General Debate 9 May 2018

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Keeping Stock

First?

Yes, first! Maybe this is going to be my day after all. Things could only be better if Winston Peters was going to be as generous to me as he has been to the Pacific Islands 😀
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May 9, 2018 9:11am
- Maxx
  
  No. Winston is first. Always.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:12am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    He’s waiting to be announced as there principle deity.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:19am
    - waikatogirl
      
      I thought Cindy had announced Robbo would be the interim PM. Has Cindy been promising both of them the baubles of office?
      
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      May 9, 2018 9:29am
      - Nev.
        
        It doesnt matter who is PM, Labour have to suck off Winston no matter what.
        Apologies for the term.
        
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        May 9, 2018 9:45am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      I don’t think he has any principles, Capitalist. But indeed maybe wants to be their principal deity.
      
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      May 9, 2018 9:48am
- KevOB
  
  How dare they make any such payments? It’s not their money. They cry so poor they have to reneg on their election promise for doctors payments for children. (Apart from all the rest of the charges against them.)
  
  Vanaatu is in the Aust. sphere of watch.
  The Chinese captured island govts years ago. We can’t buy them back.
  
  This govt is out of control and must go–now.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:26am
  - Komata
    
    KevOB
    
    Agreed about the fact that the CoL should go, but to replace them with what?
    
    The Nats’ simply don’t seem to be any different; just slightly slower in implementing essentially the same policies.
    
    Were that it wasn’t so…
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:43am
    - KevOB
      
      Same policies? Closing down NZ without a cost/benefit analysis or even asking.
      A govt without mandate. Selection should make them more careful not rash.
      
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      May 9, 2018 10:34am
  - calendar girl
    
    Where is this “money for the Pacific Islands” coming from? Was it provided for in the 2017-18 Government Budget? Don’t think so.
    
    Therefore, the money must be due to be allocated from within the 2018-19 Budget that will be presented to Parliament by Mr Roberson on 17 May, still 8 days away. In due course that Budget will be ratified by Parliament in the absence of any extraordinary intervention.
    
    But to me it is utter arrogance on the part of this Government to pre-empt the due processes of Parliament by publicly announcing a proposed ‘policy’ of the Government as it is was a fait accompli. There is never any “subject to the approval of Parliament” or similar qualification provided. That shows little respect for the constitutional role and powers of Parliament, and treats the institution as a mere show-piece and rubber stamp.
    
    National Governments have been guilty in the past of similar disregard for the role of Parliament. It is timely for all MPs to have an occasional reminder of the source of their power to govern and / or their role to opposition (as the case may be).
    
    One day, a genuine constitutional crisis will arise that involves our Parliament, its role, procedures and rights. Leading protagonists will cry foul because their intentions have been frustrated by ‘arcane procedures’, or by rules of which they were previously ignorant. But they will have only themselves and their own ignorance and contempt to blame for failing to recognise the true source of their powers.
    
    We the people.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:28am
Nev.

Good morning all.
Report Hughs posts and prosecute the Labour Groper.
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May 9, 2018 9:13am
- Nev.
  
  I should have added – if you see stephieboy, downtick and move on. DO NOT ENGAGE. It’s a trap.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:47am
- labrator
  
  So was Hugh banned or just all his rage-outs deleted?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:57am
  - Nev.
    
    They were sent to the moderation queue. As DPF doesnt check it until the end of the day, even if they were reinstated we didnt get to see them because unlike Hugh, we had all moved on.
    Remember guys if there is a block of nested comments:
    
    like this
    
    and this
    
    and this
    
    You only need to report the first comment for all the rest to disappear.
    Have fun!
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:06am
holysheet

Never in my 66 years on this earth have I ever been so proud to call myself a New Zealander. In a very short six months our brilliant govt has done the following.
Got rid of poverdy.
Homelessness has gone.
Hospitals are fully functional, no new ones required.
All outstanding pay claims have been settled.
Education is at an excellent standard, and free for the first year.
Cheaper doctors visits for all.
Reduced taxes for everyone.

How do I know this?
How else can we afford to give away 3 billion plus to the bludging pacific islands.
We have got a real money spinner here. All other countries will be clambering to get their hands on our brilliant liabour, Winstonfirst, green MP’s to help them achieve this for their own economies.
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May 9, 2018 9:15am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Wonder what the cost/benefit ratio looks like?
  and an Embassy in Sweden?
  Trade[edit]. In 2014 the total value of international trade between New Zealand and Sweden was $NZ 358 million. Of this, $NZ 62 million was exports from New Zealand to Sweden, with the remainder being exports from Sweden to New Zealand.
  So a trade deficit of $296million.
  How will spending money on an embassy enhance NZ?????
  Throwing good money after bad?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:21am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Winston said when he and Australia visited Indonesia Australians had 200 diplomatic staff present and NZ had 12. Now Winston understands “we are small but NZ has to pull its weight”. Did Winston have a crisis of diplomatic inadequacy?
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:33am
  - Ross12
    
    RW
    I thought the same about the new Swedish Embassy.( waste of money)
    I thought surely Sweden can be covered by other European Embassies, so I looked them up.
    I did not realise there were so many :
    Vienna
    Brussels
    Paris
    Berlin
    Rome
    The Hague
    Warsaw
    Moscow
    Madrid
    London ( strictly this is a High Commission).
    
    Given our future has been with Asia for years now, many of these are “relics” of a past era.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:43am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      and considering te EU is attempting to move to one govt. and one diplomatic entity.
      May be we could close all bar Brussels?
      
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      May 9, 2018 9:53am
      - alwyn
        
        There would be a rebellion in the ranks of MFAT.
        Brussels is totally boring. What on earth are they doing to do in a town that shuts down at about 8pm?
        It is even duller than Lausanne in Switzerland.
        My opinion of course. There may be some who love the place. Close all the embassies except Paris..
        
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        May 9, 2018 10:53am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Either marvel at the Atomium, or the Manneken Pis, or get drunk in the La Grand-Place & eat steamed mussels. Nothing else to do.
        
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        May 9, 2018 1:04pm
  - alwyn
    
    What cost/benefit ratio are you looking at?
    The only really important one is that of MFAT. They regard the benefits as being all the extra money they get, particularly on extra staff and embassies going to nice cities such as Stockholm.
    Call the benefits about $400 million. Aid funds aren’t nearly as good. You have to do some work at dispensing them and you don’t get the money for your own benefit, but the diplomats dishing them out get treated well by people in the receiving countries.
    What are the costs? You wine and dine the drunken dwarf everywhere he goes overseas, which they have been doing for the last 7 months. It is amazing how happy Winnie gets when he is fawned over at a 3 star Michelin Restaurant in Paris where the food for each person costs $1,000 and the wine twice that. Do that every night he is in town and he becomes putty in their hands.
    I estimate the benefits from this expenditure must be at least 1,000 times the costs, and even at that the costs are paid my us mug tax-payers.
    What could something like the health system do for him in comparison? Free nicotine patches for his cigarette habit? A bit more money on his super for heating his Ministerial mansion? Nah.
    The pensioners can go to hell. The don’t really need to go to the doctor anyway and heating their home in winter is an unnecessary luxury. Winston’s entertainment in the fleshpots of the world is what is important and what this Government is going to supply him with.
    So the homeless can keep living in their old cars. We don’t need repairs to the Hospitals. Schools and teachers don’t need support. We don’t need to improve the roads. What are a few hundred deaths on narrow, dangerous state highways.
    The only important thing is.
    KEEP WINSTON IN LUXURY.
    MFAT play the game very, very well.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:09am
  - Prince
    
    Cost / benefit ratio ??! pfft. Such a pale stale male concept.
    
    Let’s do this.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:01am
- Lance
  
  Not to mention the billion dollars for first year students at Uni
  
  Then to prove how successful they are they can kill a billion dollar Gas and Oil industry and hammer Farming because they don’t need the money anyway.
  
  Economic geniuses are the CoL
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:23am
  - KevOB
    
    Economic geniuses are the CoL
    No–underground Marxist terrorist squad.
    Policy without analysis means no mandate.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:36am
- cmm
  
  Ad no doubt after this week’s cuddles and breakfast our contribution to the Clinton Foundation will be increased from %5 million to $20 million.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:32am
- RalphT
  
  Don’t forget all the trees they’ve planted for the houses they’re building…
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:33am
- GoVege
  
  “Bludging Pacific Islands “, holy dear?
  This nation depends on the underpaid labour of countless Pacific Islanders and other hard-working immigrants.
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:35am
  - holysheet
    
    For which they are very well paid. But your luvvies still want to give them more.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:16am
    - GoVege
      
      Plus they look after their old people at home which saves the country countless millions in rest home and hospital fees.
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:05pm
    - GoVege
      
      No they’re not well paid, holy.
      All those rest home workers looking after nana, fast-food workers feeding us when we’re in a hurry, security guards protecting us at the shops (and sometimes getting killed while on duty) are on MINIMUM wage.
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:09pm
      - holysheet
        
        I meant compared to what they would earn back home in the islands. They cannot compete for jobs here with all the kiwi arts degree failures asking if you want salt on your chips.
        
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        May 9, 2018 12:28pm
      - GoVege
        
        Well that’s true, holy. 🙂
        
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        May 9, 2018 6:38pm
flipper

The Amazon tax seems doomed to failure. Taxes cost between 20 -25 per cent to administer and rarely produce what they promise.
Take this as an example: I purchased an item from the USA at a cost of $29.95US, post free.
It arrived on Monday from China. The declared value/cost was $US5. Yes, $5.
NZ GST – bugger all !

