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igm

Hope those of you (including myself) realised yesterday 15/1 was GST/Provisional Tax. It really gives me the shits to think where it goes. Suppose the pubs, dope sellers, pokies, takeaways and bottle stores will see the majority of it, along with those too tired to work, but capable of breeding copious quantities of illegitimate kids to subsidise the unemployment benefit.
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January 16, 2020 8:00am
- cmm
  
  So how much do “those people” actually cost us.
  
  I mean, “only” 33% goes to social services & welfare right?
  But we also find “those people” also don’t look after themselves and disproportionately use health services (21%). They also are the biggest shit-stirrers in school and disproportionately use/waste education budget (16%).
  
  Then, of course, police, courts (5%) and corrections (???) are almost entirely costs due to “those people”.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:54am
  - MCos
    
    About 25% of the 2019 Budget is allocated to social welfare of which about half goes to National Super.
    Health is 17.9% & education is 11.4%
    https://www.interest.co.nz/news/100030/budget-2019-summary-all-spending-plans
    
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    January 16, 2020 2:22pm
    - cmm
      
      I used numbers from the 30 June 2019 update – actual expenditure which is more accurate than the budget.
      
      Social security and welfare: 33%. Education 16%, Health 21%, Law and order 5%.
      
      Yes you are correct in that not all social is welfare, but once welfare recipients hit 65 they move to retirement benefit even though it is really welfare since they never contributed.
      
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      January 16, 2020 5:15pm
      - Michael
        
        But they are the minority in Nat Super….
        
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        January 17, 2020 6:44am
- RW Capitalist
  
  They (the CoL) wonder why business confidence is down.
  They don’t understand, because they treat the economy like a rugby game, as if all it needs is a quick pep talk from the “coach”.
  Just did a quick tot up of my financials for the calendar year.
  2019 down $30000 from 2018.
  Can’t eploy more staff on that.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:05am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    You’re obviously not running your business according to proven socialist principles.
    Get with the programme.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:01am
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      Government is just ‘Goodfellas’-style wiseguys without the smarts, the manners, the good clothes and the prison time.
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:45am
  - Liberty
    
    RW Capitalist
    According our esteemed Minister of Finance. You should be thankful for the minimum
    wage to be increased for the public good. As it will bring great wealth and prosperity.
    In reality the minister is a first degree fuck wit.
    Just because some employers can afford to pay a mythical living wage it doesn’t mean
    all employers can.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:44am
    - artemisia
      
      Living wage. Some time ago The Treasury reported that the two main groups to benefit are young singles and government though increased tax and reduced transfers.
      
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      January 16, 2020 12:49pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      My measure as to whether you should be on the minimum wage or anything relative above that.
      Minimum wage= any job that can and is replaceable by a machine entirely.
      Increase this wage as to the proportion of the job that can be replaced by a machine.
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:10pm
    - Liberty
      
      I see we have a down ticker.
      That I suspect has never had to pay Wages,Paye, ACC,GST, rates etc
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:56pm
      - igm
        
        Liberty: Guaranteed to be either unemployable or a public servant living in ratepayer or taxpayer subsidised accommodation.
        
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        January 17, 2020 2:29am
      - igm
        
        You overlooked the main piss off for me . . . KiwiSaver contributions.
        
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        January 17, 2020 9:31am
    - GoVege
      
      I’d far rather pay for an increase in the minimum wage than shell out for new generations to be raised with no concept of a work ethic.
      
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      January 16, 2020 4:08pm
      - Liberty
        
        Go Vege
        If a company is forced to pay unsustainable wages. The Company may become
        financially at risk.
        Regardless on how financial a company is. It has no responsibility for
        any one who doesn’t have the fortitude to get off their arse.
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:58pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        GoVege, you will be paying. Through higher prices. Businesses don’t really pay for wages. Their customers do. We do. Same with taxes. Tax the rich more = the little guy pays more.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:07pm
      - igm
        
        They, in general, already fit your criteria.
        
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        January 17, 2020 2:30am
    - stormykiwi
      
      Gay Billy Bunter is a complete fuckwit like most of this government who have never had capital at risk (personal guarantees against all your assets), employed people,paid PAYE and Holiday Pay, and frequently had to take substantial pay-cuts to make sure loyal staff are paid so they can feed their own families, forfeit holidays and spend half of whatever time is left over dealing with mindless red-tape to ensure they’re compliant lest they fall foul of the law.
      The vast majority of this leftie coalitionare career academics and/or trade unionists.
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:29pm
- Sacha
  
  Thanks for the reminder! Just paid. Tax on investments made from tax paid income – I wouldn’t mind so much if I had a decent return.
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:42am
- jonno1
  
  And 7 February isn’t far away either, for another massive chunk of change to pay out.
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:14am
Justitia

Man-made warming is a theory, not a “revealed truth”. Yet under the Ministry of Education’s new climate change syllabus teachers are instructed to ostracize children who question it. New Zealand becomes more totalitarian every day. Now children are to be punished for expressing skepticism, yet skepticism is the basis of the scientific method. Skepticism was the engine of the Enlightenment which has enriched our lives immeasurably.

Children are also to be turned into rabid little activists through role playing in class under teacher supervision. They are to be taught in particular how to deal to “deniers”. Antifa anyone?

Sadly on Facebook National’s spokesperson, Nikki Kaye, endorses the new syllabus, with a few tweaks, thus proving National once again is simply-Labour-lite, as we already knew . Only David Seymour has the gumption to expose the whole rotten brainwashing exercise for what it is. Shame on this government and especially the lunatic Greens who are behind the project.

This must not stand.
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January 16, 2020 8:13am
- Sydney Alvarado
  
  “teachers are instructed to ostracize children who question it.”
  
  Can you please provide a reference? I’m not questioning you. I simply want to see what the instructions say.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:23am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/david-seymour-describes-new-climate-change-curriculum-as-state-organised-bullying-of-kids.html
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:45am
    - Sydney Alvarado
      
      Thanks – I like this quote:
      
      “He [The Minister] said it is “based on the science so you can dispute that all you like”.
      
      Science is never absolute forever. Example: For more than a century the prevailing wisdom was that stomach ulcers where caused by “stress” and too much stomach acid. Then in the 1990s, an Australian physician suggested that stomach ulcers were actually caused by a specific bacterium that could be cured by antibiotics. Few believed him, but he was eventually proved correct and won a Nobel Prize in 2005.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:05am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Arrhenius in 1896 published some theoretical work about CO2 and some possible heat absorption. That work, although not proven and seriously disputed by physicists, is the basis of the climate change promos.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:15am
    - Sydney Alvarado
      
      It is good to see David Seymour back at work.
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:19am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Erica Stanford is in her office.
        
        Why is there all this howling for Amy Adams to front?
        
        Amy Adams is not part of the government yet, she is expected to comment while the ‘government’ is all away on holiday with narry a word about anything.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:28am
      - pdm
        
        Did David Seymour actually stop work over Christmas – I am not sure he did.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:48pm
  - Justitia
    
    @Sydney Alvarado: this from the “Wellbeing Guide” which accompanies the syllabus: “With angry or obstructive students (depending on your understanding of them), consider
    seating plan, offer choices for ways to proceed, or share authority by delegating a student
    co-leader for different topics.” So if a child is “obstructive” by asking awkward but highly relevant questions (“depending on your understanding of them”) you can banish them to the back of the room where they won’t be seen or heard, or put them under the “authority” of a pupil enforcer. The whole “guide” is available as a PDF online – intellectual thuggery dressed up in wokeness.
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:47am
    - Sydney Alvarado
      
      thanks
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:13am
    - sooty
      
      Brown Shirts Rule!
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:20am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        sooty, no!
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:51am
      - freethinker
        
        Hate to be pedantic in correcting your spelling mistake – Brown shits rule – there that’s fixed it. Must be a fat finger!
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:23am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Probably illegal if challenged.
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:16am
  - Fletch
    
    Can you please provide a reference? I’m not questioning you. I simply want to see what the instructions say
    
    https://www.facebook.com/nztaxpayers/posts/2418116828292323
    
    https://www.facebook.com/nztaxpayers/posts/2416273145143358
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:27am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  813 highly qualified sceptics on this list declaring that there is no Climate Emergency
  
  https://www.climatescience.org.nz/blog/world-climate-declaration-there-is-no-climate-emergency/WCD_A4-01-2020.pdf
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:31am
  - The Feed
    
    Would they all be sent to the back of the room by a teacher who struggles with long division?
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:31am
  - Doc Holliday
    
    With a handful of exceptions, none has any record of climate science.
    
    But you prefer that to science.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:47pm
- projectman
  
  “Man-made warming is a theory”
  
  Not yet a theory, merely an hypothesis.Those familiar with scientific process will understand.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:46am
  - cmm
    
    Hypothesis is a ten-dollar word makes it sound far more scientific than it is.
    
    “I saw a pink unicorn in the garden” is not a hypothesis.
    
    The real science is multi-variable and poorly understood, but all the “certainty” has been fabricated for activism – not by scientific processes.
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:32am
    - SGA
      
      “I saw a pink unicorn in the garden” is not a hypothesis.
      
      Well, no – it’s an observation (in this case, an extremely unlikely one)
      “I saw lots of wasps in the garden” is another observation – the hypothesis might be they are attracted to the fruiting trees.
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:58am
      - cmm
        
        Good point, but giving me a bit of wiggle room here “I saw a pink unicorn in the garden” could be a hypothesis.
        
        If I saw something (the observation) that was vaguely pink and vaguely horse like and looked like it had a horn, I could hypothesize that I must have seen a unicorn.
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:21pm
      - SGA
        
        Perhaps a good scientist with such vague measurements would collect more data (or get better apparatus) before making an hypothesis? 🙂 🙂 🙂
        
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        January 16, 2020 6:05pm
  - Justitia
    
    Fair enough projectman. “Theories” can be proven or rejected. But perhaps “hypothesis” is the better description.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:39am
    - Justitia
      
      “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned”. Watch this excellent debunking of the 97% consensus fraud: https://youtu.be/ewJ6TI8ccAw
      
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      January 16, 2020 2:59pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  I read Nikki’s piece on this yesterday and I am a little disapointed. I am a teacher, so if this crap gets pushed at the school I am at, they may get to know Tony Heller as well. Found this yesterday from one of the comments on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVc-Y-mJ_uY&t=2s
  
  Quote: ” A key entailment from the model is that the atmospheric ‘greenhouse effect’ currently viewed as a radiative phenomenon is in fact an adiabatic (pressure-induced) thermal enhancement analogous to compression heating
  and independent of atmospheric composition. Consequently, the global down-welling long-wave flux presently assumed to drive Earth’s surface warming appears to be a product of the air temperature set by solar heating and atmospheric pressure. In other words, the so-called ‘greenhouse back radiation’ is globally a result of the atmospheric thermal effect rather than a cause for it. Our empirical model has also fundamental implications for the role of oceans, water vapour, and planetary albedo in global climate.”
  
  From: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317570648_New_Insights_on_the_Physical_Nature_of_the_Atmospheric_Greenhouse_Effect_Deduced_from_an_Empirical_Planetary_Temperature_Model
  
  This fits in with this https://principia-scientific.org/physicist-richard-feynman-discredits-greenhouse-gas-theory/
  
  I assume Hipkins will be able to debate the finer points of this.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:53am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Feynman is good enough for me.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:20am
  - Doc Holliday
    
    Total nonsense.
    
