General Debate 12 February 2018

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Jimmy

Paula Penfold’s obsession with slandering the NZDF and seeing conspiracies in all their operations is reaching new lows. (see Stuff.co.nz and The Circuit’s so-called investigative journalism).

Now she is alleging that (shock horror!) they have been training Iraqi forces geographically closer to where they need to get trained than Taji! Oh how dare they! Never fear, Paula Penfold is here to reveal their detailed location.

Would she rather that the NZDF contributed nothing to the defeat of ISIS?
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February 12, 2018 8:00am
- Paulus
  
  Who is Paula Penfold ?
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:02am
  - RalphT
    
    No one of any importance, so you can safely ignore anything she says.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:04am
  - Rodney Randall
    
    A character on the 1980’s classic kids cartoon Dangermouse😅
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:08am
    - Longknives
      
      Oh Crumbs!
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:16am
      - Rodney Randall
        
        😅Ernest Penfold
        
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        February 12, 2018 8:18am
    - Richard
      
      Cor DM! Its the Toad!
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:51am
  - cmm
    
    She made column inches for the week.
    
    Success!
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:17am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    A candidate tailor-made for Green list.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:26am
- Southern Raider
  
  And that oxygen thief refugee Hamed Sooden is chucking his two cents in.
  
  If his home country is so safe why doesn’t he fuck off back there
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:05am
  - Longknives
    
    Harmeet Soden..
    I’m always a bit wary of Political Activists who claim they have been ‘kidnapped’ and this guy is dodgier than a two bob watch!
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:20am
  - igm
    
    Why is that piece of s . . t even in this country as he hates it and its occupants so much.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:39am
- oldgolfer
  
  Stuff seems to think that if they dress something up with video and call in long-form journalism that it is somehow better.
  I have news: it is not.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:43am
  - Jimmy
    
    It’s the shoddiest journalism possible – she relies on one source, who is totally unobjective and with his own agenda to peddle.
    
    She has prior form on this – in her piece on Afghanistan, she called in Keith Locke as an ‘expert witness on defence matters’!!!!
    
    With her, Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson constantly banging their gums against the NZDF, it’s no wonder ANZAC Day parades become a place of protest and slander against our servicemen and women.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:56am
    - sam green
      
      Really – can you provide a recent link?
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:26am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/the-valley/#the-war-of-silence
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/95802392/stuff-circuit-meet-the-investigators-behind-the-valley
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:33am
      - sam green
        
        No that doesn’t explain the recent Anzac parades I’ve attended not being places of protest and slander against our service men and women. Maybe you’ve been protesting in Gisborne.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:08pm
      - Jimmy
        
        John Minto and a bunch of ‘Christchurch Peace Action Group’ dickheads at the Burnham ANZAC Day Service last year turned up calling the NZDF war criminals.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:15pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @sam green
        
        I provided links to support his second sentence.
        
        You didn’t specify what you wanted a link to.
        
        I would never protest at a parade in memory of our War Dead.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:30pm
- Liberty
  
  I don’t have a problem with the army being let out of it’s barracks and help sort out the fuzzy wuzzy.
  What I do find totally unacceptable is the hypocrisy of Col.
  Totally opposed sending troops to help the removal of ISIS.
  Burning people alive and throwing gays of tall building was acceptable in there sordid world.
  But now They have moved into the Big house secretly extending the army operations.
  So much for being a open and honest Government.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:46am
  - Gabby
    
    That’ll be why they’ve terminated involvement I guess Blibbery.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:19pm
- Gabby
  
  I’m just glad they haven’t been outed as training ISIS yet Jiminy.
  
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  February 12, 2018 7:41pm
KiWombat

There has been quite some discussion on this site about Charter Schools.

The comments and arguments mostly appear to be either solidly in favour – or solidly against – with just a few in the middle ground.

But the one thing that does not seem to be considered in the discussions (I resisted the opportunity to use the word “conversations”) is the students who attend these schools – and what they achieve.

This issue SHOULD NOT BE a political discussion, it should be a discussion about STUDENTS.

And so I am somewhat bemused that there is virtually no reference to students in much of the discussion.

And the one member of the government who was a school principal seems not to be saying anything about this issue !

Most of us are parents and grandparents. My concern is what is best for my children and my grandchildren. I was educated in State schools, but these might not be suitable for my son or daughter.

And so I want to have the freedom of CHOICE. I want to be able to CHOOSE whether my child attends a State school or any other type of school which may lead to a better outcome for them. And I find it difficult to comprehend why there are so many contributors who are so galvanised in their opinions that they are failing to even consider their own children or grandchildren.

So please don‘t opine based on your political ideology, your union mantra, the size of your pay cheque.

Think like a parent and PUT THE KIDS FIRST !!
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February 12, 2018 8:00am
- peterwn
  
  It is highly political. So much so that Jacinda had to defuse it as an election issue or risk losing a small but potentially slice of left wing votes. The pupils and their families are also a potential political risk, they might start thinking independently.
  Similarly with the Chris Bishop situation. If you are hard left wing you do not want your kids having conversations with MP’s of the opposite leaning, you want to put up walls and barriers against this to have better control of your kids.
  So that is why a Labour government will try and consolidate as influence over education and broadcast media as possible while in power and try to do it in such as way as to be difficult to dismantle when finally voted out.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:13am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Indeed. One only needs to think of the paper Clare Curran prepared for the Labour Party twelve or so years ago where she talked about the importance of “capturing the language”; now she is in charge of turning RNZ into an “independent” TV station, and is Minister for Open Government.
    
    https://www.nzcpr.com/capturing-the-language/
    
    It is hard to imagine a more inappropriate portfolio for her to hold, given her controlling nature, her banning/blocking of anyone who disagrees with her, and her obfuscation when asked simple, direct questions in the House.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:59am
    - lilman
      
      Just rang Hippkins office in wellington.
      
      Simply put I was cut off with a curt thank you good bye.
      
      What a disgrace.
      
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      February 12, 2018 2:38pm
      - Gabby
        
        Next time ring before you have your ‘special cough medicine’ lilmunt.
        
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        February 12, 2018 7:43pm
  - Ross12
    
    This poster captures it all
    
    https://i0.wp.com/www.whaleoil.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-2.50.21-PM.png?resize=768%2C577&ssl=1
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:08am
  - Piniwi
    
    But peterwn it is ok when the left’s controllers use children are used to get Labour propaganda into their school bags to take home. Next step is pinning them on their clothing as “important” notices.
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:36pm
- VicParking
  
  If you are rich you can send your kids to Private school, for which are for all intents and purposes outside the state system, its ok but if you are poor and send your kids to a Charter school that’s evil. This sounds about face for a Labour government. It just goes to show that if the Unions say jump the parliamentarians say “HOW HIGH”
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:16am
  - KiWombat
    
    I hear what you are saying Vic, but to balance the various arguments I would rather hear from PARENTS about their personal opinions rather than the party mantra.
    
    We all know the mantra, it is being shoved down our throats, but none of the “conversations” seem to include the STUDENTS or even make reference to them.
    
    Perhaps we can even hear from some STUDENTS about their personal experiences in charter schools ? I saw one interviewed on the news last night, and she was very lucid. We need to see SOME of this on KB
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:23am
    - VicParking
      
      Ki, there has been plenty of that even in the MSM. Two Parents were interviewed on TV last night. Plenty in the papers and Blogs. Teacher was interviewed on Prime. You wont find it on Red Radio however as their Labour masters wont allow it.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:13am
    - 4077th
      
      Since when did parents or students opinions matter. It is the will of Chippie Hipkins and his union masters and puppeteers. Logic has nothing to do with it as Vic mentioned. It is nothing more than a political ideology and as it turns out one that completely contradicts their own “mantra” by putting at risk youth, at risk!. Chippie will march on with his little crusade with his blinkers firmly intact regardless of any of us who opine otherwise including those you mention.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:47am
  - sam green
    
    If private schools are outside the state system, how come National bailed out Whanganui Collegiate?
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:30am
    - peterwn
      
      Catholic schools used to be right outside the state system, but the State had to bail out the whole lot or most of them would have collapsed. Hence the ‘integrated’ schools which receive State funding in exchange for giving up some independence. Many but not all non-Catholic private schools became integrated under that scheme (for example Te Aute in Hawkes Bay was in a precarious financial situation). So Whanganui Collegiate was treated no differently than the other private schools that chose to integrate, the only difference being that it originally decided to remain private until finances became tight (the private schools run on very tight budgets, receive minimal State support and the parents have to pay GST on the fees).
      
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      February 12, 2018 12:10pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      National didn’t bail out Wanganui Collegiate Sam. Collegiate was allowed to integrate into the state school system. In doing do, it saved around 100 jobs and a significant income earner for the Whanganui economy.
      
      Ironically, it was an issue that both the then-MP Chester Borrows and his Labour opponent Hamish McDouall were united on, much to the chagrin of the Labour Party. Hekia Parata was initially opposed to the integration, but representations from both men gave her cause for a rethink. That is exactly the kind of advocacy we have electorate MP’s for.
      
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      February 12, 2018 12:11pm
    - Jack5
      
      Sam Green: I see that on its web site the school you refer to still calls itself Wanganui Collegiate.
      
      The name of the river was changed to “Whanganui” by the Government in 1991.
      
      In 2012, alternative spellings for the city – Whanganui and Wanganui – were recognised by Parliament.
      
      In 2015, Land Information Minister Louise Upston confirmed the Geographic Board’s recommendation that the name of the district be changed from Wanganui to Whanganui.
      
      So I guess the school can correctly spell its name in whichever of the city’s two alternative sepplings that it chooses.
      
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      February 12, 2018 11:30pm
- Kimbo
  
  Pfft. Two suggestions: if you think there is a deficiency in the debate address it, rather than using something as tedious as guilt. “Will no one think of the children??!”
  
  Second thing- stow the caps lock. IT makes you look like a deranged idiot. And as you misrepresented one of my posts yesterday I’m taking your latest post as additional confirmation of your idiotic analytical skills.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:20am
  - KiWombat
    
    I apologise for my reaction yesterday. When I read this part of your post:-
    
    ‘any MP or candidate who does not reply to written correspondence, including from kids, is an incompetent who deserve to be flushed’
    
    I neglected to see the “not” hence my reaction.
    
    Having read your post again I acknowledge that it was fair and reasonable. Sorry Kimbo.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:38am
    - Kimbo
      
      Your apology is gratefully accepted, and I consider that the end of the matter.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:46am
      - KiWombat
        
        Smoetmies our eeys will see smothning tahts not ralely tehre, and vcia vrcea of cursoe!
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:29am
- cmm
  
  KiWo:
  
  I would disagree that there was little mention of the kids themselves. Most of the earlier posts were focused almost entirely on the success of the kids. It only became a pro/anti union “discussion” later. And why not? They’re driving to shut down the charter schools. They are the problem behind the curtain.
  
  I think I agree with you on where you’re generally going with this: making a path to success for some kids who are not thriving under the school system. Focus on the kids.
  
  Yes, certainly, we want everyone to succeed and if Charter schools are achieving that then don’t screw with them. Put the kids before the unions and this is a no-brainer.
  
  Giving people the flexibility to choose to attend one school vs another is good because it injects a degree of “free market” into the school system – people can vote with their feet for the better schools with better teachers etc (of course the unions hate this because it causes competition and shows up slackers).
  
  However “choice” just for the sake of choice itself should not be taxpayer funded, IMHO. Choice is there to serve two purposes:
  * Provide adequate pathways for various means to succeed.
  * Competition to weed out slacker teachers/schools.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:30am
  - Kimbo
    
    Well put. Is a nonsense to say the issue is not political. FFS, education, health, defence, social welfare, police, all the activities for which government levies taxes, prioritises and makes policy decisions and then delivers them is political.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:43am
    - cmm
      
      Quite.
      
      The very existence of government services and a taxation system that takes from some people and gives to others makes this entirely political.
      
      As a society we need to determine where to put the line for how much the government should tax, what services should be provided and who should control the way that money is spent.
      
      The politics is really just the pushing and pulling to move that line around.
      
      There is a huge problem, IMHO, when powerful government unions intervene and prevent society from controlling the situation.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:25am
      - Kimbo
        
        Yes. And big business too. And in times past “big religion”. And big media.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:46am
    - backster
      
      In connection with Charter Schools let us not forget that WINSTON can put a stop to thIs.WINSTON can KEEP THEM HONEST. That was his theme song before the election and he knows that Willie Jackson and Kelvin Davis were dishonestly promising to resign if Labour closed the Charter Schools. Those School boards should be hammering Winston.
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:12am
      - Ross12
        
        No he won’t.
        Tracey Martin is as much against them as Hipkins.
        
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        February 12, 2018 12:25pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    We can’t have competition to weed out slacker teachers/schools when we have zoning.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:47am
flipper

Here it is in all its infamous glory.
Click bait, damn click bait, and more damn click bait, from the children at Stuff.
And look at the source!!!

If you take these lead paras as a guide it is not hard to understand why most folk no longer have any trust in NZ’s media.
About the only way to secure an un-biased view or REAL news is to look at the AFR and selected publications in the UK and USA.

This from the children at Stuff ……….
New Zealand’s mission in Iraq has undergone a significant change, without the public being told.
Since last year, soldiers have moved beyond a purely training role, taking up new responsibilities to help Iraqi forces plan and conduct military operations.
The changes should have been made public and cause the public to question what New Zealand is really doing in Iraq, says human rights campaigner Harmeet Sooden.
“I think there needs to be public debate about are we actually helping the people of Iraq?” Sooden told Stuff Circuit.
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February 12, 2018 8:02am
- Jimmy
  
  She has chosen one source, who just happens to be a far-leftie.
  
  What happened to supporting our troops?
  
  She reveals the DETAILED LOCATION of our troops as they trained Iraqi Army in a location closer to the fight – does she want our troops to die?
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:06am
  - GazzaW
    
    The answer to that is probably ‘Yes’ as it would create headlines for Africa and opportunities for the lefties to cry buckets of crocodile tears.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:42am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right Jimmy as we know “loose lips sink ships” is intended in a much broader sense with such things today bordering on terrorism. Beware the enemy within. The Government approves it and funds then the NZDF get on with the job which they do very well. Operational matters are not political footballs.
    Watch the movie Eye in the Sky what a toxic mix emotions and outsider interference impacts of operational issues.
    Take a lead from Donald Trump who sees how flawed it is to channel too much to the enemy by grabbing a headline about troop movements.
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:52pm
- G152
  
  Why should we be told?
  Are many of us so conversant with the situation there that our comments would be of value?
  If the stupid woman doesn’t realise there is a war going on let her wander off over there and leave us..
  Please!!!!
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:31am
  - Jimmy
    
    I don’t get her angle – that we shouldn’t be training the Iraqis to defeat ISIS?
    
    Or that we shouldn’t be engaging with the wider coalition efforts to advise and assist them?
    
    Or that the NZ soldiers should run away when the US army issues equipment to the Iraqi forces, lest we ‘do something that wasn’t in the original mandate?’
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:35am
- igm
  
  Why is this Sooden scum still here? He cost megabucks to free, and then kicked us in the guts . . . oh, but he is a Muslim!
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:16am
  - stephieboy
    
    igm etc , Sooden is not Muslim but a Sikh
    
    “Sooden was born and raised in Zambia. His parents are Sikhs from Kashmir.[2] His great-grandfather fought for the British Indian Army in World War I and died in Basra in 1916 during the Mesopotamian Campaign.[3] As an inspiration for peace work, he cites his grandfather who was a career soldier in the British Indian Army and then the Indian Army.[4] “
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmeet_Singh_Sooden
    
    LOL!
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:45am
    - Longknives
      
      Really? He claimed to be Christian when he came back from his alleged ‘Kidnapping’..
      
      *I think it’s blindingly bloody obvious what Religion he is…
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:55am
    - 4077th
      
      I think you’ll find he identifies as Christian actually. His religion is really a pointless distraction, what is very tiresome is his willingness to put himself in harms way to score some sort of political point? Even your dear leader H1 warned him about being a twat. At best he is some kind of rope headed, flower power dope head, at worst he is a sympathiser of well known terrorist groups that should be kept an eye on.
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:01am
RalphT

Today’s the day!

…DFP’s housing shortfall calculator breaks the 3,000 barrier. Three cheers for Twyford and Labour’s bunch of merry twits.
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February 12, 2018 8:03am
- KiWombat
  
  I have seen reference to an application for 6 x HNZ dwellings to be built in Westport – so at least Twitford might be getting close to having a few runs on the board.
  
