General Debate 28 October 2019

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Chuck Bird

Happy Labour Day. Does anyone know who invernted the 40 hour week?
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October 28, 2019 8:12am
- dubya
  
  In New Zealand, an individual – Samuel Parnell.
  
  Interestingly he sought union support for the eight hour day, but they refused. It would be wrong to make him out as anti-union by any means, but he was also not an ardent socialist, just a business owner who saw the human value of rest and recreation, and took advantages of skilled labour shortages in mid 19th century NZ to cement those principles.
  
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  October 28, 2019 8:57am
  - RightNow
    
    Mr Parnell was the carpenter, George Hunter was the employer. So happy George Hunter appreciation day.
    George Hunter (first mayor of Wellington) was the person who agreed to hire Mr Parnell for 40 hours per week.
    
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    October 28, 2019 6:42pm
- Doubledimp
  
  I hear David Cunliffe is taking credit for it (after he started Fonterra).
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:00am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Or could be Kris Fafoi who witnessed the birth of Jesus Christ.
    
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    October 28, 2019 12:59pm
- srylands
  
  Samuel Plimmer
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:13am
  - srylands
    
    Oops Parnell
    
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    October 28, 2019 10:18am
- MrTips
  
  David Cunliffe, with a notable assist from the world’s greatest Sysop, Lynn Prentice.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:13am
- SGA
  
  No, I didn’t, so I looked it up. According to Wkipedia (usual caveats apply)-
  
  New Zealand
  Promoted by Samuel Duncan Parnell as early as 1840, when carpenter Samuel Parnell refused to work more than eight hours a day when erecting a store for merchant George Hunter. He successfully negotiated this working condition and campaigned for its extension in the infant Wellington community. A meeting of Wellington carpenters in October 1840 pledged “to maintain the eight-hour working day, and that anyone offending should be ducked into the harbour”.
  
  Parnell is reported to have said: “There are twenty-four hours per day given us; eight of these should be for work, eight for sleep, and the remaining eight for recreation and in which for men to do what little things they want for themselves.” With tradesmen in short supply the employer was forced to accept Parnell’s terms. Parnell later wrote, “the first strike for eight hours a day the world has ever seen, was settled on the spot”.
  
  Emigrants to the new settlement of Dunedin, Otago, while onboard ship decided on a reduction of working hours. When the resident agent of the New Zealand Company, Captain Cargill, attempted to enforce a ten-hour day in January 1849 in Dunedin, he was unable to overcome the resistance of trades people under the leadership of house painter and plumber, Samuel Shaw. Building trades in Auckland achieved the eight-hour day on 1 September 1857 after agitation led by Chartist painter, William Griffin. For many years the eight-hour day was confined to craft tradesmen and unionised workers. Labour Day, which commemorates the introduction of the eight-hour day, became a national public holiday in 1899.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:15am
- Brian Marshall
  
  Mr Parnell. He was a builder in 19th century Wellington. He believed in 8 hrs work, 8 hours sleep and 8hrs for everything else. I think his first name is Samuel but I can’t be bothered looking it up.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:19am
  - Colville
    
    as a tradie and when I had the company…if we were only doing 40 hrs/wk we tried to do 4 x 10 hrs days as the lads valued a 3 day weekend way more than a spare 2 hours on a Tuesday evening..
    
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    October 28, 2019 11:03am
- Steve Todd
  
  In New Zealand, it was Samuel Parnell. See https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/samuel-parnell.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:34am
- Tempist
  
  Supposedly in NZ, Thomas Parnell, continuing a fine tradition of importing English class warfare troublemakers
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:37am
  - Tempist
    
    Oops, meant Samuel
    
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    October 28, 2019 10:10am
- peterwn
  
  Samuel Parnell in 1840. However it is not clear whether he was an employee or a labour only contractor or a ‘builder’. Presumably George Hunter who engaged him to build a store wanted it completed as soon as possible implying the carpenter had to work long hours something that Samuel resisted. Since carpenters were in short supply George had to swallow a rat and accept that Samuel was going to work 40 hours a week only.
  There was a sad case in England in the early days of the railways. There was a signal box that was manned 24/7 by two signalmen working 12 hour shifts. Every two weeks one of the signalmen had to work 24 hours straight to change shifts. One of them near the end of a 24 hour shift made a human error resulting in a train crash.
  The resulting inquiry ruled that such a shift practice was unacceptable.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:50am
- gump
  
  The carpenter Samuel Parnell is credited with being the first person to introduce the idea in New Zealand when he arrived in 1840.
  
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/samuel-parnell
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:12am
  - Jack5
    
    New Zealanders work about the same hours annually as Irish, Poles, and Americans, according to the OECD data linked to below, but ahead of people in most OECD countries.
    
    If you click on the arrow at the top of the column you can see NZ is behind Mexico and Costa Rica, Korea and Russia. I found it surprising that we work fewer hours than Greeks, whose work habits are sometimes maligned for Greece’s problems in the EU.
    
    The Germans work fewer hours than us, but that will because economically, educationally, industrially, they are smart.
    
    https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS#
    
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    October 28, 2019 11:13am
    - Paulus
      
      Is it not the hours you do but what you achieve in the hours ?
      
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      October 28, 2019 1:30pm
      - Cobolt24
        
        Yep, that’s the essence of productivity.
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:07pm
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  Chuck Bird
  Not sure about 40 hours, but I believe it was the Labour Party who invented the 0 hour week.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:49am
- Chuck Bird
  
  You are all wrong. It was Robinson Crusoe. He was fucked by Friday.
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:20am
  - Steve Todd
    
    And that is exactly why I restricted my response merely to giving a link. I just knew your question was not put up in good faith. No way was I going to waste any more of my time on you than that.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:15pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Steve, have you not got a sense of homour or did the naughty word put you off?
      
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      October 28, 2019 5:29pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Chuck, don’t now try and pass off your well-known homophobia under the guise of “humour”. It simply doesn’t wash.
        
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        October 28, 2019 6:27pm
- MCos
  
  I worked in a couple of offices in Bangkok where it was ten hours, six days a week.
  Eventually the expats at my last office said bugger this and we went to a forty hour week, with no loss in productivity.
  Ten hours presence at work was a better description.
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:26am
- pdm
  
  Are you all sure that Shane Jones didn’t fund it from the Provincial Growth Fund?
  
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  October 28, 2019 2:23pm
- cmm
  
  Fight for the right to pretend to work.
  
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  October 28, 2019 3:08pm
Yvette

For the school-children who will demonstrate against climate in-action

Instead of joining the ETS, farmers and growers will be able to design their own alternative scheme, with a check in 2022 to see if they are making proper progress.

New Zealand farmers won’t have to enter the country’s emissions trading scheme until 2025 and will then get a discounted rate of 95 per cent under a climate change deal struck with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

So without exact figures – “No one is doing this work, farm by farm. I’m incredibly proud of what we’re doing here today on behalf of New Zealand.” (Ardern) –
they have however decided on a 95% discount.

How was that figured determined, what is its relationship to reality when nothing else is worked out yet? – as to echo a crude expression, but perhaps accurately indicating its origin – qui a tiré ça de leur cul – “who pulled that out of their arse?”, pardon the French.

