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Harriet

“….No increase in suicides in Canterbury after the quakes, says local Health chief….”

That’s the coroners job. Part of the justice dept I believe.

People in the public service should stick to their jobs.
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April 19, 2016 10:36am
notrotsky

Strange smell of cat’s piss about the place …
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April 19, 2016 10:39am
mikenmild

It’s great to live in a country like NZ where an anonymous commentator on the internet can pretend to know more about climate change than the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment…
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April 19, 2016 10:40am
Awww C-mon

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

Penny, if we keep asking will you ever answer the questions?
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April 19, 2016 10:42am
Manolo

I predict that Miss Dim will pay her overdue rates to Auckland City Council. Yeah right.
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April 19, 2016 10:42am
Harriet

“….The driver of a bus in a southern fatal accident was on a work visa to cook for a tourist company, and he doesn’t have the relevant traffic licence even in india….’

You can’t sue in NZ – — and with the amount of immigrants coming to NZ for work —- then you can expect more and more and more govt regulations, permits ect ect. And more and more courses and certification.

National style national productivity. What a joke!
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April 19, 2016 10:42am
All_on_Red

It’s great to live in a country where an anonymous commentator on the Internet can reference and produce accurate data going back to 1903 from a premier scientific organisation and make a fool of the Climate Commissioner and an anonymous fuckwit.- snigger
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April 19, 2016 10:47am
mikenmild

Who is this ‘Climate Commissioner’ you speak of?
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April 19, 2016 10:51am
All_on_Red

It’s great to live in a country where an anonymous commentator on the Internet can reference and produce accurate data going back to 1903 from a premier scientific organisation and make a fool of the Commissioner for the Environment and an anonymous fuckwit.- snigger

There you go Mikey.
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April 19, 2016 10:55am
Jack5

Harriet at 10.36 on reprots of the alleged suicides after the Christchurch earthquakes:

That’s the coroners job. Part of the justice dept I believe.

The coroner, usually a lawyer, just takes the psychiatrists’ words. Coroners have no monopoly on commenting on health issues, though some coroners seem to regard themselves as experts on every thing, when they are usually no more than run-of-the-mill lawyers. And of course, coroners, like health officials, are civil servants.

To use an old saying, you could take some coroners’ knowledge of psychiatric issues and write it on the back of a postage stamp with a carpenter’s pencil.
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April 19, 2016 10:56am
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

On the hotel scandel, who is advising Little ? Penny Bright & Grace Hadden ?
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April 19, 2016 10:56am
stigie

“I predict that Bernie Sanders will win the New York primary”.

I predict Penny Bright’s hovel will be up for auction any time soon !~
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April 19, 2016 10:56am
mikenmild

That’s great AoR. So Dr Wright has got it wrong, just like all these guys:
•American Association for the Advancement of Science
•American Astronomical Society
•American Chemical Society
•American Geophysical Union
•American Institute of Physics
•American Meteorological Society
•American Physical Society
•Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
•Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO
•British Antarctic Survey
•Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
•Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
•Environmental Protection Agency
•European Federation of Geologists
•European Geosciences Union
•European Physical Society
•Federation of American Scientists
•Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
•Geological Society of America
•Geological Society of Australia
•Geological Society of London
•International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
•International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
•National Center for Atmospheric Research
•National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
•Royal Meteorological Society
•Royal Society of the UK
•Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias (Brazil)
•Royal Society of Canada
•Chinese Academy of Sciences
•Academie des Sciences (France)
•Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)
•Indian National Science Academy
•Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
•Science Council of Japan
•Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexico)
•Russian Academy of Sciences
•Academy of Science of South Africa
•Royal Society (United Kingdom)
•National Academy of Sciences (USA)
•Australian Academy of Science
•Royal Society of New Zealand
•Polish Academy of Sciences
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April 19, 2016 10:57am
rightoverlabour

Some of the special people are seriously fucked up. Stuff has this article about a driftwood hut and then some (insert suitable adjective here) makes this comment…. Quote “It sickens me when people from overseas come here and do this kind of thing without the local Iwi’s consent, a kaumatua’s blessing or a Karakia. Further, how do they know that wood is not tapu?” Unquote Seriously – Get Stuffed.
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April 19, 2016 10:59am
All_on_Red

Mikey
Oh that’s funny. You display your ignorance beautifully. The source of this Tidal Guage data is NOAA or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration WHICH IS ON YOUR LIST! ( apologies if my emphasis sends you running to your little safe space- above high tide preferably)

Hahahahahahahahaha What a fuckwit.
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April 19, 2016 11:02am
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

The horrid has a piece about the housing crisis in Auckland with a poor old teacher unable to afford to buy a house where she wants to live….boo fucken hoo ! She doesn’t want to travel more than 10 minutes to work and wont move to more affordable areas or cities or consider the advice of experts. She is french, and it makes me wonder – is it because she is french she has a sense of entitlement or is because she is a teacher and member of teachers union ?
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April 19, 2016 11:03am
Gabby

Sounds more like New Zealand has problems with slackarse tourism companies.
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April 19, 2016 11:05am
mikenmild

AoR
Sorry, where did I dispute any figures from NOAA?
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April 19, 2016 11:06am
stigie

“is it because she is french she has a sense of entitlement or is because she is a teacher and member of teachers union ?”

