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krazykiwi

Vodafone sold. I’ve had a couple of senior roles there over the last 20ish years. The heady days of Bellsouth->Vodafone were the most fun. Good times.
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May 14, 2019 8:03am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Our business had hung in with Vodafone for a number of years, but we changed to 2Degrees at the end of last year. It was becoming increasingly difficult to get answers out of anyone at Vodafone, and we’re not only saving money now, but we are getting a much better level of customer service.
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:24am
  - peterwn
    
    This is the sort of thing Infratil has to fix. They have experience with this sort of thing with Trustpower and improving its act in this regard has been one of Trustpower’s objectives (how successful they are with this I do not know).
    Seems to me that the investment market had no confidence with Vodafone NZ being handed ‘as is where is’ to investors in a IPO but Infratil no doubt sees value in it when it is kicked into shape.
    Be interesting to see what happens to Infratil’s share price today.
    So NZ lost TipTop but gained Vodafone NZ.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:26am
    - Sacha
      
      What’s the fuss about Tip Top? As a consumer, I can think of several other NZ made brands that are much nicer. If the new owners can step up with quality, I’m sure they will thrive.
      
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      May 14, 2019 9:40am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Yeah, what’s the fuss? Not only is Tip Top no better than others, it’s also more expensive.
        
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        May 14, 2019 10:09am
      - adamsmith1922
        
        Totally agree, but this attack by Peters is another attack on farmers and on business
        
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        May 14, 2019 11:09am
    - peterwn
      
      IFT price down 4.6% since last weeks close (other shares down less than that). Wonder if investors and brokers think IFT has purchased a bit of a turkey.
      
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      May 14, 2019 12:41pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Vodafone are patchy. We ‘ve stuck with them in our latest refresh largely because we have a really excellent account manager who makes things happen for us – and gets us deals that match the best available as we go out to open tender for renewals.
    
    Briefly a few years back we changed managers and the new guy wasn’t up to scratch and we nearly moved to another provider.
    
    So if you can get the service and the prices you need, they’re good, but it is down to the people they use.
    
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    May 14, 2019 4:49pm
Happychappy

Why have we second rate Journalists in NZ like this.https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/05/patrick-gower-i-was-ashamed-and-embarrassed-i-ve-not-done-one-story-on-white-supremacy.amp.html
This idiot thinks he could be a influence on our younger Journalists on white supremacy.
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May 14, 2019 8:07am
- Tricati
  
  The man is an arse – Using his media position to create a mountain out of a mole hill to appease his hurt feelings after being internationally embarrassed.
  I would love to see him take on Molyneux and Southern on ‘White Supremacy’ and its apparent wide spread influence in NZ (According to Gower).
  I’m getting sick and tired of muppets like Gower, using their media position, to push this type of crap, and the likes of Helen Clarke constantly being given a platform to spout her rhetoric in support of Ardern.
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:25am
- mandk
  
  Poor Paddy has never been the same since he was humiliated by Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux.
  
  He’ll end up writing horoscopes or some such.
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:27am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    What will he do when he realises that he epitomises White Privilege?
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:28am
    - Tall Man
      
      He also epitomises stupidity but that light bulb hasn’t gone off in his head yet.
      
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      May 14, 2019 12:24pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    Gowers` whining that they gave him a taste of his own medicine,
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/05/time-for-a-rematch-against-lauren-southern-and-stefan-molyneux-patrick-gower.html
    Empty promises, given they probably have no interest in coming back and I doubt he`ll have the guts to go to Canada.
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:34am
    - yossarian
      
      I thought an interview involved a person asking questions about what’s going on. But he says he wants to debate them, so he doesn’t want to interview them at all, he just wants to argue with them.
      
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      May 14, 2019 11:51am
    - Steve Wrathall
      
      I asked Gower’s Twitter when the rematch is. No reply yet, but my question got liked by Molyneux… twitter.com/SteveHWrathall/status/1127889053242642432
      
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      May 14, 2019 12:21pm
  - MickMac
    
    mandK
    They showed him up to be a lightweight didn’t they?
    Not prepared either.
    He tends to be a bully too.
    
    Some of the greenie types I know admit this, but themselves weren’t able to counter their freedom and liberty positions.
    
    When I asked them why they thought they knew better than other people, it was an embarressing moment. For them.
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:55am
- Inandout
  
  How many people actually watch Gower, like are there viewer figures available?
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:28am
  - softail 1450
    
    Inandout,Gower has been around a while now and with practice I can mute him in less than 3 seconds.
    Amazingly Arderne has only been around for a short time and I can mute her babbling in under a second .LOL.
    
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    May 14, 2019 11:40am
- G152
  
  Newshub says it all.
  Fake news pushing an agenda and relying upon those same ‘whites’ they’re insulting to spread their bigoted message
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:33am
- harvey wilson
  
  There’s a moral panic about white supremacists , reminds me of the satan worshipper nonsense in the early 90s .
  
  Any actual evidence that there’s a groundswell of support in NZ for this pathetic ideology ?
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:35am
  - Ross12
    
    As for Dame Ann Salmond writing the piece on “Was Captain Cooke a white supremacist?”
    That is almost worse than Gower –Gower is just a 3rd rate scribbler so we do not expect much more, but Dame Anne is meant to be an historian and is a former NZer of the year.
    
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    May 14, 2019 8:58am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      I did used to think she was a bit better than a cheap revisionist
      
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      May 14, 2019 9:06am
      - Jack5
        
        Salmond is an anthropologist by job, but an oral-historian by inclination.
        
        Some describe anthropology as “the diverse study of human beings”. So broad, it’s vague, and it’s not a science.
        
        This, from an article of hers in the Herald in March, exemplifies Salmond’s views:
        
        “After Maori, the indigenous people of this country, this sense of white superiority spills out over “other” groups — Pasifika, Asian people, and now Muslims in Christchurch.”
        
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        May 14, 2019 9:24am
      - G152
        
        Every twenty years the history of New Zealand is ‘revised’ (read reinvented) by some-one claiming to be a historian with their axe to grind.
        Cook was a master mariner nothing more and nothing less
        
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        May 14, 2019 9:55am
    - JibberJabber
      
      I read that article on the weekend and that was a bullshit clickbait headline, given Salmonds previous epistles in stuffed I was prepared for a hit job on Captain Cook but was pleasantly surprised to see she had gotten a grasp on the reality of the time or maybe she is just a little embarrassed by some previous comments and is attempting to walk them back a little.
      
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      May 14, 2019 9:15am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        Didn’t seem to stop RNZ alluding to the ‘fact’ that Captain Cook may have been a white supremacist
        
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        May 14, 2019 9:19am
      - Ross12
        
        I sort of agree with you JJ, but the fact she felt the need to right a piece in the context of today’s latest SJW “big issue” says something about what she is really thinking. It is a case of it would better not to say anything at all, in my view.
        
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        May 14, 2019 10:23am
    - Rich Prick
      
      At the risk of holding the past to today’s narrative, we had better not tell her about those Democrats and their slaves.
      
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      May 14, 2019 10:04am
    - namron
      
      With the Sestercentennial celebration of Cook’s arrival in Poverty Bay now 5 months away, the Gisborne Herald’s front page story last night was headlined –
      “ENCOUNTER, OR MURDER?” which includes many quotes from “indigenous rights advocate” Tina Ngata.
      This features her recent writing and advocating for a boycott of the “celebrations.” More than $20 million in funding has been given to fund projects.
      Quote from Ngata-
      “Somebody lands and then shoots the person that they see, and then the next day shoots another 15, and then wants to get a closer look at a waka so they shoot everybody in the waka and everybody in the waka was unarmed. They were just fisherpeople.”
      To read the lengthy article, try
      http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz
      
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      May 14, 2019 2:17pm
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        Tina Ngata will tell you that the event about the waka slaughter in October 1769 was the first machine gun mass killing in New Zealand.
        
