General Debate 16 December 2019

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Scott

Those of us who are Christian believe that people are created in the image of God and therefore deserve fair and equal treatment under the law.

However the labour government, along with the Greens, being far more enlightened than we mere Christians, is seeking to improve on that with a new public service bill. They promote the notion that there is a partnership between the Crown and Maori and according to Hobson’s choice promote the need for greater involvement of the Maori in the public sector. They appear to be creating a racial obligation on public sector employers and appears to put “those with a Maori ancestor” ahead of “best person for the job”.

They also have introduced the education and training bill which will give the school boards the obligation to make classroom instruction in Te Reo and to achieve equitable outcomes for Maori students.

These moves appear to place Maori people as a priority above people of other races. In the past we would have called this racist.

Isn’t it wonderful to see what our government is doing? They put Maori people above everyone else. If you are not a Maori person then you can expect to be disadvantaged by these pieces of legislation. Thinking they are enlightened this government is in fact returning us to the principles of tribalism based on race.

https://www.hobsonspledge.nz/school_is_for_lessons_-_not_indoctrination
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December 16, 2019 8:01am
- Sydney Alvarado
  
  Thanks. I had not caught up with that. Some of the provisions in the Education Bill are very alarming.
  
  Schools will be required to teach “local tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori, and te ao Māori”.
  
  Why is National not screaming about this? Or will it again be up to David Seymour to take a lone stand?
  _________
  
  122Objectives of boards in governing schools
  (1)
  A board’s primary objectives in governing a school are to ensure that—
  (a)
  every student at the school is able to attain their highest possible standard in educational achievement; and
  (b)
  the school—
  (i)
  is a physically and emotionally safe place for all students and staff; and
  (ii)
  gives effect to relevant student rights set out in this Act, the Bill of Rights Act 1990, and the Human Rights Act 1993; and
  (iii)
  takes all reasonable steps to eliminate racism, stigma, bullying, and discrimination within the school; and
  (c)
  the school is inclusive of, and caters for, students with differing needs; and
  (d)
  the school gives effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi including by—
  (i)
  working to ensure that its plans, policies and local curriculum reflect local tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori, and te ao Māori; and
  (ii)
  taking all reasonable steps to make instruction available in tikanga Māori and te reo Māori; and
  (iii)
  achieving equitable outcomes for Māori students.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:21am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Kids will revolt. Look at 1976 Soweto. Further most teachers have no clue about most of this, so it will get lip service and nothing else. Couple of posters on the wall with numbers and days of the week, and that’s it. Especially considering the large number of immigrant teaches flooding in to fill the gaps.
    
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    December 16, 2019 9:43am
    - mark15
      
      Are they the same teachers who dont have to pass IELTS tests any more?
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:18pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    The Bill was introduced last week and had its First Reading. It is a massive Bill, and it’s entirely possible that the first National MP’s saw of it was when it was tabled. There is plenty of time to go through it and identify areas of concern as it goes to select committee.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:18am
    - tf78
      
      We’ve just been to listen to Nikki Kaye speak, she is a very impressive woman – National have got a huge discussion document with great improvements for NZ education. National have a great team of MP’s and God willing they will be re-elected in 2020.
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:15pm
    - Michael
      
      no it should ALL be available to read through 7 days before being tabled…..
      
      that would be professional and fair to all.
      
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      December 16, 2019 3:00pm
      - tf78
        
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        December 16, 2019 4:11pm
- Michael
  
  I call it Maorism or Maori Apartheid.
  
  It is wicked and insiduous.
  It is not just The Labour/Greens.
  National is gulty of it too.
  
  They campaigned on getting rid of the Maori seats and other racist laws.
  Then Key and co reneged on it.
  
  All New Zealand citizens should be treated the same.
  One Law for All.
  
  Only New Zealand citizens should be able to vote.
  Citizenship should trump everything.
  You don’t like it, become a citizen and commit to NZ.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:23am
- KevO'Brien
  
  I am also concerned about Maori spirits being promoted.
  The Treaty payouts are looking more like a shakedown. Who are Maori now is very doubtful. Is there a single real Maori left? Many have no tribal affiliations or roots but sure can demand privilege and money. Who has benefited from the payments? Who is currently benefiting? I see this continuing if we let ourselves be fooled by a group which fosters trickery.
  
  What use use is an 1835 kumara planting lingo to to NZ? It’s mostly now free transliteration and poor grammar. Well past its use by date. The specialist reserved genealogies are only for a few.
  
  Nga Puhi is still waiting to proceed on their settlement as they want to be last and get the most while not being able to agree on which person can represent them.
  Sanity 2020 ☑️☑️
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:30am
  - Tall Man
    
    You’ve obviously never met a cranky Taniwha have you…….. Stop the koha and you will.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:03am
    - Michael
      
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      December 16, 2019 3:01pm
  - Sydney Alvarado
    
    Message is send your kids to an independent private school if you can afford it.
    
    Seriously we lament declining relative performance in maths and science and then promote this stuff. National, hello where are you?
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:16am
- igm
  
  Labour/NZ First/Greens are only interested in Islam and Maori . . . to hell with the rest. I hope we have a repeat of British elections where Corbyn was continually greasing to Islam and bludgers . . . he was given a real big arse card.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:37am
  - Stephieboy2
    
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    “Labour/NZ First/Greens are only interested in Islam and Maori….”
    
    Utter drivel!
    
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    December 16, 2019 9:25am
    - MrLovebucket
      
      They also care deeply about themselves and how long they can keep their snouts in the trough.
      
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      December 16, 2019 10:00am
  - cmm
    
    No, they are not interested in Islam or Maori either, but Islam and Maori can be exploited to make them look good to the international luvvies
    
    All that matters is looking good on the international stage.
    
    #CinD4UN!
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:22am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  History prior to the late 18th century suggests that all people being treated equally under the law is an Enlightenment value not a Christian one.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:45am
  - Swifty
    
    It’s quite common for religious folk to co-opt the achievements of others while disowning the shit they themselves created in the past.
    
    I see it all the time.
    
    It’s a dishonest rewriting of history.
    
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    December 16, 2019 9:02am
  - Jules99
    
    I think Jesus was pretty keen on treating people equally.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:05am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I don’t recall any female disciples/apostles.
      
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      December 16, 2019 10:45am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Mary Magdalene. Her role was suppressed by the later church, but she was Jesus’ favourite disciple. You can see why:
        https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fun:That_fine-ass_Mary_Magdalene
        
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        December 16, 2019 10:51am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        I didn’t see any on crosses at Calgary either
        
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        December 16, 2019 11:10am
      - lifesgood
        
        You cannot put the values and traditions of today onto history. Times have changed and only recently at that. Women did not take leadership roles in those days but Jesus’ close friend and someone he discussed things with was Mary Magdelene, He was doing his best within the constraints of the times.
        
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        December 16, 2019 11:12am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        But he gathered about him a a large group of devoted women including his mother , Mary Magdalene, Martha etc . Not forgetting the New Testement speaking of there being is no Greek, Jew or slave!
        
        “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
        
        Galatians 3:28
        
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        December 16, 2019 11:32am
      - Ed Snack
        
        I would hope that no one was up on a cross at Calgary, no matter how badly they behaved at the stampede. Calvary however may be different…
        
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        December 16, 2019 1:59pm
      - michael_s2
        
        Paulus was obviously not there at Stampede time
        
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        December 16, 2019 8:20pm
    - Swifty
      
      If true then a greater pity that his followers didn’t stay true to his example.
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:37am
  - MrTips
    
    Nice try Nigel. Roman and Greek culture gave sod all legal rights to woman. The subsequent and pre-existing pagan cultures of Europe did similar. Slavery was accepted by all. And don’t try and tell us that Islam, viz a viz the “Andelusian dream” emancipated infidels, woman and gays. It wasn’t until the 12th and 13th centuries in Europe that all those groups got better treatment, save probably gays. All that arose with Christianity which freed them from their fixations on hadith and Ptolemy. All the “Enlightenment” gave us was dualism, Marxism, less legal rights for woman, the glorious Victorian and Hanover hypocrisies all alongside the wholesale slaughters of the French and Russian revolutions.
    
    Enlightenment my ass. Historical fable more like it.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:26am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Do tell what the church did in the 12th and 13th centuries to liberate ‘those groups’.
      
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      December 16, 2019 10:52am
    - Swifty
      
      Heh heh.
      
      Good one PG.
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:39am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Actually woman in pre-Norman Anglo-Saxon England we’re far more equitably treated than they were post the Conquest. Anglo-Saxon law, in keeping with its Scandinavian roots gave women inheritance rights for a start, and generalised equality under the law though there were still very different role expectations in the society.
      
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      December 16, 2019 2:02pm
    - Overworked
      
      For this to be true Christianity must have arisen in the 12th century or shortly before….
      
