General Debate 23 April 2017

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duggledog

NZ trucking industry needs another 1,000 truckies. Sheeesh!

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/329262/group-says-trucking-industry-1000-drivers-short

Hey I know, they could get some of them there immigrants!

Except as Stan Semenoff knows, many of the ‘qualified’ immigrant ‘truck drivers’ who turn up for jobs have clearly never driven a truck in their lives.

Locals are even more useless –

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/04/truck-co-owner-says-kiwis-won-t-work.html

Northland, which has the highest unemployment in the country, several young men were filmed in Kaikohe last week, telling Newshub more jobs were needed.

” I can’t get a skill base to fulfill my contracts,” Semenoff said.
And there’s another problem – drugs.
He says 75 potential drivers in Northland have failed drug tests, and believes many do it deliberately.

Cap benefits for able-bodied young New Zealanders Mr English – two years, over one lifetime.

And no more immigration from nations where systems of government are widely acknowledged to be corrupt.
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April 23, 2017 8:01am
- Happychappy
  
  But Isn’t true that’s why they voted to have Winston as there MP because they believed he could fix most of there problems in Northland including unemployment. I might be wrong but has he fixed any of there problems yet.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:21am
  - Liberty
    
    Has Winston been to Northland since the election?
    Fishing trips don’t count.
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:43am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Why not?
      
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      April 23, 2017 4:11pm
- Nukuleka
  
  If people are failing drug tests now imagine what it will be like when there’s open-slather legalisation of drugs as so many KBlogger drug enthusiasts are pushing for. Doesn’t bear thinking about.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:44am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Alcohol is legal and you can’t work after drinking and there is zero tolerance in many industries.
    
    Why would cannabis be any different? Even if it was legal you would still need to comply with your employers policies
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:39am
    - Nukuleka
      
      So how many would be truck drivers are failing to gain employment because they are turning up to work drunk on alcohol, pray tell me?
      
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      April 23, 2017 11:09am
      - Jack5
        
        Nukuleka, I’m not a marijuana user and at times have given Kiwiblog Griff a hard time for his defence of this drug, but Southern Raider has a point.
        
        If the effects of marijuana smoked over the weekend have no residual effects on driving ability by Monday, why should those who smoke it be barred from driving Monday to Friday?
        
        Are over-zealous drug tests making too many young New Zealanders jobless?
        
        How realistic are our drug tests? Meth is an appalling drug in my view, but is there a minimum-safety acceptable level or is it totally banned? I ask because of the use of meth in armed forces on both sides in World War 2.
        
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        April 23, 2017 11:44am
    - cmm
      
      As Jack5 says the issue with dope testing is that it done differently because dope is illegal.
      
      Alcohol testing looks for actual alcohol levels in the system. If you get hammered on Saturday the alcohol is gone by Monday and you are safe to drive. There are however still detectable chemicals in your body due to the way your body breaks down the alcohol. Those metobolites can last for a very long time.
      
      Dope is tested differently because it is illegal. For example urine tests detect metabolites – not the THC itself. These are detectable up for weeks after use.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_drug_testing#Testing_methods
      
      If dope was legalised then it would not be enough to show that someone has used done in the last three weeks. They would have to look at it like alcohol – ie. look for impairment.
      
      There are saliva and blood tests that can determine imparement just like alcohol tests do. These show clear tests in 12-24 hours after use. Pretty similar to alcohol testing.
      
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      April 23, 2017 12:01pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Duggle, had a fit young man at my desk last week, all of 19. Meet all the requirements for a suitable job in the road construction industry. Good money, 12 hr shifts. “Don’t wanna do that, I want a life balance. I have my son every couple of days and I wanna spend time with him” . I politely suggested that his 8 month old son would appreciate nappies and clothing and food more than watching dad play on his x box and I got a blank look.
  
  So here’s the problem, I refuse to refer this drop kick to this job and waste the employers time. Instead I book an apt every Friday for the next 6 weeks for him to come in and physically show me what jobs he’s applied for and what he’s done about following up those applications. 5 applications a day. He can spend quality with his bitch of a case manager instead.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:53am
  - Southern Raider
    
    You’re going to get sacked treating these poor innocent young people like that
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:07am
    - Northland Wahine
      
      Raider, I’ve already had complaints from a few. Apparently I’m mean and racist and pick on Maori youth. I take an active interest, because I do care. Those that find work, thank me in the end.
      
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      April 23, 2017 9:16am
      - Southern Raider
        
        Sounds like someone I knew who worked for HNZ up north and ended up being persuaded to leave because he was too hard on tenants
        
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        April 23, 2017 9:19am
  - GoVege
    
    Ah, but baby don’t need nappies etc to be paid for by his biological dad.
    Baby’s real dad is the NZ taxpayer.
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:33am
    - Northland Wahine
      
      Yep veg! Hence why it’s important to get all youth off the benefit and into employment!
      
      There is a huge push to get Maori under 24 years of age of benefit and into work or study.
      
      If it’s study, it should be tertiary education, not another “training for work” course or a “computer” course. These providers are raking in the cash because they get bums on seats.
      
      If the government identifies this is an age group that requires more money spent to achieve results, maybe they should consider NO benefits for under 25. Your kids don’t stop being your kids because they turn 18. If parents are on the benefit and have to continue to pay for their kids from their benefit til they are 25 it might, MIGHT give them an incentive to stop having MORE babies and support the older ones into finding employment. And if your daughter has a baby under the age of 25? Then the baby becomes your responsibility too.
      
      This should be across the board. Regardless of ethnicity.
      
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      April 23, 2017 9:52am
      - SPC
        
        The government has been talking for some time about moving to a position where youth are in education or training or work till age 20 (which would increase placements in education/training).
        
        Either eligible for student allowances or obtain living costs off the tertiary loans (both get the dole if they are not working in the summer break).
        
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        April 23, 2017 10:25am
  - cmm
    
    NW:
    
    How can you keep sane in a job like that?
    
    I take it you must be that bald lady in Kaitaia WINZ!
    
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    April 23, 2017 12:04pm
    - Northland Wahine
      
      Ha! I live and work in a South Auckland cmm. Hair dye is my friend.
      
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      April 23, 2017 12:12pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Thank you Northland Wahine – you probably spoke more sense to the young fella than he’s ever heard in his whole life.
    
    I suspect he won’t thank you for it – but you may have given him the most help he’s ever had. All he has to do is take your hand – fingers crossed he does!
    
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    April 23, 2017 1:51pm
- SPC
  
  driverless trucks are coming
  
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  April 23, 2017 10:13am
  - sooty
    
    All very well between warehouse and factory following the goggle /gps route, but not much use like in a logging truck as an example, that goes off the black stuff and into a forest or cockys paddock.
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:26am
Manolo

All in the name of Allah. Cheeky buggers:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/21/muslims-to-march-on-amazon-over-prayer-breaks/
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April 23, 2017 8:05am
- Inandout
  
  If Amazon gives in on this then another online supplier will fill the vacuum. For a company that works on split second timing for goods despatching you can’t have prayer bunnies pissing off 5 times a day.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:10am
- stephieboy
  
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  Manolo,
  
  Among the many of PJ Media’s questionable claims ,
  
  Blogs Claim Obama Dropped Leaflets Warning ISIS of Upcoming Airstrikes
  Social media rumors claimed President Obama dropped leaflets warning ISIS militants of imminent airstrikes against them.
  
  http://www.snopes.com/2015/11/23/obama-dropped-leaflets-warning-isis-airstrikes/
  
  Sigh
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:18am
  - All_on_Red
    
    From your link
    ‘it’s true that the U.S. military dropped leaflets on 16 November 2015 warning “telling Syrian truck drivers to run for their lives” less than an hour before massive airstrikes were undertaken against ISIS forces, ‘
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:07am
    - Inandout
      
      How ironic that citizens in Europe and elsewhere are now ‘running for their lives’ when Syrian migrant truck drivers mount footpaths. No fucking leaflet warning beforehand.
      
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      April 23, 2017 10:22am
      - All_on_Red
        
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        April 23, 2017 11:08am
Peter

Just wanted to say thanks to DPF and the posters on KB

This is my filter for NZ news. I seldom bother reading MSM articles unless they are referenced here. This community is a great ‘editor’. The commentary is of a much higher standard than the MSM, anyway.

