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William of Ockham

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock – it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland

Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date of the damage farming does to the planet.

The new research shows that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75% – an area equivalent to the US, China, European Union and Australia combined – and still feed the world. Loss of wild areas to agriculture is the leading cause of the current mass extinction of wildlife.

The new analysis shows that while meat and dairy provide just 18% of calories and 37% of protein, it uses the vast majority – 83% – of farmland and produces 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. Other recent research shows 86% of all land mammals are now livestock or humans. The scientists also found that even the very lowest impact meat and dairy products still cause much more environmental harm than the least sustainable vegetable and cereal growing.

The study, published in the journal Science*, created a huge dataset based on almost 40,000 farms in 119 countries and covering 40 food products that represent 90% of all that is eaten. It assessed the full impact of these foods, from farm to fork, on land use, climate change emissions, freshwater use and water pollution (eutrophication) and air pollution (acidification).

“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use,” said Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the research. “It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he said, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions. [continues]

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987
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June 5, 2018 8:01am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Idiot of Ockham strikes again.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:03am
- Simon
  
  Turnips for everyone Comrades. Crazy William has escaped again.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:06am
- Niz
  
  “it uses the vast majority – 83% – of farmland and produces 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. ”
  Does that mean that the other 17% of farmland produces 40% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. That doesn’t seem very ‘green’ to me.
  Or is the author trying to be sneaky about how he uses his statistics?
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:21am
- Monique Watson
  
  Fucks are not given in this forum WOO. Slow Learner.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:23am
- Fletch
  
  Maybe that’s why liberals are so keen to introduce euthanasia; they’d rather we all just kill ourselves – the ultimate way of reducing your carbon footprint.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:34am
- Ross12
  
  How long have you been a vegan, William?
  
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  June 5, 2018 11:07am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    You suspect vitamin B12 deficiency? Could be…
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:59am
NZpatriot

What a sad pack of fools, the Prime Minister banned new offshore petroleum exploration WITHOUT EVEN GOING TO CABINET.
Source: https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/104447116/no-cabinet-paper-written-no-cabinet-decision-made-in-political-decision-to-ban-new-oil-exploration

To make major decisions about our economic and energy future without going to Cabinet and without seeking advice from officials is deplorable. It really is an act of folly.

They didn’t even ask officials if this move would reduce greenhouse gas emissions! (it is far from self-evident that it will – in fact they’ll probably increase).

I have been studying this decision in Greg detail, and the more I look, it becomes clear just how serious the implications are. Sovereign risk for investors is now very high, especially after the similar unilateral and arbitrary decision to end mining on conservation land in the Speech from the Throne.

Many sectors are very concerned about what this “Government” will do next, and you really see that coming through in the poor results of the business confidence polls.

As a citizen, I am appalled and actually quite saddened. THIS IS NO WAY TO GOVERN.
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June 5, 2018 8:01am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  It seems that we have a Government prepared to govern by decree rather than observe Parliamentary process.
  Is this legal, and what does the GG think of it?
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:05am
  - hullkiwi
    
    C’mon Capitan, she is a Commie Chick after all. So, why not do it the way the undemocratic commie government’s of the world have been doing it for the past 100 years. By party decree & tell the peasants it’s good for them.
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:14am
  - oldgolfer
    
    Yes, and I see buried in the Stuff story is information that is likely the government – sorry, collection of losers – will face legal action.
    Hardly surprising.
    Removing the right of an exploration company by decree – a company that may well have spend millions in the hope of gaining many more millions – is tantamount to the govt knocking on your door and saying you no longer have a right to live there.
    It is dictatorial, and the govt may yet pay a high price for its high-handed approach, and all with industry consultation or going through a Cabinet process.
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:26am
    - Piniwi
      
      While oldgolfer they are running out of key people for yet more inquiries and think tank groups they are forced to take a different tack.
      “Strikes and lockouts will be banned during negotiations for a Fair Pay Agreement, the new collective bargaining system the Government is introducing.
      The Government has today named former National Party Prime Minister Jim Bolger as chair of a working group to make recommendations on the new Fair Pay Agreement system”.A group of ten.
      The different tack is an attempt ligitamise this group with dragging in Jim Bolger ahead of what might be some very acrimonious resistance to this roll back. With this and so many other contentious issues they heve created they must be very worried by the resistance being signalled by falling internal polls. The only whiff of roses they will get will be from that gastly greasy Three Roses hair dressing so popular with Polinesian members. Go the Reds. Lol
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:30pm
  - Chris R
    
    To prosecute Ardern you’d have to prove intent….to prove she had intent you’d first need to prove she has a brain. Huge hurdles indeed.
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:36am
  - kowtow
    
    A government ?
    
    No , it’s a regime.
    
    The Javista junta.
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:01am
    - RF
      
      Nah…. pure and simple treason.
      
      The stupid brat is out of her depth.
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:00am
      - sooty
        
        She’s not a stupid brat, Mallard said she’s a stupid old cow!
        
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        June 5, 2018 12:25pm
    - Piniwi
      
      But kowtow the SLG is becoming a masterly squirrel source when we read her latest contribution to the world stage. : “Jacinda Ardern’s baby’s first outing on the world stage is set to be a visit to the United Nations headquarters in New York”. While the COL is getting it thrown at them from all points of the 360 degrees that is her contribution. You just can’t make this rubbish up equal to the rate they put it out.
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:38pm
      - RF
        
        Just sorting out her desk and nursery at the UN
        
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        June 5, 2018 9:44pm
  - KevOB
    
    This govt has no mandate for acting without advice. The duty of care has been ignored and ideology substituted.
    
    We haven’t had such a govt in NZ previously hence we are short on ways to control them. No wonder the military take over in such circumstances.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:47am
- Monique Watson
  
  Yep. It’s the age of the Feelz politics. Feelz good, so fucking run with it. Ignore Democratic Principles. The muppets wouldn’t know one if they fell over it.
  
  And under the headlines of “What the Fuck”?
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/104445482/crayfish-detatches-claw-to-escape-boiling-soup
  
  Stuff outdoes themselves in the ‘Idiocy Journalism’ stakes.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:08am
- Justitia
  
  Yes NZpatriot, this is deeply shocking. An act of economic vandalism driven by ideology. Words fail – there must be grounds for a judicial review here surely?
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:10am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Just wait till the Red Melons get stuck into agriculture.
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:16am
  - Komata
    
    Justitia
    
    ‘Judical Revue’; surely you jest? As is being proven repeatedly, anything with ‘Review’ in it is a stacked deck; cronyism at its best and ‘Foregone conclusions’ abounding…
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:19am
  - KevOB
    
    But how can the judiciary review an act of executive govt? They are equals not betters.
    The Opposition can walk out of Parliament in protest triggering the interest of the Governor General. Apart from protest we are powerless. These situations have been resolved elsewhere by military intervention.
    MMP has gotten away on us. We have a govt empowered by unelected list members. At least MMP should be reviewed to prevent list members being qualified for cabinet and voting on confidence and supply.
    
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    June 5, 2018 12:41pm
- Simon
  
  “What a sad pack of fools”
  
  Yep CoL are real fuckups. They are a joke until they start releasing violent crims into society.
  
  Everyone can laugh at these Labo fuckwits but then old women start getting bashed and raped and dairy owners knifed. This puts this Labo clown show into real perspective.
  
  National better stand up and start holding these Labo mongs to individual account. Start with that sad sack Angry Little.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:14am
  - igm
    
    They cannot be touched in the House as Mallard puts the brakes on anything National attempts to say.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:13am
- Huevon
  
  Unbridled power. I expect Geoffrey Palmer and son to denounce this abuse of our constitutional democracy.
  
  What’s that?
  
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  Oh, it’s ok when the Left do it? Ok then.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:17am
  - igm
    
    Geoffrey Palmer is responsible for majority of social problems in NZ. He was/is a sickly liberal PoS.
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:22am
    - sooty
      
      Still wet behind the ears at his age!
      
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      June 5, 2018 8:45am
    - Justitia
      
      The biggest drongo ever to inflict himself on New Zealand public life.
      
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      June 5, 2018 8:51am
      - MT_Tinman
        
        The biggest drongo ever to inflict himself on New Zealand public life.
        
        You give Palmer far too much credit.
        
        He was (just) bright enough to open the doors for others to exploit (Graham enriching his rellies etc.) but never bright enough to actually do anything (godd or bad).
        
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        June 5, 2018 9:11am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Hasn’t Angry Andy found some enquiry or other yet for that limp liberal Palmer to suck from the public tit on, yet?
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:35am
    - sooty
      
      What just like Sir Sullen Cullen!
      
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      June 5, 2018 8:48am
    - Piniwi
      
      Too late hullkiwi that box has been ticked and Palmer is back on the payroll for a serious dose of double dipping with his Parliamentary pension. Perhaps after the 3 strikes name and shame series from DPF he might have time to compile a list of who is in what group with their credentials with a group a day since it numbers over 100 now. It could be called the other hundred day plan where so much has been side-lined or deferred to “groups”. Then we could run a sweep on who the patsies will be from each group as the COL uses them for cover. Boy are they going to need some cover downstream.
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:52pm
- cmm
  
  It’s called transparency.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:21am
- kevn
  
  @NZp… Exactly, appalled and sad. You can add angry as well. Lots of us are.
  coalition of losers and liars.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:27am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Too bad most of the country doesn’t even know what cabinet is. The people will eat up what ever MLP does as long as she is Posidiv and the Allblacks are in the news.
  NZ is probably one of the most politically illiterate populations I’ve ever been part of. It makes sense, why worry if your own ass is not on fire. Yet.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:29am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Padriv Ustoev,
    
    “NZ is probably one of the most politically illiterate populations I’ve ever been part of.”
    
    Based on what comparison?
    
    Your place of birth?
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:43am
    - Padriv Ustoev
      
      Yes my birthplace and 2 other countries I worked and lived in. You are absolutely correct for once.
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:00am
    - Manolo
      
      Dear stephieboy, I hasten to add that rabid left-wingers like you are the best example of political ignorance. 😀
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:39am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        But whatabout Trumpeters
        But whatabout [some random article from Wikipedia]
        But whatabout alt-right
        Reds under the bed and more birdseed for the galah.
        
