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MCos

Twitter should be banned immediately

https://twitter.com/swtgallagher/status/1216524811628773377?s=21
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January 15, 2020 8:02am
Manolo

Justified outrage.

Why is she not holidaying in New Zealand?,’ he scoffed.

‘If you can criticise Scott Morrison for going to Hawaii… why is she not in Hamilton or Canterbury or somewhere like that? What’s she doing hanging around Australia?’

Stay in your own country and spend money in your own place. Typical virtue-signalling from Jacinda Ardern. I get sick and tired of that woman,’ he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/im-sick-and-tired-of-that-woman-the-projects-steve-price-unleashes-on-virtue-signalling-jacinda-ardern-in-an-extraordinary-rant-about-her-holiday-to-australia-and-bizarrely-compares-her-visit-to-scott-morrisons-trip-to-hawaii/ar-BBYWPSi
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January 15, 2020 8:03am
- Brian McDonald
  
  It could have been a scene from a Monty Python show – especially the comment because ‘her country’s not burning.’
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:51am
  - sooty
    
    We have got our own bush fires, you know!
    Why is she not home!
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:35am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    No…that is true ‘her country’s not burning.’…..but the bush fires will go out, they always do.
    It will be realized, that,
    1. Scott Morrison did not light them.
    2. No mitigation of this imagined global warming, would have prevented them.
    3. People deliberately lit an estimated 300 of these fires.
    4. Opposition parties and the media are playing politics over the bodies of the dead….again.
    But
    Dear old Jacinda will find it very difficult to cure the ineptitude of her CoL and their destruction of our economy.
    1, It is all her fault.
    2. Her CoL do not have any idea how to fix the mess they have created, this why they, like Helen Clark before her, try to blame someone/ something else.
    Her fire season, involves burning down our economy, which can’t be put out by change in the weather…to rain.
    
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    January 15, 2020 3:40pm
    - LTA1955
      
      2020MAGA2020
      
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      January 15, 2020 11:01pm
  - cmm
    
    Let’s get real… Only 2% of Oz has burned….
    
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    January 15, 2020 5:28pm
- oldpark
  
  @Manolo 8.03am
  Maybe the Australians could make her their PM and dump Scott Morrison. Wonder how they would react on their imagined golden girl if the first thing she did was to stop all oil and gas exploration in Australia.In fact an action replay of the same damning decision she has done in NZ. Not forgetting her war cry of Comrade !Comrade !Comrade !played out 15 times on her addressing a Socialist/Commie Gang of youth activists in Europe. Yes it has all been recorded on tape.
  Wonder would the Australians be so charitable to embrace such a social pretender of virtue signalling being carried out by her in Australia, if they heard the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.Maybe you can fool some of the people some of the time,or are Australians as dumb as NZs MSM treat New Zealanders. Go figure that one.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:03am
- KevO'Brien
  
  I hope we are not paying Ardern during her absence. I was confronted by a super life size picture of her yesterday on the back of a moving bus. She is not in the glamour industry, or is she, I believed she had the appellation PTPM (post traumatic personal monster?)
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:23am
- yossarian
  
  Simple. Rule 1a in politics.
  
  “It’s ok when the left do it “
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:22am
- Positan
  
  It is unfathomable, not to say utterly outrageous, that Ardern, the (like it or not) Prime Minister and CEO of New Zealand, has taken an 8-week holiday.
  
  How is that possible? Does everything stop while she’s “on leave.” With a salary, plus perks, of $493,655 ($9493 per week) her “break” has cost the NZ taxpayer $75,947. To me, and I suppose every honourable, non-troughing, non-Leftist, such splurging is utterly and unbelievably unconscionable. Even worse, the title accorded Ardern is: “Right Honourable.”
  
  Surely she should try to exemplify that.
  
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  January 15, 2020 1:01pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    8 long weeks of neglect……….
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:52pm
Captain Mainwaring

Not all Aussies are in awe of the PTPM

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/im-sick-and-tired-of-that-woman-the-projects-steve-price-unleashes-on-virtue-signalling-jacinda-ardern-in-an-extraordinary-rant-about-her-holiday-to-australia-and-bizarrely-compares-her-visit-to-scott-morrisons-trip-to-hawaii/ar-BBYWPSi?ocid=spartandhp

Well said that man.
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January 15, 2020 8:05am
- igm
  
  Goes to show she is only held in regard by MSM, leeches, perverts, and bludgers.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:17am
  - Stephen Russell
    
    And deplorables. Don’t forget them!
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:52am
- Local Miller
  
  They can have her, thanks.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:09am
Maggy Wassilieff

Our PM is on holiday for weeks, so who is planning strategy, rallying the troops, plotting, and organising
Labour’s election campaign?
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January 15, 2020 8:06am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Concern noted.
  
  [Mod – trolling noted. How about you contribute something worthwhile, or not at all?]
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:15am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    I disagree mod. Not a positive comment, but is a little funny at least. It’s healthy to receive a bit of push back against the opinions we express as otherwise turns into an echo chamber.
    
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    January 15, 2020 8:52am
    - Random T Person
      
      I absolutely second that and though I rarely agree with him I routinely upvote Miken.
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:32am
      - Aliog
        
        Me too. If you want an echo chamber, support blubber boy’s latest incarnation.
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:26am
    - Tall Man
      
      You obviously have a low bar for humour.
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:38am
    - Stephieboy2
      
      UN, agreed.
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:58am
    - Liberty
      
      The Mod is correct. One or two words are pointless. About as nauseating
      As lurking down tickers who don’t contribute.
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:59am
      - Aliog
        
        Some people aren’t worth a reply, Liberty. There are a few here that are only worth a dismissive downtick – EAD in the old days, Hugh, whatever iteration of Kea is currently floating around, igm…there are a few.
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:31am
      - Liberty
        
        Aliog
        You need both up and down ticks. Most times it works fine.
        Stuff and Twitter both infested with the rabid left have no down tick.
        
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        January 15, 2020 12:03pm
  - Andrei
    
    Does supplying editorial comment lie within the moderators remit?
    
    Witty repartee used to be part of the charm of this blog
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:28am
    - marcw
      
      Ah yes Andrei, but with ‘witty’ being the operative word.
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:48am
      - sooty
        
        Instantaneous response as well!
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:39am
  - softail 1450
    
    MMA, Lol.
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:30am
- DigNap15
  
  I just hope its not that person who ran their campaign last year, they did a very good job. Jacinda was on tv at all the right times!
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:15am
- hullkiwi
  
  She appointed Megan, but it is looking like her eyes have diverted to the pies again!
  
  What with:
  1. Police doing stupid raids;
  2. Social housing lists growing; and
  3. Maori wanting customary rights to fresh water (a seabed train wreck coming, if ever there was one).
  
  All in all, a good year coming for the PTPM!
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:16am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    Don’t want to get into a silly political argument but there were concession on water rights to Tu Wharetoa under the last government.
    
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    January 15, 2020 8:44am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Yes, but the Maori Council didn’t have Waitangi Tribunal decision to take to the High Court, they do now. Thedecision which if upheld, means the water running through my property is not mine. So as I said, this is Jacinda’s seabed issue, or will she try to kick the can down the road?
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:17am
      - Gravelroad
        
        We have a great deal of water running through our property, but I wouldn’t say that we claim it to be “ours”.
        What we do claim is the right to use the water for human and animal consumption here.
        If some other people/groups are going to be arbitrarily given ownership of all water, that will cause a great deal of difficulty to a great many citizens, ratepayers and the taxed.
        
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        January 15, 2020 9:59am
      - rouppe
        
        … means the water running through my property is not mine.
        
        What does “mine” mean to you? Because that river /stream also runs through other properties, which by your definition also makes it “theirs”.
        
        So whose “mine” takes precedence? To what extent do you think your right to that water extends to the consequences of anyone – or in fact the natural habitat – downstream?
        
        Do you believe you can take as much as you like, to the extent that the flow downstream is significantly reduced? Do you think you can discharge into that waterway anything you like and as long as it doesn’t affect “your” stretch of the waterway, regardless of what it does downstream?
        
        Because that is the real consequence of ownership, and the very real trap that vesting some sort of ownership and “right” in one group has…
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:14am
      - freethinker
        
        If Maori own the water expect a call from me this winter when part of my farm is under water to remove their F****ing water from my Land.
        
        [Mod: we know that you know how to spell…]
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:21am
      - Gravelroad
        
        In response to Rouppe:
        Currently, no landowner/manager can “discharge anything you like” into a river or waterway or take any amount of water you like.
        We are governed and closely monitored by local and central government regulations.
        Where we are, we are allowed to take water for household use.
        Anything else – eg a small irrigation project – is subject to the obtaining of a consent permit from the Council. Depending on how many other water take consents apply to the water way in question, you may not get a consent.
        Consents are costly and regularly monitored by the authorities.
        
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        January 15, 2020 11:04am
  - curry4me
    
    I hope number 3 doesn’t lead to a revival of the Racist Party. National, and NZ don’t need a brown mailing racially based “partner”.
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:23am
- geoff3012
  
  the Kelvinator.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:20am
- Rocky Jnr
  
  I hope its Twyford
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:23am
- rockape
  
  Megan Woods LOL
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:28am
  - rockape
    
    Why the downvote? Herald Sep 2019; Megan Woods has added KiwiBuild and Labour’s 2020 campaign to an already big workload.
    
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    January 15, 2020 8:49am
    - hullkiwi
      
      You got the attention of a troll!
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:29am
    - marcw
      
      When she was asked what would happen to Kiwibuild’s targets when she took over, her answer was along the lines of “we will build as many houses as we can, as fast as we can.”
      
      Such aspiration and accountability (not).
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:52am
- Allan
  
  Her extended absence and desire to enjoy herself and be a show pony around the place with various photo ops in my opinion reveals her true shallowness and total lack of understanding of the gravitas of her job and her total unworthiness of holding the position of PM. She is an absolute embarrasment. The country is currently being governed by a leaderless bunch of student politicians and the sooner that they are voted out the better off we all will be. Thanks for nothing Mr Peters may you also be removed from office as well at the next election, you have not done NZ and its economy any favours by supporting this bunch of incompetents.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:29am
- peterwn
  
  She did it in little less than two months in 2017, so she has plenty of time yet. Same with Winston, he does not swing into action until some months before an election and he is notably absent from the House at that time.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:32am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    but where is Mike Munro this time – wasn’t he the key strategist last Labour campaign?
    
