General Debate 23 January 2018

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Captain Mainwaring

So Penny’s hovel is finally going up for auction. Obviously the Auckland Council eventually figured out that with flattening property values the pile of rotten firewood and rusted-out vehicles was only worth the price of the polluted land on which it sits and that their equity was rapidly going backwards.
Hugh, have you got a spare bedroom for the mad woman? She can share the bathroom, she won’t use it very often.
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January 23, 2018 8:01am
- Nostradamus
  
  Captain Mainwaring:
  
  I think Penny would make an excellent ~~bedmate~~ flatmate for William of Ockham! Think about the upside: he could fly her to overseas conferences in his private jet!
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:01am
  - softail 1450
    
    nostradamus ,or they could use pennies broomstick.
    
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    January 23, 2018 1:22pm
    - Gabby
      
      you could double them softcock14yo.
      
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      January 23, 2018 6:07pm
- Colville
  
  Saw the news yesterday, approx $50K in rates and court costs to be deducted after sales fees. Excellent.
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:04am
  - calendar girl
    
    About time this was pursued. Auckland Council has taken far too long to bring this Bright arrogance to a potential closure.
    
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    January 23, 2018 8:49am
  - pdm
    
    Another New Zealander in self inflicted poverdy!!
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:06am
    - Biscuit
      
      pdm, my TAB Account is in self-included poverdy after Liverpool’s loss to the bottom-placed team in the EPL this a.m.
      
      Grrrrr!
      
      The puddytat saw my evil mood and skedaddled from the den, still unfed.
      
      A wise move…
      
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      January 23, 2018 12:32pm
  - GazzaW
    
    That should cover the councillors’ lunch costs for a couple of months.
    
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    January 23, 2018 7:34pm
- William of Ockham
  
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  Two General Debates today!
  
  Senate: Republican
  House: Republican
  POTUS: Republican
  
  Trump: “Stable genius” or a “fucking moron”? Nah.
  
  Shit For Brains
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:04am
  - RalphT
    
    Indeed two GDs today. I think I’ll stick with this one as it got off to the better start, i.e. not with WoO as the first entry.
    
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    January 23, 2018 8:09am
  - flipper
    
    51 tumps 60 only in your past use by brain.
    
    Shut up until you know what you are spouting ….. dumbass!
    
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    January 23, 2018 8:27am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Thankfully, my downtick cleared away the tipped up garbage can.
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:17am
- peterwn
  
  She will either cough up before the hammer falls or find some other legal impediment eg sale procedures incorrectly followed. Any diminishing in values would not have come into the Council’s decision making – the land even if presented in the most disgusting way would be worth more than the owed rates and associated costs.
  She would be wise to cough up for three reasons:
  1. Prospective bidders cannot inspect the property and have to bid sight unseen – this will reduce the amount they are prepared to bid.
  2. They need to factor in that it is likely to cost money to dislodge her.
  3. The successful bidder can ask that some sale proceeds ($100000 or so) be held back to pay to gain possession of the property.
  
  There could be an element of ‘double counting’ in 2 & 3 which could benefit the buyer.
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:20am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Peterwn:
    
    The Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 sets out the sale process – see sections 67 to 76.
    
    Section 74 states:
    
    Presumption of valid rating sale or lease
    (1) A rating sale or lease made under this Act is valid for all purposes, even if there has been an irregularity in the conduct of the sale or lease.
    
    (2) No purchaser or lessee is obliged to inquire whether the sale or lease was properly conducted.
    
    So, in terms of your tentative suggestion above, Penny can’t argue that the sale procedures were incorrectly followed. In fact, I can’t see any scope for a challenge, other than evidence that she’s fully settled the rates account.
    
    I’m sure Penny will organise an “occupy” protest, but eventually the rule of law will prevail.
    
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    January 23, 2018 8:35am
    - fernglas
      
      The fact that there are no grounds for a challenge hasn’t stopped her before.
      
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      January 23, 2018 8:37am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Ferglas:
        
        Penny could commence a frivolous claim against Auckland Council. All that would achieve, though, is that Auckland Council would file an application for summary judgement and Penny’s claim would be dismissed with costs.
        
        Those costs, of course, could conveniently be tagged on to the current rates bill. However, on my reading of the legislation, Auckland Council would have to go through the whole process again for that to happen (ie to get a court order for an increased judgment debt). The more likely scenario is that Auckland Council would cut its losses (ratepayers’ losses) and proceed with the sale.
        
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        January 23, 2018 8:44am
      - peterwn
        
        Nostradamus – once the matter is passed to the High Court for a rating sale, it is sort of out of the Council’s hands, she would have to attack the sale by convincing a High Court Judge it is not right. She would have to pay $900 or so just to file the papers. The boot is now on the other foot.
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:10am
    - peterwn
      
      In which case Penny could get zilch at the end of the day. Depending on her stance after the sale, some or all proceeds could be held by the Court to meet the costs of getting her out.
      The property is held in a trust and she is presumably one of the trustees. The other trustees (assuming they are not similarly rabid) will not want a rating sale to actually happen and to protect their own backsides would need to commence legal action of their own.
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:08am
      - alex Masterley
        
        I understand Ms Brights property is in her sole name and there is no trust.
        The only backside at risk is hers.
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:18am
      - peterwn
        
        Alex – there seems to be confusion about this. Perhaps she settled it into a trust in the mistaken belief that it stop or impede recovery action, and when this failed had the trust wound up (perhaps the other trustees, even if close mates, were getting cold feet over their responsibilities)
        
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        January 23, 2018 1:52pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      A give a little page? Penny doesn’t seem to have any trouble asking people for money to go overseas.
      
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      January 23, 2018 2:49pm
      - sooty
        
        Little bit different asking for 100k.
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:13pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    The Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 governs the process of rating sales.
    It is a slow process taking in excess of 6 months to get to a sale.
    As long as the process is carried out in accordance with the act by the Registrar of the High Court Ms Bright will not be able to do much more than grandstand. Unless of course she coughs up.
    
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    January 23, 2018 8:38am
    - Swifty
      
      She should cough up – she’s made her point.
      
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      January 23, 2018 8:46am
      - calendar girl
        
        … if she ever had a real point in the first place, other than her “Look at me” grand-standing.
        
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        January 23, 2018 1:32pm
  - Chris2
    
    She will pay up, but will claim the arrears were paid by someone anonymous, sympathetic to her cause. She will try and save face by pretending benefactor paid, but we will really know it is her money..
    
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    January 23, 2018 10:54am
    - RF
      
      Penny has been seen in K Road recently wearing fish net stockings and her cat skin hat.
      
      Is she looking after those in need of financial advice….
      
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      January 23, 2018 6:55pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    The likely cost to dislodge her?
    There’ll be no dislodging.
    
    I expect that there will be a cabal of perennially outraged individuals who will congregate to prevent the removal, sing “We shall overcome” and “Kumbaya” and the authorities won’t have the gonads to arrest the lot of them for obstruction and PB will stay on.
    [Remember the Kauri tree sitter? He’ll be there for sure ‘cos the telly will turn up]
    
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    January 23, 2018 11:41am
    - sooty
      
      Could always get one of the gangs come in the dead of night!
      
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      January 23, 2018 7:17pm
- kowtow
  
  Genuine question .
  
  What other bodies have the power to force you to sell assets to pay a debt.
  
  Or is the council doing what any other person can do ie go to court to get an order to pay?
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:07am
  - peterwn
    
    The Council (similar to IRD) has almost draconian powers to recover overdue rates under the Rating Act. There are safeguards in the Act but she has exploited these to the full to delay the process. The greatest power is to require a mortgagee to cough up overdue rates – they do not mind, they simply cough up the overdue rates plus an admin fee. This deals with rates strikes and similar situations. Penny’s property does not have a mortgage so it is one of the rare cases where a rating sale process is needed.
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:58am
    - kowtow
      
      Councils and the IRD but not others?
      
      Is it fair to say the state reserves enormous powers to itself to safeguard its revenues that it jealously does not allow to others ,who may also have legitimate grounds to recover debts but can’t so easily?
      
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      January 23, 2018 11:15am
      - peterwn
        
        Yes, because that is what Parliament has decided. If people do not like these state powers they can vote for a party which promises to diminish them. For example the liquidation industry is rumbling about wanting the government diminish IRD’s priorities with regards to PAYE (and similar deductions such as Kiwisaver) and GST owing which indirectly means employees’ Kiwisaver and Student Loan deductions could be down the gurgler more often). Meanwhile the Official Assignee is seeking increased powers to drain bankrupts’ Kiwisaver accounts (having lost in the Court of Appeal over this).
        
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        January 23, 2018 11:59am
  - GoVege
    
    I see its Picking on Penny Day……again.
    Can’t they wait until the dear lady pegs it?
    The house has still gotta be worth way more than the rates bill. 🙂
    
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    January 23, 2018 10:31am
    - sooty
      
      Isn’it lovely, pick on Penny today! Stupid old spinster only bought it on her self. It’s going to cost her at least 100k.
      
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      January 23, 2018 11:59am
      - Gabby
        
        Best time to kick someone’s when they’re down right sooky
        
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        January 23, 2018 12:55pm
      - RF
        
        Gabby.
        
        I do agree with you on this occasion.
        
        Be gentle with the poor soul. Wear slippers.
        
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        January 23, 2018 6:59pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      GoVege:
      
      Can’t they wait until the dear lady pegs it?
      
      Your question is based on an incorrect premise. Why should Auckland Council (and the long-suffering ratepayers) give Penny special treatment? Penny is the first person to come on Kiwiblog and preach her “rule of law” credentials. Well, in this case, all that people expect is for Auckland Council to apply the law in an evenhanded manner. Sheesh, no less than a High Court judge (in the rates case that Penny brought) told her in no uncertain terms that she should pay her rates.
      
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      January 23, 2018 12:45pm
      - GoVege
        
        Well if she disobeyed a High Court judge, then she’s probably a very naughty girl.
        But there aren’t many Pennys around and I reckon we Kiwis need to be a bit more tolerant of our harmless eccentrics.
        I’m sure the Council have first dibs on the house, so we’ll get the rates in the end. 🙂
        
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        January 23, 2018 2:19pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      Aren’t many Penny’s around?
      
      Sorry GoVege but I disagree. There are plenty of people in this country prepared to take the piss of rate payers and tax payers by thinking the rules of decent behaviour and societal contribution don’t apply to them. Frankly most of us net contributors have had a gutsful of that.
      
      I support Ms Bright in her right to protest and certainly in her disdain for the Auckland Council but as several have already pointed out; she should have made contingency for the potential failure of legal recourse. If her methods had been better thought out she would have received a lot of support from rate payers here in Auckland.
      
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      January 23, 2018 4:45pm
      - sooty
        
        Might be different if it was someone different too. She doe’s not do herself any favors! Been batshit crazy ain’t a help!
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:22pm
- Liberty
  
  Now CoL are in the Big house. One more peasant with a chinese sounding name
  With years of deluded devotion to the marxist cause. Is to be callously thrown out of
  her family home by a heartless regime. Media who have long been in the pocket of Col will justify the purge as it in the public good.
  
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  January 23, 2018 10:00am
- Southern Raider
  
  Her alternative accomodation option (small tent on Quay St) where she was protesting removal of trees has also disappeared.
  
  I see Auckland Transport much have come in over the weekend while she was having a break and clear felled the median strip. She obviously wasn’t very committed to protecting the trees
  
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  January 23, 2018 12:09pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Brilliant! Good on AT.
    