  Only 999,994 to go !
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:06am
  - Digmen1
    
    Yes, the rolling counters on houses and trees.
    Do they take into account any houses or trees built since the election.
    
    They may look fun now, but what about in a years time when some houses will have been built and some trees will have been planted?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:24am
    - sooty
      
      Why Westport?
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:38am
      - KiWombat
        
        They have to start somewhere, and the West Coast has been neglected for a long time now.
        
        Perhaps that’s where the need is greatest – or there might be another explanation ?
        
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        February 12, 2018 8:45am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        It’s the only place they can buy land cheaply enough to meet their own definition of “affordable”. Welcome to the real world Mr Twyford.
        
        PS: Are you proud of the Oxfam workers in Haiti?
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:02am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Not just Oxfam KS, reports that Red Cross, Save the Children and a British charity have been up to the same. Govt funding may dry up for these groups.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:41am
      - MrLovebucket
        
        I suspect there is no housing shortage, or crisis in Westport.
        
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        February 12, 2018 1:59pm
    - KiWombat
      
      ‘Yes, the rolling counters on houses and trees.
      Do they take into account any houses or trees built since the election.’
      
      As to the former – you could count these on the fingers of one hand – and as to the second – same same !
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:41am
    - Piniwi
      
      Well Digmen1 the rolling count will still be well out in front since the rate of rotation will be faster than construction.
      We are informed frequently that estimates have slid and best guess now is 8000 houses completed in their first term. Even that requires substantial “special worker visa” tradies being found.
      
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      February 12, 2018 4:12pm
  - RF
    
    Dear god. Westport is getting 6 houses.
    
    I hope the kokatahi band is booked for the street march and celebrations.
    
    The good people in Westport will have to find a suitable site to erect a statue of Twyford.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:54am
    - VicParking
      
      I can see the headlines “Westport doubles in size”
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:16am
      - KiWombat
        
        Are you suggesting they will have to import tenants to fill the new houses Vic ?
        
        Plenty of time for that. These are only on paper at the moment !
        
        Twitford could do Auckland a favour and live in one of them !
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:43am
      - Piniwi
        
        Perhaps VP but there is less said about the fate of derelict State houses to be demolished. Will be 2 for 1 or 1 for 2 or 0 for 6? We know the devil in the detail but it is a devil of task to get that detail.
        
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        February 12, 2018 4:25pm
    - 4077th
      
      Even the feral’s have to live somewhere 🙂
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:05am
      - backster
        
        But they prefer a motel in Auckland to a three bedroom housein Westport.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:19am
    - Piniwi
      
      No way RF. Westport had/has a championship brass band with instruments/gear provided by the miners. Secondly Westport is the Buller province and the Kokatahi band is a West Coast icon. However the latter are struggling a bit as to many members have lost their clackers.
      
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      February 12, 2018 4:19pm
      - RF
        
        At last someone that knows the true history of the West coast. I have mates who come from Westport and I have great pleasure pointing out that they are not true west coasters.
        
        Even poor buggers living in Cobden once came under the Nelson province.
        
        I only used the kokatahi band as I figured no one would know about the great brass band from Westport.
        
        I salute you.
        
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        February 12, 2018 8:11pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Cheers RF hospitality second to none in Westport when billeted during band competition back in the day. The elderly couple took 2 of us lads then he got up at the crack of dawn to catch the tide and 2 pound of whitebait for our breakfast. The lady of the house cooked plate size patties bound only with egg.
        The old Buller/West Coast rivalry still survives today with regional pride topping electoral boundary changes and to an equal degree political preferences.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:04pm
- VicParking
  
  The report due today will say its all Nationals fault and that its going to take longer (2020+) to fix. Well at least till Jacinda marries or has another baby.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:20am
  - oldgolfer
    
    Well if anyone is going to fix the problem, it won’t be Phil.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:46am
- GazzaW
  
  …and as I mentioned at the weekend the six HNZ apartments completed nine weeks ago in my neighbourhood remain stubbornly empty. What about all those homeless Phil? We don’t seem to be seeing those endless images on TV One any more as we did prior to the election.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:49am
  - KiWombat
    
    Well by the end of the year we might have 6 apartments empty in Westport as well.
    
    COL balancing the love !
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:58am
- Piniwi
  
  Yes RalphT that new total is reached as the housing stocktake report is released. The first thing they might need to do is run it through Peter font fixer. What a load of BS to try to find another hit job on the previous Government as they try to cover up getting nothing done so far.
  When it is just something cobbled together by some of their favourite “people” it just more troughing being provided.
  
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  February 12, 2018 4:02pm
Paulus

Flipper
Agreed we should have a conversation and form a Committee.
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February 12, 2018 8:04am
- flipper
  
  Yeaahh ….
  A conversation would be a start, but we would need to carefully select the participants, would we not ???? After all, we know what we want to emerge …………
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:15am
  - RF
    
    Absolutely. !!!!!!!!!!
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:56am
  - backster
    
    Dependency not self reliance.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:21am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right flipper. The truth is what we say it is and now confirmed in the “report” from OUR panel of experts.
    
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    February 12, 2018 4:28pm
Rodney Randall

https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/101295325/unexpected-places-righting-wrongs-through-quran-exhibition-in-christchurch

Apparently we haven’t had the ‘true’ Islam yet but the Te Reo translation may get us closer😆
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February 12, 2018 8:07am
- Inandout
  
  ‘I’m a Muslim, ask me anything’, says the tshirt.
  
  OK. Why do Muslim women dress like they have a contagious disease? Why do you universally hate gays? Why are we forced to consume halal food, and have to pay for it? What is wrong with eating pork? What is wrong with keeping dogs?
  
  Those questions for starters.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:17am
  - Rodney Randall
    
    And the golden question that makes most of them squirm, dodge and weave: What is the punishment for apostasy?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:21am
    - holysheet
      
      If islam is a peaceful religion, why do the different sects fight each other to death?
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:43am
  - Digmen1
    
    What do imams actually teach in their mosques.
    
    When muslims pray what do they pray about?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:21am
    - mara
      
      Domination of infidels and Sharia law. The more we actually know about Muslims the more we dislike them; funny that. Most Kiwis are clueless.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:29am
      - stephieboy
        
        mara , whose “we “ ?
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:32am
      - Piniwi
        
        Yes mara but the Media party are working at full steam to sanitise the reality for our safety? We know what we know but we don’t know what we don’t and they mean to keep it that way.
        
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        February 12, 2018 4:33pm
  - VicParking
    
    If your Countries and Religion are so great why the fk don’t you live there?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:23am
  - kowtow
    
    Is he Ahmadeya ?
    
    And if so why is he representing it as true Islam?
    
    Is it true that the larger Muslim sects consider Ahmadeyas as heretics and have violently attacked them in the past , because Islam is a religion of peace that prescribes death for apostacy?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:30am
    - Swifty
      
      He is.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:50am
    - simpleton1
      
      A ruling that is supported in a local mosque, that is in Auckland and so certainly by all other affiliated mosques.
      
      Having studied these documents and numerous others like them which shed light on the creed of the Qadianis [Ahmadiyya], as well as the sources it springs from, its foundations and its dangerous aims which include undermining the correct Islamic creed and diverting Muslims away from it, the Council has unanimously passed the following resolutions:
      
      -the beliefs of the Qadianis, also known as the Ahmadiyya, are completely outside the fold of Islam
      -those who accept their creed are considered apostates and non-Muslims, and
      -the claim of its followers that they are Muslims is no more than an attempt to misguide and deceive…
      ….Verily, Allaah is All-Knowing. [but does not like ahmadiyya] http://www.masjidattaqwa.co.nz/ahmadiyya/
      
      Ahmadiyya is a wide spread group, barely if even make up a total of 1% of all muslims.
      So there is no way that he speaks for 99% of the other muslims in NZ.
      
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      February 12, 2018 11:15am
  - mandk
    
    Here’s another question: Given the practice of taqiyya, how can a non-Moslem trust anything a Moslem says?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:31am
  - Swifty
    
    Why do muslims lie so much?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:38am
    - stephieboy
      
      Swifty , no more or no less than you .
      
      Likely less than you .
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:33am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        No more, no less, probably less
        3 lies in that statement right there. See what he’s getting at?
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:46am
      - Swifty
        
        Funnily enough ABS, every Sunday at the Avondale Market there’s a dawah stall – manned by a couple of Pakistani grippers. I know this becase I’ve had several brief conversations with them.
        
        Their main poster, displayed amongst a number of others, proclaims that the word islam means ‘peace’. There’s a lie right there. Right from the get go. Islam actually means ‘submission’, ‘obedience’.
        
        I’ve mentioned this to them and I just get more lies, but I can tell by the look on their faces and their behaviour that they know they’ve been sprung.
        
        They just can’t help themselves.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:13am
  - Swifty
    
    “In April 2017, researchers from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study found Kiwis who follow the news closely have greater prejudice towards Muslims than New Zealanders with less news exposure.”
    
    You mean, the more we know about Islam the more we don’t like it?
    
    Well I never! 🙂
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:40am
    - stephieboy
      
      Swifty , site the source for that claim ?
      
      And which news ? Jihad Watch , Breitbart etc ?
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:34am
      - Nermal
        
        The “site” would be the internet.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:54am
      - Swifty
        
        It’s referenced in Rodney Randall’s original posting you egg:
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/101295325/unexpected-places-righting-wrongs-through-quran-exhibition-in-christchurch
        
        Tool.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:18am
      - simpleton1
        
        The absolute source. !
        
        koran in chronological order with consideration of the abrogation verses that seal the latter verses to be practiced.
        
        hadith, particularly weighing up the authenticity that is granted by the ulama. This shows more sayings (intent), actions, deeds in historical background of the life of Mohammad.
        
        sunnah, shows the advice of living more truly as a muslim as practiced and advised by Mohammad.
        
        “Reliance of the Traveller” with the approved translation from the Egyptian University, Al-Azhar.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:38am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        NZ Attitudes and Values Study, Professor Chris Sibley, University of Auckland. I’ve contributed to it for years stephie. You should look it up.
        
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        February 12, 2018 2:54pm
  - Swifty
    
    Why do Islamic countries feature so heavily at the bottom of all international ‘quality of life’ surveys?
    
    And why do western democracies feature so heavily at the top?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:51am
    - holysheet
      
      “Shit hole countries” comes to mind.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:16am
      - Swifty
        
        Yep.
        
        And why are they shitholes?
        
        Hmm, let me think….
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:22am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Why do Islamic countries feature so heavily at the bottom of all international ‘quality of life’ surveys
      
      Because they relegate 50% of their population to an inferior position in society.
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:39am
      - Swifty
        
        I totally agree that is a biggie.
        
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        February 12, 2018 5:51pm
    - Piniwi
      
      @Swifty it has something to do with what they perceive as a flat earth outlook. It is getting that way for many as the Muslim fight among themselves. We like it as they have not yet heard of the Darwinian effect.
      
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      February 12, 2018 4:40pm
    - Gabby
      
      Because they’re in Africa?
      And because they aren’t?
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:10pm
  - Swifty
    
    As an Indian, don’t you feel a bit silly running around extolling the supposed virtues of a totally fabricated 7th Century Arab totalitarian belief system that was imposed on your people by invasion and the sword? And that resulted in millions of Indian deaths?
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:58am
    - stephieboy
      
      Millions of Indian deaths ?
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:35am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Have a look at some Indian history, stephieboy.
        Swat up on the following:
        Massacre of Srirangam
        Massacre by Bengal Sultan – Firuz Shah Tughlaq
        Vijayanagara massacres
        Timur’s massacres
        Shah Durrani massacres of Sikhs
        
        (and that’s just for starters).
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:51am
      - Kimbo
        
        …and study the significance of why Sikh men are required to wear a kirpan…until the last Muslim dies.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:54am
      - Digmen1
        
        Yes the Hindus fought the islam invaders for hundreds of years.
        Huge armies.
        
        Luckily they stopped them.
        But then they got into their dhows and sailed round India to Bangladesh and Indonesia.
        
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        February 12, 2018 7:20pm
  - Swifty
    
    What is more likely?
    
    That a god sent an angel down to earth and whispered in a person’s ear and revealed the god’s plan and instructions for us – or that a 7th century illiterate merchant told a few porkies?
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:12am
calendar girl

Am I the only one tired of our two major ‘newspaper’ groups Stuff and the NZ Herald leading their ‘news’ almost daily with dramatic weather news / forecasts?
Today’s Herald leads with:
“We’re all hot and sticky: humidity at 99 percent”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11992552

We’ve had days of unfulfilled forecasts about “cyclones” for what are decent, normal rainfalls, sometimes with a bit of accompanying wind. Easy material to put together from online forecasts, spice it up a bit, and call it journalism without even having to leave one’s comfortable office.
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February 12, 2018 8:10am
- Chuck Bird
  
  The sun is shinning in the Waikato now.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:14am
  - waikatogirl
    
    “Shinning” Chuck! The sun’s shining in my part of the waikato. 😆
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:57am
  - Swifty
    
    Nice in Avondale.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:01am
  - Paulus
    
    Woke up to sun in Tauranga this morning – been for constitutional walk – humid, but nice on the harbour.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:23am
- Inandout
  
  In the winter I buy one Saturday paper to light the fire for a week. I skip past all political articles and maybe look at the technology section. Walking past the piles of unsold dailies in the supermarket brings a smile to my face. Most of us won’t pay for a paper, both in print and online, so bye bye Stuff and Herald, you have signed your own death warrant.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:23am
  - Digmen1
    
    Yes, I remember years ago when the newspapers were piled high at the supermarkets, and you had to fight for the last one at night.
    
    Now they are not piles, but two or three papers on top of each other.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:26am
    - sooty
      
      I think it’s cheaper to buy bbq fire lighters at supermarket, than newspaper.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:42am
      - Colville
        
        and with fire lighters you dont need to chop kindling…
        
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        February 12, 2018 8:55am
      - Swifty
        
        We stockpile our egg-cartons. Always got the firelighters on hand too. Work a treat.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:03am
  - VicParking
    
    No need in Whanganui. We get two free newspapers delivered a week and about 100 advertising blurbs. Plenty of of Cat litter and fire lighters here.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:20am
    - Digmen1
      
      Yes we have 2 free papers in the BOP
      One is quite big, the other is quite small.
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:11am
    - Jack5
      
      Do the Whanganui free papers come once a wheek or twice a wheek or every second wheek?
      
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      February 12, 2018 11:56pm
  - Ross12
    
    Probably cheaper (and better for your blood pressure) to buy fire lighters Inandout.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:37am
- JIV
  
  They want to run endless ‘extreme weather’ stories but the weather just wont cooperate. So they have to make up stories about the new heat wave that ‘might’ hit or the floods that ‘could’ devastate your suburb. Better to get the fear into the public mind rather than actually wait for a story thats suit your narrative.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:25am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Not to overlook all the other predictions:
    Someone might …,
    Someone is expected to…,
    
    It was worse all through the election, but hasn’t stopped. They’re like crones at a country fair with their palmistry and crystal ball-gazing.
    If one of their guesses comes good they’ll say “As we predicted…”
    Sharlatans, the lot of them.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:59am
  - Piniwi
    
    Funny JIV then a local body sympathises with people flooded INSIDE a floodwall because they neglected the infrastructure. Then the day after the cancellation of the Poof Parade there are now 50 beaches with floaty things.
    PS. Cheers to Spephiething ifor the connect it is the “relief”
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:02pm
- oldgolfer
  
  No, you are not the only one.
  It’s just what it has always been: weather.
  Muppets.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:48am
- stephieboy
  
  calendar girl , the weather forecast this last weekend for Auckland was bang on . Rain ,warm and humid .
  
  A relief today as so far its fine .
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:52am
- 4077th
  
  I can give you a pretty accurate weather forecast.. It will be bright during the day and dark at night..There, done!
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:26am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right 4077th with the catch all “some showers elsewhere.”
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:07pm
- Piniwi
  
  @ but calendar girl it is for the clicks. They have forgotten the relationship between high temp/increased rainfall since precipitation is so old hat. As always fools rush in etc as the global warmest “experts” that is the reason and it will get worse.
  Likewise when a Cat 4 storm is moving over so much water it has a better than average chance of making it to a Cat 5 before it does “find” landfall.
  But hey we only know what we know about such things from what we have seen/experienced and think computer “models” might be another form of smut.
  