    Fuck’s sake, you don’t teach science do you, you witless imbecile.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:49pm
- Ruawai
  
  The Ministry of Education should be renamed the Ministry of Truth but translated into Maori Mahi o pono so no one knows what it means.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:55am
- ronsegal
  
  Isn’t religious instruction in schools soon to be opt in only?!
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:10am
- cmm
  
  “They are to be taught in particular how to deal to “deniers””
  
  So now they teach bullying?
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:10am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Let them try it on my family.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:21am
- LTA1955
  
  From Jonova:
  “It doesn’t matter what any nation does. The CO2 blame-game is a fashion contest and success is not measured in megatons, but with megaphones.”
  
  This propaganda is now getting into the our education curriculum. 2020 is the NZ voters opportunity to at least get a bridle on this junk science, ransack the schools, polytechs and unis, and excise the snakes perpetrating this rubbish.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:35am
- DigNap15
  
  NO
  The New Conservatives policy is to pull can the ETS and pull out of the Paris Accord.
  David Seymour believes in man made climate change
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:46am
- Notsofast
  
  What an hysterical post in response to a public health issue. New Zealanders in general should reduce their animal protein consumption. It is totally unnatural. Cows’ milk for little cows, human milk for little humans is a good place to start. New Zealanders could cold turkey on animal protein without the slightest effect on exports or GDP.
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:15am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Only in Cindia Niu Tirani would that apply.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:23am
  - cmm
    
    Typing on a keyboard and communicating with people far away in a few milliseconds is totally unnatural.
    
    So is building a house, paying tax, traveling in a car, etc etc etc.
    
    Saying something is unnatural is not really a valid argument.
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:46pm
    - GoVege
      
      Notsofast was referring to what we feed our bodies, cmm.
      The human species, like similar large apes, has taken millions of years for our bodies to adapt to a certain diet.
      Typing on a keyboard,etc, won’t do you nearly as much harm as consuming food your body is not designed to eat.
      
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      January 16, 2020 3:11pm
      - cmm
        
        “Designed to eat” is not even the right thing to consider.
        
        We have to consider that in our largely sedentary lives when everything is on tap 24/7, we have too much of a good thing available to us.
        
        People, and carnivores and omnivores, have always consumed milk “products”, but not straight milk from bottles etc.
        
        Watch a cat consuming a baby bunny. It is drawn to eating the bunny guts full of curdled milk. Same to Kalahari Bushmen and other people who are not squeamish about guts. The curdled milk from a fawn’s guts is a delicacy.
        
        We, and our ape cousins have been eating meat “forever”.
        
        The Koi San (Kalahari Bushmen) are arguably the remnants of the oldest human groups going back 120,000 years or more. They eat meat and, as previously mentioned, milk, but they eat other things too.
        
        There is no Khoi San word for soy.
        
        There are distinctions between “natural meat” and modern sanitised meat. Mainly:
        1) Naturally we’d eat more of the animal and not just muscle and fat. We’d eat more brains, intestines and offal.
        2) Most of the year we’d eat leaner meats and only get the fat when the animals were naturally fat – before winter.
        
        But a veg only diet??? Very un-natural. It is possible; the rest of my family are vegetarians and healthy, but it certainly isn’t “natural” and what we were designed to do.
        
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        January 16, 2020 5:32pm
      - GoVege
        
        Sorry CMM, I meant to say “evolved” to eat. 🙂
        I suppose we could evolve to eat just about anything.
        But as the supposedly most intelligent species, surely we should take into account the ethics of what we choose to eat.
        I read an interesting article on egg production today.
        The writer said that killing millions of day old chicks every year (probably billions, world-wide), is not a welfare issue, because the chicks are not believed to suffer.
        But it IS an ethical issue over bringing millions of baby chicks into the world only to immediately kill them.
        
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        January 16, 2020 6:35pm
- alloytoo
  
  Any syllabus that cannot withstand interrogation is rubbish. Any teacher that doesn’t entertain questions isn’t a teacher, but a priest.
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:49am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Are you stating that priests don’t ‘entertain questions’? Ridiculous assumption based on ignorance, alloytoo. This is 2020 not 1520.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:50am
    - alloytoo
      
      A priest has to accept things on faith, and their answers should consistently reflect this. (Indeed I wouldn’t respect any priest who didn’t.)
      
      The rest of us don’t, and science education should be robust and eschew faith.
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:04pm
- Nickc2
  
  Shame on Nikki Kaye!!! I was hoping the National party would at least stay neutral with regard to Man Made Climate Change. That way, it makes it difficult for the opposition to capitalize on their supposed non support. For those believers, we have done our bit and should do no more. We pay a stipend to the UN for the folly, but we shouldn’t exceed that. Its like giving money to the Clinton Foundation. For what FFS?
  
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  January 16, 2020 2:09pm
  - cmm
    
    National are not “centre right”. They are “centre left”.
    
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    January 16, 2020 5:33pm
    - Michael
      
      always have been since 1997
      
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      January 17, 2020 6:53am
- Michael
  
  surely that is child abuse?
  
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  January 17, 2020 6:46am
UrbanNeocolonialist

Cannabis abuse makes you a worse driver, even if you aren’t high:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/even-when-sober-frequent-marijuana-users-are-worse-drivers-report-n1115681

Perhaps linked to the permanent roughly 8 IQ point drop that teenage abusers of cannabis have (From dunedin longitudinal study)
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January 16, 2020 8:18am
- cmm
  
  “the permanent roughly 8 IQ point drop”
  
  Which is cause and which is effect?
  Does :
  A) being dumb make people less likely to consider the consequences of getting stoned and breaking the law etc and therefore make them more likely to smoke dope
  -or-
  B) smoking dope actually does make people stupid.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:42am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    The dunedin study tested IQ through life. The IQ of Kids who abused cannabis fell heavily compared to peers who didn’t. Income and other positive life outcomes are strongly correlated to IQ.
    
    Adolescent (at least) cannabis use fucks your life up.
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:52am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      “The bad driving appears to be isolated to those who started using pot before age 16, researchers reported Tuesday in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The theory is that early marijuana use changes the brain, leaving people more impulsive and more apt to make rash decisions.”
      That’s why there is an intention to have an age limit, more than likely the same applies to alcoholo use during brain development.
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:47pm
    - GoVege
      
      [As per earlier moderation comment]
      
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      January 16, 2020 3:15pm
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    If they made it a crime to eat peanut butter, after a while I’d expect the set of people still regularly eating peanut butter would be, on average, less intelligent and generally worse at most things including driving. Those who have the most to lose from a criminal conviction would be most likely to stop doing it.
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:54am
    - cmm
      
      Yup. When I was at uni I had access to dope and booze. I drank to excess but only once had a dope brownie by mistake.
      
      Why? The only reason was that it was very important to me to stay on the straight and narrow. If I had been bust for dope I would have lost my chance to attend uni and that was a risk I was not prepared to take.
      
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      January 16, 2020 8:58am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        For me it was seeing a few classmates and acquaintances who were heavy users failing everything. Screw that. Your brain is your most precious asset. (excepting Stephieboy of course)
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:03am
      - cmm
        
        Neo: “For me it was seeing a few classmates and acquaintances who were heavy users failing everything.”
        
        But was dope the only variable? Didn’t they do other dumb things too?
        
        Generally you’ll find that people who took the loser offramp from the highway of life then participate in many destructive activities:
        * “Stop acting white”
        * “You’re just brown-nosing the teacher”
        * “Homework is for losers”
        * “Dope is cool”
        * “Maths is for nerds”
        …
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:37am
      - GoVege
        
        CMM: ……
        
        [Mods and DPF think this is pretty sick. Keep it up and there’s a KB holiday in your future]
        …………..
        * what’s so bad …..
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:22pm
      - GoVege
        
        Every one of these examples was told to me by people I know and trust.
        The young person who was told to put up with being beaten was under psychiatric care for years and rang me to thank me for being the only person who supported her.
        My former neighbour told me about his cousin pimping her daughter.
        When I rang CYPF a social worker told me they had “hundreds” of mums pimping their kids.
        I agree it is sick, but don’t blame the messenger….
        
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        January 16, 2020 6:26pm
KevO'Brien

Why do we tolerate the Sunni slaughter of Shia in Yemen?
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/14/616165/Outbreak-of-dengue-fever-kills-dozens-of-children-in-conflict-stricken-Yemen
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January 16, 2020 8:20am
- cmm
  
  Why not?
  
  We (of Western British origin) did not tolerate slavery and bust our balls getting rid of the worst slavery on the Eastern African coast and North Africa – costing huge amounts of lives and resources.
  
  And now slavery is back again.
  
  We can send in millions of troops and trillions of dollars to get the Sunni off Shia throats and soon enough things will be back to what they are now.
  
  These are symptoms of a higher level management issue. Without a full, long term, colonial administration these places will just become shitholistans again.
  
  If we really want to fix Yemen (or other shitholistans), then we need to be prepared to recolonise it.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:31am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    Somersett’s case in 1772 held that slavery had no basis in English law and was thus a violation of Habeas Corpus. This built on the earlier Cartwright case from the Reign of Elizabeth I which had similar held the concept of slavery was not recognised in English law. This case was generally taken at the time to have decided that the condition of slavery did not exist under English law, and emancipated the remaining ten to fourteen thousand slaves or possible slaves in England and Wales, who were mostly domestic servants.[6] However slavery elsewhere in the British Empire was not affected. It was influential in causing the American colonies to rise up who held English common law applied to them.[7] Joseph Knight’s case in 1778 established a similar position in Scots law. Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, with exceptions provided for the East India Company, Ceylon, and Saint Helena. These exceptions were eliminated in 1843
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:41am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      I am a de facto slave.
      
      I am a taxpayer to the useless government and their feckless customers . . .
      
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      January 16, 2020 8:50am
      - Jules99
        
        As Gerald Celente says, you live in ‘Slavelandia’.
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:49am
    - cmm
      
      Yup, and through the late 1800s and early 1900s The Royal Navy and the Army were very busy blockading slave traders and patrolling the bush in Kenya etc to stamp out slavery.
      
      Thousands of Brits died of shitty tropical diseases to stamp out the Islamic slave trade.
      
      And thousands more died trying to enforce “Pax Britannia”, stopping African/Middle Easter/whatever warlords from wiping each other out.
      
      But colonialism is evil right?
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:06am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        ‘Islamic’ slave trade. You do know that the slave trade was to supply labour to the ‘Christian’ colonies in the Americas, don’t you?
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:18am
      - cmm
        
        MMA: You do realise that:
        1) Most slaves from Africa didn’t go anywhere near Christian countries. Only a minority went to the Americas etc.
        2) I was referring to EAST Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. None of those ended up in the Americas etc. Those mostly went into the ME and, to a much lesser extent, into the Indian Ocean slave markets (Indonesia etc).
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:35am
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        Mike, people who style themselves ‘progressive’ tend to only care about bad things done to brown people by white people. But there was plenty of slavery not involving Africans being sent to America:
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:49am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Mikey, that is a stunningly ignorant take, but typical. The African slave trade existed for a considerable time before the Americas were settled by Europeans though the majority of the traffic was in East Africa and feeding the various Arabic and other Islamic states. Slavery was also common in the Mediterranean area, with possibly (there’s no good records of actual numbers) more Europeans from Italy, Spain, Greece, and even southern England taken as slaves mainly for the North African market. Some researchers suggest that significantly more Europeans were enslaved than West Africans.
        
