specialising in hydrology. They were consulting on the Taranaki coast line.
    Climate has little input. The sea goes where it will and seafloor sand is picked up and deposited elsewhere. Any change in one place causes changes in another. The internal sea currents had their own lives. The engineers were not capable of precision prediction.
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 3:57pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Go and peruse this, twat
  
  http://joannenova.com.au/
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:23pm
Swifty

‘We are the Mighty Mongrel Mob! Arrrruh Arrrruh.’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqpZd5YQMBk (not suitable for work)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12271015

Yeah, real tough bastards….
16 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:38am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Ah, tangata whenua, how well off we would all be without them, so much culture, mana, bullshit, strife . . . .
  
  Wankers
  
  14 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:16am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  I assume these evil thugs are all now being sought for arrest?
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:26pm
  - Inandout
    
    No UN, they are the new arms dealers because they can probably supply just about any hand held weapon you may want.
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:14pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Tui!
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:22pm
- noskire
  
  Ross Kemp on Gangs – The Mongrel Mob
  
  2 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:21pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  I’ve had more than a few punch ups with mobsters, even gave a hand to youthful member who bailed out. I didn’t like the potential 3 onto 1, or the beating on someone who has already conceded. Said under my own name of course.
  
  1 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 9:03pm
kevn

@Swifty… and you/me ‘pay’ them all, guarantee it. With the odd confined ‘lodgings’ in between as well.
Great feeling isn’t it?
10 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:49am
Swifty

Fun and games in Albany.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/116105434/killer-admits-attack-on-notorious-murderer-graeme-burton
7 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 10:50am
- Tall Man
  
  I would have waited for backup as well………. would have waited days actually just to be really safe 🙂
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 2:17pm
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

Speaking of pathetic, I watched Fiji vs Uruguay at the RWC. I was reminded that Cmaeron Slater would often say that he played politics like the fijians plyaed rugby………cant believe Im about to say this, Slater was finally roght about something…..go figure. The sun shines on a dogs arse at least once in its life.
6 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 11:24am
Tony Stuart

If Winston Peters manages to find his way to the Debating Chamber this afternoon, he’s in slim pickings. Not only are there no questions for him from National MP’s, but there aren’t even any patsy questions for him from Labour or NZF.

However will he cope with being denied the limelight?

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/order-paper-questions/list-of-oral-questions/oral-questions-26-september-2019/
18 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 11:38am
- chaos
  
  #MeTooNZ September
  
  Labour’s allegation situation becomes more complicated.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtD-30KkyOY
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:45am
  - chaos
    
    Whoops wrong place, sorry
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 12:00pm
  - Tall Man
    
    You think she’s a liar?
    
    I know it mate.
    
    4 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:14pm
- godruelf
  
  Will Q6 be interesting?
  
  2 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 11:56am
- Raphael
  
  he will interject and attack on questions that have nothing to do with him.
  
  Question 2 yesterday was an absolutely disgusting display from Labour and NZF
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20190925_051150000/2-question-no-2-prime-minister
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:24pm
- Batman
  
  He will simply do what he did yesterday and take points of order to call demonstrably true statements “demonstrably falsshh”
  
  He’s a disgrace.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:56pm
  - Tall Man
    
    As I have said, why worry about Donald Trump when we have a crumbling democracy in our own backyard.
    
    9 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:02pm
    - Batman
      
      Ours is fine. Just a useless government which will hopefully be turfed out next year!
      
      6 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 2:03pm
Jack5

British Cabinet Minister Geoffrey Cox (Attorney General) declares the present Parliament of Britain is “dead”:

https://youtu.be/jp865xUXMrg

And Bojo is back:

https://youtu.be/PnfAunzg1Wk
9 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 11:46am
chaos

Last question?

https://twitter.com/NZNationalParty/status/1175999525569228801
7 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 12:03pm
Maggie Pie

My partner tweets:

Yet another reason why i wouldnt do biz with the Chinese

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1176945747276849153
10 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 12:19pm
- atomic drop
  
  I was surprised to see the nzherald publish a letter pointing out that nearly every corruption/fraud case in Auckland involves a vibrant import.
  
  We are lied to and told Third Worlders will behave #justlikeus #theyareus. When in fact they behave just like where they come from.
  
