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krazykiwi

First Brazil tells the UN to bugger off with their Climate Talkfest.

Now Chile has done likewise, just 5 weeks from the opening.

Think of all the logistics issue with the pre-ordered champagne and lobster. Think of all the private charter jet leases, and flight planning. Think about the 5-star hotels with empty rooms now.

Most of all, think about how your money pays for all this.
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October 31, 2019 8:02am
- pdm
  
  Think of the shirt order.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:51am
  - Ruawai
    
    And the save the turtles rubber wrist bands.
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:29am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  How dare they!
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:54am
artemisia

About requiring gang members to show how they paid for assets –

In 2016 MSD produced an analysis of welfare paid to gang members in 2013/2014 (2 years). Estimated average per person $132,000 – more than half a billion dollars over that period. Not sure if these numbers have been updated, but likely to be a lot more now.

And in the report an example of data sharing –

“Of the total 3,960 known gang members, 27 percent (1,056) were recorded by Child, Youth and Family as being the alleged perpetrators of substantiated abuse or neglect of children (noting limitations around the completeness of historical data).”

http://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/research/research-on-gangs-and-their-cost/gang-members-contact-with-the-msd-service-lines-for-publication-march-2016.docx
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October 31, 2019 8:04am
- BobbyS
  
  Along this vein, is there something inherently “askew” with a small minority of NZers.
  We hear of crime stats, child abuse, welfare dependency, not immunising kids, high bullying rates etc and i honestly start to wonder are the people who appear in these statistics more often than not the same %?
  Are there, say 2% of the population (100,000 people) who are leading the charge in all these horrible stats?
  If we eliminated these 100k misfits would the state pay less welfare, our hospitals be less over burdened, our police and courts less busy?
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:50am
  - Michael
    
    I always understood the criminal underclass was roughly 6%.
    with a % of them being in Prison at any one time.
    
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    October 31, 2019 8:58am
    - BobbyS
      
      F$#k me!!! You telling me there are nearly 300,000 misfits in NZ?
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:46am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Please provide more details of your plan to ‘eliminate’ 100,000 New Zealanders.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:15am
    - andrew davies
      
      Scare quotes aside, it is not difficult mikey. If you change incentives you can incentivise positive choices and change behaviour. Removing welfare from gang members removes an incentive for negative behaviour so is part of the process. Simple really.
      Now mikey, have you got a hard question?
      
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      October 31, 2019 9:51am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Maybe we could cancel national superannuation for the top 20% of earners and use the savings for intensive support for the most vulnerable?
        
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        October 31, 2019 11:05am
      - alloytoo
        
        @Milky Maybe we could cancel national superannuation for the top 20% of earners and use the savings for intensive support for the most vulnerable?
        
        Assuming that the top 20% earners (apart from Winston) actually do claim Super, I doubt the saving on Super would amount to very much.
        
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        October 31, 2019 11:16am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        NZ super is about $15Billion a year, more than health or education. 20%= $3Billion a year.
        
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        October 31, 2019 2:17pm
      - andrew davies
        
        Mikey, do you mean over and above the intensive support the most vulnerable receive already?
        
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        October 31, 2019 2:30pm
    - The Proper Ghandi
      
      Send them to Somalia? They could use some diversity.
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:20am
  - artemisia
    
    Tough on gangs will play well with almost all of the voting population. Especially the taxpayers. Not sure where that leaves the COL. Has Mr Peters come out with an opinion?
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:40am
    - BobbyS
      
      Why is it then that during the Chch tragedy the MSM insisting on running articles that tried to imply the gangs were “really nice guys deep down”?
      Is this another confirmation that NZ MSM have completely lost touch with most NZers?
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:49am
Scott

Why is what is happening in America relevant to NZ? Why should we care about Pres Trump and his agenda?

America is on the up. It’s economy is booming, unemployment is at a 50 year low and manufacturing is on the increase. America is now energy independent. On the social front the rise of political correctness has been stopped. Pro life legislation is being enacted in some states to protect the unborn child. America is not introducing euthanasia, the government is not pushing homosexuality and transgender issues.
In world affairs America is building up a strong military for defence while bringing their soldiers home and trying to end needless foreign entanglements.

In NZ it’s the exact opposite. Our government and our media are in the thrall of political correctness. The socialists in charge continue to attack the family unit with euthanasia for the elderly and abortion right up to the point of birth for the unborn child. Socialists don’t like the family because strong families are outside of their control.
Economically we have centralised planning and funding. None of the government projects have succeeded including their flagship programme Kiwibuild, which has all but been abandoned.
Business confidence is down and unemployment appears to be a continuing concern. Oil and gas exploration has been stopped by government fiat.
Socially, political correctness rules, and we are taught to be ashamed of our past as racist and white men are to blame for everything especially sexism. The treaty of waitangi grievances will not be settled in our lifetime.

Our government has no plans for national greatness. Instead we are on course for economic decline. The American president wants his country to be great again. Our prime minister dreams of the democratic socialist Republic of aotearoa.

That’s why America matters to us. We are on precisely the wrong course in every area of our national life. National greatness is possible but not with this government aided and abetted by our mainstream media.
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October 31, 2019 8:04am
- tf78
  
  Scott, I totally agree with you on all fronts.
  Last night I watched a great doco “Margaret Thatcher – Death of a Revolutionary”. Before Margaret took power reminds me so much of the here and now in NZ. Well worth a look if you have and hour or so to spare. She was a marvelous woman.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:04am
  - igm
    
    tf78: We need someone like her here, and without too much ado our Opposition could sort this problem out now.
    There have only ever been two female leaders of any substance (Thatcher and Meir) and I reckon there is a third sitting in the wings with National that must make a run soon.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:57am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Nope. I am a fervent National supporter; I admire the majority of National women MP’s (can’t say that about ANY female gummermint MP) but, none can be compared to Baroness Thatcher or Golda Meir
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:26am
Maggie Pie

My partners mum reckons they should hang out a Shingle:

BECROFT & FOON
– idiots at large –

LOL!!
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October 31, 2019 8:05am
Maggy Wassilieff

Why is it taking so long to sort out this duplicating weather mess?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018719905/funding-two-bodies-to-produce-the-same-weather-forecast
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October 31, 2019 8:12am
- srylands
  
  It does seem odd. Can’t the government just direct NIWA to focus on research and give up forecasting?
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:19am
  - G152
    
    Hey leave them alone.
    Dont you realise just how hard it is to generate a climate disaster out of nothing
    Keeping up the panic must be hard when each day they see evidence that their fraud is becoming evident…
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:12am
  - rouppe
    
    What’s the point of research if you cant use the knowledge that you gain to apply to current and future weather planning?
    
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    October 31, 2019 3:25pm
- sooty
  
  But they produce a different forcast each!
  Maybe they should share info so they both get the same.
  Because which one do you believe?
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:22am
  - BobbyS
    
    We have two wrong forecasts to moan about, one is enough
    
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    October 31, 2019 8:52am
  - John Warren
    
    Average the two.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:07am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  I can only assume that somehow, Phil Twyford is involved, but he’s going to claim he’s not been told about it……again.
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:28am
  - BobbyS
    
    How is that complete muppet not out on his ear?
    How weak and indecisive is the #PTPM?
    He has to be the most inept MP ever to have walked this earth
    
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    October 31, 2019 8:53am
    - Poppa
      
      You forgot Mahuta
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:41am
    - freethinker
      
      Probably right for NZ but check out some UK MP’s like Diane Abbott to see real Phd levels of incompetence and confusion and she is far from alone.
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:45am
    - rouppe
      
      Alamein Kopu?
      
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      October 31, 2019 3:27pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        It would be a crowded field.
        