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    January 23, 2018 12:25pm
Colville

Watched the movie Get Out last night.
What an unmitigated piece of shit.
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January 23, 2018 8:06am
- Lance
  
  Beware, “The Shape of Water” will hurt your eyes and leave you thinking WTF over and over.
  Do not waste your money on this POS.
  Some brain damaged clowns give this a top rating???
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:23am
  - VicParking
    
    A brain damaged clown called Lance gave it poor rating. Is IMDb brain damaged (7.9/10). I don’t think its a Gone with the Wind but a good watch.
    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Is the one to watch. Already available on iTunes. (10/10).
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:01am
  - howitis
    
    On IMDB go to the bottom of the main page on that movie.
    See ‘user reviews’
    Then click on ‘See all XXX user reviews’
    in this case
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
    
    The first 4 reviews give it 2/10 1/10 3/10 1 /10 usually with a narrative review
    
    It was only late last year for some reason IMDB removed the 5 categories that that included ‘Hated it’ ‘loved it’ ‘ frequent reviewers’ This made it quicker and you could sort reviews.
    Now it is sequential. Not very 2018 ish.
    Review titles of this movie include
    Disappointing Twaddle
    The Sad Shape of Moviemaking
    2 hours of my life I will never get back.
    
    You have been warned!
    
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    January 23, 2018 10:30am
- Longknives
  
  Ha Ha Not drowning in ‘White Guilt’ then Colville?
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:36am
  - Colville
    
    That fucking movie cost me a shag…the Missus wouldnt talk to me after “making” her watch it!
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:03am
Chuck Bird

According to some judges an offender cannot be charged with murder or manslaughter in these sort of deaths. Should the law change? Not likely under this government.

Home invasion mystery: Vera Smith would have turned 89 this month

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/100705137/vera-smith-would-have-turned-89-this-month
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January 23, 2018 8:06am
- SGA
  
  Chuck, having read the article, I’m not sure what the law change that you are suggesting would look like (and worry about what its unintended consequences might be). Can you be more specific?
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:13am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    SGA, I think someone who commits a crime of violence where someone dies should be charged with at least manslaughter. Home invasion is a crime of violence.
    
    What unintended consequences do you envision?
    
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    January 23, 2018 8:39am
    - SGA
      
      Two people are having a fist fight, a spectator has a heart attack and dies – from your law (and extrapolating from your article), they can be charged with murder or manslaughter?
      
      Also as fernglas points out, when we are considering death-by-heart-attack, causation would cause all sorts of problems (especially in a case where the person went to hospital, was sent home, and subsequently died months later).
      
      That said, if it was my mother, then I’d been blaming the intruder too – but I’m not sure it would make good law.
      
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      January 23, 2018 8:46am
    - SGA
      
      Actually Chuck, manslaughter would already cover most to the instances you are concerned about –
      
      Manslaughter generally refers to accidental homicide arising from an unlawful act or failure to act, where death could not reasonably be expected.
      https://teara.govt.nz/en/violent-crime/page-2
      
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      January 23, 2018 8:56am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      I can see that the law would have to be carefully drafted and possibly have a list of offenses. Someone could have a heart attack after having their lifesaving lost to a fraudster. That would not be an appropriate offense.
      
      There are a lot of rapes every year. One seldom hears of victims dying of a heart attack. However, if an elderly lady is raped in her own home and dies during or after the rape I think it should be up to a jury to decide if the POS should be found guilty of manslaughter.
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:03am
  - fernglas
    
    There’s a small legal problem called causation; can you prove that her death was caused by the incident months earlier?
    
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    January 23, 2018 8:40am
- peterwn
  
  This is a vexed legal matter concerned with ‘causation’. It is not a matter of ‘some judges’, judges will take note of precedents especially those from a higher court and prosecutors will take similar note when deciding whether laying charges is appropriate.
  To change the law to make it easier to obtain a conviction in such circumstances would still raise issues eg if A harasses B and B gets a heart attack (which was coming anyway), should A be charged with murder or manslaughter.
  Or the hypothetical case – a drunk Pommie supporter ‘bottles’ a Kiwi supporter after a match and the Kiwi needs urgent life saving surgery. Kiwi refuses to let a Pommie surgeon operate on him but dies by the time a Kiwi surgeon is called in. Should the Pommie supporter be charged with murder?
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:38am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    You case although unlikely is interesting. A thing that could happen would be if a JW who stuck their foot in the door and got injured when it was slammed and refused a blood transfusion and died.
    
    I must admit I would find it hard to sympathize with the JW.
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:08am
    - backster
      
      True story…..Two men well known in a local bar got into a fight and were ejccted from the bar. Both were showing signs of their involvement in the brawl and both were known by the Police. One was found dead at home next morning. The autopsy showed he died of a heart attack. That night there was a commotion in the Police Watchouse as a group of drunk men thrust another well beat up man to the counter and shouted “This is the bastard that killed Jimmy.” It was with difficulty that they were convinced that Jimmy died of natural causes…A few months later the bastard got into a violent argument with his neighbour. Family pacified them and they became so friendly that later they decided to go fishing in a delapidated dinghy. A storm blew up the dingy overturned and only the bastard made it back to shore. The coronor described it as a tragic accident. The locals were convinced the bastard got away with murder twice… Me I was there and I don’t know.
      
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      January 23, 2018 10:31am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Always interesting, but if A had no knowledge that B had a heart condition, then it is unlikely that A could be held accountable. Even if A knew, the immediate cause of B’s demise was a heart attack, not harassment.
    In terms of Kiwi being bottled, Kiwi’s refusal of immediate, potentially life saving surgery abrogates murder (though it is entirely arguable that a bottling would be manslaughter at worst). There are two causes here. He was bottled and did not die. He was offered and refused life saving surgery when he was alive. He died because he refused life saving surgery.
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:56am
    - fernglas
      
      I don’t believe that’s right. It’s the same if someone dies after botched surgery to repair, say, a brain aneurysm caused by a blow to the head. The blow is still a cause of death, as it would be with the JW who refused surgery.
      
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      January 23, 2018 11:35am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        The example given was the injured person refused immediate LIFE SAVING SURGERY (the expectation is therefore that the surgery would have saved his life). Therefore the blow from the bottle did not kill him, the delay in receiving life saving surgery ensured he died. The decision to delay the surgery was made by the injured person.
        In your example, the blow AND the botched surgery contributed to the death.
        
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        January 23, 2018 3:52pm
Chuck Bird

The Aussies are not impressed.

Three boatloads of asylum seekers headed to New Zealand: Australia

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11980067
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January 23, 2018 8:08am
- ztev
  
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  They have a maps too and can see they arent going to get this far
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:09am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I bet you have all of your fingers and toes crossed.
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:17am
    - Harkman
      
      Labour loves welfare dependant immigrants, but if you’re from East Asia and can pay your own way, no way.
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:22am
    - ztev
      
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      No need . Have counted all the boats that made it here since Vietnamese started all this thing in the 70s.
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:23am
      - Digmen1
        
        Low life immigrants seem to be able to get here in other ways.
        NZ is starting to look like a Bangladeshi slum in some areas.
        
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        January 23, 2018 11:18am
      - Tarquin North
        
        Wonder how many are related to Golly G?
        
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        January 23, 2018 12:05pm
- KKKKatee
  
  Didn’t see that one coming did you PM…
  Too bloody thick to see the unintended consequences…..
  Your big mouth and virtue signalling will get you the boot at some point…..
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:17am
  - ztev
    
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    Just repeating offer Key had made publically to 2 previous Australian PMs
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/307428/pm-stands-by-offer-to-take-150-asylum-seekers
    
    What were you saying about a big mouth?
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:24am
    - hullkiwi
      
      …don’t remember JK making an offer of $3million to PNG to look after the queue jumpers who are/were enroute.
      
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      January 23, 2018 6:00pm
  - Jack5
    
    Big mouth on Jacinderella. Small brain.
    
    Education: PR degree. Perfect.
    
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    January 23, 2018 10:35am
KiWombat

Working mothers and stay at home mums take note:-

I can just see this –

Early morning airbrush and comb over to make her look like the cheesy poster girl we all know –

Into the office for a quick pow-wow then off to the caucus rooms.

Instructs everybody how to behave for the next 24 hours, then tally-ho into the media scrum.

Solves all our national woes and speculates on solutions for other world woes, and winds up with:-

“I manage to look this good and do all this work today, and raise a daughter at the same time – and that’s just before lunch !!”

Now I have enormous respect for those raising children – but IT AIN’T NO PART TIME JOB !! And it’s not a job that you should do over the phone from another city.

I absolutely adore my grandchildren, but I’m always glad to hand them back to mum at the end of the day. It’s hard work keeping up with them. Unless – of course – you give them an iPad and leave them to watch Youtube kids all day!

To minimise the effort required to raise children with “Oh, I can do that and run the country at the same time” is just plain insulting to all those mothers (and fathers) who invest everything they have into their child raising efforts.

Now we are faced with a situation of having two massive jobs, Cindy should choose NOW which she is going to do properly.
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January 23, 2018 8:10am
KiWombat

Working mothers and stay at home mums take note:-

I can just see this –

Early morning airbrush and comb over to make her look like the cheesy poster girl we all know –

Into the office for a quick pow-wow then off to the caucus rooms.

Instructs everybody how to behave for the next 24 hours, then tally-ho into the media scrum.

Solves all our national woes and speculates on solutions for other world woes, and winds up with:-

“I manage to look this good and do all this work today, and raise a daughter at the same time – and that’s just before lunch !!”

Now I have enormous respect for those raising children – but IT AIN’T NO PART TIME JOB !! And it’s not a job that you should do over the phone from another city.

I absolutely adore my grandchildren, but I’m always glad to hand them back to mum at the end of the day. It’s hard work keeping up with them. Unless – of course – you give them an iPad and leave them to watch Youtube kids all day!

To minimise the effort required to raise children with “Oh, I can do that and run the country at the same time” is just plain insulting to all those mothers (and fathers) who invest everything they have into their child raising efforts.

Now we are faced with a situation of having two massive jobs, Cindy should choose NOW which she is going to do properly !!
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January 23, 2018 8:14am
KiWombat

Working mothers and stay at home mums take note:-

Consider this –

Early morning airbrush and comb over to make her look like the cheesy poster girl we all know –

Into the office for a quick pow-wow then off to the caucus rooms.

Instructs everybody how to behave for the next 24 hours, then tally-ho into the media scrum.

Solves all our national woes and speculates on solutions for other world woes, and winds up with:-

“I manage to look this good and do all this work today, and raise a daughter at the same time – and that’s just before lunch !!”

Now I have enormous respect for those raising children – but IT AIN’T NO PART TIME JOB !! And it’s not a job that you should do over the phone from another city.

I absolutely adore my grandchildren, but I’m always glad to hand them back to mum at the end of the day. It’s hard work keeping up with them. Unless – of course – you give them an iPad and leave them to watch Youtube kids all day!

To minimise the effort required to raise children with “Oh, I can do that and run the country at the same time” is just plain insulting to all those mothers (and fathers) who invest everything they have into their child raising efforts.

Now we are faced with a situation of having two massive jobs, Cindy should choose NOW which she is going to do properly !!
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January 23, 2018 8:17am
- Paulus
  
  Bodacia Cyndy can do everything – she is a wonder woman.
  Sincerely, I hope her pregnancy goes well. Have been through two bad pregnancies some years ago with everlasting results and daughter a serious one, both from fairly normal birth health problem.
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:23am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Of course she can when she is paid $500k, has an all expenses paid state house, state paid employees to mind her in said house & state paid services to look after the state house. Geez, life is tough for Cinderella.
    
