General Debate 15 August 2017

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Colville

Woohoo.
I am 18263 days old!
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August 15, 2017 8:01am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Congratulations.
  Being 18,263 days old is the new 14,600 days old.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:32am
- Dafixeruppa
  
  Congrats and happy birthday 🙂
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:37am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Welcome to your second “half-century”.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:38am
- GazzaW
  
  Make the most of it. Once Gareth Morgan comes to power all Leos will need to be licensed, neutered, chipped and placed under a night time curfew. Happy 50th.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:46am
- cmm
  
  When you get to fifty then start writing your age in hexidecimal. 32. There not so bad!
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:59am
- rangitoto
  
  So you have successfully completed a bit over 47 billion kilometers in your travels around the Sun.
  
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  August 15, 2017 10:06am
- Biscuit
  
  At what stage of the day, fellow Kiwibloggers, do we advise Colville of that resolution we all passed at last week’s Special AGM of the KiwiBloggers Association?:
  
  IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED THAT COLVILLE (insert expletives of your own choice here) SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO LIVE A 18,264TH DAY.
  
  Colville, that resolution was passed 2758634 to 2.
  
  The two No voters were:
  * An anonymous downticker
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  * Someone named Me Tu who said he/she/it would only vote ‘Yes’ if there was some money in it for him/her/it.
  
  Watch out for incoming, heh heh!
  
  The AGM also passed votes making:
  
  * Blue as the official Kiwiblogger colour
  * Liverpool as the official Kiwiblogger English Football Team To Support In 2017/18
  * Gareth Morgan as the official minder of the Kiwiblog moggy
  * The Lesser Spotted James Shaw as the official Kiwiblogger Endangered Bird
  * Penny’s smiling face as the official Kiwblogger Screensaver that will greet you from here on in as you log in
  
  But, seriously, a Happy Birthday to you, Colville.
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:49am
duggledog

2 x incidents in less than a month involving 2 x psycho dudes using heavy artillery with the express purpose of inflicting multiple fatalities.

Anybody running this country or…?

Saw BE floundering around with a press stand up on TV1 News last night about fining parents who don’t care about their kids in the first place & military training

I got the same feeling I had when I saw John Key on the podium with Helen Clark when they agreed about the smacking bill just before he got elected.

Only in reverse.

Joyce should have known everyone would use the term ‘boot camp’. Complete failure with the public, they now think National have run out of ideas.

Going to the country with policy like this, and yet another promise of tax cuts, mental.
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August 15, 2017 8:01am
- G152
  
  So the idea of the brats undergoing a form of discipline is unworkable ?
  That statement, coming as it does from psychologists and mental health workers who have achieved absolutely nothing in the treatment of young offenders, is verging on the comical.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:23am
  - KevOB
    
    There is nothing comical about youth who will not accept discipline. Our Police Courts are full of them. Thankfully most grow out by 28 but some never.
    I know of a case of an unruly 15 year old who snuck off to Australia rather than face Court again. The offending continued there into his forties. Now he is a respected valuer concerned about his children going the same way.
    
    Drink, drugs and maturation have a lot to do with settling down into society.
    
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    August 15, 2017 2:46pm
- Prince
  
  It is fast becoming clear that National should have cut taxes this year, not next.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:24am
  - Gabby
    
    After the deferred bridge bribe worked so outstandingly up North, trying it again was the obvious option.
    
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    August 15, 2017 11:20am
- Happychappy
  
  Well if you are not happy vote for the alternatives but don’t whinge like you do now when it all goes wrong.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:25am
Fletch

Ben Shapiro attacks both the alt-right and the SJW left. He points out in one of the tweets –

“We’re watching a tiny microcosm replay of brownshirts vs. reds in Weimar Germany. They’re even carrying the same flags.”

http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/08/13/evil-movement-that-opposes-conservatism-ben-shapiro-calls-down-the-thunder-on-the-alt-right/
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August 15, 2017 8:05am
- PhilBest
  
  This is an interesting read too:
  
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/13/alt-right-activists-condemn-violence-dispute-mainstream-account/
  
  “…the police force, which should have kept the protesting parties separate, in fact funneled the right-wing protesters, the people defending the monument, right into Antifa, [making them run] a gauntlet of Antifa to the monument…
  
  “…We networked with law enforcement officials and safety arrangements were made months ago, but despite this, the Charlottesville Police Department not only failed to act per the plan but exacerbated the violence: they did not separate the demonstrators and counter-demonstrators, they were poorly underequipped for the situation, they stood idly by when violent counter-protesters attacked the participants of the rally and then they forced our demonstrators out of Lee Park and into a melee with Antifa…”
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:15am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Very interesting and a good lesson on politics. The Mayor is going to position himself as a saint with the media despite causing the violence and gain positive publicity. One has to wonder why those attending Unite The Right were so easily duped into following someone like Spencer who i have no doubt is a useful idiot for the left. Hopefully he is throughly discredited and can do no more damage to genuine Nationalists on the right.
    
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    August 15, 2017 8:23am
    - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
      
      So are there any “genuine Nationalists” fighting the erasure of cultural treasures in a Cultural Revolution inspired purge?
      
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      August 15, 2017 8:34am
      - BananaLlama
        
        Of course there is what do you think the Identitarians of Europe are about.
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:41am
      - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
        
        “Of course there is what do you think the Identitarians of Europe are about.”
        
        They are doing good work in Europe trying to stop Globalist project of mass African migration into Europe. But they are not in Charlottesville, and if they were would be smeared as Nazis by Globalists MSM.
        
        What makes you believe Marxists/Progressives and the MSM will ever stop portraying you as Nazis for resisting their anti white Globalist project?
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:35am
      - BananaLlama
        
        Who cares what those degenerate street shitters think keep your nose clean and keep building a base of opposition to them with the center and they will be looking at another decade of no policy gains. That is your “will to power” gaining the ability to write legislation and change the culture while the left bash garbage cans in the street.
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:45am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Interesting Phil,
    
    White people are starting to wake up, and the don’t like what happened to the world while they were asleep.
    
    As far as I can discern, what actually happened is far, far different from the MSM version of events. What really happened was that several thousand unapologetic white nationalists )”white nationalist” being defined as “someone who actually wants to take their own side in a fight”) z were given a permit months ago to exercise their constitutional rights of free assembly and free speech in Lee Park, a public place. When the city of Charlottesville attempted to revoke that permit at the last minute, and illegaly change the venue, a Federal judge stepped in literally the night before the event with an injunction forcing the city to honor the original permit.
    
    Their plan foiled, Charlottesville – in league with the Governor of Virginia, that living monument of human sewage, Terry McAuliffe – decided that night to let the Unite the Right crowd assemble in Lee Park, and then when they were all penned in like sheep and surrounded by riot cops, and in contravention of a federal judge’s order, unexpectedly and suddenly declared the legally permitted event an “illegal assembly”. They then forced the Unite the Right crowd into the streets, where thousands of armed and armored antifa and BLM thugs–who had been given free run to take over the city streets WITHOUT A PARADE OR EVENT PERMIT or any other official legal sanction – lay waiting.
    
    The police proceeded to make themselves scarce as the communist filth ran amok in the streets. Fortunately the Unite the Right men had anticipated being attacked, but because they hadn’t expected to be completely betrayed by the police -with whom they had been working closely for weeks ahead of the event in order to assure a safe and orderly public meeting -they got the worst of it.
    
    Given that the Mayor and Governor had turned the streets over to communist antifa and BLM scum, something tragic was eventually bound to happen. If it hadn’t been the Challenger Disaster, it would have been something else (and at the moment even the MSM is still using “alleged” to describe the culprit). And of course it figures that the worthless state police couldn’t even fly a helicopter right – what a bunch of corrupt and useless assholes
    
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    August 15, 2017 8:41am
    - PhilBest
      
      In Germany in the 1930’s, the eventually triumphant Nazis loved to use the most extreme of their opponents, the Commies, as “fall guys” to give their own agenda credibility.
      
      Now we have the progressive Left and the establishments it has infiltrated, using the most extreme of their opponents, the white nationalists, as fall guys. Of course they are hell-bent on shutting down all their opponents, including the great majority who are not white nationalists at all. In the process, they are not above creating the lie that all their opponents “are” white nationalist racist fascists by definition.
      
      As the remarkable “Godfrey Elfwick” Tweeted once, “Better to punch 99 innocent people and one real Nazi, than let the one real Nazi go unpunched”.
      
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      August 15, 2017 11:24am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        In Germany in the 1930’s, the eventually triumphant Nazis loved to use the most extreme of their opponents, the Commies, as “fall guys” to give their own agenda credibility.
        
        You talk some shit sometimes Phil.
        
        The reasons the Nazis attacked the Communists was because they had attempted a violent revolution at the end of WWII and were attempting it again in the 30s.
        
        The National Socialists, having seen the Jewish Bolsheviks in Russia and Hungary slaughter millions of Christians, understandably wanted rid of this nihilistic influence.
        
        Who were the German Communists? Names like Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Eisner, Levi, Muhsam, Radek, Eichorn, Toller should give you an idea….
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:16pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Snicker. Those Jews again. Stirring up Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, Greece and the Soviet Union to attack poor little Germany. Then pretending that millions of them were exterminated in Nazi welfare centres.
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:36pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Why are you attacking a strawman Milkmaid?
        
        We are discussing Communist activity in Europe 1916-1934 not WWII
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:47pm
      - mikenmild
        
        For you, it’s always about the Jews. And I’m just riffing on your claim a few days ago that the Nazis were the innocent victims other aggressive nations starting WWII.
        But, once again, what would you ‘modern’ National Socialists do about the Jews?
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:53pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Well Milkmaid, perhaps the murderous Communist revolutionaries in Europe pre WWII was all about the Jews?
        
