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  2. Yes if anyone every says that me, I’d tell them to wash their mouth out,
    Its just TVNZ virtue signalling

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  3. Re #TurnArdern

    I see that o twitter some stupid women are buying 3 copies of magazines with Ardern on the cover to “show their support”

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          • The first time I was in NZ in 1987 there was a notice up outside the Post Office in Wanaka saying that rabbit shooting would be being carried out between 10pm and 6am around town for the next several nights. I knew right then that NZ was the country I wanted to make my home. It took me six years to get a residence visa and the day that the visa was approved was the happiest day of my life. That is why it grieves me so deeply to see the country turning to shit under the malign influence of the lying socialist piece of excrement masquerading as out prime minister. As one farmer told me this past weekend “if we don’t get rid of Labour at the next election then New Zealand is finished.”

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  5. White Island Eruption: ‘How good is Ardern’.World praises PM for disaster response.
    This comes when a Prime Minster seeks re- election next year after a year of disasters that she has used her drama classes experience to gather votes, with media hell bent on forgetting the corruption and poor leadership in other and more important times for NZ.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12292678
    Jacinda has a knack of being able to create a sympathy vote for herself while reading speeches that others have penned for her and is a attention seeker of the highest degree. The media have seized on this fact to push there own agenda which is to keep Jacinda and Labour in power to suit there need.

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    • Lets hope their are no disasters in NZ next year or at least i the few months before the election.

      And I agree the news media play up to her

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        • Dozens of people are are horrendously burned and dying…
          It is utterly disgusting that Ardern is using this event as a glorified Woman’s Day photoshoot.

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    • If John Key had run round hugging everyone in such a manner, he’d be a rapist and pedo. Besides, what’s her response actually been? Hat’s off to the real heroes who were the people on the boats and helicopters who willingly placed themselves in danger to help people who were seriously injured and dying. Huge respect to these brave men and women.
      Bloody hell, next the army will be refusing to fight if there’s any chance of a blood nose or it’s a high UV day.

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    • There has only been a shooting and a small eruption from an offshore volcano.

      Neither required anything of her. Nothing compared to the ongoing complexity of a quake rebuild.

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      • At the top of the comments. Alice, it says they have been moderated. Given the few I read, there must have been some really “negative” ones if they were moderated. Good to see that even in the UK they have seen through all the virtue signalling.

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      • At 10pm Monday night I went to the off shore media for some news.
        The Daily Mail is useful and already had photos and graphics of what happened.
        They allow comments as well so the story can be refuted by readers.
        Not chicken little like Stuffed who occasionally allow comments; don’t allow up or down ticks to showing weighting; and take them down if they are mean to the incompetent COL.

        If there are visual events like floods the DM photography is excellent and there may be 30+ photos in one article that you can click on to enlarge.
        The NZ chatterers like ‘up for sale’ Stuff will have auto loading shit of someone’s cellphone footage – so less than useless then comments like:- were you there , can you tell us more? Useless twats.

        I went to News.com.au which can have a lot of rubbish but is free to read and is a news accumulator vs a lot of AU media which is behind paywall.
        News.com.au reporting was better and much more honest than the rubbish here about 1 dead or 5 dead.
        Scott Morrison said yesterday (Tue) morning- within 20 hours- the AU death toll would be high; indicating 10+ people.
        The NZ twaddlers and lairs were still reporting 3 Australians dead.

        The NZ media has been 30 hours behind the news cycle of the international news.
        This would be typical.
        They are gossip columnists at best; there to gush and chortle and talk about first babies but not inform.
        Never inform. Vacant tarts and Oestrogen boys .

        I have not bothered with the Guardian but I imagine it was still supporting its favourite scarfie.
        NZ media might as well shut down given we can get NZ news from offshore on our TVs, phones, and computers more than a day ahead of the NZ media filth’s opinion pieces approved by Premier house.