    [Mod: Mike Munro retired due to ill health about June in 2019]
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:05am
    - plc
      
      Was that about the time a rapist was running amok in the PTPM’s office and nobody thought to do anything about it?
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:52am
  - Gravelroad
    
    She did what she’d did in less than two months in 2017 because the media decided that a change of government was needed. An unprecedented celebrity-backed PR campaign ensued, resulting in the Jacindamania hysteria.
    Prior to this, Ms Ardern, for most people, was a relatively unknown backbencher who had achieved nothing, and knew nothing.
    Peters used her in his personal campaign against National.
    There is little doubt that the same influencers – media, celebrity hacks and Peters- will agitate for the same result this year.
    Hope National has a plan to deal with it rather than stand round like stunned mullets as last time.
    
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    January 15, 2020 12:18pm
- Ruahine
  
  Who is running Labour’s election campaign? Nobody hopefully.
  Anyway this being in government and having to go to Wellington all the time and having to read all this stuff that people put in front of me and which I can not even understand and having to meet all these people that do not seem to like me all that much is not really all that much fun.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:36am
  - rockape
    
    Megan Woods has added KiwiBuild and Labour’s 2020 campaign to an already big workload. Herald Sep 2019
    
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    January 15, 2020 8:53am
    - hullkiwi
      
      A big workload in the eyes of a Herald sycophant (or someone who puts a press release into a newspaper).
      
      Just because someone says it is a heavy workload, it doesn’t mean it is!
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:33am
      - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
        
        Depends…
        Are we talking about someone who actually does work or a professional echo?
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:37am
- Inandout
  
  Maggy, Seymour has seen an opportunity to cement in another one or two seats by actually earning his salary and commenting on CoL stuff ups.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:38am
- Simon
  
  “so who is planning strategy, rallying the troops, plotting, and organising Labour’s election campaign?”
  
  The rapist.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:39am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Jacinda thought you said therapist.?
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:21am
  - chaos
    
    Megan woods is in charge this time around
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:28am
  - Michael
    
    I think you may just be correct there Simon.
    They said he was important to their reelection?
    
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    January 15, 2020 6:00pm
- cmm
  
  Ummm, National should have done that during the 9 years of neglect. If Labour does not get reelected then that is National’s fault!
  
  C’mon last time they didn’t plan either. They just got a huge “it’s time for a woman” bounce from replacing Little with a female.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:39am
  - SGA
    
    They just got a huge “it’s time for a woman” bounce from replacing Little with a female.
    
    Somewhat, but it was Shipley then Clark then Key (cameo English) – it’s hardly a first. As well as that, maybe the appeal was also similar to that Trump had for some – something a bit different and unexpected.
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:14am
    - cmm
      
      No it is not a first, but you’d think it was the way the MSM ran it.
      
      Hugzilla’s “win” was set up by Clinton losing. All those people that wanted Clinton to win because she’s a woman were gagging for a woman to win something. Then Auntie Hells lost the Second Prize of big cheese at UN, so when it came time for Hugzilla all those NZ voters upset over Clinton could still do something and vote for the wimminz.
      
      No doubt in my mind that gave Labour around half their bounce from 20-something% to 39% (or whatever). The rest came from “oh thank God it’s not Andrew Little”.
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:58am
      - SGA
        
        By that reasoning, Labour would have won the election by replacing Little with any of their female MPs. I’m not sure that is true.
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:01am
      - cmm
        
        SGA: Possibly…
        
        But she was the deputy, and the best of a pathetic lot, so the obvious choice.
        
        No matter how much people were gagging for a woman, Megan Woods or such would not have cut it.
        
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        January 15, 2020 4:40pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Ardern won because Hillary lost and Helen didn’t get the UN top job. Yer what?
        
        Dunno what planet you live on and what you are smoking …
        
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        January 15, 2020 8:33pm
  - freethinker
    
    Are you suggesting that Labour just replaced a little d&&k with a big C**t ?
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:26am
- SGA
  
  Our PM is on holiday for weeks, so who is planning strategy, rallying the troops, plotting, and organising Labour’s election campaign?
  
  To be fair, I’m not sure what being “on holiday” means for any senior politician in any party (especially when they are government). Somehow I doubt that they walk out of the office, shut the door, and then do nothing related to their role for however long it is. Hell, I’m not in such a role, but I can’t completely divorce myself from work-related stuff for more than a couple of days.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:08am
  - Tall Man
    
    But you’re probably not a snowflake.
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:34am
    - SGA
      
      Shucks, even with the “probably” I’m touched 🙂
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:11am
  - hullkiwi
    
    So you are overlooking the time spent in Gisborne and the photo op in Queensland at winery with hosts/owners.
    
    PS. In your post you questioned whether she can ever be on holiday. I would argue that she would do well to remember that sentiment when she is looking for photo opportunities.
    
    Because next time, she would do well to think about the message she is giving enjoying hospitality at an Australian winery rather than a New Zealand winery during the Southern holiday season! But there again, that is asking a bit much of Ardern to think as we all know she doesn’t think, she merely repeats sound bites made up for her by spin merchants.
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:47am
    - SGA
      
      In your post you questioned whether she can ever be on holiday.
      
      Actually my post questions whether any senior politicians in any party have extended holidays completely removed from “work” – that no planning, rallying, plotting, or organising (to paraphrase Maggy’s original comment) goes on in those periods. I doubt it – but you and Maggy are entitled to your opinions.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:08am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Why does Ardern need photo-ops when she now appears supersized on the back of our buses? The ladies are not going to like the glam competition.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:28am
      - Tall Man
        
        Very hard to “turn around” a bus as well.
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:31am
      - sooty
        
        Yep, the back of a bus is the best place for her to be!
        I would love it if hey mouth was over the exhaust pipe!
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:46am
- chaos
  
  Maggy are you ok? Surely you know Arden doesn’t do anything anyway so could easily be away for several months and it wouldn’t matter.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:26am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m very well, thanks.
    
    Yes, I realise the PM could be away for several months and it mightn’t matter… but then again, it COULD.
    
    It’s the leader-less, revolting troops back home that might present a problem when she returns.
    
    Are all the Labour minions on holiday too, or are they organising/plotting?
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:13am
    - Tall Man
      
      Too lazy to do much Maggy.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:31am
    - chaos
      
      No they are very busy writing letters
      
      Dear Greta can you and your Indian puppet master please come to New Zealand. It is really bad here, just the other day I was driving past a farm and a cow farted. Omg I could see the fart rising with my own eyes and I knew we as a civilization we’re doomed.
      
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      January 15, 2020 11:03am
      - Ruahine
        
        Greta could come to that cow and shout ‘How dare you”
        
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        January 15, 2020 5:49pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  MW, a letter of concern to the Labour re eelction committee and PM’s office is in order?
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:01am
- KevO'Brien
  
  You’ll be right Maggy. Labour have very good PR and they will be actively underway, underground too.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:25am
DigNap15

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
How many of you here are intending to Party vote NZ First this election?

Up Vote – Yes
Down Vote – No
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January 15, 2020 8:17am
- SGA
  
  Perhaps that would have worked better if you’d asked “How many of you here are NOT intending to Party vote NZ First this election?”
  Your message wouldn’t have been hidden then 🙂
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:36am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes I’ve just realised that.
    Next time!
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:23am
- Ian Boag
  
  3 out of 52 = 6% ….. 🙁
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:01am
  - SGA
    
    I’m not sure KB reflects a representative sample of NZ voters, however 🙂
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:14am
  - freethinker
    
    And declining.
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:29am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Kiwiblog karma ticks as reliable as opinoin polling?
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:31am
Swifty

Any criticism of Cindy is a ‘bizarre rant’ it seems:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12300465

Good to know.
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January 15, 2020 8:18am
- tf78
  
  I’m glad our walls don’t have ears yet.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:01am
  - alloytoo
    
    The thought police will be along shortly to deal with you. (once they’ve finishing harassing gun licence holders)
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:17am
- plc
  
  Just like any criticism of the Sussex family is racist
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:54am
- Inandout
  
  Swifty, the Twitterati hover over our princess and like attacking wasps descend on the ‘enemy’. There is a difference here though; wasp stings actually hurt.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:04am
Sydney Alvarado

I think having Ministers on holiday for several weeks sends a bad signal. AFAIK there is no leave entitlement, ie they are not employees. So if a minister wants 6 weeks holiday all that is required is the agreement of the PM and it is all on full pay. Personally I think they should be limited to 4 weeks annual leave like everyone else.
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January 15, 2020 8:23am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  I get five weeks. Is that too much?
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:46am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You get 52 weeks Mike
    
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    January 15, 2020 8:54am
    - Tall Man
      
      Probably takes rather than gets, much to the relief of his colleagues.
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:33am
  - Jules99
    
    If it’s paid by the taxpayer yes, unless you get a pay cut in lieu of time off. If in the private sector, no problem. It’s your employer who decides.
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:36am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Actually, in both sectors the amount of leave is typically agreed between employer and employee and recorded in a contract. Is that wrong?
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:33am
      - Jules99
        
        Amazing how you successfully miss the point so often.
        
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        January 15, 2020 11:30am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Evade the point, I’d like to think. But you were perhaps going to point out why public servants should have no more than fours weeks’ annual leave?
        
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        January 15, 2020 1:52pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”why public servants should have no more than fours weeks’ annual leave?”…..
        
        Retraining costs! 🙂
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:20pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        True nasska. I go away for a long weekend and find I’ve forgotten where the paperclips are stored.
        
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        January 15, 2020 4:48pm
  - Michael
    
    Do you work for it?
    
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    January 15, 2020 6:03pm
- Inandout
  
  Sydney, when we plebs travel overseas we are required to fund our insurance, and in some cases pre existing medical problems can add hundreds of dollars to the premium. I would like to know when MPs travel out of the country on private business do they pay their own insurance – or do they claim it is on ‘government business’? Winston must be a travel insurer’s nightmare so always seems to travel as ‘part of the job’.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:12am
  - Sydney Alvarado
    
    It will be government covered. Normally when officials travel overseas they do not take out travel insurance. It is generally cheaper for the public service employer to undertake to bring a sick or injured employee home at any cost. It would happen rarely.
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:21am
    - Paulus
      
      Its OK when you have a RNZAF B 757 ready at your whim !
      