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        October 31, 2019 3:56pm
  - Bell-47
    
    I saw Twyford this morning in his ministerial BMW entering the North Western Motorway. I gestured to him while I was side by side, he didn’t seem bothered..much like his performance as a minister.
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:04am
- cmm
  
  Jobs for activists. Two supercomputers – no wonder it’s getting hot around here!
  
  All government agencies suffer mission creep. NIWA was supposed to be focused on atmospheric research then got into “climate” and then into weather. They need their bush pruned back to what they are supposed to be doing.
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:28am
- mikenmildagain
  
  It’s been a mess for years. NIWA is supposed to stay out of daily forecasting, but both agencies have strong incentives to seek as much commericial revenue as they can get.
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:43am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Enjoy the update from NASA: “Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade Favorable for Exploration”. Solar activity is severely declining.
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/29/25-for-25/
    
    A Maunder Minimum again?
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:54am
- Jules99
  
  Sounds like they should open it up to competition. Fund data collection and publish it so that private forecasters can provide the services people want.
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:52am
hullkiwi

So, what has Twitford done or not done today?
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October 31, 2019 8:12am
- hullkiwi
  
  I heard last night that Twitford acknowledged he had given an incorrect answer to a question in Parliament and will set the record straight on the next sitting day.
  
  Sorry, but he has now been caught out twice lying to Parliament as a minister. When is he going to face sanction for being less than Honourable?
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:24am
  - sooty
    
    What’s he done? Not very much!
    But then he never has. Because that would involve shutting his trap and he does like the sound of his own voice!
    
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    October 31, 2019 8:50am
- freethinker
  
  Hullkiwi @8.12
  Anything useful or valuable to NZ.
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:46am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Nope…
    
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    October 31, 2019 1:47pm
DigNap15

Its a riveting GD today its 8:12 am, and this is the first post.

[Mod: 12 minutes? Seriously? You set very high standards for others DigNap]
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October 31, 2019 8:13am
The Proper Ghandi

This is what Bastiat meant about ‘the seen and the unseen.’ So Dunedin gets a $60,000,000 injection of funds. That is the seen. What about the unseen – how much more activity could have been generated if the Government had not taken that cash from taxpayers in the first place? All to bride credulous voters, of course. Quid pro quo anybody?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/60m-boost-dunedin
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October 31, 2019 8:13am
- cmm
  
  But the pollies can’t take credit for the unseen…
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:31am
- KevO'Brien
  
  This is electioneering bounty not reality.
  $20m for the Hillside workshops is chickenfeed. Likely 10x that amount would be required for productive facilities. However there is little demand and we no long build steam locos in NZ.
  SJ is showing his Maori trickster side. Not proper at Cabinet level.
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:00am
Maggie Pie

There’s a game to play here: 😛

1: Can you give names and occupations of those in the pic?
2: Provide a suitable caption.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIF50b6UEAIQVjQ?format=png&name=small
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October 31, 2019 8:13am
- sooty
  
  Ho’s on a street corner!
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:52am
- BobbyS
  
  The aura of entitlement and ineptness hangs around longer than the legacy of any success ever achieved by this gaggle of misfits
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:55am
  - Im Right
    
    BobbyS, can anyone honestly believe that Alison Mau would have been the ‘champion’ of women’s rights (#meetoo, plus feminist rants in her newspaper column) if she hadn’t come out as a lesbian? If she was still married to Simon Dallow?….answer is NO….sheer virtue signalling at it’s worst! ‘Im a lesbian, therefore I can speak for all women as I’m now a minority’ ppfffft!!
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:06am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  “The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse”
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:01am
- freethinker
  
  The four fuckwits.
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:50am
- cut n paster
  
  Another disappointing front row!
  
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  October 31, 2019 1:19pm
Paulus

I am interested to read that a large percentage of Kiwisaver participants want their funds to be invested in safe and green companies.
Surely that is short sighted as you would expect that their rich fund managers would suggest that they be allowed to get the highest return possible without “social political’ interference.
This over time would seriously diminish the returns to the saver owners without them really having any idea.
The fund managers win every time of course as they still get their cut all the time irrespective of the return to the savers who really do not have a clue as to how their money is being spent on their behalf.
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October 31, 2019 8:15am
- cmm
  
  It comes down to how the questions were phrased.
  
  If everything else was equal they would rather invest in green companies than arms manufacturers.
  
  But the thing is that there are not many “safe and green” companies. You cannot have your cake and eat it. Most virtue signalling green companies are poorly run and have poor returns because they are run by numpties.
  
  The real question they should ask is this: how much are you prepared to give away to have a “green investment”?
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:38am
  - artemisia
    
    Meridian is a pretty green company, and woke. Just saying.
    
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    October 31, 2019 8:55am
    - cmm
      
      Meridian have crystal filters in their wires. Only pure environmentally friendly electrons get through.
      
      This prevents any of that dirty coal and gas-based electricity getting onto the Meridian network and going to Meridian customers.
      
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      October 31, 2019 9:46am
- alloytoo
  
  No one asked me where I wanted the funds invested.
  
  I call bullshit on their claims.
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:45am
- BobbyS
  
  Bull shit!
  If they said Oil & Gas is returning 7% & Solar is returning 4% – I’d say invest in O&G
  If the tide changed and the returns flipped then I’d flip my investments
  I’m not too proud to say I will invest where the money is so I don’t have to rely on any govt to fund me in my retirement and the more people that take charge of their own future and reduce the liability on the nation is what all good citizens should do
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:58am
  - cmm
    
    If they said solar is returning -4% that would probably be more accurate.
    
    Are people prepared to “invest” in loss-making ventures?
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:29am
hullkiwi

Who the f**k is Moanga Jackson, other than a bitter individual with a colonial education and profession as a lawyer, and a twisted and blinkered perspective on history?
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October 31, 2019 8:15am
- sooty
  
  So, do tell us, who is he?
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:53am
- Ian Boag
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Moana Jackson.
  
  What do you want to know that isn’t on his Wikipedia page? By the same token, who the f**k are you – a serial KB whinger …. 🙂
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:03am
  - sooty
    
    Someones got some seriouse butt hurt today!
    Why the hell would I go and look at his wikipedia page? You must be related?
    It was pure guesswork, was it male or female!
    edit
    So you never answered the question, who is it?
    
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    October 31, 2019 10:23am
  - Jack5
    
    You can hear Jackson at the link below talking about what he sees as the difference between Western law, specifically English law, and Maori customs and rules.
    
    He says rape, in English law was originally a property offence (of the women’s owner) whereas for Maori it was punishable by death.
    
    No mention, of course, of Maori slavery, including of women, and cannabilism of slaves, or facts like women not being able to speak at marae. Were there Maori women chiefs?
    
    The interviewer shows his partiality by asking what Jackson sees as the differences between “imposed colonial law” and “Maori law”.
    
    Wikipedia says Jackson specialises in Waitangi Treaty and constitutional issues. He lectures at the Otaki wanga (Maori tertiary instituion) as part of its Maori philosophy and laws course.
    
    Jackson’s brother, Syd, was a prominent Maori activist and trade unionist. The brothers’ nephew is Wily Willie Jackson, the Labour list MP who, in the term of the last National Government, pulled off the coup that gave Maori control of Radio NZ.
    
