Daily review 27/02/2019

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1. joe90 1

   27 February 2019 at 7:04 pm

   Cohen’s going to try and burn the house down.

   https://twitter.com/politico/status/1100617004082446336

   https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/cohen-trump-racist-conman-cheat-1189951

   TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL D. COHEN

   COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND REFORM U.S.

   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

   FEBRUARY 27, 2019

   Chairman Cummings, Ranking Member Jordan, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today. I have asked this Committee to ensure that my family be protected from Presidential threats,and that the Committee be sensitive to the questions pertaining to ongoing investigations. Thank you for your help and for your understanding.

   https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-2d31-dc75-affd-bfb99a790001
   • Anne 1.1

     27 February 2019 at 7:38 pm

     Surely that testimony will throw the ‘Rat Among The Pigeons’.
   • Andre 1.2

     27 February 2019 at 7:43 pm

     Repug House Rep goes full goombah.

     ‘Nice family you got there. Shame if anything happened to it.’

     https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/matt-gaetz-tweet-michael-cohen/index.html
     • Sabine 1.2.1

       27 February 2019 at 7:57 pm

       he already deleted the tweet and apologized. I guess he did not like the tweet from Mother Pelosi about proper behavior by Members of congress and the advice from several lawywers about his ‘witness tempering’ .

       popcorn, anyone got spare popcorn?
     • joe90 1.2.2

       27 February 2019 at 8:01 pm

       Dumbfuckery ensues.

       https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1100552716563202048
   • joe90 1.3

     27 February 2019 at 8:55 pm

     This shit fight should be on C span tomorrow and it’s going to be fun to watch.

     Cohen knows many of the secrets that comprise the Horcruxes of Donald Voldemort; Trump’s taxes, his shoddy, shady business practices, the extent of Trump’s personal depravity and sexual depredations against many, many women. He knows about business practices they didn’t show on the phony set of Apprentice. He knows all about the roles of Ivanka and Don Jr. and Slow Eric in the business.

     […]

     Of course, Trump and his allies are taking precisely the wrong approach. Calling Cohen names, or having pals in Congress direct mobster threats at the witness doesn’t discredit him. It makes him more credible because the things he’s saying are things that the Southern District and Mueller have matched up with more legitimate sources. The Feds don’t just have Cohen. They have Allen Weisselberg, the Trump organization’s accountant and CFO.

     As in all mob cases from time immemorial, once you take out the consigliere, you take out the accountant, and then the whole house of cards tumbles down.

     https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-cohen-is-trumps-worst-nightmare-a-loser-with-nothing-to-lose?
   • Macro 1.4

     27 February 2019 at 9:16 pm

     The open Statement in full is here:
     https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-2d31-dc75-affd-bfb99a790001
     It’s well worth the read.
     Wow! Just wow!
     • patricia bremner 1.4.1

       27 February 2019 at 10:58 pm

       Yes indeed Wow. It would be difficult to refute that testimony.
2. NZJester 2

   27 February 2019 at 7:10 pm

   Old white man labels NZ’s finances ‘a joke’
   He should know as he helped make them a joke.
   His Rogernomics kicked off a lot of the problems we have today by bringing in the neoliberal economic policies that the National party later took up and built on that increased the gap between rich and poor.
   • james 2.1

     27 February 2019 at 7:58 pm

     Agist, Racist, Sexist – you are the trifecter of bitter.
     • WILD KATIPO 2.1.1

       27 February 2019 at 8:15 pm

       Agist :

       ‘NZ youth are drug addled , addicted and cannot hold down regular jobs as they have no work ethics’… ( in justifying importing cheap foreign labour to be paid for peanuts)

       – FK Jonkey and Double Dipper English.

       Rascist:

       Female ethnic Chinese National party MP who didn’t want south Aucklander’s ( implying poor Polynesians ) having easy access to another part of town where her constituents lived.

