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Paulus Gnome

‘Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander and Sinn Fein political leader who helped negotiate peace in Northern Ireland after decades of sectarian violence, and became a senior official in its power-sharing government, died on Tuesday in Derry. He was 66.’

66 years too late.

Remember the innocent people whose murders this man was responsible for.

Good riddance.
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March 22, 2017 8:01am
- freethinker
  
  Lets hopeGgerry Adams follows after a long painful illness
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:40pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    And no kneecaps or ankles
    
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    March 22, 2017 2:42pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Does this mean Danny Butler will be safe in his homeland now?
  
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  March 22, 2017 7:21pm
oldpark

Fake News Guttersniper,Hager the Horrible,nuff said.
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March 22, 2017 8:02am
- Fletch
  
  http://oi68.tinypic.com/2emplvo.jpg
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:47am
Maggy Wassilieff

Can’t wait for Mahia Peninsula’s rockets
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11821854
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March 22, 2017 8:04am
- mikenmild
  
  I wonder if there will be opportunities for members of the public to watch the launches.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:13am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The launch site is on private land, way at the far end of the Peninsula.
    
    We are hoping for good views from around the Poverty Bay/Hawke’s Bay Coasts
    
    (But I think we might be waiting… Test rockets were meant to have been launched last year and commercial flights should have started by now)
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=11717932
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:23am
  - mandk
    
    Wairoa District Council have been working for some time on how they can use this as an opportunity to attract visitors by providing information and viewing facilities.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:50am
  - kowtow
    
    No such thing as a free launch.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:54am
holysheet

The darwin award for stupidity this week goes to the dumb arse pom who died while charging his phone in the bath. It fell onto his chest and became submerged in the water.
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March 22, 2017 8:06am
- Colville
  
  Unless his charger was on an extension cord how is that possible?
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:08am
  - gump
    
    “It’s the volts that jolt but the mills that kill.”
    
    Current is what kills you – not the voltage. And the lowered resistance in a wet bath means you no longer need the 50+ volts which is needed to put a current through dry skin.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:23am
  - peterwn
    
    It was on an extension cord fed from outside the bathroom. Power outlets in bathrooms were once totally banned for safety reasons, then shaver outlets with an isolating transformer were permitted. With the advent of RCD’s, protected outlets are now permitted. RCD protection would have saved the day for that victim. Even so using a mains connected thing while in the bath is pretty dumb.
    Any charger sold through established retail shops in NZ or Australia are OK – anyone selling or distributing unapproved electrical equipment in NZ will face the ire of MBIE. Buying such items overseas or from NZ fringe retailers, flea markets etc is risky.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:59am
waikatogirl

With the huge rise in violent thugs holding up dairies and petrol stations, Indian dairy owners are calling for the right to keep a gun to defend themselves under the counter.

At least two dairy owners have been killed. It is understandable dairy owners are scared of these, often huge, aggressive attackers and it is understandable dairy owners need to defend themselves. Some are brave enough to fight back with a bat or broom handle, but guns under the counter are not going to be encouraged by a change in the law.

How about an automatic (or even a can close at hand) fluorescent paint sprayer that covers the attackers in bright paint or dye that can’t be cleaned off by the thugs. Easy to identify the robbers…
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March 22, 2017 8:06am
- krazykiwi
  
  That might hurt their feelings, and they’d be entitled to compensation
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:10am
- kowtow
  
  The police know who these robbers are anyway. They’ll have been before the courts many times.
  The state is failing in its basic duty to protect law abiding citizens. I blame the politicians who have gone soft on crime , the courts who hug crims and so called progressives in general.
  
  Remember these are the same people who want to raise the age of criminal accountability.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:12am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Economist Chart : The minimum age of criminal responsibility.
    
    This doesn’t make a distinction between adult vs minor responsibility, but interesting nevertheless.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:17am
- waikatogirl
  
  Krazy, at least they will feel pretty in pink, or green, or yellow. ?
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:13am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Stop go man orange or will that make them too easy to blend in at the marae?
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:26am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Seems a good idea..
  
  This Russian antiseptic might do the trick
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39337139
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:14am
- mikenmild
  
  There is such a device now fitted in service stations. Possibly one reason why dairies are now a more favoured target.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:14am
- stephieboy
  
  waikatogirl ,I thought that was all supposed to end after Helen was ousted 2008 with the three strikes law etc.
  
  What went wrong I wonder ?
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:21am
- cmm
  
  Just pepper spray would be a good start.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:22am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Or tazer them, but I still like the idea of thugs being emblazoned with fluo dye for a few days. A bit hard to explain to mum how you came to be covered in thug dye. ?
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:27am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Jokes aside, I think NZ needs to seriously rethink self defence laws. Forget dairy owners not being able to defend themselves. I can’t even defend myself if someone breaks into my house and starts raping my wives and stealing my tv. I shoot him and I go to jail, while he gets ACC. Laughable.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:40am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Shame about your TV Padriv. I’m sure another wife will be sent to reestablish your harem! ?
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:51am
    - kowtow
      
      Padriv should get one of his cousins down at the mosque to build an ipad or laptop like the ones that aren’t allowed on ‘planes now ,which he could leave in an obvious place near an open window ………….
      
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      March 22, 2017 9:09am
  - cmm
    
    Yes you do have a right to protect yourself and your family – particularly in your house.
    
    And yes, you can use a firearm to defend yourself (and your wives, and their boyfriends’ children).
    
    Note however self defence is not a valid reason for owning a firearm in NZ. A shotgun owned for rabbit hunting doesn’t know the difference.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:59am
    - Colville
      
      Just make sure with the firearm that you indeed did have it stored securely with the bolt and ammo locked separate prior to the incident.
      
      Having it hanging behind the kitchen door locked and loaded “awaiting cleaning” probably wont go down well with Mr and Missus Plod. 🙂
      
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      March 22, 2017 9:12am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Not much use locked away with the bolt removed if you “NEED” it to defend yourself and your family immediately. I know, I know, not meant to be…!
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:32am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        What a coincidence, I had just finished off trying to shoot pesky possums when this man walked in brandishing the knife , I spun around and a shot went off…..
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:09am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  They should keep a shotgun under the counter. The risk of getting caught is low if they don’t use it. And if there is a need to use it, the penalty for having it there will be worth paying.
  
  The paint spray idea is nice if you want to help the police get a conviction, but not much use if you want to avoid being beaten to death by a P-crazed maniac.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:47am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    Shotgun under the counter and then shooting someone with it is an automatic jail term, so not worth it under current laws.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:54am
  - Paulus
    
    Hang a paint spray reticulation in the roof of the shop like a garden hose with holes.
    Press a button when affronted.
    Does not need to be paint but some die substitute so the shop merchandise is not damaged but the perps get wet for identification.
    Needs some more thought.
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:28am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Full marks to the woman who saw the images of her thug sons smashing into a gas station and wheeled them down to the police station.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:09am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The National Union of Dairyworkers (NUD) should organize a strike.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:39am
- jims_whare
  
  Don’t worry, the Childrens Commissioner, the government, and the left all want the age of criminal adult responsibility raised to 18 so these darlings have 1 more year of freedom before facing the reality of their antisocial behaviour.
  
  Because having it at 17 has worked so well that another year of flipping the birdie at the system will make them so much more compliant.
  
  Perhaps they need to introduce a free hug policy for the poor sweeties.
  
  Armed Robbery = 25 hugs
  Serious Assault = 15 hugs
  Sexual Assault = 27 hugs
  Burglary = 12 hugs 1st offence
  = 14 hugs 2nd offence
  = 16 hugs plus family group conference 3rd or subsequent offences.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:45am
- Southern Raider
  
  Large amount seem to get youth aid
  
  Anyone have any idea what this actually is about from police given young thugs a hug?
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:56am
- GoVege
  
  An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.
  These kids are almost all from benny-dependant, single parent families.
  I know kids like these and most do not know who their dad was.
  Mum takes up with the local gang to ease the loneliness and together the “adults” teach the kids crime.
  Stop paying people to breed for the benny and the robbery stats will go down.
  
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  March 22, 2017 4:24pm
- SPC
  
  Defences.
  
  1. Camera on customers, supported by dye for marking perp (but covered faces and gloved hands render both moot).
  2. pepper spray into the eyes (but could be wearing googles/sunglasses).
  3. tazer – while on ground remove face covering – photo with cellphone, then dye face of perp. Pepper spray, if necessary, when they get back up.
  
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  March 22, 2017 6:35pm
krazykiwi

British government bans laptops from cabins on flights to UK from six countries

Britain is poised to follow the US and ban laptops and other electronic devices from UK-bound flights on planes from Middle Eastern countries, security sources have told The Telegraph.

The Department of Homeland Security in the US announced a ban yesterday after revealing that extremists are seeking “innovative methods” to bring down jets amid concerns that bombs will be hidden in laptops.

The measure by the US will affect flights by nine airlines from eight countries in the Middle East including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Egypt.

There goes my outbound Europe travel on ME carriers.

While I don’t doubt there’s some truth to this ‘threat,’ the US government and to a lesser extent European governments have long protested an ‘unfair’ commercial playing field from the ME state-owned airlines.

I’m sure a laptop ban will help get travelers back onto US/UK/European carriers
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March 22, 2017 8:08am
- mikenmild
  
  Will mainly affect business travellers, who want to use laptops during long flights. Not that Trump would care – if you don’t have your own jet, you are a loser.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:16am
  - mandk
    
    Time to let it go, snowflake.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:53am
- cmm
  
  Is that ME carriers or planes inbound from ME?
  
  If it is the latter then the restriction would surely apply to all carriers.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:25am
  - mikenmild
    
    Flights leaving from 10 specified ME airports on 8 specified non-US carriers. Makes no sense, security-wise.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:28am
    - Tirebiter
      
      It makes little sense security-wise, but makes a lot of sense ‘America-first’-wise. If travelers won’t fly middle-eastern airlines because they can’t use their laptops, on whose airlines do you think they will fly?
      
      Well, what the hell did you expect?
      
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      March 23, 2017 3:55am
- krazykiwi
  
  Oh, includes iPads/tablets as well.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:25am
- krazykiwi
  
  … and in latest reports it’ll include cameras too.
  