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    • On Daily Mail Australia there was nothing but condemnation for her virtue signalling Saying she might be good at hugs but bugger all else. Think there were about 10 all saying the same thing. Good for hugs and f..king the country etc. I was impressed.

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      • Yep not one positive comment. Articles like that are going to start working against her if we plebs are allowed to add our 2c

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      • White Island eruption: Simon Bridges says police announcing criminal investigation created ‘uncertainty’
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/12/white-island-eruption-simon-bridges-says-police-announcing-criminal-investigation-created-uncertainty.html

        “Simon Bridges says police announcing a criminal investigation into the White Island disaster before retracting the statement hours later created uncertainty for those caught up in the tragedy.

        “It’s very unfortunate to have a situation where they say something like that, with the uncertainty that creates,” said National leader Bridges.”

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        • I missed the retraction. What was it all about then ?
          Were they going to look into the operators and then they were informed who they were ?

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          • The helicopter pilot says the police will not alloww body recovery.
            That’s strange, it’s just like pike river all over again!
            That should not be up to the police!

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              • I believe that the head plod Tims who has been fronting the tragedy should either have urgent media training as he is shocking or just resign.

                Where is Arderns minder, Mike Bush. Missing in action ?

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        • Given how anal and treacle slow the cops have been as well as totally risk averse it is difficult to believe this was a ‘mistake’.

          This is a common trick to scare the horses – put the message out there so it flows through the media twats – let it startle; then retract.
          This creates uncertainty as well as fear when ‘criminal’ is mentioned.
          The Yanks use this method all the time.
          It is an effective control tool and hard to counter.

          Don’t be fooled.
          It was deliberate.
          Some are a bit slow to understand how controlling and menacing the cop force is in NZ.

          Bridges is clearly one of the slow ones.

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    • So this is NOT like Pike River?

      Seems awfully similar. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118058738/live-white-island-erupts

      Labour’s Pike River. Has a nice ring to it. Goes well with

      Arderne’s Pike River or Nash’s Pike River.

      The bottom line is experts who do this stuff every day reckon it can be done but Plod gets in the way. Why?

      Further the Aussies are pissed.

      Quote” NZ failed to prepare visitors before White Island eruption”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPc4WA01wJw

      Some very hard questions need to be asked.

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      • Why are Andrew Little and Winston not demanding to be on the island? Possibly because, unlike Pike River, it’d be possible to get them there. In a matter of minutes.

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  6. Which way is the future, based on an essay written by Australian, Andrew Hastie.
    Or is just ourselves doing the self gutting? 🙁

    The battle is now well along to determine which set of values— democratic or authoritarian —will shape the emerging world order,
    https://www.demdigest.org/art-of-deceit-democratic-wests-strategic-culture-impedes-efforts-to-counter-autocrats-sharp-power/

    “The challenge for us in the West is that the character of that competition, being conducted by authoritarian opponents, is attacking our way of life and our freedom in a manner that is remarkably difficult to defeat without undermining the very freedoms we seek to protect. ”
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/hastie-urges-democracies-to-engage-in-political-warfare-to-preserve-peace-20191203-p53g7u.html

    An interesting view of the manoeuvres of China, building islands, etc…

    ….. Mao Tse-Tung put it, “Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed”. Politics and warfare became interchangeable and all the instruments of the state were refashioned for subversive warfare. ….
    …. democratic West has lacked the intellectual framework both to perceive and to respond to these subversive tactics. ….
    …… Many democracies find themselves economically co-dependent on authoritarian states and vulnerable to coercion. ….
    https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2019/12/provocative-essay-from-andrew-hastie-mp-on-countering-chinas-espionage-corruption-and-military-aggre.html

    So what is happening here in NZ, and when do we don the “coolie hat”, though some would wear silk,
    The dairy industry, and now the sheep & cattle industry, becoming very dependent on China.

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    • Those who hold the power to destroy.