        Here is the famed Nazi, Winston Churchill in the Guardian no less:
        
        This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)… this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/nov/28/features11.g21
        
        Are you so blind as not to see the reason for National Socialisism was to protect the European people’s from the Wall Street funded Blood thirsty Bolsheviks and Communist Revolutionaries?
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:03pm
      - mikenmild
        
        At least you have moved on to a genuine Churchill quote for a change.
        Poor ol’ Nazis get such a bad rap, don’t they? Why is that? All they ever wanted to do was rule the world and exterminate the untermensch, yet for some reason lots of people just would not get on board with the plan.
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:08pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        All they ever wanted to do was rule the world and exterminate the untermensch
        
        You watch wayyyyy too much Hollywood MM.
        
        I’ll interupt your fantasyland and let you know, there is however, a nation of people out there that still tells us they’re the “chosen ones”, have strict racial purity laws for marriage:
        
        http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/shavuot/.premium-1.596576
        
        demand blood tests to sure prospective immigrants are racially pure enough:
        
        http://www.timesofisrael.com/russian-speakers-who-want-to-immigrate-could-need-dna-test/
        
        while their chief religious leader thinks all non Jews are lowly cattle born to serve Jews:
        
        http://crownheights.info/jewish-news/29404/rabbi-ovadia-yosef-gentiles-exist-only-to-serve-jews/
        
        Sorry for disturbing your regularly scheduled programming MM with these hate facts, you’re free now to go back to your idiot box for some “news”
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:28pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Somewhere, out there, is a real world where you might just find that going on about racism in Israel does not help to prove that your beloved fuhrer was correct to try exterminating the Jews.
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:33pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        But the millions who survived the “holocaust” might perhaps point to the fact that the Nazis (and White people) were not the genocidal maniacs that we have drummed into our heads from primary school.
        
        What do you know about the Jew, Genrikh Pagoda?
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:42pm
      - mikenmild
        
        One of Stalin’s NKVD mass murderers, who met the same fate he dished out to others.
        So, I’ve answered your question. So how about you telling me how the national socialists of today would finally solve the Jewish problem?
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:48pm
    - PhilBest
      
      Just another speculation on my part; did the car driver turn up from nowhere and launch into running people over, or was he trapped inside a howling mob, and freaked out with fear? No-one is saying this so I presume it is clear terrorism this time.
      
      But what are drivers of cars going to do in future, fearing for their lives when encircled by a howling mob? Perhaps the impeding of a vehicle by “protesters”, should be illegal and/or very strictly policed, precisely to avoid this situation?
      
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      August 15, 2017 11:33am
    - itstricky
      
      Given that the Mayor and Governor had turned the streets over to communist antifa and BLM scum, something tragic was eventually bound to happen.
      
      That’s it?
      
      Even if there’s an ounce of truth in anything you say, which I doubt (especially seeing as you have resorted to “communist filth and scum” – where do you get your news from?) nothing gives anyone the right to drive a car full speed into the a bunch of standing people.
      
      And to prove my “monkeys run the zoo” comment from the other day, you get 19 upticks. Quackers.
      
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      August 16, 2017 10:42am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  Statues of Confederate era historical figures are being erased from public because they are deemed “racist”.
  
  This is straight out of the Communist playbook – Cambodia’s “Year Zero” or China’s The Cultural Revolution.
  
  Only white identitarian groups are willing to stand up to this emergence of Totalitarianism repackaged as “Progressivism”.
  
  Think of all the public figures in NZ history that Progressives would label as “racist”, “sexist”, “homophobic”, “transphobic” and therefore all public art works connected with them should be thrown out.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:29am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I could also imagine the Auckland War Memorial Museum (with its Greco-Roman columns) being remodeled into a brown, Manukau-esque, upside-down salad bowl. Or the oak trees in the domain being removed and replaced by Nikau palms.
    
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    August 15, 2017 8:35am
    - GazzaW
      
      Goff’s only been in power for a few months. Give him time.
      
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      August 15, 2017 8:51am
    - JasonJohns
      
      And now street names are at risk. Some African Americans are complaining about the fact that their street is named after the founder of the KKK. Will the intolerance ever end?
      http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/31/signs-paying-tribute-to-confederacy-draw-scrutiny-/
      
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      August 15, 2017 9:31pm
  - Paulus
    
    The Mayor in agreeing to topple this statue of the General and twice President of the USA must have been stupid not to know there would be trouble.
    
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    August 15, 2017 8:36am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      If the Mayor of Charlottesville is in favor of the removal of the statue, then the Mayor would presumably have a vested interest in producing a “violent” demonstration (which would play into the narrative of the media).
      Since the Chief of Police of Charlottesville reports to the Mayor, the Mayor would have some influence over the deployment (or lack thereof) of the police at the protest.
      All very questionable…
      
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      August 15, 2017 8:44am
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “All very questionable…”
        
        yes, this is not the first time a Democrat has allowed violent antifa and BLM groups free reign. We have seen the same in Baltimore and Berkely amongst other examples. Tragedy was inevitable. Both the alt-Right and the alt-Left are ugly and dangerous groups, but the Dems and the Left almost never condemn violence from their own side. Look at how quickly they rushed to blame the Right and makes excuses for a Bernie Sanders supporter trying to assassinate Republican congressman.
        
        Trump was right to condemns violence on ALL sides, which contrary to Leftist liars includes the alt-Right. What pisses them off is that he rightly included the violent alt-Left as well.
        
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        August 15, 2017 3:03pm
    - MCos
      
      Who is this twice President you talk about?
      
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      August 15, 2017 8:45am
      - mikenmild
        
        He is confusing Robert E Lee with another general who didn’t fight for the right to enslave black people….
        
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        August 15, 2017 2:51pm
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    In Hamilton Heaphy Terrace and Von Tempsky Street really get the unwashed going silly.
    
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    August 15, 2017 8:42am
    - Colville
      
      That Heaphy really was our Willie Apiata of the 1860’s, von Tempsky not quite clicking onto the idea that its harder to be a soldier after you are dead!
      
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      August 15, 2017 8:59am
    - sam green
      
      Bullshit Tauhei notts
      
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      August 15, 2017 12:39pm
    - kowtow
      
      Can’t have “colonial” names .
      
      ” That concerned at least two councillors, including Cr Marie Laufiso.
      
      ‘Cr Laufiso questioned the idea, as Wakefield came up with his ideas on colonisation while in prison for the 1826 abduction of 15-year-old schoolgirl.”
      
      https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dialect-history-against-street-name
      
      Laufiso is a Green who wants to take everyone else’s wealth and give it to others who haven’t earned it.
      
      “I am standing because I dream of a Dunedin where this city’s vast wealth and resources can be equitably accessed by every child and young person ~ regardless of her or his family’s background, ethnicity/ies or social status.”
      
      http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/your-council/electoral-information/elections-to-be-held-and-nominations-dunedin-city-council/dcc/central-ward-11-vacancies/marie-laufiso
      
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      August 15, 2017 1:32pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    The problem with the Confederate side was that they were the Democrats, and they still haven’t forgiven the Republicans (Lincoln) for taking away their slaves.
    
    Now that the DNC have managed to (once again) get the blacks (BLM) to do their heavy-lifting for them for free – they don’t want those pesky historical details to be visible showing how the real racists are!
    
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    August 15, 2017 8:46am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Would those be the same white nationalists carrying swastika flags and signs denigrating Jews?
    
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    August 15, 2017 9:07am
PhilBest

Absolute shocker of a long letter yesterday to the Herald, by Winston Peters. Promising support for “heavy rail” investment and network extensions, as a “solution” to Auckland’s urban transport problems.

I don’t remember even Rob Muldoon co-opting the cause of anti-car, anti-independence, communist cattle-truck urban transport policy. I suppose we can’t expect much from the same man who derailed the excellent, no-brainer, market-efficiency, Bolger-Richardson health system reforms. Often the so-called nationalist “right” is just the Statist left in drag.
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August 15, 2017 8:07am
- unaha-closp
  
  In 2010 the ACT party socialised all of Auckland into one big socialist entity, then watched it spectacularly fail to deliver any savings. Having been given a clear indication, yet again, that socialism is prone to be high cost the supposed NZ liberal-right is doubling down. The new ACT plan is to spend taxpayer money subsidising high costs in Auckland.
  
  Vote socialist, vote ACT.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95493172/ACT-calls-for-building-of-600K-more-homes-in-Auckland-and-David-Seymour-shows-his-Michael-Hill-impression
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:24am
  - Gabby
    
    I just don’t understand why creating more highly paid management positions didn’t result in massive economies.
    
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    August 15, 2017 11:29am
- VicParking
  
  I took time to read Winstons proposal and as an ex South Aucklander it seemed quite sound. Rather than running a line through Onehunga, and all the resouce consents and protests that would draw, taking a spur from Manukau and through farmland to the airport is a logical choice. Politics aside, I’m not a Winny fan, its a good Idea.
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:33pm
Left Right and Centre

hmmm . . .
When are 99%+ people ambidextrous ?
Antiperspirant.
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August 15, 2017 8:09am
- VicParking
  
  A comment better sent to Womens Weekly. I would haved hoped that the discourse here would have more depth than a car park puddle.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:19am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Nah man – if it was womens mags, it would be . . .
    Which anti-perspirant brands are . . .
    – good for your skin
    – make you feel younger
    – are better for the environment
    – are hot celebrities using
    – is Kate Middleton using
    – is Jacinda Ardern using
    – now available in super cute new designs and shapes and scents
    – make you feel equal to a man in the workplace
    – are made for women juggling a career and homelife.
    – make you feel sexier doing housework.
    – are empowering and give you confidence.
    
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    August 15, 2017 8:34am
    - VicParking
      
      No need to read womens weekly you are doing it for us, keep up the summaries for us.
      