  So no laptops, iPads/tablets, cameras, and i’m guessing nothing battery-powered that is larger than a phone.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:51am
  - mikenmild
    
    Will it include microwave ovens?
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:56am
  - CrazyIvan
    
    That’s annoying for two reasons – the times I’ve flown to the UK its been on Emirates through Doha, which would now mean that anyone travelling on Qantas to London is going to be caught up in this.
    
    The second is that many airlines are starting to move away from in-flight entertainment consoles, instead streaming directly to passenger’s devices. I’ll be blowed if I’m going to watch the latest blockbuster movie on my smartphone screen.
    
    Unfortunately the alternative seems to be flying Air NZ via LA which means hours of filling out forms to get an entry visa to sit in the LAX transit lounge.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:08pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Ok, an update. Looks like UK-bound flights from Dubai and Qatar should be ok.
  
  Phew!
  
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  March 22, 2017 6:08pm
iMP

IRONIC: a multi-nations ban of laptops and electronic devices from MAINLY MUSLIM NATIONS on flights to Western nations – I wonder if the Hawaii courts or the Ninth Circuit will ban that?
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March 22, 2017 8:08am
kowtow

Says an awful lot when the political editor of TVNZ doesn’t know the difference between a “loo” tenant,as Cringing Corin Dan called Lieutenant O’Donnell and a “lef ” tenant.
For such an anti American organisation you’d think they’d speak the Queen’s English instead of the Hollywood version.
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March 22, 2017 8:08am
- Manolo
  
  Yes, the same Mr Dann who murders the English language very often.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:12am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Does a passable job on impartiality as well.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:29am
  - Paulus
    
    Be kind he is only a repeater and ignorant as pig sh.. and twice as thick.
    So he must be clever too having been employed by the great TVNZ.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:15pm
- mikenmild
  
  Ironically, the American version is closer to the original French pronunciation.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:17am
  - kowtow
    
    Still not an excuse for Dann’s ignorance.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:32am
- James Stephenson
  
  Interesting fact: the Royal Navy have a different pronunciation again, which is closer to the Merkin version. Trying to render in text, I’d try “letnant” or maybe “le’tnant”.
  
  BTW, completely no relation to Hagar’s fantasist buddy.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:35am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  From OED etymology on Lieutenant
  
  In view of the rare Old French form luef for lieu (with which compare especially the 15th cent. Scots forms luf- , lufftenand above) it seems likely that the labial glide at the end of Old French lieu as the first element of a compound was sometimes apprehended by English-speakers as a v or f . Possibly some of the forms may be due to association with leave (n.1) or lief (adj.).”
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:36am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    the labial what? The french are indeed cunning linguists.
    
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    March 22, 2017 4:56pm
oldpark

What a disaster ,what a schmozzle,the joined at the hip Liebour/Greens have a new crisis. The airhead, Ardern,”the little town flirt”,who flatters to deceive,the nation, is now the defacto leader of Liebour Party,leaving the trade union installed Angry Andy Little,looking up her internet. Run a country,both of them couldn’t run a bath.
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March 22, 2017 8:08am
- sam green
  
  Use a tissue oldpark
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:38am
Longknives

Was browsing The Standard last night as was kind of intrigued at how they would react to Hager’s latest rather far-fetched ‘allegations’.
As I suspected- Lots of shrieking about ‘War Crimes’ and calling for Key to be jailed immediately..
The best part was the guy who posted in support of the NZ Defence Force..Got banned!
So much for ‘Freedom of Speech’ on the Left eh?
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March 22, 2017 8:09am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Thanks for taking one for the team Longknives 😎
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:17am
- Inandout
  
  I am convinced that TV3 is The Standard, with pictures. Garner acts like a little schoolboy when he hears some juicy news. This morning he said our cities would be drowned under sea water, and that we should get rid of dairy farms because cows shit and pollute the waterways. Producing wool, he said, would be the future. FFS
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:17am
  - mikenmild
    
    Do you have a safe space to which you can retreat after watching?
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:19am
    - Inandout
      
      A snowflake I am not, I face whatever the world throws at me; good for character building you see. You should try it sometime, instead of being ‘mild’.
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:43am
      - itstricky
        
        Luckily, unlike snowflakes, you don’t take to social media to vent.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:20am
      - virtualmark
        
        Umm … you’re on a blog?!
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:51am
      - Yoza
        
        Inandout
        
        A snowflake I am not, I face whatever the world throws at me; good for character building you see.
        
        Hopefully, the snowflakes in the military and the government will take your example to heart and set up an independent inquiry to develop their character by facing whatever Nicky Hager and John Stephenson throw at them.
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:23am
    - dime
      
      lol it cracks me up how cucks like milky are trying to depower the term “snowflake”.
      
      saying you dont like something and some lefties on tv are fucked in the head does not require a safe space.
      
      safe spaces are for lefties who cannot handle hearing other peoples opinion, at all. they little darlings who need a special place where everyone agrees with them and its all lovely. where they can discuss opression freely without being mocked.
      
      wimps who require safe spaces to not go out of their way to visit a site who they disagree with or watch a tv show full of socialist morons.
      
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      March 22, 2017 9:30am
      - virtualmark
        
        You mean like all the alt-righters who can’t handle anyone criticising their chosen one? That’s just snowflaking in its right-wing form mate.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:52am
      - sam green
        
        You’re such a snowflake dime.
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:12am
      - itstricky
        
        who need a special place where everyone agrees with them and its all lovely
        
        LOL. Statement of the year. KB commentators are not at allllllll like that…
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:31am
  - oldpark
    
    Drunken Duncan ,the self styled clown from Thorndon Quay fame. Seems his stupidity, is imbedded in his DNA , thus his crazy comments on the even worse show, than the clowns on TVNZ morning show.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:30am
    - MCos
      
      So . . . . . . what did he actually say that you torture yourself with every morning?
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:58am
      - itstricky
        
        What with the lack of breathing that oldpark has shown here and in his/her 8:08, I think he/she needs that Duncan free safe space more than Inandout.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:19am
  - kowtow
    
    I’m amazed at how our betters seem to think that destroying our economy would be good for us, who are these people, they must all live off the taxpayer to be so insulated from the real world.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:35am
  - B.L.Zeebub
    
    I`d like to see him drink a bottle of wool or put some wool in his latte`.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:04am
  - VicParking
    
    I learn something new each day. Sheep dont shit.
    
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    March 22, 2017 10:23am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      No shit. It appears you don’t know Jack Schitt. 🙂
      
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      March 22, 2017 12:15pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    How do we eat wool? Will it become a featured ingredient on MKR?
    
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    March 22, 2017 6:38pm
- Huevon
  
  It’s the same on Red Radio. This morning they had some leftist law professor chomping at the bit to see an International Criminal Court prosecution of the NZDF. These people simply hate us.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:52am
  - Paulus
    
    No, have pity, he is from Otago Uni.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:18pm
- sam green
  
  @ Inandout. One person got banned for a short period – a guy called Tory who consistently trolls. He made a particularly odious remark and consistently does so from what I’ve seen. Pity some of the blatant trolling is so supported on this blog. But then – most of it suits the narrative really.
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:10am
  - Garbageman
    
    lol blatant trolling ? by the one line expert himself pot kettle Sam – do you need a tissue for that tear jerker of a statement
    
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    March 22, 2017 10:49am
    - sam green
      
      Disagreeing? Don’t be such a snowflake.
      
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      March 22, 2017 11:06am
- RF
  
  Dear god. You now have drongos like Presland calling out the SAS for war crimes after allegedly killing women and children.
  
  The left obviously believe ferrit face so that’s their problem.
  
  I can see them milking this crap right up to the election as it’s bringing all the looney tunes out into the open.
  
  I am now waiting for the flat earth society and 911 Govt plot extremists to appear.
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:01pm
Manolo

The corrupt Left, this time in France:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39346617

France’s Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux has resigned over a “fake jobs” row involving work he gave his daughters when they were teenagers.

Mr Le Roux told a news conference that he had submitted his resignation to French President Francois Hollande.
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March 22, 2017 8:09am
Keeping Stock

Interesting interview on Newstalk this morning by Hosking of Dr Paul Moon.

Moon said Labour is effectively holding a gun to the heads of voters in the Maori electorates. None of the Maori electoral candidates will seek a place on the list, so Labour is saying “Vote for them or else”.

Moon suspects that this will end badly for Labour, and especially for the Labour Maori candidates who don’t have the backstop of a list placing, and I agree. It looks like a cunning stunt to make sure Labour gets a few MP’s in off the list; Little, Jackson, Mallard, Moroney and Parker, but I hope it blows up in their face.
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March 22, 2017 8:21am
- krazykiwi
  
  Please, no cunning stunts this early in the morning 😀
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:24am
  - holysheet
    
    I wouldn’t possibly comment on your miss placing the S and C again.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:32am
- jims_whare
  
  Could it be part of some wild political plot by Little?
  
  What happens if the Maori MPs start a separate Political Party – say call it ‘Labour Tangatawhenua’ (LT) or something similar. They would be the only ‘Labour’ candidates in the Maori electorates.
  
  This would be associated with Labour like Jim Anderton’s progressives.
  
  At the election LT wins 4 or 5 Maori electorates and immediately pledges ‘support’ for a Labour government.
  
  In effect Labour would get their full complement of % list MP’s plus an effective overhang of 4 or 5 Maori seat MP’s. Could be enough to tip the balance of power nicely towards Little.
  
  Would be a rort of the system but legal as far as I can tell.
  
  A bit far fetched I suspect as I don’t think Little has the gonads to have a go at something like this.
  
  Could also backfire and they lose all Maori electorates.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:05am
  - waripori
    
    This is bound to happen one day and there is no way we should have Maori seats with MMP. When an election is stolen this way there will be a revolution and NZ will never be the same again. Not a risk worth taking. Also need to consider the appalling turnout in Maori seats. Supposed to be one person one vote but votes in Maori seats count twice.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:49am
    - sam green
      
      How so waripori? How do they count twice?
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:22am
      - sam green
        
        Waiting – I’m genuinely interested.
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:47am
      - sam green
        
        Nothing?
        
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        March 22, 2017 1:51pm
      - waripori
        
        Sorry
        
        I don’t keep KB open all day. Look at the votes cast in Maori electorates. There are roughly half as many as in the General Electorates and always have been. It takes two votes to win a general electorate to one to win a Maori electorate.
        