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        June 5, 2018 3:51pm
  - Inandout
    
    I tend to agree PU, and you only have to ask the average teenager who is the Prime Minister (they do know who Trump is though). Unless Jacinda appears somewhere on a Facebook page there will be a blank stare. We have never known total war so I can understand our laid back attitude, but hell young people should at least read something of value.
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:07am
    - Justitia
      
      Sorry Inandout, but they can’t read. The state education system has ensured we now have a generation of young people who are illiterate, innumerate and ignorant of their own history or culture. The long march through the institutions continues…
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:56am
      - Piniwi
        
        Funny Justina that they settle for gummint and fail to know we might take a short cut with Govt. The only dots they understand are all those in pixels while also missing that fact they are all made up of dots.
        
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        June 5, 2018 10:06pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Ps PS you forgot the baby! Oh the lovely little baby who’s first quazy “royal” event is a visit to the UN. After the six weeks lie down the SLG will take. So who will be in charge when she goes to the big apple? The old drunk will need some far now travel after the challenges of holding the reigns for six weeks surely. While the numbers in witless protection will be the bulk of the from bench leaving the dregs to answer “on behalf of the Minister of Madness. Still we remain in the dark of the total destruction these morons have in store for us.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:01pm
- niggly
  
  So there was no Cabinet paper written and no Cabinet decision made …. Winston/Jones/NZ First cannot then say they were overruled by the rest of the COL Cabinet etc.
  
  So is the truth perhaps that the NZ First Weasels simply agreed to this in a backroom deal with Labour and the Greens?
  
  Was it always part of the Secret 33-38 page Coalition Agreement, or indeed some hastily cobbled together weasely backroom deal to keep the Greens onside …. the likes of hypocrites NZ First (and the Greens) always rally against? I think some sunlight needs to be applied here.
  
  Thanks Winston, Jones and NZ First, your treachery will be rewarded at the next election – oblivion, and let’s hope it does come sooner rather than in 2020!
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:41am
  - yossarian
    
    Winston needs his waka jumping bill over the line asap. #whateverittakes
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:12am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    The ultimate irony is that the party of the self-professed “first citizen of the regions” has been a party to putting a major source of economic activity in one particular region under threat.
    
    The actions of this government are beneath contempt. It might be time to start a petition expressing No Confidence in the Ardern-led government.
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:36am
- Ross12
  
  NZpatriot
  I agree the whole issue and the way it was handled is appalling.
  However Woods is correct in that the initial decision was just to not have a block offer for the offshore areas this year.
  BUT they said it was a ban on all future off shore drilling which is something different in my non legal mind. They also said future onshore block offerings was up for review.
  I know that a group is working on going for a judicial review. It will all come down to what is in the Crown Minerals Act at the time of the decision and how that matches what they said (as opposed to what they actually did). I hope they get hammered in Court.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:22am
  - Justitia
    
    Where can we donate to the judicial review?
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:59am
    - KevOB
      
      Cabinet decisions cannot be reviewed in Court.
      The Govt decides. The Court interprets. The Ministers Act and that can be reviewed by a Court as to compliance with the enabling statute.
      This can be wet bus ticket country.
      That’s why the military tend to get involved at that stage when no one else has the power to deal with a rogue government.
      
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      June 5, 2018 12:46pm
      - Ross12
        
        KevOB
        In this case it was not a Cabinet decision.
        Apparently under the CM Act the Minister is obliged to promote development of the resource. Obviously Woods has not done that, but what are the consequences ? I do not know the answer to that.
        
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        June 5, 2018 4:20pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  PSST PSST Jacinda, it’s spelt
  
  DICTATORSHIP
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:46am
- stephieboy
  
  NZpatriot,
  
  “As a citizen, I am appalled and actually quite saddened. THIS IS NO WAY TO GOVERN”
  
  Other than banging away on the keyboards what do you anticipate in terms of political protest and action?
  
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  June 5, 2018 12:09pm
  - NZpatriot
    
    Stephieboy, I don’t see how that is relevant, but if you must know, I vote, and write submissions on policy proposals, attend seminars etc. But why does it matter?
    
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    June 5, 2018 12:27pm
    - kowtow
      
      Do not feed the troll.
      
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      June 5, 2018 3:50pm
    - Piniwi
      
      But NApatriot the unwritten rule No1 for dealing with trolls is DON”T respond at all but settle for the obligatory down tick. Don’t be duped into acknowledging the dickheads and make the only rise they get being unseen as you wisely rise above it.
      Watch OQT and take note how the opposition resist the prodding as the COL scratch around for soft spots with wild accusations or the SLG answering a question with a question? They treat it with profound disdain as blow by and got on the next supplementary question. It gets the Ministers rattled or the old drunk leaping in with his useless quips. Priceless and we mist the best by not seeing the rattled rouges in the footage.
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:19pm
  - KevOB
    
    It looks like time for the streets is emerging.
    
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    June 5, 2018 12:53pm
- Piniwi
  
  But NZpatriot the touched on it “orally” so that must be enough for the COL to move into action. The today from Telly Tubby after some naval gazing and removing the fluff build up. : “So in terms of the short and medium term, nothing changes because what existed before we made that announcement still exists today and will be honoured.” Yeah right. Even as evidentiary proof of NO consultation, evaluation or the semblance of any factual reliable advise. Sure it is not retrospective but the extreme damage to sovereign risk, business confidence and the future energy security is a measurement they will avoid talking about. As much because they are totally void of understanding, administering or comprehension of the extent of the damage they have already done.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:12pm
Captain Mainwaring

There was a bleeding heart story on TV3 News the other night about how most of the equipment in public playgrounds in South Auckland is in various states of disrepair whereas on the North Shore it’s in pretty good shape. But Auckland Council is committing more money to said equipment in the affluent North Shore than they are to the ‘needy’ kids in South Auckland.
Why didn’t the so-called ‘reporter’ ask the question why would the Council keep shoveling ratepayers’ money into areas where the equipment keeps getting wrecked and vandalised?
Sheesh……
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June 5, 2018 8:02am
- oldpark
  
  Another bleeding heart story today. Because “Commie Chic Comrade “Ardern is expecting anytime soon. A new childrens play ground is being installed in Parliament grounds.
  Sounds that is a top priority. Money will be no problem. Thanks to all NZs taxpayers.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:11am
  - cmm
    
    The way things are going at present they may as well just turn the debating chamber into a massive ball pit.
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:22am
    - igm
      
      Cesspit would be more appropriate.
      
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      June 5, 2018 8:34am
  - stephieboy
    
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    oldpark, ZZZZZZzzzzz…
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:25am
    - oldpark
      
      Stephieboy.@8.25 am.
      Surely you’re not sleeping with you’re partner in slime the pedophile known as. Mohammed. Looks that way.
      
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      June 5, 2018 8:36am
      - G152
        
        That would get his goats goat
        
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        June 5, 2018 9:11am
      - Inandout
        
        Stephie drives to South Auckland and sits in a despoiled park. He dreams of places like Cairo and hopes Mt Roskill could soon be such a Muslim shit hole.
        
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        June 5, 2018 9:17am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Will she list it as a gift on her list of pecuniary interest?
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:47am
    - sooty
      
      Were’s all the money and gifts she gets from the gossip mags and interviews, listed on her pecuniary interest statements? Or does that all go in to fishermans trouser pocket?
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:03am
      - Harkman
        
        Oh but I thought that capitalism had failed? She must be doing all those mags for free.
        
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        June 5, 2018 10:22am
      - Piniwi
        
        Cheers sooty that reminds me of a beautiful fillet steak meal served by a freezing workers wife when we visited. The cube roll it was cut from came home down the leg of her husbands overalls. It sort of added a little something else to the term rare steak. But fair do’s the salad was from the home garden fresh picked and superb.
        
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        June 5, 2018 10:27pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Well – they have more kids at a younger age and then live two families to a house while paying less in rates and taxes.
  
  Too bad.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:26am
- Harkman
  
  Talking about bleeding hearts stories. Every election we hear stories of poverty but last night for dinner we had a tray of 12 drumsticks $3.17 (from paknsave), 3 thighs $3.97 (fresh choice) a bag of pasta $1.40 (and it wasn’t budget) and sauce $1.80. For $10 (excluding power) we over ate. This word poverty should be replaced with the word “stupidity.”
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:08am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Harkman, you’re not suggesting people “cook” meals are you? Why would they when for the same price they can get 1 combo meal from the golden arch.
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:44am
    - Paulus
      
      Many of the poverdy insufferables have no idea how to cook anyway !
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:40am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Paulus, a lot of truth in that statement. Even tho many primary schools in the south Auckland areas have budgeting and cooking classes for ADULTS, they are not taken advantage of.
        
        We currently have a household of 3 adults and 2 pre teens and regular visits from mokopuna in the weekend. We eat well. Plenty of fruit and veg in the house and baking most weekends. Average spenditure is $150 to $180 a week, depending on cleaning and hygiene products. But we have been known to trim that down to $100 on a tough week and an unexpected bill.
        
        Plenty of mince, sausages and chicken. Roast chicken carcasses are turned into soup by a slow cooker. Poverty of choices, is what I see too often.
        
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        June 5, 2018 10:59am
  - tf78
    
    Well for the price of a packet of fags you could have an absolute banquet for six.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:00am
  - RF
    
    Don’t you mean gluttony.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:05am
  - Piniwi
    
    But Harkman the way prices are going that $10 will get you maybe I fish and half a scoop when fuel is $3.00 a litre. There are even greater savings if you opt for a skin on breast to slice into nice fillets and crumbed for Chicken McNabel and served with a good quality rice. Save the skins and cut up before deep frying for checharon making another crunchy snack for those frequent popcorn moments from the COL. People here often say “they are poor but they are happy” then knock up a feast from nothing at all. Have to fess up to getting lazy in the kitchen since her indoors can cook up a storm. Her and a guest dined on a local dish while I had our home made fish and chips with what can be a rarity imported 1000 Island Dressing. Rounded of with a double serve of strawberry pie that came back from Manila with her and lashings of whipped cream.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:47pm
- stephieboy
  
  Captain Mainwaring , Vanadalised? Wrecked ?
  
  Not this Otara Playground,
  
  https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjxyJfgnrvbAhVCErwKHTSYBXsQjxx6BAgBEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D27g0w4A4Luk&psig=AOvVaw3anVEOkgpG_3Hj8NockD8H&ust=1528243997488140
  
  I think you’ve allowed your bigots zone get ahead of you!
  