  18 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 12:54pm
  - Tall Man
    
    If our crooks could be bothered working they’d be up to the same mischief but being on a benefit they don’t need to exploit their fellows…. Unless selling them a bit of P or dope is exploitation 😉
    
    1 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:56pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Also interestuing when we were watching the ‘Bolt Report’ last night [9pm ch85],
  he showed a clip of a visiting Chimese Academic issue a warning Australia:
  “THAT THEY BETTER COME BACK INTO LINE – OR ELSE”
  
  As my partner said “Or else fcukng what!?”
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:17pm
  - Tall Man
    
    No more $2 shops….. That’ll learn them 😉
    
    4 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:50pm
- Tall Man
  
  And yet you do.
  
  I doubt there is much in your home that doesn’t have a Chinese link somewhere in the chain.
  
  Remember, Krispy Creme is owned by a German/Austrian company so things are not always as they seem 😉
  
  4 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:54pm
atomic drop

Anyone notice the treatment the nzherald is giving that crazy murder case where the victim was (sexually?) mutilated then told to choose her death – stabbing or hanging?

One of the sadistic monsters Ashley Winter is a trannie, but the nzherald is referring to him as a woman:

“A man and woman have been found guilty of torturing and murdering a teenage girl at an Auckland “house of horrors”.”

At the end of the article it is mentioned “Ashley” is in fact a female impersonator.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12270048

We don’t want people associating trannies with ultra violent depraved criminal acts now do we? That could lead to the reinforcement of “harmful sterotypes” right? And we are all about #inclusivity, #diversity and fighting white supreamacy, right?

So this Buffalo Bill has to be kept under wraps.
16 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 1:12pm
Batman

Now that the House and Senate have the whistleblower complaint, here are some Republican takes I’ve spied on the Twitter machine thingy:

Romney says it’s “troubling in the extreme.”

Toomey says it’s “inappropriate.”

Sasse, who has now reviewed the complaint, says it’s “really troubling.”
2 8
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 1:18pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Tim Pool: ‘Depending on who you follow, you’re going to hear an alternate reality.’ 3mins 30 sec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtgE_ffwkO0
  
  Remember that Tim Pool is not right wing at all. Nor is Styxhexenhammer.
  
  1 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:33pm
- Tall Man
  
  Yes but what does greta think?
  
  Even more relevant, what does ardern think and if she tells us can we believe her?
  
  Do you never question why you are so obsessed with the leader of another country when we have enough ignorance and corruption here currently in New Zealand to last a couple of lifetimes?
  
  7 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:48pm
  - Batman
    
    Great pivot there, TM.
    
    What does Greta think? If you listened to her in full you’d probably find out. She doesn’t have a filter after all.
    
    What does Ardern think? More complicated. She’s a dark horse who pretends to be all kindness and love but is known around the traps for being a bit of a bitch. That isn’t unusual for politicians though!
    
    And hey, everyone has to have a hobby. I’ve lived enough NZ politics for a while so I am taking a bit of break, having done it 24/7 professionally. Our govt is far more cock up than conspiracy.
    
    2 5
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:02pm
    - Tall Man
      
      greta does not have a filter? She doesn’t have a fucking clue.
      
      ardern complicated? I don’t think so. She’s just a liar and a two faced ….
      
      You don’t need to be Einstein to figure that out.
      
      Have a break by all means but stewing about Trump is a waste of time and effort, Take up macrame FFS.
      
      7 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 2:57pm
- Ed Snack
  
  Romney and Toomey are diehard “Never Trumpers”, so although nominally republican they are not reliable on matters relating to Trump.
  
  I’d say that the Democrats tried a pretty transparent scheme to repeat their “Russian Collusion” scam and fell right into a trap.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:20pm
- Michael
  
  Batman really.
  Romney Republican!
  Rino is not republican…
  
  1 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 10:11pm
Right of way is Way of Right

I see Greta Thunberg is now going on about how all the ‘haters’ are coming out of the closet.

Typical reaction from a 16 year old. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you must be a ‘hater’! Don’t bother with engaging in a reasonable discussion, just smack a label on those who have an alternate view, because you must be right!

Hater.
Racist.
Sexist.
Fascist.
Stale pale male.

Anything rather than engage on the issue, right?
15 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 1:21pm
- Batman
  
  Well plenty here have avoided engaging on the issue and instead have called her “mentally ill” “hysterical” “mad” “unwell” and various other things, in an effort to downplay what she is saying and effectively belittle her
  
  5 11
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:31pm
  - srylands
    
    What is she saying except various versions of “How dare you?”
    
    12 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:33pm
    - Batman
      
      She’s 16 and under a massive spotlight.
      
      I would expect better from adults, even if they are hiding behind their keyboards making comments, when I suspect they would be perfectly polite to her in person.
      
      4 10
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 1:35pm
      - alloytoo
        
        A great many of those comments have been in regard to the adults who are supposed to responsible for her.
        