      US-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR WAR SIMULATION SHOWS 34 MILLION WOULD DIE WITHIN 5 HOURS

      In September 2019, researchers at Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security published a video which shows the “domino effect” of using just one tactical (low-yield) nuclear weapon.

      To repeat, the only country with nuclear warheads, that also has a “preemptive” nuclear strike policy is the US, and this video begins in a situation that Moscow assumes Washington’s war-time doctrine. Russia, in 1993, did drop its “no first use policy,” but its 2010 doctrine only suggests that nuclear weapons would be used in response to an adversary using them first. Any other suggestions that it could resort to such weapons first comes down to speculation.

      https://southfront.org/us-russian-nuclear-war-simulation-shows-34-million-would-die-within-5-hours/

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    • I saw Hastie being interviewed on Bolt last night. I might not agree with everything he said but he is a really impressive guy and politician. Future PM material.

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      • Thanks Ross12. If time later I will look for him.

        In some ways I also have questions even about the essay.
        I did wonder if creating an enemy to try and bring an unification and broaden one’s “base”.
        The nativity of some to other cultures, and the changes being pushed, does not measure or monitor, what we are about.

        Still one must know one self, and putting the Australian citizen first.
        Then if there is an enemy, to then know them.

        At least everything to be discussed, debated, and so truth can be revealed, with good reasons.

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  7. Another Labour Minister that likes to play the blame game when it suits his agenda.
    Probe into Foriegn interference to late: Justice Minister Andrew Little says, this is dispite Labour not starting the probe until September 2018 , one year after being elected.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12292660
    Labour and the Coalition find themselves behind in the vote and thought they could sleep walk back to power but corruption allegations and Ministers out of their depth have changed the outlook on the political land scape and leaving little time to smear the opposition like Little planned to do.

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    • The authoritarians are winning. Both left and right.

      How many politicians do you know of who seriously want to remove laws?

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        • Good Diggy. But will they replace them with biblical law and social conservatism?

          I would repeal all drug alcohol smoking etc law. Along with helmet and most firearms law. Just a few common sense rules would remain.

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          • Good Diggy. But will they replace them with biblical law and social conservatism?

            I hope so.
            They do not push their religion.
            But they are very anti one religion starting with the letter I

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            • Diggy what is their position on the jewish question?

              I only ask as the Christian’s have been the biggest threat by far to Jews. I see little evidence their religious bigotry has changed, only the current target has.

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              • You must be one of the few people in the world that keeps banging on about Jews. (along with Jeremy Corby)
                What is the jewish question?
                I thought it was covered the late 1940’s

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                • Corbyn isn’t banging on about jews, the jews are banging on about Corbyn.

                  Communism
                  Feminism
                  Prostitution
                  Marxism
                  Porn
                  Opioid addiction
                  Transgenderism
                  Immigration

                  Are just a few of the destructive ideologies pushed by the jews, designed to weaken societies. There’s a reason these people were kicked out of 109 countries over 300 times.

                  That is the jewish question.

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            • Good Diggy. But will they replace them with biblical law and social conservatism?

              I hope so.
              They do not push their religion.
              But they are very anti one religion starting with the letter I

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        • You’re wrong, unfortunately Dig. The New Conservatives have a different set of rules they want everybody to follow (More aligned with a Christian set of morals). They are just as authoritarian as the other parties.

          If you want to find a politician that wants to remove laws and allow us the freedom to live our lives, there is actually only one.

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  10. Impeachment charges against Donald Trump revealed
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/impeachment-charges-against-donald-trump-revealed.html

    “Democrats in the House of Representatives announced formal charges against President Donald Trump on Tuesday that accuse him of abusing power and obstructing Congress, making him only the fourth US president in history to face impeachment.

    The full Democratic-controlled House is expected to vote on the charges, or articles of impeachment, next week. It is almost certain to vote to impeach the Republican president, setting the stage for a dramatic trial in the Republican-controlled Senate, likely to begin in January.”

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    • Sounds like a Terminator T1200.