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      December 16, 2019 4:00pm
  - ISeeRed
    
    The Enlightenment originated in nations dominated by Christianity and not Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism or other belief systems. No matter what its faults and flaws, Christianity alone provided the fertile ground for Enlightenment values to take seed, grow and blossom. Many cultures and nations have existed or persisted for centuries if not millennia in the Indus Valley, Egypt, Sumeria, Persia, China etc. yet nothing like the Enlightenment occurred. And I say this as an atheist who is often sceptical of many Biblical and religious claims.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:51am
  - Scott
    
    Nigel – possibly a debating point? I’m not discounting the enlightenment contribution. I am just saying that Christianity was a key part of the idea of equality. That people are equal in the sight of God.
    We can see this clearly in the person of Jesus who broke many religious bonds of the time. For example his treatment of women was groundbreaking at the time and his outreach across ethnic barriers, particularly Jew and Samaritan.
    This enabled the church to proclaim Jesus across all barriers of race and class and sex. This led to the abolition of slavery in the fourth century and then again in the 19th century.
    
    But the key point is that everyone is equally valued in the sight of God.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:46am
- Evadne
  
  There is only one way to achieve equitable outcomes: by hamstringing and penalising the high achievers.
  
  Any government proposing that cares neither for individual people nor wider society. It is both cruel and stupid.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:48am
- Yadayada
  
  “Those of us who are Christian believe that people are created in the image of God and therefore deserve fair and equal treatment under the law”
  
  What law applies to God, Scott?
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:52am
  - MrTips
    
    His ones. Ask Moses.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:28am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Hmm…
      https://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexamined/2014/08/god-needs-a-12-step-program-to-obey-his-10-commandments/
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:46am
  - Scott
    
    Yadayada – well that is quite a deep question? The Bible says that God is the creator and the author of the laws that govern the universe. He then gave us the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai. He then sent us the person of Jesus to show us what God is like and how we should live.
    
    Jesus said that the law and the Commandments can be summarised in two simple sentences –
    – love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength
    – and love your neighbour as yourself.
    
    Those laws are given by God to us. They are also expressions of God’s character. So God always acts justly for example because that is his character.
    
    God as shown to us in the Bible is therefore constrained by his character which is fair and just.
    
    By way of contrast the Muslim god Allah has no constraints and can do whatever he wills. That is one of the many differences between Christianity and Islam.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:51am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Scoot, some people might find it difficult to believe your claim that ‘God always acts justly’ when they consider him:
      • ordering the death of the Amalekites and the guy who picked up sticks on the Sabbath
      •killing the guy who touched the Ark of the Covenant so it wouldn’t fall, and the guy who refused to impregnate his sister-in-law
      •killing all the men, women, and children in Sodom and Gomorrah
      And best not to mention the Flood…
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:23pm
      - Scott
        
        Mikey – not going to go through every example. But let’s just take the flood. The key verses in the Bible that explain why God sent the flood are these –
        Genesis 6:11-13
        (NIV 1984)
        11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
        
        The destruction of the earth and the people on the earth was because they had all become corrupt. So God started again with the one righteous man – Noah and his family.
        
        The God who created us has the right to judge us. That’s the part you have to accept and get your head around.
        
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        December 16, 2019 1:54pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’m not buying it. I think you’d be better to stick to the theologians who simply hold that God’s laws don’t apply to God himself.
        
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        December 16, 2019 3:49pm
  - Michael
    
    none
    He is Law 🙂
    
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    December 16, 2019 3:04pm
- artemisia
  
  Best person for the job. Any job. Hard to argue with that as a campaign slogan, even with the gazillion dogwhistling jabs. Which jabs will resonate in the beltway, not much elsewhere.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:07am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You will be relieved to know that the Public Service Bill does not propose to change the existing requirement to ‘give preference to the person who is best suited to the position’.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:51am
    - Tall Man
      
      Definitely not the situation now and you are lying if you claim that race is not an issue now.
      
      I have seen it manifest itself on numerous occasions as I’m sure have you.
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:21pm
    - artemisia
      
      I have written many job descriptions in my time. It’s like the person that writes the minutes. The most powerful person in the room. I will say no more.
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:59pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Without knowing exactly what Scott is on about, he might be referring to this section of the Public Service Legislation Bill:
  
  Crown’s relationships with Māori
  The role of the public service includes supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi (te Tiriti o Waitangi).
  To that end, the Commissioner, public service chief executives, interdepartmental executive boards, and boards of interdepartmental ventures are responsible for—
  developing and maintaining the capability of the public service to engage with Māori and to understand Māori perspectives:
  in the employment area,—
  in the case of the Commissioner, recognising the matters listed in section 71(2)(d) in the development and implementation of the leadership strategy under section 59:
  in the case of chief executives and public service boards that employ staff, operate an employment policy that meets the requirements of section 71(2)(d).
  
  The referenced section amplifies the existing ‘good employer’ requirements by
  
  recognition of—
  the aims and aspirations of Māori; and
  the employment requirements of Māori; and
  the need for greater involvement of Māori in the public service
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:13am
- tf78
  
  If the “Colonists” were to take away “their” contribution to NZ Society what would be left. Maybe the the decisions should be made on contributions not feelz. I thought we had a partnership agreement.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:21am
  - Tall Man
    
    Partnership implies equality. We will never gain that with lying labour.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:05am
- Kiwi Dave
  
  Section 9 (2) (d) explicitly states it will be the principles of the Treaty to be followed, so expect the same rights and privileges as British subjects section of the Treaty to be frequently violated.
  
  Thank you Mr Palmer and Justice Cook: ‘The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:22am
- Nickc2
  
  If one does not self identify as a Maori in NZ, one is already at a disadvantage. This forced Socialist/Marxist indocrtination and learning Te-Reo is yet another reason why this lot must be voted out next election.
  Come on National, get on with it!
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:26am
- curry4me
  
  But it’s not racist when the ever lovin left do it. /Sarc
  
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  December 16, 2019 1:16pm
Michael

A vote for NZFirst is a vote for Labour is a vote for The Greens.
08.06
Party Vote Act.
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December 16, 2019 8:08am
- peterwn
  
  Even more so that Winston told the NZ First conference last year (not this year) that National would chew through two leaders before the next election. The first one has not fallen yet. This must be pretty galling to Winston since he cannot try to snuggle up to National while keeping face.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:23am
- Tarquin North
  
  Spot on Michael, we need Act more than ever.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:24am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Or National.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:25am
  - Prince
    
    And if you can’t vote for National or Act, don’t vote.
    
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    December 16, 2019 8:28am
    - Michael
      
      I propose that voters for the coalition should have their voting rights rescinded for 10yrs, to give the economy some time to come right.
      
      as I voted NZF last time, I would be doing myself down even though I’ve seen the error of my ways…
      
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      December 16, 2019 3:09pm
- Nukuleka
  
  I recently received an email from a gentleman high up in the ACT Party encouraging me to support ACT and giving as evidence of David Seymour’s skills and talents his ability in having steered his Death Bill through parliament. Sadly, the name David Seymour and the political party of which he is a member will forever be linked to their collective enthusiasm for euthanasia.
  
  No party tick for ACT from me!
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:26am
  - fernglas
    
    For many, that will be a great achievement and one which will enhance ACT’s support, me included.
    
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    December 16, 2019 9:21am
    - Sydney Alvarado
      
      Me too. Nukuleka have you ever witnessed a friend or relative in the last days or weeks of a terminal illness?
      
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      December 16, 2019 10:18am
      - Ed Snack
        
        I have, and I wouldn’t want to be allowed to kill them.
        
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        December 16, 2019 2:05pm
    - MrTips
      
      It won’t be great achievement, if it passes referenda. The road toll will be higher for some time yet.
      
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      December 16, 2019 10:30am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    I have a similar dilemma as I am essentially against the Kill Granny Bill. However, virtually every other party has signed up to it, and Act’s stance on Freedom of Speech, Climate Change and Guns probably balance out. However, I will wait until November next year to make a final judgement, but if the election was today, I’d be voting Act.
    
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    December 16, 2019 9:46am
    - curry4me
      
      So am I. If the New Conservatives are doing OK at election time, I’ll give them my party vote. Otherwise, I’ll hold my nose and vote ACT. National wil probably get my electorate vote, as they ahve a good candidate, and there has been a boundary change.
      
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      December 16, 2019 1:19pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I have no issue with your stand but you should consider that no party will ever agree with you 100%.
    
    I would ask that you look to the greater good that will result in removing the stain on our country called “ardern and the coalition”.
    
    Remember also that the legislation allows for a referendum and historically in NZ they haven’t gone too well with any government.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:32am
  - ISeeRed
    
    So you’re a single issue voter? Imagine living everyday life like this. Every person you encounter who has just one opinion that’s different to yours and you cut them out of your life. Sad.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:54am
  - Michael
    
    Nuk
    I am totally opposed to the death bill but Seymour is the ONLY one who has stood up for our basic rights.
    