And the answer most likely is New Zealand First, but it is so illogical they haven’t dared take credit for it yet.
And I guess some things you can’t always take credit for, but you still benefit from them not happening, like hammering farmers too hard when you have guaranteed them support.

Realise, with gratitude, that someone saved you from drowning, without remembering it was them that pushed you in.
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October 28, 2019 8:22am
- srylands
  
  “How was that figured determined [?]”
  
  The coalition agreement between Labour and New Zealand First says that farmers will get a 95 percent discount on any pricing of their on farm emissions.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:19am
  - Yvette
    
    Thank you, Srylands
    So the guess it is not based any any logical calculation is correct.
    And the suspicion the illogicality is New Zealand First’s, as well as the farmer protectionism, is also correct.
    Not that being correct helps in any way – it just displays how power in politics, especially under the quirks of MMP, usurps any real usefulness to voters.
    And while Winston would preserve numbers with his paranoia wake-jumping bill, his own negotiations in policy changes it to beyond recognition as to what people voted for.
    
    Coalition agreement between the New Zealand Labour Party & New Zealand First Party.
    Environment
    • If the Climate Commission determines that agriculture is to be included in the ETS, then upon entry, the free allocation to agriculture will be 95% but with all revenues from this source recycled back into agriculture in order to encourage agricultural innovation, mitigation and additional planting of forestry.
    
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    October 28, 2019 10:24am
    - JackRabbit
      
      >>”additional planting of forestry.”
      
      There is no net gain to O2 production and Co2 absorption, if the Co2 is not locked into place as timber. Tree planting not followed by the felling of trees at maturity adds no long term value.
      
      Lichens, moss, grass and plankton still remain the largest Co2 sink. Grass is a greater Co2 sink than planting trees that are never harvested, and allowed to die.
      
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      October 28, 2019 1:15pm
      - Akarak
        
        And meanwhile in a far away land called Aotreearoa….
        
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        October 28, 2019 7:09pm
- Sacha
  
  I understood that the ETS specifically excludes agriculture used for food production.
  If that is so, why are Ardern and Co proposing to impose ANY penalty at all?
  I suppose that is the only way she can think of to knock those stroppy farmers in to shape –
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:31am
  - srylands
    
    The ETS does exclude agricultural emissions. The Climate Change Commission recommended that it be brought in. If it is brought in it would get a 95 percent discount consistent with the coalition agreement.
    
    BTW no country in the world incorporates on farm agriculture emissions in either an ETS or a carbon tax.
    
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    October 28, 2019 10:41am
  - cmm
    
    It’s all to make a big splash for her mates: CinD4UN.
    
    Everyone overlooks all the small print. What matters is the headline:
    PriNZess made ETS work in NZ.
    
    I see stuff is giving her carrots over “selling out” https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/116938090/its-time-for-jacinda-ardern-to-stop-compromising-and-start-delivering
    
    Nope, she clearly sold out when she flew to Uk for a few days to say hi to her sister before her wedding, and then many times since then – flitting around the world when there was no need.
    
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    October 28, 2019 11:27am
- JackRabbit
  
  @Yvette
  
  Arguing over an Emissions trading scheme that is based on the lie of man-made climate change through Co2, is like negotiating with the mafia as to how you are going to pay their “tax” and at what rate.
  
  We should not legitimise this illegitimate attempt by our socialist robber government to tax the working back bone of this country. To cap it al off, Ardern is not even serious about reducing emissions, because she knows it is not the key issue.
  
  If she was she would:
  
  (a) Not be jet-setting off around the world, creating carbon emissions.
  (b) Since over population is the elephant in the room, she would limit her pro creation to one child, and actively campaign on that, encouraging others to do the same.
  (c) As a “sincere” socialist she would only accept a comfortable wage, donating the rest to achieving her stated goals. But no, she is flying all around the world on holidays paid for by the taxpayer.
  
  She needs to stick back in her “cul” the “merde de cheval” she is speaking.
  
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  October 28, 2019 12:29pm
  - curry4me
    
    Except, the ever lovin left are exempt from the rules because they’ew special.
    
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    October 28, 2019 10:29pm
MrTips

After watching the second RWC semi-final last night, I have formed the following opinion:

We deserved to lose but considering the Poms played out of their skin, and for so long, and the fact they are not 6 Nations champions, and they were pretty average in the pools, and their aerobic capacity on Saturday was Lance Armstrong level, one has suspicions about the dietary supplements in the England camp last week.

And for the record, they’re all at it. You’re naive to think they’re not. Legal of course, but that just means “not banned yet” or even known about.
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October 28, 2019 8:22am
- infused
  
  I was commenting at the time one of their dudes looked crazy. yeah drugs alright.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:04am
- 3-coil
  
  Excellent theory MrTips!
  
  I could only read part of the DomPost front page today…but is this mass aotearoa-wide post-AB-loss pre-suicidal depression really a thing?? I know some pretty staunch rugby folk, but they all seem pretty philosophical about it all. As one said:
  
  ABs won the haka
  we won the moustache growing race
  50:50 dead heat with the haircuts
  we won the tattoo contest
  ….England won the rugby game
  
  So overall not all doom and gloom! Toughen up kiwis, maybe even try the stiff upper lip? – we can maintain a bit of dignity. One rugby game – we came second.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:52am
- yossarian
  
  Well about 60% of the British cycling team are asthmatic, apparently???? Including Chris Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins. Strange that people who suffer from asthma can be so good a sport where ability basically is defined by your aerobic capacity???
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:58am
  - James Stephenson
    
    The important thing to note though, is that the medication that they take for asthma has no performance-enhancing effect beyond combating the symptoms of asthma. That is, if you don’t have asthma and you take the drug, it’s not giving you any benefit.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:32pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    It must be all the steroids they have to take.
    
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    October 28, 2019 2:58pm
igm

How about our useless unelected CoL taking a look at some of these statements made by those that know?
https://investigatemagazine.co.nz/22123/creating-fakenews-how-news-editors-are-the-harvey-weinsteins-of-climate-porn/
Bet not one would have the guts to read this.
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October 28, 2019 8:25am
stephieboy

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I see our Jacinda has been blamed for the ABs world cup demise and they’re chanting bring back John Key.

Ignoring the fact that the ABS won the inaugural cup 1987 and lost it in 1991, 1995 and again 1999 under the Nats!

LOL
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October 28, 2019 8:26am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Yes it would be unfair to blame YOUR Jacinda for the loss. However as you want to bring up the losses in the 90’s – for the record 25% cup success under Labour led NZ compared to 40% success under NAT. Stats and numbers in general are not a strength for people like you Stephie LOL!
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:21am
  - dubya
    
    Actually, instead of focusing on the two main parties in relation to RWC wins, how about the stats for wins when Winston Peters has been part of the government? If I have my dates correct, he was in opposition or kicked out of parliament every time we won.
    
    NZ always loses under Winston!
    
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    October 28, 2019 10:48am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    Statistics and numbers, and for that matter any aspect of objective reality, are just white man tools of oppression. If you feel right, then that’s what matters.
    
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    October 28, 2019 11:11am
    - dubya
      
      Could you please correctly attribute that quote to Alexandria Occasio-Cortez, thanks.
      
