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Say Goodbye to Hollywood

8:17 slackers, First
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March 15, 2011 8:17am
wreck1080

So, John Key says they will lay criminal charges if they find problems in the buildings which collapsed during the Christchurch earthquake.

I wonder, if he will go and similarly lay criminal charges against those who were ultimately reponsible for the leaky buildings crisis (which has caused suicides, family breakups, bankruptcies). The government is ultimately responsible for the leaky buildings, followed by the councils .

I would love to see criminal charges against those who made changes to the building act.
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March 15, 2011 8:22am
Murray

No doubt mynameisjack and his lefty cohorts will be celebrating the great victory of the opressed Palestinian people agains ttheir zionist ocupiers. They were handing out sweets in Gaza certainly so no doubt the chardonay will be getting cracked open around here.

Meanwhile the village that is sheltering the freedom fighters is afraind of reprisals and wants protection. There’s a diddums moment.

Don’t click the link. http://www.theospark.net/2011/03/israeli-massacre.html
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March 15, 2011 8:38am
Yvette

Keep going Phil Goff with appearances like yours on TVNZ BREAKFAST this morning and you will ensure a National Government is voted in at the end of the year.
Your closed-mind use of the Japanese nuclear energy emergency to further banish, as was Helen’s policy, utterly any contemplation of nuclear power here in New Zealand is Neanderthal – the lesson for future consideration is that you don’t build such facilities where tsunami can reach them.

And your damning of John Key’s earlier ‘shock’ mention of 10,00 Christchurch houses lost, is only now compounded by your criticism of the Government now not acting immediately to prepare temporary replacement of 10,000 houses.

Then your elimination of Harawira from any post-Election partnership seems to fly in the face of the actual evidence Peters has historically provided, that should also eliminate him on similar grounds.

Three strikes in one ‘interview’ – except in TVNZ tradition it was hardly an interview, just the occasional prompt for you to fuck it up all by yourself more or less, Phil.
Quel gaspillage de l’espace
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March 15, 2011 8:43am
Lance

The first thing we were taught as volunteers on the Kibbutz was security, missile drill and what to do if terrorists get loose within the compound.
One volunteer asked why soldiers where only on the main gates at night but there were always soldiers around the pre-schoolers area.
We were told of a Kibbutz just up the road called Mallot.

You see Arab terrorists think it is a great victory to target and machine gun pre-schoolers. They are celebrated as heroes when they do.

There were no liberals amongst the volunteers after hearing that, even though most came from Europe, Scandinavia in particular.
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March 15, 2011 8:48am
Murray

Every kindergarten in Israel has a gasproof area and bomb shelter. There are none in Gaza or the West Bank.

Give it five minutes though Lance, we’ll have the usual suspects playing blame the Jews.
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March 15, 2011 8:53am
Banana Llama

Kids …. wow.

Don’t know what to say all i feel is hatred for them and their supporters.
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March 15, 2011 8:54am
Bobbie black

Tomorrow I have to drive past two big nuclear power stations.

They have huge and scary looking pipes spewing out steam (apparently).

I do it every Tuesday.

Fortunately, no earthquakes here, much.

Touch wood.

Makes you wonder though.
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March 15, 2011 9:00am
Inventory2

Nice to see that Wanganui’s new mayor is pragmatic enough to put the community’s concerns ahead of her own – well done Annette Main and the Wanganui District Council.

http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2011/03/bad-news-for-gangs-good-news-for.html
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March 15, 2011 9:01am
Manolo

More pandering to the racists acting as tobacco-nazis:

The government has committed to a goal of New Zealand becoming smokefree by 2025.

Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia today released the government’s response to the recommendations of the Maori Affairs Committee Report into the effects of tobacco use among Maori.

As well as a committment to making New Zealand smokefree by 2025, the government will look into law changes around the promotion, packaging and display of tobacco products. It will also investigate regulating the use of additives and nicotine levels in tobacco products.