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      August 15, 2017 3:35pm
EAD_TWO

That eternal thinker of unoriginal thoughts, Pete “I see rape culture” George, is jumping on the bandwagon and noticing that there are a number of fat, uncouth confederate flag wavers who don’t exactly fit the media given label of being “Supreme”:

https://yournz.org/2017/08/14/the-white-supremacist-contradiction/

Valid (if unoriginal) point by Pete, but one suspects he is just indulging in his own bigotries and misrepresenting the concerns of right thinking people who are brave and heretical enough to think that the current “globalisation” zeitgeist might not be as good as what we’re brainwashed to believe it to be.

The truth is the MSM and those like George use the term “Supremacist” because to admit the truth would be to show how intellectually bankrupt “the left” has become.

To admit that what these so called “Supremacists” want is what 90% of the world already experience (living in a country where the vast majority are from the same culture) would be to admit that these people aren’t Supremacists at all. Rather, they don’t their families to grow up in a country that is one big Chicago/Detroit diverse and violent sh*thole where their children are a despised and hated minority.
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August 15, 2017 8:13am
- PhilBest
  
  The reality is that while “whites” are the target of “remedial justice” from the identity-politics left, culture matters even more. Otherwise why are Thomas Sowell and Ayaan Hirsi Ali so unpopular with the left? And the African-American constituencies in some locales who are morally conservative enough to vote in referenda against gay-agenda items?
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:38am
Rodney Randall

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/fox6now.com/2017/08/14/police-1-girl-dead-at-least-5-injured-after-driver-rams-into-patrons-at-pizza-restaurant-east-of-paris/amp/

Peace Truck?
The official said it is unclear whether the act was deliberate and added that the man was not authorised to be publicly named according to police policy.

The incident comes after an Algerian man drove his car into a group of French soldiers last week.
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August 15, 2017 8:16am
- Inandout
  
  Right wingers not involved? Move on.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:20am
Simon

Electric cars from National because climate fraud water tax to hurt farmers from Labo and heavy rail fail from winston first.

Looks like everyone is trying to take a piece of the green vote.

Look how retarded the other parties have to become to attempt to take a bit of the green vote.
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August 15, 2017 8:19am
- VicParking
  
  No need to take the votes from the Greens. It just needs to be scooped up from the side of the road were they lost it.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:21am
- PhilBest
  
  Sadly it is becoming more and more a question of trying to not lose votes in the face of oncoming demographics who have never known anything other than relentless eco-propaganda.
  
  A principled “centre right” would have pushed back with the aid of the facts (eg on the CAGW scam and the urban rail scam and numerous others) long ago. Making “winning elections” the sole priority and not bothering about winning arguments or the long political war, just guarantees that your great-grandkids will live under some form of totalitarianism. If it’s “soft”, it will be on its way to “harder”, not the reverse.
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:43am
Monique Watson

The Russians sold the North Koreans the engines that powered the ICBM launches. From a factory in Ukraine. Dirty Cossacks playing both sides. We’re just under a week away from the next launch on Monday. They’ll loft it high to land just outside Guam’s EEZ and drag a few subs into the EEZ while crowing about how the US couldn’t take them out.
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August 15, 2017 8:31am
- Gabby
  
  Chump’s onto it. He’ll huff an’ he’ll puff and he’ll blow them all down.
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:33am
- KevinH
  
  The US Airforce is locked and loaded to take retaliatory action should North Korea launch any missiles in the direction of Guam.
  President Trump has made it clear that he would see this as an aggressive move, an act of war.
  What would happen within moments of the launches from North Korea would be a counter strike from the US targeting the launch sites, military facilities and possibly government buildings in Pyongyang.
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:08pm
Manolo

The RINO is popular among Democrats:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/215897/mccain-favorability-healthcare-vote.aspx
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August 15, 2017 8:35am
Manolo

The wonder boy disappoints:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/840749/France-Emmanuel-Macron-president-popularity-En-Marche-party

The damning verdict will come as a blow to the French President whose reputation has been left battered after poll results revealed his popularity has plunged after just 100 days in office.
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August 15, 2017 8:37am
- Inandout
  
  Meanwhile in Canada their wonderboy’s popularity seems unaffected by his terrorist worship.
  
  http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/emerging-polling-trend-suggests-khadr-settlement-may-not-have-hurt-liberals-after-all/wcm/387208e0-45ed-4290-9a7a-922ab463c516
  
  ‘No doubt, Canadians do not approve of the settlement he received, but their anger is not yet projected towards the prime minister’
  
  Oh dear, seems having too many French in your population is not a good thing.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:44am
  - PhilBest
    
    These surrender monkeys just have Maple Syrup with their cheese, that’s about the only difference…?
    
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    August 15, 2017 11:47am
starboard

Id like to see Peters in bed with National.
National are sleepwalking and bereft of any new ideas. Peters will shake ’em awake and it would be highly entertaining. English is as dull as paste. The fat lady’s warming up.
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August 15, 2017 8:41am
- Inandout
  
  starboard, it is written in stone: Winston Peters is ex National, he likes the finer things in life, he would feel uncomfortable sitting in the same room with an assortment of society’s odd people.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:50am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  I like the ‘revenge’ scenario that WOBH has suggested.
  
  Winnie (being inherently lazy) agrees only to provide confidence and supply to the diminished Nats. Which would require every single bit of legislation put forward by the minority Nat government to be taken by the responsible Minister before Winnie to ‘bend the knee’ to get NZF support.
  
  While not good for the country – it would mean three years for WP of utu on every one of the 2008 Nats who said “I cannot work with Winston”.
  
  Revenge is a dish best served cold.
  
  Maybe that would wake National the fuck up and move them back to the centre right in time for 2020!
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:50am
  - Colville
    
    I like the “tell Winnie to get fucked” scenario.
    Force him into “working” with MeTu and Cindy. They will all be hated within a year.
    Greens and NZF will be destroyed.
    Worth the pain I am thinking.
    
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    August 15, 2017 9:05am
  - starboard
    
    Yup. National as it stands is a fcuking disgrace. The way they are slowly turning NZ brown kowtowing to the racist maori party is nothing short of scandalous.
    
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    August 15, 2017 9:29am
  - Shawn Herles
    
    No. National needs some course correction on immigration, multiculturalism and some social issues, but they are not so bad that I want them kneecapped and ineffective.
    
    Plus, I don’t see Winston wanting to sit on the cross benches for what could be his last term in Parliament.
    
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    August 15, 2017 12:10pm
    - Paulus
      
      If Winston lasts a full term without retiring due to his failing health.
      Why was he told to stop smoking recently ?
      Suspect Emphysema – not pleasant when breathing becomes very difficult.
      Malt helps though.
      
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      August 15, 2017 1:28pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “If Winston lasts a full term without retiring due to his failing health.”
        
        He looks healthy to me.
        
        “Why was he told to stop smoking recently ?”
        
        Well that’s always a good idea.
        
        I don’t see that as evidence that his health is failing.
        
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        August 15, 2017 3:13pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Seems to me to be as healthy as Hilary Clinton.
        
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        August 15, 2017 3:14pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Yes, I see Slater has been rattling his pom-poms for WP again, doubling down on the anti-Bingle campaign.
    Says he can’t support National as he is not a sychophant, but his customers have a choice between sycophancy or excommunication.
    Love that smell of hypocracy in the morning.
    
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    August 15, 2017 9:02pm
- waikatogirl
  
  What part of NO don’t you understand!
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:58am
- ex-golfer
  
  I would like to see it to.
  
  The only problem is that National will not give him the amount of concessions that Labour will given their desperation to get out of opposition.
  Cindy may even concede the PM’ship to Winston, knowing that it would not last long and she would then takeover as the shiney knight’ess to save the country from all of Winstons woes. Short-term pain for long-term gain.
  
  And given that Labour are now marginalising the Green vote, it may only need to be a two-headed beast, with the Greens left on the sideline yet again (assuming they even get 5%).
  
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  August 15, 2017 10:36am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Boredom in government is not the same as boredom in bed Starboard, boring government is to be applauded plus I do think that they are trying to be less vanilla.
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:38am
  - PhilBest
    
    What are they gaining from it apart from a temporary couple of votes in parliament? Has National’s share of the Maori vote, got out of single figures yet?
    
    Ordinary Maori want to see the difference in their own hip pockets, not having a small elite that are alleged to be their “representatives”, swanning around in German luxury cars. This creation of an Iwi mafia with powers of obstruction and shakedown and chiseling, over everything that goes on in the real economy, will hurt ordinary Maori just the same as everybody else.
    
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    August 15, 2017 11:53am
DifferentPerspective

Car ramming attack in France

If he’s white – “he’s a fascist, racist, white supremacist.”

If he’s a muslim – “authorities don’t know why he did this.”

We’re being lied to……
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August 15, 2017 9:06am
- EAD_TWO
  
  If he’s a muzzie – he was a lone wolf with nothing to do with Islam.
  
  If he was a Frenchmen, each and every group he’s ever been a member of is a hate group”, Marine Le Pen will be blamed for causing “hate”, and every French person is evil by association.
  
  The narrative is so predictable
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:15am
  - PhilBest
    
    It is even irrelevant if he has never been a member of any group at all. Anyone who has ever so much as written a letter to the newspaper or held a placard in public to protest mass immigration, is automatically deemed guilty of “inciting”.
    
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    August 15, 2017 11:54am
- Inandout
  
  He must be Muslim as Garner didn’t devote 10 minutes on it like he did for Charlottesville.
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:17am
  - kowtow
    
    And note , who is pushing the narrative . The media and the government.
    
    They are not on our side. So who’s side are they on and why?
    
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    August 15, 2017 9:42am
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Kowtow, you might want to have a look at my comment at 10:08.
      
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      August 15, 2017 10:42am
Happychappy

Winston is proving he has not got the answer to the 450 texts Bill English and his ex Staff member have shared so the bluff has not worked. Today we see one of Winstons huff and puff so called journalist blubber going in to do Winstons questions for him with the story what’s Bill hiding concerning the texts this after four months of political slime from Peters and the Left without any concrete evidence to back it up.
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August 15, 2017 9:11am
- Paulus
  
  Sadly the once trusted member of the Electoral Staff appears to have given Winston her copies of the emails between her and her once long term friend and former MP Bill English.
  I thought understand that she is now working for Winston hence his ability to have these emails.
  Must be a very sad and disappointed person that the trust she once had is totally eroded.
  Can’t think of any other way that Winston got hold of them as English destroyed his copies for security purposes, as a PM you would, as you would not wish to be possibly blackmailed as Winston is trying to do.
  