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  February 12, 2018 4:52pm
Monique Watson

Are we going to down tick the fuck out of Splodge today or ignore the twit.
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February 12, 2018 8:11am
- sooty
  
  Downtick. Flings shit like a mad woman.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:43am
  - VicParking
    
    Did not know Penny flung shit?
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:21am
    - G152
      
      Once you’ve nailed the tune its all go 🙂
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:32am
oldpark

Then there is the” Stuffed” Sunday Star Times put out by the Australian owned Fairfax Co masquerading as” Stuff” how appropiate.
What an abortion of a supposed newspaper.
Yesterdays edition was an all time low. There was no real news. Just a smorgasboard of lies rumours and innuendo on innocent NZs. Their sleaze knew no bounds. No wonder they are losing massive sales.
Seems they will go the same way as the other rag which was called “Truth”.Sooner rather than later.
My copy was a so called” free” copy even then it was too much.
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February 12, 2018 8:12am
- Digmen1
  
  I used to love reading the Sunday Star Times back int he 80’s and 90s.
  It had articles by Bob Edlin and Ian Templeton, and it did not seem to biased back then.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:16am
- lifesgood
  
  Funny you should say that. I have been getting the SST since it started and realise I haven’t read it for the last few weeks. I’ll cancel it today. I cancelled The Herald a few years ago and life is so much better. Also cancelled the rabidly left wing Listener a couple of years ago. Pretty much all that’s worth reading now is KB
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:57am
  - Colville
    
    lifesgood.
    I picked up a Listener at a beachhouse for a read a few weeks back…. it was stomach churning…
    
    amazed that I used to (10+ yrs ago) pay for that dribble..
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:07am
    - Swifty
      
      Has it gone downhill?
      
      I had a subscription for years and years, but not in the last 8 or so. Used to be pretty good.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:24am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It’s been shallow rubbish for years..
        Full of articles on trendy eating fads, how to love your heart, etc
        just another version of the “Reader’s Digest” once over lightly.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:56am
      - Swifty
        
        Thanks Maggy.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:23am
- Longknives
  
  I used to read the SST every week back in the day (My Sunday hungover ritual)
  
  When they called the Napier Gunman a ‘Brave Maori Warrior’ I threw it away and swore never to buy another copy..
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:00am
  - Harkman
    
    Rod Oram was enough to send me over the top.
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:56pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Oh, I didn’t know ‘Brave Maori Warrior’ was a euphemism for ‘Dope Growing Murdering Thug’.
    I learn something every day
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:59pm
  - Gabby
    
    You prolly misread through your alcoholic haze lungnuts.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:48pm
- Paulus
  
  Professionals consider that the SST will be gone within 18 months max.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:25am
Happychappy

Another reason Winston Peters selected Labour ahead of National is his need for answers over the Dot Com affair and hs hate for John Key. National would not need a enquiry into Dot Com and how it was handled but Labour would go out of their way to blacken John Key s name and help Winston achieve his revenge on Key. Anyone that thinks this would not happen think back to Winstons disgraceful speech to John Keys retirement in Parliament where he showed his true colours and hate for the former PM.
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February 12, 2018 8:12am
- waikatogirl
  
  It’s only more taxpayer money that Winnie and Liabor are prepared to spend. What’s a few more $100k’s to hold an inquiry that comes to the conclusion desired by those who set it in motion.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:05am
- RF
  
  Happychappy.
  
  Peters is a doddering old fool well past his use by date.
  
  Must be so unhappy to be so bitter and twisted.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:06am
- Piniwi
  
  Interesting Happychappy since reading between the lines as one does with Media party “news” there seems to be some pre conditioning (interference) being put out to prepare us for a Dot Con soft landing.
  
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  February 12, 2018 5:14pm
Yvette

As there are no full-blooded Maori’s in existence it indisputably follows that had it not of been for migrants, mainly Brits, not a single Maori today, including Professor Temaru, would have existed. – Sir Bob Jones

“Indisputable” he asserts, but surely Maori without migrants available would have kept on having intercourse, and so reproducing numbers, among themselves as they seemed to be doing before migrants appeared, and it is those migrants, eliminated in Sir Bob’s proposition, who would not be here?

So about 40,000 people beseech Jacinda Ardern to strip Sir Bob of his knighthood, without apparently really considering what he has said.
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February 12, 2018 8:12am
- Simon
  
  Let’s hear wise words of wisdom from Princess
  
  Her amazing life story of being pregnant should give her such insights into this issue
  
  Some Maoris have been offended. It’s time for all NZ to take stock and reflect. Lead us Princess NZ is on edge in anticipation.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:28am
- dime
  
  maori would have run out of food by now. hunted everything into extinction. the great protectors of the land that they were..
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:29am
  - KiWombat
    
    As I have said before – when they saw Cook sail over the horizon their first reaction would have been “Food” !
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:52am
    - lifesgood
      
      And indeed it was….Murderers Bay tells the story.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:59am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yeah, but that was Abel Tasman’s lot.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:59am
  - Swifty
    
    Yeah, I understand that Maori were heading for major population collapse about the time whitey first sailed in.
    
    All the easy protein had been eaten out and farming had not developed sufficiently to make up the difference (no more moa drumsticks etc).
    
    That’s certainly how I remember if from the 70s – not sure where current research is up to.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:09am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    By the end of the 19 century Maori population was in a bad way. Disease some introduced by the White MotherF….. had wiped out many.
    
    Some say it was a pity the rest werent wiped out but of course I couldnt possibly comment.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:10am
    - RF
      
      Long pig was a favourite dish amongst the savages.
      
      A blood thirsty race that even killed members of their own tribe.
      
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      February 12, 2018 2:01pm
      - Gabby
        
        Your mob did that rf rf. They didn’t stop at breaking fingers and planting cartridge cases you know boy.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:43pm
  - KevOB
    
    They would have run out of themselves by now. They needed the English Crown for protection against inter-tribal utu.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:11am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Carbohydrate energy sources (limited kumara and hard-to-process bracken fern rhizome) were in short supply. Maori would have obtained calories from fats and proteins (marine mammal, seafood / bird sources, as well as the only large land-based mammals around — other humans).
    
    Other Polynesians (re Easter Island) destroyed their ecosystems and suffered population collapses. Would Maori have done the same, left to their own devices?
    
    This question is never discussed.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:38am
- Kimbo
  
  Including and especially that it was…satire. Basic interpretive key for all those who were outraged and offended- he didn’t mean a word of what he wrote. 🙂
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:33am
  - Swifty
    
    Exactly.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:10am
- Evadne
  
  Jones’ makes the point that we are all the product (i.e. sum) of our DNA heritage. People would still exist if the migrants had not come, they just wouldn’t be the people who exist now.
  
  His given example is my mother marrying Peter Snell instead of my dad. It wouldn’t make me a better runner, or improve my lot: Evadne wouldn’t exist at all. How could I? I’m the genetic product of my mother and father (and their ancestors).
  
  As I read it, Bob Jones wasn’t really making any point regarding the respective virtues of Maori v. others, but pointing out that it’s ridiculous to rail against your own genetic heritage, and philosophically untenable to hold that anyone would be better off without it.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:40am
  - Piniwi
    
    @Evadne perhaps there needs to be a revaluation of the settlement process with the amount being relative to the bloodline native content. Assume 100% at the point of the TOW and in the intention of fair shares a media percentage for the tribes members today. Names of members with direct payment to each relative to their percentage of native blood. Lump sums or weekly pull down from ant ATM near you. Labour would want it to be taxable since it would be set with compensation for inflation. Fair deal?
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:29pm
- Harkman
  
  Which is less than 1% of the population, or more precisely +99% disagree with those idiots.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:11am
- Paulus
  
  Intermarriage between tribes or whatever brings serious long term mental problems – look at the UK whose Health Service is in serious danger as so many new mental related problems are rapidly arriving daily due to immigrants who have no concept of the effects of rapidly growing the birth rates for them.
  It is technically called Consanguinity and has been around for thousands of years where inter gene sexual relationships have taken place.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:32am
- 4077th
  
  The even more delicious irony is that Alan Duff’s “Once Were Worriers” was inspired by Sir Bob and is mentioned in the book preface. This is completely lost on the silly little girl who is an “acclaimed director and writer”. Sir Bob did exactly what he intended, he managed to trigger the most triggered bunch…it worked perfectly.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:46am
Biscuit

Gonna be a good week here:

Blue sky peeking through clouds (I expect ONE News to begin ‘Wellington is slowly recovering from the latest bit of wet stuff to fall from the sky’)

The COL gonna be on the defensive all week – Charter Schools, Twitford releasing a (costly) report on Housing that doesn’t apparently even have any recommendations to make…

A fine Liverpool win this a.m. – and an equally-good Man Yoo loss

Super Rugby starts this weekend

My better half ‘owes’ me a brunch!
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February 12, 2018 8:13am
- hullkiwi
  
  ..and at the weekend the Blues won a trophy at long last (even if it was for 10 a side).
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:35am
- hullkiwi
  
  Twitford’s report is out, and surprise, surprise, Alan Johnson & others are telling us the housing crisis is a far bigger problem than anyone ever imagined. And how is this “problem” going to be resolved? That’s right they are going to build 100,000 KiwiBuild homes over the next 10 years, but there seems to be a bit of a time lag problem between the rhetoric & delivery.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:47am
Simon

A little bit of rain and now in the height of summer can’t swim on the beaches because of all the shit.

The sewage system can’t cope with the government mandated infill housing policies

The shit on the beaches bought to you by government mongs.

Now we have Goofy and Princess hugging each other. These two fuckups are so far removed from any solutions they better have another hug.
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February 12, 2018 8:19am
- kowtow
  
  Shit on the beaches.
  
  Whenever an evil oil tanker does that the media really go to town . (even though they like the rest of us drive evil cars )
  
  Why not so much about evil local gummint polluting our beaches?
  
  They’d be preparing the gallows had it been evil dairy farmers.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:24am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Just heard on the 10am news that Goff has said Aucklanders need to accept rates increases to fix stormwater systems.
  
  I wonder which of his multiple $150k spin doctors prepared that statement for him.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:08am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Probably the same one that gave Bernard Osram the article that councillors will be voting tonight on a report that recommends further study to give Auckland congestion charging in 10 years.
    This proposal is to fix anAuckland’s existent problem, being Auckland’s traffic & congestion. This issue is only on the motorways in the am & pm peaks and is the responsibility of NZTA. What that pathetic article on Saturday didn’t say was, this subject comes up every 3 years (conveniently when the council & AT are scrambling to fund their share of Auckland’s bloated transport strategy), and they work out it will never raise enough money or be politically acceptable, because:
    1. The arterial roads (AT controlled) are not clogged);
    2. There are a lack of alternatives available to drivers instead of a car (one of the reasons the fuel tax hams gone quiet).
    
    Any councillor who votes in favour of this report should tender their resignation on the basis they don’t understand the issues facing Auckland.
    
    A long term solution for Auckland’s shit does need their attention. But because it is a real problem & there is no glory opening a pipeline or a plant to carry shit. It will not happen.
    
    Parkinson’s Laws really.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:06am
  - Piniwi
    
    Perhaps KS he got the memo from sweet cheeks earlier than expected that an inquiry is being set up to look into infrastructure. Results will be hopefully completed by the earliest “good” quarter of 2020.
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:35pm
Captain Mainwaring

Looks like that nasty cyclone is aiming west towards New Caledonia. Let’s hope it continues in that direction and ends up in Queensland instead of coming here.
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February 12, 2018 8:19am
- rangitoto
  
  windy.com are currently showing it heading down to the West of the NI and hitting Nelson on 20th.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:28am
Digmen1

I am all for Charter schools if they help the education of disadvantaged children.

But it would be nice to hear from some actual parents or children of these schools, so see if they like them, and to find out if they are helping them.
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February 12, 2018 8:20am
- peterwn
  
  I hate to say it, but look at Whaleoil, there is quite a bit on charter schools there. Trouble is MSM journos just do not really want to look at and write about charter schools. Jacinda does not even want to visit one.
  There is one thing about charter schools that is becoming very apparent – their pupils are dreading having to return to conventional schools.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:28am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    “dreading having to return to conventional schools.”
    
    I understand many don’t have that option, having been excluded from other schools.
    So it’s the couch for them.
    Well done, Chippy //
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:05am
  - backster
    
    No..Instead they want to make up stories from anonymous sources like the Bishop allegations to detract as much attention as possible away from Charter Schools.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:30am
  - Paulus
    
    Didn’t Cinderella recently give one of the academic prizes to a pupil/former pupil of a Charter School.
    Pictures on line somewhere.
    Typical Socialist/Communist Hypocrisy.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:36am
- KevOB
  
  Any child is disadvantaged if the schooling does not fit it. That ‘s what teaching should be all about.
  
  I have 3 who bus across down to alternative schools who are thriving. One had previously dropped out for two years with teachers bothered because they could not get her into their mould.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:03am
- Ross12
  
  Digmen1
  Peter is right. SB over at W/O has been reporting on the Charter school issue for a couple of years. She wrote 3-4 brilliant pieces a year or so ago which included interviews with teachers, kids and parents.
  Contact her via W/O –I’m sure she would send you links to them. It would be worth your effort.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:14am
- Ross12
  
  It looks like the PM has been to a Charter School or at least spoken with Alwyn Poole. Great letter here from Alwyn to the PM. A MUST READ
  
  https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/02/dear-prime-minister-4/
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:08am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Alwyn Poole for Minister of Education!!
    
    Be nice to see that letter get aired to a wider audience.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:47am
    - Ross12
      
      Maybe DPF can make it the subject of a new thread.
      
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      February 12, 2018 11:38am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    I try not to visit whaleoil but definitely a great letter. Very disappointing reading the PMs reply (also on WOBH). She should just piss off already
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:52pm
dime

from barely sober thos morning:

Soper: Adulation for Ardern is never-ending

There will be no end to it for several years, that’s the prediction.

Fuck off thats the prediciton. thats your wet dream and hopes all rolled into one.

i didnt click the article. i view headlines only at the herald now. no clicks for them.
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February 12, 2018 8:24am
- Digmen1
  
  That’s a good policy.
  Just read the headlines and don’t click.
  
  They may start to get the message!
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:27am
- Poppa
  
  I didn’t click it either
  
  There was a time I had a bit of time for Soper but I think he needs to retire gracefully. His love fest with Peters has become unbearable & he is obviously in love with Cindy so no objective comment from him anymore.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:38am
  - lifesgood
    
    He loves a younger woman. Watch out Heather.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:01am
  - Inandout
    
    Is Soper’s wife actually younger than our Cinders, by about 4 years? That may explain his fascination and worship of Cinders. I wouldn’t like to delve any deeper into his motives.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:08am
  - Digmen1
    
    Yes his love fest with Peters was unbearable.
    
    Yet he could not / did not predict who NZF would go with!
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:06am
    - backster
      
      Yes if Paula is going to sue Winston she should go after Soper as well it was him who spread the lies for Winston.
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:34am
- 4077th
  
  Soaper really should keep away from the viagra in the morning.
  
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  February 12, 2018 11:16am
  - stiglet
    
    Drinking alcohol decreases the blood which stays within your penis, which makes it harder for you to get an erection. … Viagra lowers your blood pressure, as does alcohol. If your blood pressure level gets too low, you may experience dizziness, light-headedness, fainting, headache and even heart palpitations.
    
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    February 12, 2018 4:41pm
    - Jack5
      
      If you think of the hydraulics, that doesn’t seem right, Stiglet.
      
      Viagra surely works by increasing blood’s hydraulic power. To check I got this from the internet, and you are right, but the blood pressure fall is light.
      
      Viagra can slightly lower blood pressure. This is not a problem for most men. But Viagra’s effect on blood pressure is exaggerated if the Viagra is taken with a nitrate drug. Nitrates are one of the treatments doctors prescribe for angina.
      
      As for alcohol’s effect, Shakepeare had it right in Macbeth:
      
      “…it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.”
      
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      February 13, 2018 12:16am
- Gabby
  
  dim’s givin Ardern the oxygennapublicidy
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:34pm
Digmen1

Regarding the demise of our print news media, esp the Herald as I am in in the NI.

How much of it is due to their strong left wing bias, and how much is due to the internet.

Eg, if there were no internet, and news on mobiles etc, would we still be buying a physical copy if it was still full of left wing, womens weekly style rubbish?
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February 12, 2018 8:29am
- thedavincimode
  
  It’s really just that the herald is complete shit.
  
  The news media embraced the soundbite/clickbait era to spoon-feed the uneducated masses so successfully that they are now regarded, at best, as just more background noise. ie shit. Karma.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:24am
- MCos
  
  The newspapers are the way they are because of the internet.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:39am
- Nermal
  
  I cancelled my long term subscription to the Herald long before the internet became a reliable source of the news. I got sick of their opinion masquerading as fact.
  
