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“Mirror mirror on the wall,
Who’s the fairest of them all?
Despite lacking appeal or thrills,
Will I rid this country of its ills?

“Mirror mirror, guide my goals,
and please ignore the latest polls.
I’m begging, crying, on my knees,
Balancing Hindus and Chinese

“Mirror mirror, hanging there,
Without Key we can’t compare.
And now 9 months without Bill,
the party’s sorely lacking skill.

“Mirror mirror, ever dear
I scream that the government’s not clear.
Will my virtue signals prevail?
(Ignore my past with Kiwirail)

“Mirror mirror, symbol of grace,
My enemies keep giving chase
Will I be the nation’s golden goose,
with MPs of no fucking use?

“Mirror mirror, who’s to blame,
When those who try to defame
Clarke Gayford with some baseless smears
Find out no-one of value cares?

“Mirror mirror, eternal sage,
why won’t the voters share my rage?
We have no vision or policies,
我們會接受捐款。請。

“Mirror mirror, you must see
There’s no one fit to lead but me.
Judy Colly? Let’s be blunt.
She truly is a nasty person.

“Mirror mirror, as the boss,
No thanks, at all, to Mr Ross
Tell me, mirror, won’t you say,
Will I lead from floor 9 someday?”

“Fuck off Simon, the answer is still no”
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November 14, 2018 8:00am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  “F** off Simon, the answer is still no”
  
  Take your own advice Marquis and foxtrot oscar yourself
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:03am
- Longknives
  
  Your Poetry is worse than Colin Craigs….
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:03am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    And that’s saying something Longknives. I’d suggest marquess doesn’t give up his day job, except I don’t think he has one.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:10am
- waldonz
  
  Has your dear leader figured out the difference between GDP and Crown Accounts yet?
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:10am
- hullkiwi
  
  Just like Little is singing this morning from the same movie…
  
  “Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work to go we to waste another $14million more hi ho”
  
  Marquess when do you and your mates in the CoL stop with the vanity and playing with peoples’ lives?
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:13am
  - KevOB
    
    A great day for distraction. Don’t forget Sroubek.
    
    Have they COL just announced they are going in through the main tunnel with another smaller one pumping in a bit of nitrogen–all at a cost of approx $40m?
    
    The only advice these people hear is what they want to hear. They are incapable of making rational independent decisions. Ideologues are incapable of making decisions.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:52am
- Paulus
  
  Marquess must really be concerned that Simon is still alive.
  Sad sod !
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:16am
  - sooty
    
    Still has not got over Sir John Key, yet!
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:34am
- marquess
  
  Oh dear, the snowflakes are out in force this morning ?
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:22am
Paulus Gnome

Hoskins sidekick this morning has said he needs a new lawn mower.

I have texted the suggestion that he contact the nation’s first sperm donor as he may be able to help him out with a contact to provide a good deal on a lawnmower; reading between the lines that is.
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November 14, 2018 8:01am
- Woz
  
  Yes, reading between the white lines.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:14am
  - gump
    
    Don’t you mean reading between the lies?
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/05/reminder_on_defamation.html
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:24am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yes, and isn’t it great that Mark Mitchell continues to stir the pot on the Iain Please Gallopaway disaster. He says there’s more to come out and it will get even worse for the incompetent minister and whoever he’s trying to protect.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:26am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Terrific news!
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:30am
    - sooty
      
      The Union control the Labour party!
      ILG, Deputy leader of the house.
      Workplace relations & safety.
      ACC.
      Immigration.
      Anngry, Courts.
      Justise.
      NZSIS.
      That’s why they are digging their toes in over the most incompetent of any minister yet!
      Yes Clare was promoted beyond her ability.
      Meka is just a thug.
      But Slease is just that sleasey! He thinks that he is clever, but is just a dipshit!
      The unions are not about to give up the thing that matter most to them! “Control of the workers”!
      Whose arse got reamed because the parliamentry section had been sitting on their arse for nine long years and now they need 153 talkfest to get a sense of direction at millions of dollars!
      That is why the teachers have got no payrise!
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:03am
  - GazzaW
    
    The ILG issue doesn’t seem to exist given it’s disappearance from the MSM. Let’s not allow this to be swept permanently under the rug while Parliament is conveniently in recess and keep it alive by stirring the pot with emails to the likes of Hosking, Leighton and Larry Williams. Mitchell and Woodhouse can reopen their assault on ILG when Parliament reconvenes the week after next.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:39am
peterwn

Following Vector’s AGM yesterday it seems the Entrust (Auckland Consumers’ Electricity Trust) saga is far from over. Very briefly the Trust had elections recently and prior to the election the C&R (nominal) group threw one of its group under a bus (he had become a dissident) and ‘appointed’ another to stand under the C&R banner. It is apparent that the five are not fully united but put on an air of unity for the Trust election and succeeded against the left wing candidates thanks to support from the Apathy party. The only election ‘policy’ they presented was to retain the $350 or so annual payout to consumers.
The majority of the Trustees wanted to put the skids under Mike Stiassny, Vector’s chair and this became a certainty following the Trust elections so he is stepping down. What is ominous however is the Trustees just prior to Vector’s AGM indicated they would not support the confirmation of two recently appointed directors despite having OK’d them when they were appointed by the Board earlier this year. No explanation was forthcoming. The three possibilities are that some of the Trustees considered they had got too close to Mike Stiassny, that the Trustees wanted to flex their muscles against Vector or that the Trustees have some hidden agenda (which was not disclosed in the run up to the elections). The Trustees chair refused to comment on this at the Vector AGM nor to journos afterwards.
This lack of transparency is troubling (the Trustees are not subject to the transparency required of local government despite being a pseudo local government agency). Also troubling is any prospective well qualified candidates for Vector directorships would be less inclined to agree to appointment if the Trustees could treat them in a shabby manner. The Board is down to five members (four existing and one new) with up to four vacancies to be filled. Possibility the Trustees want to have more say in the day to day running of Vector. This would be of concern to the other shareholders (the Trust owns 75% or so of Vector’s shares). It will be interesting to see what the Trust has in mind for Vector in the next several months. Will more directors’ heads roll? The Trustees merely need to threaten to requisition a Vector SGM to achieve this.
Interesting times.
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November 14, 2018 8:01am
- hullkiwi
  
  Peter, and with that, is it any wonder we can’t get anyone in Aucklnd to defeat the eternal crop of useless Labour candidates for mayor?
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:16am
  - peterwn
    
    The wonder here is City Vision (aka Labour) not winning any of the five Trust seats (they also promised not to touch the Payout). As long as they keep getting the annual cheque and the lights stay on most of the time, many people especially left wingers could not care less so did not bother to vote.
    By the side – postal voting has been made more difficult because so many street mail boxes have been removed.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:32am
    - Sam
      
      Who is Mark Davey?
      
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      November 14, 2018 7:05pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  Entrust is a disgrace. Lawyer Karen Sherry has been a Trustee of Entrust for 24 years. Mike Buczowski for 18 years and William Cairns the Chairman for 9 years. They think its a job for life. Each is paid over $100K.
  
  In addition Sherry has been a Director of Vector for 12 years and Buczowski has just been elected to the Vector Board.
  
  Both are run like Mannys Music Parlour with little regard to good governance principles.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:48am
  - jonno1
    
    I know nothing of Entrust’s agenda, but I fully support your comments re length of tenure. However, the same issues arise with the Board, the Chairman and indeed the CEO. In my view such positions in a public company should be rolled over at reasonable intervals, eg 10 years max. This is not a reflection on the incumbents’ competencies per se, simply that fresh eyes and ideas are needed from time to time. One only has to look at Vector’s disastrous non-core investments over recent years to see evidence of this.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:58am
    - Jack5
      
      There are other trusts that need examining.
      
      The community trusts set up to manage funds from the sale of the savings banks, and distribute the profits, need more light shone on them.
      
      They are filled with political appointees. Names of some trusts have been changed, which might be to make them more opaque to the communities to which they dole out cash.
      
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      November 14, 2018 10:22am
      - Surely Knott
        
        And the licensing trusts. Also run like a small unaccountable fiefdom with no public agenda or minutes. And in west, operations run through a seperate business, with unelected directors not subject to lgoima. Elections not based on accountability or issues but on pork barrel politics as politicians social media populated with selfies with the cheque’s they hand over to local groups.
        
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        November 14, 2018 11:16am
      - peterwn
        
        Very much historical. These positions (also JP’s) were and are within the ‘gift’ of local MP’s. Entrust positions are by election which is a great improvement although the key player unfortunately is the Apathy Party.
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:03pm
      - Jack5
        
        I don’t know about the small northern licensing trusts, Surely Knott, but the two Southland licensing trusts (Mataura and Invercargill) have elections with competition for seats.
        
        Shifting these two trusts will be difficult given the great community facilities they have built or have been major contributors to, including swimming pools, a velodrome, stadiums, and an ice skating centre.
        
        In addition to such facilities, the two trust shell out millions to local community groups each year.
        
        Here’s a link to the $15 million distributed to local groups in the year ended March 31 by the smaller of the two Southland trusts, the Mataura, which covers Gore:
        
        http://www.mltgore.co.nz/community-support
        
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        November 14, 2018 3:46pm
    - peterwn
      
      CEO’s are subject to the Employment Relations Act and a Board wanting to remove a CEO for incompetence is faced having to make a significant severence payment. IMO CEO and very senior positions should be exempt from Employment law. If a prospective CEO or very senior employer (eg CFO or General Counsel) feels the need for employment law protection, they are not fit for appointment.
      
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      November 14, 2018 1:10pm
      - jonno1
        
        It’s not necessarily a matter of incompetence, rather a turnover of ideas. CEOs are typically appointed on 3-5 year contracts and do not need to be reappointed repeatedly. Indeed, CEO salaries include a premium for this risk. Further, a new CEO tends to bring in his/her own team. However, a bigger problem can arise if the CEO is the Chairman’s ‘pet’.
        
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        November 14, 2018 5:06pm
- tf78
  
  pertwn – do you think at the end of the day they are trying to manipulate the board to hand over the shares to Phil Goff, I know the council have been after this money for years.
  
  To think I made sure my sons went out and voted for them – I hope that’s not the case but as you know you can’t fight city hall.
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:17am
  - peterwn
    
    I respectfully disagree. The Vector Board has no real say in the ownership of Vector’s shareholding and so taking stronger control of the Vector Board would not achieve its objective. Depending on Entrust’s trust deed it is possible that the Trustees could decide to vest the Vector shares and its other assets in the Auckland Council at any time.
    Appointing two Vector directors is within the Trustees’ gift. While theoretically the Reustees could appoint the whole Board, such directors would not be ‘independent’ directors and that would breach listing rules. However the Trustees can veto appointments made through the usual processes for initially appointing directors. So it is possible that the Trustees could shape the Board to meet Entrust’s meddling objectives by vetoing directors the Trustees deem unsuitable as fappened to two directors a few days ago.
    
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    November 14, 2018 1:20pm
  - gump
    
    You seriously think that C&R are working on behalf of Phil Goff?
    
    I’m not trying to be funny, but do you know what C&R actually is??
    
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    November 14, 2018 2:35pm
    - peterwn
      
      There is no such organisation such as C&R and there seems to be no intellectual property in the brand. It is simply a loose brand name for right leaning groups standing for councils etc. this is in consequence of the National Party’s policy decision not to get involved in local politics.
      I do not really know about City Vision, which is the left wing version – to what extent the Labour Party has control of it.
      
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      November 14, 2018 3:20pm
      - gump
        
        There is a well-oiled and functioning organisation called C&R.
        
        You might not have found any information because it is actually an incorporated society (not a political party).
        
        Go to societies.govt.nz and search for society number: 222073
        
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        November 14, 2018 4:08pm
      - peterwn
        
        Gump – “There is a well-oiled and functioning organisation called C&R. ”
        Tui moment – at least in Auckland.
        
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        November 14, 2018 5:15pm
Souvlaki

I have a genuine question, which is I believe of considerable importance to public Health in NZ. Is the Prime Minister part of the cabal of rabid anti-vaccination nutters?
The below article cites “the baby (Neve) has not been vaccinated” against polio, and therefore is not accompanying her mother to PNG. Vaccinations against Polio according to the Health Department are due at 6 weeks, 3 months and 5 months.
What type of example does this set if the reports are in fact TRUE, that the leader of our country undermines sound Public Health advice by not immunising her own child?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12159454
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November 14, 2018 8:04am
- VicParking
  
  Would not be suprised. A sprinkling of fairy dust and lawn cuttings will protect wee Neve.
  I’m sure …..Not…. that the MSM will ask her that question on behalf of us KB’s.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:10am
  - gump
    
    What question?
    
    Babies aren’t immunised against polio until they’ve received all three of the scheduled immunisation shots at six weeks, three months, and five months.
    
    If you don’t believe me, then confirm it for yourself at the Ministry of Health website:
    
    https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/conditions-and-treatments/diseases-and-illnesses/polio-poliomyelitis
    
    You guys are so desperate to create controversy that you’re literally inventing a story out of thin air…
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:12pm
- srylands
  
  It could simply be a reporting error.
  
  I know a parent who examined the vaccination schedule and decided which of the vaccinations her daughter would receive. Based on something. Feelings.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:15am
  - srylands
    
    I spoke to my GP about anti vaxxers. She said she tries to work with them to see if she can get them to reconsider but it rarely works. She knows some GPs who say “find another doctor” but they are a minority.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:20am
- peterwn
  
  She would be smart enough to realise that a vaccination programme is essential to avoid epidemics but would not want that to interfere with parents’ ‘rights’ (including her own case) to choose whether to have her children vaccinated.
  Again is is the ‘other people’ thing.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:21am
- Thought Criminal
  
  Well she thinks capitalism has failed it wouldn’t surprise me if she thinks modern medicine is also bogus.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:36am
  - howitis
    
    The BF appears to prefer ‘alternative medicines’.
    
    ooops, drop in voltage
    Mike, is that you on the line??
    C’mon Commissioner please be open and transparent..like Cindy and her F grade Ministers.
    
    jsem dobrý chlapec (I’m a good boy, in Czech )
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:51pm
- dave_c_
  
  Inquiry time – I demand an inquiry…..
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:40am
  - sooty
    
    That’ll make life easier now that the baby is on the bottle. The taxpayer won’t have to pay as much for the travelling sideshow as the baby can stay home with Jethro.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:17am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Neve can stay home with Jethro, but Jethro doesn’t want to stay home with Neve.
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:42am
      - sooty
        
        Not when you have lawns to mow!
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:10pm
  - Paulus
    
    It looks as though the sixth Inquiry concerning EQC and rotten Insurance Companies has been announced.
    The last time we heard from Tubby Wood was that SHE was going to sort out all the outstanding claims and uninsured people against the nasty EQC – with taxpayers money and the nasty Insurance companies,
    Silvia Cartwright must be out of a job.
    
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    November 14, 2018 1:42pm
- Jules99
  
  There may be good medical reasons why Neve hasn’t been vaccinated, assuming it’s true. A cold or other mild illness would lead a doctor to delay vaccination. I highly doubt our PM would be anti-vaccine, given it’s a founding plank of UN global healthcare programmes.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:15am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Jules99
    
    Easy, lefty respons to the likes of that ‘Do as I say, not as I do’. They believe it covers that hypocrisy
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:06pm
    - Jazzby
      
      Perhaps; but I think it may equally well be that now we’re being told to embrace ‘traditional science’, alongside conventional (i.e. white man’s science), our esteemed and very wise Prime minister might have a special Maori potion to hand, that will protect her little cherub from polio (and lots of other diseases too).
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:21pm
Keeping Stock

Is Winston Peters still going to be first in to Pike River Mine, as he promised during the election campaign last year?