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  August 15, 2017 10:38am
  - Gabby
    
    It’s hard to blackmail people who don’t do heinous shit. So Bingles will be fine, I’m sure.
    
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    August 15, 2017 11:38am
- marcw
  
  Maybe Bill E is just waiting for Winston to divulge some of the actual text in the txts. This will then become a breach of privacy offence, and a breach of confidentiality by the ex-secretary. This will then require the hush money paid to her to be repaid, and Winston will face a breach of privilege in Parliament. Winston is treading a very fine and dangerous line – hopefully he can’t help himself, and will cross it as he gets more desperate for attention.
  
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  August 15, 2017 10:57am
  - Gabby
    
    But the texts weren’t sent in his capacity as PM or within his area of ministerial responsibility.
    
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    August 15, 2017 11:41am
    - Dafixeruppa
      
      Hence why it would be considered a breach of privacy rather than a breach of confidentiality, UNLESS Bill can show that there was a reasonable expectation of confidentiality and then it becomes a civil law case from which no one wins.
      
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      August 15, 2017 1:38pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFR-iHmTWVo&feature=youtu.be

Soro’s drones got a taste of their own medicine?

Whilst I don’t condone violence, this was bound to happen sooner or later.

Real life GTA:)
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August 15, 2017 9:12am
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Folks – Game over for National today. Tooth Fairy is going to announce tertiary education policy today. According to Paddy Wet Pants Gower, National should be very worried. It is going to be free Tertiary education and Universal Student Allowance for all…. Spend other people’s money like no other tomorrow and win the election. Tooth Fairy is bribing to win exactly like what the she beast did in 2005. This is another bribe nobody else will be able to break. All the hard work done by John Key and Bill English for the last 9 years to get into surplus is going to be wasted now by the left mob.
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August 15, 2017 9:13am
- oldgolfer
  
  Surely this will lead to another ”show me the money” embarrassment for Cindy?
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:58am
- PhilBest
  
  Just a word of caution here. Cullen had plenty of surpluses too. There is such a thing as a bubble economy. National had to face a downturn at the very time of taking office in 2008. But instead of fixing the fundamentals to put the economy on track, all they did was reboot the bubble economy. “Getting back into surplus” is merely a rehash of Cullen-era trickery rather than fundamental good economic management.
  
  The “growth” is mostly from immigration and secondly from working longer hours – productivity is a disgrace. And home owners treating their fairy-dust bubble “equity” gains as an ATM does the rest. That is based on debt that has to be serviced, and as more and more generations enter the housing market with it already high, that artificial stimulus gets played out.
  
  If we net out these little economic “cheats”, we have been going backwards since 2001. There will be hell to pay eventually.
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:04pm
  - VicParking
    
    The bubble is in your head Phil. Economics 101.
    
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    August 15, 2017 3:43pm
    - PhilBest
      
      Uh-ah; a deluded majority that doesn’t see “super profits” as abnormal and unsustainable is evidence “OF” a bubble, not a disproof.
      
      Time will tell. I will admit I am wrong in 2025 if there has been no serious crash by then. Lotta people gonna owe me an apology if I am right. You’re just number three hundred and something.
      
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      August 15, 2017 9:06pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  And with all parties (except for National and Act)signing an agreement to enter Pike river we can see where our government is headed or rather where Winston is headed.
  Has he shown his hand, or is this part of his sit on the cross benches and give his support where and whenever.
  Over at WO there is debate regarding Bill English and his texts, the fact that Mr Slater obviously doesn’t like Bill and is seemingly or unseemingly doing as good a hit job on Bill as possible Mr Slater did acknowledge that a labour government would be good for his business.
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:46pm
flipper

A minimum income for all ????

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2017/08/14/why_a_universal_basic_income_would_be_a_calamity_418078.html?utm_source=rcp-today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mailchimp-newsletter
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August 15, 2017 9:18am
Hugh Pavletich

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Is the Australian Government in big trouble too ?

Baaaaanaby to bring down Government? – MacroBusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/08/baaaaanaby-kiwi-bring-government/

Baaaanaby Joyce is a Kiwi and the excuses are flowing as the government could fall in a by-election:

The deputy prime minister’s case has been referred to the High Court along with that of his colleague, Nationals Senator Matthew Canavan, who has stood aside from cabinet until it is resolved. … read more via hyperlink above …
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August 15, 2017 9:21am
starboard

Its Hugh time..you know what to do team..aim for 30
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August 15, 2017 9:33am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  For many young Canadians, home won’t be a house – Macleans.ca
  
  http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/for-many-young-canadians-home-wont-be-a-house/
  
  … extract …
  
  … All that is fine. Yet the main thing that is turning Canada into a more rigidly class-based society is the real-estate boom. For whatever reason, most Canadians see a mortgage as preferable to paying rent and maxing out their RRSP deductions and TFSA limits. But in most cities, a decent house is now something only rich people can afford. Vancouver is the world’s third-most unaffordable city, after Hong Kong and Sydney, respectively; and Toronto is now the 13th most unaffordable, behind a group of usual suspects such as Auckland (fourth), San Francisco (ninth), and London (12th), according to the latest Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. This is not the company that a country that believes in spreading the wealth ought to be keeping. If you don’t think the housing boom is causing angst, then you missed the excellent reporting of Joe Castaldo and Catherine McIntyre in Maclean’s earlier this year. As one half of a young couple that had been priced out of Vancouver told them, “You definitely feel like you’ve been left behind.”
  
  Demographia, a St. Louis-based consultancy that opposes top-down urban planning, keeps its analysis of international housing affordability elegantly simple. It creates a “median multiple” by dividing the median house price in a given market by the median household income. Historically, Demographia says a multiple of three or less suggests normal people can afford a home. That’s the base of its affordability scale. The maximum is five or higher, which is the point at which the survey describes housing as “severely unaffordable.”
  
  Vancouver’s multiple is 11.8 and Toronto’s is 7.7; both scores are a point higher than 2015, suggesting median homes prices in each city increased by the equivalent of a full year’s income in the span of 12 months. In fact, none of Canada’s major cities is affordable: Montreal, Calgary, and Edmonton all are “seriously unaffordable,” with multiples higher than four. Demographia says Ottawa is “moderately unaffordable,” with a multiple of 3.9. This represents a “sea change,” according to the report; until recently, affordability outside of Vancouver had been fairly stable since the 1970s. “The health of the housing market has been deteriorating rapidly in Canada,” the report states. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:44am
  - Happychappy
    
    Same old shit just being recycled by a bitter twisted Labour Party stodge.
    
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    August 15, 2017 9:56am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Dont forget yesterdays and Sundays Kiwiblog General Debate discussions … access …
      
      … Monday’s Kiwiblog posts …
      
      http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/08/general_debate_14_august_2017.html/comment-page-1#comment-1990916 … with a focus on the NZ National Party’s nonsense and panicked ‘boot camp’ idea …
      
      … and Sundays …
      
      http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/08/general_debate_13_august_2017.html/comment-page-1#comment-1990134
      
      NEW ZEALAND: IS THE GOVERNMENT IN FOR A THRASHING 23 SEPTEMBER ?
      
      THE STRENGTHENING MOOD FOR CHANGE …
      
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      August 15, 2017 10:26am
    - PhilBest
      
      You obviously don’t remember Hugh attacking Labour from around 2005 on, on this issue, and all the work he did with National to get them up to speed re reforms. So “Labour stooge” is completely inaccurate.
      
      National hasn’t just disappointed Hugh, they have betrayed a whole generation of NZ-ers and worse is yet to come. I was one who believed Hugh was right, respected the unpaid research and lobbying work he did, and expected National to have the intelligence and integrity to do the right thing. The last few years have been like living through an “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.
      
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      August 15, 2017 12:12pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Housing: Politicians feeling the heat … get land supply and infrastructure financing sorted … and spare us the ear ache …
        
        Why is Bill so weak ? …
        
        English and Ardern raise concerns with RBNZ’s loan-to-value ratio limits, and debt-to-income ratio work, while ‘respecting’ RBNZ independence | interest.co.nz
        
        http://www.interest.co.nz/property/89326/english-and-ardern-raise-concerns-rbnzs-loan-value-ratio-limits-and-debt-income-ratio
        
        Prices ranged from $186,000 for Auckland CBD apartment to $3.42 million for mortgagee sale at Barfoot & Thompson’s latest auctions | interest.co.nz
        
        http://www.interest.co.nz/property/89319/prices-ranged-186000-auckland-cbd-apartment-342-million-mortgagee-sale-barfoot
        
        Labour leader Jacinda Ardern says ‘not fixated on numbers’ in immigration debate; More focussed on ‘getting our system right’ | interest.co.nz
        
        http://www.interest.co.nz/news/89321/labour-leader-jacinda-ardern-says-not-fixated-numbers-immigration-debate-more-focussed
        
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        August 15, 2017 12:42pm
      - KevOB
        
        Hugh has little or no understanding of NZ in the world nor of politics and its interlinking with economics.
        
        PS neither has any of the opposition parties except possibly TOP but they are covered in green mush and cat hate.
        
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        August 15, 2017 3:07pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        PhilBest … thank you for your comment above … and too … your enormous contributions over many years.
        
        The unfortunate reality is that the hugely embarrassing deceit and incompetence of this current government has been tolerated for too long.
        
        Near 9 long years.
        
        The poor dears just dont have the guts / will to govern.
        
        To use a Texan expression ‘All hat and no horse’ … empty vessels !
        
