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Southerners should start a political revolt,says Winston Peters

English: This image was taken at the Europa Lecture 2008, University of Aukland, and is owned by the European Union Centres Network. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Southerners should draw on their Scottish heritage and ''start a political revolt'' against an economic system that hurts the local economy, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters told an audience in Dunedin last night.

''When are you going to start the revolt?'' he asked the more than 50 people who attended the speech, at Age Concern Otago.

He blamed free market economics adhered to by ''dumb people in Wellington'' for job cuts at numerous Government-owned entities in the South.

Dunedin was at the centre of an export province whose wealth was effectively ''relocated''.

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Christchurch's Styx River's bubbling springs tell an ancient tale...

English: Styx River, Spencerville, Christchurch, New Zealand (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://petesplace.blogtown.co.nz/2013/08/06/christchurchs-styx-rivers-bubbling-springs-tell-an-ancient-tale/

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One of the most over-rated All Blacks for years, Piri Weepu dropped by selecters...

The King of the hakas finally dropped

Omitted: Piri Weepu. Photo: Getty Images

Piri Weepu's 71-Test career came to a halt Sunday as the accelerated pace of the game demanded by the All Blacks proved too much for the 29-year-old.

New Zealand's second-most capped scrumhalf was the surprise omission from the 28-man All Blacks squad named for the Rugby Championship with his place taken by 21-year-old TJ Perenara.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/weepu-left-behind-by-all-blacks-pace-20130804-2r7fu.html#ixzz2azR6Qqfc

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NZ's Watergate - Key's Spygate...

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  David Cunliffe

  WATERGATE- Nixon was impeached for ordering phone taps and lying about it.
  SPYGATE - Key orders Inquiry that hacks emails, steal phone records and tracks movements of a Minister and an independent journalist. This is now a major constitutional crisis.

God Defend New Zealand - because the National Government won't...

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God of Nations at Thy feet,
In the bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our free land.
Guard Pacific’s triple star
From the shafts of strife and war,
Make her praises heard afar,
God defend New Zealand.