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        May 14, 2019 8:14pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Well she’s very clear about who white supremacists are:
        In response to Dame Anne, Ms Ngata said it was important to remember that a white supremacist need not be filled with contempt for another race.
        
        “They only need to believe white people to be superior to them. That is literally the definition of a white supremacist.
        
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        May 14, 2019 9:19pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Mmm, the concerns of lots of lefty social workers…?
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:17am
  - cmm
    
    It’s a branding exercise.
    
    Anyone who draws attention to the problems associated with massive waves of Islamist immigration gets called a white supremacist.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:53am
    - freethinker
      
      The Islamists are not Immigrants when the cross borders without permission of the country they target to live in, they are invaders and historically they have been repelled using force – often deadly force. And Pelosi still claims the US doesn’t need a border wall!
      
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      May 14, 2019 12:28pm
  - MickMac
    
    The so called white supremists
    
    are very very small as it always has been.
    and rightly so.
    
    It’s a beat up by Jacinda and her ilk to push their agenda and stamp on their opponants.
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:57am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      I know brown supremicists. Each culture ranks their own as tops.
      
      James Cook was a fine example of a master mariner of his time-capable, fair minded and respected by his sailors. To attempt to evaluate the past by particular contemporary society values is academic vandalism.
      
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      May 14, 2019 6:45pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Aren’t I automatically a white supremacist by virtue of the colour of my skin? I must have misunderstood. Not!!
    
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    May 14, 2019 12:37pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      Yes, of course I’m not one myself, but I am one.
      
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      May 14, 2019 1:43pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  When I heard that Newshub was going to run an exclusive on NZ’s white supremacy activities, I did think, here we go – they’re going to say they’ve got proof that the National Party is funded by the KKK.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:03am
  - JibberJabber
    
    The KauKapaKapa Residents Association denies all scurrilous rumours!
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:40am
    - Tall Man
      
      With or without their white sheets……….
      
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      May 14, 2019 12:30pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      So does, Keep Kawhia Kawhia. Oh and ffs Kinder Surprise.
      
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      May 14, 2019 12:38pm
- Simon
  
  Couple hundred words about how useless Patrick Gower is in his own words.
  
  51 people murdered but its all about me.
  
  Dont worry about it everyone has the exact same respect for MSM as they did prior to the killings.
  
  Pro tip for Newsdud dont go behind a paywall.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:07am
  - Jack5
    
    But Simon, never forget Gower’s declaration of his product:
    
    https://youtu.be/tzZ02BtGmHg
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:34am
- andrew davies
  
  A maniac Australian who was radicalised overseas commits a heinous crime and all of a sudden NZ is awash with white supremacists. I am waiting for Gower’s evidence though I suspect it will be a long wait.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:27am
  - MickMac
    
    andrew
    don’t hold your breath mate..
    
    Paddy is thick if he evemn thinks there is a white supremist problem in our society.
    
    he’ll have to manufacture it, which I wouldn’t put it past him.
    
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    May 14, 2019 11:00am
  - The Feed
    
    Let me guess: will they redefine “centerist” as “white supremacist” and read out a whole lot of “shocking” anonymous social media posts?
    
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    May 14, 2019 2:09pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  So he would prefer to be subjugated? A submissive white population, well he can be a submissive if he likes, he can start with a gimp mask.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:42am
- peterwn
  
  Reminds me of Joe McCarthy looking for ‘reds under beds’ wrecking careers and reputations on a whiff of rumours. And the likes of J Edgar got in on the act.
  The current NZ situation is getting like Joe McCarthy’s behavior except they are looking for ‘white supremists under beds’.
  Wonder if NZ’s top cops are going to start doing J Edgar’s.
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:46pm
Lee C

I was impressed with Simon Bridge’s delivery and confidence on RNZ yesterday.

Also I read a great article about Aussie Rugby and Israel Folau.
It appears you an attack (like kick) a pregnant girlfriend, snort coke, deal in drugs, assault people go on benders, throw people into garage doors, engage in date-rape, and harass female serving staff, and that appears to get a slap on the wrist. and some pretty serious faces.

But exercise a freedom to quote a bible verse, and you are drummed out of your job for being ‘homophobic’.

Is it because he’s black?

What am I saying?
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May 14, 2019 8:08am
- krazykiwi
  
  Alan Joyce is behind this. And intolerant hypocrite in charge of the major sponsor of Aussie rugby.
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:19am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Yep; it’s the Golden Rule. The gay bloke who gives the most money to Australian Rugby makes the rules.
    
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    May 14, 2019 8:31am
  - Ruahine
    
    Alan Joyce is a homosexual.
    
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    May 14, 2019 8:48am
    - MickMac
      
      Absolutely correct Ruahine.
      
      he might not be a gay person at all.
      He could be a sour puss.
      
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      May 14, 2019 11:01am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Australian Rugby can’t pay its bills without Qantas sponsorship so the Qantas CEO can decide who plays and who doesn’t. We should assume Qantas really doesn’t like the bible but doesn’t have as much of a problem with the other stuff you listed.
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:19am
  - Andrei
    
    Well there might be blowback on Qantas and Alan Joyce as well as Australian Rugby Union
    
    Israel Folau is possibly the best fullback in the world today, highest try scorer is Super Rugby while Australian rugby right now is in the doldrums.
    
    It doesn’t seem smart to knock out one of Rugby unions best players especially when there is competition for young players in competing codes like league and AFL .
    
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    May 14, 2019 8:43am
    - Brian Marshall
      
      Best fullback Australia has at the moment. There are several in NZ that I would rate higher, but he’s an excellent sportsman.
      
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      May 14, 2019 12:16pm
- MCos
  
  Steven Anderson has been banned from entering Ireland
  ‘Mr Anderson has previously called for the death of former US President Barack Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people in an attack on a gay night club in Florida in 2016.’
  He no doubt bases his beliefs on his interpretation of the Bible too.
  After all what’s worse death to gays in this life or eternal damnation?https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48252527
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:50am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Talking about gays going to hell does not affect the likelihood it will actually happen. That seems like an important distinction to me.
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:03am
    - MCos
      
      ‘Hell’ is a convenient word for some sort of state of eternal damnation that some people, who believe it will never happen to them, use as a control mechanism of others.
      Of cause it doesn’t work if the other person has different standards or is an afterlife denier.
      Whether you are actually going to go to ‘hell’ for some particular behaviour is a moot point. It’s the threat that’s important and whether or not the person making the threat controls your mind.
      Someone obviously controls Folau’s mind.
      
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      May 14, 2019 10:44am
      - MickMac
        
        MCos
        
        what a stupid thing to say.
        
        Someone obviously controls Folau’s Mind.
        
        He Folau controls his own mind.
        By examining his faith position and the Bible (the majority of Christians believe).
        ((Many of them around you in your daily life))
        
        He calls all those who are in sin to come right by giving their heart allegience to Jesus Christ or face damnation.
        
        Only the guttersnipes picked one word because they could attack him. (I do wonder if Alan Joyce has had anyone looking at Folau’s feeds)…..
        
        “All have fallen short of the glory of God” is Folau’s position. (and 90% of Christians).
        
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        May 14, 2019 11:07am
  - Inandout
    
    Meanwhile in Ireland…
    
    ‘In Census 2011, 49,200 people declared themselves Muslim. Islam is now listed by the CSO as being one of the fastest growing religions in Ireland.Jun 7, 2017’
    
    and not banned for their attitude to gays.
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:19am
    - MCos
      
      Here’s an article in the Irish Times from three years ago.
      I’m not Muslim & I doubt that you are either so neither of us can speak for the those that live over there.
      However.
      I expect, as with Christians there will be a range of views on the the ‘sinfulness’ of homosexuality and the appropriate punishment and whether or not to make a song and dance about it as Anderson does.
      https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/lgbt-people-invited-to-muslim-community-meal-in-dublin-1.2702802?mode=amp
      
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      May 14, 2019 12:39pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  And it is no even as if he is a shit player. cutting off ones nose to spite ones face seems apt.
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:50pm
MrTips

I’ve always regarded Robbo as a major weak link in the CoL. Now the dodgy bugger is trying to schmooze the fact the CAs are nosediving and he’s got plans to hide his incompetence. Amy Adams needs to crucify him in the House over this stunt.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12230365
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May 14, 2019 8:31am
redeye

If you watched the Game of Thrones episode last night you’ll get a giggle out of this article.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/08/pm-jacinda-ardern-reveals-her-game-of-thrones-inspired-nickname.html
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she’s known as the ‘Mother of Dragons’ by some of her colleagues in Government.
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May 14, 2019 8:31am
- Prince
  
  I think ‘Reek’ is more fitting, but there you go.
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:47am
- MrTips
  
  I’ve always thought of Gracinda as more Kath&Kim.
  