      After the feminised Chick Flick, Terminator- Dark Fate I think the women have had the last say.
      There will be no more Terminator movies to bring out the T1200!!

      You’re Terminated.
      You won’t be back!

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  12. Will the criminal investigation into the White Island deaths include investigation of the NZ Police decision to stop rescue efforts?

    Looks like they were more interested in preserving a crime scene than rescuing victims.

    Despicable actions by senior politically appointed police. The local cops would have jumped on a boat and searched the island.

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    • Yes it’s surprising that they handed out bravery awards to the cops who subdued and arrested Brenton Tarrant. Surely by the managements most recent actions they should have stood by and cordoned him off.

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      • Tarrant basically handed himself in after a good pit maneuver, they aren’t “heroes” he had no intention of fighting the police, this is just a gimmick.

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        • It is easy to say in hindsight, having read his manifesto and knowing his will. I think decisions, and not knowing whether the armed gunman (men) loose in Christchurch will open fire or surrender changes your response. They are still rank and file cops that, in a thought to be dangerous situation, risked themselves for the public.

          No matter what changed im the days and hours afterwards as we learned more, at that time they did react well.

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  13. Hager will definitely ride this pony for the rest of his life. FFS.

    Afghanistan report bombshell: US officials misled public about war for nearly 2 decades

    The paper, which obtained a cache of government documents under the Freedom of Information Act after a three-year legal battle, reported that the American officials made repeatedly lied about the longest armed conflict in US history.

    https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/afghanistan-bombshell-report-shows-us-officials-misled-public-about-war-for-nearly-2-decades/?utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&fbclid=IwAR3Wd7zIGIF23khbDvQ4uW4FWv-Yr2RipOmGO6i3amRs2MmzTdoQwbdKLMo

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    • I knew years ago of the sham, the unbelievable positioning of islam in the Afghan constitution in 2005.
      This is also similar to the Iraq constitution made after the war.
      It makes it difficult for those countries’s leaders to hold out, and other ones to more easily acquiesce to the bottom line, of sharia.

      The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan creates a nation that pledges to be both Islamic and democratic.
      Two tenets occupy a prominent place: Islam and resistance.
      The new constitution confirms that Afghanistan will be an Islamic republic with Islam as its “sacred religion.” It also states that no law can violate Islamic principles (Article 3). Although the document does not include a reference to sharia, it adds the proviso that no law “can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions” of Islam.
      https://mepc.org/journal/afghanistans-constitution-success-or-sham

      An absolute travesty of western democracy, and a continuing wasteful western sacrifice for nothing!

      The positioning of islamic principles, laws in the West are also slowly and stealthily being ratcheted in.
      It all seems to be ok with academia, media, politicians, that apply heavy censure, “cancel culture” de-platforming, and, or shaming to any questions, debate or questions about islam.

      That so sadly is what the loss “allies” lives was for; an islamic constitution.

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          • I believe the furthest they got was the bombing of Darwin, to protect their interests in Timor. But if you believe they would have left a British Colony with a United States military presence on their doorstep alone, you may want to check you’re in the right drawer.

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  15. White Island eruption: Simon Bridges says police announcing criminal investigation created ‘uncertainty’
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/12/white-island-eruption-simon-bridges-says-police-announcing-criminal-investigation-created-uncertainty.html

    “Simon Bridges says police announcing a criminal investigation into the White Island disaster before retracting the statement hours later created uncertainty for those caught up in the tragedy.

    “It’s very unfortunate to have a situation where they say something like that, with the uncertainty that creates,” said National leader Bridges.”

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    • Immediately after the event civilians mobilized and resued most of the victims.

      The police arrived and shut down the rescue. Cordoned off the demarcation area. Shut down the Geo net cameras. And launched a criminal investigation.