The Nash (Amazon) Tax in action.
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May 9, 2018 9:15am
- RW Capitalist
  
  AAAHHH but they have a plan so cunning, that if it had a tail, it would be called a weasel.
  They will collate all potential products imported this way, produce an estimated value on them all and charge GST on that value.
  Phrase of the day…cost/benefit…..
  It will cost, I guess, 100 times, what they will collect.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:28am
Humble Capitalist

We have a housing crisis. We have a child poverty crisis. The announcement last night shows once again that this government puts `New Zealand First’ when dealing with these crises.
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May 9, 2018 9:16am
holysheet

Stooopidboy asked his mum if by any chance he was adopted.
She laughed, “why on earth would we have chosen you?”
LOL.
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May 9, 2018 9:16am
- Poppa
  
  Nah wasn’t he 2nd prize in a raffle?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:26am
  - holysheet
    
    2nd? Nah more likely a giveaway in a liabore sex camp garage sale
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:29am
  - RalphT
    
    Booby prize more like it
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:34am
- lemuzz
  
  From 100 million sperm he had to be the one to get through?????????
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:42am
EAD_TWO

Quick update on the Usula Haverbeck story I bought to everyone’s attention.

After an American Shoah group instigated worldwide MSM headlines after calling on the German Police to “hunt down” the 89 year old frail grandmother, Police have finally captured her.

This worldwide storm was after she missed the start of her 2 year sentence for free speech which she mistakingly thought she was entitled to in the “free West”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5703481/Nazi-Grandma-89-run-Germany-arrested-sent-prison-denying-Holocaust.html

Remember, this is the same German Police who tell German females to “jog in trousers” to prevent rape and tells the public they will of ignore sexual assaults if deemed not “serious enough” (I.e. by an immigrant)

Remember they also help overturn rapes in the case of “sexual emergencies”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3860168/Iraqi-refugee-raped-10-year-old-boy-Theresienbad-swimming-pool-sexual-emergency-conviction-overturned-Austrian-court-didn-t-prove-realised-boy-saying-no-incident-Austria-December-2015.html

But an 89 year old frail grandmother nicked for speaking out and missing the start of her 2 year sentence and it’s literally a national emergency.

Think about that for a minute as you contemplate your White Privilege…….
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May 9, 2018 9:17am
- stephieboy
  
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  EAD TWO, just be more productive for a change and account for those missing Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, Baltic states and Russia.
  
  Then we can listen to your 89-year-old grandma.
  
  “Did the population of Jews really increase from 1933 to 1948 according to World Almanac? How is this possible if 6 million Jews died in WWII? ”
  
  https://www.quora.com/Did-the-population-of-Jews-really-increase-from-1933-to-1948-according-to-World-Almanac-How-is-this-possible-if-6-million-Jews-died-in-WWII
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:25am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Hey Eady, the islamist ‘refugees’ are your best friends: so anti-semitic that Jews are fleeing from Malmo and Paris.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:59am
  - kowtow
    
    There’s a grim irony in the fact that the woman who imported them has acknowledged an “imported” anti semite problem in Germany , as opposed to the old domestic problem.
    
    Ain’t multiculturalism , diversity and imported Islam wonderful?
    
    https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/merkel-germany-has-new-muslim-anti-semitism-problem
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:12am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Pfffft. Theyre just reaping the dividends of diversity.
      What the lickspittle press didnt report was those dividends are:
      murder
      rape
      bombings
      massive knife crime spike
      hate crimes
      no go zones
      mass gropings
      trucks of peace
      etc etc etc
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:00pm
      - stephieboy
        
        ABS, here in our green pastures?
        
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        May 9, 2018 1:09pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Hey Eady, the islamist ‘refugees’ are your best friends: so anti-semitic that Jews are fleeing from Malmo and Paris
    
    How about addressing the topic I wrote about for once?
    
    You obviously support the hunting down of this frail grandmother at the insistence of an American Jewish Shoah Group who voiced their displeasure of domestic German affairs in the global MSM?
    
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    May 9, 2018 4:42pm
fluffykiwi

Stuart Nash, – we need to sort out the 5% of dirty farmers. Fair enough. However he went on to say that he knows that Fonterra doesn’t pick up milk from non compliant farmers or “dirty farmers”. So logically those farmers would then go out of business unless they cleaned up their act. what is the problem why punish the good clean farmers who are working hard for New Zealand. Let the commercial work do its job at no cost to the rest of New Zealand. Rivers are cleaning up, water quality is improving and this has happened fairly quickly.
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May 9, 2018 9:17am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Why punish them?
  They don’t vote Labour
  To justify their lies
  Hope you won’t remember the report that said rivers were cleaner since 2008 (national was right)
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:31am
- Inandout
  
  What amount of dirt flows out of South and West Auckland?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:40am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Labour party MP’s?
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:57am
- kowtow
  
  ‘what is the problem why punish the good clean farmers who are working hard for New Zealand’
  
  Quite simply that is not how gubmints work , of any hue , red or blue.
  
  It is far easier to hit everyone. Drink driving a problem ? Stop everyone , breathalise everyone. Some Maoris bash their kids to death , penalise all parents. Gangs who push drugs have illegal guns , make life hard for all gun owners. Some people launder money change the law to fuck everyone .Some Muslims travel for terrorism , allow all to be surveilled .
  Some people give alcohol to minors , make evryone a criminal. Some idiots drive too fast , penalise everyone over the limit.
  
  The examples are endless.
  
  There is a real steady and constant erosion of our rights and liberties.
  
  And both sides are guilty , but now it’s coming home to roost and you’re hurting , but it was ok to tell the tobaconists to cover up or to plain package , well har har har this is just another attack on private property rights .
  
  So what’s good for tobacco should be good enough for dairy or oil and gas for that matter.
  
  Think about it.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:55am
Longknives

Is there no end to Jacinda Ardern’s pathetic Virtue Signalling?

Anyone want to make a bet on how long the Sign Language interpreter will last? I reckon she will get sick of having this person hanging round like a cojoined twin with a few weeks..

By the way- What happened to all the Babies and Infants that Labour/Greens were hauling into Parliament (To make some weird Feminist kind of point)?? They seem to have disappeared…
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May 9, 2018 9:18am
- fluffykiwi
  
  And will the message signed be interpreted correctly. will the message be signed correctly. very hard to sign with her speed impediment.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:22am
  - dubya
    
    You say Ardern has a ‘speed impediment’? Careful now, you’ll have a letter from Linda Clark soon.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:32am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s sign language week
  http://deaf.org.nz/nzslw
  
  Parliament has its own Creche. I suspect that’s where all the MPs’ infants are, if not with their own nannies.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:26am
  - sooty
    
    Who pays for the nannies, the mother or the state?
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:33am
  - jp_1983
    
    Yes Parliament has its on Creche –
    
    They replaced MSNBC with the Disney Channel for all the kiddies to watch.
    
    So if you wonder why the budget is so Mickey Mouse in 2018. We now know why.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:33am
    - holysheet
      
      Our parliament obviously isn’t childish enough for these kids?
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:19am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Don’t you mean infant MPs?
    
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    May 9, 2018 1:22pm
- Inandout
  
  This sign language will last as long as she is Princess. When Winston comes along he will confound even the most astute interpreter.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:43am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Mallard ate all the babies that John Key missed and the sign language hand signalling with screwed up face person was sacked because he she it signed poverty which made the princess sound kind, compasionate and caring rather than the chosen pronunciation of poverddy.
  
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  May 9, 2018 1:32pm
- Piniwi
  
  But Longknives we have to wonder at the person chosen to “sign” being a large native who seems to have a better command of the 1st and 3rd languages. It seems like some double tokenism coming into paly here.
  
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  May 9, 2018 2:33pm
stephieboy

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John McCain says he ‘doesn’t want Donald Trump at his funeral’

Family has requested Mike Pence’s attendance instead, according to reports

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-mccain-donald-trump-funeral-doesnt-want-brain-cancer-a8339271.html

Reports also suggest that the real reason behind the impending decision is that the President insists that the funeral includes a speech eulogising himself with A+ praise.

http://time.com/5255631/donald-trump-gives-himself-a-fox-interview/
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May 9, 2018 9:19am
- RW Capitalist
  
  The only reason Trump would want to be there.
  To make sure the bastard is really dead.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:33am
- dime
  
  im just happy there will be a funeral.
  
  war mccain – legend
  current mccain – evil dodgy fuck
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:07am
- Harkman
  
  The magician.
  
  He/she/it turns empty white things pink and then makes them disappear. Just magic. ??
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:44am
Than

The specter of making Maori “compulsory” in schools has been raised again.

I put the word compulsory in quotes because, while you might be able to force schools to allocate X hours a week to the subject, you cannot force parents and students (let alone tertiary institutions or employers) to care. If Maori was made “compulsory” the classes would be a farce – a large percentage of students (and more importantly their parents) would literally not care if they got 0%. They would not feel the need to pay any attention, study, or do any assigned homework. They would almost certainly disrupt the study of those students who genuinely did want to be there. It would be nothing but an utter waste of time.

Both the Prime Minister and Winston Peters are downplaying the idea, and understandably so. This would be a hugely unpopular move. There are only a fixed number of hours in the school year. Impeding children’s education by wasting time on a pointless subject would not go down at all well with parents.
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May 9, 2018 9:21am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There aren’t enough Maori language teachers available.
  So presumably lessons would be via the internet.
  
  Of course each Classroom teacher of Maori would have to be degree qualified and registered (to satisfy NZ First requirements).
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:28am
  - sooty
    
    So scrible face wants to dumb down the kids further! How many hours are they going to miss out on learning reading, writing and arithmetic? When I was going to school there was some slow kids, how many now can not read and write. If we were raising scholars, I would say yes to another launage, but why maori.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:41am
- GoVege
  
  Daft idea.
  Reminds me of the torture of learning “Maori games and pastimes” at primary.
  Why not just translations of our multitude of Maori place names and the history?
  That would be more useful and interesting.
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:43am
- KevOB
  
  The Maori Elders in the 1930’s acknowledged then that their language could not take their children into the future. Throughout the Pacific English and it grammar are taking over.
  
  There is no Maori nation but tribes who arrived at different times from unknown places. They mostly share a common Polynesian heritage including myth. The language is fossilised about 1840 as that of a warrior, hunter gatherer and place dweller. The tribes because of revenge requirements of battle could never become one and musket wars would likely have been their end if they had not appealed to the English Crown to intervene with the Treaty.
  
  Common Maori in use at present is being pidginised and English grammar is used more often than not. The source grammar is substantially different from English so relearning is needed. The basic root word count is primitive. It knows of kumara but not cars. Borrowing is common hence hu and koti or pidginised hus and kotis (shoe and coats); both incorrect as the plural form has no “s” at the end in Maori.
  