Turia said it was a landmark moment in New Zealand. “It is about us asserting our own identity as a nation and defining for ourselves the role tobacco is allowed to play in the life of this country – this is not something we are just going to leave in the hands of the tobacco industry,” she said.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/govt-commits-smokefree-nz-2025-4061733
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March 15, 2011 9:03am
James Stephenson

Nuclear power stations don’t worry me, but I always get a nervous feeling when I walk in front of a fire station….
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March 15, 2011 9:06am
Lance

@James
Yeah, thats why the Japanese (whom have lived with Nuke plants for years) are fleeing for their lives. Just irrational I guess?
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March 15, 2011 9:09am
Murray

How many people have died in relation to the nuke plants and how many from the wave?

Shit we’d best ban water, its the only rational option.
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March 15, 2011 9:10am
Lance

Methinks it’s a little old thing called a long slow death from cancer and generations of birth defects. Last I knew water didn’t do that.
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March 15, 2011 9:12am
Lance

If the Nuclear plants just went ‘boom’ every now and then without residual toxic fallout I think you will find most people would become pretty balze’.
They can cope with that sort of risk.
But an insidious invisible harbinger of death instills a deep negative emotion long ago instilled into most humans psyche.
That ain’t going to change anytime soon. As long as nothing happens around Nuclear plants after a time the populous manages to place these deep fears at the back of their minds.
Events like this bring it all back.
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March 15, 2011 9:19am
James Stephenson

Lance – Bobbie is being irrational. What the Japanese experience shows us is that even following one of the strongest recorded earthquakes and a monster tsunami, the inherent safety of the stations’ design gives plenty of time to get out of the way if something does start to go wrong.

I’m a pom and I used to go to Southwold on holiday, just down the coast from the Sizewell stations.
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March 15, 2011 9:22am
Bobbie black

On that topic, where is the smoke/radiation heading?

From the weather maps it looked certain to blow East towards USA but today someone told me the smoke had reached the Phillipines.

That is South.
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March 15, 2011 9:23am
grumpyoldhori

Looks like the Nats have fucked their numbers up again, with a Nat bloke stating this
(This scenario was echoed by a senior National official, who gloated they had lanced the boil of Harawira and the Maori Party was now their long-term, docile and trouble-free coalition partner.)
Don’t get it do you Nat types, Sharples and Katene are seen as Uncle Toms by a fair few in Maoridom, much like Henare and co in the National party, Sharples and Katene have fuck all chance of holding their seats, the Maori party will be left with one or two at best.
You better be telling those in Epsom that Hide is a fine fellow or you will be going into coalition with whom, Hone 🙂

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10712242
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March 15, 2011 9:23am
nasska

I go along with Lance on this one. The human psyche has a fear of anything it can’t see & therefore rationalise. There is a whole industry of religion dating back thousands of years that has been built on that human failing. Don’t understand, don’t worry, leave it to god & the church to sort out……all it will cost is a tenth of your income & Sundays spent mumbling to the chief sky pilot.
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March 15, 2011 9:29am
Lance

@grumpy
So is there a plan beyond throwing stones from the sideline?
You see that doesn’t actually achieve anything, feels good, but achieves nothing.
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March 15, 2011 9:29am
Inventory2

James Stevenson said

I’m a pom and I used to go to Southwold on holiday, just down the coast from the Sizewell stations.

Ah; that explains everything 😉
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March 15, 2011 9:39am
Murray

Theres a map of Hiroshima. http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=hiroshima&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

Shit seems to be full of people. Seems like the plce is not as radioactive as we are led to believe every August 9th. You guys actually looked at research rather than just getting your info off a pamphlet?
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March 15, 2011 9:43am
James Stephenson

S’right Inv, Southwold left me with an abiding love of Adnams Ale and the extra eye was well worth it.
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March 15, 2011 9:45am
Lance

Not mushy peas, scrumpy and gravy on chips as well?