  Seriously, the Dunning-Kruger is strong in that lot.
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:49am
- Jellybean
  
  How apt. Without any more fossil fuels she’ll need a dragon when she wants to move on from metaphorically burning our country to the ground.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:25am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I have a lazy fiver that says it ends badly for the Mother of Dragons next Monday
  
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  May 14, 2019 11:48am
- Durden
  
  Jacinda spoke too soon.
  
  Daenerys is apparently going/gone mad according DPF’s wrap-up of GoT today. Something to do with too much power, too much media kool-aid or genes ? And if Paulus Gnome’s comment comes true, it will have been yet another of her “Hold my beer” type gaffe. Doh !
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:06pm
- Peter S
  
  The Mother of Dragons’ is the one that has been in a relationship with someone known as Snow?
  
  Last night’s episode of GOT is a good metaphor for Jacinda/Labour’s approach to the economy.
  Very good at deciding pretty much every institution and process is not fit for purpose.
  I have my doubts about the ability to replace with anything useful.
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:19pm
Captain Mainwaring

Just an off the wall comment to wake you all up:
If it were possible to transfer half of Justin Lester’s chin onto Patrick Gower, would that result in two reasonable average looking blokes?
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May 14, 2019 8:32am
- MrTips
  
  Lester’s chin is only outperformed by his incompetence. Come in Paddlefoot!
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:51am
- Inandout
  
  Add Jay Leno’s chin and you would have an unusual bloke.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:30am
RW Capitalist

JA’s paris meeting with world leaders
She will be joined by UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Senegal President Macky Sall, and King Abdullah II of Jordan.

So most EU, nearly all of Asia, all of Africa, no country South of Canada, (our best friend) Australia, nearly all of the pacific countries
No senior business leaders.
Are all NOTABLE not just by their absence but also and more importantly by their SILENCE.
She’s right this just like the Nuclear free times, when all of what Lange did was for NZ consumption, to get him elected, and alienated all our then friends/allies.
It took years to recover even part of those hard won relationships.
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May 14, 2019 8:34am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Bro – Justin is comin. That is enough.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:17am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    From some of what I read, if Justin doesn’t watch it, he’ll be going soon.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:29am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Justin’s sexual limitations are none of my business.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:35am
- Rachael Membery
  
  And can we at least hope that there might actually be debate let alone dissent?
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:53pm
harvey wilson

Sweden have reopened the case against alleged rapist Julian Assange. I wonder if the likes of Morrissey will look like Polanskis supporters when he is found guilty?

He still maintains this fiction that the charges are false without a single shred of evidence to prove that theory. At this point I suspect even a filmed confession from Assange wouldn’t change that.
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May 14, 2019 8:37am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Assange will do everything he can to delay any hearing.
  The rape charge drops after 10 years (and that is only 15 months away).
  
  He also faced investigations for molestation and unlawful coercion, but these cases were dropped in 2015 because time had run out.
  
  Prosecutors have decided to reopen the rape case before the 10-year statute of limitations expires in August 2020. The sexual assault investigation was dropped after the five-year statute of limitations expired.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:51am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Given he was on the run I would be very surprised if statute of limitations applied. Generally it only applies to the time when the crime is first reported to police.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:02am
  - harvey wilson
    
    He gets out in 48 weeks from the Uk jail then he can go to Sweden to face his rape charges then a few years after that Leavenworth and an orange jumpsuit awaits .
    
    Can’t wait to see all this come to pass.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:03am
    - G152
      
      Any chance we cant send the obese German to share a cell with him?
      
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      May 14, 2019 10:00am
- Wangas Feral
  
  Funny how the Swedish government don’t seem to care about girls being raped by Muslim immigrants/refugees yet are expending a lot of resource to go after this Aussie dickhead over a he said/she said thing.
  
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  May 14, 2019 4:08pm
MCos

The first game of rugby was played in NZ in Nelson one hundred and forty nine years ago today.
Doris Day sang the national anthem before she was a born again virgin.
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May 14, 2019 8:38am
- Tall Man
  
  WTF is wrong with you?
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:47pm
- Cobolt24
  
  She’s dead now.
  
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  May 14, 2019 7:13pm
Happychappy

Another reason why Winston shouldn’t be Deputy PM, He won’t except facts and has shoot the messenger as he thinks he knows better.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/05/livestream-winston-peters-fronts-post-cabinet-press-conference.html
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May 14, 2019 8:39am
- Rachael Membery
  
  All just trying to get some air while JA is away.
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:56pm
Maggy Wassilieff

It was important to New Zealanders that the internet remained “free, open and accessible”, Ardern said, and the Christchurch Call would not impinge on those rights, but seek to patrol the dissemination and spread of terrorist and extremist material online.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/13/christchurch-call-details-emerge-of-arderns-plan-to-tackle-online-extremism
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May 14, 2019 8:43am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The concept of “plan to tackle extremism” is that the little people cannot be trusted to decide what they will or will not watch.
  
  (Never mind the issue of who gets to decide what is “extreme” and on what basis.)
  
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  May 14, 2019 8:49am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The little people cannot be trusted to decide what they will or will not watch.
    Aren’t we lucky that the big boys and girls with their B.Communications degrees and Journalism diplomas can decide for us.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:36am
    - Jack5
      
      We had a thriving newspaper industry for more than a century before PR/Communications degrees and journalism diplomas were invented.
      
      What have they added, except to the dilution of our universities’ focus on learning and knowledge?
      
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      May 14, 2019 10:08am
      - calendar girl
        
        Maggy, this is the same NZ Prime Minister from whom we hear nothing about some very relevant local news. Two of her own Government’s media entities (Radio NZ and Television NZ) have joined with three other major media outlets (Mediaworks, Stuff and NZ Herald) in a pact to control reporting of the Court appearances of Brenton Tarrant, charged with the slaughter of 51 persons in the 15 March mosque attack in Christchurch.
        
        It’s about time that Ms Ardern fronted up publicly to tell us about what appears to be a cosy little censorship plan. Is such an agreement even legal under NZ laws that prohibit collusion between ‘competing’ trading organisations? Does she even care about that? It’s all very well for her to front-up in Paris amongst big political names discussing the actions of social media outlets, but do those important politicians know that her own “mainstream” media outlets will be colluding in controlling news that might otherwise be reported routinely back in her own country?
        
        I want us here in NZ to hear directly from our PM on this subject, preferably in advance of her Paris appearance for the enlightenment of the world’s media.
        
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        May 14, 2019 12:46pm
    - calendar girl
      
      Very biting comment, Maggy. Says it all!
      
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      May 14, 2019 10:10am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        They will probably practice their unity on the case of the youth camp perpetrator. I don’t see why they should confine that censorship to Tarrant.
        
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        May 14, 2019 1:03pm
- Alien
  
  basically what she wants to do is ban what is already banned, fight what is already being fought.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:08am
  - dave_c_
    
    Rather – Set the precendent of expectation – that this enables further (knee jerk or worse) decisions at the behest of the cabal we call government to be made. And none of them enhance our freedoms !
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:31am
  - Tall Man
    
    And lose what has already been won.
    