        I outlined this at the time of the release of this year’s 13th Demographia international Housing Affordability Survey late January on Peter Cresswell’s Not PC blog …NEW ZEALAND’S HOUSING CONSENSUS: WHERE IS THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ? …
        
        http://pc.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/auckland-worlds-fourth-hardest-to-buy.html
        
        … and within the GONE GONE GOING section of my archival website Performance Urban Planning …
        
        http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
        
        No wonder there is a growing mood for change !
        
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        August 15, 2017 5:03pm
  - Swifty
    
    It rubs the lotion on it’s skin or it gets the hose again…..
    
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    August 15, 2017 10:24am
    - Nermal
      
      Post of the day!
      
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      August 15, 2017 12:44pm
- Nermal
  
  Done. My public service for the day.
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:42pm
MCos

Many years ago when the construction industry was in the doldrums in NZ I looked at working in the UK to enable the family to live a life we’d like to become accustomed to.
I made inquiries about obtaining a British passport & found that if my father was born in the UK I qualified. My mother was English – bad luck.
I’m wondering now how many more of these Aussie MPs are going to get caught out because surely if you must be a citizen to get a passport.
Not something your average Joe gives much thought to.
I wonder if Obama is an accidental Kenyan. His dad was born in a British colony. Maybe he’s British too . . . . .
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August 15, 2017 9:53am
- mikenmild
  
  I think the British were a bit too careful to grant citizenship to millions of Africans and Asians willy-nilly…
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:03am
  - fluffykiwi
    
    When I worked in the UK back in 1976 eh place was awash with “colonials” including Aussies and NZers and those from Africa and India etc., There were rules relating to their right to be in England, in fact different rules to those which applied to NZ and Aussie.
    However I am of the firm view that maybe one should decide who you are, 1 passport and stick with it. Might make life a little simpler and think of the All Blacks and the Olympics.
    I also believe you should have to return to the country that issues your passport to renew it. This would create difficulties for those who shoot through owing money. Hard to get bank accounts without a passport, hard to start up a business etc.,
    
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    August 15, 2017 3:50pm
- marcw
  
  It reinforces the disadvantage of a written Constitution – black and white, no exceptions, no matter how stupid the outcome. One day, a silly unforeseen circumstance comes back and bites you in the bum.
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:04am
  - PhilBest
    
    Mind you that’s what amendments are for. If they are bleedin’ obvious, you’ll get the 2/3 of parliament or whatever the threshhold is for it.
    
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    August 15, 2017 12:14pm
    - MCos
      
      From what I hear changing the Aussie one involves referendums as well . . .
      
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      August 15, 2017 4:43pm
Lucia Maria

Yesterday’s General Debate Commenting Stats

76 commenters made 263 comments

Most popular commenter was starboard on 107 positive votes (averaging 15 per comment over 7 comments), with only 17 negative votes.

Least popular commenter was Hugh Pavletich on 205 negative votes (averaging 41 per comment over 5 comments), with only 16 positive votes.

Hugh also has the most links and if I assume that 5 of those links rendered his comments hidden, he still posted 8 links. Manolo came second on links with a count of 5.

Most prolific commenter was Gabby at 20 comments.

Most verbose commenter was publicwatchdog who in just one comment managed 881 words, most of them a cut and paste that could have easily just been a link. PhilBest was second with 796 words over 7 comments.
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August 15, 2017 9:57am
- PhilBest
  
  Ah, that was two cut-and-pastes.
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:15pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    LOL, ok. If you start using blockquotes, I’ll be able to tell the difference easier when I update my program. 😛
    
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    August 15, 2017 12:25pm
EAD_TWO

Andrew Joyce shines a light on the Mass Media’s double standards:

Meanwhile, in other news, Muslim Pakistanis are still raping women in England and being described blandly as “Asians.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/AJOccidental/status/896830435552112641
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August 15, 2017 10:08am
Lucia Maria

What connects radical Islam and the far-right?

Kremlin intelligence is manipulating the far-right. It’s time to push back.
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August 15, 2017 10:08am
- EAD_TWO
  
  Sorry Lucia “I see Russians everywhere” Maria, what was that?
  
  I couldn’t hear you over my daily diktats from Putin.??
  
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  August 15, 2017 10:16am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    And yet you parrot his talking points.
    
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    August 15, 2017 10:20am
    - mikenmild
      
      EAD is in a close competition with burt to post the most lies on this blog….
      
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      August 15, 2017 10:21am
      - starboard
        
        That’s not very nice mm, but then again, you are not very nice, are you.
        
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        August 15, 2017 5:33pm
- Shawn Herles
  
  Lucia, it’s difficult to see much of a difference between your anti-Russian/Trump conspiracy theories and EAD’s anti-Jewish conspiracies. They are two sides of the same coin.
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:36pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Remember this comment, Shawn, and let’s see what you think about it in 6 months.
    
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    August 15, 2017 2:06pm
Manolo

The Russophobe makes my day.
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August 15, 2017 10:22am
- Paulus
  
  Russia provides the engines for the Kim somebody’s rockets remember.
  Anything to embarrass the USA and they are playing stupidly into his hands to give him a good laugh.
  
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  August 15, 2017 10:42am
  - KevOB
    
    Those engines are reported as coming out Ukraine.
    
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    August 15, 2017 3:12pm
    - KevOB
      
      Refer:
      https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html?referer=https://t.co/0XrAend3f6?amp=1
      
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      August 15, 2017 7:03pm
Jack5

Mr Multiculturism – Massey’s Spoonley – says most New Zealanders want the immigration surge.

Yep, and the pressure on our health system, our housing, our roads? And our GDP per capita now falling? Our balance of payments deficits still languishing?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95775330/immigration-is-not-necessarily-the-most-pressing-issue-for-kiwi-voters
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August 15, 2017 10:59am
brett68

Cameron Slater would have to be the dumbest mother fucker of all time.

Here he is actually stating he wants Labour to win because he reckons he’ll make more money if they do.

http://disq.us/p/1lcrudl

Seriously who does he thinks pays for those shitty offerings he puts up on his blog, people who want Labour to win?
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August 15, 2017 11:19am
- Gabby
  
  It’s the greens who are putting benefits up Fatcambo.
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:47am
- Nermal
  
  He says it’s in his financial interest, not that he wants it to happen. But don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:49pm
- lifesgood
  
  I think he’s going off his rocker. His bitterness and hatred is getting the better of him. John Key and Bill English wouldn’t/won’t engage with him in any way and he is beside himself with fury. Plus his beloved Judith got side lined.
  
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  August 15, 2017 1:21pm
- VicParking
  
  Sorry, I do agree that he is a “dumb………” however his wish list for the election states:
  “New Zealand First to enter coalition government with National”
  https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2017/08/whaleoils-election-wish-list/
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:51pm
Stars And Stripes

The probation office in my town was recently demolished due to it being an earthquake risk and in it’s place has risen a new facility courtesy of the gracious taxpayers of this country.
However what did catch my eye was the placing of a sculpture of a Māori warriors head and a marae entrance arch near the front door of the building.
The reason it intrigued me was what the possible significance of this could be.
After careful consideration I came up with the following scenarios:
1. The new boss was a bone carving wearing white guy who thought it would earn him more cultural brownie points by putting it there.
2. Nearly all their “clients” are Māori so they are just trying to make them feel at home.
3. To smooth the path during the building consenting process it was agreed to commission the artefacts from local iwi in exchange for a mild stipend of koha.
4.Under new TOW provisions it has become advisable or even compulsory on all new gov’t buildings to have such items to pay homage to local taniwhas and spirits.
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August 15, 2017 11:24am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I have a question about this “blessing the site” where an accident has occurred and someone has died. This appears in the media a lot, and I guess some local Maori elder does the “blessing.”
  
  My questions: Who contacts the local iwi or is there an 0800-KAUMATUA number that they call? Who pays the “koha”? Does the victim’s family have the right to object? (For example, the elder assigned to give the blessing is from a rival iwi, or the family is offended on religious grounds?)
  I can’t imagine the taxpayer is involved, as there is supposed to be separation of church and state in New Zealand.
  Maybe someone can bring me up to speed…
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:18pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    The only insight I can offer on this topic is when a guy had a finger amputated in an accident at my place of work.
    He was a white guy and wanted no fuss made about it all except the standard safety investigation but was told that a blessing by kaumatua is now company policy and is compulsory whether you want it or not and so it was to be.
    These things in a lot of places have now taken on a life of their own and to question why is not looked upon favourably.
    
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    August 15, 2017 12:47pm
    - Brigitte
      
      I’ve been seeing all these required payments & donations and think my parents named me wrong. Brigitte isn’t going to cut it, I reckon I should change my name to Charity Koha Cash!
      
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      August 15, 2017 1:05pm
    - lifesgood
      
      I’d be bloody furious if it was me and would demand a christian minister do the blessing instead…just to spite them more than anything.
      
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      August 15, 2017 1:18pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Stars And Stripes,
      I can believe what you are saying. I wonder why your company signed up to such a protocol? Maybe they were tendering for a government contract and needed to do so.
      What would force a company to adopt such measures if they have no Maori employees (assuming that all self-identifying Maori would want this style of blessing).
      I did a little work with a market research company in Auckland some years ago. They were tendering for a government research project studying the issue of Maori and smoking. The government brief was very specific that one of the researchers had to be a documented “Maori.” Fortunately, the company had a fair blonde who was 1/8th Maori, and this was sufficient to meet the government criteria.
      
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      August 15, 2017 4:09pm
  - KevOB
    
    “… There is supposed to be separation of church and state in New Zealand.”
    
    Except Maori spiritually is in practice and encouraged. Those spirits are demonic and destructive.
    
    That must bring Christians into active opposition.
    There is only one God and His Son is Jesus Christ.
    