    The (very short) video clip of Moana Jackson):
    
    https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/42677/moana-jackson
    
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    October 31, 2019 10:30am
oldpark

Not a good look and a travesty of justice and fair play.Here we have our Ombudsman Peter Boshier from an office once known as the epitome of neutrality,found wanting in a report regarding an alleged threatening letter to the Wellington City Council regarding road funding.
Yes it was a letter from a woman representing the far left lunatic Green Party .Allegations say that Julie Ann Genter threatened huge ramifications for NZs if the Wellington City Council didnt back down on wanting a second tunnel for Wellington to ease traffic gridlock.
Boshier decided not to release the whole threatening letter ,what a bloody disgrace. Who do us as NZs now turn to when we want a fair hearing and some justice from our once so called neutral office of the Ombudsman. Obviously not Peter Boshier as his latest censorship of the letter from Julie Ann Genter for the far left lunatic Green Party.Is not a good look,what is being hidden ,and why.
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October 31, 2019 8:16am
- Poppa
  
  I totally agree with that.
  
  That Genter has far too much influence, probably due to the fact Twyford is so inept
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:39am
  - Raphael
    
    Yeah. as much as I dislike her and her politics JAG is intelligent and competent (and as bat-poop crazy as they come )
    
    And then you have Twyford who needs shoes with Left and Right written on them.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:49am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      That’s a great tip! I’m going to write that on all my shoes.
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:09am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Here’s another Mikey, get your knickers from C & A
        
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        October 31, 2019 10:30am
      - Im Right
        
        You should also write C & A on your underpants too Mike! ?
        
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        October 31, 2019 10:31am
      - sooty
        
        Clit on the front and arse on the back!
        
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        October 31, 2019 12:00pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Genter is at least equally inept as Twford.
    Let her dig her desired 2nd tunnel to nowhere. Her green colleagues should assist with digging sticks and light provided by their bike dynamos from furious peddling. A 500 year project of virtue signalling.
    
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    October 31, 2019 10:08am
    - cut n paster
      
      “light provided by their bike dynamos from furious peddling.”
      That would be back peddling as that is the only direction they exert any effort in….. and this only produces negative energy..
      
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      October 31, 2019 1:39pm
- hullkiwi
  
  This is the same neutral Ombudsman who ruled against the release of the agreement between Labour and NZ First.
  
  When National and allies have a majority in Parliament are they going to seek the resignation of the office holder in the position of Chief Ombudsman. Because instead of being neutral, Boshier has shown himself to be very partisan!
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:42am
  - alloytoo
    
    Perhaps someone will leak the whole thing. Clearly Bishop has a copy.
    
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    October 31, 2019 8:46am
    - freethinker
      
      alloytoo
      Release just as the General Election is announced and posted on prominent billboards in Wellington.
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:57am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Whilst I would love Genter’s letter to be released, Boshier has compelled her to release enough of it for her credibility to have taken a major hit.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:00am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Tony, I think you are assuming too much here. That is, that Genter had any credibility in the first place to lose. I am reliably informed by transport sector insiders who have met with both Twitford and Genter in their ministerial capacities, and my contacts confirm Genter has no credibility.
      
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      October 31, 2019 9:08am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Fair point 😀
        
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        October 31, 2019 10:04am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      She had credibility?
      
      I missed that memo, sorry.
      
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      October 31, 2019 9:30am
  - Nookin
    
    Because instead of being neutral, Boshier has shown himself to be very partisan!
    
    Quite a sweeping statement based on 2 decisions with which you clearly disagree for political reasons . I have not read the decision but did look at the issue when it first arose and took the view that this outcome was more likely than not – i.e. it was correspondence or documentation that should be withheld to ensure free and frank discussion.
    
    Perhaps you could elaborate on your view of partisanship and explain, just where did the ombudsman err in his interpretation and application of the legislation?
    
    What he has done is order the release of some of the information based on waiver of confidentiality. That is quite enough to show that the Associate Minister is a belligerent table thumper and is prone to throwing toys out of cots.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:20am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Some confidentiality must be available otherwise all us sideline amateurs would be running the “government”. Democracy is not demolition.
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:14am
  - chaos
    
    Why would national do that, they believed in him enough to appoint him the position.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:40am
- mikenmildagain
  
  It is actually quite a strong decision against Genter. She and Twyford have been forced to release the substance of the letter, and she has been critcised by the ombudsman for creating confusion about whether she wrote the letter as a minster or as a Greens spokesperson.
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:58am
- Ruahine
  
  Perhaps reappointment is coming due.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:13am
  - Ruahine
    
    Perhaps a bit of perspective is called for.
    
    https://thestandard.org.nz/which-national-party-muppet-appointed-peter-boshier-to-be-chief-ombudsman/
    
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    October 31, 2019 10:35am
- themanwhowatches
  
  Julie Anne Genter. A woman of extreme ideology representing a party of often extreme, and frequently incomprehensible, policies. An Associate Minister only because Winston “not in it for the baubles of office” Peters gave the fingers to the entire country by going with a coalition which he knew would be dependent on the very Greens he claimed he would never work with. Julie Anne Genter, apparently an expert on Wellington transport issues, lives in Auckland. Her engagement with Wellington transport is minimal. Takes it upon herself to demand public transport options ahead of improvements to road traffic, despite there being no business case yet established for any public transport options. Considers walking and cycling projects are more important than fixing the gridlock that occurs every day around (for example) Evans Bay, the Mount Victoria tunnel, the Basin Reserve, the laughable “inner city bypass”, the Terrace tunnel, the SH 1 interchange….. and countless other choke points. Clearly Ms Julie Anne Genter gives less than two hoots for the Wellington taxpayers who get caught up in this mess nearly every day, and will have very little personal experience of them, yet demands that her narrow view of the issues be the one, and only, answer to them. Takes it upon herself to write to her more senior Minister of Transport, confused about in what capacity she is doing so, and then until forced to do otherwise refuses to say what she said and why. If that’s not telling Wellington taxpayers they can go and get stuffed I don’t know what is. When forced to reveal the nature of what she did say she carefully avoids any mention of the coercion and threats that the Opposition spokesperson clearly has evidence of. Did she or did she not threaten to bring down the Coalition? We may never know, but what we do know is that this Associate Minister has the extreme arrogance to tell Wellingtonians that her demands – those of an Aucklander with no skin in the game and an ideologically driven zealot – are the only answers to Wellington’s transport problems they are going to get, and then to double down by attempting by all means possible to avoid accountability for them.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:30am
  - hullkiwi
    
    tmww, please note:
    
    The American who goes by the name of Julie-Ann Genter is as much an Aucklander (not), as are most of the senior Executive Leadership Team of Auckland Transport. Who in their infinite wisdom are giving Auckland transport solutions from Australia, the UK and South Africa. That is they are giving Auckland what they know from their homelands rather than knowing the transport needs of Auckland and Aucklanders!
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:57am
    - alloytoo
      
      South African public transport solutions involve giving taxi-driver’s Hiace’s, rating them at 16 seats and supplying the conductor with an AK47 as a competitive advantage.
      
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      October 31, 2019 11:22am
      - hullkiwi
        
        True. In Auckland, a South African and a POM have given us the Devonport Rideshare scheme and they have put forward plans to extend it further….
        
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        October 31, 2019 1:51pm
- chaos
  
  I respect his decision, this is a man that was appointed to the job by the Key government. I would have doubts if it was a recent person appointed by the Labour Party. Looking at his profile I realise he is more than suited for the job. Just because it is not the ruling that people wanted doesn’t mean he was wrong.
  
  http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/about-us/who-is-the-ombudsman
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:39am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The Ombudsman role is a judicial one so they will be well vetted. I have had matters before them and they have been professional throughout.
    We are more likely to be partisan as them. We tend to oppose–they have a duty to examine and see that law is maintained, not what we would like.
    
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    October 31, 2019 10:23am
- DJ Ward
  
  As a former Family Court Judge, what did you expect.
  Protecting women is his modus operandi. Also why he got the job he presently has. Proven history of selling his soul to the devil, to protect his puppet masters.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:53am
  - chaos
    
    So you are claiming the key government installed a corrupt person for the job?
    