Both…i would imagine !
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April 19, 2016 11:08am
All_on_Red

“That’s great AoR. So Dr Wright has got it wrong, just like all these guys:”
—-
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration”

You’re a bit dim today Mikey
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April 19, 2016 11:12am
VicParking

The failing newspaper has tried to down tick the All Blacks win last night saying that they are not the best team in the world.
They must spend hours trying to twist good news stories into scandals.
It will be interesting to see their twist on the Queens 90th birhday.
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April 19, 2016 11:15am
mikenmild

That’s right, AoR: the NOAA supports the scientific consensus on climate change. Do you find that hard to grasp?
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April 19, 2016 11:16am
All_on_Red

NOAA disagrees with Wrights hyperbole on sea level rise- is that a bit hard to grasp?
And, who doesn’t agree that the Climate Changes?
Btw, what does the IPCC say in AR5 Working Group report about sea level change? Do they agree with Wright?
Oh look;
“It is very likely that the mean rate of global averaged sea level rise was 1.7 [1.5 to 1.9] mm yr–1 between 1901 and 2010, 2.0 [1.7 to 2.3] mm yr–1 between 1971 and 2010 and 3.2 [2.8 to 3.6] mm yr–1 between 1993 and 2010. It is likely that similarly high rates occurred between 1920 and 1950.”

No they don’t. So when will Dr Wright agree with the Scientific Consensus?
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April 19, 2016 11:21am
mikenmild

I must have missed the bit where Dr Wright declared that sea level rises in the 20th century vastly exceeded those measured by the NOAA or reported by the IPCC. Where did she say that?
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April 19, 2016 11:25am
Keeping Stock

I predict that Bernie Sanders will win the New York primary.

That’s nice Penny. I predict that you will continue to turn a blind eye to the PROVEN fact that a senior politician in New Zealand employs a tax evader as his Chief of Staff.

Of course, if that senior politician was John Key, you’d be in like Flynn, demanding resignations, inquiries etc. That of course makes your silence about Matthew Patrick McCarten and Andrew Little seem even more hypocritical than usual.
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April 19, 2016 11:27am
All_on_Red

I’m sure you miss lots of things.
Stephies Herald link has her saying the sea level will rise by 1 metre by 2100 if things aren’t mitigated. She has made this claim numerous times.
You seem quite keen on defending her, surely you know what she says.
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April 19, 2016 11:31am
mikenmild

AoR
Let me see if I have this correct, as I probably don’t have your level of scientific expertise.
Dr Wright says that sea level will rise by 1 metre this century.
The IPCC estimates that sea level rose by 10-11 cm last century. Are you relying on a linear projection of that rate over this century?
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April 19, 2016 11:37am
Odakyu-sen

All this “Sea Level” talk can only be in reference to the height of the local land.

We know that ground levels can change over time due to geological processes.

If there is local coastal subsidence, say, 10 cm over the course of 30 years, would some people interpret this as evidence of “rising sea levels”?
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April 19, 2016 11:41am
mikenmild

KS
I’m no fan of Matt McCarten. I think the Labour Party made a serious mistake by employing him.

But I wonder about this ‘tax evader’ label, which seems to surface any time someone wants to slag off the Labour Party. As I understand it, the Unite union service company owed tax to IRD and was wound up as a result. Is this somehow different from the dozens of firms wound up by IRD each year? Would you describe everyone associated with those companies as ‘tax evaders’?
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April 19, 2016 11:42am
Manolo

A warning for reckless Mamma Merkel:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3545331/Angela-Merkel-warned-Europe-home-millions-migrants-beliefs-different-foundations-values-mentor-Helmut-Kohl.html

Helmut Kohl, the former mentor of Chancellor Angela Merkel, has warned his ‘golden girl’ that Europe cannot become ‘a new home’ for millions of migrants.

Kohl, who was German leader for 16 years and oversaw the country’s reunification, took a swipe at the woman he chose as his successor after remaining silent on the issue since the crisis began.
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April 19, 2016 11:43am
mikenmild

Odakyi
As I understanding it, local subsidence, etc, is factored into overall measurements of sea level rises. AoR will probably be able to confirm this.
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April 19, 2016 11:44am
All_on_Red

Mikey
NOAA and the IPCCs scientific expertise Mikey but I see you share Dr Wrights level of mathematic ability. She is saying it will rise by a Metre by 2100 if we don’t mitigate by reducing CO2 That is 84 years away.
So the sea has to rise by approx 12mm per annum to increase by a metre in 84 years.
Current state of mean sea level rise for Auckland since 1903 is 1.29 mm per annum. So sea level rise has to increase tenfold from today to meet her claim.
Happy to help you out but alas I must go
Sea ya.
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April 19, 2016 11:45am
mikenmild

Yes, AoR. What you are saying is that the rate of sea level rise needs to be much higher this century than last.
What does the IPCC estimate that will be?
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April 19, 2016 11:47am
Fletch

How GISS and NASA altered historical climate data to give the illusion of more of an increase in warming than there was, even adjusting data from 100 years ago (based on what?). Yep, they adjusted historical temperature data from 1910 downwards, and data from the 2000’s upwards to try and show a bigger increase than there actually was.

Maturity diagram showing net change since 17 May 2008 in the global monthly surface air temperature record prepared by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), at Columbia University, New York City, USA. This temperature estimate extends back to January 1880. Click here to see a graph showing the most recent version of the GISS global temperature estimate. The net effects of the adjustments made since May 2008 are to generate a more smoothly increasing global temperature since 1880.

http://www.climate4you.com/GlobalTemperatures.htm#GISS%20MaturityDiagram

“One question that popped into my mind back then was whether or not – with all of the estimation going on – the historical record was static. One could reasonably expect that the record is static. After all, once an estimate for a given year is calculated there is no reason to change it, correct? That would be true if your estimate did not rely on new data added to the record, in particular temperatures collected at a future date. But in the case of GISStemp, this is exactly what is done.