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    August 15, 2017 3:21pm
  - fluffykiwi
    
    We have white crosses left on the side of road where someone died. Really annoys me. Next it will be in hospitals where someone failed to survive an operation. Then we will need Iwi to bless the various sites of death.
    I remember coming down a golf fairway, and there in the middle of the fairway as a vase of flowers cause someone had dropped dead in the middle of a run, not even a golf round!!
    Other people’s tragedies are theirs not mine. I keep my personal tragedies within the bounds of those directly effected by it. White crosses on the side of the road do not do it. Are permits required for this.
    
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    August 15, 2017 3:58pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      White crosses certainly make you think about a particular patch of road, especially when there are several of them together.
      Maybe large fluoro-yellow skulls and crossbones in place of the white crosses would be better…?
      
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      August 15, 2017 4:25pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        The thing that interests me about the white cross business is how some of the ones you see have been turned into mini shrines complete with beer cans or bottles.
        Makes you wonder what caused the guy to crash in the first place…..
        
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        August 15, 2017 4:40pm
    - Gabby
      
      You’re kind of dead on the inside aren’t you.
      
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      August 15, 2017 5:25pm
- VicParking
  
  All of the above.
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:52pm
Peter

Uh oh

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11904494

“US on high alert as satellites observe North Korea moving missiles into position”
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August 15, 2017 11:25am
- Colville
  
  NK will be a very exciting place to be for a very short (but quite loud ! ) time if indeed Trump decides to get serious!
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:27pm
  - kowtow
    
    North Korea might glow in the dark for a change.
    
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    August 15, 2017 12:41pm
MH

did that NZ deputy PM go out of his way to help Kiwis in Aussie get residency and a fair share of their tax back for health etc. I hope he gets deported to some camp and returned to NZ. If they can withhold reasonable conditions for Kiwis then I hope they don’t make allowances for him.
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August 15, 2017 11:34am
Happychappy

Jacinta hype must be falling and Labours internal polling is maybe not increasing as the wannabe Prime Minister has thrown Andrew and Phil under the bus by apologising to those people in the Chinese sounding name saga associated with house buyers in Auckland, in her speech the Labour Leader said she never felt comfortable with Labour accusations. Funny what rats you have to swallow in order to look creditable when you need the Chinese vote.
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August 15, 2017 11:43am
- Gabby
  
  But chappy they’re not Chinese remember.
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:52am
  - Happychappy
    
    I gave you a up tick as for once I could understand the reply.
    
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    August 15, 2017 12:18pm
  - rangitoto
    
    NZ’ers with chinky sounding names wasn’t it?
    
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    August 15, 2017 12:30pm
- RF
  
  Happychappy.
  
  The bus needs to be bigger as chippie just joined his 2 mates over the Aussie saga.
  
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  August 15, 2017 4:18pm
sooty

With all the school kids learning to drive, are the schools providing cars, or do they have to steal their own!
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August 15, 2017 11:45am
- Gabby
  
  How do driving schools manage sooky? Where do you think the instructors will be found? Do you think maybe the driving schools that provide instruction will also provide vehicles?
  
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  August 15, 2017 11:55am
- rangitoto
  
  The Green party wont like this. They will want students being taught to catch buses or trains.
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:28pm
  - VicParking
    
    Why dont they give biking lessions. I rode a bike to school until and so it the majority of my friends. Mind you in those days bike thefts where few and far between.
    
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    August 15, 2017 3:56pm
Fletch

Matt Walsh delivers a tongue lashing to the idiots on the right and the left –

I have already made known my feelings about the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville.

Their idiocy is overshadowed only by their moral depravity. The one thing they lack more than jobs and girlfriends is a semi-coherent understanding of history. How many of these neo-Nazi punks even realize that Hitler would have marched them to the gas chambers right alongside the black and Jewish Americans they despise? How many of them had grandfathers and great grandfathers who stormed the beaches to defeat the very movement they now wish to resurrect? Part of me hopes their grandfathers are dead so they don’t have to witness what’s become of their families. Part of me hopes they’re alive so they can take their canes and swat these brats across the head. I don’t condone violence, unless it’s a WWII vet delivering a grandfatherly whooping to his vile, ungrateful Nazi grandson.

It would be very difficult to go too far in criticizing the sorts of “men” who rallied this weekend. I am forced to put the word “men” in quotes because they are only men in the most literal sense. In any other sense, they are cowardly, pathetic little boys desperate for attention. I am not interested in hearing, as I have heard from some people, that these imbeciles were “driven” to this point because of all the racism and hatred on the Left. There is racism and hatred on the Left — a lot of it, and we’ll get to that in a second — but that does not even begin to excuse them.

[…]

These degenerates mirror each other in just about every way. They are each other. They are twins, separated by circumstance and reunited in the streets where they throw rocks and fists at their own reflections. I am not convinced that either group really cares all that much about their respective ideologies. I think they mostly just want to shout at people and burn stuff. Nihilism and indifference is what fuels them. The problem is not that they care too deeply about an issue, or even that they care in the wrong way and about the wrong things, but that they don’t care about much of anything at all. They have led aimless and directionless lives, and in the banners they have taken up, and the chaos they bring to our cities, they find a little spark of life in their darkened souls. They find something to do. A purpose. Even more important: an enemy. And the enemy they have found is exactly like themselves.

MORE – http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/matt-walsh-dear-alt-right-white-supremacists-and-leftist-antifa-thugs-you-deserve-each-other/
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August 15, 2017 12:01pm
- PhilBest
  
  I posted cut-and-pastes from two of Matt Walsh’s yesterday. Since being tipped off to his existence, I have put him at the top of my “must follow” list. Ahead of even my old favourites James Delingpole, Mark Steyn, Daniel Greenfield, Theodore Dalrymple and Ann Coulter.
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:23pm
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  What is Matt Walsh doing about the removal of statues in Charlottesville deemed “racist”?
  
  What other culture icons and treasure will be in the cross hairs for erasure because they are deemed symbols of racism, sexism, homophobia, fatphobia?
  
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  August 15, 2017 1:03pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    First they came for the statues of the Confederate generals,
    And I did not speak out,
    Because I was not a Confederate….
    
    (apologies to Pastor Niemoller)
    
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    August 15, 2017 5:12pm
  - realityczech
    
    Only whites are racist. The very same whites who popularised the concept of racism and declared it wrong.
    
    The other 90% of the world does not think like that.
    
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    August 15, 2017 5:19pm
Rachael Membery

Sexism calling Jacinda a scold, god they will get out the bridle (scold’s bridle) next.
Sexist rhetoric is inappropriate.
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August 15, 2017 12:10pm
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  I prefer the term shrew, describes feminist childless cat lady types perfectly.
  
  At least Toof Fairy isn’t a fattie, I suppose.
  
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  August 15, 2017 12:59pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Anecdotally shrews can be tamed, watch for the scold word to be used as an example of ‘lack of sexual bias’.
    
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    August 15, 2017 1:23pm
holysheet

And you think you’re having a bad day.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40929625/stuck-container-ship-in-hot-water
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August 15, 2017 12:38pm
- VicParking
  
  All because the sea is warming maybe
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:57pm
cha

All together now…

If you go down in the woods today

You’re sure of a big surprise

If you go down in the woods today

You’d better go in disguise!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4P1kKK-5k&feature=youtu.be
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August 15, 2017 1:13pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Off you go Cha.
  
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  August 15, 2017 1:46pm
lifesgood

I heard a whingeing Gavin Ellis (so called media commentator) on National Radio bemoaning the fact that Mike Hosking will be chairing the leaders’ debates….because Mike’s right wing and it’s an unfair advantage, etc, etc ad nauseum. He talked about “perception”. Oh yeah, we’ve heard that word before. I seem to think it always comes from the left. Who would he prefer? John Campbell? Oh, right, totally neutral is he, that well known lefty?
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August 15, 2017 1:15pm
- itstricky
  
  I couldn’t care either way.
  
  I will say that I am absolutely, positively, certainly, 100%, categorically sure that absolutely not one soul on KB ever ever ever complained about JC being chair…never ever ever.
  
  (Kimbo: application for dispensation please. Reason: dramatic effect)
  
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  August 15, 2017 2:19pm
Stars And Stripes

Climate change risk prompts Super Fund to sell shares in oil, gas firms
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/337218/super-fund-sells-shares-to-cut-climate-change-exposure
“The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has sold shares in some of the world’s biggest companies to reduce exposure to firms emitting greenhouse gases.
The fund is quitting or reducing holdings in 300 firms as part of its “carbon transition”. They include Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP and Statoil and local firms New Zealand Oil & Gas and Genesis Energy.
Chief investment officer Matt Whineray said 40 percent of all super fund investments would be low carbon as a result of the changes.”.

Seems like the mission of the Super Fund is gradually being eroded by adherence to the latest trendy causes and not about maximising investment returns to the taxpayer.
Investment is a hard nose business and if you don’t have the stomach for unpopular choices then maybe it’s not a game you should be in.
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August 15, 2017 1:25pm
- Paulus
  
  I thought that the NZ Super Fund was created to do the very best in looking after our money and returning the best return on the investments not pandering to the emotional element of Greenpeace.
  Fund Managers – do your job or get out.
  
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  August 15, 2017 1:39pm
  - KevOB
    
    I am appalled. This is ignorance of their responsibilities and of the proper valuation of the companies in their portfolio.
    
    <emWhat global warming?
    
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    August 15, 2017 3:28pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  As long as it isn’t because they are anticipating the Greens getting in, or Labour for that matter.
  
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  August 15, 2017 1:52pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Geezus Xst!!!!!!
  
  The buggas have already had to write off $55 Million by investing in some dodgy Yankee wind turbine company.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11842620
  
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  August 15, 2017 4:22pm
kowtow

Academia being held to ransom.

“Nowadays I’d be afraid of causing offence to my students, both that I can understand why a senior academic imposing a pornographic text on the students would come across as being objectionable and that the students would slap me with a trigger warning [so] that I now self-censor myself.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/08/14/university-drops-worlds-oldest-erotic-novel-written-english/
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August 15, 2017 1:35pm
Fletch

Former NSA official Bill Binney appears on Tucker Carlson and gives some technical details as to why the Democrat computers likely weren’t hacked by Russia at all but files were copied onto a drive, likely by an insider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBrGbIrkFA0

Of course, it serves a purpose to the left to advance the Russia narrative.
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August 15, 2017 3:06pm
- Fletch
  
  The actual document produced by VIPS around the hacking.
  