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    October 31, 2019 10:18am
AgainstTheFlow

The British electrical contest is between the unspeakable Boris versus the unelectable Corbyn.
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October 31, 2019 8:21am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  If one is unelectable then it’s not really a contest. And the winner is usually unspeakable. That’s how democracy works.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:17am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  I’m not so sure it is that simple. I know they are still under an FPP system, so it makes it hard to break the stranglehold of the moribund long established parties (aka Tories and Labour) but this situation is totally unprecedented: democracy itself is on the line here.
  
  Make no mistake, many many working class typically Labour supporters, particularly up North, want out of the EU. Corbyn and Labour clearly do not want this to occur, as they are pro-EU – Big Government as exemplified by the EU is their aphrodisiac. These areas are now heavily populated with Islamic economic migrants, and the demographics are unrecognisable as against 30 or 40 years ago. They want the mass influx to cease, and to regain their national sovereignty.
  
  It is not just these areas either – mostly only London and the other big Metro areas are Remainers. They are totally out of touch with the simmering reality in rest of the UK.
  
  Despite the Trump-style character assassination that Farage is subjected to (because he is feared by the Establishment), he is a very astute politician, with the added extra of being successful outside of politics, and wants to rein in the Federal European madness, so beloved of the ‘elites’. Don’t underestimate the Brexit Party.
  
  In general, the Tories don’t want to conserve anything, and we know that Labour hate themselves and the UK in general. I hope they are both wiped out.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:23am
  - freethinker
    
    alloytoo
    Release just as the General Election is announced and posted on prominent billboards in Wellington.
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:03am
- namron
  
  What are the conditions, influences etc in the British “electrical” contest??
  
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  October 31, 2019 1:05pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Watt? Looking at current events, will there be sufficient resistance to short-circuit Boris Johnson’s high voltage plans for Brexit?
    
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    October 31, 2019 2:44pm
kevn

I see MSM (Stuff) has easily caught twyford out, ‘twyfording’. Or in MSM speak, ‘memory lapses’.
Clown govt.
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October 31, 2019 8:24am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Indeed. Thomas Couglan from Stuff has done an outstanding job exposing Twyford’s ineptitude. The money quote is this one:
  
  If you asked someone to look after $4 billion for you, you’d think you might remember it.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117020181/the-true-cost-of-phil-tywfords-billion-dollar-memory-lapses
  
  I’m torn over Twyford. Part of me wants the Prime Minister to do the right thing and sack him. But another part of me wants her to leave him where he is because he is doing massive damage to the government.
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:41am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Plus he’s a weapons grade cock. It’s almost forgivable to be invisible and incompetent, but that isn’t Twyford.
    
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    October 31, 2019 8:51am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Indeed. He has one of those instantly unlikable personalities.
      
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      October 31, 2019 9:03am
      - freethinker
        
        And is good company in the Beehive which proliferates so many horrid people.
        
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        October 31, 2019 11:05am
    - alex Masterley
      
      What gets me is that instead of a cloud of smug following him around, the cloud of smug actually turns up in advance and sets up camp while it waits for him to turn up. Astonishing.
      
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      October 31, 2019 9:16am
      - Swifty
        
        I’ve noticed that in him – reminiscent of Lord Cunners of Herne Bay.
        
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        October 31, 2019 9:58am
      - Nookin
        
        A week or so ago TVNZ, in its infinite wisdom, thought that its viewers might like to hear the government’s thoughts on the performance of the leader of the opposition.
        They approached the Honourable Philip Twyford who in the most smug and patronising tone expressed the view that Bridges “was probably doing his best”. The sarcasm was dripping.
        
        He is, surely, the most unlikeable and obnoxious members of the government (just as he was the most obnoxious member of the opposition before the election). He has now excelled. Quite apart from being obnoxious and unlikable, he is incompetent and his word appears untrustworthy.
        
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        October 31, 2019 10:01am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Not unlike the cloak of arrogance swirling around the single pensioner of St Mary’s Bay
        
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        October 31, 2019 10:36am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Good asset for National. Let him continue to be an A grade jerkoff.
    National 2020
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:05am
  - Ruahine
    
    A very good piece by Thomas Couglan. I do not think he will be getting invited to the Ortega Fish Shack.
    Interestingly Stuff is not allowing comments. I wonder why.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:08am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      Stuff rarely allow comments on any (especially political) articles now. People making the comments are too honest.
      
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      October 31, 2019 2:13pm
  - John Warren
    
    Leave him there. It’s only another year. Never disturb your enemy when they’re in the middle of fucking everything up.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:12am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    If she sacks him too far out from the election, she risks revealing that the next person is just as bad.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:18am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    You have to question the IQ of the clowns living in Te Atatū who keep electing him election after election.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:28am
    - Paulus
      
      Perhaps he will announce soon that he will not stand for Te Atatu, and be selected (by Cindy) for a list position.
      Andy and the Unions can put a true Union person there.
      Bet he will not stand again.
      
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      October 31, 2019 1:47pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  Yes Stuff have decided to go for Twyford today with a couple of negative articles on him
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:09am
Yvette

The [agriculture] sector accounts for nearly half of our country’s contribution to climate change,

“But it’s truly astounding that the strongest option put forward by the Government to deal with our biggest emitter is to delay action for another two years, after which agri-business will pay a paltry 5 per cent of their emissions that they will then receive back as incentives.”

At the current NZ ETS price of $25 per tonne, and with a 95 per cent discount, the average dairy farm would incur a price of one cent per kg of milk solids. Critics have argued this is a measly figure that only amounts to a symbolic gesture.
The Government points out this in line with [95%] discounts that have been offered to other industries.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12249957

I wonder how the Labour sex scandal inquiry and Ihumātao are progressing?
Solving agriculture emissions isn’t.
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October 31, 2019 8:36am
- DJ Ward
  
  99% of absorbed carbon, is the result of farming.
  
  You townies need to pay farmers for your consumerism that creates the pollution.
  
  Grass collects CO2, converts to milk, consumed, CO2 released. 0 sum game.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:57am
  - Ed Snack
    
    As I’ve said before, how you account for the various sinks and sources of “carbon” will change what “answers” you get.
    
    And we still basically use the accounting mechanisms established at Kyoto where the intent wasn’t to actually attempt to factually and scientifically actually measure emissions but to establish politically convenient results. So using those as a guide we are more than likely taking a series of actions that will actually increase real emissions while sort of reducing “nominal” emissions in politically correct ways.
    
    We should also note that NZ’s CH4 emissions are utterly insignificant on a world scale and always will be. Making significant efforts to reduce it is a complete waste of money and time. A true accounting would note that grass not eaten by a ruminant eventually dies and decays producing CH4 – and that the growing of grass consumes “carbon” as well. Grazing certainly promotes growth so both absorption and emissions are increased by grazing, but that affect is entirely ignored at present.
    
    False accounting = fake results.
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:12am
- freethinker
  
  Still waiting for the Young Labour sex pest to be sentenced – probably not until 1/1/2021
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:08am
Simon

Phil Twyford favour of the month. – (Incompetent lying delusional clown- Its on the back of his card.)

He got a pol science degree, then worked as a “journalist” at Auckland Star, onto “union organizer” then helped set up Oxfarm NZ then parliament in 2008.

Basically he is shit weight for wider NZ society all his working life. Hustle hustle and clipping the ticket on the way through. That’s Phi and most of Labour.

No one in Labour seem not have any real skill sets but to get on in Labour connections are everything.
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October 31, 2019 8:37am
- sooty
  
  Is that why Oxfam have never done very well in NZ? Twyford made them in his own image and doomed them to be never was?
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:33am
- freethinker
  
  No one in Labour seem not have any real skill sets but to get on in Labour connections are everything.
  