        We should not have Maori seats under MMP as it opens up the rort outlined above, but if wse do have to have them there should only be 4.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:04pm
      - sam green
        
        Thanks for getting back. Genuinely, I still don’t understand that. Do you have any links to something that explains the process?
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:42pm
      - mikenmild
        
        This is a point that has been made before. The important thing to remember is that electorates are determined by the size of the adult population. Maori electorates are the same size as general electorates.
        If the turnout in Maori electorates is half the turnout in general electorates then yes, a Maori electorate MP might be elected with many fewer votes than an MP in a general electorate. This is a far cry from ‘Maori votes count twice’.
        Another way of looking at it might be to ask waripori if he would be happier if the turnout in Maori electorates were higher.
        
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        March 23, 2017 5:36am
  - sooty
    
    You sure it’s not Matt McCarten the cunning man organising all this shit?
    
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    March 22, 2017 3:12pm
    - Sponge
      
      God I hope so. That will guarantee it turns to shit.
      
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      March 22, 2017 7:20pm
- Biscuit
  
  I thought that, too, Keeping Stock.
  
  Lose a few lameo Maori MPS (be honest, now, can you remember the name of a SINGLE Labour Maori MP?) and bolster up your List intake in September…
  
  Though looking at the five instances you cite – Little, Jackson, Mallard, Moroney and Parker – you have to think they are culling one set of lameos to benefit another, heh heh…
  
  If I can see this tactic for what its worth, why can’t the Labour Maori Members of Parliament?
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:09pm
EAD

Interesting reflections this week from Savant as he recalls his time working for the World Bank in Nigeria:

http://irishsavant.blogspot.co.nz/2017/03/ah-memories.html?m=0

The whole article is an interesting read but one paragraph stood out:

Poverty, violence, squalor, endemic corruption and distrust at every level of society. A dreadful country by any objective standard. And yet, as one of the world’s largest oil producers it could and should be Switzerland on the Equator. It is not so because of the Nigerian people. As somebody said, if you transfer all the Nigerians to Japan and all the Japanese to Nigeria within a generation Nigeria would become today’s Japan and vice versa. And as Plato observed over 2,000 years ago ‘this City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.’

It is so true – Detroit has gone from being the “Paris of the USA” to the “Congo of the USA” in 2 generations after all the Europeans left due to Black criminality.

Speaking of Paris, what has become of that city should be a salutary lesson on the destruction of 3rd world immigration:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/paris-is-a-post-apocalyptic-hellhole-of-public-urination-and-lit/amp/

A beautiful city turned into a post apocalyptic hellhole.

Demographics is destiny.
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March 22, 2017 8:32am
- mikenmild
  
  Could you outline a National Socialist plan of action to improve conditions in Detroit?
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:36am
  - EAD
    
    Could you outline a National Socialist plan of action to improve conditions in Detroit?
    
    Give them a financial incentive so they can go live with their brothers in Africa. There would be a short term cost but imagine how much would be saved on prison costs, affirmative action costs, welfare costs, education costs trying to achieve the impossible “equality”, people like Susan Devoy….
    
    And the best thing, despite the 3rd world literally crossing seas to get to the West (ala Camp of the Saints , we can stop being hounded by the MSM and Political apparchticks as to how ” racist” we are
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:49am
    - mikenmild
      
      Would you also envisage incentives for white Americans to live with their brothers in Europe, Asians to go to Asia, and Jews to Israel. Leave America to the Amerindians? But what about the unfortunate products of miscegenation?
      I don’t think you have thought this one through.
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:52am
      - EAD
        
        Jews to Israel
        
        Hey – that is a National Socialist policy!
        
        The Germans offered financial incentives for Jews to move to Israel under the Havaara agreement whereby 200,00-300,000 Jews left the German Homeland to move to the then Palestine Pre WWII.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
        
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        March 22, 2017 8:56am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD, that presumably also means deporting (” resettling ” ) Pacifica back to the Islands and ” Murri ” on “Iwi reservations ” ? Not forgetting Anglo Saxons and Gaelics back to Britain and Ireland ?
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:55am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Gaelic is the language….
        
        I think the word you are searching for is Celts.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:30am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        You shouldn’t presume things stephie, you’re fucking useless at it.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:36am
    - GoVege
      
      I would say the #1 cause of crime in places like Detroit (and South Auckland ) is fatherless boys.
      That, and the loss of the work ethic (or in some cases, one never having evolved.)
      If we can solve those problems…everything should be sweet again..:)
      
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      March 22, 2017 11:14am
- EAD
  
  And a bit closer to home:
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/90698515/Knives-and-bats-used-in-brawl-near-south-Auckland-train-station
  
  The older generations of my family recall when Manurewa was a nice white rural community on the outskirts of Auckland where they could leave their door open at night.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:39am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    EAD, so should police retaliate with bats , sticks and knives ?
    
    I think you will find ” Murri ” have lived in the area since ( and before ) Manurewa was” a nice white rural community “
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:45am
    - mikenmild
      
      EAD probably thinks the King Country would have made a nice Bantustan.
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:55am
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        Actually King Country, south of the Puniu River was, in effect, a Bantustan from April 1864 for about 30 years. Then the railway came.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:18am
    - Padriv Ustoev
      
      Piss off Stephie, you’ve never had to fight a man in your life, so just keep quiet in your safe Mt Eden home and don’t comment about what you’ve only seen on TV.
      
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      March 22, 2017 9:10am
      - stephieboy
        
        PU, another sufferer of Trump derangment syndrome ?
        
        https://static01.nyt.com/images/2008/02/24/world/europe/24amsterdam-inline-650.jpg
        
        Considering treatment options ?
        
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        March 22, 2017 12:10pm
      - Padriv Ustoev
        
        That doesn’t even make sense. You posted a picture of a prostitute in Amsterdam. What does that have to do with anything?
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:08pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      stephieboy,
      
      I am sure that the original Ngāti Ākarana were just fine; it’s the post-welfare 3rd-generation-on-welfare “Murri yoof” that are the problem.
      
      I blame the Westerners for their corrupting social welfare safety net that so easily becomes a hammock.
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:43am
      - GoVege
        
        You are so funny Odakyu!
        Time to cut those hammock strings and teach the yoof where money comes from!
        
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        March 22, 2017 11:38am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        GoVege,
        
        I hope that NZ society has a strong stomach if the safety net is removed altogether.
        A smarter way would be to: a) make the net less comfortable, b) push people off it if they they show signs of taking a nap, or c) condition people to view life on the net as a mark of shame.
        
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        March 22, 2017 12:20pm
      - GoVege
        
        Definitely, Odakyu.
        Good suggestions.
        We could also go back to some tried and true principles of civilization :
        Every man should support his children and their mother.
        Everyone who is not severely disabled should work.
        A man’s wage should be enough to support him, his wife and TWO (not 10) children.
        Children are better off with both parents, unless one or both are dangerous criminals.
        Kids should not be having kids…and definitely should not be paid to have them.
        Also…contraception is a wonderful invention and should be either free, or young people at risk of having kids they are not capable of raising should be given incentives to use it.
        
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        March 22, 2017 4:02pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Having children should obviously be a privilege rather than a right. Until you and your partner have paid a net 100k in taxes (above and beyond any benefits received), to demonstrate your ability to support them, you should not be allowed to have any children.
        
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        March 22, 2017 4:49pm
  - MCos
    
    They must have choked on the suburb’s name . . .
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:53am
  - Inandout
    
    I can remember Manurewa in the 1970s as a working class area, but was not solely white. Before the first Mall was built there was rural land between Manurewa and Papatoetoe. In those times there would have been little crime anywhere in NZ, because that was the old kiwi way. Much of South Auckland is now, by any measure, a shit hole.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:01am
    - sam green
      
      Yes – the gap between the mega rich and everybody else wasn’t so great back then.
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:25am
      - Longknives
        
        Quite right Sam Green.
        There was no ‘Rich and Poor’ in the old days- Everyone lived in an idyllic communal society..
        
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        March 22, 2017 1:58pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Estimated wealth of richest people in history. Bill Gates only just makes it on the list.
        https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/photos/the-20-richest-people-of-all-time/ss-BBsg8nX#image=1
        
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        March 22, 2017 4:46pm
      - sam green
        
        There’s always been rich and poor – always will be. I think Jesus said that – well he did in the movie. I don’t have a problem with that. That’s not what I said. The mega rich and everybody else is what I said. Mind you, the mega rich don’t live in Manurewa. The disparity has deepened.
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:47pm
    - GoVege
      
      I wouldn’t want to be an Indian dairy owner there.
      They don’t just get robbed, they get racially abused too.
      But overall, it’s still a nice friendly place.
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:50am
- Flash
  
  . . . And as Plato observed over 2,000 years ago ‘this City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.’
  Could this also be said about Kaikohe?
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:37am
krazykiwi

This is what happens when green ideology is followed:

Australia’s Energy Crisis

Residents of NSW, Victoria and South Australia have a 75 per cent chance of blackouts next summer.
:::
Without Hazelwood, if it is simultaneously hot in Sydney and Melbourne blackouts are certain unless there is also a lot of wind in the right places and the network can get the power to the capitals.
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March 22, 2017 8:41am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Three days to go before they start shutting Hazelwood down….
  
  http://joannenova.com.au/
  
  I’ll be sending my baby loads of woollies for Ozzzie’s winter
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:40am
- stephieboy
  
  ” Energy crisis: The 9 questions you were too embarrassed to ask4. But Australia has abundant supplies of gas and coal – surely we can use those to keep the lights on?”
  
  4 .As for gas, perhaps. Gas supplies are running low because gas companies have entered into lucrative contracts to sell it offshore. Part of the solution is to force them to supply more to the domestic market. That’s what Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s (belated) meeting with the gas companies last week was about.
  
  As for coal, no one seriously thinks it is a viable way to keep meeting energy demands in the long run. Burning fossil fuels imposes large externalities on the rest of society through climate change. Most businesses think some sort of price on carbon – to discourage carbon-intense activities and promote low-emission technologies – is inevitable. But they can’t invest, because they don’t know what it will be.
  
  http://www.smh.com.au/comment/energy-crisis-the-9-questions-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask-20170318-gv13jd.html
  
  A much more balanaced perspective than the nonsense ,
  
  “..sending my baby loads of woollies for Ozzzie’s winter ” etc
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:30pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @stephieboy
    
    You don’t get it do you?
    
