General Debate 4 November 2019

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peterwn

And theBFD ex Whaleoil continues commenting on Botany National’s candid selection. The theme is stinging criticism of Chris Luxon (ex Air NZ chief and contender), of the electorate chair and party heirarchy, but solid support of Jami Lee-Ross. The items are fronted by ‘SB’ (Cam’s wife) but are made up of information from the usual shady sources. It paints a very grim picture for National, but when the nonsense is stripped away, there is nothing really out of the ordinary.
An unknown number of contenders threw their hats in the ring (the identities of the unsuccessful ones remain confidential as is usual practice) and five (the maximum allowable number) were pre-selected. They include Chris Luxon and sitting list MP Agnes Loheni and all five reside outside the electroate.
The selection process is continuing with three ‘meet the candidate’ meetings and the final selection meeting (I cannot find the dates for these). The Electorate Chair has banned ‘outsiders’ from the ‘meet the candidates’ meetings which would be his right. His main concern is no doubt to allow the selection delegates to get on with it without distraction – with five contenders, time is at a real premium.
Assuming the heirarchy does want to ‘parachute’ Chris in, they are under no illusion that they have to convince the delegates he is the right choice. Voting is by a STV type system, so issues of vote splitting do not arise.
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November 4, 2019 8:04am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The Electorate Chair is completely correct in banning the public from meet the candidate meetings. They are meetings for paid-up Botany National Party members, and will include voting delegates for the candidate selection. They are most definitely NOT intended for the public, or even worse, for the media.
  
  Doubtless BFD will paint this as some form of Vast-Simon-Bridges-Led-Conspiracy, when in fact it is normal National Party procedure.
  
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  November 4, 2019 8:54am
  - Jules99
    
    I’m getting a bit sick of the anti-Bridges stuff going on over there. I’m fine with critiques of policy – it feels like they are releasing ideas to get feedback – but the complete hatred of the leader of the National party helps no one.
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:44am
- peterwn
  
  TheBFD also thinks Jami will poll very well and could upset the applecart. In reality he seems to be whistling in the wind. In 2017 Nats got 21k votes, Labour 8.5k and Maori and Greens together 3.2k. NZF did not put up a candidate but got 1.6k party vote. On these figures there seems little risk that Jami would split the centre-right vote that would allow Labour to sneak in. There ore other possible interactions with minor candidates winning or losing votes but this is unlikely to be significant. So it would become a two-horse race between Jami and the National candidate and there would need to be a near revolution among centre-right voters to let Jami win.
  Jami should stop wasting his time and energy on standing for Botany (what Cam would call ‘hugging a corpse’) and start looking for a real job while he still has some temporary income.
  
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  November 4, 2019 8:54am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    Well, he does have widely known mental issues, so what do you expect? What a tosser.
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:22am
    - peterwn
      
      Worse still, he is being egged on to self-destruction by people who should know better.
      
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      November 4, 2019 12:41pm
    - tf78
      
      Without being insensitive about JLR, if he has such mental health issues is it fit that he be in Parliament.
      
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      November 4, 2019 5:08pm
      - peterwn
        
        Looking through the legal processes to remove an insane MP, there seems to be high ‘bar’ for insanity and Jami seems nowhere near this.
        
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        November 4, 2019 9:31pm
  - KH
    
    I am not around Botany, but he has made himself infamous and I find it hard to believe anybody would vote for Jami Lee Ross.
    (well maybe 6 even 7)
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:29am
  - yossarian
    
    And they thought a vote for Winston will keep National honest???
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:24pm
- Random T Person
  
  Those articles are so obviously by Cam Slater with the possible injections of Simon Lusk. The BFD continues the amoral approach to blogging pioneered and perfected at Whale Oil.
  Who remembers the Lupo olive oil hit jobs? Those were pathetically transparent and vile in approach. Every time the competing olive oil company was mentioned, there was a link to personal lubricant.
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:06am
  - peterwn
    
    Cam is having to keep his head down but still wants his say. In July Justice Matthew Palmer ruled that Cam had to provide particular discovery and submit to oral examination in the defamation case brought by the three health professionals. Cam’s lawyer tried to resist this on mental health grounds. While Cam and ‘Whaleoil’ are now ‘dead’ targets, the three are still going after Carrick Graham (Doug Graham’s son), his media company (I think for paid placements on Whaleoil), ex Nat Katherine Rich and her NZ Food and Grocery Council. The three need whatever evidence that can be wrung out of Cam to support their case. So if Cam puts his head above the parapet, the Judge would have reason to doubt the mental health claims.
    No further news of that case since Palmer J’s #8 judgment.
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:39pm
- rockape
  
  Whaleoil is essentially a paid NZ First hack now. Sooner it dies the better.
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:16am
  - Colville
    
    WO has always been a paid hack, it’s now just got a sole paying client.
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:16am
  - Gazza the Giant
    
    Yes , I note Brian Henry was Slaters lawyer , he was the head of NZF until a few months ago , and he is also representing the bitter old fool that is presently pushing shit up hill in the Auckland court
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:38pm
- Liberty
  
  The labour hugging media have always had a problem with National being more democaratic.
  By having its candidates selected by local members. Sure the party has a view if there are more than five candidates. Which is designed to filter out the dreamers.
  Where as labour candidates are appointed by the central committee . The only local involvement is to set up some pretence selection meeting and make a cup of tea.
  As for NZF it is just a matter of crawling up their dubious leader.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:43am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The National procedures are quite robust. The BFD mob are flakey.
  I wish all the candidates in the pre-selection well.
  
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  November 4, 2019 12:02pm
Michael

hahaha
08:03
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November 4, 2019 8:04am
Maggie Pie

1ZB are reporting:
“NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern spends night in Bangkok”

I wonder if she packed the appropriate attire? 😛

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqj31VPNoE
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November 4, 2019 8:05am
- Fletch
  
  Old Chinese proverb say….. man going through airport door sideways going to Bang-Kok….
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:11am
- TWEEDSE
  
  Did she think it was China or perhaps Japan? Understandable with the dreadful effects of a few hours jet lag and business class fatigue.
  
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  November 4, 2019 12:04pm
- Gazza the Giant
  
  Bwhahahahaha , ping pong balls and cucumbers
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:40pm
hullkiwi

Ardern, in Bangkok, Peters the narcissist in court, leaving Kelvin in charge of the play group (the Cabinet). What could possibly go wrong?
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November 4, 2019 8:06am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Who’s going to change the nappies?
  
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  November 4, 2019 12:04pm
Yvette

Apparently – The Migrant Workers Association is promising “something big” is coming if Cabinet Minister Shane Jones doesn’t resign.

Jones, a New Zealand First MP, said immigrants could “catch the next flight home” if they don’t like the new rules. “You have no legitimate expectations in my view to bring your whole village to New Zealand.” [Migrant Workers Association spokesperson Sher] Singh says the comments make Jones unfit to be a minister.

Jones, a New Zealand First MP, said immigrants could “catch the next flight home” if they don’t like the new rules.

Perhaps the new Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon can confirm if Cabinet Minister Shane Jones’ remark “catch the next flight home”, is “racist” or not.

And is Mandeep Singh Bela, Indian Worker’s Association, indulging in “hate speech” when he is widely reported as saying, “‘To take next flight home’ is quite racist and discriminatory towards the Indian community; the last thing we want to see is what happened in Christchurch”, since that eventually seems out of context in this matter (and since too, at this stage, the Commission of Inquiry, a trial still pending, and the outlawing of the related manifesto so far negates an understanding of that event)

There is also the issue of who is – Winston Peters or Jacinda Ardern, according to the Cabinet Manual (one assumes) – responsible for any remanding of Shane Jones should Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon confirm his comments to be “racist”.

In fact it would be interesting to know what the consequences are, if any, should the Jones remarks are deemed “racist”.
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November 4, 2019 8:09am
- Swifty
  
  In NZ we have tests to ensure relationships are genuine.
  
  Without these tests our immigration system will be rorted much more frequently than it already is.
  
  I notice too that a good proportion of scam marriages to gain residency are performed by Indians as well as a number of instances of ‘dowry for residency’ scams too (marriages are arranged, the bride arrives, her dowry of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars is taken from her by the husband’s family, and then the bride is unceremoniously dumped to fend for herself).
  
  Mandeep Singh Bela does his cause no good at all with this racism talk. No immigrant should expect to maintain their cultural practices in NZ where they break our laws.
  
  Mandeep Singh Bela would better spend his time by getting this message out to his ‘customers’.
  