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  February 12, 2018 11:04am
tedbear

KiWombat

It seems this govt wants to ignore New Zealand’s own rules on Human Rights plus those in international treaties.
https://www.hrc.co.nz/files/5114/2388/0504/HRNZ_10_Right_to_education.pdf

page 169
Core elements of the right to education include (as
specified in international treaties):
• respect for the right of parents/legal guardians to choose schools other than those established and
funded by the State, and to ensure that the religious and moral education of their children conforms to their own convictions.

Or has all that been superceded?
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February 12, 2018 8:32am
- KiWombat
  
  Thanks Ted – interesting new perspective
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:56am
VicParking

If Air NZ should make Antartica a sacred place for ever then in that case they should also not fly over the kaimai’s or near Nationl Park. Fiji (Flight 24), Auckland (Flight 4374) and Palmerston North (Flight 703)
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February 12, 2018 8:33am
- Rich Prick
  
  To be fair that last one was Ansett NZ. But yes, we’re approaching peak outrage, albeit not quite at Pike River levels.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:59am
  - VicParking
    
    But in deference to Ansett who are no more.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:28am
- lifesgood
  
  I doubt there is much of the world where there haven’t been tragic deaths at some time or other. What about road accidents? Do we make every spot sacred? That’s just crazy. I wonder why these people agitate? Are they looking for attention?
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:57am
Jack5

Your taxpayer dollar is funding a bogus subject from the world of health quackery, in the form of psychotherapy courses at Auckland’s polytechnic-become-university, AUT.

Deborah Hill-Cone, a veteran journo who has been writing interesting stuff about mature ladies’ sex lives, reports in the Hooerald on her experience being interviewed for a psychotherapy course at AUT.

Hang on, Deborah! It’s likely that psychotherapy is, in a psychology way, up there as a medical science with colour therapy and chiropractics and osteopathy.

Deborah, the internet is full of links that debunk psychotherapy. The fact that AUT teaches it says as much about AUT as it does about psychotherapy. The status of this quackery is enhanced by our gullible media treating psychotherapists as though they were from a solid, reputable science.

Here’s a quote and a link to start you off:

When tested, psychoanalysis was shown to be less effective than placebo. Its theories have been disproven, and no reasonable scientist or practitioner takes it seriously today. Yet it persists in popular opinion as one of the primary canons of practicing psychology.

When tested, psychoanalysis was shown to be less effective than placebo. Its theories have been disproven, and no reasonable scientist or practitioner takes it seriously today. Yet it persists in popular opinion as one of the primary canons of practicing psychology.

Source: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/psychology-and-psychotherapy-how-much-is-evidence-based/

You might look at this, too:

https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/psychotherapy-and-pseudoscience-five-indicators-of-dubious-treatments/
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February 12, 2018 8:35am
- Jack5
  
  And here is a link to AUT, which is offering psychotherapy courses up to postgraduate level.
  
  Taxpayer dollars funding quack psychology!
  
  http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/A-Z-listing-of-academic-fields-and-disciplines-at-AUT-University/psychotherapy-at-aut-university-department-overview
  
  Apologies for the repeated paragraph in the main post above. Apparently when you add a “reply” to a comment this closes the edit function for the main post.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:36am
- KevOB
  
  I have seen the outcomes of psychotherapy practices on alcoholics etc.–a patient nearly found dead in the street.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:00am
  - Nermal
    
    “ I have seen the outcomes of psychotherapy practices on alcoholics etc.” I’ve been sober for 25 years
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:08am
peterwn

So this woman organising the petition said there are ‘consequences’ for Bob Jones writing that article. Indeed there would be ‘consequences’ – on her bank account when she receives legal papers. Having to respond to such papers can cost several hundred dollars even if it goes no further from there.
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February 12, 2018 8:38am
- G152
  
  And don’t forget this agent of virtue is a ‘film maker’ a job requiring much koha from donors like, say, Sir Bob and his mates.
  I hear they’re looking for workers at Kentucky Fried
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:37am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    How much koha has has the long-suffering taxpayer given Renae Maihi to make her movies Waru, Mannahatta and Ka Puta, Ko Au , and take them on the International Film Festival circuit?
    
    http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/maori-filmmaker-takes-global-international-film-festival-circuit
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:17am
- KKKKatee
  
  I’m actually thrilled that Sir Bob is going to sue this foul-mouthed individual. He reckons he won’t be going for too much, otherwise he’d been seen as a bully. I’d say to Sir Bob – go for broke – then perhaps Miss Foul Mouth Maihi will think before she starts inciting hate and violence against people…..
  And, hopefully, her employers will have a wee word in her ear…..
  If one of my kids took to FB and used the foul language she did, I’d be horrified. I’m pretty sure, thought, that we’ve brought them up better than that.
  Not hearing anything from Devoy in defence of Sir Bob….
  
  Good on ya Bob!!
  
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  February 12, 2018 1:01pm
- Gabby
  
  She’ll seek costs no doubt.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:27pm
Digmen1

If National get back in, they need to root out all the crap courses at unis and polytechs. Stephen Joyce started to, but far too slowly.

They need to insist on a quota of at least 50% male teachers in all schools from Kindergarten up.

And make sure that the cirrumuculm teaches things in a on biased way.

Plus a few other things.
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February 12, 2018 8:41am
- Kimbo
  
  A quota of 50% male teachers from kindy up?! Dude, are you mad? After Peter Ellis no male with any sense would go near the job! Would you? 😩
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:51am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    The Peter Ellis factor is the reason many teachers join the union. They simply cannot afford to face that sort of accusation alone.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:11am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Exactly right Kimbo.
    
    Still maybe Labour can address this problem and correct what is clearly a case of massive sexual discrimination against men.
    
    Labour can surely do something to protect the rights of males and make teaching establishments a less dangerous workplace for men.
    
    If it’s good for the goose, then surely if they have any integrity at all, then they have to return the favour for the gander.
    
    And while they’re at it. How about doing something about all the rampant female privilege when it comes to age of mortality as well as the huge dangers men face in the workplace that women hide from.
    
    Equality cuts both ways – unless it’s just about misandry!
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:41am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Exactly. We should use a lottery system to kill off a small percentage of women each year to even up the life expectancy stats – equality for all!
      
      And reduce taxes on food for men – as they need more calories than physically smaller women.
      
      And subsidise men’s car insurance – discriminatory that men must pay more.
      
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      February 12, 2018 1:44pm
- Jack5
  
  Yep, Digmen, the Leftists have certainly fucked up vocation-oriented education.
  
  AUT’s history: What was the largest technical college in NZ was renamed a technical institute, by 1974 was the country’s biggest technical educator.
  
  In 1979, it began teaching Maori studies (Maori technology was Stone Age) and by1997 was running Maori expositions.
  
  In 1993, it began issuing degrees. In 2000, it became NZ’s first polytechnic to become a university.
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:51am
  - Kimbo
    
    Not sure of your point. AUT still produces plenty of technical graduates, especially in nursing. Plus the likes of Unitec and the Southern Institute of Technology in South Auckland have filled the void for many of the technical courses the old AIT used to do.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:03am
    - Jack5
      
      Kimbo: you think it’s okay for a taxpayer funded institution to teach bogus science like psychotherapy?
      
      The issue of how lousy the bulk of NZ’s vocational education is compared with, for example, Germany’s, is a point for wider discussion.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:07am
      - stephieboy
        
        Jack5 , is it OK for the Auckland Medical school to teach Psychological Medicine ? The facts are mental illness is serious problem that requires students to study it in the most scientific manner possible. That includes treatments for the same ,both drug and psychotherapy .
        
        Undoubtedly you have a wide experience and knowledge understanding treatments including psychotherapy . ?
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:20am
      - Kimbo
        
        Fair point re German technical education but then they are the best in the world. And as you didn’t link you comment about the history of AUT to your earlier complaint about the psychotherapy course (a discipline I suspect is in the moon beams and monkey shit category) I didn’t make the connection. Bottom line: the worth of an institutition is demonstrated by the quality of its graduates, and I’ve met plenty from AUT in both the technical and more academic fields who provided quality expertise.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:27am
      - Jack5
        
        Stephie X:
        
        Good morning, head banger!
        
        Teaching authentic psychology is providing courses in a valid science.
        
        Psychotherapy is not a valid science. It is a con.
        
        Kimbo: I see your point in your 9.27 post, and accept it.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:29am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Jack5
        
        German technical education is an interesting one, as they begin at the secondary level, I believe. We have had technical secondary schools in NZ, and of course technical courses like woodwork, metalwork, sewing and cooking in the mainstream curriculum. However, in NZ those tended to be under-resourced and treated as second-class compared to academic streams. A pity, as there is nothing wrong or in any way inferior with a good technical education for those who are best suited to it – as the Germans have shown.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:49am
    - Kimbo
      
      Apologies. The Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) is in Invercargill. The Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) is in South Auckland.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:54am
  - stephieboy
    
    Jack 5 , so you believe AUT staff member like Professor Paul Moon has no credibility ?
    
    AUT offers an incredible variety of different kinds of vocational oriented courses other than Maori Studies .
    
    BTW Maori technology was considered Neolithic . There were simply not available mineral deposits for them to utilise to take them into the iron age.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:12am
    - holysheet
      
      And even if there were mineral deposits, the feelz party would have stopped them mining it.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:20am
      - stephieboy
        
        holysheet , there you are at your usual stupid and irrelevant best !
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:22am
    - Digmen1
      
      I take your point about the lack of minerals etc.
      
      But I do laugh when “archaeologists” in NZ find a pit with some stones in it!
      
      As if its the find of the year!
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:26am
      - stephieboy
        
        Digmen1 , it is important because Maori were first founders of our country . The more we can find about their arrival and settlement the better .
        
        Of course not the pseudo science of a mythical pre Maori white Celtic NZ .
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:35am
      - KiWombat
        
        SB you should amend your post to read:-
        
        “it is important because Maori ate the first founders of our country”
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:49am
      - lifesgood
        
        And go all goo goo ga ga over maori rubbish dumps.
        Nothing much interesting is ever found, just old shells.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:31am
    - Jack5
      
      The fuckwittery of the Stephiestanis knows no bounds.
      
      There was no iron in NZ and that’s why Maori technology was Stone Age?
      
      NZ has abundant iron resources, and exports ship loads of it.
      
      I don’t question the credibility of Paul Moon. We are talking about the bogus medical “science” of psychotherapy.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:26am
      - stephieboy
        
        jack 5 the technology about extraction of iron sand ( the source of our iron / steel resources ) was not known till more recent times .
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:37am
      - G152
        
        We -do- have iron sands but to utilise them takes a technology never possessed by Maori.
        Look at the pottery of the Lapita and how all that knowledge was lost in the migration across the Pacific coral only islands to NZ
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:43am
    - Digmen1
      
      Most great civilizations started in the middle east. Due to the rivers, and fertile land, and mineral deposits.
      
      What happened to them?
      
      Oh some religion from Mecca started!and took them back 2,000 years.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:28am
      - stephieboy
        
        Ironsands were not extracted till much, much later in the 20th Century , Gold and Coal were not readily accessible .
        
        Rest assured your brain matter and size is no different to that of a Maori .
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:40am
      - stephieboy
        
        Digmen1 , a crude Trumpeter understanding of Middle East history that included waves of conquests and subjection including European .
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:41am
      - Jack5
        
        Stephie X, you are so ignorant about New Zealand.
        
        Apart, from iron sand, NZ has other iron ore resources. Iron ore was mined in Nelson for decades until the 1930s Depression.
        
        This is the sort of ore that the Iron Age was based on thousands of years ago.
        
        Similarly, the ignorant Stephie X says “Gold and Coal were not readily accessible.”
        
        FFS, Stupid Stephie, you can see gold flecks in the South Island rivers, and there was a big industry extracting this out, first by gold pans and ultimately by gold dredges. A gold pan isn’t rocket science.
        
        Similarly with coal. There are many outbreaks on the surface in parts of NZ that have coal seams.
        
        It wasn’t resources that kept Maori from moving into a metal age, or from using the wheel. It was their primitive culture.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:33am
      - stephieboy
        
        Jack 5 ,
        ‘It was their Primitive culture ? Makes a change for more Primitive Brains ?
        
        Or …. ?
        
        I can’t find references for mining iron ore at Nelson ,
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_New_Zealand
        
        Enlighten me ?
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:39am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Gold and Coal were not readily accessible .
        
        unbelievable!
        
        How the dickens do you think primitive Northern Hemisphere folk got to develop their iron, gold, bronze and silver works.
        
        They didn’t just stumble on beautiful pure deposits all ready to be shaped into finished products.
        
        I think you desperately need to learn some history and geography of the world.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:36am
    - VicParking
      
      Stephie….We came and found, Gold, Siver, Coal and Iron sands. Morning, my regards to your goat🐐💋
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:34am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Rubbish stephieboy
      
      NZ has a vast iron sands resource.
      It also has some iron ore deposits (Onekaka).
      
      Australia has vast iron ore resources and its original inhabitants never developed a metal culture.
      
      New Caledonia and New Guinea have vast metal -ore deposits and their original inhabitants did not develop metal smelting technologies.
      
      It’s a little bit more complicated than saying available mineral deposits weren’t here and implying that the first inhabitants would have developed the skills to work the product.
      
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      February 12, 2018 11:25am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I can’t find references for mining iron ore at Nelson ,
        
        http://www.theprow.org.nz/enterprise/onekaka-ore/#.WoDDiSN941A
        
        https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/5883/onekaka-ironworks
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:29am
      - stephieboy
        
        Maggy Wassilief , the Onekaka deposits were proved uneconomic and insignificant compared to iron sands . My Wiki link makes no reference to them
        
        What are you implying about the fact indigenous New Caledonians and Papuans ddi not make use of metals ?
        Inferior such their Maori counterparts ? Or is it their smaller numbers and scale could provide an explanation ?
        
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        February 12, 2018 2:00pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        My Wiki link makes no reference to them
        
        so what?
        Perhaps your wiki links are useless.
        
        Might be time to develop some better research skills, eh?
        
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        February 12, 2018 2:17pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Or is it their smaller numbers and scale could provide an explanation ?
        
        I despair!!!
        
        Do you know the size and human history of New Guinea?
        
        It would have had a population of at least a couple of million at the time of European arrival.
        
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        February 12, 2018 2:25pm
cmm

Well another week, another (slippered) foot in her mouth.

Jacinda tweeting about Julie Bishop secret meeting: “shared a joke or two about Malcolm Turnbull”.

Add that to:
* Trump isn’t as orange as I thought he was.
* Her stroppy: “Nobody protested when I got elected” comment to Trump.
* All the Manus Island crap.

What the fuck is wrong with this woman? She seems to have no sense of tact and decorum.

Sweetie. Like it or not, Oz and USA are people we have to get along with.

You don’t have to like them. But you have to be reasonably polite to them and not shoot your mouth off.

That’s in “grown ups” 101. In fact you could probably learn it from those kids you force your hugs on at schools. Most kids learn this in the sandpit.

Remember you’re not 14 any more having a gossip behind the bike shed about how Jenny’s bum is big (when you’re really just jealous she has bigger boobs than you).
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February 12, 2018 8:46am
- cha
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Thankfully she’s yet to make a goat of herself on Letterman, engage in some fucking weird hair shit, play find the soap or be labeled a galloping colonial clot. And then there’s the derp face/planking/mincing/handshake malarky.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:06am
- KKKKatee
  
  She may be the PM, but she hasn’t got any style and grace to go with the role. You have to be born with those attributes and, of course, the home environment you grow up in. Her big mouth runs amok once again……
  
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  February 12, 2018 1:04pm
  - cmm
    
    “You have to be born with those attributes”
    
    No, you can learn them.
    
    However to do that you need to be capable of the humility to know that you’re missing some vital skills.
    
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    February 12, 2018 4:55pm
- Gabby
  
  She needs to get with the programme und realse what sod her bred’s buttered on cmmiebokkie, assfissure.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:20pm
holysheet

The face of David Jones, Jessica Gomes is saying she has been a model for 15 years “I have worked so so increadibly hard over this time to get where I am now”
FFS, what is hard about strutting down the catwalk flashing your tits to the photographer. Good on her for being successful, but do not claim you have worked so, so so, increadibly hard.
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February 12, 2018 8:54am
- Longknives
  
  I see our Media are breathlessly reporting she was ‘Scared’ when she met John Key- Because he is such a Sexual Predator or something…
  
  Lots of blatant Hit Jobs on National at the moment-
  Hmmm it’s not even Election Year…
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:23am
  - lifesgood
    
    Shows they are frightened. What of, I wonder?
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:33am
- Gabby
  
  You flash your tits and whaddaya get whollyshit? Nuttin, dasswat.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:17pm
- Gabby
  
  Aren’t you the face of pampers for seniors whollyshit?
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:22pm
Jack5

Yuck!