Even thanks to the mad left wing posters – a constant reminder of why I abandoned the left years ago.
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April 23, 2017 8:10am
- stephieboy
  
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  Peter ,
  
  “…a constant reminder of why I abandoned the left years ago.”
  
  And replaced it with the hapless alt righters Steve Bannon and Milos Yiannopoulos etc ?
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:20am
  - Peter
    
    Take a look in the mirror occasionally.
    
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    April 23, 2017 8:22am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Peter , the eternal appeal of Steve and Milos let alone the hapless POTUS ?
      
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      April 23, 2017 8:38am
  - Peter
    
    You have some utility, Stephieboy. It means I don’t have to subject my monitor to The Standard if I ever need to remind myself just how detached from reality many on the left-wing have become.
    
    So thanks 🙂
    
    I think all National would have to do to win an election would be to publish the urls of The Standard and The Daily Blog. The centre-right would have waves of new converts in an instant.
    
    Alienating people who are not foaming hardcore left enough is not a winning strategy. The centre-right is a much broader church these days.
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:04am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep, I agree
  
  The memory of some of the commenters here is a national Taonga.
  
  Keep up the good work, lefties…. I reckon it’ll be decades before you get my vote again.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:20am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Maggy Wassilieff , all power to alt righters like you .
    
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    April 23, 2017 8:23am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      You stupid boy. I’m sure you realise how offensive that term is, and when you direct it at Maggy you can expect consequences.
      
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      April 23, 2017 8:51am
    - Inandout
      
      I am getting to like the term ‘alt right’. I think I might wear the label as a badge of honour. By comparison ‘alt left’ sounds kind of sad, sort of like ‘left at the altar’.
      
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      April 23, 2017 8:54am
      - sooty
        
        How many months since they lost the election? They are still bleating!
        
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        April 23, 2017 8:58am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Oi! It’s “Alt-Right” thank you very much.
      
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      April 23, 2017 9:44am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @stephieboy,
      
      You once again label me as an alt-righter.
      As you have previously shown here that term is associated with White supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups.
      
      Where is your evidence that I am associated with white supremacist groups or have neo-Nazi beliefs or affiliations?
      
      Think carefully.
      Consider the following clues…
      I am married to someone whose parents were classified as subhumans in 1930-40s Germany, were denied higher education and were sent to work in the military/industrial complex of the Third Reich.
      
      I live in Kaiti…. a suburb where over 50% of the population is Maori, and where my neighbours are Maori.
      
      I volunteer at one of the local high schools where the Maori roll is greater than 70%.
      
      The Wassilieff family was able to gain entry to NZ because it could show that it had absolutely no Nazi affiliations.
      
      You may think it is smart to associate my surname with Nazi beliefs… but it stinks, especially as some of the Wassilieff family that were born under the Nazi regime are still alive and resident in NZ.
      
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      April 23, 2017 5:24pm
      - double d
        
        The Stephiebots yet again show a true lack of class.
        
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        April 23, 2017 6:58pm
cha

This BREXIT thing doesn’t look to be working out too well.

The United States could strike a free-trade agreement with the European Union after President Donald Trump warmed to a deal with the bloc, the Times reported on Saturday, quoting sources from both sides of the discussion.

Post-Brexit Britain would be pushed behind Europe in the race to secure a U.S. deal after Germany’s Angela Merkel persuaded Trump that talks on a deal would be simpler than he thought, the newspaper said.

Britain will not be free to agree new trade deals until it has left the EU in 2019.

A source close to the White House was quoted as saying that there had been a “realisation” in the Trump administration that a trade deal with the EU – allowing the tariff-free exchange of goods and services – was more important to U.S. interests than a post-Brexit deal with Britain.

“Ten times Trump asked her (Merkel) if he could negotiate a trade deal with Germany,” the newspaper quoted a senior German politician as saying.

“Every time she replied, ‘You can’t do a trade deal with Germany, only the EU’,” the politician said. “On the eleventh refusal, Trump finally got the message, ‘Oh, we’ll do a deal with Europe then.'”

Trump, who has repeatedly criticised the EU, had welcomed Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the bloc and said he would work hard to get a quick bilateral trade deal done.

http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trade-europe-idUKKBN17O089?
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April 23, 2017 8:15am
- mikenmild
  
  He only had to be told ten times?
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:19am
  - cha
    
    short-term/working memory deficits—rapid forgetting of information recently seen or heard;
    
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    April 23, 2017 8:24am
    - Disaster Area
      
      Perhaps he needed more pictures:
      
      https://latest.com/2017/04/trump-intelligence-briefings-have-to-be-mostly-pictures-because-potus-is-visual-learner-wapo/
      
      Just as a footnote, ‘learning styles’ such as visual, auditory, kinesthetic etc are non-existent.
      
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      April 23, 2017 9:04am
      - All_on_Red
        
        I realise that as a school teacher you are very naive when it comes to business.
        Most managers of large enterprise prefer proposals to be as brief and succinct as possible. A couple of pages or less is always good. It’s quite an art being able to achieve that.
        
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        April 23, 2017 9:19am
      - cha
        
        He’s actually a tactile learner.
        
        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C97pMWmVwAAgoaH.jpg
        
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        April 23, 2017 9:24am
      - mikenmild
        
        Material does need to be tailored to attention span. Sometimes this means context is omitted. space constraints meant that Trump was not able to be told before meeting Merkel that Germany was part of the European Union.
        
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        April 23, 2017 9:25am
      - Disaster Area
        
        All_on_Red,
        I realise as a business person you are very naive when it comes to education, but my job is essentially taking complex ideas and theories and making that information accessible for other people to understand.
        
        At least not while I’m propagating Gay Rights and Cultural Marxism.
        
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        April 23, 2017 12:38pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        “Just as a footnote, ‘learning styles’ such as visual, auditory, kinesthetic etc are non-existent.”
        
        I call balderdash on that.
        Good teachers cater for different learning styles.
        Lazy ones deny they exist.
        
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        April 23, 2017 7:53pm
      - Disaster Area
        
        Shaun,
        They don’t. There has been a lot of research on this.
        Have a look here: http://www.danielwillingham.com/learning-styles-faq.html
        
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        April 23, 2017 8:14pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Yes – a lot fewer times than we all have to tell you obvious stuff here!
    
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    April 23, 2017 1:53pm
- cmm
  
  Any short term pain is worth the long term gain.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:25am
  - Disaster Area
    
    What long term gain is that?
    
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    April 23, 2017 8:59am
    - cmm
      
      1) Being rid of the EUs ridiculous rules and regulations that stifle business.
      2) Being able to have self determination.
      3) Being able to secure your borders.
      4) Not having to subsidise basket case nations like Greece.
      5) Being able to decide who you trade with and not being forced to buy stuff from French farmers at a premium.
      6) Being allowed to fish your own territorial waters.
      7) Not having Brussels tell you what the recipe for Yorkshire pudding should be.
      
      etc etc etc
      
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      April 23, 2017 9:21am
      - Liberty
        
        Being able to buy a vacuum Cleaner over 900w
        
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        April 23, 2017 10:05am
      - cmm
        
        Liberty: The vacuum cleaner is a clear example of a really stupid regulation that just bends your head.
        
        The EU banana law that limited how bent a banana can be is an absolute classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No._2257/94
        
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        April 23, 2017 11:02am
      - Disaster Area
        
        1. https://www.ft.com/content/64d30780-10b5-11e7-b030-768954394623
        2. Good luck undoing 45 years of joint legislation.
        3. EEA nationals (like UK nationals) already have their passports checked at entry as the UK never signed the Schengen Agreement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#EU_member_states_with_opt-outs
        4. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-33556085
        5. http://www.nfuonline.com/assets/61142 (pages 44 & 45)
        6. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/15/uk-fishermen-may-not-win-waters-back-after-brexit-eu-memo-reveals
        7. The Yorkshire pudding story is an April Fool’s Joke from 2013.
        
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        April 23, 2017 11:48am
      - howitis
        
        I’ve got an Electrolux (Sweden) demon sucky beast 2200W vacuum cleaner made in Hungary.
        I guess they build them for export.
        It has a sliding adjustable power button so it can be adjusted for the job.
        