On March 29 I downloaded the GLB.Ts.txt file from GISS and compared it to a copy I had from late August 2007. I was surprised to find several hundred differences in monthly temperature. Intrigued, I decided to take a trip back in time via the “Way Back Machine”.

Here I found 32 versions of GLB.Ts.txt going back to September 24, 2005. I was a bit disappointed the record did not go back further, but was later surprised at how many historical changes can occur in a brief 2 1/2 years.The first thing I did was eliminate versions where no changes to the data were made.

On average 20% of the historical record was modified 16 times in the last 2 1/2 years. The largest single jump was 0.27 C. This occurred between the Oct 13, 2006 and Jan 15, 2007 records when Aug 2006 changed from an anomoly of +0.43C to +0.70C, a change of nearly 68%.

Wow.

I guess they figured nobody would notice.

http://joannenova.com.au/2016/04/so-nasa-giss-says-it-does-not-fudge-numbers/
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April 19, 2016 11:56am
Keeping Stock

@ mikenmild – McCarten had two breaches. Yes; Unite Support Services was put into liquidation owing more than $150k to IRD. But the more serious breach was that of the Unite Union itself, failing to pass on PAYE deducted from employees.

You’ll find all the detail you need here:

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/04/a-little-elephant-in-the-room-part-3/

The information in there from IRD is pretty compelling. IRD makes it abundantly clear that employers have no right whatsoever to use PAYE monies deducted from employees for any other purpose, and it is an offence punishable by up to five years imprisonment.

But just in case you consider Whaleoil a dodgy source, here’s one of the articles the stories about McCarten are sourced from:

The Council of Trade Unions wants an explanation from Unite on why it failed to pay the IRD more than $36,000 in PAYE on behalf of its employees.

Unite, one of New Zealand’s largest unions, owed IRD over $130,000 for the year ended March 2009 (its most recent filing), including more than $57,000 in unpaid GST. For the same financial year its liabilities outweighed its assets by more than $170,000.

Unite head Matt McCarten confirmed yesterday that the union owed money to the IRD but said he had made choices to pay for union campaigns rather than clear the debt. “I don’t shy away from these decisions, I make the calls.”

He said Unite paid $8000 in PAYE each month to the IRD but kept incurring late payment penalties. He claimed not to know exactly how much it owed the IRD.

He agreed it was not a good look for a workers’ union to fail to pay its employees’ tax.

Unite represents workers predominantly in the food, call centre and retail sectors and has campaigned to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

CTU president Helen Kelly said Unite did good work in an area that was difficult and expensive to organise. That required it to juggle its finances. “All unions are always short of resources.”

However, when questioned on Unite’s tax failure, she said: “I need an explanation for that”.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4418030/Union-asked-to-explain-36k-debt

So does that make McCarten a tax evader? According to IRD’s definition of tax evasion, absolutely, 100% conclusively it does.
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April 19, 2016 12:10pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@mikenmild

Don’t you keep up-to-date with all the stuff you misinform us about?

Remember when we had all the publicity about sea-level rise last year following the release of the PCE report
“Preparing NZ for rising seas:certainty and uncertainty.”
Lots of publicity at the time….. here’s one
http://www.newshub.co.nz/environmentsci/30cm-sea-level-rise-inevitable-commissioner-warns-2014112711#axzz46A0KJy4r

Wow… a 30cm sea-level rise inevitable by 2050…… that’s 0.86mm/year….. 5X the observed rate.
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April 19, 2016 12:12pm
doggone7

Kimbo @ 10:15 am

My apologies to Rangitoto for attributing your dumb remarks to him.

In your clarification you do it again with the expectation that Hansen should have been weeping and wailing about more kids playing soccer in New Zealand than rugby.

And you arrogantly interpreted what Hansen said. He said they (NZ Rugby) was happy with the kids in their sport. You said what he meant was, ” We don’t get the weak and sickly kids whose mothers don’t want them to get hurt so they play a sport that is not really a sport!”.

What he meant was rugby was happy with the kids playing rugby – that’s what he said and why he said it. The other stuff comes straight out of your head not his and says something of you not him.
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April 19, 2016 12:14pm
mikenmild

Maggy
I have not misinformed anyone.
It appears to me that AoR is alleging that Dr Wright is wrong to adopt IPCC estimates of likely sea level rises, by going on about what has been measured in the past.
Please tell me if I have this wrong.
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April 19, 2016 12:16pm
mikenmild

Thanks KS. So McCarten was prosecuted? What was the penalty?
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April 19, 2016 12:17pm
Fletch

The climate change movement faces big trouble ahead.

The UN’s climate summit in Paris at the end of 2015 concluded with a bang. The world’s governments promised sweeping cuts in carbon emissions. Rich countries promised to help poor ones with $100 billion per year in climate assistance. President Obama quickly declared the agreement “the best chance we have to save the one planet we’ve got.” The consensus quickly jelled that this was a major, historic achievement.

Then came the fizzle: The agreement is non-binding. Secretary of State John Kerry asserted on NBC’s Meet the Press that compliance would be enforced through the “powerful weapon” of public shaming, apparently implying a policy of verbal confrontation toward states that fall short. The Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg, a prominent critic of the top-down international conference approach to climate change, called the Paris agreement the “costliest in history” if implemented. According to Lomborg, the agreement would “reduce temperatures by 2100 by just 0.05 degrees Celsius (0.09 degrees Fahrenheit)…. This is simply cynical political theater, meant to convince us that our leaders are taking serious action…a phenomenally expensive but almost empty gesture.” NASA scientist Jim Hansen, one of the earliest proponents of the idea that global warming is manmade, slammed the deal as “half-assed and half-baked,” a “fake,” and a “fraud.”

