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duggledog

Rodney Hide asks: ‘who are Hone Harawira’s ‘people’?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11806056

John Hadfield’s people are overwhelmingly Maori, angry, and they are almost always on the fringes of society. They live in the Far North mostly but you can find supporters all round the country.

They are generally the losers in life, having made an absolute balls of it. Enabled by a media and education system that has, over the years, gently instilled the fake news that they got their land stolen off them.

At the other end of the spectrum, a friend of mine who is – I’ll say Asian – said it might be ‘his people’ who provide New Zealand with an interesting, well funded, new right wing party. They’d have the numbers soon. It’s being talked about.

He said right now they are content to keep a low profile and quietly make money while the ‘children’ as he calls us kiwis run around trying to rehabilitate criminals (yes this came up during a chat about Act’s new policy last night) and provide wrap-around services to John Hadfield’s people etc

The major concern amongst ‘his people’ is violent crime, tax money being wasted, education and interestingly immigration from places like Africa, the ME and the Pacific Islands. They see this as having no benefit whatsoever to a country they believe is full of opportunity (long term).
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February 26, 2017 8:04am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I am not impressed with your Asian friend. Political parties should be there to represent everyone not a particular race, religion or sex.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:18am
  - holysheet
    
    You left out the old, dumb and selfish who support the Winston first Party.
    
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    February 26, 2017 8:23am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      How do you mean selfish?
      
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      February 26, 2017 9:10am
      - holysheet
        
        So you agree with the old and the dumb?
        
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        February 26, 2017 1:10pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Touché Mr Sheet ?
        
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        February 26, 2017 2:58pm
  - Dave Mann
    
    No Chuck. Actually the whole concept of democracy is that everyone gets a voice, and political parties are simply groupings of people with common interests and concerns. When/if they get into power, that is the time that a political party should (morally) not act to exclude sections of society from representation, of course…. but it’s incorrect to assert that political parties are there ‘to represent everyone’.
    
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    February 26, 2017 8:50am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Dave, I agree with you about common interests. But I think it very sad some people think it necessary to have racially based parties like the Maori party and the Mana Party. I doubt if they will reach 5% if the Maori seats disappear as they should.
      
      People are free to form any political party. However, when people immigrate to a country I do not think they should start a party for new immigrants. They of course are legally entitled to.
      
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      February 26, 2017 9:09am
      - Dave Mann
        
        Chuck, you’ve got me on the Maori and Mana parties…. I couldn’t agree more. But I think while it’s sad that race based parties exist, they are still entitled to form (and their low levels of support reflect their lack of popular appeal).
        
        Likewise new immigrants. If there is a party formed by new immigrants SOLELY to push FOR new immigrants, then it would probably have the same low level of support. But if such a party were to espouse more of the ‘traditional kiwi’ values that immigrants originally saw as good in this country then that might be a totally different kettle of fish.
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:19am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Dave, one concern of mine would be that if Muslim immigration and breeding continues. Such a group could be a part of a new immigrant party. It looks like we are roughly in agreement.
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:27am
      - Dave Mann
        
        Chuck, sorry, I upticked you but I also accidentally reported your 9.27am comment above. I was trying to reply to say that yes we broadly agree and ESPECIALLY agree about Muslims if they were to firm a bloc in any party of new immigrants!
        
        p.s. Hopefully DPF doesn’t take too much notice of these ‘reports’…. the function is probably only there to give the illusion of ‘fairness’ in this ridiculous PC infested world of ours 😀
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:38am
      - Kimbo
        
        I can recall a time when it seemed every public spokesman for a New Zealand Labour Party-affiliated trade union had an accent indicating they had recently emigrated from somewhere in the Northern regions of England. “We speek on behaf of the New Zealand weeerkers” in thickest Scouse.
        
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        February 26, 2017 1:17pm
  - Liberty
    
    One of the strengths of MMP is it gives like minded people a say in parliament.
    In the deplorable Muldoon years. Social credit and Values(Greens before they turned Marxist) had a lot of support. but no seats.
    Maori were taken for granted by Labour with it 4 default seats.
    It has all changed under MMP
    Maori now have a voice, Racist rednecks have NZF, Marxist have the Greens and nerds have Dun.
    You might not agree with their views point. They now have a voice get use to it.
    That is until Time or God sorts two of them out.
    
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    February 26, 2017 9:45am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Liberty, please explain which Maori have a voice under MMP with the especially if Hone gets back in power. As Rodney pointed out Hone just speaks for a small minority of Maori – mainly losers.
      
      Winston and NZF is no more racist than Trump and the GOP. Any country should have the right to limit the number of people coming from a different culture. NZF is less racist than the current National government which supports race based seats.
      
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      February 26, 2017 10:35am
      - Liberty
        
        Chuck It doesn’t matter which Maori. What is important is they have a choice. For years Maori voted Labour.
        Mostly blind obedience. Very much like Winston’s disciples.
        NZF is very much like the Trump administration. Equally appalling.
        
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        February 26, 2017 12:15pm
- Gabby
  
  Your ‘friend’ sounds like a bit of a cunt. No offence.
  
  [DPF: Strike 6. That is two months off]
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:14am
Huevon

Jacinda Ardern looks busted. Aged beyond her years. Leftism always has that effect on women.
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February 26, 2017 8:07am
- holysheet
  
  You have to look no further than Helun, Penny and Pam to see this is correct.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:15am
  - Lance
    
    What… Penny is only 23?
    
    Yea gods
    
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    February 26, 2017 11:34am
- stephieboy
  
  Huevon, shall we also say like Judith Collins and Maggie Thatcher ?
  
  Even yourself ?
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:22am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Maggie Thatcher is dead, stephieboy.
    She has been cremated.
    She doesn’t have any looks.
    
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    February 26, 2017 8:45am
    - stephieboy
      
      But she was alive and well at one time .
      
      Or ?
      
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      February 26, 2017 8:53am
  - Huevon
    
    Neither Judith* or Thatcher tried to make political capital out of their youth and attractiveness, posing in Women’s Day, etc. Sadly, Ardern’s transformation into deranged, shrieking harridan is almost complete…and yet another warning to young women about the health effects of left wing political beliefs is born.
    
    *I’m going out on a limb here, but she still has plenty of sass.
    
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    February 26, 2017 9:03am
    - Dave Mann
      
      deranged, shrieking harridan I love your description! 😀
      
      OK, I didn’t think you were justified in saying simply that she ‘looks busted’, but I have to say that ‘deranged, shrieking harridan’ is a great one and made me smile. Cheers.
      
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      February 26, 2017 9:50am
    - Fletch
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBJh6U3Kv90
      
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      February 26, 2017 12:19pm
- Inandout
  
  She does look scrawny and older in these photos, mind you Helen found the elixir of youth when she was photographed/shopped for her election billboards.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/89810489/labours-jacinda-ardern-registers-massive-win-in-mt-albert-byelection
  
  And I must reiterate, look at Little fondling her ponytail.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:46am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Inandout:
    
    And I must reiterate, look at Little fondling her ponytail.
    
    This will be of considerable interest to Gabby. His favourite nickname for John Key was “Ponyboy”. Now he has a perfect nickname for Andrew Little!
    
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    February 26, 2017 9:06am
    - Inandout
      
      Actually if you study that photo closely, Little has a look of complete satisfaction on his face.
      
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      February 26, 2017 9:20am
    - Gabby
      
      Ponyboy would have that sucker running through his twitchy lil fingers, as any nosey dumbarse knows full ell.
      
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      February 26, 2017 10:23am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Gabby:
        
        I’m surprised you’re still here…
        
        Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s butt sends Twitter into meltdown
        
        A picture of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dressed in form-hugging pants has sent thirsty social media users into a frenzy over his perky behind.
        
        Have a nice day – and don’t hurry back!
        
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        February 26, 2017 10:45am
      - Gabby
        
        Trust a nosey dumbarse to ferret out pics of young men in tight pants. Find a nice crotch shot for a happy ending?
        
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        February 26, 2017 11:41am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Gabby:
        
        You’re still here?
        
        I’ve scanned the thread. Lots of insults from you, directed at various people, but no intelligent commentary.
        
        You should pop over to The Standard – you’d fit in there nicely.
        
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        February 26, 2017 11:55am
      - Gabby
        
        Bit rich for a nosey dumbarse to be blithering about intelligent comment. Better pop over to some site specialising in pics of PMs pants – mind you don’t pop out though.
        
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        February 26, 2017 2:27pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Gabby:
        
        Thanks for confirming that you’re here to troll and not to engage in intelligent debate. I’ll descend to your level of crassness and speak in words you’ll understand:
        
        Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.
        
        Now go and find a penis to suck on. Chuck Bird (with his extensive contacts) will know of a nice public toilet near you that you can visit.
        
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        February 26, 2017 2:40pm
      - Gabby
        
        As descents go that wasn’t very low, nosey, just par for your course. Find more nice piccies of your pants model?
        
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        February 26, 2017 8:20pm
  - realityczech
    
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/89810489/labours-jacinda-ardern-registers-massive-win-in-mt-albert-byelection
    
    And I must reiterate, look at Little fondling her ponytail.
    
    Inandout, yes but where is his other hand ? !!! 🙂
    
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    February 26, 2017 9:59am
    - Gabby
      
      Wasn’t his other hand pushing away your throbbing member, reallyczit?
      
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      February 26, 2017 10:24am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    How should we interpret this sentence in the Stuff report: ‘…she touched on the nature of the campaign which was cleanly fought without the presence of a center-right candidate’?
    
    Is this just an awkward yoking of two different ideas, or an intentional attack?
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:22pm
    - Gabby
      
      Very unfair to suggest the presence of a center-right candidate would provoke the candidates into dirty politics. Surely they have more self control. Typical rightard smearing.
      
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      February 26, 2017 2:25pm
- Dave Mann
  
  That’s an unjustified ad hominem attack.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:52am
- realityczech
  
  Huevon, studies have shown that the more attractive a woman is the more likely it is she will support positions on the right. I am sure the same applies to men.
  
  The left is made up of freaks, wierdos, misfits and fat angry women with ugly hair cuts. And stephieboy.
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:55am
  - Gabby
    
    Some women laughed at your throbbing micropenis didn’t she, really czit. Czitty for you but there’s always Mrs Palm and her five daughters. They’re on the right.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:31am
  - jonar
    
    Could you provide some links to those studies?
    