        Unlike the trade to the Americas though, this trade left a much smaller subsequent footprint in the population because the Islamic states routinely castrated all male slaves and prevented the slaves from breeding together.
        
        So to call the slave trade “Christian” and to deny Islamic participation is profoundly ignorant of history.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:03am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I did neither of those things, Ed.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:07pm
    - Inandout
      
      Amazon introduced trapped employees whose toilet breaks were restricted and pace of work was frenetic. Slavery comes in different forms.
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:08am
      - curry4me
        
        That, and Bezos owning the Washington Post is why I’ll have nothing to do with Amazon.
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:36am
  - Stephieboy2
    
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    cmm, but can’t apartheid be seen as a type of slavery? It’s worth mentioning that it took a civil war to abolsih salvery in the USA
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:49am
    - cmm
      
      I am not sure why talking about British colonialism gets re-tracked into apartheid…
      
      Why would you say apartheid was slavery?
      
      Like the Brits in Kenya etc, an astounding amount of apartheid-era government resources were put into bettering the lives of black people in many ways:
      * Education: building schools etc and replacing them when they got burned down.
      * Building hospitals (Baragwanith at Soweto is the biggest hostpital in the world outside of China).
      * White males were called up for an average of 2 months a year for military services – approx a third to a half of that time was to keep the peace between warring factions.
      
      When that went away, it was business as usual again.
      
      Certainly there was some job reservation which was mainly there to provide a stepping stone for low-class Afrikaners.
      
      But slavery? That’s a bit of a barrow to push…
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:46am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        cmm, well it largely depends on the colour of your skin and whether at the receiving end of it!
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:56am
      - cmm
        
        “well it largely depends on the colour of your skin and whether at the receiving end of it!”
        
        Thank you for acknowledging that Stephie.
        
        As a male with a white skin I was required to go to the army for 2 years solid, then 2 months a year thereafter – much of that for the purpose of stopping black people kill each other (thanks mainly to the ANC and their policy on tyre recycling etc).
        
        My black colleagues did not have to do this. They left university and went straight to work. That gave them a two year head start. Then of course every year I had to go to the army for 2 months which plays merry hell with your career as well as your family life.
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:22am
      - SGA
        
        As a male with a white skin I was required…
        
        My black colleagues did not have to do this.
        
        Who was responsible for that difference, and why did they think it was a good idea?
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:06am
      - cmm
        
        SGA: Which difference?
        
        If you are talking about why there is a difference between black and white you might choose to take that question up with Big Fella In the Sky if you are religious.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:46pm
      - SGA
        
        The difference between what was required of you versus your black colleagues.
        
        Apologies for the confusion, it seemed self-evident to me as I wrote it.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:52pm
  - MCos
    
    In that case, you might ask why did we sent our blokes to get slaughtered in Europe in WWI.
    Twenty years later the same countries were at it again.
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:00am
    - cmm
      
      Yup, then 40 years later again the Germans won anyway with the EU.
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:47am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        And, with Brexit, Germany finally get to control France without another British life being wasted for the cheese eating surrender monkeys.
        
        ‘Poisoned chalice’ springs to mind.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:42am
      - Nickc2
        
        Exactly Cmm. Frau Merkil achieved what Hitler couldn’t (domination and control of Europe). All goes to prove, ‘the skirt is mightier than the sword’.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:25pm
  - freethinker
    
    Why expend energy & resources when just waiting for the two factions sort it out at their expense in their own way will produce a solution possibly one were the population reduces to a level were both sides pragmatically discover that living in harmony is better than dying in conflict.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:34am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Why then do we support Sunni Muslims but not Shia?
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:26am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Because the Iranians are the baddies and the Saudis are the goodies?
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:33am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Who says?
    The Saudi’s were nomad butchers of the desert back in WW1. The Persians gave the world maths and algebra…
    
    There is little to chose between them except their own wars over the succession of a dead Prophet.
    The Saudi’s did a deal with the USA to prop up the USD by having global oil sales settled in it.
    Iran had its oil stolen by an purposeful regime change. Now another has overturned that, it is demonised.
    If you take sides with bullies there can be strange consequences.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:34am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      The US says. The Saudis produced the 9/11 terrorists, financed al Qaeda and ISIS, etc but the Iranians are the real menace.
      
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      January 16, 2020 12:40pm
- Wangas Feral
  
  Personally I couldn’t care less about Islamic sectarian violence.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:33am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    That’s fine for the adults choosing to be dogmatic twats, a pox on all their houses. But what about all the powerless ‘innocents’ that they are dragging down with them. Eg the kids dying of malnutrition in Yemen as a result – a horrific way to kill a kid, or the females they enslave having to watch their children suffer their way to death. It’s horrible, and tragic.
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:56am
    - Wangas Feral
      
      So what are we supposed to do about it? Attack Saudi? Invade Yemen? Strike Iran? Impose a blockade? There is NOTHING the West can do about this and we shouldn’t even get involved.
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:40am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        I don’t have a solution. But eradicating islam seems like a pretty essential step in lifting middle east out of squalid regressive misery, keeping half your population in bondage (and women tend to be more conscientious and harder workers given the chance) is not the way to achieve happiness or 1st world living standards. Neither is denying young men and women access to each other. Islam is designed to benefit middle aged men – at cost of everyone else’s happiness.
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:16am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        The US could stop supplying Saudi Arabia with their weaponry…
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:31am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        And House of Saud would just buy from one of the line of slightly worse weapons systems manufcturers; Chinese, Russian etc. Would achieve nothing.
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:39pm
    - cmm
      
      If you always worry about the kids you won’t get anywhere.
      
      Oh no, let’s not bomb the Germans because a bomb might land on 4-year old Helga and her rag doll.
      
      Basically it is their grown ups’ job to worry about their kids. If they put their kids in harms way, well so be it.
      
      Bottom line though is that to them life is cheap and those “innocents” are disposable.
      
      You are not going to fix that by doing a surgical strike. You’d have to colonise and completely deconstruct their “culture” and change it. We’re talking a hundred year or more exercise.
      
      Alternatively, just let them go at eachother and a better society might emerge.
      
      What does not work is trying to half do it. eg. kill off a dictator (who generally gets replaced with a worse dictator) or give foreign aid which just entrenches the current destructive practices.
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:54am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        to them life is cheap
        
        Only civilised people really care about their kids.
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:33am
      - cmm
        
        MMA: Yup, as a general rule you are correct.
        Caring about your kids requires civilisation and all those wonderful things like healthcare etc. The more civilised, the less kids you have and the more you invest in, and care about them.
        
        To most Westerners, the thought of losing a child is beyond comprehension. To those in shitholistan: meh, we can make more.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:51am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Yet most research indicates that the happiest societies are hunter-gatherers…
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:41pm
      - cmm
        
        “Yet most research indicates that the happiest societies are hunter-gatherers…”
        
        Ah yes, the “happy little Samboes” theory. Noble savage etc etc.
        
        So why do we screw up their lives with foreign aid and allowing them to come to NZ as refugees?
        
        Why are we pouring all that money into Cooks (enough to pay mortgages for everyone living there). They’d be far better off swishing in grass skirts and left to look after themselves.
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:13pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        MMA: saw a program a few years ago about an amazonian tribe the zuruaha where most adults suicided before they got to 40 – something like 85% of adults killed themselves. Doesn’t seem so happy to me.
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:43pm
    - freethinker
      
      Why is Yemens problem ours?
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:35am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Because the UK and the USA are both providing arms to continue the war against Yemen.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:37am
      - cmm
        
        Kev, I’m confused… if UK and USA are supplying weapons to make war in Yemen, how does it make it “our problem”?
        
        If we take something on as “our problem”, then it means we have a solution. What might that be? Send HMNZS Footrot to attack USA and UK?
        
        Rule #1 of “helping”. Only get involved if you can help. Otherwise stay the hell out of the way.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:02pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        You might have missed the bit where NZ contributes forces to the US ‘coalition’.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:42pm
      - cmm
        
        MM: Perhaps you’re better informed than me. I was not aware that we have sent troops to Yemen.
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:18pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        We don’t. But the conflicts in the middle east are not easily compartmentalised.
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:19pm
  - DigNap15
    
    They are equally as bad
    They are so crazy to be at war with themselves
    As far as I am concerned, leave them to it.
    
    Just tell Iran that if they do any more nuclear work, we will bomb their sites to hell.
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:50am
    - cmm
      
      “Just tell Iran that if they do any more nuclear work, we will bomb their sites to hell.”
      
      Israel have that covered and it is their back yard. Nothing to do with us.
      
      Still, we could send Hugzilla and see if she can earn a Nobel for peace in the ME.
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:24am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Jarrod Kushner is working on middle east peace, so it should all be sorted soon.
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:34am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        They only way to stop Iran getting nuclear weapons is nuclear attack on the development and production facilities dug deep deep into the earth. World doesn’t have the will to do that, so Iran will soon be a nuclear state threatening all and sundry with their nutty autocratic death-is-good belief system.
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:46pm
- oldpark
  
  kevO’Brien@8.20am
  Never mind that lot . Why do we tolerate the deliberate brainwashing and fake news on so called global warming on our School Children about to be enacted almost immediately in our schools this coming first term . The brain child of the far left Lunatic Nutbar Lie-bour/Green Partys’ of course aided and abetted by the Winston Peters Party.
  Charity begins at home as well as the well being of the Nation of NZ. The citizens of NZ never voted for the minds of our children to be poisoned by idealogy social engineering ratbags who are blinded with power given to them by Winston Peters.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:39am
  - oldpark
    
    Oldpark 8.39am
    Update on the communistic tricks of the present Peters selected regime . Tune into Peter Williams right now on Magic Talk . Also check out the interview after 10.00am same channel on the sicko plan being sold to NZs teachers by the self styled Climate Change propagandists.That is the Doomer clowns controlling and dominating the hearts and minds of NZs children.
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:15am
    - Sacha
      
      Peter and the Professor are being a great deal more polite than their callers. I commend their tolerance.
      And as for the person who has nothing but disrespect for the professor (self stated), and hung up in frustration – well, we know who has the closed mind.
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:17am
    - Nickc2
      
      All this climate junk being taught in school only serves to drive a socialist wedge between children and their parents.
      Wasn’t that the reason for Hitler’s Brown Shirts?
      
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      January 16, 2020 2:42pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Too right. I would’nt like to be the teacher who tries this on my kids.
    I see a whole lot of possible lawfare here. The govt seems well off base with proposed criminal bullying of children.
    WAKE UP NATS.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:41am
    - toby1845
      
      The first teacher who tries this shits on a family member of mine gets his/her car keyed down to bare metal.
      
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      January 16, 2020 3:44pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Soooo grown up …..
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:42pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It’s been happening for decades – thicko teachers parroting the talking points. This is just formalizing the propaganda efforts.
    
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    January 16, 2020 3:48pm
  - adamsmith1922
    
    You might appreciate this on a lunatic proposal from George Monbiot to eliminate farming
    
    https://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/apocalypse-cow-2/
    
    No doubt the film will be prescribed viewing in the climate panic curriculum
    
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    January 16, 2020 5:13pm
- yossarian
  
  This…so Greta and her middle class antifa buddies are screaming that the world is going to hell in a hand cart, and that Climate Change is THE most important issue facing the entire world.
  