[…]

Don’t be fooled by the fanfare in Paris: The climate change movement faces big trouble ahead. Its principal propositions contain two major fallacies that can only become more glaring with time.

First, in stark contrast to popular belief and to the public statements of government officials and many scientists, the science on which the dire predictions of manmade climate change is based is nowhere near the level of understanding or certainty that popular discourse commonly ascribes to it.

Second, and relatedly, the movement’s embrace of an absolute form of the precautionary principle distorts rational cost-benefit analysis, or throws it out the window altogether. As the costs of decarbonization start to hit home, and the public demands greater certainty about the benefits to be gained, the public—and particularly those industries that are hardest hit—will invest in scientific research, in the hopes of achieving a more granular cost-benefit analysis. Something similar is happening to proposed listings under the Endangered Species Act—where major economic interests are threatened, they have responded with enormous investments in scientific research in order to show either that the species in question is not in danger, or that it can be protected by measures far short of the often draconian prohibitions imposed pursuant to the Act.

These factors will almost certainly produce a more nuanced and less messianic view of the climate problem, with solutions aimed to maximize “bang for the buck” at the margins, where climate threats are most grave, rather than reordering human society in order to “save” a planet that, in the grand scheme of things, is quite indifferent to the state of the climate at any given time.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/03/31/twilight-of-the-climate-change-movement/
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April 19, 2016 12:21pm
mikenmild

Fletch
I’m always a bit wary of any source that describes Bjorn Lomberg as a scientist. Just saying.
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April 19, 2016 12:30pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Woops

I meant to write 0.86cm/yr or a sealevel rise of 8.6mm/yr.

@mikenmild
If you read the PCE report, you will see that the worst scenario model has been selected for Wright’s assertions.
How much credibility is attached to these far-out climate models nowadays?……. Zilch as far as I can ascertain.
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April 19, 2016 12:30pm
Keeping Stock

No, he wasn’t prosecuted mikenmild, which is a concern. It’s hard to imagine a worse breach of employer obligations than a union wilfully failing to pass on PAYE collected from union staff.
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April 19, 2016 12:33pm
mikenmild

Technically, at least, he is not a tax evader then. I would put him in the same category as all the other business managers whose companies are wound up by the IRD each year. As I said, I’m not a fan, but let’s not pretend he’s some kind of arch-villain.
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April 19, 2016 12:36pm
mikenmild

So the IPCC has repudiated those models now, Maggy?
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April 19, 2016 12:38pm
Awww C-mon

Shite MM, clutching at straws today re McCarting.

He is not is the same category as “all the other business managers whose companies are wound up by the IRD each year” for the simple reason they aren’t in the position he is behind Angry Andy.

Its the Graham Capill rule all over again.
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April 19, 2016 12:43pm
RF

KS 10.31am.

Re your comment concerning faafoi being 1 year old and remembering when McDonalds moved into Porirua East, it is not unknown for Labour Party plonkers to have brain fades.

I seem to remember the rather large Maori MP now deceased who claimed he used to see the white children waving at him from the school bus as he walked to school. This was proven to be BS.
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April 19, 2016 12:44pm
Keeping Stock

I hope you don’t work for the IRD mikenmild, because their definitions make it pretty clear that Unite (run by McCarten, who admits to making decisions with regard to tax non-payment) DID evade its PAYE obligations.

What part of this:

Failing to pay deductions

Employers must pay deductions to us by each due date.

The money deducted doesn’t, at any stage, belong to employers. Under no circumstances should the deductions be used for any other purpose than for payment to us. We’ll help employers who try to meet their responsibilities but will take action against employers who don’t comply with the tax laws.

Failing to pay deductions to us is a serious offence and can result in prosecution. An employer who is convicted may be:

fined up to $50,000 and/or
sent to prison for up to five years.

The name of anyone convicted will also appear in the New Zealand Gazette.

and this:

Evasion

Anyone convicted of knowingly attempting to evade their responsibilities can be fined up to $50,000 and/or be imprisoned for up to five years. It’s also illegal for an employer to aid or assist another person to commit an offence.

would lead you to conclude otherwise? After all, McCarten himself said when questioned by the Dom-Post “I don’t shy away from these decisions, I make the calls.”.It makes one wonder why Cunliffe hired him in 2014, and why Little retained him when he assumed the leadership last year when this matter was clearly public knowledge.
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April 19, 2016 12:45pm
starboard

MM..you better shoot down to A&E..you have received several large face palms today and one arse handed back on a plate, want me to call you a cab ?
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April 19, 2016 12:48pm
mikenmild

I don’t conclude otherwise, KS, so why no prosecution?
I’m going to hazard a guess that it might be difficult to prove intent in cases where a business is facing multiple commitments and pays other bills ahead of IRD. The IRD might have to prove in a prosecution that the business never intended to pay the tax obligations.
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April 19, 2016 12:49pm
mikenmild

Kia ora starboard.
Are you one of the arseholes that down-ticked me for agreeing with Keeping Stock?
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April 19, 2016 12:51pm
Nostradamus

Mikenmild on Matt McCarten:

let’s not pretend he’s some kind of arch-villain.

From the article that Keeping Stock quoted above:

Unite head Matt McCarten confirmed yesterday that the union owed money to the IRD but said he had made choices to pay for union campaigns rather than clear the debt. “I don’t shy away from these decisions, I make the calls.”

That, to me, is pretty despicable behaviour.

By the way, Mikenmild, have you considered the tax position of the union employees? We’re talking here about some of the lowest-paid workers in the country. Money was deducted but not applied towards their PAYE obligations. I don’t know the answer to this question: does IRD let the employees off on the basis that they shouldn’t have to “pay” twice?
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April 19, 2016 12:53pm
Fletch

Once hailed as a White House success, South Sudan has failed.

