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mandk

Evidently yesterday was International Safe Abortion Day.

How can abortion ever be safe?

The baby always dies.
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September 29, 2018 8:01am
- ross411
  
  A doctor does it, not some hack with a coathanger in a back alley because the godbotherers don’t want doctors doing it?
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:03am
  - Fletch
    
    So, you should make something that is immoral legal because someone might get hurt doing it? That’s totally back-to-front. Maybe we should make meth legal because drug-users might get hurt or killed procuring it in back alleys. Better to let them legally purchase it. Makes as much sense.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:31am
    - ross411
      
      That would be what is classified as a false equivalence.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:56am
      - Fletch
        
        How so? The killing of babies via abortion was once illegal – procuring meth is illegal now. And they are both harmful and immoral.
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:54am
      - tas
        
        Fletch: Just because two things are/were illegal doesn’t make them equivalent. Otherwise littering would be equivalent to murder.
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:11am
      - GoVege
        
        Until abortion was made legal, death by illegal abortion was the #1 cause of death for teenage girls.
        
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        September 29, 2018 4:04pm
    - nasska
      
      If men could get pregnant you’d be able to get an abortion at an ATM.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:17am
    - GoVege
      
      A lot of things in this world are morally ambiguous Fletch.
      Where your clothes are made, what you eat, how you treat other people…or animals.
      Religious bigots forcing frightened young girls or women to go through childbirth against their will would be top of my list.
      
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      September 29, 2018 4:31pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Read this and argue succinctly why this is absurd. If you follow the logic of the pro-abortionists, post birth “abortion” should not be an ethical dilemma. If you argue this is morally and ethically wrong, then the same arguments can be used to completely destroy any pro-abortion argument. QED
    
    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2012/03/after_birth_abortion_the_pro_choice_case_for_infanticide_.html
    
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    September 29, 2018 6:25pm
    - GoVege
      
      There is no such thing as “post-birth abortion”, ROL.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:48pm
  - RF
    
    Locked away in the recess of my memory I remember a friendly GP who would help out females who were in the “ family way”. He had strict rules about the 2 month rule as if over he could not help you.
    
    The alternative was a single mother on the DPB or a hasty marriage that had a fair chance of not lasting.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:07pm
- MrTips
  
  Sorry mandk, biological facts and clear thinking like that aren’t allowed in this day and age!
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:24am
tas

What effect do you think Kavanaugh will have on US midterm elections?
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September 29, 2018 8:02am
- Simon
  
  Red wave.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:08am
- tas
  
  Judging by their actions, democrats think it will help them. I don’t see that though.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:14am
  - Simon
    
    Ford made allegation in July to Feinstein Plenty of time to investigate and bring up during Kavanaugh hearings. Dems waited until last minute
    
    See stupid article in herald about yesterday testimonies tearing America apart.
    
    Everyone knows that had the Dems followed correct process then Ford allegation would not be “dividing” America.
    
    Dems own this train wreck and will suffer in November
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:30am
    - tas
      
      Right, it’s plainly obvious that the democrats are delaying and delaying. But maybe voters consider that a legitimate strategy. It didn’t hurt republicans to block filling Scalia’s seat for over a year for no particular reason.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:35am
      - All_on_Red
        
        The GOP were playing the Biden Rule where Joe Biden said you can’t nominate someone for SCOTUS in a General Election year. (1996?)
        Big risk they took too. If Clinton won, the Dems would have the spots to fill.
        That doesn’t apply this year.
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:06am
      - MCos
        
        Pretty thin whoever says it.
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:47am
    - Piniwi
      
      Fascinating Simon as we see all the Dems working from their own timeline being from the point of the controlled leak of Fords name to the MSM. Seeing the performance from Ford while noting such a long history of needing therapy we must wonder how she will keep it together? We must also wonder that after even the soft questioning by a woman prosecutor who exposed so many flaws in her oratory what the FBI might expose?
      
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      September 29, 2018 1:37pm
  - G152
    
    In the long run the democrats have screwed themselves.
    They have defined the way the game gets played, they’ll have to live with it
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:37am
- tas
  
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  I also don’t understand why republicans are digging in to defend Kavanaugh. There are plenty of qualified candidates they could go for instead.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:32am
  - Jules99
    
    They are defending an innocent man – that’s the higher path. If they back down, they are giving way to bullying.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:43am
    - tas
      
      How confident can you really be that he’s innocent?
      
      The accusation lacks corroboration, but it’s plausible. I don’t think we can say with anything like 99% confidence that it’s false.
      
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      September 29, 2018 11:42am
      - All_on_Red
        
        The four people SHE named who were there said they never saw any such thing occur.
        One of those was her best friend.
        All have stated it under oath.
        Two new different men have come forward and given statements to Senate Judiciary investigators they were the ones who did it.
        So yes, something happened to her and yes, it wasn’t by Kavanaugh
        Both things can be true.
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:51am
      - Jules99
        
        Innocent until proven guilty. Plausible is not enough to ruin a man’s career and reputation.
        
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        September 29, 2018 12:12pm
      - tas
        
        If everything Ford said is true, would you expect them to say anything different? Would they remember anything?
        
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        September 29, 2018 12:12pm
      - CharlieBrown
        
        The honorable path would be to swear him in now. Had that despicable politician Feinstein come forward 8 weeks ago then the GOP would be right to disqualify him then, but to allow unverified sexual accusations to play out so publicly just for political gain is disgusting, it ensures that whoever the victim is, gets victimised further. Karma would have fienstein experience whichever crime has occurred; she is a horrible, evil women.
        
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        September 29, 2018 1:11pm
      - backster
        
        I don;t think the accusation was credible. Ford could not remember who drove her for 20mins from her home to the swimming pool. Who drove her to the party. Who drove her home. Who if anyone accompanied her into the party. We know she didn’t complain to anyone. It doesn’t add up. It could be a nightmare she has somehow materialrised , or a performance played out over the script which she read. Either way over $half million raised on her Givealittle page so far. I wonder who will reap the benefit of that.
        
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        September 29, 2018 2:53pm
      - Jack5
        
        One piece of Ford’s evidence that needs to be cleared up …
        
        She said when she went upstairs to go to the toilet, the two boys (they were teenagers then) pushed her into the bedroom and locked the door.
        
        When the second boy launched himself on top of her and the first boy, both boys tumbled off the bed, and Ford she fled from the room to the toilet, where she locked herself in.
        
        Was she locked in the bedroom or not?
        
        This seems relevant to whether rape was intended.
        
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        September 29, 2018 3:28pm
  - VicParking
    
    Name one
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:45am
    - tas
      
      Didn’t Trump have a shortlist. Are the others completely unacceptable?
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:53am
      - All_on_Red
        
        The Dems will do the same to those too.
        Watch what happens when Amy Barrett gets put up
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:03am
      - KevOB
        
        Why should the bullies get away with i?
        There case seems political in motive.
        Possibly fraudulent.
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:27am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      Trump promised to choose whomever the Federalist Society listed. Kavanaugh was well down that list but his views on presidential power, much changed since he prosecuted Clinton, made him irresistible to a president who thinks he will need the Supreme Court to prevent him from being indicted.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:08am
      - Harkman
        
        Um, it is standard at the DOJ not to indict a sitting President. Why? Basic chain of command, a Major doesn’t give orders to a General. Bob Woodward said two weeks ago that investigated Russian collusion for his book and found none. As for sacking Comey, Article 2 allows him to sack however he wants, besides Rosenstein advised him to do it.
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:15am
      - softail 1450
        
        M M A, has been doing a marathon session on CNN
        again.
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:16am
      - Tall Man
        
        Left thinking drivel again.
        
        She’s mistaken it seems based on zero corroborative testimony and many contradictory statements from those supposedly involved.
        
        However, enough to enable to left to hang the man’s character out to dry.
        
        I guess once again you prove the point that the left aren’t interested in facts.
        
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        September 29, 2018 4:21pm
  - Evadne
    
    The principle of it. And the precedent.
    
    Otherwise, they’d be giving in to the bully and accuser’s veto. I.e. any candidate can be sunk or destroyed by an accusation from anyone.
    
    Ford’s accusation may or may not be true ( I don’t presume to know). But what matters is due process, the principle of innocence until proven guilty, and valuing and upholding truth.
    
    If they don’t fight this, no one is safe.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:52am
    - 4077th
      
      Yes, precisely. I pointed out to a Dem relative in the US that I would hold the same contempt for the current process if it was a Dem being accused. He is a lawyer and still cannot see the issue of the presumption of innocence. His go-to was the picture in the yearbook..like it was proof beyond reasonable doubt. I asked him to take a step back and take a look at the damage this is doing to America and the world watches as they destroy themselves from within. It’s sad and disgusting those at the top encouraging and organising political divisions that almost mirror the race divisions of the 1900’s.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:00am
      - tas
        
        The presumption of innocence applies to a criminal trial. The confirmation hearing is not a trial; it is effectively a job interview. I would like to think the standard for a SCOTUS job is higher than escaping a criminal conviction. In the real world, candidates get passed over for a job at the slightest whiff of controversy.
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:25am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      Thats the thing about Ford’s accusation. It is not obviously false, but neither is it obviously true. That leaves the two Republican swing senators (both women) with a real dilemma. Who do they believe?
      
      Does it matter who they believe, maybe a seed of doubt is enough.
      
      That is, a credible but unprovable accusation is enough to prevent a person getting on the SC. It is a bit like being Caesar’s wife, the need to be beyond reproach.
      
      The difficulty Kavanaugh has now is that there will many reasonable people who will believe the accusation, unless it is actually disproven. Hard to do in the circumstances, though maybe the FBI inquiry might help.
      
      As with Clarence Thomas, this whole issue would make it hard for him to be a leader in the court. Ideally you want all Supreme Court Justices to be capable of providing both legal and moral leadership on some of the most challenging issues that come before the court, which means writing decisions that will be upheld in the courts and the law schools as leading authorities for decades (Brown and the Board of Education for instance). Could Kavanaugh, if he is seated, now actually do that?
      
      As Tas points out there are other options for the SC, and some will definitely be beyond reproach.
      
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      September 29, 2018 11:55am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Kavanaugh has a long long record of good judgements already. He is highly qualified.
        Fords accusation wouldnt even get to a Court.
        She can’t say when, she can’t say where. Her witnesses all disagree – under Oath.
        That aside, When you know that the Senate Judiciary investigators have spoken to two men who say they committed the groping then the answer is:
        Ford was assaulted
        Ford has mistakenly thought it was Kavanaugh
        Kavanaugh is innocent
        
        Edit, you also don’t get that no matter who the GOP put up, the Dems will behave the same way.
        Look at the way Feinstein sat on this for weeks and then threw Ford under the Bus by leaking her letter
        
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        September 29, 2018 12:03pm
      - tas
        
        Right. Republicans (and All_on_Red here) seem to have taken the position that the accusation needs to be fully proven to the standard of a criminal conviction. However, any reasonable person (taking away this particular partisan situation) would agree that the standard for a supreme court appointment should be higher than not being sent to prison. Nonetheless “confirmed until proven guilty” is an easy position for republicans to defend, so they are doing so.
        
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        September 29, 2018 12:19pm
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        All_on_Red,
        
        Yes I have read about two men saying it was them, but have heard nothing further about that. Maybe the FBI inquiry will clear that up. It might be what Kavanaugh needs to show actual innocence.
        
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        September 29, 2018 12:20pm
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        All_on_Red
        
        I obviously understand that the Dems will play hardball, just as the Republicans did in 2016 with Garland.
        
        But there will be candidates in the Federalist List who will not be vulnerable in this way, ie they will self evidently be beyond reproach.
        
        So unless Kavanaugh is actually cleared by the FBI, that might be how it will go.
        
        Could be a new nomination as early as Monday 8 October.
        
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        September 29, 2018 12:37pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Love the way you guys throw out presumption of innocence and are prepared to ruin a guys life on the basis of an unproven and uncoroborated accusation. You’re now saying he has to PROVE his own innocence. Which is just stupid considering she doesn’t know where or when and all the people she claims were there say she is wrong.
        It’s pretty disgusting what’s happening.
        
        There’s also no comparison between how Garland was treated and what’s happened to Kavanaugh
        Garland didn’t even get to hearings whilst Kavanaugh is being smeared as a serial rapist.
        
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        September 29, 2018 1:13pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Could be a new nomination by Oct 8’
        
        I’m starting to think you two are really thick. The mid terms are Nov 9. Do you really think they will process a new nominee before then?
        Of course not.
        Don’t you think the whole point of this smearing and Feinstein holding the letter back until AFTER the hearings and the dumbness from useful idiots like you two is to stuff the whole process up until AFTER the mid terms. So the Dems might stop all future GOP picks.
        Wow.
        Guess what. The Dems with these delays are falling into a trap. They’re showing Americans how partisan they are. And the Polling is starting to reflect that.
        
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        September 29, 2018 1:20pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Let’s look at this nonsensical statement
        ‘However, any reasonable person (taking away this particular partisan situation) would agree that the standard for a supreme court appointment should be higher than not being sent to prison. ‘
        
        Her accusation doesn’t even meet the standard of getting to Court.
        Also what she has accused them of (according to local Police) is (at that time) a misdemeanour. So not a prison offence.
        The lack of objectivity over this is amazing.
        
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        September 29, 2018 1:32pm
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        All_on_Red
        
        Yes, the elections are on 6 November but no-one new gets seated till January. So if there is a new nomination on 8 October, the Republicans will start hearings before the election and use the period between Nov and Jan to finish them. This has been done before. Provided there is no controversy (other than the appointees ideology) then it will be all done and dusted before the new Senate is seated.
        
        Both the Republicans and Democrats know that, which is why it is obvious the Republicans have a back up plan.
        
        In any event, it does not matter what you and I think, the ball is entirely in the court of Senators Collins, Flake and Murkowski. They alone have the power. From what I can discern this is where it is heading. A new nomination that they will support.
        
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        September 29, 2018 6:51pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        That makes women sound shallow and that we will err on the ‘sisterhood’ side, I resent that inference.
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:31pm
    - GoVege
      
      It’s unfortunate for any candidate to be facing this type of accusation, and of course he should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
      But the way this man has conducted himself in response to these accusations is not helping him prove his suitability for the Supreme Court.
      
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      September 29, 2018 4:23pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Listen to Lindsey Graham tearing the Dems a new arsehole and you will know why the Reps defend Kavanaugh. It is a case of exposing the evil
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:54am
  - tas
    
    It is nice to imagine that this is all about being fair and defending Kavanaugh’s honour, but the reality is that this is bigger than one man and politics is a cold, hard game. I don’t for a moment doubt that Republicans would throw Kavanaugh under the bus if they thought that was politically advantageous. The transparent cynicism of the Garland nomination shows that. Was it fair to Garland to deny him a hearing?
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:21am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Correct. But this is an era of hyper-partisanship in the US, where both parties are so convinced of the rectitude of their respective causes that any person, or action, that advances one’s own side’s interests is fine, or is justified because of something the other side did, either real or imagined.
      “Both sides”, remember?
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:40am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Do you seriously think the next nominee won’t suffer the same fate?
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:49am
    - tas
      
      Yes.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:56am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Given this comment
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/09/general_debate_29_september_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2321324
        Your view is hardly a surprise. The next nominee will probably be Amy Barrett.
        She’s a Catholic….
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:08am
      - MCos
        
        How many more before the papists take over America?
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:51am
      - Jack5
        
        Kavanaugh’s a Catholic. He described himself at the hearing as going to a Catholic boy’s school.
        