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    January 23, 2018 6:04pm
- lifesgood
  
  I cannot believe well known party boy and boaster of hundreds of sexual conquests is going to stay home all day with a tiny baby, bottle feeding, cleaning up Pooh’s and wiping up vomit. I’m sorry, they can say what they like, I can’t believe it. Novelty for a couple of weeks and then…..oopsie, it’s not what I thought, call in the nannies, I’m off for some fun.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:06am
  - KiWombat
    
    I’m sure CLicker will find something else to occupy his time after the first 100 nappies !!
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Sure, some mums decide that they or their partner will be the one raising their new babe, but there are other ways of raising children and our PM is opting for an alternative:
  
  “And, New Zealand is going to help us raise our first child … I think it’s fair to say that this will be a wee one that a village will raise, but we couldn’t be more excited.”
  -Jacinda Ardern
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/19/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-will-help-us-raise-our-child
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:08am
  - KKKKatee
    
    What a bloody cheek. Seriously, the PM should put her brain into gear before she spouts rubbish. I want nothing to do with the raising of her kid. It’s their responsibility first and foremost – nothing to do with the nation.
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:30am
    - KiWombat
      
      Pity more didn’t think like you before ticking the box
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:32am
  - stephieboy
    
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    MW , our moral panic police woman !
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:39am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Feel free to expand on that stephieboy…
      
      do tell us what aspect of morality I am panicking about.
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:55am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Jacinda’s pregnancy under our “ socialist “ regime !
        
        Perhaps the words should be a Princess of paranoia .
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:58am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        You misunderstand everything.
        
        I’m happy that a new little life is on it’s way.
        I don’t give a stuff how kids are raised as long as they are safe, immunised, socialised, well-fed and preferably loved.
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:27am
      - Jack5
        
        Waste of your talent, Maggie, engaging with the Stephie troll team.
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:38am
  - Maxx
    
    Ahh – the “someone else will look after my baby while I’m in the pub” whanau approach.
    
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    January 23, 2018 10:25am
  - backster
    
    I wonder what village she was thinking of Cannons Creek or Flaxmere.
    
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    January 23, 2018 10:51am
  - RF
    
    Jesus Christ Maggy.. after reading that I vomited.
    
    I could think of many comments I could make about the brainless chook but I would be banned for life….
    
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    January 23, 2018 7:07pm
- KKKKatee
  
  Typical virtue signalling from the PM.
  Let’s hope she shows a modicum of humility once the baby is born and realises that all the yap, yap, yap about doing two jobs at once was just a pipe dream….
  Mind you, she is being hailed in the media as “Superwoman” so anything’s possible.
  Why do I say this? Because I am a mother myself and a grandmother and whenever my kids have babies, I’m there to pick up the pieces and keep things on track for the Mum as the newborn wrecks havoc on the once, in-control unit. I can’t see that the PM’s situation is going to be any different to any other family with a newborn so how the bloody hell she thinks she can run the country and be a mother at the same time is just more virtual signalling from someone who hasn’t a bloody clue, quite frankly.
  Stop yapping crap PM……
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:25am
  - KiWombat
    
    Like I said above – decide which job you are going to do properly !
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:33am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Look you folks..
      You DONT seem to understand how babies are to be raised in a socialist regime.
      Let me enlighten you:
      http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.co.nz/2018/01/child-rearing-in-socialist-community.html
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:48am
      - stephieboy
        
        MW ., oh dear . Thus all NZ Mums are making a mess of things ever since 1935 in our” socialist “paradise ?
        
        Abolish free maternity care ?
        
        What else ?
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:55am
      - KKKKatee
        
        Well the good thing is that Metiria Turei isn’t doing anything these days…
        She might like to step up and raise the kid – she’s a hard out socialist so it shouldn’t be a problem to her….
        Once she’s negotiated a very handsome fee to do so, of course…….
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:55am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        perhaps you’d better take your concern up with the
        Socialist Party of Great Britain.
        
        It’s their official blog site I’m quoting from.
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:57am
      - stephieboy
        
        Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
        MW , an obscure UK blog site that you attempt to conflate to what is happening here in NZ .
        
        Sheesh !
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:00am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Stephieboy: do you believe that there are biological differences between men and women and could these impact the way men and women think? Furthermore is it possible that if such differences exist it might suggest biological role predeterminance?
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:11am
      - stephieboy
        
        SC , biological predeterminance? ? Like confined to the kitchen and domestic duties ?
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:27am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        So we can deduce from that you believe no differences exist?
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:57am
      - Evadne
        
        Maggy, Is that a spoof? No one can be that stupid, surely??
        
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        January 23, 2018 3:30pm
  - KevOB
    
    Yes. Life is full of surprises for parents or parents to be.
    
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    January 23, 2018 10:35am
alloytoo

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/personal-finance/news/article.cfm?c_id=12&objectid=11979665

Jobs disappearing offshore, what is the government doing about it?

(Disclaimer: I’m producing a lefty opinion headline because the MSM only appear concerned with PM Baby)

Frankly IAG is a horribly mismanaged company.
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January 23, 2018 8:18am
- Digmen1
  
  I am with NZ Insurance.
  But I will be getting another quote and I will be telling them why I am doing it.
  
  Their smarmy PR person said this is what their customers want?
  
  Yeah right we all wrote in and said please sack all your kiwi staff.
  
  I thought the trend was to bring back call centre jobs as “kiwis” sort of know what you are tallking about.
  
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  January 23, 2018 11:16am
  - alloytoo
    
    PR demands that “Customer facing jobs” are retained on shore.
    
    Back office administration is being offshored to a variety of companies including India.
    
    These are unimportant little tasks like actually paying your claim, or correctly allocating your premium to your policy.
    
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    January 23, 2018 11:32am
Paulus

Watch the first opportunity the Aussies have to impose visa restriction to New Zealanders prior to entry.
This along with the change in visas the current New Zealanders (approx 450,000) have who live in Aussie would be a nightmare.
The Aussies have full details, and have had for many years, just waiting for the media to shit stir to enact changes.
Years ago I had a UK passport and had a usual hassle to get a visa to visit Aussie. Virtually hand delivered your passport to Auckland Consul and had to wait some while then a note to say it was ready along with a hefty bill.
Living in Wellington did not help – became a New Zealand Citizen soon after.
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January 23, 2018 8:19am
Nukuleka

It never fails to surprise me that so many heterosexual social progressives support gay ‘marriage’ and see it as something to be lauded and promoted yet despise marriage as an institution that they as heterosexuals should be bothered with.

It seems we have a PM who is happy to have a child to the man with whom she currently cohabits but does not see it might be in the child’s best interests to be in a legally committed relationship with that man.
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January 23, 2018 8:25am
- Colinxy
  
  I had a girlfriend like that many years ago. She thought the idea of marriage was stupid but when the NZ (Labour) government pushed for homosexual marriage, she was completely for it.
  
  She was unabashed Green voter/supporter, so hypocrisy was her middle name; she was the most environmentally unfriendly person I knew. Public transport? Nope, drive there. Walk a short distance? Only if her car was broken down, otherwise drive there. Loved and kept cats? Yes. Everything into the general rubbish? Yes. And so on and so forth. I don’t consider myself environmentally conscious but compared to her, I was an environment saint.
  
  (Yes, she was a “Trotsky” socialist).
  
  (No, I’m not against homosexual marriage, it was the hypocrisy of her stance that amused me).
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:42am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Colinxy:
    
    I had a girlfriend like that many years ago. … She was unabashed Green voter/supporter
    
    Consider yourself lucky – you could now be married to her 🙂
    
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    January 23, 2018 8:47am
    - Colinxy
      
      I was never going to marry her; she was just a good roll in the hay.
      
      Besides which, she did not believe in marriage…then a month or two after declaring marriage being stupid, Helen Clark’s government started pushing for homosexual marriage (eventually civil unions), she was suddenly pro (homosexual) marriage.
      
      It was never a serious thing, especially after her rant about marriage (no, I hadn’t proposed or even thought of proposing to her).
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:01am
      - cmm
        
        “she was just a good roll in the hay”
        
        So basically a tax refund?
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:16am
      - Biscuit
        
        ‘A good roll in the hay’?
        
        A Greenie even then?
        Beds and sheets use valuable Earth resources!
        And the burns from artificial materials if you do the deed on the floor!
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:31am
      - RF
        
        Biscuit…
        
        Carpet burns are very painful especially after a drunken encounter on the floor.
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:14pm
  - Gabby
    
    Do you have to be a pothead to support cannabis law reform colonxy?
    
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    January 23, 2018 1:28pm
    - Colinxy
      
      Are you channeling the Cathy Newman of UK’s Channel 4 method of arguing?
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:06pm
- kowtow
  
  This goes back to yesterday’s question.
  
  Do the sjw’s love the poor or do they simply just hate rich white pricks.
  
  Goes back to neo marxism or cultural marxism if you prefer.
  
  There’s an agenda , to create division and conflict ,and these people wittingly or unwittingly are part of that strategy.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:17am
- ztev
  
  “legally committed relationship with that man”
  
  The partner has legal commitments to the child even if you are not married.
  Marriage hasnt stopped men in the past just abandoning a wife and kids –
  
  Dou you still think its the 1960s?
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:20am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    Having grown up in the 1960s our society was a hell of a lot more healthy than it is today.
    
    Safer
    Much less provdery
    More coherent families
    Less drug problems.
    Less mental health problems.
    
    Do I need to go on.
    
    Just a point. Where were you in the 1960s?
    
    I know cause I was there.
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:58am
    - sooty
      
      The average kid could read and write as well.
      
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      January 23, 2018 12:13pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      There’s a reason socialists and neo Marxists don’t like to refer to history. Especially 20th century history.
      
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      January 23, 2018 12:16pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Having grown up in the 1960s our society was a hell of a lot more healthy than it is today.
      
      I grew up in the ’60s too…
      
      unmarried mums had to give up their babes,
      hubbies could rape wives and get away with it
      females weren’t taken on in lots of jobs…
      
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      January 23, 2018 3:08pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      The good old days weren’t, 1960’s NZ was an over-regulated shithole, and society you laud fucked over a vast number of people (most women) and created a lot of unnecessary human wreckage.
      
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      January 23, 2018 5:07pm
  - KiWombat
    
    You are pre-supposing that CLicker will admit to being the father – lets wait and see !
    
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    January 23, 2018 3:44pm
Sofia

Penny Bright
The judgment was for $34,182.56 in rates and penalties outstanding as of 30 June 2015. The council has been awarded total costs in the District and High Courts of $20,329.20.

What about since 30 June 2015? Or have the rates been paid since then – I doubt it.
If Teina Pora’s payout can be updated, surely Penny’s payout can be too.

“In my personal view …” as Penny has often said, to allow her to say anything … Had Penny Bright perhaps possessed the honesty, transparency and integrity she demands of the Auckland Council, she would surely have kept a dedicated account equivalent to the rates, penalties and court costs (roughly) – since, at one point at least, her entire argument was based on one section of the Local Government Act, while she ignored the rates objection procedure as laid out in later sections of the same act.

If her faith in the Act was that its earlier sections supported her, she should have adhered to the stipulations of the later provisions as being likely as correct in what they said.