  ILG should have the balls to push back on this one.
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:58am
  - sooty
    
    Cindy keeps his balls firmly locked up in her desk drawer along with every other male minister and some of the females aswell!
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:57am
  - Michael
    
    ILG
    “Balls”
    surely you jest!
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:30pm
- Nickc2
  
  Meng Foon can come to any conclusion he wants, it won’t make any difference whatsoever. Shane Jones is bulletproof, he and Cindy know it.
  Now, he will probably be referred to as a racist buffoon, not just a buffoon.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:19am
  - cut n paster
    
    He’s a Maori, so can’t be racist.
    Only Whitey can be racist and supremist too.
    Meng Fool will chastise Shane in Te Reo, so what!
    This govt is a directionless and completely leaderless gathering of pigs at the trough.
    So arrogant that they think their performance is good enough to expect a further three years.
    Have they kept any electoral promises at all?
    Wake up New Zealand “You’re Dreaming”
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:42pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Tks Cut n Paster but I didn’t mention the Maori thing because there are NO Maories in NZ (true ones that is). There are those who choose to identify as such for a variety of reasons, mostly financial. Likewise, Te Reo is not the Maori language. Te Reo has a smattering of the original Maori language but the remainder consists of manufactured words. This was also done for various reasons.
      How come someone born as a part Maori, doesn’t speak Te Reo or Maori has adopted a new age Maori accent?
      Strange eh?
      
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      November 4, 2019 1:25pm
      - mark15
        
        Do they live in ‘Adoodiddy?’
        [Napier]
        
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        November 4, 2019 1:55pm
- Sacha
  
  All my quite long life the ‘original’ – as in my cultural group was here before yours – inhabitants have been asking me why I don’t go ‘home’ because (they say) I am not a genuine resident of these Isles despite the fact I was born here.
  Most of us ignore this sort of stuff. Let’s focus on the riff-raff, law-breakers and would-be reformer Johnny-come-latelies and send THEM back to where they came from.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:57am
- KH
  
  Jones is a buffoon indeed, but he can be right sometimes.
  Jones, a New Zealand First MP, said immigrants could “catch the next flight home” if they don’t like the new rules. “You have no legitimate expectations in my view to bring your whole village to New Zealand.”
  I agree with that statement.
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:35am
  - Michael
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:31pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Reflecting that others are outside our norms is reasonable. Whinging Poms have had to take it and modify their conduct. Are others to be exempted because they refuse to adapt?
  
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  November 4, 2019 12:07pm
kevn

Meantime JA is at the East Asian Summit preparing to ‘finger wag’ them about coal use. While NZ imports coal in vast quantities from Asia to prop up our power generation and kneecaps Taranaki.
FFS…
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November 4, 2019 8:09am
- Simon
  
  “Meantime JA is at the East Asian Summit preparing to ‘finger wag’ them about coal use”
  
  “Haoji will safeguard energy security, boost economy in regions along line
  
  The 1,814-kilometer railway-which connects Haolebaoji ……… with Jiangxi province-will safeguard Central China’s energy security and promote the economy of regions along the line. It will mainly be used for transporting coal from northern to central and southern China.
  
  The planned annual transportation capacity of the railway is more than 200 million metric tons.”
  
  https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201910/05/WS5d97d87fa310cf3e3556ecde.html
  
  Ardern telling off the naughty Asians about coal use is purely for domestic purposes.
  
  Ardern talking climate change in Asia will be played up here. In Asia no one will remember Ardern or what she said after 10 minutes.
  
  For China: Coal = energy security.
  
  For NZ: Coal = try to trick the plebs for high taxation
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:17am
- Notsofast
  
  Here is a simple description of the problem
  
  “Coal remains a major source of power across Southeast Asia, where breakneck economic development has spurred soaring energy demands—but at a cost to the environment.
  
  About one-third of Vietnam’s energy comes from coal power with a slew of new plants set to come online by 2050, while Thailand is investing in fossil fuels”
  https://phys.org/news/2019-11-asia-coal-addiction-chief.html
  
  I happen to believe completely in the science represented in global warming claims, but am firmly in the camp of the pessimists. New Zealanders continue to seek cheap holidays in these countries while planning to be carbon neutral by 2050. These countries are bereft of our options, it is a complete waste of time and I think everyone knows it.
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:21am
Vory v zakone

Why yes. Indictments are coming.
Plenty of sleepless nights for the Deep State …
https://youtu.be/oHGWrsQksk0
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November 4, 2019 8:10am
- freethinker
  
  An excellent and very clear Video exposee. Pity NZ doesn’t have any Media Broadcaster with 5% of this ladies presentation. Just hope the floodgates of charges eventuate within the US presidential election period.
  
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  November 4, 2019 12:40pm
  - Batman
    
    That Kool aid sure is strong.
    
    I wonder if the brain damage is permanent? ?
    
    It isn’t news, it’s Pro-Trump fanfic which has been banned from Facebook.
    
    https://amp.businessinsider.com/epoch-times-pro-trump-facebook-ads-2019-8
    
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    November 4, 2019 1:53pm
- curry4me
  
  Yeah that’s a good source. There are plenty of others on YouTube too. None in the legacy medis needless to say.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:23pm
Yvette

Winston Peters trial
Any damages awarded would be covered by the taxpayer. – RNZ
Why?

And, if I, as a taxpayer, are liable, I wish to know if anyone is aware of any “personal detail” that was released by media, beyond the information that Winston Peters did himself volunteer to reporters.

In fact, was not each detail given voluntarily by Winston Peters to media, redefined by his own actions to be “public details”?

I also wish to know of any damage to Winston’s reputation that was not self-inflicted or self-confirmed by his own actions.

And without asking each voter who took part in the last Election, how can they establish the claim or statement that “the details leaking to media hurt his reputation and election chances.”? After-all, Winston won his announced Election goal of negotiating the members to form the current coalition.
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November 4, 2019 8:11am
- sooty
  
  So who is paying for Whinestones lawyers?
  I bet the taxpayer?
  So if Whinestone should win and the taxpayer is paying for his lawyers, $1 would be suitable for his damage to his reputation!
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:24am
  - freethinker
    
    Payable in annual installments of 1c.
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:41pm
- Nickc2
  
  This is nothing more than an additional pension payment for Winston should any of the accused be found guilty.
  I wonder what will happen if Winston is found to be solely or in part a contributory to his own perceived downfall in reputation.
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:26am
tf78

Anyone have any tips for the Melbourne Cup?
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November 4, 2019 8:12am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Who gives a flying fuck?
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:08am
  - tf78
    
    ME and a few million others – why?
    
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    November 4, 2019 9:39am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    is that to win or place?
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:00am
  - alwyn
    
    “flying fuck”
    I can’t find any horse of that name in the field so I wouldn’t try and bet on it.
    Perhaps you mean “Magic Wand”? That seems to be the closest to your pick.
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:40am
  - chaos
    
    Mile high flyers
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:41am
- JibberJabber
  
  Admittedly, I`m no expert but I think a horse has a good chance of winning this year.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:25am
- kevn
  
  Tip?
  whinney and his pony?
  They/he should be able to create some timely ‘urgent’ business so they/he can race away to Melbourne.
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:47am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  I predict that a horse will win it.
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:59am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Could you narrow that down a trifle?
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:56pm
    - The Proper Ghandi
      
      No.
      
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      November 4, 2019 1:16pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Arran Prince and Constantinople
  
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  November 4, 2019 2:21pm
  - tf78
    
    Thanks Maggy for being helpful and polite. It’s a shame those who like racing obviously aren’t as approved of as someone who likes rugby.
    
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    November 4, 2019 5:24pm
Maggie Pie

It’s probably like my partner has always said, “No one likes being associated with losers”

https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/36876
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November 4, 2019 8:18am
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
CHINA HOUSING … Is the bubble bursting ? …

China’s economy struggles as consumers tighten belts … Joe McDonald … APNews

https://apnews.com/2b9694c3bc65410abdb2ceb8aebc0fe8

BEIJING (AP) — With home sales crashing, real estate agent Zhang Yonggang is tightening his belt, part of a plunge in Chinese consumer demand that is a bigger threat to economic growth than Beijing’s tariff war with Washington.

Zhang, who works in the central city of Taiyuan, said his office sold no apartments last month after Beijing tightened lending controls in July to rein in housing costs and debt. Zhang, 42 and married with a teenage son, said his income has fallen by half from a year ago.