        Pretty much like the upbringing he’d have got if he’d been born in NZ and was educated at St Bede’s.
        
        To a casual foreign observer this row looks to be more about feminism and its power. Consider when and after what the interestingly named Senator Jeff Flake decided he wanted the FBI brought in:
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/28/jeff-flake-the-man-who-may-hold-brett-kavanaugh-future-in-his-hands
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:30am
- Drwhom
  
  Kavanaugh is likely not going to happen. At the eleventh hour, there was major drama after the Republicans had confirmed a majority.
  
  The Dems flipped Jeff Flake of Arizona. There was a 30 minute delay where he was alone with the full Democrat committee membership in the committee. Then mass confusion when he was granted the floor, requested a delay to the committee vote, and Chairman Grassley called a vote anyway. There was a confused vote, then Flake voted ‘yes’ after a long pause – but then added a caveat: he would vote ‘yes’ to move Kavanaugh’s nomination to the full Senate, but would only vote ‘yes’ in the Senate subject to a seventh FBI investigation.
  
  No-one was sure what Flake’s caveat actually was for the 11-10 ‘yes’ vote to move out of committee to the Senate for about 10 minutes – either Republicans or Democrats.
  
  Flake was the deciding vote 11-10 on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  
  That vote takes the Supreme Court nomination vote to the full Senate of 100.
  
  The Republicans have to get 50 votes (with Pence then being the deciding vote as Vice President).
  
  Senator Linda Murkowski (another Republican) from Alaska also said she wouldn’t confirm Kavanaugh unless there was an FBI investigation. That meant the GOP only had 49-49, and McConnell couldn’t call a vote, assuming a DNC party vote.
  
  So there is going to be a seventh FBI investigation ‘of up to 1 week’.
  
  Flake looked petrified, as did Murkowski, after being accosted by Senator Feinstein.
  
  So the FBI will investigate Kavanaugh for a 7th time, after 6 times giving him clearance.
  
  Further delays are likely, based on fresh allegations. These will be based likely on further rape accusations. They will also likely centre on behaviour: anger. Evidence of being drunk at college. If a witness can be procured to attest Kavanaugh was ever inebriated to stupor an inference can be made he committed rapes without memory. All of the cross examination of Kavanaugh’s character will now take place by media. It is unlikely he will have any opportunity to respond to allegations.
  
  For the DNC the hope will be further delays and charges right up to the mid-terms.
  
  The Supreme Court session starts on 1 October 18. It will be deadlocked prior to Kavanaughs’ confirmation, rejection, or withdrawal.
  
  Trump has to be the one to call for the FBI investigation. The question will be on what terms. The FBI will have now have leverage to add to their extreme acrimony towards Trump. Trump also has leverage on the FBI. There is no telling what they will respectively do.
  
  The saga will drag on. The vote was meant to occur tomorrow. Flakes’ 11th hour flip was a watershed.
  
  The vote was crucial. The Kavanaugh nomination is now more likely then not going to fail.
  
  The ‘blue wave’ forecast is viable. The DNC may very well win the Congress. The Kavanaugh pick will likely fail if it is reliant upon an FBI hostile to the President providing a swift seventh investigation. The DNC will be able to ensure there is insufficient time pre mid-terms for a new pick.
  
  The Democrats have demonstrated again they can compromise establishment Republicans at will.
  
  Jeff Flake is retiring, and not up for re-election. The terrified expression on his face during the hearing must have been caused by something potent.
  
  So the the blue-wave is very much back on. What happens now is highly unpredictable.
  
  There is proof the rape accuser committed perjury in lying about being a psychologist. There is a risk the Dems over-reach. On the other hand Kavanaugh is now a sitting duck outside the judiciary committee and the DNC only have to keep 2 of 3 Republicans flipped – and Murkowski and Flake look like they are all-in for the DNC.
  
  So who knows.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:06am
  - tas
    
    Well it seems we now have a week delay, which allows the fence-sitters to make up their minds (and look at polling data). I don’t think the FBI investigation will uncover much. It’s just about delay.
    
    I watched the Flake flake. It was quite extraordinary how the chairman rapidly pushed for a vote (despite members still asking “what are we voting for?”) and adjourned the committee.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:32am
    - All_on_Red
      
      The Notice to Vote was issued three days ago. As it has to be.
      Anybody saying they don’t know why they were there is grandstanding
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:47am
      - tas
        
        All_on_Red: Did you actually watch the video? There was clearly confusion about what motion was being voted on, but the chair wanted to quickly wrap up and have discussions in private. Were they voting on the nominee? Were they voting on Flake’s request? Were they voting to move to the floor?
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:55am
      - All_on_Red
        
        The Committee voted 11 to 10 to confirm the nomination.
        It’s goes to the full Senate for a vote now.
        
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        September 29, 2018 1:22pm
      - tas
        
        Ok, you didn’t watch the video.
        
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        September 29, 2018 2:28pm
    - Drwhom
      
      What does seem strange is what people are saying on twitter about Christine Ford’s father.
      
      Christine Blasey Ford’s father, Ralph G Blasey Jr, was the Vice President of National Savings and Trust in Washington DC – a well known CIA bank, from 1962-1974.
      
      He now is the VP of Business Development of Red Coats Inc. A subsidiary called Admiral Security Services provides private armed security and cyber security for Washington bureaucrats who work in the security services. Data-watch systems is a company run by Red Coat’s co-founder with Ralph which provides security services to the CIA/FBI/NSA etc.
      
      Christine herself apparently overseas some kind of confidential program at Stanford University.
      
      Of course none of this can be proven or asserted even if known due to national security secrecy laws.
      
      It’s just another facet of an extraordinary set of circumstances. As best as I can tell, nothing has been substantiated against Kavanaugh. Flake did say on re-check that he the FBI terms of reference could only include existing allegations up to the point of his caveat.
      
      But if the FBI say they want to investigate further lines of enquiry beyond their terms of reference and timeline, anyone disagreeing can be accused of obstruction.
      
      It’s extraordinary that a long-standing Republican like Flake would vote against what every legal person including Liberals in the United States actually regarded as the ‘safe’ standard conservative pick.
      
      I have no idea what’s going on in the US right now.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:53am
      - tas
        
        I have no idea what’s going on in the US right now.
        
        Hear. Hear.
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:00am
      - All_on_Red
        
        It’s in the middle of a culture war
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:03am
      - Drwhom
        
        This is incredible
        
        https://bigleaguepolitics.com/woman-who-confronted-flake-in-elevator-runs-soros-funded-organization/
        
        The woman/protester who confronted Flake in the lift on his way to the hearing is Ana Maria Archila. She is co-executive director for the Center for Popular Democracy and the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund. These are both George Soros NGO’s.
        
        Christine Blazey Ford’s brother, Thomas Blasey, worked for a long time with Jill Strozk, who is Peter Strozk’s sister.
        
        Peter Strozk was the FBI agent who was in a relationship with Lisa Page. They were regularly texting disparagingly about the President. They discussed how to stop him from becoming President and how to prevent him implementing his agenda.
        
        ““(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” – Page
        
        ““No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.” – Strozk
        
        Peter Strozk was the agent who personally hand-picked 3,000 of over 700,000 declared files on Anthony Weiner’s laptop to present to the Senate. He committed perjury by saying he and two other agents read every email on the lap-top in three days, when they read and provided less then 1%.
        
        He was the FBI agent in charge of both the Trump and Clinton investigations.
        
        He was the FBI agent who didn’t declare to the Congressional intelligence oversight committee ‘gang of eight’ the FBI were running a counter-intelligence operation on candidate Donald Trump.
        
        etc.
        
        The point is that Peter Strozk was demoted into FBI Human Resources after multiple transgressions of Federal Law and instances of bias, prejudice, and improper performance of his duties.
        
        It is simply extraordinary that all of these different relationships intersect.
        
        I do not understand how the FBI can conduct a legitimate investigation of Kavanaugh given it’s conflict of interest with respect to Christine Ford. Peter Strozk was demoted with Bill Priestap at the FBI. But he still works at the FBI in the capacity of ‘HR’.
        
        Whatever is going on in the United States in this nomination is utterly bizarre, and dangerous.
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:57am
      - Jack5
        
        Dr Whom, here is a video clip of the ambush of Flake in the lift. What a set-up.
        
        It’s difficult to tell whether the woman is hysterical, or just has a heavy accent. “Look at me when I’m talking to you!” the woman demands.
        
        How come lawmakers can’t move about a building without being ambushed in this way? Perhaps Flake was a willing party in the ambush.
        
        https://youtu.be/bshgOZ8QQxU
        
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        September 29, 2018 4:23pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    So the FBI will investigate Kavanaugh for a 7th time, after 6 times giving him clearance.
    
    Can anyone really see the FBI switching to say ‘Yeah, we got it wrong 6 times’?
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:56am
    - tas
      
      Did they interview Ford the past 6 times?
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:59am
      - All_on_Red
        
        No
        Because she’s wrong about Kavanaugh and that’s why it didn’t come up
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:27am
      - tas
        
        All_on_red: That doesn’t make sense and you know it. New information deserves to be investigated.
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:49am
      - All_on_Red
        
        No, your comment doesn’t make sense.
        Mine does.
        The FBI found nothing about him and Ford because there was nothing to find about him and Ford.
        See my reply to you below
        You’ve had a lot explained to you today
        She was assaulted by someone else is the answer.
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:56am
    - Piniwi
      
      Strange krazykiwi it took 30 years for Ford to put a name to the person who assaulted her which came out in a group therapy session with her husband? Now an organisation that itself has attracted so much attention for their own performance and actions are tasked with gathering the “facts”? Even then it will not be anything more than a continuation of the circus that performances seen already.
      
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      September 29, 2018 2:00pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        She said couples therapy came about because she and her husband couldn’t agree on renovations to their home. Having lived for several decades with only one front door, like regular folk, Christine Blasey Ford decided she needed two front doors because of her near-rape experience when she was 15.
        No doubt the trauma causes a number of anxieties and I’m guessing the trigger is probably not getting her own way.
        
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        September 29, 2018 7:33pm
- Harkman
  
  Anybody see yesterday’s hearing from Ford? Oh she was so “credible,” I’ve been on two juries and one was child abuse, the other domestic abuse. Ford’s claims, were so weak that it would be thrown out. There is no statute of limitations on these alleged crimes and check could go to Maryland police at any time, but hasn’t. She reminds me of Anna Anderson, something’s not right about her but I think that will be revealed far later after this is all finished.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:36am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Your feelz haven’t convinced me, snowflake.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:43am
    - softail 1450
      
      MMA , KB’s 17 th ranked leftie troll,
      this guy has probably applied for Mensa membership he is so confident of his superior intellect….LOL.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:06am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    She was emotional, but I didn’t see credible.
    I saw manipulation.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:53am
    - softail 1450
      
      S T S ,FFS she is a university professor and had no idea what exculpatory evidence was and had to be told by her lawyers…..
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:13am
      - secondcumming
        
        My missus considers herself to be a keen observer of all things political, and watched the entire *Blasey-Ford* testimony at the Senate enquiry.
        
        She reckons, “You’ve only got to look at Ford, to see what she’s saying would be nothing more than ‘wishful thinking’ on her part. Could you honestly believe any rich frat boys being interested in that? She’s obviously lying thru those little rat-like teeth of hers”
        
        Wimmin, eh…….
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:35am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Ah but only women are allowed to be emotional, god forbid that a man should be, even when accused and defending himself, we are kidding ourselves about equality, it sounds eerily familiar to what is going on here, speaking of feelz. (Is it in a dictionary yet?)
      
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      September 30, 2018 7:24am
  - GoVege
    
    Most people thought she was very credible, Harkman.
    Are you unaware that the vast majority of rapes or sexual assaults are never reported, especially when the victim is young?
    In the past, it was rarer still.
    The only reason this woman subjected herself to this ordeal was because of the incredibly important role this man is applying for.
    
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    September 29, 2018 4:40pm
    - Harkman
      
      I am aware of that GV. The thing is we all know that America is full of crazies, we know that the celebrity culture and “the 15 minutes of fame” allure has taken over America. We also know that America is very black and white (literally) where people hate the other ideology, with some willing to do anything to halt the other ideology. A very famous American recently pointed out to me (on a hobbyist website) that US law makes it difficult to sue for defamation. Add in the fact that Ford is a Democrat and likely being paid with a book deal and paid interviews ahead of her. The fact she produced no corroborating evidence and that she was a heavy drinker from the age of 15, says all you need to know. The thing is she could report this crime and so far she hasn’t.
      
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      September 29, 2018 5:15pm
      - GoVege
        
        Maybe the traumatic event caused her to take up drinking!
        Expecting a teenager to report this sort of crime is asking a bit much, especially when for years the court experience was known to be extremely traumatic for victims.
        I know someone who was raped at 16, their first sexual experience …by a schoolteacher.
        The experience was so revolting as to cause them to just try not to even think about it.
        
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        September 29, 2018 6:53pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Sounds to me like people wanted to believe that she was credible because it suited their narrative.
      
      Am I the only woman that thinks of sex as sexual assault by its very nature? It is just a matter of whether you willingly submit to it or not.
      
      Pantyhose used to be a woman’s best friend.
      
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      September 30, 2018 7:31am
- rightoverlabour
  
  I think this will help the Republicans. Ford’s clumsy attempt at besmirching Kavanaugh’s name will back fire big time.
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/28/bill-bennett-kavanaugh-hearing-shows-democrats-will-stop-at-nothing-to-keep-him-off-supreme-court.html
  
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  September 29, 2018 10:41am
- dcrown
  
  The Dims are going to get clobbered.
  
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  September 29, 2018 11:25am
srylands

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/107475210/baby-neves-time-in-new-york

This is why I will never pay to access this outfit through a pay wall. It is not a matter of public interest how baby neve had a time in New York.
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September 29, 2018 8:04am
- igm
  
  This is the reason Fairfax and APN are reviewing continuation with their NZ ventures. Who, in their right mind would pay to view crap such as this and further crap Garner has written about the unmarried mother and taxpayer-funded hangers-on!
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:07am
- Simon
  
  It’s click bait for mongs.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:07am
  - MrTips
    
    Mongbait?
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:24am
- waikatogirl
  
  I suspect baybee Neve would have had the same experience at home in NZ. Sleep, eat, poo.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:10am
  - igm
    
    WG: Sounds like taxpayer-kept stud Gayboy.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:24am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Stud?
      