        ‘Yes Minister’ becomes real life!
        Silly sausages. Wait, what are the sausage regulations?
        
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        April 23, 2017 12:21pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Well said cmm. You have perfectly encapsulated the thoughts of the everyday Brit in the streets regarding Brexit. Add to your list the near collapse of an already dysfunctional NHS due to the massive influx from Eastern Europe seeking free dental and health care.
        
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        April 23, 2017 2:09pm
      - Disaster Area
        
        GazzaW,
        I think you mean 51.9% of the 71% of the population who voted.
        
        The Department of Health calculated that visitors and non-permanent residents cost about GBP350 million a year, out of the NHS budget of GBP 113 Billion. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-3605851
        
        In any case, NHS care is only free to those who have been in the UK for over 5 years.
        
        According the the OECD, 35% of NHS doctors were born abroad and 22% of nurses, so things could get interesting if all of them go back to their countries of origin.
        
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        April 23, 2017 3:08pm
      - GazzaW
        
        DA.
        
        You can quote stats until you’re blue in the face but it makes diddly squat difference to what the average voting Joe in the streets thinks about Brexit and he/she wants out. It’s all about perception.
        
        How would the average Kiwi take to kowtowing to Canberra if that was the seat of a South East Asian Economic Union? Wouldn’t happen would it?
        
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        April 23, 2017 5:17pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      DA, would you like a plate for that arse? 🙂
      
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      April 23, 2017 9:49am
      - cmm
        
        He’d want a plate constructed according to EU/2015/117772/U/001
        
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        April 23, 2017 9:53am
      - Disaster Area
        
        No thank you, it may muffle my speech when talking out of it.
        
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        April 23, 2017 12:33pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        +1 touché
        
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        April 23, 2017 7:10pm
- Inandout
  
  A smart move on Trump’s part considering the EU will soon disintegrate, leaving Germany as the traditional ‘powerhouse’ of that area.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:58am
- All_on_Red
  
  ‘ quoting sources from both sides of the discussion.’- who?
  ‘A source close to the Whitehouse was quoted as saying’- who?
  ‘Quoted a senior German politician as saying’- who?
  ‘the Politician said’- who?
  
  Cha is so cute with his Fake News posts. Gullible too.
  Hey, if you’re looking for a sweeeet investment there’s this Bridge in Auckland…
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:14am
  - jonar
    
    AOR, I think it’s you that’s so cute with your cries of “fake news” to every news item you don’t like.
    
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    April 23, 2017 6:37pm
Huevon

France is in the balance.
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April 23, 2017 8:15am
- mikenmild
  
  France is in Europe.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:21am
  - Jack5
    
    Milky, are you arguing “the balance” isn’t in Europe?
    
    Or are you just being unbalanced?
    
    Let the scales drop from your eyes.
    
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    April 23, 2017 12:24pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    France is in Europe – for now.
    
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    April 23, 2017 1:56pm
duggledog

The U.K. should come right, it will take a year or two though.

At the end of the day, the EU became something the good folk of Blighty did not vote for in the first instance.

There really was no other option but to leave a (third) layer of bureaucracy whose CEO was in favour of having no borders, had no responsibility and was not elected by the people.

All around the Western world, people are kicking the traces of globalism and multi culturalism over. Basically MM you and yours are just… not fashionable any more.
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April 23, 2017 8:22am
- sooty
  
  But wat are they going to do with the snowflakes?
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:00am
  - 3-coil
    
    Global warming will melt them?
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:11am
  - cmm
    
    The snowflakes will find out what Great Britain is like.
    
    Most of them were born since the EU and know nothing else. They are used to being hampered by EU regulations.
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:24am
    - Flash
      
      A bit of a ‘downturn’ in immigrant’s perceptions of GB as a haven will make it a better place to live and snowflakes won’t want to go there either.
      win/win.
      
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      April 23, 2017 10:20am
- MCos
  
  “something the good folk of Blighty did not vote for in the first instance.”
  Strictly speaking they didn’t vote to join the EU, but there was a referendum in 1975 to join the EC.
  As I recall referendi were extremely rare on anything. The reasoning being the government is elected to make decisions on behalf of the people who then have the option of chucking them out at the next GE.
  
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  April 23, 2017 10:56am
NK

Remember this post from DPF: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/04/now_that_is_closing_the_gaps.html

Here’s Rodney Hide’s reply.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11841915
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April 23, 2017 8:35am
- mikenmild
  
  If even Rodney Hide can understand the limits of the trumpeted achievement data, one can only conclude that DPF was fomenting more happy mischief.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:49am
Happychappy

Why do the media like to portray Trumps selection to be Ambassador to NZ as a former sex symbol rather than agreeing or disputing his credentials to do the job. Do the media pump the history of Andrew Little as a Union bully or his failure in his Union or Political ventures. Out of the two, one is a winner at what he did the other is a failure as history will show.
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April 23, 2017 8:47am
- 3-coil
  
  Good point Happychappy.
  
  Also compare the tabloid treatment of Scott Brown by the local MSM leftists who were totally silent wrt all the dodgy skeletons in (Democrat) Carol Mosely-Braun’s closet when she was the US Ambassador to NZ. The local MSM hypocrisy and leftist bias is pitifully embarrassing, but they are nothing if not consistent!
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:24am
Reid

Some very important background on Jared Kushner. He’s bad news.

If you want to understand why Trump has reversed himself on so many foreign policy positions he campaigned on, you need to know the information below.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/04/17/jared-kushner-suspected-gangster-within-trump-white-house.html

http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/donald-trump-chabad-lubavitch-and-oligarchs
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April 23, 2017 9:10am
- mikenmild
  
  He’s innovative, though. I bet no other White House adviser searches for popular books on Amazon to find out about China and the Middle East.
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:13am
  - Disaster Area
    
    Picture books?
    
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    April 23, 2017 12:34pm
    - cha
      
      Picture books?
      
      Indeed, for his FIL.
      
      http://taskandpurpose.com/jared-kushner-iraq-storybook-pictures/
      
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      April 23, 2017 1:04pm
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      conspiracyschool.com?
      
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      April 23, 2017 2:59pm
Southern Raider

Last night Herald ran with a headline about a women being evicted from HNZ house for being a angel.

Article starts off about how she was living in the carport so 10 other friends and family could have a place to stay and that HNZ is basically evil.

Average do gooder would have finished reading the article there and reinforced that National is also evil.

Second part tells of a women who has a long list of warning from HNZ for intimidating neighbours, loud parties, having vicious dogs without permission for even any dogs etc

To top it off this guardian angel has been charging these “homeless” people to stay in her taxpayer funded two bedroom house
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April 23, 2017 9:16am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Yep! She’ll be making a nice little income. Plus those that she has “taken under her wing” thinks that this over crowding will bump them up the social housing list.
  
  I wish, just once, a reporter will ask… “why are you homeless? What happened to your last rental accomodation? What would your previous landlord say about you as a tenant?” People do not suddenly find themselves on the street.
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:25am
- cmm
  
  Her house? Nope: our house.
  
  If it was her house then I’d support her 100% in her little venture of living in the carport and providing accommodation to others (basically running a boarding house).
  
  And while I’m up… screw the MSM. They are supposed to be our eyes and ears. They are not supposed to be misleading us.
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:27am
  - Happychappy
    
    cmm / The only thing MSM are interested in is to continually write columns to make National look bad and make sure Andrew Little’s message”we need to change the Government” is portrayed to people that don’t normally vote.
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:51am
- GoVege
  
  This reminds me of a place I visited a few years ago.
  The tenant of a lovely new HNZ house went to Oz for a month and asked a friend to stay there and mind it.
  Got home, and his friend had invited all his relies from east coast to move in…and they wouldn’t budge.
  The cops were back and forth every few days.
  Glad to see HNZ is being more proactive.
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:42am
- Southern Raider
  
  Stuff has now got on the bandwagon
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:46am
- marcw
  
  [My] Definition of a carport: A roof supported by poles or beams with open sides to provide outdoors shelter from the weather for vehicles.
  
  [From the Horrid article picture] A carport is a double-tilt-doored building enclosed on all sides with planking so as to form an enclosed space for living/storage/vehicles.
  