Somehow, I doubt it.
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November 14, 2018 8:04am
- alex Masterley
  
  Both he and Andrew Little need to cash the cheques that their mouths have written.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:11am
  - tf78
    
    Wasn’t Andrew Little in charge of Work Safe at the time of the mining accident – is he culpable at all?
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:37pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      No, he was general secretary of the EPMU, the union representing most of the workers at Pike River. His views have changed somewhat since 2010.
      
      http://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-andrew-little-failed-pike-river.html
      
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      November 14, 2018 4:34pm
- pdm
  
  I put a comment up on Stuff yesterday asking that exact question plus including asking if Angry Andy would be at his side,
  
  Not published.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:12am
  - flipper
    
    No surprise.
    It is a breech of stuff’s moderation rules to criticise this idiotic Regime.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:19am
    - Tarquin North
      
      They never publish anything I say, so I’ve given up. No point in hanging around in an echo chamber.
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:26am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      I think they blacklist people. I found my comments stopped appearing so I started commenting under another time and those are showing up fine. I suspect the blacklisting was for critcising the quality of their journalism not for having non-left views in general.
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:45am
      - peterwn
        
        At least it is not as insidious as a ‘blacklist’ feature available with the Disqus system. This feature if activated allows the comment to show up for the person who made it but not for anyone else. AFAIK Whaleoil does not use this sneaky feature but other blogs etc using Disqus may do so.
        
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        November 14, 2018 8:54am
      - jonno1
        
        Oops, sorry peterwn, hit Report in error as have run out of Reply levels. My comment is that the Disqus comment count sometimes exceeds the actual number of comments, maybe reflecting deleted or hidden comments.
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:11am
  - RF
    
    Typical. They no longer publish my comments. Mind you they are anti Govt ones…
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:38am
    - Tall Man
      
      Ditto. I emailed and asked why, they replied saying I was racist because I had referenced maori cannibalism in the “Henry Williams letters” Te Wiremu.
      
      I pointed out the comments in a number of historical references but they stuck with the racist epithet then said that I had called a person an idiot.
      
      I replied and said that the person was an idiot so what was the problem. Never got a reply but they certainly got pissed when I had a shot at josephinef who was a particularly aggressive commenter who I have now seen was a stuff reporter.
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:39am
      - Woz
        
        Oh really? Stuff reporters pose as commenters? That’s going Jerry Montanez low. Look him up – he’s a liberal democratic activist who CNN planted in a panel discussion as a “regretful Trump voter”.
        
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        November 14, 2018 10:08am
  - artemisia
    
    Some, only some, of my comments make it through. And I try pretty hard to be factual, not pejorative.
    
    Given up commenting, but still read down half a page or so of comments relating to topics of interest. After that, it’s all rinse and repeat anyway.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:48am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      They really need a ‘like’ rating, so one doesn’t waste time on the boring stuff.
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:23pm
- VicParking
  
  They could slip him down one of the bore holes.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:13am
- Paulus
  
  Its not the Bloody Mine
  – it is the 2.5km passageway (drift) up to the Mine after all.
  Only another $16 million + for political PR to allow the ex EPMU Head to say it was not our Union’s fault.
  Called Obfuscation or Bullshit.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:21am
  - Happychappy
    
    If it was that easy and safe to recover the bodies from the mine Andrew Little would be in charge and if anything went wrong be would be facing the charges not the CEO that they have employed to give the Judgement. Another 23 plus million that could be used for more urgent policy to help NZ’ers.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:40am
  - KevOB
    
    Confirmation bias.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:00am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    But wasn’t Duncan creaming himself, pathetic.
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:27am
    - sooty
      
      Just as well he was not wearing a pretty bue dress then!
      
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      November 14, 2018 1:14pm
  - Kabull
    
    And guess who stood alongside Andy at this morning’s announcement – Monk, Osborne & Rockhouse. I guess the rest of the families are not too concerned – after all, the pressure has been driven by these three. And it is most unlikely that there will be anything in the drift that will satisfy them So what then? Another 50mill to get into the workings …..?
    
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    November 14, 2018 4:00pm
- G152
  
  And I understand they’re only going as far as the rockfall which is about halfway to the working faces where the bodies lie
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:33am
- suzieq
  
  Please god we can seal the mine once they both go in, as promised?
  
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  November 14, 2018 5:13pm
Sofia

Shane Jones, like Phil Twyford, is tits at maths too

A deal was done between the Crown and the Ngāti Hine Forestry Trust in the Far North earlier this year and 1.2 million seedlings were bought to be planted.

The Ministry for Primary Industries has yet to put a dollar figure on the cost to taxpayers, but market rates for seedlings put the cost of the order at about $400,000.

About 400,000 seedlings bought by the government to plant in Northland have gone to waste after the land was too wild to plant on.

• So a third of the seedlings were wasted, a third of $400,000 – which is about $133,333.
But – Forestry Minister Shane Jones said the cost to the taxpayer was about $160,000.

• Seems Shane is not so great with figures, even when they are in his favour – or he did something else with $26,667. I guess: hired a seedling mulcher.

Official documents show the Government planned to plant 1100ha with pine this year and had ordered about 1,100,000 seedlings for that.

• So pine seedlings are planted about 1,000 of them to the hectare. 100 hectares to the square kilometre.
To plant one billion trees may require about 10,000 square kilometres.

As has been estimated before, that’s roughly a strip of land from Bluff (intersection Palmer Street, Gore Street) in the south, to Cape Reinga Lighthouse, in the north, following state highway 1, (2086 km) but, instead an average 7.5 m wide roadway, it’ll need a strip of land 640 highways wide, or 4.8 kilometres wide, Bluff to Reinga.
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Father Christmas had just spent about an hour making a most difficult decision in his life – what should be delivered to Neve Aroha Ardern-Gayford: she did seem well-behaved, but there had been that nappy-change caught by the Japanese delegation at the UN, or was that Clarke’s fault – so Mr Claus was a little frustrated and perhaps abrupt, when the Christmas Fairy said “Well, since the Christmas Tree is now ready, Santa – where should I put it?”

Which comes back to Shane, again – where can he stick all his trees?

“Read my lips – I’m sick and tired of watching the ne’er-do-well nephs sitting on the couch doing nothing, and I, as a Maori politician and a Maori leader, I’m not going to tolerate it any longer.”
Asked if they were Work For The Dole schemes, Jones said: “I love the idea, and by Christmas, I am going to have announced at least four projects.

That was last Christmas.
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November 14, 2018 8:05am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Yet another example of why Government or Government Agencies or Maori Organisations shouldn’t allowed anywhere near a business operation.
  
  A competent business would have checked the land was suitable BEFORE embarking on the planting NOT when they had already bought the seedlings.
  
  Memo to COL. Stay away from business and leave it to the grown up people.
  
  Go back and play in your sand pit that is the Parliament.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:56am
  - sooty
    
    All kindys have a sandpit!
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:13am
- Sofia
  
  Shane, again
  When one Googles the reference for “Shane Jones tells nephews to get off the couch and work”, there is other stuff that Shane said at the time –
  Jones said the regional fund could support small-scale irrigation projects, even though the Labour-Greens confidence and supply agreement has a provision to “wind down Govt support for irrigation” …
  “I’m an advocate and I’m going to push for localised water storage, localised water initiatives, or I’m beggared if I can see how I’m going to lift the productivity of both the Maori owners and the Maori land.
  
  And … The fund would not be used for gas exploration, he said. Gas should play a role, but the money would have to come from the private sector.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11952317
  
  So, it seems at this point, December 3, 2017, the champion of the regions has no idea of the Coalition destroying the prospect of gas exploration.
  Is that why Shane pulled those distressed clown faces while Ardern announced her banning of off-shore gas and oil exploration?
  
  What else does Shane not know?
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:45am
  - Woz
    
    Shane’s hubris is beyond belief and definition. But he declaims in ponderous, faux-Shakespearean soliloquys, his eyes on the ground and his hand waving dramatically, so he must be very clever.
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:10am
    - kowtow
      
      He’s a pretentious wanker .
      
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      November 14, 2018 10:49am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        That’s the hand waving dramatically….
        
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        November 14, 2018 12:27pm
      - Woz
        
        Bahahaha!
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:15pm
- tf78
  
  Time fly’s when you’re enjoying yourself eh!
  
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  November 14, 2018 12:55pm
Longknives

Maybe I overthink things but-

How come there have been no Jacinda, Clarke or related baby stories on Stuff or Herald all week?
This is most unusual- Usually we get bombarded daily with ‘First Family’ Propaganda.
Also- I note Clarke Gayford hasn’t posted on Twitter for almost a month….
Why on earth would such blatant Fame Whores be suddenly laying low?
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November 14, 2018 8:06am
- waldonz
  
  As the old saying goes: ‘Where there’s smoke…’
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:12am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    …there’s a lawnmower?
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:44am
    - Colville
      
      snap.
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:26am
- Keeping Stock
  
  You missed the stories yesterday about Jacinda leaving Neve at home for five days while she goes to work.
  
  Gayford’s absence from social media is indeed unusual; maybe he’s too busy trying to keep spring growth in his lawn to a minimum…
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:12am
  - Longknives
    
    The world’s laziest Prime Minister actually ‘going to work?’
    Now you know that must be fake news….
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:18am
    - GazzaW
      
      Is she flying solo on Air Force One to Singapore or did she think of the economics and fly Business Class on Air NZ so that the savings could benefit those in poverdy.
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:49am
- VicParking
  
  They have been Cleaning up all the grass clippings from around the section
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:17am
- Paulus
  
  Ardern is in Singapore in her private 757 jet, without Bubba, then on to PNG for APEC Meeting photoshoot.
  
  Understand that Peters is not now attending as it is believed he is unwell after spending so much time in aeroplanes and dinners in Europe, and he is as he looks, like me, old and tired.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:23am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I’m sure he’s had plenty of Guinness and Jameson’s over the last few days.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:07am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    All our PMs have attended APEC and being in PNG, using the RNZAF 757 is a perfectly appropriate use. So a bit of a cheap shot to criticise her for that.
    And it is more than a photo shoot. Serious work gets done.
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:08am
    - starboard
      
      “Serious work gets done”
      
      Ppfftt..
      
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      November 14, 2018 11:21am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      By everyone?
      
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      November 14, 2018 11:45am
    - lifesgood
      
      WM when has the toothy princess ever done serious work? Come on!
      
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      November 14, 2018 11:48am
    - krazykiwi
      
      I don’t doubt that some serious work gets done, but I seriously doubt our PM is involved in any of it.
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:03pm
      - tf78
        
        From what I gather all the serious work is taken on by WP, if you want something done – do it yourself.
        
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        November 14, 2018 12:58pm
    - Jazzby
      
      Ordinarily, I would agree with you: but these are not ordinary times. Fate has dealt us an inept Prime minister, who lacks experience, wisdom, and – judging by her verbal skills – mediocre intelligence. Sure, she goes down well with the women’s magazines, and the international leftist media just love a bimbo with a baby, but when it comes to the nitty-gritty, she simply doesn’t cut it. She has already got offside with Donald Trump, because of her big mouth, and there will be plenty of opportunity for similar gaffes at APEC.
      I recognise that she’ll be backed up by experienced and skilled advisors, but unless what they say is in accord with the socialist/ eco-warrior playbook, it will be dismissed out of hand (cf. the advice from Treasury and MBIE regarding the ban on oil and gas exploration).
      We don’t know whether or not anyone on the National benches did call her a “silly little girl”, but that’s spot on, anyway. This country deserves better than a political tiro who evidently thinks that a winsome smile can achieve almost anything. If we do come out of APEC with some gains, it will be more by accident than design.
      
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      November 14, 2018 2:11pm
    - toby1845
      
      “Serious LEADERS get work done.”
      
      There: fixed it for you!
      
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      November 14, 2018 2:18pm
  - freethinker
    
    Seen any Death Watch beetles hanging around the toxic dwarf? Just asking & hoping.
    
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    November 14, 2018 2:12pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I was wondering why SLG is in Singapore en route to PNG.
    Turns out she’s been drumming up some rohinga refugees to put in her toy box.
    Yay! They’ll fit right in.
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:04pm
- dave_c_
  
  And you missed another important aspect – PM is overseas – hiding from all of this.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:34am
- RF
  
  I suspect they realise the public have had a gutsfull of the day to day, minute by minute accounts of their lives.
  
  I am not bloody interested in what they do.
  
  Lover boy must be suffering from cabin fever by now.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:43am
  - burt
    
    Lover boy must be suffering from cabin fever by now.
    
    He has many lawnmowers so he’s probably out mowing strips all over town.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:48am
    - igm
      
      burt: Possibly looking for a filly as off-course substitute for his usual old mare!
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:58am
      - Tall Man
        
        The Old Grey Mare she ain’t what she used to be…….
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:44am
      - sooty
        
        She ain’t youth adjacent anymore!
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:19pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      He’ll need to be careful about mowing the white lines. Too many of them and the twin air intake ports become clogged with powder, and continuing becomes difficult.
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:06pm
- lifesgood
  
  read between the lines!
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:47am
Exclamation Mark

People who know anything about criminal law: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12159205
Why did this guy who should have got a maximum prison sentence for a 3rd strike sex offence but didn’t because someone messed up their paper work, not get a jail sentence anyway instead of getting sentenced to 5 months home detention?

Was there no legal ground here to put him away for a few years instead of basically just tickling him with a feather?
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November 14, 2018 8:07am
- backster
  
  Judge Whata,,,Wasn’t he the one who gave an offender 30% reduction for being a maori and it was well established post colonial stress would be a contributary factor..I think that was a third strike avoidance decision too.
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:12am
questions

Who is Mark Davey?
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November 14, 2018 8:08am
logan0312

Was thinking some more on the whole Macron / Nationalism stupidity thing from the last weekend.
Nationalism in itself is NOT the enemy of peace. In fact historically Western (based on Judeo-Christian truth) nations were exactly what saved the world from globalist tyrannies. And those same countries are the most generous in their regard for the peoples of other nations. Of course things could be improved but you will never do this by discarding the structures that have furthered peace and well being more than any other systems. And remember, those democracies have to date never gone to war with one another – they have always managed to work out their problems without resort to arms. As we increasingly abandon our cultural heritages I have doubts that situation will continue. We lose our moral basis (as exhibited through our cultures) and tyranny and wars follow, as sure as night follows day.
And actually I think Macron is closer to being in league with the Nazis than anything he may want to accuse the true ‘nationalists’ as being. The theorists of the Nazis saw their ideology as being trans-national; as having the potential to supersede nationalism as such in favor of their own ideology. Sure it was racist and anti-Semitic at its core, but so are the modern globalist leftists who support these things. They hate Judaism and the Christian underpinnings of the West and desire little more than to completely overturn that moral structure (as did the Nazis). Their entire thrust is virtually indistinguishable to Nazi ideology; they simply stress different aspects of it at the present time, but in my view their adherence to the same creed will emerge more clearly with time.
If Macron wants to see a modern Nazi in the making he needs look no further than the mirror. He is self-righteous and sure of his own beliefs – he fails to see where they inevitably lead. Or maybe he sees and doesn’t care. Anyway, what do you want to see? These globalist leaders have no real concern for their own constituencies; do you really expect them to have genuine compassion to the poor of other nations? I don’t think that is their game at all.
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- stephieboy
  
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  “Nationalism in itself is NOT the enemy of peace. In fact historically Western (based on Judeo-Christian truth) nations were exactly what saved the world from globalist tyrannies. ”
  
  What a pile of Molyneaux Southern alt right drivel.
  
  Nazi and Italian Fascist Nationalism saved the world and its offspring in Rumania, Croatia, Slovenia WW2 etc ??
  