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  June 5, 2018 12:17pm
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Gotta have to uptick stephiebiy here.
    
    One of our own local parks, Mountford…great kids playground. Clean, no graffiti, big open space. Close to the rugby, league, soccer, cricket and softball fields. Even had a special are for kids with disabilities. Toilet facilities right there. And plenty of parking close by.
    
    However!
    
    They pulled it down just over 6 months ago. Replaced with something closer to the main road, under a lot of trees. Limited parking, only close to one field. No toilets close by. Way to go Goff! Looking out for your communities!
    
    Auckland council in
    
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    June 5, 2018 1:24pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    That footage is from 2015.
    Does the park look like that today?
    
    Keep up Galah.
    
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    June 5, 2018 3:58pm
G152

Well, those who voted for the gnome ‘to teach National a lesson’ are where you should address this.
And expect more of this arbitrary action.
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June 5, 2018 8:04am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Interesting in a thread that centres on an abuse of basic democratic processes that you are objecting to those registering a protesting vote.
  
  Surely your ire is better directed at the party that abondoned it’s supporters by their lurch to the left and evil progressivism.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:46am
  - MickMac
    
    both of them!
    
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    June 5, 2018 12:58pm
Dafixeruppa

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t a budget about how to get the best out of the funds that are available?
e.g. if you have $100, then you adjust your spending so that you don’t spend more than the $100.
Apparently, if you are Labour, a budget is about going, how much do I want I spend… Now how do I get the money.

Edit, since the poor tend to be Labour supporters, does this explain their spend, borrow, spend some more, till they go bankrupt?
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June 5, 2018 8:05am
- Paulus
  
  Stephen Joyce’s Labour deficit has been confirmed as totally inadequate – nearer $25 Billion not $11 billion and that is with a good economy and tax takes.
  So Joyce was wrong too, says Robertson.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:36am
  - Harkman
    
    Labour in their propaganda pamphlets are still using National’s 2017 surplus forcasts.
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:50am
  - KevOB
    
    Joyce was right at the time. Robbo has gone berko with his budgie and has redefined money supply as taxpayers-inexhaustable for the near term.
    
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    June 5, 2018 12:59pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Right KevOB that is what is putting pressure on Angry Andy to reduce inmates as there is no way they would commit to another prison. It will mean a whole new way of accounting for offenders as they count those out who should be in and those that get early release to be considered safe for local living. Who knows there might be a new dance craze as those with blinking ankle bracelets gather to do the Freedom Stomp.
      
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      June 5, 2018 11:06pm
- Piniwi
  
  Right Dafixeruppa but Labour poured a volatile mix on the whole process by driving expectations so much higher based on the falsity of a greater “share”. They are sadly working through a box of wet matches to get the blaze ignited which it not going down to well as their sheeple want it all and want it NOW. Sadly for them the inflation rate will erode those inflated shares by the time they start to get paid out. While other will be disgruntled when the increased accommodation supplement drives them further down the waiting list for “their” promised warm dry house. Talk about Keystone comedy.
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:59pm
Inandout

Was this on Garner, because he is in bed with Al Gore on NZ weather, and Hone (Mo) Harawera?
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June 5, 2018 8:10am
- Lance
  
  Garners a left biased joke
  His sole purpose is to praise Cindy and put the boot into National at every opportunity
  
  An utter twat
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:38am
  - igm
    
    Garner is long overdue for another panel and paint!
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:50am
    - lifesgood
      
      He’s getting to the stage that red radio will employ him.
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:21am
Left Right and Centre

The Project.
When you’re so pathetic and useless you just copy something 100% from Australia.

Do you want Australia to show you how to wipe your arse too ?
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June 5, 2018 8:11am
- Inandout
  
  Who the hell watches ‘The Projectile’?
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:12am
  - Lance
    
    Yep, never watched it once
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:39am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Never watched 7 Sharp since Hosking left. The Project leaves it in the dust, and at least it’s a bit funny.
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:58am
      - Lance
        
        Well I suppose a barbwire enema is better than sticking pins in your eyes
        
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        June 5, 2018 4:35pm
secondcumming

Listened to a bit of late nite talkback over the weekend. All the usual leftie whingers ringing in, most calling for the heads of All Black Jordie Barrett and his mate, after they were found ‘unlawfully on premises’ eating Big Macs. When the homeowner caught them she called the police. The cops decided to just send the boys on their way after they explained it was a simple mistake. Wrong address. We’ve all done it for Christ sake. Hardly the crime of the century!

Honestly, it’s got to the stage in this country now, where a man can’t even sneak into a Disabled Shithouse for a quick root, without everyone talking about it.
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June 5, 2018 8:15am
- SGA
  
  All the usual leftie whingers ringing in, most calling for the heads of All Black Jordie Barrett and his mate, after they were found ‘unlawfully on premises’ eating Big Macs.
  
  big bruv and Longknives were doing similar here over the weekend, so I’m not sure it is exclusive territory of “leftie whingers” 🙂
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:30am
  - Longknives
    
    When did I ever ‘call for his head’?
    All I said was it is fairly obvious your heroes were a bit lonely and trying their luck with a romantic 5am visit to these lucky girls! And that this has failed in spectacular fashion..
    I dont think it’s a big deal either but we definitely aren’t being told quite the whole story..
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:46am
    - Monique Watson
      
      What you said @Longknives. And as I say. It’s easy to smell bullshit when you come across it. It smells like shit. They’re not innocent. Trying to get away after wiping the custard off their faces I suspect.
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:05am
      - Longknives
        
        Thank You Monique!
        Another Otago Alumni who recalls and understands the ‘Visiting footy team/Student Girl’ dynamic..
        
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        June 5, 2018 10:16am
      - doggone7
        
        You can smell bullshit yet agree with someone who just makes things up?
        
        The shit about the incident is the shit sadsacks make up about the incident.
        
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        June 5, 2018 4:20pm
- MCos
  
  You lost me there.
  You sneaked into the disabled shit house for a Big Mac and there was a policeman rooting another customer.
  Then Jordie Barrett rushes in, from the pouring rain
  Very strange
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:42am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Did Jordie ever kick you in the head harder than a 55m penalty attempt ? What are you on mate ?
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:27am
- Harkman
  
  Our footballers are a disappointment, I was waiting for our guys to do something news worthy, like Australian and American footballers do. I was waiting to hear that he slept with one of the women and then beat her up or urinated on the couch, but no nothing. Just the wrong address and they were eating McDees. By all accounts they left humbly and politely. Time to let Aaron Smith out again. This is far too boring.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:57am
- G152
  
  How the hell did they get into the wrong house?
  I mean, we have these crazy things called locks that deny entry to our houses to them as haven’t got a key…
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:14am
  - Harkman
    
    And all the student houses actually do look the same (terrible with burnt sofas out the front).
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:39am
- MT_Tinman
  
  We’ve all done it for Christ sake.
  
  You might have, I certainly have not!
  
  Were I the All Blacks coach I would be very concerned indeed – on two counts.
  
  First on whether this Barrett clown is bright enough to distinguish the try line from the line right next door.
  
  Second on the fact that an “elite” athlete was eating McDonalds while sober.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:23am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    And third: 5am is an early morning for most people, for an elite athlete it is a very late night.
    Was he acclimatising for Twickenham?
    Posterior kicking time for Master Barrett.
    
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    June 5, 2018 4:39pm
gorse

I see WO is busy really slagging off Bill English over his Knighthood. What a sad indictment on that blog, can’t they be generous – just for once?
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June 5, 2018 8:16am
- cmm
  
  Bugger being generous. Just being a tiny bit thankful would be enough.
  
  Bill English deserves the knighthood for his firm hand on the tiller through the GFC. We were one of very few countries to come through that storm in a reasonable shape.
  
  Slater is being a complete dickhead.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:35am
  - lifesgood
    
    Slater “is” a complete dickhead.
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:23am
    - Paulus
      
      WO Is a poor demented has been young old sod that only his sycophants will talk to him. But if they do say something which he does not like then out with the boot.
      BUT it is his blog so he can say whatever he likes – one day he will run out of other people’s money
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:44am
      - lifesgood
        
        After reading gorses’ comments I went and had a look at WO, first time in yonks. I feel dirty. Slater is obviously sinking back into his mental illness. Anyone could tell him that carrying around unfounded hatred is not doing him any good. He can say what he likes, Bill English was probably the most deserving of any of the Knighthood recipients. To be frank I think the COL was taking the piss…a prostitute, the Topp twins and John Rowles, come on! Slater’s father needs to have a word with his son. Apparently his father got replaced in his job and Slater blames English. I hate to tell you WO this happens every day, it’s called good management.
        
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        June 5, 2018 10:54am
      - lifesgood
        
        ….and friends. I note today a few of his followers were arguing against his opinion on this. No doubt they’ll be banned.
        
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        June 5, 2018 10:56am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Too right cmm. I shudder to think where we might be headed now but for English’s conservative, prudent fiscal management between 2008 and 2014 especially.
    
    He inherited a decade of deficits, and had the government’s finances back in surplus within six years, notwithstanding the Global Financial Crisis and the Canterbury earthquakes. His knighthood is richly deserved, and Lady Mary English deserves much credit as well, for all the background support she has provided.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:52am
  - Piniwi
    
    Also cmm seems to be very much more dependent on advertising revenue as items all now feature a slow loading large ad at the top then the begging message before the comments. Using Discus it not helping much at all either as it is so slow loading to see comments that have little relevance being ignored so much easier.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:14pm
- Lance
  
  Looking at WO will give you brain damage, you have been warned
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:41am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So is HDP-A. According to her Bill has done nothing in his life that merited a knighthood.
  Nah, just managed the country’s finances from a decade of deficits through the GFC, the Christchurch earthquakes, enhanced payments to beneficiaries all the way to a healthy surplus which Robbo is now busy frittering away.
  Nah, he didn’t deserve a knighthood.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:09am
- Harkman
  
  So there is a Westminster tradition of the PM getting a knighthood or a baronet when retiring (hence Bill English). As Dick Quax pointed out earlier in the year, had he won in 1976 he would of likely received a knighthood. They also tend to give them ex All Blacks who hang around in Administration for years picking up a pay check. But yesterday’s list was dreadful, none we more deserving than Ferguson & McDonald, Buck, Bond & Murray, DC, Danyon Loader, Mahe or the ginger that was on Team NZ last year and won a rowing gold in London.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:28am
VicParking

I’m a two tick Blue but after Simon Bridges interview on Red Radio this morning I cannot see National getting 50%+ votes at the next election with him in charge. He seemed unprepared and full of apologies. He did not have the guts to take Peter Gluckman’s report apart and show up its “I’ll give you what you want to hear” logic .
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June 5, 2018 8:16am
- stephieboy
  
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  VicParking , I understand it was Sir Peter Gluckman’s report that lay the foundation of Nats policies over P and state housing.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:23am
  - VicParking
    
    Stephie, by starting with “I understand” , anything after that has no logic. Not once has Red Radio mentioned that the tenants were smoking P in these houses which is against the tenancy agreement. If they had let them stay Red Radio would be screaming “National let poor live in contaminated houses”
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:33am
    - cmm
      
      Stephie has special sources we don’t have, so he is perfectly entitled to use the term “I understand”.
      