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      September 30, 2018 7:33am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    But, but, Neve was in the UN hearing mummy speak to the world.
    Mummy was sabotaging NZs relationship with a major defence and trade partner, but that’s another story.
    And Neve was there because the stay-at-home dad would never get that much limelight any other way.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:47am
    - Liberty
      
      Isn’t it time home-boy realised his station is going for walks in the park and having dinner ready for the current PM.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:26am
  - Piniwi
    
    But waikatogirl not to forget crying in the chamber in the UN and crying on command or was that a protest to the speaker? In time we might suspect that that little cry will be the most noteworthy feature of the SLG having been there once.
    
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    September 29, 2018 2:07pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes that drivel belongs in the Womens Weekly!
  
  The Herald is fast becoming a magazine style website.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:15am
  - KevOB
    
    Trash mag.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:30am
  - MCos
    
    Like this
    
    https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/new-zealand-womans-weekly/20180903/281741270294396
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:34am
  - Dave Mann
    
    I agree with you and many others who bemoan the trashy decline in standards that the media have become. I also agree that a lot of the time the newspapers have failed to hold this catastrophic government to account (although there are some signs of critique appearing now so there’s some hope).
    
    The big problem that I see, though, is that we are still dependent on the media for our news. Kiwiblog is a really active forum where the news is discussed, and I’m sure there are others out there which are equally active (although not obviously as good hahahaha). But we still discuss the news which comes from the MSM, don’t we?
    
    I think all the MSM outlets were stupid in putting up their content for free in the first place. Especially newspapers where paid circulation has declined and online advertising income must be declining because it simply isn’t effective in most cases amongst the clutter.
    
    So what’s going to happen when the MSM puts up paywalls and some of them go out of business? Remember that a huge % of discussion on this, New Zealand’s best blog, comprises comments on things that are published in the MSM. It’s a conundrum.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:59am
    - Piniwi
      
      Partly true DM but unlike some other blogs KB is not a repeater station for the Media party with stringent control on comment content. There are also some outstanding contributions from many who delve into issues the Media party brush over or avoid.
      
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      September 29, 2018 2:16pm
- brett68
  
  This is a reflection of the facebook data that the media is now using to guide content direction.
  
  The problem is that Facebook has become more Mumbook and the data is now heavily distorted towards the Women’s Day style of stories.
  
  That’s why there’s so much mindless dross.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:21am
  - tf78
    
    And women wonder why they don’t get paid equally.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:57am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      And why men are not interested in women’s lives.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:54am
- David George
  
  I don’t know why we have to pay to fly her brat to New York, surely they could have got someone there to change baby Neve’s nappies.
  
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  September 29, 2018 10:08am
  - MCos
    
    We didn’t pay for her family.
    Ardern took her baby with her because she is breastfeeding.
    If you want to know what happens to kids who are constantly left in the care of nannies check out those plonkers the Queen brought into the world.
    
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    September 29, 2018 11:03am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Like other working mothers, whose children go to day care and who share their ‘nannies’ with others? I hope you have a safe space.
      
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      September 30, 2018 7:37am
    - David George
      
      1/ I wasn’t talking about Adern’s baby.
      2/ It was a joke
      3/ Grow up
      
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      October 1, 2018 8:00am
- Muttonbird
  
  Hey srylands. Instead of getting upset by baby Neve, why don’t you take a look at this:
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/107471098/new-renting-model-replaces-tenants-with-customers
  
  My thoughts are that despite the rational amateur mum&dad landlords are kind hearted folk who simply want an independent retirement fund, they are not fit to be housing providers moving forward and these guys agree. They say:
  
  We are trying to turn the rental model on its head a little. Traditionally it’s been mum and dad owning one or two in the suburbs and for a lot of reasons at this stage they aren’t wanting to reinvest in those properties to improve them.
  
  The government’s proposed reforms will go a long way to ejecting amateur landlords who are reluctant to provide decent housing which is a good thing imo, even if MBIE thinks otherwise.
  
  What of the poor quality housing stock? That is bought by 1st time buyers with the means to improve it.
  
  What of the “forgotten middle”? Professional outfits like those in the article have a solution.
  
  What of low income tenants? A stronger social housing portfolio plus minimum housing standards plus further security of tenancy will stabilise forced moment and build communities once more.
  
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  September 29, 2018 10:12am
  - Muttonbird
    
    *rational should read rationale.
    
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    September 29, 2018 10:21am
  - srylands
    
    I think you will find that MBIE is there to diligently implement all relevant government policies.
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:24pm
    - Muttonbird
      
      I know that’s your official line on what MBIE does but it’s been a revelation to me recently that people within MBIE have political opinions.
      
      Do you think the government should be looking at the model proposed in the article?
      
      Basically that larger housing providers would better at the game than mum&dad amateurs who have zero concept of social health beyond their own retirement fund, and that these amateur ‘housing providers’ are reluctant to reinvest in their portfolios?
      
      To me, larger groups have better attention to their core job and better maintenance buying power. What do you think?
      
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      September 29, 2018 6:10pm
      - srylands
        
        You are quite mistaken. Public servants provide advice and are asked,for example, what impact the government’s policy may have on the rental market.. Ministers may agree or not but they are generally appreciative of the advice. But to repeat the obvious. Public servants have an absolute duty to work tirelessly to implement the government’s policies. End of story.
        
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        September 29, 2018 6:55pm
      - srylands
        
        And BTW I have no issue with what you are saying. I would like to see large institutional investors in the rental market in New Zealand.
        
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        September 29, 2018 6:58pm
      - srylands
        
        And it is not an “official line” that public servants serve the government. It is reality. If they cannot they must resign.
        
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        September 29, 2018 7:03pm
duggledog

So, TV1 News reported on Jacinda’s big trip to the UN Monday evening.

At this ultimate talkfest, Ardern was introduced by a gentleman who clearly mispronounced her name.

He welcomed ‘Jacinda ALDERN’. Look it up.

How extraordinary to think an organisation as lavishly financed as the U.N. could f*** that up.

But anyway, interestingly, the TV1 newsroom – in fact the entire media as far as I know – did not draw attention to this appalling faux pas. At all.

Perhaps because it could infer that outside this Antipodean bubble she is absoludely a nobody. And that would be embarrassing.

If it were a National Party PM at the receiving end, say, Simon BRIDGE, do you think the media would have drawn attention to it?

Uptick Yes
Downtick No
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September 29, 2018 8:05am
- MT_Tinman
  
  Who?
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:10am
stephieboy

The Annals of white crime in NZ

We will start with a serial killer Hayden Tyrone who was responsible; for the horrendous and vicious murders of three young women,

New Zealand’s first serial killer, who claimed an alter ego called ‘hell’ made him commit murders, has been found dead at Whanganui Prison.

Hayden Tyrone Poulter was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1997 for the rape and murder of sex worker Natacha Hogan in an Auckland park.

A nun walking her dog found Hogan’s body and police began hunting for her killer.
Public fear reached fever pitch when days later Poulter, a labourer living in Māngere, south Auckland, wrote to media promising he would kill again – and he did….”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/107331557/serial-killer-hayden-tyrone-poulter-found-dead-in-whanganui-prison
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September 29, 2018 8:06am
- ross411
  
  Let’s all celebrate that we accept the mentally ill and clinically stupid on this blog!
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:08am
- Simon
  
  Soyboy you are a fluffer for Labo
  
  Do you have think Arden is really up to the job? Honest answer
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:11am
  - softail 1450
    
    Simon , an honest answer from goatboy ,ha,ha,ha,ha,
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:13am
  - stephieboy
    
    Simon, reminding us that Whites commit crimes in our fair green pastures?
    
    Dunno!
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:27am
    - Simon
      
      You don’t even deny being a fluffer for Labo.
      
      Where are the other Labo fluffers mikeisemotional and zzzztev? Or have they been replaced?
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:34am
- softail 1450
  
  Septicboy, what the fuck were you ingesting last night to come up with that rubbish ? he’s dead ,so what?
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:11am
  - stephieboy
    
    softail 1450 , but, but he committed terrible crimes like other white folks.
    
    DIH!
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:29am
- srylands
  
  What exactly is your point here?
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:11am
  - dubya
    
    So bogans are just as distasteful as horis and muzzies? Quelle fucking surprise.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:21am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Check your immigrants carefully?
    (Hayden Poulter was born in Britain)
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:25am
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, spurious.Didn’t claim NZ citizenship? That he was born in Britain makes less culpable?
      
      Pathetic!
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:40am
  - stephieboy
    
    srylands, certain posters on KB like to gleefully point to ” Murri ” etc crimes. My annals of white crime seeks to redress and provide some balance and perspective.
    
    OK?
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:31am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      You wouldn’t know balance or perspective if they bit your ass.
      No one has ever claimed that Maori commit all crime in NZ or anywhere else or that non-Maori commit no crime. It is an undisputed fact that Maori are over-represented in crime and imprisonment statistics.
      Waving a case study of a white criminal around is not evidence of anything except you have no idea what you’re talking about and have completely lost your struggle for relevance.
      
      LOL
      Sigh
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:55am
      - stephieboy
        
        Shaun the Sheep, there have been posts on KB that especially focussed on ” Murri” crime watch!
        
        Fact!
        
        LOL
        
        Sigh!
        
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        September 29, 2018 8:57am
- Swifty
  
  I’ve noticed this ‘NZ’s first serial killer’ claim previously. What a load of click bait nonsense. And, Stiffy, you are stupid to repeat it.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:12am
  - stephieboy
    
    Swifty, who was the first one?
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:32am
    - Swifty
      
      I’m buggered if I know, but I’d put money on them being Maori in pre-European times.
      
      Since settlement, I’d put money on any number of early sailors, settlers or those who moved about in gold-prospecting circles like Richard Burgess.
      
      We musn’t overlook also the crime associated with Mr Asia activity by NZers here and in Aus – and which will forever remain unknown and unproven by all except those directly involved.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:45am
    - softail 1450
      
      Pre European the native folk of our country lived in a perpetual state of serial murdering ,that is a fact.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:48am
      - stephieboy
        
        softail1450 , untrue! Doing what humans have always done, warfare. Not forgetting the Mothers of all ” white “wars WWI 1 & 2 etc, etc.
        
        Other wars too.
        
        Maoris are not alone as you must realise!
        
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        September 29, 2018 8:55am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes this is going to be a short series.
  Stephie can you then do one on white baby killers
  Then white king hitters
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:20am
- waikatogirl
  
  Sb, Stan Graham pre-dates your first serial killer by some decades!
  
  Stanley Graham was a New Zealander who killed seven people.
  Born:Eric Stanley George Graham, Nov 12, 1900, Kokatahi, New Zealand
  Died:Oct 21, 1941, Hokitika, New Zealand
  Cause of death: Shot by police
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:24am
  - Swifty
    
    Exactly.
    
    There is also a certain gentleman living in Auckland today who those in the know reckon has sent a dozen on to greener pastures.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:30am
  - stephieboy
    
    Stan Graham was a mass killer, not a serial killer.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:33am
    - Woz
      
      A correct and very important distinction.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:38am
- Nookin
  
  I had not previous heard that there was some official record of white crime. Stephie’s capitalisation of “Annals” suggests that there must be. Does anyone know how to access these Annals and for what purpose they are maintained?
  
  Is there a trend of serial offending peculiar to white people or is this just a silly, mindless, tin-foil hat driven theory that white people are more prone to criminal behaviour than anyone else.
  
  Or is this just a complete fuckwit trying to perpetuate some racial divide as a sop to his bigotry?
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:26am
  - stephieboy
    
    Nookin, my dictionary definition of annals includes records, chronicles, accounts.
    
    Which do you prefer?
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:36am
    - Nookin
      
      Capitalisation suggests that the word is not used in a general sense. If you had simly referred to “accounts of white crime” then I would not have asked the question. Instead you refer to “Annals”.
      
      I guess your answer does give an indication of what we are in for — a completely meaningless exposee of every criminal who happens to be white. Maybe you could break it down to country of origin, religion, marital status, occupation, gingas, fruitloops, converts, perverts, male, female, trans-one-way, trans-the-other-way, vegans, carnivores, omnivores and political allegiances. You know, something actually meaningfull. Maybe throw in a left field classication. How many are dispirited sports fans? Are left-handers more prevalent than right handers?
      
      When you have finished, come back in say 10 years with your reasoned conclusions.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:58am
  - softail 1450
    
    Nookin, septicboy is contrary moron, you could say
    something irrefutable like Jacinda is a serial liar and he’d have the gall to say she isn’t.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:43am
- Inandout
  
  There were very few Muslims around NZ in 1997.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:39am
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout, your point?
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:42am
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy ,you figure it out…..
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:44am
- Jules99
  
  Thanks for drawing attention to the fact that your list is a lot shorter than the other one.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:50am
- VicParking
  
  Stephie: I can look up links to-
  Nigerian Mass becomes a Massacre
  https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/april/nigeria-fulani-attack-catholic-church-benue-boko-haram.html
  
  Armed gangs WIPE OUT 15 villages in mass https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/215-million-christians-persecuted-mostly-by-muslim
  
  Christian slaughter
  https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/919422/christian-persecution-nigeria-islamic-Nasarawa
  
  215 Million Christians Persecuted, Mostly by Muslims
  https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/215-million-christians-persecuted-mostly-by-muslim
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:54am
  - stephieboy
    
    This says a lot about the trustworthiness of your sources.
    
    Author RAYMOND IBRAHIM Gatestone Institute ( one of the most notoriously biased and prejudiced anti Islamic organisations )
    
    No context eg, which particular Muslim groups e.g ISIS or those living peacefully together with Israeli Jews in Israel. Or who have lived peacefully alongside Christians for millennia?
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:05am
ross411

Let us all huzzah for comrade Winston Pyotrs who is doing good work for the great Putin, and likely being rewarded richly with the rubles for it!

Huzzah comrade Pyotrs!
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September 29, 2018 8:07am
MT_Tinman

I was surprised to note that reports the ugly old harridan saved the world at the UN this week appear only in the NZ media.

Nothing I could find on this week’s UN wankfest in international productions even mentioned it, saving their remarks for such luminaries as the boss of the Marshall Islands.

How did all these so-called major news organisations get it so wrong?
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September 29, 2018 8:08am
- Woz
  
  I’ve noted the same thing all week. The international coverage was zilch. Last night I found her at the 25th story down on CNN, but it wasn’t about her epoch-defining speech. It was about her trading jokes with Stephen Colbert.
  