  The Key Event
  
  July 5, 2016: In the early evening, Eastern Daylight Time, someone working in the EDT time zone with a computer directly connected to the DNC server or DNC Local Area Network, copied 1,976 MegaBytes of data in 87 seconds onto an external storage device. That speed is much faster than what is physically possible with a hack.
  
  It thus appears that the purported “hack” of the DNC by Guccifer 2.0 (the self-proclaimed WikiLeaks source) was not a hack by Russia or anyone else, but was rather a copy of DNC data onto an external storage device.
  
  https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:26pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Which probably explains why the DNC refused to release the Server to the FBI for analysis.
    The Aswan brother might have an interesting tale to tell. Good on the Marine renting his house for refusing to let him take his computer equipment away and then giving it to the Police.
    
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    August 15, 2017 4:04pm
  - cmm
    
    Ok, first off let me say I don’t personally think the data was “hacked”. I think it was leaked.
    
    However, the “proof” that uses file times looks bogus to me.
    
    From what I have seen, this analysis just looks at the creation time stamps on the files.
    
    Two problems with using these for any sorts of evidence:
    1) The creation times get updated every time a new file gets created. Copying creates a new file.
    
    Therefore if the data was copied SLOWLY via a network onto a PC, then copied from there onto a USB stick, then the file creation times of the files on the USB stick are those of when the files were copied onto the USB stick, not when they were copied off the server.
    
    2) File timestamps can be modified. eg. with the Linux touch command or a very simple program in python, C, whatever.
    
    So unless there’s something that I am missing, this is bogus evidence.
    
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    August 15, 2017 4:13pm
    - mikenmild
      
      That’s the kind of ‘evidence’ Fletch usually cites…
      
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      August 15, 2017 4:21pm
      - realityczech
        
        milky what was in the hacked information that harmed Hillary so much ?
        
        Please tell us what Hillary did that lost her the election ?
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:10pm
    - Fletch
      
      I’m pretty sure these guys would have thought of that. These are all senior systems analysts and security experts, and not particular fans of Trump, by the way – they just go where the evidence leads. (VIPS stands for Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group of former officers of the United States Intelligence Community).
      
      I would like to see a thorough breakdown though (although much of the technical stuff would probably escape me).
      
      There is the other fact though that, as Binney points out, the NSA has traceroute programs embedded all over the network and they would know if packets were being passed in the U.S or outside the U.S, they could trace them and see who got them in the same way they traced the Chinese hack to a building a China a few years ago. No such records exist for the Russia “hack” apparently.
      
      You can read more at The Nation (also a left wing news site, and no fan of Trump) – https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/
      
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      August 15, 2017 8:07pm
      - cha
        
        No such records apparently
        
        Really.
        
        How would you know?.
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:11pm
      - Fletch
        
        Don’t you think the NSA would have produced them to back up Hillary and the DNC story if they existed?
        
        From the article linked above –
        
        In a letter to Barack Obama dated January 17, three days before he left office, the group explained that the NSA’s known programs are fully capable of capturing all electronic transfers of data. “We strongly suggest that you ask NSA for any evidence it may have indicating that the results of Russian hacking were given to WikiLeaks,” the letter said. “If NSA cannot produce such evidence—and quickly—this would probably mean it does not have any.”
        
        It’s worth reading the whole piece to see how it unfolded (quite an exciting read, actually).
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:15pm
      - cha
        
        Don’t you think the NSA would have produced them to back up Hillary and the DNC story if they existed?
        
        And show their hand while there are multiple formal inquires and most likely counter-intelligence operations underway.
        
        Nah.
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:19pm
      - Fletch
        
        Also watch this interview. These guys know what the programs can and can’t do because they devised the programs.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__6wROkp8Dk
        
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        August 15, 2017 8:44pm
      - cha
        
        Also watch this interview.
        
        Another LaRouchian conspiracy theory.
        
        Nah, I’ll pass.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Lyndon_LaRouche_and_the_LaRouche_movement#Conspiracies
        
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        August 15, 2017 9:00pm
Stars And Stripes

Supermarket reacts after shopper calls out gendered cake sprinkles
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/95792955/retailers-react-after-shoppers-call-out-gendered-colours
“A Countdown shopper has called out the supermarket on its outdated stereotypes on food.
Felicity Bright posted on Countdown’s Facebook page yesterday after seeing pink sprinkles labelled for girls and blue sprinkles for boys.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s old-fashioned everyday sexism. Perhaps you could revise your labels”.
Countdown responded “We absolutely agree that it these shouldn’t be gendered. We are in the process of changing the ticketing as quickly as we can”.

Yes and maybe, just maybe you really need to go and see the cuckoo man lady as any sane person would not even notice something so trivial let alone care.
As for spineless Countdown, well you are only encouraging loonies like this by even entertaining such stupid complaints.
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August 15, 2017 3:21pm
- kowtow
  
  The outrage industry is out of control , no one is calling bullshit ,just surrender.
  
  ‘Clarks withdraws girls’ school shoe after accusations of sexism
  The company’s Dolly Babe will no longer be for sale, although the equivalent boys’ shoe, Leader, is still available’
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/13/clarks-withdraw-girls-school-shoe-after-accusations-of-sexism
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:40pm
  - Gabby
    
    Dolly babe?
    Bloody hell.
    
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    August 15, 2017 5:46pm
- Longknives
  
  My little boy really likes Star Wars.
  I was going to get him an R2D2 Birthday Cake but Stuff has now made me see the error of my ways.
  I will now resist enforcing such evil Gender Stereotypes on him.
  I think I will now give him a vegan, colourless ‘gender neutral’ Lentil cake with a picture of Caitlyn Jenner on it- I will also stop calling my wee boy “him”
  From now until ‘they’ decide on a Gender my child will simply be known as ‘Rainbow’.
  
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  August 15, 2017 3:56pm
  - cmm
    
    Careful.
    
    Rainbows are made from many tons of water. You’re going to have to pay a tax!
    
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    August 15, 2017 4:27pm
  - itstricky
    
    I think I will now give him a vegan, colourless…
    
    I think you’ve got you’ve got your outrage a little topsy turvy. It’s just trivial blue sprinkles after all.
    
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    August 15, 2017 5:20pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Some girls like pink. Some boys like blue. Do these idiots stop to think that they are taking away their personal choices by insisting on gender neutral?
  
  This nana will be making a huge pink frosted cake for her grand daughters birthday, covered in fairies, unicorns and rainbows.
  
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  August 15, 2017 4:06pm
  - cmm
    
    My 21-year old son likes pink in his bedroom. He has since he was old enough to express a preference.
    
    He used to get annoyed by the pink=girls stereotype, but it doesn’t bother him now.
    
    He won’t paint his hunting rifles pink though.
    
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    August 15, 2017 4:56pm
- itstricky
  
  as any sane person would not even notice something so trivial let alone care
  
  In fact, it’s so trivial that you just had to come here, post on it, call Countdown spineless and get 5 comments.
  
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  August 15, 2017 5:13pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Good to see you have recovered from your little cry baby yesterday about the blog being over run by ultra rightists itstricky.
    Thought you were going to burst into tears for a moment but never mind I’m sure playing with your Barbie doll cheered you up.
    
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    August 15, 2017 5:24pm
    - itstricky
      
      Too right. I had a massive, loud, abusive, pink rage tanty because that’s what I’m like.
      
      Luckily at the end of such a traumatic day I had a nice, pink, cupcake with pink sprinkles and princess Belle on top. Always cheers me up.
      
      Much like your manufacturing of outrage always cheers you up. It’s a shame sometimes you get it wrong and parody yourself. Stirling effort otherwise.
      
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      August 15, 2017 5:33pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        No you have read the situation completely wrong.
        What really cheers me up is antagonising the likes of yourself.
        Keep you hanky close by as there is heaps more to come.
        
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        August 15, 2017 5:41pm
      - itstricky
        
        Yay, more pink sprinkles for everyone, on the house!
        
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        August 15, 2017 5:50pm
  - realityczech
    
    itstricky it is not your filthy depravity that disgusts me. It is your zealotry in wanting your illness imposed on others.
    
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    August 15, 2017 5:35pm
- Gabby
  
  You can still get the pink ones old hoary.
  
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  August 15, 2017 5:47pm
KevOB

That was one shopper.

I am not giving up my stereotypes someone has to hold the fort. Am I to insist that my gt grandchildren are to be genderless?
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August 15, 2017 3:33pm
- itstricky
  
  Am I to insist that my gt grandchildren are to be genderless
  
  It’s sprinkles. Just sprinkles. Trivial sprinkles. Not magic fairy dust.
  
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  August 15, 2017 5:26pm
  - starboard
    
    Let me say this slowly…its-the-thin-end-of-the-wedge.
    
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    August 15, 2017 6:17pm
    - KevOB
      
      It’s the thin end of the wedge.
      Iv’e already got a gender fluid stepson. For me, who was molested by pedos as a kid, that takes some getting used to. They were actively trying to recruit young boys, whose sexuality was awakening, to their lifestyle.
      Hetereosexuality has to be normal else populations cannot be maintained.
      Hedonism is pleasurable but nothing for me beats a committed marriage with children.
      Life’s not meant to be easy but the joy can far outweigh any downside. I would enjoy more years.
      
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      August 15, 2017 7:23pm
      - Longknives
        
        Yep. And if you dare criticise the Gay Community-lets say you openly disapprove of them sexualising a four year old boy (Prince George) they shriek and call you a ‘Bigot’ and a ‘Homophobe’…
        
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        August 15, 2017 7:37pm
    - starboard
      
      If grubby pedos are eyeing up 4-year-olds then the pedos need to be flushed out and burnt alive.
      Even that’s too good for them. They make me want to vomit..freaks.
      