       Sexist :

       The actual PM and leader of above National party flagrantly pulling on females long hair ( some only young school children ) – esp one in her workplace over a 6 months period despite repeated appeals for him to stop. ( Demonstrating he saw them as ‘ objects’) and was never called to account by the same laws that would call such manhandling as ‘minor assault’.

       * Those who throw stones shouldn’t live in a glasshouse.
       • Tamati Tautuhi 2.1.1.1

         27 February 2019 at 8:27 pm

         Korean m8 all the gooks look the same anyway.

         You aren’t allowed to bash Chinese on this RWNJ’s will go AWOL.
         • James 2.1.1.1.1

           27 February 2019 at 8:57 pm

           “ all the gooks look the same anyway”

           Racist comments like that are disgusting Tamati Thutuhi. You should be ashamed.
           • Tamati Tautuhi 2.1.1.1.1.1

             27 February 2019 at 9:51 pm

             James you whinging again like that other faggot Gosman, harden up you poof.

             [Banned for a week. When you come back, think more carefully about you choice of words. TRP]
             • James …

               27 February 2019 at 10:06 pm

               You need to roll it back a bit. Your comments are disgusting.
             • Sacha …

               27 February 2019 at 10:16 pm

               Stop it, Tamati. There is no call for that sort of behaviour here.
             • marty mars …

               27 February 2019 at 11:10 pm

               Ban that wanker
               • The Al1en …

                 27 February 2019 at 11:14 pm

                 Should have been yesterday
             • Gabby …

               28 February 2019 at 10:06 am

               Never go full front bottom tamtam, NEVER.
             • Cinny …

               28 February 2019 at 5:10 pm

               TT, pull your head in, name calling and racist comments will never win people over.

               Glad to see you’ve been banned for being abusive. Good job.
       • James 2.1.1.2

         27 February 2019 at 8:54 pm

         A pathetic false equivalence.
       • Tamati Tautuhi 2.1.1.3

         28 February 2019 at 5:26 am

         Global Drug Survey

         Very interesting read, good money in the NZ Market if you can get it into NZ without being caught. Customs at present only picking up 3-4% of shipments so I am told ?

         https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103630626/nz-priciest-place-to-buy-cocaine-and-mdma-global-drug-survey-2018
       • Tamati Tautuhi 2.1.1.4

         28 February 2019 at 5:53 am

         Katipo you are 100% right have a read of this the result of Neoliberalism

         https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12207929
     • I feel love 2.1.2

       27 February 2019 at 8:18 pm

       he’s white, he’s male, he’s old. It’s PC gone mad I tell ya while I clutch my pearls. Right wingers are so easily offended these days, oh, it’s outrage but of the faux kind.
       • Tamati Tautuhi 2.1.2.1

         27 February 2019 at 8:41 pm

         The Neoliberal’s rolling out the old ROCK STAR Roger Douglas to make some stupid half arsed comments, always was a demented old coot IMHO.
       • James 2.1.2.2

         27 February 2019 at 10:07 pm

         Pc gone mad?

         Are you accepting of terms like gook, faggot and poof ?
   • Tamati Tautuhi 2.2

     27 February 2019 at 8:24 pm

     Douglas has zero credibility in NZ apart from the Neoliberal zealots, Douglas was a fraud IMHO
     • Milly 2.2.1

       27 February 2019 at 9:16 pm

       Douglas should face trial for his crimes.
       • Stuart Munro 2.2.1.1

         27 February 2019 at 11:18 pm

         Punishment is what he should face. There is not the tiniest sliver of possibility the traitor is innocent.
       • Tamati Tautuhi 2.2.1.2

         28 February 2019 at 5:27 am

         Maybe he’s next ?
       • mosa 2.2.1.3

         28 February 2019 at 9:33 am

         “Douglas should face trial for his crimes ” We can start by removing his knighthood.
3. WILD KATIPO 3

   27 February 2019 at 7:12 pm

   There you guys go again!

   Wrecking my day with pictures of lying corrupt scumbags !!!

   That ‘ thing’ you have on the main picture of your article. I think they call it ‘ Douglas’. But you know what popped into my head as soon as I saw it ???

