General Debate 30 January 2019

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peterwn

There is quite irresponsible journalism regarding the MP for Invercargill. The media is there to inform, instead it is playing to emotions gutter press style. It should be informing the public about what can or cannot be done.
For example Raido NZ expressed surprise that her electorate office is still open for business. Of course it is – the MP says it is business as usual. An electorate MP including an independent is entitled to an electorate office. As long as she is the electorate MP no one has any power to close it down. And she remains one until:
1. she resigns (which she could well do in due course).
2. mental illness – not at issue here.
3. Simon with Caucus agreement removes her under ‘waka hopper’ legislation. He would not be inclined to except as a last resort with political reaction being a major factor.
4. she is actually convicted of a ‘harmful digital communication’ offence in which case she automatically ceases to be a MP (as the maximum sentence would be three years, greater than the two year threshhold for the removal of a MP). No one can act against her just because she is under investigation or charged, except possibly a judge by reprimanding her in custody which is extremely unlikely.
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January 30, 2019 8:01am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Well said peterwn. I had to correct a leftie who was trying to argue the other day that Bridges should stand her down from caucus, which of course is an absurd notion. The Left is also going on about there being “prima facie evidence” that Dowie has committed a crime; oh really? Considering that there hasn’t even been a prosecution filed against her (and nor is there likely to be, IMHO), what happened to the presumption of innocence.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:06am
  - Longknives
    
    “and nor is there likely to be, IMHO”
    
    Normally I would agree with you.
    But this is the same Police Command who waded in and desperately tried to stop people talking about dodgy Clarke Gayford.
    They are corrupt.
    Anything could happen…
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:11am
    - peterwn
      
      Because of implications for democracy the Police (and if need be Crown Law) should move swiftly on this one. The key facts are available already, it just needs a Crown Law opinion and a smart intern (it is still University vacation) should be able to research this and prepare a draft opinion fairly quickly).
      
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      January 30, 2019 8:19am
      - kowtow
        
        Democracy demands everyone is treated equally by those who enforce the law.
        
        Seeing as how Plod don’t turn up to burgs and other complaints from Plebs , why should this case get special treatment?
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:35am
      - Jack5
        
        The resource-wasting police inquiry throws into light how potentially harmful the Harmful Digital Communications Act is.
        
        Sarah Dowie’s trumped-up potential “offence” relates to the ninth of the principles summarised in the act: “A digital communication should not incite or encourage an individual to commit suicide.”
        
        It’s hard to see how Dowie’s alleged statement, little more than trivial in the context of a romantic row, could tip someone over the edge.
        
        What “individual” is to be taken into account? I bet the act’s creators had in mind a school child or teenager harassed to the point of desperation, not an adult saying to a current or one-time romantic partner the equivalent of “bugger off – drop dead.” How many scores of thousands of folk have been told in or after love tiffs to “drop dead!” without committing suicide.
        
        The following “principles” outlined in the act seem to me more fit for a South Seas Soviet of Political Correctness than for a country with a British style political system:
        
        – A digital communication should not disclose sensitive personal facts about an individual.
        
        – A digital communication should not be grossly offensive to a reasonable person in the position of the affected individual.
        
        – A digital communication should not contain a matter that is published in breach of confidence.
        
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        January 30, 2019 9:25am
      - Jack5
        
        Is there a line between reporting and narking?
        
        The Southland Times, in an editorial today, says that, under the Digital Communications Act, it twice called for scrutiny of Sarah Dowie’s text to Ross. It says:
        
        “Promptly after news of the text message broke last October, and again in November, the Southland Times called for for scrutiny under the Digital Communications Act.
        
        “That it’s now happened is welcome, if not before time.”
        
        The newspaper called for a text to be scrutinised under legislation that threatens free speech – action against its local electorate M.P.
        
        The editorial adds that Dowie voted for the Digital Communications Act, which was introduced by National.
        
        The Southland Times itself is accessible on line. The editorial does not acknowledge whether the newspaper itself opposed or supported the Digital Communications Act when it was introduced.
        
        Am I alone in detecting schadenfreude in the editorial?
        
        If Sarah Dowie is the National candidate at the next election, the attitude the Southland Times takes will be influenced by the ownership of the newspaper after Stuff is put on the market by its new Australian owner.
        
        The editorial:
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/southland-top-stories/110236647/sarah-dowie-why-we-should-care
        
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        January 30, 2019 1:49pm
  - Psycho Milt
    
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    I had to correct a leftie who was trying to argue the other day that Bridges should stand her down from caucus, which of course is an absurd notion.
    
    Why is it an absurd notion? Paula Bennett spoke strongly against her MPs engaging in behaviour “inappropriate for a married MP.” Did she mean only male married MPs, or what?
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:03am
    - backster
      
      Her affair seems insignificant in comparison to the reported activity of Parker.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:30am
      - kowtow
        
        I’ll bet the media pack fuck , bum and blow each other like a bunch of rabbits or baboons , why don’t they write up about themselves ?
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:08am
      - Jack5
        
        Kowtow, what makes you think there’s time to stop and write about it?
        
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        January 30, 2019 2:02pm
    - alloytoo
      
      Not MP’s who had been separated from their spouses for a few years.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:49am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      It’s absurd Milt, because a party leader cannot require an electorate MP to stand down or resign. The only people who can change Dowie’s status are Dowie herself, the Invercargill electorate of the National Party, by not selecting her as a candidate for 2020, or the voters of Invercargill.
      
      It’s quite different from the other cases this leftie was referring to, i.e. Curran and Whaitiri, where they were demoted from ministerial positions, but remained as MP’s.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:44am
    - peterwn
      
      She did not mean separated MP’s where divorce would be a formality. SD separated a few years ago. The timeline of things at that time would be hazy and blurred. So she must be given the benefit of the doubt.
      
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      January 30, 2019 12:57pm
    - Vory v zakone
      
      Oops. You sure backfired there Paul.
      BTW As a fellow Massey staff member was the Granny F*cker Hannis a friend of yours?
      
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      January 31, 2019 4:59am
- peterwn
  
  There is another aspect where the media should know better. Media (especially the anonymous person who wrote the editoral on Stuff) should realise is if charged she would be entitled to a jury trial. This means the media should be treating the matter with the same caution as when writing about investigations into serious crimes so as to avoid potentially influencing jurors.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:07am
  - ex-golfer
    
    And a trial by jury would mean result in all text exchanges between the 2 being released.
    Something that JLR most definitely will not want to happen!
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:20am
    - MCos
      
      In light of what has transpired I wouldn’t be so sure about that, but I don’t think it would be in the publc interest.
      I don’t think releasing the text, or part thereof, that is known about is in the public interest either at this stage.
      There must be gazillions of similar texts, photos etc of an embarrassing nature on phones up and down the country.
      If the police prosecute in this case they could be inundated with similar complaints.
      
      Maybe they should do what the UK police did with Ben Stokes. Wait a year before making a decision.
      
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      January 30, 2019 8:49am
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      Ex-golfer, I take issue with you. I believe that JLR is one deranged imbecile. As such he measures his success by the number of column centimetres he gets as well as the seconds television time he gets. The release of all text messages will generate huge news media coverage; the sort of coverage that will have that dongbeater, dingbat and dickhead writhing on the floor in orgasmic delight.
      Some will argue that I am too cynical. I can take that.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:12am
      - kiwiracer
        
        Exactly right, remember JLR has been in elected office since he was 18, the only inches he cares about are column inches, and if it’s got a picture then it’s multiplied.
        
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        January 30, 2019 12:36pm
  - Yvette
    
    Stuff: The police investigation centres around a desperately angry and abusive 2.27am text allegedly sent from Dowie’s phone to fellow National MP Jami-Lee Ross, who says he’d had an affair with her.
    
    I am possibly one of the last three people in New Zealand to not have a cell phone and so I am unfamiliar with how they work, but would not a ‘picture’ of the alleged text with Sat, 11 Aug, 1:19AM on it, be the time it was sent, not as Stuff says 2.27am?
    
    Stuff: Amid a break-up firestorm of acrimony and recrimination, the sender reportedly told Ross he deserved to die.
    
    The whole end sentence in fact appears to be: “You deserve to die and leave your children in peace and your wife out of torment – fucker!” but Stuff claims this was “Amid a break-up firestorm of acrimony and recrimination”.
    
    No, apparently the “break-up” has been reported as being in May, so two and a half months earlier.
    Prior messages [to the text in question] were two weeks older and the messages after this one were sent some weeks later. This was sent, out of the blue, at 1:19 am …
    
    Not only is Stuff perhaps influencing potential jurors in any subsequent court case – as Peterson points out – Stuff is not even influencing them with facts.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:24am
  - KevOB
    
    Correct. But from the media perspective it’s about sales–excite the readers, get the clicks, get the $$$.
    The communication was not extraordinary in the spat. Who made it a Police matter? I won’t name any particular “journalist”.
    
    The COL are needing distractions badly as the PM is supposedly AWOL.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:51am
- brett68
  
  Apparently Dowie separated from her husband a couple of years ago.
  
  Nothing about that on the media.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:10am
  - fluffykiwi
    
    There has been, but it is her business.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:13am
    - brett68
      
      So it has been mentioned? I’ve haven’t really been following the whole thing that closely.
      
      Like you say, none of my business.
      
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      January 30, 2019 8:15am
    - peterwn
      
      Except that a reasonable reader (looking at his tablet on the Clapham omnibus) would think from nedia reports that the separation was in the last few months. But then it would spoil a good story if they mentioned the separation occurred a few years earlier.
      
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      January 30, 2019 8:25am
      - Batman
        
        Quite so, Peterwn. I follow this stuff very closely and was a Parliament staffer… But I didn’t know they had separated earlier.
        
        I specifically remember reading a like on Stuff which heavily implied that her marriage had ended as a result. So that was a lie.
        
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        January 30, 2019 1:54pm
  - MrsAnnie
    
    I see JLR on Facebook out with his wife and kids promoting himself as a family man- She looked very uncomfortable. He and Dowie were living together in Wellington for at least a year before the leaks- whilst she was known as his Wellington wife no one knew if it was a flatting situation or more…. they came to their own conclusions. Could the media have made the complaint to police so they could then name her? Very very dirty politics here. The soon JLR is packed off to plant trees the better.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:25am
    - backster
      
      When you hear the repeated gloating by Soper that seems likely.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:37am
      - RF
        
        Soper is not a nice person.
        
        One day he could find himself on the receiving end of a domestic situation and regret his many previous utterings.
        
        A POS.
        
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        January 30, 2019 1:13pm
      - starboard
        
        Barely Sober..email and tell him what you think of him. I do, all the time, he hates me.
        
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        January 30, 2019 1:26pm
      - Jack5
        
        Soper … gravel voice, gravel brain, nice-looking young wife – the reverse of Macron.
        
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        January 30, 2019 2:04pm
      - Herodotus
        
        And yet a fellow reporter continues to remain anonymous, wonder why it is ok “ONLY” to continually name and shame an MP.
        Soper will anyway cosy up to the party in power, so he can be part of the “in crowd” and feel some level of self importance. Remember when he was excluded form accompanying the PM to the US ??
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12033192
        
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        January 30, 2019 4:38pm
  - howzit
    
    So a likely history of the affair is Dowie was unhappy in her relationship, JLR and her strike up a relationship and JLR tells her that he is going to leave his wife so they can be together. After a while it becomes obvious to Dowie that he isn’t leaving and he is just having a bed pal in parliament for a bit of fun.
    
    She calls him on it and he says I’m not leaving my wife and breaks up. She is furious and calls him a narcissist, which we all now know he is.
    
    But of course this is pure speculation
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:31am
    - MrsAnnie
      
      The female MPs issue was – He didnt tell his wife they were breaking up, was also shagging others in both paid and unpaid political circles. I feel so sorry for all the woman, especially his wife. That said politics is all about judgement and some very poor judgement has been on display.
      
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      January 30, 2019 8:46am
      - sooty
        
        Only his wife! The rest could not wait to get their knickers off!
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:49am
      - Paulus
        
        Remember JLR’s wife Lucy Schwaner has a history of performance and bad behaviour in Auckland local Government.
        They used to think that they were the real answer in Politics.
        Probably still do !
        
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        January 30, 2019 1:42pm
    - niggly
      
      Well said – it’s the most likely scenario.
      
      Even the MSM would have known all this (and long before the public did), the fact however that they are spinning it shows how much they have descended into the gutter.
      
      But hey as far as most of the MSM is concerned, National and Simon Bridges are convenient “collateral damage” and NZ’s most incompetent PM (Select) is yet again “protected” by this distraction (i.e. by deflecting “negative” media attention onto National for a while).
      
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      January 30, 2019 8:53am
    - peterwn
      
      This touches on the other reason media, Whaleoil etc are calling on Simon Bridges to do something now – morality. Since the MP appeared to have been separated at the time of the relationship with Jami and if Jami led her to believe he was also separated, there would seem to be no breach of morality requiring the party leader to act. A MP recently got married, no one questioned the nature of the relationship prior to the marriage, the leader did not stand the MP down from portfolios or Caucus because of the possible nature of the relationship before marriage.
      So the consequences for the MP are limited to:
      1. Simon reading the horoscope to her (in the British Navy sense where the Commanding Officer tells the delinquent that he or she has no future in the Navy) hence triggering her resignation.
      2. Not selecting her as the candidate in 2020 – either the Board or at electorate level.
      3. Giving her an impossibly low list position assuming she failed selection as a candidate.
      If she decides to hang in until 2020 the only coercive power available to Simon is to remove her using the ‘waka hopper’ legislation and he would be even more reluctant to use it in her case compared with Jami.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:40am
      - MrsAnnie
        
        It should be up to her electorate membership- as it should be every 3 years, select or do not select.
        
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        January 30, 2019 9:50am
      - KevOB
        
        SD is a capable member in the House. She was alone and was free to act. Being irritated at the ending of a relationship is normal.
        
        This beat up is to distract from the real incompetence and free wheeling of the the COL.
        Where’s the PM?
        Where also is the mandate for Taranaki?
        Can the COL survive a GFC?
        Can Grant distinguish feelings from finance?
        More…
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:04am
  - freethinker
    
    How about rumours that a member of the media also had involvement with JLR – lets have some investigative journalism on this please.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:44am
    - MrsAnnie
      
      Do not know about that but a close friend (sitting MP) told me a couple of years back if you want anything to get into the media tell JLR.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:10am
    - Paulus
      
      The media know the other woman in JLR’s life – but as they are included they will not tell.
      Parliamentary circle and the media – name them too.
      