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      January 15, 2020 1:32pm
- freethinker
  
  Sydney – With this collection of clowns 52 weeks a year till next election would be about right.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:33am
oldpark

Notice the Peters selected PM is over in Australia big noting how good she is or could be. After two years as NZs PM sucking the hind tit, getting $500,000 a year for what. Her track record in NZ of so called running a country is “fair” but must try harder than just running a bath.What a bloody indictment . A true statement. “Bullshit baffles brains and common sense “.Hope NZs finally get a Goverment they deserve by voting out the Peters selected no hopers including him in this years election said to be circa September 2020.
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January 15, 2020 8:23am
- Simon
  
  PM on $500 k. The cabinet should get paid the average NZ salary. Its about $50,000.
  
  PM getting 10 times average salary is terrible. NZ needs to be a fair society and equality. Start with the PM salary.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:23am
  - coge
    
    A lot more annual leave than other workers, it must be said. What’s going on here?
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:01pm
- MCos
  
  Couple of points there Oldpoint.
  If it wasn’t for Steve Price nobody in Oz would know she was there apart from some locals who saw her wandering round.
  John Key used to go to Hawaii and Helen Clark tramping in Nepal.
  Peters could just as easily latched onto Bill English if the baubles had been right. I’m sure Bill would have handled the Mosque attacks aftermath in a very sympathetic way himself, but he would have been unlikely to cause much of a ripple in Oz.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:54am
  - Tall Man
    
    And yet Sir William English is feted throughout the world.
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:29am
Lizziep

No one I hope Maggy TBH she couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery.
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January 15, 2020 8:24am
- Simon
  
  She couldnt organize a sexual assault at a drunken Labo youth camp.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:25am
Local Miller

And I see the PTPM is all over the latest NZ Woman’s Weekly – Christmas with Jacinda! Plastered all over the back of a bus this morning.
Is she a PM or a celebrity chef?
Given the election year has officially started, is this political advertising endorsed by the Liebour party, and being declared to the Electoral Commission? I didn’t see any official endorsement in the footnote.
Another opportunity to #turnardern
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January 15, 2020 8:24am
- Tony Stuart
  
  She’ll be livid that Tamati Coffey (and baby) have stolen her place on the cover of one of the women’s mags this week. For the first time, I was tempted to turn it around, but I resisted.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:51am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Ardern at least got the Christchurch buses. Super sized and all markled. How will she ever dress for Parliament again?
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:32am
  - Sacha
    
    There are techniques – you can pick up a Lifestyle block mag, or a rugby weekly while you are waiting in the checkout queue and the when it is your turn, you can absent-mindedly put it back in the wrong place.
    The times I’ve done it, no-one has reached out to put it back in the proper place, lol.`
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:01am
- Sacha
  
  Oh crumbs, a lot of Turning this week then –
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:06am
- backster
  
  “And I see the PTPM is all over the latest NZ Woman’s Weekly “…………..Good I’ve been trying to join the Turnadern movement for the past three weeks but been unable to find a book or mag to turn…Nows my chance.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:16am
  - curry4me
    
    I couldn’t find anything in the central library, or supermarket to turn either. I’ll see what today brings.
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:34am
- chaos
  
  So much for going to Australia to be anonymous and get away from the media etc.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:30am
  - Tall Man
    
    More lies.
    
    ardern seeks publicity and photo ops.
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:27am
    - chaos
      
      One day she will tell the truth and the world will be so shocked, oh wait, no she won’t, she doesn’t know the meaning of truth. She still thinks it was a magazine she is trying to get in touch with to get in but the number is disengaged.
      
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      January 15, 2020 11:00am
kevn

@Maggy… Her plan for this upcoming campaign will consist of a series of bribes aimed at the deplorables (like us and you). There is nothing to crow about in terms of CoL performance/achievements so bribes it will be.
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January 15, 2020 8:28am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Just like Bernie Sanders – free shit for everyone
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:56am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    First year is on me – who said that – with your money?
    
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    January 15, 2020 5:05pm
- Ruahine
  
  Labour strategy for the coming election.
  
  There will be an increase in the bribes to the MSM which we will not be told too much about. I think the control of the media will be the big thing this year for the CoL. Combining TVNZ with RNZ so that the ‘stories’ are synchronised and with the ‘correct’ information. Lots of so-called advertisements in the print media under the guise of public announcements but which will really just be Labour and Green propaganda. More for Maori TV and NZ on Air for TV3 to make its usual anti National Party documentary to be released a couple of weeks before election day. It is all going to be so easy for Labour and the Greens because like the last five elections the Media Party will do most of the campaigning for them.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:57am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    We are going to have to be very vigilant. There have been sufficient alerts to undesirables and potential associations. The COL will be burrowing too for all the assumed dirt they can get for their campaign. This will not be a fair fight. We must be prepared to match their strategies.
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:37am
  - curry4me
    
    No need for that. They already voluntarily synchronize their stories with the correct information. They’re all on the same page.
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:36am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      They’re are smarter and dirtier than many believe. Anything goes that will get them elected.
      
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      January 15, 2020 12:07pm
  - coge
    
    The media doesn’t control the public thought narrative like they once did.
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:03pm
Stephieboy2

The Almond milk industry in the US had been blamed for large scale bee deaths but a careful read of the following. Shows it’s actually the high use of pesticides as the real culprit

More here,

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.thecut.com/amp/2020/01/almond-milk-honeybee-deaths.html

Culprit found for honeybee deaths in California almond groves

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-02-culprit-honeybee-deaths-california-almond.html
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January 15, 2020 8:31am
- WaveyDavey
  
  Which, having skimmed it, points out that it’s the almond growers (the industry you mention and attempt to deflect blame from) that are using the insecticides that are killing the bees.
  
  Happy to help.
  
  TL:DR
  
  “Fungicides… …are routinely used during almond bloom, but in many cases growers were also adding insecticides to the mix. …research shows… …deadly to the bees”
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:47am
  - alloytoo
    
    I blame the Vegans.
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:25am
    - WaveyDavey
      
      It’s pretty good when “careful reading” of your cited source actually undermines the cause that you’re pushing isn’t it?
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:42am
    - Stephieboy2
      
      No ,the good old market economy of supply and demand!
      
      Vegans are not the only ones who use Almond milk
      
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      January 15, 2020 9:47am
      - alloytoo
        
        ……whoosh…….
        
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        January 15, 2020 11:29am
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Correct! . In a nutshell its not the popularity and consumption of Almond milk that is to blame for bee death!!
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:57am
    - rangitoto
      
      Next time you have your Almond Soy Latte just think of the bees you are killing.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:30am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Almonds are not nuts.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:36am
    - WaveyDavey
      
      And for your next logic fail?
      
      “Almond milk doesn’t cause bee deaths”
      
      but the almond growers do
      
      “Demand for almonds doesn’t cause bee deaths”
      
      but the growers (who do cause bee deaths) are supplying that demand
      
      Sooo… demand drives the supply that is causing bee deaths
      
      You’re not very good at this logic thing you know.
      
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      January 15, 2020 11:32am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        The over use of Pesticides and Fungicides cause bee deaths!
        
        Fact!
        
        BTW our Almond comes from Australia!
        
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        January 15, 2020 12:12pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        And who were the users of those fungicides and pesticides in the article that you linked to?
        
        You know the article that you claimed showed that almond growing wasn’t responsible for bee deaths when the article actually and specifically blamed the almond growers for bee deaths.
        
        And WTF is the Australian comment about? You brought up the subject of almonds grown in the USA and now you play your usual whataboutery card.
        
        You really are a dimwitted tw*t aren’t you?
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:14pm
      - cmm
        
        Stephie: “BTW our Almond comes from Australia”
        
        Sure about that?
        
        https://graze.co.nz/growers/almonds/
        
        http://www.nutstore.co.nz/products.asp?ItemCat=NUTS,%20RAW&ProductCriterion=ALMONDS
        
        Some almonds in NZ do indeed come from Oz, but places like Countdown make a big deal about Australian Almonds because they’re almost local.
        
        Most come from USA.
        
        FACT: The almost pollination industry is a massive issue for bees.
        
        BTW: I know a bit about bees, having been a bee keeper for a while.
        
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        January 15, 2020 5:52pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Your attempted distraction from Ardern’s prance on the back of buses is noted.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:38am
- cmm
  
  In the USA, and other parts of the world too, bees get transported around for pollination services. Something like half the bees in USA get transported to the Californian almond orchards for pollination.
  
  Even without any herbicides & pesticides, this is not a good thing. Bee diseases are transported across the country with zero time to build up resistance etc. All the movement is stressful for the bees. They do not get fed properly (lack of plant diversity) and end up being fed an artificial diet of sugar, soy and anti-bioitics.
  
  At the end of the pollination season, most bees are killed, then they start the new season with fresh nucleaus colonies (aka nucs). Nucs get imported from all over the world (including NZ), which means bees do not adapt to local conditions.
  
  From a bee perspective, the almond industry is the worst environmental disaster out there.
  
  Nobody who believes that bees are critical to our future survival can condone the Californian almond industry – it is a worse environmental disaster than just about anything else – worse than real dairy.
  
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  January 15, 2020 4:25pm
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

Why is she taking so many holidays anyway – are they trying to hide her from us to keep the remains of the fairydust fresh?
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January 15, 2020 8:35am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Dilbert principle. Take her out of the workforce and put her in a place where she does the least damage. Australia is just fine. Oz will wake up soon
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:02am
  - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
    
    It’d be fantastic if she were given the opportunity to run Oz for a year… I mean she was let loose on that newspaper once.
    #LetsDoThis!
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:20am
    - cmm
      
      Unfortunately she is non an Oz citizen and all that.
      
      Remember the lies she told about that lot!
      
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      January 15, 2020 5:53pm
Stephieboy2

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The trial reason why Greta is so feared and hated by the especially the oldie rabid right ,

Greta Thunberg is not your typical listee on the Forbes Most Powerful Women rankings.