  The rest of the world (Africa, Asia, the Middle East, much of South America etc) are just hoping to fed their family today and be left in peace.
  
  Climate change is the luxury of the middle-class bourgeoisie.
  
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  January 16, 2020 12:21pm
Sydney Alvarado

This is really annoying. There is no analysis of why Maori children are disproportionately removed from parents. The inference is that it is a result of racism.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12300758
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January 16, 2020 8:21am
- cmm
  
  Worse than just annoying, it is highly destructive.
  
  If we shut our eyes to the reality then we will never fix the problem.
  
  While wilful ignorance might be more comfortable than looking at the truth, it does mean that these vulnerable children will never get the changes they need for better lives.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:37am
  - Sydney Alvarado
    
    You see the same thing in the education sector. Try suggesting that Maori families have a role in the failure of Maori kids at school. You will never see the Ministry of Education saying that. Or hinting. It is the fault of the system, or schools, and especially, the fault of teachers.
    
    If kids come from dysfunctional drug addled violent homes, what are the teachers supposed to do? And it has nothing to do with the ethnicity of such kids. However Maori are over-represented in such dysfunction. That is simply a fact.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:30am
  - Pharmachick
    
    for every Coral Burrows, there is [at least] a
    
    Lillybing AND a
    James Whakaruru AND a
    Nia Glassie AND
    Cris & Cru Kahui AND…
    
    more than 50% of child homicides in NZ are killed by a parent or caregiver. Maori or Pacific Island children are over-represented in the statistics.
    
    https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/the-homicide-report/
    
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    January 16, 2020 5:39pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I don’t think many P.I. children/babies end up murdered by their caregivers.
      
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      January 16, 2020 6:36pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        Agreed, the statisticians tend to put Maori and PI in together, breakdowns are seldom available.
        
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        January 17, 2020 8:33am
- Brian McDonald
  
  If you read carefully they are often the children of those uplifted themselves as babies.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:42am
  - Blackbob
    
    How did you think the parent(s) of abused children learnt how to abuse them?
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:48am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I read this: ‘And it was positive that 95 per cent of young Maori mothers who had been in state care did not have a newborn uplifted.’
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:59am
    - Brian McDonald
      
      Seems positive but the comparison to young Maori mothers who have not been in state care who have babies uplifted is needed.
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:01am
    - cmm
      
      “‘And it was positive that 95 per cent of young Maori mothers who had been in state care did not have a newborn uplifted.’”
      
      So 5% of them had their kids taken away?
      
      HTF can that be seen as positive? Were they expecting, what, 50%??
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:27am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Becroft said he was ‘speechless’ before going on to prove himself eminently capable of being anything but.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:53am
  - Jack5
    
    Busy, buzzing, Bolshie Becroft, as reported by Red Radio – and its all the fault of colonisation (as is having Becroft in New Zealand). Including the end of slavery and cannabilism and brutal tribal warfare? Here’s the Red Radio report:
    
    Judge Becroft said the figures raised clear questions about racism and bias within the state care sector.
    
    “I’ve said previously that it’s impossible to factor out the enduring legacy of colonisation … or modern day systemic bias,” he said.
    
    “Now that, to some extent, will obviously be at play here as it is across all decision-making and all government departments.”
    
    The inequities for Maori had grown over time and continued to worsen, Judge Becroft said.
    
    Becroft is following the line of activist Moana Jackson, the lawyer who was the spokesman for the team representing the “Urewera 16”. Here is Jackson reported by Red Radio in October – about 12 weeks ago:
    
    Moana Jackson’s research has involved a comparative study of the imprisonment of indigenous peoples in Canada, the United States and Australia – all countries with similar high incarceration rates.
    
    In New Zealand, Maori men make up 62 percent of the prison population and Maori women 64 percent.
    
    Mr Jackson said the common thread was they all followed the same trajectory of colonisation, with its similar ideologies and practices.
    
    “It’s my considered view that the abuse of Maori children in care also arises from the same context as indeed does the abuse of all children – colonisation is an inherently abusive process.”
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:59am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The narrative dictates that the problem must be due to “racism.” The high ranking of this group on the intersectional-political totem pole must NEVER be questioned or challenged.
  
  To actually identify the root causes of the problem might actually be the start of fixing it. But we can’t have that, now. Too many vested interests and too much funding would be put at risk.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:10am
  - alloytoo
    
    Hence the unseemly haste to abandon Bill English’s “Social Investment” strategy.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:18am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yeah, not exactly a strategy, let alone one which was actually funded or implemented.
      
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      January 16, 2020 12:45pm
      - alloytoo
        
        Well certainly better articulated, and planned than the current lot.
        
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        January 16, 2020 1:10pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Its easier to proclaim racism than to recognise some very uncomfortable facts about Maori society.
  
  On the upside, the evil racist colonialists have *probably* eradicated cannibalism 🙂
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:11am
- ronsegal
  
  Annoying but hardly surprising. Reverse racism and indeed sexism, is rife amongst the left.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:21am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The RNZ article provides a probable reason as to why the children/babes are removed:
  
  Urgent entries (into State Care – my insert) were most often made without notice or family knowledge, for what were considered to be serious safety concerns.
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/407431/maori-babies-five-times-more-likely-to-end-up-in-state-care-stats
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:25am
- Prince
  
  Listening to an interview with Children’s Commissioner Beecroft, it appears the increase itself is due to systemic racism.
  No suggestion that we should be concerned about what the root causes are. If Beecroft is correct we could just outlaw the removal and everything would be fine.
  NZ is creating a huge societal problem in the future by allowing, even funding people who are incapable of caring for their families.
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:31am
- alloytoo
  
  That’s precisely the impression I got listening to the commissioner on Newstalk this morning.
  
  It’s somehow my fault for looking after my children and not necessitating state intervention in my home.
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:16am
- KevO'Brien
  
  More Maori parents are in difficulties.
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:42am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “… are in difficulties” implies that the cause is external, and is not the fault of Maori parents.
    
    Do people who self-identify as Maori not possess agency?
    
    If you wrote “More Maori parents place themselves in difficulties” then you would acknowledge that they have agency and are responsible for their own lives (and outcomes of their decisions).
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:19pm
Colville

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118793754/muriwai-downs-farm-sold-to-wealthy-new-zealand-resident

500 Ha of near flat farmland with a major road thru it adjacent to town and very close to the beach.
Sells for significantly above CV so probably $20Mil.

$40k/Ha. $1 – $2,000 per hosing unit if its developed in a mixed zone development.

This is what a “Kiwibuild” type entity needs to be buying/rezoning then developing if they ever want to make an impact in NZs land prices.
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January 16, 2020 8:27am
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National will most likely lose this year because the MSM wll be constantly pushing the narrative that National is in bed with the Chinese.

Bridges and National better have a plan to counter this, staying silent isn’t a feasible strategy either just makes them look as guilty as hell.

Voters will have to be assured that Jian Yang is not working for the Chinese otherwise you can write off the 2020 election now.
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January 16, 2020 8:34am
- niggly
  
  According to MSM reports Jian Yang was investigated by the SIS. Presumably then if the SIS found a problem then Jian Yang would no longer be in parliament.
  
  (Note: I’m not supporting Jian Yang, nor advocating that he remain a National MP … just saying what has been reported).
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:50am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The SIS, or the police for that matter, has no power to remove an MP.
    No one is accusing Jian Yang of a crime. The question is whether it’s a good idea for a member of the Chinese Communist Party to represent the National Party in our parliament, noting that said CCP member also worked for China’s intelligence agencies and concealed that fact when moving to NZ. If the National Party thinks it is a good idea, that’s a political judgement for them to make.
    Same thing goes for the Labour party re Raymond Huo.
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:22am
    - Prince
      
      Umm, what was Ardern’s position in the Young Socialist Union again ?
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:35am
      - sooty
        
        President of the youth communist world party!
        What do you have to do to get that title, I wonder?
        Can you ever leave, or are you in for life?
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:29am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Hotel California lyrics are a clue here I believe . . .
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:51am
      - Ruahine
        
        Yes for all we know it is quite possible that Jian Yang is a spy for that other ex communist Arden.
        Since both are so-called ex-communists they will have a lot in common. National are just stupid, unless of course Jian Yang is really a double spy.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:49pm
      - artemisia
        
        Has anyone asked Ms Ardern if she is still a socialist? If so, did she give an actual answer?
        
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        January 16, 2020 1:14pm
    - alloytoo
      
      Is it a good idea for Ministers of crown to be members of international Eco-Terrorist groups?
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:24am
  - Sydney Alvarado
    
    AFAIK MPs and Ministers have no requirement to get security clearances.
    
    If the SIS thought a Minister or an MP was a security risk, they would raise it with the PM. However what to do would be a political problem. In other words unlike officials, MPs are not “vetted” as a condition of doing their job.
    
    EDIT: I see that mikenmildagain made a similar point.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:12am
  - Justitia
    
    The SIS is barred from investigating MPs these days. Nor do MPs need a clearance to sit in Parliament. I believe brett68 is correct. I am sure we will see the attached clip much repeated including on social media as we get closer to the election: https://youtu.be/YReZtpPe8p4 . Bridges’ cloying praise for Xi Xinping was most unwise and has left him hostage to fortune. National have a problem.
    
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    January 16, 2020 2:22pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I doubt this will be an issue. It should be, but as both major political parties are equally involved in selling out to China, it won’t be.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:54am
  - Than
    
    Not that this will stop you posting wild conspiracy theories that Yang is a Chinese sleeper agent of course.
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:19am
    - brett68
      
      I’m not seeing anything that proves that he’s not, the silence from National is deafening.
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:34am
      - alloytoo
        
        How exactly do you prove a negative?
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:25am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Prove that he is–this is not the USA dems bulletin board.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:45am
      - brett68
        
        Jian Yang needs to do an interview with whoever, be honest about his past and prove that his loyalties lie with NZ and not with China.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:02pm
      - Kiwi Dave
        
        It would be informative if a reporter were to pin him down on Tiananmen Square, democracy and freedom in HK, the Uighurs, and the South Chinese Sea, though I suspect leaders of the two main parties might prove almost as evasive.
        
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        January 16, 2020 1:29pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Jian Yang refuses to be interviewed by English-language media. In other news, all Chinese-language media in New Zealand is pro-Beijing.
        
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        January 16, 2020 1:35pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Of course he’s not a sleeper agent – he is an instrument of the Chinese government operating in plain sight.
      
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      January 16, 2020 10:36am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Your statement is close to actionable.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:46am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Bullshit.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:46pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        What proof do you have for your allegation?
        
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        January 16, 2020 4:17pm
- GazzaW
  
  If you take a look at the massive China Belt & Road initiative I think you will find that we need a close association with the PRC. NZ is already a part of that initiative whether you like it or not. Massive Chinese investments, immigration and housing. Commercial development of Auckland’s CBD and investments in hotels, farms and forestry. Six Chinese airlines fly directly into Auckland and Christchurch.
  