  Does that include sexual ones – asking for a friend!
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:09am
- stephieboy
  
  Simon, share with us your unrivalled “skills set”?
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:14am
Tasman Terror

Should Twyford go? We need to have that conversation.
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October 31, 2019 8:41am
- chaos
  
  No he shouldn’t he is doing a fine job of showing what labour are like
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:42am
Tasman Terror

Should Twyford go? We need to have that conversation.
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October 31, 2019 8:42am
- sooty
  
  Nah, He’s the brightest spark they have!
  
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  October 31, 2019 8:57am
Maggie Pie

With a job like mine, you often learn something new every night.
I thought this might be worth sharing with the group…..

From the ‘Book of Mormon’

SOAKING: A practice used by some young Mormons to engage in premarital sexual activity without angering God. Basically, a guy “soaks” his penis inside a girl without moving, because it’s the ‘motion’ that makes it a sin.
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October 31, 2019 8:50am
- sooty
  
  Did someone get pregnant?
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:00am
- Ruahine
  
  Is that where the advertising slogan ‘you’re soaking in it’ comes from?
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:02am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL! [Although probably not that funny really, Ruahine]
    We actually had a case of ‘Penis Captivus’ present last night
    – first time in my 25 years
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:23am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      How do you de captivate???
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:01am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Years ago when I worked in the health system, we had a fellow present at A&E with his foreskin caught in his zip. The Scottish, female House Surgeon noted in the record that it was “removed by sleight of hand”!
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:08am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I could enquire as to how your patient(s) presented, but as I haven’t had my morning coffee yet, I don’t think I could cope with the information.
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:09am
      - sooty
        
        Are you saying Maggie Pie, he had his dick court in a furry vise!
        Two people would overload a stretcher. You could have just dumped a bucket of cold water over them and saved a callout for the ambulance
        
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        October 31, 2019 10:39am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Having been in that situation only the once in my life Maggie, i understand when women talk about the pain in childbirth . . .
        
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        October 31, 2019 10:40am
    - SGA
      
      From what I have just read, ‘Penis Captivus’ is extremely rare, and your experience is worthy of publication in a medical journal.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_captivus
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:18am
- SGA
  
  From the ‘Book of Mormon’
  SOAKING:
  
  Where in the ‘Book of Mormon’ is that?
  
  There’s enough strange about LDS without having to pretend that’s part of their mainstream teachings.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:14am
  - SGA
    
    I’m reminded of the Garfunkel and Oates song “The Loophole” – (the devout may find this offensive, so caveat emptor, enter at your own risk, etc)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ZF_R_j0OY
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:27am
- John Warren
  
  Sounds like there was some tense negotiating with God before that agreement got signed.
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:30am
- cmm
  
  Where does the chicken salt go?
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:31am
- Rich Prick
  
  Today, I have learned something new. Something I would never have Googled in a million years.
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:08am
Tasman Terror

It’s Halloween tonight. Can somebody please tell Twyford? He could go door to door in his crown limo doing thick or bleat.
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October 31, 2019 8:51am
- Maggie Pie
  
  We’ll be doing what we always do for Halloween.
  Closing all the drapes about 4 o’clock and putting our sign on the gate –
  
  “FUCK OFF YOU LITTLE SHEETS.
  THIS IS NOT AMERICA”
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:12am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Railing against Amercan influences while calling your curtains ‘drapes’?
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:49am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      At least they match the carpet 😛
      Yours?
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:15am
      - sooty
        
        Good one, you are a barrel of laughs!
        
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        October 31, 2019 10:40am
  - chaos
    
    That takes care of certain immigrants, but what about the kids?
    
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    October 31, 2019 10:20am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Honestly Chaos, every year we get dozens of old Ford Transit vans coming over from South Auckland. They let all their kids loose in the Avenue – most don’t even bother changing out of school uniform! They knock on the door, yell out, “Trick or Treat”, and if you don’t answer, they pull all the Macrame baskets off the Verandah and pee on the Jasmine 🙁
      
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      October 31, 2019 11:11am
      - chaos
        
        See you need to leave Auckland. We had three trick or treaters last year and all three the parents went around the houses before asking if they could bring their child around, they even supplied the candy and gave us some for the trouble.
        
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        October 31, 2019 11:19am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        CANDY?? It’s a twenty-buck note here these days or they threaten to kidnap the poodle for dog fighting!
        
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        October 31, 2019 11:45am
      - chaos
        
        Give them the poodle then, just don’t tell them it’s not yours
        
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        October 31, 2019 1:43pm
      - SGA
        
        Candy, not lollies or sweets 🙂 – again the US English creep. Been a while since I’ve heard the word “lorry” too. Have hood and trunk largely replaced bonnet and boot yet? Shedule seems less common than skedule. Our Valentine’s Day seems to be drifting into Nth American proportions.
        
        (As an aside – some Americans are surprised that we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving 🙂 )
        
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        October 31, 2019 2:07pm
Inandout

There is an anti gas demo today coinciding with a pro gun one. Should be interesting.
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October 31, 2019 8:53am
- mark15
  
  I can’t attend,sorry.I represent the latter group so I’m at work supporting the former…
  
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  October 31, 2019 9:26am
Tasman Terror

The more things change the more they stay the same……. before entering Parliament Twyford headed a charity giving away other people’s money to people he never met. Nowadays he does the same.
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October 31, 2019 9:14am
JibberJabber

Margaret Thatcher

“For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.”
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October 31, 2019 9:28am
Chuck Bird

I just got notice Fletcher Building of their AGM in Ak on the morning of 28 Nov. Are there any other shareholders on KB? I will be going and possibly making a remit asking the company to demand from the government weekly or monthly payments of interest on the money that is tied up on the land in South Ak till the matter is settled.

I will also ask that the interest be backdated to when Cindy interfered and stopped the police from doing their job.
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October 31, 2019 9:33am
- Poppa
  
  I am not a shareholder but I concur with your thinking Chuck.
  
  They have been bleeding badly enough without this mess
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:00am
Swifty

When Kiwis go bad….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12280985
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October 31, 2019 9:53am
Tony Norriss

Due to his unique gifting in incompetence we owe Twyford a huge debt of thanks.

The evidence suggests that anything he is put in charge of never happens. So, from our point of view, who better to have in charge of the COL’s stupid policies.
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October 31, 2019 10:11am
mikenmildagain

JFC, is there nothing this moron can’t foul up?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1189601417469841409/photo/1
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October 31, 2019 10:14am
- Fletch
  
  😆
  
  U.S.—Everyone praised the classified “Hero Dog” for taking down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
  
  Everyone, that is, except CNN, who quickly searched through the dog’s internet history and college yearbooks. Sure enough, CNN found a picture of the Hero Dog partying at obedience school. In the picture, the dog is seen sniffing a butt without consent.
  
  “Oh yeah, good old [redacted]? He was nuts!” said one German Shepherd who attended Old Yaler Obedience School with the hero dog, according to a CNN report. “He was always sniffing any butt he could find. Cats, dogs, humans, you name it. He didn’t have a preference. He identified as pansniffual.”
  
  Troubling reports from classmates indicate that the dog sniffed all these butts without consent. The dog wrote cryptic things in his college yearbook, apparently referring to different butt-sniffing maneuvers such as the Surprise Sniffarooski and the Canine’s Triangle.
  
  The dog has issued a statement: “I like butts. I’ve always liked butts. I still like butts, but I never sniff butts to the point of excess. Who’s a good boy? I am.”
  