    Not Soiman, Not Crusher Collins.
    Indeed she joined in with the Greenie Harpies in stabbing Seymour in the back when he spoke up aboput the danger of Greenie Golriz’s attitudes towards our rights..
    
    I am leaning to give ACT my party vote this time.
    even allowing for the death bill.
    
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    December 16, 2019 3:11pm
- Tall Man
  
  A vote for any party other than National is a vote for ardern.
  
  You can spin it any way you want but that is a fact… not a “factoid” that is just like a hemorrhoid and originates from the same area.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:08am
  - James Stephenson
    
    No. It isn’t.
    
    David Seymour will win Epsom, so every party vote for ACT increases the chances of list MP’s to join him and the way that electoral arithmetic works, additional votes are more likely to help ACT go from 1 to 2, or 2 to 3 MP’s than National from 55 to 56.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:31am
    - Tall Man
      
      Think what you want but I would prefer a single party government from 2020 to avoid the cap in hand scenario we currently have.
      
      I realise you are enamoured with David Seymour currently but remember, he was so incensed about the firearms legislation he forgot to vote so maybe organisation isn’t his forte. Also bear in mind it is easy to sit on the sidelines and poke the borax from the opposition benches but governing has a little more effort required.
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:19pm
      - James Stephenson
        
        I’ve been voting ACT since I first voted here in 2005.
        
        But I do thank you for the permission to use that oft-overlooked tool called “logic” when it comes to deciding who to vote for.
        
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        December 16, 2019 4:52pm
    - tf78
      
      We’ve been giving our electorate vote to Act for years now with the party vote going to National.
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:19pm
    - Jack5
      
      The problem with giving your party vote to ACT is that if the total ACT votes don’t reach the threshold, the votes are wasted.
      
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      December 16, 2019 1:33pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Chances of ACT getting from 13,000 votes in 2017 to 33,000 in 2020?
        
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        December 16, 2019 1:54pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        The ACT party votes are not wasted as long as Seymour wins Epsom.
        And I’m assuming that tf78 lives in Epsom.
        
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        December 16, 2019 2:36pm
      - tf78
        
        Not in Epsom Jack – works well, we get two great MPs for the price of one.
        
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        December 16, 2019 4:08pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    A vote for National is merely a vote for the Labour Party, albeit one with different members but the same basic policies and outlook.
    
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    December 16, 2019 2:07pm
    - Michael
      
      good point.
      its one reason i didn’t vote for them last time.
      1. they kicked too many important things down the road.
      2. they weren’t looking after little NZ.
      3. they did stop the Maoriasation of NZ.
      
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      December 16, 2019 3:15pm
oldpark

Heard a quote over the weekend.In Hong Kong the people are fighting for “Democracy” . In UK since Boris won a landslide election victory. Believe it or not the far left Lunatic Parties are fighting against “Democracy”.Same thing will probably be mirrored in NZ ,should National Voters sweep out the Peters selected bunch of no hopers and pretenders who he selected to continue his political chaotic self serving attitude .
We live in hope.
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December 16, 2019 8:10am
KevO'Brien

Christopher Monckton–see what he has to say about migrants and hospitals.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/12/15/what-the-boris-landslide-means-for-the-climate-debate/
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December 16, 2019 8:14am
- Stephieboy2
  
  Christopher Monckton of Brenchley???
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:56am
  - Nickc2
    
    Lord Christopher Monckton of the shire of Brenchley to be exact!
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:57am
    - Stephieboy2
      
      Nickc2, his father Gilbert lost his entitlement to membership of the House of Lords therefore is not a Peer,
      
      https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:40am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        He is a hereditary peer.
        
        https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/house-of-lords-publications/records-of-activities-and-membership/register-of-all-hereditary-peers/register-of-hereditary-peers-2019-20/
        
        If you knew anything about the British peerage, you would be aware that membership of the House of Lords is now restricted, but that doesn’t mean that hereditary peers have lost their titles.
        
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        December 16, 2019 12:03pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        He didn’t lose his title – he just went round falsely claiming that he was still a member of the House of Lords.
        His daddy must have got one of the last hereditary peerages.
        
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        December 16, 2019 12:12pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Mikey, I think at least some heritage peerages have been handed out since Thatcher (I think it was her) reinstated the practice.
        
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        December 16, 2019 2:09pm
      - Peter S
        
        Wrong.
        Been debunked.
        
        Repeating a lie does not make it true.
        He is a Viscount, which ranks above a Baron, and still carries the right to be addressed as Lord.
        
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        December 16, 2019 6:07pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Got ya. Sure its him again, but he writes a lot better than many of us. The situation he is describing is reminiscent of NZ. Are migrants causing stress to our provision for hospital services?
    
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    December 16, 2019 1:37pm
- Bell-47
  
  Also, and just as important, the TV license fee foisted on the UK public. I hope, after the disgusting way Boris was treated by the BBC the abolition of the license fee is high in the priority list. If for no other reason, the predatory industry that has sprung up around enforcing the license is put out of business. The many examples of which can be seen on Youtube.And last but not least, the BBC being funded by voters of which the majority vote conservative (as it turns out) who have to listen to the blatantly, biased drivel regurgitated by them. They are the UK’s arm of CNN.
  
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  December 16, 2019 11:13am
  - Jack5
    
    Would you regard the BBC and Radio NZ being politically equivalent?
    
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    December 16, 2019 1:35pm
calendar girl

In its coverage today, the “NZ Herald” has – in the main – referred to the site of NZ’s volcano tragedy as WHITE ISLAND: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12293998 .

There are several references to Whaakaari/White Island in readers’ comments on the story (including one by PM Jacinda Ardern, of course) but its headline, photo caption and introduction have the good grace to accept that – to most of its NZ readers who seek to be informed by the newspaper – the geographic feature is and has been known as plain old White Island.

That’s the name by which the island is known by New Zealanders, and should not now be changed arbitrarily to meet expectations of do-gooders trying to push a Maori language agenda for this country.

Well done, “NZ Herald”.
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December 16, 2019 8:27am
- greybeard
  
  I heard the NewstalkZB news bulletins at both 2am and 3am this morning ( don’t ask ) and in both cases the name “Whakaari” was used exclusively, no mention at all of “White Island”.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:34am
- Stephieboy2
  
  Whaaraki / White Island it will intially be but Whaaraki like Mt Taranaki will prevail!
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:58am
  - Bell-47
    
    Myself and one of my employees travelled to New Plymouth last Friday, I commented on the beautiful view of Mt Egmont we might see from the aircraft window. My employee has been in NZ for around 15 years. He asked me what I called it? He mentioned, in 15 years he had not heard it called Mt Egmont only Mt Taranaki. I did not bother to avail him of the reason why, he guessed on his own and added an eye roll which seemed par for the course these days in that it is just accepted that is how things go…sadly.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:20am
- Brian McDonald
  
  Do you live in Whakatane Calendar Girl? ‘Plain old White Island’ just took over a dozen lives.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:16am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    and Plain Old Roads took 272. Point?
    
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    December 16, 2019 4:40pm
- Paginus
  
  They’re actively replacing the people of NZ through immigration, why not replace the place names as well?
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:20am
  - DigNap15
    
    Eg Taurangaistan
    Mt Roskillistan
    We used to have Chowick
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:47am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      It’s now Chowickfontein. Great place. Very few twats like Martin Williams….
      
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      December 16, 2019 4:41pm
Maggy Wassilieff

So Christmas is coming…

RNZ recommends you argue with your relatives…and buy a book for your climate-denying rellies.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018726599/how-to-argue-with-your-climate-denier-relatives-this-christmas
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December 16, 2019 8:35am
- Jules99
  
  Too late – I’ve already inoculated them with Tony Heller videos.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:39am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Best videos on Climate Change on the net. I watch them every day. The other sites well worth checking daily are https://electroverse.net/ https://watchers.news/ as well as http://joannenova.com.au/ and
    https://principia-scientific.org/
    
    Alarmists don’t like truth. How Dare They?
    
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    December 16, 2019 9:24am
    - Michael
      
      thanks ROL
      i haven’t read the first 2 but Joannenova and Principia are good for this non scientist ordinary guy.
      
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      December 16, 2019 3:19pm
- sooty
  
  Try that here and the book will be wrapped around their ears!
  Do you think that they would ban books if they knew they were going to be forcefully returned?
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:44am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Well it’s not as if you can buy them a book on global problems that have been solved with heavy taxes and regulations.
  
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  December 16, 2019 8:51am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Makes me wonder which global problems you consider have been ‘solved’.
    
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    December 16, 2019 8:59am
    - cmm
      
      Other than diseases, starvation, slavery and communications?
      
      Granted a few of these have been “unsolved” by useless corrupt governments.
      
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      December 16, 2019 9:50am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Thanks. Until this morning I was unaware that the world was free of disease, starvation and slavery.
        
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        December 16, 2019 10:36am
      - cmm
        
        mma: You really have to stop reading all that crap about poverdee and colonialism…
        
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        December 16, 2019 11:09am
      - Michael
        
        are we talking about muslim slavery around the world?
        