She is not an elected official, like German chancellor Angela Merkel. She is not a CEO or founder of a company, like Susan and Anne Wojcicki (of YouTube and 23andMe, respectively). Nor is she a perennial entry on one of Forbes’ wealth lists, like Forbes 400 mainstay Oprah Winfrey or Celeb 100 star Taylor Swift.

What Thunberg is: influential in ways that people three and four times her age are not…”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2019/12/12/why-greta-thunberg-is-one-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-women/?fbclid=IwAR3pOtwP-Pbs6Ez1OJ2JDTkqdg6rNwIyG6HTZQxge_H5GP34Prfx2hD_L4g#2b9d35161521
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January 15, 2020 8:39am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Yes Stephie, she’s so influential her father has been busted writing Facebook posts in her name! Even a rabid Greta-lover like you should be able to see that she’s just a puppet being used to push an agenda set by others.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:45am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Soros
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:03am
  - chaos
    
    Don’t be silly you’re talking to a brainwashed idiot that might as well just be a bot posting what he is told to post and can’t hold a thought for himself. Omg, we have our very on Greta on kiwblog
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:33am
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    ..that she’s just a puppet being used to push an agenda set by others”
    
    eg George Soros?
    
    Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Ah the penny has dropped.
    
    Sigh!
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:48am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Your test results have just come back Stephie and there is nothing we can do for you.
  Your allergy to stupidity is terminal.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:51am
  - Tall Man
    
    I think you may mean affinity……
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:30am
- Simon
  
  Dont be scared Steveboy. You are being manipulated.
  
  Make this year 2020 when you say to yourself I will not be manipulated.
  
  Key Kaha Steveboy!
  
  Everything will work out.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:18am
- graham
  
  I certainly don’t ‘fear’ Greta, or ‘hate’ her for that matter. In fact, are there really that many people who ‘fear’ and ‘hate’ Greta? This seems to be a constant theme repeated by the left, by the climate change disciples, by the Greens, but I have yet to meet anyone who is literally afraid of Greta, or hates her.
  
  And why would they?
  
  What impact has she had on our lives? Virtually none, I would argue.
  
  What has she actually achieved, other than a lot of publicity? Greta herself says that all the so-called “school strikes” for the climate over the past year have achieved nothing, because greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/06/greta-thunberg-says-school-strikes-have-achieved-nothing
  
  ‘Hate and fear Greta’? I think that’s little more than a meme that is being pushed by self-interested pressure groups, desperate to make Greta’s influence and power appear greater than it really is. The strongest emotion or feeling I can summon towards her is a tired exasperation, or maybe pity, as really all I see is a girl who is being used and manipulated, and held up to be some sort of shining light and beacon, pushed into a position way beyond her actual capabilities or achievements.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:28am
  - Jules99
    
    I feel pity for her. A young woman on the cusp of life being abused and manipulated by a cult. So sad. I hope she breaks free, but I predict an early death through drug abuse.
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:39am
    - cmm
      
      Wait, are you still talking about Greta or have you switched to talking about Hugzilla?
      
      Sad when even your 18 month old baby doesn’t want a bar of you.
      
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      January 15, 2020 5:55pm
- Sydney Alvarado
  
  I don’t fear or hate her. I feel sorry for her and find her a bit annoying. That’s it. She yells HOW DARE YOU and has no ideas and no solutions to emissions reductions.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:41am
  - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
    
    Yes, so she feels her hopes and dreams have been stolen. Surely someone can arrange a visit to a rare earth metals mine for her to meet some “extraction technicians” maybe she’d feel differently about her childhood then.
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:35am
  - cmm
    
    She can see invisible CO2, therefore she is clearly:
    1) Not talking about CO2, so any solution she proposes is pointless.
    2) Is being manipulated, exploited and being made to look crazy by the adults around her.
    
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    January 15, 2020 5:57pm
    - curry4me
      
      She is. Her dad, and some Indian activist regularly post in her FB page. There is no indication its not her. Well there wasn’t until very recently.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:17pm
KH

Time to get Kiwi troops out of Iraq. Now. Risking our people to gain some vague political favour in DC is not acceptable.
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January 15, 2020 8:47am
- tedbear
  
  Cindy will likely be so drained of energy after all those photo ops in OZ.
  However, a kaftan plus concerned face will complete her outfit as she dashes over to deal with the Kiwi troops in Iraq crisis.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:14am
mikenmildagain

Yesterday there were a few comments on the GD supporting the oddly persistent myth that New Zealand was first settled by a pre-Maori people. If anyone is interested in what is actually known about human arrival and settlement here, I would recommend this book:
The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands? by Kerry Howe
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January 15, 2020 8:51am
- Simon
  
  “was first settled by a pre-Maori people.”
  
  But was there successive waves of Polynesian migration? Or just one wave?
  
  Its interesting in various remote parts of the world what was thought to be indigenous population turns out to be a replacement of even earlier people / culture. Inuits – northern Canada & Ainu – Hokkaido couple of examples.
  
  For NZ didnt know until recently was the utter savagery of the Musket Wars. The extent was surprising. The back story to the Musket Wars must not be the best.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:13am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    There were successive phases of settlement of the Pacific, as people moved across New Guinea and on to the oceanic islands. There is no evidence of earlier settlers in New Zealand other than Maori, who arrived here from the eastern Pacific sometime durng the 14th century.
    What was unknown about the musket wars?
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:40am
    - Simon
      
      There were successive phases of settlement of the Pacific – during the 14th century. ?
      
      Successive phases during only one 100 year period ?
      
      Okay…….. They arrived as “Maori” – interesting.
      
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      January 15, 2020 11:51am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Separate sentences.
        Polynesians appear to have originated from the Austronesian peoples – who spread from Taiwan as far as Malaya, New Guinea, Madagascar and the Pacific. These succesive waves of migration started about 3-4,000 years ago. It appears that the eastern Pacific islands were settled by around 1000 CE, and new Zealand, the last of the major land massess to be settled by humans within a few hundred years after that.
        
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        January 15, 2020 12:03pm
    - Komata
      
      MM@1040
      
      Re: ‘There is no evidence of earlier settlers in New Zealand other than Maori….’
      
      An evidently well-held view, but despite that, you might be interested to learn that Ngati Porou and other tribes quite happily acknowledge the fact that ‘Maori’ (whomever ‘They’ may have been) were greeted by others (ie, ‘earlier’, pre-existing, peoples) on the beaches on-which they landed after their voyages from ‘Hawaiiki’.
      
      In some instances the ‘earlier’ pre-Maori peoples actually have names as well.
      
      Just saying.
      
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      January 15, 2020 1:09pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Iwi traditions about earlier inhabitants, or ‘fairies’ (patupaiarehe) have their place, and might prompt further research, but can hardly supplant what we know from the combination of oral history, archaeological and DNA evidence.
        
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        January 15, 2020 1:21pm
      - cmm
        
        MMA: I’m confused here, maybe you can explain…
        
        So when Maori mythology talks about “fairies” and previous people we should discount those
        
        However when they talk about taniwha when we want to put in a new road near a swamp we should take those seriously.
        
        Would it be racist to aks where the logic is?
        
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        January 15, 2020 6:03pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        No, I don’t think that’s racist at all. Thinking about taniwha, I think it highly unlikely that Hataitai in Wellington is the remains of the taniwha, Whataitai, who failed to escape form the harbour and was left stranded to die in the sun. Re the Waikato expressway, I found this story interesting:
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3003401
        I have heard of other cases where the taniwha story was essentially metaphorical, a warning against particular activities in unsuitable places.
        I guess everything depends upon context and, of course, underlying motives.
        
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        January 15, 2020 6:42pm
- Tall Man
  
  For every reference claiming maori were first there is one stating they were not.
  
  Oral tradition is supposed to be the bee’s knees and yet it gets ignored if it doesn’t suit the correct narrative.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:28am
  - SGA
    
    For every reference claiming maori were first there is one stating they were not.
    
    Really? I’d have thought that the pre-Maori claims were in the minority (and some of those seemed a little fanciful – e.g., the Celts, I think – I have vague memories of a Chinese hypothesis as well, but that may be my faulty memory).
    
    Add – here’s a link on Wikipedia (caveat emptor)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Māori_settlement_of_New_Zealand_theories
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:49am
    - Tall Man
      
      You need to do some more independent research.
      
      Even Dr Ranginui Walker pushed the barrow of a pre maori race based on the old oral traditions and if you can be bothered there are many pre maori artifacts, it just doesn’t suit the current narrative and if you search you will find many references now deleted.
      
      https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2016/01/mike-butler-disinterest-in-pre-maori.html
      
      This is the site for “Skeletons in the Cupboard”….
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_inGOubEg
      
      and part 2
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g15ROUH3gAQ
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:22am
      - SGA
        
        My goodness, you are an advocate of the Celtic hypothesis. That was discussed here on Kiwiblog ages ago.
        I thought it was fanciful at the time. I couldn’t see how the Celts could possibly get all the way to NZ in one “hit” as it were. There would have to be a extended trial of Celtic migration and settlement forming a route to NZ, and such a trial doesn’t seem to exist.
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:41am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        ‘Skeletons in the Cupboard’ is pseudo-scientific gibberish. Demolished here:
        https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018658273/seven-foot-tall-pre-maori-disappear-from-tvnz
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:42am
      - Tall Man
        
        No SGA, I’m not an advocate for any theory.
        
        I am merely pointing out that there are alternatives to what is being preached.
        
        If you have the time, look at 1421 as well and maybe get a better idea of maori “civilisation” at the time of the arrival of the European in “Te Wiremu”.
        
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        January 15, 2020 11:30am
      - Tall Man
        
        “Demolished”….
        
        Not in my opinion but they are still oral traditions so to question them alone out of their oral history and accept everything else is just bloody stupid.
        
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        January 15, 2020 11:42am
      - SGA
        
        I am merely pointing out that there are alternatives to what is being preached.
        
        Sure – it’s come up here before, and I myself provided a link to a Wikipedia page that summarises some of them. But that’s not quite the same as saying that “For every reference claiming maori were first there is one stating they were not”. To the best of my knowledge, such claims are a minority opinion, and some of them are, at best, fanciful (to me, anyway). They are reminiscent of the “Chariot of the Gods” style of evidence and reasoning.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods?
        