“I have no money to buy a home and no plans to change cars,” Zhang said. “It is definitely the toughest time I’ve ever seen.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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China Now Has An Answer To Its Housing Crisis – It’s Called Rent … Wade Shepard … Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2019/10/29/china-now-has-an-answer-to-its-housing-crisisits-called-rent/#40e9189e1a60
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… Important earlier article …

China’s empty homes may prove a bigger threat than Donald Trump’s tariffs … Michael Janda … ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-14/china-vacant-property-empty-homes-donald-trump-tariffs/11082900

… extract …

… Build it and they will come. That is the philosophy underpinning modern China’s urban fields of dreams. …

In some senses they have, and do, come. But they are not residents or businesses in many of China’s gleaming new towers. They are investors — speculators betting that property values only go up as China’s population moves indefinitely in just one direction, from country to city. …

… To give you a better sense of the scale of China’s overbuilding, assuming a reasonably generous average of 80sqm of floorspace per new dwelling, that is 80 million units that are currently sitting empty. … read more via hyperlink above …
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November 4, 2019 8:24am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Didn’t you post this yesterday Hugh?
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:09am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Capt Mainwaring … Not with the earlier important ABC article added in … dealing with empty apartments and stratospheric median multiple stretch of the Chinese metros.
    
    These important factors need to be considered as well.
    
    China is the ‘mother of all bubbles’.
    
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    November 4, 2019 9:23am
  - sooty
    
    The day before that as well and the day before!
    
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    November 4, 2019 9:26am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Sooty … the bubble is bursting here too of course … as ramped up new production suppresses existing stock …
      
      New residential property listings on Realestate.co.nz at an all time low for the month of October … Greg Ninness … Interest Co NZ
      
      https://www.interest.co.nz/property/102385/new-residential-property-listings-realestateconz-all-time-low-month-october
      
      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
      
      Bob Dey:
      
      https://www.propbd.co.nz/home-consents-up-50-nationally-in-5-years-doubled-in-auckland/?
      
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      November 4, 2019 9:39am
      - Cobolt24
        
        My 96 year old neighbour has died very recently. That’s another place going to market.
        
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        November 4, 2019 10:30am
  - Swifty
    
    Nothing is too low for him Captain.
    
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    November 4, 2019 9:46am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Swifty … You guys should be over the bitterness of getting deservedly caned at the 2017 election for the National – led governments long term housing failures …
      
      GONE GONE GOING …
      
      The Demise of New Zealands National – led government
      
      http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/National%20News.html
      
      Housing affordability is the No One public policy issue in NZ (and has been for yonks) … No Six in Australia (refer page 27) …
      
      The Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor – July 2019 | Ipsos
      
      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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      November 4, 2019 10:03am
      - sooty
        
        Link whoring again hughie.
        Just can’t help yourself.
        
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        November 4, 2019 11:01am
      - Swifty
        
        Changing the subject won’t work on me Mr Pathetic.
        
        It’s your pathological linkwhoring which stinks.
        
        Address that.
        
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        November 4, 2019 11:37am
Jack5

Wakie, wakie – the woke are up and about and ready to be picked off.
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November 4, 2019 8:36am
Captain Mainwaring

Come on. 8.44 and nobody home.
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November 4, 2019 8:44am
- MCos
  
  Grizzle grizzle grizzle
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:15am
Lee C

What does the 19% uptake on the gun ‘buy-back’ indicate about Jacinda Ardern’s leadership after ChCh?

My view – 19% is about what they will poll next election, too..
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November 4, 2019 8:44am
- Tricati
  
  Bloody hope so
  
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  November 4, 2019 8:48am
Greg Ettridge

Great flurry of NZ Air Force Jets over the weekend, one headed to Asia whilst one headed home from Asia.
The COL wouldn’t want run into little grumbling Greta, they would cop an earful.
Mind you Jacinda has spent more time in NZ recently than she has in this term as PM.
Climate emergency ha ha ha ha. Give me a break.
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November 4, 2019 8:48am
- srylands
  
  I’m a little surprised it was worth taking the 757 to Bangkok. There are lots of commercial flights. Plus it needs to stop in Darwin to refuel. Maybe if there is a large contingent it is cost effective compared to Business Class airfares.
  
  IIRC John Key seemed to generally take commercial flights unless it was impractical, eg multi stop trips around the Pacific.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:05am
  - sooty
    
    What is that Cindy going on hoilday and Whinestone and party coming home from the world cup?
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:02am
  - Doc Holliday
    
    Pilots need hours to keep current.
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:12am
    - Batman
      
      And for large events like Aseean and apec, the delegation is bigger than a single 757.
      
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      November 4, 2019 1:59pm
- curry4me
  
  Saint Greta is stuck in the US seeking a carbon neutral means of transport back to Europe. Aparrently walking on water would take too long.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:27pm
tedbear

On last night’s TVNZ’s Sunday programme, the presenter would have you believe planting one tree seedling will offset the carbon emitted from your return flight to Sydney.
Wow, who’d have known – to save the world, seedlings never need to grow an inch.
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November 4, 2019 8:51am
oldpark

Message for Andy Foster Wellingtons’new Mayor.
Andy dont waste your time on a second Traffic Tunnel for Wellington. Cant you see the far left lunatic Lie-bour/Green councillors are vehemently opposed to it . Of course most Ratepayers who voted for such a shower on no hopers, were conned to think that the Liebour/Green bottom feeders on the pathetic out of control Wellington City Council would have an epiphany and do the right thing to solve Wellingtons’gridlock traffic problem.
Andy dont suffer the igmony of being controlled by such a bunch of stagnation losers for the benefit of Wellington City and precincts.
Only request dont mirror the recent too sweet to be wholesome Lester and how his penchant for using and wasting Ratepayers money was legendary.
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November 4, 2019 8:51am
- Albert_Ross
  
  So he’s to give up on the second tunnel because a majority on the Council are opposed to it, but at the same time he’s not to let himself be controlled by them?
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:03am
  - oldpark
    
    Getting in first is the message for Andy Foster Wellingtons’New Mayor. A pity that the type of message for Andy escaped the type of lefty intellect that controls most bottom feeders.Nuff said.
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:21am
- igm
  
  Yet another outcome influenced by non-ratepayers voting in elections that do not concern them. When the push for this inequitable position to be changed comes, ratepayers of all political persuasions must support it. Ratepayers have suffered enough through imbecilic fiscally dyslexic socialists and their idiotic ambitions.
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:09am
  - MCos
    
    Why would Ngaio residents, for example, want to be burdened with the cost of a second Mt Vic tunnel.
    BTW
    If it’s SH1 would not the NZTA pay for it?
    
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    November 4, 2019 9:46am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      They might be frequent users of the airport…
      
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      November 4, 2019 9:51am
mark15

Hold the front page people
‘lorde’ is delaying the release of her new album because her dog died.
Fly high on your angel’s wings in heaven,lorde’s dog.
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November 4, 2019 8:58am
- James Stephenson
  
  So she can add a cover version of “Dead Dog Blues” no doubt.
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:12am
  - G152
    
    Or another Dead Dog Scrumpy
    
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    November 4, 2019 9:32am
  - alloytoo
    
    Ghost of a dog?
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:37am
tedbear

I read that that the big chief of the United Nations has warned Asia to quit its “addiction” to coal.
Oooh, what’s he going to do if they don’t give it up, stop all the coal imports?

How about this big chief give up his addiction on world takeover.
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November 4, 2019 9:01am
- kevn
  
  @ted…. Add JA in I know best ‘preachy/finger wagging’ mode.
  Meanwhile we import coal from.. Asia.
  FFS.
  
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  November 4, 2019 1:23pm
igm

So the filthy little scumbags who attacked a 90-years-old lady in her Levin home are in youth court.
What a bloody joke, are they being remanded to whanau home or just released, with a caution.
Thanks Palmer, for the Children and Young Persons legislation, and Little, Ardern, Davis supporting extending it, along with their ally Becroft.
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November 4, 2019 9:05am
Maggie Pie

For the life of me, i cant think why this has never occurred to me before.
But does anyone else think it’s odd, that paintings of ‘Adam & Eve’ show them
with belly-buttons?

https://i.imgflip.com/r6lpf.jpg

[Think about that – take as much time as you need]
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November 4, 2019 9:14am
- G152
  
  CroMag descendants. That’s why they have belly buttons 🙂
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Don’t you bake, Maggie Pie?
  
  Any good cook knows that you test the “doneness” of your baking by poking your finger into the middle of a cake.
  