In my personal view, Penny Bright’s present disposition is of her own making – but slightly compounded by Auckland Council’s utter incompetence.
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January 23, 2018 8:30am
- peterwn
  
  Rating sales are rare (they do not happen with mortgaged properties since the council simply taps the mortgagee for outstanding rates which are plus an admin fee tacked on the mortgage). Where they do occur the owner has either abandoned the land or is too feckless to do anything about it eg the Manurewa rating sale a year or two ago).
  In most cases where owners want to attack rating decisions (eg the Mangiwhai ratepayers) they usually attack the legality of the rates and if need be try and restrain the council from levying or collecting the rates.
  In Penny’s instance she has attacked the Council’s procedures under the Rating Act which have never (or hardly ever) been tested and gained some temporary success. There are means of exploiting the Act to spin things out.
  The Council will not be out of pocket on the Rates itself, the cumulative late penalties would be greater than what it would cost the Council to borrow the money. She also needs to meet Council’s expenses except where procedural slip-ups occurred, so the Council would be slightly out of pocket here. The Council would be more out of pocket where this has occupied time and effort of senior officials which probably cannot be ‘charged out’.
  So the Council cannot be held completely to blame.
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:55am
- Colville
  
  Any outstanding rates and penalties not covered in the court decision will be deducted and paid as part of the conveyancing.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:09am
- Nostradamus
  
  Sofia:
  
  I’m now using my phone, so I can’t link directly, but if you click on my legislation hyperlink above and read section 75(d), you’ll see that Auckland Council can collect unpaid rates up to the property sale date.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:09am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I might have some sympathy for Penny if, at the begiining of the rates strike, she had set up a trust account and paid the rates money into that each month. That would have enabled her to settle the bill when/if the courts found her strike to be illegal. That would have been the transparent, responsible thing to do.
  
  That she now faces losing her house because she has not made provision for the payment of a substantial debt is nobody’s problem but hers. Having made her bed, she now has to lie in it.
  
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  January 23, 2018 10:55am
  - peterwn
    
    Trouble is, Penny’s philosophical grievances had no direct connection with rates collection so she had no legal basis whatsoever to refuse paying rates. This is in contrast to the Mangiwhai ratepayers who had some potentially arguable case, but even then they would delay paying rates at their peril – unless they happened to have big deficits on credit cards (where the interest would be greater than rates non-payment penalties).
    
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    January 23, 2018 2:04pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    That would require the concept of ‘good faith’ , something that never applies to these whining lefty campaigners.
    
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    January 23, 2018 3:15pm
Rich Prick

Grant Robertson wants to “name and shame” Wellington landlords who are responding to market forces. Knock yourself out you fuckwit. By the way, you just made it $100 for my lot. Just because I can.
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January 23, 2018 8:50am
- SGA
  
  By the way, you just made it $100 for my lot. Just because I can.
  
  And that, I imagine, is the sort of reason why the “left” exists. 🙂
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:03am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Well, if they don’t like it, there’s a queue waiting. Is the “left” going to make the queue disappear?
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:09am
    - SGA
      
      No idea – I was thinking more about people using power in petty ways.
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:11am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Translation: whaaaa … whaaaa, *stamps feet*. Just like Grant.
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:28am
      - SGA
        
        lol – aren’t you the one stamping your feet, and raising your rents “just because you can”.
        Seems petty to take it out on your tenants, doesn’t it?
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:33am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Yet you’d pay $5 for a coffee that costs 50 cents to produce without judging. Funny how some profit is OK, but other profit isn’t. But that’s the left for ya.
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:57am
      - SGA
        
        Don’t drink coffee, so the analogy is a bit wasted. 🙂
        Anyhow, we weren’t talking about profit in a business sense – you were having a little rant about Grant Robertson, and your solution is to take it out on your tenants (just because you can) – at least that’s how I read it. Apologies in advance if I misunderstood.
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:02am
      - Gabby
        
        In pricky’s world he is king.
        
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        January 23, 2018 1:35pm
      - KiWombat
        
        Give up while you’re ahead RP – not worth wasting your breath on this one !
        
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        January 23, 2018 3:47pm
      - Happychappy
        
        Can you explain them why it is alright then for Winston and Jacinda are allowed to be petty and it is ok SGA.
        
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        January 23, 2018 5:28pm
      - SGA
        
        @Happychappy
        huh? If Ardern or Peters start posting petty stuff on Kiwiblog, I’d call it as I saw it. But they don’t post here (as far as I know).
        To be honest, I don’t think you have to be a Labour or NZ First supporter (which I’m not, I’m not much of a “joiner”) to think that taking it out on your tenants just because you’re angry at Grant Robertson seems a bit petty. But, hey, maybe I’ve unrealistic standards.
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:24pm
    - ztev
      
      Every summer , theres ‘queue stories in the media’ about rentals
      Its a january-February filler while other local news is quiet
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:15am
      - Rich Prick
        
        I think you’ll find it is the students returning fueling the demand. And it’s all a bit beyond Grant’s seething desperation to be seen to be “doing something”.
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:25am
      - Biscuit
        
        Wow, me is agreeing with Ztev!
        
        Is there an ointment I can use before the condition gets work and I both read a WoO post or begin a ‘Justice For The Bright One!’ street march?
        
        (Soz, ztev)
        
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        January 23, 2018 9:36am
- VicParking
  
  Wellington Councils Heathy Homes has not helped.
  Put new batteries in smoke alarms, Tennants take them out, house burns down. Landlords fault.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:06am
- KKKKatee
  
  What a smarmy little prat. Isn’t that a breach of the Privacy Act or are Politicians the only one’s allowed to do that? Quite frankly, is Robertson so utterly stupid that he didn’t see that would happen? Hail to the Landlords – the current Gummint hates capitalists…
  Roberton’s gunna hunt those bastard landlords down…
  Then what Robbo?
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:36am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Robertson is carrying on like an Opposition MP in pursuit of justice for his local socialist constituents.
    How immature and lacking in leadership is that for a Minister of the Crown?
    I find it troubling that we have a high ranking minister using his position to interfere in and influence market forces in this blatant fashion.
    NB: am now expecting a flood of links from those on duty today at the zdtev, stephieboy HQ trashing Nat party MP’s for “doing it first.”
    
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    January 23, 2018 1:57pm
- Maxx
  
  So Robertson will now also be in favour of naming and shaming tenants who trash their house, don’t pay rent, take down smoke alarms when you’ve put them up for the 10th time.
  
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  January 23, 2018 10:29am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  You had me on your side with the first two sentences, but lost me with the last two.
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:17pm
Maggy Wassilieff

but slightly compounded by Auckland Council’s utter incompetence.

Absolutely.

This case has been allowed to drag on so long that it has become a form of mental and psychological torture. It has been an appalling display of Council ineptitude.
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January 23, 2018 8:56am
peterwn

Congratulations to Whaleoil for putting up its first ‘paywalled’ article (an opinion piece by Chris Trotter) yesterday after taunting MSM for not carrying through paywall plans.
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January 23, 2018 8:59am
- VicParking
  
  Lorde and Cam should be the founding members of the NZ Bigots club.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:07am
- ztev
  
  Chris Trotter ?
  That will bring in the $$ from his ‘crowd’
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:13am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    lol ztev, Whale has been using trotter as a commentator in his Incite political newsletter (which is paid content) for over a year. So yeah, it is bringing in $$.
    I guess that’s the difference between the left and right, the right are always interested in views counter to their own to test their own thinking, whereas the left want views counter to theirs shut down.
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:23am
    - sam green
      
      Really? Ask ztev how many times he’s been told to fuck off from this blog because the “right”don’t like his views.
      
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      January 23, 2018 1:47pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        His views or the way he constantly lies?
        Here’s today’s example
        “7,696 COMMENTS
        ztev
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        Dont you remember the same offer made ( to separate Pms) by John Key
        This is continuing the same bi partisan effort
        https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/307428/pm-stands-by-offer-to-take-150-asylum-seekers
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        What Key offered to do was take 150 GENUINE refugees that had been processed through the Australian system as part of our 750 annual refugee quota.
        http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-11/an-ex-nz-minister-criticises-asylum-deal/4511976
        
        That was back in 2013…
        He didn’t agree to take just any 150 illegals that had arrived in Oz refugee camps.
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        January 23, 2018 3:55pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Are you being deliberately disingenuous sam? Or are you just dense? Just to help you, ztev still gets to comment here as far as I can see. Shut down? I don’t think so.
        I can speak from experience as well. Having been banned from the Labour Party website (for making comments on Whaleoil no less, that Labour didn’t like – though they did not ban a poster on the Standard that often commented that National Party supporters should be lined up and shot – something I pointed out to Curran) and the Standard, because they would not have any negative comments on Helen Clark.
        
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        January 23, 2018 4:01pm
      - Happychappy
        
        I remember that you called me a few choice names when l first started to comment on here Sam, and I was not a paid troll like ztev.
        
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        January 23, 2018 5:34pm
      - sam green
        
        Happy – I apologised to you. I thought we made up. ?. It might be interesting to explore what trolling actually is. There are a couple of expert trolls on here. I wouldn’t say that ztev is one of those. Someone is not a troll just because you disagree with their view.
        
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        January 23, 2018 5:44pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    He is probably the most universally respected leftie in the country. Fundamentally wrong about so much, but calls a spade a spade.
    
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    January 23, 2018 5:10pm
Longknives

Seems Jimmy Carr has upset New Zealanders for making Earthquake jokes and being ‘Un-PC’!
Newsflash- Jimmy Carr is a British Comedian.
Unlike NZ Comedians he rips the shit out of everything (Left Wing,Right Wing, Christians, Muslims, Homosexuals etc etc)
Most of those complaining have probably only experienced New Zealand ‘Comedy’ (Think Guy Williams and Jeremy Elwood making jokes about the National Party or some angry Feminist making jokes about her period)
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January 23, 2018 9:01am
- Colville
  
  I saw Jimmy on Saturday night..
  He spent a bit of time taunting a bloke (never sit in the front row!!) that he (Jimmy) and fucked the chaps Mum. Turned out the blokes Mum was sitting beside him. with Dad.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:14am
  - kowtow
    
    Carr sounds like one of those lesbian “comediennes” that are so fashionable these days , get’s on stage and just says fuck for 5 minutes . All the sjws in the audience know its their duty to pretend it’s funny .
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:31am
    - Lance
      
      I bet you’re fun at parties…. not
      
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      January 23, 2018 11:04am
      - kowtow
        
        Ha ha ha.
        You’re so funny you could be a comedian.
        
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        January 23, 2018 11:25am
      - sam green
        
        You’re not and you couldn’t.
        
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        January 23, 2018 1:48pm
- kowtow
  
  The problem isn’t the so called comedians jokes , as you say that’s what they do.
  
  The problem is the media creating a story out of the social media reaction to what is a non event.
  They are trying to manufacture “offence” or outrage out of nothing.
  
  Shows how far the media has fallen.
  
  ps Personally can’t stand the c#nt.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:24am
- Biscuit
  
  I watched a recent Jimmy Carr show on TV a few nights back…
  
  He told a great story in a segment about ‘What is Offensive?’
  
  I paraphrase slightly but you’ll get the gist:
  
  ‘A woman came up to me after a show in Newcastle, pointed her finger at me and said ‘Filth! Sick humour! Racism! Sexism! Disgusting. NO better than LAST year’…’
  
  Why can’t people look at the ads and think ‘Hmm, Jimmy Carr. Not just at the edge but rocketing down the other side. Can my fragile ego cope? Maybe I should just stay at home and watch ‘Let’s Praise Jacinda’ on TV ONE?’ – and either go or stay home based on their decision?
  
  If I saw an ad for ‘Salvation Army Meeting’, I wouldn’t turn up expecting to get free beer.
  
  If I went to hear someone in a beret carrying a loudspeaker I wouldn’t expect to hear a rational woman coming down on the side of law and proclaiming that it is the duty of citizens to pay their mandated rates.
  