  No NZ political party can afford to cold shoulder Chinese commercial interests.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:02am
  - brett68
    
    This is my beef with the current political system in NZ
    Both major parties don’t actually represent anyone, they only represent themselves and their financial backers, they actually have little interest in the people of NZ and what they want.
    
    Do the people of NZ get to choose if they want to become a vassal state of China, from what I’m seeing nope.
    
    Where’s the fucking democracy in that?
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:32am
  - hullkiwi
    
    No, but other than selling some product to China. Does this investment really help NZ, when:
    1. much of the benefits & dividends from these investments end up back in China (Sivlerfern farms, Westland Milk etc);
    2. Such investments further influence domestic economic policy and continue to encourage a low wage, high cost economy; and
    3. Worst of all do not bring any real added value in terms of technology to NZ or improve the skills or employability of New Zealanders.
    
    Not all foreign investment is good for NZ Ltd.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:23am
    - brett68
      
      Not all foreign investment is good for NZ Ltd.
      
      It’s good for the politicians.
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:45am
  - Ruahine
    
    This why Labour will have very little to say about Jian Yang so they will get the Media Party to run the narrative for them. There will be lots of plant stories in the media and it is a new angle for them as the lies about the people with ‘chinky’ names buying all the houses in Auckland turned out to be the usual Labour Party fake news from that famous New Zealand house builder Philip Stoner Twyford.
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:57pm
- chaos
  
  The only people that care are you and the Labour people who don’t realize how in bed with China Labour are. Everyone else understands this is our major trading partner and without them you can move back into the cave and hope you can invent fire again
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:03am
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    Completely untrue. We have been sold a myth (which suits National and Labour) that our economic fortunes are inextricably tied to doing whatever China wants.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:38am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Is this a new PR insert for the coming election?
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:48am
    - chaos
      
      And yet we don’t do what ever China wants, but the truth never fits your agenda does it
      
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      January 16, 2020 12:15pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Can you name any issues on which the NZ government has confronted the Chinese?
        When Chinese visitors come here, the police move buses to screen protestors from the VIPs’ sight. Todd McClay refers to the concentration camps in Xinjiang as ‘vocational training centres’. The Labour Party sends fraternal greetings on the anniversary of the CCP. And so on it goes.
        We’ve sold out. The Chinese must be surprised out how low the price was.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:51pm
- MCos
  
  If you think the public is wary of the influence of the Chinese Communist Party with the Nats Bridges trip to China didn’t help.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Now that the US and China are talking turkey… especially over agricultural produce, NZ politicians need to be keeping up as many contacts with their Chinese mates as they can.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:32am
  - Justitia
    
    “Mates”? NZ politicians may be foolish enough to believe they have mates in that police state, but they are regarded merely as dupes to be taken advantage of.
    
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    January 16, 2020 3:07pm
Swifty

Criticism of men is always richly deserved but any criticism of women is automatically sexist:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/118794087/markle-and-ardern-show-women-face-higher-standards-in-the-public-sphere

I notice that Stuff’s cub reporter doesn’t address the huge gaping hole in his logic – that Kate Middleton hasn’t suffered the same fate as her sister-in-law.

Maybe it’s because he’s talking shit.

Just while I’m at it. I posted yesterday that in a Herald article an unnamed reporter repeatedly labelled criticism of Ardern a ‘bizarre rant’. They didn’t leave the reader to decide the merits of the Aussie commentator’s argument, oh no, they had to tell us what we were to make of it – and by not including a byline are we to take this as the Herals’d editorial stance on this issue, rather than merely the opinion of one journo?

If anyone wants to see how public funding of media in this country will corrupt and pervert the fourth estate they need look no further.

For a number of years now we’ve seen the momentum build for the direct public funding of media companies; due to their failure to develop a sustainable commercial model in response to the emergence of the online world. Late least year I heard Paula Penfold, egged on by Gary McCormick, on RNZ’s The Panel give an impassioned plea for taxpayer funds to be given to them ‘so that the media can fulfill their sacred mission of holding the politicians to account’ (and no doubt to keep the media luvvies in the lifestyles to which they’ve become accustomed).

What she failed to address is the fact that with the media dependent on politicians doling out taxpayer money to them they won’t be a free and fair media anymore will they. They will be paid propagandists forever fearful of biting the hand that feeds them and their families. And I put before you yesterday’s Herald article as Exhibit A. The most blatant example of flying cover for Ardern by a NZ news organisation I have recently seen.

You know it, I know it, the media know it, the politicians know it; and as we saw with Curran and Hirshfeld, as soon as politicians hold media purse strings corruption, graft and favours soon follow – in fact I think we’re already seeing it now as Ardern’s arse is kissed by those who hope she’ll throw them some bones.

I’ll just come out and say it – I think we’re better off having no media as we currently know it in this country rather then a tame, lapdog lefty media dependent on their living from the largess of Labour and Green politicians DOLING OUT OUR MONEY.

As with every other field of human endeavour – something else will arise to take their place, if there is a public demand for it.

DIE MSM DIE! (Thanks Tom)
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- mikenmildagain
  
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  I guess the need for editorial independence is just one of the reasons for state-owned broadcasters to have the structure they have – separate boards, statutory protections, funding decisions made by a third body. So the opportunities for direct ministerial interference are quite limited.
  Your other opoint, about the ‘MSM’ is, of course, nonsense. The media landscape is more crowded and contestable, but on the established players have the scale and resources to provide a borad range of good quality content. a good example is the health of the allegedly ‘failing’ New York Times.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:00am
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    Whoosh….
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:29am
  - Prince
    
    There is clearly no editorial independence in NZ. 90% of ‘commentators’ are clearly supporting the left wing politicians in NZ, Australia, UK, US.
    It is OK to criticise and demonize Paula Bennett, Nikki Kaye, Jenny Shipley, Ruth Richardson – but any criticism of Ardern is immediately labelled sexist.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:48am
- marcw
  
  The author’s name is Glenn McConnell who, as he has previously demonstrated, is surely the most white-apologist woke millennial ever to be paid by Fairfaux. I am at a loss to imagine his group of close ‘friends’ that encourage the opinions he must bombard them with daily.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:09am
secondcumming

I see this guvmint is throwing nearly *$500mil * of taxpayer subsidies into Jeff Bezos bank account to film his *Lord of the Rings* here…..yet not a local actor in the cast.

Maybe they can’t be stuffed engaging with *NZ Actors Equity* …and all the likely fucking hassles that would bring? 😎

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EORdayaUcAAiNt_?format=jpg&name=900×900
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January 16, 2020 8:44am
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  Don’t be ridiculous. Of course a major industry player internationally is going to try and get as many internationally famous actors in their main cast – after all it helps them sell the product. The remaining cast, extras etc, will be predominantly made up of locals, as will a huge amount of the production team. You really have to think globally here. It’s not a local production.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:30am
  - secondcumming
    
    ‘…internationally famous actors’? Name one in that line-up.
    Looks like a woke hollyweird mess to me….I’ll stick with the original 😎
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:43am
    - Simon Gotlieb
      
      So don’t watch it then. You sound like one of these guys who won’t listen to a band’s new albums “because I only like the old stuff.”
      
      As for the cast, I’d copy and paste but that would be idiotic. Please go here and read it for yourself. They may not have starred in the latest blockbuster, but that’s hardly an indication of talent. There’s some good people on board:
      
      https://deadline.com/2020/01/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-studios-sets-series-cast-tca-1202830413/
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:11am
      - sooty
        
        I don’t think I have seen any.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:33am
      - secondcumming
        
        I take it you don’t think someone like *Robyn Malcolm* would have made a great Gandalf for this LOTR television series then?
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:50am
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        Not my call. I have no influence in the production. I don’t even work in that industry. Why would I even comment on something I have no experience or qualifications in?
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:18pm
      - Tall Man
        
        “Why would I even comment on something I have no experience or qualifications in?”
        
        Oh dear, you’re getting as mad as steffy.
        
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        January 16, 2020 3:01pm
    - secondcumming
      
      Now you mention it Simon….that’s a bloody good question 😎
      
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      January 16, 2020 2:36pm
- Tall Man
  
  I don’t care where they are born I’m just extremely concerned hat there is not enough diversity in there…
  
  I mean, will the gay guy be played by a gay guy or will it be a bi guy pretending to be a gay guy or a hetero guy pretending to be a gay guy or even much worse, a trans sexual non sexual guy pretending to be a gay guy when he doesn’t even know what sex is at all…… And don’t get me started on the trans sexual dwarves……..
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:07am
  - alloytoo
    
    I’m unhappy about all these gay actors playing straight people, putting straight actors out of work.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:33am
- Ruahine
  
  Does this mean that Robyn Malcom is not getting the lead part.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12274868
  
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  January 16, 2020 1:07pm
  - sooty
    
    No, but can she clean porta loos?
    
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    January 16, 2020 5:49pm
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Why our PM did not choose Hawaii ( like her predecessor) is quite beyond me,

” ‘Disrespectful to her as a woman’: Steve Price apologises to Jacinda Ardern”

The Project Australia host Steve Price has issued an apology to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

It comes after a rant on the show where he said he was “sick and tired of that woman” after commenting on the fact that Ardern had been holidaying in Australia “instead of New Zealand.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/118823075/disrespectful-to-her-as-a-woman–steve-price-apologises-to-jacinda-ardern
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January 16, 2020 8:45am
- KevO'Brien
  
  She’s also got to the UK if the TV shot with Boris is any indication.
  
  Is he now running Winston’s Foreign Affairs Dept too?
  
  Who is actually on duty here?
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:52am
Paulus Gnome

How the fuck do people think the used dishes get from the sink to the dishwasher?

Ask for a somewhat exasperated friend. . .
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January 16, 2020 8:45am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Wait for parent, partner, work colleague to do it?
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:24am
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  Well if you’re talking about the teenagers in our house, I guess they think it’s magic bloody pixies…
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What a peculiar arrangement you must have…
  
  My dishwasher washes the dishes in the sink….. Sometimes he leaves them to dry on the bench, but usually he dries them off and stores them away (sort of correctly).
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:38am
  - chaos
    
    The original environmental friendly dishwasher
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:08am
- Fletch
  
  It’s MAGIC ✨
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_kXIGvB1uU
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:39am
chaos

Simple solution, when you have a debt, pay it

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12300609

* A woman has been stopped and arrested at Auckland Airport over student loan debt.

The Herald has been told the woman had been in New Zealand visiting her unwell mother, and was arrested on Friday as she attempted to fly out of Auckland Airport to the United States.

She spent a night in jail, it’s understood, before staying in a hotel over the weekend and appearing in court on Monday.*
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January 16, 2020 8:59am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I wish the government would follow that rule (instead of printing money and issuing debt to such an extreme).
  
  I swear that most Western countries would sell their land, birthright and children for a slightly more comfortable standard of living.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:31am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Odakyu-Sen, we really must get with the programme. Western (predominantly English speaking) democracies as based on the Keynesian ponzy economic model.
    
    But because most economists, business leaders and politicians are too busy looking at today, they do not care or understand what problems they are creating for tomorrow.
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:22pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      I prefer Hayek’s approach…
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:24pm
- Ian Boag
  
  So what are we supposed to do with her? Don’t get me wrong – I hold no brief for student loan defaulters. Generally speaking, any other kind of outstanding debt is not usually a criminal matter. Maybe wilful tax evasion might be.
  