  If this is their standard of reporting, why would you believe anything else they write?
  
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  April 23, 2017 11:36am
Reid

The Saker lists seven good reasons why voting for Trump was the right thing to do, notwithstanding he’s now betrayed the trust of all who did so.

http://thesaker.is/why-voting-for-trump-was-the-right-thing-to-do-7-reasons/
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April 23, 2017 9:22am
- EAD
  
  @ Reid,
  
  did you see Sakers recent article when he finally, after many years, discussed the proverbial elephant in the room of the existence of ZOG?
  
  http://thesaker.is/how-to-bring-down-the-elephant-in-the-room/
  
  That used to be the favorite expression of various Jew-haters out there and it’s use was considered the surefire sign of a rabid anti-Semite. And yet, that is precisely what we are now all living with: a Zionist occupation government which has clearly forced Trump to make a 180 on all his campaign promises and which now risks turning the USA into a radioactive desert resulting from a completely artificial and needless confrontation with Russia. To those horrified that I would dare use an expression like ZOG, I will reply in this way: believe me, I am even more upset than you are about having to admit that ZOG is real; I really don’t care for racists of any kind, and most of these ZOG folks looks like real racists to me. But, alas, they are also right! Facts are facts, you cannot deny them or refuse to correctly qualify them that because of the possible “overtones” of the term chosen or because of some invented need to be especially “sensitive” when dealing with some special group. Remember – Jews are not owed any special favor and there is no need to constantly engage in various forms of complex linguistic or mental yoga contortions when discussing them and their role in the modern world. Still, I am using ZOG here just to show that it can be done, but this is not my favorite expression. I just feel that committing the crimethink here will encourage others to come out of their shell and speak freely. At the very least, simply asking the question of whether we do or do not have a Zionist Occupation Government is an extremely important exercise. Hence, for today I ZOG-away 🙂
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:30am
  - mikenmild
    
    Good morning EAD. I noticed that last night you were sticking by your (bogus) Churchill quote.something about Google being biased.
    I was wondering whether you were able to provide a source for the ‘butchered the wrong pig’ quote – I mean, identify where Churchill ever said or wrote those words.
    
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    April 23, 2017 9:38am
  - Reid
    
    Yes I did, it’s nice to see The Saker being quoted so widely now, he’s a very astute analyst. Interesting that what he says aligns perfectly with what you and I and several others have been explaining to the sheeple for, in my case, a decade a half now.
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:04am
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      The Saker being quoted so widely now, he’s a very astute analyst
      
      He’s gotta be better than conspiracyschool.com
      
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      April 23, 2017 3:06pm
      - Reid
        
        David Livingstone’s quite astute too tricky. You should read his work someday, then you’ll know what you’re talking about, re: him, won’t you.
        
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        April 23, 2017 5:52pm
      - mikenmild
        
        David Livingstone’s Journeys in South Africa, or Travels and Researches in South Africa is still a good read.
        
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        April 23, 2017 6:28pm
    - EAD
      
      what you and I and several others have been explaining to the sheeple for, in my case, a decade a half now
      
      Looks like we were right about Trump Reid in that he is just another war-mongering Zio-Con and it’s obvious Kushner is the one pulling the strings.
      
      Watch the sheeple attach their hopes to someone new offering hope and change or to “drain the swamp who, despite the lofty rhetoric, will keep on carrying the agenda of more wars, more Central Banking and more Globalism.
      
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      April 23, 2017 8:45pm
      - Reid
        
        And more Israel.
        
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        April 23, 2017 9:37pm
krazykiwi

I see the thought police are busy drafting new rules at Oxford.

Students who avoid making eye contact with their peers could be guilty of racism, according to Oxford University’s latest guidance.

The university’s Equality and Diversity Unit has advised students that “not speaking directly to people” could be deemed a “racial microaggression” which can lead to “mental ill-health”.

Other examples of “everyday racism” include asking someone where they are “originally” from, students were told.

Seems that being gifted may not make one wise.
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April 23, 2017 9:37am
- GoVege
  
  Look on the bright side…there were plenty of protests about these silly suggestions.
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:51am
GoVege

Does KB have to show that ad of a bunch of kiwi girls promoting beef?
When I was in England I saw lines of English girls protesting against cruelty to animals.
But the British are civilized I guess….
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April 23, 2017 9:47am
- mikenmild
  
  You have a beef with that?
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:53am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Never seen it myself but that one with the chick in the knee high boots and the banister knob rammed half way up her arse seems quite common at the moment.
  
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  April 23, 2017 10:03am
  - cha
    
    banister knob
    
    One man’s knob is another man’s finial.
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:10am
- krazykiwi
  
  Veg, KB has no role in choosing those ads. It’s all down to Google’s placement algorithm.
  
  And, perversely enough, you mentioning a dislike of meat probably makes it more likely to place those meat-related ads into your browser.
  
  That said, I’m still trying to work out why I get Muslim dating sites 😀
  
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  April 23, 2017 10:53am
  - nasska
    
    You’re a sick man……that’s why! 🙂
    
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    April 23, 2017 11:07am
  - SGA
    
    And, perversely enough, you mentioning a dislike of meat probably makes it more likely to place those meat-related ads into your browser.
    
    Really… nude, naked, topless, breasts, sexy,
    (Just in the name of empirical research, of course)
    
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    April 23, 2017 2:05pm
  - GoVege
    
    Noooooooo!!
    
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    April 23, 2017 2:34pm
Stars And Stripes

A community art gallery in Papakura has become too “elitist” and is the reason for declining visitor numbers, local leaders say.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/papakura-courier/91753415/drop-in-papakura-art-gallery-visitors-is-disappointing-board-says
“The Papakura Art Gallery has seen “a significant drop” in visitors from 4939 to 3638 over three years according to its latest business plan report.
A call for more Maori and local arts at the gallery were also among strong recommendations from a 2016 community survey with over 100 respondents.
The gallery is funded by the Papakura Local Board and managed by Auckland Council.
Public programmes offered by the gallery include Art in the Park, Ako Art Bus (during Matariki), dance and cultural performances, environmental projects, visiting speakers, classes and workshops”.

So the ratepayers are coughing up to fund all these troughers when their wares only attract about 10 visitors a day.
Wonder if it has ever occurred to the council that people are not turning up because basically they think the gallery and it’s programs are shit.
No of course not because cultural programs and art buses are all the rage these days right.
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April 23, 2017 9:57am
- mikenmild
  
  Is there an art gallery near your home, S&S?
  
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  April 23, 2017 10:03am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    My residence is widely recognised as the centre of intellectual creativity in this town MM.
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:05am
    - mikenmild
      
      Oh shit, that’s no advertisement for the locality then.
      
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      April 23, 2017 10:11am
- Paulus
  
  And it is dry and cold outside so it is a good place to spend a few hours irrespective of the surrounds.
  
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  April 23, 2017 1:25pm
Reid

As Official Washington fumes about Russia-gate, Israel’s far more significant political-influence-and-propaganda campaigns are ignored. No one dares suggest a probe of Israel-gate, says Robert Parry.

The other day, I asked a longtime Democratic Party insider who is working on the Russia-gate investigation which country interfered more in U.S. politics, Russia or Israel. Without a moment’s hesitation, he replied, “Israel, of course.”

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking to the AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. on March 21, 2016. (Photo credit: AIPAC)
Which underscores my concern about the hysteria raging across Official Washington about “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential campaign: There is no proportionality applied to the question of foreign interference in U.S. politics. If there were, we would have a far more substantive investigation of Israel-gate.

The problem is that if anyone mentions the truth about Israel’s clout, the person is immediately smeared as “anti-Semitic” and targeted by Israel’s extraordinarily sophisticated lobby and its many media/political allies for vilification and marginalization.

So, the open secret of Israeli influence is studiously ignored, even as presidential candidates prostrate themselves before the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both appeared before AIPAC in 2016, with Clinton promising to take the U.S.-Israeli relationship “to the next level” – whatever that meant – and Trump vowing not to “pander” and then pandering like crazy.

Congress is no different. It has given Israel’s controversial Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a record-tying three invitations to address joint sessions of Congress (matching the number of times British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appeared). We then witnessed the Republicans and Democrats competing to see how often their members could bounce up and down and who could cheer Netanyahu the loudest, even when the Israeli prime minister was instructing the Congress to follow his position on Iran rather than President Obama’s.