I worked with a guy who went on about them everyday, seriously, everyday.
He must have been exposed to a leaking Power Station before he came over here. Explains it all 🙂
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March 15, 2011 9:50am
grumpyoldhori

Lance, all politicians are the bloody same including Hone, as was stated by Sir Ed, politicians are a self serving mob who rant about how we the punters should not expect too much while they have a bloody fine time at tax payers expense.

But come on it will be as funny as fuck if Hone ends up holding the balance of power, now will both Labour and the Nats refuse to go into negotiations with him ?
Both the Maori party and the Nats are utter utter fools in believing that second class land titles for the suntanned is a goer, it would have been far better to throw that one back to the law lords in London as a one off to decide.
And yes it is pretty bloody sad that a lot of Maori trust the Law Lords more than NZ judges, but it is not without reason.
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March 15, 2011 9:52am
Manolo

Another sharp criticism of the indolent but avid golf player, the Messiah.

The world reels before the spectacle of the Arab oil nations in turmoil. There seems a danger that Libya’s civil war could merely be the first of a succession in the region. Yet the leader of the Western world has almost nothing to say about it all.

Last Thursday, President Barack Obama’s spokesman made it plain that the United States is content to let other countries lead the pack in forging a Western position.

Few sensible people on either side of the Atlantic are clamouring for military intervention – the British Government’s fumbles and lunges have seemed cringe-making. But, even if this is no time for Western troop engagement, it seems bizarre that Obama, the great speechmaker, is also so parsimonious with words.

Whereas in Britain David Cameron has acted bravely to tackle our deficit, in the U.S. Obama thinks the political price of real cuts too high to pay.

He proclaimed a commitment to peace in the Middle East, but Israeli stubbornness, endorsed by much of Congress, has confounded him. He has had to eat his own campaign words and keep open the Guantanamo Bay detention centre for terrorist suspects.

Though Obama sometimes rises to extraordinary heights of rhetoric, as he did after January’s Arizona shootings in which six people were killed and congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a lone gunman, he is getting little of substance done.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365992/Barack-Obama-missing-action-Afghanistan-falters-Middle-East-burns.html

Hat Tip: Crusader Rabbit
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March 15, 2011 9:56am
Manolo

And yes it is pretty bloody sad that a lot of Maori trust the Law Lords more than NZ judges..

That sums up quite well your total lack of scruples. Go away, you racist.
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March 15, 2011 9:58am
Bobbie black

Careful Manolo, he will pull out the, I’ve got an English wife, card.

That one is always good for a laugh.
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March 15, 2011 10:00am
James Stephenson

Lance – not scrumpy, no. I also tend more towards chips with curry sauce.
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March 15, 2011 10:01am
KiwiGreg

From the media obsession with the nuclear power plants one would think 10,000 people died from radiation rather than the earthquake. As far as I can tell the death toll from the power plants is zero. How many died in the refinery fire?
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March 15, 2011 10:03am
rouppe

For those of you (like me) that are assuming that the nuclear situation in Japan is a catastrophe (or at least a serious problem) there is a very good explanation written by a nuclear physicist friend of an Australian in Japan to allay the fears of the Australian’s family.

It cleared up a lot for me anyway and makes me think they did a pretty good job
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March 15, 2011 10:12am
alwyn

@KiwiGreg 10.03am
If you read the Dom-Post you will have seen the frontpage headline in this morning’s paper
“At least 10,000 feared dead as nuclear crisis worsens”.
The same edition, on page A2 also talks about the NZ search and rescue team being only 130km from a nuclear power station but that we don’t have to worry because they are trained in monitoring radiation exposure and “We have protective suits and respirators with us”
As far as the media is concerned its ALL a nuclear story, even if the deaths are the result of the tsunami. We can only assume that if there were no nuclear power stations in Japan there would have been no damage or deaths at all.
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March 15, 2011 10:36am
grumpyoldhori

Manolo dear boy, last time I looked all the Law Lords were white.
Maori wanting neutral WHITE judges is being racist, you need to work on your logic.