      The little tweeting sounds in his head told him.
      
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      June 5, 2018 8:37am
      - sooty
        
        Yep, direct from Fraser House.
        
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        June 5, 2018 8:54am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        stupidboy saying “I understand” is surely the most oxymoronic statement from him for a while.
        
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        June 5, 2018 9:52am
    - tf78
      
      Landlords don’t like people smoking cigarettes so why on earth would they tolerate them smoking P.
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:06am
  - pentwig
    
    do you really have any intelligence to understand anything sillyboy?
    another day to be sent to oblivion
    
    sigh!
    LOL
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:30am
- hullkiwi
  
  I heard the same & had the same feelings. The whole Gluckman thing is an after the fact charade. His line should have been straight the ministers acted on the advice they received from officials & left it at that. He shouldn’t apologise for unknowns. Keep that up & he’ll look like Jimmy 2 mum’s!
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:27am
  - VicParking
    
    Agreed, why do people run to apologise and allow this “Identity” shaming to have relevance. If they just dig in they will find that The accusers in most cases have no basis for their claim.
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:36am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      He could bristle up and tell Red Radio off for trying to criticise a part-Maori National party leader! That would get them scrambling for excuses…
      
      No way should he have apologised! The scientific advice at the time (including from the Ministry of Health) was followed.
      
      Science evolves and advice changes.
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:43am
      - KevOB
        
        Is Gluckman just preparing us for him follow up supporting Shaw’s climate change Cancel NZ Bill.
        
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        June 5, 2018 1:07pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Right CL it is all a matter of timing and the majority supported the action of removing those who broke the rules by A) smoking in a state house and B) such a substance as to a possible cause of health issue of subsequent tenants and most of all the children. The rushed report from Gluckman may yet become known a the Gluckman effect if health issues do arise.
        
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        June 5, 2018 11:33pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But hullkiwi the house is in recess so his immediate reaction should have been the obvious response to a prodding Media party question. “Our caucus will be looking at this development when we gather again”. Next question? He also went out on the limb he has started cutting by passing a favourable comment on the OBumnmer visit that he should have kicked into touch instantly. The Media party have found his soft spots and know how to prompt him to say too much and he fails as he blabs on. STFU.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:25pm
- brett68
  
  Simon Bridges isn’t a leaders arse hole.
  
  The fact the majority of National Mps picked Bridges, leaves me gobsmacked and my confidence in National severely dented
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:35am
  - Lance
    
    No no, don’t be too harsh
    Some of us think he is a leaders arsehole 🙂
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:43am
  - BeaB
    
    You have your easy answer. Just vote for Winston again and enjoy the Labour-Greens rabble running things.
    That’ll show National.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:19am
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      Always voted National.
      
      Simon Bridges is still fucking useless as leader through.
      
      He’s Nationals David Cunliffe.
      
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      June 5, 2018 11:40am
- Inandout
  
  I despair when Simon comes on. Is it wrong for me to shout at the TV, asking that he grow some balls? Please Simon, forget about your career for just one moment and get on side with a huge percentage of your party’s supporters.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:25am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I’d be interested to know whether the National Party agreed to this stupid apology. Is it only Simon who needs to toughen up, or the whole Party now?
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:45am
  - brett68
    
    He’s the softest of all cocks, he makes John Key look like Keith Murdoch.
    
    Even if National wins in 2020, this puss will just carry on doing the Labour lite thing.
    
    We’re fucked.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:43am
- Psycho Milt
  
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  He seemed unprepared and full of apologies.
  
  I bet he fucking was. Unfortunately for him, there’s no level of preparedness that can put a good spin on his party being directly accountable for making families homeless on the basis of a scam run by drug-testing companies. On this issue, the previous government was either grossly incompetent or malicious – I can understand why Bridges isn’t keen to talk about it.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:29am
  - Prince
    
    Explain to me how a standard set by Dept of Health was due to a scam run by drug-testing companies.
    If you have evidence, let’s see it.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:22am
    - cha
      
      In 2010 the MOH set standards regarding lab contamination, not use.
      
      When Standards NZ set policy on use, testing companies were among assorted ~~parasites~~ interested parties who got themselves a seat at the table.
      
      The standard was developed by a committee of 21 experts across relevant industries in the public and private sector. These included sampling and testing operators, decontamination contractors, property investment and property management interests, the insurance sector, local authorities, public health authorities, and laboratories. Central and local government were also represented.
      
      https://www.standards.govt.nz/sponsored-standards/testing-and-decontamination-of-methamphetamine-contaminated-properties/
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:37am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        I’ve worked for the Ministry of Health. They will generally go very much on the side of caution. If they think there is the slightest risk in you eating this, breathing that, drinking this etc., they will give that advice. They don’t want to be responsible if years later someone develops an illness because of even low exposure to something.
        
        Science develops and sometimes it turns out to not have been the right advice, but at the time it was on the side of caution.
        
        Nobody, except maybe crappy testing firms who do dud lab work is to ‘blame’ here. And of course the people actually smoking P in state houses!
        
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        June 5, 2018 10:54am
    - Psycho Milt
      
      If you have evidence, let’s see it.
      
      This article shows where the grift is.
      
      The Ministry of Health issued guidelines relating to homes that had been used as meth labs, and specified that they should be cleaned to such a high standard that, afterwards, you shouldn’t be able to detect more than 0.5μg of meth.
      
      The question of whether it was HNZ who mistook that to mean that any level of meth in a house above 0.5μg meant it was unsafe and drug testing companies just enriched themselves off that initial stupidity, or whether it was the drug testing companies giving “professional” advice based on a misreading of the MoH guidelines that led HNZ to fuck their tenants big-time, is a matter of debate. However, it’s the drug testing companies’ job to understand the guidelines and those guidelines very clearly do not say what drug testing companies claimed they said. For my money, that’s a scam and I hope the shits who’ve been running it go bust.
      
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      June 5, 2018 1:00pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Further to the above: as an example of the lying, scamming weasels in the meth testing industry, Public Address pointed me to this gem from Dowdell and Associates:
        
        Whether methamphetamine contamination in a dwelling is via use or manufacture the exposure risk is the same.
        
        Like the best weaselry, it’s a true statement, carefully crafted to conceal two other truths:
        1. The exposure risk is the same, but the amount you could be exposed to won’t be.
        2. The health risk from meth exposure is the same in both cases: non-existent. The risk from a meth lab is in the toxic chemicals used in the production process, not from the finished product.
        
        If it really were possible to “shut down industries by fiat” as DPF claims, this particular industry should be gone tomorrow.
        
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        June 5, 2018 2:30pm
      - Lance
        
        You mean the tenants that broke the law by consuming illegal substances that make them fucked in the head and violent?
        Yea, what were they thinking evicting such pillars of the community?
        
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        June 5, 2018 4:47pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        I don’t know what illegal substance you’ve been consuming, but it seems to make you write comments with no bearing on the subject under discussion. Maybe go away and sober up a bit?
        
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        June 5, 2018 6:41pm
- Komata
  
  VP
  
  And that is the problem; the Nats are coming across as actually AGREEING with what the CoL is doing!!!
  
  Crazily, his fellow MP’s seem quite content to go along with him, and support his ineffectual ‘bleats’.
  
  Do they know something that we don’t or is this just another step on the Nats ‘Road to Oblivion’, that they seem determined to carry on down?
  
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  June 5, 2018 11:34am
igm

Once again, when is Crockery going to announce she, Gayboy, and the display of illegitimacy, are moving into one of Gluckman’s healthy “P” infested State houses, proving to NZ they are safe? Even Twyford and his tribe would be a start, or Toxic Gnome and his concubine; after all, he is Crockery’s Boy Friday.
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June 5, 2018 8:18am
- VicParking
  
  Clare the Pie lady would be the one. I hear she gets up in the night and slicks floors for crumbs if she finds the cupboards bare.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:38am
- Komata
  
  Igm
  
  You are going to be waiting for a VERY long time; cos after all, it’s only the ‘Prols’ who get to experience such things. ‘Them in charge’ never do, especially when they live in Freemans Bay or Remmers. Cindy wouldn’t be seen dead in such premises – unless there was a photo shoot from (insert name of apporpiate wimmen’s mag), then she would FEEL it was her ‘duty’ to attend.. (but only for as short a time as possible; can’t be contaminated by the ‘lower orders’).
  
  For some reason Evita Peron comes to mind…
  
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  June 5, 2018 11:41am
Monique Watson

Oh fuck @oldpark . You don;t say.
Methinks: Get your lazy Prime Ministerial arse out of bed and take the kid to the Botanical Gardens.
I’ve been taking kids there for twenty years. Planning around natural features beats a plastic junk climbing frame most days.
Unless there are benches for parents and someone’s got a cooler of Mojitos.
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June 5, 2018 8:19am
- igm
  
  The only real work Crockery has done is hand out parcels in a fish and chip shop. She could not be entrusted with the till or cooking!
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:25am
  - RF
    
    Dont forget filling the chicken salt shakers….. you need concentration and not Day dreaming about your next selfie.
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:53pm
- VicParking
  
  She should take her kids to Myers Park and show them (Now teenagers) “these were the people mummy was going to put into into houses but Uncle Phil Fucked it up”
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:41am
Local Miller

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12064350
And the $11B hole in Liebour’s budget in now showing. Well it’s showing to be a $12.5B + hole, and growing.
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June 5, 2018 8:19am
- artemisia
  
  But but but, we are a coalition which is a whole different thing. Completely. Different. So don’t blame us.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:33am
- Happychappy
  
  Local Miller : Yes and Sweet Cheeks the only one to rebut it, you would have thought all those Economists that poured scorn on Steven Joyce for calling it a eleven billion hole would be pointing out that they actually got their figures wrong and apologize for their blatant lies.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:46am
cmm

Another stuff lie.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/104403910/vitamin-d-is-essential-but-you-dont-necessarily-need-supplements

Who are the people most likely to have problems due to a lack of vitamin D? People with darker skin.