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        December 16, 2019 3:20pm
    - Tall Man
      
      https://capx.co/17-reasons-why-the-world-is-a-better-place-2/
      
      https://singularityhub.com/2016/06/27/why-the-world-is-better-than-you-think-in-10-powerful-charts/
      
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      December 16, 2019 10:12am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        Shallow type MAGA type nationalism /isolationism/ anti globalism threatens to undermine those achievements through trade barriers , tariffs etc
        
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        December 16, 2019 11:48am
    - Michael
      
      troll mmm
      
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      December 16, 2019 3:19pm
- chaos
  
  but What about the poor tree that has been killed to create that book and all the power that has been used in printing it and delivering it to the shop?
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:19am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Well maybe this should be on the list as well. You can actually download a free transcript of the whole book if you look hard enough
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Climate-Change-Guides/dp/1621576760
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:21am
- Stephieboy2
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  MW, they’ll be other things to argue about like Climate deniers are largely Trump and his conspiracy theories supporters, , deep state believers , white genocide etc.
  
  There’s plenty to change the Christmas dinner table into a war zone.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:29am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Having you at the Christmas table would be worse than this
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Bastogne
    
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    December 16, 2019 9:50am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The only battle at my Christmas table will be over who gets the last pirozhok.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:10am
- jacob
  
  It says ‘buy then a book on climate science’. I recommend the following https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Counter-Consensus-Palaeoclimatologist-Speaks-Independent/dp/1906768293
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:40am
- Rich Prick
  
  I didn’t realise Christmas was a time for arguing with family over such things. But if it is, I’ll be addressing the issue of mass immigration from third world Islamic shitholes.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:49am
  - Simon
    
    Yeah imagine some blow hard going on about man made climate change over Christmas.
    
    The bore probably works for RNZ and can quote from a dozen different James Shaw / Ardern interviews.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:09am
- tedbear
  
  Who’d waste their money on bullshit science?
  
  I’m surprised the nutters aren’t claiming the White Island eruption was caused by “Climate Change”
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:05am
  - GazzaW
    
    It’s only a matter of time before we are told that the eruption was caused by rising sea levels.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:27am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      There was quite a decent earthquake just north of White Island a couple of weeks before the eruption.
      Last night there was another one in about the same place.
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:09am
  - cmm
    
    https://www.livescience.com/25936-climate-change-causes-volcanism.html
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:11am
    - tedbear
      
      Climate Change ain’t nothing new then.
      Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this volcano devastated the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
      Perhaps the peoples there had discovered oil and coal and made cars but just didn’t record their discoveries.
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:32am
      - cmm
        
        Bastard SUV drivers on Mars
        
        Olympus Mons , largest volcano in the solar system:
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons
        
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        December 16, 2019 3:33pm
- The King
  
  Any climate freak at our family Christmas would be laughed at and made to fetch the beers.
  
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  December 16, 2019 2:26pm
dcrane

More leaked documents from frustrated investigators have emerged from the OPCW (via Wikileaks), further damaging its credibility in regards to the alleged Assad chemical attack in Douma in 2018.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/15/deluge-of-new-leaks-further-shreds-the-establishment-syria-narrative/

It is satisfying how these are coming out in stages, allowing the Bellingcats of the world the rope they need to hang themselves in full public view. The US/UK new-cold-warriors are being increasingly discredited.
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December 16, 2019 8:37am
Maggie Pie

I recall posting this tip last year and it was sooo popular, I thort it worth sharing again.
You can make Christmas more festive by sending cards to your neighbors with offensive messages like: “…to the pricks who play loud music late at fucking night hope you have an absolutely shite Xmas”. Then sign it from another neighbor you don’t like……. Spreading the cheer 😀
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December 16, 2019 8:41am
- Tall Man
  
  ardern has that sorted with the way she is pitting one section of society against the other.
  
  All that this coalition has brought to New Zealand is dissent.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:15am
MrLovebucket

Magic talk were playing something yesterday afternoon that was lamenting the lack of progress at the current client-change talk fest. It specifically called out the frustration at countries like Brazil and India who want more evidence that first world countries are doing their bit.

But all the while, farms in Zimbabwe are struggling with failed crops due to climate change. No mention at all of how the skilled farmers were all chased off their land by Mugabe.
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December 16, 2019 8:45am
- cmm
  
  Zimbabwe now has over half its population on the brink of starvation and maybe a third of the population have left the country, so basically two thirds of the country is starving. The weather certainly has not helped, but the lack of commercial farming – and a screwed economy – are the biggest issues.
  
  Simultaneously, Zim has a health crisis (doctors on strike, lack of medicines…). Also a lack of fuel, stuffed infrastructure and 90% unemployment. Were those also caused by “climate change”?
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:27am
  - ISeeRed
    
    NZ needs more diversity and immigrants to do the jobs Kiwis just won’t do, so bring ’em all over! If you disagree, you are WORSE THAN HITLER!
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:57am
    - cmm
      
      Quite a few Zimbabweans (of all shades) in NZ.
      
      I had a good chat with a Black Zimbabwean tradie earlier this year. Highly skilled, valuable citizen-to-be, thankful to have scraped Africa off his boots.
      
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      December 16, 2019 3:37pm
  - MrLovebucket
    
    I don’t believe for a second that climate change has anything to do with the starving population in Zimbabwe. However, the article played on the radio yesterday afternoon (BBC?) made it sound like it was 100% a climate change problem and not anything related to decolonisation.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:38am
Rodney Randall

Not too late for some hate speech(tm) laws for xmas is it?

The review Little requested was to be completed by Christmas. Does anyone in National know considering they were the former engineers of a submission to the UNHRC signed off by one Susan Devoy suggesting the addition of “disharmonious speech” (blasphemy) laws protecting minority religions?

Does Paul Hunt have the prezzie wrapped up under the tree?
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December 16, 2019 8:53am
- cmm
  
  Humming jingle-pop will become hate speech no doubt.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:22am
Brian McDonald

Mr Trumpster goes after Fox, it’s all about the media you know:

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/trump-rips-fox-news-for-interviews-with-comey-schiff/ar-AAK94fd?ocid=spartandhp
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December 16, 2019 9:06am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Fox News is showing some signs of being dangerously independent of Trumpism.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:36am
  - Simon
    
    “Fox News is showing some signs of being dangerously independent of Trumpism.”
    
    Thats interesting and being going on for a while.
    
    MSM generally have torn themselves to shreds over Russia conspiracy and are now just fake news. There must be big gaps in the market for someone else to pick up. Most of MSM face bankruptcy.
    
    Fox less stupid than all other MSM is probably a winner for them.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:01am
  - rangitoto
    
    Fox are the usually the most balanced of the far left media. Looks like they slipped up here.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:08am
    - SGA
      
      Fox are the usually the most balanced of the far left media.
      
      Fox are “far left” as well? Interesting.
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:04am
  - MrTips
    
    Whereas our media is dangerously independent from reality.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:33am
- Inandout
  
  Watch Judge Judy, Hannity, Tucker, Gutfeld, Hilton etc and you will always get a good analysis of US politics. The Dems with their impeachment are acting insanely, and then we have this politician wanting to switch sides:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiK4xdHM8uI
  
  Fox is rolling in viewers.
  
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  December 16, 2019 1:52pm
Bobba Fret

I presume they must all be pretty bitter over on the Standard after the UK election results.
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December 16, 2019 9:16am
Yvette

A Magic Talk host absolutely condemns National’s proposal to fine cyclists for not using cycle lanes, but the main point of contention appears to be that cycle lanes are full of crap – smashed glass, staples, dead possums, many things that makes them quite dangerous.
The real question seems to be how valid are cycles lanes, and to what extent does a lack of maintenance render them useless.
How many new cycle paths will Grant Robertson announce next February to get his other roading project past the Greens?
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December 16, 2019 9:19am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  That seems more effective as an argument that the cycle lanes should never have been created in the first place.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:56am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    They’ve always been useless, roads are swept clean by car tyres, cycle ways are not – and they are usually impossible to sweep – hence you’d only ride one if you didn’t mind a tyre full of punctures, and car doors opened on you.
    
    Cycle commuters have always kept off them.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:42am
- rangitoto
  
  Option 1 – get rid of the cycle lanes.
  
  Option 2 – cyclists must use the cycle lanes when they are available.
  
  Option 2 cannot be enforced without draconian action. So option 1 is the superior solution.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:57am
  - tf78
    
    A few tins of paint and turn the cycle lanes into car parks.
    