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      October 28, 2019 1:01pm
    - Sacha
      
      Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
      
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      October 28, 2019 5:15pm
- igm
  
  She may be yours, but the harridan sure as fuck is not mine.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:31am
- rjay
  
  But the 1987 Government was neo liberal.
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:09am
- Thought Criminal
  
  I’ve seen that too SB. I believe it was a joke.
  
  The left are so humourless.
  
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  October 28, 2019 12:00pm
- Morrissey
  
  Jacinda would play a far better game of football than that soft, doughy fool Key.
  
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  October 28, 2019 2:54pm
  - dubya
    
    Morrissey keeping the ‘Jews are bad at sport’ trope alive.
    
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    October 28, 2019 5:27pm
    - Morrissey
      
      I’ve seen some moronic comments on the Internet, but you take the biscuit, my sad friend.
      
      Judge Judy sums up the likes of you succinctly….
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=871-3XMhtAk
      
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      October 28, 2019 8:07pm
Paulus Gnome

Samuel Parnell gave us the 8 hour working day and with this great privilege, the mods don’t turn up on time
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October 28, 2019 8:30am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hello? Hello? Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?…
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October 28, 2019 8:46am
- John Warren
  
  Mods asleep on the job again… 9.14am.
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:14am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Its Labour Day, you know the day of delivery and all that
  
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  October 28, 2019 9:53am
Maggie Pie

Fine sunny day forecast for Christchurch.
Unfortunately it may be marred somewhat by the smokey haze emanating
from a ‘suspicious fire’ at Linwood College which is currently under police guard 🙁
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October 28, 2019 8:46am
oldpark

This was a lot worse then 2007 RWC. Back to the future was ingrained in most Rugby followers minds with Saturdays’result.
Of course the rot set in back in 2016. On a cold winters day in Chicago. Isn’t hindsight a wonderful thing. NZs All Blacks lost to a very ordinary Irish Team.
Nothing has gone well since. That was a wake up call for All Blacks Management .
Sadly probably ignored.
Meanwhile back in England an Australian born coach of England was plotting the downfall of the All Blacks. He went through many many players checking their skills ad nausem.
Finally he got almost perfection with the type of player to take on NZs All Blacks in Japan RWC.
NZs were completely smashed and humilated on Saturday Night. The Carnival was over.
That was the end of the beginning on what started in Chicago in 2016.
Instead of living on All Black reputation like some of the All Black management have been doing in the past and present day. Take a leaf out of how a crafty wee Australian with the help of another also ran ex All Black coach plotted the demise and destruction of NZs All Blacks.
Lets hope NZs new ALL BLACK coach will stop look and listen and make sure that they will never suffer the embarrassment and igmony on how they were out thought and out manoeuvered in such a way they didnt seem to have the answers,or maybe they forgot to see the type of world beating rugby players the English coach recruited.
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October 28, 2019 8:47am
- Morrissey
  
  Grow up, you silly old fool. The All Blacks were beaten in a very good game of football by a very good English team. And that Irish team was not “very ordinary.”
  
  You’re nearly as ignorant as a New Zealand rugby journalist.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:30am
  - oldpark
    
    Ok Morrissey we know you are a well known retard .Well beaten around the head since you’re arrival from birth,even though you’re arrival has always being highly questionable.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:16pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Ok Morrissey we know you are a well known retard .Well beaten around the head since you’re [sic] arrival from birth,even though you’re [sic] arrival has always being highly questionable.
      
      Is that you, Murray?
      
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      October 28, 2019 5:03pm
      - oldpark
        
        Yes everyone knows you are of debatable parentage. Suck it up Meathead Morrissey. Hope for once in the life you have been given ,you do something useful.FFS.
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:39pm
Komata

Chuck@0812

From Wiki:

‘In New Zealand, Labour Day is a public holiday held on the fourth Monday in October. Its origins are traced back to the eight-hour working day movement that arose in the newly founded Wellington colony in 1840, primarily because of carpenter Samuel Parnell’s refusal to work more than eight hours a day. He encouraged other tradesmen also to work for only eight hours a day and in October 1840, a workers’ meeting passed a resolution supporting the idea. On 28 October 1890, the 50th anniversary of the eight-hour day was commemorated with a parade. The event was then celebrated annually in late October as either Labour Day or Eight-Hour Demonstration Day. In 1899 government legislated that the day be a public holiday from 1900. The day was celebrated on different days in different provinces. This led to ship owners complaining that seamen were taking excessive holidays by having one Labour Day in one port then another in their next port. In 1910 the government stipulated that the holiday would be observed on the same day throughout the nation.’
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October 28, 2019 8:59am
Yvette

Maria Dew QC, investigating the Labour sex assault complaints, was expected to report directly to Ardern in three weeks [so, Monday, October 7] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12268112

Today the Maria Dew Review is three weeks overdue from the date that its original three week duration was supposed to be delivered on.
I wonder how Ihumātao is progressing.
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October 28, 2019 9:07am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yeah, but…… how do we know that the report has not been presented?
  It could have been quietly sneaked in and then shelved.
  It’s not as if anyone in the msm is going to ask about it, are they? And the Labour Party people are not going to rush to release it unless it has a favourable outcome for them.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:47am
- GazzaW
  
  ……& the culprit must be due for sentencing very soon.
  
  Discharge without conviction anyone?
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:55am
  - Yvette
    
    GazzaW – I believe you are referring to the summer camp case, which eventually was properly investigated by the Police, a court case held, and the sentencing – as you indicate – is soon.
    
    The Dew Review is the non-Police inquiry set up by Ardern after she condemned an earlier inquiry that looked at it as being inappropriate to investigate a serious sexual assault case, which allegedly occurred in the perpetrator’s home, a staffer who has since voluntarily resigned from the position he held.
    
    What could be of interest is that if the Dew Review requires further action, will Ardern – to whom the report appears to go – have to then involve the Police, as can be argued should have been the correct action all along, or is there some other means of investigation, prosecution and justice that we plebs are unaware of?
    
    And if no action is recommended, how does Ardern properly dismiss the concern that was expressed as she finally became conscious of the seriousness of the issue when she reacted to the Spinoff article?
    
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    October 28, 2019 2:22pm
    - Tricati
      
      How does Ardern properly dismiss the concern that was expressed – By lying.
      
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      October 28, 2019 4:57pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  The report is private unless lawfully required by the Police as evidence of a conspiracy to obstruct the course of justice. A diligent Police Commissioner could have the PM in an iron jaw.
  
  The Police have a duty to act as how else can be rumored victims have hope and justice. Justice is not a gift of the PM or any old Fish-Chipper could dispense it..
  ☑️☑️
  
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  October 28, 2019 1:25pm
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    The COL have imported the whole range of Soviet-era Kremlin-led apparatchik-fostered corruption into NZ.
    
    The depth of my contempt for them is Marianas’ Trench-level.
    
    I know they don’t care, and would also be ignorant of the simile, but, fuggem.
    
    That is all.
    
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    October 29, 2019 3:48pm
Inandout

Some ISIS big boss deleted by the US, now how can this be twisted by CNN and used against Trump?
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October 28, 2019 9:10am
- stephieboy
  
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  Inandout.”.. twisted by CNN..?”
  