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      January 30, 2019 1:44pm
  - KevOB
    
    We have had a contrary perspective presented.
    Our media can outdo the former NZ Truth for mischief.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:57am
- fluffykiwi
  
  So which judge would give her the mandatory 3 years, brave judge, thus leading to her expulsion as an MP. Given labour is against harsh sentences and would prefer home detention of a much shorter duration. Or is convicted of an offence that CARRIES a mandatory 3 year sentence, not the actual sentence handed out.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:11am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    It’s the gravity of the offence you are convicted of fluffy. When John Banks was convicted of electoral offences, he had to resign from Parliament because the maximum penalty was two years imprisonment. The fact the he was later exonerated by the Court of Appeal thus became irrelevant, because he had already resigned as he was required to by law.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:24am
  - peterwn
    
    There is another possible outcome – discharge without conviction. The judge could consider that the consequences (loss of seat) are disproportionate compared with the offending, especially if the judge considers the communication to be only marginally harmful. Now that would create a firestorm.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:43am
- Paulus
  
  Typical Scum Media – she is National Party elected MP so she is outside the normal media feminist protection.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:19am
  - peterwn
    
    If she were convicted under the ‘Harmful Digital Communications Act’, I think feminists would be very, very concerned. The Act was supposed to apply to ‘other people’ such as political bloggers, etc.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:34am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      The police have all the power. Anyone who has upset someone else by saying something unkind online is now a criminal if the police want them to be.
      
      I agree the assumption is that police will take into account all sorts of factors not stated in the act, such as the race and gender of the people involved and whether the recipient was a nice person or not. That assumption is probably correct but you’d feel a bit nervous if it was the only thing standing between you and a criminal conviction.
      
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      January 30, 2019 8:51am
      - MickMac
        
        Surely the NZpolice “gather the facts”, give them to Crown Law, who decide if a prosecution should proceed?
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:22am
      - Paulus
        
        If they read the whole sentence the Police will close the file straight away – unless politically instructed.
        
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        January 30, 2019 1:47pm
- G152
  
  Its fake news purveyed by the left in an attempt to harm/put down dissenting views
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:20am
- fernglas
  
  As far as I can see, the maximum penalty for an offence under s22 of the Act is two years. Also, it is necessary to prove an intention to cause harm, and that harm has been caused. In the circumstances, I can’t see it getting off the ground.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:07am
- peterwn
  
  There is a fifth reason for removal as a MP – becoming a citizen of a foreign country. This is not relevant here but is worthy of mention in case, because of Brexit, a NZ MP eligible for Irish citizenship applies for it so as to be eligible for an Irish passport (British passports cease to be EU passports upon Brexit).
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:17am
  - fernglas
    
    Irish law says that anyone who has an Irish born grandparent is an Irish citizen. So arguably, you don’t even need to apply for a passport. Isn’t that similar to what tripped up the Australian MP who had been decreed by New Zealand law to be a Kiwi? Barnaby somebody?
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:34am
    - peterwn
      
      But it would turn whether patriality via an Irish grandparent automatically confers citizenship or merely enables someone to apply for Irish citizenship. I looked at this a few years ago and it seems to be the latter.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:31am
- MickMac
  
  What she said, is OK.
  She didn’t exhort him to do the deed.
  He deserved it.
  Also she wouldn’t be prosecuted for saying what she wrote, most people would agree with her in her position.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:07am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Reprimanding? 🙂 Don’t you just love auto-correct.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:07am
- Viking2
  
  What do you expect from O Brien, Vance and other spiteful bits of shit like them.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:16am
- Tall Man
  
  Why did the media treat this differently than the sexual assault at the labour youth camp.
  
  Before the charges were laid the media, and half of NZ, knew who the person was yet basically shut it down. Dowie’s possible offense is far less certain yet the MSM swarm all over it.
  
  Perhaps someone could enlighten me why that cabinet minister’s son was not immdeiately pilloried in the press for his disgusting actions…
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:15am
  - Paulus
    
    Coming to this space very soon – unless deferrrrrrred indefinitely, as expected.
    Now that wood be a disgrace.
    
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    January 30, 2019 1:49pm
  - Herodotus
    
    Because it has been dealt with … “Among the stories doing the rounds is one that Ardern has had to deny repeatedly, that it was the son of a senior MP or cabinet minister.”
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102327471/jacinda-ardern-has-political-capital-to-burn-but-labour-shouldnt-squander-it
    
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    January 30, 2019 4:52pm
- marquess
  
  I did wonder why dowie was so forceful on the Tahr nonsense. Must’ve been because she liked the idea of things being shot inside her ?
  
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  January 30, 2019 12:09pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Really?
    
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    January 30, 2019 12:38pm
  - kowtow
    
    Feminist left ok with sexist jokes , when the target is a “Tory” .
    
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    January 30, 2019 12:41pm
  - pentwig
    
    marment
    oh the envy of the left!
    nobody fancy you?
    LOL
    
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    January 30, 2019 1:37pm
waldonz

Oh look! A baby!

What a surprise!
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January 30, 2019 8:02am
- alex Masterley
  
  The call has gone out to release the squirrel…
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:08am
  - sooty
    
    Preferably while on the tit.
    But no face shots cause the duck said so!
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:42am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Correction “Squirels” Jaicinda/Neve stories are multiplying like a virulent plague…
    
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    January 30, 2019 1:19pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  Very old pictures, time for a new fashion shoot, and of course that will be in time for next month. then there is a winter clothes shoot, perhaps something in time for the mother and baby show so it goes on and on.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:12am
  - cas
    
    Well the Herald is trying its best. It has on its website extracts from an interview J did with the Aus Women’s Weekly ( which she seems to favour over NZ women’s mags) which is in an edition which I read 1 month ago. Why is it news now? Oh I know J is having some political troubles.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:41am
    - cas
      
      FFS now stuff is running the whole story as if it is new but the magazine and story has been out for OVER a month
      
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      January 30, 2019 1:16pm
Than

I’m not in favour of the proposed Christchurch CBD – Templeton cycleway.

Cycleways in general, good, I’m all in favour. The proposed route is also roughly good, passing by a lot of major destinations and would be useful to lots of people wanting to cycle.

What I object to is the specific design. To the cynic in me, it looks like “disrupt cars as much as possible” was a design goal every bit as important as cyclist safety. What could have been a positive, useful development very much looks to have been hijacked by social engineers using a civil works project to force people into behaving the way they want. I’m now concerned that other potential cycleways around Christchurch may be being abused in the same manner.
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January 30, 2019 8:02am
- DigNap15
  
  I like the rural cycleways.
  But I despise the in town ones.
  Here in Tauranga they spent months “imporving” Cameron Road by Chadwick road.
  All they did was put in a deadly cycle lane.
  Did it speed up the traffic ?
  No
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:11am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    I note these ChCh cycleways will be paid for by the taxpayer and will include even more completely unnecessary traffic lights – at $200,000 to $400,000 each.
    
    Many of the current ChCh traffic lights are more than just unnecessary, also at the expense of the taxpayer and I do wonder if there is something dishonest going on in the city that, with a very small population, has more traffic lights than any other city in the southern hemisphere (according to a gentleman who sells traffic light components to ChCh).
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:18am
    - starboard
      
      One intersection in the city has 18 traffic lights, I shit you not. Tuam and High St. Lights for Trams, bicycles, cars, pedestrians…18 fucking lights!
      “Oh, but its got to be safe !! We have to look after the people who are totally incompetent”
      *tugs at pearls*
      
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      January 30, 2019 1:39pm
- freethinker
  
  $260 Million on Cycleways – when will the Eastern Suburbs get their road and sewers fixed???????????
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:47am
  - alex Masterley
    
    The nice to haves have priority over the must haves…
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:50am
harvey wilson

So $400 a day to plant trees as expected turned out to be nonsense

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/110212861/400-a-day-forestry-industry-told-to-improve-pay-to-meet-one-billion-tree-planting-targetOk
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January 30, 2019 8:05am
- Pascal
  
  Isn’t that roughly in-line with international rates for tree planting? I vaguely recall Canada was around $10,000 to $12,000 for the planting season. (Increasing the more experience a person got)
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:23am
  - harvey wilson
    
    No idea but as usual stuff went for the clickbait headline and didn’t research it much .
    
    There’s no way that dumpster fire is worth $100 million
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:26am
secondcumming

After swanning around in *Davos* for a week, rubbing shoulders with the rich & famous like Prince William, Al Gore, Sir David Attenbourgh and the Zimbabwean Prime Minister, it was back to reality for Jacinda yesterday, as she faced the mundane questioning of the great-unwashed NZ Press Gallery.

Then to top it all off, you find one of the people that you really admire in this country, turns out to be as smart as bait…….

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyCUmbKU0AAyRyM.jpg
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January 30, 2019 8:10am
- Longknives
  
  Seems an odd choice of clothing for an ‘Anti- Drugs’ campaigner doesn’t it?
  Curiouser and Curiouser….
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:14am
  - waikatogirl
    
    It’s all about the feelz and “being nice”. Thinking doesn’t come into it for Mr H Core. ?
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:01am
  - KevOB
    
    It speaks of a drug user.
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:11am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “… Prince William, Al Gore, Sir David Attenbourgh and the Zimbabwean Prime Minister,…”
  Had an opportunity to talk with, world leaders and real movers and shakers, that could benefit NZ and our economy. (as John Key did)
  BUT she chose to informally chat to this lot about HER personal opinion, on ………NOT MUCH.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:07am
MT_Tinman

As I sit here on a humid, rather average morning I wonder just where are the much publicised, fairly normal for January, warm temperatures?
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January 30, 2019 8:11am
- mandk
  
  Yes, nothing particularly unusual about the temperatures we have had of late.
  
  North Island temperatures in most places have been 5-6C below the record levels. South Island temperatures in most places have been 7-8C below the record levels.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:21am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I ask:
    Where has summer been
    1. No Pohutakawa blossoms before Christmas.
    2. Weather not so flash before Xmas.
    3. we are set for 4 days of temperatures, that don’t appear to have reached their suggested peaks.
    4. The Temp increases are NOT universal to NZ
    Are we to tell the jokes about NZ summer that we used to tell about the British summer (one weekend in July) one week in January?
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:51am
- waikatogirl
  
  Damn warm in the Waikato this morning.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:02am
  - Viking2
    
    25 in tga right now.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:22am
  - Komata
    
    Waikatogirl
    
    Not as warm as yesterday though as you’d know. More cloud today (And for the rest of the week apparently).
    
    Of course in few weeks time we’ll be complaining bitterly as the first cold of winter arrives…
    
    (The Silver Birch seeds are already flying; always a sure indictor of a change of season).
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:49am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Chicago is having all time record lows and people are freezing to death.
  
  Just remember that a couple of hot days are undoubtedly evidence of global warming, but if you suggest that record lows might be evidence against it, you are an idiot who doesn’t understand the difference between weather and climate.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:03am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Extreme cold days are evidence of climate change and more frequent and severe weather events. The science is settled, even if the weather isn’t.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:33am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      Climate change is not in dispute. Everyone agrees the climate is changing and always has been.
      
      If your claim is that emissions of carbon based gases are trapping heat and causing warming, higher temperatures are evidence in favour and lower temperatures are evidence against. Otherwise your claim is not falsifiable and therefore not a scientific theory at all.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:48am
      - septic skeptic
        
        I’m simply pointing out that the AGW fanatics claim that extreme cold events are also evidence of AGW.
        Personally, I prefer the theory of Anthropomorphic Global Warming. Whereby we ascribe human characteristics to natural events.
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:30am
    - backster
      
      Yep but nothing to do with Carbon or carbon dioxide. It’s the sun one million threehundred thousand times the size of earth.Ben
      @TheRealS0s plenty of science on that page.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:03am
    - alloytoo
      
      People claiming “The Science is settled” are:
      
      1. Likely to be Dunning Kruger suffers.
      
      2. Ignorant the scientific method.
      
      Furthermore, despite the best efforts of mainstream media the “more frequent and severe weather events.” hasn’t been supported by the data.
      
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      January 30, 2019 11:27am
Southern Raider

Stuff is going full retard on the West Coast Council who questioned climate change

These self righteous fuckers in the media can’t even manage both sides of a debate and just go straight into virtue signalling

Also what is it about all these articles being written as “opinion” pieces but they never state who the opinion writer works for or what their background is?
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January 30, 2019 8:13am
- Jules99
  
  The message is clear -never question climate change or we’ll set the mob on you.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:19am
  - EAD_THREE
    
    “These self righteous fuckers in the media can’t even manage both sides of a debate and just go straight into virtue signalling”
    
    “The message is clear -never question climate change or we’ll set the mob on you.”
    
    It’s the same mentality with the so called “Holocaust”. Being a heretic on topics such as the climate, the holocaust, Transgenderism, #metoo, immigration, gay marriage can be career ending.
    
    These topics have been elevated to a literal religion where going against the MSM narrative will see you treated much the same way as the witches of Salem.
    
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8f7ecc79bb45918a78db10c23492f4197339cd6e435f78d828e77a70f3c58261.jpg?w=600&h=511
    
    Just look at this type of OTT rhetoric from this morning:
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/110202061/auschwitz-survivors-pay-homage-as-world-remembers-holocaust
    
    In Britain, a new poll by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust found that one in 20 adults in Britain do not believe the Holocaust took place.
    
    The poll of more than 2,000 people released Sunday also found that nearly two- thirds of those polled either did not know how many Jews had been murdered or greatly underestimated the number killed during the Holocaust.
    
    “Such widespread ignorance and even denial is shocking,” chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said
    
    It takes a brave man these days to go against the mob.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:05am
    - fernglas
      
      So one in 20 poms are ignorant dicks. Your point is?
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:13am
      - EAD_THREE
        
        So one in 20 poms are ignorant dicks. Your point is?
        
        So 19 in 20 poms haven’t bothered doing even the most cursory research. Your point is?
        
        https://katana17.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/auschwitz-myths-and-facts/
        
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        January 30, 2019 9:53am
      - stephieboy
        
        EAD THREE, another of your heavy duty Anti-Jewish links and the bonus of the Israeli/ Jews behind 9/11!
        
        Sigh!
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:05am
      - kowtow
        
        Muslims or Poms ?
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:16am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      The Holocaust is hardly climate change.
      1000’s , 10’s of 1000’s WITNESSED the holocaust during and the aftermath. There is ACTUAL proof that it happened.
      The only questions are around the USSR hiding (use of “squirrel”) their own equivalent.
      Climate change however, is constructed from Statistics, half truths, altered computer models, some “made up” data and political (socialist) ideology.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:16am
      - EAD_THREE
        
        All the photos of the workcamps are of people who were either malnourished or died of typhoid in the final weeks of the war. Just like millions upon millions of Germans who died during the hopeless period when all supply lines were destroyed.
        
        I won’t discuss wooden doors and windows in the “gas chambers” but if it is such a non-contentious subject, why is the revisionist position an arrestable offence?
        