      THE POLICE RECUED NO ONE

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      • Exactly Kea.
        Here is Barry Soper’s “bob each way” view , trying to “support”the Police. Basically Soper is saying the people who responded were breaking the laws that prevented the Police doing much. What a load of garbage Soper. If they had to, they should have declared an emergency (yes a real emergency !!) immediately so they could forget the stupid H&S rules and get in there a do what is needed.

        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12292690

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        • So saving people’s lives is against the law?

          The health and safety law is not a barrier, so that is bullshit. The Act does not demand zero risk. It’s about managing risk.

          A very experienced ex cop just told me his view. He raised all my points and was suspicious of the cameras being shut down.

          Now the police are refusing to allow recovery of the bodies.

          Their only contribution has been press conferences / PR and stopping rescue efforts.

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          • Saving lives justifies any danger an individual rescuer considers okay by them.

            Recovering bodies is a totally different matter. From my POV a human body is a shell once the life it once supported has expired. To find & transport a shell devoid of life from where it lies to a burial rite or ceremony is barely worth inconvenience never mind risk.

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            • My concern is were any unconscious victims not rescued at the time? This is why going back immediatly and checking out any bodies would have been vital. The volcano has not erupted again (as I stated yesterday it probably would not), so Plod should have allowed volunteers back.

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  18. Time to make this an election issue

    I am surprised stuff has this article. It is a massive indictment in terms of the Polive etc fucking things up Pike River style once again.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118103101/whakaariwhite-island-helicopter-pilot-said-conditions-perfect-to-recover-bodies

    Quotes:

    “The conditions are perfect, I don’t understand why [emergency services] wouldn’t go – I’d go.

    “We could go do that now, so that’s the frustrating part.

    “The intensity has probably lessened. The southwesterly has probably blown the plume and the gas away, so you could probably walk around there without a gas mask on.”

    Once they learned emergency services were not heading out, they decided to save people themselves.

    “We then decided to move the helicopters up to where most of the people were lying and in a distressed state.

    “And then three of us started loading people in helicopters. We put five people into one and Jason left for the hospital.

    “I brought my helicopter up and we loaded five more into that and we left.”

    End quotes

    So the fucking emergency response was ” Just don’t bother ”

    COWARDS.

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    • These gutless scum cash in on the credibility gained by front line cops.

      But they are political appointees and evil power trippers with a vile agenda.

      I hate the police, not policemen.

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      • and my daughter wants to join this bunch. I am a little torn over this as she would make a damn good cop, but the top brass seem to be first-class idiots.

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        • What?
          Become a foot soldier for political activity; not a protector of decent folk against criminals.

          Proof.
          -Ext Rebellion scum can vandalise with impunity and stop taxpayers going to work. Cops do nothing but warn said taxpayers to stay home for their safety.
          What!! Think about that.

          -Unemployed non tax paying people (mainly benes) occupy private land ready for the building of 500 needed houses but the cops do nothing. Why?
          it is not about the law- it is political and about optics.

          -Gangs are growing while the cops do nothing. Gangsters can hold onto AR15s and the cops will do nothing come next week.
          They will go after generally honest citizens placed in an awkward position by bad law rushed through and supported by Notional.
          The criminals are in their safe space- Gang HQ!
          Occasional signalled showpiece raids don’t cut it.

          -Sound vaguely ‘white sup remacist’ and the cops will be at your door in a heartbeat.

          That is the NZ today. 2019.
          -Had your house burgled – tough
          -Had your computer stolen and know where it is; we won’t bother but if you go to this premises to collect your lawful property we will arrest you for trespass.
          – right now they are poised to prosecute people over White Is when something that has some risk – therefore commercial attraction – turned fatal when nature took its course.
          Are they going to close down car racing?
          But 115 people died in the CTV building in 2011 and no-one even got bitch slapped.
          It is all political.

          NZ Cop 2019 = Political enforcer.
          Staatssicherheitsdienst Mk II
          aka Stasi.

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          • Good summary, for a suppose to be apolitical organization its all i see them as now “inquisitors”..

            An armed wing of a rogue Marxist led regime.