  So far so very good,
  
  https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-intl-hnk/index.html
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:11am
  - Inandout
    
    No stephie, twisting..
    
    ‘House Foreign Affairs chairman over Trump’s refusal to tell Democrats about Baghdadi raid: “Problematic and insulting”
    
    By Joe Ruiz, CNN
    
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    October 28, 2019 12:43pm
Swifty

New robot makes soldiers obsolete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=y3RIHnK0_NE

🙂
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October 28, 2019 9:13am
- Jack5
  
  ? The games hackers must have had a great time making that video.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:33am
- Lance
  
  Nice CGI fantasy for now, but coming one day.
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:52am
srylands

Could someone more knowledgeable about rugby than me tell me why this game is played? Yes I know it decides between third and fourth place. But firstly, who cares? and secondly if we do care, there must be lots of other count back methodologies to figure out who gets third place.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup/rwc-2019-japan/116966210/all-blacks-v-wales-sparring-partners-hansen-and-gatland-to-fight-out-the-unwanted-game
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October 28, 2019 9:22am
- Stephen Russell
  
  I imagine it is to squeeze out more revenue from the event.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:14am
- oldpark
  
  It is played to determine the ratings in the next RWC. After all if it was not played, it would infact make the last eight ending up in the same group.Go figure.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:49am
- Prince
  
  I care now.
  We haven’t lost to Wales for 62 years.
  We lost to Ireland for the first time three years ago, and have now lost the Webb Ellis trophy.
  I don’t want Hansen to go out by losing to Wales now. And Wales will be amped up for this – if they win they go home as heroes.
  Hansen needs to choose players who are really up for the big game now. No room for passengers or nostalgia.
  
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  October 28, 2019 12:26pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    “We haven’t lost to Wales for 62 years.”
    
    Make that nearly 66 years, Prince – 19 December 1953 (8–13).
    
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    October 28, 2019 12:47pm
    - Prince
      
      You’re right Steve. I’m in denial – still living in 2015 !
      
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      October 28, 2019 2:45pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    We didn’t lose the Webb Ellis trophy. Our tenure as holders expired on the first day of this tournament.
    
    The All Blacks’ attitude is that they weren’t defending the World Cup, but had to win it all over again. This time, they failed to achieve that. They are still the only team to have won it three times, and the only team to have won back-to-back.
    
    And for the record, I think we’ll screw Wales by plenty.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:00pm
    - Morrissey
      
      They are still the only team to have won it three times….
      
      ????
      
      The 2011 debacle should not be included in that total. It’s an embarrassment and a national disgrace.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBqetaCfgo&t=128s
      
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      October 28, 2019 2:47pm
      - Batman
        
        You’re a pathetic little person, and I’m sure it pleases you greatly haha
        
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        October 28, 2019 3:32pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Batman, my friend, you would have garnered at least some respect if you had demonstrated the ability to deal with the point I raised. You cannot, of course.
        
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        October 28, 2019 4:55pm
    - Prince
      
      Saffas would argue they weren’t allowed to the first 2 tournaments, so it’s 2 all. They can push ahead on Saturday.
      
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      October 28, 2019 2:47pm
      - Batman
        
        Except maths says, no.
        
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        October 28, 2019 3:31pm
      - Prince
        
        Can hardly be a ‘World Cup’ when the world is not invited.
        
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        October 28, 2019 3:34pm
      - Tony Stuart
        
        79 countries played in qualifying matches for Rugby World Cup 2019. The first qualifying match was played in March 2016 when Jamaica defeated St Vincent and the Grenadines.
        
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        October 28, 2019 4:13pm
Swifty

I’ve just left Dime’s Labour Day function held annually at his place:

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=sDv4j_1572169849

Dime’s always the last one standing.

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October 28, 2019 9:23am
- 3-coil
  
  Swifty: Later Bitches always puts everyone to sleep
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:01am
surfing

Possibly the first time I ever agreed with Brian Gould….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=12279463

In the United Kingdom, a democratically elected Parliament has quite deliberately and repeatedly refused to endorse and give effect to a decision taken by the British people in a referendum authorised by that same Parliament.
….
The basic fact is a simple one. More than three years after the referendum decision, a Parliament stacked full of MPs elected on a promise to “respect the result” of the referendum has contrived to frustrate any attempt to give effect to the people’s decision.

These MPs have taken it upon themselves to “correct”, as they see it, a mistake made by the people. They have set themselves up as a counterweight to that democratic decision on the self-proclaimed ground that “they know best” – the classic claim by anti-democrats through the ages.

They seem not to understand the risk they are taking. If the British people once conclude that their elected representatives no longer recognise any duty actually to represent them, there is then the real danger that they will lose faith in the whole concept of representative democracy.
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October 28, 2019 9:29am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  For many years I have read a lot of crap written by Brian Gould. Then he comes up with this brilliant piece.
  For many years I’ve seen England play crap rugby. Then they came up with that brilliant performance.
  What a weekend?
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:27am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  I’m tired of hearing about the so-called ‘mess’ or ‘political turmoil’ and ‘complexities’ regarding Brexit. That is all BS.
  
  The fact is the majority of the political class and establishment figures refuse to accept and therefore implement the will of the people. The only question is “what was the referendum result/what are the numbers?” That is it. End of story. Should have tried harder, Remainers.
  
  When the principle of loser’s consent is absent, then you no longer have a democracy. This is reflected in the US situation too: get over it, you lost.
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:22am
- Jules99
  
  Well the Democrats in the US are also trying to undermine a democratically elected leader.
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:42am
- MCos
  
  The problem is not that they don’t want to leave the EU, but they can’t agree on the terms.
  
  Cameron should have had two referendums. One, do you want to leave and two, under which of the following scenarios. Either that or passed a Bill that would be law depending on the result of the referendum.
  As it was a yes or no answer has proved to be almost entirely impractical and means something different to just about anyone you speak to.
  
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  October 28, 2019 1:59pm
Hugh Pavletich

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES …

California’s governor declares statewide emergency over wildfires as mass evacuation continues … The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/27/fierce-winds-sweep-across-california-worsening-wildfires-prompting-new-evacuations/

‘You can’t fight this’: California wildfires force historic evacuation in Sonoma county … The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/27/california-wildfires-latest-thousands-evacuations-pge

California Fires Spark Massive Mandatory Evacuations; Wineries Burn As Winds Hit 93 MPH … Zerohedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/california-fires-spark-mandatory-evacuations-wineries-burn-winds-hit-93-mph
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October 28, 2019 10:08am
- Prince
  
  Hugh, I know I’ll be sorry to ask, but exactly what is your point ?
  
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  October 28, 2019 2:49pm
- JackRabbit
  
  @Hugh Pavletich
  
  https://www.vox.com/2018/9/1/17800358/california-mendocino-wildfire-dead-trees
  
  Wildfires are what happen when trees are not felled at maturity. Tree huggers and Greenies all over the world campaign to plant trees or stop trees being felled for timber. Trees are only O2 positive if cut down at maturity. After that the trees absorb the same O2 and put out the same Co2 taken during growing.
  
  And then there is nature. Nature cleans up after itself. In no universe, are trees an answer to “rising” Co2, however slight that is, and may in fact add to the rising Co2.
  