        The fact they use the same language (“deniers”!) as for climate change sceptics and want them arrested should surely make you wonder what it is you’re being told and the agenda?
        
        https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/11/climate-change-activists-want-punishment-for-skept/
        
        The truth does not need the law to protect it, only lies do
        
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        January 30, 2019 9:49am
      - stephieboy
        
        EAD, just continue your research into the disappearance of Jews in the Nazi-occupied East especially Poland and the old Soviet Union!
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:07am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        EAD_THREE
        Photos were only one form of “evidence”.
        Even they are divided up into “official and “private” (taken by the soldiers themselves.)
        Eye witness reports, again “official” and soldiers diaries, letters home etc.
        Official documents, reports etc, that the Nazi’s wrote themselves accompanied by private letters by the Guards etc.
        The main horror of the Holocaust IMO, wasn’t the actual deaths (bad enough).
        It was the dispassionate/dehumanizing way they not only did the deed, but the justification of the deed. From the decision to do it all the way through the act itself, to the attempted cover up at the end.
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:24am
      - EAD_THREE
        
        Each to their own. I’m one of the growing band that believe that what we’ve been fed about WWII is a load of horseshit. I may be right, or I may be wrong, but it doesn’t justify the shrill hysterics – you’d think Jews would be happy if the tragedy they thought their people suffered was nowhere what the MSM and Hollywood would have you believe.
        
        https://www.newsweek.com/one-third-americans-dont-believe-6-million-jews-were-murdered-during-holocaust-883513
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:36am
      - stephieboy
        
        “..growing band that believe …”
        
        The usual suspects?
        
        https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
        
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        January 30, 2019 12:50pm
    - Lance
      
      Someone like EAD3 could argue that Pi = 4.8973
      But that would make him a deranged cunt, not a martyr
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:05am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E
    Out where the river broke
    The bloodwood and the desert oak
    Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
    Steam in forty five degrees
    Midnight oil wrote this in 1987
    So how unique are the temperatures?
    Answer
    Not unique at all.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:31am
- oldgolfer
  
  Stuff is full retard.
  Has it not heard of erosion.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:34am
  - alex Masterley
    
    You took the words right out of my mouth.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:38am
  - marcw
    
    Yes, take a look at this West Coast History.
    
    https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/20124
    
    It really is a religion to the retards at Stuff.
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:29am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Resistance is futile. The council is questioning the wrong thing anyway. They should be asking the government to tell them how many degrees of global temperature increase will be prevented if they go ahead and cripple their own economy and lower the living standards of their residents.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:05am
- wiseowl
  
  Agree.
  Who the fugh is Charlie Mitchell?
  His opinion on climate change is just that.
  The disgusting little shots he has at councillors and others along the way are a disgrace.
  He makes comments that are ageist which indicates he is a young wet behind the ears dawk, no life experience , no grasp on reality .
  No council should be stealing money in the name of climate change as it is a natural phenomenon and money won’t change anything.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:21am
  - oldgolfer
    
    I think your assessment is excellent.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:00am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Another 18 year old journalism school grad on minimum wage?
    
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    January 30, 2019 12:21pm
secondcumming

*THE 7 LAWS OF SCOUTING*

Law #1. A Scout is to be trusted.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1090302016356786176
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January 30, 2019 8:15am
mandk

Perhaps a day or two late, but this comment from Winston Peters astounds me:
“Venezuela needs to decide its future through free and fair elections”

What a stupid comment. Of course Venezuela needs to decide its future through free and fair elections, but no one in their right minds believes this will ever be possible under Maduro. Even Peters believes the last elections in Venezuela were rigged.

Why is Peters following Russia’s foreign policy line, when just about all countries in the free world now recognise Guaido?
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January 30, 2019 8:18am
- G152
  
  Peters is obeying his masters dictates.
  There can be no other explanation apart from senile dementia
  Or crook grog at the resturaunt
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:27am
  - freethinker
    
    Do we need to read between the lines or would that be a little fishy or scampi.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:52am
- holysheet
  
  More to the point, Why do we assume the rest of the world takes any notice about what we say or do. We are a small island nation at the end of the earth with an overinflated sense of grandeur. Despite all the MSM bullshit over cindy’s trip tp Davos, nobody cares about what we say.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:30am
  - artemisia
    
    Our 5 Eyes partners are watching, even if they don’t care much. Could easily be consequences too subtle for our rookie government to perceive, wrapped up in smiling and civil diplomatic language.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:43am
    - Sacha
      
      I think that NZ could easily sidelined by the other 5-Eyes partners. And it would have no idea.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:30am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Sadly holysheet the Guardian has picked up that NZ has not backed the alternative president and the left wing “have your say” crowd are then singing Peters’ praises because NZ has an independent foreign policy. Independent my rear end, it is anti US and accords with Russia, China, Cuba, Turkey and Bolivia, all shining examples of democracy.
    
    So, the smooth tongue snake oil salesman can wax lyrically about democracy and free elections all he wants, but when your bed follows are the five nations listed above, he is:
    1. Mixing it with states that will do NZ no favors; and
    2. Further raising questions in the minds of our traditional allies as to what our foreign policy is about.
    
    Maybe Mueller should look into Peter’s links to Russia.
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:49am
    - backster
      
      Well one link would be his mate Meurant who is mixed up in lucrative Russian Bussinessess/
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:09am
- MCos
  
  So in one breath you disagree wih Peters and then you agree.
  
  America has a long standing tradition of deciding who is the rightful leader of various Central & South American countries & using the CIA to provide support on the ground. Usually bases on politics.
  I’m not saying people like Maduro hasn’t run the place into the ground and all the rest, but what happens if this other bloke is arrested and/or executed? Are they going to escalate the situation? Will Oz send troops if requested?
  
  Venezuela has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:12am
- waikatogirl
  
  Even TV1 could no longer ignore the real story of the people of Venezuela having to hunt for food in rubbish bins as they can no longer afford the hyper-inflation costs. A long line of vehicles waiting for 3 days for a tank of gas in the oil-producing country and most decamping to other countries. Cindy and Winston still have their socialist blinkers on.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:24am
  - septic skeptic
    
    I just heard a remarkable interview on Magic, some American guy was explaining how it was actually Capitalism that has failed Venezuela. He called it “state capitalism” because the control of industries remained with the friends and family of Chavez etc, and had never been properly devolved to the workers.
    So don’t worry, socialism will work when we do it here the proper way.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:38am
    - Jack5
      
      The socialist version of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
      
      No true socialist state would be like ~~the Soviet Union~~ Venezuela.
      
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      January 30, 2019 11:08am
- KevOB
  
  Does the rule of law extend to other nations dictating the affairs of others on pain of physical intervention?
  
  https://www.rt.com/op-ed/450065-venezuela-us-control-resources/
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:35am
  - Batman
    
    Kev are you seriously using the Russian government propaganda outlet?
    
    Lol, no.
    
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    January 30, 2019 2:10pm
    - KevOB
      
      If you want the real low down on someone talk to their enemies. You may get to know what they won’t tell you.
      
      Is RT any more biased in its own way than TVNZ, CNN or the BBC? Read the story, discard the bias. Do that with sufficient different sources and slowly a probable picture emerges.
      
      I find it hard to reconcile international law and peace between nations with states informing others that their citizens will be punished if they have anything to do with a third country. That was once called a state of war. We have not become a one-nation-state world.
      
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      January 30, 2019 4:35pm
oldpark

Now that it has been proven .The Peters selected NZs PM can’t cut the mustard. Named Ardern a small town twerp likes all the trimmings as being the counterfeit PM of NZ. Sadly she is afraid of walking the talk. Perhaps her inept and inane attitude to doing the job as PM is just too hard.
After two months of hiding away from NZs voters and enjoying the trimmings as NZs fake PM . She could not even announce a so called Cabinet reshuffle. It was deferred to a later date. Maybe an inquiry might have been in order to see if there is a work ethic in Ardern.
Many many times i have wished for NZs real PM to stand up. The one that the voters of NZ wanted. Yes too late Bill English has left the building. thanks to another renegade Peters fugh up.Peters with his self serving me one two and three attitude has set a course for the good ship NZ to take a massive hit. One case in point among many. NZs veiled support for the Dictator Maduro in Venezuela. Maybe even shades of the same type of Government in NZ. Yes!Yes!Yes!
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January 30, 2019 8:21am
holysheet

Someone asked me, “Now that you are retired, do you still have a job?”
I replied, “Yes I am my wife’s sexual adviser.” Somewhat shocked, they said, “I beg your pardon, but what do you mean by that?”
“Very simple,” I answered, “My wife has told me that when she wants my fucking advice, she’ll ask me for it.”
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January 30, 2019 8:22am
Simon

The biggest worry for people about capital gains tax is not the mongs in Labo it’s whether those useless unreliable turds in National will utterly commit to repealing this monster or have already have planned to spend the capital tax money on a fucking bike way.
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January 30, 2019 8:23am
- Pascal
  
  https://www.national.org.nz/national_would_repeal_capital_gains_tax
  
  Simon Bridges has said they will.
  
  But it seems a bit harsh for calling National out for not yet repealing a policy that hasn’t been drafted or implemented yet when they’re not even guaranteed to be in government next 🙂
  
  Might be worth focussing that attention so it never gets implemented instead?
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:26am
- Classic Liberal
  
  I do have concerns when even Hosking this morning didn’t understand it at all, saying something like ‘If I buy a house for $100 and sell it for $200, shouldn’t I pay some tax’ – he didn’t mention the bright-line test and that the property ownership could be a much longer time, with years of inflation bringing up the price. While paying tax on rental income all those years.
  
  He also didn’t realise how much this could influence share ownership and business ownership.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:53am
  - fernglas
    
    Agreed. If this tax excludes the family home, which is many New Zealanders’ sole retirement savings, it will simply push house prices up as people move away from invesments which attract CGT. Most obviously, this will reduce investment in Kiwisaver.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:18am
    - KevOB
      
      I understand they intend to bring in family homes held in trusts. I may have to undo our 18 year arrangements.
      
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      January 30, 2019 11:38am
      - Tall Man
        
        Patience…..
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:47am
    - Paulus
      
      It will home ownership creep once enacted.
      Do not believe the f……rs.
      
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      January 30, 2019 1:56pm
  - MickMac
    
    On his income I suspect Hosking doesn’t have the same fears as ordinary people.
    Bloody stupid comment though.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:27am
- Tall Man
  
  FFS simon, keep up.
  
  He has said he will, they, the party, have said they will and if they are returned to the treasury benches in 2020 the law will never be enacted.
  
  What more do you want?
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:49am
secondcumming

“I mean, your average *Paki*…. like your average *Paki*…….”
[Alf Garnett. ‘Till Death Do Us Part’. 1969]

https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1090141371787370496
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January 30, 2019 8:24am
Paulus

Look as though the Life Insurance Industry is now the worse scoundrel than say Child Poverdy and/or the fiasco over Kiwibuild.
The number of Life Insurance Companies who left such as AMP and National Mutual leaves very small as people can no longer afford to Life Insure. The Banks of course have their fingers well in this though.
A media organised and Grant Robertson led obfuscation, who appears to now be in charge of many things.
Wow Princess if this is the best you can pull out for this year “Gawd elp us” as my Grandmother would say.
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January 30, 2019 8:26am
- ex-golfer
  
  To be fair, the insurance industry is full of duplicitous pricks that would sell their grandmother for a commission .
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:32am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes I used to sell insurance years ago.
    And I was conditioned never to switch a person from one comapny to another.
    It costs the person big time and other agents only did it just to get a commission.
    With insurance you build up a value with the company.
    If you start with a new company you are starting from scratch.
    I think some of the Reports recommendations are good.
    I was always amazed at companies like PINACLE offering to switch you to them for 10% less!
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:38am
    - MT_Tinman
      
      I was always amazed at companies like PINACLE offering to switch you to them for 10% less!
      
      Why?
      
      They were simply leeching off the agents who sold the idea of insurance and it’s value to the policy holder while not having to pay someone to do that.
      
      Good business if you can get it but it does create a more transient clientele.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:02am
    - Pascal
      
      Yeah, I thought the whole commission clawback scheme was introduced to prevent those rapid switches as well.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:01am
      - Tall Man
        
        2 years for some, 3 years for others. I believe.
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:44am
  - Inandout
    
    The FMA charges high fees to regulate this market, so why aren’t they?
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:20am
- freethinker
  
  If you think Life Insurance is bad just wait until the whole truth of General Insurance/EQC full facts emerge the you will see the totally evil/corrupt face of Large Corporates whose only concern is their profits and bonuses. Pray they suffer the same fate as the Elites did in the French Revolution.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:58am
  - Inandout
    
    freethinker, to be fair, there are cretins out there who consider every claim is a chance to rort the insurance company. The industry is very full and very competitive, just ask any broker.This sudden decision by the CoL to paint insurers as villains sure takes the heat off drug runners.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:23am
    - MCos
      
      The report ‘painted them as villains’.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:12am
      - Inandout
        
        Of course so, just listen to those policyholders who are phoning in. A report that is timely for sure.
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:14am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Pray they suffer the same fate as the Elites did in the French Revolution.’
    
    What murder and genocide ?
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:44am
- Sacha
  
  48 hour cycle. 72 at a push. And all the lemmings follow the leader, pushing and shoving, all trying to dive into the same small puddle.
  I find it mildly entertaining listening to talkback radio where each ‘host’ picks up the thread from the one before.
  What has happened to independent thinking?
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:41am
softail 1450

mandk ,The Peters ferret is following Putins policy line because those Russians have perfected the lost art of stuffing as many US $100.00 bills into brown envelopes as is physically possible.
And it’s well known that the filth Peters is equally expert at receiving said envelopes without being exposed…
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January 30, 2019 8:27am
- Inandout
  
  Anyone heard from Winston lately?
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:25am
  - sooty
    
    He took cacus the other day.
    JacinDUH had to feed the baby!
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:53am
Poppa

I have been away for a couple of weeks taking in sunny weather in the Coromandel.

What a refreshing change not having to listen to Cindy Kardasian every day spouting her slogans. I see she has been rubbing shoulders with the rich & famous telling them all about her wellness budget (whatever that means).

I wonder if she had time to do a prison visit during the holidays?

I wonder if the rumours are true that things are a bit crumbly at home?