Jeez, some of you are complete bloody idiots, you want Obama to get the US military to invade Libya, fuck that would be clever.
None of the Arabs trust the yanks for good reason, one look at Iraq tells them what happens when the yanks invade.
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March 15, 2011 10:39am
pdm

Grumpy if what you say about Maori and the English Law Lords is right what were Parekura and the rest of the Maori MP’s in Labour doing when Margaret Wilson shafted the country by taking away the right of appeal to said Law Lords.
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March 15, 2011 10:46am
redeye

RIP Ritchie Pickett;

New Zealand music has lost one of its great “wild men” with the death of country and rock legend Ritchie Pickett on Sunday, aged 56.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10712438
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March 15, 2011 10:49am
grumpyoldhori

pdm those hories in the Labour party are POLITICIANS which makes them the same as all bloody politicians, they went yes boss no boss when some idiot was ranting that NZ has enough population to have our own court of final call.

A nasty cynic when reading of the events of our courts might come to the conclusion that the NZ legal system is a touch incestuous.
If Key did want to wind up our so called top court and go back to the Law lords I would be saying go for it.
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March 15, 2011 11:04am
Pete George

It will be sad but not surprising if this is accurate.

Christchurch to be stripped of RWC games – report

An assessment into the damage suffered at AMI Stadium following last month’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake will say it will not be fit to host Rugby World Cup games, Britain’s Daily Telegraph has reported.

There’s probably too much damage and too much uncertainty.
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March 15, 2011 11:22am
big bruv

Justice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM9qnbapMog
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March 15, 2011 11:49am
laworder

For an insight into what actually happened at Fukushima, rather than all the media beat-ups, see this article
http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/

It is quite long and fairly technical in parts, given that it is witten by an MIT research scientist that should come as no surprise

Regards
Peter J
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March 15, 2011 12:08pm
dime

from the herald:

Labour leader Phil Goff has called for the Prime Minister to “come clean” about whether Christchurch will be ready to host Rugby World Cup games.

Come clean? lol love the choice of words. like its some huge scandal. like the govt caused the freakin quake.

chances are, there wont be games in chch. but if it takes an extra few weeks for the govt to be certain of that, then whats the harm?

least labour arent trying to turn the tragedy into something politcal
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March 15, 2011 1:29pm
Hurf Durf

They have huge and scary looking pipes spewing out steam (apparently).

Oh shit, careful now, you might be go past a steam cloud which is ten kilometres away with a whole whopping 20 bananas worth of radiation rather than the usual 5.

RUN FOR THE HILLS YOU FOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLS
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March 15, 2011 1:39pm
AlphaKiwi

In Japan some servicemen’s actions. “…Then there are the rapes, muggings and burglaries committed by US servicemen — 5634 criminal offences between 1972 and 2009 — and counting. Among them 25 murders, 385 burglaries, 25 arsons, 127 rapes, 306 assaults and 2,827 thefts. The worst was the rape of a 12 year old school girl in 1995.”

America can preach that it will protect and bring freedom as much as it wants, but as long as you have servicemen like these, it’s going to be a hard sell.
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March 15, 2011 2:00pm
double d

dime – goff at his irritating best/worst.

clearly key is holding back and it is all a conspiracy!

thank the lord we have phil holding him to account (sarcasm)

groan
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March 15, 2011 2:09pm
Pete George

I agree on the “come clean” comment, just when Goff stepped up and showed a bit of gumption ruling Harawira out of coalition he takes another two steps backwards.
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March 15, 2011 2:45pm
Manolo

The redundant Prince Andrew panned by The Spectator:

Enemies of the Crown

To enemies of the monarchy, Prince Andrew presents the perfect target. He has an array of vices: a love of the high life, a weakness for unsavoury company, a painfully short list of achievements and a talent for finding his way into newspapers. His foreign trips have a reputation for misadventure, with diplomats sent to smooth the feathers he ruffles.