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        January 15, 2020 11:56am
      - Tall Man
        
        FFS sga, you’re being a fucking pedant. In the two hours of video I referred to above there are hundreds of comments claiming occupation of NZ prior to maori arriving. How about you come up with the list of all the references claiming the contrary and I’ll get back to you later.
        
        I’ll stick with my belief that there are as many believe the old stories as those that do not.
        
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        January 15, 2020 12:58pm
      - SGA
        
        We are clearly talking cross purposes. At any point in time, Netflix usually has a handful of the “Mysteries explained”, “In search of …” pseudo-documentaries running. Such productions a usually built on opinions and “hundreds of comments”. That’s not the same as a “list of references”.
        
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        January 15, 2020 1:28pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Yes, but the video you linked to is rubbish, unsupported by any actual scientific evidence.
        Same as 1421. According to Gavin Menzies, Maori are the offspring of a group of Melanesian slaves who took over a Chinese vessel, and the Chinese prostitutes that were travelling in same vessel.
        
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        January 15, 2020 1:31pm
      - SGA
        
        @Tallman
        If you would like to see mainstream opinion, this looked like a good place to start (I’ve not read it myself) –
        The Quest For Origins: Who First Discovered New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?
        From the review (link below), it examines things such as whether Maori have Semitic/ Aryan / Egyptian / etc origins and the votaries of Waitaha and the Kaimanawa wall. I imagine it has plenty of references
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3198130
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:33pm
      - Tall Man
        
        mikey you clearly display a lack of knowledge of the book 1421 so I suggest you read it then try to look clever.
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:34pm
      - Tall Man
        
        You both miss the point, either deliberately or because I was too subtle, something I am not often accused of.
        
        Much of maori history as “accepted” and often relied on to some degree in the Waitangi Tribunal deliberations is “oral”. So, the existence of people pre maori is also a large part of “oral history” so why is that part to be discredited and anything to do with who killed who to get what is “gospel”.
        
        Just because someone else disputed what another puts up as a “fact” does not mean it is not correct. See: Climate Science!
        
        https://www.gavinmenzies.net/Evidence/31-dna-evidence-of-maori-peoples-of-new-zealand/
        
        http://www.thewildeast.net/2016/07/made-in-taiwan-a-polynesian-adventure/
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:41pm
      - SGA
        
        @Tall Man
        
        I had a look at your Menzies link. Either it’s a bit of a mess, or I’m missing something. It seems to be a collection of claims with no evidence. Other bits I’m suspicious of –
        
        2. Précis of the Report’s findings
        (As reported by David Knight 07.04.03). Mt DNA shows female line is almost entirely Asian whilst Y chromosome DNA shows males came from Papua New Guinea.
        
        I’m not an expert in genetics but I think that mtDNA (mitochrondrial) is much less resistant to change – it is a good marker of very, very distant ancestry. Y chromosome is nDNA which changes more easily over generations. If I’m correct, then that report is unsurprising (it’s not evidence of any recent Asian influence).
        
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        January 15, 2020 3:47pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        It is a good read, SGA. Not a long book, but covers well what is actually known about human settlement of the Pacific, and some of the ‘alternative’ theories that pop up from time to time.
        Also, it’s not actually necessary to read a garbage book, say 1421 or Chariots of the Gods, to identify it as bunk. When someone make such wild claims, there is usually a succinct review or other source of critical assessment.
        
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        January 15, 2020 4:22pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Not forgetting archaeological and physical anthroplogical evidence.
    
    No there is no evidence of a pre-white or civilisation.
    
    Fact!
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:53am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      “Fact” because you said so.
      Prove it.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:23am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        He doesn’t need to prove a negative. The swivel-eyed proponents of theories about pre-Maori settlement need to prove that their conjectures have a factual basis. They can’t.
        
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        January 15, 2020 10:43am
    - rangitoto
      
      No evidence for pre-white civilisation in NZ? Maori would be surprised to hear your theory SB.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:33am
      - Stephieboy2
        
        rangitoto , Maoris surprised?
        
        How ?
        
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        January 15, 2020 12:29pm
    - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
      
      No there is no evidence of a pre-white or civilization.
      
      Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
      
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      January 15, 2020 11:39am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        True, but ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’. So, we don’t simply set aside the combined knowledge of a generation of two of archaeologists because we prefer to believe some author’s unsourced and spurious claims, do we?
        
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        January 15, 2020 1:33pm
      - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
        
        Well, you can’t just go and deny someones lived experience now there sonny Jim. If Chaos’ Tangata Whenua acquaintance says there were others here before, you just need to suck that up or you’re just a bigoted racist Hitler lover in desperate need to end your oxygen addiction*
        
        *according to current progressive rules of engagement…
        
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        January 15, 2020 1:47pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Regarding folklore as inconsistent with archaeological evidence is not the same as denying someone’s ‘lived experience’ though, is it?
        Even if there were anyone still alive who said that they had seen pre-Maori inhabitants, wouldn’t that just put them in the same category as those who claim the patupaiarehe are still there in the forests, or those who have seen the Loch Ness monster or Bigfoot?
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:17pm
      - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
        
        Regarding folklore as inconsistent with archaeological evidence is not the same as denying someone’s ‘lived experience’ though, is it?
        
        But its not inconsistent, is it?
        The “folklore” makes a claim that the archaeological evidence does not even speak to – again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The best you can claim on the archaeological evidence is that Peoples Prior to Maori, or PTPM (not to be confused with PPTM) are unlikely, but not impossible.
        
        BTW, learn to take a joke.
        
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        January 15, 2020 3:17pm
    - skyblue
      
      No civilisation when Maori were here either.
      
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      January 15, 2020 12:07pm
  - chaos
    
    I will always remember the stories I sat and listened to from Maori who would come up and put a hangi on every Friday for tourists for us when I was a child. Stories of those who were here before them. Sadly I think for many these stories are lost in the wind as the elders have passed over and the younger are not interested. Also remember much more they would talk about.
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:32am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      oral history is utterly unreliable bollocks. Eg Old testament, New testament etc.
      
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      January 15, 2020 11:32am
      - chaos
        
        not Really oral history is how so much of our history reached the books. And as for what I said above, there is more than oral history there. But I won’t being saying any more than that because I made a promise as a kid
        
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        January 15, 2020 1:01pm
      - Michael
        
        oh dear another Twat comment. Urban.
        
        I’m not going to go down that Rabbit hole Urban.
        But YOU are so academically incorrect it is bent.
        
        Please do the homework before you spout rubbish.
        Otherwise people will think you’ve just go an ideological position and won’t listen to you.
        
        Hell even I down ticked you because of your Twat comment.
        
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        January 15, 2020 6:11pm
    - Stephieboy2
      
      chaos , absoutely no evidence in the form of artefacts, skeletal remains DNA etc !
      
      Demonstrate to the contrary!
      
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      January 15, 2020 12:31pm
    - Inandout
      
      chaos, those chats were obviously pre the Treaty religion. I can laughingly recall Maori radicals walking across Auckland Harbour bridge chanting ‘the treaty is a fraud’ because they hadn’t got their own way up to then.
      
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      January 15, 2020 4:43pm
- Jules99
  
  As I understand it, Maori’s own historical narratives tell of little people who were here already. cf how they gained fishing net technology.
  
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  January 15, 2020 9:41am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    True – but does that mean also that leprechauns were real, or that St George fought a dragon?
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:44am
  - Inandout
    
    Jules, shame the ‘little people’ didn’t have a wheel and dictionary as well.
    
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    January 15, 2020 4:44pm
- mark15
  
  Who put the celestial observatory in Taupo?
  Who buried the 7000 year old moa bones at Poukawa?
  Why don’t they have a tribunal?
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:00am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    1. Re a ‘celestial observatory in Taupo’, I’ve not heard that claim before. Please substantiate.
    2. Re Poukawa – abstract from a pubulished scientific paper:
    
    Archaeological excavation of a Maori occupation site at Lake Poukawa shows the site was probably occupied between 150 and 300 years ago and has been badly disturbed by European farming. There is no evidence for human occupation before the Taupo Pumice eruption.
    
    3. As your mythical pre-Maori inabitants never existed, it follows that they could not have signed a treaty. Thus, non-existents signatories to a non-existent treaty could have no expectation of redress for imaginary girevances.
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:52am
    - KH
      
      Don’t care who came here first. I think any ‘maori’ claim to superior right on that basis are irrelevant rubbish.
      I was born here, am a citizen. I do differentiate between citizen and non citizen. We are citizens together.
      
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      January 15, 2020 12:15pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Well, that’s a different argument. But bogus theories about pre-Maori pepole have in the past been used to bolster racist assumptions, etc.
        
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        January 15, 2020 1:35pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I resent the not so subtle “racist” throwaway. Shows to me you need to resort to subtle abuse as the argument is above your pay grade.
        
        I have no skin in this game and maybe you need to engage your brain and accept the fact that maori were and still are the primary drivers here.
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:32pm
      - nasska
        
        Folk tales that bolster Maori demands for all the nation’s resources are classed as “oral history” while folk tales that are not helpful to the cause are referred to as “mythology”.
        
        Glad I could help.
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:40pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        True enough, nasska. I’m thinking also of Jewish claims to Palestine being the ‘promised land’.
        I was just pointing out that myths, and even more facually based history, can easily be made to suit political agendas. It has been so in NZ’s past, and will no doubt continue to feature.
        
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        January 15, 2020 3:00pm
      - KH
        
        @mike;mildagain. And we get spurios and racist viewpoint about superior maori rights, based on the “who first” argument.
        
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        January 15, 2020 4:40pm
- MCos
  
  I saw that yesterday and remembered some wild talk from a few years ago.
  Here’s an open letter addressing various theories and the people who advanced them. http://books.scoop.co.nz/2008/11/18/no-to-nazi-pseudo-history-an-open-letter/
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:53am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The author of that, Scott Hamilton, sometimes comments here. His blog, https://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/ is a good read about some of these odd theories.
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:37pm
Maggy Wassilieff

UK doesn’t inform EU of the criminal activities of its citizens.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/14/revealed-uk-concealed-failure-to-alert-eu-over-75000-criminal-convictions

How caring is that?
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January 15, 2020 8:54am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Either this is ‘fake news’ (te Guardian), or Boris johnson should resign.
  