  The language is in transition and there are insufficient teachers as well. The cultural language is reserved for Marae use and will not be imparted freely. That is valuable but has to be kept on the Marae and maintained there. No govt can effect its life or death.
  
  It would be waste of resources to attempt to teach the primitive language known as Maori in Schools.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:02am
  - calendar girl
    
    Thanks, KevOB. A lot in your comment that I didn’t know.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:52am
- kowtow
  
  If they want Maori compulsory in schools then that’s fine by me .
  
  But it should only be compulsory for students who identify as Maoris.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:21am
stephieboy

Rich Prick, that der leader gives himself an A+?

Sad.
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May 9, 2018 9:22am
Captain Mainwaring

Australian budget announces big reductions in income tax.
Australian economy will take off as a result. Kiwis will once again start flocking to Australia and those already there will stop coming back.
Auckland will end up with an oversupply of houses and prices will drop.
Housing crisis over, and Twitford will take the credit.
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May 9, 2018 9:23am
- holysheet
  
  WHAT HOUSING CRISIS?
  It’s all been fixed in 6 months
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:25am
- Lance
  
  See, CoL are economic geniuses
  
  /sarc/
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:26am
  - sooty
    
    Especialy that twatford.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:43am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Listen…You can hear the packing of suit cases, in preparation of the move back to Australia.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:38am
  - Nev.
    
    I am considering it.
    Why pay GST and PAYE from my business to this bunch of fucking clowns?
    Nev.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:50am
Fletch

Donald Trump has scuppered the Iran deal. Best news I’ve heard all month. It was a very bad deal.

Obama caved to Iran on just about every point of the deal.
One of the parts let Iran inspect it’s own nuclear facilities.

Iran has admitted that part of the $120 billion payment made to them will be used to sponsor terrorism.

The Institute for Science and International Security reported that Iran was not in full compliance with its JCPOA commitments on Implementation Day.

A New York Times piece written by David Samuels tells how Ben Rhodes, the White House’s deputy national security adviser spun a story for the American public to make the deal more acceptable.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama authorized the United States government to pay the government of Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, to produce nuclear material.

Oh, and the deal wasn’t even signed by Iran.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3334249/State-Department-says-Iran-NEVER-SIGNED-nuclear-deal-s-not-legally-binding-tells-Congress-butt-Obama-s-political-commitments.html
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May 9, 2018 9:24am
- holysheet
  
  Does that mean obumma has to give back his Nobel Peace Award?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:27am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Fletch , Iran not a signatory?
  
  Rubbish !
  
  See top left hand corner ! Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran etc
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action#/media/File:JCPOA_Signatures.png
  
  Just but one example of the stupendous ignorance of Trump and his followers
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:33am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Read Fletch’s article and your own links.
    Especially note the phrases ‘interim agreement and framework’ ‘souvenir signatures'(that’s from your own link) and ‘The State Department made the disclosures in a letter to Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo, a Republican, who had written the department to inquire why the agreement as submitted to Congress in July did not bear the signature of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
    ‘The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document,’ Julia Frifield, an assistant secretary for legislative affairs wrote Pompeo last Thursday.’
    ‘Souvenir signatures’!!!! Hahahahaha
    You’re the ignorant one
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:48am
  - Fletch
    
    Stephie, the explanatory text under the image you linked to says, “Souvenir signatures of lead negotiators on the cover page”. Souvenir? On the cover page? Where is the part where it says something like, ‘we the aforementioned agree to … blah, blah, blah’ with the signatories underneath? This cover page looks more like the page of a high school yearbook and it doesn’t have any text saying what is agreed to.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:49am
    - stephieboy
      
      Fletch, read my link and reread it.
      
      Don’t try and engage in Trump / Fox sophistry and chicanery.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action
      
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      May 9, 2018 1:16pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Lol, Stephieidiot thinks a ‘souvenir’ signature on a cover page is the same as ‘Iran’ officially signing it!
        So thick.
        
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        May 9, 2018 2:01pm
Rich Prick

For the love of God, stop it! We don’t fucking care.

http://spy.nzherald.co.nz/spy-news/these-are-jacinda-s-fave-nz-songs/
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May 9, 2018 9:24am
- Longknives
  
  That pic of her ‘DJ’ing is particularly Vomit inducing.
  Remember when she was telling the Schoolkids and Varsity Students that if elected she was going to bring her Turntables along and ‘Drop some sick beats’ in the House of Parliament?
  Fuuuck you are cringeworthy Woman!!!
  You are nearly 40 years old! Grow up and realise that the ‘Kids’ don’t think you are cool..
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:36am
  - KevOB
    
    My wife liked her initially–it was probably a woman achievement thing. Another 20 yr gay son was strongly supportive too.
    All has changed: they have come to realise the excesses of this govt and are questioning how sensible are the announcements.
    Last night’s money-scramble had them almost speechless. They can see if the govt had to cut our family income the unfairness of giving it away overseas.
    
    It hasn’t taken much to lose 2 voters and their goodwill.
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:57am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Good on them for seeing the light. In addition to working for other peoples’ families, we’re now working for other peoples’ countries. I don’t know about you, but I’m finding it quite exhausting.
      
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      May 9, 2018 10:19am
  - alwyn
    
    As well as not being “cool” the kids don’t think she is “young” either.
    I have mentioned this before but I can’t resist repeating it. When I asked my (just) teenage gran-daughter whether she thought having a young PM her reaction was roughly “She’s not young. She’s as old as Mum is”
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:15am
  - GoVege
    
    Wrong!
    They voted for her didn’t they?
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:45am
    - holysheet
      
      Don’t you mean”WE”?
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:22am
- RF
  
  Never mind the waste of space Airhead will soon move on when the fruit of Jethro’s loins arrives.
  
  Thank god for that. I am so tired of her incessant wittering.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:41am
- Classic Liberal
  
  I bet her most favourite song is the Internationale. Did she admit to that? Was pretty keen on that at the Union of Socialist Youths conference…
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:18am
- stephieboy
  
  A conspicuous minority of 38 or so up ticker tards.
  
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  May 9, 2018 1:19pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    Here, have a tissue.
    
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    May 9, 2018 2:20pm
Justitia

Reopen the embassy in Stockholm? WTF? So Jacinda and her Marxist clique may share warm fuzzies with the sanctimonious nordics whose societies are disintegrating under the force of hostile immigration? This makes no sense.
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May 9, 2018 9:24am
- Poppa
  
  So who will they nominate to go there?
  
  Saint Helen by any chance?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:27am
  - alwyn
    
    Could be, I suppose.
    Helen certainly used to spend her holidays in Scandinavian when she was PM. I suppose that she is probably a bit old for cross-country skiing these days though.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:17am
    - dubya
      
      Send her to The Hague, she has more experience putting her finger in dykes.
      
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      May 9, 2018 2:57pm
      - flipper
        
        🙂
        
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        May 9, 2018 6:03pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  There is a trade deficit of $296million with Sweden
  Cost/benefit?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:42am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    cost – a lot, benefit – lovely trip away to sophisticated Scandinavian nation with great company when you get there
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:56am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Avoid the no go areas, populated by muslim refugees.
      
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      May 9, 2018 9:59am
      - RalphT
        
        We need the Embassy to see first hand the seamless way in which migrants have adapted to the Swedish way of life, so that we will be better prepared for when Cindy and Golly open up our lands to the downtrodden from the Middle East.
        
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        May 9, 2018 10:04am
      - Humble Capitalist
        
        Gosh no, we’ll meet with those folk in our embassy offices for photo ops and selfies
        
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        May 9, 2018 10:07am
      - alwyn
        
        For Winston at least the whole country will be a no-go area. He won’t like being looked down on and every Swedish person is going to be taller that the little fellow with his Napoleonic complex.
        
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        May 9, 2018 10:19am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Stockholm embassy: maybe to help the hostile immigrants to come to NZ? You know, because a misogynist, anti-semitic ideology is just the ticket for our diversity…
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:20am
Humble Capitalist

The best way to continue the great work of lifting thousands out of poverdy is to lower the median income. If we all take a collective hit on our incomes to lower the median then without doing a further thing thousands will be out of poverdy.
Without being given another cent those that were in poverty will all of a sudden be above the line.
That is the STUPIDITY of this definition of poverdy that most NZers wouldn’t think about or understand.
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May 9, 2018 9:27am
Huevon

Could anyone link an article that deals with the Iran deal in a balanced and sensible manner? not dripping with anti-Trump hysteria or blaming international Jews etc.

I’d like to understand more about this but, sadly, do not trust the views in our mainstream media or voiced by our government.
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May 9, 2018 9:27am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Try searching on the Tehran Times for an Iranian view.
  Here’s today’s take on the matter:
  http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/423376/Rouhani-says-Iran-conditionally-will-stay-in-nuclear-deal
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:37am
- KevOB
  
  You can get a fair view of Iran on http://www.presstv.com/
  
  Another site with interesting viewpoints is:
  https://www.globalresearch.ca/
  
  Iran reflect an ancient civilisation and present very modestly. Every society is different and these people are highly cultured.
  
  The Americans are looking like greedy warmongers and world police. If someone has it they want it.
  
  Peace is engendered through mutual respect not interference. Live and let live and enjoy the differences.
  
  POTUS seems to have declared war on Iran today. Is that because Israel’s got twitchy or the US war supply industry needs more business?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:46am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I knew many ‘Iranian’ refugees in Europe. They called themselves Persians, were decidedly not muslims and had to flee the islamist regime.
    
    If those are the people you mean by highly cultured, indeed.
    
    Wanting to prevent a very dangerous regime full of people who actually think murder/suicide is the right way to get to god is not ‘warmongering’.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:27am
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      It was Persians I was referring to.
      