            In a sick and dying nation, culture, race or civilization, political dissent and
            traditional values will be labeled and persecuted as heinous crimes by inquisitors clothing themselves in jingoistic patriotism.

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        • Tell her not to join rightoverlabour- Unless she is prepared to risk her life for an organisation that has become little more than Jacinda Ardern’s personal Gestapo….
          I used to have IMMENSE respect for NZ Police. Then the Clarke Gayford thing happened….
          Corruption.
          The only way to describe it.

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    • I wonder if this is staged. Ardern comes in, overrides the emergency services and gives the pilots a go signal. More photos for her, triumphant trumpet fanfare, etc. and we read another six months of media articles telling us how, like with Pike River, Labour delivers results when it’s actually the opposite.

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      • You mean like she did at Imahoutu? Rode rough shod over private property rights.Never been back as it’s no longer in the news.
        She is nothing more than a media whore, and a very poor at it.

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        • Yeah, there are so many examples of her doing this that one slipped my mind completely. But exactly like that.

          I expect the Prime Minister to make a statement of support, to comment on it or even to be there if they can make an appreciable difference. But not this push for Sainthood with wall to wall photo coverage of sad frowny concerned face / hug / nod thoughtfully / sad face. It sounds spiteful, but she just seems shallow and fake doing that.

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            • I’m waiting for the boy friend to come to her rescue as he has done on previous occasions.

              I did hear from a reliable source that he was told to ” zip it sweetie”.

              Maybe he can create a diversion by regaling us with tales of his famous and well documented threesomes.

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              • I visited a bookshop today to turn her books back to front!
                She was on the front of some womans mag aswell. Jethro was saying what a hard life he has.

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    • So if the brave helicopter pilots and others did not take the situation into their own hands many would be still on the Island.

      As Howitis says they are so used to standing around looking at protesters breaking the law and doing nothing about it they have forgotten what taking action is all about.

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    • Pilot who bravely rescued survivors before police shut it down, reports perfect flying conditions for recovery of bodies.

      The police won’t allow it as they want things as bad as possible for their prosecution.

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  20. White Island eruption: Hero pilot Mark Law says conditions perfect to return
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/white-island-eruption-hero-pilot-mike-law-says-conditions-perfect-to-return.html

    “A hero pilot who rescued people in the immediate aftermath of the White Island eruption says conditions are right to return.

    Mark Law was one of the many selfless Kiwis who rushed to help dozens of people who were severely burned.

    Emergency services are still assessing conditions on the island to launch a recovery operation.

    But Law says they could leave now.”

    GPS shows The Police maritime unit Deodar is anchored off white Island presumably to make sure nobody attempts to land on the Island. The cops have refused to attempt to recover the bodies today saying the conditions are not safe.

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  21. Government ‘not going to turn the dial for congestion’ without tackling roading issues – Simon Bridges
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/government-not-going-turn-dial-congestion-without-tackling-roading-issues-simon-bridges?auto=6114665723001

    “Mr Bridges told TVNZ1’s Breakfast today roading projects were important because “more than 90 per cent” of people and freight travels by road.

    “I started personally CRL (Auckland’s City Rail Link), I’m not anti this stuff but I do think if this is basically just pie in the sky, not a whole lot here, not some new real roads starting – they’re not going to turn the dial for congestion in Auckland. Actually, they’re not going to get New Zealanders moving around this country.”

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    • Nobody wants to ride rail with hordes of stinking lowlife that fight at rail stations and rob people, if the Inquisitors in blue did their job made the rail safer people might just ride them. All the trains and train stations have tagging over them and they always in a state of filth.

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      • Everyone of their $4 ticket, cost us taxpayer at least $6. Bastards should be looking after our gear and thank us. Same as the social housing, but oh no, do you thing that WINZ gets the money for the repairs back or chuck them out? No they do not! Arsehole them and put them on the blacklist! Only rent them an empty steel shipping container!