Just five years ago, celebrities such as George Clooney and Don Cheadle hailed the creation of a new African nation as one of President Obama’s foreign policy success stories, but now South Sudan is looking like a failed state.

The nation, sought as a means of bringing peace to Sudan’s long-running civil war, was promoted as a potential U.S. ally and was formed following a referendum passed with 98 percent of the vote to secede from the northern part of Sudan and the Khartoum government. But hope has given way to desperation, as South Sudan has descended into bloodshed and chaos.

“The euphoria has faded and South Sudan is an embarrassment for the administration, and that comes with reputational costs,” Joshua Meservey, policy analyst for Africa and the Middle East at The Heritage Foundation, told FoxNews.com. “Bringing attention to it is not in the White House’s interest.”

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/04/18/once-seen-as-white-house-triumph-new-nation-south-sudan-descends-into-war-misery.html
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April 19, 2016 12:53pm
Kimbo

@ doggone7

My apologies to Rangitoto for attributing your dumb remarks to him.

In your clarification you do it again with the expectation that Hansen should have been weeping and wailing about more kids playing soccer in New Zealand than rugby.

And you arrogantly interpreted what Hansen said. He said they (NZ Rugby) was happy with the kids in their sport. You said what he meant was, ” We don’t get the weak and sickly kids whose mothers don’t want them to get hurt so they play a sport that is not really a sport!”.

What he meant was rugby was happy with the kids playing rugby – that’s what he said and why he said it. The other stuff comes straight out of your head not his and says something of you not him.

Meh. Your critique is as off target as your initial mis-directed spray at rangitoto. As always, especially when dealing with a politician’s pronouncements – and believe me, CEO of the NZRU is probably the most political job in New Zealand! – you should always ask yourself three questions:

What did s/he say?

What did s/he mean?

So what?

And as someone involved in the grass roots of rugby I can assure you that while it is always good for kids to play any sport…it is a very serious competition for numbers as well as hearts and minds…especially for the kids with the potential to go far. Which is what I was talking about…and what Tew was most certainly implying. Bear in mind he has to give a coded assurance to the rugby community to explain what he is doing about addressing the junior player imbalance in football’s favour! I sure as hell want one!

It’s just that Steve Tew is too smart and too well-paid to say that in the unvarnished terms that I have, as it would be bad PR. But be in no doubt, he doesn’t want to lose the good players to football or especially to rugby league or any other code for that matter if he can help it. It’s his job to ensure that! The rest? Sure, the Rugby Union will co-operate with other codes where necessary to create an overall sports-participation experience…and try to make the more aggressive aspects of recruitment and competition with other codes under wraps so that the “kids enjoying sports” message is not crowded out.

But if you don’t believe that, I’ll leave you to walk unmolested in your pretty gumdrop world of happy thoughts, where no sports administrator is ever motivated by self-interest or a desire to get ahead at the expense of other codes. In the meantime, I have a harbour bridge going cheap I may be able to interest you in…
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April 19, 2016 12:56pm
wiseowl

National still hell bent on taking over Local Government.

There is paper out that from initial indications, shows that National intend to give the Local Government Commission the ability to force amalgamations or whatever else they wish on supposedly democratically elected councils.

Who is driving this determined effort to take power away from the people when it is the people who pay the money and expect elected people to be accountable to ratepayers?

It looks like the whole super city setup is going to challenged which is great but at the same time ratepayers need to be awake to the shenanagins that is going on behind the scenes to silence democracy in local government.
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April 19, 2016 12:58pm
Keeping Stock

IRD doesn’t have to prove what you did with the money mikenmild. All that IRD has to prove is that an employer deducted PAYE from staff’s wages, and did not pass it on to the IRD on the 20th of the month after. McCarten would have made it easy for IRD because he made public admissions as to his culpability, saying he made a deliberate choice to fund union campaigns rather than paying tax. In other words, he put campaigning ahead of his legal obligations as an employer.

Let’s say the local branch of McDonalds employs a whole lot of Unite Union members. The union finds out that the owner of the branch has deducted PAYE from the staff, but hasn’t passed it on to IRD, instead spending it on advertising. Do you think Unite would simply let that slide, or would the picket the branch? That, in essence, is McCarten and Unite’s situation in a nutshell.

McCarten had no legal, moral or ethical right to spend the tax money, but he thought “Fuck IRD, I’ll do it anyway”. And this is the man David Cunliffe hired in 2014 to run the “Vote Positive” campaign, almost certainly with forewarning that Nicky Hager was writing a book in an attempt to discredit John Key and National.
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April 19, 2016 12:59pm
Monique Watson

Night porter falls asleep and is awarded $5400 for unfair dismissal after getting the sack.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/79060632/Sleepy-worker-at-top-Taranaki-hotel-awarded-5400-for-unfair-dismissal

One of the hopeless workers English was referring too.
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April 19, 2016 1:00pm
Keeping Stock

@ Nostradamus – I wonder if the unpaid PAYE including Kiwisaver deductions. Interest lost on member Kiwisaver accounts as a consequence of late payment can never be made up.
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April 19, 2016 1:01pm
mikenmild

KS
So, I’m still unsure why there has been no prosecution.
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April 19, 2016 1:03pm
Keeping Stock

@ mikenmild – what part of

The money deducted doesn’t, at any stage, belong to employers. Under no circumstances should the deductions be used for any other purpose than for payment to us.

is so hard to understand? The law in this regard is absolutely black and white.
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April 19, 2016 1:06pm
starboard

breath through your nose mm…I know you are frustrated because you start using expletives ..” arsehole “…”fuck “…relax little man
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April 19, 2016 1:11pm
stigie

Milky, i reckon you need to quit while you’re ahead/behind..?
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April 19, 2016 1:14pm
mikenmild

I understand that, KS, so anyone breaking that law should be prosecuted, right?
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April 19, 2016 1:16pm
Keeping Stock

So, I’m still unsure why there has been no prosecution.