  They could toss her in clink until she pays perhaps – the 1800’s “workhouse and debtors’ prison” approach? That would work well. Dunno why we ever gave it up.
  
  It will be interesting to see what crime she might be charged with. I’m not sure the defaulting on a student loan is a criminal matter. If it was, the logical approach would be to start the extradition process for offshore defaulters. As I understand it, some of them are known to IRD.
  
  Dunno. It will be interesting.
  
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  January 16, 2020 6:00pm
Yvette

Behrouz Boochani’s arrival in New Zealand was widely publicised. Here for a book tour, he was met at the airport by Amnesty International leaders and Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman.
Boochani, who wrote a book while on Manus Island, attracted the attention of organisers at a Christchurch literary festival and was invited to speak at the festival in late November. Boochani came to New Zealand from PNG, but without passing through Australia. He had a one month visitors visa which expired on December 15th.

If this man has still overstayed his visa period, and is still in New Zealand, one wonders – after such a fuss over his freedom, and his championing by various “highly placed people” – why does he treat Immigration in such a lax manner?

If he ever wishes to enter Australia, will the ironic reply be, “No, you overstayed in New Zealand”.
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January 16, 2020 9:01am
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  I’m pretty sure they’ve been clear from the outset that he’s never gonna be allowed into the country. The overstaying makes no difference; probably actually validates their original reasons.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:34am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Does anyone know where he is now?
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:14am
  - Simon Gotlieb
    
    Hiding out in the Coromandel somewhere?
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:12am
    - sooty
      
      Still hiding out in Gollys underwear drawer!
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:36am
      - Jack5
        
        If Amnesty has helped create an illegal overstayer, then Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand Inc. should be deregistered as a charity.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:50pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        Notwithstanding that that’s just your opinion, is there any law you can cite for this? Or is it your suggested punitive action?
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:46pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        I’ll make it easier for you. Please tell us which one applies:
        
        The Charities Registration Board has the authority to deregister a charity that:
        
        no longer meets the requirements for registration
        has acted in a way that is considered to be “serious wrongdoing”
        has “significantly and persistently” failed to comply with the Act.
        However, deregistration will not happen without the charity being given the chance to have its say on the matter. The charity and any officer of the charity can object on either or both of the following grounds:
        
        that the grounds for deregistration have not been satisfied
        that, for any other reason, it would not be in the public interest to remove the entity from the Charities Register.
        If an objection is received from a charity that the Charities Registration Board is considering deregistering, it must not deregister it unless it is satisfied that:
        
        it is in the public interest to do so
        there are grounds to deregister the charity, or that the facts of the objection are not correct, or that the objection has been withdrawn or is trivial in nature.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:47pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        I guess you’d probably claim “has acted in a way that is considered to be “serious wrongdoing””, however you’d have to prove that the overstaying was done with their assistance and knowledge.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:48pm
      - GoVege
        
        Exactly, Simon!
        Just because Amnesty International supports a person to speak on important social issues, does not mean they are responsible for their future actions.
        Except perhaps if they pose a danger to the community.
        And Amnesty International has always promoted non-violent protest.
        
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        January 16, 2020 8:09pm
- Prince
  
  Are you sure he’s not in Australia already ?
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:51am
Than

Bernard Hickey has written an article published on Newsroom about the upcoming election.

I agree with some of his comments, disagree with others. However there is one massive omission from the piece – discussion of National’s strategic options.

Hickey devotes several paragraphs to ways Labour could choose to campaign, discussing the possibility of a land tax or electoral accommodations with the Greens or NZF. But major policies National could campaign on (removing first-year free tertiary study say, or reversing the petrol tax), and the question of whether National should rule out working with NZF don’t get a single word. Not exactly balanced.
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January 16, 2020 9:09am
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  Maybe. Or maybe it was an article about how Labour might win a second term. Tomorrow there might be an article about how National could win. Would you complain about lack of balance then. I fear you are seeing bias where there is actually none. Chill.
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:33am
  - Than
    
    So we’re supposed to give him the benefit of the doubt based on something he might maybe, possibly write in the future? Um, no.
    
    If there had been some indication this piece was part of a series, then sure. But without that it’s perfectly reasonable to judge the article as it stands by itself.
    
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    January 16, 2020 9:50am
    - Tall Man
      
      It’s not journalism it propaganda.
      
      Hickey is merely a labour hack who knows where his next dollars is coming from.
      
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      January 16, 2020 11:00am
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        Oh whatever. I very much doubt you look at any other article about something National are doing and say “but where’s the stuff about Labour?”
        
        Not every bloody article about the government has to have a commentary from Simple Soimon.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:14am
      - Tall Man
        
        “Simple Soimon”…. How fucking old are you, 12?
        
        At least when I call ardern a liar I have facts that substantiate it such as.. “”of course I know the principles of the treaty”……. especially when I have a willie in my ear”.
        
        Please give examples where you think Simon Bridges is simple… remembering that you are the labour supporter here so your credibility is already shot.
        
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        January 16, 2020 11:51am
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        You’ve got some kind of hard on for me haven’t you Tall man?
        
        But to answer your question, I guess the most recent example (of which there are many) would have to be going on Chinese television and talking about how he valued the role of the Communist Party of China in leading the country’s development, crediting the Party for driving the strong relationship New Zealand shared with China.
        
        Especially as doing so while sidelining all the work that MFAT are doing sends a really bad signal to the world, particularly our allies in the States.
        
        IMO that was pretty stupid. Simple Soimon.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:23pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        And as for my political affiliations, I swing left of centre on some stuff and remain pretty centrist on others. Don’t assume a thing about me bud.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:24pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Well “simple soimon” you certainly self identified well.
        
        Simon Bridges is by no means “simple” and those of you smug tossers that attempt to identify him as such will certainly look more foolish when he rolls the coalition back into the toilet whence they came.
        
        I doubt there are any but the most sycophantic ardernists that would ever call her astute, she is as much a pawn or puppet as greta yet Simon Bridges has survived non stop attacks from the media in NZ and has in fact strengthened both his and his party’s position. Failure to acknowledge his abilities demeans yourself in my opinion.
        
        Whether you like it or not China exists and forms a major part of our world both historically and economically. Only a fool would deliberately spit in the face of a major trading partner, much like ardern has done with the US, and we see the results of such stupidity far too frequently.
        
        Meeting, greeting and even acknowledging the benefits of a trading partner do not imply acceptance of their behaviour without question but I have yet to see ardern reject either dollars or meetings with representatives of China and the CCP.
        
        I suggest you re read Simon’s explanation as to why they “supplemented” the MFAT meetings with meetings of more substance.
        
        As I said “how old are you?” Assuming I have a hard on for you way overvalues your worth, it was the stupidity and ignorance of your comment that I reacted too, not the twit behind it.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:55pm
- MrTips
  
  Hickey’s opinion is about as reliable as a guy selling first class tickets to the Titanic on April 16, 1912.
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:03am
- southtop
  
  I saw that article and the timing is good as National has to decide on it’s strategic options. Currently the only opposition in NZ is Act and a hand full of National MPs that are prepared to go a little against the grain.
  The totalitarian movement to manipulate the school curriculum in the climate area is truly horrifying.
  Over the years we sort of put up with teachers, fresh from their indoctrination center at training collage, ramming Marxist thoughts down student throats because most either left teaching or grew up.
  However to have unproven hypothesis and opinion masquerading as fact and to openly be advised on how to handle the dissenters is 1960’s Moscow.
  No doubt we will have similar issues with the ‘new’ history curriculum.
  The real National Party – WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU?
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:27am
  - Paulus
    
    southtop
    Patience dear boy (assuming you are one) – in politics timing is of essence.
    Only fools rush in when wise men are patient.
    
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    January 16, 2020 1:45pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Never interrupt someone who is destroying themselves for you.
      
      ardern and her sjw’s are throwing NZ to the woke with such gay abandon they can’t even see the wood for the trees.
      
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      January 16, 2020 5:06pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Land Tax, yeah! Inspiring voter material That tax was withdrawn previously because it did not work.
  
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  January 16, 2020 12:02pm
  - Paulus
    
    Already called Rates !
    
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    January 16, 2020 1:46pm
Minsk400

MEanwhile, in the UK, up to 52 children may have been victims of a sex abuse scandal in Greater Manchester, with most offenders getting away with their crimes because of errors by police and children’s services, the Guardian has learned.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/14/police-errors-may-have-let-abusers-of-up-to-52-children-escape-justice
The mistakes? Remember how the police were scared they’d be accused of being racist of following up on the reports because the gang doing the grooming was mostly of Pakistani origin? Who cares who’s doing the crime. I’d expect the police to follow up any gang grooming and sexually abusing kids.
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January 16, 2020 9:41am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s a nightmare…
  The care agency was a grooming ground for the sex-predators
  
  Intelligence suggested that offenders were targeting care homes within the city of Manchester area, particularly one home used as an emergency placement unit for children entering the care system, which the report authors said “maintained a steady supply of victims” for the perpetrators, who befriended the girls as soon as they arrived.
  
  And look at how Social welfare staff and Care providers lied and manipulated folk here in NZ:
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/407433/abuse-in-care-files-show-government-department-knew-of-rape-allegations
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:17am
  - freethinker
    
    Muslimes/Sex offences – any connection, no pun intended & asking for a friend? When I lived in Manchester the Moss Side area was for some time a police no go area until the policy became two officers and a dog for patrols.
    
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    January 16, 2020 10:50am
  - GoVege
    
    Unbelievable, Maggie, that poor woman!
    And to think even a psychologist (and a female one at that) as good as called her a liar.
    We stayed with the Sallies in Auckland in the late 60’s.
    The captain was stern, and overly prone to long bible readings 🙂 , but a fair and good hearted person.
    The young woman working there in the early 70s was an angel.
    Unfortunately a lot of Kiwi women in positions of authority in past generations were quite brutal.
    I sometimes wonder if it had something to do with our recent colonization and the deprivations endured by our forebears.
    
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    January 16, 2020 6:55pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Some people are bullies and abusers…
      
      Whether it’s religion/colonization/ bottle-feeding/small dicks /or whatever that causes them to adopt this behaviour is irrelevant.
      
      Adults have no right to abuse children.
      
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      January 16, 2020 7:17pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VduEAhsJnY

Dem debate highlights, according to Mark Dice.
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January 16, 2020 9:44am
curry4me

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/01/13/video-iran-protesters-refuse-to-trample-american-and-israeli-flags/

“Protestors” in any American city would have no trouble desecrating the flag.
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January 16, 2020 9:45am
Maggy Wassilieff

A shake-up in Russia,
or more of the the same old, same old?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/russian-govt-quits-putin-calls-constitutional-shake-200115110750948.html
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January 16, 2020 9:48am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Russia is spent, decrepit. Demographically collapsing, failing infrastructure, reliant on petroleum industry (that will go into death-mode over next decade). GDP only the same as south korea. Putin is just riding it into the ground harder.
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:03am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Russia has a declining population owing to
  
  1 More abortions than live births
  
  2 Early deaths including a high alcoholism rate.
  
  The place is imploding/ Look at the state of their carrier
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:16am
  - Ruahine
    
    Such a shame about the abortion rate. They have such beautiful women. Around half of fetuses terminated (killed) will be female.
    
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    January 16, 2020 1:15pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      I dunno, stereotypical russian Babushka resembles a potato, and the men aint pretty either.
      