  The US Trump administration and Tariff wars based on” Judea Christian Truth vs Globalism?
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:17am
  - logan0312
    
    Learn to read Stephieboy. I said that western christian democracies are what saved us from these things. What exactly was christian or democratic about the nations you refer to at the time. None of them belonged to the liberal, christian and democratic tradition I referred to.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:22am
  - flipper
    
    France and Germany both favour a united Europe under one Government – provided they controlling “nation”. Forget about the names of individuals causing wars, its their attitudes toward the UK, Europe at large, dating back to what, 10th- 12th Centuries and earlier that has always been the problem. Those ungrateful bastard nations have always sought to impose their will on others, and to extend their borders. And the USA (in particular) has been needed to save world democracy. Bot France and Germany have but one real objective – their own world leadership.
    This anecdote from history sums up France .
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    Lyndon B. Johnson >
    “Ask him about the fucking cemeteries, Dean!”
    
    In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be immediately evacuated from French soil, President Lyndon Johnson remained silent for a few minutes. He then turned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and to Rumsfeld (who was with Rusk) said to Rusk:
    “Ask fucking DeGaulle about the 60,000 Americans buried in France. Ask fucking DeGaulle whether his order includes them.”
    Dean Rusk implied in his answer that that DeGaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Rusk:
    
    “Ask him about the 60000 in the fucking cemeteries Dean!”
    
    That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President DeGaulle.
    
    Rusk left it until the meeting was almost over and then said that he had been ordered by President Johnson to ask whether his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II.
    
    DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up, left the meeting and never answered.”
    Source: Rumsfeld’s memoirs – interview on Fox..
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:47am
    - logan0312
      
      Someone once quipped that it took the US and UK to save the French nation from the Nazis, and the French have never forgiven them for doing it. Maybe some truth in that allegation today?
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:51am
    - freethinker
      
      De Gaulle like that other French shit of the era Jacques Delors were as evil as the German Chancellor the US/UK removed from French soil, I hope they are rotting in hell and can think of other French Politicians who should join them ASAP.
      
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      November 14, 2018 4:16pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I see the “wisdom” from labour HQ hs disappeared nice and early again.
    
    Ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a girl.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:47am
- VicParking
  
  The USA should withdraw all its troops from the UE and base them in Great Britian. Defend the UE with French troops and French airplanes. I can see the french Army now marching backwards into the Mediterranean.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:23am
  - MCos
    
    What’s the ‘UE’?
    
    Currently the US has about 64,400 military based in the EU, mainly in Germany & Italy, probably as a hangover from WWII and in Germany’s case because it’s handy to Russia.
    I’m sure the proud British would just love a big influx of Americans boosting their army presence from pretty much nothing to 26,000 on an island where, if they were needed in a hurry, they would be stranded.
    America already has the third largest airforce outside the US stationed in the UK behind Japan & Germany.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:55am
- trout
  
  Nationalism is an ideal that binds together the occupants of a Nation State so that they live together cooperatively and communally regardless of religious or ethnic differences. It is entirely appropriate that the US maintains this ideal because of the population diversity. Without Nationalism the community reverts to tribalism (the default); the left is promoting identity politics; tribalism by proxy.
  And, yes, Macron is advocating trans- Nationalism, a concept not a mile away from the ambitions of the Third Riech.
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:36am
  - logan0312
    
    Exactly right Trout. It is of some concern to me that these ‘progressives’ and ‘leftists’ accuse the more traditional conservatives as being Nazis when it is themselves who exhibit all the hallmarks of that heresy.
    We need to be on guard from those who claim to believe in a common and unifying political structure for all mankind. It leads to tyranny not freedom.
    I am reminded of a passage in the Bible that talks of those whose ambition is excessive. It says, at Habbakuk 2:5 “Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, So that he does not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And he is like death, never satisfied. He also gathers to himself all nations And collects to himself all peoples.”
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:52am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    ‘Riech’ means ‘smell’. It was the third ‘Reich’ – ‘wealth’ or ‘kingdom’.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:35pm
    - trout
      
      Thankyou; I tried that – it didn’t look right!?
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:45pm
- kowtow
  
  Boiled down to its most basic level the European project has always been about French control of the German economy .
  
  Since WW2 , with their deep war guilt , the Krauts have gone along with the idea of a super Europe, they of course know that the real power in Europe is not the cheese eating surrender monkeys but themselves . Why , because unlike the Frogs , your Kraut actually works hard and makes things the rest of the world wants and is prepared to pay for.
  
  Some Germans see through the whole Europe / war guilt thing and want out , the AfD.
  
  Hopefully that happens before the Eurocrats allow 70 million Turkish Muslims in.
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:00am
  - stephieboy
    
    kowtow, your faux Northern Irish Anglo Saxon nationalism shining through.
    
    At least France has its own viable car industry.. Britain doesn’t. It did much to promote an airline industry via Airbus and military ones like Dassault etc .]
    
    Speculative fantasies 70 million Turkish Muslims!
    
    ” krauts” and “frogs ” ?? Primitive old Anglo Saxon abuse abuse
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:08am
BeaB

The most expensive guilt trip in NZ history – the re-entry. Only right that the head of the union at that time, who also loudly praised the management of the mine, and the wife of the safety officer who must have gone to work each day to doze off, are the ones fronting this farce.
They will spend millions, venture a token short way in, find nothing and declare victory.
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November 14, 2018 8:10am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Questions to be answered
  1. Why didn’t the alarms go off?
  2. Is it true that the workers, covered the sensors, so they wouldn’t go off?
  3. What, EXACTLY, was the job of the “safety” officer, who failed to keep the guy’s safe?
  4. Who, in the CLARK govt. signed it off as safe?
  (after all National only cut the ribbon)
  5. Who’s advice were the families taking? When every election, they were saying that they had this advice that it was safe to re enter, but even Angry Andy isn’t saying that now.
  6. If someone gets injured attempting this, will Angry Andy be arrested for negligence?
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:17am
  - VicParking
    
    Do ciggy buts last eight years, lighters do.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:26am
    - GazzaW
      
      The temperature in that mine during the post-explosion inferno far exceeded that of a crematorium furnace and accompanied by fierce updrafts. The likelihood of any organic material remaining in the mine is virtually zero.
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:59am
      - sooty
        
        No bodies!!!
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:23am
      - suzieq
        
        Which is precisely why John Key asked to have the videotape of the effects on the mine entrance of the second explosion to be made public. He wanted everyone to see how dangerous the mine continued to be and how unrealistic were the demands of some family members without saying so explicitly at a still touchy time.m
        
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        November 14, 2018 5:37pm
  - KevOB
    
    Safety in engineering is not based on personal beliefs. A coal mine built over a gas producing fault is not safe by international practice.
    
    I have met my share of experts. One who doesn’t agree with your view need not apply as they won’t get paid.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:20am
  - BeaB
    
    There’s a photo somewhere of Trevor Mallard standing triumphantly over the mine site after the decision had been made to go ahead with it – by the Labour government.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:32am
- Dave Mann
  
  While I agree with your points on the Pike River re-entry, it is not the most expensive guilt trip in NZ history by any means.
  
  That title goes fairly and squarely to the billion$ gifted to the Maoris under the Treaty of Waitangi.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:30am
  - KevOB
    
    Is that not Maui trickery?
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:21am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Any tunnel which is still there has steadfastly not collapsed in the last 50000 hours. So what are the chances that it will during the hour it would take to quickly wander up and down the tunnel? <1:50000?
  
  If you are a 55 year old man your risk of dying on any particular day is about 1 in 46000. So a 55yr old man wandering up the drift is really not taking any risk greater than just getting up in the morning entails.
  
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  November 14, 2018 2:00pm
  - KevOB
    
    The tunnel’s full of methane. Now they hope to push that out while the gas producing fault continues.
    
    What are the Pike River families going to say if no bodies are located?
    
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    November 14, 2018 6:50pm
RW Capitalist

Paddy Gowers morning hit job on the key govt. on the AM show
Q:
Paddy, how is Littles speech any different than John Key’s?
He said he’d looked at the info.
Key said no to the risk
Little said yes PROVIDED it was safe to proceed.
So the Ardern govt. will spend $35million to go see if it is safe.
That’s what they actually said.
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November 14, 2018 8:11am
- Lance
  
  The Garner was in full froth ‘National are bastards’ mode after that.
  The man was ranting hysterically, it was bullshit upon bullshit, ‘National DELIBERATELY ignored advice it was safe to go in’, the police are going to charge someone with manslaughter, there are bodies there etc etc etc.
  The AM show was beyond fucked up this morning.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:25am
  - dave_c_
    
    Agree totally – showing their true colours for all to see.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:30am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Just one colour, Dave.
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:38pm
  - GazzaW
    
    The timing of the Pike River announcement is just perfect to shift the focus from ILG and all of the other Government fuck-ups.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:02am
    - flipper
      
      The rantings of Garner, Gower et al re Key are similar to those of CNN/MSNBC/et al v Trump.
      Nobody listens to them in the morning. Perhaps someone knows the size of the audience they draw. Westland is O’Conner country. Monk is a bullshitter. The Pike River mob have received more compensation than anyone else. Seal the mine; put up another memorial and move on!
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:57am
      - Paulus
        
        And one of the leading trio of Monk and two mothers is married to the Health and Safety Manager who criticised Whittall and the Mine in the Royal Commission as being unsafe after allowing his two sons to go down the Mine.
        Any prosecutions will have to include him despite losing one of his sons – the other getting out at the last moment.
        This trio do not represent all the families of those sadly killed.
        Many have moved on.
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:56pm
  - KevOB
    
    They’ve got to get Sroubek of any pages as it may interrupt their morning supplies.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:23am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I’ve never missed missing it.
    Better for the sanity.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:48am
- howitis
  
  Can you confirm that the Gower critter is one truly ugly mofo?
  Last time I saw him (on YouTube getting creamed by Molyneux) he looked like a chipmunk.
  I guess he still is.
  
  His mother should have been smacked at birth for producing that.
  Actually, nothing short of a good thrashing would do.
  
  Oh, is wee Paddy having a paddy about being bullied.
  Look in the mirror dude!
  I mean at your behaviour Gower, not you face.
  That thing was only ever meant for radio.
  Gower has a channel changing visage and a stomach churning personality.
  It seems that in addition to these flaws he has absolutely zero self awareness.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/108554575/patrick-gower-people-would-often-call-me-ugly
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:29am
  - kowtow
    
    The news is no longer about events but the messenger.
    
    It would be interesting if some clever person could go back in time and have a look at what sort of hit jobs these self promoting media types did on the intelligence of such personalities they loved to hate like the last Prez Bush or the Sarah Palin for example.
    
    Not to mention their out right lying about people they don’t like and who they call “far right” racist etc
    
    These media c#nts tell lies and do character assasinations constantly ( Key the pony tail puller and all the innuendo around that )
    
    So fuck the poor wee petals , they can give it , but can’t/won’t take it.
    
    Hypocrites .
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:10am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    And yet he has the job that he has, I have often wondered why.
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:53am
  - GoVege
    
    How nasty can you be?
    There is nothing unpleasant about Patrick Gower.
    I suppose you spent much of your time at school tormenting other kids.
    Like a lot of Kiwibloggers probably….
    Explains the toxic atmosphere here at times.
    
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    November 14, 2018 2:35pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Indeed, politically this is the only NZ site that sometimes has some sense, but really, aren’t we above calling someone ugly (looks, not behaviour)?
      
      Reminds me of a certain PM who decided it was wise to call Trump ‘orange’.
      
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      November 14, 2018 3:26pm
    - lofty
      
      I am with you GV..whenever I am tempted to say nasty things about looks nowadays, I just look in the mirror.
      That shuts me up 😉
      
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      November 14, 2018 3:51pm
    - softail 1450
      
      GoVege ,calm down its only words ,silly people take offence at a few words ,I didn’t think you would be the type to be offended by a few letters on a blog.
      
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      November 14, 2018 4:05pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        I don’t see ‘offence’, just an observation that there can be a toxic atmosphere sometimes.
        
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        November 14, 2018 4:32pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  $33million to walk into a cave where there likely aren’t even any identifiable remains. Wot a collossal waste of money. Offer each of the families $100k if they stop whining about it and this whole saga would be over at 10% of the price.
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:13am
  - lifesgood
    
    Offer them nothing. They’ve already had massive pay outs. I wish they’d just STFU. Monk is a publicity whore and needs to be called out for it.
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:54am
    - igm
      
      Monk, like the rest of them, are Labour sycophants . . . I doubt if there is actually too much sincerity amongst them.
      Little and Peters have milked it for political gain at the expense of taxpayers . . . but then, how many actual taxpayers support those in CoL!
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:39pm
  - Paulus
    
    Am sure the striking Teachers would be happy to have some of this wasted money in their Pot.
    
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    November 14, 2018 1:57pm
    - sooty
      
      How much is Comrade and her sugardaddy going to give away in PNG?
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:09pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Alternative solution: Put the job of going up into pike river and videoing it all for the fuckwits pushing this up to tender from anyone with a terminal disease. Bet you would get someone to do it for $20k. 0.1% of budget.
  
  If you don’t allow it for ‘safety reasons’ then you had best outlaw mountain guiding as a profession too – it’s bloody dangerous.
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:20am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Pity the police who are tasked with going in first to secure the ‘Crime scene.’
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:54am
secondcumming

Another ‘dud’ Judge?

*Justice Christian Whata* sentences potential ‘3rd Striker’ to 5 months Home Detention……..
tells him, “The best place for you is at home”. FFS!!

https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1062191342044889088
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November 14, 2018 8:12am
- DJ Ward
  
  Considering the bum grabber got 7 years, which is absurd, sorry, obscene if you think about it. This guy acted with premeditation to offend. Very different from the bum grabber.
  
  This should have resulted in a prison term, as it’s not his first offence of this exact type. This is the random stranger sex offender, not the dick head behavour of the bum grabber, now labelled a sex offender.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:47am
- GoVege
  
  Just force new immigrants to attend classes in how to behave in NZ would save time and money.
  A few Kiwi guys might benefit too.
  Where most of our immigrants come from, seeing an unchaperoned woman out in public is seen as an invitation to “sexy time”. 🙂
  
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  November 14, 2018 2:48pm
- howitis
  
  The diversity dividend making huge payouts at a cinema near you.
  In his shithole homeland of India he would have got away with this Scott free.
  Attul Kumar Patel = complete sleaze.
  
  The message should be> F U sleaze bag.
  Lock the filth up.
  He has done it before.
  He will do it again.
  … Crown prosecutor Erin Woolley said the incident on July 22 was the fourth time Patel committed the “exact type” of offending in five years…
  …’The 23-year-old victim had been at St Lukes cinema with her fiance when Patel sat next to her and rubbed her thigh for two minutes, gradually getting higher up her left before she moved seats.’…
  
  What is wrong with these millennials? The Boyfriend should have given Patel the bash then and there. She let it run on for 2 minutes.
  This must be the dreadful conditioning they are getting in schools and being force fed white guilt crap!
  
  …At his sentencing in 2014, his lawyer at the time, David Reece said the offending was “anxiety related” and had started cognitive behavioural therapy.
  Judge David Mather said in 2014 that>>> Patel was unlikely to repeat the offending <<<but there were worrying elements of premeditation….
  So Mather was a bit soft but Whaka in 2018 is a dud judge. The history is there.
  
  The legal fraternity has made it very clear.
  They will not act.
  These Indians can be sleazy feckers around women.
  I have seen it a fair few times. A few months ago while cycling through Mt Roskill shops I saw an Indian bloke pushing a woman around.
  Once too often.
  I stopped, walked over and planted one.
  These bully rapey feckers will keep doing it until there is resistance.
  No worries. Helmet, wrap around glasses, gloves, and no identifying characteristics on a bike.
  Doesn't matter if there are cameras.
  We have to do it because the judiciary are complete duds.
  