Stuff gives a puff to the Zambian-born, Canadian-New Zealand peacenik Harmeet Sooden, on NZ troops’ role in Iraq.

This is almost as sickening as the way the more lickspittle media trumped this plonker as a “Kiwi” whenever he opened his mouth in earlier days.
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February 12, 2018 9:03am
- Jimmy
  
  Stuff will use any old excuse to put the boot into our soldiers serving New Zealand.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:04am
- stephieboy
  
  Jack 5 , as far a s I can gather has NZ Residence possibly obtained for his Computer Engineering degree from Mc Gill University ,
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmeet_Singh_Sooden
  
  NZ has no laws regarding dissent on often unpopular causes like Iraq
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:25am
cmm

Kimbo: How’s your Big Fight going?

Wishing you well mate.
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February 12, 2018 9:11am
- Kimbo
  
  Thanks, cmm. My presence on Kiwiblog the last few days is an indication of renewed strength. Effects of the radiation will be at their most severe in the next few weeks , swallowing food is a challenge (but not insurmountable) , and another round of chemo is scheduled for next week. It may kick me around a bit, but I’m kicking aesophegeal cancer’s arse much harder! 😎
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:19am
  - cmm
    
    Good man!
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:27am
  - VicParking
    
    Regards 👍
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:37am
  - Swifty
    
    Best of luck Kimbo.
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:43am
  - Jack5
    
    All the best Kimbo.
    
    We’re right with you.
    
    Any time rarking us up can help, give us heaps!
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:44am
  - G152
    
    Keep at it Kimbo.
    And stay positive.
    There are a lot of survivors out here
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:46am
  - Manolo
    
    I wish you all the best, mate. Be strong!
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:51am
  - Longknives
    
    Didn’t know you were battling an illness Kimbo..
    
    All the best mate!
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:09am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Hi Kimbo,
    
    Sorry to hear you are having to battle cancer.
    
    Best wishes and some empathy for hospitals visits having survived my first operation (for something else) a few days ago!
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:25am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Good to hear Kimbo. Fuck cancer!
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:28am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Sending thoughts and prayers your way Kimbo. I had an aunt die from oesophageal cancer, although her survival for more than five years after surgery was considered (30 years ago) remarkable.
    
    It’s a horrible form of cancer which I wouldn’t wish on anyone; hang tough.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:30am
  - publicwatchdog
    
    All the best Kimbo in your fight against cancer.
    Kind regards,
    Penny Bright
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:43am
    - Kimbo
      
      Penny, thank you. And please accept my belated apologies for the word I called you a couple of years ago. I should not have waited so long. You were right, it was unacceptable abuse.
      
      And a (genuine) best wishes for your on-going tussle with the Council! 😉
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:48am
      - publicwatchdog
        
        Thank you Kimbo.
        
        All the best 🙂
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:28am
      - sam green
        
        Dude! Sorry – Mr Dude!
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:34pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Fuck that’s awful news. You and I hardly ever agree but for what it’s worth my best wishes and thoughts are 100% in your corner sir.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:45am
    - Kimbo
      
      Cheers, DP.
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:48am
  - lofty
    
    I wish you all the best in your scrap with cancer kimbo
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:47am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Kick it to the curb Kimbo.
    You’re a fighter.
    
    Get well too Lucia.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:53am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Best wishes Kimbo.
    
    ( I’m sure Catholic prayers work for Calvinists as well 😉 )
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:53am
    - Kimbo
      
      Well, at least you guys have more mediators, so that must help! 😉
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:57am
  - kowtow
    
    Kimbo,
    
    All the best.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:56am
  - Nermal
    
    We only need to get through one day at a time. Breaks it into manageable bits. All the best, mate.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:15am
  - itstricky
    
    Sorry to hear that you are ill, Kimbo. I wish you well in your battle.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:16am
    - RF
      
      I wish you a positive outcome. Take care my friend…..
      
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      February 12, 2018 12:36pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Wishing you all the best and a successful kick-arse outcome Kimbo.
    
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    February 12, 2018 4:45pm
- cmm
  
  What kind of sick bastard downticks wishing someone well?
  
  Ignore arseholes like that. They’re just part of the disease that society has.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:59am
  - cmm
    
    Downticker:
    
    Find yourself a mirror. Have a good look in it.
    
    Now realise that you have a sickness.
    
    Your sickness is worse than what Kimbo is licking. Far, far worse.
    
    The difference is that Kimbo does not choose his predicament, while you do. You can choose to be healthy and make society more healthy. Right now. No meds required. Just make a choice.
    
    Reflect on that. I hope you also get well soon.
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:04pm
Huevon

I went to new [redacted] restaurant on the weekend. After enjoying my meal, I went to the can for a rest break before leaving. Unisex toilets! FFS! This is the latest retarded promotion of SJW millenials.

Well, I took a dump and God I wished some high and mighty feminist got a decent whiff when she used the cubicle after me.
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February 12, 2018 9:12am
- cha
  
  So, you’re a fucking pig.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:16am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    No he’s a hero. Got to fight the insanity of cultural marxism in all and any ways you can.
    
    Well done Huevon. You offended a snowflake!
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:46am
    - itstricky
      
      Only on KB could someone interpret the existence of unlabelled cubicles as “the work of millennial SJWs”, and go to such lengths to claim hero status off the back of their random emotional associations.
      
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      February 12, 2018 11:04am
- cmm
  
  Next time use the hand basin as a urinal.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:30am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Please don’t.
    
    The next one into a unisex lav might be moi…. or some other sweet little old lady.
    
    Coping with Huevon’s pestilential effluvia would be bad enough, but piss in the hand-basin is OTT.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:50am
- Jaywalk
  
  A cafe in Taupo changed their 2 single-use cubicles to unisex.
  
  About two minutes later one of them had the unisex bit taped over with “Men’s” written on it and the other changed to “Women’s”. I think though it may have been more about the sanitary units instead of wees everywhere, if they have unisex toilets they really need to provide in each toilet in case. And that costs money.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:11am
- KKKKatee
  
  I don’t want to use a Unisex toilet. Call me old-fashioned but I want to go the the ‘Ladies’. We were in a Cafe yesterday afternoon and there appeared to be a steady stream of blokes heading for the loos. There were three toilets – 2 unisex and 1 disabled. I just don’t want to walk into a Unisex toilet and dodge the urine puddles left on the floor left behind males. Nor do I want to have to put my hand on the toilet seat and put it down….
  My husband doesn’t leave urine splodges over the floor at home so what is it about blokes who do?
  Bring back “Ladies” and “Gents” please.
  
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  February 12, 2018 1:28pm
  - cmm
    
    Why should you be denied the advantages of the patriarchy like urine puddles etc?
    
    Just like you don’t want to touch the seat, nor do blokes. Hence they will often pee standing up at a reduced target and make a mess.
    
    Thats why I recommended the hand basin – much harder to miss that.
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:09pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Mens toilets are always more respected than Womens. We don’t need to go into the reasons why, but some women are absolutely disgusting.
      Reference – I used to work as security and DJ at a strip club, and then bouncer at a night club.
      Excuse me while I forget about that time by thinking about fluffy kittens.
      
      fluffy kittens fluffy kittens fluffy kittens fluffy kittens fluffy kittens fluffy kittens fluffy kittens
      That’s better.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:19pm
- Gabby
  
  Just like at home then hooveron. You don’t still have your own labelled potty at home do you.
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:13pm
stephieboy

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Huevon , there is always the option of using the nearest clump of bushes next time around .

And yes you don’t need to use toilet paper .
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February 12, 2018 9:29am
Lee C

emm, Jacinda’s comments are cleverly aimed dog-whistles at those who consider themselves either ‘hip’ or ‘left’.
To underestimate her as not thinking about what she says is to miss the point totally – which is she’s not interested in communicating with people who don’t already agree with her.
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February 12, 2018 9:44am
- stephieboy
  
  Lee C,
  
  “.. she’s not interested in communicating with people who don’t already agree with her.”
  
  Can you really blame her with any of the rabid alt right who infest this blog.?
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:57am
  - cmm
    
    She’s going to have to pull in new voters. Her little echo chamber isn’t big enough.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:01am
  - Digmen1
    
    Please do not call me Alt-Right.
    I am right wing, but I do not hate jews. (your definition)
    
    (i just dislike muslims – when they are in the west)
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:04am
    - Harkman
      
      It’s the same Alt right nonsense everyday, it is so exhausting.
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:15am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      @ Digmen1,
      
      We on the Alt Right don’t “hate” Jews. We just hate the behaviour and hypocrisy of a section of the Jewish populace (just about always they’re Ashkenazi as opposed to the Sephardic branch of International Judaism).
      
      109 different nations spanning continents and thousands of years have expelled Jews because of their behaviour.
      
      No-one is born “Anti Semitic” (What a misnomer that is❗) , they become that way after observing their behaviour and double standards.
      
      Usury, sharp business practices and more lately lowering the moral tone and Communism have been the behaviours that have caused people to become so called “Anti-semitic”.
      
      You should read “You Gentiles” by Jewish author Maurice Samuel to understand this phenomenon:
      
      https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/You_Gentiles.html?id=NSS1AQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:16am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Here is the synopsis from Google Books:
        
        Written in 1924, this shocking classic work of Jewish Supremacism maps out what the avowedly Zionist author saw as the cause of anti-Semitism through the ages: an irreconcilable difference between Jews and all Gentiles, but Europeans in particular. This difference, Samuel argued, was inherent and biological in origin. The author argues that the real point of difference between Jew and Gentile is that the Gentiles follow what he calls the base “triviality” of Gentiles versus the God-like “seriousness” of Jews. This huge psychological difference, Samuel says, is the reason why Jews regard “playful” Gentiles as backward and silly, and why Gentiles will never be able to penetrate the Jewish perception of the world. The book goes on to discuss the main points of difference in behavior between Jews and Gentiles focusing on physical activity, religion, concepts of good and evil, loyalty, science, fair play, and discipline. Maurice spells out why Jews have different attitudes to all these moral and philosophical issues-and why these values are the opposite of those endorsed by Gentiles. Samuel then says that these inherent and unchangeable differences will always make the Jews out to be “destroyers” and the “subverters” of European culture and society
        
        There are also a good array of user reviews both positive and negative of Samuels seminal work on Amazon.com:
        
        https://www.amazon.com/You-Gentiles-Maurice-Samuel/product-reviews/094437929X
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:29am
      - backster
        
        Got any Lorde Records?
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:40am
      - stephieboy
        
        EAD TWO , distinguish your dislike of Jews compared to Adolf Hitler ?
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:47am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Stephieboy, distinguish your dislike of Goyim compared to Tim Wise?
        
        http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Green-Wise.html
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:06am
    - stephieboy
      
      Digmen1 . dislike of Muslims as distinguished from say Maoris ?
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:45am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      I just mentally auto-correct “alt-right” into “ordinary, decent person” and it never bothers me any more.
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:48am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    the rabid alt-right who infest this blog
    Oh a perfect time to use the report button. Je Suis!
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:33am
    - stephieboy
      
      ABS, the word “any “should be” many “. Not everyone . Would you like having a go defining what an alt righter is ?
      
      The Anti – Defamation League had a go ,
      ”
      The Anti-Defamation League states that “alt-right” is a “vague term actually encompass[ing] a range of people on the extreme right who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of forms of conservatism that embrace implicit or explicit racism or white supremacy.”
      
      https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:49am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Except stephie you are stating that we are all rabid alt-right. Actual white supremacists and shit.
        
        rabid
        ˈrabɪd,ˈreɪbɪd/Submit
        adjective
        1.
        having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something.
        “the show’s small but rabid fan base”
        synonyms: extreme, fanatical, overzealous, over-enthusiastic, extremist, violent, maniacal, wild, passionate, fervent, diehard, uncompromising
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:01am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        You have already defined alt-right, stephieboy.
        
        Have you forgotten?
        I haven’t.
        
        It included these nasty labels: white supremacist, racist, anti-semite, homophobic, fascist.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:57am
      - stephieboy
        
        MaggyW, when did say Urban dictionary ( which I quoted ) include explicitly homophobic ?
        
        What did you object about the Anti Defamation League’s definition .
        
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        February 12, 2018 12:36pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Look at the first sentence example offered:
        I’m not a white supremacist, I’m alt-right! What sort of jewish homosexual cuck would have a problem with alternative things?
        https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=alt-right
        
        Anyway,last year I referred you to the Wikipedia definition of alt-right, the first time you threw that filthy label in my direction.
        The alt-right, or alternative right, is a loosely-connected and somewhat ill-defined[1] grouping of white supremacists, neo-nazis, neo-fascists, and other far-right[2][3][4] fringe hate groups.[5][6] Alt-right beliefs have been described as isolationist, protectionist, antisemitic and white supremacist,[7][8][9] frequently overlapping with Neo-Nazism,[10][11][12][13] nativism and Islamophobia,[14][15][16][17][18] antifeminism, misogyny and homophobia,[10][19][20][21][13] right-wing populism[22][23] and the neoreactionary
        movement.[7][24]
        
        You never repudiated this definition…
        
        It is clearly what I understand you to mean when you call me and others on here an alt-right trumpeter or a rabid alt-righter.
        
        Why don’t you tell us here on KB exactly what you mean and who you mean when you talk of the “alt-righters who infest” this blog?
        
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        February 12, 2018 1:05pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        That apology to Maggy W didn’t hold water for long, did it?
        Here you are chucking the alt-r label around at anyone who doesn’t think quite like you.
        Cheap, hollow and offensive.
        
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        February 12, 2018 6:19pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    I have a Jewish brother-in-law. And he’s absolutely gorgeous. He and his wife have beautiful children and grandchildren. So don’t label me an ‘alt-righter’ thanks.
    
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    February 12, 2018 1:12pm
big bruv

FFS! its time to change banks.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/101350695/anz-no-longer-enforcing-bigendered-uniforms

I wonder what would happen if I refused to be served by a cock in a frock? I don’t want somebody with a mental illness having anything to do with my accounts.
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February 12, 2018 10:11am
- Longknives
  
  Does this mean they will be enforcing ‘Wear a Dress’ Days on male staff? Just like some Schools are doing to poor Aussie Schoolboys (As if being a spotty Teenager isn’t hard enough..)
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:15am
- Inandout
  
  ANZ seem to have gone ga ga gay of late. I wonder why?
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:24am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Westpac are paying for social engineering ads too.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:49am
- marquess
  
  Imagine being such a snowflake that you’d throw a tantrum because you were wondering whether the person processing a cheque has a penis. Pathetic!
  
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  February 12, 2018 3:40pm
Keeping Stock

A mate has just told me that Heather du Plessis-Allan has made a comment this morning that will upset Matthew Hooton.

Apparently the Chris Bishop/social media smear came from the Labour Party, and they had wanted to break it before the election last year. I wonder if Hooton will apologise for his unsubstantiated allegation from yesterday.
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February 12, 2018 10:40am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Gee.
  The Labour Party.
  Now there’s a surprise.
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  February 12, 2018 10:52am
- itstricky
  
  I wonder if Hooton will apologise for his unsubstantiated allegation from yesterday.
  
  That’s a bit of a LOL. Poor olde Matthew got absolutely slammed because he had an alternative theory and didn’t “tow the line” and demand an explanation from Labour or the MSM.
  
  If he’d said it was Labour, he would have got 70+ upticks, instead of downs, and there would be absolutely no questioning of his allegations, even if they were completely unsubstantiated.
  
  He doesn’t need to apologise for not following the herd.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:58am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    He didn’t just make the allegation once IT; it was made repeatedly in response to other comments. There were multiple references to the Brat Pack, to the old firm being back in business, and “subterranean internal wars”; the same stuff that is being promulgated on another blog.
    
    The allegation was pretty clear; Bill English’s team was firing a shot across the bows of an opponent from within. If the allegation is wrong, and it certainly appears to be, the person making the allegation should have the decency to withdraw and apologise.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:07am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Occasionally Matthew Hooton gets something right.
    Matthew Hooton: Jacinda Ardern ‘will fail, I think she’s a flake’
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11897541
    
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    February 12, 2018 12:01pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Hmm, from that same link:
      
      Hooton said Ardern may succeed in salvaging some popularity among voters, but he can’t see her forming a government on September 23.
      