  If I went to watch the Blues, I sure wouldn’t be expecting to see any Rugby
  
  If I went to Whale Oil I wouldn’t expect to see Judith Collins dissed
  
  Et cetera, et cetera, et STOP that, Biscuit…
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:46am
VicParking

Red Radio running a major piece on NZQA. My understanding its a goner under Labour. Looks like Red Radio has borrowed the 100 monkeys from the failing newspaper.
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January 23, 2018 9:13am
- stephieboy
  
  VicParking , Red Radio seems a regular haunt of yours
  
  Intersting …
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:41am
- lofty
  
  Any link Vic? I have been on the site and can see nothing of this.
  Cheers
  
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  January 23, 2018 11:28am
lastmanstanding

“lets have a conversation”

Translation.

I speak you listen do what I say or big shit comes down on you.
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January 23, 2018 9:14am
In Vino Veritas

Stuff says “New Zealand’s richest man added more than $4 billion to his coffers last year”.
According to Oxfam of course. Stuff have passed this off as fact, even though they quote “Oxfam has estimated New Zealand’s richest man Graeme Hart had increased his wealth in 2017 by $4.26b to $13.05b”.
So, Oxfam have “estimated”. Oxfam “say” the gap in wealth has increased. Of course it has Oxfam. Its called the time value of money and it happens. And Oxfam do not mention that there will ALWAYS be a growing gap as young people have fewer assets that older people. The lack of critical analysis of information given by Oxfam and the like to Stuff (and not at all surprisingly, the Labour Party) is risible.
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January 23, 2018 9:18am
Positan

I listened to Kerre McIvor yesterday morning and finished up, very disappointed. She’s not even remotely a patch on Leighton in so many respects. Leighton is objective, querying callers when unclear – Kerre rides over the top. Leighton listens – Kerre seems to moot her viewpoint first and foremost – and if she’s not interested in pursuing the track – one was quite topical about the PM letting the country down by having concealed her pregnancy -she doesn’t.

Worst of all, to an audience of long-time Leighton listeners who don’t want any change at all, she arrogantly intoned something to the tune of “I’m not Leighton and I’m not going to try to be.”

All I can hope is that someone far more suitable will be found to take over NewsTalkZB’s “Leighton slot” – and that Kerre will be returned to the relatively uncomplicated and generally inane talkback of the afternoon slot.
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January 23, 2018 9:30am
- Inandout
  
  Leighton is a brainy person who delves into media bullshit. Kerre is an air head and the Left’s answer to inquiring media.
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:41am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Inandout, Leighton brainy ? In what way ?
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:42am
    - Inandout
      
      You are an illiterate and don’t deserve an intelligent answer.
      
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      January 23, 2018 10:03am
      - Duxton
        
        Steady on, Inandout. You’ll have stephieboy assuring us that he does know who his father is.
        
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        January 23, 2018 12:59pm
    - Positan
      
      As regards “radio performance” I think your question might be answered, somewhat obliquely, this way: –
      
      · A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
      · A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need, but it was on sale.
      
      There’s a quite a distinction as to objectivity – however, it may not be understood or even accepted by those on the Left whose limitations of intellect can only allow them perceive Leighton as being less than “brainy.”
      
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      January 23, 2018 10:05am
  - Gabby
    
    Leightweight says stuff downanout likes to hear. Kerre is uppity and makes downanout less comfy.
    
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    January 23, 2018 1:43pm
- RF
  
  Positan.
  
  Agree. Kerre is very lightweight. Maybe more suited for a Saturday morning slot.
  
  She along with 98% of the MSM is besotted with Ardern.
  
  Thank god Mike & Larry are back to give some balance.
  
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  January 23, 2018 10:46am
  - Positan
    
    “Very lightweight” is an apt description. I do hope those who run NewsTalkZB take notice because, if they don’t, so many of us will seek anything more mentally uplifting than Kerre’s program.
    
    If she stays, I’d confidently predict that ZB’s morning listenership will fade very quickly.
    
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    January 23, 2018 11:21am
    - Ross12
      
      No, I hope what happens is someone fills the huge space being created in the radio market for some serious balanced programming. It doesn’t have to be all talkback and it doesn’t have to be all centre -right type broadcasters. eg. Kim Hill does some great interviews on Saturday morning ( I assume she still has that slot). I know you can get this stuff on podcasts but we need better news and sports coverage as well.
      
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      January 23, 2018 11:46am
      - Positan
        
        I used to have a lot of time for Kim Hill, but she’s become another of the media mob whose bias comes across ever so clearly. It’s a great pity because once she was well and truly out on her own, but bias is bias and that’s something I can’t stand whichever way it falls. As a realist, I just want to be given the facts as neutrally as possible. From there I can make my own assessment and determination.
        
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        January 23, 2018 2:18pm
  - GoVege
    
    Larry???
    Bad-mouthing Cunlffe all through the election campaign.
    Leighton would never have sunk to those levels.
    
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    January 23, 2018 2:08pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Cunners did rather paint a bullseye on his own head.
      
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      January 23, 2018 3:22pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  There was nothing uncomplicated or inane about the afternoon talkback slot when Chris Carter (RIP) was hosting it.
  Turned of mostly after Watson started butchering it, and I’m totally cured of ‘Newstalk’ afternoons now they’ve managed to find even dumber hosts.
  
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  January 23, 2018 4:10pm
Andrei

Equality: assign women 105 minutes for a task that men are expected to complete in 90 minutes

Source
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January 23, 2018 9:40am
- stephieboy
  
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  Andrei , what do you expect from RT with this kind of rubbish ,
  
  http://www.ibtimes.sg/former-us-navy-pilot-who-witnessed-ufo-issues-strong-warning-humanity-23357
  
  your “ source “ almost a copy and paste from here ,
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5294031/Oxford-University-extends-time-maths-help-women.html
  
  Evidence we are her producing inferior female medical , law and engineering etc graduates
  
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  January 23, 2018 9:43am
  - Andrei
    
    WTF Stephiebot?
    
    Your comment doesn’t make any sense!!!!
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:50am
    - stephieboy
      
      Andrei ,
      
      “Evidence we are her producing inferior female medical , law and engineering etc graduates. “?
      
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      January 23, 2018 9:52am
- kowtow
  
  Same with physical entry requirements to the police and military.
  
  Lower standards are “equality” ?
  
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  January 23, 2018 12:07pm
  - stephieboy
    
    kowtow , rubbish !
    
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    January 23, 2018 2:07pm
- kowtow
  
  And on cue from our own Plod Diversity files.
  
  ‘Police deputy chief executive of people Kaye Ryan said there were “regular reviews” of physical testing as part of the “holistic approach” to making sure there was a diverse range of people in the police.’
  
  That’s all you need to know. Change (lower) the standard to get more non whites and wimmin in.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11978229
  
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  January 23, 2018 12:49pm
Harkman

So late last night I openned my local rag and there was an article about “growing wealth inequality.” I think was Oxfam NZ’s report, every year they come out with the same nonsense both globally or their NZ branch. They make outlandish claims that the lowest 30% own only 1% of the wealth and that the top 1% own 28% of the wealth. The big problem is that Credit Suisse also publishes a Global Wealth report, and their data compares countries. And guess what? NZ always comes out as a very equal middle class society compared with every one else. Our wealth gini coefficient is one of the lowest, that top 1% is low, most countries it is 40%> and the lowest 50% in NZ have alot more wealth than Scandinavian countries, who have high wealth inequality. This is the inconvenient
truth for the left, the countries praised up in that flawed “The Spirit Level” have shocking wealth inequality. As for the lowest deciles, they always have negative wealth, why? Because they are students and children. It counts Dental, Pharmacy, and Med students with enormous debts, that they can though payback within a short time. It also counts on our figures students who have fled the country, but their debt is still credited to us. Oxfam always do this, compare the owners of the best few companies in the world with the children, from non-market third world countries. Much of this fraud is being pushed by Max Rashbrooke, a couple of years ago he wrote a book claiming we were getting increasingly unequal, yet the truth was the richest 1% and 10% owned less in 2012 or 2014 (or whenever) than in 2000/2001 as a percentage of total wealth. Max is wrong, yet he is a clone of Thomas Piketty. These arguments are always static and they always forget about the rising household wealth of some 2 million home owners in this country. In fact the idea that rich foreigners (mainly Asian) were overpaying for middle to upper middle class real estate may have served as a check that kept the wealth of rich locals in check with the middle class, stopping this may increase wealth inequality if the stock market keeps rising and housing flattens off. The truth is NZ is very much a middle class society, but we do need more successful new companies to emerge. And sorry for rambling.
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January 23, 2018 10:07am
- Rich Prick
  
  It is shocking that some will spend $1,000 a month on cigarettes and end up poor. Obviously the solution is to lift wealth off those who make good decisions and give it to those who don’t.
  
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  January 23, 2018 11:06am
  - Digmen1
    
    Even Jesus said there will always be the poor.
    
    The trick is for poor people to look at what successful people do and try to copy that.
    
    Some will, some wont.
    Its just a fact of life.
    We can’t all be rich.
    There is only so much money around.
    
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    January 23, 2018 12:01pm
    - GoVege
      
      Jesus was around before the dark ages.
      The main reasons people are poor these days are because of greed, addictions, male chauvinism, and toxic parenting.
      
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      January 23, 2018 2:14pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Jesus (church burning books and
        Monopolising literacy) was the cause of the dark ages.
        
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        January 23, 2018 5:16pm
      - MCos
        
        I would suggest that far and away the main cause of poverty, more precisely not being able to earn enough to make ends meet, is lack of education often combined with bad luck.
        
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        January 23, 2018 6:18pm
    - Gabby
      
      You calling bullshit on the wealth creator thing there dicman?
      
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      January 23, 2018 6:23pm
Harkman

Anyone see Hugh on the news last night?

That man has the personality of a Soviet prison.
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January 23, 2018 10:12am
- Keeping Stock
  
  You’re being very unkind with that comparison Harkman. Please apologise to Soviet prisons 😀
  
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  January 23, 2018 10:58am
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    ? good call. Actually, bloody hilarious ?
    
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    January 23, 2018 3:02pm
- Swifty
  
  He’s very unwell.
  
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  January 23, 2018 12:22pm
Jack5

The West turns upside down …

Once we thought the term “British justice” stood for something, but it’s not what we think of when we hear the words today.

An SAS veteran who became a hero in the 1980 siege of the London Iranian embassy is now homeless, and being supported by fellow veterans. He’s so broke he’s had to sell his medals.

Meanwhile, one of the terrorists in the siege, later sentenced to life imprisonment and now on parole, is living in a council flat in Britain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5296933/Homeless-SAS-hero-says-terrorist-prison.html
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January 23, 2018 10:22am
RF

Labour are in damage control concerning their smiling assassin. King has come out to set the record straight by claiming that she stepped down from the deputy position because she was hitting 70. No other reason.

This is utter bull shit as she was hanging on by her fingernails and did not want to go until she felt the sharp end of the shank just piercing the skin on her back.

Angry also got the evil eye from the assassin and he went quickly.

All this from someone who did not want to be PM. Pigs arse….

Ardern is a smiling knife and only a fool would trust her.
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January 23, 2018 10:37am
- Nostradamus
  
  Amnette King didn’t jump – she was pushed.
  
  https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-03-2017/and-just-like-that-there-was-a-vacancy-after-all-annette-king-makes-way-for-jacinda-ardern/
  
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  January 23, 2018 11:52am
  - sooty
    
    The same shank that got Me Tu!
    
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    January 23, 2018 12:33pm
- Gabby
  
  Sounds like you’d have a job breaking her fingers rf rf. Down boy.
  
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  January 23, 2018 1:48pm
  - RF
    
    Gabby.
    
    I could turn for you if you were good looking. Send me pictures…. quickly….
    