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  November 14, 2018 3:00pm
Im Right

Seems the leftie voters are either apathetic or have selective amnesia!…why?, well during last election campaign Labour and NZ first basically said, in so many words, ‘we will enter the Pike River mine as soon as we are the Government’ and go onto cite various independent reports that say it’s safe. Flash forward 12-14 months and they STILL haven’t entered the mine and set up a $30million ‘ministry’ and now they will take the first steps in Feb next year. I wonder how long it will actually take to enter the mine to the extent they promised during election, in my humble opinion this will be teased out for months and months with grandstanding and ticker tape parades (metaphorically speaking) with every ‘stage’ announcement with the full entry being just in time for the next election cycle.
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November 14, 2018 8:13am
- Paulus
  
  They are only going (try) to enter the pathway to the Mine – called the Drift – NOT ENTER THE MINE.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:29am
stoptheboats

Macron has a nerve having a go at Trump. USA troops saved Frances arse in WW1 and 2 , the least he could do is show a bit of gratitude
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November 14, 2018 8:13am
- igm
  
  Just another gutless French lefty . . . they have never been known for intestinal fortitude in the face of adversity!
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:20am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Instead he made a speech effectively saying.
  Europe needs to defend itself against it’s enemies.
  Russia
  China
  The USA
  Any wonder that Trump is angry?
  The USA is an enemy of Europe??????
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:22am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Yes, when the US finally entered late in the piece in 1917 and the US only made up their minds in WW2 only when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour in late 1941.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:23am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Why do French country roads have trees down both sides?
    So the German army can march in the shade.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:32am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Why do French country roads have trees down both sides?
      So the German army can march in the shade.
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:36am
      - Tall Man
        
        We had an exchange student from France a few years back. He became a commando in the French Navy. They were tasked with shutting down Somali piracy which they did extremely efficiently and bravely by tracking the pirates back to their village bases and taking the fight to them on land.
        
        Remember how an incursion into Somalia ended for the US in “Black Hawk Down”.
        
        The French commandos plus soldiers from other nations have basically shut down the piracy.
        
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        November 14, 2018 10:12am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Tallman, quite different scenarios. The US at the time was trying to stabilize the country. Dealing with a few motley pirates armed with AK-47’s in basically open speed boats is rather a different situation. Any competent military force with military weapons; AND terms of engagement that allows them to shoot to kill should find it fairly easy to win.
        
        At one stage I believe that the RN had problems beating the pirates off because they were forbidden to shoot and injure, so had to fire only warning shots – something that the pirates pretty quickly picked up on and so basically ignored RN forces.
        
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        November 14, 2018 3:03pm
  - VicParking
    
    Stephie, was’nt their fight until then. Does not mean they did not save europe. Without them the alies would have signed a peace agreement and Germany would have developed an atomic bomb.
    Can I suggest they flowing, less the tape.
    http://www.sickchirpse.com/florida-man-caught-sex-alligator
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:32am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Your lack of knowledge of history is staggering.
    1. WW1 the US was largely responsible for breaking the stalemate of trench warfare. Their contribution both actual and perceived (what they could bring to the fight if it continued) helped force the armistice.
    2. Who fought the war in the Pacific, almost single handed? How would ‘D’ Day happened if 3 out of the 5 beach heads had not been American?
    No the yanks didn’t win the war, but without them we WOULD have lost.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:40am
    - stephieboy
      
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      RW Capitalist, only partially true. We need to remember the fact if Russia had collapsed like they did in WWI the war would have lasted a lot longer and cost a great many more many lives!
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:47am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Russia did collapse, in WW2 (they couldn’t even beat the Finns)
        The USA entered the war, around the same time as Germany attacked Russia.
        Imagine, no USA, how much they could have put against Russia. Instead of having to hold back in Europe.
        The Japanese would have been free to attack Russia from China.
        If there are no yanks, there would have been no Russia.
        
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        November 14, 2018 8:53am
      - Tall Man
        
        What a waste of space you are. Ignorant and biased without foundation, typical labour party hack. Typical gutless wanker, hates the big boy because they have to ask him for protection.
        
        Ardern is a liar
        
        steffy is a girl
        
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        November 14, 2018 10:03am
      - kowtow
        
        We also need to remember the Soviets were allied to the Nazis and invaded Poland too.
        They also instructed their trade union lackies in Britain and Australia to sabotage the war effort when Britain stood alone ,and those lackies did respond.
        
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        November 14, 2018 12:10pm
      - Jack5
        
        Germany attacked Russia on June 22, 1941, in the biggest invasion in history – about four million Axis troops over a front of 2900 kilometres.
        
        Japan brought the United States into the war with its attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 2018.
        
        While United States industrial might was the decisive factor in the war, the Soviet Union did do most of the tough fighting.
        
        Statistics from different sources on German war dead on the Russian front are confusing, but there’s no doubt that’s where the majority of German casualties occurred.
        
        As for the statement above, “they (the Russians) couldn’t even beat the Finns”: the Finns are crack troops. The German SS units sent to bolster them after the short Finnish-Russian war couldn’t hack it with their “allied” Finnish troops.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II
        
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        November 14, 2018 4:12pm
      - Jack5
        
        That was a humdinger of a mistake in my 4.12 post: dating the Pearl Harbour attack as 7 December 2018. It was of course 7 December 1941.
        
        My apologies.
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:45pm
    - RRM
      
      2 out of 5. But yes.
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:44am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        True, I stand corrected.
        
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        November 14, 2018 11:23am
    - James Stephenson
      
      Utah and Omaha – American
      Gold, Juno, Sword – UK and Canadian.
      
      Don’t go lumping the Canuks in with the Septics.
      
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      November 14, 2018 11:19am
      - Peter S
        
        I remember talking to an old chap who had been special forces in WW2, spent years in the desert, including almost getting left for dead at Tobruk, I suspect he was LRDG, though he was cagey about it.
        He landed by boat the night before D Day, and observed the landings (as well as actively taking part from behind enemy lines) . He said the bulk of the US troops were enthusiastic but did not have much combat experience, while the British troops were the reformed 8th Army that had fought through the desert, and were very experienced, (did not say about the Canadians, as they were not in his sector, but they had a very good reputation, as did the NZ and Aus troops).
        The beaches the Americans had were more difficult, which, combined with inexperience, made for heavy casualties.
        The British also made use of a range of “funnies” which were task specific vehicles for overcoming obstacles of various types.
        Experirnce, slightly easier terrain and the funnies meant those beaches were taken quicker and with much fewer casualties.
        
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        November 14, 2018 5:13pm
      - Jack5
        
        Peter S., from North Africa, the British 8th Army moved on to fight in the invasion of Sicily then spent the rest of the war fighting up through Italy. The New Zealand Division under General Freyberg was part of the 8th Army in North Africa and in Italy.
        
        I’d imagine Royal Marine commandos, Army commandos, and SAS would have been the first soldiers ashore on the D-Day beaches assigned to the British.
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:29pm
      - Jack5
        
        One New Zealander who was am official New Zealand D-Day observer was Brigadier James Hargest.
        
        He was something of a hero in World War 1, and was a member of Parliament when World War 2 broke out. Hargest was widely believed to be suffering shell shock from World War 1, but rejoined the Army, perhaps with help from his Parliamentary colleagues.
        
        Hargest played a controversial role in the defence of Crete, and was later taken prisoner. Hargest escaped from POW camp and got back to Britain through France, Spain, and Portugal.
        
        He was killed shortly after the beginning of the D-Day landings while with the British advance.
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:39pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Nope, sorry, the US had two major impacts in WW1. First was economic, access to the US enabled the Allied powers to amass a material advantage in artillery and shells that became increasingly important. Second was morale, once the German armies realized that the US was shipping over 500,000 men a month to Europe they realized that winning would become impossible.
      
      The US troops were not particularly well trained (initially, and that’s true of all newly raised formations not just the US) and Pershing was very reluctant to allow US formations of size to serve with other allied formations as part of their training. Pershing himself was relatively ignorant of tactical developments that for example made the British so effective by late 1918, and in fact clung to beliefs common at the start of the war that morale and massed attacks were the way to succeed. As a result, although some US units performed well, by the time of the armistice the US armies in France were in a relatively bad way logistically and were in serious need of time out of the front to reorganize, train, and recover.
      
      They were critical in certain battles, their contribution to the couter-attack that destroyed the German incursion at the Chemin de Dames area was important. The US units were large and full of spirited, brave, and enthusiastic soldiers who pushed the attack hard. They also took serious casualties. But breaking the trench warfare – never really happened though by November 1918 the allies were close in several areas to open warfare away from the trenches. They could have been closer but the placement of the various armies meant that the only force capable of a sustained offensive – the British army – was in the North and Centre facing the most concentrated German defenses. The French had more promising terrain but were not capable of any sustained offensive action. The Americans were able to mount some actions, St Mihiel was a start, but lacked the logistics and the organization for sustained offensive action. The ideal way would have been to feed a limited (but significant) number of the fresh US divisions into the British line and use their vigour and fitness in parallel with the by then tactically skillful but smaller and less fit British divisions. However that was politically unacceptable so apart from some limited instances (like the attack on the Hindenburg Line) the armies fought as s eparate groups.
      
      Psychological impact of the US, very significant. Actual battle impact less so though still worthy and part of the overall victory.
      
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      November 14, 2018 3:32pm
  - cmm
    
    But the yanks were heroic when Obama was prez.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:42am
  - Inandout
    
    You dumb arse stephie. The Yanks saved Europe and kept your precious Soviets supplied with massive amount of armaments. They also saved us from a fate worse than death by finally wiping out the Japanese threat. Yes, I think Churchill knew about Pearl Harbor attack beforehand to help the US get involved, but either way they would have got dragged in eventually.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:46am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Japan had severe logistical problems in the Pacific War. I remember my father-in-law’s stories of his unit’s near starvation in New Guinea due to lack of supplies. He was fortunate that he never saw action; I doubt he would have survived. As it was, he contracted malaria, and at one point his ship was torpedoed (I assume by a US submarine).
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:28am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        and without the yanks, how would the supplies have been then?
        
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        November 14, 2018 11:22am
    - MCos
      
      The Japanese never came anywhere near invading Australia let alone New Zealand.
      I don’t think they had any intention of coming down here. They didn’t have the resources.
      
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      November 14, 2018 10:03am
      - Tall Man
        
        Idiot. Darwin may disagree.
        
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        November 14, 2018 10:04am
      - G152
        
        Wrong.
        And a few crocs up North had a feed.
        The Japs tried and were unsuccessful
        
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        November 14, 2018 10:18am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Not true at all.
        Kokoda track, lose there and the Japanese are in Australia.
        
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        November 14, 2018 11:21am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        64 aerial raids on Darwin by Japanese.
        Aerial raids on Broome and Townsville.
        
        Sydney harbour attacked by Japanese Submarines in 1942
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_Australia_during_World_War_II
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:27pm
      - Jack5
        
        Until General Douglas MacArthur was appointed Supreme Commander, South-West Pacific Area in 1942, the Australian plan was to fight the Japanese in Australia on the “Brisbane line”.
        
        It was MacArthur who ordered a stand be made in Papua New Guinea, and it was under him that Australian battle-hardened troops returned from the Middle East, with American infantry and the United States Army 5th Air Force, stopped the Japanese advance southwards.
        
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        November 14, 2018 3:36pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Probably untrue. The attacked Australian territory in PNG and attacked across the Owen Stanley range (the Kokoda Trail) and attempted an amphibious landing around the tip of PNG as well. If they had forced the Australians out of PNG and hadn’t been stopped in the Coral Sea they would most likely have at least attempted to invade Australia.
        
        Might have been pretty hard for them. Although a lot less populated than China, the Japanese quite likely lacked the manpower to invade Australia to any great depth. They also lacked the logistics on land and equipment like tanks. The distances and the logistics would have made it a very hard campaign to win.
        
        New Zealand would no doubt have been an after thought, but would have been simple to take compared to Australia as long as they controlled the sea which they would have to to get to NZ anyway.
        
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        November 14, 2018 3:40pm
      - nasska
        
        There were discussions in the Japanese “Diet” in 1942 about the feasibility of invading Australia. Briefly. the navy wanted to invade but the army didn’t have the manpower (est 150/250,000 men) unless they pulled troops from Manchuria which they considered open to attack from the USSR. There was also a small matter of shipping which was in short supply. After the Battle of the Coral Sea the proposal was left to die a natural death.
        
        Darwin & Broome were attacked by planes launched from carriers which were subsequently sunk during Coral Sea & Midway battles.
        
        The Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo stated in an interview shortly before his execution that:
        
        …..”We never had enough troops to [invade Australia]. We had already far out-stretched our lines of communication. We did not have the armed strength or the supply facilities to mount such a terrific extension of our already over-strained and too thinly spread forces. We expected to occupy all New Guinea, to maintain Rabaul as a holding base, and to raid Northern Australia by air. But actual physical invasion—no, at no time. “……
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Japanese_invasion_of_Australia_during_World_War_II
        
        So, with the benefit of hindsight, NZ & Australia were safe. It is/was cold comfort for the citizens of both countries who weren’t kept up to speed on Japanese plans.
        
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        November 14, 2018 6:50pm
      - Jack5
        
        Nasska, similarly, some people think Hitler didn’t seriously plan to invade Britain (first link below).
        
        And in the early 1940s, Australians, with the Japanese sweeping away those before them, were thinking seriously about how they would fight on the Australian mainland (second link below).
        
        1.
        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/06/hitler-invasion-of-britain
        
        2.
        
        https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/the-citizens-guide-to-war-when-japan-threatened-australia/news-story/0e542f479492d104564d00d963e4c2fb
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:08pm
  - flipper
    
    You fuckwit.
    Go read History and understand about “Those age old wars in Europe etc” and US WW1 losses in Europe’s war, plus Nazi influence in US, France and UK, stirred public opinion against US involvement. But for FDR’s manipulation of Congress and relationship with Churchill it would have been over before Pearl Harbour. So just shut up stupid boy… and keep your mouth shut!
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:06am
  - Tall Man
    
    So labour hq are against America. Not sure how that will play out at APEC where Ardern the liar will want a photo op with Trump then try to bad mouth him behind his back.
    
    The anti US stance by labour is a pathetic vote grab by a pathetic disconnected political party.
    
    Ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a girl
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:58am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Trump isn’t going to APEC…
      Pence is.
      
      Appears Jacinda has requested a seat next to Pence in Singapore at the East Asia Summit.. so she can talk Aluminium and Steel Tarrifs…
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12158967
      
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      November 14, 2018 10:04am
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, is that a fact? I take it your an advocate of NZ tariff protection against what?
        
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        November 14, 2018 11:14am
      - starboard
        
        ” you’re” ..bird brain
        
        LOL !
        
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        November 14, 2018 11:30am
      - Komata
        
        Maggy
        
        Re: ‘..So she can talk Aluminium and Steel Tarrifs’
        
        A subject about which she is sure to believe she is an EXPERT (as per the definition about someone away from their on home town).
        
        A pity she hasn’t the nous to leave it to those who actually DO know about such things.
        
        BTW: I wonder HOW (not when) she will manage to insult BOTH Mr Pence AND the USA.
        
        She has form for doing so and simply can’t help herself…
        
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        November 14, 2018 12:34pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        MW, is that a fact?
        
        @stephieboy
        
        Read her lips:
        Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she expected to raise why a strong friend like New Zealand was being punished by the tariffs.
        https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/375877/pm-to-challenge-us-tariffs-rationale-at-summit
        
        I take it your an advocate of NZ tariff protection against what?
        
        Stephieboy, you are confused.
        I have never expressed a position on that topic.
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:36pm
- Paulus
  
  I note that the UK and the Commonwealth troops never got a mention.
  Strange I am old enough to have watched the Battle of Britain after the fall of France.
  Had relatives both at Dunkirk, Normandy, and my Father at sea (both Wars).
  I am sure they were all English !
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:32am
  - stephieboy
    
    Paulus . the same as the Russians breaking the Sieges of Moscow, Stalingrad and Leningrad at considerably more cost to lives.
    
    Your point!
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:15am
    - starboard
      
      “The” ..bird brain
      
      LOL !
      
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      November 14, 2018 11:41am
- mark15
  
  Helped,along with all the other countries.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:38am
- Komata
  
  Stopthe…
  
  The French show ‘Gratitude’ towards those who saved and protect them? Surely Sir, you jest?
  