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    February 26, 2017 3:48pm
- Gabby
  
  You look a bit shit yourself. Did a fattychappy sit on you or is it just years of bitterness?
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:19am
- stigie
  
  There sure is a lot of hags that sit on the other side of the house, makes hard watching..?
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:24am
  - Gabby
    
    Still, they miss out on the odour don’t they stinkie.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:26am
- Gabby
  
  You look a bit like arse.
  Still, you are what you eat.
  
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  February 26, 2017 2:30pm
Nostradamus

A bold prediction:

Sorry David – but I think you are being a little over-optimistic in your predictions that the Mt Albert by-election is only between Jacinda Adern and Julie-Anne Genter, who are both already MPs, and that you have no doubt that Jacinda Adern will be elected?

Why?

Because I am getting traction and support from Labour and Green Party members / supporters, who agree with me that a vote for either of them is effectively a wasted vote, because they are already MPs.
…
Penny Bright
Unsuccessful 2017 Independent candidate Mt Albert by-election.

A statistically significant 130 people (1% of all votes cast) agreed with Penny (assuming she voted for herself).

Oh well. There’s always the general election later this year…
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February 26, 2017 8:07am
- kowtow
  
  Do candidates pay a deposit, if so how much and do you lose it if no one votes for you?
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:18am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Kowtow:
    
    The Electoral Commission has published a Candidate Handbook – By-Elections (September 2016). The following statement appears in section 6.16:
    
    If you receive 5% or more of the votes cast for all candidates in the by-election you are entitled to a refund of the $300 deposit paid when you were nominated. A deposit cannot be refunded until you have filed your return of election expenses and donations.
    
    Penny received 1% of the votes cast for all candidates. She won’t get her $300 back.
    
    The same position applies with respect to a general election (see section 6.18).
    
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    February 26, 2017 8:33am
    - holysheet
      
      By not putting this money towards her rates, it’s the ratepayer who has missed out.
      
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      February 26, 2017 8:39am
      - peterwn
        
        The Council will get the rates and cumulative penalties (which would cover the cost of otherwise borrowing the money) at some point eg when the property is sold (any outstanding rates effectively come out of the sale price). The galling feature is the Council has incurred significant legal costs which would only be partially recoverable. As someone pointed out a few days ago, she has probably realised it is now check-mate and has quietly paid up.
        
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        February 26, 2017 8:51am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Peterwn:
        
        Auckland Council may have to wait as Penny needs to tidy up her financial affairs after losing this case:
        
        A High Court judge has thrown out activist Penny Bright’s claims of defamation against Auckland Council’s chief executive Stephen Town.
        …
        Town sought a summary judgment against her to end the proceedings and in a High Court issued judgment released to media on Monday, Justice Smith granted the application.
        
        He concluded that no properly directed jury would find any ill will in Town’s comments, nor that he took advantage of his platform, and said the defence of qualified privilege applied.
        
        “The law is clear that a person who has been subject to a personal attack of that nature…is robustly entitled to defend his or her position,” Justice Smith said.
        
        “In my view the words used were relatively measured when considered against the strength of some of the language used by Ms Bright in her attacks on the Council and Mr Town, and they were directed only to statements made by Ms Bright on a particular topic.”
        
        The judgment isn’t online yet, but I imagine Penny (as the losing party) will be required to pay some of Mr Town’s legal costs…
        
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        February 26, 2017 8:59am
      - stigie
        
        There is just too much litigation going on between the AC and Penny Bright. When is someone going to have the testicles to throw her out of her house after nine long fucking years of screwing other ratepayers of Auckland.
        Will she have to be dragged kicking and screaming like she was at Occupy..?
        
        https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTs407ek4H9QIvSUB2KdxT4aEKzqGr6gxOG7OcQpZfKAqYEPPDD
        
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        February 26, 2017 10:49am
    - kowtow
      
      Thank you , Nostra . Most informative.
      
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      February 26, 2017 8:58am
      - fernglas
        
        The rule with defamation cases is usually that the loser pays all the winner’s costs, rather than just a contribution. If that is right, Penny will be in for a hell of a shock.
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:12am
      - Nookin
        
        The judgment isn’t online yet,
        
        I found the judgment online but can’t remember where. Try Briefcase if you have it.
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:29am
      - Nookin
        
        Here ’tis
        
        http://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/media/11051/civ2014-404-3194-penelope-mary-bright-v-stephen-town.pdf
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:33am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Thanks Nookin.
        
        I’ve just found the judgment on Auckland Council’s website of all places.
        
        Interesting points to note:
        
        – “No appearance for the Plaintiff [Ms Bright]” (cover page).
        
        – “The resumed hearing took place on 20 May 2016. As with the hearing on 5 November 2015, Ms Bright elected not to appear” (at [4]).
        
        – “In my view a reasonable juror would note first that Ms Bright was seriously in default in payment of her rates. The juror would also probably accept the proposition in the Press Release that Ms Bright’s refusal to pay her rates was, to some extent, an action taken at expense of those Auckland ratepayers who were paying their rates” (at [121]).
        
        – “I did not hear fully from the parties on the question of costs. If the parties are unable to agree, Mr Town may file a memorandum seeking costs within 15 working days of the date of this judgment. Ms Bright may file any reply memorandum within 15 working days of her receipt of Mr Town’s memorandum.” (at [133]).
        
        So Penny brought an unmeritorious case, she couldn’t be bothered turning up to court (twice), and she’s made Mr Town incur considerable legal costs. I’d say Penny will come to regret her decision to sue Mr Town for defamation.
        
        Edit: Oops – I didn’t see your 9:33am comment while I was typing this one!
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:50am
      - Yvette
        
        The rule with defamation cases is usually that the loser pays all the winner’s costs
        
        Besides court costs, would that include the more than $104,000 Auckland Council spent in engaging some top defamation lawyer?
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=11521031
        
        Also, is Penny not in the Helensville electorate so could not vote for herself and therefore achieved 131 votes – not 130.
        
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        February 26, 2017 10:01am
- sooty
  
  Except Jacinda has something that Andy Crap has not got.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:21am
  - niggly
    
    Yeah and Andy better hope Labour get enough Party votes in the general election so that he gets back in on the List, otherwise Jacinda will assume the reigns of power!
    
    Seriously though, I just cannot believe the thinking of the Lab/Green Left (as seen on the likes of the Standard) … presumably they are Labour supporters/volunteers, they say they will campaign and give their electorate vote to their local Labour MP but give their Party vote to the Greens (to ensure their vote isn’t wasted because the Greens are unlikely to win the electorate vote). In the spirit of the MOU and kumbaya of course!
    
    Yet they cannot see the one, major flaw with this approach! Then one would assume that Andy (and Labour HQ) would “correct them”, but they don’t! Oh well maybe my opening remark wasn’t tongue and cheek after all and might come to pass!
    
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    February 26, 2017 9:14am
- mandk
  
  Don’t be so beastly to Penny.
  At least she came 6th out of 13.
  
  Seriously, though, I expect most of the 130 had forgotten their glasses and couldn’t read the ballot form, were deranged, or were simply taking the piss.
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:29am
- Biscuit
  
  Fake Counting!
  
  If I were Penny I’d demand a votes recount…
  
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  February 26, 2017 11:55am
Nukuleka

Radio NZ ‘news’ is this morning reporting that Jacinda Ardern’s victory in Mt Albert is a step on the path to rebuilding the Labour Party vote in the lead-up to this year’s general election. Funnily enough, whilst extolling her tally of 77% of the votes cast RNZ fails to place any of this in the context of National not fielding a candidate! The result is no indicator of anything other than Ardern and Labour being more popular than the Greens and the Opportunities Party. Gosh, who’d have expected that!

I guess facts and context are not part of RNZ ‘news’ narrative.
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February 26, 2017 8:08am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Facts? Facts? What are these facts you speak of have to do with relaying this story I am reporting?
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:16am
- holysheet
  
  How can you expect these purveyors of False News to now know basic maths? If they haven’t read it on some news wire release, then they wouldn’t understand how to work it out.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:21am
- Disaster Area
  
  What percentage of Ardern’s voters would have voted National had they been given the option?
  
  I’m guessing not many for one reason: National decided that it wasn’t worth fielding a candidate. If National thought that they could have taken the electorate from Labour then they would have thrown resources at it so they could use the win as evidence that Labour are sinking.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:23am
  - calendar girl
    
    The fact that only about one third of registered voters bothered to vote is probably relevant to your question.
    
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    February 26, 2017 8:29am
  - Biscuit
    
    Go back to the 2014 General Election.
    
    Phil Goof (whatever happened to him, eh?) won this seat for Labour by taking 18,637 votes to the National Party candidate’s 10,546.
    
    Pretty convincing.
    
    But then go look at the Party vote, ha:
    
    Labour 12,086
    National 14,275
    
    Heh heh…
    
    Folk in Mt Roskill wanted Phil (and probably now Jacinda) to go away to Wellington and leave them in peace but they voted tactically so as to make sure the b*ggers couldn’t do anything down IN Wellington…
    
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    February 26, 2017 12:03pm
- kowtow
  
  Context is everything.
  What conclusions can be drawn when 72.1% of voters couldn’t be arsed?
  
  If it had been a National seat and a Nat replacement the media would be screaming “Waste of money” , “why didn’t the evil Tories wait till the GE ” , “think of the hip replacements” blah blah.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:24am
- Huevon
  
  More FakeNews from the Lying Press. No surprises there.
  
  I wouldn’t go so far as saying I *hate* Ardern. But she represents the mass-media/leftist force in NZ. She is given a complete free pass by the media, but if she was in power her policies would make this country poorer, unstable, unsafe and weak. Thankfully, post-Trump/Brexit these people are being exposed for the frauds they are…in the US and UK. But i’m not seeing signs of that in NZ and that worries me.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:13am
  - wiseowl
    
    Huevon.
    Right with you with that worry.
    Kiwis need a fair kick up the backside to wake them up to what is happening.
    It is good to note a swing to watching news on Sky channels which is giving them a better perspective than our lame channels and Trumpy has sure made a few people think a bit more.
    National continues to disappoint and maybe there are vast numbers out there looking for a guiding light.(It’s not Morgan)
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:49am
    - Huevon
      
      Bill English has potential- cometh the hour, cometh the man. He does a better job articulating vision than Key did. At election time, he needs to spell out the consequences of a Labour/Green government. He needs to take a risk and say immigration from high quality Europeans and Asians only (and less overall) with no more Muzzies. 70+ seats in the House.
      