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  January 15, 2020 8:56am
  - Local Miller
    
    And why should Boris Johnson resign? He wan’t PM at the time this happened, or when it was being covered up. I take it this is just another anti Boris Johnson troll.
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:30am
    - Inandout
      
      Blonde man with unruly hair…bad.
      
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      January 15, 2020 4:48pm
  - chaos
    
    Really, Boris should resign? Are you not able to read or just an idiot
    
    “ “There is a nervousness from Home Office around sending the historical notifications out dating back to 2012 due to the reputational impact this could have.””
    
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    January 15, 2020 9:38am
    - Tall Man
      
      “Are you not able to read or just an idiot”
      
      How long have you been on this blog……
      
      Do you really need to ask 😉
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:16am
      - chaos
        
        Most of my blog memory is taking up with the mental images Maggie leaves in them and trying to work out how to get rid of that image
        
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        January 15, 2020 12:53pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I can understand that 😉
        
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        January 15, 2020 2:25pm
    - freethinker
      
      I think Theresa may was home secretary at the time so not surprising.
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:46am
- mark15
  
  Cos human rights.
  Yes,the EU ones!!!
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:01am
Maggie Pie

I don’t know how many others of you here have been following Ben Uticone on Twitter, but after this tweet yesterday, I’ve decided to ‘UNFOLLOW’ him.
For a start, i had no idea he was a ginga 🙁

https://twitter.com/BenUticone/status/1216605744038121473
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January 15, 2020 9:02am
Maggie Pie

It may well be that Harry Wales could find things a lot harder going in Canada
than he first thought 😀

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOG-GU_WsAo2BUr?format=jpg&name=medium
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January 15, 2020 9:25am
Happychappy

This assault could have seen a two year prison sentence so is this becoming a habit from a Labour led Government. This might be coincidence but the young Labour summer camp proceedings ended up with a similar or replica ending. On Monday the matter was scheduled to go to trial before a Judge alone but at the Eleventh hour defending Council said her client might plead guilty a lower level assualt charge.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12300456
Funny how crimes just get sweep away for some including name suppression.
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January 15, 2020 9:34am
softail 1450

I wonder what the 2020 slogan will be for Ardern?one thing is for sure the “year of delivery” was a complete balls up,all that was delivered was corruption and wasted monies.
There are two sorts of labour ,
the NZ labour party, and the one your Mrs had when she had your children.
The second one is less messy and over with quicker than the first one and at the end of it your life and family is enriched .
The first is a smelly festering pile of lies ,waste,ego’s,buck passing,and the greatest example of virtue signalling ever witnessed on our planet,
F- – – – – -g disgraceful actually.
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January 15, 2020 9:42am
Bobba Fret

National should announce they will raise the bands where the tax rates come in.
Paying 30% PAYE on income over $48k is way too high, and 33% on income over $70k.
These are no longer high incomes and were brought in 10 years? ago!
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January 15, 2020 9:44am
- ex-golfer
  
  While I agree with your sentiment, what would be your proposed action to replace the reduced amount of income the Government would receive?
  (I doubt a subsequent increased amount of GST income through increased consumer spending would make up for it).
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:46am
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    Actually the government has been taking in extra taxes due to wage increases. This was a tax increase by stealth. Increasing the tax bands to reflect inflation would simply make their tax take ‘normal’ again.
    
    The government will also benefit from the minimum wage increase again this April.
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:05pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Tax revenue has been increasing so all they need to do is pull back some of the stupidity initially.
    
    tugger jones fund, a billion trees, kiwibuild and the free year would free up billions of dollars and release resources as well.
    
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    January 15, 2020 2:25pm
Gulag1917

Why Trump will win.

Bernie 2020 Field Organizer States “F***ing Cities Will Burn” if Trump Wins Re-Election; Calls for Violence, Mass Murder of Opposition, and “Reign of Terror”
https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2020/01/14/expose2020-part-1-bernie-2020-field-organizer-states-fing-cities-will-burn-if-trump-wins-re-election-calls-for-violence-mass-murder-of-opposition-and-reign-of-terr/?fbclid=IwAR0HTsGLZkjdfCxCPyZcsROOk3o9vMvgd8lJuJM4CH8KJ4LEANfEygyjtIc
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January 15, 2020 9:48am
- Stephieboy2
  
  “Calls for Violence, Mass Murder of Opposition, and “Reign of Terror””
  
  ???
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:04am
  - Gulag1917
    
    Need remedial reading? Or is it a reflex denial?
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:11am
    - Stephieboy2
      
      The cut and thrust of inflammatory political hyperbole !
      
      Right-wing too,
      
      https://president.upenn.edu/meet-president/extremist-rhetoric
      
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      January 15, 2020 10:45am
      - softail 1450
        
        septicboy “the cut and thrust thrust thrust of barnyard politics” from KB’s resident expert on the subject.
        
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        January 15, 2020 12:40pm
  - chaos
    
    Mod what’s the point of approving a comment that adds nothing but cutting and pasting what gulag has posted, just trolling
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:28am
- Rich Prick
  
  Is that passion or mental illness? I can’t wait for a re-run of the collective meltdown in November.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:38am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Project Veritas. Enough said:
  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:54am
  - Tall Man
    
    mikey critical… Enough said.
    
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    January 15, 2020 2:22pm
- Inandout
  
  Gulag, fear not, as Bernie won’t last the distance. The strain on his health must be serious.
  
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  January 15, 2020 4:50pm
fernglas

If calling Jacinda Ardern a “stupid woman” is sexist, is calling Winston Peters a “stupid man” also sexist? If so, don’t we need a gender neutral term so we can criticise politicians without accusations of sexism? Most terms of abuse are somewhat gender specific. “Dick” is clearly masculine, “bitch” feminine. Can anyone else come up with something that falls smack in the middle? “Person” is so bland. But terms such as “fuckwit” and “drongo” have their own inherent pejorativeness. And calling them a “stupid politician” is an obvious tautology. Perhaps it’s just easier to say “Jacinda is stupid” or “Simon is thick”
Your thoughts?
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January 15, 2020 10:05am
- Tall Man
  
  Simon is not thick, ardern is.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:10am
- chaos
  
  It’s wrong to call Winston stupid, drunk is the correct term. You can even use sick.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:27am
Cobolt24

Sixty people left without jobs in south waikato town of Putaruru (population approx 4000)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118769669/holiday-phonecall-leaves-dozens-without-jobs-as-south-waikato-sawmill-shuts-down
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January 15, 2020 10:19am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Was it a coincidence that this business started to go downhill as soon as the CoL was elected?
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:45am
- Stephieboy2
  
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  As if sawmill never occurred under National!
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:53am
  - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
    
    Go home, you’re drunk.
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:53pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  I live in the S Waikato and this is the 2nd timber products business to go under in the last few years.
  People are moving into the area as housing is cheap. It has doubled in price though over the last 8 years though.
  The people moving in are retired or working in Rotorua, Tauranga, Hamilton as they are all less than an hours pleasant drive away.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:56am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, very sad.
  But putting up wages to an export business every year is not going to help
  We are in competetion with lots of other countries.
  You cannot just magic up wages, they need to be earned, productivity and competive.
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:27am
Stephieboy2

This merits our careful attention and consideration ,

“Should fossil fuels pay for Australia’s new bushfire reality? It is the industry most responsible”

It is unconscionable that the taxpayer funds fossil fuels to the tune of $1,728 per person per year. What if we channelled this into climate adaptation?..

“..But looking beyond the immediate crisis, we need to start an honest discussion about something none of us want to admit – that these unprecedented, catastrophic fires may indeed mark the beginning of Australia’s new normal.

As the world and Australia fail to make meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it is clear that we are entering the next phase of climate change – that is, increasingly frequent and severe weather events, occurring in places that have never been affected before…”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/07/should-fossil-fuels-pay-for-australias-new-bushfire-reality-it-is-the-industry-most-responsible?fbclid=IwAR322W6qvImsuDn3P1IYwPiWNifeXHzoKXUK1e_MfKrIWvy0L-gkwCOtL-4
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January 15, 2020 10:42am
- softail 1450
  
  septicboy ,,doing what he does best ,Plagiarising someone else’s work and trying to pass it off as his own before posting a link that he knows only a cretin would bother reading ,someone should go around to his place and take the mouthpointer he uses to operate his pc and push him out of his wheelchair.
  Only a person with serious psychiatric and physical disorders could endure the ridicule he has been showered with on a daily basis for years.
  Tenacious bastard you’ve gotta hand it to him.
  
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  January 15, 2020 1:00pm
Batman

To complement the Windows discussion from yesterday. You can still wrangle a free upgrade to Windows 10, which is highly recommended to keep you safe from things like North Korean viruses ??

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21065140/how-to-upgrade-microsoft-windows-7-10-free-os
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January 15, 2020 10:47am
- chaos
  
  And to those who already have it, update today as a major update was released to fix a major flaw that the NSA today warned people about
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:34pm
KevO'Brien

Ocean energy balance amazingly stable:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/14/the-ocean-warms-by-a-whole-little/

There is other work available which shows similar regulation of the earth’s temperature over a century or more. The regulation is better than ordinary process control limits.
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January 15, 2020 10:51am
- rightoverlabour
  
  I see Stephieboy has been around to piss on your post. However, if Mann is a co-author, its probably crap, fraudulent and based on spurious data. What is well known is that oceans have massive thermal inertia, usually measured in thousands of years. Willis Eshenbach rips the paper to shreds. The comments below are very entertaining…. I love the fact they use 4000 data points to describe the whole ocean…..
  Quote from the comments – :”Their paper states, “The OHC values (for the upper 2000 m) were obtained from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) ocean analysis (see “Data and methods” section, below), which uses a relatively new method to treat data sparseness ….”
  
  IOW, that made up a lot of fake data to infill as they liked.
  