  The French are of the opinion that they are the arbiters of all and everything ‘cultural’ and ‘Important’ and that those who are not French are below contempt.
  
  The Brits and Yanks come under that category! They are ignorant and to be treated accordingly.
  
  That the Americans (and to a lesser extent the ‘English’) saved French necks from Le Boche is inconvenient, but of minor importance when compared to the eternally-recited glories of Le Grand Francaise.
  
  Mr Macron holds to this view and has yet to become aware of the international realities; he’s a child playing with adults and hasn’t got the nous to understand that that is the situation.
  
  De Gaulle once famously stated ‘France et moi’ (I am France). Macron would seem to want to do something similar. Sadly, he is not of the same calibre, and, indeed, is unlikely to ever come close.
  
  Different times, different generations, ‘It’s all in the mind y’ know’.
  
  Macron has a lot to learn…
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:11am
  - howitis
    
    Well he has got a school teacher at home to teach him things.
    Possibly things went off key and subject matter was not adhered to…
    or, just as likely, Brigette is a beard.
    
    I am ever curious that Macron was able to quit his party in 2016 and within a year get enough support to become President.
    Who are his true backers?
    
    We should be able to relate in NZ where similarly last year an ingénue was thrust upon us very shortly before an election with little time to analyse, but turns out to be:-
    -similar age
    – similar left wing UN/globalist agenda
    -a massive Trump hater that came to the fore soon after, but only after, Prez Trump was elected by majority vote.
    
    c’est très curieux
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:20am
    - Komata
      
      Howitis
      
      The answer to your question?: Follow the money trail back up the tree.
      
      Those who pay the piper ALWAYS call the tune…
      
      (And George is only the figurehead…)
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:39pm
- KevOB
  
  That doesn’t mean the USA owns Europe or anywhere else outside its sovereign borders. When they did the petrodollar deal with the Saudis to take over the world’s reserve currency they went too far. By allowing their corporates to play freely throughout the world it’s like they have created a new class of barons with loyalty to know one.
  
  The USA has become too distracted with other people’s affairs and appears to be dangerously close to not being able to govern itself.
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:37am
- MCos
  
  I get a bit sick of always hearing how America won WWI & II.
  They helped to win the wars along with my Dad who was involved with his mates in the NZ Army years before America very reluctantly had no alternative.
  For that matter a good number of Americans, Charles Lindbergh for example, thought Hitler was the bees knees as did plenty of Brits.
  A lot of notable people from both sides of the Atlantic and around the world were in uniform during those and subsequent wars,
  The Queen, Rob Muldoon, Jack Marshall, JFK, John Kerry, de Gaulle, Spike Milligan, John McCain.
  Often it’s the ones who don’t do the hard work that claim the most credit.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:34am
  - Inandout
    
    Many kiwi soldiers were aware the yanks were trotting out the females, and giving them chocolates and nylons. They generally knew how to treat a woman back then, and this must have pissed off the kiwi soldiers no end. Many of those GIs of course never returned here or back in the USA.
    
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    November 14, 2018 11:25am
    - Jack5
      
      The liaison of American on-leave servicemen and local Allied women was a completely natural phenomenon, but the Nazis used it as a propaganda tool to encourage dissension between the Allies.
      
      Natural? Yes. And so even were the liaisons between German soldiers and French women, and Norwegian women, and Dutch women. And the liaisons between Allied Occupation troops and German women.
      
      Not natural was the mass rape of Berlin women by Red Army troops.
      
      There are plenty of folk in NZ with mothers who were war brides from Britain, Canada, Greece.
      
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      November 14, 2018 1:01pm
  - kowtow
    
    The Nazis did some work to get the Soviets on board.
    
    Molotov Ribbentrop Pact.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    MCos, our grandfathers and then fathers fought bravely for the Allies, but because of our numbers we were a small part of the effort. For example, New Zealanders made up less than 1 per cent of the British Empire forces in World War 1.
    
    In the Second World War, American industrial might was the decisive factor. The Americans poured equipment into the Soviet Union, as well as into Britain and then Europe.
    
    When American shipyards built cargo ships faster than the German U-boats were sinking them, and their trucks were the transport of all the Allied forces, including the Red Army.
    
    Our Air Force in the Pacific flew American Corsairs and American Hudsons, Kittyhawk/Warhawks, Venturas, Corsairs, Dakotas – most supplied under Lend-Lease.
    
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    November 14, 2018 1:10pm
    - MCos
      
      America may well have been the decisive factor, but they couldn’t have done it on their own.
      NZ may well have only played a small part, but one of our blokes was as good as anyone else’s blokes otherwise they might as well not have gone.
      
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      November 14, 2018 6:16pm
      - Jack5
        
        Fair enough, MCos.
        
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        November 14, 2018 8:53pm
oldpark

Whats this? . The two women who laid bullying complaints against high ranking Maori Policman Wally Haumaha say a Government Report into the matter was Politicised and “Lacks Balance”.
On another matter at the same time Shane Jones answers on why he is running around NZ willy nilly having meetings on how his Party can grease the skids with the massive cash handout sucked out of NZs taxpayers .
He cant see anything wrong and dosnt have to report his actions ,just like the complaints against Wally Haumaha ,nothing to see here ,move on.
Even though both mentioned are in donkey deep with the pest for all seasons and reasons Peters and his Party.
More and more it is looking that Peters Party can run rough shod over even the very basic needs and expectations of NZs with impunity.
The adage What a web they weave,when they clearly have set out to deceive.Is not a good look for NZs once famous Democracy,which seems to have been watered down ,big time.
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November 14, 2018 8:14am
Inandout

Pike River, now this is a continuing story so will be old news tomorrow, how can we keep it burning? Oh I know, tell the Police they may be looking at charging someone with manslaughter. Now this will have the news media abuzz for weeks, or until voters have forgotten about the Czech. And it is World Kindness Day.
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November 14, 2018 8:14am
- mark15
  
  I’d laugh if it was angry andy!!!
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:40am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    It should be, when he was in charge of the Union he told the miners that the mine was safe.
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:16am
- cmm
  
  I wonder if they will charge all the miners with being accessories?
  
  In a workplace like a mine, everyone has a role to play in safety. You can’t just make a scapegoat of the boss.
  
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  November 15, 2018 10:13am
Hugh Pavletich

China’s latest financial data paints a bleak economic outlook amid trade war with US | South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2173054/chinas-latest-financial-data-paints-bleak-economic-outlook

•New yuan loans, a key source of funding for growth, halved in October from September

•Fiscal revenue, the source of government efforts, recorded a rare drop in October from the same month a year earlier

China’s financial condition weakened in October, pointing to a further deceleration in the world’s second-biggest economy amid the trade war with the United States. … read more via hyperlink above …
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November 14, 2018 8:18am
- starboard
  
  ” NURSE “
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:44am
- MickMac
  
  Good, China needs a smack!
  So does everyone turning a blind eye to her behaviour….
  
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  November 14, 2018 5:03pm
stoptheboats

Scene 1 Premier House
Neve – ” im hungry,wheres mummy?

Gayford – away for 6 days plus gst and fuel taxes , hob nobbing with Apecites at PNG

Neve – alright then, if that’s how she treats me I’m hitting the bottle

Knocking at door,Gayford slips away to see who it is.
2 Mormons and a man from Jim’s Mowing ask to see Cindy.” We want her back in the titheing team now she’s on 500k.If she signs up again we will throw in a free mowing”
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November 14, 2018 8:25am
Huevon

I pray to God that bloody mine doesn’t blow up again and kill a bunch more people.
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November 14, 2018 8:28am
- Dave Mann
  
  Surely a few collateral deaths would be worth the price if Winston Raymond Peters was blown up with them? Maybe with a bit of luck the cunt Jones and Little Andy would be there too…
  so it wouldn’t necessarily all be bad.
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:07am
  - MCos
    
    You’re sounding like the supreme leader of Iran.
    I thought we were supposed to be better than that?
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:38am
    - Dave Mann
      
      Oh shit did that sound like the supreme leader of Iran? Really? Bummer, I was trying to sound like Stalin. Or Spike Milligan. I can’t remember now.
      
      Thanks for the literary heads up anyway. I must try harder….. 😀
      
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      November 14, 2018 4:16pm
- Komata
  
  Huevon
  
  The ONLY way it won’t will be to close it down seal it properly, and decree that it is a cemetery.
  
  If not, Mr Monk et al will continue to grandstand (he likes the publicity; it gives him a byuzz) and the whole sorry saga will continue for the next ‘X’ number of years.
  
  HOWEVER if anyone should ever consider entry, then it has to be under an ‘All Care, No responsibility’ clause, with the very clear understanding that if anything goes wrong, ‘Tough’; ‘You’re on Your own mate’.
  
  The politicans, determined to milk this for all its worth, will, of course, never, ever agree; they ‘might’ get hurt.
  
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  November 14, 2018 12:48pm
  - cmm
    
    That “tough you’re on your own mate” attitude should certainly apply to anyone going into the mine, but it also be extended to the miners.
    
    They knew the risks/conditions in the mine, yet they still chose to go. They all had training and knew what they were doing, yet they chose to go in. They all knew what the signs and safety issues were, yet they chose to ignore them.
    
    Why should anybody be risking themselves to go after them?
    
    This isn’t the 1800s any more where starving miners were forced into filthy capitalists’ mines. This was a Union sanctioned mine with massive support for workers.
    
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    November 15, 2018 10:19am
dave_c_

SO – What do we think about the new initiative relating to new home builds – where they will introduce an ‘infrastructure levy’ on every new home build – to be paid annually by the owner – starting at $1000 per annum, increasing (doubling) after year n – and will likely cost the owner 40-50 grand after 30 years.
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November 14, 2018 8:29am
- KevOB
  
  Another way of getting costs off balance sheet. These PPP schemes are not run as charities. KiwiSaver should be involved in infrastructure funding.
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:49am
- marcw
  
  Some obvious questions the MSM are too lazy or dumb (probably both) to ask:
  1. What is the average cost of the developers levy now?
  2. What controls will there be on the size of the levy in future?
  3. Will the cost be fixed for the term of the levy loan?
  4. What happens when you sell your house?
  5. When (and it will happen) will the council increase the size of the levy, because it’s “only” $1000 a year?
  6. If you can afford a mortgage now, how will another $20 – $40 dollars a week affect your budget?
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:22am
secondcumming

You can tell an ant’s gender simply by putting it in water.
If it sinks, girl ant. If it floats, buoyant.

Just saying……
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November 14, 2018 8:29am
Andrei

NATO seems to be really good at sailing its warships into tankers

This is the third one in less than a year
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November 14, 2018 8:30am
VicParking

Ever since I wrote a Post critical of Daivid the other day my posts are being sent for moderation. David have you been taking lessons from the Whale in how to reduce your critics.
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November 14, 2018 8:37am
- krazykiwi
  
  There are one or two posts vanishing this morning. Marquess’ i-really-should-keep-my-day-job poem was voted out. But the following one by Paulus Gnome at 8:01 “Hoskins sidekick this morning has said she needs a new lawn mower” has disappeared too.
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:43am
  - VicParking
    
    Can’t upset Cindy Queens honours coming up?
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:08am
  - marquess
    
    Turns out freedom of speech isn’t a thing here ?‍♂️
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:23am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      of course it is.
      you are free to speak
      we are free to criticize you by down tick
      ALL free
      
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      November 14, 2018 11:39am
- Woz
  
  When you get that “subject to moderation” message on a post (I’ve had it a couple of times), does it mean another of your posts has been reported? Just wondering how it works. I can’t think of anything I’ve written here that could have upset anybody other than Stephanie.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:25am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Folks have said the moderation notice comes up randomly.
    
    I get it every now and again.
    
    You just copy what you wrote… press delete, and confirm, then repaste the post.
    
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    November 14, 2018 1:45pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Maggy:
      
      press delete
      
      The Kiwiblog “delete comment” function has been broken for a while. But, yes, the moderation notice is random (it’s happened to me a couple of times). The comment automatically reappears after about 20 minutes, so if you just leave things be, the situation fixes itself.
      
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      November 14, 2018 2:43pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I can still delete comments
        
        (and to prove it… I just did with this one)
        
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        November 14, 2018 3:47pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Delete test.
        
        Result: No, I still can’t delete my own comments, but I can edit them.
        
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        November 14, 2018 4:17pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Nostradamus
        
        Maybe I’m special.
        
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        November 14, 2018 4:21pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    I’m not sure either. At one time having too many links in your post would send it to moderation, but Hugh is living proof that such a rule is no longer in place.
    
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    November 14, 2018 1:46pm
stephieboy

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American doctors hit back at NRA by sharing the bloody reality of gun violence

These photos are tough to look at. But there’s a powerful and tragic reason why medics are posting gruesome pictures online.

“ America’s controversial National Rifle Association (NRA) sparked outrage last week after telling doctors concerned by gun violence to “stay in their lane”.

The furore started last Thursday when the NRA posted a tweet criticising doctors who are anti-gun.
Hours later, a disturbed ex-marine opened fire on revellers at California’s Borderline Bar & Grill, killing 13….”

A big Hurrah! for US Doctors standing up to the nefarious NRA over the consequences of gun violence in the USA

A big Thumbs down for the US President for failing to show guts and leadership with his fawning kowtowing to the NRA.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/careers/american-doctors-hit-back-at-nra-by-sharing-the-bloody-reality-of-gun-violence/news-story/95c3d44e4740409939e57d71475227d5
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November 14, 2018 8:43am
- Inandout
  
  Go back to praying with your arse pointing to mecca.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:49am
- burt
  
  Imagine if Doctors treated Islamic sky fairy worshipers with the same objectivity as they treat gun touting murderers.
  
  There would be doctors all over the planet holding up little girls mutilated genitals, body parts from bomb blasts and smashed bodies from vehicles driven into crowds.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:54am
- burt
  
  stephieboy
  
  Is it perfect behaviour for a man to marry a 6 year old girl and have sex with her when she is 9 ?
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:55am
  - stephieboy
    
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    burp, no it’s not because Mohamed did not do same to Aisha!
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/17/muhammad-aisha-truth
    
    Fact!
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:58am
    - burt
      
      That makes you, and The Guardian, infidels – and you know what you are required to do to infidels.
      
      I can’t say we’ll miss you after you’re gone.
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:19am
    - Tall Man
      
      Moslems like blow things up. I like to blow things up. You’d think we’d get on better.
      
      Ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
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      November 14, 2018 10:15am
    - Tall Man
      
      “and his marriage to Aisha[20] when she was six years old,[20] which according to most estimates was consummated when she was nine.[27”
      
      My fact trumps your.
      
      Ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
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      November 14, 2018 10:17am
      - burt
        
        So any Muslim man who thinks their 6 year old daughter is too young to get married would need to be classified as an infidel ?
        
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        November 14, 2018 11:59am
    - Inandout
      
      The Guardian..lol
      
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      November 14, 2018 11:28am
- cmm
  
  Are you really stupid enough to believe that tightening up gun laws for non-criminals will change anything for the criminals that cause the carnage?
  
  The crims have all the access to guns they want.
  
  The worst gun shot wounds, image wise, are not from semi-automatic AR-style rifles, but are from shotguns.
  
  If it wasn’t gun shots, it would be knifings etc.
  
  See what those look like:
  https://www.pinterest.nz/micktan_us/knife-wounds-graphic/
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:57am
  - stephieboy
    
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    cmm, both here in NZ, Australia, Japan, the UK they simply do not have the kind of access to guns that are awash in the USA.
    
    Fact!
    
    And when did the last mass knifing took place killing and wounding dozens as in eg Las Vegas and Parklands etc, etc?
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:03am
    - burt
      
      You have no idea how many unregistered guns are in the hands of unlicensed owners in NZ.
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:21am
      - Colville
        
        all guns are unregistered so it would be a lot!
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:49am
      - cmm
        
        Colville: The guns are “registered”, but their ownership is not.
        