        One would have expected better of them.
        
        9 1
        Report
        September 26, 2019 1:52pm
      - Batman
        
        Alloy, and that’s fine if directed at the adults.
        
        It’s the grossly unnecessary attacks on a 16 year old girl from my own side of the spectrum that I find particularly disappointing.
        
        5 10
        Report
        September 26, 2019 1:55pm
      - cmm
        
        “from my own side of the spectrum”
        
        So pulling the disabled card eh? For both of you?
        
        Just because she has a disability we must all be nice to her and listen to what she has to say. We should not hold her to the standards we’d hold anyone else? Bullshit.
        
        I don’t care if she is a one-legged Budhist lesbian. Leave the emotions out of it and let’s talk facts.
        
        The climate change hysteria is damaging. It distracts focus and resources from far more important issues. It is getting people killed and causing deprivation. It is preventing real issues from being addressed.
        
        It is fine to appease the mentally challenged on unimportant issues (eg. nodding politely when she tells you that strawberry ice cream is the best), but these are serious matters and should be left to competent people.
        
        11 1
        Report
        September 26, 2019 3:30pm
      - Tall Man
        
        My advice to anyone is don’t start what you can’t finish and your right to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.
        
        If you want to climb into my space and swing your arms, don’t whinge like a baby when I smack your arse.
        
        Yes batman, if I met her I would be polite. If she commenced a rant I would tell her to fuck off bluntly and directly.
        
        0 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 8:58pm
  - cmm
    
    Ummm she is mentally ill etc. this is well documented. She uses emotion and hysteria rather than calmly looking at the science because she does not understand the science etc.
    
    If what she is saying is important then why can’t it come from a grown up who actually understands what (s)he is talking about.
    
    18 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:37pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Right of way is Way of Right, your age?
      
      1 12
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 2:49pm
      - Right of way is Way of Right
        
        Not that it has any bearing on the matter, but old enough to have been the father to three children who are now well past the age of 16, and whose primary reaction to being challenged on anything is generally emotional rather than considered and reasonable.
        
        How old are you?
        
        12 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 3:04pm
      - rockape
        
        How do you think she would stand up in a debate with a scientist who doesnt beleive in man made global warming. I wonder why she just gets shouty but never debates?
        
        7 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 5:19pm
    - stephieboy
      
      cmm, she is mentally ill? When was ASD ( Aspergers ) classified as a mental illness?
      
      History’s 30 Most Inspiring People on the Autism Spectrum
      
      “Though autism did not become the mainstream diagnosis it is today until well into the 20th century, it is certainly not anything new. Indeed, history is full of people who many consider to be or have been somewhere on the autism spectrum. Like the 30 people on this list.”
      
      https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisprograms.com/historys-30-most-inspiring-people-on-the-autism-spectrum/
      
      1 11
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 2:50pm
      - cmm
        
        stephie, you’re such a useless strawman builder.
        
        Where did I say Aspergers is a mental illness?
        
        She also has OCD and an eating disorder. Disorders are mental illnesses.
        
        On top of that she can “see CO2”. I won’t try put a label on that, but whatever that is, it is a mental illness too.
        
        There are mental illnesses and mental illnesses. Some, like depression, do not interfere with rational thought (except when we get into suicide territory). Many people with depression can construct a rational argument and understand physics etc.
        
        But some, like being able to see CO2 clearly demonstrate that her cognitive capabilities surrounding CO2 are worthless. Anything she says has no validity – only emotional content.
        
        13 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 3:49pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Has she come out with the real issue if she truly thinks climate change is anthropogenic and reversible? That human population size needs to be vastly reduced?
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:37pm
    - Batman
      
      Or we could just stop churning out billions of tonnes of gases into the atmosphere and creating a massive health hazard for living things?
      
      I don’t like the socialist solutions either but doing fuck all is not a solution either.
      
      3 9
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 1:53pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Currently: no we can’t. The population is too large and extremely dependent on fossil fuels and intense agriculture.
        
        If you truly believe that humans should have less impact on the world, don’t drive, don’t fly and don’t reproduce.
        
        13 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 2:11pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Classical Liberal, the reasoning of one who believes that 7.7 billion people have absolutely no effect on the world’s climate!
        
        Sheesh!
        
        0 14
        Report
        September 26, 2019 2:56pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        The exact opposite, Stuffy. If we really can reverse our influence anyone who wants to really do that needs to do as I said: not drive, not fly, not breed.
        
        How do you not get that?
        
        7 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 3:43pm
      - cmm
        
        stephie: Again you come with bullshit.
        Where does Classic Liberal say 7.7bn have no impact?
        