  The point is that this whole fluff-fest is not about international exposure. It’s about deflecting domestic attention from the never-ending fuck-ups at home.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:32am
  - Inandout
    
    I trust you visited CNN solely for research purposes.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:40am
    - Woz
      
      With hand on heart I can vouch for that! I visited every big news site I could think of, several times throughout the week, in an effort to find international coverage of our trail-blazing Prime Mum. There was bugger all. I mean REALLY bugger all.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:49am
      - namron
        
        Understandable, Woz. Relying on the biased reporting by the NZ media with their infatuation with Ardern, the impression given is highly inflated.
        Important to pause and consider NZ’s pairing with such monstrous World Powers as the Marshall Is [pop 56,000] Wikipedia indicates that this “republic” is made up of “29 coral atolls, comprising 1156 individual islands and islets.”
        Also, when there are over 91 CITIES in the World with populations greater than NZ’s, and that in the list of Countries Populations we rate 125th.
        NZ’s importance and Ardern’s significance needs to be kept is proportion. Even babies [including hers] are not a rare species – over 326,000 of them are born every day.
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:24am
- MCos
  
  ‘Ugly old harridan’ no bias there!
  
  I was just reading a comment by Dave Mann who favourably compared Kiwiblog to the trashy MSM.
  You’re letting the side down.
  Mind you, you don’t have that on your own. Many contributors here seem to think they’d be letting the side down if they referred to the ‘enemy’ using their giving name.
  
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  September 29, 2018 1:16pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Their ‘giving’ name? Santa Claus?
    
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    September 30, 2018 7:43am
softail 1450

The funs over jacinda ,get your arse back here and fix the shambles that is your government.
Forget about tripping the light fantastic with the U N and the hollywood pedo’s ,feminazi’s and sex offenders, get back home and do what you are being paid to do F F S.
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September 29, 2018 8:08am
- igm
  
  sotail: I would prefer she take her entourage and fade into oblivion somewhere like Iran or Somalia . . . seems they are her idea of utopia.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:11am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    She could go check out how socialism is working so well in Venezuela.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:18am
    - marcw
      
      She could do a side trip to Venezuela on the way back, then share the photos and stories with Duncan on TV3. Not sure if he will be so impressed then about where she is taking him and his family in a few more years – New Zueala.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:55am
  - softail 1450
    
    IGM, it was an embarrassment to our country to have her preaching to the entire planet as her government back home swirls in sleeze, corruption,and graft.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:20am
- SaltyCroc
  
  Has Jacinda Aldern been in NY? I thought she was here cause this country has been going to hell on a handcart and that is her speciality. I thought the Co-PM Dufus Gaylord was there with baby….Guess I should read the newspapers to keep up with the play…or maybe not….
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:22am
- Harkman
  
  So I went for a piss at 6PM last night (far more than you needed to know), washed my hands and at 6:03PM I turned on the TV, outcomes Mrs Ed, “We Too” and “Climate change” she is faker than her teeth. It’s just rubbish, globalist nonsense.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:23am
  - SaltyCroc
    
    And then you went back in and threw up right?
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:29am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      And washed your hands again I hope.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:52am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Harkman:
    
    Thank goodness you didn’t piss on your TV when you saw Jacinda! Your TV lives to survive another day!
    
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    September 29, 2018 12:04pm
    - Harkman
      
      Yes it’s brutally honest day Nostra (I’ve had a bad cold for two weeks). I had a weird dilemma, I always watch the news at 6PM but I knew they’d be drooling over Cindy’s speech. I still heard some of it arrrrrh!
      
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      September 29, 2018 12:33pm
krazykiwi

Reposted: I’m sure that in front of cameras, with their virtue signalling antennae quivering, the UN’s old battlers are happy to smile and applaud Ardern’s impassioned platitudes.

But behind closed doors they’ll be tossing back the XO and laughing at the weapons-grade naivety of this silly little girl, so obviously intoxicated with hubris, and massively lacking in self-awareness.
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September 29, 2018 8:10am
- softail 1450
  
  Baby though Krazy, baby baby baby…..
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:23am
oldpark

Watched the Commie Chic Comrade Ardern at the UN . For some reason she was masquerading as “Mrs Ardern”. She even got involved with mentioning the #Meetoo movement. Got the impression she was more supportive of the massive amounts of Misandrists that have sprung up around the world.
She just has to look at her support partners the far left Lunatic Green party which is infested with almost a full board of Misandrists.
“Mrs Ardern” all over the show at the UN and advice to anyone who wanted to listen on how the world should be run. Yet back in NZ as the Peters dominated and completely in control of his selected PM she is not even able to run a bath literally.Go figure.
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September 29, 2018 8:13am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Glad you understood her – I didn’t. It was just babbling shit
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:20am
- Inandout
  
  Our Foreign Affairs chaps would have schooled her in the ways of the Islamic dominated UN. You simply don’t shout your unmarried status in front of those Muslim males. Look at Macron and baby Trudeau, both hitched.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:46am
  - dubya
    
    Macron got it wrong in Muslim eyes, though – he married his great aunt rather than his eight year old niece.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:35am
- marcw
  
  Surely she did get the Miss World sash though – with a world peace and love of all men speech that must have swayed the judges. Lucky for us they have done away with the swimsuit segment.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:58am
  - SaltyCroc
    
    Not all men – white men don’t count
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:30am
holysheet

One of Cindies aides comes in in the morning and says, “Good morning, I should tell you about the dream I had last night”
“Oh,” says Cindy, “Was I in it?”
“You were, and it was about your parade. It finally happened, and it was even more hugely terrific than even you thought,. There really were thousands of people across the nation, dancing in the streets, all waving flags, and joyfully acclaiming the gilded carriage that you were riding on.”
“Wow,” said Cindy, “Sounds great. How did I look?”
“I couldn’t really say, the casket was closed.”
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September 29, 2018 8:13am
AgainstTheFlow

RE: ‘Jacindamania in New York’
Our political class (I’m including the media) will never ever miss an opportunity to pander to Kiwis’ desperate need for validation by the rest of the world.

We don’t care why or what it is for, so long as some-one notices our tiny nation at the bottom of the South Pacific.
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September 29, 2018 8:15am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  There’s a big difference between letting the Wold know who and where we are, and letting the World know that we have a SLG as leader.
  Embarrasing
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:23am
- MT_Tinman
  
  Did someone notice?
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:24am
  - AgainstTheFlow
    
    Only here in NZ, and The Australian newspaper which called it an ‘anti-Trump speech’.
    
    Our desperation to be noticed by the world is embarrassing.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:39am
    - Inandout
      
      It would not have gone unnoticed by Trump’s advisers, who may just turn the screws a bit tighter on NZ. Silly socialist mole she is.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:48am
  - SaltyCroc
    
    Notice who?
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:31am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “…Kiwis’ desperate need for validation by the rest of the world.”
  
  It’s a sign of cultural immaturity.
  
  I’ve noticed this among white New Zealanders. I don’t think the brown and yellow New Zealanders feel this way.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:56am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    God that sounds like a ‘pretty’ rainbow, white, yellow and brown.
    
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    September 30, 2018 7:49am
MCos

Tweet from yesterday

Breaking: Nats worry DOC attempts to increase kakapo numbers could threaten local stoat, rat and weasel populations.
Dave Armstrong
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September 29, 2018 8:15am
- ross411
  
  I don’t get it?
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:20am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    I imagine it’s a reference to National’s bafflingly wrong-headed opposition to DOC’s proposed tahr cull
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:37am
    - dubya
      
      Yes, I got that bizarre email from Sarah Dowie. Would really rather National doesn’t get hijacked by the hunting and fishing weirdos. Makes a mockery of pest free by 2050, which though a lofty goal, is a laudable one.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:22am
  - MCos
    
    National launched a petition to save the tahr pests
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:39am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      Dear God. What are they DOING?
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:44am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Isn’t the Petition to ask for a pause to reconsider whether all 17500 should be killed or some be left for recreational hunters?
        In other words, left some as a resource.
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:00am
- Southern Raider
  
  And it’s not a DOC led cull. The Sage has gone against the advice of DOC
  
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  September 29, 2018 11:38am
MCos

Tweet of the day, today

https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1045747245939871746?s=12
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September 29, 2018 8:17am
- MrTips
  
  Pity for the loser who made that tweet that Brett’s going to get the nomination. Ford was an unconvincing train wreck and the Dems showed their real self – vicious liars.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:30am
  - MCos
    
    Whatever
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:35am
    - Inandout
      
      Well yes MC, whatever you thought.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:50am
      - stephieboy
        
        A clever thought at that!
        
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        September 29, 2018 11:42am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Don’t waste your time; I opened, cursed my self for losing the minute of my life I will never ever get back and then looked at the poster.
  
  I knew instantly that my indulgence was more of a mistake.
  
  Memo to self: always look at the source before applying eyeballs to product to avoid serious mental impact injury.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:42am
- Harkman
  
  You’re a moron, some guy’s life is being ruined in front of our eyes by claims from a clearly deranged person.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:27am
  - Inandout
    
    Perhaps any partner of a NZ PM should be open to extreme scrutiny as well. They are after all privy to all state secrets that are disclosed on the pillow. Now I wonder how Clarke’s past would stand up to close scrutiny.
    
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    September 29, 2018 10:20am
    - Harkman
      
      Yes hint hint why isn’t he arrested hint hint
      
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      September 29, 2018 12:36pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      By who, the Police, the SIS? Don’t be ridiculous.
      
      They would be accused of being mean, not doing their job.
      
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      September 30, 2018 7:53am
DigNap15

I’d love to see a video of the audience at her UN speech.
Apparently it was not full!
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September 29, 2018 8:18am
- softail 1450
  
  DigNap ,80 to 100 folk.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:26am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Big space, lots of cleaning trollies and people dressed in matching smocks.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:44am
    - SaltyCroc
      
      But she played a blinder according to stuff so someone must have seen it
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:34am
- Peter S
  
  There was a side on shot on TV1 news late in the piece. Certainly was a long way from packed from that angle.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:26am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Tova O’Brien’s photo doesn’t lie. Plenty of empty seats.
    
    https://twitter.com/TovaOBrien/status/1045396700192366592
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:36am
    - Paulus
      
      Great – Tova’s photo doesn’t lie – that’s a first.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:46am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        OMG that is pretty sad, and surprisingly honest. The audience wouldn’t have been instructed on their responses unlike the tv appearances either.
        
        I almost feel sorry for Jacinda.
        
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        September 30, 2018 7:58am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Read the impacting PM’s tweet on the side bar.
      
      Makes the guy out back in the local Chinese look like Confucius
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:48am
      - softail 1450
        
        P G, that says it all, support only from two Maori who probably flew over 1st class in her entourage .
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:00am
    - softail 1450
      
      K S, they could have saved money and had it in the “mothers room” looks like they would have all fitted in, the report I heard was 80/100 that was from “cheers bigears”
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:55am
  - stigie
    
    Enough to fill a country hall !~
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:37am
    - RF
      
      That was Barry Sopers comment. You know lying choppers is in trouble when Soper turns on the left……
      
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      September 29, 2018 11:30am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Unless that left is Winston.
        
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        September 30, 2018 7:59am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  CNN are editing the audience as we speak
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:28am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  DigNap15 , I believe about the same numbers who attended former PM’s John Keys UN speech.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:49am
  - Inandout
    
    You believe, well send a link because I can’t find a photo of the entire audience, just the NZ delegation.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:58am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy ,as everybody knows what you believe is most likely a lie …
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:02am
  - VicParking
    
    But he did not get the MSM to beat it up.
    Failing Newspaper : “Thunderous Applause”
    TV: Only showed the one area that there was sort of filled seats
    Even Neve thought her speech was crap and protested so loudly the 13th disciple Clarke had to take her out.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:05am
- krazykiwi
  
  DigNap15, here’s a video. It was posted by Red Radio so as one might imagine almost the entire thing is a Jacinda love fest.
  
  Almost. Jump to 3:25 and you’ll see the floor, with almost no delegates. The most fully populated area is the ‘friends and family’ section to the right.
  
  In short, I’ve seen more people queuing for a hamburger than Ardern managed to attract for her embarrassing display of self-aggrandizement.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:33am
- lifesgood
  
  There are some great photos up on line. An almost empty room and those that were there were preoccupied doing other things. One woman is standing with her back to Ardern during her speech and there was also a stream of people leaving. How the lying media could possibly say there was a standing ovation and wide applause is beyond me. Bloody liars. It was an abysmal display from Ardern. She sounded as if she was in the Miss Universe comp, you know the usual insincere babble about caring for children and world peace. I’m utterly ashamed of her but then again, The UN, pffft!
  
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  September 29, 2018 12:35pm
Justitia

Jacinda proclaimed the wonders of “collectivism” in her UN speech, joining Joe Stalin and his merry band of monstrous communist thugs from the darkest annals of the 20th century. Was New York Cindy’s coming-out party?
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September 29, 2018 8:19am
- DigNap15
  
  If that is true it just goes to re-inforce her youth communist past.
  Has she seen how collectivism really worked in Russian and China and North Korea.
  Millions died!
  Is she stupid or evil ? or both?
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:23am
  - Peter S
    
    Same thing I picked up on and pointed out to my wife and son, when my son said “She didn’t say anything bad.”
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:27am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Nah, Cindy just believes she can do socialism better. That’s what all socialists believe until the next socialist leader emerges to remove the present leader. Rinse and repeat.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:37am
    - Peter S
      
      Except, with Winston there the red tide is going to get washed out by the blue rinse.
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:41am
  - stephieboy
    
    DigNap15, neither!
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:50am
  - VicParking
    
    She should fly home via Venezuela to see their success in action.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:07am
- dubya
  
  If it was, whoa, put her back in, she’s not done yet! (Simpsons fans will get it!)
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:26am
- KevOB
  
  Who or what was Jacinda auditioning for?
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:34am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    New tv series; Unmarried Mothers where the contestants are all locked together in a house with their children and the one pair of scissors are hidden only to be found in clues that can only be revealed once the accompanying children’s nappies have been soiled.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:58am
Maggy Wassilieff

The crap J.A. still has to sort out here:

.The revelations about on-going communications with Derek Handley
.The Meka Whaitiri leak
.The Meka Whaitiri incident
(Why exactly did she lose confidence in this Minister?)
. The Haumaha appointment
. The Divisions within her caucus
.The unsteady coalition
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September 29, 2018 8:22am
- ross411
  
  Sort out Mags? Bunglin’ Cindy probably contributed to it through inept involvement while in the country. The longer she is out of the country and unable to be as directly involved in these inevitable debacles, the better for her.
  
  ?cinda is the worst prime minister we’ve ever had, and a stalwart team of losers at her back like Gruntin’ Grant and Let-the-thugs-out Andy, don’t help her much.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:24am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Sort out Mags? Bunglin’ Cindy probably contributed to it through inept involvement while in the country.
    
    Of course!..
    What was I thinking?
    