        All gun serial numbers are taken down at the time of import and/or sale by firearms dealers.
        
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        November 14, 2018 10:20am
      - kowtow
        
        colville
        
        All lawfully held pistols and MSSA’s are registered.
        
        It’s the unlawfully held ones that people need to be worried about as well as the pathetic sentencing handed out for illegal possession and use of firearms.
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:41pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      The right to bear arms only works for a moral public.
      
      Think back two generations ago. I am sure gun control was far loser in NZ at the time, but I am sure there was not the level of gun violence that we see today.
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:32am
      - Inandout
        
        Od, the fact no enemy has ever attempted to invade the US is mainly because of the proliferation of guns. The Lefties of course realise this and try other means, such as uncontrolled migrants and Islamic seepage. Trump is attempting to sort the latter.
        
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        November 14, 2018 11:34am
      - stephieboy
        
        Inandout, your obviously unwell. Now, why should Canada and Mexico want to invade the US?
        
        You’re not serious that the NRA and those like you could resist an invasion?
        
        LOL!
        
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        November 14, 2018 2:22pm
      - cmm
        
        InandOut: I would think that having the biggest mititary in the world is more of a disincentive for invasion than NRA members. However, I am certain the NRA membership could form enough of an army to fend of Mexico or Justin’s mob.
        
        stephie: “Now, why should Canada and Mexico want to invade the US?” Canada, no, but about a third of Mexicans live in USA – many of them illegally, so technically they have invaded.
        
        Notwithstanding the “refugee caravan” should be considered an invasion force. They are not refugees.
        
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        November 14, 2018 3:12pm
    - cmm
      
      Fact! But like many Facts it’s a squirrel.
      
      Sure there are heaps of guns in criminal hands in USA because they have such porous borders with gang infested countries to their south. Those central American countries have the worst gun death stats in the world, as a region. (way worse than USA). Clearly a lot of that is going to spill through into USA.
      
      People keep obsessing about the “mass murders” (when 4 or more people get killed) using semi-automatic weapons. This is really stupid. They make all the hype but they only account for a small fraction of the gun deaths.
      
      Of more than 30,000 gun deaths in USA per year, only something like 200 (less than 1%) are mass murders with AR15s etc.
      
      Perhaps it would make a bit more sense to focus on the gang shootings which account for at least 10x as many deaths or just the day-to-day robbings and other mayhem committed with illegally owned handguns that accounts for 90% of the gun homicides.
      
      But no, ignore the elephant in the room and pick on the 1% problem!
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:49am
      - stephieboy
        
        cmm, so I take it you would advocate the same kind of NRA gun control prescription for NZ and elsewhere?
        
        And it its not obsessing just about mass killings.
        For example
        
        Accidental Gun deaths and maiming for children too!,
        
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/23/more-than-26000-children-and-teens-have-been-killed-in-gun-violence-since-1999/?utm_term=.9ee29e9a877a
        
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        November 14, 2018 10:45am
      - cmm
        
        stephie: I am all for taking guns off crims. I think NZ gun laws are about right.
        
        However, the definition of MSSAs is beyond absurd and is clearly written by people driven by feelz rather than any understanding of firearms.
        
        The vast majority of gun deaths in the USA, just like here, are caused by the seedier elements in society, not people who would be NRA members.
        
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        November 14, 2018 1:06pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You obviously know nothing and yet you keep reaffirming that.
      
      Ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
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      November 14, 2018 10:19am
    - starboard
      
      “take”..bird brain
      
      LOL !
      
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      November 14, 2018 11:49am
secondcumming

Obviously you’ve never been a member of a gun-club…….suggest you ‘stay in your lane’ stephieboy 😎
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November 14, 2018 8:58am
- stephieboy
  
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  secondcuming , I’ll begin to take you seriously when you show proof of your armoury and honourary NRA membership
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:05am
  - secondcumming
    
    I’d be more than happy to send you a ‘Membership Application’ steph……
    but doubt you’d get past Q4 –
    
    SEX:
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:22am
    - G152
      
      Is that question concerning the applicant having an IQ higher than warm lettuce ?
      
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      November 14, 2018 10:24am
  - Tall Man
    
    Sorry steffy girl, no one here give a flying fuck about you and your pathetic opinions.
    
    Ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a girl
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:20am
Chris2

Health and safety gone mad?
Bunnings Australia have advised community groups that operate fund-raising sausage sizzles outside its premises that the onion needs to be put on the bread (or bread roll) first, and then the sausage place on the top.

Apparently onion is a slipping hazard.

Who would have known?
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November 14, 2018 9:18am
- KevOB
  
  Not that unreasonable. If onion does slip off accidentally and someone slips on it there could be significant consequences. Slips can be disastrous for the elderly. One of my friends fell just outside a supermarket.
  Bunnings provide the facilities free and are very helpful. Keep their potential legal bills down.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:00am
  - Tall Man
    
    FFS, really.
    
    How about the grotty pigs that drop stuff pick it.
    
    Do we have to wipe arses as well?
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:57pm
    - KevOB
      
      If you’re a shopkeeper you pick up the risk and Bunnings have spotted a potentially serious one from their viewpoint. We have ACC partially sheltering us but that’s not the Aussie situation.
      
      It may sound strange but an elderly shop customer, falling, may not walk again. I’ve seen that. Add an enthusiastic lawyer and that’s problems.
      
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      November 14, 2018 2:29pm
- cmm
  
  They are also printing special paper napkins:
  “Not to be consumed in the presence of gravity.”
  
  As has been shown in California (which is 100 times worse), an excess of warnings and regulations just leads to fatigue. People just ignore all the warnings, including the important ones.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:23am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    The boy who cried ‘Wolf!’
    
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    November 14, 2018 4:03pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs
  This is my answer to all H&S
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:47am
Longknives

My God
Scout, the Transgender Activist from the Dunedin Green Party is pregnant…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/pregnancy/expecting/108554713/pregnant-kiwi-dadtobe-getting-ready-to-welcome-first-child-around-christmas

Poor,poor child.
I’d put money that the kid starts to ‘Transition’ at a young age as well…
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November 14, 2018 9:36am
- big bruv
  
  Knives
  That poor child should be taken away from this woman the moment she gives birth. The woman is clearly mentally disturbed, to leave a child in her care would be gross negligence by our social services.
  
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  November 14, 2018 9:44am
  - Longknives
    
    She/It/Whatever won’t go to Natal classes because ‘I don’t feel safe’!
    That alone speaks volumes about her Mental fragility and should set alarm bells ringing.
    She/It/Whatever has written opinion pieces in the past talking about suicide and mental illness.
    Now she is having a baby seemingly to prove a point..
    The poor kid…
    
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    November 14, 2018 1:31pm
- Woz
  
  Holy fuck. What a mess. Words fail me.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:41am
- Gravelroad
  
  When I first started reading this I thought it must be some sort of hoax.
  How can anyone so totally self absorbed want to bring a child into their “me me me” world?
  First priority should be about the care and welfare of a baby – not the fantasy this person is living.
  Poor little kid.
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:00am
- Andrei
  
  Found this at Spinoff in an op-ed penned by said individual, ironically ponificating on Jamie Lee Ross’ travails
  
  Scout Barbour-Evans is an expert in being mentally ill, living with PTSD, Bipolar Disorder and recovering from Anorexia Nervosa. They are passionate about equitable access to healthcare, whether mental or physical, reducing stigma around mental illness, and improving the mental health system.
  
  We all know who is going to provide financial support for this happy non traditional family, my friends, now don’t we.
  
  T’will be thee and me via the tax system
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:44am
  - cmm
    
    “Scout Barbour-Evans is an expert in being mentally ill”
    
    What crap:
    
    1) There are so many flavours of mental illness that having one does not make you an expert on others any more than having a physical problem does. Having dandruff does not make you an expert on arthritis.
    
    2) Many people with mental illnesses (eg, I suspect JLR) have lack of insight. That means they cannot understand their own illness and therefor cannot be experts in the area.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:02pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    I have no doubt that this person has all sorts of health and other issues. But why bring a child into the world to share them?
    It’s the height of self gratification and “look at me” attention seeking imo.
    S/he would do better to deal with their own problems first- then turn their full attention on caring for a demanding baby, toddler, school kid, teenager.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:51pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Why? DPB pays more than the dole.
      
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      November 14, 2018 4:19pm
  - Woz
    
    I see Barbour-Evans is, on top of everything else, a born-again Maori. Oh dear. Where does it end? Nobody with a list of mental problems as long as that is in any condition to undertake the enormous responsibility of raising a child. I’ve brought them up myself, and the youngest of them is yet an 8-year-old work-in-progress. It takes a great deal of hard work and fortitude to keep them fed, clothed and housed, and turn them into decent, contributing, weight-pulling human beings.
    
    Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung WAY too far. The libtards are not content that society accepts and supports people like Barbour-Evans; they instead try to make them out to be role models and heroes.
    
    I shake my head.
    
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    November 14, 2018 1:32pm
    - Longknives
      
      Barbour Evans is well known in Dunedin for having several Givealittle and fundraising pages on the go at once (Clearly not a fan of working for a living)
      
      https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/letschangescoutsname
      
      She has ‘panic attacks’ if asked her name for fuck’s sake!
      And the Left think it’s great she is becoming a parent???
      
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      November 14, 2018 1:51pm
      - Poppa
        
        For God’s sake!!
        
        The media really are scum printing this crap
        
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        November 14, 2018 2:37pm
      - Woz
        
        She’d claim she works very hard, being a student, and being involved in all those queer and refugee support organisations, but I think we can agree that there’s not much enthusiasm there for actual paid work in private enterprise. This is the sort of person that can only survive on money furnished by taxpayers in one form or another. The baby will be raised on a benefit, that’s for certain.
        
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        November 14, 2018 5:15pm
- Rich Prick
  
  “I hope it’s human”
  
  Good grief, what on earth is she/it/whatever trying to tell us?
  
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  November 14, 2018 1:41pm
dime

gotta love the left.

Can’t say you’re a Nationalist cause people using that term did bad stuff.

Saying you’re a socialist? that’s fine. who cares if they killed 100 million people eh
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November 14, 2018 9:43am
- Jules99
  
  If crooked Hillary had used the word nationalist, they would be saying how great that she likes patriotism.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:24am
  - Philview
    
    I also read the first bisexual female elected to the Senate. I say tongue in cheek “A great day for diversity”. These days it seems serving the people is less important than ticking all the right boxes.
    Hillary is talking about running again. Next step in the rebranding could be Hillary’s “Me too” moment or her own inner bisexual conflict. A new Hillary for a new time.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:19pm
    - howitis
      
      Death’s door knocker, Clinton.
      Run again!
      She can barely stagger… but she is ok at stumbling.
      
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      November 14, 2018 2:15pm
      - kowtow
        
        You’re nasty . We all know how nimble she actually is , dodging snipers and all………
        
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        November 14, 2018 4:03pm
    - MickMac
      
      she was known as “The Warden” when Bill was Gov.
      Read “Hilary the Other Woman” by Dolly Kyle…
      She Knew Billy from his age 13 and her 11….
      She was the other woman before and during Hilary!
      
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      November 14, 2018 4:58pm
Cobolt24

AUSTRALIA:
Sydney regions where sellers lost the most money

Shattered families have been selling their homes for up to $134,000 less than they paid for them in the Sydney regions worst affected by the ongoing housing downturn.

The losses were mostly from those selling upper market houses purchased within the last one-two years and in areas heavily supplied with new housing.
Data from research group CoreLogic showed prices for properties at the top end of the market fell an average 8.6 per cent over the past year — nearly twice the 4.6 per cent price fall for homes at the bottom end.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/sydney-nsw/sydney-regions-where-sellers-lost-the-most-money/news-story/77aa3d64bca95f4a6baa7cb08da03a55

— read more via the link provided above… —
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November 14, 2018 9:55am
- dime
  
  Hurtsville, Auburn, Bankstown.. all shit holes.
  
  I worked 5 mins from Auburn when Sep 11 happened. they were setting cars on fire in celebration.
  
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  November 14, 2018 12:00pm
  - Hard Cheese
    
    Hurtsville LOL misspelling probably accurate…
    
    People call Sydney one of the most beautiful cities in the world – and 5% of it is, the other 95% is miles of shitty suburbia
    
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    November 14, 2018 7:20pm
Manolo

An excellent article on Brexit:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/tony-abbott-how-to-save-brexit/

It’s pretty hard for Britain’s friends, here in Australia, to make sense of the mess that’s being made of Brexit. The referendum result was perhaps the biggest-ever vote of confidence in the United Kingdom, its past and its future. But the British establishment doesn’t seem to share that confidence and instead looks desperate to cut a deal, even if that means staying under the rule of Brussels. Looking at this from abroad, it’s baffling: the country that did the most to bring democracy into the modern world might yet throw away the chance to take charge of its own destiny.
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November 14, 2018 10:00am
- cmm
  
  “But the British establishment doesn’t seem to share that confidence”
  
  True, if by establishment they mean the politicians and bureaucrats. For them, the EU is the ultimate gravy train. Brexit limits the career options of all of them.
  
  Of course they don’t want it.
  
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  November 14, 2018 10:32am
Manolo

Harsh words and the truth about the treasonous Malcolm Turnbull:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/ephialtes-of-wentworth/
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November 14, 2018 10:06am
RF

The commissioner of Police will not rule out charges against the former Mine boss if evidence is found when the mine is entered.

I hope this will be a level playing field and the same rules apply to the actions of the former mine safety officer, Neville Rockhouse. So far he appears to have ducked under the radar.
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November 14, 2018 11:10am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  What about the actions of the Green Party, who refused to allow the mine entrance to be further up the hill, thus creating the only uphill mine in the world which became a sure-fire methane trap? They then refused to allow a second ventilation shaft and the whole thing was approved by the Clark Government.
  If charges are being laid, let’s start at the beginning.
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:35am
  - burt
    
    These details are something that the Green Party seem to want to forget – wonder why.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:02pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    What you say might well be true, that the conditions DOC required for development of a mine on DOC land meant that it couldn’t be developed safely. But if that was the case NZOG and the consenting authorities ought to have abandoned the project. To go ahead and build an unsafe mine would have been completely wrong.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:15pm
    - burt
      
      According to the union officials of the time the mine was safe – who was the union official who signed it off?
      
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      November 14, 2018 12:53pm
- Inandout
  
  A good lawyer will tear the prosecution to bits, so I doubt the Police will pursue this angle.
  
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  November 14, 2018 11:37am
  - burt
    
    If there are Labour party people involved in any of it then I suspect it won’t be in the public interest to prosecute. Move on.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:02pm
- Philview
  
  This is really about looking for evidence the miners survived the first blast. Labour/NZ First aren’t interested in justice for families in Christchurch building collapses. With Pike River, it is different as they perceive there is enormous political capital to be gained by finding evidence that John Key made a decision that led to the death of those miners.
  
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  November 14, 2018 12:09pm
  - Poppa
    
    I totally agree with that, it is all political.
    
    Whilst I did feel sorry for the families at the start I have lost any sympathy I had. This is nothing more than a beat up & Peters is the biggest arse of all.
    
    As for that Bernie Monk……I better not say what I am thinking
    
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    November 14, 2018 2:41pm
big bruv

RIP Sir John Anderson. A great New Zealander.
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November 14, 2018 11:35am
rangitoto

Poor old Shane is being picked on. The billion was the target number of trees to be mulched. He is well on the way.
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November 14, 2018 11:50am
lifesgood

There is a nasty, spiteful piece by Bill Ralston in The Listener, calling Bridges “a dead man walking” He claims he worked in the past as an advisor to National, obviously doesn’t now and has got the shits about it. Makes me laugh it is so transparent. I am so glad I stopped buying this lefty rag years ago. The article popped up in my news feed. Sorry I don’t have the link but, if I was you, I wouldn’t bother reading it anyway. Just more nasty, lefty, nonsense.
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November 14, 2018 12:05pm
- big bruv
  
  Ralston might be many things but a stinking pinko he is not. As far as his comments about Bridges are concerned, he is (excuse the pun) dead right.
  