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      February 26, 2017 11:03am
      - GazzaW
        
        He also needs to have a heart to heart ‘show me the money Andy. Show me the money.’ televised moment with Little.
        
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        February 26, 2017 1:58pm
calendar girl

A penetrating critique of justifications used by sports people – one sportsperson in particular in this case – to justify their ‘professionalism’ and an income from their sport (or from elsewhere) when paying spectators are too few in number: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/89765769/mark-reason-abbey-erceg-has-forgotten-what-sport-is-all-about
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February 26, 2017 8:18am
- big bruv
  
  Mark Reason is so far ahead of any other sports journo in NZ that it is not funny. Erceg has a sense of entitlement that is common among her generation.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:17pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Is he your boyfriend big bruv?
    Reason is just another fuckwit leftie journalist. But he hates the All Blacks so I can see why you love him.
    
    Myself, I don’t care for the All Blacks so I just ignore them.
    
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    February 26, 2017 7:13pm
Nostradamus

Labour has a plan (apparently):

6 of the coolest policies we’ve announced (so far!)

1. We’ll offer Kiwis three years free tertiary education and training.
2. We’ll fix the housing crisis.
3. We’ll put the $1.7 billion National has cut back into the health system.
4. We’ll introduce light rail to Auckland.
5. We’ll back young entrepreneurs.
6. We’ll open a digital centre in Dunedin.

Gee. I can’t wait for more policy announcements from Labour!
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February 26, 2017 8:25am
- sooty
  
  Why would you want a digital centre in Dunedin? All it would do is enable the snowflakes to spread more shit!
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:31am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    “Why would you want a digital centre in Dunedin? ”
    
    Apparently Clare Curran is going to teach Communications
    
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    February 26, 2017 7:16pm
- Happychappy
  
  Grant Roberson is no Cullen so how is he going to for fill the pissed parrots promises. You can bet your bottom dollar that when the polls start confirming he is making no headway he will go with free tampons and more money to breed policy that he hopes will bring out the lost generation to vote.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:47am
- niggly
  
  Oh so that’s why Labour initiated a MOU with the Greens – they desperately want access to Russel Norman’s magical money printing machine that he was promoting during the GFC!
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:54am
  - SPC
    
    Meanwhile in the real world trillions were printed off to inflate asset values worldwide.
    
    But not one penny here because we just follow the rules set for us by the establishment orthodoxy.
    
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    February 26, 2017 11:02am
    - Callum
      
      Trillions were printed by economies large enough on a world scale to get away with it. We would be closer to the results Zimbabwe had if Russell Norman got his hands on the print button.
      
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      February 26, 2017 2:35pm
      - SPC
        
        Yeah tell yourself that, the big and or rich people can do stuff the little and poor people cannot …
        
        Brainwashed fool…
        
        Note that in USA, Japan, Switzerland, UK and Europe no inflation (except in asset values worldwide) resulted.
        
        And Norman’s actual idea to QE some money and invest it overseas (turning it into an asset to rebuild the earthquake reserve) would not increase the local money supply.
        
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        February 26, 2017 3:58pm
Happychappy

Well I was wondering about Trevor Mallard and his trust worthiness to be Speaker if Labour finally do win a General election in his time as a MP. It seems strange that a mentally ill patient would go lock herself in his electoral office in the same period of time when Labours Health spokes person has been trying to highlight this as the Governments fault. This also smells of team tagging with Annette King on hand to try and king hit National with the help of the Herald on the same day.
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February 26, 2017 8:27am
- Gabby
  
  Still, it was a nice day out wasn’t it chappy.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:45pm
- Paulus
  
  Raising the Herald I see that Fran O’S is backing the partial Nationalisation of NZME.
  She says that NZ Super and ACC should put taxpayers money in buying the majority share to keep it in New zealand.
  What crap – the last place I would see my taxes is to save the NZME.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:09pm
reid3

President Trump Announces Elite Pedophile Ring Investigation

Tweet: Cynthia McKinney PhD @cynthiamckinney
Forewarning: this brings down Dems and Repubs! He needs to go straight all the way because this goes to the top!…

http://yournewswire.com/trump-pedophile-ring-investigation/

I’ve been telling you for decades this is what they do. They use it for blackmail and they have various techniques to entrap the target who could be a judge, a politician, a businessman, anyone useful to them. If they get someone who refuses to play the game, they just destroy them.

And look what the media says: CNN Host: Naked Men in Girl’s Locker Room with 12-Year-Olds Should Be Allowed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE_mTlslx1M
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February 26, 2017 8:35am
- stephieboy
  
  reid , I bet the so called investigation will carefully avoid Jeffry Epstein and his Slave Island and quiz the deluded shooter , Edgar Welchat , at Comet Ping Pong .
  
  Milo Yiannopoulos too ?
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:42am
- fernglas
  
  Um, I think the article insofar as it suggests a specific investigation into Pizzagate is a fraud; fake news.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:43am
- Inandout
  
  Christ, if Hillary had won the US would have become a cot case of perverted weirdos, basking in the ‘forced tolerance’ of the long suffering public. It reminds me of pre Castro Havana where for little outlay a pervert could buy children for sex, and that was only the start. Hillary would have erased the word ‘morality’ from the English language.
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:03am
- Gabby
  
  That’s fiendishly clever. Of course Chump will be steering any inquiry fairly far from himself.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:52am
- Gabby
  
  Knowing Chump it’ll be a Federal Boob Inspection.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:46pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    The sooner you fuck off the better this blog will be. Don’t worry I am doing my part to action this.
    
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    February 26, 2017 7:19pm
    - Gabby
      
      Paw widdle snofwake bawbag. All you want is wall to wall rightard bile and you can’t have it.
      Eeeek eeek eeek
      World’s smallest violin. Jus for WOO.
      
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      February 26, 2017 8:13pm
stephieboy

It emerges that James O’keefe ‘s revelations of a “CNN leaks “is turning into yet another of his farcial Project Veritas investigations .

Something of a damp squib would be an understatment .
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February 26, 2017 8:50am
- stephieboy
  
  Link is here,
  
  http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/23/analysis-james-okeefes-cnn-leaks-are-totally-overrated/
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:51am
Longknives

All Black ‘Role Models’ continue to shower themselves in Glory in France-

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11807708

Ali Williams was a painful buffoon who always thought himself a Comedic Genius! Congrats Mr ‘Comedian’- For the first time we are laughing our tits off at you..
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February 26, 2017 8:57am
- big bruv
  
  Yep, another NZ rugby player who will be shocked at the way the local cops did not quickly cover up this little incident. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:20pm
lastmanstanding

The Left are dying. Witness in the UK Friday their loss of a seat they have held since 1935 to the Tories. And the first time a government has taken a seat of the opposition in a by election since 1982.

Problem for the Left here there and everywhere is that they moving even further away from the centre so becoming even more irrelevant to the majority.

The Left pollies are people who have no connect to the people they think they represent. Take the new MP for Mt Albert. Now theres someone who really represents ‘their’ people NOT.

Contrast with Paula Bennett.
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February 26, 2017 8:59am
Maggy Wassilieff

Stacey Kirk contrasts Adern’s and Little’s charisma factors

Ardern quickly peeled off and continued working the room, while the odd person came up and talked to Little. He eventually did that same, but it’s clear he’s not the natural Ardern is, and former Prime Minister John Key was without trying.
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February 26, 2017 9:06am
- Huevon
  
  Yeah,but she was in her element – Labour party gig, full of adoring party fan boys and Mt Albert spongers thankful that the welfare tap won’t stop flowing.
  
  Let’s see how she goes in a crowd of people that actually work for a living/love freedom. She’s a lightweight and wouldn’t handle getting called on her bullshit.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:22am
  - Gabby
    
    Hey vonny, people can love freedom AND want loonies like you taken out of circulation for the sake of the safety of innocents.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:58am
duggledog

LMS

No the Left is well and truly alive, it’s just cunningly hidden.

Witness New Zealand’s ‘National Party’ and its continuing programme of overtaxing, overspending, inability to control gangs, meth, etc

Labour and National, Labour and the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberals, Dems and Repubs – all two cheeks of the same arse.
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February 26, 2017 9:07am
- nasska
  
  Or it could be that they’re all trying to trawl votes out of the same aquarium. IOW they need broad appeal to make it to the Treasury benches.
  
  Which is really what modern democracy is all about.
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:18am
- Happychappy
  
  And your right but that’s the world we live in today and if you don’t look at the way other people live and help them then they will look else where for a party that will. This is exactly how Labour and National have ruled for 18 years.
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:20am
Nostradamus

I’ve found the perfect retirement opportunity for Nasska:

All around the world, Imre Vallyon’s devoted followers bring their children to bask in his aura. … His followers pay thousands to hear his esoteric teachings at his worldwide retreats – from New Zealand to the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, and his native Hungary. … If Vallyon’s followers cannot receive his teachings in person, they can purchase one of his many books, and recordings. Or he can beam direct into their homes to share his wisdom over the Internet. Vallyon’s vision: a patchwork of east and western philosophies: Yoga, Zen, Sufism, Catholicism, Mysticism and more – has gained thousands of followers around the world.

Vallyon is a convicted sex offender and needs to be replaced. Nasska (being an upstanding citizen) is the perfect person to replace him as leader and share his wisdom with the devoted followers.
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February 26, 2017 9:16am
- nasska
  
  ….”His followers pay thousands to hear his esoteric teachings at his worldwide retreats”…..
  
  Sounds like a nice little earner…..tell me more. 🙂
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:24am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    You just have to post a couple of YouTube videos on a subscription-based website. You could talk about “a patchwork of east and western philosophies: Yoga, Zen, Sufism, Catholicism, Mysticism and more”. Or you could talk about your farming experiences in Eketahuna. Somehow I doubt the devoted followers would mind either way!
    