Israeli officials and AIPAC also coordinate their strategies to maximize political influence, which is derived in large part by who gets the lobby’s largesse and who doesn’t. On the rare occasion when members of Congress step out of line – and take a stand that offends Israeli leaders – they can expect a well-funded opponent in their next race, a tactic that dates back decades.

Well-respected members, such as Rep. Paul Findley and Sen. Charles Percy (both Republicans from Illinois), were early victims of the Israeli lobby’s wrath when they opened channels of communication with the Palestine Liberation Organization in the cause of seeking peace. Findley was targeted and defeated in 1982; Percy in 1984.

Findley recounted his experience in a 1985 book, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby, in which Findley called the lobby “the 700-pound gorilla in Washington.” The book was harshly criticized in a New York Times review by Adam Clymer, who called it “an angry, one-sided book that seems often to be little more than a stringing together of stray incidents.”

Since then, there have been fewer and fewer members of Congress or other American politicians who have dared to speak out, judging that – when it comes to the Israeli lobby – discretion is the better part of valor. Today, many U.S. pols grovel before the Israeli government seeking a sign of favor from Prime Minister Netanyahu, almost like Medieval kings courting the blessings of the Pope at the Vatican…

Much more detail in the link. What amazes me is the degree to which the moronic sheeple fall into line. I mean how fucking stupid would you have to be not to recognise the degree to which Israel influences US politics? What sort of a drop-dead power dumbfuck could examine all the history, all the documentary evidence, yet still conclude it not only doesn’t exist but that it’s anti-semitic even to discuss such? What the fuck is wrong with the profound and I mean profound idiots, who think that?

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/20/why-not-a-probe-of-israel-gate/
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April 23, 2017 10:14am
- SPC
  
  Baablame Cassandrasheeple.
  
  The Russia scare is just utu politics, revenge for McCarthyism.
  
  It is an irony that Kremlin Communist Internationale in bed with local lefties has become white race nationale in bed with local isolationists/nationalists. The consistent theme is Kremlin opposition to global capitalism and associated international security regime – as represented by NATO/EU/US super power activism.
  
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  April 23, 2017 10:34am
Reid

Some cultures are better than others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JXrDwtiqQs
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April 23, 2017 10:15am
Reid

PJW vs leftists: best moments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EkEbge169s
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April 23, 2017 10:19am
Reid

PJW: Why is the left promoting pedophilia?

https://youtu.be/TQGNvKRWvig
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April 23, 2017 10:23am
Reid

PJW: Top 5 libtard fails of 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPIvbwx-Lcw

and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOetVDqjwVM
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April 23, 2017 10:26am
Reid

PJW: Modern art is total crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRWJcrRO0GM
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April 23, 2017 10:33am
krazykiwi

The 1st round of the French presidential election has started, with voting in French Overseas Terrotories under way.

A 15th March poll of polls on 1st round showed:
♦ Le Pen 26.7%
♦ Macron 25.1%
♦ Filon 19.1%

Macron is still tipped to win in the final round, although only 38% of Telegraph readers believe he’ll become the new president, with 51% picking Le Pen
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April 23, 2017 11:06am
- Southern Raider
  
  Scary
  
  Le Pen is not a good choice
  
  Who was the centre right candidate that the media has been trying to destroy? He gave his wife a job or something like that
  
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  April 23, 2017 11:09am
  - krazykiwi
    
    That was Fillon. His wife (and kids!) all had fake jobs, and he also accused of taking money in return for setting up meetings with Putin.
    
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    April 23, 2017 11:15am
    - cha
      
      Bogus jobs and sketchy financial goings on are par for the course.
      
      http://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2017/03/will-marine-le-pens-fake-jobs-scandal-blow-her-chances-french-presidential-race
      
      http://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-denies-cash-for-support-deal-with-russia/
      
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      April 23, 2017 11:42am
- SPC
  
  Anyone reaching the top 2, will win the run off against Le Pen.
  
  Her impersonation of Marianne does not fool a majority of voters.
  
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  April 23, 2017 11:25am
  - cha
    
    Her impersonation of Marianne does not fool a majority of voters.
    
    Nope, not fooled.
    
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    April 23, 2017 2:59pm
Hugh Pavletich

This weeks The Listener needs to be read …

NZ Listener …

… HITTING HOME …

https://www.facebook.com/nzlistener/photos/a.393665593999714.97755.393662284000045/1481727778526818/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/nzlistener/

New Property Market Fears

• Values Stall
• Nervous Banks Get Tough
• Building Costs Soar

IS THE BOOM TURNING TO BUST ?

September last year …

Auckland housing crisis: House of the rising sum – The Listener

http://www.noted.co.nz/money/economy/auckland-housing-crisis-house-of-the-rising-sum/

June 2016 …

Editorial: House in order – The Listener

http://www.noted.co.nz/currently/social-issues/editorial-house-in-order/
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April 23, 2017 11:17am
- Happychappy
  
  Haven’t they found a way for you to post in the colour red yet Hugh.
  
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  April 23, 2017 12:13pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Happychappy … While the quip sure is humorous … on a more serious note I’m really pissed off that the ‘blundering incompetents’ of the National led Government are just handing this issue to Labour on a plate !
    
    Note what I had to say within ‘NEW ZEALAND’S HOUSING CONSENSUS: WHERE IS THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ?’ on Not PC blog 23 January at the time of the release of this year’s 13th Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey …
    
    http://pc.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/auckland-worlds-fourth-hardest-to-buy.html
    
    … and too … the GONE GONE GOING section of my archival website PERDORMANCE URBAN PLANNING …
    
    http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
    
    It seems to me we are now going to have a Labour-led Goveernment soon after 23 September this year … thanks in very large measure to the blundering incompetence of the Fake Tories we have at the moment.
    
    Remember … Governments lose elections … Oppositions don’t win them.
    
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    April 23, 2017 12:32pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Hugh Pavletich:
      
      Note what I had to say … this year’s 13th Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey … my archival website PERDORMANCE [sic] URBAN PLANNING
      
      In summary: you, your Demographia survey and your website.
      
      Did I miss anything?
      
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      April 23, 2017 4:16pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Within the generally very good coverage of these important issues within the suite of The Listener articles, it was a pity the Greater Christchurch situation … and its important lessons … were not better explained.
        
        The core problem is local authorities losing control of their costs and the capacity to meet the infrastructure responsibilities to their communities.
        
        Check out the bureaucratically bloated Christchurch Council on the one hand … and the smaller and therefore functional adjoining units of local government … Waimakariri and Selwyn … within the early part of my article RESTORING AFFORDABLE HOUSING; AN ADVOCATES TALE … particularly the Donald Ellis ‘Consents Rate Per 1000 Population Per Annum’ Graph …
        
        http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/RESTORING-AFFORDABLE-HOUSING.pdf
        
        … and the brilliant graph Fig 10 Page 26 within the New Zealand section of this year’s Demographia Housing Survey …
        
        http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
        
        The bubble is currently bursting.
        
        I covered the issue exactly 3 years ago with NEW ZEALANDS BUBBLE ECONOMY IS VULNERABLE …
        
        http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1404/S00166/new-zealands-bubble-economy-is-vulnerable-hugh-pavletich.htm
        
        Its going to be a massive mess.
        
        Do your own calcs on the bubble value to be vaporized.
        
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        April 23, 2017 5:01pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        A (short) history of bailouts … Jenni McManus writes for BusinessDesk April 2011 …
        
        A history of bailouts | Business | Stuff.co.nz
        
        http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/4859373/A-history-of-bailouts
        
        This morning’s $500 million taxpayer bailout of AMI comes amid revelations that the bill for failed South Canterbury Finance has jumped $300m, from $900m to $1.2 billion.
        
        It also comes hard on the heels of the collapse of another South Island insurer, Western Pacific, a Queenstown-based company with an estimated $30m exposure to the two Christchurch earthquakes.
        
        Taxpayers were forced to pick up the tab for South Canterbury after it collapsed into receivership in August last year.
        