        If you want to go back to the 1800 levels of hydrocarbon usage then, as CL says, people gonna die. Lots.
        
        Are you going to decide who those people are? Are you going to volunteer to be one of them? And, for the slow of wit, I am not trying to encourage stephie or anyone else to off themselves.
        
        I don’t know what the numbers are world-wide, but I do have some numbers for South Africa. Current official population is about 57M (but the actual population is probably well over 60M). At the moment South Africa can almost feed itself (say 55M). However with tradition agriculture it can only feed around 2M.
        So kill off modern agriculture and 60M people starve to death just in South Africa. Probably 2 to 5 billion all up.
        
        So before we all listen to Greta because she can see CO2 and make better frown faces than PriNZess, it might be a good idea to think through some of the downsides.
        
        10 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 3:59pm
      - alloytoo
        
        Actually doing nothing (with regards emissions) is a solution for us.
        
        No reduction of our emissions is going to do anything on a global scale except make ourselves poorer.
        A poor society will be unable to handle climate change.
        
        Our best course of action is to reduce poverty and try to raise the level of wealth in NZ.
        
        If you insist in a proactive approach a national investment in Nuclear power generation would reduce energy poverty and enable low emission technologies like EV or HV.
        
        4 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 7:47pm
    - Tall Man
      
      And volcanoes really need to stop that stuff right now!!!
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 8:52pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I’ll engage.
    
    In my opinion she is as mad as a hatter as are most of the adherents of the new religion of man made climate change.
    
    An emotionally challenged juvenile is being exploited by those with a vested financial interest and greta herself/parents are in the process of accumulating wealth, currently to the amount of $40 odd million.
    
    As a father and having raised kids I deeply resent a numbnut channeling other numbnuts and ranting at me via whatever platform idiot adults can arrange for her. I believe the bulk of the hysteria is based on out an out bullshit and should I request a platform to promulgate that opinion I would be denied and pilloried at every turn.
    
    Now you are welcome to subscribe to whatever idiotic “religion:” you chose but please don’t expect me to respect either you, your opinuion or any other mentally challenged fuckwit that wants to stand beside and worship at the alter of fuckwittery.
    
    Is the “engaging” you wanted?
    
    19 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 1:46pm
    - Batman
      
      Well you’ve basically just proved my point about fairly adbusive ad-hom attacks on personality and character rather than the actual argument, topped off with a very lefty-like accusation that they’ve made millions, with absolutely no proof or anything.
      
      So, thanks?
      
      And yes, I do understand that your normal style is fairly profane! Haha
      
      4 13
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 1:50pm
      - Tall Man
        
        https://magamedia.org/2019/09/24/greta-thurnbergs-mother-wrote-a-book-about-gretas-mental-illness/
        
        Me profane, bullshit 😉
        
        7 2
        Report
        September 26, 2019 3:08pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Tall Man, very deep!
      
      0 14
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 2:57pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    her packaging (weird adolescent girl) is being used as a propegandist tool ( pedophasty, utilising children as props to make opponents look evil), so criticising her packaging is fair play. Climate change arguments are more credible if made without the use of emotive glove puppets like Thunberg. This form of propagandizing just shows how weak their foundations really are.
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:57pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    When you have to present your ideas via a 16 year old with mental issues (which she has despite your BS, she has herself revealed that she suffers from Autism, selective Mutism, and these are indeed mental issues) you are really demonstrating to all and sundry that they can’t be presented by a rational adult who can be asked questions about their beliefs.
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 3:22pm
    - Batman
      
      She has Asperger’s. Which is on the autism spectrum but is not austism as one would usually think of it.
      
      2 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 3:42pm
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    The issue is climate change. Is the climate changing? Yes it is, that’s what climates do. This planet has never been, nor will it ever be, in a state where our climate will remain in status quo. Preceding this current change in climate, there have been many changes in climate that predate the internal combustion engine, steel mills and cow farts!
    
    Is climate change anthropomorphic? Well, it’s suspected, but it is not proven. The science isn’t settled. There may be a theory, but there is no empirical truth. To claim this to be a fact flies in the face of all scientific method, and scientific curiosity must be maintained so that all possible causes and hypotheses can be examined to the fullest extent. There are many contributing factors that make up our climate, we need to consider them all.
    
    Can we be better custodians of our planet? Undoubtedly, we can, and should all do better, and we should be encouraged to do so co-operatively.
    
    Will a 16 year old berating world leaders at the UN and calling her critics ‘haters’ help in the slightest?
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 3:27pm
    - Tall Man
      
      “Will a 16 year old berating world leaders at the UN and calling her critics ‘haters’ help in the slightest?”
      