  Earth’s O2 atmosphere was put here by lichens, moss, and plankton, not trees, as trees are Co2 neutral over their lifetime and add to the net Co2 when they erupt into wildfires.
  
  All this posturing by Labour about planting trees is a crock, if it is not backed by solid committments to harvest the mature timber, leaving the Co2 locked into that timber. Otherwise we may as well leave the land in grass.
  
  I’m beginning to believe prospective MP’s or country leaders actually demonstrate intelligence in the areas where they are making decisions based on science. Otherwise it has to be seen for what it is: Self-serving, virtue signalling claptrap.
  
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  October 28, 2019 3:33pm
Maggie Pie

What has become a lot more noticeable these days, is that a lot of dudes
have more Bitch in them than I do.

Just saying.
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October 28, 2019 10:10am
- atomic drop
  
  You can thank feminism, Globalism and boomers for that.
  
  Plus estrogen mimicking chemicals coming out of plastic, the Pill. The environment is saturated with them.
  
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  October 28, 2019 1:14pm
Morrissey

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US Has Backed 21 of the 28 ‘Crazy’ Militias Leading Turkey’s Brutal Invasion of Northern Syria
by MAX BLUMENTHAL, Oct. 21, 2019

Footage showing members of Turkey’s mercenary “national army” executing Kurdish captives as they led the Turkish invasion of northern Syria touched off a national outrage, provoking U.S. government officials, pundits and major politicians to rage against their brutality.

In the Washington Post, a U.S. official condemned the militias as a “crazy and unreliable.” Another official called them “thugs and bandits and pirates that should be wiped off the face of the earth.” Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the scene as a “sickening horror,” blaming President Donald Trump exclusively for the atrocities.

But the fighters involved in the atrocities in northern Syria were not just random tribesmen assembled into an ad hoc army. In fact, many were former members of the Free Syrian Army, the force once armed by the CIA and Pentagon and branded as “moderate rebels.” This disturbing context was conveniently omitted from the breathless denunciations made by U.S. officials and Western pundits. ….

Read more….
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/18/us-has-backed-21-of-the-28-crazy-militias-leading-turkeys-brutal-invasion-of-northern-syria/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjSnPMCch3g
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October 28, 2019 10:19am
- Morrissey
  
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  Three moronic Hillary Clinton supporters are with us, I note.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:42am
Jack5

? Anyone-else enjoy watching the Springboks against Wales?

I hope that, with their old-time toughness and their sparky half-back, Faf de Klerk, they can give England a harder time than the All Blacks did.
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October 28, 2019 10:24am
- igm
  
  Hope Boks kick the pom’s arses real good.
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:33am
  - stephieboy
    
    Mother England hangup?
    
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    October 28, 2019 2:36pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Kick kick kick kick kick kick kickedy kick kickie mckickie kick face, half time.
  
  Repeat
  
  Crap
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:55am
  - Tall Man
    
    Hard to play running rugby when the opposition is permanently standing in your back line….. off side.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:00pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      I agree. The policing of the offside lines this RWC has been abysmal. What are the Assistant Referees doing, because they are the ones best placed to police this? Perhaps World Rugby has ordered them to cease and desist.
      
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      October 28, 2019 1:04pm
      - Prince
        
        And this leads to the terrible spectacle, eg before the Welsh try, of ‘one off runners’ bashing into an assortment of defenders for five minutes.
        It’s like watching Passchendaele live on TV without the guns.
        Rugby has to address this, if only for the health of the players.
        I suggest the three quarters from both sides take action, and gather in the middle of the field for a sitdown demonstration, focus group meeting, literary discussion, few beers or whatever. Glue themselves to the pitch and refuse to move until the IRB change the rules.
        
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        October 28, 2019 2:56pm
  - Morrissey
    
    They’re playing football. Of course they kick the ball. Otherwise the game never opens up and you have that ridiculous American game, or the even more absurd and unwatchable “touch.”
    
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    October 28, 2019 2:49pm
- GazzaW
  
  It will be the first and probably the last time in my life that I will be hollering for the Saffas. With a bit of luck ‘Hollywood’ Farrell will be trapped under a pile of Bokkie forwards at some stage.
  
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  October 28, 2019 11:58am
  - James Stephenson
    
    Hollywood? Playing most of the game on one leg and still ending up joint top tackler?
    
    I mean, I know he’s not as tough as his old man, but.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:36pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Yes, ‘Hollywood’. As described by Perenara on the field after Farrell’s dramatic collapse post Whitelock’s fend in the face.
      
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      October 28, 2019 9:36pm
- Prince
  
  Their forwards are more physically equipped than ours to deal with England. Their game is more predictable, but that could be a good thing.
  England by 8 I say.
  
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  October 28, 2019 12:18pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  I am a Saffa and was frustrated to the nth degree with the game. They should have been playing soccer. I can’t see this bunch beating the Poms if they play the same way. I really felt for the Welsh because they came very close to winning it.
  
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  October 28, 2019 1:40pm
  - Morrissey
    
    I am a Saffa and was frustrated to the nth degree with the game. They should have been playing soccer.
    
    What the hell are you talking about? You’re making no sense whatsoever.
    
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    October 28, 2019 5:21pm
    - sooty
      
      That’s funny neither do you!
      
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      October 28, 2019 5:45pm
srylands

I see that the Christchurch convention centre is going to be called Te Pae. Personally I think that is a mistake. This facility will need to be heavily marketed internationally.

https://www.tepae.co.nz/

I might be wrong. Te Papa in Wellington works for the sole reason that it is easy to pronounce and remember. So it might work.

The new Christchurch Library is called Tūranga but I have never heard anyone refer to it as such.
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October 28, 2019 10:25am
- John Warren
  
  Why does it have to be given a Maori name at all?
  
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  October 28, 2019 10:29am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Because, before colonisation, maori were well known for their respect and reverence for literature and, there is a ticket to be clipped somewhere . . . .
    
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    October 28, 2019 12:33pm
    - Jack5
      
      We have a Maori as an official language and English as the overwhelmingly dominant language.
      
      The obvious course if to have a different title for each language: one in Maori and one in English. When you are speaking Maori call it Te Pae, and when you are speaking English call it the Convention Centre.
      
      That’s not what’s happening. NZ is both trying to revive the moribund Maori language by foisting it and Maori customs on the whole population, and also by trying to Maorify New Zealand English into a pidgin language.
      
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      October 28, 2019 1:46pm
      - srylands
        
        In the State sector, public servants and work teams are increasingly being given Maori names. So an assistant to a Chief Executive might be called tāhuhu. And only refer to himself or herself by that title. Senior Management Teams are rarely called by that term. They will have a Maori term, eg Te Pūrengi. That trend is accelerating. I think within 5 years, all position and team titles in the State sector will be exclusively Maori language.
        
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        October 28, 2019 4:37pm
    - HemiT
      
      Where isn’t there a ticket to be clipped somewhere…
      
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      October 28, 2019 1:47pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Next, when the government opens the Centre for Chinese in New Zealand it will officially (in the largest, darkest font) be called “Te Whare Taonga o te Iwi Haina i Aotearoa” or something like that.
    