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    January 23, 2018 7:23pm
LisaGinNZ

Not sure if anyone on here has mentioned the “interview” Dr. Jordan Peterson did on his recent UK tour with UK “interviewer” Cathy Newman?

You are missing some great stuff if you haven’t seen it…… To me it is small example of smart people TRYING to be reasonable and factual with raving lunatic LEFTIST idealogues.

https://youtu.be/aMcjxSThD54?t=5s
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January 23, 2018 11:55am
- Andrei
  
  He gave that airhead bimbo interviewer a spanking and that is for sure
  
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  January 23, 2018 12:01pm
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Have you seen the one where he schools the nauseating Prof of transgender studies who is embarrassingly a New Zealanders and purports to represent the views of us all?
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZmPwuuj88
  
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  January 23, 2018 12:24pm
  - lifesgood
    
    There’s a huge amount to be embarrassed about being a New Zealander right now. Our PM for one.
    
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    January 23, 2018 12:36pm
    - kowtow
      
      Here’s another one doing us proud over there. No wonder the Ocker is pissed off , I would be. And then you get Labia pollies going into bat for these POS’s over there.
      
      “Over 18,000 have signed a petition calling a deportation for a man who punched another young man unconscious during the Gold Coast Schoolies festival.
      Southport magistrate Joan White spared New Zealand-born teenager Caleb Maraku from prison – instead handing down a year’s probation for the incident.
      
      The 19-year-old, who moved to Australia six years ago, was filmed brutally punching a man in November last year.”
      
      https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/thousands-aus-sign-petition-deport-violent-kiwi
      
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      January 23, 2018 12:53pm
      - Digmen1
        
        I cannot believe that he got a suspended sentence.
        I thought Aussie had a king hit law?
        
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        January 23, 2018 1:06pm
    - stephieboy
      
      lifesgood ,
      
      “There’s a huge amount to be embarrassed about being a New Zealander right now. ”
      
      Like who ? A motley selection of rabid alt righters who have got nothing better to do with their lives but post here or on Whale Blubber ?
      
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      January 23, 2018 2:17pm
      - Andrei
        
        20,482 COMMENTS
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        “Like who ? A motley selection of rabid alt righters who have got nothing better to do with their lives but post here or on Whale Blubber ?”
        
        Oh the fucking irony
        
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        January 23, 2018 2:45pm
      - lofty
        
        Made my day pal, best laugh I have had in a while.
        
        As Andrei so eloquently puts it..”Oh the fucking irony”
        
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        January 23, 2018 3:03pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Good one stephie! That has to be one of the best ‘own goals’ seen on KB.
        
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        January 23, 2018 8:15pm
    - rangitoto
      
      When is her father going to pick up a shotgun and pay a visit to Gaylord and demand he does the decent thing?
      
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      January 23, 2018 3:59pm
- lifesgood
  
  Newman “So you are saying…so you are saying, so you are saying….”
  Peterson” No I did not say that, etc, etc”
  I loved it when she was speechless. What a lefty idiot she is. Made a complete fool of herself, had no arguments just blind ideology. Peterson sorted her out good and proper. Very entertaining.
  Now, of course, all the lefties are up in arms. “Our poor widdle reporter was attacked”, um, no she wasn’t, not at all. Petersen was perfectly calm and gentlemanly throughout.
  
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  January 23, 2018 12:34pm
- Surely Knott
  
  There is a good article on the Atlantic today, “Putting Monster Paint on Jordan Peterson”. Criticising Cathy Newman for her interviewing style with Peterson. “First, a person says something. Then, another person restates what they purportedly said so as to make it seem as if their view is as offensive, hostile, or absurd.” And he gives numerous examples of how she used this technique https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/putting-monsterpaint-onjordan-peterson/550859/
  
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  January 23, 2018 12:53pm
  - stephieboy
    
    CONOR FRIEDERSDORF the writer on the Jordan Petersen interview appears to be typically fair and balanced for a Liberal and progressive magazine
    
    Putting the Monster paint on the President
    
    “ Petulance as Foreign Policy”
    
    In the president’s telling, he is canceling a trip to a key ally because he’s mad at the Obama administration. But does he realize why that makes him look bad?
    
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/trumps-petulance-vs-americas-interests/550379/
    
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    January 23, 2018 2:25pm
    - Surely Knott
      
      Well Trump certainly gives Journalists plenty to work wiht. I generally find the Atlantic as a whole to write interesting well researched articles that aren’t always along party lines. The Guardian however is just unreadable. But the media bias checker does rate both papers as centre left bias.
      
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      January 23, 2018 2:39pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Surely Knott , what about Fox m Breitbart and the Gateway Pundit ?( the latter Im’m told is the President’s favourite )
        
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        January 23, 2018 3:13pm
Manolo

Schummer hit hard by his own people:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/22/government-shutdown-deal-liberals-angry-357268

Liberal activists are furious with Democratic senators after most of them agreed to reopen the federal government without a firm path to shielding young immigrants from deportation.

“Millions of people flooded the streets of every major American city to stand up to Trump this weekend,” tweeted Leah Greenberg, the co-executive director of the influential activist network Indivisible. “Your constituents want you to fight. How can you possibly not understand that?”
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January 23, 2018 11:56am
- axeman
  
  In reply Cryin’ Chuck sobbed “Trump …. he broke me”
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:13pm
sooty

You realise of course that Clarke will have to climb back in the saddle right smart. She ain’t getting any younger. Be too old shortly. That’s going to interfer with her job. Got a mortgage to pay now.
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January 23, 2018 12:53pm
- KiWombat
  
  Who said he ever alighted the saddle?
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:52pm
Manolo

Another of the joys that Mamma Merkel has gifted on Germany:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5298859/Huge-brawl-Kurds-Turks-Hannover-airport.html

A mass brawl has broken out at a German airport, sparked by demonstrators protesting about Turkish military action against Kurdish fighters.

Kurds who had gathered at airport for the protest came under attack from Turkish Airlines passengers, haz.de reported.
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January 23, 2018 1:05pm
- Gabby
  
  Sounds like some Turkies want to go home and surve their real country.
  
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  January 23, 2018 1:52pm
Manolo

The fake news machine working overtime:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/glenn-greenwald-russia-investigation.html
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January 23, 2018 1:33pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , when will the GOP release the alleged “devastating “ and “jaw dropping ( Fox ) FISA memo ??
  
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  January 23, 2018 2:11pm
Jack5

If Chris Trotter and Helen Clark were Doolans, and you could get people canonised when they were still alive, Trotter would be fighting to get a St Helen for NZ.

Trotter in the Christchurch Press today, and presumably in other Fairfucked NZ newspapers, says in a column gushing about Jacinderella :

…the hard-nosed decision of their [baby-boomers] own generation’s pre-eminent politician, Helen Clark, to forego the experience of motherhood as the unavoidable price of achieving high public office.

So Trotter knows Clark chose selflessly not to become a mum because that would interfere with her serving the country. How does Trotter know enough to dismiss these possible reasons for Clark not having a family? First, Clark just didn’t want to have kids; or, second, that Clark for some physical reason couldn’t have kids; or, third, that maybe Clark didn’t like the heterosexual act that creates children?

Trotter has been writing the same mindless, Leftist drivel since he wasted his time at university scribbling for the student magazine.
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January 23, 2018 1:37pm
- Poppa
  
  No idea really Jack, but a wild guess I go for the latter
  
  I know members of the police who were asked to deliver certain people to her residence in Wellington from time to time
  
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  January 23, 2018 2:12pm
  - sam green
    
    What bollocks. Which certain people? Who were they? Why were they being delivered?
    
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    January 23, 2018 6:06pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jack5 , but you must find it heartening and duely welcome Jacinda ’s babe into the world ?
  
  Right ?
  
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  January 23, 2018 2:15pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy:
    
    All_on_Red has described your commenting style:
    
    Well stop going around the blog smearing your shit on everyone. You never debate anything but just behave like a rude little fuck.
    
    Here’s a sample of your contributions so far:
    
    MW ., oh dear . Thus all NZ Mums are making a mess of things ever since 1935 in our” socialist “paradise ? Abolish free maternity care ? What else ?
    
    SC , biological predeterminance? ? Like confined to the kitchen and domestic duties ?
    
    Andrei , “Evidence we are her producing inferior female medical , law and engineering etc graduates. “?
    
    lifesgood , … Like who ? A motley selection of rabid alt righters who have got nothing better to do with their lives but post here or on Whale Blubber ?
    
    Manolo , when will the GOP release the alleged “devastating “ and “jaw dropping ( Fox ) FISA memo ??
    
    Jack5 , but you must find it heartening and duely welcome Jacinda ’s babe into the world ? Right ?
    
    Each of those contributions asks a loaded question that, on any fair reading, has nothing to do with the comment you’re responding to. This is a general debate thread. My suggestion would be to share your own opinion with us. Or not – and keep getting downticked for being a “rude little fuck”. Up to you!
    
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    January 23, 2018 2:45pm
    - kevn
      
      Nostra… septicboy seems more apt? Getting dumped on by readers at his every comment is a laugh. I never read a scrap he puts up, just note how many then add my downtick = go away nutbar.
      
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      January 23, 2018 2:54pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Nostradamus, All on Red has given me plenty of abuse ( mixed with plenty of expletives and perv ) which I merely try and reflect back in other kinds of ways .
      
      Andrei was suggesting (If I’m not wrong)nmthat Women a biologically more limited than most men . Requiring medical graduates needing more time to complete their exams .
      
      Our experiences in MZ doesn’t bare that out
      
      Which suggests what ?
      
      Also the FISA memo When will the GOP release it ?
      
      Whats wrong with that
      
      “ biological predeterminance?”
      
      What point do you think Salacious crumb was trying to make ?
      
      Similarly. what point was Maggy W trying to make ?
      
      etc , etc
      
      Get over your self !
      
      ]
      
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      January 23, 2018 3:04pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Similarly. what point was Maggy W trying to make ?
        
        Gee, stephieboy, why didn’t you just write:
        “I don’t understand the point you are trying to make, or even if you are making a point; could you please explain?”
        
        Don’t you think that is a more honest approach to adult discourse than trying to smear a commenter by falsely representing what they have written?
        
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        January 23, 2018 4:01pm
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Ditto with Maggy.
        
        For the record, the differences in trait predominance scores between genders are well documented. There is no criticism or undertones with that; just empirical fact that helps explain the way men and women have always coexisted. Perhaps you could have just asked for clarity.
        
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        January 23, 2018 5:03pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW,
        
        “MW ., oh dear . Thus all NZ Mums are making a mess of things ever since 1935 in our” socialist “paradise ? Abolish free maternity care ? What else ?”
        
        How is that a smear ? What point were you trying to make ? . From what you wrote it was a reasonable inference to make IMO
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:22pm
Longknives

Seems the Left and their shrieking Media are now attacking a young sportsman-

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11980104

His Crime? He was critical of Hilary Clinton on Twitter.
Yep the Left are that childish…
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January 23, 2018 2:15pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘But Sandgren’s social-media feed shows numerous links to right-wing ideologues. On Jan 15, he retweeted a video posted by Nicholas Fuentes, who attended the notorious white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last August.’
  
  Again the media creating “offence” and controversy.
  Who cares what his links to “right wing idealogues” are.
  
  What about all the left wing c#nts who think socialism is so wonderful?
  
  A creed that has slaughtered tens of millions , in its various forms.
  
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  January 23, 2018 2:20pm
- mikenmild
  
  Longknives
  From the article, it appears he’s a fan of such things as the ‘Pizzagate’ imaginary conspiracy and similar nonsense.
  So what – any prominent person is going to be attacked for his or her views. Tell us what you think about Lorde on Israel for example?
  