    …..(I haven’t hydrated yet… I’m sure I’ll come right after a few cups of Tea)
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:31am
  - Peter S
    
    No probably at all.
    If you look back, we had 6 Weeks without major stuff ups while she was on maternity leave, then chaos since, right up till the day she left for the UK, and nothing major since. It will start up again when she gets back.
    I overheard a conversation where someone was describing her as good but surrounded by and dragged down by the useless people around her.
    I disagree. I think she is a large part of the problem, a lightning rod for stuff ups and issues.
    It is like the lying issue. I think she overestimates her ability to deceive without getting caught by using clever and obscure language. I don’t think she is clever enough for that approach, and it has shown.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:39am
    - Komata
      
      Peter
      
      Dunning-Kruger syndrome at its best.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:07am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes I don’t want Ardern to sort out the last two items on your list.
  I want them to keep bubbling along till the next election!
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:26am
- softail 1450
  
  M W, you forgot the biggest sort out she has to do,
  the drunken bastard Peters, because he’s after her job.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:28am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  No probs peeps, all done by lunchtime Monday
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:50am
krazykiwi

50m Facebook accounts have just been hacked. My cat pics are in serious jeopardy.

Facebook, the social media giant with over two billion monthly active users, reported earlier today that their engineering team discovered an attack on their systems that compromised the information of 50 million Facebook users.
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September 29, 2018 8:25am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  As long as they are Democrats, no big deal
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:32am
- softail 1450
  
  K K, it’ll be like the last affair “sold without actually knowing they’d sold them”, a total denial, followed by “we will do better” and an apology yet again.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:35am
srylands

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/107448357/wellingtons-transport-planners-move-to-fasttrack-approval-for-light-rail

So we can have it all.. A shiny new Terrace tunnel, a new mount Vic tunnel and a good road to the airport and a tram to the airport.

The tram is a stupid idea. It had a BCR of 0.05. It will be a money pit. As for the roads, they will just get bogged down in consenting wars for years. Every day the idiocy that is The Terrace tunnel is on show. And yet there it is still.

When Transmission Gully has its opening ceremony I hope that common sense prevails and Steven Joyce is given the privilege of cutting the ribbon. It never would have been possible without him.
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September 29, 2018 8:31am
- KevOB
  
  Wellington is done. Too many people in that hilly place with a large reclamation providing a downtown area.
  It’s been overfilled.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:39am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Jacinda can make a Captains call and shift Parliament back to Auckland, let’s do this.
    
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    September 30, 2018 11:32am
Sofia

Pike River saga
“There is still uncertainty around what actually happened, so the primary purpose of recovering the drift is to conduct a forensics examination of everything that’s in there, to try and determine what happened. – Dave Gawn, Pike River Recovery Agency chief executive, 3 September 2018,
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/365537/drift-re-entry-a-forensics-examination

Pike River probe’s independence under scrutiny.
It comes after video footage was released this week by the families of the 29 men killed, which they said showed the [second] explosion was caused by a conveyer belt being switched on.
Police said while the idea was considered, they could find no evidence this was authorised.
However, they had now launched an investigation to ensure their actions did not cause the second explosion, which scuppered all hope of finding any of the men alive.
Families spokesperson, Bernie Monk, said police could not investigate themselves and an independent agency should instead be put in charge.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/367513/pike-river-probe-s-independence-under-scrutiny

As with other Government functions, various people seem to keep leaking material, supposedly to serve some purpose.

Is this latest leak (video footage claimed to show the conveyor belt started) to question Police propriety in investigating their own actions and will that now escalate to question who should conduct the forensics examination of everything that’s in the drift?

“I’m not saying the police are not professional at their job. But I cannot understand how the police now can investigate themselves on what they did up at Pike River”
– Bernie Monk, families spokesperson

And in relation to that, of course, Andrew Little, Minister in charge of the Pike River Recovery Agency, was Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union General Secretary, representing miners when the tragedy occurred.
If the participation of the Police is questioned, why not Little’s involvement?
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September 29, 2018 8:35am
- Paulus
  
  I resume Monk wants to be able to sue somebody with the backing of money – why not blame the Police.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:50am
  - Komata
    
    Bernie’s back for his media fix. Should we be surprised…?
    
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    September 29, 2018 10:10am
Fletch

Latest on the Kavanaugh hearing. It looks like Republican senator Jeff Flake, flaked out. He is agreeing to moving the vote forward only if there is another FBI investigation. So it looks like we could have another painful, drawn-out week where anything could happen. More threats against Kavanaugh’s family, more chance for spurious claims and accusers to come forward.

Honestly, I don’t see what more is to be gained. The Democrats are not going to change their ‘no’ votes anyway, regardless of the results of any further investigation. Kavanaugh has already been the subject of six FBI vettings during his long career. He was an assistant to Bush and had access to the nuclear codes.

The whole thing is depressing. If the Dems want a delay and another FBI investigation (and you know how well the FBI can be trusted these days) then I’d be against it.

[edit] the Senate Judiciary Committee has officially requested an FBI investigation.

https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1045769237447536641/photo/1
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September 29, 2018 8:38am
- Paulus
  
  Very sad that the USA are making such fools of themselves again.
  Russia, China and the rest of the world are laughing sadly at them.
  Pathetic.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:51am
  - softail 1450
    
    Paulus ,Arderne will be 100% behind these filthy democrats, its how she would love to run our country ,guilty without due process…
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:06am
  - Richard
    
    Yeah its a bad advert for democracy. Iran, Russia and China telling the the politicals locked up in their jails or in Labour camps: “That is what you get with democracy. Is it really worth all your suffering?”
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:17am
- Fletch
  
  Statement from President @realDonaldTrump:
  
  “I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week.”
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:00am
  - Richard
    
    Some Rep Senators want another FBI all clear before they will approve Kavanaugh so that just in case….well all I need to say is ass covering.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:19am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Agree, a week won’t matter. They gave Ford 10 days.
      It’s about appearance.
      Not sure what they will investigate. Ford doesn’t know when or where.
      She doesn’t know how she got home.
      The other people she named present all say it never happened
      Including her best friend.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:30am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red, why do you think Trump chose Kavanaugh ( far down the list ) over the rest of the equally capable nominees?
        
        https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/once-key-questioner-in-bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-case-brett-kavanaugh-under-cringeworthy-scrutiny-1923514
        
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        September 29, 2018 9:36am
      - Paulus
        
        But Ford’s family appear to have close associates with the FBI and others.
        Her father appears to run a Security Company well ingratiated along with family members with a number of US investigation facilities.
        Of course I trust the FBI to be impartial !
        
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        September 29, 2018 1:57pm
  - trout
    
    Smart move by Trump; a further background check when new evidence emerges is not unprecedented. FBI will probably only need to verify the statements made by the four persons named by the accuser as being at the scene of the crime. In normal circumstances they would interview the accuser and assess the veracity of her testimony (which has a number of inconsistencies) but this would open a can of worms (in this day and age the female accuser is a protected species).
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:40am
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , you must understand the appointment of Supreme Court justices is historically often a highly politically charged process After all its is the third branch of government, unlike our Judiciary.
  
  Very importantly consider why Trump chose Kavanaugh over and above other worthwhile nominees. Kavanaugh was involved in the prosecution of Bill Clinton.
  
  Now think about it!
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:26am
  - Fletch
    
    It is politically charged, basically, because of abortion. Both abortion and gay marriage were made ‘law’ by judicial activism; by liberal Supreme court judges “finding” a right to each by “interpreting” the Constitution. They weren’t made the way laws are supposed to be made (and there is no way either of those would have been made law in the proper way at the time).
    
    If the whole of a law is based upon the opinion of one or two men and relies on those men remaining in office as long as they can then the law is spurious to begin with. When a judge retires (as has happened) then the law adopted this way can just as easily be jettisoned. That is what drives the fear of the Democrats and the whole abortion industry – that Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and others could make abortion and gay marriage unlawful. That, and having conservative judges for a lifetime on the Supreme Court who go against their liberal ideas.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:50am
- Jules99
  
  I’d be interested to hear more about the man who has come forward claiming that Ford has mistaken Kavanagh for him. He’s been interviewed 2x, and the prosecutor asked leading questions around whether a potential alternative person is involved. Is there information not in the public domain? Probably. Has someone got something on Flake, probably.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:31am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Two men actually
    Both spoke with investigators
    It’s been confirmed by local Police that the alleged offence was a misdemeanour at that time with a statutory limit of one year.
    So they can speak without fear of prosecution
    Public opinion being something else…
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:36am
Happychappy

So is this weekend the annual piss up for the Fishing and Racing industry for their support of NZ First and could the Russians have help finance the Messiahs vote collecting exercise this weekend.
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September 29, 2018 8:38am
- Paulus
  
  And the Peters Party AGM in the seat he lost – Tauranga – at the racecourse – cheap venue for him.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:52am
Woz

What the hell was Duncan Garner drinking last night?
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September 29, 2018 8:43am
- Justitia
  
  It’s the meds. Dr must have switched brands again.
  
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  September 29, 2018 8:48am
  - softail 1450
    
    Justitia, Garner flips a coin when he falls out of bed and goes left/right depending on the toss.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:11am
    - Dave Mann
      
      Don’t knock him. He might just be an actual journalist who is trying to remain politically unbiased.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:44am
- Longknives
  
  I initially thought it was a pisstake- I mean comparing Ardern to Mother Theresa?
  
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  September 29, 2018 12:31pm
Hugh Pavletich

Sydney, Melbourne house prices to decline by 10 per cent from their peak: ANZ Bank … Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/sydney-melbourne-house-prices-to-decline-by-10-per-cent-from-their-peak-anz-20180928-p506kr.html

Australian home prices are likely to fall over the next couple of years, reflecting the impact of tighter lending standards and the prospect of higher official interest rates from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) placing downside pressure on prices, says ANZ Bank’s Australian economics team. … read more via hyperlink above …

Australian Banking Royal Commission
Interim Report – Access Media Reporting …

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=PJKuW5pG0en5BpiXmqgM&q=australian+banking+royal+commission&oq=australian+banking+royal+commission&gs_l=psy-ab.12..
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September 29, 2018 8:48am
ross411

Didn’t stephieboy, a sad example of congenital stupidity, have a weird post above about white people? It seems to have gone missing.
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September 29, 2018 8:58am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Stephieboy did put up a post about Hayden Poulter.
  
  I have noticed that this is about the 3rd or 4th post that Stephieboy has disappeared….
  (He’s disappeared ones requesting commenters kill themselves)
  
  It happens long after the 5 min editing window.
  
  Does anyone else on KB have this ability to disappear a post and its associated comments?
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:12am
  - softail 1450
    
    M W, it’ gone just like the last 3 active brain cells that were racing around inside his head like maniacs trying to keep up with the goatbotherers bodily movements.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:21am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Sb, are you so thick as to continue your stupid comments even after David has deleted you? It appears so. ?
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:26am
    - stephieboy
      
      waikatogirl , you too find it acceptable to have a Maori Crimewatch and I join the Suicide bombers?
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:29am
    - waikatogirl
      
      I have no idea what you are burbling on about sb???? You’re a strange little man. ?
      
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      September 29, 2018 1:02pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I have never made a suggestion that you or anyone in the world ever become a suicide bomber.
    
    I demand that you take that post down immediately.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:27am
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, where did I suggest that you specifically made that statement or other equally nasty comments?
      
      Others have but I have not said specifically you!
      
      OK?
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:31am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy ,you a suicide bomber,they’d have to send you to training for a week to make sure you knew how to bush the button on the vest .
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:32am
    - VicParking
      
      Will he be be able to find the vest
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:47am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    MW, where did I suggest that you specifically made that statement or other equally nasty comments?
    
    I realise you have a problem with comprehension, so you should check what you write carefully.
    
    In your 9:17 post, you have specifically addressed your comment to me…by 1. linking your comment under mine and 2. by using my initials to start the post.
    
    Do you understand that?
    I am pretty sure a bunch of lawyers will understand it.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:37am
    - softail 1450
      
      M W, Poor septicboy he was just a little to tightly wound this morning and everybody knows it’s hard to think with both feet in your mouth.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:44am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I think you are overreacting, Maggy. stephieboy seems to be suggesting that you find suggestions that he become a suicide bomber acceptable.
      Admittedly, it is hard to tell what he is on about, a lot of the time, due to his limitations in expressing himself.
      
      And how can you demand that stephieboy take down a comment after the editing window has closed? I think you need to email DPF if you have been triggered.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:48am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @mikenmildagain
      
      I think you are overreacting, Maggy.
      
      No, Mikenmildagain.
      
      I am not overreacting.
      I am opposed to any forms of violence. I have made my position very clear on this blog, that I do not abuse people.
      But I am sick to death of the abuse and harassment I receive here.
      This is not the first time you have accused me of over-reacting/being hysterical.
      
      Your attempts to victim-shame/victim-blame me are pretty damn revealing.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:56am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I think you should avail yourself of the complaint mechanisms if your feelings are that badly hurt.
      Demanding a commenter ‘take down’ a comment on DPF’s blog just makes you seem unhinged.
      Sure, I’m picking on you. I don’t like hypocrites. So what?
      I’d have a sliver of respect for you if you made a stand against the truly horrible comments people make on this blog. But your faux outrage just makes me chuckle,
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:01am
    - itstricky
      
      Absolutely.
      
      At the moment, it’s just like picking on the slow kid in class and then complaining when he punches you in the face.
      
      I imagine you’ve had some nasty comments pointed in your direction. Everyone has. But I don’t see you, or anyone, standing up against anyone that calls Megan Woods a ‘fat slag’, Neve a ‘squirrel’, or innocent commentators ‘stupid fucks’ for simply disagreeing.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:09am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      @mike
      It is not MWs fault that Stephieboy is disappointed she doesn’t leap to his defence when others post something about him he doesn’t like, and it is unfair to blame MW for comments made by others.
      SBS reference to suicide bombing implies that MW either made the comment or supports it when neither is true.
      The comment is heinous in my view, but SBS issue should be with the person who posted it, not MW.
      He has maligned her and should withdraw and apologise.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:11am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Maggy
      There’s no doubt Stephie stalks you but I think MMA is right.
      The suicide comment wasn’t aimed at you. It’s just Stephie being hapless
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:15am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @mikenmildagain, itstricky
      
      This isn’t my blog,
      I don’t see every comment
      
      I don’t approve of abuse… my position is clear… I’ve managed to write 10,000+ comments here without feeling the need to indulge in personal abuse to anonymous posters.
      
      I don’t know who you chaps are and if you know stephieboy or not, but why not yourselves model some decent blogging behaviour for him to follow?
      
      No need to call folks on here Morons, MMA, if they are not up to speed with the latest information on NZ settlement patterns.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:40am
    - Jack5
      
      I don’t know why folk talk about Stephieboy in the singular.
      
      From varying grammatical styles, varying spelling skills, varying shades of opinion, it is obvious that “Stephieboy” is a pseudonym shared by a group of posters.
      
      If there were no Stephieboys, DPF, as blog owner, would be smart (and ethnics and goals allowing) to hire someone to be the blog’s provocateur.
      
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      September 29, 2018 11:58am
    - itstricky
      
      I don’t see every comment
      
      And I didn’t say you did. You can pretend not to see it, if you like.
      