        Investors were repaid $1.77b under the government’s retail deposit guarantee scheme – a protection put in place by then Prime Minister Helen Clark two months before the 2008 general election, as the global financial crisis began to bite. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Lessons of the past | Sunday Star Times | Stuff.co.nz
        
        http://i.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/776473/Lessons-of-the-past
        
        https://www.google.co.nz/?gws_rd=ssl#q=bnz+collapse+1990&spf=1
        
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        April 24, 2017 2:12am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Notice the very large number of hits this vid is getting …
        
        John Key – Housing Reform – 2007
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
        
        https://www.google.co.nz/?gws_rd=ssl#q=john+key+housing+reform+2007&spf=1
        
        It sure is shaping up to be a very embarrassing election campaign for the National – led Government.
        
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        April 24, 2017 2:29am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        PANIC !!!
        
        National is gearing up to announce a big Auckland housing plan. It has been dubbed ‘KiwiBuild-lite’, but even that implies too wide a gap from Labour … Alex Tarrant … Interest Co NZ
        
        http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/87240/national-gearing-announce-big-auckland-housing-plan-its-been-dubbed-kiwibuild-lite
        
        By Alex Tarrant
        
        They’ve been dubbed KiwiBuild and KiwiBuild-lite.
        
        But even that description of the difference between Labour’s and National’s state-led private house building plans might imply the gap is too wide.
        
        Particularly when it comes to Auckland. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        April 24, 2017 2:53am
Jack5

Warning!

You must always look a Stephiestani in the eye. Directly.

If not, you might hear from Dame Devoid.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11843592
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April 23, 2017 11:53am
- Jack5
  
  Whoops! Didn’t notice Krazykiwi’s earlier post.
  
  But I see, from the down tick, that the rostered-on Stephie is lurking.
  
  Hullo Stephie. Hiding since you impetuously insulted Maggy, eh?
  
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  April 23, 2017 12:39pm
Rodney Randall

https://youtu.be/WjvKDAtu9Ns

Tommy Robinson of The Rebel Media confonts Twitter Troll who wants him murdered.

Quite forgiving of Tommy to let this chap off so lightly.
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April 23, 2017 11:58am
- Disaster Area
  
  You mean Stephen Yaxley-Lennon?
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist)
  If this page is true, he has a criminal record himself.
  
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  April 23, 2017 3:17pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Should a criminal record prevent one from drawing international attention to problems associated with mass immigration?
    
    It sure doesn’t prevent Tommy. Great to see he has a post at Rebel Media.
    
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    April 24, 2017 10:33am
Happychappy

I wonder why rich criminals put a lot of their new found wealth into fast expensive cars. There has been another foreign couple in Auckland that have had their fleet of vehicle’s seized and there asset frozen concerning drugs. You would think if you were into illegal practices that you would not have things that would question where your money was coming from.
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April 23, 2017 12:07pm
- Jack5
  
  Happychappy, Veblen’s “conspicuous consumption” applies to criminals as well as to the rest of us.
  
  I wonder, though, whether they are into the socially beneficial “conspicuous compassion”? Bit harder I imagine, given the way donations can be tracked.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption
  
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  April 23, 2017 12:21pm
  - Jack5
    
    It’s conceivable “conspicuous consumption” by a criminal or someone else on the fringe of society might also be an advertisement.
    
    A call girl’s ultra-expensive car, for example, might let potential customers know or think she’s for hire.
    
    Like the incident a friend told me about at his workplace, where women worked until late.
    
    At the end of shift, a male walked an attractive workmate through the night streets to her reasonably expensive parked car.
    
    As she walked around to the driver’s door, a drunk called to her male fellow worker: “Are you finished with her, mate?”
    
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    April 23, 2017 12:35pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Yes a good way at looking at it. The thoughts of people that commit crime like that to show off even when there must be a enormous risk baffles me.
    
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    April 23, 2017 12:48pm
- GoVege
  
  “Don’t underestimate the other fella’s greed!”
  
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  April 23, 2017 2:30pm
  - fernglas
    
    Or his stupidity. The one thing all criminals have in common is a belief that they won’t get caught. Hence the flash cars and bundles of cash.
    
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    April 23, 2017 4:42pm
cha

So #pizzagate was a thing.

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Police arrested former Campbell County District Judge Tim Nolan on charges of human trafficking and unlawful transaction with a minor, according to court documents and a release from Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear.

Nolan, 70, who has been outspoken in conservative politics and the tea party movement in recent years, was elected to the Campbell County School Board in November. He was also the chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign in Campbell County.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/04/21/former-district-judge-indicted-human-trafficking/100756290/
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April 23, 2017 12:19pm
- Ross12
  
  There was also a significant round up in California a month or so ago.
  
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  April 23, 2017 12:35pm
Stars And Stripes

Public asked to name rare gecko
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/329298/public-asked-to-name-rare-gecko

Well looking at the picture it strikes me as small, green and a bit slippery so I will start the ball rolling by saying I think it should be called “Gareth”.
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April 23, 2017 12:31pm
- mikenmild
  
  Echo the Gecko?
  
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  April 23, 2017 12:43pm
- Longknives
  
  Does anyone actually believe that the poor creature won’t be lumbered with some unpronounceable Maori name?
  
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  April 23, 2017 1:33pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Seeing as he’s been living illegally in Germany for the past 3 years can I suggest Dotcom?
  
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  April 23, 2017 1:50pm
  - Longknives
    
    Easily comment of the Day Northland Wahine!
    
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    April 23, 2017 6:41pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I’ll do it; Geckie McGeckie Reptileface
  
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  April 23, 2017 2:29pm
backster

S P C………Joan of Arc re-incarnated maybe.
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April 23, 2017 12:32pm
- mikenmild
  
  Does she also have hallucinations?
  
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  April 23, 2017 12:46pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Well we know now that a couple of litres of 95 and a packet of Swan Vestas will resolve the issue . . . .
    
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    April 23, 2017 2:32pm
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      He said reincarnated, not re-incinerated.
      
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      April 23, 2017 3:26pm
BeeSting

HEY SCUM BAG BOY

AFTER YOU HAVE DONE TODAYS

CHRISTIAN LECTURE

How about one on Eunuch Slaves
and who profited from trading then
and who did the operations

Which Religions

GO ON YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO
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April 23, 2017 3:10pm
- mikenmild
  
  Nurse!
  
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  April 23, 2017 3:26pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Beesting:
    
    DIDN’T YOUR PARENTS TEACH YOU THAT IT’S RUDE TO SHOUT?
    
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    April 23, 2017 4:19pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Sadly, it looks as if Beesting learned very little, at home or at school.
      
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      April 23, 2017 4:21pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Mikenmild:
        
        Beesting is in good hands here. The Kiwiblog community is ready and willing to help Beesting – and, to be fair, Beesting looks like he needs to be helped!
        
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        April 23, 2017 4:31pm
Stars And Stripes

Chocolate fundraising faces chop by Government advisor
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/health/2017/04/chocolate-fundraising-faces-chop-by-government-advisor.html
“A newly appointed Government nutrition advisor is calling for a ban on selling chocolate for school fundraisers, due to our skyrocketing child obesity levels”.

Here we go again with another wowser jumping on the child obesity bandwagon.
Somehow I doubt whether selling organic carrots as a fundraiser is going to bring in the dollars however.
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April 23, 2017 4:05pm
- mikenmild
  
  I think the bestselling school fundraiser is cannabis.
  
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  April 23, 2017 4:08pm
- GoVege
  
  Carrot juice might do it.
  Yummeeee….
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:18pm
Rachael Membery

But chocolate is so cute
https://www.facebook.com/BBCScotland/videos/1674177669278658/
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April 23, 2017 4:59pm
Longknives

Marvellous to see President Trump and the stylish First Lady awarding that disabled War Vet his Purple Heart!
The vile Michelle Obama would have avoided engagements like this like the plague…
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April 23, 2017 6:43pm
- mikenmild
  
  Michelle Obama visited Walter Reed Hospital, many times, with the president or on her own. I understand Obama generally met privately with the wounded veterans.
  BTW, I see Trump told the wounded veteran “congratulations” and “terrific”. Must have been wonderful for the veterans to be congratulated for being wounded. I’ll bet he felt terrific.
  