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      January 16, 2020 3:54pm
    - GoVege
      
      Are these figures up to date?
      I thought it was many years ago that they didn’t have access to contraception and had to fall back on abortion.
      
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      January 16, 2020 6:43pm
- CrazyIvan
  
  Interesting in that At first glance Putin’s giving the Duma more power. However, he has only four more years as president and might be looking to preserve his career, either by having the Duma elect him as PM (rather than rely on his successor) or hold the strings as Speaker of Parliament where his party is the biggest entity. Either way I think It’s likely another example of 3D chess from the master
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:20am
- freethinker
  
  Xi Jiping/Putin arranging to be Presidents for life – Mugabe how well did that work for Zimbabweians ?Will the Chinese and Russian people enjoy the same results?
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:53am
- KevO'Brien
  
  I’m hopeful. Putin is a thinker. The country seems to be slowly changing.
  
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  January 16, 2020 12:04pm
  - MCos
    
    Putin can think whatever he likes.
    One thing’s for certain, anywhere that has a some sort of absolute President-for-life turns to custard.
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:25pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It’s a mafia state, deteriorating. GDP per capita stagnant for a decade at 1/4 NZ’s level. Basket case Italy has a bigger stronger economy than Russia
    
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    January 16, 2020 3:59pm
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Speaking of climate emergency researchers placed 4,000 heat sensors monitoring ocean temperatures at various locations in the world oceans.

Their findings should concern us all
,
” Climate change: Oceans hotter than ever before, new study reveals”

“ Ocean waters hit their highest temperature ever last year, and the rate at which they are warming is speeding up, a new study has revealed. Researchers called the new data “further proof of global warming …
”

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/climate-change-oceans-hotter-than-ever-before-new-study-reveals/a-51992692
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January 16, 2020 9:58am
- lifesgood
  
  I wish ours would bloody well warm up. It’s freezing.
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:12am
  - Simon Gotlieb
    
    Go check out earth.nullschool. It will give you a graphic demonstration of why the weather is like it is right now. If you think about convection currents and how air moves around it makes sense. Poor little NZ doesn’t stand a chance right now with all the weird temperatures in the island to the west of us.
    
    https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-210.11,-29.76,1093
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:19am
    - Stephieboy2
      
      Simon Gotlieb,
      
      4000 sensors monitoring over a four-year period don;t lie!
      
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      January 16, 2020 12:02pm
      - rangitoto
        
        They are a small sample. The error bars are grossly underestimated. The measured change is less than the margin of error.
        
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        January 16, 2020 12:35pm
- mandk
  
  “Oceans hotter than ever before”
  
  Given that scientists believe the oceans formed about 3.8 billion years ago, I wonder who installed the gauges and monitored the temperatures all that time.
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:47am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Really good point, as it is absurd – “Oceans hotter than ever before”.
    
    A bit like Ardern’s statement: “It’s a family tradition that we always go to Australia for our Christmas Holidays” (since 2017)
    
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    January 16, 2020 4:44pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    Yep, four years of monitoring and its hotter then millions of years.
    
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    January 16, 2020 4:50pm
- freethinker
  
  Where those sensors in place in say 1950 so there is a comparative base?
  
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  January 16, 2020 10:54am
  - Simon Gotlieb
    
    Ah, there’s more than one way to find out this info.
    
    https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:21am
  - G152
    
    Since those sensors will be beneath the thermocline
    how exactly are they going to determine actual sea temperature.
    Quoted:
    The thermocline is a region where water temperature decreases rapidly with increasing depth and transition layer between the mixed layer at the surface and deeper water.
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:28pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    The sensors have only been deployed in the last 20 years. A drop in the bucket compared with natural ocean and solar temperature variations!
    
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    January 16, 2020 4:51pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  I posted on this fraud yesterday. 4000 sounds a lot but in reality its fuck all. Most of the “data” is model derived infill.
  
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/14/the-ocean-warms-by-a-whole-little/
  Quote
  “So here’s the hot news. According to these folks, over the last sixty years, the ocean has warmed a little over a tenth of one measly degree … now you can understand why they put it in zettajoules—it’s far more alarming that way.
  
  Next, I’m sorry, but the idea that we can measure the temperature of the top two kilometers of the ocean with an uncertainty of ±0.003°C (three-thousandths of one degree) is simply not believable. ”
  End Quote
  
  And if the warming is real, it will account for some of the increase in CO2 over the last 60 years. Try working out which came from your car and which came from the ocean. …..
  
  Oceans warm the atmosphere, NEVER the other way around, so if the warming is real, it means something else is warming the oceans. Maybe the sun?
  
  Go and find some more fake news, twat.
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:13am
  - alloytoo
    
    The comments contained some interesting discussion regarding the amount of energy absorbed daily by the oceans from the sun and radiated back.
    
    Puts the variation in perspective, as does the discussion regarding the coverage of the temperature measuring equipment.
    
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    January 16, 2020 11:41am
  - Stephieboy2
    
    rightoverlabour, the original research is dcomented here,
    
    ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, VOL. 37, FEBRUARY 2020, 137–142
    
    Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019
    
    https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00376-020-9283-7.pdf
    
    Now tell me about Anthony Watts qualifications and scientific training on this question ?
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:29pm
    - rangitoto
      
      What are your qualifications?
      
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      January 16, 2020 12:39pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Same as anyone commenting on a blog, I guess. Either none, or not relevant.
        
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        January 16, 2020 1:05pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        @ MMA – Does an MSc in Palaeoclimatology count as relevant or none at all?
        
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        January 16, 2020 1:55pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Degree dropper 😉
        
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        January 16, 2020 8:33pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      So you can’t argue the substantive facts in the paper or the critique, but have a go at the Blog owners qualifications. ( and yours are?) The biggest issue in this paper is the inclusion of the climate fraud Mann as a lead author. They may be right, the ocean may well be warming, but that has nothing to do with human released CO2. Oceans have massive thermal inertia in the order of thousands of years, so what ever caused this warming may have been that long ago.
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:10pm
      - Doc Holliday
        
        What hooey. For fuck’s sake learn some normal science. You know, the stuff found in the textbooks over the years.
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:59pm
    - alloytoo
      
      Argumentum ad hominem.
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:22pm
      - Swifty
        
        It’s all he has.
        
        Him, Morrissey, ztev etc – all just attack and slander the messenger rather than debate the message.
        
        A disgraceful way to conduct themselves.
        
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        January 16, 2020 2:20pm
Swifty

“You can only aim at equality by giving some people the right to take things from others. What ultimately happens when you aim for equality is that A and B decide what C shall do for D; except that they take a little bit of a commission off on the way.”

Milton Friedman

https://youtu.be/fKc6esIi0_U?t=345

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118794585/families-are-struggling-to-get-by-and-tax-tweaks-wont-fix-it

A is the NZ Labour Party
B is the NZ Union movement
C is NZ business owners and employers
D is NZ wage earners and the people who A and B hope will give them money in return.

The whole thing is a disgraceful bloody racket.
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January 16, 2020 10:01am
cmm

Some NZ vet was quoted by Herald as saying the Oz fires were the worst ecological disaster since the Ice Age.

What bullshit.

First off, he actually said it was “one of the worst”, but that was not good enough for Herald so they had to amp that up to “the worst”.

Even still, ecologically (long term) the fires have been serious, but hardly a disaster and certainly not anywhere near the worst in the last few thousand years.

Area of Oz burned: about 2%
Number of major species made extinct: 0 (possibly some insects etc).

The bush that burned is adapted to fire. It has burned worse and bounced back and will do so again. A few million animals might have burned depending on what you want to count as an “animal”, but those will return too.

Not exactly a disaster ecologically.
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January 16, 2020 10:13am
- fernglas
  
  I guess that depends on whether or not you are a koala
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:44am
  - cmm
    
    A personal disaster for an individual koala is not an ecological disaster.
    
    It certainly looks like some koala got burned, but even a 20% loss of koala is not going to put it in the big league of ecological disasters.
    
    For example, Maori coming to NZ wiped out many species (inc Moa) and radically changed the ecology of many places. Agriculture did too.
    
    Ecologicially, the Oz fires in inconsequential.
    
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    January 16, 2020 1:10pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Tell that to a Kangaroo Island dunnart…
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:13pm
    - chaos
      
      Hmmm
      
      * Animals including koalas and kangaroos could be culled in parts of South Australia, where high population numbers are damaging the landscape.
      
      A report from a parliamentary inquiry has recommended the state’s environment minister make an immediate decision to declare koalas, western grey kangaroos, long-nosed fur seals and little corellas overabundant in some areas.*
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/koala-kangaroo-culling-considered-as-numbers-become-overabundant
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:22pm
    - GoVege
      
      Very sad about the moas, but when you think about it, you can’t really blame the Maori for eating them to extinction.
      Its not as if Aotearoa had trees laden with bananas, breadfruit, mangoes, not to mention taro, yam, taamu etc.
      What a terrible shock it must have been to discover that this southern land they had just made landfall in grew virtually nothing in the way of edible plants!
      
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      January 16, 2020 8:22pm
      - chaos
        
        Actually Maori brought plants with them and grew them here. As well as bring rat and dog which they also ate. And eating plants that were already here.
        
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        January 16, 2020 8:45pm
      - GoVege
        
        What plants that were already here, chaos?
        Maybe a few herbs but they’re not exactly filling.
        Ok..maybe they brought a few plants to grow, but I don’t know of any fruit that took hold, and who would want to eat a rat or dog…..
        
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        January 16, 2020 9:57pm
RRM

https://youtu.be/zp6dyF-94kM

To become a War Chief of the Crow Nation, a man must do four things prized of a stealthy Crow warrior: 1. Touch an enemy without killing them, 2. Seize an enemy’s weapon, 3. Lead a successful war party, and 4. Steal an enemy’s horse. Surprisingly, one of the last men to ever complete these tasks did so not in the Wild West, but in the middle of World War 2 Europe. He was a U.S. soldier named Joe Medicine Crow, and he was to eventually become known as the “Last War Chief”…
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January 16, 2020 11:02am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I hadn’t heard of him. That’s a great story – thanks.
  
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  January 16, 2020 1:38pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Steal an enemies horse in WWII?
  
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  January 16, 2020 2:11pm
  - curry4me
    
    Yes, possibly one of their hundreds of thousands of cart horses. The German army relied on horses and wagons for 85% of its transport. Or maybe a cavalry horse. Their infantry divisions had them.
    
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    January 16, 2020 7:32pm
  - Komata
    
    Urbancolonialist@1411
    
    Perhaps surprisingly, horses were
    widely used by the Wermacht, so what was recorded would not have been unusual.
    
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    January 16, 2020 7:50pm
  - Tall Man
    
    A real man.
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:27pm
Maggie Pie

My partner just popped home with a couple of KK’s for our lunch. He was saying how lucky Australian’s are to have someone like Peter Dutton watching their backs.
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January 16, 2020 11:17am
rightoverlabour

Have a laugh at this. Especially for Stephieboy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2SmHjtOprA&feature=emb_title
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January 16, 2020 11:22am
- Maggie Pie
  
  O.M.G. – that is brilliant!!
  [My partner thort it was Johnny Cash – LOL]
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:42am
- Stephieboy2
  
  “.may” disappear
  
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  January 16, 2020 11:54am
- chaos
  
  In the climate change debate facts don’t matter to the brainwashed
  
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  January 16, 2020 12:20pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    chaos, irony siren alert!
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:30pm
    - alloytoo
      
      You’re the one resorting to argumentum ad hominem.
      