      Until you see the ones that are worse than what you’ve received, however, I can’t take seriously any comments you have that take a moral high ground about how tough it is on you.
      
      why not yourselves model some decent blogging behaviour
      
      I don’t see what is indecent about it. I think you’ll notice that my “call outs” are only ever in response to someone else’s. Some people deserve to be challenged with their own crap. Quite often you will find that they can give it, but they can’t take it. There are plenty of low rent bullies in the world. Lots of them live here and you’re not the only one who’s being harassed.
      
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      September 29, 2018 1:58pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Stephieboy, we’d never suggest you become a suicide bomber. You’d fuck that up as well.
    
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    September 29, 2018 10:53am
    - Jack5
      
      Of course, Rightoverlabour. That would be far too dangerous. The Stephies are so thick and incompetent they would fill the Auckland hospitals with Stephiestanis.
      
      (The Stephiestanis are such a successful brand as blog ‘whack-a-moles” that it’s irresistible to bring down the hammer on a Stephie head that’s poking up.)
      
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      September 29, 2018 12:00pm
- stephieboy
  
  Highlighted and awaiting moderation. Be patient!
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:14am
  - softail 1450
    
    septic,oh yeah,would it be ok if i call this another lie? LOL.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:37am
  - simpleton1
    
    As you considered and read Isaiah 50:4-9 on a Sunday 2 weeks ago.
    
    Did you read further, to verse 11 to see a torment, lit by your own fires by the many version of your lies. ?
    
    But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment .
    
    So which hell is it for you? Mohammad’s vision of hell? as also practiced here on earth!, then also through eternity if you have not told enough lies here on earth.
    
    What is your truth? Or just a practice of lying?
    
    Taqiyya? Muruna? Kitman? Tawriya? Tu quoque? Squirrel? as Mohammadly approved.
    
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    September 29, 2018 9:48am
    - softail 1450
      
      simpleton1, I’ll have to go for the squirrel ,it’s the only word I understood in your post.
      
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      September 29, 2018 9:57am
Richard

I saw Ardern delivered her “#wetoo” speech to an almost empty UN. Saddest thing in the world.
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September 29, 2018 9:13am
- softail 1450
  
  Richard, nobody wanted to see Bubba anymore ,that shit only works once and most people would see her for what she is ,an International virtue signaler who’s own government is bogged down in a shitstorm of her making.
  Jacindas fingerprints are all over everything that’s wrong in her COL.
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:27am
- rightoverlabour
  
  is#wetoo a pissing contest? Does it include all genders, and are there any rules?
  
  Asking for a friend…
  
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  September 29, 2018 10:55am
Drwhom

Be very careful if you are travelling in France. There is a lot of casual crime occurring that is not being reported.

https://www.news.suavelos.eu/nice-des-racailles-se-rejouissent-davoir-tue-un-blanc-et-rient-devant-la-camera-jlai-detruit/
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September 29, 2018 9:26am
DigNap15

Yes why did that post on Hayden Poulter and the white crime wave disappear?
Who removed it and why.
I did not find it offensive, just incorrect as I don’t think that qualifies as a serial killer.
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September 29, 2018 9:37am
softail 1450

Septicboy ,if you troll expect to be trolled back,
septic, septic, septic, are you there?
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September 29, 2018 9:50am
Gravelroad

Good piece over on Whaleoil this morning on why Māori violence will not change anytime soon.
That is a challenge for Ms Ardern and her “kindness to humanity” dream for the rest of the world.
I would have some respect for her if she could get the violent people here to take some notice of her and try to control their violent tempers.
But sadly, I do not think that is going to happen.
Māori politicians are paying lip service to this white woman.
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September 29, 2018 10:09am
- Morrissey
  
  Good piece over on Whaleoil this morning….
  
  ??!!??!?
  
  Is that oxymoronic gem the funniest thing to be published on the Internet this week?
  
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  September 29, 2018 10:33am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    At least it won’t get deleted for being DEFAMATORY. DPF has a very high threshold in terms of freedom of speech. You, however, post stuff that is defamatory, and could result in legal sanctions against DPF. You have been alerted to this a number of times, yet you persist. Seems like you must be incredibly stupid, or arrogant, or both. Now do us all a favour and fuck off.
    
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    September 29, 2018 11:16am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    So what exactly is wrong with WO’s post?
    
    Do you disagree with his statistics? Almost certainly, total Maori vs non-Maori statistical differences which don’t control for social class and different age distributions imply a greater ethnic causal factor than is actually the case, but do these two factors eliminate ethnic difference enough to conclude there is no significant and disproportionate Maori domestic violence problem?
    
    Is WO’s opinion that the Maori caucus is part of the problem of Maori domestic violence because of its refusal to distance itself from Ms Whaitiri out of ethnic solidarity, an unreasonable view?
    
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    September 29, 2018 12:24pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      ethnic solidarity = it’s us vs. them
      ethnic solidarity = group membership trumps the wider community and the national interest
      
      ethnic solidarity = we are a tribe; not a nation
      
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      September 29, 2018 6:30pm
softail 1450

Gravelroad, In this COL lip service leads to cash in the hui..
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September 29, 2018 10:22am
Inandout

Trump’s UN audience v Adern’s.

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/09/our-pms-speech-at-the-un-the-other-side-of-the-story/#more-411917
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September 29, 2018 10:23am
- itstricky
  
  Invoking “audience size” and “Trump” seems like something I’d thought I’d never hear again.
  
  But it’s otherwise unsurprising. About the same size audience as John Key’s address then, it looks like?
  
  Whale Oil? Meh. Any self proclaimed “journalist” that calls the PM a “silly little girl” is a fuckwit, in my books. You’ve obviously got lower standards in your new intake than me.
  
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  September 29, 2018 10:35am
  - Inandout
    
    ‘silly little girl’ is a kind term in our household.
    
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    September 29, 2018 10:52am
    - Harriet
      
      Baby Shambles. 😎
      
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      September 29, 2018 11:08am
  - Longknives
    
    “Any self proclaimed “journalist” that calls the PM a “silly little girl” is a fuckwit, in my books.”
    
    That’s actually quite kind compared to what my mate calls her.
    And he has worked for her…
    
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    September 29, 2018 12:29pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Barbie?
      Artificial, Barbie is plastic.
      Vacuous, barbie is hollow
      Sold entirely on her looks, so is barbie
      Barbie comes in a cellophane and cardboard box, which is useless when barbie is taken out…Jacinda came out of the Labour party.
      
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      September 29, 2018 6:53pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Ahh, do tell, you can’t tease us like this. And does your mate have any info on a Porch, Emirates, and the difficulties of staying put. Would love to know.
      
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      September 29, 2018 7:18pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    “in your books”?????
    You can read???
    Who knew??
    
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    September 29, 2018 4:35pm
    - itstricky
      
      You can read???
      
      I take it you can’t because you don’t know how to use a question mark.
      
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      September 29, 2018 5:58pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Your big retort?
        Wow, careful you don’t hurt yourself.
        
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        September 29, 2018 6:54pm
Inandout

#42, Clarke Gaylord.
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September 29, 2018 10:51am
rightoverlabour

I strongly object to SIR John Key on this list. That is defamatory. Please report to DPF. Morrisey you are a cunt. I don’t mind if this gets reported, It’ll get DPF’s attention.
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September 29, 2018 10:58am
Brigitte

Morrissey, I notice that Stephieboy had a similar style post removed. This has made me think about your series. In particular, have all those listed been convicted of a crime relating to your accusation. Or are you potentially slandering them. If that is the case, are you putting the blogs host at risk.

What does everyone else think?
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September 29, 2018 10:59am
- rightoverlabour
  
  DPF needs to permanently ban the fuck for defamation.
  
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  September 29, 2018 10:59am
rightoverlabour

Ooh looks like Morrisey’s defamation has been deleted.

Well done chaps.
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September 29, 2018 11:01am
- Morrissey
  
  Kiwibloggers—and anyone else—can still find it here….
  
  http://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/09/gropers-no-42-predator-on-new-york.html
  
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  September 29, 2018 3:52pm
  - notrotsky
    
    Has Longhair spurned your advances again Moz ?
    
    What’s a chap to do when even his sock puppets have grown weary of his peccadillos ?
    
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    September 29, 2018 4:13pm
    - Morrissey
      
      The Professor has his foibles, Trotters, and as you’re no doubt aware, he’s been in quite a bit of trouble over the years. But he’s never done anything like THIS….
      
      https://imgur.com/wT4XtDj
      
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      September 29, 2018 4:28pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Quick Poll. Downtick if you clicked on Morrisey’s link, Uptick if you though “fat fucking chance I’m clicking on that shit….”
    
    By the way, just google Morrisey Breen NZ…..
    
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nz.general/IibP8D06NB4
    
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    September 29, 2018 7:36pm
Happychappy

Why would Winston Peters withdraw a Bill that he preached would save the Racing Industry and now finds that would help NZ TABS with millions from penalizing Australian bookmakers that take bets on NZ Racing. In withdrawing the Bill he said would be the saviour of the racing industry a couple of months ago his explanation was the Bill is not fit for service. It now makes you wonder what the Bookies in Australia offered in return to get this bill passed with out being penalized.
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September 29, 2018 11:06am
Harriet

Obesity and sugar taxes?

Don’t worry about that — as you will all be on the Maduro Diet within 6 months! 😎
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September 29, 2018 11:28am
All_on_Red

This is interesting.
It’s been mooted that Democrat Senator Manchin will vote yes
This is probably why.
‘A new poll finds that 58 percent of voters in West Virginia think Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court following his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

The Public Opinion strategies poll commissioned by the Judicial Crisis Network found an overwhelming majority of West Virginians (59 percent) thought Kavanaugh’s testimony was more believable than Christine Blasey Ford, who accused the federal judge of sexually assaulting her more than 35 years ago at a drunken high school party. Those who believe Kavanaugh include 81 percent of Republicans, 43 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Independent voters.’

There does seem to be outrage that a man with 30 years of fantastic work and testimonials from over 65 women who worked with him and knew him should be discarded because of a wrongful/mistaken accusation
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September 29, 2018 12:19pm
- Harkman
  
  Donnelly and Tester are a no, these people are going to need new jobs in a month’s time.
  
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  September 29, 2018 12:41pm
  - Vory v zakone
    
    Donnelly has changed his mind. Is now going to reconsider his intended NO vote. Obviously pressure from within Indiana
    
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    September 30, 2018 3:50am
Fletch

Art imitates life –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS5VIGsS0E
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September 29, 2018 12:47pm
- Jules99
  
  I’m not being funny, but I think some of those arty types are psychic.
  
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  September 29, 2018 1:51pm
Longknives

If you want a conclusive example of how Universities in New Zealand have completely lost the plot read this-

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107444484/embattled-massey-university-vice-chancellor-jan-thomas-backed-by-mori-staff-and-students

“You can’t talk about freedom of speech unless you understand white privilege, white male privilege.”

“Personally, I don’t agree he should be allowed because I don’t support his politics ..”

Let’s repeat what Professor Jahnke from Massey University just said-

“Personally, I don’t agree he should be allowed because I don’t support his politics..”

Wow.
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September 29, 2018 12:56pm
- Southern Raider
  
  What was worse in that article is the length and depth Thomas is driving Māori principles through Massey. She is on record wanting Massey to be the first major university to be aligned with indigenous values and have these referenced in all decisions.
  
  Apart from Massey effective never being ranked as a university again how does this work in relation to all the different subjects and research a university does? So history needs to be rewritten, some medical research will be scrapped etc
  
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  September 29, 2018 1:34pm
  - DigNap15
    
    es,
    Its not as if Maori were the leading inventors, writers, scientists, educators in the world.
    
    Perhaps this constant pro Maori diet we are all being fed is contributing to our universities slipping down the scale
    
    If people want to go to university to become a doctor or engineer or scientist great.
    Otherwise forget it, or pay for it yourself!
    
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    September 29, 2018 1:52pm
  - mandk
    
    Massey a major university?
    
    If it were not for Veterinary Science and Aviation, Massey would be on a par with most polytechs.
    
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    September 29, 2018 2:52pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Does a lot of real estate too I think, some extramural.
      
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      September 30, 2018 11:44am
  - KevOB
    
    Cripes: indigenous values. An Aussie vet sets herself up as an authority and enforcer of another culture’s tribal values. Her VC will not save her.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:10pm
- Southern Raider
  
  She isn’t just a professor. She is on the ruling council
  
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  September 29, 2018 1:35pm
  - Jack5
    
    Jahnke, who earlier seems to have been called Tomlins-Jahnke, is professor of Maori and indigenous education at Massey.
    
    She is a product of Massey, having graduated with degrees in education – bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph. D.
    
    Jahnke’s husband, Bob Jahnke, is a sculptor and is professor of Maori visual arts at Massey.
    
    As I see it, the problem is the Government has set up wananga to provide Maori-style research and tertiary education, but Maori are also taking over NZ’s existing universities, which are based in Western academia.
    
    The State agency which funds our universities seems to have told them to increase Maorification or suffer in funding.
    
    It’s similar to what has happened with State radio. Taxpayers subsidise Maori tribal stations, but the board of Radio NZ, and Wily Willie Jackson representing the tribal stations, sign a deal (while National was Government) that has Maorified Radio NZ.
    
    In tertiary education, if Maori want not only their own subjects, including kapa haka and oral history, but also some sort of mystical indigenous focus, I think it should be in their own wananga, the tertiary colleges set up for them.
    
    It seems Maori want both their own separate State-funded systems, but also to control the parallel non-Maori systems.
    
    On the face of it, they would have New Zealand abandon Western-style learning, research, science.
    
    You can read Jahnke’s Ph.D. thesis here:
    https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/252
    
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    September 29, 2018 3:06pm
    - conservative70
      
      The Maoris are dominating all committees and boards at Massey based on the flawed idea of being “Treaty-led”, 50/50 partnership. I understand that all applications for research have to be vetted by senior Maori academic staff who have right of veto without right of reply.
      
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      September 29, 2018 3:28pm
- Jules99
  
  So she’s turning it into a Wananga then – good to know. Won’t be sending my kids there – I want them to have an education relevant to the modern world.
  
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  September 29, 2018 1:49pm
  - DigNap15
    
    No she wants to turn it into a Kohongareo (which word is funnily enough not in my second Maori dictionary, the one with more Maori words than English ones)
    
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    September 29, 2018 1:53pm
    - itstricky
      
      It’s usually two words – Kohanga Reo (note, the ‘a’) and it is a fairly recent invention of the 1970s or 1980s so may not be in older dictionaries.
      
      Glad I could assist.
      
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      September 29, 2018 2:02pm
      - Longknives
        
        But I read a claim that Maori pretty much invented Pre-School education?
        
        *Seriously- They are claiming that…
        
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        September 29, 2018 2:58pm
- conservative70
  
  The professor’s comments are racist. Period. Why is she allowed to be in front of students?
  
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  September 29, 2018 3:24pm
- Muttonbird
  
  His politics though are the cultural assimilation of Maori.
  