  When God created Adam from mud/clay/dust and Eve from Adam’s first rib.. he shoved them into his oven and then tested them for doneness by poking his finger into their bellies.
  (honestly, didn’t they tell you this at Sunday School?)
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:51am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!!
    
    […will be posting recipe soon for a delish ‘coconut lemon cake’ – save me as one of your faves :D]
    
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    November 4, 2019 9:59am
- chaos
  
  Well there was a Phil Donahue show once about obese people having sex with their belly button not knowing the penis wasn’t meant to go there, so god invented the belly button for stupid people.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:49am
- Inandout
  
  MP, which is why the Muslims don’t have any paintings of their hero, no image, no argument.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:58am
  - chaos
    
    Not true, here is a piece of art work of Allah
    
    http://fscomps.fotosearch.com/compc/CSP/CSP991/k12135941.jpg
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:08am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Charlie Hebdo had one …
    
    http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/charlie_hebdo/charia_hebdo_back_cover_detail.jpg
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:35am
- Ed Snack
  
  Perhaps because they are paintings and not photographs ? The painters never met Adam or Eve, so had to go by what they knew.
  
  A genuine question would be to ask whether or not A&E had navels, but that isn’t (I don’t think) ever stated in our only possible source, so we simply don’t know. Doesn’t stop it being argued over though…I believe that it has been debated ad nauseam since the bible itself was extant.
  
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  November 4, 2019 2:30pm
lilman

Placed a comment ,was deleted by the mods it seems.
Was not racial or bad language ,just my opinion.

Ok ,Had enough , have a nice life posters Im done goodbye.
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November 4, 2019 9:19am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Oh, please don’t go…
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:31am
mark15

The eternal question.
Did Adam have an inny or an outy?
Neither,he didnt exist.
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November 4, 2019 9:23am
- MCos
  
  Stand back, Eve, I don’t know how big this thing gets.
  
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  November 4, 2019 9:35am
- Fletch
  
  Err, OK. Then how did the human race promulgate? There had to be a first person – actually, two first people of different sexes.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:00am
  - chaos
    
    In test tubes on a UFO?
    
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    November 4, 2019 10:50am
  - Swifty
    
    Come on Fletch – please keep up.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ClZROoyNM
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:48am
    - Swifty
      
      This is also good.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5yuCGpKmLk
      
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      November 4, 2019 11:59am
    - Fletch
      
      Except that there never has been any kind of “missing link” found, or indeed transitional forms that show one species evolving into another species (eg, half-fish/half-reptile creatures) . In fact, fossil records show that most lifeforms came into being all at once, fully formed, in what scientists called the Cambrian Explosion. Dawkins explanation is rather a flight of fancy.
      
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      November 4, 2019 12:31pm
      - Swifty
        
        Mate, you’re having me on now.
        
        Transitional forms:
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwBWvVLlC2g
        
        Missing links:
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sztt70n6geE
        
        Crocoduck:
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSEnoKIDEgs
        
        The first human:
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJybfmbrOCE
        
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        November 4, 2019 1:03pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Here is a brief, and incomplete list of transitional fossils:
        
        Invertebrate to Vertebrate
        Unnamed Upper (U.) Pre-Cambrian chordate — First to bear a primitive notochord; archaetypical chordate.
        Pikaia gracilens — Middle (M.) Cambrian chordate with lancelet-like morphology.
        Haikouella — Lower (L.) Cambrian chordate, first to bear a skull; archaetypical craniate.
        Haikouichthys — L. Cambrian quasi-vertebrate, intermediate in developing a vertebral column; archaetypical vertebrate.
        Conodonts — U. Cambrian to Triassic quasi-vertebrates with spinal cord; “bug-eyed lampreys”.
        Myllokunmingia — L. Cambrian vertebrate with primitive spinal column; oldest true crown-group vertebrate.
        Arandaspis — L. Ordovician vertebrate, armoured jawless fish (ostracoderm), oldest known vertebrate with hard parts known from (mostly) complete fossils.
        
        Jawless Fish to Jawed Vertebrate
        Birkenia — Silurian primitive, jawless fish, a typical member of the Anaspida
        Cephalaspis — Silurian armoured jawless fish, archaetypical member of the “Osteostraca,” sister group to all jawed vertebrates.
        Shuyu — Silurian to Devonian, armoured jawless fish belonging to Galeaspida, related to Osteostraca. Internal cranial anatomy very similar to the anatomy seen in basal jawed vertebrates
        
        Acanthodian to shark
        Ptomacanthus — sharklike fish, brain anatomy demonstrates that it is an intermediate between acanthodians and sharks.
        Cladoselache — primitive/basal shark.
        Tristychius — another sharklike fish.
        Ctenacanthus — primitive/basal shark.
        Paleospinax — sharklike jaw, primitive teeth.
        Spathobatis — Ray-like fish.
        Protospinax — Ancestral to both sharks and skates.
        
        Primitive jawed fish to bony fish
        Acanthodians — superficially similar to early bony fishes.
        Palaeoniscoids — primitive bony fishes.
        Canobius, Aeduella — palaeoniscoids with more advanced jaws.
        Parasemionotus — combination of modern cheeks with more primitive features, like lungs
        Oreochima — first teleost fish
        Leptolepids — vaguely herring-like ancestors of modern teleost fish. Lung modified into swim bladder.
        Amphistium and Heteronectes — percomorphs that demonstrate the transition of the eye location of flatfishes.
        
        Fish to amphibian
        Paleoniscoids — both ancestral to modern fish and land vertebrates
        Osteolepis — modified limb bones, amphibian like skull and teeth
        Kenichthys — shows the position of exhaling nostrils moving from front to fish to throat in tetrapods in its halfway point
        Panderichthys, Elpistostege — tetrapod-like bodily proportions.
        Obruchevichthys — fragmented skeleton with intermediate characteristics, possible first tetrapod.
        Tiktaalik — a fish with developing legs. Also appearance of ribs and neck.
        Acanthostega gunnari—famous intermediate fossil. most primitive fossil that is known to be a tetrapod or four legged animal from the Upper Devonian of Greenland, which has shed significant light on the derivation and early evolution of tetrapods. It had legs and feet but was aquatic, not an amphibian.
        Ichthyostega — like Acanthostega, another fishlike amphibian
        Hynerpeton — A little more advanced then Acanthostega and Ichtyostega
        Labyrinthodonts — still many fishlike features, but tailfins have disappeared
        Gars — Fish with vascularized swim bladders that can function as lungs
        Lungfish and Birchirs — fish that have lungs
        
        Primitive to modern amphibians
        Temnospondyls
        Dendrerpeton acadianum
        Archegosaurus decheni
        Eryops megacephalus
        Trematops
        Amphibamus lyelli
        Doleserpeton annectens
        Triadobatrachus — a primitive frog.
        Vieraella — an early modern frog
        Karaurus — a primitive salamander
        
        Amphibian to reptile
        Proterogyrinus
        Limnoscelis
        Tseajaia
        Solenodonsaurus
        Hylonomus
        Paleothyris
        
        Early reptile to diapsid
        Hylonomus
        Paleothyris
        Petrolacosaurus
        Araeoscelis
        Apsisaurus
        Claudiosaurus
        Planocephalosaurus
        Protorosaurus
        Prolacerta
        Proterosuchus
        Hyperodapedon
        Trilophosaurus
        
        Early diapsid to turtle
        Pappochelys rosinae — diapsid skull with expanded ribs and fused gastralia
        Odontochelys semitestacea — secondary loss of temporal fenestrae, partial formation of turtle shell
        Deltavjatia vjatkensis
        Proganochelys
        
        Early synapsid to mammal
        Paleothyris
        Protoclepsydrops haplous
        Clepsydrops
        Archaeothyris
        Varanops
        Haptodus
        Dimetrodon
        Sphenacodon
        Biarmosuchia
        Procynosuchus
        Dvinia
        Thrinaxodon
        Cynognathus
        Diademodon
        Probelesodon
        Probainognathus
        Exaeretodon
        Oligokyphus
        Kayentatherium
        Pachygenelus
        Diarthrognathus
        Adelobasileus cromptoni
        Sinoconodon
        Kuehneotherium
        Eozostrodon
        Morganucodon — a transition between “proto mammals” and “true mammals”.
        Haldanodon
        Peramus
        Endotherium
        Kielantherium
        Aegialodon
        Steropodon galmani
        Vincelestes neuquenianus
        Pariadens kirklandi
        Kennalestes
        Asioryctes
        Procerberus
        Gypsonictops
        Juramaia
        Eomaia
        Sinodelphys
        