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  22. Time for a rant. I had the displeasure of travelling long distance north and south this country of ours over the last week.. How utterly diabolical. I am a pretty take it easy kind of driver I set the cruise control and let the kilometers pass me by, If need be I will overtake someone on a passing lane or if someone has the decorum to pull over. Otherwise im perfectly happy to trundle along behind someone.

    But it seems every time I have to make one of these journeys it becomes harder and harder. If this country is going to commit to trucking as its primary source of carting things here there and everywhere. Tourism as a significant source of revenue. And continue importing immigrants like its going out of fashion… How about some bloody infrastructure?!

    I witness near misses almost every time I take one of these open road ventures. Yes some peoples driving attitudes aren’t quite what you would call sane, BUT almost every instance is caused by people getting impatient. Impatient with getting caught behind a convoy of holiday makers scared witless of cracking 80kph in their giant campervan they rented. Impatient with Truck after truck after truck. Its beyond a joke, passing lanes are all but pointless when you overtake a truck or two only to sit behind the next one and the next one and so on (this is assuming of course one of the trucks doesn’t decide they wish to overtake and ruin it for everyone else).

    How about some bloody roads? I think were at (if not past) the point where near every main highway needs to be a dual carriageway. Its costing lives, its getting to the point where I’m not feeling as safe on the road and if it could be avoided I think id rather fly just to avoid the stress of it all. Rant over.

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    • What freaks me about overtaking is almost everyone who pulls out onto the main road going left from a side road never looks left, they only look right, if you’re overtaking at 120k then they pull out its game over.

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      • ButI pretty sure there is something that you are not allowed to pass on intersections.
        Be able to stop in the distance in front.
        Keep left.
        Probably more as well.

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        • I have a problem with motorist that are scared of the big nasty scary truck, they were traveling faster if they catch up to a truck. Will they pass, oh no they don’t, they sit in close so no one can pass either. Other countries allow the same trucks to travel legally at 100km. So why are ours limited to 90km?
          I use to be a truck driver in another life! They are the most regulated working person in NZ. If the plod don’t get you, the employer will. Logbooks are going electonic, so you just get a ticket in the mail, cameras to watch the road as well as the driver. Employer ring up saying you did this or that. Customers with all their own rules as well. Safety inductions up the kyber pass for every site.

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    • Keep left, pass right. Drivers taught in New Zealand have a shitload to learn. I come from a country where minibus taxis take the steering wheels off and replace them with spanners so they can fit another driver in. I have seen a driver reload his pistol in traffic. And I still think Kiwi-born drivers are worse on the road.

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  23. Rugby: Ian Foster confirmed as new All Blacks head coach
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2019/12/rugby-ian-foster-to-be-confirmed-as-new-all-blacks-head-coach-reports.html

    “New Zealand Rugby has announced Ian Foster as the new head coach of the All Blacks on a two-year deal.

    Foster will step up from his role as an assistant to take the top job that was vacated by Steve Hansen, after this year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan.

    The 54-year-old has won the race for the role ahead of the Crusaders’ Scott Robertson, who was the primary second candidate once Jamie Joseph re-signed with Japan and Dave Rennie commited to the Wallabies.

    “I feel truly privileged and honoured to be given this opportunity,” Foster told Allblacks.com. “And I can’t wait to lead the team into the next chapter of what is a remarkable legacy.”

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  26. The cameras on White Island were shut for the same reason the police don’t want the bodies retrieved.

    There were survivors after the initial blast, which is now confirmed by eye witnesses.

    This is a coverup by the police. The evidence is overwhelming.

    The cameras may have filmed survivors. An autopsy would show time of death. So they want the bodies as decayed as possible. The cops will be hoping for the whole thing to blow.

    The actions of the police have resulted in the deaths of survivors and they know it.