So why does the accompanying picture show a very white woman in a bikini?
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June 5, 2018 8:30am
- VicParking
  
  Because they dont read the article they just cut and pasted before they publish it” Journalism 101 2018 style.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:43am
- hullkiwi
  
  cmm,
  Sorry, but this response is going to be long, but these type of misinformation pieces from people who suggest they are are from the medical profession & then spout garbage in our lazy media make my blood boil.
  
  Just a guess, but based on family experience, I’ll bet that good doctor who provided that research piece works for a pharmaceutical company. My family has extensive experience of vitamin & mineral deficiencies as my wife suffers from both iron & Vitamin D deficiciencied & she is very much a European fair skinned whitey. Because of her physiology, my wife can’t get enough Vitamin D from sunlight, tablets or supplements, she has to get it from infusion or patches she wears. In fact, it is almost impossible to overdose on Vitamin D from normal sources, to OD you would need to be getting large doses from infusions at non recommended time intervals.
  
  Much of what was written there was half truths. For another perspective on the subject people should read Ian Wishart’s book on the Vitamin D Conspiracy (published in 2011/12).
  
  Basically, most people in NZ have levels at just below normal, this situation was exacerbated by the skin cancer fraternity (supported by the pharmaceutical cosmetics industry) over kiwis & skin cancer. Vitamin D levels dropped significantly from the early 1980s.
  
  In the Stuff, piece the doctor is playing fast and loose with the science. Research has shown that a lack of vitamin D results in:
  Weakness of both bones & teeth;
  Physiological weaknesses in bones & muscles;
  Tiredness, fatigue & lack of energy;
  Depression;
  Mental impairment & judgment
  
  The reason for these types of articles can usually be traced to “big Pharma”, who do not want people getting inexpensive vitamin D supplements from the aisle of the supermarket or doctor, but want the doctors to be issuing prescriptions for expensive pharmaceuticals for pain relief and anti depressants.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:28am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    but these type of misinformation pieces from people who suggest they are are from the medical profession
    
    The article was written by a well-known, qualified GP.
    
    There is clear mention of the different categories of people who may be Vitamin-D deficient.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:48am
    - hullkiwi
      
      …and Maggie, my wife’s circumstances are such that we live with her Vitamin D deficiency as a normal part of life. It was also an ailment my mother in law suffered with most of her life.
      To overcome the problem my wife has to rely on patches we bring in from the US. She has seen a specialist in this country & he recommended the same treatment as the UK NHS (infusion at regular periods). Oral supplements are a waste.
      
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      June 5, 2018 12:42pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I’m not arguing against your personal circumstances, merely pointing out that Dr Cathy Stephenson is a genuine medical professional.
        I think she writes sensible columns.
        
        Now if the subject of your post had been an acting hack like Robyn Malcolm extolling the benefits of some capsule for blood pressure control, then I’d be agreeing with you about faux-medico puff pieces.
        https://www.workcommunications.co.nz/projects/nutra-life
        
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        June 5, 2018 3:00pm
- itstricky
  
  Another stuff lie.
  
  ‘lie’ is a pretty strong word for a difference of opinion over what image to show. I don’t see why they have to publish a picture of someone with a Vitamin D deficiency. It’s hardly a ‘lie’.
  
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  June 5, 2018 4:29pm
Scott

Good day for religious freedom with the Supreme Court saying that a Christian Baker could refuse to bake a gay wedding cake that violated his religious beliefs. A victory for common sense and fairness and a blow against the imposition of compulsory gayness across the land.
If you think the decision is wrong let me ask you this. Would it be OK for a homosexual couple to demand a Muslim Baker make them a wedding cake?

https://nypost.com/2018/06/04/supreme-court-rules-baker-can-refuse-to-make-gay-wedding-cake/
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June 5, 2018 8:31am
- MCos
  
  I don’t think anyone is imposing ‘compulsory gayness’.
  If the baker had baked a cake for these people he would not have suddenly become gay.
  Similarly I have been to many Buddhist services with my wife and partaken to a limited extent in the goings on, but I still emerge at the end of it all a non believer.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:56am
- Scott
  
  To clarify – “compulsory gayness” means that although you don’t have to actually participate in gay acts, it is compulsory to heartily and unreservedly and with a big smile on your face, approve of those that do.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:12am
  - Psycho Milt
    
    …it is compulsory to heartily and unreservedly and with a big smile on your face, approve of those that do.
    
    Could you point me to the US legislation that imposed this? Your claim has a strong smell of bullshit about it.
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:33am
    - Scott
      
      Psycho – the legalizing of gay marriage has been a powerful weapon to stigmatise and in the case of the Christian baker prosecute and seek to destroy his livelihood. The Baker had to stop baking all wedding cakes, a big part of his business.
      
      In America Msnbc commentator Joy Reid has had to abase herself for past tweets that were seen as anti homosexual. In NZ Israel Folau has been abused everyday for standing up for the Bible’s view on homosexuality.
      
      These examples show that to speak up against homosexuality will lead to constant abuse, social ostracism, court action and the destruction of your business in some cases.
      
      That’s why we need to move against the gaystapo and realise once again that homosexuality is wrong and incompatible with a decent society. If homosexuals want to do their thing in private that’s one thing. But for everyone else to be forced to approve of their actions, that’s another thing entirely.
      
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      June 5, 2018 12:23pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      You not liking it when people vehemently disagree with your views does not mean that their views have been made “compulsory.”
      
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      June 5, 2018 3:55pm
  - MCos
    
    Being gay does not necessarily involve participating in ‘gay acts’.
    Similarly if you are not gay doesn’t necessarily involve participating in ‘heterosexual acts’.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:12am
Monique Watson

And the Tree Huggers out in force:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103690904/its-banned-in-other-countries-but-new-zealand-is-using-more-toxic-methyl-bromide-than-ever

And apparently cows have Feelz too:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12064300

I’m going to tip a cow during my next visit to the ‘Naki. Show a whole new generation how it’s done.
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June 5, 2018 8:43am
Paulus

I see a children’s playground is to be built in Parliament –
I assume that Trevor will be able to send and dastardly National MPs there ?
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June 5, 2018 8:43am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  They should build it with materials recycled from demolished former P houses, now that those have been found to be safe.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:45am
cmm

Yes there is White Male Privilege.

The privilege is that there is no such privilege. Huh?

The most powerful way to debilitate a person is to wreck their accountability and agency. When Maori and women are told that the white male patriarchy are the cause of all their problems it strips them of the ability to change their lives: You’re in a shitty position because white males put you there and nothing that you did. There’s nothing you can do to change it. Here, take a victim card and get angry.

Now that might be Ok once or twice, but after a lifetime of this messaging you can forgive someone from thinking they are powerless to fix their own problems.

White males don’t get handed out victims cards blaming all their problems on others. If they have problems they know they know that they must fix them. These days that’s almost a super power. It is certainly a privilege.
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June 5, 2018 8:48am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Oh cmm, admits I’ve played that card a few time with a couple of White male lefties…”are you questioning my integrity, my mana, as a Maori or as a woman?”
  
  Shuts the buggers up fast. I’m
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:06am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    LOL, they need that treatment. They want endlessly divisive identity politics, let them have them until they grow up!
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:03am
  - cmm
    
    NW are you sure we aren’t evil twins?
    
    I once said that being an ex-South African minority, I demanded my cultural right to apartheid and to be mean to black people.
    
    That made for some upset, but not as much as when I asked a father of a Che-T-shirt wearing numptie why he let his son walk around with a picture of a genocidal murderer on his Tshirt.
    
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    June 5, 2018 1:24pm
Left Right and Centre

Jordie Barrett story – where they entered an unlocked flat of two female occupants.

Say what now ? Unlocked flat of two women.
Lock your house **IDIOTS**.
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June 5, 2018 8:54am
- sooty
  
  Were they blonde?
  Maybe they left it unlocked for the boyfriend?
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:59am
- MCos
  
  Accidentally leaving the front door unlocked doesn’t entitle some stranger to waltz right in and take over the place.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:08am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    The same as entitled people who waltz in with thick as pigshit comments ?
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:41am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Ummm, they thought they were at a mates, realised they weren’t and went to leave. If the occupants really wanted to kick up a fuss, I’m sure they would have.
    
    It’s our pisspoor excuse for journalists who think this is news worthy.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:02am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Well it appears that the residents called Police.
      Was it the residents, Police or Barrett that advised the media?
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:14pm
  - Inandout
    
    Most insurance companies would disagree. An unlocked door is an invitation to pillage.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:50am
Monique Watson

I made a mistake. I’ve been reading the book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Addictive People.” I realize now that I should have been reading:
“The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.”

Under the heading, “Clowning around”, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12064639

Man admitted to hospital with 30cm aubergine in his rectum.

🙂

Hahahaha!
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June 5, 2018 8:55am
- Classic Liberal
  
  ’30cm aubergine in his rectum.’
  
  Greens should make a fuss about such a waste of food!
  
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  June 5, 2018 11:05am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Inserting food at the wrong end reminds me of a joke.
    Three surgeons were discussing which national racial group were the easiest to operate on.
    The first said, ” Americans – they’re all nuts and bolts; unscrew the faulty limb, and re-bolt it up. Simple.”
    The second surgeon said, “Nope. The Japanese; all printed circuits – slide out the broken one and insert a new one, Easy.”
    The third surgeon said, ” You’re both wrong. The easiest are the Poms – they’ve only got two working parts – the mouth and the arsehole – and they’re both interchangeable.”
    (with apologies to our English friends 😉 )
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’m buggered if I know how an aubergine could work its way backwards up the descending colon, along the transverse colon, down the ascending colon and into the jejunum before arriving at the stomach.
  It’s bullshit, I reckon.
  