  To wit from their Methods: “Model simulations were used to guide the gap-filling method from point measurements to the grid, while sampling error was estimated by sub-sampling the Argo data at the locations of the earlier observations (a full description of the method can be found in Cheng et al., 2017).
  
  Mann and Trenberth likely were recruited and brought onboard during manuscript drafting by Dr. Fasullo. Mann was listed as senior author, but that was just more pandering to help get the paper published in high impact Western journal. They might as well have put Chinese President Xi as senior author.”
  
  LOL
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:23am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Yes, but read the units and their meaning. Willis Eschenbach is a superb number cruncher and shows that zeta joules used in the paper give a seriously false impression. Fourteen authors to present an overstatement.
    
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    January 15, 2020 12:15pm
Maggie Pie

I was just speaking to my partner’s mum.
We gave her a $500 ‘Westfield Gift Card’ for Christmas so she went into Newmarket yesterday to have a look around the new Mall.
She was saying she spent the best part of nearly two hours in there – one of them trying to find her way out!
Ma reckons the layout over the different levels is like a ‘poorly designed maze’ and believes if a major fire or something happened, people lost in there “….would be well and truly f~~ked” [her words not mine]

Anyone else here had a similar experience there?
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January 15, 2020 10:53am
- sooty
  
  Did she manage to spend the 5 hundy?
  
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  January 15, 2020 3:32pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    paid for the parking . . .
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:25pm
Tony Stuart

Has Trevor Mallard apologised yet to the person he alleged to be a “rapist” who was “stalking the corridors” of Parliament?
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January 15, 2020 10:54am
- mikenmildagain
  
  This is where Kiiwbloggers can have it both ways. If there is a rapist, Labour is covering it up. If there is no rapist, Labour has slandered an innocent person.
  The ‘truth’ could not possibly be anywhere in between.
  
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  January 15, 2020 10:57am
  - alloytoo
    
    It is my understanding that these people are not one and the same.
    
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    January 15, 2020 11:42am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Indeed.
      
      There are 2 separate events involved here.
      
      Mallard was referring to information he inferred from the Francis Report
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/112903053/speaker-trevor-mallard-believes-bullying-report-alleges-rapes-in-parliament
      
      This is quite separate from accusations made by Wellington Labour staffers against a man working for the Labour Party.
      https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-09-2019/timeline-labour-staffer-misconduct-inquiry/
      
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      January 15, 2020 12:16pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Ah, okay.
      
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      January 15, 2020 1:39pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Tony Stuart , while your at it how to do see this election year National promoting itself as a MAGA Donald Trump party ?
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:01am
  - skyblue
    
    No, but Make Adern Go Away. NZ MAGA.
    
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    January 15, 2020 12:38pm
Michael

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
I see the fact that Jacinda Ardern is on holiday in Australia is causing Kiwibloggers some concern. I don’t remember them being so concerned when Prime Minister Key was on holiday in Hawaii.
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January 15, 2020 10:56am
- Tall Man
  
  At which time did he go for 8 weeks?
  
  At which time did he seek out photo ops?
  
  When did Sir John Key leave the “children” in charge?
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:18am
  - MCos
    
    Let’s not be silly Tall Man.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/70380257/max-keys-hawaii-holiday-video-makes-prime-minister-look-out-of-touch
    http://www.zimbio.com/photos/John Key/Max Key/President Obama Arrives Holiday Vacation Hawaii/Epx4AMc8isu
    https://www.instagram.com/maxkey_/?hl=en
    
    Not that I’m suggesting there’s anything wrong with a PM having a couple of weeks holiday.
    
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    January 15, 2020 2:17pm
    - Tall Man
      
      If you can’t see the difference then there is little that can be done for you.
      
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      January 15, 2020 8:53pm
- dave_c_
  
  He had things under control – Arderns govenment are swamped with issues, that no-one knows how to reosolve, nor appear to want to !
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:21am
- alloytoo
  
  It could be because JK was engaged in “Golf course” diplomacy with world leaders.
  
  It could be because we had faith in the Deputy Prime-Minister.
  
  It could be because JK actually worked when he was in the country.
  
  I could be “all of the above.”
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:45am
Bill felt

Why is the Princess not holidaying in Whakatane?

It is burning! It’s tourism sector needs a boost! It’s lovely at this time of the year. It’s in New Zealand. It has cafes, wineries, good food. Its not far from Gisborne (where fisher boy comes from).
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January 15, 2020 11:04am
- Tall Man
  
  Family sick of her as well I think 😉
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:19am
chaos

* An Australian broadcaster has criticised Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for holidaying in Australia instead of New Zealand.

Steve Price, a panelist on Australian current affairs show The Project, said Ardern’s visit was “typical virtue-signalling” and questioned why she wasn’t visiting “Hamilton or Canterbury or somewhere like that” instead.

“She should stay in her own country and spend money in her own place. Typical virture-signalling from Jacinda Ardern, I get sick and tired of that woman,” Price said, referring to a news item about Ardern’s holiday to Queensland and how it could have a positive effect on tourism. *

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/118795742/i-get-sick-and-tired-of-that-woman-australian-broadcaster-slams-jacinda-ardern
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January 15, 2020 11:08am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Bit slow today chaos?
  Where were you just after 8 when this topic came up for discussion?
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:41am
  - chaos
    
    Just after 8, at the gp.
    
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    January 15, 2020 12:13pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  It’s fire season in Q’land. Ardern probably has advice for the firefighters too if she can outrun the flames.
  
  An awful place to be. I am concerned for my family living there with trees lining a large part of the highways and pockets among the housing. The tall eucalypts give good shade and plenty of space below but what a risk.
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:22pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  chaos , why not Hawaii instead ?
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:49pm
chaos

Love this story

* As Bruce McHaffie’s life hung in the balance, he felt his late parents, one on each side, lift him upwards towards a light.

Thrown from the tractor he was doing his daily farm work from, the machine then hurtled 10 metres down a bank and rolled over him. McHaffie was later told by medics he had died and been brought back to life several times.

He felt his late parents, one on each side, lift him upwards towards a light. People were lined up to the left and right, some he knew and some he didn’t.

“It was peaceful . . . as I passed the line of people one stepped out of the crowd and said ‘send him back, it’s not his time’.”*

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/118317509/tractor-crash-survivors-out-of-body-experience
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January 15, 2020 11:10am
- softail 1450
  
  chaos ,Are you sure it wasn’t “send him back he still owes my younger brother money ” ? LOL.
  
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  January 15, 2020 2:18pm
chaos

Hmmm, can’t of grown up there as people were always walking around town in bikinis and wearing small swimwear. Just seems that when I grew up there no one cared and butted out of what people wore. Never understood why people give a crap about things like this lately.

* Taupō mums fed up with seeing “g-strings” in the district’s swimming spots have called for public signage banning the cheeky togs.

Kayla Edwards started a debate when she posted her concerns on social media two days ago.

She told NZME she felt uncomfortable taking her family swimming at Spa Thermal Park, a public reserve, because others there didn’t know what “appropriate” swimwear was.*

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12300261
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January 15, 2020 11:24am
- Tall Man
  
  “appropriate swimwear”…
  
  That which doesn’t pop off when you jump in… or does, depending on your preferences 😉
  
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  January 15, 2020 11:47am
- MCos
  
  I remember staying at a resort at Hua Hin and there were a whole lot of people on the beach in Speedos and small bikinis.
  That would have been fine if they weren’t a well nourished tour group of Scandinavians in their fifties and sixties.
  
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  January 15, 2020 2:08pm
rightoverlabour

Than God for Seymour

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/david-seymour-describes-new-climate-change-curriculum-as-state-organised-bullying-of-kids.html

At this stage I’ll be voting Act…..
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January 15, 2020 11:30am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  rightover, I had the same thoughts when I first read what Seymour had to say on this and I may well follow through on it.
  
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  January 15, 2020 1:02pm
  - Inandout
    
    He has got my vote at this stage.
    
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    January 15, 2020 6:14pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If you have TDS, don’t click. Keep telling yourself Trump has done nothing and is ruining the Country.
http://www.magapill.com/?fbclid=IwAR1uTTlDs795tPkBmp5IOAkGLox0uYY4AvENPRvG3FQ_Q-rUCVY5rFdd3F4
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January 15, 2020 11:45am
Maggie Pie

I was telling my partner this morning that one of the girls at work was saying she’d decided to go to the gym over the holidays “…to get rid of her love-handles”.

He said, “She’ll look funny without ears”
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January 15, 2020 11:54am
- chaos
  
  Eeeeeew, makes me look at prince Charles different now
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:51pm
Michael

Much to my surprise my comment re Jacinda Ardern has only received 4 downticks. Perhaps there are more to come. At least the other Michael won’t be too upset. Or maybe I am the other Michael.
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January 15, 2020 11:56am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYg626PQyOA
Hong Kong and anime won Taiwan’s election. The presitator is not amused.
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January 15, 2020 12:02pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cUkqpIsagg

Trump’s BRILLIANT Retweet of Pelosi and Schumer as Iranian Regime Supporters!!!
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January 15, 2020 12:03pm
Captain Mainwaring

‘Dry weather may cause droughts’.
Another brilliant headline from Stuff.
Along the lines of:
‘Rainy weather may cause puddles’.
‘Drinking too much may cause drunkenness’.
‘Falling in a fire may cause burns’.
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January 15, 2020 12:07pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  Blah, blah…!
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:46pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    At least I can depend on Steph for a nonsensical response, and a downtick.
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:05pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Don’t knock her, she does more for National than most of us.
      
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      January 15, 2020 2:18pm
MCos

Big Bong for Brexit
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1217210563719311365?s=21
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January 15, 2020 12:17pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  Or is that ting a ling!
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:43pm
secondcumming

“The rockets landed at least 3 kilometers away….”, ex SAS mechanic & Minister of Defence *Ron Mark* tells Newshub reporter from at least 16,000 kilometers away 😎
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January 15, 2020 12:25pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  secondcumming, you don’t say.
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:44pm
  - secondcumming
    
    You still *self-partnered* Stephieboy?
    