    Oh – and did I mention the worldwide retreats that you’d get to live in?
    
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    February 26, 2017 9:27am
    - Nookin
      
      Nostra
      
      In case you missed it, I linked to the Bright decision above. ACC helpfully published it.
      
      http://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/media/11051/civ2014-404-3194-penelope-mary-bright-v-stephen-town.pdf
      
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      February 26, 2017 9:36am
    - nasska
      
      It seems that I’ve left it a bit late to have a tilt at the Papacy while there’s not much in the way of career prospects left in the protestant rackets. Mr Vallyon’s impending departure may be the road to wealth that farming has failed to provide.
      
      I’ll look around for a couple of collection plates & open a bank account on Monday. That will well qualify me for this religious mysticism lark. 🙂
      
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      February 26, 2017 9:36am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ nasska
        Have you got the necessary guru qualities?
        
        Now I’m an aged old chook with a need for plan B when hubby #1 pops his clogs.
        I’m quite happy to trek down to Eketahuna and worship you if there’s a quid pro quo operating.
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:56am
      - nasska
        
        ….”Have you got the necessary guru qualities?”….
        
        My sheepdogs hang on my every word Maggy. 🙂
        
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        February 26, 2017 10:01am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        I’m quite happy to trek down to Eketahuna and worship you if there’s a quid pro quo operating.
        
        I hopefully speak for all of us (not just Nasska) when I say: tell me more. 🙂
        
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        February 26, 2017 10:02am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Nostradamus
        
        I hopefully speak for all of us (not just Nasska) when I say: tell me more.
        
        I’m unclear as to the philosophy nasska will adopt, but as I have been a servile public servant for much of my working life, I think I can fulfil the role of a gullible acolyte without too much effort.
        
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        February 26, 2017 10:26am
DifferentPerspective

Dark things happening in rugby

Ok so enough is enough, in the past 12 months we’ve had a steady stream of tragic, shameful, depressing or sad news coming out of NZ rugby.

Something is not right! Something in fact is very, very wrong!

Yes the results on the field are impressive, but at what cost?

Why are young men dying in their prime? Why are superstars going off the rails at the end of their careers? Why is there a steady underflow of ‘hushed up’ drug incidents? Hushed up violence incidents. Hushed up drunken incidents,Hushed up violence towards women.

Either rugby is the unluckiest sport ever. Or something bad is going on. I have no idea what but today’s revelations about Ali Williams and cocaine are making it start to look like there is a pattern!

Yes – we can bury our head in the sand and say all these are just pure coincidence – but that’s nearly as frigging retarded as saying it’s just coincidence that all the major terrorist attacks involve Islam.

Something is wrong fellow KBs!

(ref Ali Williams, Dan Carter, Jonah Lomu, Sione Lauaki, Jerry Collins, Norm Berryman, Dan Vickerman, Zac Guildford, Byron Kellaher and a long list of others.)
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February 26, 2017 9:39am
- nasska
  
  ….”Dark things happening in rugby”….
  
  It probably isn’t as sinister as you think. Look at the qualities needed to be a top rugby player. Strength, size, athletic ability & ball skills. Intelligence, character, self control, social skills & an ability to drink moderately are not very important.
  
  Chances are that, with the exception of ball skills, the same abilities will be present in every one of the no hopers polluting the footpath outside courtrooms every working day, throughout NZ.
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:57am
  - Dave Mann
    
    You missed out ‘aggression’ in your list of qualities. That’s probably the most important attribute (both for the rugby fraternity and for the no hopers).
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:07am
  - SPC
    
    Total nonsense, it is often discipline and character that separate out the wannabees from those who make it.
    
    If anything, the trend these days is for players to feel on a leash during their playing days, and then have their lost youth period when they retire (or on their northern sojourn) – the exception being those players moving onto to a career or those married by then.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:43am
- SPC
  
  What pattern?
  
  All very different circumstances.
  
  And the cocaine use, drink driving, alcohol problem, medical problems, car accident, suicide etc would be no higher than the general population.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:16am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I imagine a combo of steroids, recreational drugs, sports-enhancing drugs and booze could put a burden on your liver/kidneys/ and brain, even if you were in the “prime” of fitness.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:17am
  - SPC
    
    Typical hypocrisy, doubt climate change believe that Lomu’s kidney problems or Lauaki’s cancer were caused by steroid use – in a sport heavily tested, little chance.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:32am
    - fernglas
      
      Lomu’s kidney problems came from untreated strep throat as a kid, as did Joeli Vidiri’s. Norm Berryman I think was also due to inadequate medical treatment as a child. It’s not an indictment on the sport but on parental neglect.
      
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      February 26, 2017 1:11pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      There has been real concern about the use of creatine by NZ Rugby players
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/opinion/89630838/mark-reason-cult-of-silence-is-killing-too-many-of-our-young-men
      
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/newzealand/12177904/Jonah-Lomus-former-team-mate-believes-use-of-creatine-may-have-contributed-to-his-death.html
      
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      February 26, 2017 3:23pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yes a number of top rugby players have died due to the pervasive use of performance enhancing drugs and various other brews.
    
    They are all massive drug cheats and have the very best doctors and advisers to help hide their offending, along with people working to tip them off and pay hush money.
    
    Its been going on for years.
    
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    February 26, 2017 3:01pm
- Gabby
  
  It’s the bloody lefty press lying and getting ugly haircuts, iswaddidis.
  
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  February 26, 2017 11:02am
- big bruv
  
  This is not new, these things have always happened inside NZ rugby. What has changed is the way we get our news. No longer can the rugby power’s lean on sports journo’s to keep a story about a NZ player bashing an innocent member of the public out of the news, this stuff is going to get out. Those in charge of rugby know this, the best they can do now is to employ spin doctors to try and get ahead of the story and rely on the owned NZ sporting media to spin the story in the way the rugby powers want it spun.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:26pm
EAD

So far we’ve had their war of “fake news”, the deleting of hundreds of Twitter Accounts of right wingers, Facebergs censorship in Germany on any immigration related manners now the (((Globalists))) are trying to shut down Pro-Trump websites:

http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-22-google-blacklists-natural-news-removes-140000-pages-from-its-index-memory-holes-natural-news-investigative-articles.html

Late last week, I received a direct threat that warned if I did not take steps to destroy Alex Jones and InfoWars, I would be targeted for destruction in a campaign of smears, censorship and defamation.
Instead of giving in to the enemy, I refused to take the bait and went public with details of the threat, warning everyone in the new media that sinister forces were now being pursued to undermine and silence every anti-establishment (and pro-Trump) voice on the internet.

True to form, today the entire Natural News website has been blacklisted by Google, entirely without warning. This is just one of many censorship events that have all taken place over the last few days
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February 26, 2017 9:52am
- Nostradamus
  
  EAD:
  
  You probably didn’t see my comment (more of a question really) to you late last night regarding your proposal to radically restructure our monetary system.
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:59am
  - EAD
    
    @ Nosty,
    
    I’ve replied in thread:
    
    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/02/mt_albert_by-election_results.html/comment-page-1#comment-1880572
    
    We’re going to start by getting this 8 minute video going viral:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjWR4_ekego
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:25am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Thanks EAD.
      
      I understand your focus on political reality and the need for a media strategy.
      
      But (leaving those issues aside for the moment) do you actually think it’s possible for New Zealand to radically restructure its monetary system in a context where we’re part of a globalised banking system? Surely it’d affect our foreign exchange rate and drag out economy down?
      
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      February 26, 2017 10:30am
      - EAD
        
        In the short term yes- the economy would pay a severe price and I fear that Global Bankers would make us pay a heavy price. but the reality is there is no painless way out of fake prosperity bought on by a debt bubble. As Von Mises said:
        
        There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
        
        Take a look at what happened to Iceland when they told the Banksters to take a hike and what they did is no where radical as what I’m proposing. Iceland collapsed in the short term but unlike what the Corporate MSM reports, Iceland is now booming. (Here is a very balanced piece on Iceland you won’t see in the MSM):
        
        http://www.worldfinance.com/infrastructure-investment/government-policy/failing-banks-winning-economy-the-truth-about-icelands-recovery
        
        Then again, look what happened to Gaddafi after his proposal of trading oil in Gold Dinars or Saddam Hussein after he wanted to trade it in Euros…..
        
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        February 26, 2017 10:41am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Thanks EAD – appreciate your thoughts.
        
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        February 26, 2017 10:59am
      - reid3
        
        Iceland still has its fractional reserve banking system though, doesn’t it? All it did was to momentarily hold some of the lessor crooks to account – mere minions by comparison to the real ones.
        
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        February 26, 2017 11:11am
      - EAD
        
        @ Reid,
        
        Yes you are correct but they reneged on most of their fictitious debts to foreign bankers and have put massively higher reserve requirements on loans.
        
        Whilst not exactly a President Kennedy Executive Order 11110 in 1963 that would have stopped the International Bankers creating debt as money, it’s a small step in the write direction.
        
        Remember – Mighty Oaks grow from small seeds
        
        PS: I’ve spent this morning reading the case of First National Bank of Montgomery vs. Jerome Daly whereby the Bank was moving to foreclose on his house, and Daly decided to fight the foreclosure in court, arguing that contract law requires two contracting parties to agree to swap two items of value, legally called the “consideration.”
        
        Daly argued that since the bank simply wrote a number in a ledger to create the loaned money out of think air, there was no real value and therefore no legally binding consideration. The lawyers for the bank admitted that this is how the bank works. They create money out of thin air as a ledger or computer entry, which you must repay with your labour. And there was no law in 1968 that specifically gave banks the legal right to do that. Daly argued that because there was no equal consideration, the mortgage was null and void and the attempt to foreclose invalid and the jury and Judges agreed, who resisted MSM and the Bankers demands to over-rule the jury in favour of the bank, and wrote a simple straightforward decision that stated that there was no question that the mortgage contract was void because the claim that the bank simply made up the money out of thin air was not disputed by the bank itself.
        
        The Judge – Martin Mahoney, was murdered with poison less than six months later, and the lawyer representing Daly was debarred. The decision in favour of Daly was then nullified on procedural grounds and the entire matter shoved straight down the memory hole!
        
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        February 26, 2017 11:30am
- realityczech
  
  Shortly after Trump won the top people from Facebook, YouTube etc met to discuss how they could better control the message.
  