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  January 23, 2018 2:56pm
Longknives

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11980357

“Jacindababymania”
“Across the country there was celebration over the news Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is pregnant with her first child.”

‘Celebration across the Country’? Really???
I challenge anyone to argue that our Media are Politically Neutral after reading this fucking drivel…
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January 23, 2018 2:50pm
- Digmen1
  
  It like when cities were “shocked” or “reeling” when there was a murder or car crash in their city.
  Pathetic
  
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  January 23, 2018 2:57pm
- KiWombat
  
  Of course there was “Celebration across the Nation!”
  Just pick up any two-bob rag, and they were all celebrating their hearts out.
  As for the people on the street – not so much !
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:55pm
- Rich Prick
  
  “Jacindababymania”. For the love of God, please make it stop!
  
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  January 23, 2018 4:03pm
- Gabby
  
  I experienced a momentary surge of exhilarating indifference.
  
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  January 23, 2018 6:17pm
Digmen1

How can we have 2 General debates?

Surely one should be closed or merged with the other!
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January 23, 2018 2:55pm
- mikenmild
  
  I worry about how Nostradamus will be able to sort this out in two years when he wants to reference specific comments on the General Debate for 23 January 2018.
  
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  January 23, 2018 2:58pm
- RalphT
  
  I think this is a cunning move by DPF; set up a fake GD to lure WoO, Hugh and stephieboy away, leaving the rest of us to play on the main GD. Result: lower blood pressure for everyone.
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:01pm
- Gabby
  
  so you can run the ‘obama stinks for playing golf ‘ and ‘chump rulz 4 plane gof ‘ lines simultaneously without your peabrain going pop dicman.
  
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  January 23, 2018 6:15pm
Jack5

A tap on the hand and an NZ education for an immigration crook.

What powder puff country New Zealand has become. Why isn’t this crook thrown out?

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/348710/immigration-adviser-suspended-over-deceiving-clients
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January 23, 2018 2:58pm
Digmen1

I’m just ashamed that NZ may be the first country in the world to have a PM give birth to a child that is born outside of wedlock.

(What is that called?)
(What is the term for the child?)
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January 23, 2018 2:59pm
- Duxton
  
  I think it rhymes with ‘dastard’.
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:15pm
- Harriet
  
  “………..I’m just ashamed that NZ may be the first country in the world to have a…..
  
  shotgun marriage. 😎
  
  He’ll propose I think as he’s looking weak as at the moment, and his father in law would think the same ,but when they actually get Married is another matter.
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:17pm
  - howitis
    
    >Engaged mid 2019 to offset winter blues.
    Oh happy days!! June, July, Aug 2019.
    A year to milk it, then :-
    >Married June 2020
    
    Saves Women’s weekly , Fairfax, and Ferald going down the digital gurgler (not that there will be any quid pro quo for the PM in favourable fluffy stories, oh no, perish the thought)
    >Election Sep/Oct 2020
    Each event weeks after a May tax and spend budget …to distract, or not (wink).
    
    That is how Jim Anderton would have played it (and he got it sorted so Klarkenfuher could occasionally be seen with an effeminate sociologist- and passport that says male) and that rabid leftie, H1, got 3 terms as PM while breaking the Toxic Tizard Tie in.
    
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    January 23, 2018 4:17pm
- Morrissey
  
  Idiot, you are.
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:19pm
- KiWombat
  
  Might it qualify for the Guinness Book of Records?
  
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  January 23, 2018 3:56pm
- MCos
  
  Some countries start world wars, some countries orchestrate mass murder of their citizens, some countries invade foreign lands.
  
  New Zealand’s contribution to this shameful list?
  About half the babies in NZ are born out of wedlock.
  
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  January 23, 2018 6:41pm
- RF
  
  Do you mean Scarlett Woman. My late granny would be spinning in her grave for even thinking about loose women.
  
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  January 23, 2018 10:13pm
- sam green
  
  The term for a child is “child”.
  
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  January 23, 2018 11:55pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 27: Rene Naufahu

“He would repeatedly tell me I was receiving special treatment and coaching as someone he had selected with significant acting talent,” she said. The court heard that Naufahu would perform “let me in, let me out” and “push me, pull me” exercises with the actresses in an effort to “express their emotions”. The victim told the Herald Naufahu first assaulted her during one of these exercises.

“He used his ‘pull’ motion to kiss me on the mouth, after which I pushed him away and asked him what he was doing.

“The response was that this was a common acting coaching technique used to build confidence and help students in ‘the real world of acting’.” During one of the classes, Naufahu’s “kissing became more passionate and the touching became more invasive”.

The victim said Naufahu said she “was a huge acting talent and was going to ‘go places'”. Naufahu called her the next “New Zealand Charlize Theron”, she said.

She said Naufahu’s long-term “abuse and betrayal” has had a significant and lasting impression on her life.

“It takes a long time to accept yourself as a victim of abuse, and even longer to process the mental and emotional impacts on areas that you would never really imagine before going through something like this.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11955791

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/09/convicted-shortland-st-actor-rene-naufahu-calls-out-haters-and-hoes.html

“GROPERS” is presented by GroperWatch®, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.

1 George Herbert Walker Bush; 2 Bill O’Reilly; 3 Al Franken; 4 Robin Brooke; 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; 7 Joe Biden; 8 Rolf Harris; 9 Harold Bloom; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey; 12 Prince Harry; 13 Bill Clinton; 14 Judge Roy Moore; 15 Matt Lauer; 16 Richard Branson; 17 Warren Moon; 18 Donald John Trump; 19 Damian Green; 20 Gene Simmons; 21 Sylvester Stallone; 22 Louise’s husband Charlie; 23 Father O’Hagan (AKA “Father Gropius”); 24 David Lloyd George; 25 James Franco; 26 Joel Kramer
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January 23, 2018 3:01pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MZRowhMtc
  
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  January 23, 2018 4:09pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Bill Maher is an imbecile, a moral pygmy. Here he is a few years ago having his ignorant and complacent asssss handed to him on his own show….
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-itn_LJuM
    
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    January 23, 2018 6:02pm
Manolo

Fake news for stephieboy’s delight:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/01/22/cbsnbc-downplay-gop-victory-shutdown-abc-guilts-dems-giving
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January 23, 2018 4:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo ,the Nicholas Fondacaro Trumpeter propaganda machine in over drive ,
  
  https://www.newsbusters.org/author/nicholas-fondacaro
  
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  January 23, 2018 6:58pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Will Johnboy be able to keep ~~Flossie~~ Blossom here?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/100775570/much-needed-50-million-retirement-facility-on-the-way-for-wainuiomata

I can’t see that they have made provision for a back paddock or dip.
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January 23, 2018 4:49pm
starboard

Get a job morris, the shit you dribble on here is pathetic. Gropers..please.
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January 23, 2018 5:02pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Starboard:
  
  Get a job morris
  
  Do you have any suggestions as to the type of job that Morrissey is suited to?
  
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  January 23, 2018 5:27pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Job!?!?!?!?!?
    
    !!!!???!?**^%&
    
    https://i.imgur.com/NA6dnpB.gif
    
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    January 23, 2018 5:56pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      We’re an obliging bunch here at Kiwiblog, Morrissey. Several years ago David Garrett arranged a job for Philu with I-suk-up septic tank cleaning services:
      
      There’s a job out here for an assistant to the local septic tank cleaner…the job descriptions reads, in part “to be fair, this is a shit of a job…the offsider is there for those little jobbies the boss just hasn’t got the stomach for any more”
      
      Send your phone number Phil..I will pass it on…
      
      4 months later David confirmed that it was a serious job offer:
      
      Everyone assumes it was just a game, but Peter was actually ready to hire him …no experience required for a septic tank cleaner’s helper…of course the bludging asshole never did make contact…
      
      There’s hope for you yet!
      
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      January 23, 2018 6:08pm
    - sooty
      
      An internet troll for Labour!
      
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      January 23, 2018 6:09pm
  - Gabby
    
    you given it any thought nosy?
    
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    January 23, 2018 6:11pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Gabby the Troll:
      
      My goodness – you smell worse than a sewer rat. Please take a shower before responding to my comments. I recommend using Drano® to wash yourself.
      
      Drano® Clog Removers can unclog a drain fast. They contain chemicals that quickly dissolve hair, soap scum and gunk. You can use Drano® Clog Removers to unclog a kitchen sink, bathroom sink, shower or clogged bathtub, but DO NOT use them in toilets. For clogged or slow-running drains, apply the product and let it work 15 minutes, then flush with hot water. For tough problems, allow 30 minutes before flushing.
      
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      January 23, 2018 6:15pm
starboard

Trendsetters, I just gotta share this with you !!

Last night I was having a quiet beer at my standard here in Phuket, down at Rawai beach. Got talking to this young fella who was sitting opposite by himself, turned out he was an American dude who was in Thailand for a couple of days, en route to Morocco for some car racing. We talked shite for a while, played some pool, talked about each others countries..Trump etc.. sank a few beers..turned out this guys an actor, I said ‘awe ok, pay good coin?’ ‘Reasonable, he replied’.
Cut a long story short..it was LEONARDO DICAPRIO!!! I shit you not.
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January 23, 2018 5:19pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Cool Starboard – photos or it didn’t happen 🙂
  
  (You know that Mikenmild is going to make a wisecrack comment about your imaginary holiday with an imaginary Leonardo Dicaprio…)
  
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  January 23, 2018 5:28pm
- Morrissey
  
  Okay, so the guy looked kind of like Leonardo DiCaprio. Could you post up a photo please?
  
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  January 23, 2018 6:04pm
  - starboard
    
    Umm..no.
    
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    January 23, 2018 6:24pm
- Longknives
  
  Dear Penthouse. You are never going to believe this but-
  So there I was a few years ago lying having a cold beer on Copacabana Beach.
  This amazing looking Brunette in a tiny bikini comes up to me and with her posh English accent tells me she loves Kiwi guys.
  Cut a long story short..it was Kate Beckinsale!! I shit you not.
  
  Aaah Crap- I can’t back this up either…
  Good luck Starboard!!
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:07pm
  - starboard
    
    Here ya go, best I can do. He had that same cap on when I met him.
    
    “Leonardo DiCaprio chats with a couple racers ahead of the Marrakech ePrix on Saturday (January 13) at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan in Marrakech, Morocco.
    
    The 43-year-old Oscar-winning actor kept a low profile in a black LA Dodgers hat, sunglasses, and a navy jacket as he hung out at the race track.”
    
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    January 23, 2018 9:18pm
    - sam green
      
      Did you chat about the weather – climate change perhaps?
      
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      January 23, 2018 11:51pm
      - starboard
        
        Nah, your missus and wot a poor performer in the sack she is.
        
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        January 24, 2018 7:21am
starboard

Mate no photos, I was gobsmacked , didn’t even recognise him. Such a laid back nice guy.

Poor MM, is he still around? Probably in the dunny masturbating over a 1976 Playboy mag that his Dad gave him.
A job for Morris? Easy…google “Indian Sewer Worker”.
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January 23, 2018 5:59pm
- Gabby
  
  Those lovely big 70s girls eh starBubba. No dicks though.
  
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  January 23, 2018 6:09pm
  - starboard
    
    gobby, go and felch something/someone..or you could put a small gerbil up your arse, bet you have done that before eh…EH !! Ya filthy individual.
    
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    January 23, 2018 6:28pm
    - sam green
      
      How would you even know about that …. unless….
      