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      January 16, 2020 1:32pm
chaos

Next Stop For The Climate Clown Show?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X501sN62e6o
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January 16, 2020 12:25pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  chaos , ah Tony Heller aka Steve Goddard ,
  
  A birther!
  
  https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/obama-runs-into-problems-without-his-teleprompter/
  
  I rest my case!
  
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  January 16, 2020 12:36pm
  - chaos
    
    You have no case, you want to debate what he is saying then give evidence that debates all the facts he presents, the graphs and historical data, or shut up
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:56pm
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      He is unable.
      
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      January 16, 2020 7:26pm
      - chaos
        
        I know, just the childish actions of a troll that runs away each time someone challenges him
        
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        January 16, 2020 10:13pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Fake site to fool dummies like Stephie
    Worked!
    
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    January 16, 2020 2:27pm
  - chaos
    
    Still waiting for you to prove what is in this video is wrong. Surely you don’t rest your case with an attack on the person doing the video and not on the content…..
    
    Waiting for you to prove all that is in the video is wrong
    
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    January 16, 2020 6:20pm
chaos

* Canada’s national newspaper has delivered a harsh message to Prince Harry and Meghan — you’re not welcome to stay here.

The Globe & Mail, the country’s most widely-read newspaper, published an editorial arguing that the couple’s all-but-confirmed plan to make Canada should not be allowed.

“The Trudeau government’s response should be simple and succinct: No,” the editorial reads.*

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/118829447/canadian-newspaper-tells-harry-and-meghan-this-country-cannot-become-your-home
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January 16, 2020 12:29pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  Chaos, who is “The Globe & Mail” to tell anybody whose welcome and not welcome?
  
  I suppose it will try and ban any pending visit by our PM?
  
  I would think most Canadians don’t care a toss!
  
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  January 16, 2020 12:39pm
  - chaos
    
    Go learn to read and you will understand why they are saying no senior member of the royal family can live there.
    
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    January 16, 2020 12:54pm
- kevn
  
  @chaos… They only want a halfway house until Trump goes, then LA here we come.
  But, they might get a Trump jnr after The two term Don goes in 2024.
  
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  January 16, 2020 12:53pm
  - chaos
    
    More than likely which is why Me-gain has been offered a place on real housewives of Beverly Hills. Hint on where you are living is in the name of the show
    
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    January 16, 2020 1:26pm
  - mandk
    
    I’m looking forward to a female Christian conservative POTUS.
    Nikki Haley or Candace Owens, perhaps.
    
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    January 16, 2020 2:45pm
- Ruahine
  
  Oh well. It looks like Africa after all.
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2019/10/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-considering-moving-to-africa.html
  
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  January 16, 2020 1:25pm
  - kevn
    
    @Ruahine… Old story, but maybe the halfway house in Canada is the red herring. I’m sure LA beckons ultimately. Once Trump goes.
    
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    January 16, 2020 2:22pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Yeah right!
    
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    January 16, 2020 2:28pm
  - Simon Gotlieb
    
    That was October last year.
    
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    January 16, 2020 3:03pm
Maggie Pie

Had to laugh. We were just discussing the story in yesterdays Herald, where someone was moaning about having a ‘smelly tenant’ stay in their house after renting it through AirBNB. Apparently he never even showered on the night he arrived and stunk the place out. LOL!!!
As my partner said, if your stupid enough to allow complete strangers stay in your home, and sleep in your bed, WTF can you expect? Who in their right mind would ever let anyone you didn’t know to even get through the f~~kng gate!!

Just saying.
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January 16, 2020 12:43pm
kevn

Israel exporting natural gas to Egypt… Who would have thought.
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January 16, 2020 12:50pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  That would have to be good thing.There was a time when I understand when Egypt exported oil to Israel!
  
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  January 16, 2020 1:20pm
- mandk
  
  Despite internal pressures, the Egyptian authorities know they are better off dealing with Israel than any of the county’s Arab neighbours.
  
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  January 16, 2020 2:37pm
burt

The Labour Party is about to gain a new member, this guy will join up quickly so he can continue to work and not draw any heat for his actions;

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/118827002/entertainment-industry-boss-accused-of-groping-pestering-woman-in-lift
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January 16, 2020 1:13pm
- Inandout
  
  The accused has an expensive lawyer.
  
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  January 16, 2020 4:11pm
  - burt
    
    More incentive to join Labour then, he will have the whole party and the entire #MeToo movement running cover for him.
    
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    January 17, 2020 9:06am
Maggie Pie

Bloody hell – never a dull day in the Trump household!
Just been watching the fab ‘Kelly-Anne Conway’ defending The Donald against accusations put about by that nasty Chris Cuomo w~~ker on CNN.

Kell’s just the sort of girl that would fit in beautifully with our lunch group every month 😛
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January 16, 2020 3:41pm
chaos

No, not it is not. Tax is a necessary part of life and to run the country, but over taxing, which is happening now is not love, it is the evil of an out of control inept government.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-explains-why-tax-love.html

* Green MP Golriz Ghahraman is praising nurses and doctors for the treatment she received during a short stay in hospital and says that’s why “tax = love”. *
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January 16, 2020 3:48pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Troll. And 100 times better than you trolls on this Blogg. Love it!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/13/donald-trump-taunts-cory-booker-for-ending-campaign/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1yumNShA2UzG64K3bA5xITuuz2yp73VsGyA68lGQnlrz-s9C_gmMh7PB0
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January 16, 2020 3:57pm
chaos

Interesting that they are pushing the trump in most article about this and not his connection to Hillary.

* An informal adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who testified in the Mueller probe pleaded guilty Monday to charges of child sex trafficking and possessing child pornography.

George Nader, 60, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia’s Eastern District.

The stocky, bespectacled former Washington insider was succinct as Judge Brinkema read the offenses in detail and asked for his plea.*

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-campaign-adviser-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-sex-trafficking/
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January 16, 2020 4:14pm
chaos

Interesting, was reading an article that linked to this. I’m not a science person so would this mean someone with these conditions should remove all avenues of fluoride that they can, including in toothpaste?

* This study provides diverse lines of evidence demonstrating that fluoride (F) exposure contributes to degenerative eye diseases by stimulating or inhibiting biological pathways associated with the pathogenesis of cataract, age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma*

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/5/856/htm
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January 16, 2020 4:50pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh dear,
  
  I’d better show this paper to Hubby… who has recently developed Wet MD in both eyes.
  (Injections in eyeballs!!!!)
  
  We’re similarly aged… I grew up in W(h)anganui – non fluoridated water
  
  Hubby grew up in PN ( water fluoridated from 1962… when he was 10)
  
  I went to Massey (PN) at 17. and Hubby and I have lived in same places for the last 50 years.
  
  I’ve drunk 8 – 16 cups of tea every day of my life since age 13.
  
  I don’t have AMD (yet?) but have crap teeth and have spent a wee fortune at Dentists.
  
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  January 16, 2020 5:13pm
  - chaos
    
    My mother hasn’t progressed to needing injections yet, they recommended she take Clinicians VisionCare with Lutein several years ago and so far her eyes haven’t got worse
    
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    January 16, 2020 5:23pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yeah, Hubby was told to take that…
      made him Queasy….
      anyway he thinks that it only works for Dry MD
      (He has both Dry & Wet MD).
      
      Anyway, I’ve fed him a decent diet every day…(not my fault he wouldn’t his greens when he was little), but he won’t eat Kale!
      
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      January 16, 2020 6:16pm
      - chaos
        
        Perhaps hubby could suggest it is all the dishwashing that makes his wet, might be a good way to get out of 50 years of doing the dishes?
        
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        January 16, 2020 6:53pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Fortunately Hubby doesn’t read KB….
        and even if that treacherous bit of information reached his ears,
        I would convince him that a change to his routine would be much too risky for someone in his delicate state of sightedness.
        
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        January 16, 2020 7:39pm
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    My wife has required Eylea injections in her eyes for the macular degeneration. Prior to Pharmac funding that pharmaceutical it was costing about $35,000 per year. Now it has come down considerably.
    Eylea was not eligible for insurance. We just had to suck it up.
    
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    January 16, 2020 5:58pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Hubby has Avastin injections… costs us nothing
      https://retinaspecialists.co.nz/treatments/avastin-bevacizumab/
      
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      January 16, 2020 6:20pm
secondcumming

1ZB are reporting that *50 new Police recruits* passed out today…..a number of them speaking Mandarin, Arabic and Russian.

*God defend New Zealand* 😎
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January 16, 2020 5:37pm
chaos

Must be that special time of year again, that time where farmers crop and then cover the towns in smoke and ash while ECAN will in a few months fine households for chimneys that smoke too much

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/118848101/emergency-crews-responding-to-fire-in-timaru
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January 16, 2020 6:23pm
greybeard

I see that Chlöe Swarbrick is engaged.
Some bloke called Nadine.
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January 16, 2020 6:34pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Here’s the ‘lucky boy’ in question….
  and to think my partner used to have the hots for Chloe once. LOL!!!
  
  https://twitter.com/n_walker_
  
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  January 16, 2020 7:03pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Well I guess that’s one box ticked as they say 😉
    
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    January 16, 2020 8:17pm
    - skyblue
      
      2 boxes ticked.
      
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      January 16, 2020 9:29pm
- Tall Man
  
  Bet he’s tough!
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:19pm
AndyW

Big uproar at the moment about the number of Maori children uplifted by Oranga Tamariki… then there’s article on Stuff about a 10 year old boy beaten by his parents for running away :”They caught up with him on Highbury Ave, where the mother picked him up in her arms before punching him three times in the mouth, causing him to fall to the ground.
She then kept punching him, with the husband joining in the attack by also punching the boy in the head.
The boy lost consciousness at one stage, but was roused when he was punched one more time in the head by his father…” Dad’s (and I shudder using that word) in the Mongrel Mob… hhmmmm.
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January 16, 2020 6:37pm
- Tall Man
  
  They do get a bit cranky when their income stream does a runner.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:18pm
- Komata
  
  AndyW@1837
  
  And you can bet that because it interferes with ‘Maori cultural practices’, WINZ won’t get involved.
  
  Hopefully the lad will survive, but at what cost and for what sort of future?
  
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  January 16, 2020 9:18pm
- rangitoto
  
  Can’t be true. This sort of thing was fixed by the no smacking bill.
  
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  January 17, 2020 12:01am
Maggie Pie

Watch for my post tomorrow on ‘Hot X Buns’.
Preparing it for the group now – and it will be life altering 😀
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January 16, 2020 6:41pm
- chaos
  
  Is it a review on a male strip show?
  
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  January 16, 2020 6:46pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    As that old Texan saying goes…
    “Butter my butt and call me a bun” 😛
    
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    January 16, 2020 7:07pm
- Tall Man
  
  Now who was the chap with the shaved “iced butter”…..
  
  That sounded scrumptious.
  
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  January 16, 2020 8:18pm
Swifty

Christchurch, March 17, 1981, featuring Big Malumba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUCFVKNRkE&t=722s

And, who could forget King Curtis?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQW-Dq_BA5Q
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