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    October 28, 2019 3:01pm
    - MCos
      
      There’s a Chinese centre down the road from me.
      It’s called the Chinese Community Centre plus it has a name in Chinese characters.
      There’s a Chinese lady who lives round the corner from me who only speaks Cantonese. She is often down at that centre. Whether she understands the name, I don’t know. A long time ago our office was sent construction drawings from Japan. A Chinese guy in the office reckoned he could interpret the characters because they had the same meaning in both Japanese & the Chinese he was familiar with.
      I don’t know if was full of shit or not, they were a beautiful set of drawings. Some American company was also involved in the project and their drawings were so awful a bloke had to come over from Texas to interpret the bloody things. So we could handle the Japanese language, but not the English.
      
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      October 28, 2019 5:10pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        “A Chinese guy in the office reckoned he could interpret the characters because they had the same meaning in both Japanese & the Chinese he was familiar with.”
        
        No! (Hell, no!)
        This is so wrong.
        While it is true that certain kanji characters will maintain their Chinese root meaning, such as “sky,” “wind,” “water,” “fire,” etc. The Chinese guy would be like a speaker of Latin trying to translate a modern Italian precision engineering manual.
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:44pm
      - Brian Marshall
        
        Chinese symbols are different from Japanese and Korean, but the Chinese group of languages all use the same written words. So if that elderly lady that could only speak Cantonese, but could read and write in Chinese, she would be able communicate with any other Chinese person regardless. It’s something very different from our phonetic written language.
        
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        October 28, 2019 7:00pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Calling the new Convention t’ pie will ensure the monstrosity is aptly remembered–street clogger could be more appropriate. Hasn’t Council learnt Chistchurch people have fled the City?
  Turanga does not go down well either as that’s where our failing PM sponsor hails from.
  
  Tokenism rulz while socialism reigns.
  
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  October 28, 2019 1:32pm
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/what-happened-in-the-days-and-hours-before-the-bourke-street-rampage-20181108-p50euw.html
    
    Have a look at the timeline of the Gargasoulas incident that bought this about, it went on overnight until 1.35pm, the cops stood back and observed this guy until he killed and injured many many people.
    This is the same police force that gets the Ambulance service to take blood pressure and vitals of morons that have glued themselves to the road.
    The streets of Melbourne are now dangerous, this event should never have happened and could have been easily avoided.
    These laws will be useless unless police management grow a backbone, won’t happen under present commisioner.
    Want to get shot for disobeying a police order, I suggest NSW you would have a better chance of ending up with a bullet in you.
    
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    October 28, 2019 5:26pm
rightoverlabour

It’s a bit stupid having a “shoot to kill power”. Besides the military tactic of shooting to wound rather than kill (screaming wounded cause psychological stress that dead don’t), all police shooting should be to kill. If the intention is not to kill, then one should not even draw the weapon. And that is one reason I have doubts on the effectiveness of arming our police, most don’t want to kill. But all kudos to our Auzzie cousins that want shit wiped off the streets.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/116968792/police-in-melbourne-given-shoot-to-kill-powers-under-new-fleeing-driver-policy
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October 28, 2019 10:37am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Problem is, the shooting policy is aimed (pun intentional) at ‘hostile vehicle attacks’.
  
  If only there were some common denominator that could identify the culture-enrichening group that apparently passively passenger in these deadly vehicles – because, perhaps without the passengers the vehicles would be less hostile?
  
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  October 28, 2019 1:18pm
- cmm
  
  Shooting to kill is not the primary reason to draw a weapon. The primary reason is to assert a psychological advantage and force compliance.
  
  You should not draw a weapon unless you are prepared to use it.
  
  “Shoot to kill” powers are misnamed. What they really mean are that they are authorized to shoot to disable flight and any killing will be treated as legitimate.
  
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  October 28, 2019 3:05pm
  - MCos
    
    From what I understand from that article the purpose is to stop terrorists using cars as weapons, not to take pot shots at thirteen year old kids in a stolen car speeding away from chasing police.
    There is a difference between someone deliberately trying to kill with their car and someone acting in a dangerous manner otherwise the police could shoot all manner of idiots on the highways and byways.
    
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    October 28, 2019 3:43pm
    - Jack5
      
      The US military are working on a device to stop speeding vehicles by bombarding it with high-powered microwaves to disable the engine, according to the report below.
      
      The military’s interest is to freeze suicide-bomber vehicles, but if the technology works, perhaps it could be adapted for police civilian use. It would probably kill the fleeing kids’ cellphones, too, which might be a bonus.
      
      If they had hijacked a car belonging to a pensioner
      with a pacemaker and took him along, that might be the end of him.
      
      https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/30/pentagon-radio-frequency-vehicle-stopper/
      
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      October 28, 2019 5:15pm
Morrissey

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Clueless and inarticulate CBS reporter schooled by Tulsi Gabbard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov1zoBNNAzA
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October 28, 2019 10:47am
- Morrissey
  
  A lot of Clinton supporters in the house today. Very sad.
  
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  October 28, 2019 2:52pm
  - sooty
    
    You collect down ticks just about as much as Stephie.
    
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    October 28, 2019 5:42pm
    - Morrissey
      
      ????
      
      Better than an indifferent or zero response, which is the characteristic answer to your posts.
      
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      October 28, 2019 7:11pm
Littletramp

I read with disgust today the situation at Ayers Rock (Uluru). Surely this is another plain to see example of “Climb it Change”!
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October 28, 2019 10:48am
- chaos
  
  And why do you read that with disgust? The climb was closed for respect to what is the most sacred place to aborigines.
  
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  October 28, 2019 12:42pm
  - atomic drop
    
    No one is forcing them to climb it.
    
    Why do white people have to kow tow to stone age superstitions?
    
    I’m sure they could do a little dance and chant to their spirits and then their witch doctors could give it the green light, if they really wanted to.
    
    After all change happens and it is time to move forward, isn’t it? At least that what anti white “Progressives” say every time they want tp push crazy stuff on us like injecting 6 yo boys with female hormones.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:20pm
    - chaos
      
      And what we people doing when they climbed it? Damaging the rock art, urinating and shitting at the top of the rock, leaving their rubbish up there.
      
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      October 28, 2019 4:16pm
      - atomic drop
        
        Oh please, nothing that couldn’t be easily mitigated/prevented.
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:20pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Now the Abo’s don’t get the revenue from tourism because some interfering busybodies re-defined their culture for them.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:36pm
    - chaos
      
      Ummm, the aborigines never got any money from people climbing it, they get it from people doing the guided tours etc.
      
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      October 28, 2019 4:17pm
      - atomic drop
        
        Ummm, he said “from tourism”. Do you not understand what that means, chaos?
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:19pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    And yet people can climb the dome at St Peter’s and a few others, and for that matter Mt Everest that is sacred to the Nepalese. I don’t get why a lump of rock suddenly becomes sacred. Same with new Zealand peaks where we can’t stand on the pinnacle of peaks. If I decide the Moon is sacred to me, does that mean no more Nasa visits? I don’t see how climbing a rock reduces its sacredness. ( I can understand excess erosion, or litter or someother measurable scientific degradation, but mumbo jumbo doesn’t cut it.
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:37pm
    - chaos
      
      I bet people don’t shit and urinate on the dome at St. Peter’s or damage it.
      