    South Australia doesn’t have the generating capacity to replace Hazelwood…. so they’ll need to get energy from Victoria… and that’ll cause a balls-up… as it did last year.. and my little baby will get chilly.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:53pm
- Manolo
  
  It seems crazy. Andrew Bolt, who has been running a series of strong-worded editorials on the matter, reckons the Green lunacy has blinded Australia.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:33pm
MCos

I wonder if the Defence Force will take their chances in court with Jon Stephenson . . . . . . . again.
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March 22, 2017 8:48am
- jcuk
  
  Pity the two are co-producers as I respect Stephenson but not Hager.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:34am
Manolo

The Dow Jones had a bad day:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/21/us-markets.html

U.S. equities posted their worst day of the year Tuesday as banks faced pressure from falling yields, while investors turned their eyes to a key House vote.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell around 240 points.
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March 22, 2017 9:29am
- virtualmark
  
  Yep, mainly because of Comey’s & Roger’s testimony yesterday in the House, but also with increasing doubt on Trump’s ability to get healthcare changes done. The market is now less confident that Trump will be able to push through pro-growth policies.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:59am
dime

nice of wellington council to build a man cave for peter jackson lol

ya have to respect what hes done but goddam he loves himself a hand out

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/90692895/sir-peter-jackson-doubles-budget-for-wellington-movie-museum-but-delays-construction
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March 22, 2017 9:32am
- Longknives
  
  What’s a bet the Movie Museum gets a Maori name?
  *After extensive Ratepayer $$ paid for consultation…
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:28am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Te Whare Movie – it’s an evolving language apparantely
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:51pm
    - GazzaW
      
      …..or even Te Fillums.
      
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      March 22, 2017 1:41pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Whare taonga o kiriata
    
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    March 22, 2017 3:39pm
gump

Oh dear. Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort appears to have been laundering money from Russia.

Will he make a deal with the FBI to avoid going to jail? Tune in next week for the next episode of the best soap opera in town.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/new-documents-say-trump-aide-hid-payments-from-pro-moscow-ukraine-party/2017/03/21/92ec85f2-0e11-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.692aa897a2ce
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March 22, 2017 9:34am
Manolo

It is good to know you can be ordered by a supranational organisation, isn’t it?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_POLAND_EU_MIGRANTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-21-10-29-41

The European Union’s commissioner for migration says there are ways to make all EU members states comply with the program of relocation of migrants among them.

Without naming Poland, Avramopoulos said the EU has the “tools, the means and the power” to convince all members to comply and will make an assessment of response by the end of September. He mentioned no sanctions.
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March 22, 2017 9:34am
Manolo

The Republicans take a big risk:
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-21/obamacare-failure-would-endanger-tax-cut-goals-some-in-gop-warn

As a health-care replacement bill backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan struggles to gain support from House conservatives and Senate Republicans, some GOP lawmakers argue that a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul the U.S. tax code with stout cuts in tax rates for businesses and individuals depends on the outcome.
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March 22, 2017 9:47am
- stephieboy
  
  Mnaolo, the core issue reamains and that is how to provide affordable health care for all Americans .
  
  The GOP positioning is not encouraging..
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:25am
  - waripori
    
    How can that deserve 12 downticks? Not even Republicans are encouraged.
    
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    March 22, 2017 2:32pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Most kiwiblog readers automatically downtick Stephieboy without reading what he writes. Sic Semper Troglodytarum
      
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      March 22, 2017 4:03pm
kowtow

The flood goes on. Europe is doomed .

“More than 6,000 people have been rescued on the central Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy in the last few days, as greater numbers take to the sea in warmer weather, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.”

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/6000-people-rescued-mediterranean-days-170321072142957.html
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March 22, 2017 10:03am
- stephieboy
  
  Europe is not doomed espcially if you take away the demograpahics paranoia and hysteria.that those like you have been and are still peddling .
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:22am
  - Manolo
    
    Let me tell you: Italy and Italians are sick of these invaders, who are taking resources and money that should be put to good use in their country.
    
    They have had enough of it.
    
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    March 22, 2017 10:35am
kowtow

“An Islamic terrorist secured asylum in Ireland after duping authorities here about his background.
Details of his activities, outlined in submissions made to the High Court, have raised serious concerns about the adequacy of screening processes used here in the past.”

How many more are out there?

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/terrorist-plotting-carnage-in-europe-duped-authorities-to-secure-move-here-35550305.html
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March 22, 2017 10:13am
- Inandout
  
  Considering every Muslim has the ‘exploding mental seed’ implanted, then there are millions out there. The litmus test is when asked what should happen to those who draw cartoons of mohamed, almost all Muslims would be happy to see the artist put to death. Now that is extreme.
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:36am
Manolo

Wasn’t Islam the most pro-female religion?
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21718871-women-are-fed-up-being-treated-children-some-saudi-women-are-secretly?fsrc=scn/tw/te/rfd/pe
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March 22, 2017 10:27am
GoVege

Anyone watch “A world without Down Syndrome” on TV 1 last night?
Apparently in Iceland the termination rate for Downs is 100%.
My elder son took a holiday there last month.
Lucky he didn’t know about this, or he probably wouldn’t have set foot in the place.
He is devoted to his special little brother.
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March 22, 2017 10:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Well I didn’t watch it,
  but he’s a pic of the Iceland President giving his support for World Down’s Day (yesterday).
  http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2017/03/21/icelandic_president_wears_mismatched_socks_in_suppo/
  Even though Iceland hasn’t had a Down’s birth in 5 years.
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:15am
  - GoVege
    
    How sweet of the Prez.
    Must be a depressing place in Iceland with the freezing cold and no downs people to cheer you up!
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:25am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Well it might be the cold that depresses Icelanders, but I’m more inclined to think it’s centuries of Lutheranism.
      
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      March 22, 2017 12:16pm
      - Jack5
        
        Icelandic humour ….
        
        http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/11/icelandic-humor/
        
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        March 22, 2017 4:40pm
Fletch

Prager – if there is no God, then murder isn’t wrong.
Good video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrcQ_PTkVD4
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March 22, 2017 11:04am
- rangitoto
  
  Is he saying that murder is only wrong because a god said so?
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:12am
  - mikenmild
    
    How else can one tell right from wrong without a schizophrenic voice in one’s head?
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:18am
    - Swifty
      
      Exactly.
      
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      March 22, 2017 11:26am
- Kimbo
  
  So he is rehashing the ontological argument for the existence of God (“that than which nothing greater can be thought”), and then, by implication, excluding self-defence, capital punishment and killing enemy combatants in war (I agree on that, but nonetheless it is not a ‘given’ philosophically)
  
  ….as well as ignoring the pragmatic reality that theists who hold to philosophical positions that murder is wrong….still commit murder.
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:23am
  - Kimbo
    
    ….as well as ignoring the additional pragmatic reality that many atheists consider murder abhorrent and wrong…and don’t practice it.
    
    So more preaching to the choir. Hence my low opinion of apologetics, be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim, atheist, whatever…
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:32am
- Swifty
  
  In my experience a lot of supposedly god-inspired objective morality causes evil.
  
  And anyway, having seen the video, this is just Prager’s opinion! 🙂
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:25am
  - rangitoto
    
    The theists have been trying and failing to resolve Euthyphro Dilemma for over two thousand years.
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:33am
Odakyu-sen

Let’s play a mind game.

Imagine that a population has two kinds of people. Let’s call one “bread-winners.” These are people who know that they have to work to provide for their families. Work is what defines them.
Let’s call the other group “the kept.” They depend on the money provided by the bread-winners.
Let’s imagine that only bread-winners have the vote. Years later, the kept gain the right to vote.
One of the things the kept will vote for is to have money provided to them (as that is what they are used to).

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March 22, 2017 11:40am
- Kimbo
  
  Was all downhill once they gave women the vote?
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:50am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Kimbo,
    
    I don’t think it is as clear-cut as that.
    
    If you have a large part of the population who tend to:
    -be willing to trade off freedom for safety
    -choose appeasement over conflict
    -be pragmatic instead of principled
    -are driven by emotion rather than logic
    -want to “feel” good rather than “do” good
    
    then giving such people the vote may tend to favor people who desire a “big, strong government who will look after you, protect you and provide the things that you need.”
    
    Maybe such people see such a government as a substitute for something missing in their lives…
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:33pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Odakyu-sen,
      
      typical elitist I know best ,chronic know it all , plebs can’t think waffle .
      
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      March 22, 2017 12:41pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        The plebs are usually the ones working and/or supporting families.
        
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        March 22, 2017 12:46pm
      - Padriv Ustoev
        
        Read a book you dunce. This has all been chewed over by philosophers for over 4000 years.
        
        Illiterate clown.
        
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        March 22, 2017 2:16pm
- stephieboy
  
  Restoring the property owners only franchise should go down well on the 23rd Sept ?
  
  Start a leaflet drop ?
  
  LOL
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:58am
- GoVege
  
  Sounds fair enough to me, Odakyu.
  (Only giving the vote to workers.)
  Course the idle don’t usually bother to vote anyway.
  How come the rest of us insist on supporting them?
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:28pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Because it is easier to feed the bastards than to come home after work to find they have helped thenselves
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:56pm
    - GoVege
      
      Doesn’t work that way, Paulus.
      They take your money AND they knock over your house.
      Being on a benny gives them lots of time to go house-breaking.
      
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      March 22, 2017 1:49pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  To reach any sensible conclusion you need to specify how easy it is for people to switch between the two groups.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:32pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Nigel, if an individual is of sound mind and body, then it is all in the mind.
    
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    March 22, 2017 12:48pm
- MCos
  
  Except for a period during the war when my mother worked in a munitions factory she never drew a salary in her live.
  However.
  Until she married my father and moved to NZ she worked on the family farm. Once here she raised seven children, as well as cooked all the meals, made clothes for the kids, grew a substantial amount of our vegetables, cleaned the house . . . . & chopped wood until the day before she died at ninety five.
  Now you tell me she didn’t warrant a vote.
  My Dad went off to WWII as did a lot of blokes he knew & some of them didn’t come back & some that did come back weren’t the same any more.
  A lot of kids I knew had mothers who worked hard like Mum with big families, but a few had the additional burden of husbands who had demons from the war that they tried to chase away with alcohol. I remember Dad going round at night accasionally to calm his mates down . . . .
  We’re all in the country together. The government doesn’t make decisions with an eye solely to those who pay income tax. I know there are some who take advantage of the system, but that’s a small price to pay, in my opinion.
  