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    May 14, 2019 12:51pm
- cmm
  
  In magic hugz land you can have free and open internet while suppressing it at the same time.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:14am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  She is a winner. 2020 is in the bank.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:18am
  - Tall Man
    
    She’s a whiner and in 2020 we will finally see the back of her.
    
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    May 14, 2019 12:52pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  But what is extremism or terrorism? Who decides? Does it include the UK and USA helping the Saudis with the continuing Southi bombing in Yemen?
  
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  May 14, 2019 11:01am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Lizzie Marvelly has gone along to tell Cindy what is and what is not okay.
    
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    May 14, 2019 6:51pm
- adamsmith1922
  
  BS, just read Helen Clark’s Foundation Report
  
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  May 14, 2019 11:15am
- Straight arrow
  
  Two observations:
  One
  I will be surprised if the “Christchurch Call” is materially different from the EU’s ”Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online” from 2016, endorsed by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube. The Call is a PR stunt.
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/code_of_conduct_on_countering_illegal_hate_speech_online_en.pdf
  
  Two
  The Helen Clark Foundation states “We are non-partisan”. Yet in their report “Anti-social media: Reducing the spread of harmful content on social networks” the authors propose that the government “directs New Zealand’s intelligence services to develop a high-level strategy outlining their commitments to combating white supremacist and far right extremism”. Not any extremism, just far right extremism. Think of violent acts to do with politics in NZ over the past twenty years – how many were conducted by right wing extremists? How many of these acts were gleefully posted on social media with inflammatory comments? How many condemned those posts?
  
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  May 14, 2019 4:47pm
artemisia

An employer fights back.

‘Declaration of war’: Railway workers to be suspended after preparing for strike, union says

Union issues strike notice, employer locks out for 30 days. The employer has declined to comment, leaving the union free to say what they like.

And the union says that migrants are being exploited. There is a proper process for that.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/112580001/declaration-of-war-railway-workers-suspended-after-preparing-for-strike
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May 14, 2019 9:01am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Strikes beget strikes.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:53am
Maggie Pie

Anyone else like me find it a bit odd that stores in the UK are not selling any commemorative ‘Archie’ merchandise? I was sooo looking forward to adding another Mug to my collection.

Just saying.
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May 14, 2019 9:10am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  I can send you a baby Neve cookie jar….
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:19am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    We’ve already got the commemorative ‘Fishing Knife’ that Clarke was flogging off.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:36am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Maggie Pie,
  where have you been, dear?
  
  There’s no mud mugs for Archie Harrison…
  Bone china only.
  https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes/2019051372944/royal-baby-archie-harrison-commemorative-china/
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:41am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Oh gawd – out of my league Maggs! Ive had a friend of mine in the UK looking out for stuff at Camden Market, but as you say, no ‘mud mugs’ or spoons as yet.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:50am
  - Sacha
    
    Poor kid. He’ll be forever known as Archie Harrison – and a bit of a joke.
    But that’s what happens when you have dizzy parents determined to live the alt. life.
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:52am
    - Paulus
      
      At least you will know that he is Harry’s Son !
      
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      May 14, 2019 1:58pm
- mark15
  
  Danny Baker bought it all!!!
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:10pm
Ross12

So called “populist” parties are well ahead in opinion polls in many countries in the EU (esp Italy). Farage’s Brexit Party, started just a month or so ago, is well ahead for the UK.

So what does Facebook do?

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/13/facebook-shuts-down-pro-populist-italian-pages-before-eu-elections/
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May 14, 2019 9:12am
Suze Wainwright

I did think Simon Bridges was quite good on RNZ yesterday – pointed out that if there wasn’t a multi-billion $ provincial slush fund, free tertiary education fees and massive funding for Winston’s foreign affairs’ ambitions, that the teachers might have been able to get a bit extra.
You always know something’s struck home when the interviewer suddenly sounds distracted…
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May 14, 2019 9:12am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  If and when National gets back to power, they should disband RNZ and send the clowns home.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:20am
  - calendar girl
    
    And TVNZ.
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:13am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Politicians need media, like flies need shit. It is their primary sustenance.
      Best National could do is try to force some sort of neutrality on media – but how when next left wing govt will just come along and stack it with their mates again? Maybe a long term endowment to be parcelled out as bonuses to least biased reporters and careful selection of whoever administers the endownment?
      
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      May 14, 2019 9:29pm
Poppa

Peters seems to have his undies in a twist over the sale of Tip Top. Perhaps he should explain to the shareholders why they should have accepted a lower price in the sale to a NZ based company

He has forgotten that he is the Govt & not in opposition which is where he should be anyway
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May 14, 2019 9:13am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Winston must have had to start NZ First’s campaigning for the 2020 election earlier that thought.
  He will need a scandal though that all the major figures in the National Party are demonstrably donkey deep in – and that he’s the only person who can save the electorate from them.
  I don’t think his superannuation payments will resonate any more.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:27am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Tip Top are not the only ice cream makers in NZ. Im sure others will compete to satisfy us.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:49am
  - Tall Man
    
    Exactly. Look at the growth of Whittakers chocolate after Cadbury dropped the ball.
    
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    May 14, 2019 12:58pm
Nukuleka

All over Christchurch for the past few weeks there have been posters displaying inane messages such as’ It’s All Right To Keep Ticking Along’, ‘Its All Right To Take A Breather’ and ‘It’s All Right To Need A Hug’.

Have these kindergarterten-style, platitudinous posters found their way to other parts of New Zealand or are they just restricted to Christchurch?

To this banal level we have sunk.
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May 14, 2019 9:14am
- Alien
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  How dare Christchurch put up messages to support those who need it
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:19am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Translated from the WW2 slogan.
  “Keep calm and carry on”
  Which seems to have a better ring to it.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:28am
- cmm
  
  Nothing new. These are mental health messages that have been up since the earthquakes.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:49am
- adamsmith1922
  
  Who’s paying for them
  
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  May 14, 2019 11:17am
Odakyu-sen

A living language creates its own words. A fake language has a committee in the capital which deliberates and synthesizes new terminology to meet the perceived needs of speakers.

Take my Japanese breakfast cereal this morning.

It has an unusual name that doesn’t at first sound very Japanese, but is as Japanese as any modern word in the language.

Here it is: https://www.calbee.co.jp/frugra/

フルグラ　Fu ru gu ra

Can anyone figure out how this product name was derived? (Hint: it is derived from English).

It got me thinking. Have we ever seen Te Reo pull off this kind of adaptive stunt?
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May 14, 2019 9:16am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Sounds like “frugal” to me!
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:21am
  - Jack5
    
    Fruit good for ya?
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:12am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Congratulations, Jack5.
      You’ve found the first of the two English words from which フルグラ (Furugura) is derived.
      
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      May 14, 2019 11:59am
KevO'Brien

Another false flag? Very sketchy details–but we all know who is responsible, or do we?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9060525/saudi-oil-tanker-sabotage-us-iran/
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May 14, 2019 9:22am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’m not sure…
  There have been 4 tankers sabotaged..
  the 2 Saudi ones
  a Norwegian one and one from the UAE
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48245204
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:48am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The murkier the facts the murkier the deed.
    
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    May 14, 2019 10:15am
- Hacked-Off
  
  I agree – it looks very much like a false-flag. No casualties and the attack took place as tensions were ramping up – despite Iran wanting a war. On the other hand Saudi Arabia and the UAE will fight to the last American and European soldier – and their tankers were at the center of it. Iran is being careful not to inflame the situation apart from rhetorical counter attacks. unsure about the Norwegian flagged tanker but could be an attempted ploy to defer suspicion from the usual suspects.
  
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  May 14, 2019 11:35am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Wall Street Journal ramping things up:
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-oil-tankers-attacked-before-entering-persian-gulf-11557725971
    
    Pre-planning?
    https://www.axios.com/iran-military-troops-john-bolton-1d4a714c-ea52-483f-b392-2ac2af01f423.html
    
    Iran will not be messed with. They are an ancient civilisation and leaders of the Shiite world. The Persians were famous as warriors; those genes will still be lurking.
    