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    January 15, 2020 12:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This is why Trump will win in a landslide. There is even a short vid.
Don’t click if you have TDS and likely to get triggered!
https://teamtrumpusa.com/trump-supporters-line-up-in-freezing-temps-18-hours-before-milwaukee-rally/?fbclid=IwAR1rb83YU9aRU17gEOORoasoRG0FZYxxAsGFiuvyrCrjK7NBpnAvouqQzbE
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January 15, 2020 12:34pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  Since Hillary won the popular voter all the Dems have to do is do it again and ensure their voters turn up in key districts and bingo curtains for Trump!
  
  2 degrees or not!
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:41pm
  - Jules99
    
    Trump will win the popular vote next time.
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:24pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Steve Otto:
  And the venue for Mr Trump’s speech was the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee arena.
  Bet he would be banned from speaking at Massey University and Auckland University in the admittedly unlikely event of him coming here.
  
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  January 15, 2020 12:46pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Gravelroad, , extremely unlikely!
    
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    January 15, 2020 12:51pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Banned from any Uni in NZ. They are full of socialist shithead professors
    
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    January 15, 2020 1:19pm
Manolo

Comrade Ardern would be happy, wouldn’t she?
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/spy-claims-new-zealand-could-be-kicked-out-of-five-eyes-intelligence-network-due-to-chinas-influence-in-the-country/ar-BBYXgCL
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January 15, 2020 12:54pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Both National and Labour would prefer for NZ to remain in our traditional security arrangements, but they’ll happily abandon those if it came down to a choices between alliances or money from the Beijing dictatorship.
  
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  January 15, 2020 1:44pm
- MCos
  
  People have been saying that for years.
  
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  January 15, 2020 1:58pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I know this guy who said ardern was a liar long before it was accepted…… He was right and this journo may be onto something as well.
    
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    January 15, 2020 2:16pm
    - Two fish and a scoop thanks Cindy
      
      I remember that guy. 🙂
      He was constantly being thrashed by the mods for calling Ardern a liar until the truth was no longer avoidable….
      
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      January 15, 2020 2:58pm
- Michael
  
  I suspect she would, to be honest.
  
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  January 15, 2020 6:24pm
Paulus

Where is the Iranian Overstayer Beyrouz Boochani – may we assume that a certain Iranian unelected Green Party List member is still hiding him ?
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January 15, 2020 1:30pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Well, he was still here this morning Pauly…..
  tweeting out threats to our closest 5 eyes partner 🙁
  
  [Can you imagine this being allowed to happen under JK’s regime?]
  
  https://twitter.com/BehrouzBoochani/status/1217210699924901889
  
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  January 15, 2020 2:02pm
  - sooty
    
    Hiding in her underwear drawer?
    
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    January 15, 2020 3:39pm
grumpy

Why would the rabid far left “Stuff” go to great pains to stress the Iranian destruction of a Ukrainian airliner is “accidental”.
The article shows a video of two missiles being fired (and hitting) the aircraft.
What can possibly be “accidental” about that?
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January 15, 2020 1:51pm
- Tall Man
  
  Really dumb soldiers?
  
  Actually, really dumb stuff.
  
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  January 15, 2020 2:12pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Confusion in the heat of battle is normal. Who was expecting Trump to take out the Iranian Head of Defence?
  
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  January 15, 2020 5:25pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Trump for one, his General for another o’wise said General would now be in charge of latrines in Alaska somewhere . . .
    
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    January 15, 2020 10:33pm
Fletch

An Ozzie pranks his Scottish journalist friend into thinking she will be holding a “dropbear” – a vicious cousin of the Koala with fangs that have venom. ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGUNpzjD6M
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January 15, 2020 1:52pm
softail 1450

Some polling in the US is showing Trump with 24/31% of the black vote ,this is massive and signals a landslide victory to the GOP, I cant wait to hear from Septicboy when this happens ,the medical fraternity are going to have to come up with a whole new level of TDS just for him.
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January 15, 2020 2:33pm
chaos

* Bernie Sanders Campaign Operative Makes Case For Concentration Camps:

– Stalin & gulags were good
– Gulags paid a living wage
– Billionaires should be sent to gulags to break them of “privilege”*

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1217111200720400389
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January 15, 2020 2:53pm
chaos

Hmmm

* Top-Secret UFO Files Could ‘Gravely Damage’ US National Security if Released, Navy Says

In response to a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, a spokesperson from the Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) confirmed that the agency possesses several top-secret documents and at least one classified video pertaining to the 2004 UFO encounter, Vice reported.

According to the ONI spokesperson, these documents were either labeled “SECRET” or “TOP SECRET” by the agencies that provided them, and that sharing the information with the public “would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States.”*

https://www.livescience.com/navy-confirms-secret-ufo-video.html
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January 15, 2020 3:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hey, snivelling socialists; this is for you. Your queen socialist cindy wants total control.
In the US there are over 390 million guns. Each year those gun owners buy over 10 billion rounds of amo. Yep, 10B. If guns were a problem, they would know.
The real problem is tyranny. Same goes for NZ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTDyeQic_Ow&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0Whpqiybr0PXHZFcCEMoktma7xGMd22qhYJ3CuZUN6T2pqtEeMURztKa0
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January 15, 2020 3:51pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Yep, if the widespread private ownership of powerful fireamrs were a problem, it would show up in the US. But, as we all know, gun crimes are much less prevalent in the US compared with socialist Europe and their tiresome restrictions on fundamental personal freedoms.
  /s
  
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  January 15, 2020 4:30pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Nice diversion Mike.
    Almost funny.
    You get an uptick for that sonny
    
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    January 15, 2020 5:09pm
- chaos
  
  I’d be ashamed if nz ever got to the point the USA is at where schools have metal detectors and carry out drills on what to do in a shooting.
  
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  January 15, 2020 4:50pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Mental detectors* fixed it.
    Code for drug fucked units
    
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    January 15, 2020 5:16pm
Swifty

I’m currently restoring some old fuel lamps and stoves I’ve had in storage for years.

In my internet travels for parts etc I’ve come across a couple of good sites if anyone is interested:

https://classiccampstoves.com/

https://classicpressurelamps.com/

Came across a few old ads and ephemera sites etc including this ad for a NZ (Scope) ‘CookQuik’ stove in a 1950 Otago Daily Times, Page 3:

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/imageserver/newspapers/P29pZD1PRFQxOTUwMTIxOCZnZXRwZGY9dHJ1ZQ==

Interesting to see the ad just below it; for the money box, at only 17 and six.

Times have surely changed. 🙂
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January 15, 2020 4:36pm
WaveyDavey

Well I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118813721/rents-up-again-as-limited-stock-puts-pressure-on
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January 15, 2020 4:44pm
- chaos
  
  Getting in before the govt control rents
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/11/government-to-ban-landlords-putting-up-the-rent-every-six-months.html
  
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  January 15, 2020 5:04pm
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Also getting out before it becomes all but impossible to remove tenants
    
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    January 15, 2020 5:51pm
    - sooty
      
      Someone should build some houses!
      That’ll help!
      
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      January 15, 2020 7:05pm
      - niggly
        
        Except the Twit is in charge – would could possibly go wrong!
        
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        January 15, 2020 9:18pm
      - Tall Man
        
        “Twits”… plural.
        
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        January 15, 2020 9:27pm
chaos

*Tucker Carlson hits Warren over sexism accusation against Sanders: ‘What a fraud. What a liar. What a phony’*

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-rips-warren-over-accusation-against-sanders-what-a-fraud
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January 15, 2020 5:23pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/118774485/vandals-attack-northland-avocado-orchard-as-tensions-over-water-levels-continue

Typical dumb North Aucklanders of a certain persuasion.

Biting the hands that feed them: through job opportunities / taxes / benefits / handouts / grants / subsidies / allowances / topups etc.

Idiots.
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January 15, 2020 5:51pm
MrTips

So I see that the emaciated lettuce chewing half of the God awful “band” called the Veronica’s has taken down her viral, social media hate inciting video which resulted in the posited suicide of the conservative gay student leader in Brisbane.

Media are hand wringing and cancer causing sincere in their concern about mob justice on social media.

Fuck off. They love it. That singer should go on trial and be made an example of. Or does that only apply to non-progressive sane people?
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January 15, 2020 6:16pm
- Michael
  
  you got it Mr Tips.
  Only non progressives.
  
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  January 15, 2020 6:28pm
chaos

But but but Winston was over there not long ago and thinks that our relations with the USA are strong, guess not strong as Jacinda and Winston think

* Investors from Australia, Canada and the UK that meet certain criteria will be exempted from some new US restrictions on foreign investment – but New Zealand didn’t make the cut.

The three countries have been added to an ‘excepted states’ list and may face different compliance requirements to revised US investment regulations released this week. *

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/australia-canada-and-uk-exempt-from-new-us-investment-rules-but-not-new-zealand.html
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  * New Zealand has not been included in the first iteration of the ‘excepted states’ list – the only member of the Anglophone Five Eyes intelligence network comprising the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. *
  
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  January 15, 2020 6:30pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  well, that’s what happens when you have a PM and Government that know zilch about International Diplomacy and Trade negotiations.
  
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  January 15, 2020 6:52pm
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    Do hugs not work overseas ?
    
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    January 15, 2020 7:10pm
greybeard

In my humble opinion, the “Paris Accord” has as much weight and validity as that bit of paper signed by Neville Chamberlain just before the start of WW2.

As to any other international agreements:

China would sign anything, then just ignore it.
India wouldn’t bother signing anything.
The USA signs things then doesn’t bother enforcing them.
NZ signs things because they don’t want to upset anyone.
Britain signs things because they are afraid of their muslim population.
Australia could actually be the only place which respects their signatures.
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January 15, 2020 6:59pm
KH

@mike;mildagain. And we get spurious and racist viewpoint about superior maori rights, based on the “who first” argument.
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January 15, 2020 7:09pm
chaos

Speechless

* There has been a breakthrough in the case of Alan Hall, who claims he was wrongfully convicted of the 1985 murder of Auckland man Arthur Easton.

Newshub has learned a group of police officers wrote an anonymous letter to Hall’s lawyer claiming a key witness was brainwashed by detectives.

In his decades investigating crime, Tim McKinnel says he’s never seen a letter like it.

“It’s a revelation,” he says.*

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/exclusive-anonymous-letter-from-police-claims-key-witness-brainwashed-in-arthur-easton-murder-case.html
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