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  March 22, 2017 3:15pm
- Tirebiter
  
  James Madison, the principal write rof the US Constitution, opined that a primary goal of the new government is to protect the opulent few from everybody else – why they hated democracy as much as monarchy. And why the electoral college (and in the case of GW Bush, a unique interference in state prerogatives by the Supreme Court) has determined two of the last three American presidents and not the popular vote. A few years after the Constitution was put into effect and Madison saw how his political associates had twisted his contribution he apparently regretted his ardor to protect the rich by sacrificing the poor.
  
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  March 23, 2017 4:14am
Manolo

Politically-incorrect comments from a Dutchman on the spending habits of southern Europeans (“too much money on booze and women”):
http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/03/21/ue-presidente-eurogruppo-dijsselbloem-sud-spende-soldi-per-alcol-e-donne/3466708/

“Non puoi spendere tutti soldi per alcol e donne e poi chiedere aiuto”. Così il presidente dell’Eurogruppo Jeroen Dijsselbloem si è rivolto ai Paesi meridionali dell’Eurozona nel corso di un’intervista rilasciata al quotidiano tedesco Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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March 22, 2017 11:43am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, come on . Boredom and tedium starting to set in ? ,
  
  Dutch drinking culture ,
  
  http://rumroadravings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/kopstootje_circa33_11.jpg
  
  Liberal sex cuture too,
  
  https://static01.nyt.com/images/2008/02/24/world/europe/24amsterdam-inline-650.jpg
  
  Horny ?
  
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  March 22, 2017 11:49am
  - Manolo
    
    I’m sorry you are unable to read Italian, but Mr Dijsselbloem is not a drunk. He is the president of the Eurogroup, the European organisation of the ministers of finance from the nineteen countries who have adopted the euro.
    
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    March 22, 2017 11:54am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Oh Manolo,
      
      You should be so happy those fine Italian men are buying nice shoes for their lady friends.
      (Imagine if they were spending all that money on their men friends)
      
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      March 22, 2017 12:04pm
      - Manolo
        
        Certo, cara Maggy. Ma mi dispiace perche’ loro comprano le scarpe italiane e non la mia marca Blahnik.
        
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        March 22, 2017 12:12pm
  - Longknives
    
    Promoting ‘Rape Culture’ again Stephieboy?
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:55pm
Inandout

Hey you hairy armpit/arms/legs carpet munchers, leave Wonder Woman alone! She has survived all these comic years with clean armpits.

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/wonder-woman-hairless-armpits

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4336454/Wonder-Woman-trailer-prompts-debate-underarm-hair.html
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March 22, 2017 12:03pm
MCos

The other day in Melbourne a priest was stabbed by someone in front of his congregation who accused him of being a Hindu or a Muslim.
I’d have thought this would have provoked some sort of reaction, but it hardly seems to have been reported.
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March 22, 2017 12:09pm
- Inandout
  
  Some people just don’t know how to identify their religious houses. A priest normally speaks in a church, and Hindus and Muslims in temples.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:16pm
  - SGA
    
    As I remember the story, the stabber was bothered that the priest was (or looked) ethnically Indian.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:32pm
    - GoVege
      
      Poor Indians. ..wherever they go/ whatever they do they just can’t please some idiots.
      
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      March 22, 2017 3:04pm
Happychappy

Gosh who would have thought that the Labour Leader Andrew Little would be calling for a inquiry into our Defence Force with the third Question in Parliament today after the allegations in the book Hit and Run that was launched yesterday.
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March 22, 2017 12:31pm
- rangitoto
  
  He’s just trying to help his mate Hagar with sales of his latest novel.
  
  Meanwhile NZ Defence Chief says put up hard evidence or shut up.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:41pm
  - Paulus
    
    Am totally bored already – why not find something new not 8 years old.
    It’s just the left trying to close down our Defence Forces putting many tens of thousands out of work to say nothing of the civilian infrastructure support throughout the country.
    Whilst I support the Boy Scouts Iam not sure of their role in an Earthquake.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:28pm
- GazzaW
  
  No chance he got a preview I suppose.
  
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  March 22, 2017 1:47pm
GoVege

Just had a bite to eat at KFC.
(I only ate a few chips of course.)
As I was leaving, I had to squeeze past an enormously massive person of indeterminate gender but fairly young appearance, in a wheelchair.
This is becoming a more common sight these days in the south.
(Plus the epidemic of diabetes.)
Can’t our doctors/health authorities get a bit more proactive? ??
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March 22, 2017 12:35pm
- stephieboy
  
  GoVege, there are preventative health initiatives run by local district health boards to try and tackle the problem of obesity including related complications like diabetes , heart disease and cancer etc, etc
  
  http://www.adhb.govt.nz/documents/ADHB_AP_2015-16_FINAL.pdf
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:50pm
  - GoVege
    
    Thanks SB.
    I’ll wade through it when I got a few hours to spare.
    What I was hoping for was just some commonsense talking to by someone at the coalface.
    Some years ago my Downs son’s teacher sat me down and told me gently…if I didn’t reduce his food intake, he would end up an invalid.
    We did.
    Yet for some years I was sent to have x-rays for my knees (collapsing under my weight), my lower arm (stress from hauling myself out of armchair).
    Yet nobody EVER mentioned I was overweight.
    Perhaps they assumed I should know…but the power of denial is strong.
    I’m working on it now, but if I was Polynesian, I would have diabetes.
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:45pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Make the doors less wide, that would be a start and a useful gauge if one finds one cannot get in the door that the salad bar or nothing may be a better choice.
  
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  March 22, 2017 12:59pm
  - GoVege
    
    That one occurred to me Paulus, but I doubt if you’ll get the fast food outfits’ cooperation.
    More of them are installing extra-wide automatic doors presumably to cater for their obese customers.
    I was in England and Europe recently and I noticed at McDonald’s, all the meal options had their calorie quota listed in bold print next to the price.
    And virtually everyone was skinny!
    
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    March 22, 2017 1:33pm
- Longknives
  
  Plain packaging will stop these lardos stuffing themselves at KFC!!
  
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  March 22, 2017 1:53pm
- Fletch
  
  I guess you didn’t see the story about the Hamilton woman who found fly eggs in her KFC chicken piece.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11821510
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:05pm
  - GoVege
    
    Thanks for that, Fletch.
    Each time I am tempted by KFC I will think of that image!
    
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    March 22, 2017 3:06pm
  - GoVege
    
    Driving through the south today and saw a new state housing development.
    TWO storied too….not only conserves land…keeps the people fit getting up and down the stairs!
    Could this be part of the government’s new initiatives on health?
    
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    March 22, 2017 3:11pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  “Can’t our doctors/health authorities get a bit more proactive? ??”.
  
  They have tried but they can’t convince Pharmac to fund bullets.
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:14pm
- Manolo
  
  I wouldn’t do lift a finger and let the stupid buggers stuff themselves to death.
  
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  March 22, 2017 3:14pm
  - GoVege
    
    I wonder how much dialysis treatment costs per patient per lifetime?
    You don’t mind paying do you Manolo?
    
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    March 22, 2017 4:06pm
Jack5

Article in the Hooerald today contains this (bold emphasis is mine) :

Ellen DeGeneres bust her finger in a wine-related accident at the weekend.

The 59-year-old talk show host had to be taken to the emergency room when she suffered a dislocated digit after drinking two glasses of the grape-infused alcohol and “fell into a door”.

So that’s what wine is. Thank you, the Hooerald.
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March 22, 2017 1:44pm
- Longknives
  
  Ellen is the darling of the Luvvy Left- Now just imagine how that would have been reported if it were Trump supporters Nicole Kidman or Tim Allen?..
  
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  March 22, 2017 1:51pm
Jack5

Radio NZ, the Voice of the Left, is pulling out the stops today to rescue the flop launch of Hager the Horrible’s latest book.

Radio Labour’s political editor, Jane Patterson, said of the events at the centre of book, that if the actions were committed there “is a question of responsibility for the Government.”

In a written piece on the Radio NZ web site, Patterson says: “The onus is now on the government to clearly demonstrate New Zealand was not responsible for the raid on two Afghan villages in 2010 that led to 21 people being killed or injured.”

It brings to mind Humbert Wolfe’s epigram:

You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.

But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there’s
no occasion to.
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March 22, 2017 2:05pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Personally I am not interested in these latest accusations at all as they only concern six peasants in some flea bitten shithole which died.
  Yeah well happens every day and ultimately it’s not worth losing any sleep about and might be in New Zealand’s best interest as if still alive they would probably be in Mt Roskill on welfare by now.
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:41pm
- Jack5
  
  And in its push today for the Hager book, the Hooerald has trotted out Richard Jackson ,deputy director at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.
  
  Yep, your taxes pay for this pacifism centre at Otago University.
  
  Here’s a link to Jackson’s blog, in which he gives several reasons why he calls himself a terrorist sympathiser (basically it’s our – the West’s – fault) ….
  
  https://richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com/
  
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  March 22, 2017 3:07pm
- Peter
  
  Even by the far-left’s dreary standards, this muted fart of a launch was a non-event.
  
  Some people died in some far-off war zone six years ago.
  
  Compelling. Straight to the hard left $2 bargain bin, once again.
  
  Oh, look – Kim Kardashian’s new ass pic!
  
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  March 22, 2017 3:42pm
- Jack5
  
  Bryce Edwards, former Alliance Party staffer, now an academic and a left-wing blogger on (mainly Left wing) blogs, brings in Matthew Hooton and the NBR’s Rob Hosking for supposedly right-wing views on this latest Hagerography. Edwards does this in his blog-on-blogs column in the Hooerald.
  
  Hooton wants an inquiry and Hosking is reported as saying:
  
  “… someone has it very very wrong. And this time it’s a serious matter, not just about who wrote what on which blog or which person leaked what to whom. At the end of this process, someone’s credibility is going to be shredded forever. The allegations are too serious…”
  
  Wimps.
  
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  March 22, 2017 4:02pm
Longknives

Stephieboy has today twice posted the same picture of some scantily clad Dutch Prostitutes.
Anyone else find this a little weird? Creepy?..
Maybe it’s our Left who have the problem with ‘Rape Culture’ and how they perceive Women?
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March 22, 2017 2:14pm
- Jack5
  
  One of the Stephies recently in a post linked to a pornographic site and thus got the Stephieboys syndicate suspended from posting for a short time.
  
  Perhaps one of the Stephies is still a teenager.
  