You’re not the only one mikenmild. But whatever the reason, he is a liability for Little (as he was for Cunliffe), and Little’s rhetoric about rich pricks evading tax sounds very hollow when one considers that Little Chief of Staff is a self-confessed tax evader himself.

Where’s Graham McCready when you need him?
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April 19, 2016 1:16pm
notrotsky

Milky would suck off Winston Peter’s if it made Labour look good.
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April 19, 2016 1:17pm
doggone7

Kimbo @ 12:56 pm

Even in my pretty gumdrop world I realise there is a war going on with the globalisation and commercialisation of our sports and leisure landscape with all the implications, requirements and anxieties of that.

My awareness of that and involvement in sports at many levels is not going to have me cynically interpreting every utterance of every administrator on every occasion for some message behind what they are saying but are “too smart and too well-paid to say in
unvarnished terms.” Or accept some bystander’s arrogant opinion of what they were actually thinking.
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April 19, 2016 1:21pm
Biscuit

Keeping Stock, 8.58am.

You expect Penny – PENNY – to be even-handed in her criticisms?
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April 19, 2016 1:24pm
Keeping Stock

@ Biscuit – she professes to be an anti-corruption and transparency watchdog. Surely the test of a true watchdog is to criticise ALL occurrences of dodgy behaviour, irrespective of where on the political spectrum they originate.

In Ms Bright’s case however, maybe she should reclassify herself as an anti-corruption and transparency watchdog in matters involving right-wingers. At least then her political hackery would be there for all to see.
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April 19, 2016 1:30pm
stephieboy

Fletch ,is Fox suggesting they need to bring back Anglo-Egyptian rule (1899–1956) in Sudan ?
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April 19, 2016 1:34pm
Kimbo

@ doggone7

Even in my pretty gumdrop world I realise there is a war going on with the globalisation and commercialisation of our sports and leisure landscape with all the implications, requirements and anxieties of that.

My awareness of that and involvement in sports at many levels is not going to have me cynically interpreting every utterance of every administrator on every occasion for some message behind what they are saying but are “too smart and too well-paid to say in unvarnished terms.” Or accept some bystander’s arrogant opinion of what they were actually thinking.

He he he. Great. So do you want a “best and fairest” prize like they give to the 8 year olds?

And I note you chose to side-step the issue of Hansen’s accountability for junior playing numbers and the explanation he has to give to his stake holders. Because – and here’s the thing – the NZ rugby community does not set out intending to lose the competitions it enters…including those with other codes, and in the main it is more successful than any other code. So why, when playing numbers translate to immediate parent participation and prospective senior player and administrators numbers…would Steve Tew ordinarily be “happy” with more kids playing football instead of rugby?! The real truth – he, like any sport should be after domination, sometimes by occasional co-operation with other sports, but ultimately by beating them in competition for players and supporters. It was the same when rugby was amateur. And that is why Tew is paid a shit-load of money compared to some local community sports development officer.

If he didn’t have that attitude, then he is the wrong guy to have as CEO of the NZRU. But then, just in the same way both captains always thank the referee and compliment his performance in their aftermatch speeches, maybe us rugby folk are just a bit more…astute in perceiving the truth and coded messages in diplomatic phrases. But “thanks to the ladies out the back for putting on the spread” is always sincere!
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April 19, 2016 1:38pm
starboard

Maybe MM is Matt McCarten ? Stacks up.
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April 19, 2016 1:41pm
mikenmild

Maybe starboard is a pre-op transsexual. Who could say?
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April 19, 2016 1:43pm
SteveRemmington

i understand that McCartens health was taken into account when deciding if to prosecute.

Also no point fining a dead beat business owner who stole off his employees, a company would have had no assets and any personal money that was slid out of the company on his way out the door was no doubt tied up in a trust somewhere and protected. Or probably bought Mighty River shares.
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April 19, 2016 1:45pm
stigie

One needs to ask how McCarten got away with rorting taxpayers money and spending it on his campaign !~

I would love to know….perhaps Penny could go away and find out and report back to us fellas on Kiwiblog..?
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April 19, 2016 1:48pm
SteveRemmington

The same could be asked of Helen and her pledge card rort of the taxpayer.
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April 19, 2016 1:50pm
starboard

McCarten should have been heavily fined , after all he stole from the taxman so really he is a thief and should pay the price.
But its ok when the left do it. Hypocrites much.
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April 19, 2016 1:54pm
starboard

http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/79071803/Double-murderer-Leith-Ray-back-behind-bars-only-weeks-after-release

I remember this case. It still sickens me to this day. The vermin should have been biffed into a bath tub full of acid.
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April 19, 2016 2:06pm
Tamati2

Re McCarten not being prosecuted by the IRD…I have a recollection of reading somewhere that at the time McCarten had ‘terminal’ cancer and that this might have had a bearing on whether to prosecute not.
This is as close as what I can find at the moment:http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/mccarten-accepting-bets-his-death-mn-110507
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April 19, 2016 2:33pm
Manolo

New York, New York: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/stake-york-primary/story?id=38482718
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April 19, 2016 2:52pm
Biscuit

Stigie 1.48pm.

Penny gets on her high horse about John Key being ‘corrupt’ for having shares in the Bank of America.