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    December 16, 2019 12:33pm
- Rich Prick
  
  You should see the Island Bay cycle way on bin collection day. It’s such fun, although I’ve yet to spot a dead possum on it.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:07am
  - Tall Man
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/81623447/confident-cyclists-unlikely-to-use-wellingtons-island-bay-cycleway
    
    Have a look at the second photo.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/95158475/island-bay-cycleway-solutions-to-cost-ratepayers-up-to-77m-and-remove-57-car-parks
    
    Photo 5 🙂
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:21am
- tedbear
  
  If a car driver decides he wants to bypass queues and slow traffic and takes a detour along the footpath I’m fairly sure he’d be stopped and arrested pretty damn quick.
  Excellent initiative from team Bridges.
  Now lets expand on that with rego, plates and wofs.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:12am
  - Michael
    
    rubbish nzpolice priorotise crime, greenies don’t qualify they are jacindas mates.
    
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    December 16, 2019 3:26pm
- Jules99
  
  Speaking as a former cyclist, the lanes are full of crap and need to be swept at least weekly. That’s what happens in these other countries that they talk about. But it is also true that the push to paint lines on roads with little actual analysis as to their use or safety means that many of them are not fit for purpose. Note also, most cyclists are also drivers – they get caught in the traffic jams caused by these poorly designed lanes too. It’s not competition between two factions but an example of ideology trumping common sense.
  
  They really want to boost cycling numbers? Remove the mandatory helmet laws and make it free choice like they do in Europe and most of the rest of the world. Participation rates dropped 30% when our laws came in. You won’t see that, of course, because again, ideology trumps the actual evidence.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:16am
  - tedbear
    
    It might even be safer for cyclists to take over footpaths and pedestrians to take over ex-cycle lanes.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:44am
- DigNap15
  
  here in Tauranga they are planning to spend 27 million dollar on cycle lanes over the next 3 years.
  And only 12 million on our main gridlocked 15th avenue road.
  
  No one use the cycle lanes!
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:51am
rightoverlabour

This is going to bedevil the COL for a while, especially since Gayford took tours there….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/118198421/whakaariwhite-island-eruption-royal-caribbean-exceedingly-reckless-sending-passengers

Now, I maintain that going to White Island is generally safe, if you do an analysis of number of people killed versus visitors, it’s probably safer than the Tongariro Crossing, or many of the other adventure sports taking place in New Zealand. However, I think based on what I have seen of the Volcanic Tremor graph posted here https://watchers.news/2019/12/11/white-island-significantly-increased-volcanic-tremor-new-eruptions-likely-new-zealand/
GNS should have strongly advised that tours cease until the tremor reduced to back ground levels. They maintained it was too dangerous for rescue after the eruption when the tremor levels were the same as the previous week when it was deemed safe enough. You can’t have it both ways.
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December 16, 2019 9:19am
- chaos
  
  I think people are clutching at straws even bringing Gayford into this.
  
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  December 16, 2019 9:53am
  - Tall Man
    
    The story is not that he did, but that it was deemed necessary to “scrub” it from history.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:22am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Exactly. Why was it scrubbed? I didn’t know E for Emirates even took people to White Island, and not that I care, but scrubbing the article implies something sinister even if it’s not. Something like a hypothetical case… “So Jacinda, do you aprove of tourists visiting White Island…..”
      
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      December 16, 2019 10:45am
    - chaos
      
      I’d scrub because it is bad taste with what has happened. This quote is why I would wipe it
      
      * Want to get rid of a body? Then the Crater Lake on White Island would be ideal. Or so my Kahu helicopter pilot and guide Tom tells me with one of those Kiwi, ‘I’m not actually being serious’ grins wiped across his face. *
      
      https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:s7tKy_l_cYYJ:https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm%3Fc_id%3D7%26objectid%3D12224765+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:48am
      - Tall Man
        
        You can’t apply hindsight to everything… but, if you could, imagine how many would not vote for ardern and “what’s in it for wynston” 🙂
        
        It does highlight what an absolute pratt he is though.
        
        As does this
        
        https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-tackled-over-overcrowded-train-tweet-by-deutsche-bahn-11887479
        
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        December 16, 2019 12:01pm
      - chaos
        
        well Her puppet masters are wealthy, she should be asking to fly on their private planes
        
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        December 16, 2019 3:51pm
    - Scooter
      
      But JA said they will be the most transparent Govt.
      
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      December 16, 2019 9:14pm
- Jack5
  
  Overseas insurers will likely have some effect on future White Island tourism.
  
  Not only for cruise ships’ passengers, but for all who are on travel insurance.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:20am
  - Paulus
    
    Am not sure that such an trip would be considered as acceptable under any normal travel policy.
    Like scooter riding in the islands, and scuba diving and bungy jumping – they are not considered a normal activity of a travel policy.
    Similar such activities are probably specifically excluded as considered dangerous.
    
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    December 16, 2019 2:13pm
  - cmm
    
    Nope, insurers are driven by cold, hard logic.
    
    They look at numbers. Volcanoes kill less than one person per year in NZ.
    
    Far more worrying are the almost 100 a year that die on our beaches.
    
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    December 16, 2019 3:43pm
oldpark

Been reading the wee teenager called Greta Thunberg has apologised for her recent comment against World Leaders who dont buy into the con job myth of Climate Change.. “They should be put up against a Wall”.How is that from a wee brat, still wet behind the ears.Sums up that type of jackboot mentality from her and her sycophants on the Global Warming propaganda.
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December 16, 2019 9:35am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And it is quite clear from some of the folk who read & write Swedish that the expression “put up against a wall” has exactly the same connotation in Swedish as in English,
  
  Folks referenced the phrase from the 2015 book: “The Swedes who fought for Hitler”
  
  Att ställa judarna mot väggen var något helt annat än att sparka ut dem ur landet. De skulle skjutas.”
  
  which translates as:
  Putting the Jews against the wall was something quite different from kicking them out of the country. They should be shot.”
  
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/12/14/st-greta-calls-for-execution-of-world-leaders-who-defy-her-commands/
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:23am
  - Tall Man
    
    But at least she didn’t call anyone a liar Maggy………..
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:28am
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Greta I would say spoke metaphoically. Meanwhile, let Anthony Watts cheap and crude shots contine !
    
    Anyhow she withdrew the remark,
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50799233
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:51am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Meanwhile, let Anthony Watts cheap and crude shots contine !
      
      Once again y0u show you have not read the article I linked to..
      It is written by David Middleton.
      
      Your unwarranted attacks on Anthony Watts are as silly as blaming David Farrar for the vile posts you have posted on his blog.
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:11pm
    - The King
      
      She wears Anti-Fascist T-Shirts and has already said its not just climate change shes fighting its the evil patriarchy Steph, you’re not fooling anybody but your self.
      
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      December 16, 2019 2:31pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Ooh so you don’t mind it when we speak metophorically. So when we type “Fuck off, C$%t”, that has to be allowed as its metaphorical. Calling you a C%$t is metaphoric, as you are nowhere as useful as a real Vagina, and the eff off bit is too, as people can’t really go anywhere when they are involved in coitus, ( although some, I am sure can attest to “coming”). Not something I am sure, you are familiar with.
      
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      December 16, 2019 4:16pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    I just watched the video of Greta when she said the “put up against a wall line”.
    She knew what she was talking about.
    Also for one who is so concerned about the environment the gear she was pictured with on the train was pretty substantial. I thought she would have been travelling light.
    
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    December 16, 2019 4:15pm
- Tall Man
  
  https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-tackled-over-overcrowded-train-tweet-by-deutsche-bahn-11887479
  
  And yet another day and another lie from these twits.
  
  It seems there is an ongoing race between these people (and ardern mods in case you were wondering) as to who can tell the most lies before being held to account by the media.
  
  What a shame our media in NZ won’t play the game.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:26am
- Rich Prick
  
  She is certainly a very angry little girl. But that is taking it all a bit too far, dear Greta.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:34am
  - sooty
    
    Should have chucked her sorry arse off the train and said hop on the next one!
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:49am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Ah I see we have a Stalinsta downticking your comment. Stephieyboy by any chance since its not one of the other twats that got an arse card…..
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:41am
- ISeeRed
  
  If it’s Trump’s wall and they’re all globalist leaders who have betrayed their own citizens, I’m all for it.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:59am
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Trumps wall, Countdown till completion time ?
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:54am
    - Rich Prick
      
      From what I can see he has five years to get the job done, but given progress to date, I reckon he’ll have it done in four. And it will be a magnificent legacy.
      