      Rhetorical?
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 8:44pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  My parrtner raises an interesting question:
  
  “Who moderates BATMAN’s comments?” 🙂
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 1:56pm
  - chaos
    
    batwoman?
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:12pm
    - Batman
      
      @ chaos, Batwoman doesn’t approve of me ‘wasting’ my time talking shit with you guys ?
      
      7 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 4:09pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Mine gets cranky with me reading after you’ve posted it 😉
        
        0 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 8:43pm
  - Swifty
    
    Who watches the watchers?
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:16pm
    - chaos
      
      The time keeper?
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 3:02pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Quis custodiet ipsos custodes (from memory)
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 3:25pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Maggie Pie , and who moderates yours?
    
    0 19
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 2:58pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      Do you think your comment with detailed observations about young girls that you saw at St Lukes, including specific references to their “small but ample breasts”, should have been moderated?
      
      Do you think that your comment about how it was a “consolation” that Teresa Cormack was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a non-Maori should have been moderated?
      
      Do you think that your perverted obsession with Maggy’s underwear should have been moderated?
      
      14 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 3:47pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Robin.
    
    7 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 3:08pm
chaos

*Greta Thunberg will be investigated by Kungsholmen’s social services

A private person has posted on Twitter pictures of his concern about Greta Thunberg. The report of concern must have been sent to Kungsholmen’s district administration in Stockholm. “We have an obligation to assess within 24 hours,” the childcare unit tells Social News.

Since Greta Thunberg began her career as an opinion maker and climate guru just over a year ago, many debaters have expressed concern that the girl may have been exploited by her mother and public relations consultant behind the campaign .*

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=https://samnytt.se/uppgifter-greta-thunberg-ska-utredas-av-kungsholmens-socialtjanst/&prev=search
17 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 2:10pm
- kevn
  
  @chaos…. YSB has good data on Thunbergs minder. A youthful recipient of George Soros funding.
  Soros the anarchist/globalist.
  It all adds up doesn’t it.
  Follow the money…
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:02pm
chaos

Oh what fun will happen if we get electric police cars or worse, ambulances and fire trucks

* Police driving a Tesla patrol car in California had to abandon pursuit of a suspect when the electric car ran out of charge.*

https://www.driven.co.nz/news/news/us-police-abandon-pursuit-after-tesla-model-s-cruiser-runs-out-of-charge/
17 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 2:24pm
- stephieboy
  
  chaos, we call that taking spurious and cheap shots!
  
  0 18
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:00pm
  - cmm
    
    “cheap shots” rubber Tasers too??
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 4:05pm
    - chaos
      
      http://www.quickmeme.com/img/39/391e5e62be280c27aa46e3bd8239c14a50630903a7f98c1184d8aa74944a3bb7.jpg
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 6:35pm
trout

Since Pelosi announced an Impeachment enquiry donations to the Trump re-election campaign have gone through the roof ; go figure.
21 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 2:28pm
- Poppa
  
  This nonsense will guarantee Trump another term
  
  Geez they are thick over there
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:01pm
Bobba Fret

Ian Lees Galloway getting a bit carried away in question time today.
10 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 2:55pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Yes; he’s in grave danger of blowing a fufu valve 😀
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 2:57pm
- chaos
  
  His voice is dropping, a bit late, but he’s finally entering puberty
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:01pm
Tony Stuart

Trevor Mallard has made a very significant ruling in the House this afternoon. He has ruled that political parties can NOT edit down videos from Parliament TV to create social media content or advertisements, and has given National until 5pm tomorrow to take down any edited videos it has posted.

This diktat from Mallard is outrageous. He is effectively acting as chief censor of Parliament, and preventing the opposition from holding Ministers to account in the public domain for their statements. During Question Time, he has clarified that, in order to point out as little as one sentence from a Minister, only the entire sequence of questions and answers can be displayed. That, of course, essentially defeats the purpose of publishing anything, as no one wants to sit through five to ten minutes of video for a far briefer extract.

The role of the Speaker requires him to be neutral, and non-partisan. It is hard to imagine a more partisan ruling than the one Mallard has delivered today. Here it is, unedited and complete:

https://www.parliament.nz/mi/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=209136
32 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 3:04pm
- chaos
  
  Just Trevor protecting the government again from the things they say in house.
  
  He’s the most corrupt speaker we’ve had
  
  23 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:10pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Yep – Party political state censorship – USSR style.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:16pm
- Prince
  
  Has Mallard any authority to instruct Parties what they can report from Parliament ? Can he do this by edict, without any discussion or debate ?
  If so, it demonstrates the rules were created without consideration that a partisan bully could take the role and subvert basic democratic functions.
  