      He said even if she did manage to bring together a three-party government made up of Labour, the Greens and New Zealand First he can’t imagine for even a second Winston Peters playing second fiddle to Ardern, as her deputy prime minister.
      
      Hooton said Peters would believe seniority counts for something and would absolutely insist on being prime minister.
      
      So that’s two strikes against Hooton’s soothsaying talents – Ardern did form a three-party government, and Peters accepted the role of DP, “power behind the throne/puppet master” conspiracies notwithstanding. 😉
      
      But I agree with Hooton’s essential opinion that Ardern is a flake.
      
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      February 12, 2018 12:09pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Yet over on WOBH this morning, the head honcho is pumping for all he is worth that it is a “blue on blue hit.” And nasty Bill English is definitely involved. This is getting boring.
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:59am
  - brett68
    
    Slater doesn’t know shit I have no idea why anyone would believe a word that fuckwit writes.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:01am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    How’s he getting on with his ‘National leaked Winston’s pension details’ fable?
    And ‘don’t ask me how I know, but I know’ (because I’ve been drinking Winston’s cool-aid).
    
    BTW: Slater was very proud of his Canon Media Award (righly so in my view), but that has been significantly devalued since Lizzy Marvellous won it last year.
    
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    February 12, 2018 1:03pm
- brett68
  
  Did she state this on the radio?
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:59am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    So I have been told.
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:01am
    - brett68
      
      Do you know what station and roughly what time?
      
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      February 12, 2018 11:31am
      - Ross12
        
        She hosts the ZB ( Wgt) talkback in the 9.00am to 12.00 slot now.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:50am
      - brett68
        
        Cheers found it
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/02/general_debate_10_february_2018-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-2135932
        
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        February 12, 2018 12:26pm
- MrTips
  
  If I was Hooton I would be apologising to my daughter for dragging her into the discussion. What an idiot.
  
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  February 12, 2018 11:01am
- Peter
  
  This is ridiculous.
  
  Is talking to teenagers at a meeting off limits? On the street? On the phone? What’s the flippin’ difference?
  
  And have any Labour MPs talked to any teenagers using social media channels? Greens? And so what if they have?
  
  Shame on the media for running with this twattery.
  
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  February 12, 2018 11:06am
  - lifesgood
    
    I went to a function yesterday and talked to a lot of youngsters I didn’t know. Thoroughly enjoyed talking to them. It is good to get a young person’s perspective on the world, however misguided. I would not expect our entirely innocent, friendly conversations to be the subject of outrage. What in the hell is the world coming to when men are terrified of children and now daren’t speak to teenagers
    
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    February 12, 2018 11:41am
    - Gabby
      
      Did you make sure any record of what you said was erased likesfood.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:07pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It is sexism pure and simple. Female candidate doing same would not have received any commentary.
    
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    February 12, 2018 1:51pm
- brett68
  
  You’re right
  
  HDPA:
  
  Why is it a story now?
  Because it’s a Labour party hit job …….
  
  http://120.138.20.16/WeekOnDemand/ZB/wellington/2018.02.12-09.15.00-D.mp3
  
  From 11.30 onwards
  
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  February 12, 2018 12:17pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    That’s a very interesting clip. HdPA says she knew of this before the election, and reckons that the Labour Party has only just convinced the parents involved to talk to the media, anonymously.
    
    I’m no far of Ms Du Plessis Allan, but to her credit she is pretty disgusted by the whole thing.
    
    Now, tell me again; who did Nicky Hager accuse of “dirty politics”?
    
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    February 12, 2018 12:46pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      It’s kinda funny that Hager and Slater are on the same side now, isn’t it?
      They certainly have the same ethics.
      
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      February 12, 2018 1:30pm
- KKKKatee
  
  Obviously they were hoping that Chris Bishop wouldn’t win in Mallard’s turf. What a despicable bunch of bastards those Labour Party imbeciles are….
  
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  February 12, 2018 1:15pm
  - sam green
    
    Especially when you make shit up.
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:42pm
publicwatchdog

https://www.facebook.com/penny.bright.104/posts/1983504354995580

“Another fresh new PM supporting the stale, old pro-corporate
TPPA-11.”
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February 12, 2018 10:41am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau must be such a disappointment to true lefties like you Penny…
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:49am
- Swifty
  
  Linkwhore.
  
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  February 12, 2018 11:25am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    publicwatchdog has often been criticized for her lengthy, scroll wheel destroying posts; I am grateful for a brief post with a link, should I wish to follow it.
    
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    February 12, 2018 12:16pm
    - Swifty
      
      Yes, good point, we should be grateful for such mercies but it’s still linkwhoring – i.e. driving traffic to your own website.
      
      Doubly damnable when your site represents your own business interests i.e. Pavletich.
      
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      February 12, 2018 1:16pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      She hasn’t got time for long-winded posts any more. She’s too busy packing all her junk.
      
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      February 12, 2018 5:13pm
Lee C

stephieboy that’s like saying all gays are camp, or all black people have natural rhythm. Why not try a little critical thinking rather than resorting to stale labels?
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February 12, 2018 10:51am
MrTips

Wanna make some cash? Well, thanks to blockchain, now you can.

Sequence yourself and sell it anonymously: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/george-church-founds-cryptocurrency-fueled-genomics-firm

Blockchain is going to revolutionise capitalism in so many ways. Right, I’m off to the lab to get bled….
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February 12, 2018 11:03am
Prince

Have just listened to Matthew Hooton on RNZ, supposedly giving the ‘view from the right’ to balance the left wing views of the other commentator.
It appears Hooton despised Bill English and the National Party.
Even the Leftie commentator, and Kathryn Ryan herself, seem embarrassed by Hooton’s florid denouncement of the National Party, and strong support for Labour.
How can Hooton maintain his role on this program ?
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February 12, 2018 11:28am
- Gravelroad
  
  On here yesterday Hooten came across as a slightly wobbly Trojan horse dispatched from WOBH. Who can believe a word he says?
  These events show how blatantly an out of control media can frame and manipulate stories to suit a biased agenda – unchecked by media ownership and management evidently.
  
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  February 12, 2018 11:48am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    On here yesterday Hooten came across as a slightly wobbly Trojan horse dispatched from WOBH.
    
    There’s also an argument that the words “Hooton” and “WOBH” could be swapped around in that statement.
    
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    February 12, 2018 12:20pm
- Poppa
  
  I used to enjoy Matthew Hooton. I find it sad that he is trying to undermine the National Party & Bill English in particular.
  
  I am actually of the opinion that Bill will step down, but he deserves to do so when he is ready. He has done much for this country, much more than Cindy will ever do that is for sure.
  
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  February 12, 2018 11:59am
  - RF
    
    I find that Hooton is a turncoat running with foxes hunting with hounds.
    
    He was too close to that Laila Harre thing.
    
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    February 12, 2018 1:51pm
  - big bruv
    
    “He has done much for this country, much more than Cindy will ever do that is for sure.”
    
    I’m sick of this cheer leading shit. Bill is a nice guy, so was Neville but between them they achieved sweet fuck all. They did not repeal any of Labours social engineering legislation, they failed to take on and crush the teacher’s unions, they did nothing apart from be in power.
    
    Helen Klark was effectively the PM for eighteen years.
    
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    February 12, 2018 4:47pm
- big bruv
  
  “How can Hooton maintain his role on this program ?”
  Because he tells the truth and without him Red Radio would replace him with a pinko like Kathryn Rich and say she was from the right.
  
  You may not like Hooten but he is a true voice of the right. Bill English is left leaning, always has been.
  Like it or not chaps, Helen Klark could well take a line from the great Lady Thatcher and say that the greatest success of her time as PM was John Key and the National party such is the Nat’s slavish devotion to left wing ideology.
  
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  February 12, 2018 11:59am
  - Prince
    
    Hooton may well be telling the ‘truth’ as he sees it, but given he is debating with an ardent leftie who sees no wrong with Labour Coalition, he should at least try to support the opposition.
    Currently this 15 minutes is just a rage against English, National and Act.
    
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    February 12, 2018 12:32pm
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
A ‘stocktake’ of the housing market commissioned by the Govt paints a ‘sobering impact of the housing crisis, particularly on children’, says Housing Minister Phil Twyford | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92056/stocktake-housing-market-commissioned-government-paints-sobering-impact-housing

New Zealand faces a “deeper and more entrenched” housing crisis than had previously been revealed, according to a stocktake of the country’s housing sector commissioned by Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford. … read more via hyperlink above …

abolition auckland urban limits – Google Search

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=xrqAWsCUMYqd0gSyq5aICA&q=abolition+auckland+urban+limits&btnK=Google+Search

Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey | Scoop News

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1801/S00070/demographia-international-housing-affordability-survey.htm

Listen to Hugh Pavletich with Mark Sainsbury on Radio NZ this morning.
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February 12, 2018 11:41am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Listen to Hugh Pavletich with Mark Sainsbury on Radio NZ this morning.
  
  I’d rather go out for lunch with Penny Bright, and I can tell you that doesn’t feature high on my list of priorities!
  
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  February 12, 2018 12:22pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “I’d rather go out for lunch with Penny Bright…”
    
    You do realize that she won’t pay for her share.
    
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    February 12, 2018 12:35pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      That’s why it’s not high on my list of priorities Odakyu-Sen! My inner Scotsman would not be happy!!
      
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      February 12, 2018 12:49pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Pity about the election chaps !
      
      I hope you are all studying the GONE GONE GOING section of my archival website http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org to better understand why you were deservedly thrown on the political trash heap !
      
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      February 12, 2018 12:50pm
      - Ross12
        
        How’s all the affordable house building going Hugh ?
        Has the magical plan sprung into action ?
        
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        February 12, 2018 12:59pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Google News ‘Phil Twyford’
        
        https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=phil+twyford&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt6ZD5oZ_ZAhXCspQKHe6_B4kQ_AUICygC&biw=937&bih=398
        
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        February 12, 2018 2:56pm
      - Harkman
        
        Labour has a poor post war election record, 3 years might be all Hugh.
        
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        February 12, 2018 4:04pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Housing Minister Phil Twyford has hit back at claims his Government is not ambitious enough with its KiwiBuild policy and says expect ‘far more’ than 100,000 new houses over the next decade | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92063/housing-minister-phil-twyford-has-hit-back-claims-his-government-not-ambitious-enough
        
        Housing Minister Phil Twyford says he is expecting the Government to build “far more” than the planned 100,000 KiwiBuild houses over the next 10 years.
        
        Speaking to reporters after the release of a new housing stocktake report on Monday morning, Twyford was forced to defend the Government’s “lack of ambition” on its state house building policy.
        
        The call came from one of the stocktake report’s co-authors, Shamubeel Eaqub, who reiterated his thoughts that the Government should be targeting 500,000 new KiwiBuild homes. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Housing Minister Phil Twyford promises 12-15 ‘Hobsonville’-size housing developments – NZ Herald
        
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11992831
        
        Housing Minister Phil Twyford says there will be 12-15 housing developments the same size as Hobsonville underway simultaneously once KiwiBuild gets running. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Phil Twyford in the news …
        
        https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=phil+twyford&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiF4c_cuZ_ZAhUEI5QKHS56DL0Q_AUICygC&biw=926&bih=364
        
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        February 12, 2018 5:00pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … MACROBUSINESS AUSTRALIA … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/ … behind paywall …
        
        NZ Government stocktake reveals “devastating” housing crisis
        
        By Leith van Onselen MB has consistently argued that New Zealand’s housing market is even more diabolical than Australia’s, as evident by it being the most expensive in the Anglosphere when measured against GDP: As well as against incomes: Now, a ‘stocktake’ commissioned by the New Zealand Government has … read more via hyperlink above … behind paywall …
        
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        February 12, 2018 5:16pm
      - sooty
        
        I bet you get alot of clicks on your shit. Hugh. More than Penny, l wonder?
        
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        February 12, 2018 5:30pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/02/links-12-february-2018/#comment-3047635 …
        
        There is a danger in over-examining issues such as the housing market, rather than just rolling up sleeves and taking action … David Hargreaves … Interest Co NZ
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/92061/there-danger-over-examining-issues-such-housing-market-rather-just-rolling-sleeves-and
        
        By David Hargreaves
        
        In reading the housing stocktake commissioned by the new Government I was reminded again and again of a very funny skit from an ages-old, largely forgotten, TV programme called The Frost Report. …
        
        … concluding …
        
        … But with or without reports being compiled and more and more information gathered, I think we could all agree that building more houses is good, having a check on immigration is good, trying to do something to make it more affordable to build houses is good, and doing something to improve the lot of renters is good.
        
        The big danger is that simply gathering loads of information like this is just a substitute for the Great New Zealand Form A Committee strategy. Talking is easier than doing. There’s no doubt about that.
        
        Twyford’s been talking big for a few years now. Well, this is his chance.
        
        Solutions please. No more reports. Get on with it.
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        The landmines in Ardern’s next 1000 days … Bernard Hickey … Newsroom
        
        https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/02/04/80944/the-landmines-in-jacindas-next-1000-days
        
        … extract …
        
        … The biggest risk for the Government over the next 1000 days is a failure to deliver on its core promise — Kiwibuild. Ramping up a programme to build 100,000 houses in a decade will always take time, but the Government’s commitment to built 16,000 in the first three years is very specific. The first Kiwibuild home has been promised for mid-2018.
        
        Voters will want to see houses being built pronto and won’t have much tolerance for excuses, of which there are smorgasbord to choose from, ranging from construction sector capacity, Council borrowing capacity, ratings agency nit-picking, RMA-wielding NIMBYs and nervous bankers. Any signs of bickering between the Government and the Auckland Council in particular, or foot-dragging by either, would disappoint voters hoping for solutions. Any delays in forming the Housing Commission and getting MBIE’s interim Kiwibuild unit up and running will be leapt on by the Opposition and the media alike.
        
        The key players are Housing and Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff. They need to coordinate their respective governments to plan, fund and deliver the joint and massive investment projects needed to build at least 50,000 Kiwibuild houses in Auckland over the next decade, as well as the rail and other infrastructure needed for those houses. The Government and the Auckland Council must somehow come up with the tools to fund new urban development projects. That will require the cooperation and enthusiasm of both private bond investors and the ratings agencies, who can be wary of the special purpose vehicles that Twyford and Goff hope to use to keep the debt off both their balance sheets. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        February 12, 2018 5:48pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The timing for this commercial circus could not be worse …
        
        UPDATE 2-NZ’s Fletcher in talks with lenders as covenant breaches loom … Reuters
        
        https://in.reuters.com/article/fletcher-building-restructuring/update-2-nzs-fletcher-in-talks-with-lenders-as-covenant-breaches-loom-idINL4N1Q10G2
        
        * Says in talks with lenders, extends trading halt to Wednesday
        
        * Company had downgraded earnings for fourth time in under a year
        
        * Spiralling costs and delayed projects causing problems (Re-casts, adds detail and analyst comment) … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        February 12, 2018 8:33pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Well I reckon she’s a champion for sending her good wishes to Kimbo after their wee contretemps.
    
    I reckon you’d have an interesting lunch with her.
    
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    February 12, 2018 1:27pm
lifesgood

Wow! I didn’t hear it but if Kathryn Ryan was embarrassed…..! He was just as bad last week with his effusive praise for Jacinda. Is he another WO? Did he used to be given inside info but isn’t now so is exercising utu?
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February 12, 2018 11:43am
sooty

Secret Taxinda!
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February 12, 2018 11:47am
Swifty

Linkwhore II.
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February 12, 2018 11:56am
Notsofast

This headline in the herald is a milestone after several millenia of apes becoming civilised

“ANZ staff can now dress to fit their gender.”

I’ll check my wardrobe…
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February 12, 2018 12:11pm
- Evadne
  
  “Dress to fit their gender”?
  
  Which all seems to support Jordan Peterson’s claim that most of today’s “gender expression” is just fashion. i.e. what you wear.
  
  Maybe we can drop all the LBGTQIXYZ letters and replace them with:
  
  + D – dress wearers
  + T – trouser wearers
  + S – suit wearers
  + O – onesie wearers
  + G – grass skirt wearers
  + B – black bin bag wearers
  + F – frock coat wearers
  + K – kilt wearers
  
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  February 12, 2018 4:03pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    + P – Pyjama wearers
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:36pm
Odakyu-sen

“ANZ staff can now dress to fit their gender.”