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  April 23, 2017 6:55pm
  - Fletch
    
    Nothing compares to when Bush gave a wounded soldier his purple heart who was comatose at the beginning of the ceremony. He did it in secret, but it was later relayed by someone who was there.
    
    After he visited with them for a bit, the president turned to the military aide and said, “OK, let’s do the presentation.” The wounded warrior was being awarded the Purple Heart, given to service members who suffer wounds in combat.
    
    Everyone stood silently while the military aide in a low and steady voice presented the award. At the end of it, the Marine’s little boy tugged on the president’s jacket and asked, “What’s a Purple Heart?”
    
    The president got down on one knee and pulled the little boy closer to him. He said, “It’s an award for your dad, because he is very brave and courageous, and because he loves his country so much. And I hope you know how much he loves you and your mom too.”
    
    As he hugged the boy, there was a commotion from the medical staff as they moved toward the bed.
    
    The Marine had just opened his eyes. I could see him from where I stood.
    
    The CNO held the medical team back and said, “Hold on, guys. I think he wants the president.”
    
    The president jumped up and rushed over to the side of the bed. He cupped the Marine’s face in his hands. They locked eyes, and after a couple of moments the president, without breaking eye contact, said to the military aide, “Read it again.”
    
    So we stood silently as the military aide presented the Marine with the medal for a second time. The president had tears dripping from his eyes onto the Marine’s face. As the presentation ended, the president rested his forehead on the Marine’s for a moment. Now everyone was crying, and for so many reasons: the sacrifice, the pain and suffering, the love of country, the belief in the mission and the witnessing of a relationship between a soldier and his commander in chief that the rest of us could never fully grasp. (In writing this book, I contacted several military aides who helped me track down the name of the Marine. I hoped for news that he had survived. He did not. He died during surgery six days after the president’s visit. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery and is survived by his wife and their three children.)
    
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-purple-heart-george-bush-perspec-20160803-story.html
    
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    April 23, 2017 7:56pm
- stephieboy
  
  Longknives , the frmer first lady with her husband attendedd many, many military medal presenations during during his Presidency ,
  
  But one of them here ,
  
  http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/cdFgmwKUuJo/President+Obama+Awards+Army+Solider+Specialist/vkj4RvAzR9h/Michelle+Obama
  
  I urge you to attend to the chips on both your shoulders .
  
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  April 23, 2017 7:14pm
- cha
  
  Nah, she would’ve been too busy attending to veteran’s family’s health, education, housing and employment to attend a fucking photo op.
  
  btw, the dopey buffoon congratulated the vet on losing his fucking leg, and then pinned the medal in the wrong place.
  
  But wtf would a five time draft dodger know about medals.
  
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  April 23, 2017 7:16pm
Reid

Daily, all across America, individuals who dare to resist—or even question—a police order are being subjected to all sorts of government-sanctioned abuse ranging from forced catheterization, forced blood draws, roadside strip searches and cavity searches, and other foul and debasing acts that degrade their bodily integrity and leave them bloodied and bruised.

Americans as young as 4 years old are being leg shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held at gun point for not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e., not being compliant enough.

Government social workers actually subjected a 3-year-old boy to a forced catheterization after he was unable to provide them with a urine sample on demand (the boy still wasn’t potty trained). The boy was held down, screaming in pain, while nurses forcibly inserted a tube into his penis to drain his bladder—all of this done because the boy’s mother’s boyfriend had failed a urine analysis for drugs.
Americans as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an order, hesitating in the face of a directive, and mistaking a policeman crashing through their door for a criminal breaking into their home—i.e., not being submissive enough.

Consider what happened to David Dao, the United Airlines passenger who was accosted by three police, forcibly wrenched from his seat across the armrest, bloodying his face in the process, and dragged down the aisle by the arms merely for refusing to relinquish his paid seat after the airline chose him randomly to be bumped from the flight—after being checked in and allowed to board—so that airline workers could make a connecting flight…

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/04/20/freedom-democracy-tyranny/
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April 23, 2017 6:46pm
- Reid
  
  I’m guessing the downtickers either enjoy facism or harbour a desire to be anally ravaged by people in uniforms. There isn’t a third alternative, I’m afraid.
  
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  April 23, 2017 7:08pm
  - EAD
    
    @ Reid,
    
    Paul Craig Roberts along with Jeff Berwick @ the Dollar Vigilante have been excellent to follow in helping readers understand the reality of life inside the American Police State.
    
    Only point I disagree with you is on calling such behaviour “fascism” (unless your trying to appeal to the normies who have been so brainwashed to think “Fascism” is the ultimate evil rather than the natural response to the Judeo-Bolshevik horrors of the Soviet Union)
    
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    April 23, 2017 8:54pm
    - Reid
      
      Yeah that’s what I was doing EAD. The Holohoax propaganda is so powerful there’s no point in confronting them with the reality everytime one raises a symptom.
      
      What they don’t realise is the pernicious influence they had in all the major bloodshed in the 20th century, because they think for instance the bolsheviks were Russian.
      
      The fools.
      
      Here’s two excellent articles on it.
      
      http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=68902
      
      http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/20/the-life-of-an-american-jew-in-racist-marxist-israel/
      
      BTW, if you haven’t already you should study the religious/satanic aspects of it. This will give you another dimension if you don’t know of this facet. It doesn’t matter if you think Satan exists or not, they do, and that’s what drives a lot of their mind manipulation techniques and behaviour.
      
      You know right that Judiasm is just a cover for them. They’re not real Jews. Real Jews are not the enemy. Readers of this who don’t understand the difference should read that VT link above.
      
      You know also that a hell of a lot of them don’t practice nor claim Judaism at all. It’s a shame you don’t talk about those much.
      
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      April 23, 2017 9:32pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I just love it when EAD and Reid start fellating each other. Sooo much love.
        
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        April 23, 2017 9:36pm
      - EAD
        
        You know right that Judiasm is just a cover for them. They’re not real Jews.
        
        Indeed, the vast majority of Jews are fake Jews and descendants from the Kingdom of Khazaria when King Bulan led the conversion of the Khazarian tribe to Judaism.
        
        For those just beginning out on the journey of enlightenment, here is the wikipedia page to get you started:
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulan_(Khazar)
        
        PS: jog off Milkmaid – this discussion is far above your station
        
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        April 23, 2017 9:48pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Mikenmild:
        
        I just love it when EAD and Reid start fellating each other. Sooo much love.
        
        You big tease – you’re using reverse psychology to manipulate EAD and Reid into having a threesome with you!
        
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        April 23, 2017 10:18pm
      - stigie
        
        Easy Nostra, Milky has work tomorrow, being a public servant a threesome is not part of his job description..?
        
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        April 23, 2017 10:24pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        You forget that Mikenmild manages the Quarry Inn in his spare time. The occasional threesome opportunity may arise and, in some cases, may be a business requirement!
        
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        April 23, 2017 10:29pm
      - stigie
        
        With all his spare time Nostra and the many friends he has on Kiwiblog, you would think he would have the decency to put up some photos then.
        
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        April 23, 2017 10:35pm
Reid

Working at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers, and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA, these scientists used state-of-the-art computer modeling to evaluate the consequences of a range of possible nuclear conflicts. They began with a hypothetical war in Southeast Asia, in which a total of 100 Hiroshima-size atomic bombs were detonated in the cities of India and Pakistan…

…The detonation of an atomic bomb with this explosive power will instantly ignite fires over a surface area of three to five square miles. In the recent studies, the scientists calculated that the blast, fire, and radiation from a war fought with 100 atomic bombs could produce direct fatalities comparable to all of those worldwide in World War II, or to those once estimated for a “counterforce” nuclear war between the superpowers. However, the long-term environmental effects of the war could significantly disrupt the global weather for at least a decade, which would likely result in a vast global famine.

The scientists predicted that nuclear firestorms in the burning cities would cause at least five million tons of black carbon smoke to quickly rise above cloud level into the stratosphere, where it could not be rained out. The smoke would circle the Earth in less than two weeks and would form a global stratospheric smoke layer that would remain for more than a decade. The smoke would absorb warming sunlight, which would heat the smoke to temperatures near the boiling point of water, producing ozone losses of 20 to 50 percent over populated areas. This would almost double the amount of UV-B reaching the most populated regions of the mid-latitudes, and it would create UV-B indices unprecedented in human history. In North America and Central Europe, the time required to get a painful sunburn at mid-day in June could decrease to as little as six minutes for fair-skinned individuals.