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  March 22, 2017 2:24pm
  - simpleton1
    
    Perhaps need bone measurement and/or
    dentist assessment to prove they are still a teenager/underage.
    
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    March 22, 2017 2:29pm
    - Jack5
      
      Is the bone measurement taken at the head? I fear there may be no known scientific instrument able to penetrate such density.
      
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      March 22, 2017 2:55pm
- Manolo
  
  Has our pious Muslim transformed into a perv? Has he?
  
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  March 22, 2017 3:12pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Stephieboy has today twice posted the same picture of some scantily clad Dutch Prostitutes.
  Yikes,
  I don’t even bother clicking on his links anymore..
  
  Hard to believe that stephieboy tries to advocate for Muslims in NZ and then links to images and sites that are considered haram.
  
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  March 22, 2017 3:26pm
- stephieboy
  
  Longknives , twice ??? See post at 11.43am and response for perspective and context !
  
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  March 22, 2017 3:35pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You really can’t remember what you post here, can you stephieboy?
    
    Yes! you have twice today posted an image of Dutch prostitutes.
    
    Don’t you check your links before you post stuff?
    
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    March 22, 2017 4:08pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Hands you a box of tissues for your “response”
    
    Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
    
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    March 22, 2017 4:09pm
- pentwig
  
  Poor Reid3 got banned for multi posting.
  DPF said he was scamming.
  I wonder if he will apply the same reasoning to steffie?
  
  Shall we start a book?
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:52pm
stephieboy

Maggy Wassilief, before your puritanism and infantilism takes a grip of you see Manolo’s post at 11.43 am and my response for conext .
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March 22, 2017 3:33pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  @stephieboy
  
  I not only saw Manolo’s post at 11:43am, I responded to it…… can’t you read?
  
  And what about your conext (sic) for posting the same image at 12:10pm?
  
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  March 22, 2017 3:59pm
- Manolo
  
  @stephieboy: Can you outrightly deny your obscure inclinations, leanings, and proclivities? 😀
  
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  March 22, 2017 4:06pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  infantilism
  ɪnˈfantɪlɪz(ə)m
  noun
  childish behaviour.
  “his comedy is a blend of slapstick and sentimental infantilism”
  PSYCHOLOGY
  the persistence of infantile characteristics or behaviour in adult life.
  
  That describes you to a T.
  
  Or perhaps this:
  
  Paraphilic infantilism, also known as autonepiophilia and adult baby syndrome is a sexual fetish that involves role-playing a regression to an infant-like state. Behaviors may include drinking from a bottle or wearing diapers.
  
  LOL
  
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  March 22, 2017 4:13pm
VicParking

It seems that thse kids running around robbing, smashing and flighting are all the governments fault. (Last year it would have been John Keys fault).
Whats happened to parental responsibility.
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March 22, 2017 4:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@stephieboy

before your puritanism and infantilism

The ancestors may have been part of the “Wee Free”, but I am far removed from Puritanism.

My infant days are basically beyond memory.

It’s not my beliefs/ethics/mores you have to worry about; it’s whether your constant posting of haram images is damaging to the Muslims in NZ.
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March 22, 2017 4:18pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  The irony of stephie calling anyone infantile just exploded my bullshit meter.
  
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  March 22, 2017 4:23pm
Stars And Stripes

Come on everyone give Stephieboy a break as he is only a product of the sexually repressive environment in Mt Roskill.
Imagine going out everyday for your walks and only seeing ugly women under blankets passing by.
Damaging for anyone’s wellbeing especially if you like to see a bit of ass and titties once in a while.
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March 22, 2017 4:31pm
- Manolo
  
  Are you implying he lives in a permanent state of sexual repression? Heaven forbid, he is a devout and pious Muslim after all!
  
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  March 22, 2017 5:26pm
InsaneBorg

I might buy a copy of Hager’s new book and film it burning to ash then post it on Twitter with a catchy tagline.
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March 22, 2017 4:43pm
- Jack5
  
  Burn? It’s already smoke and mirrors.
  
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  March 22, 2017 4:44pm
  - InsaneBorg
    
    I wonder what reaction i’d get or would Twitter remove fairly quickly for violating their rules?
    
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    March 22, 2017 4:46pm
- Lance
  
  Say it’s art
  And if anyone criticizes you, you can ask if they hate the arts.
  
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  March 22, 2017 6:19pm
krazykiwi

Snoooooowflaaaaaaaake alert:

Sad about climate change? There’s a support group for that.

A dozen people sit in an airy Salt Lake City conference room, the view of the Wasatch mountains a reminder of why they’re here. It is October 2016, and they have gathered to share in grief.

But this is not a typical support group. This smattering of artists, activists, writers, and others is discussing their feelings about how they each contribute to climate change.

I guess they drove their cars to the support group.
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March 22, 2017 5:32pm
- Kea
  
  Under Trumps medical reforms the mentally ill will get the treatment they need.
  
  These tragic deranged souls need to be hooked up to the mains and given all the ECT they need to cure them and dam the expense.
  
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  March 22, 2017 5:47pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m not too sure about the efficacy of ECT these days..
    
    how about a nice CO2-spa and some electrotherapy?
    http://www.lazne-vraz.cz/en/lazenska-lecba/lecebne-procedury/elektrolecba
    
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    March 22, 2017 5:54pm
    - Kea
      
      Maggy, we just need a bigger sample size to evaluate the efficacy of ECT
      
      They could also experiment with the levels. I personally belief these poor souls will require very intense therapeutic voltages.
      
      They can build a few more coal fired power stations to ensure therapy is not interrupted by supply shortages 🙂
      
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      March 22, 2017 6:00pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I’m also interested in pumping all our excess CO2 under folks’ flabby skin.
        
        If we start restricting our fatties from their favourite foods, they’re going to get saggy skin.
        How unattractive!!!!
        
        But Carboxy therapy to the rescue..
        http://www.carboxytherapy.com/
        
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        March 22, 2017 6:10pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    tragic deranged souls …
    
    … need to be taught about critical thought, about the triumph of human innovation, and about the lasting benefits of cheap and abundant energy which include better education, medical breakthroughs, increased social cohesion, improved communication, absence of wars, improved quality of life… and more!
    
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    March 22, 2017 6:16pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  They could have car-pooled…
  
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  March 22, 2017 5:53pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    …in a Prius powered by farts and sanctimony!
    
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    March 22, 2017 6:56pm
Kea

stephieboy MARCH 22, 2017 11:49AM

Why are you posting photos objectifying Western Dutch women and asking if other posters are “horny” ?

It is little wonder you spend so much time defending those who rape, degrade and humiliate Dutch women on a regular basis.
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March 22, 2017 5:56pm
nasska

Things should be a little saner around here for the next couple of weeks:

stephieboy

Unity Books ripe for book burning or torching, eh ?

[DPF: Implicit nazi name calling is a strike offence. Strike 4]

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March 22, 2017 6:18pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Noooo. The trainee troll can’t sharpen his invective while banned. So sad 😀
  
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  March 22, 2017 6:21pm
- SPC
  
  the amorality of collective punishment.
  
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  March 22, 2017 6:23pm
- Kea
  
  Not a fair go, when a holocaust denying supporter of Ukrainian neo Nazi nationalists, who runs a conspiracy/hate site, can say what ever they want.
  
  In fact worse than that, DPF bans anyone who calls them out on it. I strongly suspect they know each other in the real world.
  
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  March 22, 2017 6:41pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Not so,
    EAD doesn’t allege others proscribe to such views.
    Stephie is constantly denigrating others saying they have alt-right views, then alleging nazi sympathies.
    
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    March 22, 2017 6:50pm
    - Kea
      
      AgentBallSack, Not EAD.
      
      If he said the things this person does DPF would ban him in an instant.
      
      This person is, by far, the most evil and offensive person who comments here. But never gets censored.
      
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      March 22, 2017 6:57pm
    - SPC
      
      Are right wingers not proud to be alt-right media “informed” instead of liberal MSM “misinformed”?
      
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      March 22, 2017 7:12pm
- mikenmild
  
  While having no respect or affection for stephieboy, I think that’s a pretty harsh strike call from DPF.
  
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  March 22, 2017 7:09pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Yes I agree with you there MM but I think he has been warned a few times lately to give it a miss but didn’t take the hint so probably contributed to his own demise.
    
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    March 22, 2017 7:13pm
  - SPC
    
    It was – given it was mockery of someone’s view that a bookshop promoting a book up for sale was being politically partisan.
    
    But then DPF has standards to adhere too and there was the reference to others (a censorious right) burning bookshops – the hate speech/crime area being touched on.
    
    The other party took no offense, asking if sb had a match to provide.
    
    Given sb was not supporting any such right wing action but mocking the intolerance at the freedom of speech that bookshops represent, a harsh call.
    
    DPF justified it as, it not being proper to infer the intolerance of others was “Nazi like/bookshop destroying type”.
    
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    March 22, 2017 7:20pm
nasska

I reckon he’s past the trainee stage & heading for his master’s KK. He’s got over 18000 comments under his belt.

Each one reminiscent of a little pellet of sheep shit in a well eaten out paddock. 🙂
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March 22, 2017 6:26pm
AgentBallSack

With Gabby and stephie gone, Kiwiblog is going to be a nice place to be for a couple of weeks.

Lets renovate while they’re gone.

First person to say Nazi loses.
Edit – from now
GO!
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March 22, 2017 6:53pm
- mikenmild
  
  Can I use that word to abuse anyone who espouse National Socialist beliefs?
  
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  March 22, 2017 7:04pm
  - Kea
    
    Why would they see it as abuse if that is their belief ?
    
    Are you stepping in for stupidboy ?
    
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    March 22, 2017 7:06pm
  - SPC
    
    There are those who espouse a white race civilisation supremacy theme, without even lapsing into fascism, let alone Nazi sympathiser territory.
    
    However EAD does all three, justifying it as a necessary defence of the white race, lest it lose to its enemies.
    
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    March 22, 2017 7:08pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Yes, he identifies as a ‘modern’ National Socialist, as distinct from what he sees as the ‘cartoonish’ original Nazis. He has been somewhat shy about specifying how he would deviate from the original prescription though.
      
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      March 22, 2017 7:15pm
      - Kea
        
        milky, does he want to control what people say – like the nazi did – and you want to ?
        
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        March 22, 2017 7:21pm
    - Kea
      
      SPC, He is not the one I see actively denying the findings of holocaust researchers, eye witnesses [including the people who did it] and official records.
      