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      May 9, 2018 6:00pm
- Fletch
  
  You can also watch Netanyahu’s press conference from last week where he goes over the half ton of documents which Israel smuggled out of Iran that prove Iran lied about never having a secret nuclear program. Second, even after the deal it continued to expand its nuclear program for future use. Third, Iran lied by not coming clean to the IAEA. Finally, the nuclear deal is based on lies based on Iranian deception.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBt4tSCALA
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:07am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Netanyahu sounded very sensible this morning on Red Radio. He and the entire Middle East do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:30am
  - MCos
    
    Netanyahu seems to be able to deliver speeches like that to order. I saw one recently he delivered in 1990 in which he claimed Iraq had nuclear weapons.
    https://youtu.be/ZBUZplUsuik
    There’s some more old clips one YouTube if you’re interested. Work every time with those who want to believe.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:39am
- MCos
  
  If you want to understand the Middle East first you must study the dynamics between Cain & Abel and go forward from there.
  Genesis 4:1–16
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:47am
cmm

A few days ago, I saw Stuff claiming that NZ has the highest homelessness in the OECD at 0.94% (according to Wikipedia).

A bit of digging shows why: the “statistical authorities” have expanded the term to include:
*people living in campgrounds/motor camps
*people sharing accomodation with another household

NZ does not distinguish between trailer parks and campgrounds like they do in, say, Canada and USA and many of the people living in campgrounds in NZ are, essentially, living in the equivalent of trailer parks.

USA has an estimated 6% of its population in trailer parks, so that clearly eclipses NZ’s 0.94%

And yes, stephie, this is something I do know a tiny bit about since I actually lived in a campground for 4 months.
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May 9, 2018 9:28am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Does it also (homelessness) include 18yo “children” (legally adults) who are living with their parents?
  Define homeless?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:45am
  - cmm
    
    I don’t think it includes 18yos, but it probably includes things that only activists would consider homelessness:
    * auntie/nanna living with extended family
    * two solo mums sharing a house.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:28am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Perhaps Winston should dip into our pockets to help with USA’s housing crisis. 6% in trailer parks? We need to help them its the right thing to do
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:46am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    There is only one direction that money flows, regarding winnies pockets.
    From the tax payer INTO them.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:01am
- Classic Liberal
  
  ‘people sharing accomodation with another household’
  
  What, any people flatting?
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:31am
- rockape
  
  Yes when I arrived in NZ in 1999 I was homeless for the first 7 years. Living on my yacht in Bayswater Marina. I could have sold it and had enough to buy a 3 bed house in Auckland but chose not to. But yes I have been “homeless” I also note there are a 100 or so in the marina who live on board and let their homes out. On surveys technically homeless although they own a home!
  
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  May 9, 2018 1:34pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Our two adult kids have returned home for an extended period. We have a large house, they more than pay their way and they are great to have around. Are they classified as being ‘homeless’ because they are ‘sharing accommodation’ and don’t currently own or rent a home? If so there will be many Indian and Chinese amongst the stats due to their culture of accommodating their extended families under the one roof. A culture that I believe we should encourage.
    
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    May 9, 2018 4:29pm
- Faroffsound
  
  You can’t always believe what you read in the papers.
  
  A couple of years ago the NZH reported that NZ had the highest rate of domestic violence in the world. That sounded a bit unlikely and when contacted the reporter provided a link to an MoJ report which actually said that we had the highest rate of “reported” domestic abuse.
  
  I emailed her back and asked why the word “reported” had been left out but got no reply.
  
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  May 9, 2018 1:59pm
DifferentPerspective

Socialists following Goebbels’ advice
Another day and another high-profile, anti-Trump, Democrat male icon tumbles because ….. no prizes for guessing of course he’s a sexual abuser! Of course, he’s another one of Clinton’s buddies who gets hard-ons from abusing women (she’s so “there” for women!)

Over and over again this is the pattern, hypocritical lefties go all in on Trump because “He’s a misogynist – Waaaaa!” only to get found out to have done far worse than they’re accusing Trump of.

Goebbels is credited with saying “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty of”. Looks like today’s modern national socialists have taken that advice very much to heart.

So the next time you are at a dinner party and some beta-male socialist accuses Trump of being a misogynist – you know he’s really deflecting from his own vile behaviour towards women!
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May 9, 2018 9:36am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That Democrat accused of hitting woman is Eric Schneiderman – Lead lawyer in charge against Exxon oil in a Climate-Warming case.
  
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/07/exxonknew-leader-eric-schneiderman-resigns-in-disgrace-amid-physical-abuse-allegations/
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:42am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Yes indeed. Imagine that? Libtards using lawfare. Want to investigate a party that doesn’t believe what libtards want them to believe.
    
    Where have we heard that tactic used before, maybe Exxon will be found to have fucked Stormy Daniels too!
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:49am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “So the next time you are at a dinner party and some beta-male socialist accuses Trump of being a misogynist”
  Beat him up, with a dictionary.
  Misogynist…….A hater of women
  For a misogynist, Trump sure has promoted a lot of women.
  Latest…first female head of the CIA.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:48am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Yes – but the libtards had an answer to the first ever female head of the CIA, they attacked her over a fake news report (that has since been retracted) that she was responsible for torture in Gitmo.
    
    The left, abusing women since forever!
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:51am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  Unfortunately, a lot of people follow Nazi models and for one good reason. They were effective at corrupting, suborning, and controlling a whole ‘Christian’ people into committing or supporting unspeakable acts.
  
  As Stanley Milgram proved:
  
  “Ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extent of killing an innocent human being.
  
  Obedience to authority is ingrained in us all from the way we are brought up. People tend to obey orders from other people if they recognize their authority as morally right and/or legally based.
  
  This response to legitimate authority is learned in a variety of situations, for example in the family, school, and workplace.”
  
  Stanley Milgram said: “Stark authority was pitted against the subjects’ [participants’] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects’ [participants’] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not …showing the extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an ‘authority’”.
  
  All anyone has to do is claim they’re ‘morally right and/or legally based’, and 70% odd of the public will suspend all personal thought and conscience and do anything to anyone on command.
  
  “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty of” is one really good way to do it, used not only by socialists but manipulative liars the world over. Conservative Remain are also specialising in it in the UK at present.
  
  I have to say, irrespective of the obvious truth of the experiment, it never fails to stun me that it works so effectively. The ‘average human being’ is really very psychologically and morally ‘frail’.
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:17am
  - noskire
    
    Anne, have you read Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning?
    
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    May 9, 2018 12:51pm
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      No, I haven’t. But just reading a synopsis:
      
      “…the men of Unit 101 were not ardent Nazis but ordinary middle-aged men of working class background from Hamburg, who had been drafted but found ineligible for regular military duty. ..these men were ordered to terrorize Jews in the ghettos … and in notable cases, committed wholesale massacres of all Polish Jews – men, women and children.
      
      In other cases, they were ordered to merely kill a specified number of Jews in a given town or area .. The commander of the unit gave his men the choice (once) of opting out of this duty if they found it too hard. Almost all of them chose not to exercise that option. Fewer than 12 men opted out in a battalion of 500 willing executioners.”
      
      It wasn’t news to me when I studied Milgram (I was raised on genuine stories from WWII and there’s no small number of older Europeans who see the same strategies being used here as they were there) although, as I say, I find it incredible that most ‘ordinary’ people think they would ‘never behave like that’ or, alternatively, continue to be completely sucked in by ‘moral’ propaganda and especially ‘legal’ niceties.
      
      It’s currently rife in ‘our’ societies. Shades of it yesterday about the father who can’t get paid parental leave to care for three children after his partner died. You’ll note that the government comment about ‘fixing’ his situation was very careful – not ‘We’re going to provide what the man needs’ but ‘We’re making sure he gets his legal entitlements’.
      
      Our currently ‘loving’ government doesn’t give a damn how he or anyone else survives – they just want to cover their arse. And the reality is, society will accept him ‘getting his entitlements’, even if he starves to death – cause that’s how it works in people’s minds and ‘consciences’, such as they are.
      
      That’s why we have the ‘inequalities’ everyone is complaining about and a burgeoning number going to foodbanks, people working for a wage they can’t live on but expected not to commit crime, and a Govt spending $70 million on ‘making children safe’ which will probably make none of them actually ‘safe’ in reality.
      
      Propaganda, what people want to believe, a way to salve their consciences, a desperate need to ‘belong’ to society, to see themselves as ‘good’ by combining against the scapegoats, staving off their sense of utter powerlessness, grateful that they’re not the target. And the ever-present ‘good intentions’ being all that’s required as the end justifying the means – not changed outcomes.
      
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      May 9, 2018 3:55pm
VicParking

I notice that this week COL Ministers have switched from “Let’s do this” to “We will look into this” or “We will address this in our second term of Government”. It seems that Robbo has told everyone that after paying off the Greens and NZ First there is no money left in the trough.
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May 9, 2018 9:38am
- sooty
  
  The money tree has withered and is dying!
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:47am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    and they are about to dig up the roots..Dairy farming
    
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    May 9, 2018 9:49am
cmm

Now here’s a dumb idea, not surprised it failed.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12047437

To determine your body measurements, you take off all your clothing and put on a Zozo suit and it tells you everything!

No more need for that old fashioned tape measure that costs $5 and fits in your pocket. Instead you must take off your clothes and put on a Zozo suit that costs thousands of dollars (was it washed recently?) .
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May 9, 2018 9:38am
Nev.

Why is someone with 7% of the vote making decisions for 93% of the population?
Its obvious now that Labour and Ardern are merely a figurehead for Winston Peters, a list MP who couldn’t win his own electorate and currently would be thrown out of Parliament should an election be held today.
These people have subverted democracy using MMP to foist rule and law changes onto NZ without a mandate to do so.
They are destroying primary industry in New Zealand based on dogma and ideology instead of facts or any sort of research into the effects.
FPP may have been a dog of a system, but it beats the hell out of the dead rat governance system we call MMP.
I am disgusted at Labour and the Greens for their complete disdain for the so called morals and policies they once stood for.
Nev.
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May 9, 2018 9:39am
- cmm
  
  “Why is someone with 7% of the vote…”
  
  Because those 7% are too stupid to see Winston as he really is and thought that having him join up with National to “keep them honest” was a good idea.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:41am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Lets recap on what 7% support gets in our ‘democracy’
    Deputy PM
    Foreign Affairs
    Defence
    Infrastructure
    Regional Economic Development
    SOEs
    Children
    Internal Affairs
    Seniors
    Veterans Affairs
    Forestry
    Racing
    Associate Finance
    Associate Education
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:05am
    - Nev.
      