  I’m not surprised she doesn’t support them and I’m not surprised she doesn’t want him spreading them around on campus.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:38pm
  - Jack5
    
    Not big on free speech, are you, Muttonbird.
    
    Is Brash promoting banning Maori language, or banning Maori culture? Don’t think so.
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:22pm
Inandout

Why would New World issue ‘Pod’ plastic containers when they are made in China? Do we not have a NZ company that makes plastic ware?
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September 29, 2018 2:11pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  You might be surprised to find that New Zealand imports a large amount of manufactured goods, including all sorts of plastic containers, from China.
  
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  September 29, 2018 2:55pm
  - DigNap15
    
    But NZ does have at least 3 or 4 plastic container manufacturers.
    Notably Sistema, which exports all over the world!
    
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    September 29, 2018 4:35pm
    - Jack5
      
      Sistema was bought by American conglomerate Newell Brands for $660 million two years ago.
      
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      September 29, 2018 5:20pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Sistema is still made here, although now foreign owned I believe.
  
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  September 30, 2018 11:48am
Komata

Double post
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September 29, 2018 2:53pm
- Longknives
  
  Countdown- Oh so Virtuous!
  
  *They will still sell you them by the way…
  
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  September 29, 2018 2:56pm
Komata

FWIW:

I recently received a very nice email from my local Countdown, advising me that I had been ‘ Chosen’ to be deprived of single-use plastic shopping bags effective from 8 October.

As any plastic bag I receive from Countdown is used more than once and are very versatile, I sent a reply to the Manager requesting that she supply me with an exemption document to that effect, and stating that I was quite prepared to provide verifiable evidence in support of my contention that I DID NOT use any of their plastic bags only once.

Although I sent off my reply a week ago, for some unknown reason I haven’t yet received a response…

As I said, FWIW. I thought you should know…
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September 29, 2018 2:56pm
- Longknives
  
  Groundhog Day?
  
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  September 29, 2018 2:56pm
- Inandout
  
  Coles Aus have backed down because of abuse by customers. In NZ we are relatively placid but the green plastic baskets will disappear into car boots. Some of the braver souls may wish to avoid supermarket pressure and leave their goods at the checkout. This is quite legal so long as you don’t take any unpaid for goods out of the store. Our media will show pictures of Asian beaches swimming in plastic articles, but omit to say they are foreign photos.
  
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  September 29, 2018 3:13pm
- Viking2
  
  Complain loudly each time I go into mega 10.
  
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  September 29, 2018 5:34pm
Komata

Apologies for the double post. No delete key!,
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September 29, 2018 2:58pm
stigie

I would call them a multi use plastic bag.
They decided to call them single use because it sounds horrific and banned them because they saw a turtle overseas with one over it’s head and thought OMG we can’t have that.
Fucking morons !~
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September 29, 2018 3:17pm
Nostradamus

‘Wrong place, wrong time’: Kiwi lawyer killed by sign

A 200kg sign which fell two metres from a betting shop and crushed and killed a young New Zealand lawyer was found to have been “dangerously insecure for a long period of time”. Jacob Marx, 27, had been living and working in London for four months before he was hit by the sign, which was covering a William Hill bookmakers on Camden Road, north London, in 2013.

If you’re into dark humour, there’s something mildly amusing about a bookmaker using an unsafe sign to run a “one-in-a-million” sweepstake. And there’s probably a dark lawyer joke about “hard cases make bad law” in there, too.

William Hill Organisation have denied breaching health and safety duties in the case, which was brought by the borough of Camden.

I wonder what their defence will be. The sign was generally safe but was meant to fall on someone else, like Teresa May or the Queen?
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September 29, 2018 3:30pm
- nasska
  
  It’s a scandal. A ‘200kg sign’ drops & kills a lawyer.
  
  A sign that size should have been able to take out at least three lawyers! 🙂
  
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  September 29, 2018 3:38pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    Out of respect for the Kiwiblog moral police (Mikenmild and Itstricky) I’ll refrain from making a Megan Woods joke based on 200kg comparisons!
    
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    September 29, 2018 3:41pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Oh, poor old Megan Woods. Is she the fattest MP, or is Gerry Brownlee still top pig?
      
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      September 29, 2018 3:58pm
      - nasska
        
        Latest weigh-ins suggest that Gerry has plateaued leaving Woods a clear run for the title. Pie & sausage roll makers have ramped up production in expectation
        
        Watch this forum for more news as it comes to hand. 🙂
        
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        September 29, 2018 4:07pm
      - stigie
        
        “Watch this forum for more news as it comes to hand”.
        
        That’s if the Minister for cheese rolls and fine dining is still around after the oil and gas ban and fucking the scales !~
        
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        September 29, 2018 4:17pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Mike:
        
        Is she the fattest MP, or is Gerry Brownlee still top pig?
        
        I see your Gerry Brownlee and raise you with Jonathan Hunt and Parekura Horomia!
        
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        September 29, 2018 5:16pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’m all for full disclosure. Perhaps all MPs should be required to produce verified physical statistics. Then we might be able to categorise them more easily according to our various prejudices against fat or short people, etc.
        
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        September 29, 2018 5:28pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Mike:
        
        I’m all for full disclosure. Perhaps all MPs should be required to produce verified physical statistics.
        
        That’s an excellent suggestion. Then we’ll know what a vote for them will cost us in terms of the Bellamy’s bill (in addition to their parliamentary salary and generous allowances, including a plus-sized wardrobe)!
        
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        September 29, 2018 5:32pm
    - Viking2
      
      Gerry stands high enough to see over the podium unlike the odious Ms Woods.
      
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      September 29, 2018 5:36pm
      - Sponge
        
        “Ms”? I thought she was married with a son?
        
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        September 29, 2018 10:05pm
    - itstricky
      
      Out of respect for the Kiwiblog moral police (Mikenmild and Itstricky) I’ll refrain
      
      I couldn’t care less about a fat joke. It’s the hypocrites and the downright nasty fuckers I don’t care much for.
      
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      September 29, 2018 6:20pm
      - starboard
        
        Oh, hello bro sticky..have the fuzz caught up with you yet ?
        
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        September 29, 2018 8:24pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        And being short is no joke, according to the short people I know, that is.
        
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        September 30, 2018 12:03pm
- Inandout
  
  Not a good way to cash in your chips.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:34pm
Jack5

Christchurch City Council, arrogant as well as inept, has had a problem with the centre of the city business bouncing back.

Cycle lanes and lack of parking have been a factor.

How is the council going to fix this? It is going to impose parking charges and controls on suburban centres.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/107457365/suburbs-face-parking-charges-as-christchurch-battles-traffic-trouble
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September 29, 2018 3:42pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Cycle lanes+restricted street parking=bad for business.
  Too bad Council bureaucrats don’t understand this and are busy fucking our cities.
  Drain the swamp.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:07pm
Nostradamus

Let’s meet Danielle McLaughlin gushes:

On the Late Show with Steven Colbert late this week, as the host rattled off Ardern’s qualifications which include being the youngest female head of state in the world, the audience roared.

Not so fast! This is what really happened:

For those watching at home, this is how the audience is instructed to act when the cue to applaud comes: do not clap politely, but to go “cheering … howling, spittle flying freely from your mouths, just lose your s**t”.

Oh dear!
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September 29, 2018 3:54pm
- nasska
  
  Genuine mirth & applause in a the USA died a horrible death in the 50s, not long after the invention of the autocue & canned laughter along with studio audiences.
  
  This allowed unfunny & forced “American humour” to prevail.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:11pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The horrors of unisex toilets at Waikato Hospital
Patient with drain in her chest says she was told to clean ‘revolting’ toilet herself at Waikato Hospital

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12133511
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September 29, 2018 4:18pm
- nasska
  
  No one, man or woman, should have to face such conditions when they’re seriously ill Maggy. Like in most top heavy institutions there’s always money for H&S, cultural courses & managers’ bonuses but the cupboard’s bare when it comes to engaging cleaners.
  
  But another point. Do you think that some of the problems in hospitals comes from the elevation of nurses to degreed professionals putting mundane tasks far beneath them? Bedpans & patient hygiene are no longer important as nurses try to match & even usurp the responsibilities of doctors.
  
  If women were barred from becoming doctors or specialists I would have some sympathy but that is not the case.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:34pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I nurse-aided one Varsity hols in a Male ward at Wanganui Hospital.
    Although I had to deal with bed pans, pee-wee bottles, incontinent sheets, dirty bums, they were nowhere as bad as dealing with sputum cups (ooooooooooooooooH!!!!!!).
    
    Nurses, Nurse-aides, etc…never had to clean the dunnies… We would clean up if there had been a spill in the ward… (food, blood, pus, guts, piddle, poos, etc).
    
    I don’t recall the ward or ancillary rooms ever being dusty…. First thing the Ward Sister would have noticed.
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:27pm
    - nasska
      
      Or, God forbid, the hospital Matron.
      
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      September 29, 2018 5:42pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Utterly disgusting toilet behaviour some people have.
  The new blocks at Waikato have ensuite bathrooms for patients.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:34pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Waikatogirl:
    
    Utterly disgusting toilet behaviour some people have.
    
    Including at the Hagley Park toilets according to Starboard!
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:10pm
    - nasska
      
      At least there was no mention of glory holes having been cut in the walls of the Waikato Hospital toilets.
      
      Christchurch retains the title of “Depravity Central” for another year. 🙂
      
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      September 29, 2018 5:20pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        Christchurch retains the title of “Depravity Central” for another year
        
        Didn’t Christchurch City Council appoint Dad as its tourist ambassador at some stage? He might have something to say about this!
        
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        September 29, 2018 5:29pm
    - starboard
      
      Whatever did happen to Christopher ‘MM’ Truscott ??…public toilet loiterer. ” Can I push your stool in, sir ?
      
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      September 29, 2018 8:30pm
- Viking2
  
  Happen to often work on projects with this young lady. Part of her responsibility is Health and Safety on at least 6 different work sites. Have a lot of respect for her and the way she conducts her project management.
  The conditions will be as she says.
  
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  September 29, 2018 5:45pm
Morrissey

Some piece of slime actually SUPPORTS that cowardly, predatory, disgusting crybaby Kavanaugh.
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September 29, 2018 4:22pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  I support him…..100%
  He has undisputed evidence (his calendar/diary)
  NOBODY has even suggested that it is not credible.
  It shows, that he was not even in the same town as these parties, when they were on.
  Ms Ford’s “witness'” ALL refute her allegations!!!
  Ford….accuses..without proof
  Kavanaugh….rebuts with evidence and HER witness’.
  This isn’t even “he says, she says”
  This is she lies and he PROVES the truth.
  He is just too polite to call her a liar.
  Me personally, I would sue her for defamation!
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:30pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I agree about the calendar. The absence of any notation about his attempt to rape a girl is conclusive exculpatory evidence.
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:07pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Hay dickhead
      It’s a bit difficult to rape/sexually assault her when:
      He wasn’t even in the same town.
      in case you missed it.
      He wasn’t even in the same town
      in case you missed it.
      He wasn’t even in the same town
      in case you missed it.
      He wasn’t even in the same town
      It takes a certain type of stupid, when you have to show them 5 times, what the truth is. eh Mike.
      
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      September 29, 2018 6:26pm
- Inandout
  
  Let’s dig into your teenage years mossey, and see what we unearth. You doth protest too much.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:39pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Who among us has not attempted rape when drunk as a teenager?
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:08pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      ME
      
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      September 29, 2018 6:28pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Oh fuck off you dickhead. (Not you Inandout, you know who I mean).
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:40pm
notrotsky

Moz – you’ve missed out Darren Hughes, name with- held from the Labour youth conference and of course that elderly gentleman from your youth.
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September 29, 2018 4:23pm
- Morrissey
  
  Still working on that one, my friend. Keep the ol’ peepers peeled!
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:29pm
- Jack5
  
  What is the story on Darren Hughes, Morrissey?
  
  What are you groping for with this ever-growing list, Morrissey?
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:32pm
  - stigie
    
    Worse than the labour youth sex scandal i would imagine !~
    
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    September 29, 2018 4:37pm
    - Inandout
      
      Yes but DHs landlady knew a lot.
      
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      September 29, 2018 4:41pm
Tall Man

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/367551/government-backs-down-on-film-subsidy-cap

Is this another U turn by the coalition of liars?

Although the decision is the correct one, how do the sycophants deal with another badly thought out promise getting reversed.

Can’t wait to see the “lefties” spin this.
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September 29, 2018 4:39pm
- Jack5
  
  You are saying it the right thing to continue subsidising foreign film companies?
  
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  September 29, 2018 11:15pm
DigNap15

Looking at that woman who is accusing Kavanagh of molesting her at a party.
He is probably glad he did not succeed, she is a bit of a dog…
I have no time for women, especially educated or famous ones, that come out 30 years later! Or even 5 years later! and complain about such things.
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September 29, 2018 4:40pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  She’s only complaining because she’s joined the Trump-hating bandwagon.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:43pm
- Longknives
  
  Even a bit of Google research uncovers that this woman is as ‘Mad as a Snake’!
  And I agree- Anyone that starts shrieking and wailing about things that ALLEGEDLY happened 30 years ago has an ulterior motive..
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:47pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    https://www.ranker.com/list/funny-pictures-of-guys-with-hooters-waitresses/nathandavidson
    These guys better watch it in 30 years.
    
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    September 29, 2018 4:54pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    She is being used by the Democrats as “a Useful Idiot”. Don’t get me wrong, I abhor sexual assault. But I also abhor wrongful accusation. I don’t doubt she may have had some kind of bad experience 35 years ago, but I think her recollection of the events may be a bit iffy, especially in terms of WHO.
    
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    September 29, 2018 6:51pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  He is probably glad he did not succeed, she is a bit of a dog…
  
  Good job rape culture isn’t real, eh readers?
  
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  September 29, 2018 10:48pm
Captain Mainwaring

Remember the days when any Ranfurly Shield game would guarantee an almost-full stadium?
Lucky if there were 500 in Hamilton today.
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September 29, 2018 4:45pm
- Longknives
  
  I went to Otago vs Canterbury in ’94. (Latta gives away the penalty- Mike Brewer keeps the Shield)
  There were about 50,000 people singing and chanting (not a bloody Haka in sight) and it was freaking awesome!
  There was a better atmosphere there that day than at any Test Match I have attended in New Zealand (Six Nations Tests in the UK are another story..)
  It still astounds me that Steve Tew and NZ Rugby were so happy to throw the NPC and the Ranfurly Shield in the garbage-History clearly means nothing to such characters.
  
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  September 29, 2018 4:53pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Living in the past – how surprising.
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:04pm
    - Longknives
      
      ‘The Old Ways are the Best!’
      
      *Waving walking stick at Mikenmild as he speaks..
      
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      September 29, 2018 5:12pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Bring back ‘amateur’ rugby, muddy fields, no injury replacements, brass bands at half time, unlimited thuggery, and home-town refs.
        