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  June 5, 2018 11:37am
  - KevOB
    
    It’s a long way to travel for a lonesome aubergine.
    
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    June 5, 2018 1:17pm
  - Swifty
    
    You have a way with words, Maggy.
    
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    June 5, 2018 2:56pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I’m buggered if I know how an aubergine could be squeezed through a sphincter without smashing.
    
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    June 5, 2018 4:27pm
Manolo

The rapist speaks:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/clinton-i-wouldn-t-have-done-anything-differently-lewinsky-affair-n879721

Former President Bill Clinton says that, even in light of the #MeToo movement, he would not have approached how he dealt with Monica Lewinsky any differently and acknowledged that — 20 years after their relationship made headlines — he’s still never apologized privately to the former intern.
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June 5, 2018 9:05am
- Harkman
  
  Last night One News continued their “Trump is bad and we’ll only show you bad news about him routine.” No mention of the news that unemployment is at 50 year lows or black unemployment is at all time lows, no just a two second sound bite where Giuliani said he could pardon himself for ‘no crime in the first place.’ They conveniently left out Giuliani saying that he (Trump) didn’t know he could pardon himself and no intention to do so.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:16am
  - oldgolfer
    
    TV One has its own anti-Trump reporter and she has been very busy.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:39am
  - Inandout
    
    Which is why many people don’t watch TV news.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:52am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  @Manolo
  
  Have you read this Guardian review of “Bill’s” new novel?
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/04/the-president-is-missing-bill-clinton-james-patterson
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:46am
Left Right and Centre

What am looking at ? If I didn’t know any better I’d swear that the only smart women allowed to succeed elsewhere and be on TV news in America have long shapely legs, an attractive face, figure and hair.

I’m thinking clone army when I watch that.
Skip to 1:26 in to see the least random sample of five humans from earth. Four hot clones and a bloke. Brilliant.
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June 5, 2018 9:19am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Well, any healthy human can look quite good. Sensible diet, bit of exercise, then let the TV station do the styling and make-up. Applies to men and women.
  
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  June 5, 2018 11:10am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    That’s highly subjective – ‘quite good’.
    The women in that vid are all leg models.
    You’re either given that by nature or you are the other roughly 95% of women.
    
    And it’s not an accident. A lot of US women celeb have got the old ‘Hollywood legs’. It seems to extend to anyone having more chance of getting on US TV if they possess them.
    
    Nah – diet and exercise not enough. There’s some very fit healthy weight women with nothing to get excited about legs. That’s not very pc eh ? True though.
    
    We’re talking freakishly shapely attractive long legs here. Four pairs of them out of four women. What are the chances ?
    
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    June 5, 2018 5:32pm
Manolo

Oh dear, the European left is outraged:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/new-us-ambassador-to-germany-under-fire-for-rightwing-support

German politicians have criticised Donald Trump’s new ambassador to Germany after he said he wanted to “empower” anti-establishment rightwing forces throughout Europe.
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June 5, 2018 9:32am
- Psycho Milt
  
  Well, duh. I expect that if the Turkish ambassador said he wanted to empower anti-establishment Islamist forces throughout Europe they’d have a few things to say about that too. It doesn’t surprise me that a Trump-appointed ambassador has no idea what “Don’t be a dick” means.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:40am
Monique Watson

Fuck The Guardian, that media outlet just wants to climb inside the butts of the people that don’t think.

Meanwhile Assad. Kim Jong hyphenated un and Putin form an alliance.
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June 5, 2018 9:39am
Dave Mann

If this wasn’t so tragic it would be hilarious:

Niall Ferguson has resigned from a program at Stanford University (which he helped to set up) that promotes free speech and invites controversial speakers from differing viewpoints to address their students.

The reason for prof Ferguson’s Resignation?

He expressed an opinion.

That’s right. This man expressed an opinion in a free speech forum and as a result of the backlash, he has resigned! Can you believe this?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/02/niall-ferguson-quits-stanford-free-speech-role-over-leaked-emails

In the article it was reported that Niall Ferguson expressed ‘regret’ too. When are people going to learn to stand up for themselves and be courageous? He should have held onto his position and challenged Stanford to fire him instead of wimping out, resigning and expressing ‘regret’.

Western society is fucked. There seems to be no effective resistance any more.
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June 5, 2018 9:44am
- Psycho Milt
  
  The reason for prof Ferguson’s Resignation?
  
  He expressed an opinion.
  
  Really? I though he resigned because he was revealed to be using his position at the university to engage in political activity with the local Republicans, to the point of recommending that they try and dig up dirt on a left-wing student whose politics Ferguson disagreed with.
  
  I expect he resigned before he was fired. There’s not much point in the University continuing to fund a “free speech advocate” who’s devoting his work time to partisan political activity.
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:02am
RW Capitalist

CAPITAL GAINS TAX:
ANALYSIS OF REFORM OPTIONS
FOR AUSTRALIA
Alan Reynolds
Senior Fellow and Director of
Economic Research, Hudson Institute
(Washington D.C., United States)

Capital assets include:
· land and buildings (except for an owner-occupied residence);
· corporate shares and other securities;
· units in a unit trust;
· collectibles which cost over $500 (for example, jewelry or artwork);
· personal use assets which cost over $10,000 (for example, a boat);
· contractual rights;
· goodwill;
· foreign currency.
and this CoL of circus clowns, want to implement the Australian model of CGT.
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June 5, 2018 9:53am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Notes:
  Could include:
  wedding and engagement rings
  Holiday homes
  Contractual rights, goodwill ie Businesses when sold
  Business’ that have foreign exchange accounts for importing purposes.
  Special note:
  BEWARE the term “unrealized assets”
  This means they will tax you if, your asset gains in estimated value, regardless of whether you sell it or not.
  eg Say you have an engagement ring, bought for $1000 and it is now valued at $1200, but it is still on your finger, they would tax you on the supposed $200 “unrealized” capital gain
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:16am
  - Harkman
    
    But how are they going to check? Are they going from place to place with valuers.
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:31am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      The same way they check contractors, if they are doing cash jobs.
      They use your tax paid, against your declared earnings and compare it to your spending, savings and declared assets.
      They run a file on you.
      Businesses will have to be valued for tax purposes.
      They already can tell the appreciation of goods.
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:54am
- KevOB
  
  As a former valuer for IRD of shares etc. –forget it. The scope for argument about value is enormous. The only beneficiaries will be lawyers and accountants.
  
  Taxes have to be equitable, certain, simple and collectable. It’s hard to argue with a QV. The value of shares in a private company has scope for great uncertainty. Is this to be an annual appraisal?
  
  Avoid CGT like the plague. The bright line test is reasonable in relation to real property as everyone argues they “did not intend to make a profit” and that needs to be countered. A tax rebated over the last 3 of the 5 years from purchase would fairly capture most situations. The longer the property being held the less to pay.
  
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  June 5, 2018 1:34pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    “The scope for argument about value is enormous.”
    Have you been paying attention.
    With this CoL it’s their way or the highway.
    There will be NO argument entered in to.
    
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    June 5, 2018 4:24pm
Monique Watson

She’s on maternity leave. Expect the Baby of the Nation to be squidged out shortly.
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June 5, 2018 10:00am
- tf78
  
  How’s this for a future headline:
  “Jacinda and Clark are proud to announce the arrival of their baby – sex to be notified later.
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:26am
  - sooty
    
    When it makes up it’s mind what it feelz like.
    
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    June 5, 2018 2:14pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Gender will be determined after a 9 month discussion with a duly appointed panel.
    Isn’t that the way they decide everything else?
    
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    June 5, 2018 4:26pm
    - Jack5
      
      Now gender’s optional, perhaps there should be a national referendum on the heir’s gender.
      
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      June 5, 2018 8:15pm
  - RF
    
    Why tf78. was it the immaculate conception..
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:40pm
Rodney Randall

Chris Lynch Newstalk ZB leading with Prof. Moon’s paper on HRC ‘S move to expand section 61 to include Muslims.

Prof Moon on show shortly.

HRC refusing to come on show.

Not surprising for a dysfunctional shitbox of an outfit embroiled in alleged sexual offending.

They are being exposed for the evil quislings they are.
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June 5, 2018 10:05am
- Rodney Randall
  
  Perigo on right now.
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:16am
cha

On this day in 1940, as British forces in France massed for evacuation, Winston Churchill delivered his forth speech to Parliament as PM.

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches/
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June 5, 2018 10:10am
RF

According to recent polls Peter’s party is sitting in the naughty corner.

I have a sneaking suspicion he is going to going to try and buy his way back into the good books of his power base either in next years budget or year after with an increase in the super pension.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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June 5, 2018 10:15am
- ex-golfer
  
  Budget 2020 will be full of lollies for everyone.
  That’s typical of the electoral cycle – the lack of largess in 2018 will be long forgotten.
  And the sheep will fall for it again because NZrs blindly vote on the basis of “whats in it for them”.
  
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  June 5, 2018 11:00am
  - sooty
    
    Too late then!
    
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    June 5, 2018 12:35pm
- Paulus
  
  Presumably Catastrophe Cindy has promised Winston a real seat at the next election – as per their secret agenda, so he does not have to worry about the 5% level anyway. No wonder he is smiling.
  
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  June 5, 2018 1:22pm
  - ex-golfer
    
    Northland.
    Labour will do an Epsom (but its different of course).
    
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    June 5, 2018 5:31pm
Chuck Bird

FYI

Barry Soper: What happened to Metiria Turei looks set to remain a mystery

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12064437
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June 5, 2018 10:22am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yep, apparently the corrupt coalition of incompetent fools has decided that the fraudster’s privacy is more important than the taxpayers’ right to know.
  To his credit, Soper is taking it to the Ombudsman.
  
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  June 5, 2018 12:40pm
  - KevOB
    
    The right to privacy is a personal unless Meturia herself discloses info or it is publicly available from Court proceedings.
    
    None of us would want it differently. WINZ or IRD cannot disclose whatever is requested except to those lawfully authorised.
    
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    June 5, 2018 1:43pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      An absence of Court proceedings would certainly make it easier for her.
      
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      June 5, 2018 4:31pm
- sooty
  
  We know what happened, she ripped the taxpayer off! Labour are covering up for no nuts with two mums! Now that commie cindy is on maternity leave barrys suddenly decided that he did have balls after all and burst into print. He’s going to be in trouble when commie chick gets back and no earth shattering news releases to him.
  