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  28. It sounds like Winston is getting his mates to deliver a message to the PM and Labour with Barry Sopers column yesterday that Ackland Port non move could break the Coalition and then today Shane Te Pui message move it or lose it meaning you will lose NZ First if it is not moved to Northland.
    https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/12/11/942527/move-it-or-lose-nzfirst-support
    Winston wants this Legacy and he is prepared to be wiped out at the next Election to get his way.
    I wonder if the twelve billion that Grant Robertson is borrowing will be for the move and infrastructure.

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    • I’m having trouble with the way this is moving. The location of the port is a commercial decision to be made by the owners of the port – and they will need to invest their own money to do it. How does the government become the funding source – as far as I know, no other port in the country has been established by or is supported with public funds. If the government does fund the construction of a new port, will it become the owner – with all the implications that brings?

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    • $12,000,000,000 for Labour to spend on an election bribe. If there’s no interest on that money, your average tax payer would spend 1,135,293,307 years paying that back. All so Ardern can be on a few more magazine covers.

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  32. The Herald have recently released an interview with Rotorua pilot Tim Barrow from Volcanic Air Safaris who was one of those who ventured onto the island to pick up survivors.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12292884

    He’s a gutsy bugger like the other pilots & crew & the article is a good read but one part made my skin crawl.

    ……” Barrow said despite breaching Civil Aviation rules by landing on an area with volcanic activity, he wouldn’t change his decision if faced with it again.

    “When something like this is happening, as much as we are trying to be safe, we are not pulling the rule book out … We knew there were lives at risk.”……

    A hero he is but he’ll probably be an unemployed hero when the paper shufflers & nit-pickers of Civil Aviation are finished with him. If the arseholes even look like going for his company or licence the time is overdue for civil rebellion against our bureaucratic overlords.

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    • Police and authorities have prosecuted rescue pilots before. Happened recently in the Blenheim Court.

      The police are prosecutors not a rescue service. They should have zero part in rescue efforts.

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  33. Heather DPA interviewed another chopper pilot this afternoon.He said if they hadn’t gone and picked those injured people up the cops were going to leave them there.
    If that is the case it is appalling.
    He was from Kahu Helicopters.

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  34. Yes its time disaster relief was taken off the police.
    They should just stick tosolving burglaries and shooting maniacs.

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  35. I hope Nostradamus shows up tonight to explain the perks the legal profession enjoy.

    ……” A judge has been accused of using her courtroom to have group sex with lawyers.

    Kentucky judge Dawn Gentry has also been accused of pressurising lawyers into having threesomes with her and her ex-pastor lover while in the courtroom.”……

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12292931

    It’s bad enough paying my pettifogger $290/hr plus GST for his services & a Xmas card but shafting the judiciary on my coin is a bit tough! 🙂

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  36. Talking about the White island rescue…
    If you have half an hour search on Youtube for the Sewol Korean ferry disaster.
    Two hundred people, mostly school children died on a flat sea in daylight, while the coastguard just stood by.
    Its very sad.
    The captain got off first

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  38. But I put it to you your honour, that once adorned with tinsel & baubles it was no longer a cannabis plant but a Christmas tree!

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  39. ‘Cynical’ to describe infrastructure spend as election year slush fund – Grant Robertson
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/12/cynical-to-describe-infrastructure-spend-as-election-year-slush-fund-grant-robertson.html

    “These guys are world-class at announcing stuff and they’re third-rate at delivering… They haven’t delivered in the year of delivery and now they’re throwing money around.”

    As well as roads, the Government is promising a $300 million dollar fixer-upper fund for hospitals.

    Another $300 million will go into regional infrastructure, $200 million to remove coal-fired burners from schools, hospitals and prisons, and $400 million was already allocated for school upgrades.

    It’s all a helpful distraction from the news of a $900 million dollar deficit.

    “Labour’s screwing up the economy,” Bridges said. “In two short years they have gone from surpluses as far as the eye can see, into the red – it’s unbelievable.”

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    • The moderators there are raging faggots, they censor on emotions nothing to do with any rules. David may as well call it “Maggie and her partner said something today blog”

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