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      October 28, 2019 4:19pm
      - atomic drop
        
        a) Do they have toilets at Eyre’s Rock?
        
        b) St Peter’s is under intense surveillance. Otherwise there would be plenty of leftists and muslims who would do just that and way way worse.
        
        In fact they are doing way worse to Christian churches through out Europe which don’t have 24hr protection.
        
        You really have no clue do you, chaos?
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:17pm
  - Littletramp
    
    Looks like 10 people have a sense of humour, and you and one other may not?
    
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    October 28, 2019 1:46pm
    - chaos
      
      No humour needed when your joke is crap
      
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      October 28, 2019 4:22pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Utterly untrue, chaos. The aborigines were very keen tour guides up the rock until recently. This BS about it being “the most sacred place” is just that, BS. All it is is the younger generation of aborigines flexing their muscles and trying to look important. They won’t be so thrilled when tourism numbers drop and they have less income.
    
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    October 28, 2019 2:14pm
    - chaos
      
      Bullshit. When it was given back to them in 1985 it was with the promise that climbing up it would be stopped. The then labour prime minister went back on that promise.
      
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      October 28, 2019 4:21pm
      - Jack5
        
        What’s the story with Taranaki/Mt Egmont?
        
        It was granted the same legal rights as a person a couple of years ago. A bit like W(h)anganui river, I guess.
        
        We’re mixing human and non-human entities, Maori style. Joseph Conrad might have had interesting things to write about NZ’s evolution if he had been able to visit the country today.
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:22pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Because he is contemptuous of Aborigine people, that’s why.
    
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    October 28, 2019 2:50pm
  - rockape
    
    Where did you park your sense of humour?
    
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    October 28, 2019 3:35pm
    - chaos
      
      Jokes are funny, if you found that humours your must be Guy Williams
      
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      October 28, 2019 4:31pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Guy Williams is very funny. Dimwitted politicians and even dimmer broadcasters hate him, however….
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYEuWoiXXhs&t=41s
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:19pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Why am I not surprised that Morrissey thinks Guy Williams is ‘very funny’?
        It’s a strange world that lefty dropkicks inhabit.
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:24pm
      - Jack5
        
        Morrissey, in your link, Williams is talking (years ago) of collecting signatures for some whale petition.
        
        If he’s still collecting signatures for causes, he would score a few by sending Golriz to the mall where the Stephiestani boys hang out.
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:27pm
      - sooty
        
        Because Morrisey is some kind of funny!
        
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        October 28, 2019 5:38pm
      - chaos
        
        Never seen real comedy then have you Morrissey, just the lame ass crap that this country now produces.
        
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        October 28, 2019 6:07pm
      - kevn
        
        morris minor thinks guy williams is funny.
        That’s what they have in common.
        
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        October 28, 2019 6:21pm
- Inandout
  
  Littletramp, word is a truck full of Fosters or VBs may help with a climb.
  
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  October 29, 2019 10:27am
sooty

Melbourne Police given the power to shoot fleeing drivers!
Kiwis going to Aussie be aware!
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October 28, 2019 12:00pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Any word on whats happening with able-bodied drivers
  using Disability parking permits? 🙁
  
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  October 28, 2019 1:29pm
  - chaos
    
    yeah, Aussie is going to place them in special education camps where they will hate watch 24 7 footage of Jacinda
    
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    October 28, 2019 4:15pm
- Morrissey
  
  You would have loved the Gestapo.
  
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  October 28, 2019 2:50pm
  - sooty
    
    Not as much as you would have!
    
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    October 28, 2019 5:36pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Neither an intelligent nor a logical answer, sooty. You’ve been caught out: silence would be the smarter option for you.
      
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      October 28, 2019 7:08pm
Steve Todd

I’ve just voted in the Bird of the Year 2019 election. See https://www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/?utm_source=Media&utm_campaign=d3c05f2ab2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_23_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e2be43a95-d3c05f2ab2-337955929.

This year (and no doubt for evermore), Forest & Bird are using the Instant Run-off Vote (IRV) voting system (single-vacancy STV) to determine the winner, no doubt to ensure the process, and outcome, is scrupulously fair on all the birds in the election.

Click on the link, then scroll down to the birds. Once you’ve decided which birds you like (up to five per e-mail address), click on ‘Pick Me’ (you can rank-order one, some, or five birds) in your order of preference. (You can change your order before submitting your vote.)

There are a couple of steps to go through, but it’s quite straightforward. Voting closes at 5:00PM on Sunday 10 November.
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October 28, 2019 12:06pm
- The Feed
  
  My cat wishes to identify as a bird.
  
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  October 28, 2019 1:49pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    That will guarantee hours of entertainment as ze chases zis’ tail.
    
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    October 28, 2019 8:15pm
skyblue

In one night Trump has delivered more than the COL has delivered in 10 months in their so called “Year of delivery.”
Cannot wait for the video.
Reference to dog brilliant.
Go The Donald.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/baghdadi-democrats-trump-syria-pullback-isis
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October 28, 2019 1:38pm
- chaos
  
  Won’t be as good as trump saw but here is footage of the explosion
  
  https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/10/27/609689/Iran-Iraq-Syria-Daesh-Baghdadi-US-raid
  
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  October 28, 2019 4:13pm
- stephieboy
  
  Nothing to with Donald. It was the slill and stealth US special operations.
  
  All he has secured unsurprisingly is bragging rights.
  
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  October 29, 2019 1:42pm
skyblue

The Donald has now vaped the ISIS Spokesman. Got the quinella, hoping he goes for the trifecta.
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October 28, 2019 1:45pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Now I understand why they say vaping is bad for you…
  
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  October 28, 2019 6:45pm
Maggie Pie

US Special Forces: KNOCK KNOCK

Baghdadi: “Who’s there?”

US Special Forces: “Allah”.

Baghdadi: “Allah who?”

US Special Forces: “Allah who Akbar!!”

😀 😀 😀
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October 28, 2019 1:57pm
Piniwi

Perhaps being Labour Day it is considered a slow news day at least by TVNZ as they offer this gem: “A Wellington parent’s group took to Parliament’s lawn early LAST WEEK with plush toys to show politicians their children are growing up worried about climate change” There seems to be a growing number of young people turning up for counselling for something called “eco-anxiety or climate change-induced anxiety.”
While most sane grown ups can weather the increasing flow of BS about man-made global warming the little people are not so well placed. Gone are the simple days where parents were enthralled as children started to learn about nature. When most added a swan plant to the garden to let them see first hand the life cycle of the monarch butterfly while helping the annual visitors increase their numbers. When bush, beach and the countryside were used like an extended family classroom with new delights at almost every step.
This man-made eco-anxiety could become a very serious problem but could be solved by getting back to the basics along with the fundamentals of also teaching the basics for sound learning. Sadly it might take a generation to turn this around but turn they must if only for the sake of the children.
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October 28, 2019 2:00pm
- sooty
  
  Early last week?
  Slow news week!
  Or teleprompts favorite subject?
  
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  October 28, 2019 5:35pm
- Prince
  
  Plush toys ? What’s the point of that, or is it some reference to the ancient New Zealand practice of dildo rebellion ?
  