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  June 5, 2018 12:41pm
  - softail 1450
    
    sooty ,and no more trips on air force one.
    
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    June 5, 2018 4:37pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/06/anti-muslim-hate-crime-as-defined-by-the-london-police/

“When I read the above list of anti-Muslim hate crimes as defined by the London Police I felt like I had entered the Twilight Zone. To the average reader, the list appears to be a checklist of undeniable facts. Londoners are living in an Orwellian city if this report is anything to go by. It is a crime to have a negative opinion about Islam but even worse it is a crime to state provable facts and to tell the truth about the religion.”
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June 5, 2018 10:37am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  When telling the truth is a crime, is one supposed to lie?
  (Think of the mental health damage this caused the citizens of the USSR over the years.)
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:55am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” G. Orwell
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:46am
- Jack5
  
  The NZ police seem a bit weak on democratic rights, too, if the the article on the Hooerald web site, is an indication. It includes this:
  
  “Police told the Herald on Sunday this week that while crimes are still coded under existing crime types there has been consultation with community leaders to consider the pros and cons of recording data based on discriminatory attacks.
  
  “The changing demographics in this country has required police to seriously consider a wider discussion which focuses on the rights of individuals to be safe and feel safe regardless of who and where they come from,” a police spokesperson said.
  
  So the police are consulting Muslims, on New Zealanders’ free speech rigts? Perhaps also the Refugee Council, whose former secretary was suspected of being a gang leader in Canada? Perhaps also the crew who got gatecrasher Zaoui settlement rights in NZ?
  
  There are some blockheads in the police, and as though they were made of balsa, they tend to float to the top.
  
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  June 5, 2018 10:56am
  - Jack5
    
    The law industry elements who want to restrict our free speech, probably are also responsible for this, too.
    
    A young and presumably Muslim man who, as punishment for planning a car and knife attack on innocent Christchurch citizens, was sentenced to supervision/probation – with golf lessons.
    
    They’ve got their priorities right?
    
    https://www.star.kiwi/2018/04/christchurch-teen-convicted-for-plotting-nz-terror-attack-takes-up-golf-on-road-to-rehabilitation/
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:07am
  - stephieboy
    
    jack5 , do you subscribe to the Hooreld? ( both online or paper).
    
    You appeared to be glued to it 7 days.
    
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    June 5, 2018 12:24pm
Rodney Randall

Ramadan dinners at cop shop too.

All about appeasing the Muslims.

Must not offend.

You will be locked up.

Quislings gagging for expansion to section 61.
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June 5, 2018 11:03am
- cha
  
  Ramadan dinners allover the shop.
  
  http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/390428-trump-to-host-his-first-ever-ramadan-dinner
  
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  June 5, 2018 11:10am
  - Jack5
    
    Maybe we should all chip in for a ramadan dinner for the Stephiestani troll syndicate.
    
    Ramadan ends on June 14 – Thursday of next week.
    
    On second thoughts, the Stephies probably haven’t been fasting. From Al Jazeera, those who are exempt from fasting (and presumably don’t get a ramadan dinner):
    
    Young children, the sick, the mentally ill, travellers, the elderly, and women who are menstruating, pregnant, breast-feeding or recently gave birth.
    
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    June 5, 2018 11:20am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Fasting (no food) is one thing and many religions and people just for health reasons do some of it. Can be done in a healthy way *if* one keeps up one’s fluid intake.
      
      But I’ve only heard of people going without fluids in Ramadan. That is really not healthy. Even Gluckman might agree!
      
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      June 5, 2018 11:28am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Need to add, “frustrated goat-herders.”
      
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      June 5, 2018 11:48am
- stephieboy
  
  Rodney Randall etc, we are now entering Morons territory and biogotsville.
  
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  June 5, 2018 12:22pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Mr Taylor.
    
    “We are now entering Morons territory and Biogotsville” (Sic)? -Prof. Small But – Ample.
    
    Moron’s needs an apostrophe Ralph.
    
    Bio-gotsville? Bio… Goats Ville?
    
    The fasting effects of Ramadan on Steph are visible for all to see here.
    
    Your Facebook page profile picture confirms 1 of 2 things:
    
    A) You narrowly avoided Down’s Syndrome
    B) You are the product of Brother/Sister Relations.
    
    As an ageing, senile, chronic masturbating mock Chrisitian/Fabian Socialist, may the Lord have mercy on you and all those poor souls that frequent the Yoga Pantry.
    
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    June 5, 2018 2:02pm
Jack5

The student visa rort has obviously been tapped by brothel owners.

Lincoln Tan, in the Hooerald today, includes this in an article on an Immigration Dept crackdown (no pun intended) on prostitutes illegally in NZ:

“The 30-year-old China national came on a student visa to study English, but was found at a Ponsonby brothel naked and with a customer.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12064121
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June 5, 2018 11:31am
cha

Cracker ratio, Mikey.

Out of 291,770 items seized from Michael Cohen and reviewed by the Special Master thus far, she concluded that only 148 are privileged. That is a very tiny number and suggests the prosecutors were right that he was not practicing law much. https://t.co/OtMXqFzSGa— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 4, 2018
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June 5, 2018 12:04pm
Komata

Igm

You are going to be waiting for a VERY long time; cos after all, it’s only the ‘Prols’ who get to expereince such things. ‘Them in charge’ never do, especially when they live in Freemans bay or Remmers. Cindy wouldn’t be seen dead in such premises – unless there was a photo shoot from (insert name of apporpiate wimmen’s mag), then she would FEEL it was her ‘duty’ to attend.. (but only for as short a time as possible; can’t be contaminated by the ‘lower orders’).

For some reason Evita Peron comes to mind…
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June 5, 2018 12:07pm
cmm

Teacher bleating she can’t afford to go out for coffee.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/104289958/nurses-and-teachers-salaries-crunched-by-the-rising-cost-of-living–and-housing-in-particular

Well here are some tips:

1) Performance pay. If you go with performance pay then you can earn more for being better. Everyone wins.
2) Get rid of the unions. They are leaches sucking up your pay, getting in the way of negotiations and helping to keep to down.
3) You’re only working a 9-month-a-year job. Get some fill in work.
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June 5, 2018 12:21pm
- itstricky
  
  Those would be good tips if they had any semblance of truth about their presumptions
  
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  June 5, 2018 3:09pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Many decades ago, teaching was a profession, still is in Charter schools and private schools.
  But in public schools, for many, it is just the best paid PART TIME job in the country.
  
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  June 5, 2018 5:37pm
  - itstricky
    
    still is in Charter schools
    
    Pfffttttt. Shows how much of your bluster is ideological and completely lacking in fact.
    
    it is just the best paid PART TIME job in the country
    
    Are you a teacher, then?
    
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    June 5, 2018 7:36pm
cmm

Oh fuck here comes the union payback!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104466802/workplace-shake-up-in-governments-sights–jim-bolger-to-lead-pay-working-group

Winnie? Winnie? You got our backs mate?
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June 5, 2018 2:55pm
- Inandout
  
  I wonder whose accent Jim will adopt while attending this working group?
  
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  June 5, 2018 3:01pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    The bugger is 83. Hope he’s still got all his faculties.
    
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    June 5, 2018 4:34pm
- MrTips
  
  Bolger is Winston’s mate. He’s almost as arrogant and shit as Winston. Bolger has spent 30 years turning his principles inside out so one more twist won’t hurt.
  I’m more concerned about this than anything else right now – Bolger and Winston could fuck NZ permanently.
  
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  June 5, 2018 5:39pm
  - Viking2
    
    He was fucking useless as a Minister of Labour. didn’t have fucking clue how people lived or worked. A major Nat failure i’m afraid.
    
    Now Bill Birch would have been a better pick.
    
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    June 5, 2018 5:55pm
Monique Watson

Yeah what the fuck does Winnie aim to achieve? with the recent policy bargaining?

And if I’m correct, he’ll be installed by lunchtime.

I’m not saying he is a drunk but just check out shades of affairs to come when the drunk uncle comes home. Dick Van Dyke 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6pHhw1QGlI
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June 5, 2018 3:23pm
cmm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12064929

Over 300kph? Sounds a bit OTT. Most Jap bikes are nobbled to go no faster than 300.

These blokes clearly have a death wish, I hope they manage to get their wish and kill themselves before hurting anyone else.
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June 5, 2018 3:55pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  “Most Jap bikes are nobbled to go no faster than 300.”
  
  No problem, they get there pretty quick then hit the limiter. Racing versions without the limiter can hit 340 with a long enough windup.
  
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  June 5, 2018 4:37pm
  - nasska
    
    Aren’t most performance bikes & cars governed by a “chip”? I seem to remember being told that changing it could do amazing things to an engine’s capability.
    
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    June 5, 2018 6:04pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      That’s true nasska, but the engine’s capability is there anyway. Various cars and bikes are governed for various reasons. Most Euro exotics are governed to 250k for political reasons but many of them are still accelerating hard at that speed with at least one gear to go.
      
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      June 5, 2018 7:54pm
      - nasska
        
        I’m on the same page with the speed issue but why would a manufacturer limit power? It seems that by altering the chip in my 2017 70 Series Landcruiser I could boost the KW output by over 40KW.
        
        https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/toyota/electrics/auction-1654981425.htm?rsqid=6cc4de63bea74b2a94429fefea92b14c
        
        I’ve got no intention of doing so but it seems daft to design an engine for what is essentially a highway capable tractor then detune it.
        
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        June 5, 2018 8:21pm
      - cha
        
        by altering the chip
        
        My brother tells me Boeing and their engine suppliers do multi-million dollar performance upgrades by altering the chip, on line.
        
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        June 5, 2018 8:35pm
      - Jack5
        
        Don’t the motor manufacturers take petrol quality into account when they set up the microprocessors?
        
        I’ve heard it said that Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands are often in the same marketing region as New Zealand for vehicles, and motor microprocessors then are tailored to cope with lower, or more variable, fuel standards in PNG and the Islands.
        
        You used to be able to buy for some vehicles microprocessors that would squeeze a little more performance out of an engine by being designed for Australian-NZ fuel quality.
        