  That was reported in msm and not some ” conspiracy” site. You see the media consider it a right to feed us propaganda and are not even shy about it.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:03am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Wrong. If this meeting was reported in the MSM then that’s not propaganda…. it’s bona fide reporting of the news. Your logic doesn’t stack up.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:11am
    - realityczech
      
      Dave Mann, gosh you are thick. The meeting was about refining propaganda.
      
      Facebook, Twitter etc are proudly boasts about it all over the www
      
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      February 26, 2017 10:22am
      - Dave Mann
        
        Yes…. and it was REPORTED wasn’t it? By the MSM. How is this an example of wicked propaganda?
        
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        February 26, 2017 1:07pm
    - reid3
      
      Dave the MSM delivers nothing but propaganda.
      
      Do you seriously not understand that?
      
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      February 26, 2017 10:28am
      - Dave Mann
        
        Do you really think that, or are you being sarcastic?
        
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        February 26, 2017 11:53am
- SPC
  
  I suppose there is a sort of parallel between censorship of fake news on-line and censorship of fake news at the White House.
  
  The irony being that those accusing others of fake news are not themselves reliable arbiters of truth.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:54am
chuk

Watching the Black Caps was a bit sobering. Still, at least they out-scored the Hurricanes.
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February 26, 2017 10:11am
- Nostradamus
  
  Chuk:
  
  You’ll enjoy reading this commentary from Shane Warne:
  
  When you first start a session you want to set the tone and put pressure on the Indian batsmen and, without trying to be too harsh on Steve O’Keefe, this is the weakest of the Australian bowlers. You can understand Steve Smith trying to give him confidence, but there is a time and a place for Steve O’Keefe to get his confidence, right now is the time for Australia to ram home the advantage with Nathan Lyon I believe at that end. I think Steve O’Keefe might get a wicket and that would be great, but I think Nathan Lyon is a better chance of taking a wicket.
  
  Shane Warne said that live on air. But someone forgot to tell Steve O’Keefe, because he bowled 25 balls and took 6 wickets:
  
  W 1 W . W . . . . . . . 1 W 1 . . . W 1 . . 1 W.
  
  Shane Warne had to eat his words:
  
  “In his wildest dreams I don’t think he imagined it could have gone that well, none of us did, but well done to him.”
  
  Wow – talk about damned with faint praise!
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:55am
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    And got 6 more wickets in the second innings and matched Warne’s best ever in a test match (12, 6 in each innings – and for fewer runs conceded).
    
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    February 26, 2017 11:14am
MrTips

Left wing mockery of Trump is in full swing on the lexicon and language front. Apparently there are at least two new phrases:

Flynncinerate (adj., vb): to destroy a perfectly good job by engaging in potentially treasonous acts.

This next one speaks volumes about the attitude of the snowflakes:

SCROTUS: So Called Ruler Of The USA

I’ll admit, they are mildly amusing but they do speak to their inability to actually deal with Trump’s actions.
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February 26, 2017 10:42am
- Gabby
  
  You appear to be trumplating ridicule and reporting. A bit like how Chump trumplates real life and telly.
  
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  February 26, 2017 11:14am
  - MrTips
    
    You are Chief Wiggins and I claim my £5.
    
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    February 26, 2017 11:19am
    - Gabby
      
      Leave the catfood Ralph.
      Jeez.
      
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      February 26, 2017 11:46am
Manolo

Another one for Kimbo, fellow amateur physicist and cosmologist: Faust in Copenhangen by Gino Segre. Lovely book.
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February 26, 2017 11:01am
- Nostradamus
  
  Manolo:
  
  Stephieboy says that no one has a respectable book collection until they get their own copy of this item.
  
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  February 26, 2017 11:06am
  - Manolo
    
    Yes, highly recommended as toilet paper. Second to none.
    
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    February 26, 2017 11:12am
- Kimbo
  
  Physics and morality? Looks fascinating. Thanks, Manolo.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:34pm
  - Manolo
    
    Jokes aside, that book IS good. I also recommend The universe in the rear mirror: how hidden symmetries shape reality by Dave Goldberg. A gem.
    
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    February 26, 2017 12:39pm
Nostradamus

Has anyone been following what appears to be a political assassination of Kim Jong Nam?

One interpretation of this incident is that the North Korea leadership has been emboldened by the response to their nuclear tests. Lots of UN Security Council meetings. Lots of words. No action. How else can you explain their willingness to travel to another country and murder someone in a busy public place like an airport?
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February 26, 2017 11:12am
- reid3
  
  Yes and the murder weapon was VX which is a US specialty and the arrested killers were sleeper agents who’d been activated. Around the same time of the hit they also did a ballistic missile test – straight up for 500 kilometers, thus proving to the various nations they knew were watching, that they can now hit any target on the globe.
  
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  February 26, 2017 11:22am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Reid:
    
    You may be interested in this article.
    
    The key part for me:
    
    Madden, of North Korea Leadership Watch, said that there was always a chance of Kim Jong Nam’s being thrust into the leadership. “Jong Nam still had a power base and there was always a remote possibility that he would take power,” he said. Terry, the former CIA analyst, agreed. “However improbable, there are always rumours that Kim Jong Nam could replace Kim Jong Un as the head of the regime at the behest of China or the US” she said.
    …
    The downside for the United States and South Korea is that they have lost the opportunity to recruit someone in the family to provide information. They have also lost someone who could be installed as a slightly friendlier leader in North Korea, while still maintaining the Kim family bloodline – an important factor in Korean culture.
    
    That analysis seems reasonable to me.
    
    (And, on a side note, I’m sick of the autoplay feature on MSM websites. I have the sound on my work PC muted for precisely that reason.)
    
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    February 26, 2017 11:43am
    - Dave Mann
      
      On another side note, what kind of a name is Terry for a WOMAN????? No wonder people are confused about fake news and what to believe…
      
      😀
      
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      February 26, 2017 1:13pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        diminutive of Teresa
        
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        February 26, 2017 3:27pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’ve been following it.
  
  Very interested in the countries that produced and stockpiled VX material!
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:38pm
Chuck Bird

These scumbags are not refugees but the same age as the “children” the do gooders what the UK to accept.

Four London teenagers appear in court accused of planning to join ISIS

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11807835
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February 26, 2017 11:16am
reid3

Steve Bannon’s CPAC Speech Just Blew up the Internet and You’ll See Why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspwB3EDxh8 – short

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkUPWb_TKS0 – full

The media is on notice. Things are going to get done whether they like it or not.
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February 26, 2017 11:38am
- Inandout
  
  I scrolled down to comments and the Left are a nasty bunch. They ignore Bannon’s message, just attack his looks like a gaggle of school children. These are Obama’s children, and it is frightening how deranged they have become.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:51pm
  - sam green
    
    Take a look at the comments regarding Jacinda Adern’s looks from your very own KB right wingers. Hypocracy much.
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:51pm
    - realityczech
      
      sam, Arden looks like a meth user and shows clear signs of mental illness. Not the least of which is joining the Labour party.
      
      People on the right are clearly concerned about her welfare.
      
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      February 26, 2017 2:43pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Got to get a better quality of troll around here…
        
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        February 26, 2017 3:15pm
      - sam green
        
        It could be funny ……. yet it’s not.
        
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        February 26, 2017 4:32pm
      - Gabby
        
        I think you’re czit out of luck there. Another night making do with self-love.
        
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        February 26, 2017 8:05pm
  - Gabby
    
    Paw widdle snoflake.
    
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    February 26, 2017 2:18pm
  - stephieboy
    
    inandout , another serious irony alert for you !
    
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    February 26, 2017 3:14pm
- stephieboy
  
  reid, and if Bannon and Trump can get away with their chicanry !
  
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  February 26, 2017 3:13pm
Hugh Pavletich

Woman with $200,000 in savings can’t buy Sydney home | Daily Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4258658/Woman-200-000-savings-t-buy-Sydney-home.html

• Successful entrepreneur with $200,000 in savings can’t afford Sydney home

• Wenee Yap, 30, currently spends $460-a-week in rent for inner-city studio

• Despite a good income and savings she is unable to buy ‘the smallest shoebox’

• Sydney is the second most expensive city to buy property in the world,

• The median house price is a severely unaffordable’ $1.1 million dollars
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February 26, 2017 11:38am
Manolo

Mamma Merkel must dread each one of these tragedies:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/heidelberg-car-attack-attacker-shot-driving-vehicle-pedestrians-three-injured-a7599656.html
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February 26, 2017 11:41am
- Chuck Bird
  
  “Police said a terrorist background is not suspected and the man appears to have acted alone. “
  
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  February 26, 2017 11:45am
  - Manolo
    
    Yes, that is the permanent uncertainty behind every act of violence in today’s Germany, hence Merkel’s worries.
    
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    February 26, 2017 11:52am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I was quoting the article. That is not my view.
    
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    February 26, 2017 12:01pm
Happychappy

Well are Stuff Journalist going all out to try and inflict some damage on the Government by pushing stories that most people would say these both cases have been lost in high court and it is time to move on. One of these cases is Dot Com and the journalists calls the USA bullys and tells the public that this case should be left to NZ Courts and if he can’t be charged under this system he should be set free. The second case is from a Pike River Mines victims mother telling the reason they want to enter the mine and whilst I do feel sorry for her Peter Whittle won in the high court that’s where the blame game should stop because to risk other people lives to try and find evidence when you can’t guarantee there is any is foolish.
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February 26, 2017 11:42am
Gabby

Peter Whitless wrote a big cheque and ran away.
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February 26, 2017 11:51am
Jack5

How a war-history buff might fill in a wet Sunday afternoon….

The three-hour Russian film on Stalingrad that was made in 1949, with Khachaturian writing the accompanying music.

It’s a long slab, in black and white, and blatantly pro-Soviet as you would expect, but it is an interesting view of this great battle.

1. Go to youtube.com.
2. Copy this into the search bar:
The Battle of Stalingrad(1949) Сталинградская битва (English Subtitles)
3. Ensure you turn on the subtitles (the little cc bar at the bottom right). This will give you English subtitles to the dialogue, which is in Russian.
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February 26, 2017 11:56am
- Gabby
  
  Spoilers EADolf, you won’t like the ending.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:36pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Uptick from me. Occasionally, Gabby, very occasionally you hit the mark.
    