      He is not the one defending the neo Nazi regime in Ukraine today as Jews flee in terror.
      
      He is not the one adopting the hatred of Russians that so consumed the Nazi.
      
      He is not the one who runs a conspiracy/hate site.
      
      EAD is just rightly frustrated with the double standards and bullshit we are fed. The person I am referring to is pure evil.
      
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      March 22, 2017 7:19pm
  - nasska
    
    Nope! http://www.thesaurus.com gives alternatives as dictator, autocrat, tyrant, authoritarian & totalitarian.
    
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    March 22, 2017 7:14pm
    - mikenmild
      
      None of those are very exact synonyms for Nazi. nasska’s wife is a tyrant, but not a Nazi, for example.
      
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      March 22, 2017 7:22pm
      - nasska
        
        Wait until I tell her what you called her.
        
        You’ll die the death of a thousand cuts. 🙂
        
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        March 22, 2017 7:27pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    There are different types of National Socialism.
    Apart from Naziism, the 2 most prominent have been
    Ba’athism in Syria
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba'ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Syria_Region
    and
    The form of Government in Egypt under Nasser
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasserism
    
    There are numerous National Socialist groupings/parties throughout the World.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party
    
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    March 22, 2017 7:23pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Yet I have tried in vain to get EAD to outline a programme for his ‘modern’ National Socialists. I can’t believe he would simply copy the programme of an Arab tyrant, even if it involved using chemical weapons against his enemies.
      
      PS. Wasn’t Saddam Hussein also originally part of the Baathist movement?
      
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      March 22, 2017 7:26pm
      - Kea
        
        milky, but no mention of the rabid national socialists of the Ukraine who are very active right now.
        
        Funny that.
        
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        March 22, 2017 7:32pm
      - SPC
        
        He died a Baathist, some irony that many of his underlings could only find work with Al Qaeda in Iraq and Islamic State after he died.
        
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        March 22, 2017 7:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ mikenmild
        I have followed many of your comments very closely.
        I saw the first time EAD wrote that he favoured a National Socialist form of Government.
        You and a few others have always tried to equate this with Naziism.
        
        Perhaps if you stopped the Nazi jibes and attacked his policies/arguments/ information, you might make progress with finding out what EAD really advocates.
        
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        March 22, 2017 7:46pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I recall that well, Maggy. Unfortunately, EAD has not been forthcoming in explaining how a modern National Socialist government would differ from the ‘cartoonish’ Nazis. I am therefore forced to speculate – perhaps he feels that the Nazis were not sufficient dedicated to conquering the world and exterminating all their enemies.
        
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        March 22, 2017 8:01pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @mikenmild
        
        and I suppose that’s what make me sick..
        You equating Nazis to some cartoon joke.
        
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        March 22, 2017 8:15pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Maggy, EAD is the one who described the original Nazis as cartoonish, so you should take up that very valid concern with him.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:00pm
    - Kea
      
      Poor old Saddam. He attacked Iran with US support gassing thousands. The US did it to please Israel.
      
      And look at the thanks he got !
      
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      March 22, 2017 7:36pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Would the concept of “Maori Separatism” be akin to National Socialism? After all, they desire a nation, and they are collectivist (aka socialist), plus there is a good dose of feeling-of-supremacy (or at least entitlement) in the mix as well.
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:38pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        No, I don’t think so…
        
        Everything I have read about Maori separatism talks in terms of keeping Tribal authorities…
        
        but my reading of Arab nationalism is that all tribal/ethnic groupings would be subsumed into one
        national entity.
        
        (but I’m no expert…..)
        
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        March 22, 2017 8:44pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I’ve not heard of any Maori separatist advocating world domination and the extermination of their imagined enemies…
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:02pm
      - Longknives
        
        “I’ve not heard of any Maori separatist advocating world domination and the extermination of their imagined enemies…”
        
        Never met one of the Harawiras then Mikey?
        Or one of Tame Iti’s Urewera crew??
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:36pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      AS far as I can see,
      you have spent the last year trying to score silly points off EAD, but have never once provided a decent rebuttal for the stuff he posts here.
      
      You and stephieboy try to paint yourselves as the last defenders of the Free world, yet you both descend to
      despicable attempts to smear the name of folks who post here.
      A Nazi tactic if ever there was.
      
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      March 22, 2017 9:30pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Sad!
        You really think that I should rebut his Holocaust denying bullshit – points that have been refuted a thousand times?
        Maybe your climate change whackiness gives you some kind of twisted sympathy for the underdog.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:44pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @mikenmild
        
        That’s how it goes, eh.?
        
        I think you should hold EAD to account, just as I try to do when he gets onto matters I know something about (race/genetics).
        
        But there’s no need to trash me and call me whacky, a denier, mad, because I express scepticism about climate science being a settled science.
        
        It’s the personal attacks that you , stephieboy and a few others make that is abhorrent.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:53pm
      - EAD
        
        Thank you Maggy for calling out Milkmaid and his despicable “tactics”.
        
        To be honest, I would rather spend my time on here debating other matters, but whilst the charge of “Nazi” is used to label just about anything that is contra to the Globalist and Liberal agendas, I will continue to discuss the policies and actions of the German National Socialists free from the hyperbole thay engulfs certain commentators.
        
        It’s is now so all pervading that even supporting traditional marriage in White Countries can have you labelled a “Nazi” (see my article below) and thus such a point of view dismissed as pure evil.
        
        The need to discuss the Holocaust is bought on it being the sacred cow on which all European People (not just Germans) must forever beg forgiveness and can’t object to their countries being overrun by 3rd world Muhammadians less they be called a “Nazi”. A standard that is applied only to White countries by the way. Us “Nazis” (even those of us from countries who fought against the German National Socialists), only want what the rest of the world has – a homeland they can call their own and the end of policies that aren’t set to see us becomes minorities in our ancient homelands within a generation.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:56pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Boo hoo. You wallow in garbage, but whinge when people remark about the smell. When you post fringe stuff from loonies, you will run a risk that normal people will think you are a loony yourself.
        You are very selective about whom you criticise. But it’s nice that EAD has found a friend and defender
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:00pm
    - Tirebiter
      
      Not a socialist, or have socialist sympathies, but Germany’s version of National ‘Socialism’ has about as much to do with actual socialism as the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea has anything to do with democracy. Both are examples of words weaponized for political purposes.
      
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      March 23, 2017 4:27am
Stars And Stripes

Two sacred Indian rivers get ‘living human’ status
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/327225/two-sacred-indian-rivers-get-'living-human'-status.
“A court in northern Indian has given the Ganges and Yamuna rivers the status of “living human entities”.

Stupid ignorant peasants worshipping as sacred something which is basically just a sewage pond and to cap it off declare it a living entity when in reality any blighted organism which comes anywhere near it will fast become a dead entity.
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March 22, 2017 6:56pm
Kea

Violent left wing terror groups clash with police in New Plymouth.

“The protesters were a coalition of groups, including Greenpeace and Climate Justice Taranaki.”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/90705608/new-zealand-patroleum-conference-2017-met-with-protests
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March 22, 2017 7:13pm
- Brigitte
  
  Given the number of police present, the typo of ‘patroleum’ is rather fitting methinks.
  
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  March 22, 2017 7:34pm
  - mikenmild
    
    You’ve got the good oil on that story.
    
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    March 22, 2017 7:41pm
- Kea
  
  Interesting we don’t see right wing climate “deniers” in violent clashes with police, rioting, assaulting, destroying property etc. Only the warmists. How very “scientific” of them.
  
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  March 22, 2017 7:57pm
EAD

Pride and racial prejudice – why the far right loves Jane Austen

https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2017/mar/21/pride-and-racial-prejudice-why-the-far-right-loves-jane-austen

“Racists and bigots have tried to associate their dogma with the much-loved author – but don’t seem to have read the books”

At first I thought, just the usual scattergun approach to smear the so called “far right” to even more absurd extremities. Then I thought, the long game. I suspect that Jane Austen will be the next for the chop from the English Literature syllabus due to ‘racism’ or ‘extremist association’ because they would never be so tacky to use any excuse to leave no stone unturned when destroying Western tradition and culture. Just like they did to Wagner, Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Shakespeare, Henry Ford, Lincoln, Martin Luther, so on and so forth – the list is endless.

EDIT: reading the comment – Austen is going to be on the Brits new £10 note. Oh I cant wait for more manufactured grievance wearing us all out, as by design.
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March 22, 2017 7:51pm
- EAD
  
  And if you’re wondering what the crux of the argument of the Jewish author (Danuta Kean) in the Jewish edited (Katharine Viner) in Jewish owned (Scotts Trust) have to say in the British newspaper is – it truly is shocking:
  
  That Austen’s novels support Traditional Marriage
  
  invoked by white supremacists online as a symbol of sexual purity who advocated marriage
  
  and who are these “White supremacists” (look they invoked the “Supremacist” bogeyman)? Why it is an individual below the line anonymous commentator on an unnamed website.
  
  One online commentator wrote: “If traditional marriage à la P&P [Pride and Prejudice] is going to be imposed, again, in an ethnostate, we must behave like gentlemen
  
  We really have reached peak absurdity
  
  “The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World revisited.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:06pm
  - Kea
    
    EAD Jews are chosen by God that’s why.
    
    The goyim don’t deserve their own identity and are little more than beasts.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:13pm
- mikenmild
  
  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a middle-aged man in possession of an irrational fear of Jews must be in want of a Nazi philosophy.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:12pm
  - EAD
    
    Firstly Milkmaid, I hardly “fear” Jews, I am just one for pointing out blatant hypocrisy and double standards and also bringing to readers attentions items which don’t make it through the filters of the MSM:
    
    Example – from the Jewish Telegraph:
    
    http://www.jta.org/2010/10/18/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sephardi-leader-yosef-non-jews-exist-to-serve-jews
    
    “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel,” he said during a public discussion of what kind of work non-Jews are allowed to perform on Shabbat.
    
    “Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat,”
    
    “With gentiles, it will be like any person: They need to die, but God will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant. That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew,”
    
    And this isn’t some backwater Rabbi preaching in the backwaters of Tel Aviv. He was the chief Rabbi of Israel, personal friends with Netanyahu who describes him as a “wise and inspiring leader”. He was so well respected amongst the local population his funeral witnessed the Israels largest ever public turnout.
    