  25 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:17pm
- brett68
  
  Just tell him to go fuck himself, problem solved
  
  10 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:36pm
- Ace
  
  Mallard is an egomaniac. Doesn’t he have a chat before question time to control his message and now wishes to further control the message. He is now a worst speaker than Margaret Wilson in my opinion. What would happen if National refuse to take down the ads I wonder
  
  20 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 3:52pm
- Fletch
  
  Oh yeh? That doesn’t mean the general public can’t do it. And how would he stop them?
  
  7 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 6:05pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    So if we make copies of the Nat videos that exist and share them on blogs and Facebook, what is the Little Nazi going to do? I do beleive this may actually bite him on his bum….
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 9:17pm
BeaB

Mallard is getting too big for his boots – like that ass Bercow in the UK. He regards Parliament as his own personal fiefdom and rides roughshod over the rights of Members. He is boorish and patronising, especially when dealing with women.
He corrects members’ grammar and even their style of speaking, conveniently forgetting his own solecisms and his horribly nasal voice.
22 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 3:42pm
chaos

Awwww, Canada’s greens caught photoshopping

*A Canadian political party with environmental policies has admitted altering a promotional photo to show their leader holding a reusable cup.

The picture, a candid shot of politician Elizabeth May talking to constituents, appeared on the Green Party’s official website. *

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/09/canadian-green-party-photoshops-reusable-cup-into-leader-s-hand.html
14 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 3:42pm
- cmm
  
  That Elizabeth May is the Canadian Greenie that has never ridden a bike.
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:11pm
- Tall Man
  
  As much bullshit as ours.
  
  0 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:37pm
Maggie Pie

Just received an email from GENESIS ENERGY advising of yet another increase in the cost of our gas supply. It goes up 5% on Novembr 1st, from a DFR of 120.19, to the new rate of 126.20. As i just expressed to my partner, “In this environment of ultra low inflation, how in Hades can they get away with that?” All he said was, “Cos they f~~king can”

Like he’s said previuosly, they’d have nooo idea what it costs to heat a 15m pool during winter 🙁
11 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 3:46pm
- cmm
  
  1% for inflation, and the rest is guilt.
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:58pm
Than

Just watched Jacinda Ardern appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

It is a strong contender for the weakest, most transparent piece of PR posturing I have ever seen. And she was barely given two minutes, mostly it seems to foreshadow Colbert may be coming to New Zealand.
17 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 4:03pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Did they have this at the end?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRKz82v5JQY
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:16pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Should have.
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 8:31pm
- cmm
  
  For a while PriNZess owned the emotional-young-woman-that-is-a-counterpoise-to-Trump slot. She completely owned it after Christchurch and this has helped her build Brand Jacinda for CinD4UN.
  
  Now this Greta girl seems to be making inroads into that slot and could nudge her out. Greta can do angry better, she can speak better and carry off emotion better. Greta also has various disabilities to make her untouchable (relatively).
  
  PriNZess could easily find herself in a Coke vs Pepsi face-off and lose her brand war.
  
  13 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:21pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Which one is the ‘coke?’
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 5:04pm
    - Tall Man
      
      ardern knows……
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 8:32pm
- Tall Man
  
  Why?
  
  0 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 8:33pm
lifesgood

I’ve heard everything now. Some little twit of a girl who writes for Metro magazine bleating on Radio NZ that people with “bad opinions” like Mike Hosking and Duncan Garner should be shut down and bemoaning the fact that there is no mechanism to do it. Ye Gods! What makes her think their opinions are bad? Oh, right, they are not hers. I cannot believe someone as stupid and immature as Tess is given any oxygen let alone a job as a journalist.
29 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 4:05pm
- MCos
  
  I agree that just because someone has an opinion one disagrees with is no reason to deny them oxygen.
  
  8 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:34pm
  - lifesgood
    
    I see what you did there. I am not denying her the right to have her opinions just amazed at the fact that she wants people with different opinions to her shut down. Also surprised that Radio NZ thought she was a worthy commenter….but then again, not.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 6:03pm
Swifty

Oh dear, another unsuccessful refugee story.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111480343/judges-difficult-sentencing-of-a-refugee-who-wont-stop-offending

Suck it up Kiwis.
15 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 4:13pm
- cmm
  
  Impossibles.
  
  stephie told us all the Somalis are quality people going to med school, so why isn’t he in Dunners?
  
