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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
In common?
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The big four banks.
Fonterra.
NZ First.
Rodney Hide.
Canterbury Regional Council.
Hanover.
Hone Harawira.
Bill English.

What do they all have in common?
dairyflat2010-01-04 19:19:26
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
They're all in NZ.
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Yep, and...?

Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I guess you're going to say they're all fascists?
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
They're all separatists? Oh no wait thats just Hone.
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Clue: They all done something and then...?
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
made claims that on further investigation appear... dubious
in a broader sense it could be called "Conflict of Interest"

they all profit from the public purse

they all got caught and either apologized or paid up

been involved in Select Committe's

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Wongo wrote:
I guess you're going to say they're all fascists?


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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
They're all owned by the Aussies?
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
foal30 wrote:
made claims that on further investigation appear... dubious
in a broader sense it could be called "Conflict of Interest"

they all profit from the public purse

they all got caught and either apologized or paid up

been involved in Select Committe's


Pretty much that! Then there was no real consequence to their actions.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
bunch of white mutha funkers!
oh, no, wait

Salmon swim upstream

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Big business and our elected officials - great role models.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
What did Canterbury Regional Council do wrong, apart from being Canterbury?
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
***Left Winger Posts***

CRC is a democratically elected board...
they organize themselves into a 'management structure' and make decisions from here
the board is hopelessly politicized
Plus there is what (loosely) one could call town vs country issues
plus Chch City Council is in charge of CRC? who knows? what are the boundaries?


so CRC led for a while by prominent Labour Politician
this is in general OK, until the board has more National and Act members
obviously they do not want to be under the leadership of Sir Burke
so they roll him
this is OK (I'd expect Labour/Progressive to do the same)
but the National/ACT body is  totally rural
and wants the water
now CCC needs water
the town citizens are not going to pay more rates for farmers to take all the water for their dairy farms which are ruining the quality of our water anyway...
so water access rights are gifted by the CRC
to the water license holders
which incredibly
include the very same CRC board members
who have just rolled Sir Burke...

Conflict of Interest
I give you Conflict of Interest

There is numerous reasons to be unhappy with Burke's leadership BTW
plus the votes are clear, extreme right politicians are now on the CRC
I'm just skeptical that voters where in anyway aware of the fact that water license divisions were too be sorted by those "buying" the licenses...

still the important news is Hone H used naughty words. Not that other politicians elected on a mandate of belt-tightening, self sufficiency, and economic prudence are n  fact the biggest bludgers in the nation.








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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The bad words became the story, but my biggest problem was feeling that it was OK to blow off meetings which was the purpose of the trip to go sightseeing, because in the past white people were bad to brown people.
To me, using this excuse of convenience almost any time he is caught in the wrong  minimises the legitimate grievances that Maori have as a people.
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