No doubt it will be a very interesting year this year
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January 30, 2019 8:31am
- sooty
  
  Hay, he answered the ad in the personal colum from the lady with a boat!
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:49am
- holysheet
  
  I didn’t go away and it was also refreashing for me not tot listen to her shit.
  she must be in her very special witless protection.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:49am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Why on earth should it be ‘crumbly’ at home, could a man have a sweeter gig than the one Clarke has? He doesn’t seem to have been restricted by Neve and as far as I can see Jacinda has been home lots to play mummy instead of playing at PM.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:33am
Paulus

It has been reported some months ago that Russia has been flying in to Venezuela some serious weapons of war – both small and larger ordinances to support Maduro.
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January 30, 2019 8:32am
- DigNap15
  
  I would not be surprised.
  That new Presidential candidate is a pretty brave guy.
  But how can they ever have free and fair elections?
  Oh the EU asks for them.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:34am
Happychappy

So the Herald has run a story about the Show Pony and Neve. Surely there is more important News to write about than returning to the already penned stories of the PM in NZ and World magazines so let’s take her to task about what she hasn’t done well and the work ethic she obviously doesn’t subscribe to rather than pissing in her pocket for traveling the World and what people think of her their. She is lazy out of her depth and reality with continually bending the truth to cover her tracks with the Chec drug smuggler and her friends that are involved in this cover up. We need a PM that is for all of NZ not one that wants to make stupid policy that benifits her and her quest to be famous world wide,the NZ public need more not just the poor as the wealthy pay more and incourage investments that keep NZ among the best country’s in the world to live in.
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January 30, 2019 8:34am
- sooty
  
  Quick look over there, it’s squrriel!
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:47am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSUXXzN26zg
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:00am
- KevOB
  
  I don’t call Ardern “lazy”. I believe she incompetent for her position, emotional, an ideologue, limited intelligence and possibly overwhelmed. Is she depressed?
  She was appointed by an opportunist.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:46am
secondcumming

Hackers need to step the fuck up and delete everyone’s loans and mortgages.
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January 30, 2019 8:35am
Maggy Wassilieff

I’ve just received my Labour Party throwaway entitled “Our Plan for New Zealand” and enclosed within were a couple of one pagers on my local Labour MPs… Hon Meka Whaitiri and Kiri Allan.

I was under the impression that Ministers of the Crown were Honourables… but didn’t realise that demoted Ministers could retain the title.
…Anyone know?

Or has Jacinda just jumped the gun… and will reinstall Whaitiri as a Minister when our memories dim?
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January 30, 2019 8:43am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Hon Meka Whaitiri and Kiri Allan.
  The bash sisters?
  WWE would take them in a heartbeat.
  
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  January 30, 2019 8:59am
- hullkiwi
  
  Even dumped ministers retain the title honourable, even if the cause of their sacking was less than honourable.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:00am
- ex-golfer
  
  Is that the one that outlines “Aims” where previously they were “Targets”?
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    As I didn’t read the previous one, I can’t confirm… but now that I’ve retrieved the damn thing from the bin and looked at it.. it does have Aims.
    
    And…I decided to read section 2 to swat up on wellbeing…. and BUGGA ME.. I discover under Aim 1, that I am indulging in Labour’s wellbeing by doing Volunteer work.
    Aim 1: “Everyone who is able to, is earning, learning, caring or volunteering”.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:14am
    - waikatogirl
      
      I’m sure gardening will be in there as well Maggy? I’ve been out and watered my plants before the heat of the day so my wellbeing will have been activated as well, or is doing things for your own wellbeing under the socialist nirvana considered selfish?? At least the plants will have a better day. ?
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:01am
- geoff3012
  
  Your’e lucky…I just got the same with the smiling face of claire curran.
  
  There was survey with it (4 pages) was going to fill it in….couldn’t be bothered…
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:19am
- KevOB
  
  Is the document lawful or paid electioneering?
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:49am
mandk

Has the MSM got nothing more important to focus on than this?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/southland-top-stories/110236647/sarah-dowie-why-we-should-care

If the Justice system was wheeled into action every time someone sent another person a text saying they deserved to die, it would soon be swamped.

But, thinking about it, maybe I should have called the cops when I got a similar message from my ex.
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January 30, 2019 8:52am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Dowie needs to call in Media Lawyer Linda Clark and threaten defamation action against the MSM ..
  
  https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-05-2018/what-the-shit-is-going-on-with-those-clarke-gayford-rumours/
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:06am
  - Psycho Milt
    
    Are there rumours circulating about Dowie that the media may publish? Do tell…
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:11am
- Psycho Milt
  
  Maybe Dowie should have considered crossing the floor when her party created and passed the law saying the justice system has to be wheeled into action because someone sent a rude text. Passing bad laws can come back to bite you.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:10am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Agreed, actually. Freedom of speech should be paramount. Only actual, realistic threats should be restrained.
    
    Telling someone one wishes they were dead is no threat!
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:18am
- waikatogirl
  
  I’m much more concerned about the possible links to drug importers and gang member to our Cindy than an opposition party lovers tiff. ?
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:08am
RW Capitalist

Capital gains tax?
Time to vote.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2019/01/poll.html
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January 30, 2019 8:57am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Thanks. Looking good.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:21am
Maggie Pie

It was back to school yesterday for ‘Mister 7’.
God knows, its not easy being a single mum these days!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwlsMB8WwAAvdva.jpg
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January 30, 2019 8:58am
Maggy Wassilieff

We seem to be getting a lot of attention about the “heat-wave” ravaging NZ (Gizzy might hit 25C today) in our MSM, but has anyone seen anything on the Freezing weather sweeping through N. America
at the moment?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090074254010404864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1090074254010404864&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwattsupwiththat.com%2F2019%2F01%2F29%2Ftrump-trolls-the-warmists%2F
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January 30, 2019 9:00am
- fernglas
  
  Yes. As you note, Donald Trump was pointing it out on Twitter, which is about as mainstream as you can get these days.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:24am
- stephieboy
  
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  MW, your Viscount Monckton of Brenchley adds his point of view to the apparent anomaly,
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/8210739/The-climate-bugaboo-is-the-strangest-intellectual-aberration-of-our-age.html
  
  LOL
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:40am
  - pentwig
    
    stoopidthing
    what a great vision Viscount Monckton is
    
    what a great idiot stoopidthing is
    
    snigger,snigger
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:29am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @stephieboy
    
    Any explanation as to why you wanted to know whether I was past my bedtime at a Resthome?
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/01/general_debate_4_january_2019.html#comment-2395812
    
    or why you wanted details on my underwear?
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/01/general_debate_4_january_2019.html#comment-2395797
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:40am
- waikatogirl
  
  Isn’t planet earth overdue for another ice age??
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:16am
- Sacha
  
  Freezing weather in North America, is of passing interest (at best) to NZers, and vice versa.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:47am
- Jules99
  
  I follow a US channel and the lows expected are really shocking – people WILL die, sad to say. Europe also experiencing severe cold.
  
  I heard a theory recently that our heat could be due to Northern cold fronts (polar vortices) pushing warm fronts from the tropics southward.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:24am
DigNap15

I just sent this email to some of the reporters on Stuff

“Hello
I know that its not your area, but I’d like to know how you sleep at night working for a news media organisation that shuts down all debate on Climate Change.
Many of us in New Zealand do not believe in it and think its just the weather.
Not only that , but we do not want New Zealand’s economy crippled by carbon taxes that will not do anything to reduce carbon emissions.
So can you please ask your editor to open up the debate.
The science is not settled.
Regards ”

We have to keep the pressure on them!
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January 30, 2019 9:03am
- Psycho Milt
  
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  Lots of people “don’t believe in” evolution either, but there’s no reason any discussion of science should accommodate those people and their desire to “debate” the “issue.”
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:07am
  - Tarquin North
    
    That being the case, you should have no problem furnishing us with irrefutable proof that climate change or what ever you choose to call it this week is man made. We await your reply.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:30am
    - Psycho Milt
      
      There are various international bodies that have done that for you. The issue is that, as with evolution, there is no “irrefutable proof” that can satisfy someone who’s decided they just “don’t believe” something.
      
      However, “irrefutable proof” is hardly needed, because there’s a handy heuristic: if we send shitloads of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, in theory we should expect to see an overall warming of the Earth’s climate. And, oh look, we’re seeing an overall warming of the Earth’s climate.
      
      So, the fact that events are following the trajectory that theory would lead us to expect is evidence that the theory is correct. At which point, the question shifts to “Do we have evidence the warming is caused by something else instead?”
      
      As with evolution, the overwhelming majority of the relevant scientists are saying that so far the available evidence all backs the theory, with no evidence backing an alternative explanation.
      
      At that point, truculent non-scientists who want to play “don’t believe it” as though it were some kind of trump card just make themselves look foolish and including them in discussions about the science just wastes everybody’s time.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:01am
      - pentwig
        
        psycho
        so you are saying that the settled science is a theory of conjector.
        what is the settled science that tax will change the weather?
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:36am
      - MickMac
        
        so science is never settled and therefore Climate Change as posited as AGW isn’t settled.
        Neither is Macro Evolution as posited by some.
        
        Thank Psycho good to get that sorted.
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:36am
      - All_on_Red
        
        “I f we send shitloads of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, in theory we should expect to see an overall warming of the Earth’s climate.”
        
        “Shitloads” huh
        CO2 is currently .04% of our atmosphere…
        But hey, put up a picture of Chimney Stacks exhausting Steam. That’ll be convincing.
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:43am
      - Psycho Milt
        
        so science is never settled and therefore Climate Change as posited as AGW isn’t settled.
        Neither is Macro Evolution as posited by some.
        
        Depends what you mean by “settled.” In science, you’re correct that there is no “settled” in the sense of “Right, we’ve made our decision, so any further evidence that turns up can be safely ignored.”
        
        However, in science there is very much “settled” in the sense of “Right, all the evidence is pointing towards this theory being correct and no evidence pointing towards an alternate theory, so for all intents and purposes we can treat this theory as correct unless something turns up to suggest otherwise.”
        
        Evolution and climate change are both in that second category of “settled” science. The person who turns up evidence to refute either theory will not just win a Nobel prize but also go down in history as one of the world’s most famous scientists – that’s a pretty damn strong incentive, but funnily enough so far no-one’s found evidence to refute them.
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:55am
      - Psycho Milt
        
        CO2 is currently .04% of our atmosphere…
        
        Yes. What’s your point?
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:58am
      - HydeSam
        
        The evidence doesn’t exist.; The historical timelines that purportedly support it are constantly mutating; The theory is a complete failure as a predictive model; The theory is scientifically and technologically irrelevant. There are no evolutionary engineers; Theoretical epicycles are increasingly required to maintain its viability; The theory is a repeated failure as an explanatory model; There is a very long track record of scientific fraud surrounding it.
        
        Evolution isn’t even a science. It’s post-diction, ‘predicting the past’- which is an oxy-moron. It’s a tautology ‘who survives, the species with the most forebears. Who has the most forebears, the species’ that survive’.
        
        In truth, biologists are midwit butterfly collectors. No one good at maths take them or evolution seriously. Evolution cannot be seriously proposed today.
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:22am
      - HydeSam
        
        Evolution isn’t even a science. Let alone ‘settled’.
        
        Both are models. Everything is ex post facto taken to affirm the model. And anyone who questions the models is removed from their occupation.
        
        Evolution, for those who are following closely, very soon is not going to be able to be seriously propounded.
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:24am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        At least five different things must be proven:
        
        1. There is climate change.
        2. This climate change is caused by humans.
        3. We can stop or reverse this climate change by changing human behaviour.
        4. This specific tax will contribute something to stopping/reversing climate change.
        5. This contribution to stopping/reversing climate change makes the job losses and lifestyle changes worthwhile for the people thus taxed.
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:28am
  - mandk
    
    Adhering to the theory of evolution is handy, if you want to reject the notion of creation, but it is actually poor science.
    
    If you go back to the very beginning, evolution cannot explain how even the very simplest cell was formed.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:35am
    - stephieboy
      
      Except to say an omnipotent God Created them.
      
      How?
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:46am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Don’t you believe in God Stephie?
        Your ‘friends’ at St Albans might be interested.
        Hey, do they look at you sideways these days now they know you’re a pervert?
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:16am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        No Stuffy, because that just makes the question: ‘Then who created that omnipotent god?’
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:30am
    - Swifty
      
      I thought that evolution explains how life is as it is today but it has never been suggested that evolution explains how life on earth began.
      
      Also, especially compared to any alternatives, science behind evolution is very strong; strong enough to now be regarded as fact – I don’t know where you get ‘poor’ from.
      
      Are you a creationist mandk?
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:13am
    - rangitoto
      
      “how even the very simplest cell was formed.”
      
      Evolution explains how life changes over time not how it started. Look up abiogenesis.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:31am
      - mandk
        
        Abiogenesis is no more than the belief that life must have arisen from non-living matter.
        
        There are competing hypotheses about how it might have happened, but none is demonstrably correct.
        
        We even have wacky ideas like panspermia.
        
        It all happened by magic, see.
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:59am
      - rangitoto
        
        “Abiogenesis is no more than the belief that life must have arisen from non-living matter.”
        
        It’s a fact. Unless you are trying to claim that life always existed.
        
        “It all happened by magic, see.”
        
        Well that is the view of Sky Pixie texts like the bible and koran. I recall the bible claims that human’s in particular were magicked out of clay. I’m pretty sure there is no scientific hypothesis for abiogenesis that proposes magic.
        
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        January 30, 2019 2:47pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      If you go back to the very beginning, evolution cannot explain how even the very simplest cell was formed.
      
      Evolutionary biologists would strongly dispute that claim, but even if we accept it at face value for the sake of argument, the theory of evolution still holds. That is, it would still explain every organism more complex than single-celled ones in a way that matches the available evidence, with no competing theory that matches the available evidence.
      
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      January 30, 2019 11:05am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Leftie uses false equivalence to justify censorship
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:43am
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Red, there, there… Took a bit of battering yesterday, old cock?
      
      Sorry but the facts remain the US President can’t walk on water.
      
      Or…?
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:49am
      - All_on_Red
        
        You really do live in a world of self delusion don’t you Pervertboy
        So funny
        #FakeNewsStephie
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:11am
      - Inandout
        
        Oh shit, and here was me believing Obama was the second coming and a water walker, after all he was a Peace Prize receiver.
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:20am
- fernglas
  
  In an effort to understand the issue, I consulted Wikipedia. There I learned that from a study of 4000 peer reviewed scientific articles about climate change, 97% considered that climate change was occurring and the main cause was the emission of greenhouse gases. Can someone point me to a definitive argument for the contrary view, which as I understand it accepts that the climate is changing but there is no proof that it is caused by humans?
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:29am
  - wiseowl
    
    Fern
    Try joanne nova
    or climate depot
    or read Ian Plimers book Heaven and Earth.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:37am
  - All_on_Red
    
    97%…
    Lol
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:41am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    There are numerous reasons for why the climate warms and cools.
    A few are summarised in this paper on Early 20th Century Warming.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wcc.522
    
    The 97% scientist studies are based on very dodgy methodology and data analysis.
    (This has been discussed numerous times on KB and other blogs…. try these for starters:
    https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/03/16_not_97_agree.html
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jun/06/97-consensus-global-warming
    https://www.masterresource.org/heartland-institute-joe-bast/false-consensus-97-percent/)
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:45am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Thus these Nobel Laureates endorse climate change,
      
      https://www.lindau-nobel.org/blog-green-lindau-nobel-laureate-meetings/
      
      And these “Luminaries” Donald Trump, Anthony, r Watts, Christopher Monckton, James Delingpole, Ann Coulter Steve Hayward etc do not.
      
      WOW!
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:55am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Nice examples of the ‘Nobel Disease’
        Worked out who the IPCC is yet Stephie? What about NOAA?
        What a moron
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:13am
      - Nostradamus
        
        All on Red:
        
        Maybe start with 3-letter acronyms like FAA – and then level up to 4-letter acronyms like IPCC and NOAA? It’s Stephieboy after all!
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:58am
      - Swifty
        
        Don’t overlook that Stiffy looks to others to tell him what to think – he accepts the logical fallacy of arguments from authority without exception.
        