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  November 14, 2018 12:37pm
  - Tall Man
    
    You and the rest of the labour acolytes hope.
    
    He has shown more leadership skills in a few short weeks that Ardern the liar has in her whole career.
    
    Leadership is about making the hard decisions and taking the flack for those decision, Ardern the gutless doesn’t make hard decisions because all she is good for is…….shit, I don’t know what she is good for.
    
    He may or may not be leading the National party by 2020 election time but for me he has been the man of the moment.
    
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    November 14, 2018 12:46pm
    - Woz
      
      I’ll give him credit where its due. His handling of the JLR affair, while maybe not perfect (whose would be?), lifted him several pegs in my estimation.
      
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      November 14, 2018 1:43pm
    - big bruv
      
      Tall Man
      Are you saying that anybody who is not a cheerleader for Soimon is a Labour supporter? Are you the type that demands blind loyalty to the leader?
      That sort of mentality resulted in leaders like Rob Muldoon who fucking near bankrupted this country.
      The Nat’s need a real leader, not one who will manage the decline of the nation as Key and English did but someone who will take the fight to the left, somebody who will roll back WFF and middle class welfare. We need a real Tory, we need Judith.
      
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      November 14, 2018 1:50pm
      - tf78
        
        Up ticked by mistake!
        
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        November 14, 2018 8:46pm
  - KevOB
    
    Intern du jour?
    
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    November 14, 2018 2:35pm
  - Sacha
    
    Rubbish!
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:27pm
howitis

Which is the first world and which is the third world?

NZ grants Hells angel associate and drug smuggler residency as opposed to deportation.
Karel Sroubek or whatever the lying dirtbag’s name is this week gets cuddles by Crim-hugging Labour.

Pay taxes, support your family, keep it clean and Labour hates you;
be a crim, drug dealer, liar, the whole nine yards and Labour will hug you and give you ‘free’ things.

Labour election slogan 2020: We need more crims.

Thailand 2018
Australian Hells Angel bikie and his wife are sentenced to death in Thailand for smuggling $300million of ice in deal gone wrong

• Luke Joshua Cook and Kanyarat Wechapitak were arrested in December last year
• Thai courts sentenced the pair to death after they attempted to smuggle ice [meth/P]
• Assets including luxury cars, money and houses worth $800,000 were forfeited

However, their sentences are expected to be commuted to a life sentence.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6384489/Australian-Hells-Angel-bikie-wife-sentenced-death-Thailand-smuggling-ice.html
The comments section tells you how much the public agree with the Thai outcome.
You trade in death…..
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November 14, 2018 12:57pm
- starboard
  
  They don’t fuck around over here. You do the crime, you own it. Its actually quite refreshing witnessing some of the sentences handed out in Thailand.
  If you are a Thai and you do something to a tourist, you bring the country into disrepute..expect life in prison, especially for robbery.
  It is also extremely rare to see a Thai up on child murder. They just don’t do it.
  
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  November 14, 2018 1:28pm
Poppa

Where is wristy Jones now???

Apparently Kiwibank are closing one of their branches in Stoke. Wasn’t it wristy who went after other banks for closing branches?

You seem very quiet Shane, perhaps too busy with a scrub cutter
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November 14, 2018 1:17pm
- kowtow
  
  They plan to shut all four “Postshops in Dunners and open one “bank”.
  
  Lots of redundancies , that’s fine but don’t pretend to be “kiwi” ….or spout this shite ……
  
  “Our name says it all. We’re a bank made for New Zealanders, by New Zealanders. Helping Kiwis achieve financial independence is what we do.”
  
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  November 14, 2018 3:57pm
- kowtow
  
  Scrub cutter , is that a euphemism for a turkey choker?
  
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  November 14, 2018 3:58pm
DJ Ward

I’ve just finished a conversation with a person (trusted family member) with first hand knowledge.

Why do Indians buy all the Liqour Stores? Etc.
The conversation began with why do they have high staff turnover, all being Indian.

The reason is an immigration loophole.
Using the 5.00 to 9.00 shift they cliam nobody wants that job. Which may or may not be true. So they import a family member from India to do that shift. Otherwise supporting them. As the year passes they get more hours as one family member gets more citizen rights and they move on to full employement elsewhere. The night shift person replaces that person and a new family member is imported to fill the night shift job. The Liqour shop exploits an immigration loophole.
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November 14, 2018 1:20pm
- Woz
  
  Ah. In some other thread around here I asked how, in God’s great name, did liquor store workers come to be in the essential skills category.
  
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  November 14, 2018 1:48pm
- GoVege
  
  Who cares?
  At least they’re prepared to work, unlike the locals who prefer to breed and steal for a living.
  I would say the night shift at a liquor store is a fairly dangerous occupation.
  
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  November 14, 2018 2:27pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    We don’t know what happens once they gain citizenship.
    There is a big difference between the Indians entering with degrees to fill actual shortages and completely unskilled workers. I work with plenty of them and they are good people. One is likely to be a net taxpayer, supporting a family and buying a home. The other group is probably a net tax burden. Low wages, low tax paid, WFF, accommodation supplements, state housing, no health insurance. Periods of unemployment and possible kids for benifits.
    
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    November 14, 2018 3:32pm
  - howitis
    
    The diversity dividend from bringing in Indian critters from a Shithole.
    
    >>2013 Murder: Shivneel Kumar and Bryne Permal in Auckland High Court this morning, accused of burning 21-year-old Shalvin Prasad to death on
    **murder and burn
    >> A man who set fire to his wife on a rural Waikato roadside before fleeing to Fiji has been sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 14 years and six months for her murder.
    Diwesh Kumar Sharma, 30, sat with his head bowed and eyes closed throughout his sentencing at the High Court at Hamilton this morning.
    **murder and burn
    >> Mar 2018 The identity of a Tauranga man who killed a 14-week-old baby boy can now be revealed.
    Name suppression has been lifted from Surender Singh Mehrok, 21, who was convicted of murdering Richard Royal Uddin, whose skull had been “cracked like an egg” after an assault in June 2016.
    Richard suffered multiple skull fractures and the forensic evidence was consistent with his head hitting a carpeted floor with significant force, similar to a high-speed car crash.
    **baby killer
    
    >> A frenzied knife attack in a suburban Christchurch street by 52-year-old Shiu Prasad killed his wife and injured the man she had left him for a week earlier. …Prasad admitted the murder of 28-year-old rest home worker Keshni Naicker.
    Prasad also admitted wounding Naicker’s new partner with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
    
    >>That was the text Avi Raaj Prasad sent after his 8-year-old victim’s skin peeled away – it was the final act in abuse the Crown called “cruel and sadistic”.
    The boy had suffered burns to about 20 per cent of his body after being held under a hot shower on March 25 last year.
    That included burns to his chest and abdomen, right upper arm, both upper thighs and bottom.
    Today in the Manukau District Court, Prasad, whose relationship to the boy was suppressed, was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison.
    
    >> A restaurant owner who ripped off the tax system to the tune of $833,000 has been jailed and his “naive” wife sentenced to home detention.
    The Inland Revenue Department began looking into the activities of Rakesh and Nalini Kumar when it noticed large cash sums going into their accounts while their businesses claimed to be losing money.
    >> Masala restaurant abuse where staff paid $2 per hour
    
    >> Harcourts, New Zealand’s largest real estate chain, is suing a south Auckland couple for $1.27m after the high-profile failure of the once flourishing 10-branch Preet & Co Real Estate and Preet & Co Rentals businesses.
    Harcourts Group sought summary judgment from Justice Roger Bell in the High Court at Auckland today against husband and wife Gurpreet and Ramanjit Grewal.
    
    >> Ahmad Riyaz Khan, aged 23 of Mangere, is accused of murder by setting fire to his former girlfriend Gulshad Banu Hussein at the Shell service station in Atkinson Ave, Otahuhu, in August [last year] after she said she did not want anything more to do with him.
    **murder and burn
    >>Avneesh Sehgal was sentenced to four years and eight months behind bars when he appeared at the High Court in Auckland on Tuesday.
    He had earlier plead guilty to three charges of dealing in a person under 18 for sexual exploitation and receiving earnings from commercial sexual services provided by an underage person.
    Last month, her mother Kasmeer Lata was jailed to six years and 11 months for her part in the case.
    The slave dealing conviction for her treatment of her daughter is one of just three in New Zealand’s legal history, since the crime was written into the Crimes Act in 1961.
    The victim and her mother arrived in New Zealand in 2014 on visitor visas from Fiji.
    On her 15th birthday she was dressed in a short skirt, had make-up applied and was forced into prostitution by her mother and step-father.
    **prostitute own 15 year old daughter
    
    >> Aaliyah Ashlyn Chand was critically injured at a Christchurch home on January 6, 2015 and died in intensive care the following day.
    The 1-year-old suffered two skull fractures, swelling of her brain, bleeding in the cranial cavity and severe haemorrhaging in her eyes, as well as bruising to both sides of her face, ears and forehead.
    a jury found Shayal Upashna Sami guilty of manslaughter,
    **baby killer
    
    >>The Crown says Amandeep Kaur and Gurjinder Singh wrote love notes to each other but they also wrote notes planning the murder of Ms Kaur’s husband.
    >> The Dunedin doctor accused of murdering teenager Amber-Rose Rush has lost his bail appeal.
    Venod Skantha, 30, is charged with murdering the 16-year-old, who was found dead in her Corstorphine home on February 2 this year.
    Skantha – then a doctor at Dunedin Hospital – was charged days later and granted interim name suppression.
    **the deceased girl’s mother later committed suicide!
    Two deaths from this utter scum
    
    >>The documents from NZTA authorities also say fake documents were being used to get licences. They include fake overseas truck licences and course certificates being used to get New Zealand heavy vehicle licences.
    An April 2016 briefing note to the then Minister of Transport, Simon Bridges, shows authorities had particular concern about Indian licences and noted they had increased 11-fold in two years – from 70 in 2013 to 772 in 2015.
    >>Tajinder Paul Singh was 29 when he was jailed for six years for the rape at a neighbour’s party in Christchurch.
    The Immigration and Protection Tribunal suspended his deportation liability for five years, meaning he will not be deported if he does not commit an imprisonable offence in that time.
    **this was March 2017 so weak Nats allowed this scum to stay.
    Czech it out.
    Mr Singh had also been convicted of drink driving, passport fraud, dangerous driving and failing to stop after an accident.
    however>>> … New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters said Mr Singh should not have been allowed into the country in the first place.
    Mr Peters said the tribunal ruling made a mockery out of immigration law…. Mar 2017 !
    
    >>> Dec 2017- A 41-year-old man accused of murdering a young Auckland mother can now be named.
    Rohit Deepak Singh appeared in the High Court at Auckland this morning and pleaded not guilty to murdering 24-year-old Arishma Singh (Chand) last month
    
    >>On 7 November 2011, eighteen-year-old Christie Marceau was stabbed to death by eighteen-year-old Akshay Anand Chand at her home in Hillcrest, Auckland, New Zealand. The murder came after Chand had kidnapped and assaulted Marceau in September 2011, and while awaiting trial on the charges, was bailed by the court to an address just 300 metres from Marceau’s home
    
    I’ve got more.
    Lots more because there is a wave of crime from Indians in NZ.
    Baby killing; fraud; financial exploitation of staff; cheating on MV licences; murder; rape; prostituting own daughter; murder and burn being a specialty!
    The Govt unleashed the beast and the crime wave as you can see from the crimes is very much at Maori level. ie. They are into related person assault and murder with an interest in child bashing.
    
    Their prison numbers will soon be competitive.
    I have lots more if you want it.
    Not racist, simply recording facts here.
    
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    November 14, 2018 5:36pm
    - Swifty
      
      “When you bring in people from Calcutta, you don’t help Calcutta, you become Calcutta.”
      
      Said someone……
      
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      November 14, 2018 5:39pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Not racist, simply recording facts here.
      
      Actually, it IS racist when you cherry-pick one nationality over others. And are these Indians from India, or are they Fijian Indians, or even Indians from South Africa, as we have plenty of both?
      
      Yes, Indians commit crimes. So do Asians, so do those from the Middle East, so do Maori, so do Pacific Islanders, and shock, horror, so do Pakeha, Europeans, Caucasians, or whatever you want to call us white fellas. There are bad apples in every bunch.
      
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      November 15, 2018 9:19am
- Swifty
  
  They can often make more via immigration scams by having these businesses than the business itself generates.
  
  Believe me.
  
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  November 14, 2018 5:41pm
- MCos
  
  To gain NZ citizenship you need to have residency for five years and to have spent at least eight months in the country in each of the previous five years.
  
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  November 14, 2018 6:40pm
rightoverlabour

Did anybody hear Hoskin ask the twat Kelvin why ILG had not shared the Bounced Checques file with him. Kelvin said that ILG couldn’t because of privacy. So why did ILG share it with SLG and the drunken Dwarf, if that’s the case? Or as usual is kelvin making shit up>
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November 14, 2018 2:40pm
- Poppa
  
  When all else fails just lie. Labour party 101
  
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  November 14, 2018 2:42pm
- burt
  
  Would you share the story of how you bought a lawnmower with Kelvin ?
  
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  November 14, 2018 3:16pm
  - howitis
    
    Kelvin does not need to dope to be dopey
    It is a naturally occurring phenomenon
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:14pm
- Woz
  
  We all know Winston never actually saw it, much less read it. And the toothsome one has a boyf to protect from public scrutiny.
  
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  November 14, 2018 4:16pm
Philview

It has probably been mentioned but I saw the article on Stuff about the new tenant fee that will be introduced by Letting Agents to replace letting fees.
A good example of how to get around socialist government policies. It will be interesting to see how businesses adapt when when the Government tries to introduce indirect price controls.
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November 14, 2018 3:43pm
- Swifty
  
  Utterly and entirely predictable. Landlords will add these costs to the rental price, especially in time of short supply.
  
  But Twyford was in the news recently saying that this move would save renters ‘millions’.
  
  He’s either lying or he’s a fool.
  
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  November 14, 2018 5:38pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Twitford is actually both, to the power of ten.
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:22pm
- tf78
  
  As my lovely old Japanese boss used to say ” we find solution” and you do.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:52pm
Morrissey

Thousands of Gazans left maimed by Israeli gunfire
by SARAH HELM, The Independent, Nov. 13, 2018

Israel’s army is increasingly using high-velocity bullets that shatter limbs, leaving medics in Gaza at desperation point.

“An 11-year-old child with his leg hanging on by a strip of skin was in one operating theatre where we were attempting a vascular repair, with an eight-year-old shot in the groin in a holding bay, when seven more arrived, also critically injured by sniper fire.”

These are the words of a top British orthopaedic surgeon, normally operating in a state of the art theatre at a London teaching hospital. He was reporting on a typical day of work at Shifa Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, where along with scores of other international surgeons, he volunteers to save the lives of Gaza protesters – and, increasingly, their limbs.

The limbs have been shattered by high velocity bullets, fired by Israeli snipers ranged along the barrier which separates Gaza from Israel, keeping 2 million Palestinians penned inside the strip, most of them refugees.

The protesters, part of the ongoing Great March of Return, are demanding an end to their imprisonment in Gaza, and a right to return to what was once – and they say still is – their land on the other side of the fence. In the six months since the protest began, 220 Palestinians have been shot dead, according to the Hamas health authority in Gaza, whose figures are accepted as broadly accurate by independent medical sources, including the International Red Cross (ICRC), but today it is the horrifying number of catastrophic wounds that is breaking Gaza.

Since the start, there have been more than 24,500 casualties, says the Gaza authority, with at least 5,300 protesters shot – by high velocity gunfire, more than a quarter of whom need major and repeated surgery if the leg has any chance of being saved. Hundreds have been amputated and many more of those undergoing surgery will yet lose limbs. …

Read more….