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    May 14, 2019 7:05pm
srylands

I happened to be in a car yesterday with RNZ on and had the misfortune of listening to the Children’s Commissioner get stuck into to Oranga Tamariki:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/388970/children-s-comissioner-says-oranga-tamariki-approach-must-change

“For decades the enduring legacy of colonisation together with contemporary systemic racism has long affected decisions made by child welfare services, there’s no getting away from that, it’s a hard message for New Zealand, but it’s one we can’t avoid and we’ve got to confront,” he said.

He is up in arms at the increasing numbers of Maori babies uplifted from their mothers. It is a result of “colonisation”. No analysis of the circumstances that led to these decisions. Just “It is racist”.

If these children were left in place how many would end up dead or injured? And then the screaming really would begin.

I asked the driver if we could put on some music.
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May 14, 2019 9:23am
- Jack5
  
  Becroft is a flake.
  
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  May 14, 2019 1:26pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The Children’s Commissioner is spellbound by the prevailing narrative. Can he not think for himself?
  
  Does the Children’s Commissioner serve the Children or does he serve the narrative of “white colonisation together with contemporary systemic racism.”
  
  I suggest that he has little concern for the welfare of part-Maori children (as there are no longer any full-blooded ones in urban environments).
  
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  May 14, 2019 1:43pm
Maggie Pie

My partner was absolutely ropeable when i showed him this txt from ‘Jack Tame’ earlier on! As he said: “It just goes to show what an impartial little turd he really is to be fronting a current affairs pogram like Q&A”

https://twitter.com/jacktame/status/1127839186466160640
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May 14, 2019 9:29am
- MrTips
  
  To be fair, Bennett should turn up. She’s dropped the ball on that one.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:04am
- MCos
  
  ‘Paula Bennett has refused to appear on @NZQandA tonight to debate Chloe Swarbrick on the cannabis referendum.
  She’ll appear independently but tells us she won’t appear with Swarbrick at this time. I’ll put some of the criticisms of the cannabis legislation to Chloe Swarbrick.’
  
  Seems rather straight forward to me.
  He asked Bennett if she wanted to debated an issue with Swarbrick and she said not right now.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:09am
  - coge
    
    Don’t interrupt the Greens when they are making a mistake.
    
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    May 14, 2019 12:48pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Debate what?
    
    There is no legislation or even a proposal on the table to debate.
    
    It’s just “opinions” at this stage. There is no debating “opinions” especially when one opinion is to ban cigarette smoking but approve cannabis smoking. How do you debate such stupidity?
    
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    May 14, 2019 1:12pm
Happychappy

Mike Hosking the only Journalist that stands up to Winston and tells it how it should be.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12230605
Winston won’t be happy as Mike shows what a arsehole he is and the danger he creates in NZ Politics.
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May 14, 2019 9:29am
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Nationwide residential property sales volumes well down in April but prices remained steady – REINZ data … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/99667/nationwide-residential-property-sales-volumes-well-down-april-prices-remained-steady

https://reinz.co.nz/residential-property-data-gallery
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May 14, 2019 9:59am
- Jack5
  
  What about business property, Hugh?
  
  Heaps of “for lease” signs popping up in the industrial and business areas of Christchurch. Is this just local and related to rebuilding after the earthquakes, or is it national?
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:13am
  - sooty
    
    Hugh are you sick?
    It’s only a short post!
    
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    May 14, 2019 11:26am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Would you want to be in ChCh if you had a choice?
    
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    May 14, 2019 2:07pm
    - Jack5
      
      Yes, Rachael, I choose to live in Christchurch.
      
      What with earthquakes and the massacre, plus the political manoeuvring of Ngai Tahu and the Leftists, it’s starting to feel what Renaissance Italy must have felt like.
      
      Graham Greene tells us what this means:
      
      “ … in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
      
      Now we need a Michelangelo and a da Vinci to pop up — and Auckland to get its cuckoo clock.
      
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      May 14, 2019 3:50pm
      - Tall Man
        
        “and Auckland to get its cuckoo clock.”
        
        And just what do you think goff is?
        
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        May 14, 2019 8:39pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Who are you and what have you done with Hugh Pavletich?
  (Hugh would never voluntarily post something so short…)
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:01pm
- Rob2
  
  They will be back. Immigration is going well.
  
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  May 14, 2019 7:10pm
Happychappy

Winston doing what he does when trying to get voters back on his leadership, stretch the truth.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12230677
Whether it bull shiting over Huka Falls to now saying he has a trade deal likely with the US.
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May 14, 2019 10:06am
BrownSnake

Cook Me some Eggs Captain Cook said to the Cook

It is true

That is what he said
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May 14, 2019 10:07am
- Jack5
  
  And the cook said: how would you like them Cooked, Captain? And small ones, big ones or Moa big?
  
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  May 14, 2019 3:53pm
rightoverlabour

and in other news, once again,

Another Sunday Church Attack in Burkina Faso Kills Six

The Religion of Peace getting confused with the Religion of Piece(s)
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/

Will she wear a Crucifix?
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May 14, 2019 10:09am
rightoverlabour

So Facebook closes Right leaning Italian posts and Google has a bias. Well I never, and Jacinda guarntees freedom of speech ( to see what the left want us to see)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dan-gainor-yes-google-censors-conservatives-even-liberal-journalists-now-admit-it
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May 14, 2019 10:13am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/112690810/helen-clark-backs-jacinda-arderns-christchurch-call-all-key-players-should-be-there

Another day, and yet another article on Stuff from Helen Clark.
The onslaught continues.
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May 14, 2019 10:17am
Lee C

“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she’s known as the ‘Mother of Dragons’ by some of her colleagues in Government.”

*chuckle*

FFS is there any bandwagon she won’t try to exploit left?
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May 14, 2019 10:24am
- Ford Prefect
  
  She ends up destroying her realm because of her lust for power.
  
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  May 14, 2019 10:33am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Which one’s a dragon?
  
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  May 14, 2019 2:48pm
  - PhilP
    
    Helen Clark!
    
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    May 14, 2019 9:53pm
rightoverlabour

Getting in before Dr who starts sprouting hot air

Carbonic acid exists for 26 milliseconds before breaking down Shit I am nervous about the acidification of the oceans…

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/06/16/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-carbonic-acid/

and

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/05/the-total-myth-of-ocean-acidification/
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May 14, 2019 10:31am
- rangitoto
  
  I see the climate end is nigh dooms dayists are trying to spin the recent expansion of the Greenland glaciers as being even more worrying than when they were shrinking.
  
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  May 14, 2019 11:28am
- rightoverlabour
  
  This is a good simple precis of the debate
  
  Worth looking at if you need a good argument to counter alarmist crap.
  
  https://debatewise.org/debates/455-co2-does-not-cause-global-warming/#yes4
  
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  May 14, 2019 3:02pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  And as for stratospheric cooling, read this:
  
  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/608f/2c7c8f9a666d53eab144356257b02d7015ca.pdf
  
  Believe it or not, it is the Sun! Who would have thought so?
  
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  May 14, 2019 3:15pm
Ross12

For all those who think Brexit / EU is all about trade and economics and cannot really understand why the UK should leave the EU, you should read this.

https://brexitcentral.com/bbc4s-brexit-documentary-should-be-compulsory-viewing-before-voting-in-the-european-election/

I hope the documentary is shown in NZ. ( If anyone knows where it can be found on the internet, I’d be thankful for the link).
I am actually amazed the BBC showed the doco and even more amazed the EU politicians allowed themselves to be filmed like this over time.
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May 14, 2019 10:36am
- simpleton1
  
  Part 1 Would be a good watch instead of own tv.
  
  Brexit – Behind Closed Doors, Part 1/2 (Storyville – BBC 4)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a-frttT7nk
  59 mins 33 secs.
  
  Part 2
  Brexit – Behind Closed Doors, Part 2/2 (Storyville – BBC 4)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aCEABM712o
  58 mins 17 secs.
  
  Set it up and let it roll.
  