To have the reputation of being rude is hardly fatal for a royal: the Duke of Edinburgh has almost made a virtue of it. But when convicted sex offenders, Kazakh billionaires and teenage masseurs were thrown into the mix, the anti-monarchists knew it was the perfect time to pounce.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/6766918/enemies-of-the-crown.thtml
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March 15, 2011 2:54pm
Manolo

The liar Gillar is copping flak from all fronts. It reminds me of the many false statements made by Key and Smith before the election.

Pinocchio PM

Politicians have long been the subject of Pinocchio-style caricatures. This passes, with many in Canberra, as fine art. But there is an entirely different quality to Julia Gillard’s political make-up. For she is perhaps the only prime minister in Australian history who has won (minority) power by campaigning against her own views — from supporting tough border protection to opposing carbon taxes. What has been surprising is the speed with which she has unmasked herself.

Before the election, she and Wayne Swan specifically ruled out a carbon tax and even played down the climate change issue during the all-important ALP campaign launch, lest it alienate battlers in Sydney’s western suburbs mortgaged to the hilt. Now, in a post-election environment where the Greens control the balance of power, Ms Gillard obeys puppetmaster Bob Brown, does a volte face, and embraces the global warming agenda.

No wonder the people are revolting.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/page_2/6752928/pinocchio-pm.thtml
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March 15, 2011 3:01pm
Manolo

Vintage R.B. Accurate and worth reading.

I get heartily sick of the gratuitous pontificating of these crooks and charlatans in parliament, especially of the self important manner in which they speak. A timely example is the patently obvious posturing from the vainglorious power drunk Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia, who launches yet another tax payer funded attack on freedom of choice with her offensive against smoking.

What will do the most for this country is if self serving do-gooders like you just left people alone Tariana, instead of projecting the idea that nothing can be done unless there is some government program to foster it and some tax payer money to enable it.

We need a nation of independent citizens, not nanny state ninnies.

http://truebluenz.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/freedom-under-threat-from-posturing-self-important-charlatans/
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March 15, 2011 3:10pm
lofty

yes indeed Manolo..not only are the people revolting, it has been said (not by me) that they are utterly disgusting, and in need of a damn good bath. 😉
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March 15, 2011 3:12pm
bereal

grumpyhori @ 10.39
One look at Iraq tells the arabs what happens when the yanks invade.
Correct dear, they get rid of a tyranical dictator and they get a vote and
a chance for a real democracy. Maybe you havent noticed but that is what
most arab countries seem to want. Watched the news recently ?
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March 15, 2011 4:00pm
Manolo

The Messiah found out (again);

Obama Urged to Seize Reins as Crises Pile Up

A conflict approaching civil war in Libya, an end-times tsunami in Japan, a Congress that can’t reach a budget.
And … gender inequality?

The topic of President Obama’s weekend radio address has raised some eyebrows, as Obama has met mounting crises with the same restraint and cool that characterised his slow-and-steady campaign for president. To some critics, the tone set by the White House in light of recent upheaval may hurt the president’s public image.

Amid chaos around the world and on Capitol Hill, Obama’s Saturday radio address was devoted to Women’s History Month and a call to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, a proposal meant to address the income gap between men and women.

Then, the president went golfing at Andrews Air Force Base.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/14/obama-urged-seize-reins-crises-pile/
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March 15, 2011 4:01pm
bereal

Manolo, what more evidence do we need to prove that this academic empty suit is
out of his depth. When it comes right down to it the rhetoric could be good but he
really has only one agenda, social engineering and wealth distribution.
Kinda reminds you of Helen Clark. (she talked up a storm about the top half of the OECD
but soon was found out, beyond the capabilities of a socialist idealogue.)
What a tradegy that the free world has no leader. Cameron, Merkel, Sarkosy, et al
cant do it.
It needs to be the President of the United States and sadly there is no one home.
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March 15, 2011 4:24pm
Luc Hansen

Hurf

Why don’t go and camp right beside the reactor?