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    February 26, 2017 12:48pm
    - sam green
      
      “EADolf”. Comedy gold!
      
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      February 26, 2017 4:31pm
- Kimbo
  
  …and the moral of the tale?
  
  1. Don’t invade Russia?
  
  2. Don’t launch a divergent two-pronged offensive, one into the Caucasus, and the other at a city of the Volga River as neither will be in a position to support the other?
  
  3. Don’t leave the Italians to guard your left flank? Or right flank. Or rear. Or…anything. (In fairness, it was primarily the under-resourced Rumanians who were delegated that job, but go back 2,000 years and they are just Italians!)
  
  4. Don’t rely on Herman Goering to organise a supply air-lift? Indeed, don’t rely on him for anything. Just consider him Italian 😉
  
  5. “No retreat, no surrender” only works if your Field Marshall does the “noble thing” and commits suicide?
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:43pm
  - Jack5
    
    From watching the near three-hour movie, there is another moral: if you live in a dictatorship make sure the dictator gets the credit for all successful ideas.
    
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    February 26, 2017 3:51pm
Tauhei Notts

Possibly this should be on yesterday’s site but here goes.
As an amateur psephologist I look at election statistics and try to make some sense of them.
I note that Penny Bright exceeded 3.13% in two places; Prisons and Rest Homes; as well as the Selwyn Retirement Village.
Ardern won every polling booth. Genter did best in Newton Central, followed by Kowhai Intermediate and Westmere. By best I mean that in Newton, Jacinda’s vote was only 3.12 times higher than Genter’s.
I have not checked it in detail, but I recall some of those Mount Albert booths polled highly for the Greens in 2014.
Conclusion; This bye election may have been a decent kick in the guts for the Greens.
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February 26, 2017 12:16pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I agree,
  Greens have made little impact even with a personable candidate.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:31pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Tauhei Notts:
  
  I note that Penny Bright exceeded 3.13% in two places; Prisons and Rest Homes; as well as the Selwyn Retirement Village.
  
  Oh my goodness!
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:09pm
  - publicwatchdog
    
    Selwyn Village had a Mt Albert candidates’ ‘debate’.
    
    Obviously some of the more ‘seasoned’ voters arguably have some wisdom, and resonated with what I had to say?
    
    😉
    
    Which is why I was effectively ignored/ ‘censored’ by mainstream media?
    
    (Situation normal …)
    
    Penny Bright
    
    ‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption campaigner.)
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:23pm
    - nasska
      
      ….”Selwyn Village had a Mt Albert candidates’ ‘debate’.”….
      
      Are you certain that the level of terminal dementia at the Village wasn’t behind your good fortunes? 🙂
      
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      February 26, 2017 1:41pm
    - stigie
      
      “Which is why I was effectively ignored”
      
      Fuck me, i wonder why..?
      
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      February 26, 2017 1:59pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        Try to be a bit more understanding! 130 voters read this and saw someone who was worth voting for:
        
        Penny Bright, Independent
        Age: 61
        Occupation: Activist
        Lives: Kingsland
        
        Why vote for an existing MP? I am independent. I am a proven anti-privatisation and anti-corruption campaigner. I have attended five iternational [sic] anti-corruption conferences.
        
        I was a chosen New Zealand expert for the 2015 World Justice Project International ‘Rule of Law Index’. The Auckland Supercity is a super ripoff. Auckland is unaffordable. The books aren’t open. Does all growth need to come to Auckland? It’s time for a national migration, population and regional employment strategy. I get things done. It’s time for a new and effective MP – with a vision. Someone with a plan. This is Penny Bright.
        
        There you have it: Penny gets things done. So I guess if Auckland ratepayers wait long enough, she’ll eventually get around to paying her rates, and that’ll be another thing done.
        
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        February 26, 2017 2:18pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      You’re effectively ignored everywhere Penny, don’t take it personally.
      
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      February 26, 2017 7:31pm
- rangitoto
  
  Especially as any Nats who bothered to vote probably voted green.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:12pm
Fletch

Apparently it is gay pride week in Auckland and they celebrated with a parade last night. One News made a big deal out of how it was being sponsored by ‘big business’, although the only one mentioned was Fletcher Building whose spokeswoman appeared giddy with virtue signaling (“I have goosebumps just thinking about it”). So they are raffling off a garden shed painted with rainbow colors (I am not kidding), and have Fletcher builders in the parade dressed like rainbow hammers and some with pink hardhats (again, not kidding).

At least 1 News was honest when they said that approximately 100,000 New Zealanders identify as gay or lesbian, with 40,000 of those being in Auckland (no surprise there). By my calculation that works out to be about 2.1% of the population, which is in keeping with the numbers in America and Britain.

Why all this palaver over such a small percentage of people living here? I, for one, will not be celebrating.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/big-businesses-jump-board-support-pride-parade
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February 26, 2017 12:30pm
- Kimbo
  
  As per SGA’s observation a few days ago,
  
  “Recently I’ve started wondering whether including the term “virtue signals” isn’t a virtue signal in its own right (albeit to a different audience).”
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:55pm
- Paulus
  
  I am disappointed that among many others Westpac, my bank, are sponsors of this nonsense.
  Might make me look at my TDs with them.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:26pm
  - Inandout
    
    And GAYNZ.
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:51pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Paulus:
    
    Might make me look at my TDs with them
    
    Is that TDs – or STDs? (Sorry, couldn’t resist!)
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:58pm
  - Gabby
    
    Tiny Dick?
    
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    February 26, 2017 2:14pm
- Happychappy
  
  Did Andrew Little arrive for the speeches 40’ooo votes might help his quest to become PM.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:29pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch, what we really see is Gay pride week becoming a normal and usual part of the city events calendar without little fuss or quibbling about percentages etc
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:31pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    I reckon they should change the venue for the Gay Parade to Mt Roskill next year.
    Or would the possibility of gays falling off rooftops or being stoned just make this too risky.
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:36pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    How do your handlers feel about that stephie?
    
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    February 26, 2017 7:33pm
- Dave Mann
  
  I find this continuous arse licking of perverts and praise for mental sickness by the MSM disgusting, frankly.
  
  I didn’t watch any of the coverage (I don’t usually watch TV), so I don’t know if Blinglish went and cavorted with them this year like JK used to do. Do you know if he was there? If so, he should be ashamed.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:34pm
- Gabby
  
  Poor wee snoflake, did the big oily boys upset woo?
  
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  February 26, 2017 2:15pm
Manolo

The DNC gets its Latino gay guy, but the radical Muslim misses out:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/tom-perez-democratic-chair-keith-ellison-atlanta-ballot
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February 26, 2017 12:31pm
- Inandout
  
  Tom Perez has a wife and family.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:06pm
- sam green
  
  Manolo – that’s what you call “fake news”.
  
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  February 26, 2017 2:39pm
  - Ross12
    
    Is that because it is from the Guardian ?
    
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    February 26, 2017 2:48pm
    - sam green
      
      I have no idea – ask Manolo to reveal his sources.
      
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      February 26, 2017 2:54pm
      - rangitoto
        
        He did.
        
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        February 26, 2017 5:54pm
      - sam green
        
        The source of the ‘gay’ reference. Wasn’t in the Guardian article.
        
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        February 26, 2017 9:06pm
- realityczech
  
  “Wasn’t in the Guardian article”
  
  Must be true then.
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:17pm
  - sam green
    
    Yep. Just keep repeating it.
    
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    February 26, 2017 9:29pm
publicwatchdog

Wow! After a close call in the Mt Albert by-election, (congratulations Jacinda and Labour team 🙂 I can now continue to focus on the fight against, in my view, endemic and entrenched NZ corruption.

(My following comment was recently published on the NBR – ‘subscriber only’ section.)

In my considered opinion, bribery and corruption at Auckland Transport (AT) grew and became entrenched through the ‘collaboration’ model for contracting.

Who initiated this ‘collaboration’ model for contracting?

None other than corrupt senior Auckland Transport Manager – Murray
Noone.

Who supported and endorsed Murray Noone’s ‘collaboration’ model?

Former Auckland Transport Chief Operating Officer Fergus Gammie.

Who took corrupt Murray Noone’s ‘collaboration’ model for contracting to the Auckland Transport Board for their approval?

Auckland Transport Chief Executive David Warburton.

When did the BOARD of Auckland Transport approve corrupt Murray Noone’s ‘collaboration’ model for contracting?

18 May 2011.

(Check paragraph [301] of the ‘Reasons for the Verdict of Fitzgerald J’ and read this for yourself.

In my considered opinion, former and current Auckland Transport Executive staff at the highest levels, and the Board of Auckland Transport have helped to develop and entrench corruption, by their support for this ‘collaboration’ model for contracting

What’s being done about this ‘collaboration’ model’?

How is it lawful or proper for ANY ‘public official’ to simultaneously be a private consultant?

How widespread is THIS practice?

Anybody else asking these HARD questions?

By trying to pass off bribery and corruption within Auckland Transport as the work of a couple of aberrant employees, in my view, is just lying to the public.

Because the Board of Auckland Transport have declined to instruct forthwith, their CEO to ensure that Auckland Transport make details of all contracts worth less than $50,000, and ALL sub-contracted contracts equally available for public scrutiny on their website, I have made a formal complaint to the SFO against the Board of Auckland Transport for alleged criminal negligence.

Penny Bright

‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption campaigner’.
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February 26, 2017 12:38pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Penny, I do hope you have time to put your feet up and have a well-deserved rest.
  
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  February 26, 2017 12:40pm
  - Manolo
    
    Or get up to do some work to pay the bloody rates. Enough bludging, already.
    
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    February 26, 2017 12:46pm
- fernglas
  
  Penny
  
  Have you received the Council’s memorandum about the costs in your failed defamation case? I presume they are asking for full indemnity costs (lawyers’ fees and court costs) as is customary in defamation cases. If they are not, what is your view on the corruptness of their position? After all, the ratepayers have had to pay the lawyers and the court costs, so I’m sure you will agree that it is only fair that the ratepayers should be repaid in full.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:20pm
  - publicwatchdog
    
    As you are probably aware Fernglass – the High Court is not the end of the NZ legal ‘food chain’?
    