As the smoke layer blocked warming sunlight from reaching the Earth’s surface, it would produce the coldest average surface temperatures in the last 1,000 years. The scientists calculated that global food production would decrease by 20 to 40 percent during a five-year period following such a war. Medical experts have predicted that the shortening of growing seasons and corresponding decreases in agricultural production could cause up to two billion people to perish from famine….

And that’s only 100 tiddlers like the Hiroshima one. Imagine what it would be if the Chinese, Russians and the US get it on.

Which is precisely what Trump is risking on our behalf with his recent statements and actions on Syria, Iran, Russia, China and NK.

Isn’t he.

Given this, I would have thought some of you people here who seem to be keen on politics would be interested in going beyond Western bullshit and educating yourselves on what is really being done and why.

But there doesn’t seem much sign of that so far. Ah well. Don’t forget to act surprised when it happens, will you.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/turning-a-blind-eye-towards-armageddon-u-s-leaders-reject-nuclear-winter-studies/5586228
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April 23, 2017 7:03pm
stephieboy

Reid,

“..going beyond Western bullshit and educating yourselves on what is really being done and why.”?

Via Global Research BS ?

You must be utterly gutted by Trump’s attack on that Assad air base .
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April 23, 2017 7:17pm
- Reid
  
  Why would I be gutted? Unlike some idiots, I don’t analyse politics or anything else by imaging what I’d think would be a really neat thing to happen and then really really hoping it does. I stopped doing that when I was about five. Another thing I don’t do is use stereotypes like cultural marxist morons do. That way I don’t have this framework whereby if someone says y this means they must think x and z too. I stopped doing that when I became a two-cell entity. (That means I’ve never thought like that stephie, in case you couldn’t work it out.)
  
  No, to me, politics is just a bunch of emotionless stuff that happens and I analyse accordingly. Hoping and dreaming has its place, but only a superpowerdumbfuckmoronvillageidiot would even consider actually using it in political analysis, and if anyone actually was in fact dumb enough to actually do it, I’d venture to suggest stephie such a person probably isn’t human, more like a simian level of intellect operating there, if someone did that.
  
  Since you’re interested however, I’d say I was more disappointed. You see, the evil neocons have won, from multiple moves I have seen in the last fortnight not just that Syria attack, and since the neocons are, while diabolical, also sadly, terribly incompetent, we can now expect a great deal of blood to be shed.
  
  Meanwhile you keep on with your idiotic defense of Islam, as if everyone doesn’t already know that not all Muslims are evil. I’ve been telling them that for many years stephie, long long long before you arrived. But you see, I also think about other things too, which I why I rarely bother to reinforce that particular message.
  
  It’s called thinking. Perhaps you should try it, one of these days.
  
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  April 23, 2017 7:49pm
krazykiwi

Pope likens migrant holding centres to ‘concentration camps’

When the first migrant escapes one of these centres, and tries to take up residence in the Vatican, her or she is very likely to be killed by the Swiss Guards in the process.

Until the pope is willing to throw the doors of his armed, palacial santuary open wide he should stop his pious lecturing.
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April 23, 2017 7:20pm
- EAD
  
  Sounds like the life of Luxury for these so called “Migrants”
  
  they must have swimming pools with diving boards, soccer teams, a post office, a green house, orchestras, Libraries. medical facilities, Theatre’s etc……
  
  https://katana17.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/why-hitler-wasnt-evil-788-reality-of-auschwitz-montage.jpg
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:49pm
- Jack5
  
  Or the Vatican could run a new rat line to South America for them.
  
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  April 23, 2017 9:51pm
krazykiwi

1-in-3 French voters were undecided on their vote for president just prior to the voting opening.

That’s about 16 million voters!
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April 23, 2017 7:56pm
nasska

Ethical Question:

You have a male friend that has no sense of smell.
He also watches an inordinate amount of porn.
Whilst at his house one day you notice a tub of Vaseline next to his computer.

Is it morally wrong to swap the contents of his Vaseline tub for Vicks Vapour Rub when you get the chance?
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April 23, 2017 8:42pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  If the question pertains to someone who spends time skulking around St Lukes then the answer is clearly no.
  
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  April 23, 2017 8:50pm
- stigie
  
  I think someone did that to Reddy a few years back if my memory serves..?
  
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  April 23, 2017 10:28pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  I’d be questioning how good a friend if you know he keeps a jar of Vaseline close to his computer for the use of porn aid… Personally I’d be giving him and his keyboard a wide berth! ?
  
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  April 24, 2017 7:35am
EAD

And to think just a month ago we had our resident conspiracy theorists trying to argue that Kea=Beesting=Scorpion=Witness.

Kea, love him or loathe him, was one of the most erudite posters I’ve ever seen on Kiwiblog and could not possibly be one of these lunatic posters.

TO CONFUSE HIM WITH THE INCOHERENT, RANTING BEESTING SHOWS A PARTICULAR LEVEL OF PARANOIA ON BEHALF OF THE ACCUSER 🙂
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April 23, 2017 9:32pm
- Nostradamus
  
  EAD:
  
  My assessment:
  
  – Kea has used at least 3 additional identities (Jazz-Hands Mc Feels, Kriss X and Realityczech). My opinion is based on 12+ years of reading Kiwiblog, observing people’s writing styles and topic interests.
  
  – Kea may have used other identities (LegioXII/Witness).
  
  – Beesting and Scorpion are the same person. I’m undecided about whether they’re Kea identities.
  
  Overall, it’d be a massive project to maintain multiple identities, or even just 2 identities, and I can’t understand why anyone would bother.
  
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  April 23, 2017 10:03pm
  - mikenmild
    
    I’d go along with that. Kea is a determined troll, who invests in multiple identities to remain on the blog, and to amuse himself.
    Beesting/Scorpion is just a nutcase, who probably genuinely believes his own nonsense.
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:07pm
    - Reid
      
      Beesting/Scorpion is just a nutcase, who probably genuinely believes his own nonsense.
      
      There’s a lot of those on here, mm.
      
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      April 23, 2017 10:20pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Reid:
      
      There’s a lot of those on here, mm.
      
      Point of clarification: are you referring to nutcases or people who genuinely believe their own nonsense? (I’m just trying to figure out which category you put Stephieboy into.)
      
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      April 23, 2017 10:23pm
    - Reid
      
      I’n not sure stephie knows what nonsense is Nosty.
      
      My suspicion is he just types any old thing without thinking about it because that’s the only way I could imagine anyone coming out with what he comes out with doing it.
      
      He’s probably got some heavy metal music blaring through the headphones while he’s at a critical stage in a vital 1st person shooter computer game while he’s typing his comments, is where I’m at on him.
      
      If it’s not that then the DARPA theory comes into play.
      
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      April 23, 2017 10:30pm
  - EAD
    
    @ Nosty,
    
    For the record, I wasn’t pointing the finger at you.
    
    More at our our resident commentator and author of the anti Russia and laughably named conspiracy blog:
    
    http://nzconservative.blogspot.co.nz/
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:08pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      EAD:
      
      For the record, I wasn’t pointing the finger at you.
      
      No worries EAD – I didn’t interpret your comment that way. Just thought I’d share my thoughts as there’s been a lot of speculation about Kea identities over an extended period of time.
      
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      April 23, 2017 10:15pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Good analysis
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:09pm
  - Reid
    
    Depends how mental you are. Some people would find it perfectly natural. Psychopaths are natural experts at it and psychopathy is a spectra I assume, since many wind up in management but never actually harm anyone physically.
    
    So the higher you are on that the easier it would be for you.
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:25pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Kea is flying circles around you chaps.
    
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    April 23, 2017 10:32pm
Maggy Wassilieff

That was about the only section I understood.

If Ms Fouda is this IT specialist in Nuclear, Mining, Energy and Defence sectors
https://au.linkedin.com/in/reham-m-fouda-88149569

Then it suggests (to me) she may be privvy to some information that carries security concerns.
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Manolo

Our multiculturalist will be foaming at the mouth:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/21/marine-le-pen-gets-poll-boost-paris-attack-donald-trump-says/
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