   And don’t ask me why…

   THIS:

   DEAD SKUNK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD – LOUDON … – YouTube
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5hzc2Mei4
   • NZJester 3.1

     27 February 2019 at 7:22 pm

     How dare you make such an unfair comparison.
     A dead skunk in the middle of the road at least still has some value to the natural Ecosystem.
     Apologize to the dead skunks out there! ;-p
     • WILD KATIPO 3.1.1

       27 February 2019 at 7:32 pm

       Aw shucks, dang it… OK then.

       It was a bad comparison. I guess a skunks olfactory scent glands could produce a fine aftershave or a discerning lady’s parfume ( if produced in an environmentally friendly fashion with zero harm to the skunk ) in comparison to said ‘Douglas’s reeking neo liberal stench , – along with all his erstwhile followers… then and now.
       • Kat 3.1.1.1

         27 February 2019 at 8:42 pm

         Hosk the skunk………….middle of the road and dead………..
         • Tamati Tautuhi 3.1.1.1.1

           27 February 2019 at 8:48 pm

           Some of this skunk juice could be good for the perfumed steamroller WP
   • Tamati Tautuhi 3.2

     28 February 2019 at 5:29 am

     WP you are right about Douglas being a skunk, but dreadfully insulting to the skunk community IMHO.
     • WILD KATIPO 3.2.1

       28 February 2019 at 7:09 am

       Drat !… you just cant ever win !…

       Ok, ok… I admit it… I made a balls up regarding the skunk analogy, maybe I was a bit too quick off the mark… but you gotta admit… its a funny song…

       Sort of,… but not if you like skunks, of course…
4. joe90 4

   27 February 2019 at 7:53 pm

   So tRump probably won’t be the one who lights the nuclear fire.

   Pakistan has shot down two Indian fighter jets inside its airspace, an army spokesperson said, as tensions escalate a day after India bombed targets in Pakistan.

   The development comes as Indian officials said at least three Pakistani combat jets entered the airspace over Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday but returned after being intercepted by Indian Air Force planes.

   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/pakistan-shoots-indian-fighter-jets-military-190227055937142.html
   • Tamati Tautuhi 4.1

     27 February 2019 at 8:46 pm

     First punch up between Pakistan and India since 1971, could be another theatre of war to keep the punters interested, we need Gosman to educate us on the problems in the Kashmir.

     Both have got Nukes so could be fun if these guys have a crack at each other.

     25 million killed Indians & Pakistanis so far in conflicts and genocide
   • Sabine 4.2

     27 February 2019 at 9:11 pm

     you forgot to link to the article from yesterday stating that India bombed ‘terrorists’ inside Pakistan first.

     https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/indian-government-confirms-air-strikes-militant-camps-inside-pakistan/

     this is just the usual tit for tat re Kashmir, not worthy of nuclear bombs just yet.

     the shortfingered vulgarian still has a chance to be first at something, well make that second, after all he US already has nuked a country, twice.
     • Wayne 4.2.1

       27 February 2019 at 10:32 pm

       Can’t see this round of the India Pakistan conflict escalating too much.

       Pakistan is making light of it saying they chased the Indian aircraft away which dropped their bombs on empty forest. So hard to justify a real retaliation. But they will do something in Kashmir, presumably through proxy. However they will want low Indian casualties, not 40 as in the last attack. So something more symbolic. If they caused another 40 Indian casualties, India will feel compelled to do more. Such as attack a Pakistan border facility.

       If it gets out of control, it could become quite a bitter border war, though mostly air strikes and artillery bombardment.

       A long, long way from going nuclear. That would require a huge Indian land invasion of Pakistan. Which is not going to happen.