    Kind regards
    
    Penny Bright
    
    ‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption campaigner.’
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:25pm
    - fernglas
      
      That’s not my question. Have you received the memorandum?
      
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      February 26, 2017 1:42pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Penny:
        
        You’re probably familiar with the judgment of Associate Judge Smith in Penelope Mary Bright v Stephen Town (your defamation claim).
        
        Paragraph 133 of the judgment states:
        
        I did not hear fully from the parties on the question of costs. If the parties are unable to agree, Mr Town may file a memorandum seeking costs within 15 working days of the date of this judgment. Ms Bright may file any reply memorandum within 15 working days of her receipt of Mr Town’s memorandum.
        
        Have you received Mr Town’s memorandum seeking costs for your unsuccessful defamation claim against him? (He has until 6 March, but he probably won’t take that long, as Mr Akel and Simpson Grierson would appreciate prompt payment.)
        
        By the way, you know you can only appeal on a question of law, don’t you? What’s the specific question of law that you’d like the Court of Appeal to consider?
        
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        February 26, 2017 1:53pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Penny:
  
  I have made a formal complaint to the SFO against the Board of Auckland Transport for alleged criminal negligence.
  
  The Serious Fraud Office doesn’t investigate “alleged criminal negligence”. What was specific wording of your complaint?
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:44pm
  - stigie
    
    “What’s the specific question of law that you’d like the Court of Appeal to consider?”
    
    Can you get the dumb ratepayers of Auckland to pay my rates for the next nine years please..?
    
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    February 26, 2017 2:05pm
Stars And Stripes

Greens want aquifers protected by law
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/02/greens-want-aquifers-protected-by-law.html.
“”Companies are bottling and exporting our freshwater, without paying for it. While at the same time, communities are on water restrictions and boil notices.”

Maybe so James Shaw but do you actually have anything to back up the suggestion that one is causing the other or are you just joining the dots to launch an attack on one of your favourite bogeyman again.
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February 26, 2017 1:24pm
- Paulus
  
  It is reported that over New Zealand something like 400 Trillion litres of water fall on New Zealand every year.
  Why not capture a minute proportional and sell it overseas.
  Would be our greatest earner.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:29pm
  - reid3
    
    You mean giant upside down umbrellas or what’s your specific engineering solution here, that’s not happening already?
    
    And anyway it’s underground aquifers that are the real gold, not rainwater, because those have filtered and enriched the water through the minerals.
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:37pm
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    A properly set up pick up point in Doubtful Sound, from the Manapouri tail race for fresh water has always been an interesting thought for me.
    
    After all any tankers/shipping would have a vested interest in keeping the area pristine.
    
    As all experts say, “the marketing should be to the high end market” so they should invest their money not only to get a return, but also to be sure the ‘company’ is doing things right.
    
    “The discharge of clear fresh water has affected fauna and flora by letting light into the lower layers of the sound” and so would have an ameliorating affect.
    
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    February 26, 2017 1:54pm
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    How is it an earner when they can take the water for nothing?
    
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    February 26, 2017 3:50pm
cmm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/89812989/auckland-policewoman-almost-in-tears-after-pulling-over-car-with-11-unrestrained-passengers

Sweetie, you need to harden up.

You’re in Auckland. You’re surrounded by people who don’t care about their kids.
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February 26, 2017 1:44pm
- Inandout
  
  She would make a great Democrat.
  
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  February 26, 2017 1:54pm
  - Gabby
    
    You’d make a great crash test dummy.
    
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    February 26, 2017 2:06pm
    - Inandout
      
      You would make a great pupil in a special class.
      
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      February 26, 2017 2:50pm
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        You’d make a dunce in a special class.
        
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        February 26, 2017 7:51pm
- realityczech
  
  She is clearly unsuited for the job if that is all it takes for that virtue signalling slag to be “triggered”
  
  There is no possible way that lump of meat could discharge its duty objectively.
  
  Imagine if it finds out about buses, which are chocked full of unrestrained passengers.
  
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  February 26, 2017 2:51pm
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    You want her real bad huh czitty.
    
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    February 26, 2017 7:56pm
- Fletch
  
  Oh. When i saw the headline this morning, I thought it meant she couldn’t restrain tears of laughter…
  
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  February 26, 2017 4:29pm
Biscuit

Kimbo, 1.17pm.

(Soz, can’t link to your actual post.)

Something that makes my blood boil is whenever an Association Football boss in New Zealand gets interviewed.

A British accent will assail my eardrums.

Wtf are we employing BRITISH officials for New Zealand Association Football.

What credentials does anyone associate with British Football bring to the job? The only British success in any major international competition was when England hosted the 1966 World Cup…

We should be looking, like Australia, in the direction of ABB (Anyone But Britain) if we ever hope to compete internationally…
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February 26, 2017 2:47pm
- Kimbo
  
  Not that I am much of a fan of Wogball…sorry, Soccer…sorry, Football, but
  
  1. Yes, it has high child-participation rates, but let’s face it – its the game mums get their kids to play as a “default” exercise option to avoid competing with the brown kids at rugby and league. Shown by the fact that…
  
  2. If you take out the Poms, Dutchies and Croatians, who plays the game at the adult level?
  
  3. I agree it is poorly administered. Always has been. A toss up with rugby league for the worst administered sport in the country. Hence the propensity for empire-building/being a big-fish in a perpetually small pond, As shown by
  
  4. and as you imply, the New Zealand national “style”, is equivalent to the England football team c1972. Built on defense. And why teach diverse attacking skills when you can just pump high balls into the goal-area and hope for a lucky bounce. Emile Heskey would be a legend if he played for the All Whites. 😉
  
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  February 26, 2017 3:01pm
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The left are getting all excited about their annual festival of virtue signalling, while a few lightly dressed poofters cavort around Welly freezing their arses off in the wind.

What I love about all this is that many gay men are hard right in their voting as they are financially successful and resent being attacked for their success , as well as Labour/Green’s anti male stance.

So much fail by the left 🙂

http://www.wellingtonpridefestival.org.nz/
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February 26, 2017 2:49pm
- Nostradamus
  
  realityczech:
  
  many gay men are hard
  
  So I’m led to believe…
  
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  February 26, 2017 2:57pm
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  rc , and what will the virtuess alt right like you be up to ?
  
  Puting out the hat fund rasing for your pedo Milo Yiannopoulos ?
  
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  February 26, 2017 3:17pm
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    stephieboy, not all gays are pedo’s. Are you bitter after being blocked from Grindr again ?
    
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    February 26, 2017 3:27pm
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      You don’t get blocked do you, mister cziny czit czute.
      
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      February 26, 2017 8:28pm
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    What on earth does ‘virtuess’ mean? Please:
    (a) obtain (and) use a decent dictionary to help you communicate your views; and
    (b) treat your readers with the basic respect that they deserve; a useful starting point would be to proof-read and correct your comments before pressing “POST COMMENT”.
    
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    February 26, 2017 5:54pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Reported for alleging someone is a paedophile. You just don’t fucking learn
    
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    February 26, 2017 7:38pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Reporting doesn’t mean anything on this blog as far as I can ascertain.
      
      Took me a long time to realise that a complaint had to be filed (see comments policy)…
      
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      February 26, 2017 8:20pm
sam green

Where’s Icarus these days ……..
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February 26, 2017 3:18pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Pretty sure it is still here, just been reborn under a new title.
  
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  February 26, 2017 3:23pm
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    Virtue signalling about virtue signalling and parroting Breitbart.
    
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    February 26, 2017 3:30pm
Nostradamus

Two cops in court after ‘sack whack’ joke led to one losing a testicle

<blockquoteIt's all fun and games until someone loses a testicle. That's the crux of a criminal trial playing out in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court, where a case of "sack whacking" has pitted two police officers against each other – one as the alleged assailant, the other the victim.
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Vella's account is that he was sitting at a computer in the muster room of Glebe Police Station when Stoddart, taking a phone call, unsuccessfully tried to "sack whack" him as a joke, which the pair would often do to each other. A sack whack is defined as a backhanded flick or slap of the testicles, designed to cause immediate pain.

The case reminds me of this episode from The Practice (a TV legal drama series):

In Judge Amy Okubo’s courtroom.
Tang Jing Yu: Pull over. Get gas. Need pee.
Tara Wilson: You needed to pee?
Tang Jing Yu: Yes. Long drive. Need pee.
Tara Wilson: Okay sir. Can you tell us what happened next?
Tang Jing Yu: Bathroom painted. (Flashback to Mr Tang talking to gas station attendant) Man say be careful. Flesh(Fresh) paint on wall. Advise not go in.
Tara Wilson: (Back in courtroom.) But you did?
District Attorney: Objection. Leading.
Tara Wilson: Can you tell us what happened next? Sir.
Tang Jing Yu: Need pee bad. Go in anyway.
Tara Wilson: And then what happened?
Tang Jing Yu: Sit on toilet. (Flashback to overhead shot of Mr Tang sitting on toilet.) Do business. Then decide have cigarette. (He takes out cigarette.) Long drive. Need relax. (He lights his cigarette. Throws burning match back into toilet. We see outside of the Men’s room. Flames briefly shoot out of three windows which are then blown out. Back to courtroom) Go lift off! Explode!
Tara Wilson: And wha what happened, to you sir?
Tang Jing Yu: Knocked unconscious. Bottom botox. Bottom burn red, raw, low skin bottom. (Tara tries to suppress her smile.) Burn red raw.
Tara Wilson: (Tara tries to suppress a giggle. Eleanor notices.) Were you taken to hospital?
Tang Jing Yu: Yes! Hospital. Bottom burn red raw!
Tara Wilson: You must have been… (Tara tries to suppress a laugh.) You must have been terrified? Sir.
Tang Jing Yu: Not funny! Blow off toilet bowl. (Tara has the giggles.) Not funny!