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      December 16, 2019 2:20pm
Brian McDonald

Plastic bags, recycling, emission balancing through science etc fashioned with a bit of good old fashioned gold mining the McMahon’s would have approved in Tapu.
Not to put too finer point on it but the worm is turning in the Col from theory to reality.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/environmentalist-slams-dollar15m-grant-for-mining-dinosaur/ar-AAK8Alh?ocid=spartandhp
When the Col took over the wheel it appeared they thought they needed to do everything in 5 minutes while forgetting about public opinion. Arguably it was the right time to make a position somewhat to the edge but now they are headed back to the middle. Export revenue is at a peak level and expected to grow.
I look ahead to a positive election campaign. Will Simon beat the drum about Kiwibuild that in reality has effected only a small number of people, his options on roading have been undermined as will much else in election year. A negative message is not want he wants in an energetic and booming time in Auckland and elsewhere.
That’s my pick anyway.
Boris said let’s get it done.
Jacinda said let’s do this.
Homage to a simple message?
When DPF suggests the Nats should be looking at the workers in the next election it’s a recognition that the average worker these days if office bound, sales person or a driver and with a reasonable education – they are the middle.
It reminds me of tuning twin Stromberg 97s carbs on an old V8 and using a small air float valve above each carb to get the height to match using the gas screw till they sing in unison – who will be able to get the old 24 stud head V8 with a lumpy cam singing next year, the tuning mechanic or the tyre fitter pulling the wheels off?
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December 16, 2019 9:43am
- Simon
  
  look towards Trump. The answers flow from there.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:13am
- alloytoo
  
  Simons message should be:
  
  Let’s fix this (Again)
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:24am
Maggy Wassilieff

Hey German Rail.. is this anyway to treat a favourite guest?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/15/greta-thunberg-in-twitter-spat-with-german-rail-firm
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December 16, 2019 9:51am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Hope her ass freezes over Christmas. So she can experience Global Warming. I assume she will not be heating her home…..
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:39am
- Fletch
  
  The Daily Show on Greta being named as Time Magazine ‘Person of the Year’. “She must have been so happy when they told her – great news Greta! We’re going to cut down a million trees and print your face on them, then we’re going to put them on airplanes and send them all over the world!”
  
  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=762391740930593
  
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  December 16, 2019 11:29am
Maggie Pie

Yesterday, it actually came home to me just how pathetic and ineffective this Col goverment really is. Particularly as it applies to that most annoying and silly ban on Single-use Plastic Bags.
While poking around in my partners garage, I found he has already stored 37 pks x 500 ‘Lge Black Plastic Singlet-Bags’ that he’s obviously bought off Trademe. By my quick calculations, given we’d use say about 30 a week for rubbish and supermarket shopping, he has already accumulated enough for the next 12 years.

Just saying.
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December 16, 2019 9:52am
- Fletch
  
  I just buy the bin liner bags from the supermarket and take some in with me when I go in and shop. They have the same handles/size/shape as the old single use bags. I’ve even bought some while in the supermarket, broken open a pack and used it on the way out. Quite a reasonable price. Something like $2.50 for a roll of 30 (medium size)
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:27am
  - DigNap15
    
    Careful, they might ban those as well!
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:52am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Well thats exactly it Fletch. They havn’t actually achieved f~~k all, other than making the supermarket owners richer.
    
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    December 16, 2019 10:56am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Cloth-Bag makers, Strong Plastic Bag makers, and Paper Bag producers have probably done well in the short-term.
      
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      December 16, 2019 11:37am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Certainly not out of the ‘Pie’ household 😛
        
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        December 16, 2019 11:50am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        MW, I sense you oppose recyclable and environmentlly friendly shopping bags?
        
        If so , why?
        
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        December 16, 2019 11:56am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I sense you oppose recyclable and environmentlly friendly shopping bags?
        
        Well, that is a fascinating skill.
        
        So that’s you “sensed” that I was a racist?
        and dis you sense that I was Alt-right, also?
        
        Because you’ve never produced evidence that I am either.
        
        and how come you couldn’t “sense” the size of my underwear. when you were making enquiries of them?
        
        Anything else you can “sense” about me?
        
        Do you get the “sense” that your harassment/fascination with stalking me is perverted?
        
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        December 16, 2019 12:24pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        I suspect it may run in ‘stephies’ family Maggs 😛
        
        Reported in the local rag….
        “Woman claiming to be Stephieboy’s cousin prepares to sunbathe
        at Pt Chev beach”
        
        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELS0PsPWwAE7Q9c?format=jpg&name=900×900
        
        [Mod – a warning to readers; NSFW!]
        
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        December 16, 2019 12:41pm
      - sooty
        
        Labour party member, of course he’s perverted!
        
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        December 16, 2019 1:00pm
      - Tall Man
        
        steffy… sense…. Oxymoron.
        
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        December 16, 2019 1:07pm
lastmanstanding

I watched my weekly comedy show last night. Its called BBC Dateline London. A left wing luvvie interviewing 4 left wing luvvies in an echo chamber.

Last night they couldnt figure that the working class has deserted Labour because they finally worked out that Labour doesnt represent them and treats them like voting fodder.
The Left represent the middle class Liberals who hate everyone including themselves and the bunch on Dateline showed it.

In the US the UK Oz the workers have realised conservatives are their best hope for a prosperous life.

If only they would figure that out in NZ
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December 16, 2019 9:54am
- adamsmith1922
  
  See this https://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/spiked-a-spiked-online-podcast-a-working-class-revolt-against-labour/
  
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  December 16, 2019 12:16pm
Swifty

I do hope that Tamihere doesn’t lie awake at night wondering the reasons why people didn’t trust his judgement sufficiently to vote him Auckland’s Mayor:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118209668/john-tamihere-brands-journalist-a-white-supremacist-for-mayoral-campaign-donation-story
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December 16, 2019 9:56am
- Tall Man
  
  It’s a shame when you have to elect an idiot to avoid an even bigger one.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:47am
Jack5

Stuff, whose Australian owner is trying to quit it, continues its Quixotic crusade to stop Australia deporting to this country New Zealand-born criminals who don’t have Australian citizenship.

Won’t work. Australia has the whip hand: coveted visa free entry to Australia for New Zealanders. This becomes a bigger asset as Australia’s economy surges further ahead of New Zealand’s.

Many unWoken New Zealanders believe New Zealand should be as tough as Australia with foreign born criminals. So the Aussies have some popular support here.

The Stuff crusade is led by a reporter who came from Northern Ireland after working for the London rag, News of the World, closed over a cellphone hacking scandal. She’s backed by reporter Blair Ensor, who, Stuff advises, has an honours degree in communications from Massey University, fabled for its stand on free speech.
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December 16, 2019 10:00am
- Tall Man
  
  Jack, NZ deports foreign criminals.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:48am
  - insider
    
    No for some crimes you only have to be here five years to be immune., 10 years for more serious ones.
    
    While it’s cruel that people raised and criminalised by Australia are then rejected, What the story misses is that a significant number of exclusion cases are overturned on appeal by Aussie courts or the minister. I believe They keep the proportion secret because they don’t want to appear soft.
    
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    December 16, 2019 1:41pm
- SGA
  
  Won’t work. Australia has the whip hand: coveted visa free entry to Australia for New Zealanders.
  
  Does it need a whip? Under international law, is there anything NZ can do to prevent it? I genuinely don’t know.
  
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  December 16, 2019 11:07am
  - insider
    
    Nope. Nothing. It’s domestic Australian law.
    
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    December 16, 2019 1:43pm
lastmanstanding

NZ and UK can now get on with the FTA. It will be one of the first if not the first as Boris has already said. It has the potential to shift the dial away from too much reliance on dealing with the Chinese Communist Party to dealing with a country that we have ties to.

Forget 1973 when UK joined the then EEC. We should look forward to the fintech and other industries that we can do business with UK.

Lots of opportunities for our SMEs to do business.
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December 16, 2019 10:18am
- mikenmildagain
  
  How much more business do you imagine that we will do with the UK under a new trade agreement?
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:39am
  - cmm
    
    More than when the EU dictate who UK buy stuff from.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:47am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Which doesn’t happen, of course.
      
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      December 16, 2019 12:05pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  2019 exports to the EU (including UK) are $9 billion. 2019 exports to the UK are $3 billion.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:42am
- Albert_Ross
  
  What do you think a FTA with the UK will enable NZ to export to/import from the UK, that we cannot export to/import from them now?
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:59am
  - Swifty
    
    Is that the right question though Albert?
    
    Isn’t the issue more one of exporting to them (the same products) but without quotas and tariffs and other barriers to trade which seek to protect both UK and EU producers, and which would not be present under a high-quality FTA?
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:31am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      Well that pretty much was exactly my question. Which NZ exports to the UK, and vice versa, are currently subject to quotas, tariffs and other barriers?
      
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      December 16, 2019 1:23pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Well, Swifty’s not going to know anything about that, is he?
        
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        December 16, 2019 1:41pm
      - insider
        
        We have a limit on the quantity of sheepmeat we can export to the EU tariff free. Not sure if we are currently filling it.
        
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        December 16, 2019 1:47pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    If anything, I should expect it to be more difficult for exporters to the UK and Europe, as their systems diverge.
    
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    December 16, 2019 11:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    Feta cheese!
    
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    December 16, 2019 12:08pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Morris Marina’s and other high quality products.
    