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      January 23, 2018 6:50pm
    - nasska
      
      I make no claim for the veracity of this report BUT:
      
      Direct from the LA Times:
      
      “In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil,” Eric Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital. Tomaszewski, and his homosexual partner Andrew “Kiki” Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong.
      
      “I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in,” he explained. “As usual, Kiki shouted out ‘Armageddon’, my cue that he’d had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn’t come out again,so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him.”
      
      At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. “The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tubing, igniting Mr Tomaszewski’s hair and severely burning his face. It also set fire to the gerbil’s fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball.”
      
      Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.
      
      https://www.thoughtco.com/gerbilling-mishap-injures-two-4015642
      
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      January 23, 2018 7:00pm
      - starboard
        
        Fan- fucking- tastic !!
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:04pm
      - Viking2
        
        Was rafting a few days ago with a couple of Dr’s from over in Perth. somehow we got to talking about stuff like this as it related to prisoners. I made the comment about guys shoving cellphones up their arse and wondered how that could. Big laughter with the comment” no trouble at all: Working as an Ed surgeon apparently nothing people do is impossible.
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:26pm
      - sam green
        
        You really are just schoolboys aren’t you.
        
        “Analysis
        Albeit attributed to the Los Angeles Times, this lurid bit of potty humor did not originate in any newspaper. Neither the content nor the style conforms to even the lowest of journalistic standards. It’s fake news, a joke, or more precisely a joke bordering on an urban legend because people insist on claiming it’s true. Variants of the story can be found in Internet message board postings dating back to 1993.
        
        The term “felching” is, um, sorely misused in the text. It’s an actual slang word that refers to a sexual activity, and that sexual activity has something to do with rectums, but nothing to do with gerbils. Rather than attempt to provide a clinically correct definition of the term, we refer you to the Internet. The Internet knows more about felching than you likely will want to know yourself. Fair warning.
        
        Does “Gerbil Stuffing” Even Exist?
        The narrative does revolve around an instance of what some like to call “gerbilling” (or “gerbil stuffing”), which, simply defined, is — supposedly — the act of inserting a live rodent into one’s own or another person’s anus for sexual pleasure.
        
        We say “supposedly” because, despite the fact that a name for such a practice exists, there’s no evidence that the practice itself does. Quite the opposite, in fact. “Both in my professional and personal life, thousands of guys have freely admitted to doing the most out-there, dangerous, risky, stupid, kinky stuff,” sex advice columnist Dan Savage wrote in 1998.
        
        “But not once in all these years has anyone ever told me that he, or anyone he knows, has ever put a gerbil in his ass. Like the doomed gerbils themselves, this story has no legs. It is an urban legend.”
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:30pm
      - starboard
        
        Go to bed sam
        
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        January 23, 2018 7:32pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Thanks for the laugh nasska! I couldn’t stop laughing while reading it to hubby. ?
        
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        January 23, 2018 8:16pm
      - Morrissey
        
        This story appeared in Private Eye more than twenty years ago.
        
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        January 23, 2018 8:44pm
      - RF
        
        I just wet my pants……
        
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        January 23, 2018 10:33pm
AgentBallSack

Conan O’Brien visits a resort in Haiti with armed guards to dispel Trumps “shithole” comment. Predictable for a liberal he posts a picture of himself in the ocean, drinking a Pina Colada from a coconut, far away from the poor blacks that live there.
He wasn’t prepared for the backlash though.
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January 23, 2018 6:39pm
- stephieboy
  
  ABS , I can assure even countries like Thailand can boast beautiful beaches and” shithole” pollution like here ,
  
  http://megacitiesbangkok.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/0/7/54071485/1434019042.png
  
  With heaps of smog that I think Haiti might lack ,
  
  https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/low-visibility-caused-pollution-problem-urban-area-sunset-bangkok-thailand-73868397.jpg
  
  I wonder if the President will be diplomatic enough to describe Bangkok the same ?
  
  Doubt it somehow !
  
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  January 23, 2018 7:11pm
- Morrissey
  
  Conan O’Brien is a moron, let’s just make that clear. However, that link of yours shows the right wing “backlash” being swiftly dispatched to the boundary. The fools weren’t happy about being confronted with evidence of similar poverty levels in Los Angeles.
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:42pm
nasska

….”countries like Thailand can boast beautiful beaches and” shithole” pollution”…..

But they can’t boast being host to a wanker who drinks a poofy cocktail in the water at a beach in order to deceive his feeble minded leftist readers.
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January 23, 2018 7:16pm
- stephieboy
  
  nasska , deep and reflective thought states working there .
  
  Aye !
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:37pm
renderer

Good to see that dear old Penny has circled the wagons and locked her personal facebook page.
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January 23, 2018 7:28pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Renderer:
  
  Funny you say that. I checked her Facebook page this morning, and noticed that she’d deleted some recent posts – the obvious ones were the tree protest self-recorded videos. And now she’s shut the world out of her life. How unexpected for a publicity seeker. Obviously she’s feeling rattled…
  
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  January 23, 2018 7:42pm
  - nasska
    
    No “Give a Little” page yet Nostra?
    
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    January 23, 2018 7:45pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      It wouldn’t be the first time she’s given out her bank account details and asked for donations, Nasska.
      
      She’ll create a legal problem for herself if the amount that she raises through donations exceeds the tax-free threshold. The IRD would naturally expect her to declare the surplus as income and pay the corresponding rate of tax.
      
      Edit: This Facebook page is still up. And a post from 8 hours ago:
      
      AGAIN the Council are unlawfully trying to sell the house out from under Penny Bright who has followed the letter of the law for the last 10 years she’s been properly disputing and refusing to pay rates until the council starts following the LAW!
      
      That statement is so inaccurate that you couldn’t even begin to fix it!
      
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      January 23, 2018 8:10pm
      - nasska
        
        You must be mistaken Nostra! Leftist professional protesters are exempt from tax…..except that which the bludgers pay on their dole.
        
        I just can’t see the mad Waterwoman not milking something out of this situation.
        
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        January 23, 2018 8:15pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        My reference to the “tax-free threshold” was possibly too subtle, Nasska! I’m pretty sure Penny’s told us that she earns flatmate income and doesn’t declare it because it’s below the tax-free threshold.
        
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        January 23, 2018 8:19pm
      - nasska
        
        It’s different for the Left Nostra. 🙂
        
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        January 23, 2018 8:22pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        That didn’t take long. Here we go:
        
        No I don’t pay tax on my flatmate income, because it is below the requisite amount required before tax is to be paid. And I have a letter from the IRD which confirms this. Thank you for asking.
        
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        January 23, 2018 8:26pm
Viking2

It never ends. The brown bros favourite gravy train.

A looming change in how mānuka honey is classified is being challenged as a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi with a claim Māori were not consulted.

The change in classification is being pushed through by the Ministry of Primary Industries in a bid to rid the highly lucrative trade of inferior honey.

But it could also reduce export earning by millions as honey currently classified as mānuka could be downgraded to bush honey, which does not attract a premium price.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/100688921/reclassification-of-export-mnuka-honey-may-breach-treaty-of-waitangi

so Maori are no saying that Manuka Honey is covered because the manuka flower is a taonga of Moari.

Love to see them prove that.
even better if they could demonstrate that they had honey from those flowers prior to the white man cometh.
It was the white man that brought honey bees to NZ.

She brought two hives ashore when she landed at the Mangungu Mission Station at Hokianga in March 1839. While New Zealand had two native species of bees, neither was suitable for producing honey. Reverend Richard Taylor, Lady Hobson, James Busby and William Cotton brought more bees in 1843.
Honey bees brought to New Zealand | NZHistory, New Zealand history

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=when+were+honey+bees+brought+to+nz&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=GtdmWqSHHOLc8weZ0LHABA

Where there is more info.
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January 23, 2018 7:34pm
- Longknives
  
  Didn’t you know Viking? Maori invented Honey!
  And as such only a hundred million $$ of whitey taxpayer cash can appease the very angry ‘Honey Taniwha’..
  
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  January 23, 2018 7:52pm
  - starboard
    
    Good old poo skins..never fail to amaze.
    
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    January 23, 2018 10:01pm
    - starboard
      
      …want want want. I see the Govt has given one of the tribes there 300+million as a top up !!!! What a fucking rort. Stupid Kiwis just go along with it..follow like sheep. Enough’s enough, maori are just taking the piss and our useless ‘leaders’ just bend over and give it to them! There’s gonna be upheaval at some stage, this shit just cant continue. An uprising is needed…FAST.
      
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      January 23, 2018 10:17pm
- nasska
  
  There may be value in the name “manuka” which the special people can exploit for koha but;
  
  1) Leptospermum scoparium is also native to parts of Australia so the wankers would be pushing shit uphill to claim the plant as a taonga.
  
  2) Manuka honey & bush honey are differentiated by a laboratory test…..not by where they’re harvested.
  
  https://www.analytica.co.nz/Tests/Honey-Testing/MPI-Manuka-Testing
  
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  January 23, 2018 7:56pm
- Morrissey
  
  Why don’t you go and speak to the politicians? I’m sure that you’d come over as formidably informed, well read, knowledgeable and intelligent.
  
  NOT.
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:38pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.facebook.com/pochemuzik/videos/1711194645854843/

We don’t need no education –
Poche Muzik

“When you sound that good, you don’t need to know all the words.” – David Tillman

Vid shared by Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason
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January 23, 2018 8:05pm
- stephieboy
  
  Rodney Randaal ,
  
  I think PF would like this one even better ,
  
  Another Brick in the wall at the Pantheon , Rome !
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9K4qk_jfgg
  
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  January 23, 2018 8:41pm
Jack5

Oh!oh!

Bill English appears to side with China on the issue of overseas Chinese buying houses in NZ.

Noting there are talks on upgrading the China-NZ free trade deal, English said:

“They’ve yet to see whether the Chinese are going to take a deal where they give us something for our dairy and agricultural produce – which is really important to us – but whether they’ll take worse treatment than Australia on this housing issue.

However, I believe the position is that Australia in general restricts foreign residents (with some exemptions, such as New Zealanders) from buying existing houses. They can buy new homes, or land and build new homes.

In general, non-resident foreigners need to apply for and receive foreign investment approval before purchasing any residential property in Australia.

If the NZ Government does buckle on Chinese investment in NZ real estate, let’s hope China also buckles on letting New Zealanders buy freehold property in China, and invest (if they are silly enough to want to) in China’s core industry, steel.

In the meantime, is National going to learn from the election reversal, or is it going to try to bulldoze voters “back into line”?

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/money/news/china-to-put-foreign-buyers-ban-to-the-test-bill-english/ar-AAv2cVk?li=AA54ya&ocid=spartandhp
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January 23, 2018 9:15pm
starboard

NZ needs somebody strong and with a thick hide to stand up to the brown maori mafia that currently hold the country to ransom with their never ending demands. Someone who is strong enough to look them directly in the eye and tell them ‘ times up’, enough. Get on board with the rest of the country and become New Zealanders, white , yellow, brown, pink. Maori have taken their pound of flesh, don’t be greedy, don’t bite the hand that’s been feeding you.
My message to you is..fit in or fuck off..to where, I don’t care. You have held the country to ransom for long enough.
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January 23, 2018 10:53pm
- starboard
  
  Why the down tick? Explain yourself pussy.
  
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  January 23, 2018 11:31pm
  - starboard
    
    ..I mean Sam green…
    
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    January 23, 2018 11:59pm
- Digmen1
  
  Yes, quickly sign all the rest of the Waitangi claims.
  And then shut the door no more.
  Nothing every any thing every extra Maori.
  
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  January 24, 2018 9:17am
Inandout

Will Cindy and Clarke get maoried at Waitangi?
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