      You forgot the right to veto anything Winston doesnt want because he can bring down the Government tomorrow by crossing the floor or abstaining.
      He holds all the Aces, Labour merely has a Full House of Queens and Douches.
      It makes a fucking mockery of democracy.
      Nev.
      
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      May 9, 2018 10:15am
  - The Heat
    
    The average IQ in NZ is 98.
    
    That’s about the level of your typical drive-thru burger order taker. Or Senior Political correspondent.
    
    Well, well below that level are the people who vote to bring about the situation in which we find ourselves today.
    
    Nothing will change.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:18am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    “Why is someone with 7% of the vote…”
    
    Most of that 7% has defected already. It’s now more like 2%.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:04am
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      The 5% who have defected should be sterilized.
      
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      May 9, 2018 1:03pm
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cmm,

“And yes, Stephie, this is something I do know a tiny bit about since I actually lived in a campground for 4 months”

Things were that bad? Now is it under Grafton bridge?
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May 9, 2018 9:40am
- sooty
  
  Is that better than you living in the belfry?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:50am
- cmm
  
  Living in a campground for 4 months was not a big deal. We were in a tent – not even in a relatively flash “trailer park” home that most of the “homeless” people live in.
  
  It’s all a matter of attitude and entitlement.
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:33am
Anne Glen Eden

I am, as usual, sickened by Labour’s so-called ‘action’ on family violence.

“New Zealand has one the worst rates of family violence in the world. Police are called to an incident about every five minutes – around 110,000 cases a year. That is despite around 80 per cent of cases going unreported.” Hundreds of thousands.

John Tamihere is particularly sickening, maintaining that ‘faceless bureaucrats’ are in some way responsible for people torturing and killing their children.

“… in all the deaths that have been suffered through the failure of the family, the failure of that family’s community to protect that baby, and ultimately the failure of the government agency. But guess who is responsible at the end of the day? Never those that are paid handsomely to oversee an alternative result. Instead, the name of the dead baby and the baby’s family are written in the public arena. The bureaucrats are never known.”

That is exactly the way it should be – unless those bureaucrats have deliberately left a child in an abusive situation – and a majority of social services are now run and/or staffed by Maori. It is their ‘pride’ to preside over abuse by ‘their people’.

There’s only one group of people who are responsible for abuse and death of children – the family – immediate and extended; those who use their drugged, drunken, or just angry fists to abuse/kill them – and those who maintain the abusive systems that allow them to keep doing it, keep it ‘normal’, and prevent them from changing.

They are adults who fail to provide even basically adequate care and often outright abusive care. They are crimes against nature that destroy their own progeny for self-satisfaction and self-gratification.

Ardern is little better.

“Ardern said this morning reducing child poverty was about more than lifting incomes and improving housing and education – it was also about making sure children felt safe in their homes.”

It’s not about making them ‘feel safe’ – it’s about making them ‘safe’.

But children living with abusive parents are not suddenly going to be made ‘safe’ by a government initiative. Neither are children necessarily safe because they’re in refuges. There’s always been more female ‘abusers’ than male, simply because they’re the usual custodial parent. These initiatives imply that children are safe as long as they’re with women – they’re not.

Family violence initiatives are long-term ‘community work’ schemes which rely on teaching people to be ‘better’ parents. They don’t wake up one day miraculously ‘cured’ of their abusiveness because of a government initiative. It takes years – generations – and that’s only if they’re motivated.

The current generation of children are unlikely to ever feel ‘safe’ as their parents slowly ‘learn to be better’ – or not until they’re adults themselves, reproducing the same dynamics in their own families.

In the meantime, they’re left in abusive and lethal homes, maintained by their extended family systems and ‘racist’ politicians with an agenda who have no qualms about the child collateral damage which will be passed on to their own future children. It’s all grist to the Maori political mill which provides profits on all levels.
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May 9, 2018 9:44am
- cmm
  
  The “solution” is always to just spend more money instead of addressing the root issue.
  
  Some new family violence NGOs will put their snouts in the new $76 million trough and feed up big, but that is not going to fix the problem.
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:50am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    We’re far to transparent to allow that to happen. We will see where every cent is spent
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:35am
    - Komata
      
      HC
      
      Re: ‘We will see where every cent is spent’
      
      I don’t know if you were being ironic, but have you EVER tried to follow ‘Maori’ money, or get anyone to account for it; where it went, who got it, what it was spent on, and by whom?
      
      Maori have perfected the concept of ‘Money Laundering’ to a level far, far beyond anything that the Cayman Islands or the Mafia could come up with.
      
      Within Maori society money (especially ‘Government’ money for a specific cuase / event/ project) becomes ‘invisible’; everyone knows it existed and everyone knows where it went; they just can’t actually tell you who eventually got it (and yes, they will all have genuinely, honestly ‘forgotten’ – although they WILL tell you if they didn’t partake’ personally; but nothing else), And as for a ‘Paper trail’ in the best European accounting tradition? No chance; suddenly things become ‘electronic’ and the ‘paper’ vanishes, and the computer fails and the … etc. etc. etc.
      
      Been there, tried that; it’s worse than herding cats or trying to catch Mercury with a fork; everyone know, but NO-ONE knows.
      
      ‘Transparency’? Not a chance, but if you want to indulge in an exercise of ultimate futility, then the game of ‘Chasing Maori Money’ for accounting purposes has few equals…
      
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      May 9, 2018 2:45pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    The root cause of serious abuse is that some people should not have children at all.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:00am
    - waikatogirl
      
      It’s all ok, Cindy promises throwing money at family violence will fix everything. She announced the $76m at the Red Shield breakfast this morning. Another feelz good moment for Cindy. I imagine she received lots of hugs and smiles and bigly thanks. ?
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:27am
    - GoVege
      
      True, CL, and the people who are the most unsuited to parenthood tend to have the hugest number of kids.
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:30pm
- labrator
  
  New Zealand has one the worst rates of family violence in the world
  
  Is there actually any numbers to back that up or is it like “homelessness” where Labour deliberately misinterprets a NZ specific statistic to paint us in the worst possible light (for their own advantage).
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:59am
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    I’m afraid there is a wealth of statistics to ‘back that up’ and it’s been universally acknowledged by all parties for many years.
    
    An AUT report:
    
    “By age 17, 23.5 per cent of kids (263,670) had at least one report to child protection services. Almost 10 per cent had been a victim of abuse or neglect and 3 per cent had been put into foster or other care.
    
    Four types of maltreatment were included: neglect (3.8 per cent), emotional abuse (5.3 per cent), physical abuse (3.1 per cent), and sexual abuse (2 per cent).
    
    Half of the substantiated neglect occurred by age 6 years, whereas the medians for emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse were 9 years, 11 years, and approximately 13 years respectively.
    Girls were more likely to have reports of concern and be found to be maltreated. The largest difference was for sexual abuse: at 17 years of age 3.2 per cent of girls and 0.8 per cent of boys had experienced sexual abuse.
    
    The report concluded that notifications and substantiated child maltreatment were more common in New Zealand than is generally recognised.”
    
    “The report says the situation is worse than previously thought.”
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:43am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      ‘ emotional abuse (5.3 per cent)’
      
      Wow, that can be extremely inclusive and many countries would not gather that stat. at all.
      
      Not saying it can’t be very nasty, but again: apples with apples please!
      
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      May 9, 2018 10:59am
    - backster
      
      If they can break the figures down by type of abuse thy should be able to break the perpetrators and victims down by race or culture.
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:12pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    My thoughts exactly. You can’t convince me that cultures in which marital rape isn’t a crime and beating wives is permitted by the religion don’t really have far worse rates of domestic violence than NZ.
    
    Apples with apples, please.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:57am
    - GoVege
      
      CL: I’m pretty sure they’re comparing NZ stats with other western nations.
      There’s no way our levels of violence could possibly be as bad as third world countries where women are still regarded as chattels.
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:16am
- cmm
  
  ” Police are called to an incident about every five minutes”
  
  … and do fuck all because their hands are tied due to making sure the stats don’t look bad.
  
  Criminals, especially drugged up, need very clear messages. They don’t get that when people pat them on the head and tell them it isn’t their fault they beat up their kids but that they are all victims of colonialism etc etc.
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:37am
- GoVege
  
  Anne: it won’t change until Maori get some decent leadership that talks sense to them.
  The stupid dame who pontificates that Maori girls aged 13 to 17 having babies is “our fertility ” needs to shut up and let 21st century Maori explain to their people that kids having kids is a recipe for disaster in every way.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:04am
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    I can agree with that.
    
    It won’t change either until the adult population decide that abusing kids is unnecessary and unjustifiable, not only morally repugnant but prohibitively costly on every level including financially.
    
    Classic Liberal seems to think it’s ‘not a problem’ as long as there are other ‘people’ (in any primitive situation) doing more of it than NZ is. “Hey, enjoy yourselves. We’re not as bad as ‘them’.”
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:14am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Bullshit, and you know it. I never said such a thing.
      
      But statistics need to be very precise and taken in exactly the same way with the same level of reporting.
      
      I’d be much more interested in Police and Women’s Refuge etc. being able to deal with all domestic abuse, statistics actually irrelevant.
      
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      May 9, 2018 2:26pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘New Zealand’ doesn’t have appalling abuse statistics.
  
  ‘Aotearoa’ does.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:32am
- kevn
  
  @Anne… Bill English had a proposal to put one to one (WINZ/CYPS/Whanau Ora or what ever it was) counsellors to work with families deemed at risk due to rubbish lifestyle.
  Considering the children mainly I guess.
  Now there is a real postive try at helping. Who would want to do it though. Very tough job.
  Anyway, National got parked up and JA has chosen not to offer that same programme.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:49am
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    Yes. I think NZ missed having one of the best PMs it could ever have had in many decades when we lost Bill English.
    
    Finally, a mature, committed, and financially fluent PM who had spent years researching the problems and developing effective responses and/or a plan to ameliorate them – someone the majority of the country had confidence in.
    