Do us all a favour and spare us from your immaturity. Maybe for good. MWAAAHHH!!!!

Japan has a reputation of hiding the truth. Newest reports have the radiation levels now a a level high enough to do damage out the health of those near by, and in all likelihood, no current control over future increases of radiation leaks. The weather is changing for the worse, and radiation is going to rain from the skies. And you seriously wouldn’t be concerned?

This is not a joke for those families living in the area and the strong suspicion is that the government just wants to avoid the mess of a mass flight. Most people, though, are trapped by lack of fuel – powerless to help themselves.

And, Japan faces at least a generations-long job of dismantling these reactors.
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March 15, 2011 4:45pm
Hurf Durf

Why don’t go and camp right beside the reactor?

Already have, Puke. For fifteen years I lived fourteen kilometres away from a nuclear power plant. They really aren’t that bad.

Worst case scenario, three reactors will meltdown, they’ll be a big gloopy mess at the bottom of the containment vessel and…that’s it. The biggest problems will be the financial headache TEPCO will have in disposal and the infrastructural headache the Japanese government will have in maintaining reliable electricity supplies as the recovery goes on for the next weeks, months and years. When the death toll balloons exponentially over the next few days (something the media is reprehensibly ignoring in favour of ARGGGGGGGGGGGH THE NUCLEAR THREAT) none will be from radiation poisoning.

In fact, I would rather be next to Fukushima than that dam that failed not too far from it, which destroyed 1,800 homes. Similar dams also help provide renewable hydroelectric power.

Just saying.
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March 15, 2011 5:56pm
joana

PG…70 per cent of CHCH’s hotel beds were in the CBD…Is it realistic to expect a lot of visitors to come here for the rugby?
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March 15, 2011 6:09pm
Hurf Durf

Oh look, more screaming and crying about a non-existent “threat” on Close Up.

PISS OFF SAINSBURY YOU MORON
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March 15, 2011 7:03pm
Put it away

Been away a few days and it looks like phool’s been banned? Demerits til april 24th? Can some kind person point me at the thread where the hammer fell, so I can have a good laugh
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March 15, 2011 7:12pm
grumpyoldhori

bereal LOL the yanks leave and Iraq breaks up, rather a waste of four thousand American deaths was it not ?
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March 15, 2011 7:35pm
bhudson

So when does Sainsbury get pilloried like Ken Ring for creating fear amongst the populace? Perhaps creating heightened fear or panic is OK if advertisers are paying?

Still as a man of honour and consistency, I’m sure Campbell will be calling him out on it.
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March 15, 2011 7:56pm
Put it away

“Been away a few days and it looks like phool’s been banned? Demerits til april 24th? Can some kind person point me at the thread where the hammer fell, so I can have a good laugh”

Ah yes, never mind, I found the day the full stops died. Standard bad tempered phool-centric-universe paranoid anti-DPF rant got him shitcanned. Oh well..
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March 15, 2011 7:59pm
bhudson

The day the full stops died…

There could be a song in that. You could take your chevy out to the levy for inspiration.
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March 15, 2011 8:06pm
hj

“TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe on Tuesday after an explosion damaged the vessel containing the nuclear core at one reactor and a fire at another spewed large amounts of radioactive material into the air, according to the statements of Japanese government and industry officials. ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16nuclear.html?src=twrhp

Master of The Universe (types) in denial. Where’s Owen McShane?
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March 15, 2011 8:07pm
hj

“VIENNA, March 15 (Reuters) – Japan has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog a spent fuel storage pond was on fire at an earthquake-stricken reactor and radioactivity was being released “directly” into the atmosphere, the Vienna-based agency said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), citing information it had received from Japanese authorities, said dose rates of up to 400 millisievert per hour have been reported at the Fukushima power plant site.