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  October 28, 2019 8:46pm
chaos

* U.S. military forces have carried out another operation in northwest Syria, killing senior ISIS leader and spokesman Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir, regional officials and witnesses say. It comes less than 24 hours after ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up while being pursued by U.S. special forces.

The latest operation happened on early Sunday night when U.S. forces carried out an airstrike in the village of Ain al-Baydah, near Jarablus in Aleppo province, close to the border with Turkey, witnesses said. A U.S. military spokesperson declined to provide information “for reasons of operational security.”*

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/10/u-s-targets-senior-isis-leader-in-northwest-syria/
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October 28, 2019 2:12pm
kevn

Random question… Do the RWC have drug testing for the semi finals and beyond?
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October 28, 2019 3:26pm
- Batman
  
  Random testing during the whole event is standard
  
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  October 28, 2019 3:28pm
- chaos
  
  We lost because we were shit in that game. The better team won. I hope people aren’t going to make up excuses to why we lost
  
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  October 28, 2019 3:32pm
- MrTips
  
  2/3 of testing is off season but testing will be done at the RWC for all finals one would assume. But they can only test for what they know as I said earlier.
  
  We deserved to lose. I’ve never seen a game where England played so well and we didn’t play at all. England were smarter all around, including the dietary issues and they shouldn’t be fined for challenging the haka https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12280241
  
  I reckon teams should challenge it, just don’t cross the half way line is all.
  
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  October 28, 2019 5:01pm
  - chaos
    
    It is meant to be challenged, it is a shame if they are fined for it.
    
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    October 28, 2019 5:15pm
Cobolt24

National puts pressure on Labour over rise in jobseeker benefits
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/national-puts-pressure-on-labour-over-rise-in-jobseeker-benefits/ar-AAJrVXn?li=BBqdk7Q
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October 28, 2019 5:11pm
Morrissey

NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN PROSECUTES THE PROSECUTOR

Norman G. Finkelstein has built a worldwide reputation as a brilliant forensic analyst of spurious claims to truth in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Whether demolishing the arguments of Joan Peters or Daniel Goldhagen or Alan Dershowitz, Finkelstein’s laser-like focus has repeatedly uncovered deceptions and outright lies served up to whitewash Israeli criminality.

Now, Finkelstein turns his attention to the International Criminal Court. Specifically, Finkelstein parses the work of ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, demonstrating how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Finkelstein calls this his most important book. It’s not just a historical or scholarly intervention. It’s also a direct political intervention. The proceedings in the ICC are ongoing. If enough people inside and outside the Court read this book, and are enraged by Finkelstein’s findings, it might force the ICC to indict Israel.

The evidence Finkelstein presents in I Accuse! is devastating. In its light the Chief Prosecutor must either investigate Israel or step down.

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2019/10/26/norman-g-finkelstein-prosecutes-the-prosecutor/
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October 28, 2019 5:14pm
chaos

A very telling comment from trump

* President Donald Trump said Sunday he did not brief House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top congressional leaders on the raid that resulted in the death Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi due to concern information would leak and put people’s lives at risk.

“We were going to notify them last night but we decided not to do that because Washington leaks like I’ve never seen before,” Trump said. “There’s nothing — there’s no country in the world that leaks like we do. And Washington is a leaking machine. And I told my people we will not notify them until the — our great people are out. Not just in, but out. I don’t want to have them greeted with firepower like you wouldn’t believe.”*

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/27/trump-did-not-brief-pelosi-and-other-top-congressional-leaders-on-baghdadi-raid.html
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October 28, 2019 5:14pm
- Batman
  
  A weak excuse for his pettiness.
  
  There is a bi-partisan agreement that troops should not be put in harm’s way in situations like this and I find it hard to believe that either side would leak it. Just as Republicans didn’t leak the Bin Laden raid.
  
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  October 28, 2019 5:17pm
  - atomic drop
    
    Well that is the point, there is no bi-partisan agreement remaining. White male voters have put a Nationalist in the White House and our globalist overlords are stopping at nothing to destroy him.
    
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    October 28, 2019 5:24pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Reporter: Did you notify Pelosi ahead of time?
  
  Trump: “No, no I didn’t. I wanted to make sure this was kept secret. I don’t want to have men lost.”
  
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  October 28, 2019 5:26pm
Cobolt24

Can Southland’s economy cope if the smelter doors are shut?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/116881103/can-southlands-economy-cope-if-the-smelter-doors-are-shut
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October 28, 2019 5:23pm
- sooty
  
  Who will turn the lights out?
  
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  October 28, 2019 5:31pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Sir Tim Shadbolt, but he’ll also need to turn the lights out at the local Polytech which has been killed by boy-wonder Hipkins.
    
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    October 28, 2019 8:48pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  The smelter has a been a mainstay of the NZ economy. It purpose was to turn mountain water into foreign exchange by the conversion of bauxite into internationally exportable aluminium.
  
  It hasn’t outlived its usefulness.
  
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  October 28, 2019 7:17pm
  - Jack5
    
    Exports of aluminium and aluminium products in the year ended June 30 were about $1.25 billion.
    
    With half a century or so of balance of payments deficits and now a soaring population, the NZ economy needs the smelter. It’s effectively the export of electricity.
    
    The Trump tariffs on steel and aluminium have hit China, by far the biggest aluminium producer, so it will be dumping product. Canada and Mexico have been exempted from the tariffs. I think Australia has, too, but not NZ. (Someone may elaborate on that).
    
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    October 28, 2019 8:23pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Maybe Cindy could elaborate on that.
      On second thoughts ……naaah.
      
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      October 28, 2019 8:50pm
  - MCos
    
    Ive heard that sort of talk before when taxpayer largesse was used to prop up all sorts of indispensable industries.
    
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    October 28, 2019 8:57pm
Inandout

The truth about Trump and the Washington public servants doesn’t get much clearer than with Steve Hilton. His guests are normally varied and this one has a contributor from the Washington Post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2erzgB1z3nI
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October 28, 2019 5:33pm
chaos

Or, here is is often overlooked today in the age of pampering to he PC crap, how about we do something unique and have people who are actually the best for the job

* Rugby World Cup 2019: Sonny Bill Williams urges NZ Rugby to select ‘Pacific Islander or Māori’ as new All Blacks coach

“One thing that I’d probably put to NZR is it would be good to see a Pacific Islander or Māori in the coaching system that would have a bit of influence,” said Williams.

When asked of the attributes that would make Foster a stand-out candidate for the position, Williams was reluctant to offer any specific endorsement and simply noted that there would be “a few guys putting their hand up”.

“Because the way the game is going… there are a lot of Island boys and Māori boys that play for the All Blacks.

“I’m just thinking how we can get a lot more out of those boys, and I know that there’s a bit of space there for that growth.”

Of the All Blacks current coaching and management crop, all are of European descent.

Williams noted there were a few coaches who would be available after stepping away from their roles post-World Cup.*

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rugby-world-cup-2019/2019/10/rugby-world-cup-23019-sonny-bill-williams-urges-nz-rugby-to-select-pacific-islander-or-maori-as-new-all-blacks-coach.html
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October 28, 2019 7:17pm
- JibberJabber
  
  The next All Blacks coach?….
  https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uno4n_1572165363
  
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  October 28, 2019 8:02pm
- cmm
  
  The way the ABs are going they probably need a team Imam too.
  
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