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        September 29, 2018 5:33pm
      - Longknives
        
        And 2.30pm kick offs!
        
        Honestly- Those days in packed Stadiums watching actually exciting (and close) Test matches beats the heck out of these endless Tri Nations/Rugby Championship borefests with half empty stadiums on freezing Winter nights…
        
        But you ‘forward thinking’ guys know best eh Mikey?
        
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        September 29, 2018 5:39pm
      - Longknives
        
        And don’t get me started on the Haka….
        
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        September 29, 2018 5:40pm
      - starboard
        
        eww err..I agree with MM! I going for a lie down..
        
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        September 29, 2018 8:40pm
Manolo

It is only a matter of time:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-refuses-four-times-13327197
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September 29, 2018 4:55pm
nasska

The thieving insurance rip offs are still at it:

….”A woman who did not know she had cancer when she took out a travel insurance policy had her claim declined because, even undiagnosed, the insurer said it was still a pre-existing condition and invalidated her cover.”…..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/107406951/travel-insurance-claim-turned-down-because-of-undiagnosed-cancer

I have tenuous sympathy for those who try to save a few bob by opting out of medical insurance but it would seem that the insurance industry is so venal that it is impossible to buy adequate cover.
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September 29, 2018 5:11pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Nasska:
  
  I purchase flights using a credit card that gives me “free” travel insurance cover. I’ve never bothered to read the policy terms because the “free” insurance is likely to be subject to so many exclusions as to make it practically worthless.
  
  My philosophical view is that, if shit happens on a holiday, I’m relatively well-off and could absorb a relatively small amount on account of missed flights and extra hotel costs.
  
  The real risk is falling ill overseas and getting tied up with a foreign health system that bleeds you dry (if you’ll excuse the pun). Is there a travel insurance policy that covers that in any useful way – at a reasonable cost? I doubt it.
  
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  September 29, 2018 5:23pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You should perhaps be a little bit careful. I have read that some travel insurers will decline claims from customers who already have ‘free’ credit card insurance, throwing you back on inferior benefits.
    Insurance companies typically only rank slightly above car dealers, and lawyers (last, obviously) in polls about trusted advisors.
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:37pm
  - nasska
    
    ….”The real risk is falling ill overseas and getting tied up with a foreign health system that bleeds you dry”….
    
    My point exactly Nostra. Travellers buy insurance thinking that is what they are covered for. I accept that the onus is on the insured to provide honest information for the company to make a decision on but I also think, in my innocence, that in return they should receive full cover.
    
    The “free” credit card insurance is just a gimmick but cover sold by travel agents should be the real McCoy.
    
    A further bitch I have with the thieves is the umpteen pages of legal gobbledegook that contain the relevant conditions of payout. I doubt that you, as a qualified lawyer, could decipher them easily.
    
    It’s fraud to make a false claim. It also should be fraud to sell a policy not fit for purpose.
    
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    September 29, 2018 5:38pm
  - starboard
    
    Nosty, is that an ANZ card? I ask because I had the same..automatic cover when purchasing air ticket however ANZ changed insurance providers, now you have to ‘apply” before you depart whereas before it was automatic. Fuckers.
    
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    September 29, 2018 8:43pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Starboard:
      
      It’s an American Express card that comes with law society membership benefits. I don’t know whether there’s a similar card available to the general public. But, to your general point, I’ve noticed that AMEX has gradually scaled back the benefits (and my perceived value of them) over the years.
      
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      September 29, 2018 10:32pm
- itstricky
  
  Some of it would be fine, if they didn’t charge you extra for every PEC, and also rule out cover for every conceivable, and unrelated, illness/issue for any one PEC.
  
  It would be a useful public service to know which companies do the most turn downs or have the most complaints.
  
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  September 29, 2018 6:16pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Insurance companies are the worst when it comes to weaselling out of paying for stuff. I know, my wife worked for one.
  
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  September 29, 2018 6:37pm
  - nasska
    
    I recall at one point buying a policy covering ‘tools of trade’. The idea was that if anyone flogged stuff off the back of my ute I’d be covered.
    
    It was about twenty pages long…..every sentence being convoluted legalese. I was at the lawyers about an unrelated matter & asked him his opinion. His response was to the effect that that’s how they do it. Exclude everything & pay out what they feel like.
    
    They fleece us & they defraud us.
    
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    September 29, 2018 6:47pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Our insurance broker is scathing about the lack of clarity with travel insurance. He says most companies coverage is next to useless but there are some reputable travel insurance companies….at a cost.
  
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  September 29, 2018 7:00pm
Nostradamus

Morrissey:

41 [name withheld]

What was this about?
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September 29, 2018 5:13pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Morrisey originally had a past Prime Minister as number 41. That post was removed, as it is defamatory. Morrisey is, I believe, skating on thin ice in terms of being allowed to post his vile shit on this blog. However, he also has His Royal Highness, Prince Harry on the list. This may, in fact, be illegal, or possibly treasonous. I hope so.
  
  Morrisey, you are a miserable CUNT. Have a nice day.
  
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  September 29, 2018 6:59pm
RF

Lying Ardern was chuffed that her audience clapped and cheered when she finished her speech at the UN.

What she did not realise was the these were the cleaners who had been patiently waiting for her to finish. She had been pushed back to last after reporters and correspondents left and gone over the allocated time.

We will soon hear from the first fish who will have something else to say…

How embarrassing.
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September 29, 2018 5:50pm
- itstricky
  
  How embarrassing
  
  Have you looked at pictures of John Key’s United Nations audience?
  
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  September 29, 2018 6:08pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Which one?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJOBw2uq8W4
    This one the room had more in it than SLG’s did.
    and this one
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/featured/21-09-2016/get-your-shit-together-world-john-keys-big-speech-at-the-united-nations-in-150-words/
    
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    September 29, 2018 6:40pm
    - itstricky
      
      The second one in the hall.
      
      There’s 42 odd in JA’s, 49 odd in JK’s.
      
      Where do you define “embarassing”? At 45.5?
      
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      September 29, 2018 6:58pm
- Longknives
  
  Jeesus! I just watched footage of Ardern’s huge ‘World Shaking ‘ speech (that her Media are gushing about)!
  There were maybe 25 people left in the room??
  And it doesn’t even rate a mention on International Media sites..
  
  We are being taken for a ride people..
  
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  September 29, 2018 6:13pm
The Heat

One of the most nauseating pieces of Labour-luvy tripe you’ll read…until next week, probably.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/107475210/baby-neves-time-in-new-york

A few highlights:

“Gayford tweeted hilariously about the two of them being busted by mum in the middle of one particularly long all nighter. His tweet went around the world.”

Erm….that’s what Twitter does. It’s open. To the world. Any tweet – by anyone – “goes around the world”.

“The photograph of Neve at the general assembly has been seen by millions, but Ardern says at the time she had not considered that there would be photographers.”

FFS

“As for those awkward nappy changes, Ardern says there was at least one occasion when Neve’s nappy was changed in the general assembly”

No wonder it was virtually empty.
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September 29, 2018 5:52pm
- itstricky
  
  Erm….that’s what Twitter does. It’s open. To the world
  
  So is Kiwiblog. But funnily enough, no one from Estonia is reading your whinge right now.
  
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  September 29, 2018 6:06pm
  - Longknives
    
    “So is Kiwiblog. But funnily enough, no one from Estonia is reading your whinge right now.”
    
    Just like nobody outside of New Zealand gives a flying fuck about poor little Neve Ardern.
    I actually feel so sorry for the kid.
    Her entire early life has been nothing but a series of distasteful publicity gimmicks designed to enhance her Mother’s Political career-I seriously doubt she has experienced any love or nurturing.
    I wonder if her parents actually care for her even one Iota?..
    
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    September 29, 2018 6:34pm
  - The Heat
    
    So is Kiwiblog. But funnily enough, no one from Estonia is reading your whinge right now.
    
    Correct. Glad you understand the stupidity of the sentence in the article.
    
    However, there is a tweet of my cat (literally, my cat) with thousands more shares than Clarke or Neve combined. Might help you grasp the level of non-event Cindy and baby were.
    
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    September 29, 2018 6:45pm
MrTips

https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/social-networking/107482968/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-account-reportedly-affected-by-security-breach

HAHAHAHAHAHA….
I hope the evil shit headed ? lost more than he’s letting on.
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September 29, 2018 5:56pm
Viking2

Labour chiefs tonight agreed sweeping rule changes that will make it easier to deselect sitting MPs.

Local members will find it much easier to force a full open selection process against their MPs if the changes are passed by 1,600 delegates at the party conference on Sunday.
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September 29, 2018 6:01pm
rightoverlabour

In honour of the tribal war dance…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7r28D1XM8

Warning, some will be offended…

And I don’t Fecking care
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September 29, 2018 6:39pm
Fletch

Check it out – Christine Blasey Ford, and Peter Sztrok – notice any similarities?

https://www.facebook.com/DroppingTruthBombs/posts/2283292008565726
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September 29, 2018 8:24pm
Jack5

Delegates at NZ First conference call on the Government to buy back Kiwibank, reports the Hooerald.

Problem is, the Government already owns it. Kiwbank is owned by NZ Post, which is fully owned by the Government.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12134178
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September 29, 2018 9:46pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What on Earth do you think NZ First mean?
  
  Is NZ Post to buy back the portion sold to NZ SuperFund and ACC?
  
  https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/kiwibank-ownership-changes-welcomed
  
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  September 29, 2018 9:51pm
  - Jack5
    
    Whoops! I am wrong – thank you Maggy. I overlooked that sale.
    
    From the Companies Registry, NZ Post (fully owned by the State) still owns 33.12 per cent, and the Government directly owns 20. 57 per cent. The rest is held by the Super Fund and ACC.
    
    With the Government retaining majority control, and ultimately having the whip hand over the Super Fund and ACC, I wonder what advantage there could be by buying back those two stakes.
    
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    September 29, 2018 10:36pm
    - Jack5
      
      How much control does the Government have of its partners in ownership of Kiwibank?
      
      The Government appoints directors (“guardians”) of the Super Fund – following nominations from an independent committee. The Super Fund board (the “guardians”) must have regard to any directions from the Minister of Finance.
      
      ACC is a Crown entity, and under the Crown Entities ACT its directors can fired by the Minister for “just cause”, which I guess would be defying the government.
      
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      September 29, 2018 11:00pm
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/09/govt-may-change-immigration-settings-to-take-climate-change-refugees.html

Excellent, another $25 million to go to the islands and more “refugees” to come and go on a benefit.

Can’t the stupid labour voters see that the more this govt import the less money there is for our own born and bred losers.

Fun times eh Winston? Time to go fuck yourself.
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September 29, 2018 10:26pm
- Jack5
  
  Hang on. The report Tall Man links to says “Jacinda Ardern has revealed to Newshub she isn’t ruling out New Zealand taking climate refugees.”
  
  Peters and NZ first have blocked Labour moves before, such as ending Three Strikes.
  
  National allowed the huge student visa rort to expand, and has shown no signs of killing it. Perhaps NZ First is still the only hope for blocking a Third World influx.
  
  But the way world oil prices are rising, the kiwi dollar is falling, and petrol taxes are piling up, this Government is going to be too busy worrying about inflation to allow Jacinderella to throw open the borders to Pacific Islanders.
  
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  September 29, 2018 11:05pm
Hugh Pavletich

With rising U.S. motygage rates and the Australian Banking Royal Commission report will we start seeing “Irish style’ responsible lending ?

… With United States mortgage rates lifting …

Housing Market Rolls Over As Mortgage Rates Hit Seven Year High … Zerohedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-27/us-home-mortgage-rates-hit-seven-year-high

… and following the damning Australian Royal Commission Banking Interim Report released Friday … and contrite and grossly irresponsible infantile Bankers … access extensive reporting …

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=uXmvW6OvAoai-Qa9ga7wDw&q=australian+banking+royal+commission+&oq=australian+banking+royal+commission+&gs_l=psy-ab.12..

… can we now expect to see responsible ‘Irish style’ general mortgage lending capped at 3.5 times annual household incomes ?

Following the 2007 events … subsequent research by the Central Bank of Ireland (accessible via hyperlink below) found irresponsible high multiple lending was the major reason its Banks went under … requiring bailouts of in excess of 70 billion euros …

Mortgage Measures | Central Bank of Ireland

https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures

… At their peak in 2007 average Median Multiples for their major metros was 4.7 … today Australia and New Zealand are 5.9 and 5.8 respectively …

Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions

http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
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September 30, 2018 1:51am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  … latest IPSOS New Zealand poll … lifting 50% Kiwis major concern excessive housing costs … 24% of Aussies … read on …
  
  New Zealand Issues Monitor – Concerns about housing grow
  
  https://www.ipsos.com/en-nz/new-zealand-issues-monitor-concerns-about-housing-grow
  
  https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2018-09/2nd_ipsos_new_zealand_issues_monitor_released_september_2018.pdf
  New Zealanders’ concerns about housing issues grow, while New Zealanders are also feeling more positive about the Labour-led government compared to last year when National was in power.
  
  New Zealanders have nominated housing (50%) as the most important issue facing the nation in the latest Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor, released today ( 13 September ) . Poverty (32%), healthcare (31%), cost of living (26%) and crime (24%) rounded out the other top concerns.
  
  The Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor regularly asks over 600 New Zealanders to select from a list of 20 issues the ones that they feel are the three most important issues facing the country.
  
  While the top three issues in July 2018 are the same as those seen in February 2018, results have increased for all three, indicating increasing levels of concern. These were: housing (50%, up from 41%), poverty (32%, up from 29%) and healthcare (31%, up from 27%). … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  Access earlier information / reporting
  Inaugural IPSOS poll
  Performance UrbanPlanning
  http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
  
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  September 30, 2018 3:53am
Manolo

Europe is lost, Eurabia has arrived.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-city-braces-protests-erdogan-opens-mega-mosque-014513099.html

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to open one of Europe’s largest mosques in Cologne on Saturday as he wrapped up a controversial visit to Germany, with police deploying in force to manage the rival rallies.

The giant Cologne Central Mosque finally opened its doors in 2017 after eight years of construction and budget overruns.

The size of the building, designed to resemble a flower bud opening, and its two towering minarets has disgruntled some locals, triggering occasional protests.

The Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (Ditib) that commissioned the glass and cement structure is itself not without controversy.

The group runs hundreds of mosques across Germany with imams paid by the Turkish state.
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September 30, 2018 5:28am
Niz

I just read this article in Stuff about how Maori staff are backing the VC. It says
“will be the first in New Zealand and developed nations to include an indigenous world view and the Treaty of Waitangi into its core business.”
If their world view is to de-platform, and to otherwise deny people with views that don’t match their own, they have a crappy world view, and could do with some enlightening.
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September 30, 2018 5:32am
- Manolo
  
  The Maori elites are not precisely “enlightened”. Far from it.
  
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  September 30, 2018 5:41am
Colville

So the Aussies to come last in the rugby championship?

Oh dear, how sad, never mind. 🙂
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