“The Japanese authorities are saying that there is a possibility that the fire was caused by a hydrogen explosion,” it said in a statement.”

Do we really need a large population in New Zealand? Some groups such as the Property Council are lobbying for a larger population while warning that we are in danger of outstripping our energy supply.
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March 15, 2011 8:15pm
Hurf Durf

I don’t trust anything the Slimes has to say about anything. No doubt more obfuscation and fabrication by America’s leading leftist toilet roll.
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March 15, 2011 8:24pm
Put it away

“There could be a song in that. ”

bye-bye, vegetarian pie
Drove my chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
And that mad old phool was doing doobies and knives..
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March 15, 2011 8:48pm
bhudson

Was he by chance singing “This is the way to get by”? (Or was that the verse about the Benefit?)
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March 15, 2011 8:52pm
adze

@pia
bye-bye vegetarian pie
Years so many on the bennie
But now the bennie is dry
that mad old phool was doing doobies and knives
Singing “every day I get up at 5…”
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March 15, 2011 9:23pm
Tauhei Notts

Redeye at 10.49 a.m.
Ritchie Pickett was a legend in his lifetime, as was his late father, Reg. Our sympathies go to his sister, Pene.
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March 15, 2011 9:27pm
Put it away

Quit the beneficiary life?
That’ll be the day that I die
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March 15, 2011 9:56pm
bhudson

A long, long time ago…
I can still remember
How that benefit used to make me smile.
And I knew if I held a grudge
That I could make those people bludge
And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while.

But February made me shiver
With every policy paper the Nats did deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more dpb cheque.

I can’t remember if I cried
When I read that little news aside,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the gravy train dried..
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March 15, 2011 10:08pm
Hurf Durf

Eco-pricks now resorting to outright, outrageous lies in its scaremongering campaign. Colour me surprised.
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March 15, 2011 10:54pm
Manolo

How this bumbling fool got elected? Desperation on the American voters, I guess. That great country certainly jumped from the pan to the raging fire.

The Messiah is indolent, lazy, and finds himself completely out of his depth as president.

The Middle East is afire with rebellion, Japan is imploding from an earthquake, and the battle of the budget is on in the United States, but none of this seems to be deterring President Obama from a heavy schedule of childish distractions.

This morning, as Japan’s nuclear crisis enters a potentially catastrophic phase, we are told that Obama is videotaping his NCAA tournament picks and that we’ll be able to tune into ESPN Wednesday to find out who he likes.

Saturday, he made his 61st outing to the golf course as president, and got back to the White House with just enough time for a quick shower before heading out to party with Washington’s elite journalists at the annual Gridiron Dinner.

With various urgencies swirling about him, Saturday’s weekly videotaped presidential address focusing on “Women’s History Month” seemed bizarrely out of touch.

Obama Friday took time out to honor the 2009-10 Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks. Thursday was a White House conference on bullying – not a bad idea perhaps, but not quite Leader of the Free World stuff either.

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/03/15/president-obamas-trivial-pursuits-2/
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March 16, 2011 7:28am
Lance

@Manolo
“How this bumbling fool got elected?”
Because most people finally realized GWB was a dick and they wanted change. Any change.
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March 16, 2011 8:22am
Longknives

Manolo I agree totally..He is certainly a poor excuse for a President! I recall upsetting a few ‘Obama-ites’ at work in the days subsequent to his election…I was certainly willing to give the guy a chance but I upset a number of his followers because I openly exclaimed that I simply didn’t buy into this “Messiah” thing. One thing I couldn’t understand was the belief of his drooling followers that the world would all of a sudden become a ‘Happy-Smiley’ place with no wars or bloodshed simply because the Americans had elected a President of a certain skin-colour! It was almost like some kind of cult had invaded their minds! Needless to say I got accused of being a racist! The silence is deafening now when I point out that the World is as bigger mess now as it always has been..
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