  Democrats immediately called for the dog to be court-martialed and for the death of Baghdadi to be overturned.
  
  https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-uncovers-evidence-hero-dog-sniffed-butts
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:49am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Try this:
    
    Raising further questions about Donald Trump’s July call to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, national security expert Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified Tuesday that the White House’s transcript of the conversation left out lengthy sections of Trump bragging about the time he was in a commercial for Pizza Hut.
    
    https://politics.theonion.com/vindman-says-ukraine-transcript-left-out-lengthy-sectio-1839474543
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:12am
    - Fletch
      
      Not forgetting he killed Baghdadi by pushing him off the Nakatomi building 😆
      
      https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-claims-he-personally-pushed-al-baghdadi-off-nakatomi-plaza
      
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      October 31, 2019 11:24am
- Ed Snack
  
  Poor mikey, the left can’t meme !
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:36am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Sure, the Daily Wire must be ‘left wing’, I guess.
    
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    October 31, 2019 2:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

NZ spreading measles through the Pacific
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/402137/three-suspected-to-have-died-from-measles-in-samoa

https://reliefweb.int/report/tonga/tonga-measles-outbreak-dg-echo-tonga-government-echo-daily-flash-30-october-2019

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-25/inside-the-operation-to-track-and-contain-wa-measles-outbreak/11637502
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October 31, 2019 10:16am
- chaos
  
  Sad to see this awful north island disease has reached the South Island. Damn it we need to close the boarder with the north.
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:19am
  - sooty
    
    Maoris in Taranki celabrating the shooting wars turn up with half a dozen chicken cases in kids and spread it round amongst everyone!
    Can’t miss out on a dance and free feed. Taxpayer probably paid for them to get there as well!
    
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    October 31, 2019 10:45am
    - sooty
      
      Forgot to say Cindy was there aswell!
      Wonder if she’s had her shot yet?
      
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      October 31, 2019 12:07pm
  - atomic drop
    
    I’d be happy to turn Auckland into a city state, we could develop Auckland into a first world, high income, advanced technology civilisation. Instead of the current Diversity trajectory into a 3rd World city ruled over by billionaire Globalist oligarchs.
    
    First we would have to purge all the anti-whites/Globalists and their enablers – dump them on YOU.
    
    Bye bye you disgusting fat blue haired man haters.
    
    Bye bye blood sucking Boomers clogging up the worker funded health system with hip surgery, hoarding your tax free capital gains while Gen X and Millenials borrow a million to buy a leaky cold dog box.
    
    Bye bye South East asian courier drivers and bakery assistants ( critical skills shortage LOL ) trying to get the rest of your tribe inon visa scams.
    
    Make Auckland Great Again!
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:06am
    - chaos
      
      Auckland’s lost, abandon the sinking ship
      
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      October 31, 2019 11:17am
    - Jules99
      
      Maybe we can make Waiheke Island into a new Hong Kong – I say that as someone who stands to inherit a little batch over there sometime.
      
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      October 31, 2019 12:37pm
- atomic drop
  
  “NZ spreading measles through the Pacific”
  
  No, that’s all the “South Aucklanders”( you know the ones who never get round to immunise their kids ) returning to their homelands. It has NOTHING to do with white people.
  
  Though it does make a refreshing change from Islanders bringing horticultural industry devastating diseases and pest in tropical fruit they sneak on board their Auckland bound flights.
  
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  October 31, 2019 10:36am
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    atomic drop, naturally you have the facts at hand from the Ministry of Health rather than prejudicial specualtion, rumour and goss?
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:08am
    - atomic drop
      
      So the demographic with the worse measles stats is also the demographic that travels the most to the Pacific Third World – because that is where they come from.
      
      But you want to pretend its got nothing to do with this because “White Supremacy” “Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength” etc.
      
      You want to pretend its not your brown pets bringing fruit fly into the country either right?
      
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      October 31, 2019 11:26am
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        Whatever.
        
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        October 31, 2019 12:01pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Stepend, as reported on RNZ this morning:
      1. The outbreak in Samoa was caused by someone travelling from Auckland to Samoa in August;
      2. The outbreak in Tonga result from a Tongan rugby team coming to NZ and playing in a tournament in South Auckland.
      
      I suggest you listen to Morning Report and learn something.
      
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      October 31, 2019 2:43pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Now we know what Taxinda meant by year of delivery. Spreading infectious diseases around the world.
    
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    October 31, 2019 12:43pm
Straight arrow

Herald
“Parents at centre of Oranga Tamariki child uplift won’t take part in government review.
Labour MP for Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Meka Whaitiri, a spokesperson for the family at the centre of the row, said the family’s decision spoke volumes.

“”It’s a bit silly if you don’t have the family at the heart of the uplift case not being interviewed or not agreeing to be interviewed, it says a lot.””

It says that family a full of it. While Ministry haven’t uplifted child since, I believe this is because of the Hawthorne effect. The Hawthorne effect refers to a phenomenon whereby individuals improve or modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed. In this case all parties (midwifes and local community etc) have put in extra effort with this particular situation, to try to prove the Ministry was wrong.
If questioned, they could be called out on this, and previous behaviour leading to initial order, so criticise inquiry to draw attention from themselves.
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October 31, 2019 10:29am
- chaos
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/116979849/parents-at-centre-of-oranga-tamariki-child-uplift-wont-take-part-in-government-review
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:01am
- atomic drop
  
  Who cares?
  
  Seriously, I watched the “doco” and laughed all the way through.
  
  Synopsis – fat old (childless?) white hen to the rescue of brown baby, gets into tug of war with fat old brown hens while brown fat teenage mother watches from bed.
  
  Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:17am
KevO'Brien

NZ is not spreading measles. Travellers from Auckland may have been contagious without being aware.
Some Samoan families may have had a recent visitor and one of the family subsequently sick. That establishes a likelihood but no proof.
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October 31, 2019 10:35am
rightoverlabour

If the two words “suicide” and “Clinton” are in the same article, one can be sure that it is not suicide….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12281052

It may definitely be Clinton, though.
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October 31, 2019 10:36am
- stephieboy
  
  rightoverlabour, you seem very convinced. Why not send an email to Dr Michael Baden stating your evidence and findings?
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:04am
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    why don’t you try and refute the evidence in the article? Or are there some big words you don’t understand? But here are two that have been used so often in discussions with you, you should have no issue understanding this – ” Fuck Off”
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:56am
    - stephieboy
      
      rightoverlabour, Dr Baden was evidently not present at the post mortem but the New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr Barbara Sampson was and stands ” firmly behind her findings.”
      
      Case closed!
      
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      October 31, 2019 2:23pm
John Warren

“Mr Foster and 14 freshly elected councillors lined the stage for the inauguration which was opened with waiata, kaikaranga and karakia.”

Why did my will to live suddenly start to evaporate?
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October 31, 2019 10:38am
chaos

* Jeffrey Epstein’s injuries suggest he was strangled to death, according to a former top medical examiner.

The notorious businessman and sex offender died in prison in August, awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The official autopsy concluded he died by suicide, specifically hanging, despite suffering injuries consistent with strangulation.

Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner, said on Wednesday (US time) he never saw injuries like that in anyone who hanged themselves in his five-decade career.*

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/10/jeffrey-epstein-likely-strangled-to-death-veteran-medical-examiner.html
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October 31, 2019 10:48am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Epstein wasn’t a real financier, there was no-one of any note who had done any deals with him, which is unheard of for a ‘self made’ person as rich as Epstein (he started out career as a tutor FFS). He was obviously an actor – a front man for some intelligence agency honey-pot compromat factory that blackmailed powerful to make them compliant. Mossad most likely (likely with CIA assent) given close ties with Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of a prominent Mossad asset and media mogul Robert Maxwell. He was safe in life because he was just a front man – and his targets knew that. But his employer/s and targets needed him dead once his arrest became too public to cover for and potential for embarrassment grew too great. Suicide is possible, but Mossad/CIA assassination most likely.
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:31am
  - atomic drop
    
    “but Mossad/CIA assassination most likely.”
    