        Dinosaur to bird
        Kulindadromeus — A basal neornithischian with feathers.
        Allosaurus — A large theropod with a wishbone.
        Aerosteon — A large theropod discovered to have air sacs supplementing lungs, like modern birds.
        Compsognathus — A small coeleurosaur with a wishbone.
        Epidendrosaurus
        Epidexipteryx
        Scandoriopteryx
        Gigantoraptor — A large oviraptorosaur discovered brooding its nests in order to protect and incubate eggs.
        Gobivenator
        Mei — A troodont discovered sleeping with its head underneath its wing
        Saurornithoides
        Sinovenator
        Buitreraptor
        Pyroraptor
        Unenlagia
        Graciliraptor
        Bambiraptor
        Balaur — A large flightless bird.
        Tsaagan
        Dromaeosaurus
        Sinosauropteryx — a basal coelurosaur discovered to be covered in feathers.
        Protarchaeopteryx
        Caudipteryx
        Velociraptor — a famous dromaeosaurid discovered to have quill knobs on its wrists.
        Deinonychus
        Utahraptor
        Achillobator
        Oviraptor — the first dinosaur discovered to steal brood nests.
        Sinovenator
        Beipiaosaurus
        Lisboasaurus
        Sinornithosaurus
        Microraptor — a feathered bird with distinctly dinosaurian characteristics, such as its tail.
        Xiaotingia — slightly earlier than Archaeopteryx, slightly more like a dinosaur and less like a bird
        Archaeopteryx — the famous bird-with-teeth.
        Anchiornis
        Baptornis
        Rahonavis
        Confuciusornis
        Sinornis
        Iberomesornis
        Theriznosaurus
        Nothronychus
        Citipati
        Falcarius
        Alxasaurus
        Chirostenotes
        Avimimus
        Khaan
        Incisivosaurus
        Caenagnathus
        Troodon
        Byronosaurus
        Ingenia
        Hesperonychus
        Conchoraptor
        Patagopteryx
        Ambiortus
        Hesperornis — A diving seabird with prominent teeth. It’s also completely flightless.
        Apsaravis
        Ichthyornis — A flying seabird with prominent teeth.
        Columba — One of many typical modern birds.
        
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        November 4, 2019 1:21pm
      - Fletch
        
        Not buying it. Even Darwin admitted that there should be transitional forms but were none. There should actually be more transitional forms than there are other fully formed animals, but their aren’t.
        
        “If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking most closely all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have existed. Consequently evidence of their former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains.”
        
        …Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?… But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?… Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory ~ Charles Darwin
        
        You little list doesn’t prove that the animal concerned is halfway between one species and another. Scientists have been trying to find the “missing link” for decades. If it existed there should be fossil evidence all over the place. Hundreds of examples. Yet we don’t find them. The same for other animals.
        
        I do believe in micro-evolution, but not macro – one species turning into another.
        
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        November 4, 2019 1:53pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I can’t do anything about your wilful disbelief in clear evidence, Fletch.
        
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        November 4, 2019 2:15pm
      - Batman
        
        This is amazing. Thanks for the laugh Fletch ?
        
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        November 4, 2019 2:28pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Fletch 20-30 million years is not “ sudden” in evolutionary terms ,
        
        “Does the Cambrian Explosion pose a challenge to evolution?
        
        The “Cambrian Explosion” refers to the appearance in the fossil record of most major animal body plans about 543 million years ago. The new fossils appear in an interval of 20 million years or less. On evolutionary time scales, 20 million years is a rapid burst that appears to be inconsistent with the gradual pace of evolutionary change. However, rapid changes like this appear at other times in the fossil record, often following times of major extinction. The Cambrian Explosion does present a number of interesting and important research questions. It does not, however, challenge the fundamental correctness of the central thesis of evolution…”
        
        https://biologos.org/common-questions/does-the-cambrian-explosion-pose-a-challenge-to-evolution/
        
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        November 4, 2019 2:30pm
      - Swifty
        
        Fletch – we don’t ‘believe’ in evolution.
        
        We either accept the evidence or we do not.
        
        Also, if not evolution then how do you explain the diversity of life on Earth?
        
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        November 4, 2019 4:10pm
      - Fletch
        
        How is this for evolution –
        
        Darwin —> Dawkins
        
        Four letters the same ?
        
        Seriously though. The fossil record shows that most species appeared, fully formed, during the Cambrian Explosion. There’s no evidence we descended from fish, or even apes.
        
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        November 4, 2019 6:07pm
      - Swifty
        
        Thanks Fletch.
        
        What do you think ’caused’ this ‘explosion’ of life?
        
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        November 4, 2019 6:15pm
rockape

A.Global warming settled science yet to be proven by facts.
B. genetic engineering is safe, proven by fact.
C. Nuclear energy is safe, proven by fact.
Wouldn’t you think if the Greens were serious about Climate change they would embrace B and C to mitigate A? But they are not serious, they merely want us to return to the 19th century, hugging each other and dancing round maypoles, They forget the need to depopulate to achieve that, and , the wars there would be over limited resources!
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November 4, 2019 9:26am
- stephieboy
  
  C. Nuclear energy is safe, proven by fact.
  
  You have Chernobyl and Fukishima in mind?
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:40am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    That’s two. Not a bad strike rate.
    
    Just a) don’t build them by the coast; and b) don’t let the State run it.
    
    Nothing is a 100% ‘safe’ bet in this world, except perhaps the probability of you embarrassing yourself multiple times a day.
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:47am
    - Crisplion
      
      Agree proper Ghandi. I’d only add that one probably ought not build reactors on known major fault lines or near active volcanoes. Other than that, with modern reactor technology, nuclear power is becoming a no-brainer – efficient, clean and reasonably cheap.
      
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      November 4, 2019 12:57pm
  - rockape
    
    No, 25 years experience heading a national safety team for monitoring and responding Nuclear accidents in the UK and elsewhere.
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:31pm
  - rockape
    
    Are we not all going to die from Global warming?
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:44pm
  - Gazza the Giant
    
    Ghez , im new here , but man , you have a nasty vibe around you
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:45pm
MCos

Later on this month it’s the anniversary of the Mt Erebus tragedy.
This Kim Hill interview from Saturday is very moving. The interviewee was three at the time and her grandfather was on the plane.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018720412/granddaughter-of-erebus-victim-on-her-quest-for-the-truth
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November 4, 2019 9:33am
- Jade Warrior
  
  Earlier this year, I took the time to read the Mahon report on the Erebus crash which can be accessed at http://www.erebus.co.nz (Paper copies are quite difficult to track down.)
  
  The report was a real page turner – at times it read more like a mystery thriller novel than a dry Commission of Inquiry report. I was aware that the report exonerated the flight crew of any blame but before I read the report I must admit I was a little sceptical – two pilots deliberately flying a passenger jet aircraft into a mountain side? Surely they must have done something wrong.
  
  But having read Mahon’s report I will admit that I am totally in his camp. He systematically destroys all allegations of pilot error and I also cannot help but wonder what happened to all of those documents which were apparently “lost” at the crash site. Like Mahon, I also think there are some key aces still lying in the pack.
  
  I’m told that the Erebus website is currently being updated. I hope that the update will also include a newly formatted version of the Mahon report to replace the PDF scan of the original report which is currently available.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:00am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I’ve got a paper copy somewhere. It’s a good read, and an important and historic document.
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:01am
- Sacha
  
  I had hoped to be on that flight (my husband was on the one prior) but missed out due to ticket demand. We knew several of the passengers very well –
  My husband was quite involved in the ‘de-briefing’ of the rescuers, and it’s fair to say he was affected by the harrowing reports that emerged. He compared it with soldiers who couldn’t talk about their war experience.
  Back then, people didn’t reveal their distress in the same way they do today and the media was more respectful of their privacy.
  IMO Saturday’s interview had moments of outraged ‘right to know and tell everyone’ .
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:25am
info@cruzpro.com

Insurance companies “DDD” – Delay, Deny, Defend.

When you file a claim the first response is no response – for a long while (Delay), then the inevitable “Sorry we found a clause that allows us to not pay” – (Deny). Then in order to get any justice you have to hire a lawyer and fight their expensive lawyers (Defend).

In some countries, if an insurance company unfairly denies payment and you are successful in fighting them, the insurance company has to pay out four time the disputed amount.

That evens up the odds a little bit, but only a little.