I have advised her before that no individual owns more than 750,000 shares and that the largest shareholders are:

Institutions and Shares held (%)

State Street Corp 460,496,575 4.54
Vanguard Group 375,365,877 3.70
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company 256,552,573 2.53
JP Morgan Chase & Co 204,909,812 2.02
Wellington Management Co 161,691,214 1.60
Capital Research Global Investors 131,327,985 1.30
Bank of New York Mellon Corp 116,396,174 1.15
Capital World Investors 112,200,000 1.11
Northern Trust Corp 111,873,089 1.10
Franklin Resources Inc 111,852,815 1.10

Clearly then, JK owns less than 1.10% of the total shares (and almost certainly one hell of a lot LESS than 1.10%.

It is quite likely that the NZ Super Fund has a larger percentage of such shares in ITS portfolio, which would make PENNY a ‘corrupt shareholder’, too, ha.

Penny knows all about low percentages – cf her voting numbers in any election she stands in, ha – but can’t seem to get it into her skull that the Bank of America sure ain’t gonna listen to JK on anything to do with their banking activities and that JK, being a sane rational human being, probably doesn’t want to interfere there anyway even if he could.

But ask Penny about Matt McCarten. Silence. Ask her why her darling, Auntie Helen, signed a trade agrement with China that is almost identical to the TPPA. Silence. Ask her why the Labour Party still have ‘Change the Flag’ as a policy when clearly it should be ‘Change the Flag but only if JK isn’t involved’.

Penny claims to be independent. (So, laughably, does fellow mayoralty aspirant Phil Goff!) All I see is left-wing bias. And KDS…
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April 19, 2016 2:57pm
EAD

http://henrymakow.com/2016/04/Migrants-are-an-Underground-Army.html

“If we look around us, the Coudenhove Kalergi plan seems to be in full flow. We face Europe’s fusion with the Third World. The plague of interracial marriage produces each year thousands of young people of mixed race: “The children of Kalergi”. Under the dual pressures of misinformation and humanitarian stupefaction, promoted by the MSM (main stream media), the Europeans are being taught to renounce their origin, family and renounce their national identity.”

Protocols of Zion 16: “We will destroy every collective force except our own.”
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April 19, 2016 3:18pm
mikenmild

EAD
You quote the Protocols of Zion as if it were a real thing.
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April 19, 2016 3:21pm
Maggy Wassilieff

More sexual abuse of children by religious educators
http://www.themedialine.org/news/government-linked-foundation-caught-up-in-turkish-child-sex-scandal/

This time islamists.
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April 19, 2016 3:24pm
Don the Kiwi

https://www.prageru.com/courses/environmental-science/climate-change-what-do-scientists-say

Gripp to appear in 10…9…8…7……….

Mikey to come in with a stupid comment in 10…9…8…7..

🙂
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April 19, 2016 3:27pm
EAD

The Makow article I linked to above makes a convincing case that the migrant invasion is being organised by the Political Elite as a future military force to once and for all destroy Europe.

1) Arms shipments secretly coming into Europe to covertly arm them ready for the signal to rampage and genocide. At least two of these have been exposed. [I have not been able to confirm this. hm]

2) IPhones and best new Mobile phones distributed by secret intelligence services to these ‘migrants’ for free and fraudulently issued under the names of real UK and EU citizens but with false addresses with the full co-operation of the major EU/UK phone companies who are all owned and controlled by the same people who have planned and conspired in the genocide – communication is very important;

3) Detailed instructions distributed to the migrants with telephone numbers and details on support networks, and organisations to contact and where to go on arrival. All written in Arabic and with translations of phrases like guide books. This proves organisation and orchestration beyond any doubt;

4) Reports that many migrants are carrying unbelievably large sums of cash money with them which make no sense if they are destitute “refugees”;

5) Many migrants are carrying an impossibly large and diverse number of false passports and similarly expensive documents to fake and forge. This can only be due to the involvement of security and intelligence services sponsoring this invasion. (Mossad is well known for using false passports). Also, refugees coming from poor or war torn areas should not have access to the money needed to purchase such expensive fake documents – up to and more than seven forged passports each!!!

6) Europe-wide “softly softly” approach by police and refusal to investigate most crime they commit and an insistence on releasing migrant criminals even after the most appalling and serious crimes. Violent Stranger Rapists ARE NOT GRANTED BAIL!! Migrant Rapists are [freed] ALL THE TIME!! That proves this is done on orders from the very Top;

7) Co-ordinated Police action to silence indigenous resistance and opposition to this invasion. The Police can act quick when they want to but when it is some one black or immigrant, then suddenly the police can do nothing and act like they are incompetent. No, it is all intentional and on orders from ZOG.

8) The aggression and sheer hate of these recent migrants makes no sense whatsoever unless they have been specifically told to invade. The behaviour is the same from all of the new arrivals there is not even a pretense that they want help. They are openly saying that they are coming to rob and steal and openly threaten and demand what they want. That makes no sense if they are seeking shelter – it only makes sense if they are an invading army and more to the point that they know that is what they are and that they know they have been given ‘permission’ or authority from someone to be like that and so they know that the local population is unprotected and that they will not face any sanction for attacking them.