    And it all went out the window with an incompetent and lying fairy-tale ‘princess’ image, promising a fantasy earth that they never had any intention of living up to or means to achieve, and a narcissistic old man motivated by revenge and a desperate desire to be called even ‘acting’ PM before death, at any cost. Aided and abetted by naive, gullible ‘youth’ trailing along behind the ‘Pied Piper’ in the name of unsubstantiated ‘optimism’.
    
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    May 9, 2018 12:29pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Don’t forget the majority of political reporters are females and they all either knowingly went along with the sham, or were sucked in by the so called stardust they prattled on about for months.
      
      First point – if they knowingly subverted their positions as journalists by only reporting the positive side of Jacinda and Labour, while ignoring the way the economy was going to react under them, then they should all be sacked from their jobs.
      
      Second point – if they believed the hype and reported Jacindamania as some sort of second coming of the Messiah, despite the warnings of a fiscally and socially competent government of the quite probable repercussions, then they should all be sacked from their jobs.
      
      3rd point and the most likely – They are Labour sycophants through and through and as such should not represent the 4th estate, and should all be sacked from their jobs and burned at the stake.
      
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      May 9, 2018 1:10pm
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        You’re not going to get an argument from me.
        
        Women are the primary modern ‘idealogues’ – those who believe they have ‘better judgment’ based on nothing except the fact that they’re both (a) female and (b) reject what it means to be female by acting as pretend-men. They’re also completely deluded.
        
        What can you say about a group of people who believe they’re being ’empowered’ to be ‘equal’ by being flooded with hormones/drugs which prevent their bodies behaving normally and damage them longterm, fight for the RIGHT to kill their own progeny in the womb, fight for the legislated RIGHT to be used and abused as prostitutes, and protect all bullies/abusers – from individual family members to sex traffickers – whether in their homes, the workplace, political rallies, or in government – for the usual power, position, and money. They’ll sell anyone out – lie, cheat, steal, whatever they feel the need to do at the time for personal gain/advantage – all the while saying they’re ‘helping’.
        
        And they call this ‘sisterhood’. There’s lots of talk about men ‘sticking together’ and ‘old boys clubs’ etc. – you can’t accuse women of that. They’re more dangerous to other women than men have ever been to them.
        
        But we’re not all like that.
        
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        May 9, 2018 2:20pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Love your work Anne. Always well written, and thought provoking.
        
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        May 9, 2018 3:25pm
Happychappy

I see Jacinda has probably made one kiwibloger happy with her normal way of fixing these long painful stories on Poverty and now Domestic Violence and that is to chuck $70 Million at the problem to pay more in the social counseling network to fix the problem. How can you fix a problem when the victims keep going back for more, having more children that further complicates the issue and then plays the blame game by suggesting the Government doesn’t do enough to help them.
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May 9, 2018 9:49am
- cmm
  
  If you keep filling the trough then the pigs will keep coming.
  
  Where is the incentive for any of the NGOs to actually fix the problem? That would cause the trough to go away.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:06am
- GoVege
  
  Happy: it’s generally better for women to stick with the devil they know, because children are 50 to 100 times more likely to be killed by a non-biological parent figure than their own flesh and blood.
  Things are getting better because these days the Police actually attend DV situations.
  25 years ago they mostly wouldn’t bother to turn up.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:11am
  - Happychappy
    
    We do agree on some things but it doesn’t mater whether the perpetrator is male or female some one has to take responsibility for their actions and the Government should not be just throwing millions at new counseling services to fix the problem as the same problems keeps happening. And I hate when I say your right when it comes to the ethic and Maori communities where it is most prominent.
    
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    May 9, 2018 12:00pm
    - GoVege
      
      Counselling services are a waste of money for perpetrators of violence. ..the only thing that works is the long arm of the law.
      Counselling for victims of violence is usually useless too, because all they do mostly is tell them to leave/pray/keep a pillow handy and other b/s.
      What they should be doing is empowering victims to assert their rights before the situation escalates.
      The bottom line is violence is a crime and the police need to intervene to stop it.
      And you don’t need to wait until you get assaulted.
      “Disturbing the peace” is against the law too!
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:23pm
    - GoVege
      
      And nice to agree with you for a change, happy! 🙂 🙂
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:25pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    And why was that Goveg?
    Could it have been that the police got disillusioned with answering domestic violence call-outs where 9 times out of 10 the woman concerned would not make a statement and said it was all OK now?
    That was then, this is now and women should step up, report violence to themselves and their children and stick with it. Not cave in and withdraw the information because they are scared to be left on their own – any partner being better then no partner.
    
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    May 9, 2018 12:32pm
    - GoVege
      
      It should never have been UP to the woman to make a complaint….and fortunately no longer is.
      It is the state’s job to protect its citizens, especially in the home.
      It doesn’t matter what a person’s reasons are for staying in a relationship, violence is a crime and it is up to society to address it, just like any other crime.
      BTW, I had a lovely uncle whose wife beat him up constantly.
      He knew he had no hope back then of getting the police to help and didn’t want to leave his wife and kid.
      In the end he had to force himself to use his superior physical strength to turn the tables.
      Most women don’t have this option, and shouldn’t have to anyway.
      
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      May 9, 2018 6:12pm
RF

Jesus… Peters must have something on Comrade Ardern for her to play dead ants and give him the key to sweet cheeks vault.

When they erect statues of Peters in all the Pacific Islands all they need to do is replicate the ones on Easter Island as the likeness is staggering.

So much for our children’s poverdy. Thats taken a back seat as the corrupt island nations will be rolling in wealth. Remember the Donald Duck comics with Scrooge McDuck diving into piles of cash.

We are royally fucked…
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May 9, 2018 10:14am
- Nev.
  
  He has only one thing over her. The power to bring down her Government. That is why the situation is so dangerous.
  She has to play ball or Winston will dissolve Parliament.
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:19am
  - Jack5
    
    Peters is a pompous twat, but he’s about the only politician standing against compulsory teaching of Maori in NZ schools.
    
    Maori language and culture have been increasingly introduced into all schools by the stealth of the predominantly-Leftist school teachers.
    
    But the push is now for it to be made compulsory: that would lead to blocking formal qualifications unless you have passed examinations proving you can speak Maori.
    
    Perhaps it’s time to take a stand against this push to enforce a minority tongue on all of us, and in the process create tens of thousands of jobs for specialist Maori teachers, Maori sign painters, Maori editors, Maori-speaking X and Maori-speaking Y.
    
    The cost? well only a few billion a year.
    
    When we have National led by a Maori MP and his Maori deputy, who is going to make a stand?
    
    Don’t underestimate this drive. One of its leaders is Wily Willie Jackson, who succeeded in a Maori takeover of State radio — under the eyes of a National-led coalition.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:12am
    - kowtow
      
      Time for a bit of honesty here.
      
      If Maori is an official language in New Zealand , which de jure , it is, then it must be taught in school and to get any job in the public service one must be fluent in Maori written and spoken.And every street sign , every gubmint publication be it central or local should be in Maori and English etc etc
      
      As Maori is de facto not an official language in the sense that no fucker can speak it or read , and no fucker even wants to , then it should be binned as an official de jure language.
      
      This Maori stuff is a lie , a feel good veneer of bullshit as is “biculturalism ” whatever the fuck that is.
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:38am
dime

Trump just doesn’t stop!

His speech this morning was excellent.

I like how he speaks directly to the people of Iran. Speaking of a better life they could have if they kicked the evil dictatorship to the curb.

Obama really was just a giant wimp.
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May 9, 2018 10:15am
- Harkman
  
  A wimp in “mom” jeans.
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:49am
- MCos
  
  You ought to get a word through to Simon Bridges. He didn’t seem terribly impressed with Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran treaty.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:02am
Humble Capitalist

Is it possible for someone to get the pre-election NZF website information for us?
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May 9, 2018 10:25am
- The Heat
  
  Here:
  https://web.archive.org/web/20171002235623/https://www.nzfirst.org.nz/
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:34am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Thanks TH
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:50am
    - The Heat
      
      No problem.
      
      So, a journalist who might be looking for ideas and isn’t a paid-up member of The Greens, might try comparing the policies outlined here:
      
      https://web.archive.org/web/20171002235623/https://www.nzfirst.org.nz/
      
      …with actions and words since he’s been in government.
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:21pm
  - Harkman
    
    “The Primary Industries are the backbone of New Zealand’s economy with fishing, forestry farming, horticulture and viticulture providing the bulk of our export earnings. Our primary industries further provide the backdrop for our burgeoning tourism industry as well. New Zealand First is fully committed to the success of the primary industries and our heartland. With a focus on quality over quantity we can have both a first-rate environment and economy. Yet none of this will matter unless we keep Kiwi control over our farmland and processing assets. We must own our future to have a future.”
    — Rt Hon Winston Peters
    
    Lesson learned here, when in government do the exact opposite.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:54am
    - Poppa
      
      I have no concept of how people are taken in by this charlatan.
      
      It is staggering that intelligent people voted for this nonsense
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:07am
      - kowtow
        
        Intelligent people voted for this nonsense?
        
        No they didn’t. The retards did.
        
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        May 9, 2018 11:41am
    - Humble Capitalist
      
      With regard to ‘Peters First’ being fully committed to the success of primary industries
      `New Zealand First is not afraid to confront parliament head on and we refuse to accept defeat in any cause that we believe in’
      Apart from the stand on Maori seats and te reo I don’t see anything else he has confronted Labour on in parliament and there is plenty that goes against the grain of his parties election policies
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:32pm
  - Harkman
    
    “Seriously cut immigration to sustainable levels.”
    
    “Support the primary industries and related industries to add value and grow sustainably.”
    
    “Redirect the $1.4 billion currently going into the ETS into research and adaptation.”
    
    “Explore initiatives to end a growing rural-urban divide.”
    
    “Oppose resource rentals such as the Labour Party’s proposed water tax.”
    
    This guy stands for nothing.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:07am
    - Jack5
      
      Harkman: growth in GDP per capita has been almost at a standstill and infrastructure has been brought under heavy pressure during a period of record immigration, largely of the unskilled and semi-skilled.
      