       ADDITION

       Pakistan has just shot down two Indian jets, presumably in Pakistan air space. Which goes to show how well trained and equiped the Pakistan Air force is. With two pilots captured, India is going to have to do a rethink.
       • Exkiwiforces 4.2.1.1

         28 February 2019 at 12:39 am

         May I add Wayne, the PAK Air Defence Command actually shot them down on the way home well outside the Tgt zone. From what I see, is that PAF were caught napping at this cheeky little raid by the IAF. The IAF is a lot more we’ll trained than their PAF counterparts as the IAF gets regular invites to Red Flag in the US, the UK and the French Air Exercise’s and last yr they brought over 4 SU- 30’s to the RAAF’s Pitch Black Air Ex. From what I’ve heard the IAF SU30’s proved to be quite a handful for the Red Force Flighters flying out of Tindal and this has also been the case at the other Air Ex’s where the they have been invited too.

         Where as the PAF don’t get many opportunities to do high tempo Air Ex’s like the IAF and the last time I did see the PAF on Ex was on my last trip to MER in UAE with their F16’s.

         Just a note the IAF SU30’s are not your blog standard Russia ones either, as their ones have a mixture of IAI, French and the only Russia stuff is the Airfame, engine and that bloody big artilley piece called a 30mm cannon. The Mirage 2000’s in the IAF, that were used in the bombing are used as a multi role Flighter Bomber and are they are the ones capable of carrying the Indian cans of instant sunshine.

         https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30MKI
         https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_2000

         Where this goes in the bigger picture I’m unsure, but looking back at pass history isn’t good as you have already noted. But a throwing a cans of instant sunshine won’t be one of those options for either side, but more of a MAD option or as the Yanks call it the Hail Mary or the Brits a Forlorn Hope option.
       • Poission 4.2.1.2

         28 February 2019 at 1:01 am

         India says it lost a mig21 bison,and shot down a PaK f16
     • Tamati Tautuhi 4.2.2

       28 February 2019 at 5:31 am

       Pricks didn’t need to drop the second one on Nagasaki Japan was already on it’s knees.
   • Tamati Tautuhi 4.3

     28 February 2019 at 5:33 am

     The Orange Buffoon can’t wait to have another go at some one, trying to create an issue in Venezuela.
5. ianmac 5

   27 February 2019 at 8:41 pm

   Disappointing column from that Bryce Edwards – again. Sent him an email questioning his credibility especially since he quotes people like Soper and Hosking.
   I suggested that he should continue in the same vein and quote Whaleoil as well.

   Am I the only one who dislikes his bias?
   • Kat 5.1

     27 February 2019 at 8:47 pm

     Bryce Edwards is doing what he is told.
     • Tamati Tautuhi 5.1.1

       27 February 2019 at 9:09 pm

       RWNJ B/S rolling out the fear factor Fairfax crap as per usual.
     • Milly 5.1.2

       27 February 2019 at 9:18 pm

       100%.
     • Wayne 5.1.3

       27 February 2019 at 10:34 pm

       By whom?

       I can’t imagine the editor tells him what to write, just the topic.

       Otherwise his academic career would be over.
       • Kat 5.1.3.1

         27 February 2019 at 11:01 pm

         Gee, lets have a sweep stake on who the “whom” is….could be fun and wouldn’t involve too much imagining. And for whats its worth it may as well be over.
       • Stuart Munro 5.1.3.2

         27 February 2019 at 11:21 pm

         Can’t you?

         His stance shifted considerably once he started writing for the freak right fishwrapper.
   • te reo putake 5.2

     27 February 2019 at 8:52 pm

     Yep, a nicely curated round up of right wingers hating on a perfectly fair tax whose time has come.

     Edwards is paid to pretend to be a lefty, so the meeja can claim ‘balance’. If he had any integrity or, y’know, left wing principles, that column would be a set of links to reasons for a CGT. But, nah, middle class is as middle class does.