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        January 30, 2019 12:30pm
  - burt
    
    Try this one.
    
    https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/new-insights-on-the-physical-nature-of-the-atmospheric-greenhouse-effect-deduced-from-an-empirical-planetary-temperature-model.php?aid=88574
    
    It’s all based on math and physics, not politics and one world government – so many will reject it outright.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:50am
  - Peter S
    
    That 97% study is a classic. By a former (religious) cartoonist called Cook. There are so many documented issues with the study that it is quite a subject on its own.
    Climate Audit has some great breakdown material on that and many other studies, it is a site run by a statistician who’s hobby is analysing the statistics used in climate research papers. He has an impressive record of causing the withdrawl of a number of high profile papers.
    Second place to visit would be Climate Etc. The blog is run by Judith Curry, recently retired Caltech professor and climatologist. She has a number of papers on uncertainty that lay things out well.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:51am
    - backster
      
      As reported by a weather scientist. 10,000 questionaires were sent out to weather scientists, 300 replies were received. 297 agreed , so that was 97%…..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHR1QNOvtlo&feature=em-uploademail This site does not agree it has 350,000 members and produces daily 5min scientific updates. It quotes from numerous international studies by thousands of scientists who don’t agree . I find it facinating and the science easy to understand.
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:48am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    While Wikipedia is often cited as a reference, one should be careful doing so.
    
    One can also look to the litany of doom and gloom prognostications that have been published since the 1980s with regard to climate change, and compare this to what has actually happened, and then compare this to historical records.
    
    You could point to 97% of scientists, but you should also remember that just because a consensus has been reached, doesn’t mean that the science should be settled. Prior to 1947, it was widely accepted that a plane could not fly faster that the speed of sound.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:54am
    - burt
      
      The reality is – consensus is the enemy of science. Science advances by challenge – not nodding agreement.
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:55am
      - Swifty
        
        Yep.
        
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        January 30, 2019 12:25pm
    - Kabull
      
      There is not a consensus of 75% of scientists. That claim is pure hogwash manipulation of data. See these two clips from Dr Tim Ball:
      (short – the hoax) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksMYjzWSlI4
      
      (longer – the 97% claim) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQFCKICwFEQ
      
      and here NASA scientists question sanity of global warmists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSi2NmN5fM
      
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      January 30, 2019 10:52am
  - MCos
    
    There’s people around who won’t be dissuaded from the view that Noah hand built out of timber that was just laying round an ark so big if could contain all the creatures of the earth in pairs plus food and water for forty days and so on and so forth . . . .
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:43am
    - Tall Man
      
      Relevance?
      
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      January 30, 2019 11:29am
      - MCos
        
        Forgotten
        
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        January 30, 2019 4:12pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The IPCC was set up to solely consider the role of man-made CO2’s effect on Climate.
    
    It does not bother itself with the many other variables that influence our Global climate.
    Many of the original scientists ceased working on the IPCC reports when they discovered their work identifying natural variables and uncertainities in data were being left out of final reports.
    
    Try here for some of the old literature IPCC failed to reference:
    http://notrickszone.com/100-papers-sun-drives-climate/
    
    and all the “skeptical” science papers on notricks zone that have been published in the last 5 years or so casting doubt on the “settled science” theme that is being pushed.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:52am
  - KevOB
    
    You haven’t read the derivation of the 97%. A sociologist in Aus. has been soundly discredited for his sloppy work but the number remains in the green armoury
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:58am
  - fernglas
    
    Gosh folks, multiple downticks for asking a simple question. Good to see the spirit of scientific enquiry is alive and well on this blog.
    
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    January 30, 2019 1:56pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I gave you a considered answer, even though I knew I would get one of my anonymous abusers/stalkers coming out of the woodwork to tell yet another lie about me.
      
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      January 30, 2019 2:43pm
      - fernglas
        
        True, Maggy, and I always appreciate your posts, if I may say so.
        
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        January 30, 2019 3:11pm
Lee C

Re Jacinda.
I have been watching the media like a supertanker, reluctantly awakening to the truth about her, and have noted with interest how the photos they choose have slowly transformed from ‘girlish, laughing superstar’ Jacinda to ‘haunted and tired alone’ Jacinda.
This is merely an observation.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
The fact of it is, that Jacindamania is likely to end up as ‘jacindafatigue’.
How many people saw the headline about her being ‘nervous’ about announcing her pregnancy and thought, like me, “WTF is the relevance of this?”, and declined to read it out of sheer boredom with the subject?
Now, in order to maintain relevance, Jacinda is forced to pull out ‘the next big thing’ and of course, people are increasingly rolling their eyes at the next hair-brained initiative she brain-farts, in order to maintain the illusion she is … well, the fact is, I’ve actually I’ve forgotten what she is… and it appears that many of her cabinet have too.
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January 30, 2019 9:38am
- Classic Liberal
  
  You’re right, I hope. Btw, it’s ‘harebrained’ – from the fact that hares weren’t considered very smart.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:40am
mandk

Even Garner knows that the TWG’s plan for a CGT is a really bad idea:

“[It] won’t hit the elite; instead it will target mum and dad investors,” he said. “The little business people right around the country, especially if they own a second home, like a bach, a rental, or they sell a farm, or the plumbing business they have built up over 20 years and risked everything for.

“Now the green-eyed monster wants a lick of their hard slog.”
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January 30, 2019 9:44am
- stigie
  
  I just can’t see this envy tax coming in at 33%, and that’s all it is….a fucking envy tax.
  To shift money from the wealthy who have worked hard all their lives to the not so well off who are generally Labour supporters.
  I say fuck the lot of them !~
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:53am
  - DigNap15
    
    The thing is, even poor people would like to be rich.
    The ones I know want t win lotto, or start a business.
    
    So then they would be subject to CGT.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:18am
  - kevn
    
    @stigie… Art will be exempt from cullens CGT apparently.
    Call your home a piece of art? Mid century classic, art deco, like that… maybe?
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:40am
    - Biscuit
      
      kevn, are Winston’s pals’ ‘pretty horses’ similarly exempt?
      
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      January 30, 2019 11:07am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “I just can’t see this envy tax coming in at 33%”
    
    Stigie, you’re playing into their hands though by putting it that way. We all know that the Taxpayers’ Union has fallen right into their trap in that way, instead of rejecting the CGT entirely. Taxinda can say “Oh, ok then, let’s just make it 28% or 15% – aren’t I kind”.
    
    NO. The bright-line test already deals with people making a living out of property-dealing.
    
    No further CGT is needed and it will only hurt middle-aged and elderly Mum and Dad investors who have bothered to save up at bit. Not truly wealthy people at all.
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:52am
  - Paulus
    
    Wait until after the election as it will be her winning point of the election.
    Soak the rich !
    The media will still love her to bits.
    
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    January 30, 2019 2:04pm
- Manolo
  
  Capital will flee the country faster than what those stupid politicians think. Wait for the impact on the larger NZ economy.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:59am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s already fleeing..
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/363597/education-providers-hit-by-drop-in-new-chinese-students
    Fee-paying Chinese students are looking elsewhere for their education.
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:46am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “James Tobin’s
  prescient 1976 observation (which echoed Keynes) that “there is a point beyond which higher
  surtax rates collect less –not more— revenue.”
  From Paul Reynold’s report to the ASX, summerizing and reviewing Australia’s CGT (the one Cullen wants to copy)
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:43am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    In early 1999, Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner of the Harvard Business School rose to the
    challenge, with an extensive study for the National Bureau of Economic Research, “What Drives
    Venture Capital Fundraising?”
    We find that . . . capital gains tax rates have an important effect at both the
    industry, state, and firm-specific levels. Decreases in the capital gains tax rates are
    associated with greater venture capital commitments. . . . Increases in capital gains
    tax rates have a consistently negative effect on contributions to the venture
    industry.
    Again from Paul Reynolds report.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:46am
  - KevOB
    
    Ask IRD why they previously abolished Land Tax which they once tried to collect relentlessly from year to year.
    
    We have arrived at a practical, low cost tax system based on income in hand. That’s taken a long time. Even the issue of properties held indefinitely for a few years is being addressed. (I would still like to see an abatement over the last three years.)
    Other countries envy our tax administration.
    It would be a Cullony to wreck it.
    
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    January 30, 2019 12:08pm
- kowtow
  
  “[It] won’t hit the elite; instead it will target mum and dad investors,”
  
  As it was in the beginning , now and ever will be . Amen.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:31am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Garner: “The little business people right around the country, especially if they own a second home, like a bach, a rental, or they sell a farm, or the plumbing business they have built up over 20 years and risked everything for.
  
  Now the green-eyed monster wants a lick of their hard slog.”
  
  He’s 100% right. This is very much my situation. I have managed to save *just enough* for a reasonable retirement, plus have a disability that limits my working hours and that my savings help me with.
  
  I don’t ask for the state’s help, but I need my investments.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:45am
Manolo

AGW hits parts of the United States:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/polar-vortex-to-bring-prolonged-life-threatening-cold-outbreak-to-midwestern-us-this-week/70007262

The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for hypothermia and frostbite to occur in minutes during the final days of January.

The deep freeze has commenced across the Upper Midwest with a temperature of 75 degrees below zero Fahrenheit reported at Grand Forks, North Dakota, on Tuesday morning.
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January 30, 2019 9:56am
- rangitoto
  
  Get with the programme Manolo. If it is unusually cold then that is just weather. If it unusually warm then that is global warming.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:23am
kevn

We don’t give a sh*t that JA was nervous announcing her pregnancy.
But…
we are very interested in all the various issues pending. List is getting too long now.
Czech crim and his mousey mate R Hardcore for example.
But…
we do have a very much part-timer PM. Media avoider. Hiding even?
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January 30, 2019 10:08am
- peterwn
  
  The 2020 election will be fought on the basis that Winston would be de facto Prime Minister and that Jacinda’s pre-election role would be glorified communications adviser and speechmaker.
  While Winston’s bargaining power would be limited after the 2020 election, Jacinda is unlikely to want to bargain with Winston and will be content to run with the status quo. Consequently the scenario that there could be a NZF-National coalition is extremely unlikely, which means arguments such as voting NZF to keep National ‘honest’, act as a handbrake etc would not apply. Thus Simon can safely say that National will not go into coalition with Winston with minimal effect on electoral support.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:46am
- MCos
  
  Personally I’m more worried about how our boys are going to cope with the Indian spinners tomorrow
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:46am
  - secondcumming
    
    Me, I’m even more worried about the boatload of Indian asylum seekers spotted off the West Coast!
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:10am
    - MCos
      
      If a couple of them can open the batting I’d be all for fast tracking citizenships
      
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      January 30, 2019 4:15pm
  - kowtow
    
    Good thing the Celestials don’t play clicket. Two are better value than one Hindoo.
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:34am
- Sacha
  
  I think she is definitely feeling the strain. I hear the stress in her voice, the overly flat emphatic tones. The message I got from her ‘disappearance’ over the holidays and the use of Auckland Anniversary Day as an excuse for not appearing on her Tuesday morning media interviews, is that she is trying to be as invisible as possible.
  The problem for the Labour Party is who to replace her with, who has power to attract the voters.
  Robertson seems to be developing an easy on air persona, but no star quality.
  Who else is there?
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:02am
  - Inandout
    
    Sacha, Grant is probably an OK guy, but he has a yoke in the form of Alf. Cinders may be able to get away with being an unmarried mother, but the Middle East will never accept Grant’s marital status.
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:24am
    - Sacha
      
      The question arises, why must we consider the Middle East (Muslim) Nations?
      For the life of me (probably shouldn’t say that, lol) I can’t see why we just don’t say “Nice people, but we don’t see/do things the way we do.”
      You know, like the people down the street, that you nod politely to, but don’t stop and chat with.
      
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      January 30, 2019 2:23pm
  - marcw
    
    Ardern, first 2019 National Hide & Seek winner for January. In the draw for 2019 Champion.
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:55am
    - Vory v zakone
      
      No. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has already passed her. According to Pocahontas Warren, Ruth is only 1/1024th alive ?
      
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      January 31, 2019 6:04am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Might as well be in the drawer.
      
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      January 31, 2019 10:38am
DigNap15

I just got this reply from Stuff’s deputy editor

Thanks for you email. It was been sent on to me.

Our position on the points you’ve raised is simple:

1. We accept the overwhelming scientific consensus – as represented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – that climate change is real and caused by human activity. In that light, providing ‘balance’ from denialists is not a poor service to our audience – it is actively dangerous. This is not a true debate with two equivalent sides, where the views of the scientific consensus and denialists are of equal weight.

Regardless of the position Stuff has adopted for this project (https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/108819497/quick-save-the-planet-we-must-confront-climate-change), this is not a new issue. The MediaCouncil has previously upheld the right of publications “to consider the science ‘settled’ on climate change and not cover every dissenting opinion on such a broad subject to achieve balance.” ((http://www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/neil-henderson-against-the-gisborne-herald and http://www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/bryan-leyland-against-new-zealand-herald)

It has recently ruled on our position: http://www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/andy-espersen-against-stuff

2. Regarding comments in particular, Stuff is a moderated platform, not a free speech arena. We have the right to set terms and conditions for comments: https://www.stuff.co.nz/about-stuff/87006221/terms-and-conditions-user-submitted-content-and-comments The Media Council has previously ruled on this point: “We reiterate that the Terms and Conditions for online comment are a matter between the online publisher and its readership. It is not a matter for the Council, nor do we have any jurisdiction to interfere in it.” http://www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/greg-rzesniowiecki-against-stuff

You can rest assured that Quick! Save the Planet will include robust, critical reporting about the range of responses to climate change (in particular around mitigation and adaptation). If new information arises or the scientific consensus shifts, we will reflect that.

Kind regards,
Keith

Oh, well at least it made them think!
Imagine if they got hundreds of emails, they might change their stance.
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January 30, 2019 10:21am
- Tall Man
  
  Nope.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:20am
  - wiseowl
    
    The IPCC is a big con for a start and there is no scientific consensus.
    Stuffed are wrong .
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:34am
    - KevOB
      
      The IPCC have said themselves they cannot predict because climate is a chaotic system (TAR). The rest is politics.
      
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      January 30, 2019 12:17pm
      - fernglas
        
        Can wiseowl and KevOB agree amongst themselves whether this IPCC mob are a big con or reliable on this issue of ability to predict?
        
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        January 30, 2019 1:51pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Regarding predictions, the IPCC in AR5 note that actual observed Temperatures are below 90% of all the Temperatures the CMIP5 Simulations/Models predict from around 2005 to when the report was done in 2013.
        In other words the Models are too hot.
        I think Kev is right that AR3 stated how hard it is to predict because the system is too variable.
        You know they don’t consider the effect of Clouds in modelling because it’s too hard?
        