9) Significantly and NOT reported on the MSM, Very Large Numbers of these Migrants are going missing as soon as they arrive. This is not explicable on the basis that they are absconding to join family as most do not have family here (yet!?!) and nor does it make sense if they are just desperate for board and lodging as that is being made available (very nice accommodation in Sweden) but it fits much more with a covert army going off the radar until the balloon goes up…

10) Then within a short period of no more than approx ten years from right now, and probably a lot less, will these Migrants suddenly reappear and transform (not much transformation required really) into Armed Terror Squads right in our midst shooting killing disarmed White Europeans on a massive scale all with the involvement and connivance of the intelligence and security services. This may have three aims:

A) Genocide White Europeans
B) Justify a full European Police State
C) Increase hatred for Muslims/Islam

Meanwhile the Greater Israel Project. moves ever forward with greater speed…

@ Milkmaid,

People like yourself and Stephieboy may have “debunked” them many times but amazing isn’t it how despite being “fake”, they are proving to be an accurate foretelling of the future….
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April 19, 2016 3:29pm
Kimbo

@ mikenmild

EAD
You quote the Protocols of Zion as if it were a real thing.

Well, Bobby Fischer basically threw away his world chess championship title so he could spend more time studying them…and he was incredibly intelligent/stupid!
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April 19, 2016 3:31pm
mikenmild

Except the Makow ‘article’ (short story?), provides no evidence for any of these allegations.
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April 19, 2016 3:31pm
EAD

No evidence Mikey?

What about your good mate ~~Schwartz György~~, sorry “George” Soros:

http://pamelageller.com/2015/10/world-leader-slams-george-soros-for-promoting-funding-migrant-invasion.html/
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April 19, 2016 3:36pm
mikenmild

Ahh Don, you have discovered Richard Lindzen!
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April 19, 2016 3:36pm
mikenmild

Well Pamela Geller would say anything, EAD. Even if George Soros did want a million migrants a year to come to Europe, how do you think he achieves this?
By the way, I love how your wacky sources disagree with each other. Would Pamela Geller agree with Henry Makow about ‘Increase hatred for Muslims/Islam’?
I also love how Pamela Geller promotes the Hungarian fascist leader to ‘world leader’.
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April 19, 2016 3:42pm
EAD

TBH Mike,

both Geller (neo con) & Makow (sees a conspiracy in everything) aren’t my cups of tea but that doesn’t mean that on occasion they don’t produce something very insightful.

I could have chosen many sites to link to Soros and what he is up to but Geller came top of my Google search and she appeals to a lot of the red meat Kiwiblog commentariat who can, over time, be red-pilled.
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April 19, 2016 3:49pm
stephieboy

EAD, I take issue with this one in particular ,

“2) IPhones and best new Mobile phones distributed by secret intelligence services to these ‘migrants’ for free and fraudulently issued under the names of real UK and EU citizens but with false addresses with the full co-operation of the major EU/UK phone companies who are all owned and controlled by the same people who have planned and conspired in the genocide – communication is very important;.. “

The source of this claim could be this report . Do note as the article explains the Smartphones use by these young immigrants are the cheaper kind available especially in the Samsung range ,

“Surprised that Syrian refugees have smartphones? Sorry to break this to you, but you’re an idiot
You don’t need to be a white westerner to own a relatively cheap piece of technology”

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/surprised-that-syrian-refugees-have-smartphones-well-sorry-to-break-this-to-you-but-youre-an-idiot-10489719.html

And as mm points out Makopw produces no evidence in resect of his wild and off beam allegations .

This morning you bleated on about interracial marriage depleting the white gene pool or some other . Does that include David Garrett who I understand is married to a Tongan woman ? Or would Makow, and you classify her as honorary white ?

BTW Pamela Geller is a Jew . Does that make Makow and you squirm ?
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April 19, 2016 3:52pm
stephieboy

EAD,

Keller produce something “insightful ” ?

Like this false report ,

http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/muslim-open-fire-on-calif-hikers-and-campers.html/

An example of Makow’s “insightfulness” ?
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April 19, 2016 3:56pm
mikenmild

Yes EAD, George Soros is a real danger. One billionaire can achieve so much harm, especially when there are no other billionaires with opposing views.//
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April 19, 2016 3:57pm
Manolo

The vile religion of peace strikes again:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_EXPLOSION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-04-18-11-15-46

A bus exploded in Jerusalem on Monday, wounding at least 21 people in what police said was a “terror attack,” raising fears of a return to the Palestinian suicide bombings that ravaged Israeli cities a decade ago.
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April 19, 2016 3:59pm
EAD

The vile region of peace strike again:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/african-man-murdered-brutal-lynch-6659961
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April 19, 2016 4:16pm
PhilP

@ Rich Prick
Gabby, are you excited about your 13th birthday?

Gabby Gobbles up his first wank……..just couldn’t resist.
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April 19, 2016 4:17pm
Fletch

Saturday Night Live, with another debate between “Bernie Sanders” and “Hillary Clinton”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeed1pXRVqc

Sanders: Wolf, I won a million debates. When people hear my message it resonates loud and clear, because I always talk like I’m on the other side of a river

😆
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April 19, 2016 4:17pm
Michael

Looks like Cropper has come a cropper.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/79081823/former-senior-lawyer-sentenced-over-meth-possession
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April 19, 2016 4:20pm
simpleton1

Merkel did win and accept prize at the Bundesburg in 2010 from “European Society Couldenhove-Kalergi” and many other European leaders of the EU
http://tinyurl.com/ppzq9jf
of which the “patron saint’s” Couldenhove-Kalergi philosophy of mixed human breeding to create hybrid vigour.
From his book “Practical Idealism”

“The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.”

from wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/nbfy6xh

Then there is http://www.paneuropa.org

By calling on European community values, the Pan-Europa Union opposes all tendencies which erode the intellectual and moral force of Europe. It respects the contribution of Judaism and Islam for our mental and cultural development, something in which they inseparably share.

Once you read some of that, you can start to hear what I thought was benign but really are cancerous phrases in many of those inculcated European leaders and followers, in politics, education, and media.
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