     Edwards knows what side he’s on. He just won’t say it out loud.
     • James 5.2.1

       27 February 2019 at 10:06 pm

       Hey @trp you may want to have a look at comments above:

       “all the gooks look the same anyway”

       And

       “James you whinging again like that other faggot Gosman, harden up you poof”

       The standard can get a bit heated at Times – but racism and ‘gay bashing’ type language is too far by a long shot.
       • greywarshark 5.2.1.1

         27 February 2019 at 10:15 pm

         Those remarks by Tamati Tautuhi about 2.1.
       • Charlie 5.2.1.2

         27 February 2019 at 10:16 pm

         And your contribution is baiting. So fuck off Jimmy, what do you expect from your continual provocative needling comments dickhead.
         • James 5.2.1.2.1

           27 February 2019 at 10:20 pm

           Interesting you have issue with me – and yet you are fine with gook, faggot and poof insults.

           Says more about you than anything.

           I’m guessing your in the racist homophobic camp with tamati.
         • Pat 5.2.1.2.2

           27 February 2019 at 10:27 pm

           baiting it may be…but its baiting with substance
           • Muttonbird 5.2.1.2.2.1

             27 February 2019 at 10:31 pm

             I disagree. It was a massive and deliberate over-reach. It had zero substance.
             • Pat …

               27 February 2019 at 10:37 pm

               LMAO…if those comments had been made by James he woulkd have been hung drawn and quatered….and you wonder why FFS
               • Muttonbird …

                 27 February 2019 at 10:55 pm

                 James is also confused at 2.1.2.2. He asks I feel love if he’s accepting of comments he can’t have read. He attributes I feel love’s comment to TT’s outburst which is wrong because I feel love’s comment was clearly in reference to James’ faux PC whinge at 2.1.

                 Er…is that clear?
                 • I feel love …

                   28 February 2019 at 2:59 pm

                   Thank you Muttonbird, indeed.
                 • Pat …

                   28 February 2019 at 6:29 pm

                   the hypocrisy is as clear as.
             • james …

               27 February 2019 at 10:45 pm

               So you are OK with the racist and homophobic insults?

               or do you just prefer to enable and support others to make them?
               • Muttonbird …

                 27 February 2019 at 10:56 pm

                 Lol. Show me where I’ve enabled and supported racist and homophobic insults.
                 • James …

                   27 February 2019 at 11:01 pm

                   I see you ignoring people using them and being too gutless and weak to call them out on it.

                   That’s enabling.
                   • Muttonbird …

                     27 February 2019 at 11:02 pm

                     Meh.
                   • Charlie …

                     27 February 2019 at 11:11 pm

                     More baiting Jimmy. Christ you are a wanker just like that BM jerk off.
         • Tamati Tautuhi 5.2.1.2.3

           28 February 2019 at 2:55 am

           Charlie u are right FOFF Jimmy & Gossamer Boy just fing time wasters IMHO they irritate the F%#k out of me trying to disrupt sensible conversation both are uneducated buffoons or RWNJ’s take your pick.
       • marty mars 5.2.1.3

         28 February 2019 at 7:16 am

         I agree with you james – that Tamati Tautuhi scum should be fucken banned. But he’s given himself a Māori name the fucken faker cos I remember when he changed it. Enough fakes and offensive scum here already ffs
   • patricia bremner 5.3

     27 February 2019 at 11:04 pm

     I have always said Bryce was a Gnat in sheep’s clothing Ianmac.
     • ropata 5.3.1

       28 February 2019 at 6:36 am

       He’s a rogernome/blairite/third way bulshitter at heart- thoroughly ensconced in privilege and enjoying the status quo. No class struggle in polute society please
   • Tamati Tautuhi 5.4

     28 February 2019 at 5:34 am

     Bryce Edwards is a cock, another Fairfax sock puppet.
   • Tamati Tautuhi 5.5

     28 February 2019 at 5:55 am

     You forgot Farrar at Kiwi Bog
     • james 5.5.1

       28 February 2019 at 8:21 am

       Again with the homophobia.