  There are hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who would give their left eyeball to be given refugee status in New Zealand. Why do we give it to a bloke like this?
  
  21 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:31pm
- Nermal
  
  Don’t know what to do with him? Simple, deport him.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 5:28pm
- Jack5
  
  It’s one of those “diversity dividends” the multiculturists are always praising.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 5:43pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How the heck do these chaps with convictions in other countries get into NZ?

Who is vetting the refugees/immigrants?
16 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 4:25pm
- chaos
  
  We need to implement Australia’s law and deport these scumbags, but great news for them, labour is in and they won’t touch their voters.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:38pm
- cmm
  
  It is probably done by a spreadsheet and there’s a minus sign missing in one of the formulae.
  
  Yup, surely the first duty of immigration is to protect New Zealanders from people like this, Sroubek and others. Just growing up in a shit hole is not a free pass.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:38pm
- Swifty
  
  The Green Party has a policy of increasing the refugee intake to 4,000 per year – over the approximately 1,000 currently.
  
  Just imagine what sort of people will slip in when we quadruple the numbers of people to vet. Annually.
  
  I guarantee the quality of the vetting process will deteriorate significantly.
  
  The liars will not be weeded from the truth-tellers.
  
  The criminals will not be weeded from the crimeless.
  
  The corrupt will not be weeded from the honest.
  
  Those who regard women as second-class will not be weeded from the sound.
  
  All in all a recipe for disaster – the consequences of which will be borne by ordinary Kiwis. And you can be assured that Green Party MPs will run away from any responsibility while blaming Kiwis for being racist and not being welcoming enough.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 4:46pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Forgive me, but I feel a rant coming on…
    
    One thing I have observed about Kiwi culture is that no one takes responsibility for mistakes, and the public never holds them to account.
    For example, what was the name of the person who decided to undercut the Pakeha and Maori workers of this country with the importation of cheap Pacific Island labor in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
    Why has this person (and someone must have made the decision) never been identified and held to account?
    
    (I will entertain the idea that this decision was made (during the Cold War) to prevent the newly independent nations of the South Pacific from offering facilities to the Soviets or to the Chinese.)
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 5:46pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      I feel the same way about whatever committee signed off on the untreated timber framing that led to the umpty-billion $ leaky home thing.
      
      There must be a date where it happened and there must be some people who sat around the table and approved it. I have tried to get some of this info, but it all vanishes in smoke.
      
      6 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      September 26, 2019 6:13pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        The minutes of the meetings are in the archives somewhere. Whether or not anyone can access them is another matter.
        
        On the other hand, if people were held so responsible for the (unforseeable?) consequences of their actions (made in good faith?) then would any decisions ever be made in this country at all?
        
        4 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 6:32pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        @Od-S
        
        Fine. Estimated cost of this clusterfuck is a bit north of $10bn.
        
        I’m quite happy to see the people who did it named … shamed perhaps ..? They could even go public and claim it was unforeseeable.
        
        This is hugely more than most of the stuff that KB people get exercised about. Sunshine is the best disinfectant …
        
        3 0
        Report
        September 26, 2019 6:58pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  He came here under Klarkula’s regime with his parents and about a dozen siblings.
  I wonder if any of them have jobs.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 5:07pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  If the Greens cared about climate change they would be trying to keep all these immigrants in third world impoverishment with lower carbon emissions. Westerns are devils and they are trying to create more of them!
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 5:28pm
  - Swifty
    
    Ha! A good point UN.
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 5:48pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Wonder if this works here? She is back!
https://twitter.com/RealMiniAOC/status/1176903864194236417?fbclid=IwAR0ETHOtwhDDzNNzd0B-RpUlivRcH3kL8JVmFswivAYhaxD7p1zeB87_M98
5 1
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 5:10pm
cmm

Poor old Zimbabwe.

Having been a breadbasket to the region in the 1970s, now they can only feed a third of their population. Another third depend on international food aid and the last third have buggered off to South Africa.

Bread prices are up 500% since April, fuel scarce or unavailable. Electricity is only available a few hours a day. The Harare water treatment plant has shut down due to lack of chemicals and maintenance.

The cratering of the newly floated currency is being blamed on “financial terrorism” and “financial weapons of mass destruction”. How the hell they can say that with a straight face I don’t know.

Of course this is all blamed on sanctions and the West. No matter that Rhodesia was under far tighter sanctions in the 1970s and more than fed the whole country.

As with all these commie Comrades, the fat cats are getting fatter and the man on the street is getting shafted.
14 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 5:35pm
- Swifty
  
  Did you hear the story about Bob Jones visiting Zimbabwe and seeing both Mugabe and Smith’s houses?
  