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  May 14, 2019 11:47am
  - Ross12
    
    Thank you simpleton1.
    
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    May 14, 2019 1:09pm
Swifty

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

Johnboy’s grandson takes a break from the farm and the bush and wanders into Wainuiomata for a his first proper sit down dinner in a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyZUQ9piWCU
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May 14, 2019 10:48am
Gravelroad

I have a son who follows twitter (which I do not).
This morning he showed me some tweets from people alleging the NZ Police are employing the sort of tactics one might expect from a police state, totalitarian government.
One of the Twitter posters was allegedly asked if he was a follower of Trump.
I was going to add more details here but decided not to after seeing another tweet which resulted in the person receiving a visit from police.
Are we now all under surveillance?
Why would the NZ police want to know if people follow President Trump – or President Putin, for that matter?
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May 14, 2019 11:22am
- Alien
  
  there was an article in stuff today of a man complaining that the police turned up with guns etc. I tend to think if you went out and brought the same gun used in the shooting after the shooting then the police should be following up to why you went out and brought it. And they should be going with their own guns, they have no idea who they are gong to see if they are a risk or not.
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:15pm
  - Jack5
    
    Alien, not sure what you mean here: ” … if you went out and brought the same gun used in the shooting after the shooting …”
    
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    May 14, 2019 1:10pm
    - Alien
      
      the guy whinging today about the police raiding him, had said he always wanted the same kind of gun the shooter had, and he rushed in to buy one after the shooting at taken place so he could own one before they could be banned. If you see a mass shooting on the news, and you go and buy that same weapon that was used in the mass shooting you should expect the police to come knocking
      
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      May 14, 2019 1:47pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Some people go out and buy a car just like the one they just saw on TV. Police should be watching them too. Vehicles are terrorist weapons, just saying
        
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        May 14, 2019 5:27pm
      - Tall Man
        
        You mean doing something completely legal should cause one to think he may get a visit from the police.
        
        I thought you said you couldn’t afford to buy dope…
        
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        May 14, 2019 8:36pm
      - Alien
        
        or tall man you can understand that the police should be watching out for people buying the same gun after a mass shooting with the concern that someone could be trying to do a copy cat attack. Perhaps you smoke too much dope
        
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        May 14, 2019 9:18pm
      - Alien
        
        right otto, let me know the next time a car goes into a religious building and kills 50 people and then some whacko goes out after seeing that car going into the religious building killing those people and buys that car knowing that it is about to be made illegal.
        
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        May 14, 2019 9:20pm
- simpleton1
  
  Posted before, and fits in here.
  
  First visit, armed police question wife and daughter also.
  
  On the last “visit” / “raid” about 15 armed police, and closed off the street.
  He only had a .177 air gun, and seems to be mentioned in the first visit.
  The police also blocked the street with their cars.
  He mentions the police and their angle of questions.
  
  [Cross the Rubicon] “Since the Christchurch mosque attack I’ve had two visits from armed police”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kte2wQiF5zU
  16mins 56 secs.
  11,600 views and 290 comments. ? ? 🙂
  
  So the news of armed police, blocking streets with police cars is slowly going viral, in many ways.
  
  However the “state” seems to grind on relentlessly.
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:24pm
- simpleton1
  
  Starts from 4m 03 5m 16
  8 police cars, ….
  Armed police with semi automatic guns plus sidearms. …..
  Not sure he will get any money in the “buy back” scheme after the police took that gun. ….
  [Police] call this “Normal policing”.
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018694984
  
  Police enforcing private property rights, NOT, Enforcing retrospective laws.
  No agreement on price and value, if anything to be paid for the seizure.
  
  Just what are these laws, even martial laws are not retrospective.
  
  Is this the way that leads to some version of retrospective abortion being practiced?
  
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  May 14, 2019 1:19pm
  - Batman
    
    Your last sentence is right up there with people who believe the Earth is flat and NASA has guards at the edges to stop people finding out ?
    
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    May 14, 2019 1:23pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      You might think such stupidity has no place, but Kiwiblog is one of many sites that has monetised a high level of moronic thinking. Through its advertising, commenters pay, indirectly, for the broadcasting of any idea no matter how stupid.
      
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      May 14, 2019 2:04pm
      - Tall Man
        
        “of any idea no matter how stupid.”
        
        Are you suggesting that your thoughts be censored out mikey?
        
        No need, I have an excellent idiot meter which you trigger regularly.
        
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        May 14, 2019 8:33pm
      - MickMac
        
        Hahaha Mikenmild.
        
        moronic to whom?
        You.
        Just look at your downticks.
        
        Clearly you have no understanding of competing viewpoints.
        
        I suspect the only reason you come to this site is to stir and troll.
        You actually don’t add value or properly engage, except by your scoot and shoot behaviour.
        
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        May 15, 2019 7:15am
    - simpleton1
      
      I absolutely agree with you Batman, when you miss the twist of good intentions and ultimate control. 🙂
      Everything has small beginnings, not that I want to go down into the “abortion” debate, which is argued into just how far into the 3rd trimester or viability of the foetus.
      
      However there are other ways that retrospective abortion has been practiced, for the “greater good”
      
      “Comrades! The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution require this because ‘the last decisive battle’ with the kulaks is now under way everywhere. An example must be demonstrated.
      
      Hang (and make sure that the hanging takes place in full view of the people) no fewer than one hundred known landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers.
      Publish their names.
      Seize all their grain from them.
      Designate hostages in accordance with yesterday’s telegram.
      Do it in such a fashion that for hundreds of kilometres around the people might see, tremble, know, shout: “they are strangling, and will strangle to death, the bloodsucking kulaks”.
      
      Telegraph receipt and implementation.
      Yours, Lenin.
      Find some truly hard people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin%27s_Hanging_Order
      
      and so it has been, and continues, in the name of many things, particularly for the “greater good”.
      
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      May 14, 2019 2:19pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Utilitarianism? is fine as long as the greater good is mine, sayeth everyone.
        
        And then they came for me.
        
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        May 14, 2019 4:58pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      And so they don’t fall off. We just can’t have leftie voters disappearing
      
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      May 14, 2019 5:29pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  You will likely receive a visit from the police if they consider you to be a non-threat that can be bullied and if their “visit” can help massage the police statistics in the right direction.
  In other words, the police will leave you alone if:
  – Your ethnicity will make the police statistics appear more biased against your group (the narrative dictates that all are equal; to the contrary is evidence of “oppression”)
  – There is a risk that you will not “come quietly”
  
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  May 14, 2019 1:53pm
rightoverlabour

Time to save the planet .. Ban Food.
“Scotland’s food waste causing more greenhouse gas than plastic”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48257019

When is the idiocy going to stop….
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May 14, 2019 11:40am
- Komata
  
  Rol@1140
  
  The idiocy will only stop when we are all subserviant and obedient slaves to those who would control us and consider themselves our betters (aka socialists/ globalists). If a few million die to achieve that goal, not a problem; collateral damage (and it will also make gaia smile).
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:47pm
Fletch

So most of the woke supermarkets in the North Island are doing to ditch packaging in their bakery, deli, butchery sections, and shoppers will have to bring in their own containers. I can’t see any good coming from this. All sorts of diseases will be caught…
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May 14, 2019 11:54am
- Alien
  
  So were all these sorts of disease there before they even started using plastic. I don’t remember all sorts of diseases before they used plastic. Butchers used not too long ago wrap what you brought in paper. Bakery goods can just go in paper bags.
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:09pm
  - The Feed
    
    Thought we were supposed to be growing trees, not cutting them down and using them to transport cream buns.
    
    Hard to keep up with envirowank, sometimes.
    
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    May 14, 2019 2:56pm
Fletch

Paddy Gower says he is ready for a “rematch” against Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern and that he was “unprepared” for them last time. What’s the bet that he has a lot of white supremacist bullshit to regurgitate now?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/05/time-for-a-rematch-against-lauren-southern-and-stefan-molyneux-patrick-gower.html
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May 14, 2019 11:56am
- Tricati
  
  Be like taking a water pistol to a gun fight and Gower’s water pistol will be full of weasel’s piss.
  