Begs the question of how many genders the ANZ HR Department acknowledges.
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February 12, 2018 12:38pm
Manolo

Easy comes, easy goes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/02/10/bitcoin-billionaires-turn-millionaires-cryptocurrency-world/
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February 12, 2018 12:46pm
Manolo

Even our resident Muslim agrees with Trump:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/11/trump-slams-fake-news-media-for-rehashing-same-negative-stories-ignoring-positive-news.html

President Trump on Sunday blasted the “Fake News Media,” claiming the press doesn’t want to cover positive stories in the US, instead harping on negative news.

“So many positive things going on for the USA and the Fake News Media just doesn’t want to go there,” Trump tweeted. “Same negative stories over and over again! No wonder the People no longer trust the media, whose approval ratings are correctly at their lowest levels in history!”
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February 12, 2018 12:57pm
- Ross12
  
  Even better Manolo, it looks like they MAY have a bird singing away in the FBI/ DoJ scandal ( Bill Priestap –head of Counter Intelligence at the FBI).
  The layers of the onion continue to be peeled back.
  
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  February 12, 2018 1:43pm
Digmen1

The long term way to solve the housing crisis, and the fact that so many people esp Maori and PI are living in rentals etc is to

Make sure that all of our young children get a good education and a trade.

If you have a trade, then later on you earn good money and can easily buy a house.

Don’t get pregnant
Don’t do drugs
Don’t hook up with loosers.
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February 12, 2018 1:01pm
- rangitoto
  
  “Don’t get pregnant
  Don’t do drugs
  Don’t hook up with loosers(sic).”
  
  Is this advice for Taxinda?
  
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  February 12, 2018 1:59pm
Digmen1

Good to see that the Court of Appeal denied that guy who killed and abused the old asian lady early release.

His lawyer said it was cruel for him.
Well its too late for her.

Good news.
And I was pleased that they said the main reason for Preventive Detention is to keep the community (us) safe.
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February 12, 2018 1:03pm
Swifty

I always knew we were special:

“When you meet a red haired person with blue eyes, you are looking at the rarest colour combination of all for human beings. The odds of having both red hair and blue eyes are around 0.17 per cent”. 🙂

https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018631180/are-redheads-with-blue-eyes-going-extinct
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February 12, 2018 1:24pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Long live the mutants!
  https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/are-redheads-with-blue-eyes-really-going-extinct
  
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  February 12, 2018 1:32pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Jesus was thought to be red/ginger headed ,
    
    http://www.themythsandhistoryofredhair.co.uk/gingerjesus.html
    
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    February 12, 2018 1:49pm
  - Swifty
    
    Heh.
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:43pm
Digmen1

More from the Religion of peace in Australia.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/101348001/shes-a-brilliant-student-family-shocked-by-alleged-isisinspired-stabbing

That’s why I don’t like people from Bangladesh coming here.
They are 99% muslims.

But you do have to wonder about the man she was staying with he was 56 with a 5 year old daughter.
They breed like locusts.
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February 12, 2018 1:28pm
- stephieboy
  
  Digmen1 , do you believe that your intense dislike of Muslims helps define you as a Trump supporter and alt righter ?
  
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  February 12, 2018 1:42pm
  - Inandout
    
    No stephie, merely a realist.
    
    Not like this he/she:
    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y2UXLVJ5KuM/hqdefault.jpg
    
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    February 12, 2018 2:11pm
Digmen1

Yes.
But I am not alt-right (what ever that is)
Just right of right
And I don’t hate jews

But I have disliked muslims every since 9/11
And I liked Trump as soon as he stood for the GOP. I was one of his keen supporters at work. And they all laughed at me, till he won the election1

Who do you like
Who do you dislike
What do muslims pray about? (for the 3rd time)
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February 12, 2018 1:58pm
- simpleton1
  
  An essential part of following Mohammad. Just one of many verses guiding muslims in their lives.
  
  Sahih International koran 60:4
  There has already been for you an excellent pattern in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people, “Indeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than Allah . We have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone” except for the saying of Abraham to his father, “I will surely ask forgiveness for you, but I have not [power to do] for you anything against Allah . Our Lord, upon You we have relied, and to You we have returned, and to You is the destination. http://legacy.quran.com/60/4
  
  al-wala’ w’al bara doctrine or also called ‘Loyalty and Enmity’
  With other doctrines one would hope that some here do not practice this doctrine with all the kitman and taqiyya. 🙂
  
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  February 12, 2018 2:42pm
stephieboy

Digmen1 ,

“What do muslims pray about? (for the 3rd time)”

Since I’m not one I haven’t a clue . Why not ask one ?
Does this definition by the Ant Defamation league sit well with you ?

“The Anti-Defamation League states that “alt-right” is a “vague term actually encompass[ing] a range of people on the extreme right who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of forms of conservatism that embrace implicit or explicit racism or white supremacy.”
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February 12, 2018 2:05pm
- Jack5
  
  Stephie X denies being a Muslim. Whether he/she speaks for the whole Stephie team on this is unclear.
  
  Consider the Stephies’ poor command of idiomatic English and English punctuation; consider the obvious influence of the Indian subcontinent on the Stephies’ speech patterns; consider the Stephies’ relentless, endless defence of Islam and Muslims; and consider that in Islam it’s morally permissible for Muslims to lie to non-Muslims.
  
  The conclusion: Stephie X’s denial that he/she is a Muslim doesn’t have the worth or weight of a nob of goat shit.
  
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  February 12, 2018 2:36pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Ant Defamation League
  I wonder what Adam and the Ants have to say about that?
  
  Im standing here
  What do I see?
  A great big nothing!
  threatening me
  
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  February 12, 2018 6:49pm
Maggy Wassilieff

At 10:49 today stephieboy linked to a definition of alt-right
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/02/general_debate_10_february_2018-2.html#comment-2135811
and later asked me
“What did you object about the Anti Defamation League’s definition .”

So I looked at his article and saw that it had embedded a link to an article that further defined the alt-right as what I can only describe as virulent anti-semitic, racist folks.
His link:
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate
Embedded link:
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-about-the-new-white-supremacy

I am sick of his filthy insinuations that I have or have ever expressed such thoughts, words or deeds associated with these neo-Nazis.

Clearly stephieboy thinks most of us here on KB are like the folks depicted in these links he has provided.
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February 12, 2018 2:13pm
- holysheet
  
  Maggy, may I suggest you communicate with the head god botherer at St Albans
  http://www.saintalbans.org.nz/
  Parish Priest (Priest in Charge)
  Rev. Dr. Fr. Michael John.
  
  Make your complaint about the antics on KB by one of their members Ralph Taylor (Stephieboy)
  I am sure they would take a dim view of his activities on KB, at St Lukes and elsewhere.
  Stephieboy on 3 December 2015:
  
  Jack 5, recently i was at St Luke’s shopping mall and I saw a Muslim lady dressed in traditional apparel accompanied by her two beautiful young daughters dressed in modern western tight jeans and blouses , revealing lovely supple body proportions , including small but ample breasts .
  
  stephieboy
  Yesterday I was at the Robert Harris cafe St Lukes Megacentre , Mt Albert enjoying a cappuccino. I noticed next door three Muslim women enjoying their lattes with their children . Two of these honeypots .were wearing their Nijabs with stylish jeans and blouses . The other in more typical kiwi informal attire?
  AUGUST 21, 2016 8:51AM’
  
  All of this activity shows a pattern of activity regarding young females. What else has the creep been up to?
  
  While you are at it, ask them to get an explaination why his Facebook page that had been linked to the church FB page has been deleted.
  
  Still relevant today as last time.
  
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  February 12, 2018 2:53pm
  - Swifty
    
    Creepy.
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:48pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Always thought that would be an interesting church to visit….
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:29pm
  - RalphT
    
    Holy, just to clarify, the T in RalphT does not stand for Taylor. I am 660 kms away St Albans and furthermore while I have been known to hang around the odd mall it is not for the purpose of leering at young Muslim women. My preferred spot for looking at Muslim women is the departure lounge at Auckland airport…
    
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    February 12, 2018 10:01pm
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Interesting reply to a comment about Stephie boy by RalphT
      
      ??? #confusedmuch
      
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      February 12, 2018 10:08pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        stephieboy revealed some personal details about what he was doing on Xmas Day.
        Some members of KB figured out who he was by looking at his Church Reading Log and his Facebook page.
        
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        February 12, 2018 10:53pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  @holysheet
  
  I have no desire to communicate with anyone in stephieboy’s life.
  
  He can condemn himself here on this blog by persisting in smearing all/many of us with a term he clearly doesn’t understand.
  
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  February 12, 2018 3:43pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Maggy Wassilief , get a life and get over your self for once !
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:42pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Did your parents name you after that dog on The Muppets, Ralph? SAD! Many such cases. That was the stupid one too! Never mind, you can still lick your own balls.
      
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      February 12, 2018 7:11pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  At 10:49 today stephieboy linked to a definition of alt-right
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/02/general_debate_10_february_2018-2.html#comment-2135811
  and later asked me
  “What did you object about the Anti Defamation League’s definition .”
  
  Weird – that whole thread seems to have been memory holed?
  
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  February 12, 2018 8:24pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yes, someone has deleted stephieboy’s earlier postings where he posted links to revolting stuff that attempted to justify his use of the term Alt-Right.
    
    The information I posted to Alt-right meaning white supremacist, racist, fascist, homphobe and anti-semite has also been deleted.
    
    Perhaps stephieboy hadn’t read everything that was on his links.
    
    Perhaps he didn’t like the fact that I remembered his earlier attempts to define alt-right.
    
    He must be aware that I keep a copy of all his smears against me.
    
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    February 12, 2018 8:56pm
    - Jack5
      
      If you get enough on the Stephies, Maggy, maybe Trumpy will hit them with a drone.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:01pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I would never wish harm on anyone Jack5.
        
        The Yanks can keep their drones in their own backyards, as far as I am concerned.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:24pm
Jack5

Stephen Mills, the Leftist political commentator on Red Radio, in the talk this morning with Matthew Hooton, took a smack at John Key by focusing on his employment with Merill Lynch and talking of Merill Lynch’s dealing with Enron, which collapsed.

Key was a top currency trader. The link below gives a taste of Key’s financial career. Was there any link with Enron? It seems unlikely.

Mills wouldn’t like to be blamed if a big customer of UMR Research, which he runs, collapsed.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/249633/Who-is-John-Key
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February 12, 2018 2:28pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Enron developed the carbon credit scam.
  They were never the genuine article.
  Before the company collapsed under the weight of financial scandal, Enron under CEO Ken Lay was a key proponent of the cap-and-trade idea. So was BP’s Lord John Browne, before he resigned last May under a cloud of personal scandal. In August 1997, Lay and Browne met with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Gore in the Oval Office to develop administration positions for the Kyoto negotiations that resulted in an international treaty to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
  http://humanevents.com/2007/10/03/the-money-and-connections-behind-al-gores-carbon-crusade/
  
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  February 12, 2018 2:57pm
  - Jack5
    
    Whoops! The link below is to a report of Merill Lynch deals with Enron, but I don’t see how John Key’s currency trading unit in London could have had any link to these.
    
    JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Citigroup are among the other firms hit by the SEC over Enron.
    
    The link (sorry it’s so long):
    
    https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Z7qTGiF8FCgC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=Was+Merrill+Lynch+part+of+the+Enron+collapse?&source=bl&ots=lF7gsdi5Fc&sig=EfLrcKvXbHQ3yiV1_Ivb8uhsx_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtgqKwpJ_ZAhULH5QKHaGmATIQ6AEIXzAJ#v=onepage&q=Was%20Merrill%20Lynch%20part%20of%20the%20Enron%20collapse%3F&f=false
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:09pm
  - kowtow
    
    MW
    
    You’ve probably read the book , I haven’t ,but watched the movie version The Smartest Guys in the Room. About the Enron scam.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2f7FunDuTU
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:36pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      No, I haven’t.
      
      I don’t really get the money/economics world… apart from commonsense house-keeping.
      
      But the C-trading stuff never made sense to me…
      (must have spent too long doing soil, litter and plant C analysis and swatting up on C-cycles in the real world)
      
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      February 12, 2018 3:52pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Maggy Wassilief ,
    
    The culpability of Exxon and the climate denial movement ,
    
    Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago
    A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation
    
    “Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue, according to a recent investigation from InsideClimate News. This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation—an approach many have likened to the lies spread by the tobacco industry regarding the health risks of smoking. Both industries were conscious that their products wouldn’t stay profitable once the world understood the risks, so much so that they used the same consultants to develop strategies on how to communicate with the public. ..”
    
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:51pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Who said anything about Exxon?
      
      I posted about Enron.
      
      I know the company names both start with a Capital E… but what R U on?
      
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      February 12, 2018 6:56pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        What R U on?
        Dog biscuits. In training for Ramalamadingdong.
        
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        February 12, 2018 7:14pm
      - Swifty
        
        Man is he having a bad day.
        
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        February 12, 2018 7:21pm
- Ross12
  
  Why is he still talking about John Key? Is he stuck in a time warp?
  
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  February 12, 2018 4:34pm
  - Swifty
    
    Lefties still do the same with Maggie Thatcher.
    
    They still loathe her for the success she enjoyed – and they loathe her doubly because she was a woman.
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:44pm
    - Gabby
      
      You talkin bout Helen Clark there sweaty?
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:54pm
      - Swifty
        
        You wish cocksucker.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:18pm
4077th

And in news just to hand, Millie Elder-Holms has a new dog…

FFS
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February 12, 2018 2:47pm
- RalphT
  
  Great, if it knocks the baby off the front page.
  (But yes, FFS)
  
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  February 12, 2018 2:53pm
  - Jack5
    
    Pity the dog.
    
    Bulldog pet rescue is big in California. The whims of celebrity airheads don’t last long.
    
    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/French-English-bulldogs-found-rescued-California-12352036.php
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:00pm
  - 4077th
    
    I just despair… Surely there are more interesting news articles around than this utter shit and quite frankly about tart with a penchant for gang members? How about.. One of USA’s most most visible news networks is deliberately writing North Korea’s propaganda for them with the fawning over Fat Kimmy’s sister? What does it take to get investigated for sedition, treachery and treason in the US? Someone or some people at CNN need a holiday with the NSA for some, let’s say, “questions about their loyalty to the American flag”.
    
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    February 12, 2018 3:07pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Saddam got executed for his “crimes” against his people. WaPo do glamour articles on the Norks.
      Not that I am saying I condone Saddam and everything he did but, shit there was no ISIS when he was around. The only thing those savages respect is the fear of a brutal death.
      
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      February 12, 2018 6:57pm
Manolo

A true shithole:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-arrests-ritz/saudi-ritz-reopens-after-stint-as-gilded-prison-of-princes-idUSKBN1FV0AW
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February 12, 2018 2:51pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , wasn’t that the hotel Donald and Melania stayed at during their state visit to that” shit hole “
  
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  February 12, 2018 9:24pm
Lucia Maria

Daylight Saving Time isn’t worth it, European Parliament members say

Be interesting to see if the EU cans daylight saving time. I hope they do, it might influence everyone else who uses it to follow suit.

I don’t mind DST so much during December to February, but once it gets to mid-March especially, the hot evenings combined with the very cold mornings become excruciating for sleep.
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February 12, 2018 3:57pm
- wiseowl
  
  The extensions pushed by Dunne and Barker to allow more time for BBQ’s was the last straw for me.
  Change it back I say.
  
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  February 12, 2018 5:04pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    DST, too long at both ends.
    I agree, change it back to the previous settings.
    
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    February 12, 2018 7:39pm
Jack5

Is Europe at last waking up to multiculturism?

EU official warns migrant ghettos could become a “nuclear bomb” of unrest.

Sounds like multiculturism is out and assimilation is in.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5377961/Migrant-ghettos-nuclear-bomb-future.html
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February 12, 2018 4:01pm
- Digmen1
  
  No
  That lady along with Angela Merkel should be put up against a wall and shot for treason.
  She has a fund of 300 million to spend on integrating the latest immigrants, before they cause a timebomb.
  She is also buying two rescue boars for Italy.
  
  When will those left wing liberals realise that the immigrants (esp) muslims do not want to integrate, they just want free this, and to bring in their chain families and dominate Europe.
  
  Long live Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic. Myanmar, and maybe Austria.
  
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  February 12, 2018 5:10pm
Jack5

Gambian charged with murdering Christchurch prostitute and burning her body.