We had travel insurance payout declined because we didn’t “take reasonable care” not to lose $1500 due to unforseen circumstances. I guess if you trip on a curb and break your leg in a foreign country on your way to the airport you didn’t “take resonable care” in not breaking your leg.
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November 4, 2019 9:45am
- theoldbloke
  
  Dont buy a lotto ticket you are obviously unlucky.
  I have made 2 claims on my travel insurance
  a) Lost Video Camera
  b) Surgery on a foot infection.
  Neither posed any problems.
  The Surgery claim got delayed because of Christmas. I got a letter of apology for the delay and an offer of a discount for any future policy(which I took up the following year)
  
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  November 4, 2019 4:54pm
John Warren

I attended my teenage son’s prizegiving at a large Christchurch secondary school on Friday. The students and their guests were almost entirely of European extraction, with a smattering of Asians. After a brief welcome from the student leaders, the principal stood at the lectern, a cocksure little white man in an enormous Maori cloak, and proceeded to harangue the audience in Maori at great length.

I had time to wonder at what drives this. You can be sure, looking at the demographic, that of the several hundred people in the auditorium the number who might have understood anything at all of what he was saying would have been been somewhere between zero and the fingers of one hand.

So what gives? Why stand before an audience and subject them to several minutes of unintelligible babble? The only explanation I can come up with is wankery, sheer wankery. It’s nothing more than showing off.
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November 4, 2019 9:47am
- chaos
  
  I remember in high school the school got gifted some Maori carving which lead to a two hour assembly in Maori for welcome bla bla bla these carvings. It was great time for most of us, we caught up on our sleep.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:52am
- stephieboy
  
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  John Warren , did you get up on you seat and protest and babble much?
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:58am
  - John Warren
    
    Stiffy-bum, you do enough babbling for all of us.
    
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    November 4, 2019 1:53pm
- igm
  
  Pity everyone did not walk out en masse.
  This tripe, like the haka at every opportunity, is getting over the top and if not checked will get worse.
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:33am
  - sooty
    
    Standup and go, Oi!
    
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    November 4, 2019 12:28pm
  - John Warren
    
    It’s bullshit, especially in a school with practically no Maori kids. At one point another very lightly tinted teacher stood up unexpectedly at the back of where the staff were all seated and did a great loud Maori proclamation, complete with the rolling eyes and gesticulations, and I was very tempted to shout out “Shut the fuck up and sit down, will ya?”
    
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    November 4, 2019 1:56pm
Fletch

Someone linked to an article on another blog that I must have missed 11 years ago. A writer for the HuffPo (a left wing, gay man) reckons that fascism and homosexuality are inextricably linked.

The twisted truth is that gay men have been at the heart of every major fascist movement that ever was – including the gay-gassing, homo-cidal Third Reich. With the exception of Jean-Marie Le Pen, all the most high-profile fascists in Europe in the past thirty years have been gay. It’s time to admit something. Fascism isn’t something that happens out there, a nasty habit acquired by the straight boys. It is – in part, at least – a gay thing, and it’s time for non-fascist gay people to wake up and face the marching music.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-strange-strange-story_b_136697
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November 4, 2019 9:56am
- stephieboy
  
  And join the inextricably linked straights like Hitler, Mussolini , Franco and Stalin etc.
  
  LOL!
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:56am
- mikenmildagain
  
  You shouldn’t be drinking so heavily this early in the day.
  
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  November 4, 2019 10:59am
- Inandout
  
  Had the Brown Shirt boss Ernst Röhm not been so open with his men sleeping together things might have been different.
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:06am
Hugh Pavletich

‘SAVING’ (YAWN) CHRISTCHURCH’S FORMER CENTRAL AREA POLITICAL THEATRICS … CONTINUES …

Christchurch’s former central area still struggles … as increasingly affordable Greater Christchurch (thanks in large measure to the smaller functional Councils of Waimakariri and Selwyn) roar ahead ….

… Wait until the new Northern and Southern motorways come on stream during the first part of next year ! …

What needs to be done to make Christchurch CBD work again? …. Dominic Harris … The Press

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/117091144/christchurch-loses-if-the-city-centre-fails-councillor-jamie-gough-says?cid=app-iPad#comments

Free car parking, rates holidays for owners of new properties and financial incentives for developers should all be considered to ensure central Christchurch flourishes rather than flounders, councillor James Gough believes. … read more via hyperlink above …
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November 4, 2019 10:35am
- John Warren
  
  All I can say is, Hugh, that we’re likely to sell our inner city property and move out in the general direction of North Canterbury sooner rather than later.
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:27am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Joe … For the life of me, I cannot understand how and why the Councils ideological (cars are evil) Road Wreckers (Traffic Planners) have got away with it … something incidentally Councillor Jamie Gough makes no mention of.
    
    Mobility / accessibility are critically important factors for commercial success / survival.
    
    The Council bureaucrats have gone out of their way to stuff it up.
    
    They have the same ‘bureaucratic arrogance’ problem with the dysfunctional Auckland Council too. Watch this shocking video from the Auck;and Ratepayers Alliance …
    
    Who’s really in charge at Auckland Council (SHORT VIDEO – Auckland Ratepayers Alliance) ?
    
    https://www.facebook.com/ratepayersalliance/videos/498942243986408/
    
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    November 4, 2019 11:55am
  - freethinker
    
    Moved out after Quake settled house to Selwyn, area pleasanter and council slightly less wasteful & obnoxious. Half of family done likewise and the rest actively looking. I hardly recognize the shity centre and no longer frequent it as suburban malls/restaurants and cinemas satisfy our needs without the hassel of 30 kph speed limits, one ways, no rights turns and traffic nazis. CCC well on the way to wasting the opportunity of a lifetime to create a great city.
    
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    November 4, 2019 1:03pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      The Greater Christchurch demographic drifts North and South John Warren and Freethinker express so well above. are enormously significant.
      
      It is all part of the ‘flight to affordability’ by both businesses and households going on throughout the country ( refer 2019 Section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org ).
      
      They will not tolerate dysfunctional local government.
      
      The ‘rot’ really set in at the time of the idiotic forced local government amalgamations in 1989.
      
      Prior to that (on a population basis) we had as many units of local government as America has today (about 90,000 units).
      
      There are two types of local government in this world … the small and the bad.
      
      Once you take the ‘local’ out of it, you bureaucratically stuff it. They take complete control.
      
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      November 4, 2019 1:58pm
Maggie Pie

Is anyone still listening to Leighton Smith’s podcasts?

[Asking for a friend]
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November 4, 2019 10:36am
- Sacha
  
  I did, last week. But I can’t recall what it was about –
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:14am
stephieboy

Unsurprisingly the Syrian President gives his US counterpart a nod of approval,

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1190389074223337472
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November 4, 2019 10:43am
stephieboy

Out of Botswana. New DNA analysis indentifies the location of man’s origins c 200, 000 years ago

“Scientists have concluded that modern humans, Homo sapiens, all originated from a single point in southern Africa roughly 200,000 years ago
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A study published Monday in the journal Nature suggests that parts of Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pans — found to have once been Africa’s largest lake system — housed modern humanity’s very first ancestors.

According to the researchers, humans thrived in the area for about 70,000 years before drastic climate change forced them to migrate out of the region, and consequently out of Africa…”

https://globalnews.ca/news/6099623/botswana-humanity-ancestors-study/
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November 4, 2019 10:53am
- mikenmildagain
  
  No word on the first belly-button?
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:08am
- Maggie Pie
  
  It doesn’t matter what ‘Scientists’ publish – or researchers conclude.
  
  Billy Connolly summed it up best, when he said:
  
  “But were they fooking there?!”
  
  😀
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:11am
- John Warren
  
  Doesn’t enlighten us much about your origins, Stiffy-ape.
  
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  November 4, 2019 11:30am
- DigNap15
  
  I don’t believe that out of Africa stuff.
  So “man” spread all over the world and became as black as in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
  And white as in Europe with straight blonde hair.
  And Yellowish with straight black hair and you know what sort of eyes.
  I am not being racial.
  Just seeing it as a sensible logical person, who has been interested in Paleontology for 50 years.
  
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  November 4, 2019 2:10pm
rangitoto

Six time F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton as a seven year old on Blue Peter racing radio control cars. Laser focus even then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knuYY8oiDZU
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November 4, 2019 11:41am
chaos

Winston doesn’t really have a good reputation anyway and he did commit fraud. There is no way he could go that long not knowing he was over paid especially with the letters he got from winz

*A leak which showed Winston Peters had been overpaid for his pension was a serious “slur on his reputation” in election year, his lawyer says.