    The evil wench who scouted and groomed the kids for Epstein is the daughter of an international businessman who got involved in espionage/spying deals – ended up floating face down in the water after “falling off” his super yacht. Was understood to be a Mossad job after he pissed off the Jews.
    
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    October 31, 2019 11:46am
  - stephieboy
    
    UN, you can now usefully present us with compelling evidence that backs up some of your theories?
    
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    October 31, 2019 12:00pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Eric Weinstein – a genius who had dealings with him, and is very well connected (manages multi-billion Thiel capital) says he was an actor/frontman working for some other organisation:
    https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1160610840594145280
    
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    October 31, 2019 2:38pm
- atomic drop
  
  Yes, it is obvious that Epstein became a liability and had to be eliminated.
  
  Reminds me of Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”.
  
  Elite level corruption and depravity – masked cultish sex orgies in remote country mansions, disappeared individuals.
  
  These are our Globalist overlords who tell us “Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength” and “We Must Fight White Supremacy” while flooding the West with 3rd Worlders.
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:41am
  - stephieboy
    
    atomic drop , quit the inanities and focus on the facts Fox’s commentator Dr Baden wasn’t present at the autopsy so his remarks are at best highly speculative.
    
    MCos has nailed it!
    
    Next?
    
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    October 31, 2019 2:31pm
- MCos
  
  This is not the first time I’ve ever heard of someone claiming that there was something odd about the suicide of a highly controversial public figure.
  I bet that old codger (& Fox) makes a lot of money peddling his conspiracy theory to audiences that don’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:54am
  - Ed Snack
    
    There are some disconcerting features of Epstein’s death though. It does deserve a very thorough investigation. We already know that the management of the facility were grossly negligent and that the guards who are supposed to check every inmate a (I think) hourly intervals (more frequent if on suicide watch) did not do so and falsified the records saying that they had. The cameras that at least cover the corridors (which would presumably catch anyone entering Epstein’s cell to kill him) were not working only on that specific night – which is exceptionally suspicious IMHO.
    
    The injuries to Epstein’s throat are also very suspicious as the sheets used in that place are designed to tear and rip very easily to make them hard to use for suicide, so Epstein can’t easily have used enough force to have broken his hyoid bone without causing the noose to break.
    
    Could be a cover up for murder, maybe it was suicide, hard to tell without better sources of information.
    
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    October 31, 2019 2:53pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Why not start with Dr Barbara Sampsons Autopsy Report. Afterall she was there. Baden wasn’t! Nor Fox too.
      
      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-16/epstein-died-of-suicide-by-hanging-medical-examiner-says
      
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      October 31, 2019 3:41pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Most conspiracy theories are bollocks, but there is just way too much evidence for Epsteins’s actor status: from lack of convincing backstory about his wealth, or ongoing business, to testimony from powerful political operatives like US Labor Secretary Alex Acosta who when prosecuting him in 2007: “was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition
    
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    October 31, 2019 3:32pm
- rangitoto
  
  The correct technical term is Arkancide.
  
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  October 31, 2019 12:38pm
  - stephieboy
    
    rangitoto , another dreary conspiracy monger?
    
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    October 31, 2019 2:24pm
- pb
  
  The Epstein story has a long way to unravel yet. What made him hate young girls so much? He is a pimple on an enormous cancerous operation. Stay tuned perverts.
  
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  October 31, 2019 5:50pm
chaos

What a strange way for for a councillor to be selected

“ The final seat around the Queenstown Lakes District Council will be decided with a coin toss after a vote recount revealed a draw.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-body-elections/117046400/drawn-contest-forces-queenstown-lakes-council-seat-to-decided-by-coin-toss
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October 31, 2019 11:15am
- stephieboy
  
  chaos, the paper trial leads back to the Oval Office?
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:18am
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    What a dickhead comment
    
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    October 31, 2019 12:34pm
    - stephieboy
      
      rangitoto , another dreary conspiracy monger?
      
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      October 31, 2019 2:25pm
    - stephieboy
      
      chaos , sorry that was meant for your Epstein post!
      
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      October 31, 2019 2:26pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Should be a trial by combat. Or scissors, paper, stone.
  
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  October 31, 2019 11:30am
  - chaos
    
    Wow, you are about as much of a dickhead as the above immigrant. Keep your day job unless your guy Williams, with that humour you could very Well be, in that case your screwed.
    
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    October 31, 2019 1:58pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      We could come up with some stranger selection methods, if you like.
      
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      October 31, 2019 2:52pm
Straight arrow

No targets for measles, but some woke ER doctor wants racist recording of treatment in ER:

Stuff:
“Emergency department doctors are calling for health outcomes to be measured based on ethnicity.

“The health system was “never designed to include Māori”, [designed for treating all people] yet there are no completed studies into how emergency departments are failing them, Middlemore Hospital emergency department doctor Inia Tomas says.

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM)’s co-chair of its Manaaki Mana Māori health equity strategy was unaware of any hospitals with ethnicity-specific key performance indicators, like the time before a patient is given medication for severe pain.”

“Four ways in which the college planned to promote equity for Māori – developing ethnicity-specific standards and measures of equitable care, increasing the number of Māori doctors in ED, training and developing a workforce capable of providing culturally safe care, and enhancing the mana of ED, like with whānau rooms.”

So this doctor with a race-based role, is effectively accusing other doctors of taking longer to give pain medication to some patients based on ethnicities? That is exactly what his comments mean. He is a disgrace to doctors.

A powhiri before getting into ER perhaps? This is EMERGENCY department. I don’t want medical staff wasting time filling out bullshit data, but rather dealing with my EMERGENCY medical issues.
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October 31, 2019 11:45am
- sooty
  
  How about a whatever as they leave in a box!
  
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  October 31, 2019 1:40pm
  - sooty
    
    Why because by they are done singing and shit, they just died. Instead of getting fixed up!
    
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    October 31, 2019 1:41pm
- MrTips
  
  Maori, and Pasifika, don’t come to hospital because they associate hospitals with dying. Which to some extent is true, because they leave things so late, death is a possibility.
  
  I would respectfully suggest to Dr Tomas that he should focus on educating Maori about the importance of getting to a doctor BEFORE things go pear shaped.
  
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  October 31, 2019 3:31pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Months of September residential consents / approvals up 31% … Statistics NZ …

Most regions showing double digit annual growth in new dwelling consents … Greg Ninness … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/102371/most-regions-showing-double-digit-annual-growth-new-dwelling-consents

Strong growth in the number of new dwelling consents continued unabated in September, with 3347 new consents issued in the month, up 30.8% compared to September last year, according to Statistics NZ. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Building consents issued: September 2019 … Statistics New Zealand

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

… extract …

By region, the numbers of new dwellings consented in the year ended September 2019 (compared with the September 2018 year) were:

14,634 in Auckland – up 13 percent
4,157 in Waikato – up 18 percent
2,897 in Wellington – up 11 percent
5,798 in rest of North Island – up 6.0 percent
5,195 in Canterbury – up 12 percent
3,760 in rest of South Island – up 11 percent.

The seasonally adjusted number of new dwellings consented rose 7.2 percent from August 2019. For stand-alone houses only, the seasonally adjusted number fell 4.8 percent.
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The government has failed to date dealing with land supply and proper infrastructure debt financing to allow affordable new housing to be built.