        Frankly the whole Temp dataset is a joke. There’s massive gaps in coverage and real issues with the accuracy of readings.
        
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        January 30, 2019 4:00pm
    - KevOB
      
      I agree.
      What we see typically is the summaries for policy makers. These are political documents created and agreed on by politicians in periodic fly and party-up fests.
      The actual Assesment Report follows the Summary, 1000+ pages a year later. The maths alone traps the IPCC. Models of a chaotic system with insufficient data to a degree of precision that yields nonsense has to suggest moral turpitude.
      
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      January 30, 2019 4:56pm
- Inandout
  
  DN15: Take comfort in the fact the MSM is a rapidly dying business and most people don’t give a shit what Stuff thinks.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:26am
- Psycho Milt
  
  Imagine if they got hundreds of emails, they might change their stance.
  
  Wasn’t it the fact they were receiving hundreds of communications from AGW-deniers that led them to introduce the ban in the first place?
  
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  January 30, 2019 3:51pm
Niz

What’s going on with the weather reports in this country? We were getting told it might hit 40C this week. Didn’t happen. Now it’s maybe 37. Blenheim got to 35 or so the other day. Kelburn ‘shattered’ a temperature record by hitting 30.3C. Previous record unspecified, but I doubt it was much below that.
Auckland forecast was for 30C yesterday. Didn’t get close. They were forecasting 28C for today, now reduced to 27, and likely to only be 26C.
“The ‘worst ‘ is yet to come”, they tell us, as though warm weather is a bad thing.
Do they think we’re fucken idjuts?
And don’t they have a responsibility to be honest with us?
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January 30, 2019 10:25am
- DigNap15
  
  Meanwhile in Austral it is 40 degrees in some parts, as it always is in summer.
  And its 35 degrees in many parts of asia.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:30am
- Biscuit
  
  Niz, put not your trust in anything numerical as reported by the Mee-jya!
  
  Look at any disaster.
  
  ONE News: Up to (x) may have died.
  (x) invariably turns out to be (x minus lots).
  
  ONE News again: Authorities fear the death toll could increase.
  Death tolls have this annoying habit of rarely ever DEcreasing.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:34am
- Inandout
  
  NIWA used to easily provide historical temperature data but I guess previous record temperatures don’t sit well with Stuff’s attitude to discussions.
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:37am
  - KevOB
    
    NIWA throughout numbers when they began following Hadley and adjusted temperatures to political wishes.
    
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    January 30, 2019 12:20pm
- kowtow
  
  Ha ha.
  
  In the midst of this media created moral panic over global warming the ODT today in history on Monday reported Ophir ( Central Otago) hit a record 37.6 C , in 1957 .
  
  How much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere then ?
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:39am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    That is the year before Mauna Loa CO2 measurement started… but GISS,NASA estimate the Global mean CO2 atmospheric conc. in 1957 was 314.8ppm (0.03%).
    https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/ghgases/Fig1A.ext.txt
    
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    January 30, 2019 2:51pm
DigNap15

So how are the poll result in the Newshub Wealth Stealing Tax poll.
When I voted it was about 2 to 1 against.
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January 30, 2019 10:28am
- waikatogirl
  
  No 73%
  Yes 27%
  
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  January 30, 2019 11:05am
  - Rich Prick
    
    What are the odds that the 27% own nothing other than a rusting Toyota people mover?
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:39am
    - kowtow
      
      What are the odds the 27% own anything , including an above average IQ?
      
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      January 30, 2019 11:40am
      - sooty
        
        Yes they do. They got a 64″ tv.
        
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        January 30, 2019 6:04pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Now No 70%- yes 30%
    And Jesse Mulligan is a complete numpty.
    I am not interested in hearing his vacuous opinions on things such as CGT.
    
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    January 30, 2019 12:07pm
    - MrTips
      
      That guy is a ventriloquists dummy right? Have you ever watched him talk to the camera? Totally wooden with hands nailed to the table. Vacant. Mind you, the deluded harpie next to him and the pie eater on the other side are not much better.
      
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      January 30, 2019 12:51pm
- Inandout
  
  Good to see Mark back with sensible opinions.
  
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  January 30, 2019 12:02pm
kevn

@DigNap…. I wonder who would actually vote for the CGT? Because they certainly won’t get anything from it.
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January 30, 2019 10:47am
- MCos
  
  Apart from healthcare and all the rest . . . .
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:54am
  - Tall Man
    
    Sorry, your Timaru is showing through.
    
    The government under ardern the liar has stated that this is not an attempt to raise more tax but to increase the fairness so where the fuck do you get the impression that there will be a benefit to “healthcare and all the rest . . . .”
    
    The tax take is supposed to remain the same or do you know something they don”t.
    
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    January 30, 2019 11:19am
    - Swifty
      
      Nice one.
      
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      January 30, 2019 12:12pm
- DigNap15
  
  yes, but many of the feral class do not understand that. They just like taxing rich pricks!
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:58am
  - MCos
    
    I looked at that poll where you voted no to a CGT along with 2/3 of respondents.
    There is no information there about what it entails so how do you or anyone else pro or con have any idea what you are voted for?
    As it happens there is a form of CGT in force right now, only not actually called that.
    If you buy a second house and flog it off within a certain amount of time you must pay tax on the profit; i.e. a tax on a capital gain.
    
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    January 30, 2019 12:56pm
    - fernglas
      
      Isn’t it the case that the law creates a rebuttable presumption that you bought the property with the intention of selling for a profit? Which has always been taxable as income.
      
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      January 30, 2019 1:47pm
Hugh Pavletich

We’re going in the same direction as Oz’: Auckland house prices tipped to fall says Assets Manager Milford … NZ Herald / NewstalkZB

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/were-going-in-the-same-direction-as-oz-auckland-house-prices-tipped-to-fall/
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Brian Gaynor of Milford Asset Management: Houses and shares deliver a decade of growth – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12196235
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Australia’s house price downturn is showing few signs of easing | Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-economy-property-price-downturn-sydney-melbourne-2019-1

• Australian capital city home prices fell by 1.3% in December, the largest one-month decline since 1983.

• It looks like a similar result may be reported for January, according to CoreLogic’s daily data.

• The housing downturn is already weighing on Australia’s residential construction sector. There are concerns it could spread to the broader economy, especially household spending.
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January 30, 2019 11:13am
- Cobolt24
  
  Aussie housing bust stalls the job market:
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/aussie-housing-bust-stall-jobs-market/
  
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  January 30, 2019 12:01pm
  - burt
    
    What’s a ‘job’ ? Is that something people use to need to do before we had Labour back in govt?
    
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    January 30, 2019 12:20pm
- KevOB
  
  Can you put a % on the expected decline?
  
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  January 30, 2019 12:21pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    KevOB … It is the severe multiple stretch (in pricing and lending terms) which are the key problems … check out just release 15th Annual Demographihia Survey http://www.demographia.com … and earlier ones.
    
    … What was learned from the Irish ’07 experience … and following extensive research by the Central Bank of Ireland the imposition of a sensible general mortgage cap of 3.5 times annual household incomes ? …note comments on this MacroBusiness Australia thread …
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/cba-aussie-house-prices-keep-falling/#comment-3227235
    
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    January 30, 2019 1:31pm
    - KevOB
      
      I think that cap belongs to time when we had sensible interest rates. My opinion is that we are in a gigantic asset bubble through massive, improper, Central Bank credit expansion. This event may be historic as it is very widespread creating effectively a new class of Barons. Savers get no rewards but the richest are further aggrandised.
      Economics appear suspended temporarily. Resumption has to occur–will the COL be able to handle that?
      
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      January 30, 2019 5:06pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        KevOB … thank you for your comments.
        
        For housing bubbles to be triggered, there has to be scarcity. Finance in all its forms (equity, bubble equity and mortgage debt) is simply the financial fuel.
        
        The Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Surveys prove the above. If finance was the key driver of housing inflation, the Median Multiples of all the metros would be much the same. They are not … as bubbles are primarily caused by land supply strangulation and inappropriate ingrastructure financing … as illustrated with Tauranga …
        
        Lack of land, infrastructure blamed for rising Tauranga house prices | Newshub
        
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/01/lack-of-land-infrastructure-blamed-for-rising-tauranga-house-prices.html
        
        It appears from the 3 IPSOS Issues Surveys of 2018 that twice as many people are of the view Labour will solve the problem … in contrast with National …
        
        https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=Ci1RXLi2Js7JrQHJ8Lb4CA&q=ipsos+nz+issues+monitor&btnK=Google+Search
        
        I made it EXTREMELY CLEAR at the time of the release of this years Demographia Survey Monday 21 January, that Labour will lose the 2020 election if it fails to make substrantial structural progress fixing the housing problem in 2019 … check massive media reporting …
        
        https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=demographia&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYica_3JTgAhULbisKHY2_AwIQ_AUIDigB&biw=462&bih=410
        
        The public and media will not tolerate failure.
        
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        January 30, 2019 6:03pm
      - starboard
        
        Hughie reported for being a link whore-bag.
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:10pm
Viking2

This years most appropriate road video.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12198394

Road lice forever.
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January 30, 2019 12:23pm
- stephieboy
  
  V2, like this?
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz//nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12198416&ref=clavis
  
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  January 30, 2019 12:57pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

If the mainstream media claim we are in a heat wave, then are we?

It is summer, after all.

It couldn’t be because they are trying to push the idea of global warming, could it?

24 C here, quite comfortable.
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January 30, 2019 12:29pm
- MCos
  
  If it’s 24c in Paris I’d say you’re having a heatwave.
  
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  January 30, 2019 1:01pm
  - Kiwi_in_Paris
    
    North Shore.
    
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    January 30, 2019 1:47pm
    - MCos
      
      I’m not familiar with provincial Auckland north of the bridge, but I notice on google maps there’s a Paris Pl in Birkenhead.
      
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      January 30, 2019 3:57pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      You are not in my welding bay. Try 34C
      
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      January 30, 2019 5:31pm
MrTips

Apparently the MidgetPrick™ may have been in hospital over the summer.

Who knew?
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January 30, 2019 12:54pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  Nah. That’s just his biannual 100% blood change procedure.
  He was back with his mates Jim, Jack and Johnnie the next day ?
  
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  January 31, 2019 6:19am
Rich Prick

With the wall-to-wall coverage today of the First Squirrel, the DomPost’s cartoon describing Cindy as “positively glowing” and this being the “year of delivery”, is Cindy up the duff again? If so, prepare your sick bags for the media coverage to come.
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January 30, 2019 1:24pm
- alex Masterley
  
  If correct, It will make the Megan and Kate rubbish being served up look like serious journalism as opposed to click bait.
  
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  January 30, 2019 4:01pm
Wired-one

Multiple articles on Stuff about the incompetent Ardern. One is about Neve and the family, and how very hard it all is ?. And the other is about how 2019 is the year that this government delivers. Lord give me strength…
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January 30, 2019 1:42pm
- Komata
  
  Wiyred
  
  The media is, of course, totally impartial and completely objective in the news that they report (or so they would have us believe).
  
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  January 30, 2019 1:46pm
Komata

FWIW: Those familiar with ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’ might be interested to know that at 1338 in the Central Waikato, the outside (in the sun) temperature was a very mild 44.44 Degrees Centigrade (112 Deg Farenhite in the old language).

Proving that it’s not the ‘earth’ that’s warm, ’tis the SUN!

(Just thought I’d share it with you).
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January 30, 2019 1:44pm
- waikatogirl
  
  30ºc in the shade here Komata. No hotter than last summer.
  
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  January 30, 2019 2:42pm
  - Komata
    
    My point exactly; it’s just the same as last year.
    
    How soon we forget.
    
    Thank you.
    
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    January 30, 2019 2:48pm
    - Ross12
      
      Schools going back so time for the hot days to arrive!!
      I live in Wellington. Last year I was away most of December and we had a friend house sitting. When I got back the day after New Years Day she was panicking a bit because our lawn had dried up but she had been scared to water it because of restrictions. I told her not to worry it happened most years.
      This year they have just started to dry up in the last day or so. So a month later. The cicadas have not started yet –normally that happens around New Year.
      I “listen” to nature not the “experts”.
      
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      January 30, 2019 6:38pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Here we are at the end of January and I’m unaware that any Region is experiencing a drought.
        https://www.niwa.co.nz/climate/information-and-resources/drought-monitor
        
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        January 30, 2019 6:55pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Ross, I heard a lone cicada last night. ?
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:40pm
secondcumming

Where’s Breeno ?
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January 30, 2019 1:44pm
- Jack5
  
  Morrissey will have two or three radios on. He’ll be flat out like a lizard drinking as he tries to transcribe each of them.
  
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  January 30, 2019 2:07pm
Manolo

The invisible woman opines:
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/2019-an-incredibly-critical-year-for-labour-ardern/ar-BBSUQpD
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January 30, 2019 1:48pm
Southern Raider

This is all Cindy’s fault. Bridges needs to come our clearly and state “you fucken useless GenY, or whatever, middle class able bodied cunts need to pull your heads in and get with the real world”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/110251819/why-you-couldnt-pay-me-enough-to-plant-trees-or-build-fences

When I was a teenager I worked every holiday in menial low paid retail and farming jobs to pay for Uni and also get a work ethic

This cunts are fucked in the head and Stuff keeps printing this shit
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January 30, 2019 2:22pm
- Longknives
  
  “Just the thought of having dried mud on my hands makes me physically ill.”
  
  That is what we are dealing with.
  This Stuff ‘Reporter’ (He looks about 19) who claims to know everything about everything gets “Physically ill’ just thinking about mud on his hands….
  
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  January 30, 2019 4:17pm
  - Longknives
    
    Got any work for him on the Farm Johnboy?
    
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    January 30, 2019 4:17pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Yes, I don’t think many Kiwis will take kindly to that pathetic statement! What a bloody wimp!
    
    Perhaps it also explains why people like that have trouble buying a house. Can’t see him buying an absolute wreck do-up, like many our generation did, and working like slaves to make it into a liveable home.
    
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    January 30, 2019 4:26pm
- Happychappy
  
  SR: When I was at intermediate School in Nelson many years ago they used to take us to Spooners Range to plant trees every year. This was from in them days Standard 4 at Primary School with form one and two at intermediate. It was only one day but by time that all School had participated they would have planted a few trees. But I suppose nowadays with health safety laws they are not allowed to do this now.
  
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  January 30, 2019 4:19pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  The guy obviously didn’t have the slightest clue about safe working: how to lift properly, sun protection, hydration. Those would all be useful things a young student could learn and apply during such work experience.
  
  It’s also very motivating if one doesn’t enjoy the work or want to make it a career: there was nothing like working in a factory one summer to make me study hard for my degree!
  
  Plus how about meeting some real working folks if you have socialist tendencies. Find out what they really want: a better, wealthier career for their children. Not a heap of government interference.
  