The Deputy Prime Minister’s lawyer Brian Henry said in the High Court today that the leak of his pension details in 2017 suggested – at worst – that Peters had committed fraud.

That was as damaging to a person’s reputation as an allegation of sexual offending, Henry said.

“People were running around town saying that Peters had somehow chiselled the MSD for his benefit.”*

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12282091
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November 4, 2019 11:43am
- sooty
  
  Did Whinestone have a reputation to slur?
  
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  November 4, 2019 12:25pm
- chaos
  
  This is a bit weird for his court case
  
  “ Some of the witnesses called by Peters in the case have been granted interim name suppression until the conclusion of evidence. ”
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/117138262/winston-peters-superannuation-leak-malicious-a-slur-on-my-character
  
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  November 4, 2019 1:53pm
chaos

*Early childhood teachers have launched a week of action today to demand the Government fix a 23 per cent pay gap between them and primary and secondary school teachers.

Next year that pay gap will go to 49 per cent.*

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/early-childhood-teachers-launch-week-action-calling-better-pay?auto=6100140199001
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November 4, 2019 12:07pm
- rockape
  
  No one had ever heard of early childhood education when I went to school in 52, other than that done by my parents. We did OK.
  
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  November 4, 2019 12:38pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Soon they will be wanting the same pay as University Professors.
    Typical left-wing thinking.
    All get paid the same.
    
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    November 4, 2019 2:21pm
Fletch

Navy Seal dog trainer, a guest on Fox, slips in a little PSA at the end of his segment ?

https://twitter.com/kbq225/status/1190795004333215744/video/1
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November 4, 2019 12:53pm
- chaos
  
  Lol, love it. Obviously one of the untrained dogs didn’t and down ticked you.
  
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  November 4, 2019 1:06pm
- cut n paster
  
  The bearing and confidence of a Navy Seal. Menacing looking dog…..And Jacinda must ensure the beehive molester is punished!!!
  
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  November 4, 2019 1:49pm
chaos

What a screw up of the laws, but hey, at least this government is going to be bringing in more undesirables from countries we shouldn’t touch

* A UK-born New Zealand permanent resident says he’s been cut out of the property market by restrictions on foreign buyers, because his job requires him to spend time overseas.

Residential land can now only be sold to people who are citizens or permanent residents, with exceptions for Australians and Singaporeans.

But people with a residence visa need to meet conditions. They must have a residence-class visa, must have lived in New Zealand for the past 12 months, have been present in New Zealand for at least 183 days of the past 12 months, and be a tax resident.

Richard Moore moved to New Zealand to serve with the police in Northland as a strategic intelligence analyst in 2005, and bought a house in Whangarei.*

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/117051658/permanent-resident-since-2010-why-cant-i-buy-a-house
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November 4, 2019 1:08pm
Jack5

Malaysia’s Prime Minister says Australia will soon be more Asian that Australian. That will fire up the White Australia mob.

Malaysia itself has controversial racial policies and relations between groups.

The Bamiputra – Malays and indigenous people such as Dayaks – make up a little under two-thirds of Malaysia’s population. The Bamiputra get preferential entry to universities, and the minorities, especially those not part of the bigger, and richer Chinese minority complain of discrimination in housing.

Malaysia now has a small African minority, and there are instances of apartment blocks advertising “no Africans”.

Still, it’s 50 years since the Malaysian race riots, in which as many as 800 people were killed.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/malaysian-pm-says-australia-s-european-roots-will-give-way-to-asian-influence-20191102-p536uu.html
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November 4, 2019 1:11pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Slight correction – it’s Bumiputera. We called ’em ‘the boomies’ when I worked there. Racial privilege is alive and well for sure.
  
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  November 4, 2019 2:00pm
  - Jack5
    
    Thank you, Krazykiwi.
    
    So multiculturism isn’t a magic answer to a happy society?
    
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    November 4, 2019 2:24pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      The Boomies have a saying: If you have a snake, and Indian and a gun you should shoot the Indian and take your chances with the Snake. Pretty rank. I saw the Indian people there working 3x harder than most boomies. Society there only appears happy. There’s deeply held resentment from many non-Boomies.
      
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      November 4, 2019 3:12pm
- DigNap15
  
  Malaysia now has a small African minority, and there are instances of apartment blocks advertising “no Africans”.
  
  What would Meng Fool say?
  Sounds like a good policy to me.
  
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  November 4, 2019 2:06pm
chaos

Sigh, how about this Xmas people let kids be kids. Stop this fear mongering, stop trying to destroy kids lives and making them live in fear. Let kids be kids.

* Young environmentalist Oli Kirke is on a mission to get other youngsters to ask Santa for a tree or anything else sustainable for Christmas.

The 12-year-old is spreading his message through Timaru schools with a hard hitting speech about zero-waste gift ideas.*

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/117031935/timaru-pupil-oli-kirke-on-zero-waste-santa-gift-campaign
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November 4, 2019 1:16pm
- Fletch
  
  Yeh, and in the news yesterday, Santa will now reply to Christmas letters “in te reo”. Oh, FFS…. Since when do they speak “te reo” at the North Pole?
  
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  November 4, 2019 5:14pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Oh, FFS…does if matter what language you use when writing to a mythical figure.
    For that matter, prayers to Jeebus in English, Latin, or Maori have an equal chance of being answered.
    
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    November 4, 2019 6:45pm
Maggie Pie

I just went up to see if there was any mail in the box. Our new neighbor was out front mowing his berm, so i went and introduced myself. Actually seemed quite a pleasant sort of guy. He was telling me the last placed they lived was only a stones-throw away from where a whole family died of mysterious head injuries.
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November 4, 2019 1:24pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So he’s a recent arrival from South Africa then?
  
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  November 4, 2019 1:41pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    First thing that went thru my mind was Mt Roskill 🙁
    
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    November 4, 2019 1:53pm
    - John Warren
      
      Better Mt Roskill than a rock.
      
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      November 4, 2019 2:19pm
- chaos
  
  Maybe that is what David Bain tells people when he moves into the area.
  
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  November 4, 2019 1:48pm
Swifty

Who should handle the money in the home?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPvnXQGQM1s
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November 4, 2019 1:50pm
krazykiwi

Nope, definitely not a death cult.
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November 4, 2019 1:58pm
- chaos
  
  Hmmmm, they protesting for free sanitary pads?
  
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  November 4, 2019 2:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Looks like they’ve given up on keeping paint-free
  https://www.thedailybeast.com/extinction-rebellion-try-to-spray-blood-on-uk-government-building-hose-explodes-and-drenches-them
  
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  November 4, 2019 2:33pm
Happychappy

My reputation was being trashed Says Winston Peter’s, well whose fault was that he had every opportunity to fix it up like any Pensioners that are sent letters from MSD but he though he was above that and ignored the letters that were sent.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/11/winston-peters-takes-the-stand-in-high-court-over-pension-overpayments.html
What about the trashing of other reputations that Peter’s has done to other under Parliamentry Privilege he has no regrets abouts that, then there is the Vella Helicopter saga and the Owen Glenn donation that he lied about , Winston Peter’s is the scourge of NZ Politics and as long as he is here he will create problems and blame others as that how he works, if this was someone else they would have had the same treatment and would have to pay it back the same as what happened with Winston, except the NZ First Leader thinks he is intitled and wants to exact Utu on people he does not like.
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November 4, 2019 2:04pm
- igm
  
  I hope this whole affair backfires in his face . . . as stated, he has defamed many under parliamentary privilege, lied about donations, and still owes NZ taxpayers $158,000.
  
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  November 4, 2019 4:19pm
  - RiP NZ
    
    Peter’s has been robbing the tax payer for 40 years.
    Only he would have the inkling he deserves another 1.8m
    Fk I cant stand the prick.
    
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    November 4, 2019 5:45pm
- sooty
  
  You never ever had a reputation, Whinestone!
  
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  November 4, 2019 4:31pm
  - rockape
    
    Can he sue for confirming his reputation?
    
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    November 4, 2019 8:24pm
Jack5

Our news media seems to be on the Reserve Bank governor’s wagon in his crusade against the trading banks, but does a Herald report go too far today when it is headlined (on the site’s initial page): “Westpac boss pockets over $2.4 million.”

The report’s about the Westpac boss’s total income for the year.