Sometimes it must be challenging (to use a neutral description) to maintain a sense of decorum in court!
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February 26, 2017 4:22pm
realityczech

The fascist left are getting desperate in their violent fight against a move to sensible politics. 🙂

Campaigners Want Barack Obama to Run for President — of France

Frustrated with the choice of candidates running against the Eurosceptic, anti-Islamisation candidate, organisers are hoping to draft President Obama as a last resort.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/25/campaigners-want-barack-obama-run-president-france/
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February 26, 2017 5:20pm
CharlieBrown

Well finally an opinion on stuff I agree with.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/89737516/damien-grant-is-the-us-bullying-dotcom

Why are we not charging Dot Com with money laundering in NZ?
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February 26, 2017 5:29pm
- nasska
  
  ….”Why are we not charging Dot Com with money laundering in NZ?”….
  
  And give him another five years worth of trials & meritless appeals? No way!
  
  Let him stick around to poison the wells of the socialist parties in the upcoming GE then kick his procrastinating arse out of the country.
  
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  February 26, 2017 6:49pm
  - CharlieBrown
    
    So fuck justice hah? He hurt your pathetic poor wittle national party’s hah?
    
    You know the type of scum that are behind the dotcom prosecution? Those hollywood producers that tried to get the 3 strikes ISP laws in, the type that tried to make geoblocking illegal, the type that threaten to stop funding politicians in the US that won’t push their agenda. It is also the same scum that mean we pay 4 times more for content in NZ than you would in the USA. Get your head out of your arse and look at the dark fucking forces behind this.
    
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    February 26, 2017 8:54pm
    - realityczech
      
      I have to laugh at these drooling spastics going along with the political agenda of persecuting Dotcom. They are brainless dross who actually crave their enslavement.
      
      A purge is needed.
      
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      February 26, 2017 9:04pm
realityczech

The spin machine is going flat out on this Class-
A drug user, with a history of substance abuse.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/89812683/comical-ali-williams-was-once-a-binge-drinker
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February 26, 2017 5:29pm
- Inandout
  
  Money Bill Williams would never do this. He’s a good boy, he is.
  
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  February 26, 2017 6:24pm
Viking2

National MP Paul Foster-Bell to stand down at election

National list MP Paul Foster-Bell will not contest the selection for Wellington Central and will stand down from Parliament at the 2017 general election.

His announcement follows reports of a major bid by corporate high-flyer Nicola Willis to challenge Foster-Bell for selection. Willis has been an advisor to former Prime Minister John Key and is understood to have his backing.

Foster-Bell said he informed local National Party members of his decision on Sunday.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/89820062/national-mp-paul-fosterbell-to-stand-down-at-election
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February 26, 2017 5:55pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Another boost for the Nats.
  Foster-Bell was useless, another gay, and too many people confused him with the odious Robertson.
  Nicloa Willis will light a fire under the lazy Nat Supporters in Wgtn. Central.
  Go Nicola.
  
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  February 26, 2017 7:35pm
  - Gabby
    
    But she’s a woman, crusty.
    
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    February 26, 2017 7:45pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Good riddance. Fumigate the office.
  
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  February 26, 2017 7:40pm
jonar

Obviously his ego never would have coped.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-says-no-to-white-house-1488062341-htmlstory.html

The annual White House Correspondents Assn. dinner will be missing a key guest this year: President Trump.

At the annual dinner, the president usually delivers self-deprecating jokes and often is roasted by a high-profile comedian.
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February 26, 2017 6:13pm
- realityczech
  
  jonar, sorry but the monkey business is over.
  
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  February 26, 2017 7:10pm
nasska

….”dinner will be missing a key guest this year: President Trump.”….

And who could possibly blame him? No-one this side of the Sudan is so short of a feed that he’d lower himself to break bread with the lying, commie scum of the MSM.
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February 26, 2017 6:40pm
- Gabby
  
  It’s free food nassky – like yiu’d pass that up.
  
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  February 26, 2017 7:41pm
- jonar
  
  Its ok he’s sending his mates Mike Pence and Reince Priebus to break bread with them.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:20pm
doggone7

Saying “lying, commie scum of the MSM” has the same sort of rabidity about it which the MSM is accused of having.
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February 26, 2017 7:14pm
- realityczech
  
  No its not the same. It is true.
  
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  February 26, 2017 7:18pm
  - Gabby
    
    Free food czitty – you’d be czitting solids for a change.
    
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    February 26, 2017 7:42pm
- itstricky
  
  Saying “lying, commie scum of the MSM” has the same sort of rabidity
  
  The phrase should always be adjusted to:
  
  lying commie scum of the MSM, except when they say something I agree with. Then I’ll link it on KB and pretend its The Bible.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:10pm
realityczech

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the obvious in these troubled times

Study Shows Conservatives Have Higher IQ’s Than Liberals

http://comicvine.gamespot.com/forums/off-topic-5/study-shows-conservatives-have-higher-iqs-than-lib-1737790/
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February 26, 2017 8:10pm
- Gabby
  
  Fake news czit from your paymasters right czitty?
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:22pm
  - realityczech
    
    Like the story says Gobby, low IQ, and here you are with a real time example.
    
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    February 26, 2017 8:28pm
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      Living example, czitty, much appreciated.
      
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      February 26, 2017 8:31pm
    - jonar
      
      Republican score slightly higher than those who identify as Democrat; the unadjusted differences are 1–3 IQ points, 2–4 IQ points and 2–3 IQ points, respectively
      
      Possibly not statistically significant, even if the study was well done, potential bias here.
      
      an assessment by the interviewer of how well the respondent understood the survey questions
      
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      February 26, 2017 8:32pm
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        jonar, I bet you are fun at parties 😉
        
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        February 26, 2017 8:43pm
realityczech

Poorer conservatives more generous than wealthy liberals – new study

https://www.rt.com/usa/193952-charity-conservatives-religion-utah/
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- jonar
  
  It may also highlight links between religious belief – more common among Republican voters – and charity donations, which are funnelled towards, and encouraged by the Church.
  
  Not coincidentally, the most generous state is Utah (with a giving rate of 6.56 percent), which is dominated by Mormons, who have to give a tenth of their income to their church.
  
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  February 26, 2017 8:30pm
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    Praise be Jesus !
    
    I bet they have epic Gay Pride parades.
    
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    February 26, 2017 8:44pm
Viking2

wow.
Ian Binnie has just roasted Collins good and proper. Time she quit National as well.
On TV1.

No doubt DG will grin when he see’s the program.
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February 26, 2017 8:13pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  I am unsure if Binnie isn’t a judge’s arsehole or if he is. He is total unprofessional not just attacking the integrity of Judith Collins but the entire National Cabinet, Robert Fisher QC, former Australian Judge Ian Binnie to name a few.
  
  The only thing he got right was the fact that Bain still got a payout. I doubt if Judith Collins would have agreed to that if she was the Minister of Justice. That payout was for political reasons was a disgrace.
  
  When are they going to look at justice for Peter Ellis. Has internal polling shown that are no vote there?
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:46pm
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    She has no integrity a point she displayed throughout this saga.
    
    She is a disgrace and is not a fit and proper person to hold any public office.
    
    I agree about Peter Ellis.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:02pm
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    Sure because The Eyebrows would never behave unethically or cover for someone who had.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:24pm
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    There does seem to be cross-party agreement that he can go to hell. Maybe Lianne isn’t the only one with a loon to protect.
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:25pm
- Nookin
  
  If you were to appeal, Penelope, do you think you might display to the court the courtesy of an appearance?
  
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  February 26, 2017 9:59pm
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  V2
  He certainly unleashed in a manner that one would not expect of someone performing a judicial function. For that reason and because of a number of other assertions, I found him to be disappointingly unconvincing.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:03pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  NZ should never have paid this incompetent fool $400k. I do not know why would have possessed power to employ him with his lack of experience on the bench. He may be some sort of academic but totally lacking in common sense.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:20pm
Manolo

The incompetent messiah continues to pull the strings:
http://nypost.com/2017/02/25/ex-labor-secretary-tom-perez-elected-dnc-chairman/
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February 26, 2017 9:22pm
AgentBallSack

Welcome to our brave new liberal world. Trans Girl on testosterone beats all other girls. Totally illegal unless you are a mental case.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/89825742/transgender-teenage-wrestler-wins-texas-state-championship

On the bright side she(*) red pilled 52 sets of parents whos daughters lost to her(*)
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  Redpillcucksoccer.
  
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  February 26, 2017 10:33pm
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    Fuck off, you diseased, mangy old cunt.
    
    [DPF: Strike 4. Two weeks off]
    
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    February 26, 2017 10:47pm
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      Snofwake
      
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      February 26, 2017 10:48pm
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      Have another swig ballbag.
      
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      February 26, 2017 10:54pm
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        You don’t bother me gobshite. But you or I will go. If DPF thinks that you are an acceptable guest here, I don’t want to be around. Easy enough decision for me.
        
        I don’t think you add anything here and I don’t have to read the shit you post. In my opinion you’re a fucking retard. Not worth my time or energy.
        
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        February 26, 2017 11:08pm
    - Gabby
      
      Arrogant sonofabitch aren’t you ballbag. I guess years of insulting folk with impunity does that right. You a mean drunk or does the piss calm you down. ‘Either he goes or I do’ is prime snoflakeland.
      
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      February 27, 2017 12:07am
Manolo

Enticing and attracting the invading hordes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4258468/Traffickers-luring-migrants-Facebook-package-deals.html
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February 27, 2017 6:27am
Manolo

A solid Muslim education:
Fears over attempts to impose an Islamist ethos into British schools re-emerged in Greater Manchester last week when headteacher Trish O’Donnell claimed she was forced out of her job by ‘intimidation’.

Now Rick Hodge, who was due to be principal the Phoenix Free School in Oldham, has said he also suffered a ‘campaign of harassment’ by the school’s Muslim co-founder

He said another man connected with the school ‘went completely off on one about how not wearing a hijab would effectively turn all Muslim women into whores’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4260986/Second-Oldham-headteacherclaims-Trojan-Horse-bullying.html#ixzz4ZoWJ3OzV
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February 27, 2017 6:36am
mandk

Looking more at the Roy Morgan poll, at the same stage in 2008, the Nats were polling about the same as they are now and Labour + Green were about the same (although more for Labour and less for the Greens).

The big difference is confidence in the Govt. It’s way higher now than it was in Feb 2008.

It looks like National only have to avoid doing anything stupid, and they’ll be back in. And the way it has been going, it’s Labour (or, rather, Little) doing the stupid stuff.
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