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  May 14, 2019 12:33pm
- Ross12
  
  Gower must think he is losing relevance and needs to get back in the limelight.
  He would not know how to prepare for them –if he did not prepare last time he really was just publicly showing his arrogance. That does not disappear overnight.
  
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  May 14, 2019 1:13pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch, Gower should be satisfied by the fact the Lauren Southern herself was ambushed on TV Ones Sunday programme when she attempted a snide critique at Multiculturalism by the interviewer who happened to be non-white!
  
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  May 14, 2019 3:07pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He will get slaughtered and blame everyone and everything except himself
  
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  May 14, 2019 5:32pm
Durden

Jacinda Ardern should note what is happening in Sri Lanka.

Curfews and social media bans are not helping curb retaliation for bombing of Easter Worshippers. These events are in line with the third tenet of Three Universal Truths of Buddhism – “The Law of Cause and Effect”
https://www.unhcr.org/50be10cb9.pdf

Word-of-mouth spread of rumours (or facts–take your pick) is likely to be far more dangerous than social media spread. Social media at least allows equally fast dispersion of alternative facts to counter rumours.

Based on what police are finding on Facebook, and in searches of Friday Worship centers, Friday Worshippers are not blameless. Sri Lankan police are even going to the extent of seeking copies of Friday Sermons in advance to vet.

The signs are not good.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-blasts-socialmedia/sri-lanka-blocks-social-media-after-worst-anti-muslim-unrest-since-easter-bombings-idUSKCN1SJ02I

https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/six-mosques-attacked/
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May 14, 2019 1:03pm
- Komata
  
  Durden@1330
  
  Note the headline’Worst ANT-MUSLIM unrest!
  
  Funny how it is quite acceptable for those self-same muslims to dish it out and kill hundreds of Chritians, yet when the tide turns against them and retaliation begins, they are all-of-a-sudden the ‘Victims’.
  
  It’s known as ‘consequences’ and also shows exactly what the supposedly ‘objective’ and liberal western media thinks of the situation and whom they really, actually, support…
  
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  May 14, 2019 2:18pm
  - MCos
    
    So you would have found it quite understandable if the Muslims of NZ has started attacking random Australians after what one of their number perpetrated on their people?
    
    As you well know the vast majority of Muslims had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka.
    
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    May 14, 2019 5:35pm
    - Durden
      
      “As you well know the vast majority of Muslims had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka”.
      
      Around 10% will do it. And in a religion where compliance is demanded with threats of death it can be even a smaller group.
      
      From Wikipedia — “According to the classical legal doctrine, apostasy in Islam includes not only an explicit renunciation of the Islamic faith (whether for another religion or irreligiosity), but also any deed or utterance implying unbelief, such as one denying a “fundamental tenet or creed” of Islam.[8]”
      
      “As of 2014, laws in various Muslim-majority countries prescribed for the apostate (Arabic: مرتد‎ murtadd) sentences ranging from execution to a prison term to no punishment.”
      
      You should read more before you spout garbage.
      https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725190044.htm
      
      https://fs.blog/2017/07/critical-mass/
      
      There is hope in the fact that tipping points can trigger bad and good. If only 10% of sane Muslims openly and actively rejected the Mullahs, some good can come out of it.
      
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      May 15, 2019 10:41am
- Rachael Membery
  
  And then they came for me.
  
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  May 14, 2019 4:59pm
Jack5

Pommy sports reporter Mark Reason is still pushing for name change for the Crusaders rugby team, despite polls showing fans, three or four to one, want to keep the Crusaders name.

The media, from the publicity it gives such twits, seems to back a name change. Most of the sports reporters seeking it seem to be Auckland based. Are they trying to fuck up the Crusaders as a team?

Reason is on about the British club Saracens playing the Crusaders in Britain before both change their names. He’s unaware there is a Canterbury team called the Saracens, too.

Send Reason home!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/112695167/mark-reason-saracens-versus-crusaders-would-make-an-epic-memorial-game
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May 14, 2019 1:06pm
Fletch

Mark Levin talks to a law expert re: Trump’s “Obstruction”… And yeh, there is none. Whatever power Mueller et al have are derived from the Executive – Trump. They work for him and he can hire and fire whomever he wants (and he didn’t fire anyone). The whole inquiry was illegal to begin with – there wasn’t even a crime committed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5KLKc8Z6iI
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May 14, 2019 1:39pm
Richard

Interesting times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnNB6-osoiY
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May 14, 2019 1:49pm
rangitoto

How long before Clinton and Obama are wearing orange jump suits?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-us-attorney-connecticut-surveillance-trump-campaign
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May 14, 2019 1:55pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  A very long time?
  
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  May 14, 2019 2:06pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Fingers crossed eh mikey?
    
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    May 14, 2019 8:19pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Comey and Lynch sure should be nervous
  
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  May 14, 2019 2:46pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Comey and Lynch nervous?
    
    Why exactly?
    
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    May 14, 2019 3:02pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      If you are seriously asking – because the appointment of this prosecutor (I don’t think he is a special counsel like Mueller but the languaging is unclear, it is possible) is a pretty clear signal that the Inspector General ‘s report or the Huber investigation has uncovered criminal behaviour that requires prosecution.
      
      Those things have been pretty leak free but there are clear indications that the IG report has been released to the “targets” for their review before public release. That’s why we’ve seen quite a bit of preemptive leaking (for example about yet another FBI/Spy sent to surveil Papadopoulos in the UK – one “Azra Turk”) in the media of late. So prosecutions/indictments are likely coming.
      
      It’s guesswork but I would think that the following have the most to worry about – Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Nellie Ohr, Brennan, Clapper, Yates, Baker, and possibly Powers, Nuland, Lynch, Rhodes, plus maybe Schiff, Glenn Simpson (FARA violations). And of course there may be a re-examination of the Clinton email case where quite a few possibly criminal actions were taken, and Mills, Abedin, Pagliano, and of course HRC herself would be at risk as well as the FBI people who connived at the cover up. Finally there are hints in the material released to date that Obama was well aware and possibly implicitly approved of all the illegal spying, and there are definitely potential problems for MI6 in the UK, and maybe for Alexander Downer and the Australians, and Christopher Steele.
      
      There are more names in the mix, but that’s a good sampling. I’d say that the first group above are almost certain to be charged, and quite a few others might be. This was, after all, a coup attempt to takE down a legitimately elected POTUS, and the potential penalties could be quite harsh – if for no other reason than “pour encourager les autres ”.
      
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      May 14, 2019 5:15pm
- Alien
  
  bill and hillary will pass over so they don’t have to pay for their crimes. Obama, he doesnt have an easy out for his like them.
  
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  May 14, 2019 2:56pm
Tall Man

Apologies if this has been posted before but I found this to be a well reasoned argument.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/andrew-dickens-afternoons/opinion/andrew-dickens-heres-why-legalising-cannabis-is-unnecessary/

Like him, I would like to know what problem these tossers are trying to solve and how can they reconcile their desire for legal dope with a “smoke free” country.
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May 14, 2019 1:56pm
srylands

Wellington faces serious problems of congested arterial roads and increasingly unaffordable housing.

And Mr Lester promises to remove cars from Lambton Quay. Is that it?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/112653864/wellington-mayor-pledges-to-end-homelessness-and-get-rid-of-cars-on-golden-mile
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May 14, 2019 1:57pm
- mandk
  
  Can’t see that it would make much difference.
  
  Very few private cars use Lambton Quay.
  
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  May 14, 2019 3:26pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Perhaps the homeless are sleeping in the cars on Lambton Quay……..
    
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    May 14, 2019 8:18pm
- Ross12
  
  His three “commitments” for his campaign had me thinking that he does not really understand the key roles of a City Council. Or maybe I’m out of date and do not realise it has all changed.
  