‘Housing affordability’ is the No One public policy issue in New Zealand and Number Six in Australia (check page 27 below) …

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
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Overwhelmingly Kiwis want affordable standalone housing with a backyard …
  
  Survey finds Kiwis’ backyard dream still alive and well (Westpac Bank) … Scoop New Zealand
  
  http://business.scoop.co.nz/2019/05/28/survey-finds-kiwis-backyard-dream-still-alive-and-well/
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  One in five homes damp … Statistics New Zealand
  
  https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/one-in-five-homes-damp
  
  … But does Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern actually understand and care ? …
  
  Mormon Apostle and Other Leaders Meet with New Zealand Prime Minister … MormonNews
  
  https://www.mormonnewsroom.org.nz/article/mormon-apostle-and-other-leaders-meet-with-new-zealand-prime-minister
  
  Improving opportunities for children, youth and adults discussed
  
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  October 31, 2019 12:35pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    NEW ZEALAND …
    
    Pattrick Smellie: An alternative view on the crucifixion of Phil Twyford … NZ Herald
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12281214
    
    … concluding …
    
    … (Government Minister Phil) Twyford is at the heart of some of the government’s most ambitious and difficult plans. He is simultaneously managing huge capital demands and battling a range of entrenched interests to effect major changes in policy and performance. It was never going to be easy. Nor is it obvious that all of those policies are well-founded. But they are the government’s agenda.
    
    If anything, his greatest personal failing mirrors that of the government as a whole – he’s better at thinking policy up than at executing it. He’s also not terribly humble about that fact.
    
    But it’s highly contestable to suggest that he should be falling on his sword in response to a campaign by a government agency to protect its own patch.
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    With Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford set to continue leading key housing-related law changes, Jenée Tibshraeny argues he shouldn’t be written off as an architect of the Government’s broader housing policy … Jenee Tibshraeny … Interest Co NZ
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/100460/urban-development-minister-phil-twyford-set-continue-leading-key-housing-related-law
    
    DEMOTION, OR A SECOND CHANCE? … ERIC CRAMPTON … NZ INITIATIVE
    
    https://nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/opinion/demotion-or-a-second-chance/
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    Check out todays (Thursday) Residential Dwelling Consents for September 2019 … released by Statistics New Zealand and the Australian Bureau of Statistics today. Note the September figures annualized show that Australia’s September consent rate per 1000 population per annum is a woeful 6, while New Zealand is respectably climbing above 8 !
    
    New Zealand’s September 2019 residential dwelling consents were some 31% higher than September 2018.
    
    As land supply and infrastructure financing issues are finally dealt with soon, these building consent figures will keep strengthening going forward.
    
    The Coalition Government knows that it must perform on housing issues (IPSOS Poll .. No One issue in New Zealand, No Six in Australia) to win the election in likely 12 month’s time.
    
    The Government got very clear messages from the recent TVNZ Colmar Brunton and Newshub Reid Research Polls.
    
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    October 31, 2019 7:33pm
Swifty

A reminder that the CoL’s wasteful spending has real and negative consequences for NZers….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117031622/mother-broken-as-she-watches-son-deteriorate-further-while-waiting-on-phamac-drug-decision
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October 31, 2019 1:25pm
- chaos
  
  Right so this hasn’t happened u der previous governments right? Under Key and Clark there were articles like this of people demanding access to the latest and best and most expensive drugs.
  
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  October 31, 2019 4:19pm
Maggie Pie

I just called my partner to remind him to be home early so we can secure the property. I’ve already seen a few snooty-nosed kids getting ready for tonite.
He said he was just having a wander up and down Queen Street, scoping out all the unwashed bludgers sitting outside the shops. He reckons it’s not more homes this guvmint needs to build, its Nuthouses.
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October 31, 2019 2:26pm
rangitoto

Ladies and Gentlemen, rev up your V8’s we urgently need more CO2.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7631115/Explosion-sea-ice-levels-spark-ice-age-time-2-MILLION-years.html
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October 31, 2019 2:33pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  It’s the Daily Mail – perhaps read past the headline.
  
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  October 31, 2019 3:04pm
Jack5

Donna Miles-Mojab, the very-woke Scots-born Iranian who snipes against the West in Stuff newspapers, makes up history in the Christchurch Press today. She can’t even acknowledge the high rate of white-Maori intermarriage in New Zealand today, without putting on a Leftist spin.

Writing about interracial marriage in New Zealand in the 1830s and 1840s, Miles-Mojab says:

Unfortunately it wasn’t liberal attitudes that encouraged interracial marriages. The European men were actively encouraged to marry Maori women in order to acquire land and make the Maori race more “civilised”.This supremacist, racist attitude meant marriages between European women and Maori men were usuallly shunned.

It’s not true that the whalers and sealers, rough seamen all, were on a mission to acquire land and civilise. They were in a tough, dangerous business to make money. There were better long-term prospects in Australia, where most of them signed on. But, as young men they were attracted to young Maori women. There are accounts of how fine they thought many Maori girls looked. In addition, there were scarcely any white women, except missionaries’ wives, among the earliest European settlers in pre-Waitangi Treaty days.

Later, as now, white women married Maori. This is one of the reasons there are pale Maori with Maori surnames. But at first, few white women came to New Zealand.

Racial intermarriage has been important in race relations in New Zealand, and we don’t need someone from overseas telling porkies about it.

Iran’s very name means Land of the Aryans, which is always worth remembering when Donna pronounces on Western racism.

More jabber from Mojab:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/117016219/interracial-marriages-hold-great-hope-for-eradicating-racism
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October 31, 2019 3:41pm
Lee C

Just saw the TVNZ headline Bridges indicates he would suspend benefits to beneficiaries who do not vaccinate their children.

Really? n terms of statistical likelihood of doing harm, this is what his focus is on?

Well that’s one vote fewer for Bridges, right here. Perhaps he could start with denying benefits to the obese, those with diabetes, and of course those who smoke, take drugs or drink too much…

… and see how many populist votes that might win him.

What a f**k-wit idea.

Sayonara, National.
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October 31, 2019 3:59pm
- chaos
  
  I was just saying I believe these policies are going to cost some votes. They will be loosing some voters who are on benefits.
  
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  October 31, 2019 4:16pm
  - Jack5
    
    White crackpots who don’t believe in vaccination probably already vote Green.
    
    Third Worlders who come to NZ for the Western life style need to be dragooned into vaccination if they have some superstition about it. Otherwise they should go home.
    
    It’s reassuring to see that Bridges has a backbone.
    
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    October 31, 2019 8:22pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    How many beneficiaries vote National?
    Bridges is on a winner here.
    
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    October 31, 2019 9:26pm
    - chaos
      
      It is stupid to think that people on a benefit only vote labour or greens. Oh and I doubt this will even become a policy it is just an idea that was thrown out there, it will be gone by election time.
      
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      October 31, 2019 10:12pm
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  October 31, 2019 9:27pm
sooty

Cindy upset that APEC canceled!
Bugger she said!
That’s another holiday I can’t go on!
I have to go to work instead!
I wonder if I can squeeze in a kindy or two.
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October 31, 2019 5:20pm
chaos

* Jacinda Ardern is supportive of Twitter’s ban on paid political advertising, saying voters need to be able to rely on what they are seeing during political campaigns.*

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/having-rules-is-a-good-thing-jacinda-ardern-backs-twitter-s-political-advertising-ban.html

* Despite a commitment to furthering transparency online, Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party is refusing to sign up to a new transparency tool for its Facebook ads – unless the National Party does too.*

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/117060481/labour-reject-facebook-ad-transparency-tools-until-national-get-onboard
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October 31, 2019 6:05pm
Rodney Randall

TRUMP 2020
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October 31, 2019 7:15pm
mikenmildagain

Damn!
No little boys or girls have been knocking on my door asking for a treat yet.
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