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    December 16, 2019 6:58pm
fernglas

Maggy at 9:51am:
I’m much more concerned by the amount of baggage she has. Is she aware that the clothing industry is the second most polluting in the world according to the World Bank?
“The fashion industry is responsible for 10 % of annual global carbon emissions, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.”
And yet I see two large suitcases, two backpacks and a shoulder bag. One cotton T-shirt takes 2700 litres of water to produce, so one can imagine how much went into the contents of that luggage. Each cotton T-shirt has a carbon footprint of about 2kg, the same as a kg of milk. A little hypocritical?
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December 16, 2019 10:19am
Happychappy

PM’s icon status not quite reality, well it looks like the Australian media have clicked on a lot faster than we have at home and are not scared to put into print.
https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/pm%E2%80%99s-leftist-icon-status-not-quite-reality
They tell about the sexual assaults and how naive Jacinda was in the way it was handled , the CGT with the way she let Winston dictate the results and Kiwibuild failure making housing in NZ one of the most expensive in the world.
The Aussie Media letting the the Jacinda Mania fans know she not what others crack her up to be.
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December 16, 2019 10:28am
- Tall Man
  
  A reasonably well balanced article.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:52am
- Prince
  
  Again, they promulgate the lie that Peters stymied the CGT.
  Labour’s election promise was to run tax reforms as part of their platform in 2020, not implement them in the first term. So Peters’ approval is not required.
  I don’t know why NZ academics and journalists don’t see this, unless they are trying to kid themselves that Ardern can run a transformational government.
  
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  December 16, 2019 1:29pm
  - Tall Man
    
    ardern couldn’t run a bath.
    
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    December 16, 2019 1:46pm
- Michael
  
  Jacinda wasn’t naive, it was a deliberate plan by jacinda.
  she and the labour party have form.
  remember the red ferret of haitaitai, she was hand holding him until they scooted him off to helen in nyc.
  the labour youth camp she spoke at last year and then shut down the victims and their families!
  
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  December 16, 2019 3:43pm
Fletch

Little explains why the govt is spending $100 million on a new courthouse for Tauranga…

A new courthouse to be built in Tauranga will do away with the “alienating and distressing environment” of traditional courthouses, says Justice Minister Andrew Little.

The Government has announced it’ll spend $100 million on the new design, which will “draw on Te Ao Māori values, and directly address victims’ safety needs in the court building”.

“It’s time to re-think the traditional courthouse design,” Little said.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/24100-million-set-aside-to-replace-taurangas-leaky-courthouse/ar-AAK9mcq

We wouldn’t want courthouses to be alienating and distressing..
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December 16, 2019 10:30am
- sooty
  
  Why build it?
  When under Angrys leadership there will be less customers?
  How high above sea level will it be?
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:54am
- DigNap15
  
  Its only distressing because every day there are lot of maori gang members outside, doing nothing but intimidate people.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:55am
- fernglas
  
  If he’s talking about the Court being less alienating to victims, he has a point. In many courts, there is no proper division between defendants and their supporters, victims and juries. To victims, that can be distressing. To jurors it can be intimidating. Courthouse design is one way to prevent injustice.
  
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  December 16, 2019 10:58am
  - sooty
    
    Put in fenced corrals to seperate them!
    
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    December 16, 2019 1:03pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      If you happen down Albert Street at 8.30am you’ll see the District Court’s “customers” hanging about. A stock yard would be entirely appropriate.
      
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      December 16, 2019 2:28pm
rightoverlabour

Good Lord, a democrat talking sense!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-brushes-off-van-drews-planned-jump-to-gop
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December 16, 2019 10:31am
tedbear

I wonder if Grant Robertson is still keen on the Auckland light rail.
I’d venture if you can’t get a few houses up on vacant land, what chance of a rail project on occupied land?

Sydney just got a light rail system.
It took nearly 60, yes almost sixty years from start to go.
The final price tag was $2.9 billion of which almost half was over-budget.
Along the way, construction company Acciona took the NSW State Government to court in a $1.5 billion compensation claim that ended with $576 million payout.
And more than 100 businesses and landlords have joined a class action for $400m compensation over the light rail project.

This light rail opened a day or two ago and there are reports that’s quicker to go by bus.
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December 16, 2019 10:47am
Captain Mainwaring

In case you were wondering if Council bureaucrats need a degree in lunacy, wonder no more.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118178245/damaged-old-chimney-in-wellington-backyard-cant-be-knocked-down-because-its-heritagelisted
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December 16, 2019 10:56am
- sooty
  
  But the house that helped support it was not!
  Soi t’s going to fall down and hurt someone!
  
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  December 16, 2019 1:05pm
Paulus

Did I not read that Maori are going to get a large part of the invisible 5G network as presumably it was invented by Te Raparaha.
They claim it is their right.

Another is the pronunciation of White Island incorrect ?
Surely it is Whaka ari, two pronouncements, as in Polynesia, not one syllable.
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December 16, 2019 11:11am
- Jack5
  
  It’s not only spectrum, the Labour-Green-Judas coalition is talking of helping Maori to build “spectrum related industries”.
  
  This is from a press release by Kris Faafoi, the Minister of “Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media” (and that means blogs, too!) on short-term allocation to Maori of part of the (3.5GHz) wireless spectrum allocated for 5G:
  
  The decision also provides an opportunity for Maori interests in radio spectrum. These interests include digital enterprise and jobs, healthcare, rural economy and connectivity, education, broadcasting, and revitalisation of Te Reo.
  
  Short-term allocation of spectrum will also be made to Maori, and a support programme to build Maori capability in spectrum-related industries will be developed to maximise the benefits of this opportunity.
  
  This has been developed in partnership with a Maori Spectrum Working Group.
  
  “The short-term allocation of spectrum to Maori will act as a stepping-stone for Maori and the Crown to reach an enduring agreement which recognises Maori interests in radio spectrum,”Faafoi said.
  
  Further details of the short-term allocation will be released early next year.
  
  Faafoi said long-term rights to 3.5 GHz spectrum were still on track to begin in November 2022, and “details of this allocation will continue to be developed over the next two years”.
  
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  December 16, 2019 2:43pm
Swifty

More systematic rorting of our (immigration) system, dishonesty, corruption and practices tantamount to human slavery:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12294156

https://www.facebook.com/shenshen.guan/timeline?lst=100000008664992%3A689973871%3A1576447696

Take a look at her Facebook photos – really living the good life it seems. Makes me puke.

So, when will she be deported Minister?

Fines are merely the cost of doing business. Nothing will change unless we begin heavy and well-publicised jailing of these modern day-slavers followed by immediate expulsion from our shores.
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December 16, 2019 11:16am
Swifty

Ha ha ha – tell us something we don’t know:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/118217132/maori-kings-chief-adviser-admits-fraud-charges-over-gastric-band-surgery

I’d prefer being in a box than living with the thought I had defrauded my own whanau of funds held by me in trust…..and then repeatedly lied about it.
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December 16, 2019 11:28am
morepork

Stunning news out of the USA. A real investigation has started. They’ll need to build a new jail.
https://www.facebook.com/ConHQ222/videos/455939161615166/
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December 16, 2019 11:28am
- mikenmildagain
  
  According to the top comment on that post, this ‘announcement’ was from May 2018.
  Fail.
  
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  December 16, 2019 12:04pm
Maggie Pie

A twitter bestie from the UK retweets…

“brexit might not be the only thing boris makes happen 😀 ”

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1206294201006219271
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December 16, 2019 11:39am
Swifty

Here’s one for you O-Sen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g46tXWxtsfY
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December 16, 2019 1:12pm
curry4me

Saint Greta’s remarks ‘lost in translation’. Yeah right!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/14/greta-thunberg-apologizes-for-vow-to-put-world-leaders-against-the-wall/
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December 16, 2019 1:13pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  She just read what was in her script.
  
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  December 16, 2019 2:10pm
curry4me

Muslims begin leavint the UK after BoJo wins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RLah63GOVo
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December 16, 2019 1:14pm
- Tall Man
  
  Fake news I think.
  
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  December 16, 2019 1:45pm
  - sooty
    
    Can you see them move off the benetit!
    
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    December 16, 2019 5:18pm
  - curry4me
    
    I hope not.
    
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    December 16, 2019 8:09pm
Prince

OK, so we now know that throwing money at the problem and looking the other way solves nothing.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/118221047/john-campbells-anguish-while-reporting-on-child-who-spent-the-night-at-a-food-bank
Can we now get back to identifying the people and families that need help and doing some actual work to sort out how to fix them, as Bill English started doing four years ago.
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December 16, 2019 1:20pm
Fletch

Giuliani uncovers evidence in the Ukraine that Dems won’t like. Promises more to come.

Budapest | Kiev | Vienna

After hundreds of hours & months of research, I have garnered witnesses & documents which reveal the truth behind this impeachment, which includes NO wrongdoing by @realDonaldTrump.

These threads only touch the surface. Read & watch all. More to come. pic.twitter.com/WDHGEZIxkw

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 15, 2019

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Evidence revealed that corruption in 2016 was so extensive it was POTUS’s DUTY to ask for US-Ukraine investigation.

Impeachment is part of Dem cover-up.

Extortion, bribery & money laundering goes beyond Biden’s.