      Immigration and compulsory Maori language are two points that Peters is right about.
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:22am
    - kowtow
      
      Wrong.
      
      He stands for himself and himself alone.
      
      His constituents must be really thick not to have learned that these past 20 years and more.
      
      I can understand the populist appeal and even the protest vote but he was never really going to deliver on anything meaningful to his base , like chucking out the Indians and Chinese .
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:44am
      - Jack5
        
        Who said “chuck out” Chinese and Indians? No-one I can track.
        
        But stopping the Indian student-visa rort, and limiting immigration to economic needs, and tailoring it to attract the highly skilled, are worthwhile aims.
        
        If National wants to get back into power it will need a coalition partner,and sadly ACT is unlikely ever to be sufficient. I’m not saying co-opt NZ First, but at least be intelligent enough to look at those of its policies that are valid and popular. Then either create a new subsidiary party or make National’s popularity broad enough for it to get a majority by itself.
        
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        May 9, 2018 11:48am
- ex-golfer
  
  This is the one I think will be very interesting to follow:
  
  “In today’s Parliament are a number of Māori who are the match for anyone else there and most of them do not hold a Māori seat. Despite having Māori seats, most Māori yearn for the same thing as most New Zealanders do – a safe, affordable home; an easily accessible health system; an education system with escalators onto which any child can step, and go as far as they wish; and First World jobs and incomes. In 1986, the Royal Commission on the electoral system recommended the Māori seats be abolished should MMP be adopted. New Zealand First will bring forward a referendum to given Kiwis that decision.”
  — Rt Hon Winston Peters
  
  The policy:
  
  MĀORI SEATS REFERENDUM
  Māori don’t need the Māori seats. They don’t need tokenism. That is why we commit to a referendum of all electors to retain or abolish the Māori seats.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:06am
  - kowtow
    
    That was his first broken promise.
    
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    May 9, 2018 11:45am
    - RalphT
      
      You mean this time around; he’s broken many in the past.
      
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      May 9, 2018 11:53am
      - kowtow
        
        Correct , I was thinking about the evening the agreement was announced this time round.
        
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        May 9, 2018 12:09pm
Manolo

Mueller’s hunt goes on:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mueller-rejects-potus-request-to-answer-questions-in-writing/

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is now on President Trump’s legal team, told CBS News correspondent Paula Reid Monday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has rejected proposals to allow Mr. Trump to answer questions from investigators in writing.
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May 9, 2018 10:59am
cmm

Now here’s something Jacinda needs to form another talk-fest about:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103630626/nz-priciest-place-to-buy-cocaine-and-mdma-global-drug-survey-2018

Kiwis are not getting a good deal. Kiwis deserve better!
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May 9, 2018 11:03am
- AgentBallSack
  
  Media, TV Hosts and Auckland Glitterati are rightly concerned about the price of cocaine and ecstasy.
  They’re the ones who consume the most of it.
  Which could very well explain the quality of reporting we get.
  
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  May 9, 2018 12:16pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Don’t panic, Megan Woods is summoning the dealers to Parliament for them to explain their price gouging.
  
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  May 9, 2018 1:42pm
  - mara
    
    Very droll Rich Prick. The closest ANYONE will come to this subject will be to examine the sugar content in Coca Cola. Even that will make pollies and the media a bit nervous right now.
    
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    May 9, 2018 4:42pm
Manolo

stephieboy will be extremely happy:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2018/05/08/media-get-trumped-presidents-polls-improve-despite-90-negative

The Media Research Center studied all broadcast evening news coverage of the President from January 1 through April 30, and found 90% of the evaluative comments about Trump were negative.
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May 9, 2018 11:05am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  More to the point:
  
  “The liberal media’s war against President Trump was as fierce as ever during the first four months of 2018, but the onslaught appears to be for naught: In the face of massive and hostile coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC, Trump’s overall job approval rating actually rose, from 37 percent in mid-December to roughly 43 percent at the end of April.”
  
  The ‘liberal media’ really don’t want to get the message – no-one believes them anymore. They are relentlessly biased, game-playing, manipulative, and completely divorced from ordinary people and reality itself.
  
  And that’s saying something, given the predilection of people to go along with ‘what they’re told’.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:40am
waikatogirl

Gardening is very calming so I went out and trimmed the hedge to let off a bit of steam. The CoL has a new spending announcement, or three every day. Great wads of money going to this cause or that. Meanwhile the Coalition of Liars an Losers are cutting off the country’s major source of income by closing down essential industries. The $10 billion Robbo just borrowed is long gone… The budget next week is definitely going to send me back out into the garden to save my sanity. God help this little country (and I’m an atheist!) ?
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May 9, 2018 11:20am
Rich Prick

Any word from the Police about Labour’s booze camp sexual predator?
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May 9, 2018 11:32am
- All_on_Red
  
  Any word from the Police on charging Labours Camp supervisors with supplying alcohol to minors?
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:44am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Any word on how the prosecution of Princess Slug is going?
    
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    May 9, 2018 12:07pm
    - stigie
      
      Any word on Penny Bright and the very expensive hovel..?
      
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      May 9, 2018 1:50pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Any word on the rumours we’re not allowed to rumour?
        
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        May 9, 2018 2:16pm
Jack5

The Labour-Green Coalition is about to fuck the Super Fund.

The chief of the fund, which has performed well, has recently moved to the Reserve Bank. The fund has performed pretty well with its investment overseas and in some NZ assets, such as farm land.

But in light rail? Public transport systems can be profitable, as in densely populated Hong Kong, where more than 90 per cent of the people use them.

But in Auckland? It’s unlikely it will break even. Putting national savings into them is criminal. Another hijack of national assets by the third or so of New Zealanders who live in Auckland, and vandalism of national savings.

The Leftist-leaning media are going along with PR graduate Jacinderella’s spin. The Super Fund “wants” to own two Auckland light rail projects? Wants to? C’mon ….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12047478
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May 9, 2018 11:46am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Our Children’s and Grand-children’s future is about to be stuffed.
  CoL want the Super-fund… they’ll be after your Kiwi supersaver pretty soon.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:51am
- AgentBallSack
  
  Unlikely it will break even? Are you having a laugh? It will be the largest white elephant New Zealand has ever had the misfortune to take part in. It has a BCR of 0.05.
  For every 5c it earns it will need to be propped up by 95c of taxpayer money. In perpetuity.
  Fuck I need a whisky.
  
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  May 9, 2018 12:11pm
  - Poppa
    
    I am at work, but can you make mine a double rum with lemonade please
    
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    May 9, 2018 12:19pm
    - holysheet
      
      Shit if you drink that piss you will need more than just a lie down.
      Reminds me of back in the day we used to buy rum and coke by the jug. Got so pissed one night, took me a week to get over it. Since that day I have never liked the taste of coke. The rum wasn’t the problem.
      
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      May 9, 2018 12:34pm
      - Poppa
        
        Yeah that coke is evil stuff
        
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        May 9, 2018 1:19pm
      - RalphT
        
        Yes, it’s the sugar that gives you the hangover.
        
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        May 9, 2018 1:29pm
      - holysheet
        
        Yeah Ralph, I was way ahead of the times. Always knew it was the sugar.
        
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        May 9, 2018 3:08pm
  - RRM
    
    For every 5c it earns it will need to be propped up by 95c of taxpayer money. In perpetuity.
    
    That’s the genius of this idea… with the super fund as builder and operator, the running deficit can just bleed the super fund dry without any impact on Gracinda’s budget!
    
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    May 9, 2018 12:52pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      the running deficit can just bleed the super fund dry without any impact on Gracinda’s budget!
      
      That is precisely the conclusion I arrived at. Now they have 56 Billion more to disperse and destroy.
      
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      May 9, 2018 1:17pm
      - Prince
        
        Rob’s back. So is Bill Birch. Think Big V2.
        Without the energy investments of course.
        But this lot will be so much better at picking winners 20 years out.
        
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        May 9, 2018 2:45pm
- ROJ
  
  It isn’t the business profit that they will be after. It will be regulated with a SUBSIDY!
  
  Note how many businesses in NZ with regulated returns actually make better profits than those who have to deal with market competition?
  
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  May 9, 2018 2:53pm
- Piniwi
  
  Well Jack5 they are again illustrating that it is wind back time with the COL in charge. This sort thing is why the Labour Super plan back in the day was doomed to failure. They with their union backing were intending to nationalise everything. Funny now they are intending to go even further down the drain. The great Cullen Super Fund using funds from the Government “investment” of BORROWED funds will “invest” in Auckland’s light rail. You can’t make this shit up.
  Then Twitfords says it has all been provided for with $1.8 billion coming from a PPP arrangement.
  
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  May 9, 2018 3:06pm
- alex Masterley
  
  I can’t believe that the management and fund guardians would fall for this bullshit.
  
  baby boomers have been accused of stuffing up the future for gen x y and what ever other letters of the alphabet you choose. is this the alphabets revenge?
  
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  May 9, 2018 3:20pm
- rockape
  
  The future of light rail;-https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2016/01/abandoned-monorails-suspension-railways-railplanes-hovertrains/
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:24pm
AgentBallSack

Interesting to note that both the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Super Fund are women. Bet they both love stardust and Jacindamania.
As an aside, I thought that NZ was exclusively made up of pale stale males?

https://www.nzsuperfund.co.nz/nz-super-fund-explained-governance/board
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May 9, 2018 12:33pm
- holysheet
  
  Why would you have believed that bullshit.
  
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  May 9, 2018 12:35pm
Captain Mainwaring

No Hugh today?
Maybe he’s finally disappeared up his own fundamental orifice.
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May 9, 2018 1:21pm
- noskire
  
  Kiwibloggers have rebelled and launched a Denial of Service attack on his posts (i.e. we all click Report and his comments go to moderation).
  
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  May 9, 2018 1:26pm
- Poppa
  
  I suspect his computer blew up from all the copy & pasting, there is only so much they can take
  
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  May 9, 2018 2:43pm
  - stigie
    
    Oh dear, how sad, you all know the rest !~
    
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    May 9, 2018 3:34pm
- Happychappy
  
  Hugh is to rapped up in his own self importance to walk away from his daily routine, he leaves it till late when people are spiking his posts.
  