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        June 5, 2018 11:07pm
stigie

Are we sure we want to ban oil and gas just to make ourselves feel good against other countries..?
The photo tells it all when its economic sabotage to our country !~

https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/q/7/2/0/o/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1q7257.png/1528166954924.jpg
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June 5, 2018 5:10pm
Niz

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/06/government-set-to-introduce-single-use-plastic-bag-ban.html
I _think_ they’re talking about supermarket shopping bags… You know, the ones many of us use multiple times, not the _actual_ single-use bags like frozen veggie bags, that sort of thing.
I’m expecting a new definition for ‘single’ to be added into the dictionary – i.e. many.
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June 5, 2018 5:33pm
Ross12

This interesting.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/tim-cook-speech-at-apple-annual-wwdc-conference.html

All these app makers should thank the persistent guys at the start of the “industry. I remember reading in a Steve Jobs biography that when the first iphone came along some software guys pitched the idea of apps to Jobs and he turned them down. But they persisted and eventually Jobs relented.
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June 5, 2018 5:53pm
Fletch

Obama’s administration put diversity ahead of skills when hiring air traffic controllers.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/02/obama-era-faa-hiring-rules-place-diversity-ahead-airline-safety-attorney-tells-tucker-carlson.html

Is there anything this guy did that hasn’t helped make America a worse place?
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June 5, 2018 6:19pm
- cha
  
  Of course there’s no mention of the FAA lowering standards to remedy staff shortages in the wake of Bush era pay cuts to new recruits, the freezing of current salaries and serious changes to working conditions.
  
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  June 5, 2018 7:56pm
Steve (North Shore)

https://www.facebook.com/MichelleMalkinCRTV/videos/479187835834371/?fref=mentions
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June 5, 2018 6:42pm
Doubledimp

Saw One News tonight, they are kicking out beneficiaries when they used drugs, and those who stay must prove they are looking for work. The article ends and the household says “good”.
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June 5, 2018 6:51pm
- kowtow
  
  Why are we taking in refugees from overseas when there are homeless in New Zealand?
  
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  June 5, 2018 7:50pm
sooty

John Key was on choice tv tonight having a cuppa tea with Queen Elizabeth on his weekend stay with his family at Balmoral Castle. Something that Labour has never done and will never do in the forseeable future. Suffer in your jocks, Commie Chick and fishermans friend.
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June 5, 2018 7:55pm
- cha
  
  You must be so proud of the galloping colonial clot.
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  June 5, 2018 8:01pm
kowtow

Talking of refugees , we’re told by the gubmint that New Zealand takes the pick of the crop .

But ……”Gillian Leigh had been reaching refugees for eight years in Christchurch, before moving to Dunedin two years ago.

One of the challenges was that some of her adult students had never learned to read and write in their mother language, she said.”

So who’s telling porkies , the gubmint or this lady who works educating them and says some are illiterate in even their own language.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/struggle-find-english-teachers-southern-refugees
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June 5, 2018 7:55pm
- nasska
  
  …..”New Zealand takes the pick of the crop .”…..
  
  It must be difficult to stop the rejects from eating themselves!
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:06pm
  - Jack5
    
    New Zealand shuts out Christian refugees from the Middle East. They don’t get into the refugee scheme:
    
    https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/03/20/iraqs-christian-refugees-face-double-discrimination/
    
    Meanwhile, for the Stephiestani troll team, who are enjoying their end-of-day fast-breaking meal, the latest diversity dividends in Britain:
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5807227/Thugs-fracture-teenage-rugby-players-skull-mowing-car.html
    
    AND
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5806719/Asylum-seeker-raped-woman-night-jailed-14-years.html
    
    (At least Britain is putting some of these ratbags in jail: in NZ
    this criminal might be sent to golf school.)
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:51pm
nasska

Looks like the cold harsh winds of commercial reality have finally been noticed by the craven virtue-signallers running Foodstuffs:

…..”The head of supermarket giant Foodstuffs says New Zealanders are not ready to “go cold turkey” on plastic bags yet.”…..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103943257/foodstuffs-kiwis-arent-quite-ready-to-go-plastic-bag-free?rm=m

Is it, just possible, that they foresaw problems with customers rolling up to ‘less than 10 items’ counters with their plastic basket (which is not allowed out of the shop) full of groceries without their jute bag covered with the shop’s free advertising? Two scenarios:

1) No plastic bag? Okay no sale. I’ll leave you people to put the items back on the shelves.

2) No plastic bag? Okay…..I’ll carry the six tins of spaghetti under my arm, balance the frozen peas on my head, carry the pork chops in my right hand, jam the bread stick up my arse & walk home.

Wake-up time!
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June 5, 2018 8:03pm
Morrissey

Shame, shame, shame.

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/06/04/israels-nazified-silent-majority/
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June 5, 2018 8:23pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Hey, is Abbas enjoying his new $50,000,000 Private Jet?
  Nice for some eh.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:28pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Abbas is corrupt, and has collaborated with Israel in the oppression of the people of Gaza and the Occupied Territories. Surely you would be praising him? (Assuming you had a clue, of course.)
    
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    June 5, 2018 8:33pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  What’s a shame?
  
  Someone calling Israeli’s Nazi for the second day in row?
  
  Someone being so apeshit crazy they call the result of a poll from 500 people proof of Nazi’s
  
  Or simply the reflection from your mirror?
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:59pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Norman Finkelstein is one of the leading scholars of the Nazi Holocaust. His father survived Auschwitz and his mother survived Maidanek. I think he has a few more clues about this than you do.
    
    He compares the mindset of Israelis to the mindset of those who supported the Third Reich. He backs it up with irrefutable evidence.
    
    You, on the other hand, have what to offer to the conversation?
    
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    June 5, 2018 10:02pm
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Hey Bitch,
      
      I’ve just read the link from the strandad you posted below.
      
      Seriously, go get some professional help you fucking moron.
      
      And considering all you bring to the ‘conversation’ is a cut and paste you can get fucked on that front too.
      
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      June 5, 2018 10:07pm
Morrissey

Profiles in Cowardice
No. 1: KAREN PIERCE

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/abstention-of-resolutions-on-long-standing-issues-between-israel-and-the-palestinian-people
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June 5, 2018 8:28pm
- sooty
  
  When are going to post the sex camp groper. Oh it must be a Labour MPs child!
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:47pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Now that it’s dark, the fuckwit Morrissey sneaks out when nobody can see him.
  What a complete and utter loser he is.
  
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  June 5, 2018 8:51pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Sorry Cap’n but …..
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=871-3XMhtAk
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:37pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      That was Morrissey confirming that he’s a total loser.
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:48pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Nope. It’s not working, Cap’n. Don’t think you’ve got the chops for this kind of thing, quite frankly.
        
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        June 5, 2018 9:59pm
cha

Do scroll down.

Interest in Penis Enlargement by US State pic.twitter.com/llpHAq23gu— Amazing Maps™ (@amazingmap) May 4, 2017

https://twitter.com/amazingmap/status/859999515973124096
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June 5, 2018 8:46pm
Viking2

The “et tu, Brutē” trick is one of the oldest moves in the political playbook but few people are as willing to play it as former National Party leader and Prime Minister Jim Bolger.

Bolger was on Tuesday announced as the head of a team of 10 people from the unions, business and work groups charged with bringing Labour’s policy to set “fair pay” agreements to life.

It is a major shakeup of industrial relations and a policy National strongly opposes and has set as one of its key battlegrounds.

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Caesar infamously says “et tu Brutē?” when he finds Brutus had betrayed him.

This is Bolger’s third strike in terms of cuckolding National.

His first was signing up as CEO of NZ Post and KiwiBank under the former Labour Government.

His second was signing up as chair of KiwiRail following Labour’s buy-back of it. It was Bolger who had privatised KiwiRail’s predecessor New Zealand Rail in the first place.

Yesterday he stood there again, shameless, on the stage of the Beehive theatrette alongside Workplace Relations Minister Iain Lees-Galloway.

He didn’t even flinch when Lees-Galloway used the word “collaborate” to describe Bolger’s involvement.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12065007

The Nats should disown the prick.
Still he rooted the posties and managed to grind the rail down and now he is in charge of fucking the employers and their employee’s.

Condescending, compromising.
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June 5, 2018 8:52pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I agree Viking2. Bolger has confirmed that he’s now a Labourite.
  It will be interesting to see what he’s got to offer this time. The reason why middle-class wages have been ‘hollowed-out’ is that WFF has removed the obligation that the employers had to keep salaries up to speed. The taxpayers are subsidising the employers.
  Any real long-term fix to this problem is going to include a removal of WFF and a reduction in company tax so the employers have an incentive to pay real wages.
  Let’s see if ‘the great helmsman’ is up to the job.
  
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  June 5, 2018 9:01pm
  - nasska
    
    I used to love the way that Michael Laws could wind the arsehole up.
    
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    June 5, 2018 9:10pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Bolger wound up by a pipsqueak like Laws? That’s just a wishful fantasy on your part, and you know it. What is certain, however, is that on Feb. 22, 2012, Michael Laws was wound up by this writer, i.e., moi. The poor fellow got so incoherently angry that he nearly melted down into a pool of bile and stupidity….
      
      https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-22022012/#comment-439366
      
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      June 5, 2018 9:43pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Christ that’s a dose at misplaced self-promotion if ever I saw one.
        Morrissey=retard.
        
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        June 5, 2018 9:53pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Foully abusing people is Laws’s specialty, Cap’n. You should leave it to him—at least he has a modicum of flair.
        
        You?
        
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        June 5, 2018 9:57pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes it really is time to start winding back on WWF and Accommodation supplements.
    Rents would go down as landlords need tenants.
    Its just a tax merry go round.
    
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    June 6, 2018 6:26am
Monique Watson

And let’s not take the fucking fun out of the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RizJLPhLq7w

I’ve already had the first sleep. Played the part of Mary Tyler Moore in this over the party weekend and am officially on Baby-watch.
It Sucks energy-wise, but someone’s gotta do it.
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June 5, 2018 11:04pm
Jack5

Ultra-feminists are getting sniffy about male-associated names for women’s genitalia: including hymen (after a Greek male god), the G spot, Fallopian tubes (those two after male scientists), and vagina (because it’s from the Latin word for sword sheath – a male’s weapon of war).

Some of the concern comes from Swedish feminists who want to stir their English-language counterparts into action.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180531-how-womens-body-parts-have-been-named-after-men
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June 5, 2018 11:25pm
Monique Watson

Master-Baiters.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12065040
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