       Wind it back
       • greywarshark 5.5.1.1

         28 February 2019 at 10:22 am

         James
         You are so preachy. You must be enjoying our long-suffering condoning moderation that enables you and bans Adrian .
6. greywarshark 6

   27 February 2019 at 10:08 pm

   Interesting reading about the ties that bind NZ to China in Gordon Campbell’s in depth article in Scoop.
   http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1902/S00111/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-cosy-relationship-with-china.htm

   Also Jamie Lee Ross has formidable knowledge of National’s dealings in important matters like Chinese support.
   from 2014? –

   Electoral returns out next week [confirm] that a National Party MP received $25,000 from a controversial businessman after Prime Minister John Key had a private dinner with him – at the man’s home.

   The PM has always maintained that he met Donghua Liu at a National Party fundraiser but would never say where. Today, the Weekend Herald can reveal that the fundraiser was actually a private dinner at Mr Liu’s $4.75 million home in Remuera, where a smiling Mr Key and Jami-Lee Ross, the MP for Botany, were photographed alongside Mr Liu and his young family. Afterwards, Mr Liu donated $25,000 that same month to Mr Ross’ election campaign….

   Last year, Ross’ role in the alleged re-packaging of a $100,000 donation to National from Chinese donor Zhang Yikun (to ensure the donation complied with the legal thresholds for such gifts) was the central feature of the controversial taped conversations between Ross and National Party leader Simon Bridges.

   On Huawei:

   Little wonder then, that the Huawei interim decision (a situation created by our membership of one of the oldest of those traditional security alliances) should have caused such concern among the upper echelons of the National Party. Since then, National has publicly campaigned against the Ardern government’s apparent pushback against China’s most innovative digital firm. ,,,

   In reality, New Zealand’s participation (alongside our 5 Eyes security partners) in the interim banning of Huawei technology from the building of our 5G telco networks has not (so far) engendered anything like the retribution that China has taken against our other 5 Eyes partners. For months, China has engaged with Canada and Australia in a tit for tat series of visa revocations, indefinite trade bans and arbitrary arrests, including the imposition by China of a retrospective death sentence on one particularly unlucky Canadian drug dealer. Nothing remotely like those kind of steps have been imposed by China on New Zealand. By comparison, we’ve been given the kid gloves treatment, and New Zealand continues to be treated by China as the friendliest face in the 5 Eyes club.

   Regardless,Bridges has laid much of the blame for the alleged “deterioration” in the China relationship upon Foreign Minister Winston Peters.

   We have been discussing these matters and Campbell’s take on the issues is
   valuable.
   • Exkiwiforces 6.1

     27 February 2019 at 10:20 pm

     Then this article from the ABC in Australia is even more interesting, once you have finished reading Gordon Campbell’s article.

     https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-26/chinas-three-warfares-how-does-beijing-decide-who-or-what-to/10825448
     • Tamati Tautuhi 6.1.1

       28 February 2019 at 5:38 am

       Yep strategic intervention.
7. AB 7

   27 February 2019 at 10:15 pm

   Why should we believe that Venezuela is a virtuous exception to the usual pattern of US interventions in Latin America?
   Um – we shouldn’t
8. Muttonbird 8

   27 February 2019 at 10:16 pm

   A frank moment of honesty from one former landlord:

   https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/02/i-was-a-landlord-and-i-hated-the-person-it-made-me-become.html

   This is what the others are hiding.
   • AB 8.1

     28 February 2019 at 9:32 am

     Yep – that’s the dilemma of our times – prey on others and do OK, or choose not to and barely survive.
9. AB 9

   28 February 2019 at 9:34 am

   God Roger Douglas looks old in that picture. You know we don’t live in a purposive universe, when the evil and stupid live to a ripe old age.
10. greywarshark 10

    28 February 2019 at 10:23 am

    Who’s that guy in the image wearing a yellow tie? It suits him.
11. CHCoff 11

    28 February 2019 at 2:44 pm

    I wonder if absolute freedom of mainstream media coverage should not be matched by associated broadcast/published freedom of information financial holdings & income of all opinion making orgs. & personalities in different ways, along with regular obligatory reporting whenever via public or private research, various conflicts of interest are found to associated issues.

    Lets remove the free lunch out of the media industry via pay to play in the name of NZ demand & supply.

    NZ1st!

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