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      August 15, 2017 8:02pm
Harriet

Here’s some serious news – Bishop’s gone ballistic over NZ Labour looking into Barnaby Joyce. http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/citizenship-scandal-could-spread-to-labor-party-after-barnaby-joyce-confirmed-a-kiwi/news-story/10be0741fe5b9de9771dfe386adfc729
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August 15, 2017 3:38pm
- RF
  
  Comrade Jacinda has gone teeth / hat in hand to see the Aussie High Commissioner today.
  
  I hear she has chippies balls in her handbag as a peace offering.
  
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  August 15, 2017 4:11pm
  - sooty
    
    Did he ever have any?
    
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    August 15, 2017 4:51pm
    - Happychappy
      
      sooty : Listening to his whining you would think they haven’t dropped.
      
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      August 15, 2017 5:30pm
  - Gabby
    
    She’s got a lettle lest of the other kiwis in their parliament.
    
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    August 15, 2017 5:11pm
Manolo

Living on borrowed time:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/politics/steve-bannon-trump-white-house.html

Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, refused to even say he could work with him.
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August 15, 2017 3:57pm
- Fletch
  
  To be honest, this “white nationalist” talk is just the latest insult the left have stirred up.
  
  In Dallas, a black nationalist activist shot and killed 5 police officers at a Black Lives Matter anti-police rally. Instead of condemning BLM, Barack Obama defended a racist hate group whose role model is Assata Shakur, a wanted black nationalist cop killer, at the funerals of the murdered officers.
  
  The Dems have become an extremist party run by the radical left. Obama, Holder, and Lynch made common cause with black nationalist hate groups against civil society. It began when Obama defended the vile racism of Jeremiah Wright and concluded with DOJ organized race riots. DNC boss Tom Perez addresses La Raza and his deputy Keith Ellison is a veteran of the Nation of Islam.
  
  The radical left wants to see Neo-Nazis gain prominence on the right to polarize the country. It wants to see our values and norms drowned in violence so that it has an excuse to eliminate free speech. It seeks to eliminate democracy by making the other side appear nightmarishly dangerous. It plots to impose a totalitarian system on the United States by empowering extremists to destroy the current system.
  
  And their opposite numbers waving swastika flags want the same thing. The difference is that they don’t control the Republican Party the way that the Alt-Left and black nationalists control the Democrats.
  
  Charlottesville is what happens when civil society fails. And those who set the terms of permissive discourse, who control the media, academia and social norms, are responsible for the failure.
  
  Conservatives don’t have that kind of power. It’s the left that does.
  
  http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/greenfield-one-easy-way-democrats-can-stop-neo-nazis
  
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  August 15, 2017 6:35pm
MCos

Tweet of the day
“Wishing the President a speedy recovery from his twisted arm.”
James Urbaniak
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August 15, 2017 4:08pm
Fletch

Brendan O’Neill from Spiked has posted on Facebook about our local dimwit Lorde’s white apology tweet.

Here’s shit singer and professional misery guts Lorde using the freedom in part preserved for her by the millions of white men who traipsed to Spain in the 1930s or joined the Greek resistance in the 1940s or died on the Western and Eastern fronts in the battle against Nazism to say all white people are responsible for Nazism. Lovely.

https://www.facebook.com/brendan.oneill.79/posts/1450564661700289
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August 15, 2017 5:01pm
- itstricky
  
  I don’t have much time for her music. But when you/he call her a “misery, dimwit, shit singer” it doesn’t do much for your argument. I immediately switch off and think “what a waste of time”
  
  Then I wonder where I can see Brendan live because clearly he is shit hot entertainment, if he can afford to peg down someone who clearly can sing, whether you like her music, or not.
  
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  August 15, 2017 5:44pm
  - david
    
    “Singing” is a rather generous description of the recorded whining that I hear when her renditions are broadcast”
    
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    August 15, 2017 9:36pm
- Gabby
  
  Brendy’s frothing about a girl being free to say what the hell she likes. Brendy’s missed the point.
  
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  August 15, 2017 5:59pm
realityczech

Bitter man hating meat sacks charge men more,

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/95801384/nelson-cafe-charges-men-more-than-women-to-raise-gender-pay-gap-awareness
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August 15, 2017 5:42pm
- itstricky
  
  charge men more
  
  If they want to pay more, it sounds like.
  
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  August 15, 2017 5:48pm
  - realityczech
    
    The over entitled women that go to those places are usually spending the mans money anyway while he is slaving away at work.
    
    But if they ever get off their arse and do anything they expect to stroll in and get the top job on the top pay.
    
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    August 15, 2017 5:51pm
- Fletch
  
  An easy fix – when it comes to paying the bill just claim you’re legally a woman. If she reckons otherwise, shout “transphobic!”.
  
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  August 15, 2017 6:30pm
Jack5

A couple of farm managers who should be going to prison …

Cruelty to cows in a big way on a large Southland farm, apparently owned by folk in the Waikato.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/95812787/castlerock-diaries-sentenced-after-appalling-abuse-of-cows
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August 15, 2017 5:59pm
- realityczech
  
  Yep they need to come down on them hard. Farmers are coping enough shit from the far left movement without this sort of thing. It could also hurt our export image.
  
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  August 15, 2017 6:03pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Never ever let those men on a farm again.
  
  Shooting them should be an option.
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:49pm
starboard

Nice one Arden, upsetting the Australian Government already with ya huge mouth..just goes to show how out of depth you and your lot are. Kick Ritchie Cunningham in the arse.
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August 15, 2017 6:09pm
- Fletch
  
  She has no clue what she is doing. Labour are just making up policy as they go based on populist issues.
  
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  August 15, 2017 6:31pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Smile, click, media. Cindy is following the footsteps of you know who. Now who remembers the last superstar that was going to be PM ?Oh sorry there are so many in Liarbore
    
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    August 15, 2017 6:47pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘Labour are just making up policy as they go’
    
    Most of it is from around 2015. Even after 2 years they haven’t got it right.
    They are just useless.
    
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    August 15, 2017 7:25pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  I was thinking more like he was “Johnboy Walton” another shithead character
  
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  August 15, 2017 6:32pm
- starboard
  
  It’s got a feeling about it like Klarkula is the organ grinder and Arden is the monkey. Wouldnt surprise me.
  
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  August 15, 2017 6:49pm
- KevOB
  
  ☑️☑️
  
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  August 15, 2017 7:31pm
  - Gabby
    
    Tulixpu
    
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    August 15, 2017 7:53pm
- MrTips
  
  He’s not Ritchie Cunningham. He’s Alfred E. Neumann
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:50pm
noskire

Funds and/or volunteers must be drying up for the Greens and Labour. Andrew Little is still on a billboard with Jacinda at Frankton (heading into Queenstown), AND Material Girl still has her own billboard on Ferry Road heading towards Sumner.
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August 15, 2017 6:59pm
- Gabby
  
  They know the Queenstowners there are all foreigners so don’t vote, and the Queenstowners who aren’t foreigners aren’t there and will be voting for Wee Toddger.
  
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  August 15, 2017 7:10pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Andrew Little is still on a billboard with Jacinda at Frankton”…..
  
  That’s understandable……they’ve got a “special bond”.
  
  https://cdn.thestandard.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/womans-weekly-little-ardern.jpg?x57220
  
  Mind you, that was a couple of weeks ago! 🙂
  
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  August 15, 2017 7:10pm
  - noskire
    
    Heck, didn’t realise that shit was still in publication –
    now I need to go and vomit.
    
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    August 15, 2017 7:24pm
    - Longknives
      
      Nasska only buys it for the articles…
      
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      August 15, 2017 7:26pm
      - nasska
        
        And the recipes! 🙂
        
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        August 15, 2017 7:29pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Goodness, Andy Foster is standing for NZ First in Wellington Central.
http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=101937

Wonder if he will come in a distant 4th?
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August 15, 2017 8:57pm
Manolo

Australia’s Gareth Morgan or the equivalent nutter:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4791082/Dick-Smith-launches-1-million-anti-immigration-campaign.html
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August 15, 2017 9:04pm
- Gabby
  
  The Barney Out campaign. It was just a matter of time.
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:54pm
Manolo

Attempring to control the left-wing ABC:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/15/one-nation-backs-media-changes-in-return-for-greater-restrictions-on-abc

The government bill watering down cross-media ownership restrictions is closer to passing, with One Nation announcing its in-principle support in return for greater restrictions on ABC finances and neutrality.
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August 15, 2017 9:07pm
rangitoto

What a bunch of opportunistic lowlife scum:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/west-coast/95798732/crossparty-agreement-pledges-a-reentry-of-pike-river-mine
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August 15, 2017 9:28pm
- Muttonbird
  
  How is it opportunistic? The opposition have been consistent for years on this. They’ve all said since 2011 the National Party government hasn’t done enough and have hidden like cowards.
  
  Time for those families to get their men some answers.
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:37pm
  - rangitoto
    
    They are willing to send people to their death for no reason. As I said. Low life scum.
    
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    August 15, 2017 9:55pm
- Gabby
  
  How DARE they harp on about stuff the nats want to keep hushed up.
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:52pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Why would they want to hush up union activities in a mine.
    
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    August 15, 2017 10:01pm
    - Gabby
      
      Exactly.
      
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      August 15, 2017 10:17pm
- realityczech
  
  Why would anyone want to enter an exploded mine ?
  
  It might be an option if they want to reopen it and its economic, but it is not the case here.
  
  National have said no. They were right on this one.
  
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  August 15, 2017 10:11pm
Manolo

Is our own missing stephieboy one of them?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40926963

In the last two years, three Saudi princes living in Europe have disappeared. All were critical of the Saudi government – and there is evidence that all were abducted and flown back to Saudi Arabia… where nothing further has been heard from them.
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