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  January 30, 2019 4:25pm
Manolo

Is our stephieboy getting excited?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/29/mark-steyn-2020-dem-hopefuls-all-imitate-bernie-sa/
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January 30, 2019 2:45pm
- Morrissey
  
  Ha! If there’s a more moronic person than Mark Steyn, I’d be surprised. And in the Moonie Washington Times.
  
  If you had any sense of irony, or humour, or knowledge of any kind, you’d appreciate just how ridiculous Steyn is.
  
  When you decide to quote a loon like Mark Steyn, you’re in pretty disgusting and insalubrious company….
  https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/01/newstalk-zb-continues-to-be-outlet-for.html
  
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  January 30, 2019 7:23pm
  - starboard
    
    Link whore..reported, from my balcony overlooking Nai Harn Beach whilst I sip my second G&T.
    
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    January 30, 2019 10:14pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Nice. How we envy you, ratsabord. Anyway, here’s the bit about that halfwitted P.O.S. Steyn….
      
      You think Holmes’ expressing some concerns yesterday about the USA torturing prisoners might signal a retreat from his extreme chickenhawk stance? Well, think again. At 7:25 a.m., the “good man” burbles enthusiastically over some recent magazine reading he’s been doing: “May I just commend to you a piece in the March 23 edition of the Spectator by MARK STEYN….”
      
      Now, nz.general readers will be well aware of this fellow Steyn. He is perhaps the vilest of all the vile chickenhawks spewing out messages of hatred in the rabid right wing press, from the Spectator to the Moonie-owned Washington Times. Steyn is a vicious, hateful, sneering, utterly discredited war-monger. A chickenhawk, in other words. The article which Holmes “commends” is a smug farrago of Bush
      administration lies, asserting that Iraq is “better off” since the Coalition of the Killing’s tender ministrations, and making great play of some bogus survey that “shows” Iraqi people are “happy” about their country being invaded by Saddam’s former collaborators. Holmes reads all ten of Steyn’s points as if they are holy writ.
      
      Verdict: Steyn is a lying, cowardly piece of vileness. Holmes, who chose to endorse, and “commend” Steyn’s spurious article to Newstalk ZB listeners, is no better.
      
      https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/01/newstalk-zb-continues-to-be-outlet-for.html
      
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      January 31, 2019 6:46am
      - Swifty
        
        You fail to realise that because of your demented ravings here no-one cares what you think.
        
        If you took a more measured tone and stopped with this delusional constant praising of yourself then that might change.
        
        But I won’t hold my breath.
        
        Oh, and your blog is very boring. That’ll be one of the reasons you have no following.
        
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        January 31, 2019 6:58am
      - Morrissey
        
        Like libraries are boring, eh, Swifters.
        
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        January 31, 2019 7:47am
Viking2

Bridges Speech today.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110251400/national-promises-threeyearly-income-tax-cuts-in-first-major-speech-of-the-year
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January 30, 2019 2:56pm
- Inandout
  
  Adern’s ‘year of delivery’; my arse.
  
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  January 30, 2019 3:09pm
  - sooty
    
    There’s enough time to spit out another baybeee!
    
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    January 30, 2019 5:58pm
RF

Looks like Ardern & Twyford are “recalibrating” the Kiwi Build numbers.

Maybe recalibrating is a new name for swallowing dead rats.
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January 30, 2019 3:01pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  “Recalibrating” actually turned out to be abolishing all interim construction goals because they knew they could not meet them in spite of all the past propaganda.
  Only 18 months into the program and they have already capitulated, how pathetically poor.
  I suppose this does help with the “2019 year of delivery” though because if you have no goals you can’t fail them right?.
  What a joke.
  
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  January 30, 2019 4:02pm
Wired-one

Simon Bridges has just delivered what media are calling his first state of the nation speech, and I must say I’m very impressed. National are promising to index tax bracket creep with inflation every three years. He also mentioned how National was a party who believes in equal opportunity, not outcomes. His comments reflect my political beliefs to a tee. Hopefully I’m not the only one.
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January 30, 2019 3:23pm
DigNap15

Yes, equal opportunity not equal outcomes!

This should also apply to education!
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January 30, 2019 3:29pm
DigNap15

Why don’t the COL get the 100,000 on the dole doing something useful?
Any job is better than nothing, and its a start to some work ethic.
I’m looking at you Sepoluni!

Then reduce or remove the stand-down if you take a seasonal job.
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January 30, 2019 3:31pm
- MCos
  
  That would be ‘Sepuloni’
  
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  January 30, 2019 4:04pm
  - Longknives
    
    That would be ‘Benefit Fraud runs in my Family’…
    
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    January 30, 2019 4:10pm
  - fernglas
    
    Seppo looney? That’s very unfair to Ms Genter.
    
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    January 30, 2019 4:43pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Wow the spelling police are back again.
    
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    January 30, 2019 4:49pm
    - fernglas
      
      Comma after the Wow, please, Happs.
      
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      January 30, 2019 5:32pm
      - Happychappy
        
        I wouldn’t expect anything less from a ignorant areola like you.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:17pm
    - secondcumming
      
      How many grammar Nazi’s does it take to change a light bulb?
      
      Too.
      
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      January 30, 2019 7:17pm
KH

The beauty of democracy is that you can vote for who you want, for the reasons you want.
‘Expert opinion’ is just another ‘opinion’. Folks can listen to it, and do the opposite. Same with all the sort of rules that people want to impose about Sarah Dowie.
If enough good people of Invercargill decide not to vote for her, then it’s decided, and I am fine with it.
For me, if I could vote in Invercargil I would vote for Sarah Dowie. She’s one of the good ones.
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January 30, 2019 3:48pm
Inandout

It seems Mueller is beyond being touched and he can do what he likes in the US now. That FBI 26 man early morning invasion of Roger Stone’s house is a signal to those who don’t cooperate. Putin now has a partner in squashing dissent. Mueller is a thoroughly distasteful human being.
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January 30, 2019 4:15pm
Viking2

nterim targets for the Government’s housing scheme KiwiBuild have been dropped, as Jacinda Ardern and Phil Twyford say the program is being “re-calibrated.”

The programme has hit a bump in the road, with the Housing Minister admitting the Government would fall well short of 1000 homes by the end of the first year, instead building just 300.

On Wednesday, Mr Twyford and the Prime Minister addressed media and said although the interim targets are no more, the original goal of 100,000 houses in 10 years remains the same.

“Interim targets haven’t been a useful way to demonstrate our delivery program,” said SLG.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/01/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-drops-kiwibuild-interim-targets.html
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January 30, 2019 4:26pm
MH

to assist in emperical research into climbate change how long do I have to keep this thermometer stuck down my gullet ?
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January 30, 2019 4:26pm
- fernglas
  
  Wrong orifice.
  
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  January 30, 2019 4:44pm
  - MH
    
    I am naturally using the Kelvin kline scale, so am keeping a straight and motionless face.
    
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    January 30, 2019 5:36pm
Michael

18 days to go before the next shut down.
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January 30, 2019 4:30pm
Morrissey

Meatheads of Dunedin
No. 1: MATTHEW JAMES VARCOE

Joking between workmates led to a Dunedin man firing a staple through his colleague’s skull, a court has heard.

The victim, who was unaware of the seriousness of the situation at the time, went to hospital where they discovered the 35mm stainless steel staple was embedded in his brain. Doctors, worried about the possibility of infection, were forced to operate on the man, the court heard.

The situation was classed as ”life threatening”, but the victim survived surgery…

Matthew James Varcoe (24), an aluminium joiner, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with reckless disregard for the safety of others. Judge Michael Turner called the defendant’s actions ”stupid and reckless” and he stressed that the victim could have been killed. …..

On June 1, the pair were at work in the harbourside industrial area. The victim was repairing a sliding door while Varcoe used a staple gun at his work station.

”There was some light-hearted banter between the victim and defendant which resulted in the defendant firing staples from a staple gun … towards the victim and his co-worker,” a police summary said. As the staples only measured 15mm, they had no effect.

As the verbal jousting between the men became more pointed, Varcoe walked over and slapped the victim in the face.

”This resulted in a tussle between both parties which appeared to be light-hearted at first, with a lot of shoving and pushing, but the intensity increased and the defendant became more aggressive,” the court heard.

Varcoe picked up a bigger staple gun, powered by a compressed-air line. The victim grabbed at his arm as the defendant pointed the improvised weapon at him. Varcoe, though, was able to press the gun against the top of his colleague’s head.

The safety guard was disengaged. He pulled the trigger. The 35mm staple penetrated the man’s cranium and lodged in his brain.

It was the last time the pair spoke. ….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12196719

Meatheads of Dunedin is compiled to highlight some of the shit going down in the “Edinburgh of the South.” It is compiled by Serena Sopwith-Fotherington, for Daisycutter Sports Inc.
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January 30, 2019 4:33pm
- Longknives
  
  Is Sheriff Pete George going to appear in ‘Meatheads of Dunedin’?
  
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  January 30, 2019 4:47pm
  - Morrissey
    
    It’s a pretty low bar he has to limbo under. But, yes, Pete’s a contender.
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/sites/default/files/styles/odt_square_extra_large/public/files/user13493/Pete_George.jpg?itok=mzI6EZ85
    
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    January 30, 2019 4:55pm
Michael

Hey, Inandout
Did you see that photo of Roger Stone’s back with that tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face on it? Reminded me of Paul Holmes’s daughter with that tattoo of her father’s profile on her thigh. Yuck!
But you are right to comment on that 26 man [was it 26?] FBI early morning invasion squad. I mean anybody would think Stone was public Enemy No 1.
Talk about over the top. The FBI are loosing credibility hand over fist.
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January 30, 2019 4:42pm
- KevOB
  
  They did the same here too with Kim Dotcom.
  
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  January 30, 2019 5:16pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/110263666/businessman-charged-with-assaulting-teen-refuses-diversion

That man deserves a beer.
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January 30, 2019 4:46pm
- Morrissey
  
  That violent prick deserves a jail sentence.
  
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  January 30, 2019 5:02pm
- Inandout
  
  Imagine if that chap was at the Labour feely camp and he caught the offender…. woodn’t that be a hoot?
  
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  January 30, 2019 5:25pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  If it takes a prison sentence for this prick to learn that his niece isn’t his property, by all means let’s give him one.
  
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  January 30, 2019 6:45pm
cmm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12198637

How hard is it to get a kid out of a car?

Just smash the window and you’re done in seconds!
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January 30, 2019 4:51pm
slightlyrighty

If anyone needed reminding of just how biased the Mainstream Media is…..

This will blow your mind.

Andrew Scheer is the head of the Canadian Conservative Party, and the leader of the opposition. The 2nd Largest party in Canada.

In Canada, they have a union representing journalists, called Unifor. They represent 13000 journalists in Canada.

Jerry Dias, the National President for Unifor, has announced that his union is now positioning itself as the active resistance against Andrew Scheer.

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/taghva-union-representing-canadian-journalists-declares-itself-the-resistance-to-andrew-scheer/?fbclid=IwAR0up2sIzeS8euVpL4tKz_lVoUzjXHpJzM_xrYfZyqQ9t1hrSpEFTVjGjO0

Imagine if the organization representing journos in NZ released a statement that they are actively resisting Simon Bridges. This is what has happened in Canada.
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January 30, 2019 5:05pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  At least they’re honest. In NZ some people still think the MSM is fair and balanced.
  
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  January 30, 2019 6:05pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Big whoop. The important question is who the owners of the Canadian media are backing. The journalists get fuck-all say in what gets reported.
  
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  January 30, 2019 6:47pm
Steve (North Shore)

Heatwave. This morning on the wireless while going to work. The worst job to have in the heatwave is:
Being a primary school teacher. Fuck me.
Try my welding bay, with overalls, under a helmet and knocking 37C
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January 30, 2019 5:47pm
- sooty
  
  Have they started work yet?
  
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  January 30, 2019 5:54pm
  - nasska
    
    Define “work”! 🙂
    
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    January 30, 2019 5:59pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      For teachers work means getting children to learn in this heat, so it fails – and a pathetic excuse for the lazy shithead teachers who can not teach and never will. Love that 3 months plus holidays though. Fuck me, if I was just into a new job in the Industry and only worked 65% of the year, I would learn fuck all.
      
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      January 30, 2019 6:22pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”only worked 65% of the year, I would learn fuck all”……
        
        You’d earn fuck all too. To get paid full time money for a part time job is the preserve of the useless, fat, feminist SJWs who screw up the minds of our kids & grandkids.
        
        “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.”
        
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        January 30, 2019 6:56pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Come on, nasska, that’s a weak line from G.B. Shaw, who also wrote many other stupid and untrue things, such as claiming he was a better playwright than Shakespeare.
        
        That’s a saying that’s repeated by people who hate and resent teachers—and especially teachers who have the temerity to organize into a strong union, like the one that’s fighting Wall Street’s attempt to destroy public education in the U.S. right now.
        
        If you want a “those who can’t” slur, teachers are probably the least appropriate target. Here are a few that actually have some semblance of reality to them:
        
        1.) Those who can’t, sit behind a microphone and rant insanely on NewstalkZzzzzzzB all morning.
        
        2.) Those who can’t, like the hilariously stupid U.S. “Secretary of Education” Betsy DeVos get promoted in the Trump cabinet.
        
        3.) Those who cant, are usually hypocritical and sanctimonious gits.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:14pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”If you want a “those who can’t” slur, teachers are probably the least appropriate target”…..
        
        If you moved beyond your boilerplate, leftist propaganda it wouldn’t be hard to refute Shaw’s argument. The “doers” are hard nosed realists driven by success but they would reduce the average snowflake school pupil to jelly with their demands for success.
        
        A true educator (as opposed to the unionised scum NZ teachers) would be more of a theorist & be able to relate to those he/she were teaching.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:25pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Shaw’s “argument”? It was a throwaway line by someone trying and failing to be a cutprice imitation of Oscar Wilde. It’s not an argument, it’s a throwaway line, trying to be a witty aphorism.
        
        It’s not a line that should be thrown away, it should be hurled out of the pub and kicked to death on the street.
        
        Only an idiot recycles sad old Shaw lines. Are you an idiot, nasska?
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:31pm
      - stigie
        
        You forget Nasska had a farm in Eketahuna and a pity you didn’t pay him a visit Morris Oxford..?
        You would have been fucking dog tucker !~
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:58pm
- Morrissey
  
  Your brain’s unfortunately boiled over under that welder’s mask. Hence the delirious hatred of teachers.
  
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  January 30, 2019 6:50pm
  - Swifty
    
    Not hatred – merely putting things in perspective.
    
    Teachers have it easy compared to many.
    
    And, of course, if they don’t like it they can leave and go find something else. Just like the rest of us.
    
    They’re not special.
    
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    January 30, 2019 7:21pm
    - Morrissey
      
      You seem a little more rational than poor old Steve from the North Shore with his overheated brain.
      