  4 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 5:50pm
- MCos
  
  Sounds a bit like the Ireland my great grandfather left 150 years ago along with a third of the population.
  Famine killed more than a million people while the rest of the British Isles carried on as usual. Admittedly for the lower classes ‘usual’ wasn’t too flash in those days with a very poor life expectancy.
  I’m sure there’s lessons to be learned there somewhere.
  
  0 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 6:03pm
  - kowtow
    
    Most of the people who died in Ireland were in the western most regions , while the rest of Ireland carried on as usual .
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    September 26, 2019 6:47pm
igm

Yet another prospective Labour pervert commits a crime and is allowed to stay here.
He must be domiciled close to either Little or Ardern . . . this is the type of person PTPM has been greasing to since Peters had her installed into a position unworthy of her stupidity and naivety.
These are the types Ardern is attempting to open NZ borders to accommodate!
12 4
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 5:44pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111480343/judges-difficult-sentencing-of-a-refugee-who-wont-stop-offending

Solution No. 1: send him back
Solution No. 2: shoot the bastard, then send him back
14 3
Log in to Reply
Report
September 26, 2019 6:16pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Of what benefit to the nation are refugees from dysfunctional societies and from cultures that hate the cultures of the West and the Far East?
  
  Do we take them in so that civil servants can gain plum positions in foreign organizations after they retire?
  
  In whose name is this done? For whom and for what good?
  
  17 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  September 26, 2019 6:52pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEBT: Why does the fastest growing Selwyn District Council have such remarkably low current and projected debt levels ( current 108.7% ratio ) ? …

Infometrics shows that council debt levels have been rising over the last decade and are scheduled to rise further in the next decade as revenues are insufficient for replacement projects, let alone growth projects … Brad Olsen … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/101846/infometrics-shows-council-debt-levels-have-been-rising-over-last-decade-and-are

With local elections in full swing, there’s a greater focus on the direction that our councils are moving towards and how much is it going to cost. … read more via hyperlink above …
.
.
… If all Councils performed like the Selwyn District Council (adjoining Christchurch), we would not have an unnecessary housing crisis …

Statistics NZ … Building Consents Issued … July 2019

https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/building-consents-issued-july-2019

… check graphs 5 & 6 2017 Information Page http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
.
.
… with grossly unaffordable housing (the worst in the Anglosphere at about 6.5 times household earnings nationally) being … by a country mile … REPEATEDLY the major public concern … as the regular IPSOS NZ Issues Monitors remind us …

The IPSOS New Zealand Issues Monitor – July 2019

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2019-08/6th_ipsos_new_zealand_issues_monitor_released_1_aug_19.pdf
1 0
Log in to Reply
Report
September 27, 2019 6:29am

Add a Comment Cancel reply

Login to comment or vote

« Wellington shafted by Labour Mayor and Greens

A strong case for impeachment »

Donations

You can now donate to Kiwiblog

Exclusive content from DPF on Patreon

Become a Patron!

Never miss a post

Email Address

Join 37.4K other subscribers

Highlights

Health Target 5 – elective treatments
Health Target 4 – Specialist appointments
Health Target 3 – Emergency Dept Waiting Times
Health Target 2 – Immunisations

Links

D-day for the government
No Right Turn
15 YEARS AGO: Now a more bigoted state
Not PC
Upheaval in the House after haka holds up vote on Treaty Principles Bill – and one Maori Party “no” vote was not counted
Point of Order
Daily review 14/11/2024
The Standard
TDB Daily Reading List 14th November 2024 – Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Politics opinion daily reading list
The Daily Blog
A NEW DEGREE COURSE FOR MASSEY
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
Word of the day
Hompaddock
Greenpeace And The Green Party Would Never Tell You This About Penguins.
No Minister
A Day of Reckoning
NZCPR
Trump’s victory: Golden age or fiscal reckoning?
Utopia
“Trans & Pregnant” – Biology trumps gender ideology
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
Media Link: “A View from Afar” on the US elections.
Kiwipolitico
This will not end well
Offsetting Behaviour
Top 14 Predictions for Round 10
Stats Chat
Pretty (il)legal
Croaking Cassandra
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker
Angie Warren-Clark: Meet the Newbies
Dan Moskovitz

editor@kiwiblog.co.nz

PO Box 12270, Thorndon, Wellington 6144

Facebook
Twitter
FourSquare
Instagram
LinkedIn
Google+

Archives
Disclosure Statement
Editorial Policy
Privacy Policy
Complaints Policy
Comments Policy

Design by cre8d