If he’s guilty, let’s hope the immigration appeals system has been reformed by the time he completes his sentence so he’s sent back to Africa.

What are we doing importing Gambians? This one’s a butcher. We need highly skilled people.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11992884
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February 12, 2018 4:17pm
- Digmen1
  
  The immigration officer who approved his application should be charged as being an accessory to murder, named and sacked.
  
  I like the way the guy said that in Ghana he would be taken outside by the police and taken care of.
  
  What a piece of sh…
  
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  February 12, 2018 4:42pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Digmen1 , you get more stupid with each succeeding post .
    
    Jack 5 , very difficult to determine who will later become a murderer or a crim .
    
    Maybe your could assist Immigration with your renowned expertise at reading bulls entrails .
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:16pm
    - simpleton1
      
      Reading other bull entrails;-
      the koran, chronologically, and take in the abrogation meanings, for the last half, that seals what muslims are supposed to take from the koran.
      
      read the hadith, take in the deeds, practices sayings of Mohammad and his companions.
      
      sunnah, from Mohammad, that guides and advises muslims in their lives.
      
      An interesting chat may be over a cup of tea at the end of the month. on Sunday, at your local, over “bulls entrails”
      
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      February 12, 2018 6:38pm
    - Jack5
      
      To StephieX, who posted at 6.16, directing his suggestion at me:” Maybe you could assist Immigration …””:
      
      I’d love to, Stephie. No Stephiestani would get into New Zealand.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:57pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Looks like he came here as a halal butcher…..or at least he was working in close proximity to a halal butcher.
  
  Must be good money in butchering… this guy was driving an Audi.
  
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  February 12, 2018 5:18pm
  - Manolo
    
    stephieboy could enligthen us, cara Maggy.
    
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    February 12, 2018 5:54pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Maggy W, no doubt you’ve read his profile in some depth in the case notes . Why is it apparently nefarious he has an Audi , pray tell me .
    
    Why not do something useful and apply and become a Prison Van driver ?
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:24pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I’ve just seen the case his lawyer is arguing on TV1.
      
      Looks like he is going to run with mental health issues.
      
      Do keep up.
      Why not do something useful and apply and become a Prison Van driver ?
      
      And where is the Gisborne prison?
      http://www.corrections.govt.nz/about_us/getting_in_touch/our_locations.html
      
      You don’t have a clue what I do, do you stephieboy?
      
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      February 12, 2018 6:38pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Read all about it yourself
      
      http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/350239/murder-accused-googled-how-to-kidnap-a-girl
      
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      February 12, 2018 11:31pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    I hope he will be returned from where he came from. He didn’t look at all remorseful in court.
    He had looked up on the internet ‘how to kidnap a woman’. It was reported there was a sheep tongue found next to the burnt body along with the lighter with his fingerprints all over it.
    
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    February 12, 2018 7:47pm
- Swifty
  
  I thought it was illegal in NZ to discriminate on the grounds of religion?
  
  I noticed this the other day:
  
  http://tegelcareers.co.nz/Vacancies/3857513/title/Halal-Slaughterperson
  
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  February 12, 2018 5:40pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Swifty , why not give a try . You’d look most convincing in a Burqa .
    
    LOL
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:26pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “I thought it was illegal in NZ to discriminate on the grounds of religion?”
    
    How about a thought experiment.
    Should it be illegal in NZ to discriminate on the grounds of a political ideology that would have people assimilated or exterminated?
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:34pm
    - Swifty
      
      A very good point.
      
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      February 12, 2018 6:58pm
- kowtow
  
  Two things about that story.
  
  i. The prostitute had a “minder” . Here was me thinking that Timmy B’s act ended all that.
  
  ii. The journalist is shit.
  ‘A halal butcher will give evidence that on the day of the murder, Marong had a sheep slaughtered, and will allege that he removed the animal’s tongue with knives he had bought with him.’
  
  Bought for brought ? WTF !
  
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  February 12, 2018 6:25pm
  - Digmen1
    
    And she had a boyfriend, what a loser.
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:41pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Stuff didn’t mention he was an Islamic import. Wonder why?
  
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  February 12, 2018 7:00pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/101363704/high-court-dismisses-case-that-controversial-stuff-cartoons-breached-human-rights-act
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February 12, 2018 4:19pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Odakyu-san

You gotta get your mates back in Japan into the real-estate business.
Tell them everyone needs their own little stand-alone plywood shack.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/business/350217/100-jobs-to-go-at-gisborne-wood-plant
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February 12, 2018 4:24pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Dear Maggy,
  
  This video clip can explain why detached house costs are relatively low in Tokyo.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w
  
  Auckland has many things that Tokyo does not.
  – High levels of immigration
  – No death duties
  – No capital gain on real estate resale (after a certain period)
  – Land use restrictions
  – High utility monopoly costs for site development
  
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  February 12, 2018 6:40pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Good video.
    
    I’ve got to go back and visit more of Japan.
    (spent 1 month in Akihabara…. burdened with a shopaholic daughter who was hard to shift out of Tokyo).
    
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    February 12, 2018 7:44pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Nooooooooooooooo!
      
      DO NOT allow any shopaholics near Tokyo!
      
      This next clip (not Tokyo) gives you an idea of the level of service one may expect in Japan. (Is a fountain pen like a wizard’s wand in Harry Potter?) Certainly this must be the Japanese counterpart to Garrick Ollivander…
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68e7C2yO2g
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:08pm
      - Jack5
        
        Great shop, thank you Odakyu-sen. Up there with Tokyu Hands (which may show I have just tourist-level taste).
        
        If we had to write our posts here in script, not printing, our posts would be more succinct and punchier.
        
        If Maori were all in, and only in, hand writing – script – and couldn’t be keyed, I would learn it.
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:11pm
Digmen1

I just saw Jacinda and Chris Hipkins at a pres conference talking about charter schools.
The questioners were quite persistent, but I could not hear them.
More mikes please,.
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February 12, 2018 4:44pm
Digmen1

Take a look at those nice muslim women on WO after being refused entry to an Australian court for trying to enter with their face covered.

Good on the judge.
Muslims follow our laws when it suits them.

Why do they want to come here if they don’t like our laws?
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February 12, 2018 5:02pm
- kowtow
  
  They like our welfare, they like how weak we are not standing up for our own history, culture and traditions .We’re multicultural you see and they like the fact that eventually they’ll have the numbers to tell us what to do.
  
  Bolt points out that Labor over there are already having to kowtow to them in the marginal seats.
  
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  February 12, 2018 5:19pm
  - stephieboy
    
    kowtow , utter bollux !
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:28pm
- Swifty
  
  Trouble is, a lot of them were born in Aussie – and some of the recent trouble makers over there are European Aussies who have concerted to Islam after marrying muslim blokes.
  
  Brain dead, the lot of them.
  
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  February 12, 2018 5:33pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Swifty , you should talk !
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:28pm
    - Swifty
      
      Er, you’ve been soundly thrashed today – repeatedly.
      
      Mistake after mistake.
      
      I’d show a little humility if I was you.
      
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      February 12, 2018 6:51pm
Digmen1

I just found out how to email the editor of the Herald

http://dynamic.nzherald.co.nz/feedback/letters/index.cfm?

I just sent them a right wing rant about how biased they are!
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February 12, 2018 5:38pm
- stephieboy
  
  Digmen1 . you mean an alt right Trumpeter rant ?
  
  Surely .
  
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  February 12, 2018 6:29pm
  - Digmen1
    
    I have told you before I don’t consider myself an Alt-Right.
    So stop calling me that.
    I am just far right and getting more extreme, very day as I watch the muslim hordes invade Europe.
    
    Just post your views, don’t attack people!
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:39pm
    - Gabby
      
      You prolly don’t consider yourself a snoflake girlyman either dicman. B’hub b’hub.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:47pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Je suis reported
    
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    February 12, 2018 7:03pm
    - Gabby
      
      Vous etes l’ancien sac de peau.
      
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      February 12, 2018 8:46pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    What’s happened to all that stuff you posted earlier today on the anti-defamation league definition of alt-right, stephieboy?
    
    Did you ask for that thread to be removed?
    
    Hadn’t you read the nasty stuff on those links?
    
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    February 12, 2018 9:04pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Probably all the reports for him calling us rabid alt-right again. My part Maori kids would disagree.
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Well nothing ever really disappears from the ether.
        
        And I do admire the memory skills of some of the folks on KB.
        
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        February 12, 2018 9:45pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Maggy Waslilief , The ant definition league definition is quite acceptable to me . Try this ,
      
      1 Do you support Donald Trump ?
      2 Do you believe any of the Hillary Clinton Conspiracy theories like Seth Rich , Clinton body count , Pizzagate etc
      3. Would you describe yourself as anti muslim or paranoid about the same e’g Demographic time bomb that will eventually swamp us and all of Western civilisation ?
      4 Do you supports the pro Trump views of supporters of yours like All on Red ?
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:40pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        You continue to link me with your alt-right rubbish.
        
        So your apology meant nothing.
        
        I have previously written here, in response to you, that I do not have anything to do with US elections, as I am a NZ citizen.
        Don’t you remember?
        
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        February 12, 2018 11:00pm
Manolo

Merkel’s Germany. Our resident Muslim will not be happy:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/11/german-catholic-archbishop-condemns-migrant-violence-toward-christians/

German Roman Catholic Archbishop Ludwig Schick has condemned the violence of Islamic extremist migrants toward Christians and Christian converts, saying that the “highest alertness” is required.

Archbishop Schick made his remarks after a new report released by the German government showed that 100 Christians including a convert who was murdered were victims of religiously-motived violence last year, Die Welt reports.
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February 12, 2018 6:06pm
- kowtow
  
  He’s a sharp one .
  
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  February 12, 2018 6:27pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , now I wonder where Breitbart go that one ? Especially after the Pizzagate and Dortmund Fiascos .Their claim is apparently contradicted by this ,
  
  “German archbishop gets death threats after saying church would accept a Muslim president”
  
  https://www.dailysabah.com/europe/2016/11/08/german-archbishop-gets-death-threats-after-saying-church-would-accept-a-muslim-president
  
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  February 12, 2018 6:35pm
  - Digmen1
    
    They should get him to retract that statement and apologise, and reverse it. Or carry out the threat!
    
    Its bad enough having a muslim Mayor of London!
    
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    February 12, 2018 6:51pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Digmen1 , go and visit your shrink !
      
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      February 12, 2018 9:43pm
- nasska
  
  If he was anything like the elite NZ Godwhacks, a few years ago, he would have been banging the drum demanding that the gummint do more to rescue those poor, persecuted people.
  
  Remember which group of cloistered arseholes sheltered Ahmed Zaoui anyone?
  
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  February 12, 2018 6:35pm
- Digmen1
  
  Only 100 Christians murdered in Germany last year!
  
  They need to ramp it up a lot to a few thousand so that the sickly white liberal Germans will wake up.
  
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  February 12, 2018 6:49pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    What might happen if all this “mayhem and murder” in German causes the Germans to lose their “guilt” and to rediscover their “inner Goth”?
    
    Some cultures may mistake “manners” for weakness, but self-control and self-discipline is a source of strength. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tukQDg22o9M
    
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    February 12, 2018 7:05pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Since everyone in the UN and EU seem to have forgotten the lesson from history, I guess we are doomed to repeat it. White Supremacy (or what we call nationalism and protecting your country and your children) uptake is at an all time high. Gee, what happens next?
      
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      February 12, 2018 7:28pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Does the desire to preserve one’s culture, language and kin make one a supremacist?
        
        If I choose vanilla ice cream over chocolate ice cream, am I automatically to be considered a member of Alt-vanilla-bean?
        
        OK. I have a dark confession to make. (Looks nervously over shoulder…) I am actually a member of the Red Bean Ice Cream brigade…)
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppbERv_iJ-Q
        
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        February 12, 2018 8:21pm
Digmen1

Getting back to the Maori archaoelogy etc.

Maori were nto the founders of this country.

When they came here they did not know what a country was!

Countries were not “invented” in Europe till the 1400’s

How many middens do we need to find to know what we already know?

And the Maoris were such good navigators that they don’t even know where they came from!

America, Hawaiiki, Cook Island, Taiwan?
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February 12, 2018 6:47pm
- Viking2
  
  There are few more places you can add to that list.
  Solomons, Easter Island. One of the BOP tribes has DNA association with Easter Island.
  
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  February 12, 2018 7:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  Digmen1 , what we do know that is indisputable that the Maori arrived here first and therefore rightfully can claim to be founders of this country ,
  
  Tangata Whenua ,
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/79760636/Atholl-Anderson-Where-did-Maori-come-from
  
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  February 12, 2018 7:12pm
- Gabby
  
  Where do you come from dicman?
  
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  February 12, 2018 10:15pm
Odakyu-sen

Dinner time soon.

Ever wondered why it is easier to stay slim in Japan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4MmmWQtZM
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February 12, 2018 6:57pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Ever wondered why it is easier to stay slim in Japan?
  I find it hard to eat animals that are still looking at me
  
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  February 12, 2018 7:06pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Where in the video was the ikizukuri (生き作り) sashimi?
    
    Just for you: Japanese vegan food.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iix0KMmXQBM
    
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    February 12, 2018 7:18pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      I was just teasing Odakyu-sen. I love Asian food for the most part. They do baby pork ribs like no one else!
      
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      February 12, 2018 7:20pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Ever wondered why it is easier to stay slim in Japan”…..
  
  Probably the thought that the squid flavouring your rice may have died after a long & successful career as a porn star would do it. 🙂
  
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  February 12, 2018 7:08pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    And I thought I had a smartarse rejoinder but yours beats mine 8 tentacles down nasska.
    
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    February 12, 2018 7:17pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  nice vid Odakyu-sen! Pity that food isnt available here in easy to find quantities. Would rather eat nicely flavoured rice with veges than a meat pie any day. Not that I eat meat pies these days
  
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  February 12, 2018 7:40pm
Viking2

Crown Forestry is looking for land to plant as part of the Government’s One Billion Trees programme.

The Crown wants to talk to landowners who have a minimum of 200 plantable hectares of land of reasonable fertility and which has not been a plantation forest previously.

Crown Forestry will lease the land or enter into a forestry joint venture for a 30-year term.

The Crown will pay for all establishment and management costs over the lifetime of the crop and pay a negotiated rent to the landowner.

http://newsie.co.nz/news/81184-crown-wants-land-billion-trees.html
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Good luck with that Mr Jones.
Maybe Nga Puhi have some they will lend you.
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February 12, 2018 7:10pm
- nasska
  
  I’ve oft wondered where they’re going to access that land V2. There are a few criteria to consider:
  
  1) Three crops of trees & the ground’s fucked.
  
  2) Anywhere over 250km from the nearest port that handles logs & you’ll make a loss.
  
  3) If access roading is required & you can’t con the local authority into paying for it ditto.
  
  4) It will only take one disease or pest that targets pinus radiata & it’s all over. Already in the Manawatu there’s a die back disease.
  
  5) There are species other than pinus but you’re looking at fifty plus years for a return.
  
  The speech from the hustings was world class but the devil is in the detail.
  
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  February 12, 2018 7:20pm
  - Swifty
    
    Yes to all of that.
    
    We started in Radiata in the Wairarapa in the early 80’s – out Tinui way. We cropped and subsequently sold out four years ago.
    
    Simple in theory – complex in practice.
    
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    February 12, 2018 7:26pm
    - nasska
      
      I did similar Swifty. After Rogernomics killed farming as it was then practised my job as a driver vanished. A partner & myself risked everything we had on a nascent forestry venture & we were bloody near stuffed financially when an investment group from Auckland who had been burnt in the stockmarket crash decided to diversify.
      
      They paid up big time & that allowed me to get into a sheep & beef property.
      
      She’s a risky game gambling on anything that won’t turn a quid for 30 to 50 years.
      
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      February 12, 2018 7:36pm
      - Swifty
        
        Great stuff nasska.
        
        What district are you in now?
        
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        February 12, 2018 7:44pm
      - nasska
        
        Northland stigie. Bugger working……this retirement racket is the most. 🙂
        
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        February 12, 2018 7:46pm
      - Swifty
        
        Still on the farm?
        
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        February 12, 2018 7:48pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Northland stigie
        
        You could offer to be Shane’s right hand man.
        
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        February 12, 2018 7:54pm
      - nasska
        
        Sold out at the end of June last year Swifty. We were going to buy a retirement property in the Wairarapa but taking six months off to think it through was the best move ever.
        
        We’ve got an offer in on a small low maintenance place in Masterton & we’ll spend the rest of the housing budget somew