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      January 30, 2019 7:34pm
  - pentwig
    
    but mooronic morris
    look at yourself
    those who can’t have a blog that no one suscribes to or even be bothered to read
    those who can’t have to resort to trolling on another blog because theirs is so, so boring
    those who can’t is you mooronic morris
    
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    January 30, 2019 8:49pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Lot of things you can say about my blog, Penters, but “boring” is not one of them.
      
      Well, it’s boring if you don’t like to READ LONG ARTICLES, but that’s your problem, not mine.
      
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      January 30, 2019 8:57pm
      - Swifty
        
        It is boring actually.
        
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        January 30, 2019 9:17pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Like libraries are boring, eh, Swifters? Like reading books is boring.
        
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        January 31, 2019 6:35am
- Swifty
  
  Deer culler?
  Fencer?
  Hay baler?
  Tree planter?
  
  I’ll tell you what else is bloody hot these days – some thousands of NZers working in horticultural hothouses.
  
  Compared to those jobs, teachers have it cruisy.
  
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  January 30, 2019 7:18pm
  - Morrissey
    
    You’ve never been a teacher, quite obviously.
    
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    January 30, 2019 7:19pm
    - Swifty
      
      You ever worked a manual job, outside, all weather, for your living – and for years?
      
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      January 30, 2019 7:26pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Does working as a pancake parlor security man, private eye and gigolo count?
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:35pm
      - Swifty
        
        Thought not.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:39pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Like to see YOU do my job.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:57pm
      - Swifty
        
        What job is that Morrissey?
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:00pm
      - pentwig
        
        goodgrief mooronic morris
        i can see you in a pancake palour pouring penis shaped pikelets
        i can see you and stoopidthing ogling and perving on the tv screen and adjusting camera as stoopidthing is a self confessed pervert towards young girls and MW
        but gigolo? nanny goats or billy?
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:39pm
      - Jack5
        
        Isn’t Morrissey a professional transcriber of radio broadcasts?
        
        One ear here, the other ear there, recorders going … all over the FM frequency band.
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:00pm
      - Morrissey
        
        That’s a pretty good description of the actuality, Jack. It’s like you’ve installed a secret camera in Chez Breen.
        
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        January 31, 2019 6:38am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I have been a Teacher and I’ve also worked as a qualified gardener .
      It’s a bugger doing the School athletics on a hot February day on Athletic Park…. so a few hours 1 day/year…. not really comparable with outdoor work in full heat of the day… November to end of February….
      though it was the freezing mornings in Winter.. gardening in a deep frost that convinced me that I probably wasn’t designed for a life of hard labour outdoors.
      
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      January 30, 2019 7:37pm
      - Swifty
        
        If of interest Maggy, my peppers are the most advanced at this time of the year in my memory. And in textbook condition.
        
        I’m most happy.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:45pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Have your peppers gone red yet Swifty?
        I had a great crop in full sun last year and they changed colour beautifully. Plants this year not in full sun and not quite so prolific. No colour change yet but still plenty of summer to go.
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:14pm
      - Swifty
        
        No, no colour turning at all as yet waikatogirl, but it’s always been Feb for me in Auckland.
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:25pm
  - nasska
    
    Shearers have it the worst Swifty.
    
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    January 30, 2019 7:30pm
    - Swifty
      
      Here’s a name for you – I did several summers rousing for Collins Brown (?) in the Wairarapa, late 80s early 90s.
      
      I’m going back a while here, but up at 4.30 – 5am, drive to meeting point, van to client’s farm, 7am start, 4x 2 hour runs with 15 minute smokos and 30 minutes for lunch.
      
      Go home, shower, and on the piss and back up again next morning to do it all again – with the odd unexpected day off for rain as you will understand nasska.
      
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      January 30, 2019 7:38pm
      - nasska
        
        You’d be looking forward for the wet days Swifty. 🙂
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:41pm
      - Swifty
        
        She was hard yakka at times nasska, but to be honest that was normal; most people in my circles then worked similarly.
        
        It was also a point of pride as to who was the fittest, who could pull the most wool, who’s counts were the highest etc etc.
        
        Back then we used to run/jog etc to get fit for work! Don’t see too many teachers outside my local primary doing that.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:51pm
rangitoto

It looks like Taxinda really did impress the EU on her holiday in Davos:

“The European Union’s parliament has taken a decisive step towards unilaterally reducing New Zealand’s rights to export specified quantities of tariff-free sheepmeat, beef and dairy products to the trading bloc if and when Brexit occurs.”

Source: the Horrid

Nice work Taxinda.
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January 30, 2019 5:49pm
- fernglas
  
  That’s fine. The UK will, of course, take all the meat and dairy that the EU would otherwise slap tariffs on. And our close cultural relationship with the UK, (4/5ths of us having UK or Irish heritage, apparently) means that we will be much better off. We can send them food parcels and do some knitting with our wool for their brave boys at the front. We can send sides of frozen lamb to them, as well as large slabs of butter. In return, they will send us union officials and soccer players. Vive Brexit.
  
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  January 30, 2019 6:07pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Surely we will get some Morris and Austin automobiles as well.
    
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    January 30, 2019 6:57pm
    - nasska
      
      They’d still be a better bet than the garbage, fourth grade Pommie “tradesmen” & union organisers we accepted in the 50s & 60s.
      
      “It weren’t like thaaat baaack hooom. All oot bros!”
      
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      January 30, 2019 7:08pm
      - Swifty
        
        I’m old enough to remember those days.
        
        Met quite a few of them too in my time.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:27pm
      - nasska
        
        I’ve only hit the deck badly twice in my life Swifty & one was out the back of the hall after a Northern Drivers Union meeting. I wasn’t exactly a pushover but three on to one was overwhelming.
        
        I lost a week’s work out of that but we sorted things out later, this time one on one with totally different outcomes.
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:39pm
      - Swifty
        
        What was behind that contretemps nasska?
        
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        January 30, 2019 7:52pm
      - nasska
        
        Our “yard” was the least union organised in the Wairarapa & I along with two others were always considered to be bosses’ men. We were designated senior drivers although there were some who’d been there much longer.
        
        If you didn’t fit into the egalitarian mould life tended to be difficult. Every time there was a strike I’d go fencing for a cocky I knew rather than man a picket line……my family weren’t suffering for a pack of scum commie unionists.
        
        Things got so bad that at one stage the union delegate threatened me by telling me “we’ll get your wife & kids”. From then on it was war.
        
        Overall, I didn’t win but then again I didn’t lose.
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:09pm
      - Swifty
        
        Sheesh.
        
        nasska, are you North or Wairarapa at the mo and for how long?
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:29pm
      - nasska
        
        Central/north for most of my time but we retired to Masterton where our daughters live.
        
        But when we sold up we decided to take a break before we committed ourselves. Instead of a McMansion with half an acre of grounds we bought a modest 2bdrm ONO in Masterton & a house in the Far North.
        
        Which is where I’m heading to in ten days time.
        
        Where the climate’s good & the fishing’s great……eat your hearts out workers! 🙂
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:42pm
      - Swifty
        
        Cool.
        
        I’m quite regularly in both places so, at the right time, might look you up via DPF, if that’s ok.
        
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        January 30, 2019 8:51pm
- DigNap15
  
  Maybe her deal with the EU was a ten year target.
  
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  January 30, 2019 6:38pm
  - ex-golfer
    
    Her deal with the EU (discussed only last week) will be hastily re-calibrated to ensure that benefits are delivered within the next 10 years.
    The benefits are unknown yet, so a Working Group is being established and will report back in November 2020.
    
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    January 30, 2019 7:18pm
DigNap15

Ardern does not realise how much fun we will have at the next election.
Any policy Labour put up we will be able to say is it a target and will it be re-calibrated.
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January 30, 2019 8:10pm
Kabull

I wonder when this was written?

The Arctic Ocean is warming up. Icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report by the Commerce Dept at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, sea hunters all over point to radical change in climate conditions. And hitherto unheard of temperatures in the Arctic zone exploration expeditions report scarcely any ice as far north as 81 degrees; soundings show the Gulf Stream very warm, masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, and it goes on and on. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

Sounds very familiar and in step with the warning we are getting. BUT it was published by the American Meteorological Society Monthly Weather Review in November 1922.

See this clip – https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=mqejXs7XgsU and note particularly this comment from 2.08:

“Tom mentioned that 90% of the time since the Ice Age the earth was warmer than it is now. Actually, 90% of the time since Creation the earth was warmer than it is now, because the geological evidence indicates that over all of geologic history – 4.65 billion years – [only] somewhere between 5 and 10% of that time was there any substantial ice on earth – and now there is. There is Greenland, Antarctica, and then summer ice all over the planet. So you are talking 5 or 10% of the time was the planet cooler than it is now. Just to add to that, we are at one of the lowest levels of CO2 in Earth’s history. 440 million years ago, when we were in the depths of the coldest period in the last half billion years we had 1100% of today’s CO2 levels according to geologic proxies. Yes, CO2 is very low right now – they say 40% rise in the last century – since 1880. Well, that’s peanuts in natural terms. [Panelist shows meter indicating CO2 level in conference room was around 900.]”

How the government and the media can continue their false, fabricated fear-mongering about climate change I do not know. How does one combat the disinformation we are being fed? The MSM have closed their ears.
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January 30, 2019 8:45pm
Swifty

For waikatogirl, Maggy and others if of interest.

The story of Hannah Hauxwell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC5WeuLHUdU

And, as a result, the music that has been filling my house these last few weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3nxOF8wnMk

Honestly, we’ve never had it so easy.
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January 30, 2019 8:46pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh, I’m very familiar with Hannah Hauxwell’s life…I’ve watched all the docos on her that I could lay my hands on…
  Such a pity NZTV never played any of the programmes on her.
  
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  January 30, 2019 9:07pm
  - Swifty
    
    Lovely, I quietly thought you might have.
    
    She has quite affected me.
    
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    January 30, 2019 9:08pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      If you don’t mind wading through subtitles.. here’s one on Agafia Lykova–70 years in an Old Believers village in Siberia … 25 years alone.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
      
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      January 30, 2019 9:19pm
      - Swifty
        
        Remarkable.
        
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        January 30, 2019 9:25pm
      - Jack5
        
        Agafia’s family were Old Believers of the Orthodox faith.
        
        Forty or fifty years ago more than a hundred Old Believers were settled in Southland as refugees. I think that they had fled Communism to Manchuria, then when the Communists talk over China (and Manchuria) they fled first to Hong Kong.
        
        I wonder what became of them. They had scores of religious non-work holidays during the year, but a friend told me that the sons of the Old Believer families often got jobs at the freezing works, and quite quickly blended with the locals.
        
        Perhaps they have moved to join Old Believer populations in Australia or North America, or even returned to Russia.
        
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        January 30, 2019 10:32pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Some moved to Christchurch or Invercargill.
        Not sure that many left the country.
        https://oldbelievers.wordpress.com/tag/russian-old-believers-in-new-zealand/
        
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        January 30, 2019 11:10pm
Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/macro-afternoon-577/#comment-3278263

CHINA – GUANGDONG: Note discussion of the ‘flight to affordability’ … indeed a global issue …

Guangdong’s growth slump is seen as a turning point for China’s economy, say analysts … South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2184195/guangdongs-growth-slump-seen-turning-point-chinas-economy-say

• Country’s most prosperous province has set lower 2019 growth target that matches expected national target as fast growth fades and trade war clouds outlook

• Provincial officials have made helping private sector to boost growth a priority
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January 30, 2019 9:21pm
- Jack5
  
  There used to be (and maybe still is ) a saying among New Zealand and Australian farmers when it began to rain, or when they wanted it to rain: “Send her down Hughie!”
  
  I think of that when Hugh Pavelitch keeps us posted with property market doom.
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:56pm
Jack5

A Christchurch “Asian fusion” restaurant that was highlighted over its non-PC menu has gone under. It gave dishes non-PC names, playing on Chinese novices’ English pronunciation.

The restaurant, Bamboozle, had on its menu for a couple of years dishes such as “chirri an garrik prawn dumpring,” “suk sum teet,” “ho lee kok,” “won ton kouw kum now” and “yum ee kouw patt.”

A restaurant reviewer of the Christchurch Press about a year ago encountered the menu and blasted it.

A subsequent Stuff poll with more than 19,000 respondents found that 60 per cent thought the menu was funny and that people “should lighten up”.

However, the then-Racism Czarina, Susan ~~Devoid~~ Devoy, condemned the menu. Reporters gained critical opinions from a Massey psychology lecturer, James Liu; a “marketing professional,” Julian Liew-Young; and from the Chinese Friendship Society’s national president, Dave Bromwich, who labelled the menu as “bordering on racism”.

The Bamboozle shut its doors on Saturday night. It wasn’t alone in difficulty, the newspaper reports. A French restaurant in Christchurch since 2008 has collapsed with debts of more than $100,000.

The owner and chef,Phillip Kraal, has participated in charity events in Christchurch, including boxing.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110251169/restaurant-with-racist-menu-latest-to-close
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January 30, 2019 10:17pm
RF

I heard today that Peters is throwing more cash at Nauru.

Is Arderns father still work up there ?

Just asking
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January 30, 2019 10:27pm
- Jack5
  
  Here’s the link to Judas’s gift to Nauru.
  
  But I think Jacinderella’s Dad, Ross Ardern, has been NZ High Commissioner in Niue since 2014. I think the NZ High Commissioner to Nauru is Nicci Simmonds.
  
  https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand-doubles-its-support-nauru%E2%80%99s-economic-resilience
  
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  January 30, 2019 10:39pm
Jack5

Evidence of ~~Judas~~ Whinnie Peters’ back-down on the migrant rush to NZ … this is from a Radio NZ report on falling numbers of tertiary students coming to NZ from China:

Independent Tertiary Education New Zealand is the largest organisation for private institutions. Its chairperson Craig Musson said his sector was not alone.

“Everyone else is down as well, so I don’t think it’s only in the PTE [private training establishments] market.”

Mr Musson said enrolments from China and India had fallen in the private sector, but the introduction last year of tougher work permit rules had not had as big an impact as feared.

And here’s the kicker:

“The changes weren’t as Draconian as we were expecting, which is good.

“Time will tell and we’ll be working with the immigration minister to look at how we can try and make sure there’s no major effect over the next two or three years.”

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/381331/fewer-foreign-students-enrolling-in-tertiary-study
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January 30, 2019 11:58pm
Viking2

Lets hope the gentleman wins this case and the police are sent home with their tales between their corporate legs.

A Blenheim businessman accused of hog-tying a teenager he found in his niece’s bedroom has refused diversion and will go to trial.

The man, who cannot be named, had allegedly been alerted to a suspicious person on his property and called police shortly before checking his niece’s bedroom last June.

Police claimed the man dragged the teen outside, punched him and then tied his limbs together, before taking a photograph of the boy as evidence.

The man was charged with assault, but denied the charge, saying he never punched the boy but was restraining an intruder.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/110263666/businessman-charged-with-assaulting-teen-refuses-diversion
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