Also, DNC collusion w/ Ukraine to destroy candidate Trump. pic.twitter.com/cfNFgPQ29J

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 15, 2019

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You can question a witnesses credibility but you cannot question hard documentary evidence, which each firsthand witness part of this investigation provide. pic.twitter.com/FBTMpTySuQ

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 15, 2019

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Witness Viktor Shokin:

Holds doc’s proving money laundering by Burisma & Biden’s.

Fired due to VP Biden’s threat not to release $1B in vital US aid.

Shokin’s med records show he was poisoned, died twice, and was revived.

Lots of heads will roll in Ukraine if this opens up. pic.twitter.com/1W1OgkumXA

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 15, 2019

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Witness Viktor Shokin:

Holds doc’s proving money laundering by Burisma & Biden’s.

Fired due to VP Biden’s threat not to release $1B in vital US aid.

Shokin’s med records show he was poisoned, died twice, and was revived.

Lots of heads will roll in Ukraine if this opens up. pic.twitter.com/1W1OgkumXA

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 15, 2019

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Witness Yuri Lutsenko, inheritor of Shokin’s office:

Records proving Amb Yovanovitch perjured herself at least twice.

Doc’s showing she was denying visas to witnesses who could prove Biden & Dem corruption.

Clear doc proof of money laundering by Burisma & Biden’s. pic.twitter.com/uHwa6PorLB

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 15, 2019

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Dem’s impeachment for innocent conduct is intended to obstruct the below investigations of Obama-era corruption:

– Billions of laundered $
– Billions, mostly US $, widely misused
– Extortion
– Bribery
– DNC collusion w/ Ukraine to destroy candidate Trump

Much more to come.

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 15, 2019
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December 16, 2019 2:09pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  Thanks Donald.
  
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  December 16, 2019 2:43pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  But has Rudy Colludy found that server yet?
  
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  December 16, 2019 2:55pm
rightoverlabour

Enjoy Trump Haters….

Will This Qualify Trump For A THIRD TERM? | Huckabee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2umsI4U4Z8
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December 16, 2019 2:20pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  No.
  
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  December 16, 2019 2:54pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Uptick for you Mike. But I think Trump and supporters are just throwing this out there to piss off liberals – who are already stark raving mad.
    Landslide for Trump 2020. Then there is one Woman coming through slowly but surely for 2024, Candace Owens. First Black Woman POTUS? We will see.
    
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    December 16, 2019 5:41pm
- chaos
  
  If that is the myth that has been going around that due to impeachment trump can run for a third term, it’s not factual.
  
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  December 16, 2019 3:47pm
Brian McDonald

Meanwhile back at the dock:

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/money/news/primary-exports-to-reach-dollar48bn-in-2020-mpi/ar-AAK9tg8?ocid=spartandhp
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December 16, 2019 2:44pm
- Tall Man
  
  Thank goodness for the farmers of New Zealand. Still digging us out of the hole despite the attacks from the coalition.
  
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  December 16, 2019 4:35pm
- rangitoto
  
  Thanks all NZ farmers for doing so well.
  
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  December 16, 2019 4:40pm
Fletch

I missed this from August this year. Sky News in Australia puts the smackdown on Jacinda and Winston, rightly calls NZ’s neutral carbon policy “absurd”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ScblfHTek

I love when the presenter calls NZ, “New Wokeland, under [Jacinda]” ?
Another commenter says the NZ media seem to be Jacinda’s “fan club” and blindly accept the carbon policy from this “woke warrior”, which is “infantile”.
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December 16, 2019 2:55pm
- Tall Man
  
  And….
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDckoYlTW28
  
  Possibly may be deleted as someone else is referring to ardern’s lack of honesty.
  
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  December 16, 2019 6:45pm
- DigNap15
  
  Not my Prime Minister
  
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  December 16, 2019 6:54pm
surfing

I wonder if the government will ever bring in a maori tax.

I note with interest that maori are being given radio spectrum for 5g — but, it is consumers who will pay for this.

Every bit you download through your phone will contribute a little bit of money to maori .
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December 16, 2019 3:07pm
- DigNap15
  
  Every time a maori commits a crime against anyone else, they should pay an extra tax to cover the prisons we have to build
  
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  December 16, 2019 6:53pm
Swifty

Dear me.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12294157

Sir Horrid Maorisong would not be happy (don’t get upset mods – this name was taught to me by my Ngati Porou Uncle).
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December 16, 2019 3:16pm
Brian McDonald

The Don still has it in for Comey, but his ‘own’ man Horowitz is also copping flack or ‘friendly fire.’

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/trump-threatens-comey-with-years-in-jail-over-fbi-russia-report/ar-AAK9uWZ?ocid=spartandhp
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December 16, 2019 3:19pm
- Fletch
  
  Horowitz is an Obama appointee who tried to play down the results of the IG investigation.
  
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  December 16, 2019 3:32pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Does that remind you of John Roberts’s statement?
    
    “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges”
    
    When you Trumpanzees want to smear someone, you should really try harder than “Obama appointee”.
    
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    December 16, 2019 3:39pm
    - Fletch
      
      Funny how it’s always the Obama judges who thwart Trump’s plans for the wall, immigrant policies etc.
      
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      December 16, 2019 3:51pm
chaos

An interesting story was told the other day by a senior member of a government department who briefs Ardern. Excuse me for trying to not give enough detail for the trolls to work out who it is. But they were telling us that Ardern is a joke. No one their department likes to deal with her. That when you go to brief her she hugs you and keeps touching you, but they say nothing even though it is uncomfortable. They then said she waffles on and you really can’t make any sense of what she is saying, she has no idea on what she is talking about and they feel briefing her is a waste of their time. She is way out of her depth and doesn’t know what she is doing.
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December 16, 2019 3:56pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  At my first Government job I was given explicit instructions for a written Ministerial briefing:
  
  1 side A4 paper only.
  Double-spaced
  Reading age: 12 years old.
  
  Useful advice
  
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  December 16, 2019 7:02pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    This is the modern standard:
    https://twitter.com/GettyImagesNews/status/1197202729334128642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1197202729334128642&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Ftrump-notes-impeachment-zelensky-misspelled-quid-pro-quo-1473042
    
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    December 16, 2019 7:07pm
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/white-island-eruption-jacinda-ardern-cabinet-observe-minute-s-silence-to-mark-week-since-disaster.html

Anyone got a suggestion as to how we can get her to observe 12 months silence?
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December 16, 2019 4:41pm
cmm

So $5M of bribes from out pockets for the White Island mess. How kind she is with other people’s money.

Volcanoes get international headlines so of course she’s gagging to get her face in the media.

This really has nothing to do with real safety etc. If it was then PriNZess would be walking up and down all the beaches in NZ hugging everyone and handing out lollies because 100x as many people die on our beaches as from earthquakes.
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December 16, 2019 5:21pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Gotta love Peta Credlin’s description of Cindy…LOL!!
  
  “An infantile woke-warrior who was elected by Winston Peters”]
  
  [@ Fletch – thanks for posting that vid link above 😀 ]
  
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  December 16, 2019 7:30pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118231533/companies-linked-to-peter-jackson-dish-out-30000-on-andy-fosters-mayoral-campaign

Stuff manages to make this fact seem like some sort of crime.
Pathetic.
The sooner some other company buys Stuff and kills it the better.
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December 16, 2019 6:37pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/118238590/rock-star-scientist-joins-antarctica-new-zealand

The PM’s Chief Science Advisor Professor Juliet Gerrard will be furious! haha

She made it very clear at an Antarctic Comference in Christchurch (beginning of the year), that White Male Scientists are a problem.

A reminder of what this nasty women said when referring to a photo of leading Antarctic scientists at a gathering:

“What is wrong with this picture? They are all male and white and this needs to change.”
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December 16, 2019 6:49pm
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/12/jacinda-ardern-admits-being-proven-wrong-about-british-pm-boris-johnson.html

Typical child’s “Clayton’s” apology.

You can almost hear the “yeah but” in there.
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December 16, 2019 6:49pm
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/white-island-eruption-raises-questions-about-legal-liability-in-adventure-tourism-industry.html

I believe he is wrong. While direct action can not be taken against the volcano or the people that took them there, ACC can certainly launch a prosecution against the operator if they were negligent in their duty of care.

I’m one of our resident legal eagles can put the correct terminology in there.
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December 16, 2019 6:53pm
MrTips

Have been scanning social media. Lefties in meltdown still 4 days after Boris’ magnificent win. Yet another interesting trend closer to home suggests social media is going to be the downfall of the CoL next year. A governing party leader in particular is going to have their personal life and social media contributions front and centre of the election.
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December 16, 2019 7:10pm
Michael

Jusr read this at Victor Davis Hansen Private Papers.

Very good questions for us all.

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67156-when-our-guardians-fail-us-2019-12-05
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December 16, 2019 8:42pm
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/white-island-eruption-raises-questions-about-legal-liability-in-adventure-tourism-industry.html

It seems bullshitting is a growth industry.
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