    This (if course) not reported in the Goyim MSM and I can bet you there was no Susan Devoy equivalent badgering the Israel nation that this “represents deep seated problematic racism”, unlike a drunken rant by a 2 bit nobody in Huntly is emblematic of our “racism problems”.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:36pm
    - mikenmild
      
      You realise that is about as representative of Jewish people as your desire to prevent miscegenation is reflective of the opinions of Gentiles.
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:57pm
    - Kea
      
      If you want the truth milky then read Israeli news. They openly boast about the things our media won’t report.
      
      Also go onto Facebook and read the comments on the Times of Israel page. See just how extreme Jewish religious nut jobs really are.
      
      Basically just educate yourself.
      
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      March 22, 2017 9:01pm
      - EAD
        
        Indeed Kea,
        
        Milkmaid could start off by reading Morgoths Reviews latest article:
        
        http://nwioqeqkdf.blogspot.com/2017/03/white-like-us-david-aaronovitch-vs.html?m=0
        
        What Kea and I get pi$$ed of at is Jews posing as whites when it suits them to do so whilst in the same breathe classifying themselves as a disadvantaged minority.
        
        It’s characteristically dishonest.
        
        It makes me sick to my stomach how Jews can pen articles like the one above how Europeans don’t even exist, how we cannot define who we are, that we have no interests, no legitimacy, no right to our own homelands (unlike Israel of course) – and tap out endless articles about it all whilst passing themselves off as being us.
        
        But sadly, the vast majority of people are not aware of the alien nature of Jews like as they sit there and jabber about financial aspects, or job markets or “racism”. They can sit there and be led to believe the (theoretical) discussion was balanced and from the lips of white people.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:15pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Jews posing as whites
        
        The horror!
        Just out of interest, do you classify DPF as a Jew posing as white?
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:50pm
      - Kea
        
        milky stop the stephieboy impersonations and speak to the topic at hand.
        
        Jews on one hand do claim to be a persecuted minority who need special protection, while on the other celebrate their dominance in finance, industry, science, literature, IT, Technology, the strength of their military and arms industry etc.
        
        Hardly the signs of a hard done by group !
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:56pm
nasska

“That’s not a broken bottle. THIS is a broken bottle!” …….Crocodile South Auckland.
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March 22, 2017 8:02pm
Kea

stephieboy

Unity Books ripe for book burning or torching, eh ?

[DPF: Implicit nazi name calling is a strike offence. Strike 4]

I don’t agree with this at all. This is a very mild comment by KB standards.

I have been called a nazi here (not implied) on numerous occasions and no one is ever banned for it. That comment is nothing compared to many of his other remarks

Has stephieboy been critical of Lucia Maria ?
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March 22, 2017 8:08pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  You finally came clean.
  Therapeutic was it?.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:13pm
  - Kea
    
    SS what are you on about ?
    
    I don’t like censorship and snitches are filthy scum. Will this smear on humanity own up, or will it continue to slither around in the shadows ?
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:22pm
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      I was alluding to the fact that many of your posts tonight made reference to an evil person without saying who they were even though I guessed who you were talking about.
      Hence my statement about finally coming clean.
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:28pm
      - Kea
        
        SS chur bro 😉
        
        Lucy does not hide the fact she is a snitch. She struts around demanding people address her in a certain way and say certain things, or else she will tell David to ban them. She openly threatens it.
        
        And David does as she demands. To the detriment of himself and the blog. She represents the very worst of bigotry, religious nuttery and hate.
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:05pm
- SPC
  
  Background.
  
  LM said that she had informed DPF as to the other identities kea had been using but our host did not seem interested.
  
  Then began on the Russians thread a series of posts sort of reprised here.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:15pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Trolls sometimes react adversely to attempts to prevent their trolling.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:51pm
    - Kea
      
      Indeed milky yes indeed. Like when every I call her out on her bigotry, lies and hypocrisy, she runs to DPF.
      
      Have you actually read the stuff she says here and on her conspiracy/hate blog ?
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:00pm
Jack5

Afghan translator for NZ troops, allowed to settle in NZ, now wants to bring in 19 of his extended family. Prompted by a reporter, the Afghani said NZ “owed it” to him.

This was on TVNZ tonight.

The way the taxpayer-funded publicity channels for the Left, TVNZ and Radio NZ, push such cases, you can bet that if there is a Labour-Green coalition government, NZ will be flooded with Muslim immigrants. So many that even the Stephiestanis of Auckland will bitch about them. Won’t be enough room to get your head down on the mat at the Mt Roskill mosque.

Meanwhile, on Fox News, a Christian in Iraq says Christianity is finished in that country. Thirty years ago there were 1.4 million. The exodus seems to have begun after fall of Saddam Hussein.

What a fuck-up the invasions of Iraq were.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/03/21/christianity-in-iraq-is-finished-says-canon-andrew-white-vicar-baghdad.html
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March 22, 2017 8:21pm
- Jack5
  
  Still, if Taranaki had enough oil to spark an invasion by the US and its allies, it might just sweep the whingeing greens out of that otherwise attractive region.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:28pm
- SPC
  
  The neocons thought removal of left wing socialist ownership states, like Iraq and Libya and Syria (but without the oil) would aid victory for the global market capitalist system.
  
  But taking out a one party socialist state just led to a vacuum that Islamist identity activists would seek to fill, not an Arab spring. It led to more than the suppression of minorities, but a regional war between Sunni and Shia.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:28pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think it has got a lot more complicated than just a Sunni – Shia conflict.
    
    It’s not as if the Arab Spring failure was unexpected. The West hasn’t been well informed about the politics/power struggles in Arab countries for a century…..
    
    Europe has completely underestimated Erdogan.
    If Turkey turns to Custard, things will become very messy.
    
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    March 22, 2017 9:40pm
    - SPC
      
      If … . The question now is what form of custard.
      
      Turkey in NATO and the EU is now off the table, no one now sees that as credible and soon it will be officially abandoned.
      
      The question is whether free trade with EU will continue or not. And if not, that would also mean the end of Turkey within NATO.
      
      If Turkey threatens to facilitate breach of EU borders the EU will end free trade and there will go Turkey within NATO. And no doubt Kurds would then soon seek NATO support for independence. Little wonder Erdogan’s paranoia about Syrian Kurds getting the sort of self government within Syria that they currently have within Iraq.
      
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      March 22, 2017 9:50pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yep, that’s how I see things…
        (with+/- involvement of Russia and satellites)
        
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        March 22, 2017 9:58pm
    - Kea
      
      “I think it has got a lot more complicated than just a Sunni – Shia conflict.”
      
      It has nothing to do with it. That is just one of the many conflicts the US is fueling to weaken the Arab world and keep it divided. To please Israel.
      
      The real target is Iran.
      
      Anyway enough of my waffle, over to Hillary…
      
      https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18328
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:16pm
- Longknives
  
  19???
  I have about three (at a push) family members I’d take with me…
  
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  March 22, 2017 10:31pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh what a f####ing disaster that Island Bay Cyclepath is.

Local dairy owners going out of business!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/small-business/90721069/wellington-dairy-owners-blame-demise-of-their-business-on-island-bay-cycleway

Thank- you CWB
Thank-you lycra-clad cycle fiends.

You have put hard-working, friendly folk out of business.
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March 22, 2017 8:26pm
- nasska
  
  Right on Maggy……there’s too many of them on the roads as it is.
  
  I propose a cull! 🙂
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:30pm
- Jack5
  
  The lycra mob seem to have a sway over many local bodies. Similarly in Christchurch. Bloody cycle ways every where while traffic is squeezed into tubes.
  
  Try driving up Papanui road in the late afternoon. For a city of Christchurch’s size, the congestion caused is outrageous.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And the pathetic excuse offered up by Councillor Lee…that Sandy & Ken might want to retire…
  
  well the other folks shown in the article Sanjay & Jayshree are nowhere near retirement age.
  
  What a useless council.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:38pm
- Kea
  
  Cyclists are arrogant smarmy parasites who demand to play on our roads while contributing nothing to the hundreds of millions spent.
  
  It is a disgrace.
  
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  March 22, 2017 8:43pm
  - Jack5
    
    😉 Yep, unlike kea entertainers, which give alpine road performances to get treats from tourists. Keas even help with road control, moving cones, and they are agents for AA, taking out flaky windscreens and hub caps. None of this pansy window-washer begging, and no whining to local body planners.
    
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    March 22, 2017 8:48pm
    - Kea
      
      🙂
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBdvRCkCNfo
      
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      March 22, 2017 8:54pm
EAD

The Ideological Disease known as ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
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March 22, 2017 9:25pm
- mikenmild
  
  FFS. Reid posted that video about thirty times the other day – no one found it compelling enough to comment.
  Please provide a precis for my entertainment.
  
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  March 22, 2017 9:55pm
  - EAD
    
    Perhaps MM it is the case that Reid & I read similar websites and the video was discussed on them and we thought it compelling enough to share??
    
    EDIT: And I see he got a ban for it!
    
    reid3
    
    The Ideological Disease known as ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
    
    Also known as alt-left.
    
    Don’t be alt-left!
    
    [Posting the same link 20 times is spam. Strike 5 and a month off]
    
    No wonder I haven’t seen Reid posting here since the weekend.
    
    It’s going to be much quieter around here with no Reid or Stephieboy for the next short while.
    
    Shame as Reid is one of the best commentators on here.
    
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    March 22, 2017 10:27pm
    - Kea
      
      If you had the approved view on Israel/Jews you would find it almost impossible to get even a warning.
      
      You could even call for people to be rounded up, exterminated, have their countries nuked to “glass” and so on, with not a warning given.
      
      I suggest you maintain integrity and get banned. Just as I will inevitably be 🙂
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:34pm
    - Kea
      
      EAD, who do you think the bottom feeder was who snitched on Reid ?
      
      It creeps me out having these vile cowardly representations of humanity slithering around the blogs sewers, never stepping into the light.
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:39pm
      - EAD
        
        Good question Kea,
        
        I tend not to get too involved in Blog Politics.
        
        I would suggest Nostradamus as your go-to man to resolve this puzzle. His recall of previous blog goings on and observations on behavioural patterns are second to none.
        
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        March 22, 2017 10:48pm
    - Jack5
      
      Reid will pass the time happily counting sheeple. Perhaps in the way our great-grandfather pioneers did: yan, tyan, tethera, methra, pimp …
      
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      March 22, 2017 10:59pm

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