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  May 14, 2019 3:56pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Get the cars out of Lanbton Quay the buses then might be able to pass by dodging the pedestrians.
  How do they propose to get the cars around the city–over the hills or a new bridge across the harbour? Bypass the CBD?
  
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  May 14, 2019 7:21pm
Maggy Wassilieff

What is going on here?
Were the Cops informed about suspicious behaviour around the Al Noor Masjid mosque a couple of weeks before Tarrant’s massacre, or weren’t they?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/112689676/police-ignored-reports-of-suspicious-behaviour-in-christchurch-mosque-imam-claims?rm=m

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/112708863/police-not-aware-of-any-information-that-could-have-prevented-terror-attack

Who are we to believe: the Mosque Imam or the Police Commissioner?
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May 14, 2019 2:22pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  It’s almost like there should be a commission of inquiry, or something.
  
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  May 14, 2019 2:29pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I thought the primary focus of the inquiry was figuring out how to deflect the blame for tarrant buying his firearms away from the police and ardern the lazy…..
    
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    May 14, 2019 8:12pm
- Tall Man
  
  Both have vested interests to protect.
  
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  May 14, 2019 2:31pm
- Alien
  
  we could believe both. I think I have read before that the mosque has attracted unwanted attention before because of some of the members of it. Also wasn’t there a teen that was arrested not long ago who had “staked” it out. easy to believe the Imam that there had been problems there before. And easy to believe the police that none of what happened before could of prevented the attack. But i do get the uneasy feeling that this royal commission is going to be used to try and bring in laws and regulations that the government has wanted to bring in but not had a means before to do so.
  
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  May 14, 2019 2:55pm
- stephieboy
  
  Comey and Lynch nervous?
  
  Why exactly?
  
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  May 14, 2019 3:01pm
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy, you moron ,are you getting all your news from Fox? piss off idiot.
    
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    May 15, 2019 6:31am
- marcw
  
  It is very concerning that reports this morning say “much” of the Royal Commission inquiry will be held behind closed doors, public excluded. Fits in with the suspicion that many have a lot to hide, starting with the police. Add to this the collusion between the “journalists” not to report on some things and we end up with a Royal Commission not worth the $millions being spent on it, and resulting in the usual government whitewash. (If we can still use the word whitewash).
  
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  May 14, 2019 4:05pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    And the online process implemented by the PM. Does she feel guilty? Why does everyone else have to pay for her ideology?
    
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    May 14, 2019 5:20pm
Happychappy

You have to laugh at the vision of two of our Mayors and the policy that they have nominated as one of their Election promises. Phil Goff and Justin Lester have promised to rid there Cities of homelessness in their speeches for the upcoming Elections. What I find very funny about this is the present Labour
Government made this same promise
over five years ago as a Election promise and we still have homelessness
and the figure has increased instead of decreasing, so is this promise by two Labour Mayors going to adventuate or is this another empty promise from Labour Mayors.
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May 14, 2019 2:57pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Don’t get rates from the homeless.
  
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  May 14, 2019 5:22pm
- Tall Man
  
  ” or is this another empty promise from Labour Mayors”
  
  Do you really have to ask?
  
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  May 14, 2019 7:54pm
Alien

I know where you can save $3 billion, more if you realise kiwibuild and the billion trees are a flop

“The Government is stripping nearly $200 million from its controversial fees-free policy, after the number of people taking up the offer of a year of free tertiary education was below expectations.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/112710129/low-enrolments-sees-200m-clawed-back-from-fees-free-scheme

Government aims for $1 billion cuts to ‘low-priority’ spending,

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12230804
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May 14, 2019 3:18pm
Surely Knott

Hooton is on the money in his Metro article, “Hate Speech ban risks political debacle for Ardern.” https://www.metromag.co.nz/society/society-politics/matthew-hooton-hate-speech-ban-risks-political-debacle-for-ardern
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May 14, 2019 3:21pm
- Alien
  
  it reminds me very much of the fake news debate where they attempt to now say what is fake and what is real. Who decides what is fake and what is real? who decides what is hate speech and what isn’t? We just have to look towards the likes of stuff to see what happens when they decide what can and cant be discussed. So many topics they have banned people from being allowed to comment on and if there isn’t an article that bows to the knees and believes climate change is man made then it is banned from stuff
  
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  May 14, 2019 4:02pm
RW Capitalist

“alt right”
Is that a “movement”???
Is it a religion???
Is it an organization???
Is it a club?????
Or ..is it a new swear word, that socialists use to describe ANYONE who disagrees with them, in an attempt to demonize them into silence?
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May 14, 2019 7:07pm
- Alien
  
  alt right, sounds better than demented left.
  
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  May 14, 2019 9:14pm
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  Yes, it’s their new swear word replacing neo-liberal.
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  May 14, 2019 10:39pm
Nookin

Talking about fake news, here is an example of a dishonest presentation.
The high court found that although there was a breach of copyright, there was no rip-off — ie no deliberate and dishonest intent.

The court of appeal said the same and reduced damages.

The Supreme Court told him he didnt have a prayer of succeeding and still Stuff take the view most adverse to the Nats.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/112684387/no-new-appeal-for-increased-damages-for-eminem-song-ripoff
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May 14, 2019 7:40pm
Jack5

First, we whack the Crusaders, then Christchurch, then Canterbury …

A Maori journo is calling for Christchurch to be renamed Puari.

Mike Rehu (Michael James Laurence Rehu) suggests the city needs a new name after the earthquake and massacre, and suggest Puari as the name of a pa in the area before white settlement. “Puari” would give “give mana to the original inhabitants of the area.”

With that, of course, the Avon River in the city’s heart would revert to a Maori name, Otakaro, complete with macrons.

Rehu cites as examples of change Indian cities such as Bombay, renamed Mumbai, and Calcutta, now Kolkutta.
Rehu says of the Indian name changes:“… act of tino rangatiratanga set a platform for a golden era.”
So he’s implying Christchurch would have a golden future if called Puari.
He claims the original Puari pa “could have had up to 800 residents who called it home.”

This would have been when the Waitaha tribe predominated in the area. Its successor, Ngai Tahu, didn’t settle on the Christchurch site, but gathered food there.

According to Jobbers, in volume 1 of the “History of Canterbury,” when white settlement began in the 1840s, no more than 500 Maori were living in Canterbury.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/14-05-2019/an-argument-for-changing-christchurchs-name/
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May 14, 2019 8:07pm
Hugh Pavletich

As marriage wanes and house prices rise, young people stay at home … Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/as-marriage-wanes-and-house-prices-rise-young-people-stay-at-home-20190513-p51mtt.html

At 22, Rebekah Shanks was ready to leave the family home, yet, like many young people, she was also conscious of how hard it is to save for your own home while living independently. … read more via hyperlink above …
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May 15, 2019 2:02am
softail 1450

You know how irrelevant TV1 &TV3 have become when its more entertaining and informative to watch a live feed of President Trump disembarking from the real Airforce one in Louisiana ,especially now that the filth at the top of the FBI,DOJ and even the CIA are facing hundreds of years in prison for the corruption they carried out on the President and his team.
Jim Comey should spend less time staring up at the redwoods and more time attaching a noose to one of them and doing the right thing,the slimey bastard .
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May 15, 2019 6:28am
Hugh Pavletich

Jim Cramer: You Better Strap Yourself In … The Street Com / Yahoo Finance

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/ce694f3e-5dc3-356f-9c3a-3fc2ff664ef7/jim-cramer%3A-you-better-strap.html

All I can say is you better strap yourself in because, the next six months I expect to see tariffs on the other $300 billion we import from China because it’s become clear that President Trump has decided that the U.S. simply shouldn’t do business with China and if you do you are going to have to pay the price. It’s a rather astounding proposition because China is such a huge trading partner, but the president has decided that our side doesn’t get hurt nearly as much as their side, and the damage will be contained to a very few companies, namely A, B and C: Apple , Boeing and Caterpillar , all of which count on China’s market for growth. … read more via hyperlink above …
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