“Pockets”? My old Shorter Oxford Dictionary acknowledges this verb can mean to put in a pocket, but has a secondary meaning: “To appropriate, sometimes with implication of dishonesty”. It dates this meaning from 1637.

The (1979) Collins dictionary gives a secondary meaning of “pocket” as a verb: “to take surreptitiously or unlawfully; steal.”

Then (1983) Chambers, secondary meanings: “to appropriate: to take stealthily: to steal”.

Not that $2.5 million isn’t a lot of dosh for running a New Zealand company. Talent is widespread, as recovery from disasters and wars repeatedly proves, but management recruiters set the standards. The higher the salary, the less outrageous consultant-recruiter fees seem.
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November 4, 2019 2:22pm
krazykiwi

Greta pleads: They moved the climate conference. I need a carbon free way to get there. Suggestions?

Yes! I recommend this .

You’re welcome.
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November 4, 2019 2:32pm
- stigie
  
  “HOW DARE YOU “
  
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  November 4, 2019 4:10pm
- sooty
  
  Why do you need to go, Greta!
  They will get on fine without you!
  
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  November 4, 2019 4:30pm
Happychappy

Why would Winston Peter’s think he had a good reputation when he and Shane Jones have created land sales like this for forestry all to get his pet project Rail up and running for the upper North.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/402225/forestry-conversions-rules-totally-out-of-control
Winston doesn’t give a Fuck about NZ it’s all about his Legacy.
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November 4, 2019 3:52pm
chaos

Truant school girl needs help

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1190290034131267591
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November 4, 2019 3:54pm
chaos

I love listening to the stories of former and current military personal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jUU4Z8QdHI

*Major UFO Press Conference In Washington, DC
September 27th, 2010

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects

Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles

Group to call on U.S. Government to reveal the facts

Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality. One of them, ICBM launch officer Captain Robert Salas, was on duty during one missile disruption incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base and was ordered to never discuss it. Another participant, retired Col. Charles Halt, observed a disc-shaped object directing beams of light down into the RAF Bentwaters airbase in England and heard on the radio that they landed in the nuclear weapons storage area. Both men will provide stunning details about these events, and reveal how the U.S. military responded.*
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November 4, 2019 4:12pm
Nostradamus

Is it OK to pat a dog? The question at the heart of a dispute over Islamic tradition

Australian travellers returning from overseas barely raise an eyebrow when approached by a sniffer dog at one of our baggage carousels. Many even smile — after all, dogs are cute!

But as ubiquitous as they’ve become, for some travellers the canines are a source of trepidation — and I’m not talking about drug traffickers.

For some Muslims, anxiety upon arrival in Australia derives less from a concern about encountering local authorities and more from a deep-seated fear of dogs. Followers of the Shafi’i school of jurisprudence in Sunni Islam, mainly found in East Africa and South-East Asia, are taught that dogs are unclean and impure. If they touch a dog they must wash the area of contact seven times — the first time with dirt and the remaining six times with water.

Nice doggy! Pat pat!
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November 4, 2019 4:36pm
- Swifty
  
  Heh.
  
  Toughen up cupcakes, or, feel free not to come – just the same as I’ll never darken their shores.
  
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  November 4, 2019 6:29pm
- Michael
  
  its not just them in that area.
  I sold a rottie to a muslim guy and he couldn’t pet it before going to mosque as it was Haram and he’d have to go get clean all again.
  
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  November 4, 2019 7:56pm
Fletch

Immigrant 32 year old doctor kills teenage girl in Dunedin after she threatens to go to the Police over his supplying alcohol and drugs to minors and asking for sex…. Slits her neck and stabs her 6 times.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/11/dunedin-doctor-accused-of-murdering-teenage-girl-after-she-threatened-to-expose-his-behaviour-to-his-employer.html
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November 4, 2019 5:19pm
- Fletch
  
  ps, I didn’t realize this happened back in 2018. Trial is just coming up now.
  
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  November 4, 2019 5:59pm
- Swifty
  
  I felt physically sick reading that earlier today.
  
  I am just so, so sorry for the young woman and her family.
  
  Such a tragic end to a young life at the hands of an inadequate, malfunctioning and deeply selfish individual.
  
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  November 4, 2019 6:32pm
  - fernglas
    
    Did you read the bit where he says it wasn’t him?
    
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    November 4, 2019 7:54pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Personally, I was more struck by the testimony of his accomplice.
      
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      November 4, 2019 8:42pm
    - Swifty
      
      ferngals – yes I did.
      
      So?
      
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      November 4, 2019 8:55pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    And her mother committed suicide four months later.
    The prick should be charged with two murders.
    
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    November 4, 2019 8:20pm
rightoverlabour

I didn’t know (Insert words that will get [deleted by mod] treatment) had reputations. This is an oxymoron if there ever was one

Winston Peters: Superannuation leak ‘malicious’, ‘a slur on my character’

I hope he loses the case and gets done for costs.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/117138262/winston-peters-superannuation-leak-malicious-a-slur-on-my-character
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November 4, 2019 6:17pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  If he gets done for costs it’s apparently on the taxpayers’ tab.
  I give up.
  
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  November 4, 2019 8:21pm
RW Capitalist

One NEWS
Jacinda signs extension to China free trade agreement.
Sounds great huh?
Except, in muted tones, they tell you this has been in the works for 3 years………
Labour claiming National’s work….A G A I N.
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November 4, 2019 6:20pm
Maggie Pie

My partners mum txts:
“Anyone who thinks that guy from NAC wont win the Botany nomination needs their head read. He’ll shit in”

LOL!!
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November 4, 2019 6:34pm
chaos

I strongly disagree with vigilante behaviour, but in this case, thank you to whoever did this.

*One of three teenagers charged over a vicious attack on a 90-year-old grandmother in her Levin house is sporting facial injuries dished out by “vigilantes”, a court has heard.*

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12282344
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November 4, 2019 6:45pm
- chaos
  
  Excuse my language mod, but what the fuck, perhaps the judge should consider what this person did to the 90 year old woman
  
  * Judge Jill Moss told the girl, “You’ve given yourself a really nasty fright”.
  
  The judge granted the girl bail with strict curfew conditions and under the supervision of her mother at a Lower North Island home.*
  
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  November 4, 2019 6:53pm
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    *Dudge Jill Moss* …..says it all really 😎
    
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    November 4, 2019 7:31pm
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    Chaos@1835
    
    So the attacker has given herself ‘A really nasty fright’, and stuff the victim!!!
    
    (Who is, after all, ONLY 90 years old, and not worth much as a result; she’s gunna die anyway…)
    
    With that sort of response from an oh so PC and woke judge, I would suggest that any doubts as to the ethnicity of the attacker has now been removed…
    
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    November 4, 2019 8:44pm
chaos

So you can now remain on the learners license for up to 7 years. Jezz. Certainly doesn’t make me feel safer on the roads to know that some of these people were too useless to move on to restricted.

* Drivers with a learner or restricted licence close to expiry will be given an automatic two-year extension by the Government.

On Monday, Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter announced that motorists holding a current five-year learner, restricted or motorbike licence expiring between December 1, 2019 and December 1, 2021 will receive the extension.

Over 144,000 time-limited licences are due to expire within the next two years, with 67,000 due to expire in the 12 months from December 1, 2019 and a further 77,000 the following year. *

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/11/government-gives-expiring-learner-restricted-licences-two-year-extension.html
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November 4, 2019 7:48pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So is JAG chasing the youth vote?
  Nothing would surprise me.
  
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  November 4, 2019 8:23pm
DigNap15

They should be reducing the time down to one or two years. Give them some urgency!
If you don’t pass, then go back to Go, do not collect $200.
Make them resit their learners licence.
There is no excuse.
Genter truly is Insane
I emailed her today and told her that.
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November 4, 2019 9:01pm
Wired-one

Luxon is Nationals candidate for Botany. Another great hopeful MP, with plenty of skill and talent. What a breath of fresh air from this current government of ineptitudes lot.
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November 4, 2019 10:26pm
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  November 5, 2019 8:23am
igm

May God help ratepayers of Lower Hutt when this typical example of mayor and councillors elected by non-ratepayers have finished with them.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117151456/hutt-city-could-become-more-like-coronation-st-after-radical-plan-change
Ratepayers have no responsibility financially supporting cheap housing for many who are unworthy of pigstys, or just plain bludgers.
I can see this mob totally stuffing Lower Hutt in no time, costing ratepayers dearly . . . very few ratepayers being silly enough to vote for this shower of s . . t.
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