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/11/13/if-protesters-were-really-armed-posing-a-mortal-threat-then-where-are-the-videos-asks-yehuda-shaul-a-founder-of-breaking-the-silence-saying-every-snipers-spotter-films/
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November 14, 2018 3:43pm
- rangitoto
  
  Tell the Hamas terrorists to stop using human shields and better still, stop attacking Israel and they will be left alone.
  
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  November 14, 2018 3:52pm
- kowtow
  
  “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”
  
  ― Golda Meir
  
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  November 14, 2018 3:52pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Plenty in the quran about hating Jews. Is there much about loving one’s children?
    
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    November 14, 2018 4:29pm
  - Jack5
    
    The Israelis’ side of the story:
    
    https://www.jta.org/2018/11/13/news-opinion/400-rockets-hit-southern-israel-less-24-hours-one-killed?ut
    
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    November 14, 2018 10:03pm
- Longknives
  
  Awesome work Israel-
  Go Team!!!
  
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  November 14, 2018 4:11pm
- DJ Ward
  
  One has to ask.
  The sniper has a child in their scope, and presses the trigger.
  
  How can that be justifiable?
  
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  November 14, 2018 4:41pm
  - stigie
    
    Why is the child in front of the sniper should be the question that is asked !~
    
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    November 14, 2018 4:46pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    DJW – You really believe IDF soldiers line up children in their sights, and shoot them?
    
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    November 14, 2018 4:48pm
    - stigie
      
      I think Morris Dancer really believes that KK !~
      Just think back to all the drivel he’s written..?
      
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      November 14, 2018 5:09pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      How does a child get hit with a precision weapon?
      
      They have them in the scope and shoot.
      
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      November 14, 2018 6:35pm
  - Komata
    
    DJW
    
    The question that has to be asked is WHAT was said child doing to sustain its injuries, and under what circumstances; notably, this is something that the article is very careful not to mention.
    
    What IS mentioned are the usual emotive descriptions, and after re-reading the article, one is left with the impression that it is really no different from any of those written by ‘Anti-Israeli’ newspapers over the last 70 years.
    
    All use the same words, all push the same agenda (Israel bad, ‘Arabs’ good), and all are strident and repetitive in their narative. The same playbook, from the same players.
    
    And as for the ‘Independent’s’ ‘independence / impartiality?
    
    It’s BoD’s seem to have similar roles in similar newspapers. Common causes, common goals… (Just saying).
    
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    November 14, 2018 5:31pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      The child lives in a prison.
      The child is not responsible for that prison.
      The child cannot create a life for themselves.
      They have no job prospects.
      They can never travel on an OE.
      They have lost family members.
      They have had the family’s land stolen.
      They have had their homes destroyed.
      They cannot go on the net and buy toys.
      
      They have no freedom.
      
      Israel is intentionaly killing children.
      
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      November 14, 2018 6:16pm
      - Komata
        
        DJW
        
        The PLO HAVE done a good job on you haven’t they?
        
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        November 14, 2018 9:10pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “The sniper has a child in their scope, and presses the trigger.”
    
    Is this the same kind of 11-year-old “child” that exists in South Auckland? All 85 kg and 1.8 m of him?
    
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    November 14, 2018 5:57pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      Probably not. PI people (Samoans) are the largest race on the planet.
      
      They are more likely the size of the native people who evolved in Palestine. IE the actual Jews. Not the pretend white Jews.
      
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      November 14, 2018 6:20pm
      - stephieboy
        
        DJ Ward,
        ” Not the pretend white Jews”???
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews
        
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        November 14, 2018 6:22pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        Interesting.
        
        Two studies in 2006 and 2008 suggested that about 40% of Ashkenazi Jews originate maternally from just four female founders which are likely of Near-Eastern origin, while the populations of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish communities “showed no evidence for a narrow founder effect”.
        
        “80 percent of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women indigenous to Europe, and [only] 8 percent from the Near East, with the rest uncertain”
        
        IE todays Jews are not related to Israelites and have no cliam to Isreal.
        
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        November 14, 2018 6:41pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Since the start, there have been more than 24,500 casualties, says the Gaza authority, with at least 5,300 protesters shot
  
  It is conceivable that some of the 5,300 were sitting in a protest circle singing songs of liberation, but the rest of them were probably organising rocket fire on Israel. 370 were launched on Monday alone.
  
  I presume the balance of 19,200 were hurt when they tripped over pallets of international aid money delivered to Gaza.
  
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  November 14, 2018 4:58pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    I heard 1 Jew was scratched.
    
    If you sent in a hit squad and assassinate 7 people. Expect a few piddly sky rockets.
    
    The Jews started it.
    
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    November 14, 2018 6:28pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Lying anti Semite cunt
      
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      November 14, 2018 7:11pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Gaza is the recipient of more foreign aid per hectare than anywhere on earth.
      
      And how do they use it?
      
      They convert this aid to hate. And this hate sees them put the lives of their most vulnerable directly in harm’s way in order to score sympathy points with the world’s unthinking, and with the world’s anti-semites.
      
      There aren’t suitable words to express my disgust at these sub-humans.
      
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      November 14, 2018 7:54pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        Do they get their land back and freedom of trade?
        
        Or more concentration camp?
        
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        November 14, 2018 10:26pm
    - Komata
      
      DJW
      
      ‘The Jews started it’!
      
      Really, is THAT the best you can manage?
      
      I AM surprised, and thought you could come up with something a little better; that response is SOOOO old…
      
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      November 14, 2018 9:06pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Not “Jews”. The rogue regime that controls Israel started it. Jewish people all over the world—including Israelis—are vehement opponents of Israel’s crimes.
      
      5.) In the Occupied Territories I saw unbelievable brutality, day after day, night after night. I decided that I would make it my life’s work to cover the Occupation. For this I have been labeled a “self-hating Jew.”
      
      6.) I’m not “covering the Palestinians”—I’m a journalist. I am covering the story, and holding up a mirror to my fellow Israelis, and saying: “You, and each of us, is accountable.”
      
      7.) In Israel there is a broad coalition of opinion, which says “We don’t want to know.” No other society anywhere lives in such willed ignorance, abetted and amplified by the Israeli media and the Jewish establishment in New Zealand and Australia. Israel is becoming increasingly militaristic, nationalistic, and religious.
      
      —GIDEON LEVY, speaking in Auckland, Dec. 3, 2017
      https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-16-12-2017/#comment-1426789
      
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      November 15, 2018 9:23am
- Swifty
  
  What are you saying, that up till now they have been using low-velocity bullets?
  
  Good grief.
  
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  November 14, 2018 5:36pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    Just haven’t been shooting children with sniper rifles until recently.
    
    Apart from when they have been filmed doing it. Like for decades.
    
    OK maybe they have new child friendly sniper rifles.
    
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    November 14, 2018 6:24pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Ah, diddums, did some Hamas Terrorists get to visit their Virgins? Hope their peckers were not injured… No point in 70 plus virgins if the old pistols lost its barrel….
  
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  November 14, 2018 6:42pm
cmm

Oes noes THE RUSSIANS are jamming GPS!!!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12159970

Jamming (where you just interrupt the signal) GPS is pretty easy to do. $10 of equipment will do that!

Spoofing (where you can send fake positions) needs less than $200 of equipment + a PC.
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- rangitoto
  
  Wouldn’t have much range though. You would need a powerful signal unless the receivers were close by.
  
  The US military use encrypted GPS signals which supposedly have higher accuracy than the signals available to the general public. I don’y know what measures thaey use against jamming.
  
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  November 14, 2018 3:56pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Raytheon blabbing about their system
    
    https://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/gps_anti-jam
    
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    November 14, 2018 4:08pm
    - cmm
      
      Yup, there are some tricks you can pull if you want to flash your money around, but they need very expensive antenna designs and very expensive GPS electronic designs. They are also bigger and tend to chew a lot of power (ie. sux for handheld) and they won’t sell them outside NATO-friendly military etc.
      
      Your cellphone GPS does not pull these tricks though. Nor do any civilian GPSs .
      
      That’s all I’ll say for now as I’m in the game.
      
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      November 14, 2018 4:40pm
  - cmm
    
    With less than $50 (a slightly bigger budget for a more beefy transmitter) of equipment you could jam out the whole of Christchurch from the Port Hills or the whole of Auckland from a reasonable vantage point (eg. a light aircraft).
    
    Remember GPS satellites are about 20,000 km away and only have a 27W or so transmitter. That has about the same signal strength as a 1W transmitter 25 km away. It does not take much to build a 10W to 100W transmitter if you don’t care about harmonics etc.
    
    The US military does use encrypted GPS. That helps against spoofing, not so much against jamming. They also use a higher chipping rate which does help a bit against jamming but they also have special antenna designs etc which do also help a bit.
    
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    November 14, 2018 4:23pm
    - cmm
      
      Sorry, I stuffed my maths a bit. GPS signal levels are about the same as a 1W transmitter between 100-200km away when allowing for process gain.
      
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      November 15, 2018 7:10am
- DJ Ward
  
  So GPS missiles can’t find the target then. Smoke screen and jamming.
  Plus Quantum Radar making stealth and countermeasures useless.
  
  The battle between offence and defence.
  
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  November 14, 2018 6:07pm
  - cmm
    
    Quantum Radar is fine, so long as all your battles are inside university research labs.
    
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    November 15, 2018 7:13am
Maggy Wassilieff

Name suppression removed for the 3 men convicted of Melbourne terror plot.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/three-men-guilty-of-plotting-to-rain-christmas-day-terror-on-melbourne-20181102-p50dow.html
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November 14, 2018 6:18pm
- stephieboy
  
  An excuse for promoting Islamophobia?
  
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  November 14, 2018 6:21pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Who knows, stephieboy?
    
    Obviously you DIDN”T read my link
    
    Justice Christopher Beale later ruled the verdicts should be reported, however defence lawyers challenged the judge’s decision at the Court of Appeal. The reasons behind the suppression cannot be reported.
    
    We aren’t allowed to know why the men’s names were suppressed.
    
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    November 14, 2018 6:47pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Not only that Maggy, but it was the legal team of the convicted terrorists that fought tooth and nail for name suppression and succeeded in getting all details about the reason for suppression suppressed.
      
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      November 15, 2018 9:34am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Birdseed from the galah again.
    Did MW mention Islam?
    Do you have a point to make?
    
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    November 14, 2018 6:48pm
  - cmm
    
    Phobia is an irrational fear. Islamaphobia is an irrational fear of Islam.
    
    I am not sure a fear of terrorists is irrational.
    
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    November 15, 2018 7:18am
- rangitoto
  
  Will they get golf lessons?
  
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  November 14, 2018 6:58pm
- cmm
  
  Let me guess: Bruce, Ned and Jacko?
  
  Nope? Ah well, what are the odds?
  
  I’m sure I’ll be right next time.
  
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  November 15, 2018 7:16am
Swifty

Oh, so people lie to gain residency here?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108576911/bangladeshi-seeks-asylum-in-new-zealand-by-pretending-to-be-a-rohingya-muslim

But what about the people who say that all the Manus Island country shoppers are all genuine refugees?

Fools.
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November 14, 2018 6:33pm
DigNap15

I really admire Myanmar for booting out all the Rohinga muslims from their peaceful Buddhist country.
They won’t listen to any waffle from the UN and idiots like Ardern.
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November 14, 2018 7:01pm
- MCos
  
  “Peaceful Buddhist country”
  
  Peaceful?
  
  Myanmar/Burma has never been peaceful going back hundreds of years and isn’t peaceful now, and not just in the Rakhaing province either.
  
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  November 14, 2018 7:26pm
  - Jack5
    
    DigNap15 – you might be sorry for admiring Myanmar.
    
    It looks as though our PR Prime Minister is offering to help Myanmar solve its Muslim problem.
    
    That could mean Ardern will invite thousands of Myanmar Muslims to NZ! That would mean while there is no NZ help for the Christians persecuted in Myanmar and the Middle East, we would be taking in heaps more bloody Muslims.
    
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/375945/pm-meets-with-myanmar-leader-at-singapore-summit
    
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    November 14, 2018 9:59pm
DigNap15

And I don’t think Mike Pence will think much of Ardern and her sexy ankle boots.
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November 14, 2018 7:02pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So he asked to be sat beside her at dinner?
  Hopefully that was because he hopes to drum some basic common sense into the stupid woman.
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:30pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Sean Plunket reckons Pence wants to sit next to Jacinda because she is “pleasant-looking”.
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/11/mike-pence-just-wants-to-sit-next-to-a-pleasant-looking-woman-plunket.html
    
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    November 14, 2018 8:37pm
    - fernglas
      
      He will be after pointing out her godlessness and the terrible peril awaiting her presumably unbaptised daughter. She will be invited to pray with him, and urged to make Clarke an honest man within the bonds of holy matrimony. He will exhort her to forswear the evil of Socialism, and beseech her to bring her flock to the Lord, failing which they will be smitten hip and thigh by tariffs and plagues of locusts.
      
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      November 14, 2018 8:48pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Another vapid piece of journalism.
      An article about speculation on the motives of US VP. Source: a NZ broadcaster.
      Has Sean Plunkett ever met Pence?
      
      Our media needs another news category:
      Ie. Politics, Sport, Entertainment, Drivel …
      
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      November 15, 2018 7:56am
DigNap15

Ardern said there would be no strikes under Labour
Bus Drivers
Teachers
Nurses
Court Staff

And probably others I have forgotten
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November 14, 2018 7:03pm
- RF
  
  St. John’s…
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:19pm
DigNap15

Kelvin Davis said on Mike Hoskins that

Shane Jones
Phil Twyford
Ian Lees-Galloway

Were good ministers!
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November 14, 2018 7:04pm
nasska

For DigNap for whom evening KB without a goat story would be unthinkable: 🙂

Aesop’s the Fox & the Goat:

“Once a fox was roaming around in the dark. Unfortunately, he fell into a well. He tried his level best to come out but all in vain. So, he had no other alternative but to remain there until the next morning. The next day, a goat came that way. She peeped into the well and saw the fox there. The goat asked, “what are you doing there, Mr. Fox?”

The sly fox replied, “I came here to drink water. It is the best I have ever tasted. Come and see for yourself.” Without thinking even for a while, the goat jumped into the well, quenched her thirst and looked for a way to get out. But just like the fox, she also found herself helpless to come out.

Then the fox said, “I have an idea. You stand on your hind legs. I’ll climb on your head and get out. Then I shall help you come out too.” The goat was innocent enough to understand the shrewdness of the fox and did as the fox said and helped him get out of the well.

While walking away, the fox said, “Had you been intelligent enough, you would never have got in without seeing how to get out.”

Moral: Look before you leap. Do not just blindly walk in to anything without thinking.”
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November 14, 2018 7:22pm
krazykiwi

Macron acting more than a little creepy. Yes, he prefers them older.
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November 14, 2018 8:08pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  This is fun
  https://www.euronews.com/2018/11/12/watch-elderly-woman-confuses-merkel-for-madame-macron
  
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  November 14, 2018 8:23pm
wiseowl

Peta Credlins editorial tonight covering the UN Compact on Refugees was brilliant.
This is alarming as it is additional to the other agreement on immigration.
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November 14, 2018 8:19pm
Southern Raider

Another media stand up overseas and another episode of Cindy offering NZ to take more Muslims. This time from Burma
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November 14, 2018 8:22pm
DigNap15

Rohinga!
There’s only 1 million of them, all fine well educated, productive people that would enhance any country.
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November 14, 2018 10:11pm
- cmm
  
  Now we understand her true motivation behind Kiwibuild.
  
  It is really Rohingabuild and Manusbuild.
  
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  November 15, 2018 6:59am
Maggy Wassilieff

Climate-change critic exposes major maths error in highly publicised Nature paper

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/14/math-error-scientists-admit-mistakes-led-to-alarming-results-in-major-global-warming-study/
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