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  May 9, 2018 4:01pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  You just want to try out the report button Mainwaring. Cruel.
  I love it mate.
  
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  May 9, 2018 5:43pm
Classic Liberal

Been saving up for retirement? You’ll now regret it: it’s all about *reducing inequality*.

‘The Tax Working Group has decided to proactively release papers it has received from its Secretariat, which is made up of a small group of officials from Treasury and Inland Revenue.’

Two for your delectation:

‘Tax and Housing. This paper explains how the tax system deals with housing and seeks the Group’s preferences regarding the focus of subsequent work on this subject.

Taxation of Capital Income and Wealth This paper provides an initial overview of how New Zealand taxes capital income and discusses the role that wealth taxes could play in reducing inequality. ‘
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May 9, 2018 2:18pm
Poppa

Bloody ferals punch an old geeza in a supermarket in Sth Auckland.

Apparently they were pulling stuff off shelves onto the ground & he said to them to stop.

I think it would be cheaper & much safer for everyone if we just dropped a bomb on Sth Auckland & started again.

Need to miss the airport of course
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May 9, 2018 3:02pm
- Happychappy
  
  Andrew Little will find something good about the scum that do this bullying and violence and the Judge’s will be told a slap with a wet bus ticket will be sufficient.
  
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  May 9, 2018 4:09pm
Steve (North Shore)

Does the US now have two Presidents?
Al Jazeera reporting the Iran withdrawal keep referring to Obama as President Obama. Our local MSM do the same thing.
Did Donald not win?
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May 9, 2018 3:09pm
Swifty

If a Hugh faps alone in a forest, and nobody is around to hear it, will he make a sound?
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May 9, 2018 4:18pm
- sooty
  
  Yes, it will. It will be the noise echoing around the empty space.
  
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  May 9, 2018 4:25pm
AgentBallSack

Its almost 6. Time for RC to make an appearance. I better put on my disguise so he doesn’t come over all funny again.
ENGAGE TRANSFORMER MODE
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May 9, 2018 5:41pm
Maggy Wassilieff

5 more Aussie dual citizenship MPs have been given the boot.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-44049929

Wonder how many of our MPs have dual citizenship.
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May 9, 2018 5:46pm
- sam green
  
  Are you AgentBallSack Maggy?
  
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  May 9, 2018 9:49pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m Kea, but don’t tell.
    
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    May 9, 2018 10:31pm
nasska

I recall reading a while back about how the amount of freight movement can be a good barometer of the level of economic activity. I wonder if something else I’ve noted recently points to how the CoL are being seen as wreckers of our economy.

Trade Me seems to have a noticeable increase in adverts where the seller is “moving overseas” or “leaving for Australia next week”.

Maybe it’s seasonal but it could be better read as the more intelligent rats deserting the sinking ship.
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May 9, 2018 5:46pm
- mandk
  
  The Australian Budget yesterday included personal tax cuts and the introduction of measures to stop bracket creep.
  
  We’ll be seeing more and more announcements of “leaving for Australia next week”
  
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  May 9, 2018 6:33pm
- rangitoto
  
  Big drop in consumer spending:
  
  “Yet in the month since March, there has been a 2.2 per cent decline in card spending, especially on groceries and fuel.”
  
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  May 9, 2018 10:31pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

Tonight I’ve picked westie gal Jan Hellriegel with her song Melusine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XTkPntM5g
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May 9, 2018 5:59pm
softail 1450

watching winston peters in the parliament this evening, this fool has become a blubbering moron when answering question ,has he had a stroke or is he 1/2 pissed all the time .we might have a genuine case of a minister spending money like a drunken sailor FFS.
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May 9, 2018 6:26pm
sam green

So, is Soimon now following Whaleoil or are they just good friends?
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May 9, 2018 6:39pm
- rangitoto
  
  Do your leftie mates know you are an avid follower of DPF’s blog? If I were you I would looking out for any of them carrying ice axes.
  
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  May 9, 2018 8:34pm
  - sam green
    
    Is that a threat? rangipoto – such a little volcano ?.
    
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    May 9, 2018 8:58pm
    - rangitoto
      
      I’m only going on Marxist history. It’s up to you what company you keep.
      
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      May 9, 2018 10:14pm
      - sam green
        
        I merely asked a question rangi. Are Soimon and Whale good friends? Or is Soimon simply following him on Twitter? How does that ( the question) relate to Marxist history? Or the company I keep for that matter?
        
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        May 9, 2018 10:25pm
      - rangitoto
        
        I’m sure you can work it out.
        
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        May 9, 2018 10:32pm
      - sam green
        
        Err no .. not really. You’ve made yourself perfectly opaque.
        
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        May 9, 2018 10:35pm
waikatogirl

Winston and Australia are funnelling taxpayer money into the Pacific Islands to shore up defences against interloper countries interest in the Pacific, ie China’s investment in new wharves and other infrastructure in the Pacific Islands. China want a foothold in the area and are willing to pay for it. The PI’s will sell their souls to whomever will provide the most and that is China. Winston can throw all the NZ taxpayer money he likes at the Islands but it won’t buy their loyalty to us or the Aussies.
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May 9, 2018 6:40pm
- nasska
  
  If China will sponsor a church, a KFC & a dialysis unit on every atoll they’ve got the PI’s support sewn up.
  
  We should encourage the Chinese investment. The overweight freeloaders might move back to the islands & remove the pressure on NZ’s welfare & health budgets.
  
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  May 9, 2018 6:50pm
- GazzaW
  
  Way too late WG. The horse has already bolted – in fact it had bolted by the time Clark was making statements about ‘our benign backyard’. Successive NZ and Aussie governments have given the fingers to Fiji so they turned to China to finance their tourism industry and the results are there for all to see with the development of Denarau Island, a string of 5 star resorts on the Coral Coast, a new air terminal and a re-equipped national airline with approved routes to China. Kiwi tourists will no doubt be jostling the breakfast buffet line with fellow guests with Chinese-sounding names.
  
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  May 9, 2018 7:38pm
Awww C-mon

Empire Strikes Back playing now on 3.

Laterz fools
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May 9, 2018 7:35pm
Don the Kiwi

Did anyone hear about Leighton Smith reading an email – he would not disclose the senders name – who claimed that a deal was done with Jacinda and Winston Peters before the election for $3.mil for Winston to go with Jacinda?
Anything is possible – certainly with Labour, and the Drunken Dwarf.
However, this seems far too implausible to me – this would be total corruption and would bring the gubmint crashing down.
But a friend of mine swears he heard this email being read by Leighton.

Any takers???
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May 9, 2018 7:44pm
- sam green
  
  Come on Don. It’s a big story you’ve got there. Get stuck in.
  
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  May 9, 2018 8:17pm
  - nasska
    
    Shush! Don still believes in an imaginary friend so the thought of the email probably seems quite real.
    
    Don’t spoil it for him. 🙂
    
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    May 9, 2018 8:23pm
    - sam green
      
      Ok shhhhhhhhhhh ……
      
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      May 9, 2018 9:03pm
    - sam green
      
      Ok. Shhhhhhhhh
      
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      May 9, 2018 9:04pm
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Not me naaska – I think its highly implausible. But my freind swears he heard it right.
      I think he’s mistaken.
      Don’t shoot the messenger.
      
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      May 9, 2018 9:06pm
      - sam green
        
        My friend swears he heard his dog say “sausages”.
        
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        May 9, 2018 9:10pm
      - sam green
        
        Heyyyy downtickers – don’t shoot the messenger.
        
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        May 9, 2018 9:26pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Stop being a dick Sam.
        
        Half arsed baby troll.
        
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        May 9, 2018 9:29pm
      - sam green
        
        That’s because you hate me.
        
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        May 9, 2018 9:32pm
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        sam green being the usual wanker we all know he is.
        
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        May 9, 2018 9:37pm
      - sam green
        
        Jump on in Don – as the good dog you are.
        
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        May 9, 2018 9:42pm
Doubledimp

Everytime I see a headline on stuff like “inequality the key tax question”, I see my future income being poached to give to someone else.

If I have to claim a meal back from my employer, I need receipts to prove what I spent, and have to fill out forms for my supervisor to approve. Why can’t the government insist on it’s “employees” (those on the dole) accounting for their expenditure and putting it up for review?
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May 9, 2018 7:56pm
Jack5

China’s no longer communist, we’re told.

But last Saturday, Trier, Germany unveiled a 14ft (4.27 m) statue of Karl Marx, who was born there. The statue was donated by China to mark the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth.

Meanwhile in China, CBS reports, President Xi Jinping hailed Karl Marx as “the greatest thinker of modern times.”

“Today, we commemorate Marx in order to pay tribute to the greatest thinker in the history of mankind and also to declare our firm belief in the scientific truth of Marxism,” Xi said during an address on Friday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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May 9, 2018 9:18pm
Jack5

Mormons have cut links with Boy Scouts of America, which is dropping “Boy” from its title and opening membership to girls and had decided to allow homosexual troop leaders.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/09/mormons-to-end-long-association-with-boy-scouts-america.html
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May 9, 2018 10:08pm
sam green

Put the snack higher Jack5.
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May 9, 2018 10:37pm
starboard

Fuck off green.

Filthy feral scum natives at it again.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/103757732/elderly-man-attacked-by-group-of-youths-at-auckland-supermarket
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May 9, 2018 11:39pm
- sam green
  
  You’re a jolly chap tonight starboard.
  
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  May 9, 2018 11:44pm
softail 1450

W T F, tv1’s honkyhori jack lame thinks because he’s slightly fluent in te reo he should inflict it on every poor bastard in the country.
possibly it’s only me but Jack you dont have to make every second word a badly pronounced maori word, I’m incredibly impressed with your virtue signalling maori language skills now give us a break and shut the fuck up .
its not our fault you were pushed sideways and down one so the blonde bimbo could take your long desired job as number 1 on the breakfast show FFS.
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May 10, 2018 6:27am
New Zealand Last

Unfortunately, Penny Bright has cancer:

Well-known Auckland activist Penny Bright has revealed she has “incurable and inoperable” stage 3 ovarian cancer.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12049086
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